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our first trip to uss. we were very excited about it. starting off the day with breakfast with sesame street characters, follow by activities within uss and Christmas show. determine to make full use of our package to stay the whole day.  

 

 

the breakfast with sesame street character is the best. it just turn all of us back into kids. we get excited over every character that walks into the restaurant. drop of food and off we went to queue. everything is so pretty in there. i want to take every single thing back with me.

 

 

maybe its holiday and its a weekends, all the rides queue are long. the shortest queue is about 15 minutes to 40 minutes. we didn't queue for a lot of rides as many are not suitable for them as well. we have funs taking pictures with many of the mascots.

 

 

 

 

i wouldn't go back to uss in the near future unless they have special events going on.

 

 

mosaic christmas party

 

the august 2008 kids had their mosaic christmas party this year. its just a small scale party for them to gather and have fun doing an activity together. where we mommy get to chit chat with another to catch up.

 

 

its no longer an easy task for them to gather and have fun together as they grow older. can you see that it even very hard to gather together to take a proper photo.

 

 

 

i'm glad that we still manage to get this done. thank you hui chin for designing the lovely lego tees for us though the printing is quite bad. the colour runs quite badly for the whites tees.

baked cheesecake

i have been wanting to bake cheesecake. however, darling never like all the non-baked cheesecake that i bake. finally found this baked cheesecake recipe and all tester says its nice. thanks for bakingmum.blogspot for this recipe.

base:

200g digestive biscuit

90g unsalted butter (melted)

1. crashed the digestive biscuit.

2. pour the melted butter into it and mix well.

3. press the digestive biscuit into a 10-inch springform pan and refrigerate before use.

filling

500g cream cheese 

175g caster sugar (1)

4 egg yolk

4 egg white 

juice and skin (grated) of half lemon

87g caster sugar (2)

250g whipping cream 

 

1. beat cream cheese and 175g sugar until creamy

2. add in egg yolks one at a time and mix well. then add in lemon juice and grated lemon skin.

3. mix whipping cream mixture 

4. whisk egg white and 87g sugar t a soft peak.  add to cheese mixture and mix well.

5. pour cheese mixture onto the prepared cake pan and steam bake it at 150ºC for 2-2½ hrs.

 

 

cheese cake is cooked when top is firm. leave to cool for 30 mins and keep in fridge for a few hours before serving.

annual event - thomas show

we are at city square mall for our annual event, thomas show. i didn't tell the kids where we are going. upon reaching city square mall, they were all excited cos they see poster of thomas everywhere. the question of can we go see thomas, goes on and on.

 

told them we need to have dinner first while thomas need to rest. when we are done for dinner, thomas will be out too. we went to our favourite cheapo Japanese restaurant, trying to hit our quota of $50 spending. however, we were early today so nothing much on the belt. we end up spending much less. of course, we need to spend a bit more to top up the amount to get a photo pass. so i bought a dress to make up for it.

 

the queue and announcement is on when we were paying for the dress. they keep chasing me to be faster cos thomas is coming. we 'run' down to where thomas is and get darling to queue for photo pass while we sit on the floor to wait. its was only 6.20pm, another 40 minutes before the show start. however the floor is almost half filled with excited kids waiting to meet thomas.

 

 

thomas show are more or less the same every year. i'm expecting to see the same thomas and fat controller today. but they changed another fat controller this year, he is not that fat to be the fat controller. hehehe..... well, as long as the kids enjoyed the show. who cares about the fat controller right?

 

the 'snow'

 

etoile 2013

the practice, the wait is over. yu ze has his first violin concert, etoile 2013. i believe i'm more excited then him. there is a rehearsal before the actual concert at 4.30pm. we skipped berries today cos it will be a super long day for him if we still go for berries class.

 

we left home for the rehearsal at around 12.30pm. when we arrived, i left yu xi in her car seat and only bring yu ze with me. she was crying badly but i have no choice but to leave her there with darling. we are not supposed to stay behind for the rehearsal but to leave them with wei han.

 

the whole group

however, there are parents who stayed on for the rehearsal and so i did too. its not a big place but good enough to hold small scale concert. i didn't dress him for the concert and only changed him at 3.30pm where they have a short break.

 

the calypso group

the concert started promptly at 4.30pm. most guests started coming in around 4pm. i totally forget that my camera is spoilt and only have to rely on my hp to take any photos or pictures which is not very good. the moment i zoom in, the photo is not as clear. sigh.... well, i just have to make do with it. i must buy a proper camera this christmas.

 

 

ah gong, gugu and the whole family come to support him. i'm very proud of him and did get a bit emo to see him performing on stage. it was a good experience for him. i'm also glad that cos of this concert, he gets to see the older kids playing the violin, he is inspire by them and wanting to be like them.  

sesame street

december is a month of many shows going on at many shopping mall. so we have to be selective about cos we definitely don't have so many weekends to go for  all the show. i grow up with sesame street, they are the classics. new generations kids still love them. we brought the kids to the sesame street show at takashimaya.

 

told darling to pick them up from school before coming to pick me and we head down to takashimaya right away for dinner and the show after dinner. we joined the queue at 6:20pm after our dinner. the show only starts at 7pm. though its was a good 40 minutes wait, the kids didn't grumble much as they want to watch elmo show (its not sesame street to them but elmo show). we were within the first 5 who were in the queue.

 

 

i must say that this is the best show that i ever watch. or is it cos i can relate to the characters very well. i feel like a little kid enjoying all the singing and dancing too. yu ze is more responsive to such show now. is it cos he is older or he is more open to go up on stage? he was a bit sad that he was not selected too participate in the activities.

 

 

we enjoyed this show very much. since we are in the queue early, we also get to take photo with the character which make us all so excited about. after this, i'm very sure that they will enjoyed themselves when we go to uss to have our breakfast with sesame street characters.

review for cast

yu xi went back for her review. i was hopeful that her cast can be removed. i was a bit shocked when the doc told me that she actually had a fracture and needed a new cast for another 3 weeks. the poor girl's hand was so dry and the skin broke due to the casting. its was so bad that it was actually bleeding. so heart pain to see that.

 

 

yu ze was very sweet. he helps to fan yu xi's hand cos its actually very painful due to the broke skin. i promised her a lollipop after she put on the new cast and she is not to cry. of course, i expected her to cry and will still give her the lollipop. asked her what colour she wants for her new cast and she mentioned orange.

 

 

 

though i keep telling her and prepared her for the next cast but it doesn't help at all. she cried so badly and keep saying that she don't want when they clean up her wound (broke skin) before putting on the new cast. this new cat is suppose to be better and more breathable for the skin which i really hope so since its going to be on for 3 weeks!!!! anyway, i was tearing with her when i have to hold her down for the cast. 

 

 

after making payment, i brought her to get her lollipop. we also took the shuttle service available at kk to square 2 for lunch and more fun. brought them to the lego fun at square 2 and tomica fair at united square.