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Wednesday - Team Dinner!

Drunken Monkey

I often hear that people in London are rather individualistic (to which yes I agree to a certain extent) but I was glad that we found time to go out for a team dinner on wednesday. Two thumbs up for our organizer! Janine picked this place called Drunken Monkey which haha serves dim sum set dinner and the locals said it's good. Not bad lah I'd say altho the concept of eating dim sum for dinner is something new for me, and of coz not forgetting their favourite - booze. Our team marched out at 630pm together much to the amazement of the rest (kinda reminded me of my TP PL team days bk in SG!). It was much fun and laughter and before we knew, we realised it was like 11plus..!

Love my team - from all over the world. Australia, India, Ireland, England, Turkey and of course Singapore!

Me and Janine - the only two girls in the team!

Can you believe we were having dim sum for dinner

Jasdeep, Cyrus and me

But of course

Janine and Onur

Thursday - Barbican Concert

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

The annual Mostly Mozart concert just started and Thursday was the opening concert so we heard them play Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven by this orchestra which my piano teacher said is quite well known. We were quite surprised to see that the majority of the crowd were old people though! gosh we wonder why.. (During intervals you hear a lot of coughing haha bet they were supressing for a long time in between. haha so cute.)

After the concert, they had fireworks by the river! Quite nice and oddly, the backdrop for the fireworks was our office building haha but it's not like the super grand kind like our national day. It reminded me more of my trip to Hua Lien, Taipei where we played with those fireworks. ooh great fun it was for us... that I had to recommend my friends Maddy and Cindy there.. oh ok back to the opening night.. more pics below, see our office building in the background!

Gold dust

More gold dust

More fireworks

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Jubilee Weekend | Afternoon Tea Party

http://www.thediamondjubilee.org/ Today is the end of the Jubilee celebrations and how better to end it off than to have an afternoon tea party in the company of friends, while watching the celebrations on our TV. It has been quite an emotional afternoon, in the good sense of course. I don't think I've ever seen Queen Elizabeth on TV (and heard the national anthem God Save the Queen) more than these 3 days combined, but this Jubilee weekend has made me grew to love and admire this lady. She is 86 and reminds me so much of my own granny, and her strength is amazing. Imagine being sworn in as queen at the age of 26. (I mean, what was I doing when I was 26?) On Sunday when she and Prince Philip went onboard the Spirit of Chartwell boat to watch the River Pageant, it was cold and windy but they stood throughout the 3 hours event. It was said she was offered some hot tea and a seat, which she both said no to. I love my grandma but I have to say I don't think

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Sleep, baby sleep

I had an idea to blog about Isabelle's sleep behaviour the other day. Before having Isabelle, I had not the slightest idea how big the sleep topic is for a baby, and now a toddler. I merely assumed that babies will sleep, no matter what, right? Because they are tired right? No, of course not. Isabelle showed me how much she could and can fight sleep even when she is tired. As a new mum, I did not know how to read her sleepy signs, and more often than not, she would be overtired by the time I catch her signs and by then she is cranky and crying. Oh the tears. From Isabelle and mummy. The early months Sleep has always been an issue for me when Isabelle was born. She cried non stop every evening for hours on end, and we had no idea what to do with her. Colic was the word most used on such babies, and everyone comforted us that this difficult phase would be over within 3 months. I still remembered uttering "3 months?!" under my breath. Not 3 weeks?

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Murder Mystery Dinner Party

Two Saturdays ago we were invited to the Kim's for a themed dinner, specifically a Murder Mystery dinner party. What is that, you might ask. It was our first time attending such a dinner too, and so how it works is: a group of people attend a dinner party. Each is assigned a role and will be given a script to read that night. The aim of the party is to identify a murderer in the midst of us by the end of the night. The hosts would work off a dinner game set (they got it off Amazon) and it comes with proper invites, setting/ scene, table name cards, scripts and even a suggested menu. Clearly RX is an Agatha Christie fan. Two weeks beforehand, we received our invites in the postbox, telling us what roles we each have been assigned and the suggested attire (and props if necessary). Interesting yes? The dinner was to start at 7pm and we were to have 8 people that night. It's all very mysterious… Our invitation cards assigned K the role of Monsieur Bertrand, a f

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