Here we are in Perth

Finally we are here in Perth, actually we have been here for 2 weeks now.

We have been real busy for the past 2 weeks, since the day we touched down on 15Nov early in the morning. That day itself, we went to so many places. Helena's friend fetched us from the airport, went to our rent place in Willetton, went to test drive and took the 2nd hand car that we are buying from friend's brother, went to shop for fridge, washing machine, bought vacuum cleaner, rice cooker, dinnerset, cutlery, pillows, etc. At the end of the day, we were so tired that we only managed to clean one of the rooms so that we can sleep in that room.

The days that followed, it was more cleaning and shopping. Our shipment from Singapore got held up at the port, and that kind of upset our schedule. As a result, we are still in the midst of unpacking.

Helena's aunt and cousins came over for holiday during the 2nd week, so we spent some time with them, bringing them around Perth.

It was good thing that we have friends here, and cousin's friends, and friend introduced friends to us, and cousin's friend who introduced friends to us. Its really a bunch of friendly and helpful people over here.

Well, once we are more settled in, will take pictures and post more updates over here.

Kyrene's Graduation Night 2008

Blame it on the lousy camera that we own... did not managed to take many good pictures of Kyrene's performance during the Glory Kindergarten 33rd Graduation Ceremony. Only the shots taken of her and her good friends looks good. Luckily, some nice parents of her schoolmates took pictures of her during the performance and said will pass us those. In the meantime, here are picture of Kyrene taken together with Hwee Teng and Su Anne.

We are moving...

Guess its time to make the announcement...

We are moving to Perth, Western Australia end of this year. Some of you would be surprised but some would have guessed that this will happen anyway. Yes, we finally decided to move to Perth. We are leaving mid Nov.

We have been busy preparing for the move. Just finished packing up the stuff for shipping and the mover has just got those out of the way yesterday. Now, we got to start packing and cleaning the house before we leave. Seems like we have accumulated quite a lot of stuff over the years.

We probably won't have enough time to meet up all our relatives and friends over here before we leave. Hope to keep in contact either via email, online chat, forum discussions, or even phone calls. If anyone going to Perth, remember to pay us a visit.

We will miss Singapore... families, relatives, friends, food, shopping, etc etc etc

Pick Pocketed

Auntie got pick-pocketed at the market!!! Who, who, who, har?

We have been hearing so many stories about aunties get pick-pocketed but never thought it would happen to ourselves, right?

Wrong! Because the auntie that we are talking here is none other than auntie Helena. Ok, ok, laugh all you want, auntie Helena got pick pocketed in the morning when she went to the wet market in Bukit Batok.

Here's her story:
It happened real quick. I was browsing some children stuff, I took out my wallet to show my friend, and then put it back into my bag. Then a lady next to me asked her daughter where she got the wallet. I saw its my wallet. The little girl gave the wallet back but did not say when or how she picked up the wallet. Then, the lady told me to be careful as it has been known that there are a lot of pick-pocketers in the market. It was only when I wanted to pay for some stuff that I realised my money is all gone! That is all my hard-earned marketing money. Really feel so sad.

Times are bad (stock market so bad) and economy is expected to turn for the worse. Crime rate sure to go up. So, everybody reading this, be careful, don't think it won't happen to you, it can happen to anybody.

3 Weeks in Perth

For those who keep in touch with us often, you probably would say "Oh, Perth again?"

Yes, we just went to Perth for 3 weeks in end Aug, early Sep. This time round, we did not drive to the North, nor the South. We just hang out in the metro.

Couple of highlights:


- Met up with Helena's uni friend who is expecting her number 2 in Oct.

- Met up with friend's friends who have migrated to Perth


- Met up with group that is going to Singapore for rugby games to discuss about what they need in Singapore


- Met Johnny's old neighbour there, we played host to show them around in Perth and invited them to taste Helena's cooking



- Met up with group of friends that Helena made in online forum for mothers



- Went to Cohunu Wildlife Park, Yanchep National Park, and the zoo (Singapore Zoo is better)

- Celebrated Mid Autumn Festival there


- Went to South Perth for tea


Did not take many pictures, our camera refused to work in the cold weather.

Change person...

Today, was catching up on friends' blogs and I happened to read LH's where she commented about how I (referring to Helena) have changed from a career-minded person to a domesticated person who's priority is family and kids. Frankly, I never expected the change myself. Till today, even my own mum asked me when am I going to return to the working society. I am not sure if I can fit back into the working society actually. Will I be able to take the stress? Will I be able to work late? Will I be able to concentrate on work and not think about my kids?

These days, my small talk with parents, grandparents of kids in Kyrene's school, my friends, my relatives are always about kids. I share with them about how I fear if my kids can make it in school, how I don't wish for riches but wish for my kids to be healthy, how I fear if my kids misbehaves, etc etc etc. I got no more aim for myself in life, only aim to bring up the kids well. Is this the real me???

I am not the only one that has changed. Those who knows Johnny for a long long long long time ago, would have noticed the change in him as well. I shan't elaborate more. Johnny is also more domesticated now, putting family first as well. In fact, I think he is more worried about his kids than me.

Both of us are busy planning the future right now. It is going to be yet another big change for us. Will keep our friends post once our plans are finalised. Stay tune...

Updates updates updates

Terrible, terrible, terrible... fighting against time again. No time to blog here.

Ok, shall keep it short and sweet. Here are some photos of our Bintan trip on 27-29Jul.