The estate that I live in houses quite a number of American families. This is mainly because the SAS is just a short 5 minutes walk away.
Every Halloween, someone (either the school or a group of enthusiastic American parents) organises an evening Halloween parade in my estate. Over the years, it has grown from [...]
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Halloween
Posted in Daily musings, Out and about on October 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
TV dinner
Posted in Out and about, Parenting, Xinyue on October 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When my brother was a young child, my grandmother had a routine of plonking him in front of the TV at meal times. He’d stare at the flickering screen, mouth agape into which my grandma will quickly scoop spoonfuls of rice.
Years later, I remember thinking that this is such parenting faux pas. No way [...]
Our weekend routine
Posted in Daily musings, Out and about, Parenting, Shopping, Xinyue on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our weekends usually start with breakfast with the gramps at a nearby coffee shop.
Here is Xy playing with our food money.
Then we return home, cook the little ones’ meals, catch a brief breather. After Xy wakes up from her nap, we feed and change her and head out.
Ms Poh likes to have some [...]
Off day
Posted in Daily musings, Out and about, Shopping on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I like it when a public holiday falls on a Saturday because our office is usually closed on the following Monday.
Since it was a non-working day for me, I went about my off-day routine – I had breakfast with KJ near his office and worked a couple of hours there. Then I ran a [...]
Mirror mirror on the wall
Posted in Daily musings, Out and about, Parenting, Xinyue on September 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Fidgets
Posted in Out and about, Parenting, Xinyue on August 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
After hearing various good reviews of Fidgets, we finally made our visit yesterday.
It is perhaps the first time Xy has seen so many young children at one place and she was a little apprehensive at first. There was a birthday party when we went and the place was spilling over with kids. The ground was [...]
Xy’s new discovery
Posted in Out and about, Parenting, Xinyue on August 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On one uneventful Sunday, our little girl discovered the amusement of an ill-fitted storm drain cover.
You know how some storm drain/man-hole covers rock from side to side when they don’t fit properly and they make a ‘kuk-kuk-kuk’ sound? Some of us don’t even notice such a mundane thing but for a 16 month old, it [...]
Random pictures
Posted in Out and about, Xinyue on August 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Sentosa
Posted in Out and about, Xinyue on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since Xy showed such keen interest on fish, we thought we’d bring her to the Underwater World at Sentosa. It was a good excuse for me too since I have been wanting to go for a long time. It’s been so many years since my last visit.
Getting to the island was easy enough but we [...]
To the Zoo Two
Posted in Out and about, Xinyue on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over the National Day weekend, we decided to hop over to the zoo with Xy.
Compared to the first visit, she is much more aware of the animals this time. After all, she is 3 months older now and has been seeing pictures of animals in her block books. Still, she seemed to have missed [...]
