Two Weeks of Easter Break Whizzed By....

Really. Time just whizzes by so fast that if you wink or sneeze, I'm sure you would have missed lots. Can't believe how fast time really flies. Boys started their 2-week Easter holidays on 27th March, and with a wink of an eye, the holidays came and went. And it's almost the end of the first week of Term 3!

Boys and I flew to Singapore on Sunday, 28th March on Tiger Airways. Budget airline but the food certainly not budget-priced. We had 3 cup noodles and 3 packet drinks....and that set me back SGD 25.50. Most expensive instant noodles ever! What more, the flight was re-scheduled to an hour later....which was quite a bummer. By the time we arrived in Singapore, it was 11.30 PM. Dad (drove down to Singapore from PJ on Saturday) picked us up from Changi. Think boys went to bed at 1 AM in the morning!

And we had a packed Monday with appointments to visit schools. Have to say most schools that we visited are quite sad-looking when compared to the boys' current school. We didn't visit schools that had a looooooooooooooong wait-list. Thus, UWC and SAS were not on our list. The only school that all of us felt up to par, and better was Tanglin Trust. But again, there is a waitlist for S2....and only way for S2 to get in, was to have S1 in the school for at least a term first. I donno lah. The Canadian International School will move to a spanking new premise in Aug 2011...but meanwhile, it is in some interim location. ISS looks really quite sad. OFS seems too compact for 3600 students. EIS is such a small school. So how? So how?

And whilst we were in Singapore, there were few developments in H's job/assignment.....and instead of moving out of Jakarta in July 2010, we are staying here till at least the end of 2010. That changes the criteria in our selection of schools again. So back to square one! But as my friend says...I would have a little more time to search other schools, plus maybe more chances in schools with waiting list. Oh well...Bleah.

After all the "official" business of school-visiting, we had Thursday FREE. Dad and I took the boys to the new Universal Studios on Sentosa. As I have an ongoing back problem, I did not go on ANY rides. Dad went with the boys....and after Revenge of the Mummies, dad felt really dizzy and sick. He said that he almost Died! Both the Battlestar Galactica rides were closed... guessed they weren't ready. The Madagascar ride not opened yet.....and the staff at the food establishments were still not quite efficient...can you imagine waiting for about 40 minutes in the queue for hotdogs? And to think that Thursday was NOT a holiday, and the crowds were NOT that big. Really crazy! So suggest that you wait awhile before you visit this place.

Dad left Singapore really early on Friday morning, as he was gonna go to Jakarta the following day. Our flight was later in the afternoon.

Mom and dad arrived in the afternoon. I didn't go to the airport. Sent the boys with the driver instead. Don't think mom and dad did much here other than watch TV (they both started on 24 Season 8) and lots of makan-makan. Let me think where we went to makan...we went for Seafood the first night, Marriot for Easter Brunch, Social House, Ce Wei, Ita-Suki and a couple of places in Bandung.

Oh yeah. We went to Bandung for a night. Wasn't exactly an enjoyable trip as the tire punctured halfway, and we had to wait by the roadside whilst the driver changed the tire...PLUS dad had an upset tummy...so throughout the trip to/fro Bandung, he was too tired and bothered. Took mom to a couple of factory outlets while dad slept in the hotel with boys watching telly in the adjoining room. Next day, took them to the volcanic crater. No. didn't walk down to the smaller crater this time. Just look-see around the Queens' Crater only.

Supposed to go strawberry picking with the boys, but somehow "no more strawberries?" so was a BIG disappointment. The worst was that we had to drive quite a distance to the berry farm, and then to another. Both also we couldn't pick our own strawberries. Real Bummer.

Other than that, didn't do much. Initially dad wanted to go to Chinatown, then he changed his mind ....as per his words "think of the jam also sien!". And then it was time to go home! So fast, one week liow.

And then come Monday, boys started Term 3 of school. And I am sorta back to my normal routine....

Later...