Bird Park Visit

Saw my col managed to succesfully ballot Bird park tics..So of we went. The last visit was probaly when Jared was 9mth old, tics was from the same col too...hehe..helpes us saved $18x2visitx2ppl=$72.

I got a fright at Lory Loft, KP asked me to buy the food for bird feeding..just when I got the food..so many birds attacked me...standing on my shoulder, head, hands...in the end, I spilled the food loh. So pai seh.

After which KP carry Jared on 1 hand and another hand bird food ...his hand almost cramp..hehe
At the end of lory loft, Daddy & Jared both with few scars on hand & shoulders courtesy of the
birds..hehe

p/s I thought our new cam produce pretty vivid photos leh.


Me & Jared at Bird Park


The red birds are so beautiful


At Lory Loft, Daddy Feeding birds


Jared noticed the birds are on daddy's head


Finally the birds also park on Jareds head hehe


The beautiful lory loft, also hungry ones..



Jared doesn't look happy? He was sick since last week down with runny nose..and proceed to caughing...He didn't have a good sleep the night before..wake up at 4am to ask for milk, but puke everything out after finish...and 5am again for milk...No, I'm not so tired..it was always daddy waking up to attend to him..... So the before going to Bird Park we brought him to Chong Pang Market for chwee kueh, his fav since his appetite has not been well lately...True enuff, he had quite a few of them..and occasionaly say hmmmm...

Oopps...another Birthday Forgotten...23Mth

Actually nothing much to update ...Jared is as usual chatty...talk non stop the whole day...

Some of our conversation

Scene 1
Jared : What tree is that?
Daddy: Daddy doesn't know
After a while of getting the same ans with the question asked...one fine day
Daddy: What tree is that?
Jared: Daddy doesn't know

Moral of story: Parents need to work harder to improve general knowledge for kids with high curiosity hehe.

Scene 2
I've bought few books from wonderbox, and maybe I can do a review here
Eric Carle's Brown Brown Bear What do you see?
Eric Carle's First Word
My review: Both books are pretty easy..perhaps to easy for Jared...the first night, he could say "Brown Brown Bear What do you see? I see a red bird looking at me"
But the repeated senstence make the book interesting.. He almost know the whole book now.

Jared's review:
Hao3 kan4 ma1? (Nice to read)
Bu4 hao3 kan4 (Not nice)
Pai2 mei2 mei3 (Arrange them nicely)
Na3 qu4 mai4 (sell it off) me so shock, thought he wanna sell the books at Ebay
Mai4 kie3 a lang guni (sell to garang guni) me burst into laughter

JG Update
Jared is considered one of the most kwai & cooperative kid in class since the start of his term 2.
Willing to return toys when asked...make me really happy and touch
Can sit through arts&craft session, paying his fullest attention to what teacher doing
And started to talk to Chinese teacher..and nowadays when Zhang Lao shi saw him sure got to tease him, knowing that he like to ask question...
"Zhe ke shi she mo?"
We thought perhaps he is older by now, also more used to JG environment..that's why the well behaviour.
But unfortunately during the parent chat session, Senior Teacher Lin broke a bad news to us..That's Teacher Meera gonna move on to Edudrama..and current class teacher stilll unknown.
I like JG and willing to continue is mainly caused of Teacher Meera's energetic & fun way of coaching. Now I regret so much continueing next term class especially if daddy not around to send /pick us up...worry worry..
Now considering if I should forgo the $50 deposit, and just quit next term...Haiz...

Home activity Update
Since this week, I've decided to add a bake&cook session with Jared at home. We bought some cute cookie mold...so this week we got Jared to make butter cookie...He made so much funny sound like ...arrr..hmmm...during the process...So funny.
After the cookie were baked, he tried quite a few which is something he never does.

Surprise Liking
We went to swimming on Sat evening, after that we tah pau from Chong Pang Nasi Lemak stall....while waiting to reach my turn, Jared saw the wide choice of dishes...and keep asking for Taiwan Sausages. When we get on the car, Jared havent forgot his Taiwan sausages keep asking...and when we got home..I got so surprised that he could finish the whole sausage on his own...Keep asking for it...

NTUC Trip
Everytime when we go to NTUC Jared is sure to request to see crab. As usual I brought him to the crab session and proceed on to see the fish, mussels and hum display on the icy rack
I got surprised when he could identified "flower crab". Daddy said he taught him.
Then when we see hum...Jared say, "Na4 ge4 shi4 hum, Mummy si3 huan1 chi4" (That's hum, mummy like to eat")

Me so happy and touched..hehe..But that day's outing was a bad one, Jared refused to walk or sit on stroller..while I couldn't tahan carry him + pushing stroller..so he cried bad time...all the way till home...not until I offer him apple+cranberry Juice...Jia lat.
Now I so scared to bring him walk walk liao..

So sueh at East Coast?

It has been a while we went for cycling at East Coast. So decided that we would go cycling this weekend and have buffet breakfast at Beach Hut since they usually don't open on Sat except public hols.
Breakfast at Beach Hut has deteorated a lot...probaly would be our last visit..
And this is probaly our most sueh visit to East coast. It rained so heavily for twice we were stucked..

My bake rice not nice?

I baked this bake rice...looks so yummy right?
Unfortunately Jared appetite not so good...so in both attempt I almost finish the bake rice myself.


Recipe:
1) Cook stock with corn, potato, carrot (any combination)
2) Use the stock to steam rice with brocolli, baby corn, chopped carrot and 1 piece of laughing cow cheese (Err I'm too lazy to prepare the cream of cheese+milk leh)
3 When the rice are cooked, add cheese on top (I used shredded parmasan cheese) and bake in microwave for 20min at 200C

Join me for a tap dance?

Jared like to wear adult shoes walk around.
Everytime if we were to ask him get ready to go kai kai, wear shoes pls…he will wear daddy’s crocs. Hehe.
He found so much fun wearing ah yi’s high heel shoe cos of the tap tap sound.

Baby talk? Or reciting poem?

This is the way Jared say his san zi jing. See how happy when we clap hands to encourage him. But he didn’t say the words clearly..I almost don’t understand at all leh…
More videos to come...

So Many People

A busy weekend starts from Thursday evening. Because, Jared's grandma & all her sisters visited us!

A total of 7 of them, 5 sister (except 2nd yi who didn't join the China trip), and Jared's gong gong, and teoh gong were here. Very crowded..

Jared has been really friendly, and all the yi pos were impressed with how well he could talk now. Occasionally Jared would knock knock(he says knock, knock) at their bedrooms door, and say "Hallo" to them before going in to ask more question..hehe..He also loved being praised, everytime when he answered something..sure request everybody to clap hands. Jared said "so many ppl sit table" when we all gathered to eat breakfast at the dinning table.He sleep only at 11.30pm-12am onwards everynight, as he gets to play with so many ppl.

On Sat evening, we went to attend Michael's birthday party after meet up with them at Vivo City..Quite fun for Jared, as there were enourmous toys at Grace's house loh...Jared get to play different type of toys..I like to visit their place caused so many kids there, and the food Grace prepared is always so simple yet tasty...

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Angelina meimei climb up the playgrnd on her own,

no one jaga...frighten us..

Daddy and Chris on the slide..see how high the slide is?

Our camera not bad? Can capture Jessie skipping rope..

All kids playing again, look at Jared hook on the

mini stroller..

Jared pushing stroller around with the wawa..

You think he is very loving? He's trying to push the

stroller fall of the steps...hehe

Cake session, all the kids are so happy!

Watch out for the Handsome and Suave Policeman!

My dad bought this motorcycle for Jared

Self Feed or 羊吃草?

It's one of the very rare moments that Jared willing to try out self feed. Look at how particular he is? Wanna choose type of spoon to use...and of cos as long as he is willing to eat we don't mind.

三字经

Jared is able to recite his 三字经 pretty well now. And till very very far, so many lines that both daddy and me don't know..We both probaly can recite up to line #10?

When ever Jared starts to recite, he'll do the whole poem, he won't stop in between...and He recite them in his baby tone..very very cute..Wished I have the chance to video it down...but he will only tell us when his mood is good. Words in purple I've heard him reciting (by 22mth), green probaly not yet..need to check with my mum.

Other than 三字经, he's also able to do some other poem ....the Chao Chao's famous 3 step..etc

人之初，性本善，
性相近，习相远。
苟不教，性乃迁，
教之道，贵以专。
昔孟母，择邻处，
子不学，断机杼。
窦燕山，有义方，
教五子，名俱扬。
养不教，父之过，
教不严，师之惰。
子不学，非所宜，
幼不学，老何为。
玉不琢，不成器，
人不学，不知义。
为人子，方少时，
亲师友，习礼仪。
香九龄，能温席，
孝于亲，所当执。
融四岁，能让梨，
弟于长，宜先知。
首孝悌，次见闻。
知某数，识某文。
一而十，十而百。
百而千，千而万。

New Camera Doesn't Come Easy

Why? The Kiam Siap me wanna get the cheapest camera with the best function wide angle, 3inch LCD, slim, good quality picture, anti shake...and the list go on. Shortlisted f a few Sony's T100, Canon 860.


Also die die must used the $500 voucher from Harvey Norman. When HV first had it, they are retailing them at $799 while Sim Lim only at $500+...Finally there was a sale in HV, offering at $599...we cheong there. When we were queuing to pay for it, to my surprise the cashier said promotion item cannot use voucher..My heart sank hehehe...but eventually the sales person settled for us..and only paid $99...So happy with the buy..


Presenting Fujifilm F50FD, just released on September..and we got it finally from Harvey Norman Centerpoint branch on 29 September.



It fulfilled few requirements anti shake, good quality picture..but only had 2.7inch screen and wide angle and also not slim

Tagged again

Four jobs I have held in my life:
1. Engineering assistant
2. Failure Analysis Technologist aka FAT (yes I was fat all the time)
3. Student (con by my current comp)
4. Engineer

Four places I have lived:
1. JB
2. Whampoa Block 86
3. Whampoa Block 115
4. Sembawang

Four countries I have been to on vacation:
1. New Zealand (1st plane experience, alone somemore and celebrated 21st bday with then bf now hb)
2. Australia (Goldcoast, Sydney, Melbourne after graduate fr uni with then bf now hb, then went to Perth in April 07 with Jared&daddy)
3. US (San Francisco & Las Vegas, when Jared was 9 mth old, but w/o Jared..Don’t like US maybe cos Jared didn’t join us so not as fun. But had fun shopping…
4. Europe (Italy, Switzerland, Paris for honeymoon…spent a bomb, but worth every single cents, very nice)


Four of my favourite foods:
1. Chilli crab
2. Cheese Fries (Billy Bomber serves the best? Let me know if you found any better)
3. Chee Cheong Fun with no filling please, so far I love Sun Plaza’s most
4. Err..actually I anything also can, not choosy

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Home lazing on sofa watching tv
2. Margaret River, Perth nice farms, nice vineyards
3. Switzerland while me lying on the thick snow, and Jared bombard me with the snow ball..hehe..
That's me in my dream now, looking forward to have Jared into the pic soon..


4. Japan haven’t been there but really wanna go

Happy Mid Autumn!

On the actual Mid Autumn Festival we went Shuang Lin Temple to enjoy festive mood..They gave out free mooncake (all kinds of them), tea, fruits and yam.

We could see the lights and big balloon from Whampoa home. Eversince the balloon was up, Jared wants us to carry and watch the temple by the window. He would exclaimed "Beautiful" everytime he saw it.

When Jared saw moon, he would say

So bright

So big

So round

Very funny leh..hehe..

*That's the ball the resembles moon which we can see from Whampoa*

How daring?

Brought Jared to void deck to play with lantern & Little firework(Dunno what's that actual name)...See how daring he was? Me was kam cheong and keep shouting any moment Jared brought the firework closer, he would swing the lantern nobody's biz.

22 MO-forgotten

Back dated post [24Sept]

Totally forgotten about it. If not I'll definitely get him a cake..cos he enjoyed celebrating birthdays hehe.
1 word can describe Jared now, that's Question, Question and more Question
He has been asking us question non stop nowadays, be it he knew the answer or don't know ...

1) Question
Typical question:
这个是什麽？
我们去那里?
我们做什麽？
为什麽？
太婆*去那里?
我们去那里？
谁买?
萍果*英文叫什麽？

*any other things/ppl

Question in english
What is this?
What is that?
Who buy?
What tree is that?


2) Manners
He has been saying 走开 to everybody..but lately he understood it's no manners. So he will say
不可以讲走开, 要讲 Good Morning
(his good morning sounds exactly like the tv ad..hehe)

Dislike ppl who hv chor loh eating habit, will tease..
*Ah yi come home for dinner very hungry, so scoop a spoonful of food to eat*
Jared: jiang4 大口
Jared: 吃小小口

3) 你我
He's totally confused of 你 and 我
So if he wanna ask us to carry, he'll say 抱你
If he wanna us to take over the broom to sweep the floor, he'll say 我扫地
If he wanna ask 太婆 to sleep, he'll say 我睡觉, then my grandma will misunderstood him and keep pull him by the bed to sleep. hehe

But for English since he don't know I or me, so he'll start his sentence with "Jared ..."

4) In love with magic box (JG concept)
Any boxes at home can be magic box, he will tap tap, and ask what's inside magic box?

5) Our conversation
*On the way to zoo*
Jared: Monkey 吃什麽?
Me: Fruits, banana
Me: Jared 吃什麽?
Jared: 鸡蛋
(But that day, at zoo he saw most monkey only eat leaves, so now when asked what monket eats, he'll say "leaves")

*Jared just woke up from sleep keep crying*
Me: Do you want to drink milk?
Jared: don't want
Me: then, what do you want?
Jared: korkor

Me: Jared are you a baby?
Jared: no
Me: then, who are you?
Jared: korkor

Jared is really creative and funny in answering our question, a lot of times we got so surprised with what he could said now.

Tagged: Character

Tagged by Meg to write about Jared's Character...Here it is...

Impatient/Inconsiderate
Everytime we bring Jared to makan, we usually buy his food and feed him first. Once he's full, he will yell " Go Home!"
At that point of time usually we hardly started our food yet

Perfectionist
-Toy cars will be arrange to "park" in a straight line and no one can disturb his creation.
-Gate/ Wardrobe cannot be left open, need to shut down nicely
-Need to kiap both side of shoe nicely with 1 hand before can put on shoe rack

Timid
Need to drag daddy/mummy along everywhere and everything along..

爱美
Very scared if his teeth drop. If anyone tease that his teeth drop or with black stain, he will dash to the mirror to check. Even how much he dislike brushing teeth, if being threaten that teeth will drop, eventually he will open mouth to let us brush

Happy
The house is always warm with his laughter and voice..

Kay Poh
Jared is interested in every thing adult do, always want to imitate. So his good in swiping/wiping the floor now.

Ugly but Tasty

My peach teacake extracted from a posting from SMH sometime ago..finally decided to give it a try this weekend...Becos I've not seen any cake that require baking for 45mins..I stopped the microwave after 29mins...and got scolded by Daddy and threaten not going to try my cake..hehe..But finally he could not resist leh, took it as lunch, and of cos the comment was nice..peach is nice..hehe.



As for Jared, same as daddy leh, refused to take the cake, but like the peach a lot...He was yelling "mummy bake cake" when I brought the cake to him and daddy in the play room.

1 can of peaches
1/2 cup sugar**
1 cup self-rising flour
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs
150 g butter (unsalted)

Note : oven to be pre-heated to 180 degree celsius

**you can lessen the sugar amount and add in some syrup leftover from the canned peaches, and in which case, you should add a little more flour

Steps :
- Grease the baking pan with some butter, and dust with some flour. Lay the peach halves into the pan
- In a bowl, add the eggs, sugar, butter and vanilla essence
- whisk the ingredients till light & fluffy
- Add the flour (sift it)
- Fold the flour in, and mix thoroughly
- Spread the mix over the peaches, even out
- Bake at 180 degree celsius for 45 mins . The pretty patterns on the surface are due to lesser batter that sit over where the peaches are, so if you want your cake to look pretty, arrange the peach halves well (Mine don't have pretty pattern, only crack surface.hehe, nevertheless it still taste good!)
- Remove from oven, and serve with hot custard or something cold, like vanilla ice-cream

A day with Jared alone

Another 3 more days to cleared, so I took 1 more day today to spend with Jared. Was alone handling Jared from 8am to 10pm...Daddy got home late only around 10pm that day.

Morning, Jared was too bored...and on and off cried due to pek chek..hehe..So I brought him to walk walk at NTUC and makan 2nd round of breakfast with me. The Sun Plaza's Chee Cheong Fun is my favourite...Has been thinking how to dine alone with Jared and stroller..Not bad, things went off smoothly. I push jared to the stall and ordered my food, and get a seat nearby. Left Jared sitting in his stroller while I collect my food..Then back at table put him on the high chair. To my dismay he was too full with breakfast at home..and started yelling go home!!...So I anyhow finish the Chee chong fun and go NTUC loh.

Then in the afternoon, I managed to take a short 30min nap before leaving for Causeway point...Actually I asked jared if he wanna go causeway point or library..He asked in return, Library 有什麽? But finally I decided to go Causeway point , cos we get to take MRT and it's another challenge. Jared loves to take MRT, demand to sit on his own...and when I told him we getting down soon, he was fine to let me put him back into stroller.

I managed to buy something and even go into dressing room with him..He asked me "谁的家" and I had to tell him it's not a home..hehe. After a while he fell asleep, and we went to MOS burger to have ice tea.

Quite happy with my achievement..hehe..although I almost make him fall during getting down the escalator.

Copycat - Why?

Saw so many kakis privatise their blog..I'm tempted to do so as well.
Aren't me a copycat? hehe..

I'll be sending the invites to all my family and frens..in case you do not get the invites, pls email me

ETA : 1st October 2007

Errr..hopefully I'm free to send the invites by then...

Reading: Good Habit

Jared loves to read, while both his daddy & mummy stop reading books ever since we graduated....So we are not so good in choosing books. I love this website..So many good books with review. Found the link thru Cath's blog.

Recently Jared refused to drink his last milk feed in our room..I had to use books to lure him.

Our Conversation
*Jared drinking milk in my mum's room"*
Mummy: Jared you want to read hungry caterpillar?
Jared: Yao4 Yao4


That's how I manage to get him into our room and read books to him. hehe.

He loves hungry caterpillar book, and so far can read the 1st page on his own
In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf. Happened to know he could read after my mum told us that he offered to read to wai gong.

Jared's way: In light of moon, little egg lay on leaf

Can also recognise and read all the food caterpillar eat, plum, strawberry, chocalate cake, lollipop, salami, cup cake, cherry pie, cheese, etc (I forgot) hehe.