Last Post of the Year 2010

For once in many years our family spent the Christmas weekend outside Singapore. We booked the 3D 2N Christmas package at Tanjung Puteri Golf Resort in JB just for a short family trip.

Entrance and inside of the house we stayed in.

Picture 1 - Eliza and Dad after Roti Prata breakfast - "Aiyah, don't disturb me lah, I am playing with my iphone 4."


Family board game time with kachang puteh :)

Mom and daughter, dad and son

Dad and mom - on our way to lunch and shopping.

Having a good time at the shopping centre. Bro and sis so loving :)

Ready, on your mark, get set......go!

Yeh, we are all winners!

Eliza and dad bowling on the 2nd night.

We found a seafood place (something like our East Coast Seafood village) with 4 seafood restaurants. This one that we ate in is quite good and the prices very reasonable.

The guys and myself had a body massage with back and leg scrub (Renfred's first massage)

Eliza prefers a pedicure and feet scrub.

Eliza drove a buggy for the first time.

Father and daughter played golf and had an enjoyable time. Now Peter has a golf kaki from the family :)

Thank GOD for a wonderful time of family bonding. We had a great time of carol singing on Christmas eve, a time of praise and thanksgiving.

Last night Peter led us in a time of watch night service as tonight we have our different CG meetings. We sang praises to GOD and recalled with grateful hearts what GOD has done for us. Of course there are ups and downs in life and this year is no exception. Still, we resolved to know GOD more in 2011 :)

Blessed Christmas :)

Dear Friends, thank you for visiting my blog and for the encouraging comments. Thank GOD for my husband, Peter, who started this blog for me. Initially I thought, "Oh no, I am not good in this kind of stuff." but surprisingly, now I enjoy journalling certain main events of my life in it and I hope some of the articles have encouraged you somehow.

"Glory to GOD in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men."

Luke 2:14

Annyeonghaseyo Korea!

We visited Seoul, Korea last week after sending Eliza off to her USA school trip. Renfred decided to use his precious leave to join the Youth Camp. We stayed in a Boutique hotel with individualized decoration in each room. The 2nd and 3rd pictures were taken at the entrance of the hotel.

These 2 pictures were taken in the lobby of the hotel. According to the manager, it is less than 6 months old, located in the town centre of Itaewon, (Itaewon means Foreigner in Korean). This place is near the US army base.

Peter in the Seoul's Metro waiting for the train. The centre picture shows the Gate of Dongdaemun.

We took a Day-Tour Bus which costs us 10,000 won each. Deoksungung Palace, also known as the Palace of Virtue and Longevity is one of the many tourists stops which we visited. The trees here are so lovely and the birds are quite big in size.

Peter answering a phone call, sitting in the middle of the palace gate and throwing arrows into vase-like vessels; a game played during that time.

Can you spot Peter in the 3rd picture?

Those jars on the left are for fermenting bean paste. The 3rd picture shows a hut hanging with different types of handmade baskets.

Handsome amongst the flowers. He was fascinated with the ancient sundial. The rooms are quite small with low ceiling.

The Day-Tour Bus also brought us to Insa-dong Street, one of the most memorable attractions in Seoul and represents the focal point of Korean traditional culture and crafts. Stores in Insa-dong specialize in a wide variety of goods that can only be purchased or appreciated in Korea: hanbok (traditional clothing), hanji (traditional paper), traditional teas, pottery, and folk crafts.

At Insa-dong we visited a Chatjip which is a hanok teahouse that serves home-made traditional tea. I had a cup of 5 taste tea and Peter a Jujube tea. We enjoyed it with some rice crackers. The 3rd picture shows a road side stall selling sweet potatoes fried in different ways.

The left picture shows a stationery shop with brushes of different sizes. The next picture shows a shop selling handmade metal antique cars.

We tried their Korean BBQ pork and beef. They come with many side dishes, kimchi and fresh vegetables which we have not seen before, even the mint leaves are extremely big.

More pictures taken with figurines; pictures 1 and 2 were taken outside a police station. Besides Insa-dong, we also shopped at Myeong-dong and Dongdaemun Market.


Picture 1 shows the Seoul Tower in the background. The next 2 pictures are busy streets of Dongdaemun and Myeong-dong.

Thank GOD for the trips we could take and for safety for the family. Thank GOD also for upgrade to Business Class on our journey back from Seoul to Singapore. What a treat :)

Now back to reality - loads of laundry (Eliza's and ours) to wash. So far we have washed about 8 machine loads and there's still about 5 more to go :(