16 Oct Wedding of Joyce and Cedrick

Seems like a hot month for weddings, from many wedding postings on Facebook. And the weekend before was Aree's wedding and the next weekend it was cousin Joyce's wedding. A wedding I was looking forward to mainly just to see my extended family whom I didn't get to meet during CNY! Of course very happy for Joyce, my sweet and kind cousin. Always know her as a nice and respectful gal.

It was also Eden's first exposure to such setting. Yes his first appearance at wedding and also meeting the other family members! Not only me, Evans was super excited and happy to be there. He mingled really well and was equally inquisitive.

Wedding was at the Hilton and I enjoyed the wedding lunch. Sumptuous!

Oh and a small incident towards the end.... my heels gave way. The right sole was partially detached and the shoe started to flake. I moved with "grace" to go through the tea ceremony at the end and I think no one noticed. Thankful the heels gave way only at the end!!!! Looks like I need to think twice about wearing old heels to work since they were untouched for more than a year since my pregnancy.

Celebrating Bro's Birthday at Home

It was a relief that Evans finally let go of the thought to book a hotel staycation to celebrate bro's birthday. He has been wanting to do that since his last staycation. But yesterday though it was a simple celebration at home, I still found it nice and warm. And yes I literally felt warm, especially after having the steamboat dinner!!! And the hormones are not helping.

Anyway I was working from home yesterday, thus was able to reach my parents' home earlier than usual and the steamboat was already boiling and the spread looked amazing, as always. Too amazing that I was too eager to dig in so I did not snap any photos. I doubt my brother did too. Evans also had a longer than usual dinner, enjoying his food and our company. I always love to watch him eat because he is adorable to watch especially when he is focused at enjoying the food. 

Justine and hubby came a little later so they have to eat the dinner separately. By then it was already pouring heavily! Hopefully the steamboat brought them some warmth. But for me, I was perspiring, with rain or not. This could be quite frustrating!

The time for the birthday cake came when Evans requested to cut it. Papa bought the rainbow cake from Prima Deli! It was a big one 1.2kg and it looked really delicious! The chocolate cream looked enticing,

It was quite funny to see how me, my mama, papa and Justine took our mobile phones to keep snapping the photos of the cake and my bro. We looked like those paparazzi. 

look at those cheerful layers!!!

Though the cake was just cream and cake, there was no fruit filling (which I thought would taste a lot more refreshing), it was still a delicious cake!!! It wasn't too sweet and the chocolate cream had a rich and smooth texture. I enjoyed it but the colouring of the rainbow stayed a while on my finger and tongue. Don't think it will be a good thing to have rainbow flavoured stuff too often. 

Hope bro enjoyed the birthday! :)

Samsonite for Mama

As we are going to Phuket really soon, mama needs a luggage. Though she seldom travels, she would need one this trip because the rest of us needed to bring ours too.

So I have been looking around but mainly on Samsonite. This brand just comes to me as a good brand for luggage. I have earlier gone to the branch at Tampines One. The sales guy was quite good and he told me different outlets carry different models. I saw one model called AT Westlake, nice colour, soft casing. But it was the last piece at that outlet so I thought I still have time to look around so would rather not committed to that first.

So after the CPS yesterday, I went to Changi City Point's Samsonite. Saw the same model and this time, quite determined to buy because I was quite lazy to shop again especially during workday. But that sales guy did not give me good impression when I asked him about the price. He wasn't quite sure and told me it should be $105 for that 24" luggage. I could not remember the price too so I said I thought it was $90 plus. He was like "ermm, the price should be the same. Should be $105." I asked him to check for me. Then he went to check. I was thinking did he think customer would trust the way he told me about the price? He finally told me $105. I wasn't 100% trusting so I called Tampines One's branch. Ok, it was $105.

Ok, so set I decided to get this one despite the average service because I was just too lazy and shopping for luggage wasn't like any other shopping... it was bulky.

Here, a nice pinkish purple luggage for my mama.... maybe I can borrow it from her some other day. Hehe!

Justine Visits Again

It was nice to see Justine again. Twice this week? She was here earlier to help my mama to look after Evans for a while. So nice of her. Evans started to get familiar with her. Here, the 3 of us whom my mama has looked and is looking after.