AUSTERITY DRIVE

I decided 2 transfer my austerity drive ideas onto another blog coz I thought it would look so "messy" here. Besides not everybody's interested to know where I found the cheapest baby clothes, etc.

So here's the other blog's address :
http://our-austerity-drive.blogspot.com/

Do drop by if you are keen on our latest effort to "buy-&-live-cheap". I was also thinking of including a section on delicious food too (Anyone who knows me ... knows how I loove food!). I think I will wait & see how things work out wif the new blog. If the blog is alive & well ... & I can find the time 2 update it regularly, I will try to add more sections of interest.

I hope my "thrift & save" ideas helps. Enjoy reading!!!

OK, since I have the time 2 rant for awhile (baby's sleeping), I sure will ...

I was just going through my older posts on the blog & I saw that some of the slides I did on SLIDE was either empty or not moving! Arrggh! I just don't understand these stuff. When I went 2 check on their website, the slides were still there. Am I just stupid or is the program playing tricks on me? Downloading videos on Blogger can also be a real pain. It can't be my internet connection coz I'm on broadband so thats excluded. So whats the problem then?

I simply dun know how to keep up wif these stuff. I'm not extremely tech savy but I do know how to manuever around the Net. Even simple things that I wanna do, I can't seem to do it. I'm also a stickler for formatting & spacing. That simple thing ... I can't even do here. It either refuses to do what I format or it keeps leaving spaces when I don't want it to. Frustrating!

I surf the Net & see such beautiful blogs, full of creative & interesting stuff. Though I wish my blog would look half as good as theirs, I'll be thankful if it does what's its supposed to & not get on my nerves so much. Since I can't spend hours doing up my blog, I just want it to be idiot-proof, simple & does what I tell it too. Hhhmmm ... well it seems like its wishful thinking for now.

OK I think I will leave it up to that for now. At least I got it off my chest .... ha!

Aahh! ... Life ...

Well, this makes me wish, I was on the beach wif hubby ... Hhmmm ... Ryan must be hanging nearby.

SOME RANDOM PICS OF RYAN

Wohoo! Hubby's on leave for the next couple of days so its either a long-well deserved-rest time for me or we might end up packing-cleaning-house ... again. We'll see how things go.

OK the blogs full of photos right, well I just went crazy updating all the pics here, maybe I went overboard but heck I sure aint gonna delete them coz it took me the whole afternoon to get them up here. So folks just enjoy the pics ok ... dun think I have such luxury all the time.

Hhmm ... must write more, muse more, complain more, b***h more ... I need more time in my days!

BUSY DAY - PLAY TIME & COFFEE

Once again, we were at IMM. As usual Ryan can't help but wanna spend time at the playground. Just a few pics ... of Ryan having a good time!

A ride or two doesn't hurt anyone ... but Ryan wants them ALL!!!

Somehow we ended up in town, later in the day. Here are just some pics of Ryan, posing ... rather obediently.

Doing his "Say Cheese" impersonation, its rather amusing. Too bad, most times he ends up covering half his cute face wif his gesture. Well, he tries ...

We had late night coffee with some ol' friends, Lisa & Jason, together wif their kids, Chelsia & Damian. Ryan just loves playing wif the kids. He's taken a liking to Uncle Jason these days too. I guess coz Jason tries to amuse Ryan by having little conversations ... he likes that!

Isn't that Ryan's BFF Barney? What was he doing at Starbucks???

Phew! What a looong day it was! Tiring but enjoyable, especially 4 my lil munchkin.

LATEST TRAIN RIDE

I wanted 2 feature a trip by train that we took, which showed that my son is getting more & more accustomed to the MRT rides. He looks increasingly happier now ... hurray!

Long live the trains!

RYAN'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

A late entry for the round-up of Ryan's birthday ... with a belated party. It was celebrated at my bro's place as two of his sons (Syakir & Syauqi) also had birthdays in January. So to make life easier (mainly for the adults), we decided to do a three-at-one-time celebration.

Who else ... but Barney could complete the party!

Barney party favours - full of sweet, candies & yummies for the youngsters.

Yummy food .. as usual!

The party starts with good food. All together now ...

Some distractions ...
Ryan feeding her cousin Ayra ... a party blower!

Cousin Shami, having a fun time wif his party blower.

Blowing out the candles on the cake ... is a three-way affair (oops! four-way u mean).

Look how happy Ryan looks ...

Presents time!!!

Well, thats the end of the week-long celebration of Ryan's birthday. Here's hoping we can have an even better time on his 3rd special day! Thanx to everyone who made it possible, my extended family who cooked & came with presents for all the birthday boys!

THE MARINA BARRAGE

We finally managed to drop by a new place that hubby wanted to visit. Its called "Marina Barrage" somewhere in Marina South. To get there we had 2 drive through lots of construction & such but if you follow the directional signs, it was a clinch to get there. By foot its virtually crazy to go there but I saw that they provide shuttle service (from where I dunno). They do have a small parking zone for visitors who drive, so that helps.



The place is actually a kind of dam of sorts. Its was a very windy evening, as we reached there. I was surprised that there were lots of people there, some even creating their own picnic areas. Some were kite flying, some took photos (like us). As can be expected there were lots of water features - ones that "sprout" and some even had special lights, which would seem colourful at night. There were also 2 wading pools, for the kids 2 play in. Of course, Ryan insisted on "jumping" in 2 try, so daddy had 2 join him.

Daddy said we should take a photo withe the Singapore Flyer as the backdrop, so here's one. I took one too but it didn't out too good so I'll spare the public the agony ... hehe!

Last few photos b4 we left. As you can see, Ryan was only clad in his diapers (which were wet) coz we decided to change him in the car, b4 we ride on home. Poor boy! I think he was a bit cold. Thou he didn't seem to care as he was busy looking out the bridge. He posed for a while ... & then we decided it was time to go home, as it was getting dark. Daddy promised Ryan that we will come again another day, this time with Ayra, in tow. Now Ryan would love that!

HAPPY RIDING!

Ryan got a chance to ride out one of those electric-charged mini vehicles for kids at a mall. He loved it! The ride's not cheap thou, $3 for a 10 minute ride but I guess it brings great joy to my son, so its priceless! (but that doesn't mean he gets 2 ride them ALL the time - we'll see). I'm actually surprised that he was rather confident during the ride - no worried burrows or whimpers (as it was his 1st time). He manuevered it extremely well & knew where & when to turn. I was very proud of him, he's definitely got his daddy's sense of direction & control of all terrain-vehicle. Mummy would have "crashed" it in no time. Hah! Life is fair isn't it!

Well, here are some pics for all to see. I got a video of him riding too but its so hard to download a vid these days coz its constantly gets disrupted or it hangs. I'll try but I doubt it'll appear ...

A helping hand from daddy ...

Well, I showed Mummy & Daddy that I C-A-N ride

TO THE PARK, WE PLAY

Recently we took Ryan & my niece, Ayra to a park. As obvious from the pics, they throughly enjoyed themselves. Ayra says that we should go there again soon & I agree. Sometimes you don't have to spend (a lot of) money to amuse the kids to bits. Ryan had a great time sliding down the slides wif his favourite playmate.

Aaah! the joys of childhood ...

Weee!!!

Swing, swing!

Look at those happy faces!

One for the photo album ...

Here they are admiring some fishes in the viewing area. They look so engrossed ...

Bye!!! See you next time!