我的妈妈!!!

我亲爱的妈妈!!! 我可爱的妈妈!!!

财神到!

Haha!!! Have been practising the CNY song "财神到!" to score points with the elders at home and hopefully, secure bigger ang pows this year. Hei hei!!! Momi and Dadi said that there is one particular verse which I must sing loud and clear to my grandparents and this is it -
"从此我交好运, 财源滚滚来. 做生意, 它一本万利, 买马票, 他得心应手... 财神到! 财神到!"

I wish my gramps, D&M, JJs, XJ Jie-jie and all my relatives a Prosperous Lunar New Year and Gong Xi Fa Cai!!! And I wish myself a bountiful Lunar New Year with lots of festive goodies to munch on and loads of fat ang pows to stuff in my pockets!!!

Chinatown Walk

Went to Chinatown yesterday morning to soak up the CNY ambience. Walked along the way from childcare centre to Chinatown. 7 teachers and 1 mummy (my Momi) accompanied 19 little imps for this outing. Super shiong as we need to climb several overhead bridges and traffic lights to get to the heart of Chinatown, where the festive market is.

We checked out the Bak Kwa store, as well as the souvenir shops and sweet stalls to look at all the relevant festive things and foodstuff. The Bak Kwa store was very nice. It allowed us to see 2 uncles BBQ the bak kwa and let us sample some bak kwa. As usual, I ran away as I do not like bak kwa...

The good thing about class outing is the attention and the treats that come along. A lot of the shop and stall owners found us so cute that they could not resist offering us some samples of sweets, gummy and CNY cookies. Yums!

Some perculiar tourists also treated us as part of their travel itinerary. Like some special sighting in Chinatown. :) They either took our pictures or waylaid us for a posed picture. Poor Yu He even kena a kiss on her cheek, leaving a lipstick stain behind (my Momi thought she was scratched.. -_-!!!)

Momi was busy holding Atticus and my hands. No free hands to take pictures. Will upload once we get the pictures from the childcare centre. Adieu!!!

Good Karma vs Bad Karma

Momi has been preaching to me about Karma. She said if I do not give up my seat (to migrate over to her lap) in the train to old people, pregnant ladies and young children, I would have bad karma. What is bad karma??? Well, she said it has to do with all the bad things, such as other people will not give up their seats to me, nobody loves me, no food, no toys, no happiness, no money etc. Heng ah, so far so good, I have been conditioned to volunteer my seat to old people and other young kids in the train. I kinda consciously look out for them in the train. But sometimes I would make boo-boo too, such as pointing to a man in his late fourties (but got white hair) and called him an old person and tried to offer him my seat... Muahaha!!!

I think the karma thingy is quite true. I have nice people offering me their seats in the train around 90% of the times. Guess it must be my good karma. :) Those people in the buses are less nice. Butts are usually glued to the seats. :p

However, I have not really given my seat to any pregnant ladies yet. Well, to be honest... I am not quite sure if the ladies are really pregnant or just fat. Sometimes, Momi wasn't sure either. She can only tell if the lady is what she termed as "heavily pregnant", i.e. with a very obvious tummy sticking out. So, to avoid any embarassment to either parties, I have not started this good deed yet. ;)

Leh Leh Leh....

I irritated Momi so much yesterday by punctuating most of my sentences with "leh". Although Momi does that sometimes herself (yes, "leh" as well as "lah" and "lor"), she does not like me to talk like that. She said it was too much Singlish and kept correcting me lor. Hiaz... must consciously make an effort to avoid it leh....

Take Stock of My Birthday Presents

Hee! Did not get any big birthday bash this year (then again, I have never had any BIG birthday bash :p)
Celebrated on Fri evening at Gong Gong's house after dinner with my gramps, DJJ and Momi. There was a 1 kg black forest cake and 3 candles for me to blow out. Yums, I had 2 helpings of the cake. On Sat evening, we went over to YeYe's house for dinner and I had a small squarish polar cake with my favourite Thomas the Train on it. Really small cake cos this set of gramps are not in the cake stuff and D&M also had no appetite for the cake. Next on Sun afternoon, I went to BB Shafeesah's 1st birthday celebration and Auntie Sabariah bought 2 small polar cakes for me and Shameer so that we would not fight with BB Shafeesah over her birthday cake. Haha!!! But in the end, we boys kinda fought over the blowing of the candles cos BB Shafeesah was too young to do it. Hee hee!!! In the end, Shameer contributed a generous amount of saliva on Shafeesah's cake. :p

Yeah! Let's take stock of my birthday presents this year.
Ye & Nai - a brand new flashy blue bike (my 2nd bike!!!)
Gong & Po - 2 red packets (confiscated by Momi as usual. She said the money is going into my bank account along with my ang pow money come CNY)
Dadi - 2 storybooks (Finding Nemo & Little Crab Finds His Shell)
Momi - Jigsaw Puzzle, new swim wear, new pants, goggles, arm floats, new cap
Auntie GC - Dump Truck
Auntie Sabariah - 3D Puzzle-cum-Sorter
Auntie Bina - Sticker Book (so nice that Momi saw I could only see and cannot peel out and stick :p)
Auntie Jo - Barney Water Bottle
Uncle Lyon - Mystery Present (Have not seen it)

Not bad for my 3rd birthday celebration leh. : )

Preparations for my Hatch Day

19 Jan is my hatch day. Momi has been asking the school on the usual celebrations in school and was informed that a minimum 3-kg would required to feed all the kids in school... Momi did her sums...
3 kg cake - at least $100 (excl delivery charges)
Party packs - at least $48 ($2 x 24 kids)
Hassle.... TONS (according to her lah. Not me!)

Dadi also warned her against any form of indulgence. He said a small private celebration is good enough. Anyway, Momi assured me that I would get a small cake on Fri night when I celebrate at Gong Gong's house and another cake on Sat night when we go over to Ye Ye's house. Not a bad deal afterall!!! I get to blow candles twice and eat two birthday cakes!!! Yums!!!

Nevertheless, I will still proceed to give my classmates the party packs on Fri. Momi prepared extra packs for me to give to my buddies in the Nursery class - Jovan, Nic and Lucas. Thanks, Mom!

The Dawn of 2008

With the start of 2008, I also "upgraded" myself to the Pn2 class. There are now 21 kids in my class. Expat kid - Alex left Singapore for Japan. There are a pair of Myanmese twins (Than and Han) in my class, as well as a couple more new kids. While it would take some time for me to make friends with the new kids, I am quite glad that my other buddies - Atticus, Shameer and Esher are still hanging around with me.

My class is now known as "Tulip", so gu-niang... Why can't the school name our class - "Bazooka", "Bull-dozer", "Ambulance" or something like that??? Anyway, once we moved up to PN2, we are not allowed to have our milk before our afternoon nap. Sigh... We are also going to have more enrichment classes, such as Art, Music and Speech & Drama in school leh... Sigh... that means we have less time to play at the palyground le.....

For the start of the year, there was a bit of a false alarm too. Momi thought she was pregnant and kept "pyscho" me to prepare me for B2. Of course, that also meant that Momi was reluctant to carry me around and offer me piggyback rides. Sigh, I was going through a bit of transition myself as I would be turning 3 in a couple weeks' time. I was clingy, irritable and very very emotional. Everytime Momi rejected me, I would cry and self-induce vomitting... headache right??? Now that Momi is confirmed not preggie, she is able to carry me more often that that soothed me a little.

Z is for Zoo!!!

Happy Happy Holidays!!! Dadi and Momi took leave on 26 Dec to bring me to the Zoo!!! Yeah! We decided to take 2 buses (Sengkang-AMK-Zoo) due to the recent hike in taxi fares. Momi said the few extra bucks could be put to better use, like buy a toy for me? Anyway, I love bus rides so I have absolutely no objections to that. :p

The bus to the Zoo was jammed packed with people. It seemed that the whole world was going to the Zoo. Luckily Momi and I managed to plonked down on this seat. Poor Dadi had to stand and sway all the way to the Zoo.

How could we resist animal rides, especially when they were guai guai waiting for us at the Zoo entrance???

Momi and I squashing the Croc... but it still put up a brave (and fercious) look despite we were heaping our body weight on it... Geez...

Dadi told me to act cute for this above shot. From my gesturing and facial expression, you could tell that I was not ready to oblige him. Momi??? Aiyah, that ding-dong gal did the V-sign lor... Tsk tsk... Haha!!! The 2 of us spoiled the picture leh. The family of elephants must hate us for spoiling the shot.

I rode on the back of the rhino by myself leh! Momi told me to say "Oh!!!!" and that was how this shot came about. :p

When we got to the otters' home, Dadi wanted me to pose with that otter family under the tree, but I decided to give a hearty handshake to this little fella here cos it had to stand there the whole day to direct visitors to the Tram station. So poor thing leh...

After visiting little joey at the kangaroo pen, we saw this abandoned jeep. Dadi placed me inside for a quick shot cos there was one big family of 3 adults, 2 teenages and 2 kids waiting to go up for a group photo and "pun-chek" its tyres with their total weight lor...

A majestic-looking white tiger... only managed to catch this big cat during the visit. I was fussy and tired towards the end of the trip and did not visit the rest of the cat family. Never mind, there's always next time.

Haha, when Momi and I saw the above animal, we just went "Monkey!! Monkey!!!". Dadi was disgusted and corrected us that these animals are "primates". :p

Penguins! I saw them at the Splash Safari and promptly called out "Qi Er Bao Bei (Baby Penguins)!!! Happy Feet!!!"

Splashing good performance put up by the sea lion. The best part was when the sea lion swam next the audience and did a few splashes and turns to cool the audience down a bit. Muahaha!!! My Dadi knew it would happen and chose us higher seats, away from the pool.

Went into the fragile rainforest and caught a glimpse of the shy shy mousedeer. Lucky!!! :)

Having fun at the playground. Skipped the water play this time cos Dadi din want me to get wet.

I love the swing so much!! Although the instruction panel stated for kids 2 years and below, Dadi and Momi were not shy about plonking me inside this swing as they found it safer than the normal swing. I love Dadi to swing me as he would swing me real high. Whoa whee!!!!



As usual, KO after all the fun activities....


Till the next visit, folks!!! Adieu!!!

Jingle Bellsx2, Jingle all the way!!!

The Childcare Centre arranged for us to go carolling in Momi's office on 17 Dec 07 and get donations from the adults to give to AWWA Special School. All of us were dressed in our Santa hats and reindeer antlers for the carolling session. Check out some of our pictures.

Mad house preparation to get us kids ready to move off. Put up your hat!!! Where are my slippers??? Ramerez, wait for me!!!

Haha!!! Lucas preparing for the carolling too. See the cheeky look on his face? He refused to tuck in his shirt, preferring to be an "Ah Beng" reindeer. :p

Cute Esher dressing up as a reindeer. See her huge donation box? It is half her size leh. Must be tough lugging that around. Phew!!! Am I glad I dun have to lug this.

Line up, Line up!!! Choo-choo train quick!!! Put your hands on your friend's shoulders!!!

Haha!!! Look at our blur blur and sian-sian look....

More waiting when we reached Momi's office.... Looking at the gaping mouths on the faces of the older kids.

Me and my buddy...

My buddies - Jovan and Esher, dressing up as reindeers. We are all waiting for our cue from the guitarist to belt out "Jingle Bells".

Boring boring!!! I started to whine and asked for Momi le!!! Can we sing "ABC" Song instead???

Yeah!!! Our special treat after the carolling- Chocolate-covered marshmallows straight from the chocolate fondue. How come the girls so "yew siew" one, dun want to tuck into the marshmallow???

Hee hee!!! Greedy piggy with chocolate-stained lips. Yummy, lip-smacking good!!!

Happy Hatch Day, Lucas

Jovan and I were invited to Lucas' birthday celebration on 23 Dec.



Before the makan, of course must have some play first. We went to the little indoor playground after our swim to work out a hearty appetite for the buffet lunch and birthday cake which we are going to have later.



Food and chaos (associated with the crowd) !!!


Do we look like F4 here? L with the brooding look, J will the refined smile, RH with the bo-chap expression and me with the "I'm so cute" pose... Girls!!! Prepare to drop dead lah!

Merry Merry Christmas!!!

Hi, Folks. Dadi, Momi and me wish all of you nice people a wonderful and joyful Christmas!!! May all the nice little kids (like me!!!) out there will get loads of toys and chocolates this Christmas.

Enjoy the funny clip put up by the Ong Family. Merry Christmas!!! Ho ho ho!!!
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1348072545

Merry Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Merry Christmas!!! Happy Happy Christmas!!!

A shot taken in front of the huge X'mas Tree in Takashimaya.

What a Bunch of Cheekie Monkies!!!

My buddies here - Pouty Shameer, Cheeky Atticus and Sweet Choelle.

(The one behind ah?? Not my class one. From Nursery Class. Intruder!!!)

The usual water parade time. We all have our own bottles, except for Lynn-lynn. She drinks from a cup and she dun look pleased in this picture. Muahaha!!!

Do I get a prize for being the first to finish all the water in my water bottle huh?!

I'm a Big Boy Now!!!

I'm a big boy!!! I'm a tough guy!!! Guess what?! I am officially off the diapers at the night and weaned off the milk bottle. Hee! All this happened coincidentally lah. We slept over at Nai Nai's place last Sat night and we ran out of diapers. Momi and Dadi decided to put me off the diapers lor. Of course, to play safe, Momi woke me up 2 times in the night so that I could go pee-pee. Better than risk wetting the bed mah.

As I took a late and heavy dinner on Sat night, I skipped by night feed. The next morning, I was contented to have hotcakes for breakfast and did not request for my milk either. All was fine until the afternoon when I wanted my milk. Hey!!! No milk bottle leh!!! How huh?! Drink from cup lor, with a straw lor. I took to it quite well and since then, I have been off the milk bottle.

So far so good. Momi said I will be moving up to PN2 next year and turning 3 in Jan 08. It is high time I wean off the milk bottle and the diaper. Hee!!! Dadi ordered a brand new Seahorse Queen-sized mattress for me leh. It is coming on 22 Dec 07. Momi said she is going to get a mattress protector, just in case. :)

Check out some querky products

Whose Baby do we have here??? No lah, actually it is a new product known as "Zaky". Wow, got name somemore ah.... Anyway, Zaky here, is an ergonomic infant pillow designed by a mom to mimic the size, weight, touch, and feel of her hand and forearm to help her baby with comfort, support, protection, and development. Zaky is supposed to help calm the baby and help baby sleep better through the night. Hmmm, Zaky sure looks funny. Not sure if it would work. Can anyone please try and then update us?

Next is something which I took a personal interest in. Hee! Check out these cool, illuminating slippers yah! Figure they would be useful for Momi when she has to get up at night to make milk for me or go to the toilet... The remarkably bright LED lights are triggered by your footsteps and light up the floor 30 feet in front of you. The ultra-soft plush style sure looks extra comfortable and cozy warm. Cool man!!!

Little Acts of Defiance

Momi and son taking the ride home in the MRT. Rara turned around and started rubbing gently on Momi's right upper arm.
Momi: "Hi, Baby! What are you doing?"
Rara: "Rubbing Momi's arm...."
Momi: "Orhhh!!! So sweet. Such a darling boy!"
Rara: "Rubbing cream then Momi won't have fat arms...."
Momi: "........" -_-!!!!


Momi sent Rara to school and bumped into Auntie Bina with BB Zayne.
Momi: "Wah!!! Ramerez, look at Choelle's Didi. Isn't Didi cute?"
Rara nodded his head...
Momi: " So cute hor! Do you want a Di-Di???"
Rara looked at Momi straight in the eye and said " I want a DOG!!!"
Momi: "I am talking about Di-di... not dog....." -_-!!!

Dadi and Rara playing jigsaw puzzle in the living room, while Momi was doing housework in the room. Dadi came crashing in a while later and complained to Momi.
Dadi: "Do you know what the kiddo just told me? I was asking him a question and guess what he told me???"
Momi: "Huh?"
Dadi: "He said he don't want to answer my question!!! Did you teach him that?"
Momi: "Nope. Geez, he could have picked that up from school...OMG!!!!"