Fire cracker play

We all 5 families go Malaysia, my kampong to burn away the reserved fire cracker from Chinese New Year. It was wonderful see everyone having fun guiding and encouraging their kids.

I realised not all kids dare to play fire cracker! I thought they will be delighted to experience the trill and exicitement of launching a "Moon Traveller". Instead some of them choose to watch others play.

I grew up playing yearly fire cracker. So do my children and other kids in the family. I took a back seat now, instead the kids always look forward to fire some fire cracker. The louder, the better!!

We have 5 families of 9 adult and 10 kids going in to kampong together. The kids has good time BBQ the food, as the "pit" was a brick above ground. Adults just wait and eat the cooked food if you think you stomach can handle!

It was a great Easter Friday.

Helium Balloon

Purchased these balloons for ex student 21 birthday present. She had a barbecue party in Changi Alloha Chalet.

The kids like the balloon so much. Next time lah, their birthday, do for them lah. Actually was thinking of balloon plus flower as present, but cannot manage to get nice flower. So I had to settle with the balloons.

The kids liked the BBQ so much! Played with fire, got their hands so dirty! Rui helped in the fire setting up while Rong busy around trying to help! Mei Mei enjoy eating and playing with other toddlers. Good fun. Best of all for Rui is Satay, and more satay.

The birthday girl and her friends are graduated students, they are doing well now. All found job and some guys are in the Army. I saw so many pairs among them and happy for them. I was once like them, 21 years old after poly.....

Deepavali holiday with ice cream, pop corn and shushi

Brought the kids to cycle in the Jurong Lake Park. Stopped for a treat of ice cream outside Chinese Garden. Each of them enjoyed an ice cream. Wow! They loved the treat and the mass too.

On the way home, we picked up some saga seed and fire wood. After lunch, Rui set up the stove with fire wood on his own and pop corn session. Yeh!! I made just a hand full of corn kernel. Turn out to be a plate full of pop corn. Just nice. Yummy . . . .

After Rong napped, we start to make shushi, tamago shushi, pork flost, cucumber, carrot, seaweed..... Rui was excited to make shushi since he get to eat the pork flost once in a long while.

I tried to make the Japanese egg shushi from 5 eggs. Rui cracked the eggs, add some sugar, pinch of salt and pepper. We tried the new way to manage the egg I learn from my Japanese colleouge. Small flame under non sticking pan, pour thin layer of egg, wait till just harden, fold half, then pour more egg on the vacant side. Wait till half harden, flip the first part over to the second part. Repeat the pouring and flipping process. Not too bad, just not as nice as what is sold outside. Give me some more try, I sure will have nicer looking tamago....

Rong and dragon lantern

Rong lights up the lanterns all by himself.

Rui joined in after his 400 sentence writing ordered by dad was done. Rui plays with fire like a pro. A game of his since young. He lighted up a lot of candles on the tile and his spiderman lantern too.

In no time, they ran out of candles.

Everyday in the 8th month of Lunar Calender, they have a packet of candle to play. Under close supervision of course.

Candle play

Hooray! Is time to play candle again.

Yesterday was the first day of 8th month in Chinese calendar. End of the 7th month ghost festival and welcome lantern festival.

The kids spun into full action of lantern and candle play. 3 of them all have their own lantern.

En En is best in blowing candle. She attempted to light up the candle and actually manage to light it up a few times. When the wax starts to drop, she felt the heat and ended the play by an a ouch!! Her best play is to blow of candle.

Rong is able to light up a lantern all by himself and hang it up too. He cannot do this at three years old. He tried to light up a small lantern and burned it away. That’s the one in the picture. Lucky my ground rule of adult supervision at all time when playing fire save the scene. A blow by me settled the emergency, and the play goes on. The candle heat will not do major damage to the kids. Safety always first when fire play is concern.