it is the most memorable birthday i ever had in my life so far... never expect it to happen when i am 30!

i would like to thank my wife and kids for wishing me a happy birthday!

received quite a number of SMSes just after midnight and today! thank you all of your well wishes! in chronological order of the SMSes received, i would like to thank kit yeng, li xuan, aswin, serene, casuarine, jasper, adelaine, josie, grace, nathania, jane, esther, ziqin, christina, melinda, chiu ping, jasmine, cecilina, wan ying, shana and jia ying! :D

my whole family celebrated moses' (christian's good friend) 4th birthday today at the clubhouse and I was very surprised when yvonne and david (moses' parents) baked a cake for me as well! I am thankful to them for their wonderful gift as well! just what i need to fulfill the goal i set to be a GREAT father! another book on parenting! it's called "shepherding a child's heart" by tedd tripp! cant wait to read all about it! :D

the biggest surprise and "conspiracy" finally came in the evening!! i was kept in the dark for months... since the time my wife exchanged numbers with my students during the mid atumn festival (oct) until now, they had been planning all these while... the phoney "game briefing" on the last day of school, the stay over at jasmine place, the weird SMSes from kit yeng, my wife's weird response to a call during dinner, the noise from a large group of people who sounded so familiar, walking up the long flight of stairs outside my house... i was suspecting something when i heard the noise but i thought it was impossible... until i heard the door bell rang and i saw my beloved form class (301!) standing at the door!! they came in and before i know it, i had crazy ribbons sprayed all over me and i was presented with their home-baked choc cake and a gigantic card that has their signatures and our class photo! it was really very touching and wonderful at that moment in time!! i am really thankful for the people who came... it was really wonderful to see every one of them!!

thank you jasmine for organising the surprise party! really appreciate it! thank you for lending your kitchen and place for the experimentation of the birthday cake! it was delicious! dont know who helped in the baking but i am thankful for everyone who was involved!

thank you annabel for the red hot letter and for playing with my kids and teaching ekklesia and ariel to make the cards for me! :D

thank you andaline, borui, huiyu, nathania, serene and wan ying for the personalised pen!

thank you aaron for the choc from japan!

thank you jingxuan, lixuan, jasper, keng yang and yong chang for the photo frame and book mark!

thank you zhiyun and shihui for the lovely card!

thank you cindy, grace, peiying, justine, kerong and junjie for gracing the event!

a big thank you to 301 for making it so memorable and special!

if i do leave out something or someone, my sincere apologies! i tried my best to remember all!! :D

i will be gone for a few days with my family at Port Dickson for a church retreat tmr! See you people around in a few days' time! :D

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Ariel falling down the swing!



A.C.E posing for the camera!



My good friend and brother-in-Christ, Shinn Jong, getting married!



What a student of mine would do to "destress"! Be Ultraman!?



Mid-Atumn Festival @ Sch: Ariel and my wife posing with Jas and Jos



Mid-Atumn Festival @ Sch: A.C.E enjoying the cross-talk though i doubt they understand a single word!



Mid-Atumn Festival @ Sch: Ariel posing with Letts, Jas, Jos, Kit Yeng and Ces



Mid-Atumn Festival @ Sch: Ariel posing with a "Halo"



Ariel posing as a fairy!



Ekklesia and Nicoles as fairies!



Christian's BDay Celebration with his cousins!



Christian's BDay Celebration with his friends!



Pulau Ubin Trip: Entering in!



Horseshoe Crab: it's part of the spider family, not the crab family!



Sea Grapes: tiny but edible!



Fig Tree: rare sight to me cos i always thought it is only found in Israel!



The most primitive toilet: you can even see the fishes swim as you do your "business"



Cat's Tail Plant! Lovely red "fur"



Bamboo shoots! remind me of the movie "Flying Draggers"



A Huge Spider spinning its web!

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that's Christian with his self-drawn Transformers cake :) btw, his birthday is tmr! 101001! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRISTIAN! I called him "the binary kid"! it's obvious from his birth date!


that's the frame Christian chose for the birthday shoot!


that's one of Christian's birthday presents. any idea what that is? the answer is in the next photo!


yup! his favourite Transformers character: Optimus Prime!


it's convertible to a truck as in the Movie! but it took me about an hour to figure how to transform it! so much more complex as compared to the one I played when I was a kid! and it cost a bomb too! $99!! courtesy of his aunt! :)


that's the caterpillar that we caught! it has turned into a cocoon! we are awaiting for metamorphosis to take place! butterfly! :)


I love this drawing in one of my kids' story books called Running Shoes. the expression on the girl's face is so beautifully captured! :)

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