Chen mama the Fantastic Chef

She is known for her culinary skills. She has one thick file on the many recipes that she kept from her cooking classes. Today, we would like to introduce,
CHEN MAMA...
my dear mama whom I feel so proud to be her daughter.

On 16 May 11, we celebrated our belated mother's day.
And Chen mama suggested she chose her own menu and cooked herself because she can CHOOSE whatever she want to eat and it's so much cheaper than dinning out.

And this is our BUFFET !

Look what we had ... Egg with cheese, shark fins, otar, bamboo shoots with yam, fish with mango, smeely beans with qio, oor-nee (yam paste dessert w ginko nuts), lotus peanut soup, sweet & sour pork ribs.....

please.... dont expect me to be the same as her. Because she's so good, it's really difficult for me to learn how to cook. But Im a good dish washer, and Im pretty good with cutting veggies. Try me ~

My 1st JP Morgan Run

Many many 1st for this.
1st time taking part in massive run event,
1st longest competivite distance to-date @ 5.6km route.

Group Photo of our SMRT team outside HQ.

missing from the Photo: Reza & Maimunah. they missed out meeting time as both thought the run is next day.

To celebrate this 1st BIG Run, Let's do A SHORT INTERVIEW ON MYSELF to celebrate it!

1. HOW I TRAINED FOR THE EVENT?
Stopped regular runs after MySMRT run last Oct.
To let my body get use to the distance, started off with 2km slow jogs for 3-4times a week for a 3 weeks period before increasing to 3km.
Thereafter, alternate between 3km, 4.5km, 5km and 6km 1 month before the run at 2 different locations. Neighborhood for flatter, smooth running surface but with an incline and decline slope. Lower seletar reservoir for rougher running surface and strong wind (at times).

2. WHAT WERE MY IMPRESSION & THOUGHTS OF MY FELLOW TDR TEAM MATES?
1st time meeting most of our TDR teammates. We all come from different depts but our TDR team is a group whom would makes one feels at ease & comfortable with almost instantly for we all have something in common - SMRT and running.

A self taken photo while waiting for flag-off.

In this photo, top left is Desmond Loh from HR, top right is me. Bottom Right is XinLi from Engrg & Aishah from Buses.
We tried to make our way as near as possible to the starting point but in the end this was the best we could get.

The starting point and ... the super many people (13,000 runners!)


3. WHAT WENT THRU MY THOUGHTS DURING THE RACE ITSELF?
Super many people! It was difficult even to want to run at a faster pace.
“Not-too-fast, not-too-fast…go with my comfortable pacing”, I told myself. But I can’t help pondering how was it possible for some ladies to be running faster when they don’t seem that athletic to me (Pardon me for my frankness). It did get me down a little before I accepted the fact they may be gifted runners or put in lots of hardwork.

Run past the 2km mark, and found myself constantly on the outlook of our runners on the opposite return route. So thrilled when I spotted Meng chai, Rahim, Izhar…Lester and Aishah that I felt like shouting out loud “SMRT ~”

It was some 500m from the finishing point when I spotted Ming Yue in front, and I thought “So good to see someone from our team !” She was sure my energy boost for the last dash towards the finishing point.

4. WHAT WERE MY FEELINGS AFTER THE RACE?
Haha! Finally reached the finishing point but Where’s everyone?
MingYue and I were lost. It was rather embarrassing to have everyone waited for us.
And the walk back to HQ was a long one. So tiring. But Im so relieved I have Mingyue’s company. and i kept thinking "oh dear... it's getting late. Can i have my dinner @ 8pm ?"

My results? 35min 12sec
Team results?
SMRT Team 1 (Men) - 13th place (1:37:59)
SMRT Team 2 (Men) - 98th place (2:06:07)
SMRT Team 1 (Mix) - 61th place (2:24:47)
SMRT Team(Ladies) - 24th place (2:21:33)

New Uniform

Change of School Uniform...
Top : From Bright Yellow to baby Yellow
Bottom : from Maroon to baby purple

Finally YuKuan got his 1st set of uniform.
Must, Must get them to pose the camera la ~


走走走。。。手牵手，上学去。


I posted one of the photos on facebook as well and received many comments that the boys are SooOOooOOooo cute. I think I know the reason. Through these 2 photos, it showed happiness, and close botherhood.

At this point of time,
YuXiang is 3 years and ... 3 mths old
YuKuan is 20mths old

Thomas Movie Time !

After a week-long of waiting, Sunday has finally come and we were all eager to make our way to Orchard Cineleisure for our Thomas Movie.

It was just an one-hour movie but felt like a Thomas Fans gathering in the cinema (laughs). They displayed a Big poster board of Thomas and the movie title "Misty Island Rescue" and of course we had to pose with it for some....evidence ? haha.

I can fit into my old dress !

This is a garden-party dress which I got near 5 years ago and recently thanks to the little illness which got me slimmed down slightly, I am now able to fit into this dress again. Yes ! finally !


And in order to show the differences (the before & the after effect), I have done a simple picture comparision.

Note: Weight Gain is calculated as using Yr X minus pre-pregnancy weight in Yr 07.
Well...I'm hoping I can maintain my current weight.

THomas is on Big Screen !

We've got the tickets ! la la la la la la ~(song) we are going to the cinema... how about you you you? YOu can come too too too..... we are going to the cinema. Ntuc Plus Card Promotion ! I'm so excited that when Zhiyi agreed to drop by @ Orchard Cineleisure to get the tickets last Sat. YEs, so sweet of him... There was a rather long queue and he waited a good half an hour before his turn. And the wait brought us a free Thomas Bag too for every ticket we got!

That evening when ZHiyi returned home ...
the boys were so excited trying out their NEW THOMAS BAG and carrying THomas Flag in their hands.

A pose for the camera 1st before YuXiang & YuKuan happily start off their "training run" ard the house.

Our Drawing, Kawaii !!!

I chanced upon this hand-drawing book in Library 1 week ago and instantly I was drawn to it !

Let me show you it's attractiveness... (laughs)

This is the book cover....


2 examples of the drawing instructions....



This is so interesting and seems rather easy to do.
Suitable for the young and old. Can't hide my excitement to want to try out with the boys... Too bad I cant catch Yukuan.

My Hand. YuXiang's Hand.
Here's an end-product of ours. A Squid & a Fish.