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 !

2 x 3 Years Old

The lads got electric motorbikes for their birthday and spent all morning on them. Unfortunately Sammies had to go back to the shop for exchange and they were both up and running again for the birthday party,

The cake was a fire engine theme and enough to feed a small army too.




All the boys followed Mingyu to his room and he had them all marching to his orders within minutes.

pre Xmas Pics

Walking with dinosaurs

We had taken no chances and booked the seats to Walking with dinosaurs months ago. It was a matinee on Thursday 2 December at the Singapore Indoor stadium. It was also the first time we had all been out to a show together. Sunny prepared the snacks well and the kids were in pretty good form for it.

We went by taxi direct from the kids day care centre at Paragon and Mingyu came home from school early o he could join too. The seats were good and the kids pretty much watched the whole thing esp Andrew who turned to me at the interval and said 'Daddy I need more dinosaurs'. Even since the show, whenever we get in the car Andrew always asks if we are going to Walking with dinosaurs.

Sunny's Birthday

Sunny's Birthday
Blueberry cheesecake
lots of candle blowing
Crazy kids
yummy Chinese food
bottle o bubbly

Mingyu's grade 5 exhibition

Mingyu's school hosted a grade 5 exhibition where the students showcased the projects they had worked on over the past term. Mingyu's group display was on the topic of Social networking and Cyber Bullying and when Sunny and I met them the team of three students went through their rehearsed speeches outlining the content of the project. It was very impressive and I learnt something new about social networking and cyber bullying and how common it is.
Proud Parents
Sunny and Mingyu with the team display in background
This was a cool class tapestry rug designed and created by the students.
Katie is Mingyus teacher.

Flying to see great grand parents in Korea

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Sunny took me and the twins to see their great grand parents in Boryeong. Grandma is ninety years old and grandfather is two years younger. The boys fell asleep in the car on the way to the hospital so we wheeled grand ma out to the car to see the lads spread out across the back seat of the car with Sunnys father looking after them.
It was great to see them and have a bit of time together.
Sunnys grand father looks like a character and walks around with a packet of cigarettes in his pocket and has a smoke with his mate in a wheelchair also in the hospital.

Lets go Korea 2010

Ski Trip NZ - 20 years between pics

Waterloo Wind Farm

I was fortunate enough to visit te Waterloo wind farm owned and operated by Roaring 40's located in the Clare valley north of Adelaide. The site has 37 x V90-3 MW turbines and will provide enough power for 48,000 homes. It is an impressive wind farm built on two ridge lines a larger Southern ridge and a Northern ridge line. The pictures of me were take on top of the turbine at a height of over 85 metres above ground and give some perspective of the spectacular views. One of the nice parts of the job!

Update from Singers - a bad week for sedgeway

It is probably due be the hot steamy weather and the massive late morning downpours that hurtle over sized rain globules to the ground with thunder and lightning that has everyone on edge lately.
We are experiencing some unusual events and not just from the skies;

Take Sedgeway for example, you know the two wheel stand on device that is the so called leader in personal green transport. It was a bad week for Sedgeway the new owner of the company drove his Sedgeway over a cliff but was described in his obituary as a true visionary, unfortunately unable to see this particular hazard. So too a colleague of mine took his family to Sentosa for a Sedgeway tour and found himself pile driven into the roadway and came to work with cuts and bruises all over his face and hands.

The Aussie rules grand final was drawn last week and the whole thing will be repeated this week. Lets hope they get it right this time and St Kilda show the Magpies how to play footy.
I was in Madrid during the final and had the chance to walk around the old part of the city and could not pass by the jambon museum. It's a curious place near Sol square where the decor on the walls and ceiling features thousands of hams. On one side of the place is a butchery and the other side is a bar service beers and ham in various shapes and sizes. I enjoyed a beer and jambon roll for 2 euro before heading back to the Eurostars hotel by metro.

Bonkers

Our French friends II - Stanleys crab restauarant