Holidays National Day We celebrated Singapore's 55 birthday at home, like most Singaporeans this year.
COVID19 Birthdays at home Our birthday girl is another year older. Every one of us has now celebrated a birthday in Singapore. It's hard to believe we are just one month shy of a year now in Singapore.
Sentosa Sentosa's Empty Wuhan's Coronavirus has people staying home in Singapore. We had a family day on Sunday, and noticed a distinct lack of crowds on Sentosa Island.
Holidays CNY Decorations Being Year of the Rat, I could not resist all of the Mickey Mouse things I've been seeing.
Holidays Christmas Day in Singapore After leisurely opening presents and playing with them all over the living room, we burnt off some energy playing with our new balls on the Basketball Court.
Holidays Highlights of the Christmas Season in Singapore I wasn't convinced that Christmas would find us in Singapore, but it did.
Holidays BOH Tea Room After our Processing Tour at the BOH Tea Plantation, we headed to the Tea Room for a cup of tea. I ordered myself 2 pots. My Mom and sister tried a different type
Holidays Reading the Tea Leaves It may, or may not, have been at Mom's suggestion that I settled on the general topic of Tea for the Information Report I was required to write in Grade 6. However, the topic really caught my interest; and Tea is still something I'm passionate about.
Holidays Gobble Gobble At the store I found the Christmas Deli Flyer, and it was advertising turkeys.
Holidays October 31 Hallloween isn't much celebrated in Singapore. We did our trick or treating the weekend before Halloween.
Holidays A Simpler Deepvali Dinner I'm still trying to cook. It's still problematic. But, I was feeling inspired by Deepvali. So out came the InstaPot. I have a new cookbook, The Complete Indian InstaPot Cookbook by Chandra Ram.
Holidays Mid-Autumn Festival at Gardens by the Bay Mid Autumn Festival celebrates harvest and is focused on worship of the moon. Overtime this focus on the night, has morphed it into a lantern festival in some parts of Asia. We took the MRT to Gardens by the Bay to see their take on it.
Food Pool Party The night before Ms.E's pool party, we found a $21 birthday cake. A 10:30 swim and then fruit, cake and cookies was perfect.
Food Birthday Cakes, or not. We didn't get around to baking a cake. I mean to be honest, I haven't figured out how to use the oven.
Homeschooling Celebrating Regional Holidays - Qiqiao Festival Yesterday was Quqiao Festival (Chinese Valentine's Day) which celebrates the romantic legend of the weaver fairy and the cowherd.
