So Many Carps! So Little Food!

Nieces Ai Gek and Zhi Yi went to Huang Shan, China for holiday recently and took this shot of literally thousands of carps in a pond, fighting for foods that visitors had dropped. Wonder if one day the world should run out of natural resources, we are going to scavenge for food just like these carps??

Lunch at Kukup, Christmas Eve 2006

Our Christmas Eve lunch was held at a seafood restaurant in Kukup, a fishing village at the southern most tip of Malaysia Peninsular. Well known for its vast array of seafoods, both from the sea and from the kellongs, this popular seafood paradise is mainly frequented by Singaporeans during weekends and public holidays.

We were there in 4 cars and had black pepper crab, fried prawn, squids, garoupa fish, vegetables, foo yong eggs and fried meehoon and noodle.

This shot was taken after lunch by Soo Tong. From the smiling faces, I can conclude that everyone was pleased with the lunch.

Proud Parents' Ranting

Latest update: Taylor's advertisement in The Star paper on 29 December 2006.

Our eldest girl had just given us the best 20th Wedding Anniversary gift.... her excellent results in the SACE released this morning. (She was up at 6am trying desperately to log into the SSABSA website this morning).

Well, the wait and the effort were well worth it. She scored 18 and 19 marks for all 5 subjects (out of 20) giving a total SACE Score of 92. For University Entrance, her TER (Tertiary Entrance Ranking) point is a 98.85% which according to her was well above average.

We are all going out to celebrate her achievement tonight!

New Blog Layout - Thanks to Laluvirtual !

This new blog layout was specially designed for me by Laluvirtual (http://freebloggertemplate.blogspot.com/). I do not know him personally but he obliged when I wrote an email to him after visiting his blog. He came back with the design within 2 weeks ! Wow, that's efficiency and unreserved helpfulness even to a total stranger! Thanks to you, brother Laluvirtual and carry on blogging!

Happy 20th Anniversary !

7th December 2006 : Our 20th Wedding Anniversary!

Wow, how time flew us by! 20 years ago this day, we started our journey of life together, wide-eyed, curious but confident. We have our ups and downs. Looking back, we couldn't be more perfect for one another.

Now, 20 years later, we are proud to have brought up four beautiful young adults, each with their own characters, own strength and own resolves. And soon, they will spread their wings and build their own world and continue this wonderful cycle of life......

For the third time, we celebrated our Anniversary at Swenson's. This was the children's choice and we gladly obliged.

The following are shots of this joyous occasion. They were test shots taken with the newly acquired Panasonic Lumix LX1 Digital Semi Automatic Camera.


On the way to Swenson's, SS2, Petaling Jaya

Lamp shade above the table. Testing my new Lumix LX1 Camera, Night scene mode, manual

Colourful Lamp Shade Along the Walkway : Shutter priority, auto focus and no flash

Winnie, the eldest, waiting patiently for her food.

A shot on Ellen, the second daughter : Manual focus, slow shutter and no flash

Mark, our 3rd boy, posing with his Mum

James, the youngest boy, posed with Ellen


The soft ceiling light further softened by the helium filled balloons; Manual focus without flash, apperture prioriy

Slide Show : Mum's 93rd Birthday

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