Dylan's 1st birthday - 19th july

Before the event starts


Playing with the birthday boy


The 3 kilos birthday cake


The family


My family


Cleaning baby javier


The friends - me, boy, dylan, clement, blah & his gf


The chng family


Xueyang, mummy, rujie, boy, dylan, me


Me, san shen, celestine, derrick, dylan, boy


Sing the birthday song


The proud parents of Mr. dylan zhuang


The sisters - cyvia, huilin, jo, me, dylan, liru, sokmee


Josephine / dylan / liru


The 2 bbq pits

Missing attendees: moo & family, pauline & family, kaka, joyce, kelly, shanling, iris, ah boon, ah hwee

Upcoming event

Dylan's one year birthday celebration on 19th July 2008 will be held at bishan street 23 block 224 BBQ pit.

Sleeping pattern

Dylan's sleeping pattern follows exactly that of his daddy's.
1) Both like to toss and turn from the top to maybe the bottom of the bed, so they need big space
2) Both can sleep in various patterns
3) They might fell out of the bed without knowing it

Tortoise style, with backside prop up high, definitely inherited from his daddy

Unit selection

The day finally arrived, we were to turn up at toa payoh HDB hub to do our unit selection for our new home. We had been monitoring on the website how the units have been taken up, we were pretty upset that there were only 2nd to the 6th levels left available for us to choose from. Boy suggested giving up but I felt that if we do not select now, we might have to wait a long way down the road for the next BTO. Since boy doesn't mind whether it's high or low, we made up our mind choosing the next highest available unit. We did not choose to do the flooring and internal doors after looking at the sample displays, although it might be cheaper but the colours and materials are really not to our likings.

During the signing of documents and procedures as explained by the nice indian HDB officer, we realised we had not done the loan application yet (I didn't know we have to do it first). With our bad working records (no full time job for a continuous 2 years period), we might not be able to get the HDB grant for first timers. However, if boy is able to find his previous companies to produce evidence that he had been working whether it is part-time/full-time/freelance, we will be able to get the $30,000 grant (the lower the income, the higher the grant), and that shall help us take care of the 5% down payment in 4 months time. The HDB loan is giving us a headache now.


For more information about Jade spring:
http://www101.hdb.gov.sg/hdbvsf/eampu03p.nsf/0/08MARBTOYI_page/$file/08MARBTOYI_model.htm?open&ft=bto

Dinner with ah yi

Ah yi asked to have dinner with us after she came back from KL. We are very tired of thinking what to eat and ah yi suggested fish & co. (again!). Since nobody will object, we went to have our usual new york fish & chips.


Ah yi's treat


No point shunning, you are still caught in the picture


Give me the camera!

The family outing

Location: Raffles city

The babies


All of us


Baby Dylan with me & jiayi

Look at the camera!

Small baby & big baby

Mummy & baby Dylan

What are you looking at?

Brothers

Let me rub your nose for you

Stay there or you will fall...

New clothes

Huh? You really have new clothes for me?


Thank you so much


New clothes!


Clap clap clap! Applause for my new attire!


In the end, we bought another new set of clothes for Dylan because the previous suit they bought is too big for him

Fish & co.

There are about 13 outlets here in Singapore, boy loves their new york fish & chips, and he is never tired of eating that all the time.

Website: http://www.fish-co.com/main.htm


Mushroom soup (very nice!) & fried calamari


Black pepper stingray & new york fish and chips


The glutton


This thing cost us $1, so expensive for such a short ride