Congratulation Richie, you are now officially a teenager.
Happy 13th Birthday !
May God guide your path, give you wisdom, love and grace and bless you abundantly.
Mama and papa love you so much, we don't expect you to be the top in academics but always put God first in everything you do, love God more than anything in this world.
We know you have a desire to be a soccer player, we don't know what the future holds but whatever it is work hard, study hard, play hard and pray hard.
We had an ice cream supper on his actual birthday at Ice Bar while papa gave a birthday speech to Richie to congratulate and remind him what to do next.
And we had family celebration on Sunday with our relatives and parents to celebrate his and opa Tjwan birthday at Hai di lao.
As we were closing a midterm school holiday, we went to Batam for 3 days 2 nights to celebrate our dear friend's 15th wedding anniversary.
Mama, Richie and Ted went first on Friday by Ferry while papa and Tromson went on Saturday after first Holy Communion.
It's a lot of fun, we ate authentic indo food, rest and relax at the gym and attended wedding anniversary mass and parties with papa and mama close friends especially those who went to Holy land together 3 years ago. It's kinda a mini reunion.
We celebrated our friend's wedding anniversary on Saturday afternoon with the theme beautiful in white. Everyone was looking fabulous and awesome and we had a great night together. Hubby came just in time before the holy communion.
Thanks God for the perfect weather, for the friendship and for the laughter.
Midterm holiday is coming and the grandparents are in town so we decided to have a short gateway to Desaru, JB.
We stayed at Four Points Hotel for 3 days 2 nights. The room is pretty spacious but the hotel's facilities quite minimal at least they have gym and swimming pool.
The location is pretty strategic, it's next to the mall and restaurant / cafe.
On the first day, we spent time to swim in the hotel and had dinner at Seafood bujang restaurant firefly.
The seafood apparently is not fresh and over price, however we liked the way it cooked which was Thai inspired cuisine.
On the second day, we exercised together at the gym and had hearty breakfast.
At first, we planned to go to Desaru fruit farm and ostrich farm, unfortunately it's raining the whole day, thus we changed the plan to visit the nearby mall and the mall in the city. We had lunch at Sushi house, the food was delicious and the price is only 1/3 of SG price which is very good deal.
After doing window shopping at the mall, we had seafood dinner at Honbin restaurant. We ordered different type of seafood from crab, squid, fish and the seafood was fresh and yummy. Everyone loved it.
On the third day, we had an opportunity to visit Desaru fruit farm and orchid farm as the weather was bright and sunny.
It's back nature experience for the kids and us. We gained knowledge of different kind of fruits, how they grow and nurtured in the farm and tasted and smelled different kinds of leaves.
And the kids had the opportunity to feed and have interaction with the pet animals.
After the fruit tour, we had the chance to taste the fruit harvest which were sweet and fresh and end up we bought different kinds of fresh fruits there.
In the afternoon, we travelled to ostrich farm to taste the egg and the meat and feed the ostrich and had interaction with them.
As we still have plenty of time before going back to Singapore, we went to Desaru coast at Westin resort.
The beach was superb, the wave was so calm, the sand was soft and the water was clear. We really wanted to dip there, however we already packed our clothes and luggage thus we just dip our feet only.
After sunset, we went back to Singapore and thanks God for the good traffic. It's smooth and the total time spent was 1.5 hours.
