Chill-out at ECP

Dadi got his new posting to an Asst Director post. Some sort of a promotion, in terms of work, but not in pay lah. Anyway, Gu-Po was very excited about the news and Dadi decided to jio Gu-Po, Gu-Die, Ye Ye and Nai Nai to East Coast Tung Lok for a lunch and chill out on the beach. However, Nai Nai went off for Genting on Sun morning and Ye Ye and Gu-Die were too lazy to leave the house on Sunday... ended up only Gu-Po gave face for the lunch. : )

Yikees!!! Don't I look like a jail-bird? Location? The playhouse outside McDonald's lor. Where else? I'm a true-blue McDonald kid leh.

As usual, catching up with my old buddy.

Hugs and kisses for Momi dearest. Muaks muaks!

Enuff of the playhouse. Strutting off to the kid cars area. Just spotted my favourite bus.

My First Day in School

Things happened swiftly in the past few days and "PHAT!!!". I landed myself in school mid week on 21 March. Momi supposedly took 3 days leave to help me settle down in the new environment, but she would quietly sneaked back to her office to clear her work. Yah, her office is just upstairs in the same building as my school. :p

I am now a kinderland kid. Uniform is a white top and green bottoms - t-shirt and shorts for morning and long-sleeved shirt and long pants for afternoon during nap time. I have a cubby hole and a container to hold my personal belongings.

The moment I stepped into the centre, I settled down quickly as there were so many new friends and toys to play with. Of course, with Momi beside me, I am not scared of anything. Momi was secretly very pleased with the way I took to the new environment and was keeping her fingers crossed that I would stay that way for the next few days.

I was not shy at all. I helped myself to the toys and even snatched the toys from other kids. Momi was horrified with my roguish behaviour, but the teachers assured her that I was displaying the usual social behaviour as kids of my age do independent play. Hiak Hiak!!!

That's me. Sitting in a corner in the PN2 class after lunch. I refused to nap while the other kids were napping in the music room. That's Momi, but her face was blocked by the paper plate. This picture reveals Dadi's fantastic photography skills.... Tsk tsk tsk....

My PN1 classroom. My mattress is on the floor but I am too excited to sleep. Momi tried to coax me to sleep but I told her "Let's go out and play!!!". Momi said "No" and I simply told her "I go play myself" and scrambled out of the mattress. :p

My plastic container bearing my name. It stores my toothbrush and toothpaste, pillow, bolster and extra set of clothes. Diapers are placed next to it. BTW, teachers feedback to Momi that my diapers are too big, always hanging loose, ma-chiam going to drop off. I was always lifting my diapers and pants along the way cos they were hanging to low and the top of my butt is shown to the entire world.... (shy shy leh....) Lazy Momi told the teachers "never mind, make do with it". Tsk Tsk.

My chubby hole and my orange Bob Dog schoolbag (Christmas gift from Auntie Shu'Ai)

That's me in my Elmo pyjamas. Kinderland long-sleeved uniform not purchased yet. I was allowed to wear my home clothes. I was holding a plastic banana in my hand.

Climbing up and down... very active. Not sleepy at all. Or, too excited to sleep?

Muahaha!!!! At the end of the day, I was totally bushed out. I slept during the entire MRT ride and during the walk home. Here's a picture of the little piggy snoozing at the end of his first day at school.

Do stay tuned for more updates on my adventures in school. Bye!!!

Fun Time Reading

For a period of time, I was browsing my fave pictorial books, looking for pictures of cake, milk, ice-cream, ball and bus. I was also enchanted with "Snappy Little Splashers" cos it has my favourite pictures of Mr Whale, Jellyfish, Turtle and Mr Anglerfish. Recently, my current storybook is "Little Quack". It is a story about Mama Duck teaching its five little ducklings to swim. I will flip the pages and make up the story myself. My fave duckling is the biggest and brown duckling with five feathers sticking out on his head. Momi called him "Ugly Duckling" and I called him "Uncle". I like to flip to the pages where "Uncle" jumps into the water for his first swim. I also love Mama Duck. Whenever she appears on the page, I would sayang her with my hand and then find Momi to give her a good hug. When I don't see Mama Duck appearing in the pages, I would make up stories about Mama Duck going to the market to do her shopping and I will rattle on about the things that she would buy... qing cai (green veggies), broccoli, corn, carrot, kup kup (pickled vegetable), Yan Yan biscuits etc (basically things that I like to eat).

Ah Wang

Got another DAH hair job on Sunday again. Momi gave instructions to Mr Raymond Scissorshands not to give the botak haircut, just to trim the hair at the sides and back of the head. Mr Scissorshands just let his hair clipper flew all over my head. He really clipped the hair short at the those target areas but a bit too high. Momi commented that I looked like "Ah Wang" with my hair like that and told Dadi to proceed to give me the botak look, rather then get laughed at by people due to the "Ah Wang" look. Muahaha!!! I picked up "Ah Wang" from Momi and went around repeating that. When she asked me for my name, I told her "AH WANG"!!! No more "BANANA".... Momi's face was like this -_-... (with cold sweat at the forehead)... Hahaha!!!

My name is ......

As all of you know, my name is Ramerez (pronounce as RER-MI-REZ). Such a difficult name to pronounce and I certainly have problems pronouncing it as Momi and Dadi have been calling me "Boy Boy" or "Darling" all this while, while the grandparents call me "Jieming" or "Ming Ming". So, whenever people prompt me "What's your name?", I would reply "Ming Ming" or "Boy Boy". However, as I am going to school soon, Momi has been trying to teach me to pronounce "Ramerez". Three syllabus, so difficult to pronounce. That night, while Momi and I went for our stroll after dinner, Momi asked me the question again and I told her my name was "BANANA". Three syllabus and sounded close to "RAMEREZ" (Well, at least to me lah!!!). Momi kept correcting me and I kept repeating "BANANA", much to her exasperation... Muahaha!!! In the end, Notti Momi took advantage of the fun part and decided to name herself after a fruit too. She became "APPLE" and Dadi became "LEW LIAN" (durian). Hahaha!!! Not a wise move cos I registered that clearly and I went around telling people that my name is "BANANA", Momi is "APPLE" and Dadi is "LEW LIAN". We became the FRUIT family. Haha!!!

Day out on 8th March 2007

It is Momi's birthday today. Both Dadi and Momi took the day off, not to celebrate her birthday, but to bring me to NUH for my medical appointment. Final verdict from Dr Ganga? Surgery strongly recommended. Momi and Dadi were reluctant to give the consent on the spot. Think they want to get a 2nd opinion...

Anyway, after the appointment, Dadi and Momi brought me to Suntec City for the IT fair. Wow!!! That place was overwhelmed with people. It appeared as though all the IT products are ma-chiam free for all. I saw people lugging bulky PS3, desktops, notebooks and printers... Dadi wanted to get a notebook cos he gave away our Desktop to DJJ. Momi managed to convince him otherwise cos they hardly use the PC or internet. It would not worth the $$$ as it would be under-utilised.

Haha!!! Whatever $$$ saved from the intended purchase was channelled to a super-duper cool metallic grey and yellow Hush Puppies windbreaker for me. Momi was commenting that it was her birthday but she ended up buying present for other people instead... (Momi bought Dadi a Brun Buffel wallet a week ago....) Momi was also hunting for a handphone for Po Po that day, but she had problem subscribing her 3rd corporate line.

More photos taken at Bottle Tree Park

That's moi relak relak in the wooden chair in the pavillion. Do I look like a little Ah-Beng?

Our family portrait (excluding Dadi cos he was behind the camera)

Po Po and I taking a leisure stroll holding hands.

Notti Momi and I captured in a candid shot. It looked like I was "ah-bishing" her in the face. Muahahaha!!!

Lucas Gor-Gor stays near the Bottle Tree Park... well, at least until he moves to his new house in Hougang. Think the mummies would be jio-ing everyone to go there for a fun-filled day. I can't wait.

Scenic Bottle-Tree Park

It was Gong Gong's 60th birthday and we decided to celebrate in advance on the 14th day of CNY by fixing a lunch at Bottle-Tree Park. Momi recommended the place so that Gong Gong and Po Po could go out gai-gai and take in some fresh air and scenary. She had earlier reccee that place for a corporate event and thought it was an interesting place for both adults and kids, esp the fish pond for kids to waddle and catch their own long-kang fish and the prawning pond.

Check out the scenary below first.

Cheeky pose with DJJ

Riding the giant frog with DJJ

Hugging the huge bottle-tree with help from DJJ

The silly adults trying to hug the bottle-tree. Final verdict? It takes four adults holding hands to form a circle around the tree. Yeah, the trunk was that fat. Me? I just kay-poh and tried to koi-soi with the adults lor.

Running on the pavement.

Riding the buffalo.

Posing in the antique buffalo carriage.

Decided to squat and pretend to erh-erh in the carriage. See the disgusted look on Momi's face.