Tehpeng and I are very much the “stay-in-avoid-crowds-on-weekends” persons and as a result, we havn’t been bringing Nat out much during weekends, choosing to stay home to catch up on our family time together.

Now that he’s more aware of the surroundings, I figured we need to get out more with Nat (and I don’t mean shopping, which is ultimately a mummy-thing more than a Nat-thing) as it is really much more fun now than when he was younger.

So, thanks to Gabval’s recommendation, I dragged a still-tired-from-ICT-night-shift tehpeng and our should-be-napping-but-still-walking-around-the-house son to Turf City on Saturday afternoon.

We did a food pitstop at Scrumptious cafe…

before getting to the main point of the outing - Fidgets! An indoor playground (yay!no sun!).

It’s a tad difficult to locate..after much asking, we realised it’s right above where GIANT is.

tehpeng :: Next time mummy go Giant, baby and me go Fidgets!

The place is huge and not that crowded (yay!). I like it for its baby-friendliness (though I will think twice sitting down with a cuppa and letting Nat run around on his own, like what I see most of the expat parents are doing) and the toilets are clean and the babyroom is big and spacious (tried and tested with Nat doing a poop-job, thus needing a change of diapers).

Best of all, Nat can play in a “safe zone” and explore/run/climb all he wants without us telling him “No!”.

Ok, we still did that when he attempted to clamber out of the safe zone (after seeing how an older child climb out. He learns fast!)

We’ll definitely be bringing him back for more.

And as if to make up for the lack of outings, we brought him to a class of Nov-Dec2007 playdate to round up the day.

Suffice to say, he was a tired little one (and so were we!) at the end of the day but it was really very much worth it.

More pics over at tehpeng’s.

Next week this time, we will be in Melbourne!

Us with my family! It’s been a while since we went on a holiday together - last was HK/DG in 2006! And to quote babysis - and a while since we went to a non-HK/China destination.

Can’t wait. And definitely need to get packing soon.

Heard the weather is quite good for summer, around 20ish deg (and there I was thinking packing light, tanktops, summer dresses slippers etc!).

Anyone with “must-see, must-go,must-shop,must-eat” nooks (aka not touristy traps) for us to check out….send them over!

When the girls decided to meet up, we didn’t even realise it was Thanksgiving day.

By some stroke of fate (just like how we chanced upon each other’s blogs and have sinced moved our friendship to something more tangible. U know, not just online friends…), the date was good on our diaries and we had our dinner at Bakerzinn Vivo. And some of us brought along our little ones…

I was glad to be able to bring Nat out for a jaunt while tehpeng is in camp. Conversations were mostly centred around our babies and parenthood. Sounds boring to you maybe, but it was definitely a lively one for us.

So, in the spirit of Thanksgiving…

I’m thankful that Nat was quite good and sat at his highchair for a good part of the dinner, till he got bored around dessert time and was rather entertained by Auntie PF.

I’m thankful for the ride home by A&M (although I have to apologise that Nat was kinda fussy throughout the trip!).

And of course, thanks for the company, babes!

I’m a fan of chicklits.

And totally love it when they go from print to screen.

Looks like I’ve got what I wished for.

My favourite book character - Becky Bloomwood - is going to be on big screen!

“You speak Prada?”

Heehee. Can’t wait!

COE is $2. Look who bought a car?

Confession :: Mummy had always wanted an electric car when she was young!

Ok, it might not be a Porsche (or any of these cars), but it looks cute! And comes with a remote control (which tehpeng is very glee about). How cool is that? It even has side mirrors!

Not forgetting the (too)many buttons with blaring music.

Who says we can’t have Chinese winter melon soup with steak?

Well, I wanted to make wintermelon soup and tehpeng wanted steak.

Thought the cutlery setting looks funny!

We cooked (or rather I did) steak for the first time at yveonloft. We even had to makea trip out to get the skillet pan before dinner preparation.

With the help of Nomu beef rub & Worcestershire sauce & Masterfoods carmelised onion with red wine sauce, the steak was actually quite good.

If not for the fact that it was slightly too medium rare done. Haha.

Nonetheless, it was good to have some action on my part in the kitchen.

I’ve read the book. Tehpeng just read it.

And we wanna watch the movie!