Greetings from Land of Angels

The time is 12.41am, in a couple of hours time, we will be heading to the Disneyland @ 8am! The weather is freezing Cold!

Im glad Reia is adapting well to the the coldness.....

Will upload photos to the gallery when i have the time. Loads of pretty photos!

SOme sneak previews for now..

/*Reia in her beanie*/

/*the authentic piglet*/

/*at my sis's front porch*/

/* my sis's xmas tree*/

,

xoxo

Hot mama

USA.. Here We Come!

Come to think abt it, I really have no time to properly plan the itinerary. Until now, Im still trying to pack and think hard, what exactly have I missed out.... it's so scary and tiring to travel with a toddler. *shudder*

Packing is the hardest thingy... and now, i have to pack my hub Plus my lit' monster clothings. To add another level of difficulty, I like to travel in Winter! *shiver*

/*for days, my living room has been in a mess.*/

/*with her ard, it definitely slow things down*/

Alrighty Everyone... Im gg to get ready.. I have a plane to catch (and my lit monster) @ 6am

I did not bring any toys Cos my bag is darn heavy!

Wish me Luck.

ANyways, Merry Xmas & a Happy New Year.

Will blog if i have the time!

SFO -> LA -> Las Vegas -> Grand Canyon -> LV -> SFO -> Skiing -> SFO

xoxo

Hot mama

So What's Up man

After waiting for so long, Finally there's a place for Reia in Growing Up Gifted. She has been idling, doing nothing for too long... She will miss the first lesson as we are still in US, so she will start her 1st lesson on 10 Jan, Saturday 2pm (hopefully by then she has recovered from jetlag) The class will last for 1.5hrs, with only one parent is allowed to acc her. So me and hub are gg to take turns, 45mins each to attend lessons with her. Wooo ... 45mins of Own time own target!

In terms of her arty-farty side of talent that has yet to shine, i will slowly slowly look ard what is best for her.

Pay her school fee last Saturday before flying off to confirm her place.

$42 per lesson

*grasp*

(better be worth it)

xoxo

Hot mama

A Ride on the Singapore Flyer

i bought these tickets for a very long time, waiting for the opportunity to ride it since it's hard to gather everyone... Sraight after my sis's wedding, we took this opportunity to take the ride since Ros & Tommy are flying off on the following thursday. Since it's a Sunday, it was actually quite crowded therefore we din manage to have the whole capsule ... *duh*

Anyways, the ride was really nothing fantastic.. i was busy chasing after the monster.

The thoughts of her on the airplane just send chill down my spine.... Can we survive??!!

*shudder*

xoxo

Hot mama

Alfred & Roanna's Wedding on 29/11/2008

Cldnt rem what time i slept the night before - cos i was busy ironing my hub's shirts, Reia's dresses plus my own dresses for the wedding. Everything have to be nicely packed in order to have a smooth transition in the next morning. I brought 2 dresses & 3 pair of heels with me to the hotel cos i simply cldnt make up my mind which one to wear.. hahha....Since Im bride's personal assistance... i need to look my best besides her! fwahaha....

We reached my mom's place at ard 6pm, Reia was pretty well-behaved in the morning, dress in her pink velvet burberry dress, by then, sis had already finished her make-up and already dressed in her ivory princessy gown.

ard 7am, the groom and his brothers arrived... His first mission ... was to sing "Forever Love" at the carpark. Luckily we only live on the 4th storey...

Dont know why or how come... the gate was crashed open during the negotiation.. in the end, 2 jiemeis were being sacrificed in order to shut the door.. oh boy... the jiemeiz were very hiong and fierce... One of them even squeeze the guy's butt.... haha i like!

According to the 习俗，they had to reach Alfred's house before 9am and cld only return after 12pm... so in between, we had a lot of times catching up with all our cousins, aunties & uncles.

Left my mom's place at ard 1 plus 2... quickly bath Reia and pat her to sleep... by then, she was so exhausted, she fell asleep with her milk bottle still in her mouth.

To save the trouble of gg to salon to do-up our hair, we engaged my sis's bridal make-up artist to do for all of us. So Sis & mom started off @ 4pm whilst moi still at home waiting for Reia to wakey - We reached Grand Copthorn Waterfront @ 5plus.

/*Full battle order for all*/

/*sweet Reia with her popo & gongong*/

These set of photos have officially becomes my dad's favourite - just because Reia posed with her head closed to my dad's... Awww... so sweet

/*Here Comes the Bride*/
a lot of ppl commented we look so alike.... REally>???!!

As expected, Reia screamed her lungs out when we put the dress on..... Luckily Ros & hub managed to force their way thru.... I dont know how as i was in the room helping my sis with her gown.

Presenting... my sweet lit flower girl..... with an ivory ribbon on her head... Sad to say, that ribbon did not stay there for long.

I requested a neat bun for my hairdo.. with the same ribbon as my daughter!

/*Hot mama with her new babe*/

Something i need to brag... I did my sis 2nd Walk-in Hairdo..... thou a lot of pins... It looked pretty decent and pro..... (prior to that, the make-up artist taught me how to pin those hair up)

BUT.. you still need a set of skillful hands.... and it stayed up there thru' the night...

Bravo Bravo...

/*Reia totally wasted... too much Red Wine*/

/*Packing up our stuff before heading home.... Surprisingly... No hangover*/

Here's to the 杨家女将！

Rosalind, Rowena & Roanna

Im blessed to have you girls as my Sisters!

Love ya love ya Love Ya... no matter where U are

xoxo

Hot mama

Playing with Shoez

This is her new nonsensical act, She likes to wear hub's shoes & my heels!

xoxo

Hot mama

Reia in School Magz

/Click on the photo for enlarged image*/

So... what shall i do with the magazine???!!! Frame it up or laminate it???

My girl first time in Magz...

hahhaa...

xoxo

Hot mama

Roanna's Wedding Update 2

Finally, sis's wedding is over. Loads of photos taken with my NEW LX3.. whoo hoo!!! Very Good Camera! Luv it luv it! ~ Give me some time to upload the photos! I need to clear spaces in my laptop, for this babe can produce 9Megapixels! Oh yeah, hot mama getting pro..

Back to my sis's wedding. As usual, I volunteered to do all the jiemeiz wrist corsages! I did for Shadiz's mummy's wedding, My own and now my lit' sister.

/* for XJ's wedding*/

/*My own wedding i had in blues...*/

/*for my sis, i did it in PINk*/

Da-tah..... well received comments from all.
/*classy & Sweet*/

/*went Spotlight x no. of times just to get the right ribbons and flowers*/

/*nicely packed into a box*/

Im happy with my creation :)

xoxo

Hot mama

Roanna's Wedding Updates 1

Been really busy lately becos my youngest sis is getting married, Yeah! & the planning of US trip, double Yeah Yeah! Shall blog more abt US trip after the Wedding.

Let's Talk abt the Wedding for now

Yang Shiyun - that's how i normally call her! My lit sister, the last in our family to get married off and she's moving to Jarkata with her hub-to-be and become a taitai! *envy envy*

None of my sisters will be in town.. i will be so lonely and will definitely miss them lot *boo hoo*

Luckily 两个老的还有 Reia 陪! 不然就真的寂寞难耐

有了孙女，女儿门闪一边

OK.. where shall i start...

Reia needs a pretty flower dress, so Last Sat, i requested to go SUntec shopping - knowing there are some kids' shops at the 3rd floor. When we reached there ard 3-tish, we went straight to Sakae Sushi to have our late lunch! For the first time, 22/11, i gave her chawamushi (shared), inari sushi x 1, crab sushi gunkan x 1! One thing for sure, gg forward, hot mama has to constantly forcus on her while having meals - She has 3 feeds, hot mama has one feed. *sniff* *sniff*

After we had our lunchie, we went to shop for her dress..... So disappointing.. Nothing caught my eyes! Nothing!.... actually there's not much design for toddler...! So we left that place empty-handed.

My dear da-jie & Tom flied back on the wee hours on Sunday Morning, as such, I had to bring Reia back to mom's place so Ros yiyi can cuddle and kiss her as much as she wants. She was only 5mths when she last saw her..... I warned her before she's back in town - Aint no Angel you gg to see, She's a lit monster! In Chinese 小魔鬼！haha

On Monday, i Purposely took leave so that 我们三姐妹can go shopping together, at the same time, source for Reia's Dress & perhapes my dress. We went Metro, to Taka, to Tangs, Far East, to Isetan Scotts, then down to John little, Robinson, OG, last stop we ended in Plaza Singapore! Oh boy, we walked until our legs 起泡！Really marathon shopping! Anyways, din get anything I want! The Best thus far was a dress in OG, which was at reasonably price and made of Satin - classy and simple. But.... I 坚信I could find something better.. so in the end.. i put it back on the rack.

On Tues, gugu Germaine went lucky plaza to check on Yen Currency, so i smsed her to checkout if there's any nice dress in Tangs (forgotten to check out during the shopping marathon). She MSMed me 3 dresses which i find not bad, so decided to go down to Tangs to have a look! After much considerations, i din get any cos I missed out one very important place BHG! They should have quite a fair range of dresses bah. Neh... Nothing for the toddler! So I told myself, Wed i will make a trip down to Tangs to get the dress!

On Wed night, I chiong down to Tangs to get the dress... i stayed there for a while cos i cld not decide which size to take- 12mths or 18mths?? In the end, i took the 18mths, i scared my fat auntie cld not wear the 12mths. Happy happy! After i reached home, immediately i let Reia try on the dress... not too sure why, she kept crying when wearing that dress.. JUST LIKE THE BUMBLE BEE COSTUME... Sheeesh..... she actually refused to wear and try to tear the dress away from her..... ok.. prolly she's tired and hungy and its time for her bedtime.
In short, the dress is way too big although mom and sis said it looks fine. However to me, she does not look flattering nor cute nor sweet in it.... think she looks better in Tux!

So Today during lunch time, I chiong to Tangs again! In total i Visited Tangs 3 times in a Row... i changed to 12 mths with fear that she could not fit in.... After I reached home, with my mom's help, i let her try the dress again. Same as last night, She cried again!I have to literally forced her in! I swear the dress was in comfy material! I dont know what's wrong with her. So Not Princessy! arrggghhh...... angry

Here's the pretty dress and the matching shoes (coutesy of gugu)

Her hair is another problem...if dont do anything abt it, she will be pretty plain jane! I have some really good idea, but dont dare to pin much hope cos lit monster will pull down anything that is on her head!! arrrggghhh

xoxo

Hot mama

白墙再也不孤单

Finally, the wall stickers i ordered from spree has arrived!

Waited for so long that I completely forgotten i have ordered this thing.

Compared to the clouds set, this set of animals wall stickers is so much easier to paste.

Decided to paste it in our living room instead of her room, since she spent most of her time in the living Room playing. And... I have plenty of White boring walls in the living room.

We need more crowds and colours!

Presenting our newly adopted animals.

Nice... :)

xoxo

Hot mama

Ivan & Sanny's Wedding

14 Nov 2008 is our dear Ivan & Sanny's Big Day & we are honoured to be their Brother & Jiemeiz.

Since we will be pretty occupied for the whole of Friday, i have put Reia under my mom's TLC. . We kissed her farewell on the Thurs night & picked her up on Sat Morning. THis is the first time, we are not with her for more than 24 hrs!

Since i have to reach M hotel @ 530am, i forced myself to wake up @ 330am to get ready. AH b sent me to the hotel and off to the groom's house @ Old Holland Rd

It has been a long long while since i am involved in the jiemeiz thingy... hah.. Luckily hot mama is still pretty hot that i have been selected as one of the jiemeiz.

/The Pretty Bride & me*/

/* With Gen, we are all in Pink!*/

/*酸甜苦辣，不能缺少*/
THat's Reia's Bottle... she has contributed her Milk Bottle!

/*You guys are doomed!*/

/*we have humilated them in the hotel lobby! hahaha*/

The whole morning event ended ard 1 plus. By then, Both of our heads are spinning due to lack of sleep. 不承认老都不行！

ANyways, sleep ard 1.5hrs and i have to get up and start preparing again. Ah b is responsible for the music, mic testing & montage thingy while I have the role of the receptionist, So we need to be at the banquet ard 530pm.

Prior to that, me and Gen went to set our hair @ Zoom in MS since it's just next to Conrad Hotel.

/*getting ready*/

/*Me & Hub*/

Dinner was nice, with live band performing..... Love it to bits!

(Yang Shiyun, you cld use this song)

Have a blissful Marriage!

xoxo

Hot mama

Class Photo 2008

Presenting, Reia's 1st Class photo.

This was actually takeh 2 days before she turned One and I just received it yesterday!

So cute right.... She looks kind of tall here... hehe..

This photo doesn't justisfy her cutie-ness wor..

Every baby has this "Record" book where the teacher will indicate when she sleeps, when she eats, when she poo, when she drinks milk.. etc etc...

if there's special remarks for parents to take note, they will write it down. for this instance, "kindly replenish showel gel & cereal by this friday" or they will actually advise us that it's time for Reia to learn how to brush her teeth, so they actually request us to buy one toothbrush for her. Isnt it Great, they actually help us to monitor her development and the skill-sets she's acquire at her age in order for her to be independent!

However...... today, there's extra note for Us!

So detailed description on the incident right, sometimes i wonder if they actually witness the whole fall... haha.... Not surprise if she's playing alone when the fall happened. Anyways, falls are inevitable. 人的一生中，一定会有一粒baluku.

She was asleep when i reached home, so din really get to examine the baluku. But according to ah b, it's nothing serious.

xoxo

Hot mama