Gabriel Mendes Blog » My family http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog Into the mind of Gabriel Mendes Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:14:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= My 3 sons http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2011/my-3rd-son-ron http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2011/my-3rd-son-ron#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 06:04:50 +0000 Gabriel Mendes http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/?p=3893

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]]> http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2010/my-2-cute-sons-2/feed 0 First Day of School!!!!! http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2010/first-day-of-school http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2010/first-day-of-school#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:55:45 +0000 Gabriel Mendes http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/?p=2351 Today is Yang’s first day of school. A new milestone entering into a new world of primary schooling. He was happy parading his new primary school uniform asking me does he look handsome? Yes, indeed!!!

]]> http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2010/first-day-of-school/feed 1 Yang’s Graduation! http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/2169 http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/2169#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:15:50 +0000 Gabriel Mendes http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/?p=2169 Time flies….Yang has graduated from kindergarten and moving forward to primary school. Here are some of the photos from his school’s graduation concert.


Yang was supposed to take a bow to the audience……he wave to the crowd instead!



Jay’s performance is so much better than last year’s!




]]> http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/2169/feed 3 Happy Mid-Autumn Festival http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/happy-mid-autumn-festival http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/happy-mid-autumn-festival#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:03:05 +0000 Gabriel Mendes http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/?p=1953 The kids had a Mid-Autumn Festival party at the school today. I thought they will brought home some DIY lanterns. To my surprise, Yang made an astronaut outfit for the moon.


]]> http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/happy-mid-autumn-festival/feed 0 Jay’s 4 year old birthday!!!! http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/jays-4-year-old-birthday http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/jays-4-year-old-birthday#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:01:46 +0000 Gabriel Mendes http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/?p=1937 Today is Jay’s birthday!!!! This little fellow is 4 years old now. We did a small cake cutting celebration in his school, then brought them out to The Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden for some birthday fun !!

Jay was in his usual shyness when his friends were singing happy birthday song to him






]]> http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/jays-4-year-old-birthday/feed 1 Yang + Jay http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/yang-jay-2 http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/yang-jay-2#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:06:25 +0000 Gabriel Mendes http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/?p=1857 My 2 precious sons, they are my nightmare, they are my sweet dreams :-)



]]> http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/yang-jay-2/feed 0 Back from Perth http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/back-from-perth http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/back-from-perth#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:32:43 +0000 Gabriel Mendes http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/?p=1724 Hi everyone, I’m back from Perth! It was a fun family trip…a precious week where we are together 24/7. We stayed in Fremantle, Margaret River, Busselton and Dunsborough where we clocked a record of 900km driving distance. Hope this is an unforgettable trip for Yang before he goes Primary One next year. Here are some of the highlights :

Our Hyundai Tucson which we refill full tank thrice!
We stayed in Fremantle for the first 3 nights, this is our house which we booked from http://www.stayz.com.au . We loved this house as it is just 5 minutes walk from Fremantle market, 4 bedrooms, wifi, and only AUD$160 per night!!!

The living room


We drove 278km to Margaret River. My wife chiong 120km/hr and we reached there in 3 hrs time!



morning coffee, my wife’s favourite : flat white


What can we do when we visit the Hilarys Boat Harbour ? Modelling of course!!


We stayed at this farm for one night : http://www.sunflowersfarm.com/
The views in front of our farm house. Kangaroos and sheeps in the wild.


Yang is excited to feed the animals!

Here’s a hilarious video of Yang feeding the lambs



For our last 2 nights, we stayed at The Wyndham Vacation Resorts in Dunsborough. 2 bedrooms apartment with full kitchen at AUD$170 per night

We visited the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse

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]]> http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/yang-jay/feed 0 Goofing around http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/goofing-around http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/goofing-around#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:03:55 +0000 Gabriel Mendes http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/?p=1426 Here are some recent shots of my 2 sons. Really can’t predict what they will do next!




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All images shot using the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1

View from my room’s balcony



I just wanna suntan!

The swimming pool are kids friendly with slides, jaccuzi…..and most importantly NOT salt water


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Happy Chinese New Year! from Gabriel Mendes on Vimeo.

Well, way before the success version, there was a “N.G. version”. Yang was obviously distracted by Jay’s singing that he stormed off half-way!


The N.G. version of the CNY song from Gabriel Mendes on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/yang-sings-cny-song/feed 2 My 2 cute sons http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/my-2-cute-sons http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/2009/my-2-cute-sons#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:41:10 +0000 Gabriel Mendes http://www.gabrielmendes.com/blog/?p=878 Happy New Year everyone! Let me start the first post of the year by introducing my 2 cute sons, Yang and Jay. They love to sing and dance. If you are into serious patriotic stuff, click below to see their worldwide premier MTV

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