On Sunday Claire turned 5. I'm planning a combined birthday party for kids no.2, 3 and 4 next Sunday cos daddy will be home, and their birthdays are all pretty close. Saves time and money as well!:)
So since Claire's birthday fell on a Sunday, and the party was the week after, I told her she would not be cutting a cake, as she would be doing so the next day in school. She was a bit disappointed, so I decided to buy her a small cream cake to cut during dinner with the other cousins.
Later that night, Annie, along with cousins Amanda, Allyson and Michelle attended a dance concert, with performances from Australia, China, Korea and more, at the Borneo Convention Centre. It was a long drive away and Sis no.3 and I took a while to find it! Some of the roundabouts we had to go round twice! :) I never knew there was such a huge structure all the way out there.
We had to drive past a dam/bridge/road thingie cutting across the Sarawak river. This thingie actually blocks the flow of water so that the water levels on either side are unequal! I do not know the purpose of this dam-bridge-road, (cos it definitely ain't for hydro-electricity) so who would want to play God and go against the flow of Nature (literally) right? There are rumours that since the palatial home of a certain white-haired big shot has the Sarawak river flowing behind it, he wanted the water to be permanently full, so one can jet ski anytime??!! Hmmm.. maybe that's just small town gossip, cos what'll we do without gossip eh?
I remember when we were teenagers with too much time on our hands, we used to park there in our friend's yellow pick-up and eat burgers while watching people illegally race their cars!! My, that was the era of carefree life! :)
Okay where was I? Oh yes, the concert marked the end of three days of dance workshops and charity concerts. Annie and cousin Allyson attended a funky/ jazz dance workshop that afternoon, taught by an Australian lady. There were also workshops on yoga, Korean drums, classical ballet and so on.
Anyway, the next day, during their school break time, I brought a cake which I made for Claire to school and also 30 balloons for her classmates! We got Eva out of her class to help celebrate jie jie's birthday as well. The kids were all so excited to see a Spongebob cake!
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