Family Day

I had an enjoyable day with mom today. Brought mom out for dim sum lunch at Wah Lok (Yes!!! Finally got to try Wah Lok after hearing about it for sooooo long!). After the hearty lunch which left us stuffed and satisfied, we went shopping to work off the thousands of calories we piled on ... brought mom to Raffles City, showed her the never-ending queue for donuts at the RC basement and showed her The Soup Spoon where I sometimes go for lunch alone ... mom even helped me pick out some nice accessories. Seldom get to do such girly stuff with mom, feels good :)

Original intent to go for a swim in the afternoon slowly faded away (yes, laziness and coupled with wanting to spend some time with the family) and decided to join mom and sis family at the Ponggol Park for niece's school performance.

There was a heavy downpour in the mid-afternoon. Thankfully the sky cleared up and the sun was back in full blast right before the event started. While waiting for the performance to start, I roamed in the park and saw many grown men engrossed with their radio controllers. So what are they controlling ? ....

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They were playing with their miniature sailing boats. Quite nice to see all these little boats moving slowly in the waters while their "captains" steer them around a blue little buoy. But seriously, after a few minutes, I dunno what's the deal with this. How difficult is it to control the boat ? Issit that fun ? Imagine these men were there right before I was at the park, and were still there an hour later after the school performance ... *yawn* So fun meh ?

Though hot, it was actually a very beautiful day ... clear blue sky, all the trees and shrubs, too bad the temperature is hot. If only we had nice cool weather, it would be perfect.






After that brought the family to Hooked on Heads for dinner since they had no ideas where to eat. Bill came up to $73+++ for just 4 adults 2 kids. Just a little cheaper than last week when 9 of us paid just $88++ (and we ordered more then!). But prolly coz we ordered a fish, and drinks ... jack up the price. But I finally get to try their dessert. Their sticky rice with mango is yummy!

My sis loved the bread I bought previously from this traditional bakery shop called Singapura Bakery in Thomson. She was disappointed when she went this afternoon only to find the shop closed. I told her the shop should be opened at night and since it was along the way, we decided to check it out, and also to show mom this really interesting, atypical bakery shop. When we got there, the place was packed and in usual fashion, they were blasting ..... CNY music!!! Hahaha ... needless to say we grabbed many kinds (peanut, red bean, white lotus, raisin, choc chip, hot-dog) of loti, in fact more than we need :P One of the helpers came out with a tray of butter & sugar coated loti for all the customers to sample .... they were all so upbeat and alive and were joking with the customers ... the lively shop was such a stark contrast to the almost dead neighbourhood ...

What a traditional bakery! The people behind were busy baking and they were dishing out fresh-from-the-oven loti to sell! Those loti we chose were still warm, soft & fresh! Too bad I was stuffed from dinner, else I wouldn't have been able to resist popping the freshly made loti into my mouth! :P

We bought 2 big bags of loti, for just $7.50. Very nice to soak up the happy atmosphere there ... ;)But this time round the uncle never give us any free raisin bread ... think they too busy .. :P(And we were in for a pleasant surprise when sis found during breakfast the following morning that they had threw in 2 raisin bread free). So nice! :P

Satisfied day ... and an extremely satisfied tummy *rubs tummy happily* ... I can see cholestrol level hitting the roof :P

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