Baby Elna's Baby Shower

Few Saturdays back, Derp and I attended Elna's baby shower at Coasta Sand Resort. The previous time, Kyler's baby shower was at ECP's Gold Kist chalet. This time round, it's held at Coasta Sand Resort which is much more acccessible.

 Revisiting Downtown East area brought back much memories with my poly/uni mates. 

I attend 1-2 chalets almost every holiday from poly to uni days :) Night cycling and night supper session were something not to be missed and a MUST in our itinerary. 

Not forgetting, we would be very effort to shop for BBQ stuff and have BBQ on the first night. It's hard to organize BBQ nowadays because no one wants to do all the marinating/cleaning up after wards. Feeling thankful and grateful for having supportive parents and bf(at that time), hence I didn't miss all of this fun times. #YOLO After every chalet, I can concuss for many hours straight lol.

Back to Baby Elna's Baby shower, We took a bus from our new place and reached there within half hour. Our bus stopped outside downtown east and we had to walk in. It wasn't that far and it beats waiting for that particular bus which took forever to come. 

#OOTD - Romper from In House Fashion

My first and proper meal that day so I can't help but took a mountain of food. I was really famished! 

We didn't stay that long because we intend to head to Derp's place to grab some stuffs left behind by him, since we were already in that area. We left before my other friends came. Oh well, there's plentiful of  chances to meet again :)

Took some pics with the star of the night before I left, Elna is such an angel! She slept throughout and I really hope she will be guai guai all the way and don't give much problem to her mother. 

Esther went to find the hair accessories for her  and put it on before we took the picture lol. 

Derp met Elna for the first time because he didn't went with me to visit Esther after Elna is born. I do think he agree with me about Elna is an angel too haha! 

:)

Second bundle of joy. 

A group photo with Elna.

Esther walk us out and took the chance to parade Elna around for photo taking. We took one last photo with the backdrop :)

I'm so happy for my bestie because she gave birth to a boy and then a girl now. So blessed :) I'm looking forward to the day her 2 bundles of joy grow up and join us in our outings. Having said that, that would means we have aged. :( So contradicting isn't it? I guess, that's life. :)

Babies, Babies and more Babies!

I know the title may somewhat sounds misleading, but I had a baby-fied(I made this word up myself) weekend few weeks ago.

First up, it was Prof's Wesley baby shower. He was Derp's FYP professor and also my networking tutorial teacher in my final year in NTU.

I will never forget how enthusiastic he is when it comes to teaching. He will make sure everyone of us understand the tutorial questions in depth before moving on. He have his own sets of tutorial answers which are different from the standard answers. 

He will present his tutorials solutions in such a way, to help us understand it easily and makes it less painful for us. I still remember the bunch of us went over his room to copy down the tutorial answers because he can't distribute the answers online. It's all worth it because it helps us to understand so much better.

I recommended Derp to choose him as his FYP professor. Derp did really well for his FYP and he's probably one of Prof Wesley's A* student. Other than being his FYP professor, he often care about Derp's academic results and encouraging him on. He was there for Derp's convocation and requested to take a photo with Derp for keepsake purposes.

We are really happy that he's a father now. Though he has more commitments now, we believe he will be a good father. We are more than willing to be there for his baby shower. And not forgetting, he's our future neighbor when we move to Seng Kang! Looking forward to see his family again and baby Qiao En soon :)

Enough said, pictures time!

Decided to dress up a little on a Saturday since I'm going to a prof's baby shower haha! 

#OOTD - Hearts all over the world tonight dress from BKK. I name it that because the heart shape prints are just all over the dress and it was love at first sight for this dress.

A close up of the dress.

My red armswag that day was bought during my recent trip to BKK. It was bought at a street stall in BKK. I hardly wear any armswag but I see that it matches my nails, bag and shoes, so I wore it out. :)

The baby shower was held at a pavilion in Bedok South. I've been there before because it's really near to Esther's place. Too bad Esther wasn't home, if not we would probably pop by to see Kyler since it's been sometimes we see him.And that would makes the no. of babies I met that weekend to 4. Now you know why I say I've a baby-fied weekend.

The catering area. 

It's the first time I went to a baby shower in a open space. The pavilion is pretty cooling and spacious. 

Prof Wesley's wife is currently doing confinement at her mother's place hence they chose this pavilion to hold the baby shower. The house is a walking distance from the pavilion, hence when it comes to changing diapers and etc, it isn't tat bad. And the couple need not carry all the baby stuff with them to the baby shower.

Catering by Elsie's Kitchen 

The food was not bad though I still prefer Angeli.

Say Hi to Qiao En! 

She's one of the rare babies who I met during baby showers, who is wide awake. Most of them are usually sleeping. 

A group shot before we left..

Prof Wesley in the superman t-shirt, his TP colleagues, his current fyp student followed by us. 

Yummy Pinegarden's Cakes given by Prof Wesley. He generously gave each of us a box before we left. 

Pinegarden's cakes are defintely in my list when comes to choosing cakes for Guo Da Li. :)

We also popped by the newly opened Bedok Mall that day since we are in the vicinity. Quite a number of shops have already opened as compared to West Gate. Will blog about my trip to West Gate soon :)

Emme's 1st birthday was on the next day. It felt as though she was born not long ago. Time flies since 12.12.12. Now, she knows how to stand and walk wobbly with aid. Sooner or later, she'll be running around! Glad to see her growing up fast and healthily. 

I was tasked to help Karen get the Happy 1st birthday balloon pumped up. Lester came over to drive Derp and I over to Serangoon North, Thanks to Lester, if now we will have to carry the balloon all the way via train.

#OOTD - Easy Breezy Ruffled Tank by Hollyhoque and Emme's Balloon. The balloon is too cute to resist not to camwhore with haha!

It was a small event hence there were more than enough food for everyone. The yummy food was from Angeli and we went to take more than 1 round. I'm so going to hire them for my housewarming next time :)

The cute baby shower favours. We packed home quite a few tubs because there were pretty lots of leftovers. I reused the container to store my stuffs in office :)

After Emme's party, we headed over to Punggol to visit Derp's colleague newly renovated place.  His colleagues greeted us with his 4 months old baby girl. His cute daughter melts our heart when we first see her.We didn't went for the babyshower because we went for STGCC.

We were pretty pai seh to trouble people on a Sunday to let us view his place. So we bought some gifts for his baby girl. One of which is the pooh bear below. :)

His colleague kindly lend us his measuring tape and we went around his house to start visualizing our own house. His colleague's house layout is almost 90% same as our house. We do learn quite a bit from his colleague after he brought us around the house explaining to us the different materials and stuff like that. Really grateful for that.

We didn't stay that long either so as to let the family of 3 enjoy the rest of their Sunday together.

The pooh bear we gave her haha! This picture totally makes our day even up till now because she's such a sweetheart. 

That's all for my baby-fied weekend! Hope all this cute little babies photo brighten up your day as much as they do to me :)

Weekend full of events...

I was invited to my colleague's, Hazel's baby shower last Saturday. I went there after my exercise lesson. Glad to be back to the lesson because I skipped one week of lesson due to Run Happy 2013. Will blog more about that next time :)

Anyway, thanks to Lester who came to fetch me down, so we reached there not too early/too late, just in time for a sumptuous lunch. I was really hungry after the 1 hour car ride from boon lay to punggol. We passed through 4 expressways just to get to Punggol. Yup, no joke, 4 expressways! 

Honestly speaking, I got a feeling I will have friends/colleagues coming over for the housewarming next year, complaining how far it is from the west. lol. 

Having said so much, hereby presenting to you Ying Xuan! I gladly welcome her to the Scorpio club. lol.

Lester and I concluded that she will have a high chance sleeping sideways/head tilt sideways as she sleep when she grow older. Because that's a trait of a scorpio. I've been suffering from stiff neck on half of my neck for weeks. I over-worked it but it didn't recover that fast.I highly suspected it's due to my have-to-sleep-sideway sleeping posture that have probably worsen it. -_-. Glad that it's much better now.

Last Sunday, I attended Zhi Xiang's wedding. He's the first among us to get married and have a house which is all done up! It's been more than 2 years since I've met all of my uni mates. We've not met in such a big group ever since we graduated. Seriously, time flies! 

The wedding was held at Marina Mandarin Hotel. It's like exactly 1 year ago(probably 2 days apart), I attended Hazel's wedding at the same location. lol. So much of a coincidence. 

Took a #OOTD Shot in the hotel toilet..

I had a great time catching with the rest of the uni mates, other than Darwis/Guo Liang which are the 2 I often meet. Glad that everyone's doing well in their life, singles enjoying their life, attached ones are prepping for wedding/house..#lifeaftergraduation, 

Not forgetting, we chatted about each others' travelling experience. Though I've just come back not long ago, but I'm tempted to travel again lol.But I know it won't be so soon that I'll travel again. :(

                    

With Riko! It has been quite awhile since I met her :)

The group shots that night whereby everyone has a copy of it..The service was really good because they are fast in delivering the photos. Those instant photobooth with props are really slow...And I've met those who don't wish to print each guests a copy, and instead they asked you to go to their facebook/website to get the softcopy. -_-". 

We grab hold of the photographer walking around and requested him to take a photo for us before he walked away.

The table shot with Zhi Xiang and his wife, Elizabeth :)

Hereby wishing them a happy and blissful marriage!

Baby Kyler's Baby Shower

I'm gald to be able to make it Kyler's baby shower before I fly off to Taiwan. Mummy Foo hold it 4 days before the actual 1 month date because 22nd May falls on a weekday. So it was held on the weekend before at East Coast Park - Goldkist Beach Resort. 

Honestly speaking, none of us went there before but most of us know where is it as long you cycled before in ECP. 

Earlier in the day, I went down to Dhoby Ghaut Exchange for Bonjapan to claim my free gift (I'll blog more in another post), before going down to meet Derp at Orchard Hotel then we head down to ECP together. Derp was helping out in NTU EEE/IEM open house earlier that day. 

Took some #ootd shots in orchard hotel toilet while waiting for Derp. 

#ootd - pink ombre dress from The Label Junkie :) Read the reviews of this dress here.

Btw, I bought a blanket from Patchy Factory for Kyler as a 1st month gift. I believe this blanket will last him till he's 4-5 years old.There's also embroidery for his name onto the blanket tag. One can choose to put in the DOB if you would like, if not just the name will do too. 

I chose the Summer Design for Kyler. It comes in bright orange/yellow with sky blue. 

Kyler's name embroidery :)

I did not roll out the blanket to see how big is it, but Karen who bought it for her daughter, showed me a picture of the blanket on her 4 months ++(at that time) daughter, really very big blanket. I think it can cover up to half of our own body. 

I customize the back of the blanket(without prints) to be of sky blue color. Originally it was yellow, but knowing Mummy Foo's pattern, sky blue would be a better choice. 

For more pictures of  Summer blanket, the dimensions and etc, view it here. For more of their other works you can visit their website at http://patchyfactory.com/. The blanket are hand delivered to my doorstep. You can also request to deliver it to your intended receiver's place 

Having said so much, pictures of  Kyler's baby shower below..

Decoration all done up by Mummy Foo and put up by her cousins. 

With Kyler when Mummy Foo's maid is feeding him. That's probably the only time he's so focus and open his eyes so big. Remember the other time when I visited him? He fell asleep after drinking his milk hence I took photo with him while he's sleeping. 

Mummy Foo and Kyler.

The cute baby shower cake all done up by Jase :):) red velvet, chocolate and vanilla.

He took 2 days to complete the tarepandas and shoes. Thumbs up for the effort and Mummy Foo can keep the tarepandas and shoes :). Esther's friends and relatives were praising how cute the cake look.We are definitely proud of our talented friend :) Claire if you are reading this, I want rilakkumas for my birthday cake this year with pink fondant can?? hehe.

Claire was really sick the whole of last week and I hope that she recover soon for her aussie trip.We are all flying off around the same period.

Mummy Foo and Kyler. Kyler looking cute in this blue overall :)

Mummy Foo's paternal grandmother taking a shot with them. Mummy Foo's popo has become great grandmother :)

Kyler with his father and mother :)

Group Shot with Mummy Foo and Kyler. 

I can't help but feel Kyler look pek cek in the group photo. Maybe he take under his dad, don't like to take  photos. I hope that Kyler would grow up happily, healthily and be a cheerful boy :)