A little trip to Singapore

A few months ago, I made a trip down to Singapore to spend some time with Gaik and family. Then, I discovered the HOUSE at Dempsey. It is a fabulous place...an old army getup that is now transformed into a swanky place with restaurants and over-the-top grocery store and shops.

Krabi

It's been so long since i posted photos that i'd almost forgotten how!

Anyway, was away for 5 days in Krabi. It's a great beach resort, which gives u the option to just bum around or rock climb and kayak. Of course i chose to bum around!

Singapore Garden Festival 2008

Picture taken by Cheok during the recent Singapore Garden Festival 2008

Happy Happy National Day Singapore!

Celebrating a preview to the annual National Day Parade (NDP) which is a big event in our country. It was held at Marina Bay floating platform. Several preview shows are usually being held over a few weeks (Saturdays) prior to the actual celebration day on the 9th August in order to allow as many people as possible to experience the NDP celebrations here in Singapore. Happy Holidays to all of you people in Singapore!

"Hair for Hope" Shaving Project

In support of children in Singapore who have cancer, Tim's school started this "Hair for Hope" project, which is organized by the Children's Cancer Foundation to raise public awareness on childhood cancer, morally support affected children & families and to raise funds. So his school arranged for hairstylists to come to their school to shave the pupils' heads! (teachers & parents included too!)

Beauty and the Beast

I went to watch the musical 'Beauty and the Beast' last night. It was the finale show. I got complimentary tickets from Hotel Imperial and it was the RM350 tickets!

The musical was held at the KLCC Plenary Hall and it was a 2.5 hours show. The set was great and the costumes really nice. All the characters looks alike from the cartoon characters. And the best thing was that you could hear people singing along with the tunes.

Old Taiping

In my recent trip back to Taiping over the labour day weekend, I snapped a few more photos of the old houses in town. And you all probably recognise that this 1st photo is Ah Kong's place.

The rest of the photos are just of the houses around the area.

Port Dickson

Lots to say about the trip.

• The bungalow was very nice, very clean, lots of space, big garden, faces the sea. 4 rooms enough to fit 13 people.


• The sea tho was hopeless. Just see from far enough. Tho dirty as it may be, we all went inside for a 'swim'. Just had to. Before i arrived ( Gwyn and i only arrived at 6pm, Saturday), the rest of them had a mud bath. They waded thru knee deep mud in the sea cos they thot it was a shorter route home. I was told they smelled real bad after that!


• We basically ate the whole time. The caterers cooked one or two meals (cos the Ees were on strike the first day). Saturday nite we had BBQ. Danny Boy was an excellent chef, his BBQ chicken really nice, juicy on the inside, crispy on the outside. None of the usual 'chau ta' stuff we get at BBQs. Even BBQed huan chu.


• After the Ees stopped the strike, they were pretty much in the kitchen or cleaning the house. They swept the floor, mopped the house, wiped the tables, washed clothes. The house actually looked cleaner when we left!


• We also had mangos galore. There was a huge mango tree outside the house. Very sweet. And early Saturday morning there was a storm so many of the fruits fell down. We had mangos for breakfast, for lunch, dinner and supper, and even had enuf to bring home!

Young "Tiger Wood(s)" in the Making

Golf Driving Range... Trying out for fun & possible future millionaire pro-golfers!

Nick's Birthday Stunts

Nick at "Cable Ski 360", East Coast Park Beach, trying out cable skiing for the first time! (his birthday present request!) He managed to hang on half the way before he splashes into the sea water! Then he has to walk all the way back....! He had fun!

PD

So....lots of space for my tent!

Pat & Nick...Hapyy Birthday!!!

This is for Cheok..

Hungry?

10th April 2008 - the Big Day for Gaik

Oh Happy Feet!...

Happy Feet!!!....and that is what Bean talked about when she was with me at Redang. "You look like Happy Feet...but you are all black!....face also black." That was after she saw me suiting up for my dive. Bean was definitely quite adventurous (like her mummy) as when I gave her my spare regulator to try...she took it and stuck it in her mouth!




And here she is with Pat (below) in the pool at where I stayed. She pretty much stayed there the entire late morning / afternoon and was still there after I got back from my dive.



Oh yes..."My ice cream is Red, Lellow, and Green"....Bean said with the cutest voice.



Aside from that, diving was good. Below is the a photo of the Xmas tree coral. They come in blue, green, LELLOW, and red.



I don't know the name of this nudi branch but they are hard to find.



This turtle wasn't shy as I was able to get quite close for a photo!



Some more dive photos here....

Sentosa LUGE

Nick on the luge at Sentosa. He was actually on "fast speed".... but upon reaching the camera, he slowed down! Ha Ha!

Next Saw Generation in Ipoh

Julian & Ryan Da Costa at Sam Poh Tong, Ipoh... the modern Flintstones of the Saw generation... (eh, but one is a Cookie Monster fan!)
Bicycle ride at Taman D.R. Seenivasagam.... (wonder if he is a real doctor??)
Entrance of Perak Tong (except for person in the middle, the other 2 guys are potential monks - got hairstyle to qualify!)

My parents trip to Singapore

Singapore Flyer, the current world's biggest observatory wheel, now open in Singapore!
My parents, being possibly the first on the Saw family clan, to visit and board the flyer!
At the garden just below the wheel!
Celebrating my Dad's 70th Birthday in my home!