Birthday Months Are Good

Yes, here's why.

Free entry to the zoo and 10% discount for all food and beverages there. Free scoop of ice-cream too!

A and CP gets free entry too, compliments of CP's staff pass.

 

There's free pizza from Pizza Hut (with purchase of a regular pizza).


Free cake from Starbucks.


Double rebates at Seafood Paradise.


1-for-1 at Tony Romas.


November is a good month indeed!


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Nerd Look for us?

Yesterday, DC brought me to a spectacle shop at a shopping mall near our place and I spent sometime looking at the thick black-framed glasses, while he looked at the sunglasses.

I took some photos there.

Today, we went photo studio to select photos and I remembered one of A's photos had this nerdy specs on him. :)

Some months back, B's baby sitter sent me this photo they took of B:

I love how we look in nerdy specs!

What about daddy? Hmm, he's nerdy enough without the specs, haha.... just kidding. He's already wearing his every day! :)


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B is 11 months old

B seems to understand a lot things now! :)

She had 3 teeth now, 2 on top and 1 below. She looks so cute when she smile with one tooth below. But, I can't seem to capture a good photo of her little tooth (at bottom, center right)! She loves to bite on things, esp cold teethers.

We started giving her 2-3 meals a day now. She eats porridge with fish and veg.

This month, I spent some time with her as her nanny went on holiday trip to HK/Macau. She's so active! She's smiley too but will get into a fiery rage if you don't go according to what she wanted or if you take away what she was holding! I realised that she bites her fist if she gets angry.

Her separation anxiety seems to rise. She refused anybody to carry her except for me, DC and her nanny. I brought her to DC's office one of the days when the nanny was not around and she wouldn't let anybody else carry her!

She is still not walking yet. She stands and cruises. She did try a few steps but didn't seem to want to attempt again after then.

I started her on frozen ebm and she had no problem with them. She's still on ebm in the day time and powder at night.

It's rainy season now and she was scared of the sounds of loud thunders. She's scared of the drilling sounds too. Just the mention of "Dril drill" or "thunder!", she'll cringe onto you and stay still. I made use of these 2 to coax her to sleep now! :P

Brought her to collect her passport. Look forward to bringing her to her first holiday trip overseas!

We went for her photoshoot at the usual studio and had a nice time there. She was crying during the photo shoot but we managed to pacify her with food and instructions. She even had some shots with her brother A!

She also had her vaccination this month. As usual, she cried out loud. This time, the vaccination didn't affect her. :)

This month, her great grandmother (my maternal grandmother) passed away and we brought her and brother, A to the wake one of the days. It was her first time to a wake.

It would be her birthday soon but mummy is so busy with work that she had to put aside the preparation work! :( Time to pick up from where I left off and get really busy busy!


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4D win again

A small one though. $100 for a $30 iBet. My house unit number :)

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Skyfall 007

Skyfall 007

CAST: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Bérénice Marlohe, Ben Whishaw, Helen McCrory, Rory Kinear with Albert Finney Judi Dench as "M"
DIRECTOR: Sam Mendes
LANGUAGE: English
OPENING: 01 Nov 2012
RUNTIME: 143 mins
RATING: PG - Some Violence

Daniel Craig is back as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in Skyfall, the 23rd adventure in the longest-running film franchise of all time. In Skyfall, Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.






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This was a different James Bond movie. There was no sophisticated technology or weapon used,  no love interest and a sad ending. Of course, there was the usual villain and the bad guy eventually died in his hands. I felt that the story was a little too draggy towards the end and it could have been shortened. However, there were many fighting and explosive scenes still worth the watch. After all, it's Bond's 50th year this year, wow!

She calls!

I went into the room after my shower and heard DC talking on the phone...

He said the ex-maid called!

The ex-maid asked if she could come visit us during her off day!!

When DC asked how was her mother, she said she was ok!!!

She told DC that she was now working in AMK, the next-door neighborhood!!!!

That was different from what she told my maid. According to what she told my maid, she should be working at the end of the street. That could only mean one thing... she changed her employer again and she was back in the same vicinity again!!!!!

Both DC and I wonder why she was always deployed to places so near us?

While we did not stop her from visiting us, now that she has a handphone (which she used to call us) and off day, both of which our maid doesn't have, we were worried that it's a matter of time our current maid would get influence by her and ask requesting for these or even follow her footstep to quit and come back for a higher pay and benefits!!!!!!


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A is 3 years and 4 months old

He is as usual the stern brother to his baby sister. He would stare at her with the disapproving look when she misbehaved e.g. shout. Sometimes he would take things into his hands and started punishing her e.g. beating her with his "cane" (xylophone stick). Sometimes he would just tell her to go "Aunty's place" (Nanny's home). It always made me laugh to see him act like this! Haha...

A is more chatty now. I'm hearing him call me Mommy for the first time, in fact! He usually calls me "Nini" and DC "Baba" but lately, he started calling "Mommy" and "Daddy". I was esp surprised when he called me "Mommy" in front of his teachers when I went to fetch him one day!

He is also getting more mischievous. His teacher called me from his childcare centre twice to inform that he was bitten by a new french boy in class! It was actually 3 times and A also bit him! One of the incidents was that A told the french boy to go back to class (they were having outdoor activity), when he didn't move, A tried to pull him along and he bit A!!! Some of the bites remain for a few days and it pained my heart to see him being bitten! :( Of course, I feedback to the centre! They transferred him to another class and I was happy not to hear another such incident again!

This month, his great grandmother (my maternal grandmother) passed away and we brought him and B to the wake one of the days. It was his first time to a wake. This little boy wanted to join me in the ritual but fortunately my in-laws came along and helped to take care of the little ones.

He went to a play "Mr Fantastic Fox", a school outing. I wonder if he like it?

We decided to bring the children to HK next year and so made passports for them. We bought A to collect his passport on 6 Nov, B collected hers on another day. Always happy to spend time alone with him! :)

It's his daddy's birthday month. We decided to bring him to the zoo. I think he enjoyed his day there, DC and I plan to bring him to the zoo more often!

We also brought him to take family photo shoot at the usual studio, although B was the focus, A did very well posing at the camera with his signature smile! :) I'm sure the photos would turn out well!


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Birthday Surprise

CP suprised me by making a reservation at Gunther's, my favourite restaurant.




As usual, it doesn't disappoint, especially this Angel Hair pasta with oscietra caviar.



Carpaccio beef.


Maderia prawn, tomato


White truffle season, here's another extra order - Truffle slices with egg!


Gunther's creation - pork


Red collar trout


Dessert



Nice lunch indeed! Very satisfied once more!

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Gifts from HK

B's baby sitter took leave to go HK and Macau with her family. I was at home taking of her for the week.

When she was back, she bought the following:

I love the H&M dress and the angry birds towel! :)

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Till we meet the old maid again!

Our maid told us that she saw our ex-maid this morning, right at our neighborhood market! It was the old maid that called our maid and she told our maid that she is now working with another employer since 2 months ago...

This was something quite unlikely to happen esp when she told us that she was going back to her country to take care of her ill mother and young children! If she's back 2 months ago (Sep) and left in Jun, it must have taken her almost immediately to make the arrangement to come back to Singapore (assuming 3 months for the procedures and selection)!

It was quite naive of us to have believed her words. To think that on her last day before she left, I spent some effort trying to complete her set of Singapore coins that she wanted to give her son as present!

Frankly, I was quite angry to be deceived by her. Of all things, why use her mother as an excuse to go back?

But then, I think she is in a worst state now! It must have been quite a nightmare for her to realize that she is back in the same neighborhood as us!

Would she worry that she would bump into us one day (which is very likely cos there's only 1 neighborhood market around)?

It would be very interesting if this happens! I wonder how she'll respond if I asked about her mother?


Question: Out of curiosity, how do I know which employer the ex-maid or any maid is with? Can this info be found in MOM website?


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Now I know who you are!

The mystery bird's identity is known!

The bird which got both DC and I intrigued by the sound it made years back...

The bird which was heard almost everywhere, even Orchard road...

The bird that woke B up with its piercing sound at 5am every morning...

The bird which I grow to hate because it deprived me of so much sleep as I had to wake up to attend to B every 5am!

That bird... is called the Asia Koel!

Lately, I've been asking around for the name of this bird from colleagues, baby sitter, etc. DC found the answer from last Saturday's Straits Times! :) What a coincidence!

More info can be found in wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Koel


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I kept dropping my phone nowadays!

Last week, I thought I dropped my phone in the market. Fortunately I found it on the car seat!

Today, when we went to collect A's passport, I dropped it again! Again, I found it on the side of the car!

DC installed an app on my iPhone. It was called "Find my iPhone" or something like that. It helps the owner locate their lost phone and can track  I like that! This app is definitely for me! :P


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A Sudden Sad News

I received a message this morning from sis informing all that our beloved granny has passed away in the morning. It came as a real surprise to us, we didn't know she was unwell!

Heard that she called out all of her children and grandchildren's name, including mine and my aunt phoned all to come to her deathbed. She washed up and changed into new clothes, as if she knew she was leaving.

It's saddened me to see another relative gone. DC and I were thinking of paying her  a visit with our children some time back but it didn't materialize. :( Mum must have been sadder than me! She couldn't see her mum's last look.

Anyway, come to think of it. She died a good ripe age and she had lots of grandchildren, she even has great grandchildren (mine, sis and cousin's)! I think she would have no regrets in her life!

RIP my beloved grandmother!


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