Mervyn Hoe: My Daily Happenings

Today we had an outing to Zoo. Initially we wanted to leave home at 11am, it turned out to be 1130am. All the additional packing. We brought - 2 umbrellas - 2 water bottles - 2 food containers with fish porridge - extra set of clothes for Josh and Kate - celery - apples The journey there is around 30-40 minutes and we enjoy the bus ride there because along the way, we get to see the greenery and the Seletar Reservoir. Weather is very fine and this time we learnt more about pygmy hippo and the goats! Pygmy hippos ----------------- Their size is 10 times smaller compared to the Nile hippos. And people actually hunt them for their teeth! This is so cruel because they are amazing animals and humans just like to make them endangered. Our zoo managed to breed 11 young pygmy hippos and the two we saw in the zoo are a couple. Their feeding time is 2.30pm daily and we saw so many fishes surrounding them. Amazing stuff.. When we went back, we passed by this Michelin tyres a

Well Josh is now amazing. He loves to entertain Kate and will try his creative ways to do it. For example, when Kate is crying, I would just tell him to go and make Kate laugh. He would just go to her, and hug her and play peek a Boo with her. And Kate will laugh or smile! She loves him. And also, Josh would repeat words that we speak. Amazing!! Sometimes I would just look at him, and just to realize that he is my son. These are some pictures of him on the cruise, trying out on his golf. Ain't he look sporty?

Yesterday at cellgroup, my cellgroup leader Charlie and Cath shared with us and prophesied about my family. That is--To be strong in what we believe in and that for me, success is just the beginning of good things to come. This is so amazing of how God plants someone and shares with us such amazing words and knowledge, so as to strengthen us both mentally and spiritually. I am also very amazed that Josh actually prayed when we are praying. He actually learned it in school and to pray before eating. He is so happy. Josh ------ He is having some cough after the cruise. Really hope that he will recover soon. Hence for these two days, we will not switch on aircon. He is also saying more words now. And wants me to teach him things that we see and he will try and pronounce. Eg we go to NTUC, he will pick up vegetables and look at me. I will name them and he will repeat. One after another!! I'm so amazed how much my this little sperm has grown!! Ha!! He also entertains Kate

Well I want to thank my company for providing a trip for me and my family members to Taiwan and to stay at Shangrila, an exorbitant hotel there. And my wife did the planning and the ordering of the train tickets, which is really quite tough for me to do it. Traveling to these places are really very fun especially with the two children. Of course it's quite tiring at times, but when I saw the pictures again, it's all worth it as memories!! We will travel more and of course I would like to qualify for more trips from my company!! Woohoo..

Wow!! First time we embark in a trip and with our two children.. It's certainly a challenge but we have my mother in law to help us!! Thank god. It's our incentive trip with Prudential and really blessed that they gave us Singapore Airlines and their service is very good.

Woo man! Everyday, I would be holding multiple roles, just like an actor on stage. In the day, I would be a chef, preparing either breakfast or lunch. And it is important because it is this that provides healthy meals for me and my family. Then, I will be a Financial Consultant, meeting my clients or prospects. It's fun and exciting as I can get to meet different people and I can also bring back bread and butter too. Also, this may stretch to as long as 6-7 hours a day as I would need to travel in between appointments. Next, when I'm back, I would be a dad and play with my children and also talk to my wife! I would have my remainder energy, bringing Josh to NTUC, play at playground as well as reading and playing cooking! Ha. This is his favourite spending time with me. 2012 -------- This is indeed an exciting year as I am thinking of ways to escalate my business even more, and not only that, to spend more time with my family members! I am also looking at placing

Well I'm kinda slight confused. I have this strong push for me to create an app for healthy home cook food that is easy to make. Also I want to cook more healthy meals for my wife and children.. But my appointment timings just couldn't let me do it. The problem now we face is that the outside food is not edible for us now. It consist of alot of oil, salt, MSG.. Simply unable to get that into my body. And the high content of meat than vegetables is really not desirable for my diet. We have calculated that we save much more when we cook at home than to eat out. And we have actually made another further decision that we are moving into organic food.