Singapore - Rasa Sentosa Resort

We arrived in Singapore yesterday for a 4 day stopover on our way to
Australia for Christmas. This is the view from our floor over the resort
and sheltered lagoon. The weather is "balmy"! It's comforting to be back
in a climate where air-conditioning is such a big feature of human
habitats.

Mouses, Fairies and Gardens

The year is just flying by, less than 50 days until our holiday to Australia. Lauren has kept busy with school - there was even a dress up day last week where Lauren went as a fairy. We spent last Sunday at Gran and Gramps, running around the garden and feeding apples to the horses.

Schooliform!

Quick snap of Lauren all ready for her first day at school.

Birthdays and School

It's been a very busy month. Sara turned *cough* 23 and Lauren turned 5! Then, Lauren started Year 1 at Daubeney Primary School.

Festivals and Superheroes

We went along to the Lovebox Weekender in Victoria Park last weekend. We only stayed for a few hours but it was great fun. We had intended to see the B-52's but they weren't on until 6.45pm which was a bit late in the day for us with Lauren. Earlier in the day Lauren had dressed up as a superhero!

Snip snip snip!

A new haircut for Lauren yesterday - everyone was traumatised by the time it was over, but the result was worth it.
Double jeopardy though today as I had to get her outfit organised, get her dressed and do her hair. I'm sorry Lauren ...

It's Alive!

A very productive Saturday.


Here are a few photo's of the finished result. There are still some cables to be tidied up but the build went very smoothly. She (Epoch) even started up correctly on first boot!


Thermaltake Armor Jr. case
Sapphire Radeon HD 2900XT
MSI K9A Platinum Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
4GB Memory
2 x Samsung 500GB disks
700w Seasonic Power Supply


Our Shuttle (Nibbler) has now become Lauren's personal computer and she spent some time yesterday creating havoc on the Cbeebies website.

It makes a huge difference having the larger case - sometime later this week I'll put the 2 machines next to each other and take a picture :) I think the Shuttle would probably fit inside the tower case ...










I've also just replaced the standard red SATA cables with lovely, sparkly RA SATA cables so they don't press up against the window ... /geek

Dough Delivery

Lauren asked me to take some photo's of her making various things out of playdough. She transports the playdough in the back of her trike and then tortures in into all kinds of everyday objects and foodstuffs. The playdough starts out in all manner of vibrant colours and ends up as a greyish-green blob.

Mmm, biscuits, pillows and a chicken!

Savlon Cream

Skipping home from school today, Lauren took a bit of a tumble and ended up with a grazed knee! Badge of childhood ... tears, blood, Savlon cream, glass of wine (for mother).

Star of Stage and Screen

After many false starts, Lauren had her first school concert performance today.  There was some clapping and waving and maybe a little bit of singing but mostly there was “surveying of the room looking for an escape route”.  Sara grabbed some clips with her mobile phone and sent them through to me at work – brightened up my afternoon!

 

Relaxing in the Pool, Part 2

We were trawling through some old photos and happened upon this almost identical picture from 2004.
Room for more toys back then!

A New Approach

It's so much easier using Blogger to update happenings over here. The integration with Picassa is the icing on the cake - we have thousands of photos and manually managing a web page and scaling and uploading photos took far too long.

Sara and I will be adding more photos to the gallery over the next few days.

Looks like the Google behemoth rolls on ...
 
PS: And emailing updates to the blog? That's just cheating!

Splash and Run

Lauren says "Mummy running on the hopscotch. I'm waiting. Thank you for me letting stay (Gran and Gramps)."

In The Shade

Lauren says "Drinking beer! Just like Poppy!"

Relaxing in the Pool

Last weekend we travelled to Lauren's Grandparent's home. Glorious weather, and a chance for Lauren to splash about.