Happy Father's Day

First up, happy belated Father's Day to all the male folks out there who qualify for the job description! 

To kick off the special ocassion, Papa Yeow had a sweet treat in the middle of the night from Mama Yeow. It came in the form of.......bread and butter pudding. For those who are guilty of it, u can get your minds out of the gutter now. Papa Yeow for some strange reason, had taken a liking to the traditional British dessert and finding that it is actually quite an idiot-proof dish to make (for a decidedly non-domestically inclined me), I decided to christen my new multi-function Healsio oven with it. After packing the Rascal off to sleep at 10pm, I started getting down to making the pudding. All in all, the pudding turned out well albeit a little unsweetened. This was attributable to the fact that I do not owe weighing scales to measure the required amount of sugar needed and could only rely on estimation. The issue was compounded by the fact that Papa Yeow's sweet tooth was plucked out and flung out by the dentist eons before I met him.

We set out to explore Punggol Waterway on the morning of Fathers' day, the main highlight being a water play area for the Rascal to get wet in. Having parked in the extreme end of where the said water play area was NOT located, we landed up trekking from the car parking area (note that I did not term it a car park because it was not. It was more a roadside parking area on a flyover leading to goodness knows where) to our final destination. 

Now, it would have been a nice trek except for the small fact that our journey was fraught with caterpillars. Yes, you read me right - caterpillars. Our path was littered with bazillions of the disgusting creepy crawlies with the occasional millipede thrown in for good measure. Squished ones, living ones, half-squished ones, shrivelled ones: you name it, the path has it. Being deathly afraid of  the dammed critters, my hairs stood up and I had to keep my eyes peeled on the walkway to make sure that the cat pillars do not try out their hiking boots on my leg! The Husband was kept occupied giving his son Science lessons on the bug kingdom and trying not to laugh his head off at the sight of a freaked-out woman shrieking and yipping each time a live caterpillar crosses her path. As if things were not bad enough, there was a particular stretch under a bridge where all the caterpillars seem to have chosen as their final resting place (for squished or half-squished ones) or settlement area (for living ones). For the first time in as many years, I did the 100-metre sprint while simultaneously yelling my head off. For clarification purposes, this is not a dramatisation - I am just thankful that there weren't many people around to witness my strange behaviour. 

Having finally reached the water play area, we set T loose and sat down to scope out our immediate surroundings. The water play area was quite decent, save for the fact that there was a wading pool in the middle of the play area and due to the long term accumulation of water, the ground has turned slimed and algae-ish. This makes for kinda dangerous conditions for kiddies to run around in but thankfully, those kids who did slip when we were there treated it was part of the fun. Also in the immediate area was a sand pit which we did not have a chance to go cos a wet toddler + only 1 change of clothes + dry sand was not a good combination.

We ended our outing with a BBQ buffet lunch at Punggol Marina which was relatively decent but nothing to shout about.