Happy Mother's Day 2016

Happy Mother's Day to everyone I know who is a mother, including my mother, my maternal and paternal aunts, my cousins, my friends, my colleagues and ex-colleagues and my ex-students! 

I celebrated Mother's Day with my mother and a close family friend, Aunty Cindy Goh before my mother leaves for Taiwan on Monday to visit her family.

Belated Mother's Day Celebration

My mother came back from Taiwan during the early hours of this morning. 
I bought a cake for her and the two mothers in my family had a belated Mother's Day celebration. :) 

Lucky to find a cake with Carnation decoration lol

Happy Mother's Day 2015

Here's wishing everyone who is a mother, in all ways and manners, 

A Happy Mother's Day 2015!

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To my mother who is now in Taiwan visiting her family:

I am thankful for your unconditional love. 

Without you, there would be no me!

Though I may not say it aloud or often enough, 

I truly appreciate and value all that you have done for me while I was growing up

and continues to do so while I am growing older now, including looking after my daughters.

Thank you very much. I love you. 

Hope you have a wonderful day full of smiles, happiness and love. 

To my sister-in-law in UK:

Happy Mother's Day. 

Hope the boys give you the best surprise ever today!

Here are my girls and I on Mother's Day 2015. 

Thank you, Marieann and Juliane for your Mother's Day wishes. I love you both very much.

The girls monkeying around with my phone

Card and Carnation from my girls

Practical Daughters

Last night, Marieann asked if I wanted carnation for Mother's Day. I refused to answer her and asked her what she thinks. While at work today, I received an sms from Marieann that she has bought me carnation. I thanked her for the flowers and she smsed back that she only bought one flower and followed by "haha". Gosh, I do have very practical daughters - one sent Mother's Day message way in advance to avoid forgetting and the other actually asked if I wanted carnation for Mother's Day first before buying. 
I guess I can't blame them as I am a very practical person too. :) Like mother, like daughter. :) 

An Early Mother's Day Message

I received this message from Juliane on Monday via sms. With it was a little note: "I have no idea when is mother's day so ya here you go".I couldn't help but laughed.

It was really early but better than late or nothing at all lol.

Belated Mother's Day

I received this belated Mother's Day message from Juliane. I guess it is better late than never lol.  :)

Thank you!

Happy Mother's Day 2014

Happy Mother's Day to my mother, my family, my friends, my colleagues and my ex-students who are mothers in one way or another! :)
My girls got me cupcakes from Twelve Cupcakes. Sweetness. :)

Cupcakes from Twelve Cupcakes

My special Mother's Day cupcake - Rose on a Rose

I love my girls! :)

Early Celebration

We celebrated Mother's Day this evening with a White Forest Cake. The celebration is a little earlier than the actual Mother's Day which falls on 11 May because my mother will be flying off on Wednesday to Taiwan again to spend time with her family and friends. 

Happy Mother's Day in advance, Mother/ Grandmother.

Happy Mother's Day 2013

Here is wishing all mothers a Happy Mother's Day 2013! :) 

May your day be filled with love and happiness.

I actually thought that my girls have forgotten about today because I didn't hear any whispering from them about Mother's Day. They managed to SURPRISE me big time! Lol. Guess I owe them an apology. :P 

Marieann made some Cranberries in Milk Chocolate for me. Besides adding cranberries, to further balance the sweetness of the chocolate, she added cashew nuts and a pinch of salt on top of the chocolates. It was really sweet to receive the chocolates from Marieann, in more ways than one. :) 

Juliane made a Powerpoint slideshow of our photos and her thank you note to me. Unfortunately, after showing it to me, she closed it without saving it. :o Although the Powerpoint slides are gone, I was really touched by her effort and gesture. (I know she spent at least an hour just getting the slides together.) To make up for the lost Powerpoint slides, Juliane made me a card. I love the message behind, made from my name. So in her mind, I am not just "Mama", I am also "Dr Wong" lol. 

Happy Mother's Day 2013 (in advance)

We celebrated Mother's Day today (in advance) because my mother is leaving for Taipei, Taiwan early tomorrow morning. We celebrated Mother's Day with a Blueberry Yoghurt Cake from Four Leaves. Everyone love the cake because it is different from the usual cream cakes that we buy. :)

Blueberry Yoghurt Cake. Yummy!

Happy Mother's Day, Mother/ Grandmother! Hope you have a great Mother's Day in Taipei, Taiwan with all your family and friends.

Happy Mother's Day 2012

Here is Happy Mother's Day 2012 to all mothers! :)

I called my mother in Xiamen. The girls and I wished her Happy Mother's Day. The girls got their grandmother a present which they will give to her when she returns to Singapore at the end of May.
I received a hand-made card from Marieann and a drawing from Juliane. Thank you, Girls. :) What made my day too was when I overheard them telling each other, "It is Mother's Day, cannot make Mama angry today". :) But it would be even better if they can think that way every day! Lol.

Happy Mother's Day 2011

It is post-election day. It is Mother's Day 2011. Nothing seems exciting after the election lol.
After the girls' tuition, we went for dinner at Dozo, a modern French-Japanese cuisine restaurant. It was sort of a Mother's Day celebration thingy. We haven't been there for a long time but strangely, we ended up ordering the same dishes we had the last time even though there are new dishes on the menu lol.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all mothers out there! :)

Happy Day

Happy Birthday to my father.
Happy Mother's Day to my mother.

It is a dual celebration today. We celebrated both Mother's Day and my father's birthday today. As I was away, my family didn't celebrate my father's birthday with a cake as I am often the one who took charge of such things. Since I am back today and in time for Mother's Day, we had a dual celebration. The girls were all eager to blow out the candle and cut the cake for their grandparents lol.

Happy Mother's Day 2009

It's Mother's Day today. We gave my mother a treat: Mother's Day Brunch at Lawry's The Prime Rib, Paragon. Well, it's a treat for me too lol. :P

For the kids' set meal, the girls had Fish & Chips ($25.90) as their main whereas Juliane had the salad as appetiser and Marieann had the Soup of the Day: Mushroom Capsicum. Their kids' meals came with juice and dessert which both ordered ice cream. Sorry, no pictures.

The only difference in the adults' brunch was in the choice of entree. We all decided on the same entree. We first had the Amuse Bouche: Tiger Prawn with fresh fruit salsa, followed by Lawry's Famous Original Spinning Bowl Salad and Soup: Mushroom Cappuccino. Our entree ($59) was Atlantic Lobster: steamed baked lobster tail covered with tomato bacon cream sauce topping with melted cheese paired with toasted croissant with chicken chipolata and scrambled egg, served with assorted vegetables and pesto spaghetti. For dessert, we had Mango Sorbet with strawberry coulis and I had Peppermint tea and praline chocolate to end off my sumptuous meal. I really enjoyed the lobster tail which was really succulent and juicy and the rich cream sauce that went with it. :)








After our satisfying meal, we went to Muji to get some stuff for my mother's trip to Taiwan before heading home for a afternoon catnap lol. :P

Happy Mother's Day

Today is Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day to all mothers, especially to my mother.

Dear Mom,

Thank you for all that you have done for me. I really appreciate it very much.
Happy Mother's Day.

love from your daughter,
Hwei Ming

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I was woken up early in the morning by my girls who came into my room each holding a stalk of carnation. Aww, that was really sweet of them. :) Since my mother was out for her walk at the Botanic Garden, I hurriedly got my girls to write in the Mother's Day card for their grandmother. They managed to draw pictures too in the card. Not a moment too soon, their grandmother returned home. They presented her with carnations too and the Mother's Day card. Their grandmother was delighted!

We spent the day lazing around at home: Marieann and Juliane played online Disney games, I surfed the net looking at Garskin, my mother made several phone calls overseas to her friends and family to wish them Happy Mother's Day and the girls' father watched his HK serial.

We went to Carousel, Royal Plaza on Scotts Hotel for buffet dinner. Surprisingly, the restaurant wasn't crowded which was nice. I liked the grilled pineapple and Yorkshire pudding best. Of course, not forgetting the desserts haha. :P My girls shared the desserts with me. :)





It has been a nice relaxing Mother's Day.

PS. Juliane was sulking away (that's why she has her face turned away) when we took the photos because she had a fall near the candles and was angry with the spot. Lol. Yes, she has some strange logic.

Mother's Day Afternoon Tea

Happy Mother's Day!

As my mother came home last night from Xiamen, my girls made cards for their grandmother and also bought her flowers for Mother's Day. Good girls! I taught them well. Hahaha. They remembered their grandmother but er... they forgot about me, their mother. Hahaha.

We took my mother to Weekend Afternoon Tea buffet at Chihuly Lounge, The Ritz-Carlton to celebrate Mother's Day. It is a charming place to have tea - nice ambience, elegant Wedgwood china, live band playing classical music, delicious food and sweets. I liked the scones, the sandwiches, and of course, the sweets. Ah, a perfect English afternoon tea. This is life. Hahaha.

A little gift of chocolates from The Ritz-Carlton

Here are photos of the gorgeous ones in the family - us, the girls! Hahaha.






Updated 13 May 2007, 11:29 pm.
I have finished reading Wolverine, TWICE. D complained that I read my comics too fast. Well, I usually read my comics twice - the first time for the story (so that is done fairly quickly) and the second time to relive the story and appreciate the artwork. Fair enough? Hahaha. See, I am a visual person so I am attracted by (and equally distracted by) visuals and colours. I will lose the plot if I have to read the story and look at the artwork at the same time. Makes sense now? Ok, I am going onto The Sandman now.