Badminton with Coach Thomas (SH Loh's Family)

One of the blessings of having such an extended community is having people like Thomas, Loh's husband who is the son of a badminton legend in Malaysia. 

As part of training their son, Matthew, they invited Ian to be part of the training.

~ Shien

Taking Turns to Water Bomb Each Other

The kids had a stash of water-balloons leftover from previous parties.

We could not bear to just throw them away, so they invented a new game to take turns bombing each other from the fifth floor.


~ Shien

Aria Decorates Home-Made Cake Donuts

Aria was quite eager to decorate these gluten free cake donuts that Monica had baked.

But she was even more excited to eat them after!

~ Shien

Soup with Freshly Baked Gluten Free Bread

Why is it that some of the most delicious things take ages to prepare and only moments to devour?!!

Gluten free whitebread seems to be one such item...

~ Shien

Ian works with Master Bassoonist

Ian had the privilege of meeting and working with a master-bassoonist from Australia as part of his time with his tutor, Ben.

Ben organized this event as part of his concert series. During their session, Ian got to troubleshoot some teething issues and was convinced that he could level up so much more quickly if he gained access to a master bassoonist if only just once a quarter.

Well said.

~ Shien

Girls' Day Out

Monica and Aria went out on a Mother-Daughter date after she fussed at Monica that she needed to begin them since I frequently took Ian for food crawls on the moped.

Fun times!


~ Shien

Baking Gluten Free Bread

Monica spent more time baking gluten free bread. By this time, she had adapted her recipe to suit the high humidity and ambient temperature.

Our oven was also struggling to keep temperature, but she soldiered on to make yummy bread for our household.

Monica, who rarely documents her experimental cooking, finally wrote recipes for these permutations since they tasted so good!

We were grateful to have access to inexpensive rice and tapioca flours.

Almond and coconut flour was difficult to find and very expensive when available.

~ Shien