Wedding Lunch in Sentosa Resort World

My wife's cousin on the maternal side is marrying his eldest girl.  We went for the tea ceremony.  It is very nice that we get invited and we are quite happy for them and the new couple.  The wedding lunch is at 1:30pm.  We were there by 10:30am to wait for the solemnization ceremony and then continue for lunch.  It is quite a long and tedious process.  The girl who did the solemnization is not too good.  She still says the parents of the bride and groom have to continue to look after the newly married.  She should have told the newly wed this is a new journey and responsibilities.  They now will be living on their own but not to neglect their parents as they start their family.

Mother's Day Lunch at Tampopo

Tampopo is giving first 50 customers flowers and pandan cake.  Also my wife's birthday month.  So 50% off for one meal.  We ordered a set each.  B3 arrived later as he has tuition.  With the discount, Total bill is $73 plus after discount.  Not bad deal.  It is still $15 per head.  Good value for Japanese restuarant.

Happy Mummy's Day

Mother's Day!  A friend of mine told us his resturant owner friend said Father's Day the resturant has poor business.  But Mother's Day is very profitable.  Everyone pays for Mother's Day meal but Father has to pay for the meal so that everyone can eat.

Mothers are appreciated and Fathers are Not!

Down with Sore Throat and Running Nose

I have no idea why I catch the bug.  I am careful not to share food with my boys.  Now none of them is sick.  So I probably caught it from the wake or funeral where there is a crowd.  I am feeling tired and exhausted these few days.

Hopefully, I will recover soon.

B3 Final Showcase!

Yesterday, B3 had his final showcase.  A showcase is dancing performance for the school.  The Street Dance team worked very hard and long hours on this showcase.  It is an exhilarating run.  Now it is over, they are quite sad.  It is time to focus on the study, revision and exams.  He is out at one of the SD mate's home.  They have a sleepover to celebrate the event.  He has lots of cards, flowers and vegetables as a gift for the performance.  This is the new age way, I guess.

I can see he is quite popular and famous almost he always complained he is not famous and people do not know him.  I can see he loves the limelight.  He is having the time of his life in RI!  I am happy that he is happy.  At the same time, I hope he will be able to achieve his dream of going to the course he like.  It is a very competitive school and most kids does extremely well in the exams.  I hope he makes it.

A Shock!

I was sleeping so soundly.  It was midnight.  My wife woke me up and give me the bad news.  A friend of ours just passed away!  What a shock!  He was in Maldives having a short holiday and found floating in the water.  It was only a few minutes and the 2 friends they were with are doctors and performed CPR immediately and for an hour.  But it was to no avail.

I could not sleep after that.  Yesterday morning, we went to their house.  His parents were there and in deep grief.  It was so devastating for the family.  His wife was with him and they have to fly the body and the undertaker will do the necessary.  There are lots of documentation required.  To import the body, it has to be embalmed.  However, Maldives do not embalm.  Luckily, their church friends help out and contacted foreign minister who is in the same church.  So the minister directed his staff to help.  At first the body had to go to Colombo for embalming.  However, it is not a good time as Colombo is now overwhelmed with its own massive problem due to the bombings.  Then the foreign ministry found out the if the body is in dry ice and in a hermetically sealed box, it can be imported.  At first they wanted to fly the body on the original flight booked for return but Silkair aircraft was too small to carry so much dry ice.  So the body has to return by the next flight via Singapore Air as it is a bigger plane.

We were at the wake last night and some other old friends came along.  It is a sad event for all of us.