Mama's Annual Leave Day 1

Once a year, usually after Mama's student finishes his Maths exams, Mama takes the Saturday off. This year, Mama's off day is especially significant because Mama has been giving tuition on both Saturday and Sunday afternoons for the last 2 months, leaving Papa to take care of me in the afternoons when I napped. This weekend, she got a good break as all her weekend commitment to her students had been fulfilled.

Yesterday morning, we went to Sentosa after having breakfast at Yew Tee Point. Mama's initial idea was to go to Resorts World but in the end, to fulfill their promises to me (in order to get me to cooperate and leave Yew Tee Point and those fascinating kiddy ride machines), my parents brought me to the beach instead.

So here we are, at Palawan Beach in Sentosa. Mama read about how family friendly this beach was and so she decided to come here. Initially, she was cautious and held my hands.

Then, she saw how calm the waves were and allowed me to play on my own and she stood near to me. I was initially cautious about getting myself wet but soon, I was happily immersed.

Even found an interesting activity to do: attempt to bury the seaweed with sand.

Mama did not prepare swimming diapers for me as we were supposed to go to Resort World but Papa had come prepared with an extra set of clothes for me and so my parents had no problem with me getting wet.

We also had a lot of fun running on the fine sand, holding each other's hands.

After washing up, we had lunch at the food court nearby. We then walked around for a while. There was a small amphitheatre but we had missed the reptile show that might had been done at 12 noon.

Mama said this photo serves as evidence of how I torture Papa. She told Papa she will show me this picture when I grow up to tell me how I had made Papa suffer.

After walking for a while, we went home. I fell asleep on our way back and napped all the way to about 5.15pm.

After showering me, we headed off for dinner. Papa wanted to return a library book and we were supposed to go to Lot 1 but we settled at Mac Donald's at Bukit Panjang Plaza where I got to eat fries, cheeseburger and drink apple juice. Yumm...

After dinner, we returned Papa's library book, bought some grocery and went home. That was Mama's first day of her annual leave.

A special thanksgiving to God : On Saturday, Papa was supposed to be on standby as his army unit may mobilise him by calling him on his handphone. If that really happened, Papa will have to arrive at his army camp unit within 2 hours of receiving the call. Mama is thankful God has been good that Papa did not receive any call on Saturday or we may have to rush home for Papa to pick up his army bag and go to his camp at Changi.