Our New World

I may have said this several times in the past few months "Time really flies... a blink of an eye and Isaac is turning 12 soon!" Preparation for this mega event started in early July when Sze Weng showed me an FB posting of BlasterParty MY, a local company that organises Nerf-gun themed parties or events. We started communicating with the owner Brien Chia, who is a very helpful and friendly guy. He sounded extremely experienced in organising these parties/events and he is very flexible with the various changes we made. After changing the party venue to Renewal Lutheran Church compound (instead of the initially-planned Seventeen Residences), we started liaising with church Pastors and coordinator to ensure everything is ready for this memorable day - 5th October 2019, Saturday @ 11am-2pm. Here is the party invite which we sent to the parents of Isaac's closest friends : We had 12 kids and 10 adults who attended the party... food & drinks became secondary...

20 years ago, mum brought me to my very first trip to Sydney... it was a great time we had then.  Fast forward 20 years later, Sze Weng and myself brought mum back to Sydney for some quality family time with our boys and relatives in Sydney.  We had so much fun exploring Sydney and trying out new adventures in Port Stephens 😍😘😊 Thank you Lord for your provision and supernatural favour for this 10 days 9 nights trip. Despite the winter season, we enjoyed many clear blue sky and sunny days, though inevitably the day is very short - often it got dark by 5pm. On day 2 in Sydney, we visited the Powerhouse Museum - not totally impressed by it, marginally educational & ok ok only for our boys. If our memories serve us well, we remembered they had more things on exhibit the last time we were here. Praise the Lord for a beautiful sunny day 3 in Sydney despite winter.  We had a fun-filled day expl...