Our first birthday celebration of the year - for the husband!

As always, the husband's first in line to celebrate his birthday and this year, he requested to have hotpot. It was a unique experience for most of us who had not eaten there before (namely, the children, the parents and I - that's quite a lot of us!).


I was prepared to be blown away by the service and 'extras' (ice-cream, manicure service, extra snacks like popcorn, children's play corner with babysitting services...) and it did not fail to impress. The food was pretty fresh and at the end of the meal, we even received a small discount as one of our seats was the unfortunate space of dripping air-con condensation water.


I liked the soups, they were very tasty and it was as always, a robust, rowdy and fulfilling meal to be with the family as we all sat around to talk, laugh and make merry.

Look at how happy K is in the pic!

A very loud birthday song with a husband who tolerated the singing.
As much as the lighted sign-board is tacky, it did add some feel

Thanks to the sister for picking and arranging for cake

Family, 2017

All of us

Just like that, we rounded up the week to the first week of 2017. This year's affair is very different from last year's simpler gathering at home.


As always, am thankful for family time together; and I hope the husband enjoyed his first birthday celebration.