Weekend Getaway at Batam ( 6 - 7 Oct 2018)

Last weekend we had another short getaway to Batam with our cellgroup friends.
This was the first time for Ted to go overseas by ferry. He's very excited. We stayed at Harris Resort Barelang. The hotel was pretty new thus the room and amenities were still in the very good condition.

Trio Birthday Celebration

While we were in Jakarta, we also celebrated opa Jerry, opa Tjwan and koko Richie's birthday.
We celebrated it in Laguna Seafood restaurant and mama ordered macaron tower for birthday cake

Attending uncle evan's wedding (30 Sep 2018)

Last weekend, we went back to Jakarta attending uncle evan's wedding.
Praise God everything was going well. The kids were all healthy. They were not so fussy in eating and sleeping.
The wedding was going smoothly too eventhough it's not perfect.

We stayed at Oma Tine's house for 2 nights then moved to Verandah and Pullman hotel the following night and another night back at Oma Tine's house.

Here's some pictures from the wedding.

These are the pictures the night before the wedding where our family were gathered for the last time with the groom before sending him off freely as family man.

Morning session tea pai at bride's family origin house

The Sacrament of Marriage at church

The evening wedding party at Pullman Hotel

Waterplay at Pirate Ship

For the first time, he enjoyed playing water.

Previously, he was so afraid with water blast. He will prefer to have his snacks than playing the water and have fun with it.

Last Sunday, as I have promised koko Tromson to go to the beach to play water, we went to Pirate ship at Palawan Beach.

At first, he's afraid and reluctant to go into water play area but after persuading him to play water in the side, he started to enjoy it and he managed to overcome his fears of water blasts.

Little Performers

He's almost 3 years old and his speaking ability has improved tremendously. Now he likes to sing and dance and I manage to record some of his favourite songs.

A Pet Fish Story

Almost 3 weeks ago, Tromson and Ted had field trip to fish farms, both went to different fish farm and end of the field trip, each of them carried a fish tank with full of small fishes. They were excited but not for me. I was reluctant to bring those fishes home because they surely die by the next few days since I was not a pet nanny type.

But seeing how excited and happy they were without knowing that the fishes may die the next day, I brought two fish tanks full of fishes home. Total was 18 small fishes.

I didn't have a heart to see the fish die or flush them into toilet bowl, so I played along buying the cheapest fish food in the pet shops to make the kids happy.
In my mind, I told myself, I already done my best to take care the fishes with a little knowledge that I had, at least if they die, they will die naturally, peacefully and with dignity and I didn't feel guilty.

As expected, the next days, the fish died one after another and fortunately the kids were not too emotional when they saw the dead fishes. Every day I was like having another "baby", feeding and cleaning the tanks and the sh*t.

Until 10 days later, Richie exclaimed mama, I saw baby fishes in one of fish tank, I was like, are you sure ? may be it's poop. For me, it's like a miracle if the fish can breed new life in those condition. But he said, yes it's baby fishes and when I went to have a look, it's really baby fishes and they were a lot. But most or all of them were like dying baby fishes, so I cleaned up the fish tanks and thrown away all dead fishes.

And as days went by, one by one died and left with three survivors who survived until yesterday.
Tromson came to me and told me that one fish has died, ok so I told myself, one tank gone,I only need to take care one fish tank but he continued, but I saw baby fishes. I was like WHATTT ?? AGAIN ??

Quickly I came to have a look and yes, one adult fish died and many baby fishes were surround it, it's like dying so I told them I will clean up the tank and left with two fishes in other tank, then Richie told me, mama you need to save the baby fishes who were still alive, I didn't notice at first but when Richie asked me to wait patiently that few of them were moving, they really was.

I had a hard time to separate the survivor babies and the dead one because they were so tiny, anyway I managed to save 4 baby fishes. So one adult died, 4 new life emerged.

I was like, God, You must be joking with me, within 3 weeks, I saw fishes breed new life not once but twice.