Catch-up with UQ friend 2019

My dear friend, Clare stopped over in Singapore for a few days. It was really nice catching up with her! We have known each other since 1991 when we were undergrads in UQ and we last met each other in Brisbane in 2012. We shall endeavour to meet up sooner than every 7 years. :P 

Party Mom

Instead of being a soccer mom, I am a party mom. I have been accompanying Juliane to attend her classmate's birthday parties. This week, the birthday party is at Wild Wild Wet at Downtown East, 9:45am to 12:30pm. While Juliane was at the party, I sat at Ya Kun to have my breakfast and to do some reading. 

I went to Wild Wild Wet to wait for Juliane at 12:15pm as the children showered and changed. 

A drink from Chatime while waiting for our transport

Although the party ended at 12:30pm, we didn't get home until 2:20pm because her father was a poor manager of time even though we agreed on the pick-up time of 1pm. He only arrived at 1:45pm.

Swimming Birthday Party

Marieann's classmate, Hannah had her birthday celebration at Singapore Island Country Club. Both Marieann and Juliane were invited to the birthday party. :) It was really nice of Hannah's mother, Sharon to invite Juliane as well. Thanks, Sharon. Since it was a school day, most of the girls departed for the party immediately after school. Thanks to another parent, Shawn who gave Marieann a lift to SICC. After my counselling, I went home to pick up Juliane for the party.

This is the first time the girls were invited to a swimming birthday party. The girls got a good work out as well as having lots of fun. :) They have recently taken to swimming or rather playing in the pool lol. The children were in the pool for almost 1.5 hours. It was a rather hot day but being in the pool, the children didn't feel the heat. :P I happened to meet a close family friend at the pool and we spent some time chatting away while keeping an eye out on our children in the pool. Around 4:30-5pm, it was time for the birthday song and birthday cake. :)


The girls were really happy to attend Hannah's birthday party and definitely enjoyed themselves very much. Both of them asked me if they could attend more of such swimming birthday parties. Well, only if you are invited to one again! Haha.

Educational Outing at Science Centre

We - Marieann, Juliane and I had a girls' outing with Marieann's classmate, Jewel and her mother at the Science Centre. Jewel's mother picked us up from the Botanic garden at 9:30am. When we arrived at the Science Centre close to 10am, there were quite a number of cars in the car park. Everyone must have had the same idea as us, start early lol.

We browsed around the halls and at one of the halls, the girls saw a chick hatching which enthralled them completely. We went over to the Omni-theatre at 11am to catch "The Alps" followed by "Wild Ocean" at 12pm. Both movies were pretty interesting. But I think sitting in the omni theatre for 2 hours were too long for the girls hahaha.

We had lunch at McDonald's before going back into the Science Centre to explore the halls. We also saw the Magic Exhibition. The girls were fascinated by the truth about magic haha. Our last stop was the shop. Girls being girls, we have to shop hahaha. :P The girls each bought an item that was not more than $2 - an hour glass. :) Jewel's mother sent us home around 3pm.

We had a really interesting and educational outing and day. We all took back some new knowledge with us and I spent quality time with my girls. Not to mention, the girls had a fun time with their friend and I also got to know Jewel's mother better. :)