Australia's Heartland - photos of Australia's centre

May day, May day !

A mid week holiday
Labour day they say
but there's no working
Not today
Too many things to do
Take kids to school
Get out on the bike
Ride for my life
put as much in before noon
then meeting the wife

Late Lunch at Buddha's Belly
Overlooking the army base
shoveling Thai food into our face

Driving to School to pick up the kids
giving them fizz
take them to Piano class
say goodbye and shop for dinner
pick up the eldest from his Korean class
play in the park
come home and they ask upstairs girl to play
its a frenzy outside until its getting quite dark
so inside they run, chase, construct and draw
She leaves and we all sit down for dinner
Bib Bim Bap and bulgogi, but the wine is the winner


Its time for the kids shower and dragging actually
first to the bathroom, then out of the shower
they hate the thought but love the reality
the youngest decides the time is right to dress like a ancient soldier
stabs me in the side with his sword and looks for his mother

They're in bed and asleep
its eerily quiet

except for the phone
and the its kakao whistle
and the rabbit in his cage
giving it the odd rustle.

Quick trip to Sweden and Denmark

Sunny and

Andrew & Samuel 4th BD

The boys had a fun birthday party on Sunday with 12 of their mates. A magician kept them enthralled for 45 minutes and then gave each a party bag with whistles and horns. Twelve kids then proceeded to outblow and whistle each other.
The food, drinks and goody bags were very much appreciated as was the octonaught cake. A fantastic design featuring an octopus with tentacles out to eight cupcakes each with a cartoon character on top !

Sunny was very busy with all of the invites and organisation for the past few weeks and did a great job.

Mingyu had an epic water pistol fight with the boys afterwards.

Octopus Prime

The Boys are into transformers, big time and 'Octupus Prime' is the man.

The photos are a bit random but let me walk you through them.

The photo of the boys and me was taken on a drive back from Malaysia, we stopped fr ice cream and ate in the park nearby. The clearing of immigration failed and had us in the immigration building in Singapore and the boys through we were in the police station and going to jail. Fortunately it was fixable an we had to go back to Malaysia to clear customs there before coming back through the Singapore checkpoint.

Next two photos are of the bike ride Danny and I took out to Changi village on the way we stopped at a temple. At Changi village we stopped at the food court and I saw a old lady preparing the chilli, lots of it, chopping it up finely for the soups.

The photo of Mingyu was on his day out, where he could choose two paid events and one activity for all of us. We went to Universal studios in the morning and had a great Korean lunch at a restaurant on the East Coast then we all played lego together later.

Honkers revisited

Last weekend (8-11thApril) all the family went to Hong Kong. It was the twins first trip to Honker outside mummy's tummy. The weather was good and mid 20's temperatures, we ahd conjoined rooms in the Renaissance harbourview near my old office in Wanchai.
It was a action packed few days
Friday night after arrival included a power shop, and Sunny got most of the major acquisitions out of the way early.
Saturday we entertained the hotel guests in the breakfast restaurant with the boys up to full hyper mode and running around the breakfast buffet.
One of the highlights was a chopper ride around the island and new territories.




Saturday night we went to the market in Mong Kok and then went to Causeway bay for dinner in a swish Korean restaurant.

Sunday we headed off to Disney and had fun on a couple of the ridea and watching the lion king show and the grand parade.


Sunday night went back by train to sai wan ho, our old place and had dinner ther. Found a fabulous tapas bar on the waterfront promenade. Mingyu Sam and myself enjoyed sitting at the spanish bar and enjoyed a spanish pizza (spinach, smoked duck breast) which was sublime.

Monday we went into central for a couple of hours we stopped for a mid orning brucnch at Jaspers in soho and enjoyed a warm salmon salad while the boys drew pictures on the paper table cloth with crayons.

Mingyu and Dads Aquathon

On Sunday 27 Feb 2011, Mingyu and I were up early and off to Sentosa Island Siloso beach for the our first Aquathon. It was the first race of of a three race series with aquathon, duathlon and finally triathlon with about 6 weeks between each event.

Sunny arrived with the kids just and Mingyu was finishing and the twins went to the beach, stripped off nude and were in the water before we could catch them. We eventually got clothes on them and they played in the sand.

Mingyu and I are firmly positioned in the midlle of the pack when it comes to the race standings and can only improve from here. Better get on the bike now and get ready for the duathlon a run/bike/run event in early April !