HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014! :)

A short note that MooMoo wrote end of last year:
31.12.2013: last day of the year...

Looking back at all the things that happened throughout the year... Having no regrets, though it was not a smooth sailing year.

MooMoo must be thankful on...
- all the love she received from my loved ones
- all the great food she have eaten
- all the great places she have visited
And all the little things in life.

MooMoo had her happy moments and also the not so happy moments. Cherishing her happy moments and the not so happy moments actually makes her appreciate her happy moments even more.

Met some great people who gives her good memories. Also met some nasty people who gives her lessons and experiences.  Some things just can't change no matter what... Life goes on!

Thanks to all the people who brings joy to her, who is always there for her and always put a smile on her face. 

Looking forward to one great year in 2014! Hope MooMoo will be a better person next year than this year. ; )

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
May you all have a great fulfilling year in 2014!


"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." –--Joshua J. Marine



* MooMoo ended her year 2013 with 2 great classes and started her year 2014 with 2 great classes... plus 1 extra unexpected surprise, which is not so pleasant, towards the end... 

MooMoo's 1st F1 Experience

MooMoo had her 1st F1 experience on 20th September 2013.  Thanks to one of her gym buddy, known as Ms. Taxi, for the free pass! : )

MooMoo never really knows what F1 is all about, except for the high speed racing cars and the cute drivers.  Hahaha.  Not a big fan of all these automobiles stuff.  If MooMoo's 2nd brother is still around, he is sure to drool over these passes and would make his way to Singapore for the race.  After going to the race, MooMoo managed to read a little about it.  

F1 or known as Formula One is the highest class of single seater auto racing.  It is a race with a set of rules which all participants' cars must comply and it is held throughout the world on different circuits and points will be calculated to determine world championships for both the drivers and the constructors.  Some of F1 top drivers are Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and Louis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen and Mark Webber.  Malaysia have our own F1 driver too, Alex Yoong, but now a retiree from F1.

There were quite a number of food stalls and merchandise stalls in the area.  MooMoo bought herself a pair of ear plugs.  Initially, MooMoo thought it is not really necessary.... till she hear the sound of the racing cars.  OMG! It's damn loud... really need ear plugs to save your ears.

MooMoo got herself this real expensive Champagne MAGNUM.  This cost SGD$8!!!  Beer and Ice cream, watching F1.

There were some fun booth setup for little kids to play remote control race cars.  Wanted to try our skills but long queue with kids, so end up no play.  Hahaha.

The weather was great that night though a bit stuffy.  Check out the Marina Bay Sands tower! Can you see the F1 car lightings on the wall?!?

The seats that MooMoo had were quite good.  There were a lot of tourists from all over the world.  MooMoo and friend only watch for awhile and left after that.  It's kinda boring for MooMoo watching the car just zoom past.  Really not MooMoo's cup of tea.  Hahahaha! :p

There were people all along the sides of the circuits at the different sections.  There were also concerts and shows at a designated place for the spectators to chill out during the break.  Justin Bieber were here for the concert performance on the last day, official closing.  

Shot taken when the car zoomed past.  Hahaha... it's so fast that you can't really see much except for the shadow.  Well, what to expect when you take it with iPhone.  =P

* MooMoo really thinks that the F1 drivers are really great... full of determination and endurance... it takes a lot to be a F1 driver... and it's a quite dangerous sports.  Thumbs up for them!!! :)

Porky Pie's Full Moon Party

MooMoo went to Porky Pie's Full Moon Party with Ms. Mo today.  Time really flies... Porky Pie is coming to 1 month old on 10th Sept 2013.  Ms. Mo is really funny... she told us that Porky Pie is a Virgo... then we all scratched head and asked why?!?  Ms. Mo said correct what... if born around this month is a Virgo... =.=!!! Err... it's full moon party today?  Porky Pie's birthday is one month ago...  :p

MooMoo is not a big fan of 'ang ku kueh' (red tortoise kueh)...but these tasted quite good and there's peanuts in it, other than the green bean.  MooMoo helped Aunty coloured the eggs red too.  Aunty complained that the colour not as Red as the one that she made when she is in Penang.  Aunty said the colouring in Penang better.  Hahaha.

* Today's Sculpt was a really good workout... really worked hard on the arms, shoulders and waist... sure will ache badly tomorrow... but it's great to burn all the extra calories going in today... Hahaha

Tree Planting Day

This morning, MooMoo went for a 'Tree Planting Day' event.

Lately, it has been raining in Lion City, till flash flood at some parts of Singapore due to raining for hours.  Thank GOD last night it rained heavily the whole night, so this morning the sky is clear but one bad thing is that the ground is super wet and soggy. :p

This is the 1st time MooMoo plant a tree.  Each group of 3 to 4 people is assigned to plant a tree.  All the tools are provided, such as the hoe (cangkul), gloves, nutrient soil, tree sapling and a spot for the tree.  It would be lucky to have guys in your team.  Haha!

This is MooMoo's team's tree - No. 202.  Nice number!  There's 2 guys in MooMoo's team. = )))

There were briefings on the step by step, how you plant a tree.  First, you dig a hole deep enough to put your tree and you can measure with your hoe on the depth of the hole.  Next, you cut the plastic on your tree sapling and shift it into the hole.  After that, you just put back all the soil that you dig out earlier on and try to compact them.  Then, you can pour the nutrient soil all over and around the tree to cover the soil.  Finally, you can water your tree and it's all done.  Sounds easy huh... and the demo from the gardener looks very effortlessly too.

When the work takes place, it ain't that easy.... especially when the soil is wet... what a mess!  It was quite fun though, digging away.  One of the guy actually accidentally step into the hole and create a mess on himself. =.=!!!

You need to be quite strong to shift the tree into the hole.  Luckily with the help of the 2 guys in the team, the tree is in place.  You got to make sure when you put back the soil, the tree is always straight to make sure that it will be going well and stable.

MooMoo planted a tree!  Hahaha... doing her little part in saving the earth, compensating on how she use aircond, which is damaging to the environment, as if it can help much.  Well, better than nothing...

All done and ready to go off and MooMoo's shoes is super dirty and wet.  She had try to clean the best before she head to the gym.  Luckily, she didn't get killed at the gym with her dirty shoes. :p

* Is it true that "Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit"?!?......

MooMoo's 1st Football Match

MooMoo volunteered for the company charity event for a friendly football match before the actual soccer match.  Each team formed within a department, the company will donate SGD1K for charity.  Well, MooMoo never played soccer before so she decided to give it a try.

Guess, it's just not fated for MooMoo to play football.  Hahaha!  It's MooMoo's 1st football match and it rained heavily, non stop, flooding the field.  No luck!

Some of the guys went out to play in the rain, even though the red light alert is still on.  The red light signal is to alert everyone that it is dangerous to play as there's thunder and lightning.  They are all playing at their own risk.  MooMoo's brother said that it's OK to play in the rain, just need to watch out for "THOR".  LOL!

All the guys just could not stand not playing after changing into their football gears.  Hahaha!  By the time the rain started to stop, it was pretty late for the friendly matches.  They need to get ready for the real football match at 7:30pm.  Most people started to leave the stadium, while some stayed back to watch the football match.

Well, for the sake of charity, MooMoo thought she can go try kick some ball but didn't get to do any kicking.  Haha!  She got herself a goodie bag, with an ang pow of $10 Watson voucher.  ^=^

* 1st day back to work today... Thank God it's Friday and tomorrow is weekend...Totally no mood to work... :p

GONG XI FA CAI! ^=^

MooMoo wants to wish everyone... 

"Happy Chinese New Year to you!!!
May this "Snake"year brings you health, wealth, longevity and good fortune. GONG XI FA CAI!!! ^=^

* Will be on the way home in about 1-2 hours time... So HAPPY... Wish all those that are going back to their hometown, having a safe trip and everyone enjoy their CNY break! 

Family Cruise 2012

It has been quite some time since MooMoo's last family trip.  MooMoo used to go for family trip during Chinese New Year every year till the past 2 years.... stopped going for family trip due to MooMoo's brother's conditions.  We did plan for a whole family trip together but MooMoo's brother just didn't have the luck and the chance to travel together with us.  Anyway, now he is better off in heaven with God, watching us wherever we are, especially watching over his little angel, growing up.

During Christmas, MooMoo and her family went for a family cruise.  Everyone went for the trip except for her SIL... married to her work as usual.  The cruise trip was with Star Cruises, boarding from Penang and stopped by 2 places: Phuket and Krabi, which takes up to 3 days 3 nights.  This is the 1st time MooMoo took a cruise and it could be her last time, as this is really not her cup of tea. :p

It was quite a tiring trip as MooMoo travelled all the way from Singapore to KL, then from KL to Penang to catch the cruise.  After the cruise, took bus from Penang to KL, then KL to Singapore again. It was really quite challenging travelling with baby and kid... up and down the ship... especially during the excursion trips, carrying all the needed stuff, the pram and them.  Hahaha!  

We took one of the smaller ship -> Star Cruise Libra... MooMoo's zodiac sign.  Haha!  It has a total of 10 decks in the ship; equipped with facilities like gym, basketball court, swimming pool, sauna, activities centres, restaurants, etc.

This is the ship taken from afar...

MooMoo's room... sharing with her 2 nephews...  the upper bunks can be folded...

MooMoo's room is at Deck 3... here's Cutie Pie checking out the waves in the sea...excited!

Cutie Pie's bear enjoying sunset by the window...

Swimming pool.... there's another smaller one for kids at the other side of the top deck...

You can jog at one of the deck specified with jogging track... MooMoo didn't bring her sneakers... as if got time to jog... hahaha... lazy of course... :p

One of the captain giving safety briefing... MooMoo thinks that the flimsy life jacket will not work very well if any of us really drop into the strong stormy waves... It is really dangerous for kids and babies as they do not have super small size life jackets for them... only smaller size for the bigger kids.  MooMoo's friend was jokingly telling MooMoo said if the end of the world and she's out in the rough sea, she will die drowning horribly.  Well, MooMoo told her friend, even if on land, if earthquake and you get swallowed by the earth, you will die horribly too... so not much of a difference.  MooMoo believe when the time comes, it will come... :p

This will be our life saver ship if there's any emergencies.  All are divided into groups and assigned to assemble at specific area nearing their life saver ship during emergencies.  MooMoo thought they would demo how people jump into the sea when required... but too bad no one did the demo.  Haha!

There's internet facilities in the ship too but MooMoo thinks that no one would actually utilise them as it is way to expensive.  It is 56cents per minute.  The WIFI is cheaper compared to this.  It is RM40 for 12 hours or RM38 for 24 hours but only can be used at common areas and not in the cabins.

There's a cute "BEAR BEAR" Christmas tree in the ship.  There's a lot of kiddo activities on the ship but only for 5 years to 12 years.  Too bad... we missed the Dora session, else Cutie Pie can meet Dora personally but Cutie Pie is a bit scared of the big dolls with human inside.  She thinks it's monsters.  Haha!  Trying hard to tell her it's not scary but she just won't go near them to take picture... even with Santa Claus... =.=!!

MooMoo brought some balloons and her pump on board and taught the boys how to do some of the balloons.  They had lots of fun, though a bit scared with the twisting at 1st.   Guess they wanna impress the girls to make the flowers.  LOL.

The ship stopped by Patong beach for about 12 hours for the 1st excursion trip.  We went for a short guided tour around Phuket-Patong area.  The guide brought us to visit the Cashew Nut place, Elephant Shrine, some jewellery factory selling jewelleries, some shopping outlet mall and lastly dropped us for dinner at a shopping mall, where we ate our Christmas dinner at Sizzler.

Patong Beach

The Elephant Shrine

Lots of different sizes and shapes of elephants all around...

Dropped by a place making Cashew Nuts... showing you how they remove the shell and made juice out of the cashew nut fruit... the juice tasted a bit weird and sour... but they said it is suppose to be good for digestion.  You can taste all you can at the shop... all types of flavoured cashew nuts...

Complimentary birthday cake from Star Cruise for Little Cutie as her birthday fall on 23 Dec.  It was just a small plain chocolate cake.  We decorated it with the christmas ornaments from other cupcakes in the buffet line.  Haha!

There were Christmas Eve celebration and farewell celebration on the last night at the ship, with the crew singing and dancing together with everyone.  There's free food for the whole day in 3 specified restaurants based on the timing provided for Breakfast, Lunch, Tea Time, Dinner and Supper.  Personally, MooMoo thinks that the food ain't that great... maybe coz it's FREE?!?  Haha!  It's not even a 3 star hotel standard.  One thing MooMoo cannot stand is the tea and coffee comes with sugar in the pot and it's DAMN SWEET!!! 

The 2nd stopover was at Krabi for about 6 hours.  There isn't much to do at Krabi compared to Phuket. It would be more interesting to go for the island hopping or do some snorkelling but with babies around, it is not so convenient.  Therefore, we just went around checking out some Krabi attractions.

Mud crabs... nice Aesop Fable on "The crab and its mother" stating that the parents must teach their children to be well behaved, have self discipline and respect the elder to suit the motto of Krabi "Lively town, Lovely people".  If everyone apply this, the world will be a better place.  Haha!

Big huge mud crab!

KRABI: Lively town, Lovely people

Although it was super tiring after the whole trip, MooMoo really enjoyed herself spending quality time  with her family.  Really meant it by quality time as there's no internet on the phone so MooMoo could not spend time playing with her iPhone.  Haha!  It was really great bonding with the kids, especially her 2 big nephews and her Little Cutie.

* "No family is perfect… We argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times, but in the end, family is family… the love will always be there." Cherish your family and do spend more time with them, while you have the chance.  ^=^

Christmas 2012

"CHRISTMAS" is one season that is loved by many around the world, even the non Christian society, except maybe the Jews.  Everyone loves to celebrate the seasons of joy and giving as well as sharing during Christmas.  Well, Christmas is not just about Christmas trees, Santa Clause, Snowmen and presents only.  It is actually a day to remember the "birth of Jesus Christ".  Anyway, MooMoo personally thinks that the season of giving do not have to start and end only during Christmas.  Everyday, everyone can learn to be more giving to make the world a better place and giving does not mean material stuff but giving at heart.

Well, MooMoo enjoy checking out the Christmas decorations every year but this year, she didn't explore much on them but still manage to snap some random pictures here and there.  It just makes one HAPPY just looking at the beautiful decorations.  This year, Orchard road's Christmas decorations looks a bit 'Chinese New Year' theme.  Haha!

These are taken at Midvalley....

This giant Christmas tree is at Takashimaya....every year, same tree but different decor....

This is taken outside AMK Hub...

This is taken outside Orchard Central... noticed, this year lots of OWL decor...

This is taken at ION Orchard... a bit giant tree...lighting not very good that day...

Found this cute Snowman outside National Geographic store at Vivo City... made from cups...

Well, this year MooMoo didn't have that much of Christmas mood compared to the past couple of years but she still enjoyed herself with the company of her great friends.  It was fun preparing all the gifts for all her close friends and she managed to made some balloons for the kids.  No cards making and personal crafted gifts this year.  MooMoo had an early celebration for Christmas as she went for a family trip during Christmas.

MooMoo got wonderful gifts from all her great friends.  Thanks everyone!!! You know who you are... It's been great knowing and having you as MooMoo's friend.  ^=^

This year, MooMoo didn't buy any gifts for her colleagues but when she went back to office today, her table is filled with gifts.  Really thoughtful of them.... makes MooMoo feel a bit guilty.  Next year, MooMoo will be good and be her own good self again.  Ganbatte!!!

Lastly, MooMoo wanna wish everyone a "MERRY CHRISTMAS"!!!  Well, never too late coz there's 12 days of Christmas like how it is being sung in the song?!?  Hahaha....

* MooMoo's wish for Christmas is for everyone to be HAPPY always... May we all be blessed and be grateful of what we have... there are always a lot of people out there whom are not as fortunate as us... GOD bless everyone! ^=^