Vacances L'hiver

During the winter vacation, we went to Rome in Italy. Yes I know, most people would go skiing this time of the year and there's plenty of snow this year but it was way too expensive that DH decided to give it a miss this time round. What a waste but again Rome wasn't that bad either.

The weather wasn't that fantastic but it could be worst but thank God - it wasn't that bad. The trip started with us travelling on Friday nite after school and work. As usual, the traffic was bad. It jammed for about an hour or more on the autoroute even before we hit Lyon. By the time we got the the hotel, it's closed to midnite... plus it's freezing cold!
The next day, we woke up with the ground full of snow. Our car was covered with a thick layer of icy snow. It's a pity it didn't last too long and we didn't manage to take a picture of that!
It's really a long way to Rome! I'm still wondering how did DH manage the 12 hours drive? and how did we manage to ride for 12 long hours IN the CAR! It will only take us an hour to fly from Lyon and it's not that expensive... but again with our sleeping habit and Matthew, taking the car is definitely a much better choice for us. (we took our pillows with us for all the trips we had made)

Anyway, Rome was overall a nice place to visit. As usual, many places to visit...too many good choices. We didn't visit all the places but only those "more interesting" ones. With Matthew and me, DH can't go many places in a day, so he decided to visit only one or 2 places at the most per day. He was quite upset on the first day as he thought we could walk more and covered more places! But very soon, he realised that we were all too tired after the long journey, so decided to head back to the hotel and took a 2 hrs nap. We simply just fell asleep - so soundly and deeply.

The hop on and off bus is really good for me who can't walk too much in a day due to my backache and knee problem. We took the bus and went to different places without having to walk too far. DH's inital plan was to walk to all the places that we are going to visit but failed as it's really too tiring for me!

These are some of the places we have visited:

Singpore's trip

I just realised that I didn't update anything about the trip back to Singapore. We had great fun meeting up with friends and family. Just wanna be thankful and post some pictures taken when we're in Singapore!

Looking back at these photos make me realised that we did so much things in that one month and I'm starting to miss home again... :)

Happy New Year 2009

We went to the beach on New Year Eve with the Tan's family! These are some photos taken:






We had a great time at East Coast Park, building and destroying sand castle, playing in the water and having fun with each other!

Today is New Year Day...We'd a great 2008 and looking forward to 2009. Even though with the economy downturn affecting the world, God's favour has been with us. Hope that God's blessing will continue to be with us and our family and friends! Thank God for bring us through 2008! And prayed everyone will have a blessed 2009!

Home Sweet Home!

Wow.. time passes so fast! It's been a year since I last came back. We'd been travelling so much this year...basically travel every 2 months. We went to China in Feb, Itay in end April and May, Spain in June and Great Britain in August and East US in Oct. Anyway, it was a great year with so many happenings! Thank GOD for His blessings that see us through this fruitful year.

It feels so good to be home even though not living at my own place. How much I've missed my family, friends and the local FOODs! It feels so good to be able to catch up with friends that I haven't met for years, seeing the changes in them. Some of them are newly-wedded, some are new parents while some have more children now. How fast and how much changes it can happened within a year!

DH will be joining us in 3 days times, hopefully, he won't fall sick like he did last year. Matthew and myself are a little under the weather...hot and humid, caught the Cold virus that's going around. Depsite the cough and flu, we are enjoying the foods, weather and the company of my family. Matthew enjoys playing with Yee yee (my sisters) and Ah Ma/grandma (my mum) all day long. It's good that I can leave Matthew with my mum with no worries while I do some Christmas' shoppings, go for spa and massage seesions!

Anyway, it feels great to have family around to help...it's just not the same! therefore, appreciate your family while you can!

Festive season

Christmas is around the corner and Thanksgiving is just over...plus November and December are months that have many celebrations.

Just wanna post some pictures of what had happen in these months!


Made these for DH to bring to the office on his birthday - Chocolate chips and Pandan chiffon cupcakes.

I did bible study with these wonderful ladies.

We had a Christmas brunch gathering at Elaine's house.

Christmas Celebration at the language lab. We were asked to bring a dish representing their countries.
We wrote "Merry Christmas" in different languages on the board.





We had early snow this year. It's cold but we are going back home to the hot and sunny place!

The big "eye" of Clermont at Place de Jaude. It's there during Christmas season only.

Don't be surprise to see a rainbow aftering having snow the day before.. this was taken from my kitchen!