Feeling Tardy

Dao has been on her month long break... 2 more weeks to go till she comes back... we are all missing her! We've finally got our act together for the January holiday and Chinese New Year break for the boys, too bad we aren't heading to Whistler but are going to Japan instead, we're going to a place called Furano and it had a good writeup from the Financial Times, I decided to also take the boys to Tokyo Disneyland and Seaworld but its going to be COLD!

I think I will buy those Lands End booties for myself and the boys, also would like one of those stores or labels that can tell me at what temperature would I need what type of clothing.... brrrrr. Furano is a rather small and quaint town, loren will get nice skiing as its supposedly great powder and many natural trails, there is no ski school but I can sign the boys up for about 4 hours a day, then we can do maybe a jet snow ski, tabagoning or build a snowman... or just hang out at the onsen! Though Loren will have to take them to the boys side...

Here is Ike on his field trip, he was rather anxious a few days before, preparing his hat and bag. I sometimes wonder if he wasn't entirely properly attached as he worries about alot of things like what if I don't pick him up from school...

Turbans and Kippas

The boys were off to jewish school today, its quite cute how they put on their kippa before going, this blue and orange one that ike really likes was knitted by Dao. Here they are doing their jewish homework. Since Dao has joined us and cooked us Thai food galore, we all seem to have put on a bit more weight.

Here is Ike in a turban from an app called a turbanizer.

After Jewish school today, we had lunch with friends that broke the news to us... they are leaving singapore :(

What did I do with my free morning, I zipped off to get some plants and pots to replace the ones that are presently planted in our front area. This is because the area gets very little light and its impossible to sustain any herbs that I initially intended. Even the rather hardy lime and lemon tree want more sunlight. So I will slowly substitute that area with ginger plants. I tried to pick up some orchids as well from the orchid wholesaler but he is at the orchid show... and his worker said the prices there are more expensive. Aiya.

Since its been raining so much, the kids have been watching alot of star wars and they have not been exercising so much. Poor doggies too!

Too many sites!

I have been hanging out on facebook more often, I still have not figured out how to upload photos from my phone to facebook... and am deciding whether I should have facebook suck up blog postings from here and upload it there directly or I should just leave this alone as my facebook page is mine... do I put up family stuff? do I put up my work stuff? and now loren is pushing to support Google+, I can barely keep up with this blog as it is!

I've been up and down Malaysia about 3 times in the past month, I attended by uncle's funeral, then another weekend attended the Malaysian Art Fair and this week I got back from my friend, Pearl's hen night and wedding. Dao has also left for a month holiday to Thailand (she hasn't been back for 5 years). Loren is going to start traveling alot.

Ike's handwriting has improved alot, here are the boys drying up at a pool where we went for a BBQ last week, this couple had lived in Turkey before and gave them turkish towels to dry up! Now I wish I got more, since they are better to use than towels. But then again, we've got alot of stuff.