Stephan Blows Tim's head off

Blow Head!!!!

Emma & Aunty Elaine

My Darling niece EMMA!!!!

(And Uncle Tim's Fav too......)

Doesn't she look just like me!!!

Surfer Dude from Brazil

My old friend Inigo wants to show us his how wonderful life is in Brazil but the ol dinosaur does not wanna learn how to blog........ so , I am going to put up this page just for him!!!!
Surfing followed by 3 days on a sailboat

Let me see if I get this straight, life in Brazil = Surfing (kite-surf & the sans-kite version) & sailing in the summer + ski-ing in the winter. hmmmm........ definitely a place to consider for a future move. Tell us more!

Surfer dudes very cute kids!!!

Windex Waters

Oh, KK wasn't only about the mountain. We took a boat out to the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park and Tim found his Windex waters........ It was great!!! Saw tons snorkelling and we are coming back to dive next year!!!












Nicolas teaching his brother how to fish with a pail and satay stick!!







Steph trying to cat-nap the island cat.
In case you didn't know, our cat, Ellsworth, was cat-napped about a month ago. Poor kids miss him terribly. Let's pray that the evil malaysian thieves have sold him off to a nice kind family with and he is being showered with love, affection and treated like a prince!!!






Our own little surfer dude..... MAT

Sunset.... (This has nothing to do with Windex waters but I am too lazy to do another post!!!)







Don't worry, it's not your eyesight. This is a pretty bad pix. Steph wanted to take a photo of his God-parents.........
Dinner with the Sims and Teongs at the Ocean Seafood Restaurant facing the South China Sea, with the view of the sunset above.

Steph School

After months of being on the waiting list, Stephan finally got a place at Chiltern House, Bangsar and he Looooooves it!!!

The school is a little too snooty and chi-chi for my liking, but it is so clean and neat, you can eat off the floors......

Steph in his favorite room in school!

Steph with teacher Intan and girlfren QiQi. (QiQi moved to another class and Steph is still nursing a brken heart!)

Tri Stars

Who says we can't live vicariously through our children............. :) hehe
Mat looking like a real pro

Nic did SO WELL!!!! Bravo!!!

Boys with God-Bro Tzen Wei (He came in 2nd!!!)

Tay Family Tri-Stars

Tay Family housewarming & Nic's 10th bday

Sat 18th August - Housewarming for the MAGIC HOUSE OF WONDERS. (Like a Wedding cake / Russian doll)


The House was blessed with torrential monsoon showers of blessing by Pastor Noel. (Who rushed over after doing the 10km Kent Ridge Run)


I have been trying to convince mum that the house will be so much more blessed if we could ALL move in with her........... She is not too convinced! hehe

Our own choir - thanks aunties!!














Mum with Baby Denise (Vivienne & Andy's new addition)











Gosh, Nic is 10!!!! Eeks, guess I can't pretend to be 20 anymore with a teenage-son-to-be!!!

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Almost Up Mt KK

ALMOST UP MT KK

7KM mark, just before Nic decided that he was moving no more ..............

OK, we did not make it to the top......... BUT, we were very very close!!!!

At the start of the climb before being tamed by the mountain. ( As someone so rightly said "You go up roaring like a Lion, but you come down a pussy-cat.")

I know it is no Everest, but climbing South East Asia's tallest mountain was not an easy feat. No training and preparations whatsoever was probably not the way to go, but hey, we tried and will be much more prepared when we attack the mountain again next year!!!

Tim & Mat roared up the mountain and left the rest of us behind..... Nic gripping his chest and taking intermittent puffs of steriod boosters (ventolin), steph fighting with his porter and refusing to sit in his carrier, Glendel freezing from the cold and poor little me struggling with all my excess fat and wishing I had been working out more. sigh.

Nic with his super-puff

Steph making his porter's life HELL

Mat on the top of the world

Cliff hanger (Or Tim's very good photo composition??)

Nic running up the mountain (2nd wind before he refuses to budge)

Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks!!!!!

Hey, I finally made it to the bloggers world............... If nothing else, this is to prove my darling sis that eventhough I am an old dinasour, I am not so swaku lah!!!!

The 1st great hurdle was choosing the address for the blog. Peng insisted that much thought must go into choosing a meaningful name. After 24 hrs of nerve wrecking soul searching, I have decided to bite the bullet and go with ELAINEGURU. This whole exercise was more exhausting than choosing the names of my 3 sons!!!!

My 1st thought was to use my 'ol party-name MILF for the blog, but that wasn't too appropriate since I was hoping for a U-rating for this site. In any case, I have not gone to bed past 10pm in 2 yrs!!! Next, was SUPER-MUM. Well, not-so-super-mum, since I don't even know how to blog! (Mathieu asked me to help him with his blog and I was completely useless! Aunty Peng has now promised to help). Then, afew brain drizzles later, I thought YOGI-GURU-WANNABE......... Well, with all the things I wannabe and how bad I am at actually being, I thought Nah.. I will save it for when I actually get somewhere with the yoga.

So, I have come up with ELAINEGURU. I don't really know what it means, but I was going for something all encompassing. It is not about being a yogi, nor about being a Mum, or about being a party animal (which I am not in any case)......... It is about me enjoying my life and sharing my stories with you, my dear friends!!!

Now for the great step of actually trying to upload this onto the site........ tatatada