Sight Seeing in Singapore

I am more than 1 year behind in my postings but then again better late than never right ? :)

I met up with Bernard (Jeh's bestest buddy) when he came back to Singapore last Nov'08 and we had a great time with my cute & naughty Nicole.

November 2008

I consider myself a frequent traveller to Singapore, for work and also to visit my brother and family at least once, sometimes twice a month. So I don't consider myself a tourist when in Singapore cos I don't go to Singapore as a tourist.

So when Bernard came home to Singapore to visit his parents, and I so happened to in Singapore at the same time this is what he said to me...."Hey, accompany me to the tourist spots in Singapore cos none of my Singapore friends want to do so. You also tourist in Singapore right?"

My first reaction was like "No! I am not a tourist and also not interested to go sight seeing in Singapore, what is there to sight see??

His reply - "Singapore Flyer, Sentosa, Singapore Zoo - come la"

Ok ok.... So, I became a tourist with a Singaporean who wanted to go sight-seeing in Singapore. Anyway, I could not resist taking Nicole for a great day out.


Nicole immediately warmed up to Bernard when she met him. Well, since she adores Jeh and I told her he is Uncle Jeh's friend from States, Bernard became her best buddy real fast!

The three of us went to a Peranakan Baby Nyonya buffet at Swissotel and my oh my when Nicole saw the chocolate fountain, she went a little too excited.

She gobbled down the chocolate marshmallows as fast as she could so she can go back to the chocolate fountain again and again. I had to stopped her after the 4th chocolate marshmallow.

She had chocolate dripping out of her mouth, on her shirt and hands. Luckily I bought an extra change of clothing for her. Phew!



Next to the Singapore Flyer!!

So, was it scary to be thousand of feet up in the air?

Does Nicole look scared? Or she is just being her cheeky self?

Obviously she was being her naughty self. We had the whole coach to ourselves us so we could do anything, run around, sit on the floor, roll around if we wanted to. :)

The view was beautiful and here you see Bernard posing with the F1 Singapore site where he was sitting a week earlier. He saw the first night race in F1. It was cool!

You see how fast Nicole warmed up to BH? Or maybe she is just a super poser when the camera is on!! :)

Guess where we went next??!!! This is really BH's request. Fish Spa!!!!

Look, Nicole and her pose for the camera! She's really good on camera yeah!!

I am not a super fan of the fish spa but BH kinda enjoyed his first experience. Much for the fishes to chomp chomp chomp on his death skin.

Of course Nicole was too young to put her feets to the fishes so she was a good girl, enjoying herself while we spa spa.


All in all it was great day. I am sure Nicole truly enjoyed herself. She went home and she quickly drew her experience on the drawing board. See her illustration of the Singapore flyer and the 2 big feet??!!! She is becoming quite an artist!!

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And then there were 3........

From 1 to 3, I am stepping up my baby sitting skills.........niece who is 4, 2 cousins..one 13, another 17. It was a girls slumber party no doubt.

Since Shen Leng and Hwee Leng are on school holidays and I thot it was good to get Nicole some new companions, they both came over my house for a slumber party.



So 4 girls crashed in my room and had a jolly fun time.




I took Shen and Hwee Leng bowling and shopping the next day. Nicole was a good girl as I told her to stay home to sleep in the afternoon. Nicole is used to taking a nap in the afternoon at 2pm and I knew if we went out, she would be too tired. She agreed to stay home and was a really good girl as she slept till 5pm.

As a treat, Nicole had a big big bowl of ice kacang :) Looking at her cheeky face

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3 weddings and a happy girl

I delivered my promise to Nicole. Infact I overdelivered. I told Nicole that I will be taking her to 2 weddings if she followed me to KL but I took her to 3 weddings.

1)Pang May - Seremban friend 2)Wei Pin - P&G Collegue 3) Yee Ling - cousin



First weekend on Saturday , I drove up to Seremban with some friends and Nicole. We witnessed and obviously participated in the "get the bride" ceremony. The groom and his "heng tai" were really un -cooperative, did not do anything we want them to do and infact, pushed thru the door. First time I encountered such an unsporting bunch. But Nicole had fun running around with us and as usual she get overly excited with all the fun games.



The same night, there was a wedding dinner at Hyatt Saujana, and I brought Nicole for her famous "yam seng" session.





The next day on Sunday, we went to Palace of the Golden Horses for a (it's Princess Jasmine's castle to Nicole) garden wedding and luncheon. Unfortunately, we were a little late and the ceremony was over and we proceeded for the luncheon. It was a beautiful place so we had fun taking photos especially the one with Nicole on the couple's "becca".






Nicole found a new friend Kyrene and they were inseparable. They were dancing, running, hugging etc. Infact, after we left, Nicole asked me if we can go to Kyrene house?? I guess I had to tell a little white lie so I said Kyrene stays really far away. So Nicole asked "we have to take aeroplane there is it??" I said "No, no, must drive only. Then she said " Well then that is not far right??!!!" Arrrr....I rest my case..... she is too smart for me!




Then the next Saturday.... it is Yee Leng's wedding. We all went to her house for the morning "get the bride ceremony".



Unfortunately, Miss Nicole decided to throw a tantrum when she first entered the house. This is something that I can't figure about her. She takes a loooong time to warm up, so usually when she meets people, she will pull long face, keep quiet, make a sad sad face and will not do anything you ask her to do. Sometimes, she will even refuse to go in to the place we are going. For whatever reason, she was in her "mood" and decided that she is not happy and started to cry in a pitiful way. I took her in to the kitchen and asked to stop it and go back out to greet everyone. She refused and ended up, my dad had accompany her for more than 1 hour in the kitchen. Even though she mood has improved and she is playing in the kitchen but she still refused to come out. But once she did, she was just playing and running around like crazy.





The night dinner was good and she definitely enjoyed herself playing with Yin Ping and Roei. I think she likes the "Cheong family". She like Jeh and his sisters very much and they also like her a lot....hmmmm must be chemistry...

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Jesus Loves Me...

5th day.....wow! I guess it must be quite an achievement for Nicole and me. Infact, she threw a little ranting and crying in the middle of the night which kinda got me thinking about a few things.

Nicole is really not the easiest person to take care.
Nicole could have really insisted she wanted to go home.
Nicole does have a few traits that makes her difficult to be handled
But with proper guidance and training and definitely the right way to handle, she can be most adorable.
However, with kids you never really know cos they are really unpredictable so Thank God that she and I survived our 5th day.

Nicole seem to really like this song, captured her rendition on the way to KL Pavillion.

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Rock a bye b..aa.b........Zzzzzz

Oh no! Bedtime stories is making me go to sleep. But I am the one telling the bedtime stories and the little rascal Nicole is still wide awake and asking for more.... Here is the Go to Sleep routine with Nicole.

Brush teeth
Go shhh shhhh
Off the main room light and turn on bedside light
Open nursery rhyme book and read to her
Then put book down and tell her a fairy tale story
She will ask for another so will have to make up a story
(Have told her Uncle Jeh & Ku-ku story and also Uncle KC and Auntie Tina story - next she wants Yeh yeh and Ah Ma's story)
Then she want me to sing song - her favourite now is Sing a Song of Sixpence.....but then I will have to sing Twinkle twinkle, row Row, Doe a deer, London Bridge, One Two Buckle my Shoe....the list goes on

Last nite, I was so so sleepy..I don't know what I was singing...... all songs ended halfway and then I woke up again to continue. Nicole was quite irritated that I was sleeping at every song and I got all the word jumbled up. For eg. Mary's lamb became a sheep....and Nicole kept telling me it is Lamb!!! Also I ended up singing Reo Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling...believe it or not?

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She aint heavy ..she is my niece

Believe it or not, Nicole is up with me in KL. This is the first time she is technically away from her parents and staying with others. She was reluctant at first, after all she is daddy and mommy's girl but after some convincing ( taking her to weddings - she is a sucker for weddings), I guess she plucked up her courage and told her parents that she want to follow Ku-ku (that's me) to KL.

My bro and Lynn were shocked and I could see their reluctance. he he he...eventually they relented, they figured it is time for Nicole to be independant too.

So now...and for the next 2 weeks...I am her official "mother". Oh my such a huge responsibility. I have to plan her day, plan her meals, feed her, bath her, change her, read her nursery rhymes, read her story books, tell her fairy tales, make sure she sleeps, make sure her is covered with blankie, make sure she drinks water etc etc....

My whole schedule revolves around her. No time to talk to Jeh even...he he my hubby is feeling neglected :)

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