This posting is a bit late…. okay a lot late but you know what they say, better late than never. My dear wife wrote this article so I better post it up before I let her efforts go to waste.

Lucas first trip to overseas – Singapore! We went to Singapore on Friday night, 30 November 2007 for a 3-nights stay there before going to Pulai Springs in Johor on the following Monday.

Chilling in Singapore

We left home slightly after 930pm. Thanks to Klang traffic, we didn’t manage to reach home from work till close to 800pm. After dinner,  we got ready and changed Lucas into his pj before we set off for our journey. Shirley, Marcus’ younger sister, came with us as well. She was the co-pilot and was given the honor of driving ¾ of the way. Haha.

Shhhh…

Amazingly, Lucas slept all the way to Singapore, not waking up once for a feed. We got there close to 200am and he only woke up at about 300am. Lovely baby.

Lucas with his partner in crime

Said wife didn’t do much except feed and change baby all the time there, but she did get this cute rubber material stick-on sign. A little pricey at SGD 10.90 but surely it is the cutest-without being-cheesy-baby-on-board sign we’ve seen so far.

The royal treatment

On Monday morning, 3 December 2007, we went back up to Johor towards Pulai Springs. The resort is a nice place, quiet, spacious and well maintained. However, the service is a little slow if not responsive at times. The apartment was quite dirty as well. Perhaps the previous customers wore their slippers in the apartment and it wasn’t well cleaned after that.

Pulai Spring Christmas Decoration

But that was quickly taken care of. We had the maintenance people to mop the whole apartment again.  The resort provided a baby cot too. So Lucas slept in it, and we used our own bed sheet for him.

The Apartment

The Chinese restaurant there served pretty good food, can’t remember the name of the restaurant though. Probably it has something to do with having Aunty and Uncle Lian treating us to the dinner there ?. They are the owners of the resort who are the parents of said wife’s cousin’s wife

Yummy Peking Duck

Lucas sad face because he can’t have any

While we were there, a church group was also having their retreat. So unfortunately, they booked the cinema in the resort for their group discussion, leaving us poor souls movie-less for the trip!

The lift hidden camera

And with two big cameras around, there were quite a few photography sessions. Snap here snap there, whether the object is looking or not, snap snap snap….

Samuel: Grandma! Watch where you are holding!

Now samuel, this is how you walk on water

Professional photographer at work

Rare view of the photograher and Pulai Springs in the background

Great photo of my brother and family

Quick Daddy, you’re making me sleepy

Auditioning for Baywatch

But it was a relaxing trip, mainly because there isn’t much to do. Ha! Lucas certainly maintain his act of being the goody boy…keeping up his routine of sleep-eat-poo, sleep-eat-poo… In Aunty Sow Yun’s words – “Excellent baby”.

Excellent Baby!

Not in church though, where he is the “Healthy Lungs baby”.

The force is strong in this one