90 Years of Blessings & Counting :)

Grandmom turns 90! 90 years of blessings! Thank you God! Thank you Father. After weeks of careful & secretive preparation, and managing the senior folks, the garden party at Grandmom's residence finally became a reality! :) ASL as we fondly call Grandmom's residence is transformed. :)

My team and I used Holland roses & alstromeria, Kenya roses, bubbles, chrysanthemum balls, salal leaves & ruscus to create the table centrepieces. We also custom made a backdrop with the Chinese word "Longevity" & rented tiffany chairs in gold for this celebration. :) 

To enhance the ambience, big uncle helped us installed the fairy lights. :D 

My wonderful team help made this garden party possible.

Grandmom wasn't aware the celebration was going to be at home. She wasn't aware we invited her cousins, her siblings' children and our granddad's family. 

Her reaction when she came home from the office was priceless! :D She couldn't stop praising God for the abundant blessings He has bestowed upon her. :)

Second uncle would lead us in the opening prayer while Alex lead us in the closing prayers. Behind the scene, Charlotte helped Bak Bak to translate his prayers into Chinese. 

Grandmom was very radiant. She was truly overjoyed to see familiar faces. :) 

Uncle Mike & Kim flew in from Hong Kong for the celebration. :)

Grandmom & I. Grandmom supports me in whatever I do, and most importantly she always remember us in her prayers. :) Her prayer list is very long because she has so many children, grandchildren and great-grand children. :) Grandmom isn't biased towards her grandchildren. She loves us all the same. 

Faith dressing to the color theme set by Shawn...colorful. :)))

Grace & Charlotte would lead us in the birthday song later in the nite. :)

Let the celebration begin... :)

We forgot to hire servers. :)))

While we savor the food, we were also entertained by Rita's ballad of oldies and a video clip about grandmom put togther by Yayi. :) The moving clip chronicles her life from Siam to Singapore.

Shawn collected this huge longevity bun & two tier birthday cake for us. This longevity bun resembles grandmom. :)))

Cos it birth to many smaller ones. :)))

And finally the two tier birthday cakes. :) Shawn was crawling on the road because of this cake! :)))

We praise and thank God for His gracious love for grandmom & this family. :) May He continue to watch over us & bless us abundantly.

The birthday song which Charlotte & Grace adapted for Grandmom's birthday. :) 


Charlotte:今天是您的生日，我们诚心献一首歌,祝福阿妈生日快乐!永远 青春美丽凡事 心想事成天天 在主爱中领受神的恩典
Grace:今天是您的生日，我们诚心献一首歌,祝福阿妈生日快乐在主里 喜乐满溢耶和华 祝福满满天天 在主爱中领受神的恩典
Everyone (全体)“祝你生日快乐” (x4)“祝你生日快乐” (x4)

Off to The Boiler for SEAFOOD! :)

The benefits of having friends who own restaurants is full customization to our dietary requirement! And of course they indulge in us too. :)))

Specially reserved cold brown crabs with lots & lots of roes. 

The intimidating tools...

The Boiler's seafood in a bag (Chilli gravy)

Mantous are a must! :D Not that Lin & I can touch those. :))) For Jamie & Rose only.

Messily delicious! :D

Oh not forgetting the fabulous sweet potato fries which we had two servings. Once you start you can't stop. :)))

Just when we thought we had come to the end of the seafood feast, Malcolm brought these crayfish in garlic butter sauce over for us. :D 

What's seafood feast without beer? Not mine. Jamie's. :)

And the finale? Deep fried durian balls with vanilla ice cream. This is an indulgence. :D

Good thurs dinner crowd at The Boiler! :D

Details of Boiler Louisiana Seafood & Beer:
18 Howard Road
#01-06 Novelty Bizcentre
Singapore 369585
T: +65 6635 1285

Finger Licking Good at Okkudak! :)

Wednesday nite made tasty with RICE flour chicken at Okkudak, a Korean chicken bistro. Seemed like something Lin & I can managed. We need to go for our Hashimoto test in 2 weeks time. *.* 

Our ranking of the chicken we tried tonite:

#1 - Sauce Chicken :) Wonderful burst of flavors. :)))

#2 - Fried Rice Chicken...fingers licking good. :)

#3 - Roasted Chicken feels very home cooked. :)))

Kimchi Jigae to spice up our nite. :) 

I'm sure some of you might know what it is to be deprived of the freedom to eat whatever we desire. :))) Hence to stumble upon Okkudak is such a thrill. It might not be 100% safe for the both of us to consume as we do not know what goes into the full preparation of the food. Nonetheless it's still a safer alternative to fast food fried chickens. :)

Our achievement :)))

Cheers to our new find! :D

Details of Okkudak (Oven & Fried Chicken - OFC):
182 Telok Ayer Street
Singapore 068630
T: +65 6222 5959
W: http://www.okkudak.co.kr/