Miraku Japanese Buffet

Our family adores sushi and sashimi in a manner that requires us to save up for a sushi buffet splurge lest we eat ourselves broke.

 This one can eat entire rows of salmon sashimi off the spread within minutes if we did not require some propriety out of her...

Thank you, Miraku!

~ Shien

Breakfast with the Millers

We are enjoying some family time with the Millers, friends and colleagues at the school. Ian entertains while we wait for breakfast.

~ Shien

Time in Singapore with Family and Grandparents!

 cousins

Mimine (my mother), welcomed us with a homecooked feast! (As usual :)

Birthday celebrations

Ian is very intrigued by Kong Kong (my father) as he plays the piano.

Cuddle time and backrubs continue wherever we wake up.

Ian tries Kong Kong's violin.

Fascinating moving sculpture mimicking rain at the Changi Airport.

Durian ice cream.

The slide that almost caused us to miss our plane. We had over 90 minutes to kill. But after taking the time to figure out how to get purchase receipts redeemed for a ride, the scanner malfunctions and we finally take a lackluster ride down an underwhelming tube. Only to rush to the gate to board the plane--barely.

This Kingfisher was water logged at the school pool. So we brought it home to let it dry out before releasing it. It told us when it was ready by thrashing around frantically in its cage.

~ Shien

USM Chinese New Year Fund Raiser

We dropped into the University Sains Malaysia (USM) fundraiser for a look at their cultural presentations. They had vipers from the snake temple.

Aria got some henna art

Ian wanted to keep ringing in the new year...

Kind of like bobbing for apples, except with mandarin oranges and a scoop.

Writing prosperity placards with really stinky ink.

~ Shien