Clothes for Cambodia

Categories: Uncategorized | February 19th, 2010

I met Ingvill when I was attending a motivational course at AKLTG many years ago. Ingvill is a Norwegian, a mom of two lovely kids.  She is very active in helping out at Normway House, an organization aims at improving the overall well-being of each child at the Khmer Friendship Orphanage in Cambodia, by providing them with a safe and healthy environment.  I received an email from her couple days ago and I would like to share the message with you here:-

From Ingvill S. Christansen:

A group from the Norwegian community here in Singapore has adopted one of the most needy orphanages outside Phnom Penh in Cambodia. The children now have some of the most basic needs covered, but they lack almost everything else. As you may know I am active in this initiative and travel up there regularly with a group of volunteers. Our next trip will be on the 8th of March. You can read more about our work here: http://www.norwayhousekambodsja.com/

I would like to take this opportunity to ask if your family should have any of the following things to spare. If so, we will personally bring them up, and I can assure you that it all will be well received.

  • Clothes: underwear, bras, shorts, skirts, jeans, trousers, short trousers. Size: 2 years – S/M adult sizes. Short skirts and singlets are not used.
  • Shoes: sandals, light shoes, slippers, trainers and/or similar. Shoes need to be washed and in ok condition. Shoes with high heals are not used.
  • Backpacks and bags for school
  • Caps, belts, sunglasses, hair accessories, teddy bears/soft toys.

Drop-off: (1) Anytime at our home: 8 Namly View (2) After school at OFS outside the canteen Thursday 25th of February

Jim Rohn once said: Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.  Isn’t it a blessing if we still have the capability to give,  even in any small way that we can? Like now, you can also help in spreading this message to your friends!

 Thank you in advance for your support!

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Free Delivery! Our Spring Sales is Here

Categories: OurLittleOneShop.com | February 17th, 2010

Finally we have done our very 1st newsletter for ourlittleoneshop.com

The purpose of this newsletter to promote our Spring Sales. Like, up to 55% off! You’ve got to hurry though as the items are sold on a first come first serve basis, while stock lasts. Please check it out at www.ourlittleoneshop.com

Currently we have completed our paypal function. The ready payment method for our customers are: via ATM Transfer, I-BANKING, PAYPAL or Pay when Self Collection.

I really hope to have your support too in this little venture of mine. Do feel free to browse around, shop for yourself, your kids or as gifts! You can register an account and sign up our newsletter for future updates on new items, discount offers etc. 

You can help too in spreading the news about OURLITTLEONESHOP to your friends and families!

Happy Shopping Online!

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Favorite Photos of the Day

Categories: A place to visit, Photography | February 16th, 2010

A morning at the Upper Selestar Reservoir. Just under the trea and facing the river, we had our breadfast together with FIL on the 2nd day of Lunar New Year. Cool!

I love the sky and the smell of Autumn in the park!

  • “Each thousand-mile journey starts with a single step!”
  • It is a NEW YEAR with brand new POSSIBILITIES!

  • Mirrors

  • Feel Abundant!

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Happy Chinese New Year

Categories: Photography, Yummy Yummy | February 13th, 2010

This is our CNY cake - Festive Lapis Delight from The Coffee Bean!

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Mangrove Boardwalk @ Sungei Buloh

Categories: A place to visit, Twosome Time | February 12th, 2010

We went to Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve today to experience a walk through the mangrove. Sungei Buluh has been protected as a nature reserve. We happen to know the place when we were exploring Kranji Countryside last week.

There are 3 Routes for you to walk through. We chose the Route 2 which is approximately 5km. It was about 2.5 hours walk. There were a longest boardwalk in the Reserve bought us through the mangrove Arboretum.It was a late afternoon walk in the wetland reserve. You could see a lot of unique plants as well as migratory birds. We really enjoyed the walk and the tranquility. Definitely, we will be back to try the rest 2 routes the other days.

If you are intereted to visit the place, following are some friendly tips for your reference:-

  • Dress in comfortable clothes in neutral colours
  • Put on comfortable walking shoes
  • Bring drinking water, insect repellent, binoculars and hat.
  • Free entry except on Saturdays and Sundays, public holidays and school holiday ($1 per adult / $0.5 per child, student or senior citizen)
  • Opening hours: 7.30am to 7pm on Mondays to Saturdays; 7am to 7pm on Sundays and Public Holidays

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A Farm Visit Day

Categories: A place to visit, Me Time | February 6th, 2010

Recently a lot of people have been to Kranji Countryside to visit Farms to see how our food is produced and to enjoy the farm ambience. A friend of mine has also recommended us to visit Hay Diries. It is a small goat farm, with about 1,000 goats of mixed breed, producing milk for sale. It says that goat milk is the most easy to digest and it produces a lot of good nutritions for our health.  

Over the weekend, we decided to explore Kranji Countryside and meanwhile to get some fresh airs.

Hay Diries is really a small goat farm. Before we alight our car, we could smell the goat. I thought I could see a lot of  goats strolling in an open farm area, but they were all locked in cages. Although I have no taboo to consume mutton nor goat milk during my pregnancy, I found it hard to drink because of the strong goat smell. But they do have goat milk in chocolate favor and it tastes good. They will pack those goat milk bottles you bought nicely in an ice-box to keep them fresh till you home.  If you would like to try some goat milk, Hay Diries could be your first choice. 

After the goat farm, we headed to the Fire Flies Fresh Farm. It is an organics vegetable farm. I am kind of person who could go into rapture at the mere seeing green and fresh vegetable. Yes, we saw a lot of vegs, some of them I even couldn’t call their names. After consulted with the owner, we bought some home happily for dinner.

Being a city born and city bred person like me, the quiet life of countryside has always appealed to me. I wish one day when we retired, we could move to an urban and enjoy each morning with the first cock crow, the twittering of birds at dawn, the sight of the rising sun glinting on the trees and pastures. :)

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Twosome Time

Categories: Twosome Time, Yummy Yummy | January 22nd, 2010

Just some twosome time before baby pops.

Thursday. I was preparing some simple dinner when I received an sms from CC.

“Let’s pack our dinner and have it at sembawang beach.”  “Ah? So romantic? What date is today?  “None. Prepare some drink too. I will reach home ard 7pm.”

By then, I had prepared a mushroom cassava soup and scrambled eggs with tomato and towel gourd for dinner. They were definitely not suitable for pinic. How shall I pack them?  We even don’t have any proper lunch box! After a while, I recalled we had bought a set of containers from Ikea couple weeks ago.  Maybe I could try them.

Here we go. I packed our soup, steam rice and the veg dish together with a bottle of orange juice. When CC home, we just grabbed our dinner pack and drove away to the beach. To our surprise, even it was not weekend night, there were many group of people having parties along the beach. One or two malay families even setup their camp and deciced to stay overnight. Some were fishing while the rest were BBQ.  It was windy. We were not alone. Yet it was very first time for us having homemade dinner at beach. hohoho…

The night at Sambawang beach was tranquil. It is not as happening as East Coast nor West Coast. Only two or three ships parked beside the jetty and made the beach twinkle. Standing at the jetty, I could feel the strain of carrying a 10kg load. I am at my 29th week now. I can’t wait for the baby to be born. But I know we will become busier once the baby arrives. With that in mind, we are really treasuring our TWOSOME time even more.

There is nothing more wonderful than enjoying the silence of night and quiet twinkle of stars in solitude. Be contended, and we have the world in our hand.

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Leg cramps

Categories: Pregnancy | January 18th, 2010

The third and final trimester starts this week!

BabyCenter Info: She can blink her eyes, which now sport lashes. With her eyesight developing, she may be able to see the light that filters in through your womb. She is also developing billions of neurons in her brain and adding more body fat in preparation for life in the outside world.

How time flies! I am at my 28th week now. I have gained 10KG weights so far. Today I visited my gynae and was informed that my baby weighs 1KG now and measures 14.8 inches from the top of her head to her heels. Because my little girl was facing inward, we were not able to take a 3D photo of her.

In the past few weeks, I have experienced leg cramps. Most of time, it happened in the morning. I noticed if I walked a lot in the day time, the next morning, I would wake up to painful leg cramps. So I’d stretch my calf muscle by flexing my toes back toward my shin immediately then the pain will gradually go away. Luckily I have no swelling so far.

I have collected few tips from internet to avoid leg cramps as below:- (1) Don’t stand or sit with your legs crossed for long periods of time. (2) Stretch your calf and leg muscles during the day and before bed. (3) Rotate your ankles and wiggle your toes when you are sitting. (4) Take a walk each day. Even a short 10 minute walk can help. (5) Lie on your left side to improve your circulation. (6) Rest when you are tired and elevate your legs when possible. (6) Drink plenty of water

I will take these precautions and see if there is any improvement later.

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Favourite Photos of the Week

Categories: A place to visit, Me Time, Photography | January 16th, 2010

Photography:

I did some shoots over the weekend. Outdoors with my humble digital camera - Fujifilm Finepix F200EXR. And I got these, my favourite photos of the week :)

Punggol Beach – World War II Site

The Boat to Pulau Ubin @ Punggol Jetty

Marina Club @ Punggol

Seledar Reservoir @ Yishun

Sunset @ Seledar Reservoir n I love it!

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Just Drive Away

Categories: A place to visit, Me Time, Yummy Yummy | January 12th, 2010

Toyota Altis

We had gotten our new car last Friday. This is a Gray color new Toyota Altis which serves our purpose, especially when our little one joins us this April. We plan to bring her to nature outing every week. We have a whole list of places to visit together with her.

Since we just got our new car, we went to a few places over the last weekend. We have our SAT lunch at Ampang Yong Tau Fu which is located near Upper Thomsom Road, near Thong Soon Green. It always a crowd puller. Their specialities are ampang yong tau fu and dumpling soup. 

Ampang Yong Tau Fu

After the lunch, we went to Sambawang Park to relax ourselves at the beach. The Sambawang Park has been changed a lot since we visited last time 2-3 years ago. The small coffee shop besides the entrance has been moved since the Sambawang Shopping Center had opened. The public transport to the park has been reduced and less people come. Therefore the place becomes cleaner and quiet.

Sambawang Park

We have also visited the Bottle Tree Village which is very near to the Sambawang Park. I had read somewhere about the village before, the founder’s vision to create this village is to let people not forgetting nature. hmmm….

Bottom Tree Village

There are few eateries. They provide Steamboad, Chinese dishes, buffet and hala too. We chose to have fish head steamboard for our dinner.

Fish head steamboat

After the dinner, we strolled in the village for a while to diggest our heavy dinner. We found the place quite popular. Although the place is quite remote, a lot of families come all way up to dine here.

bottom_tree_nite

Just drove away, what a nice day!

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