Firefly tour!

Mummy has not been blogging for ages cos she's been busy with many things at work, and she has also not been well recently. Poor mummy.. luckily she has me to always sayang her tummy, and kiss her better heh :)

Today though, papa and mummy found energy to bring me for a 1D Firefly tour to nearby Malaysia! To make things more fun, mummy also chioed her forum mummies, Aunty Rina and her hb Uncle Deyan and Zevon didi, as well as Aunty Eileen and Roxanne meimei. We are all June/July babies, and the last time we played together was when we were abt 13 mths old! So our parents decided it would be fun for yet another get-together!

The day started at an ungodly hour of 645am. Mummy had to carry me up in my sleep but the moment I felt her lifting me, I woke up, sensing that the day was not gonna be just another boring saturday where mummy went to work! Luckily I was pretty well behaved for the day, and slept and ate when I should.

Zev didi with the most precious expression.. looks like 16 June babies are NOT early birds!

Sleeping in MIM sling shortly after we crossed the causeway

Rox meimei : Mummy mummy let me help you touch up your makeup ok?

Aunty Eileen : That's a pen, not an eye pencil darling!!

First stop : Chocolate factory - Me with mummy.. (btw, that's the face I produce when asked to SMILE! can tell I have a real constipation problem right...)

If I smile sweetly will you buy this box of chocs for me??

Holding hands with Zev didi - sweet eh?? mummy says I must stop kissing and hugging and holding hands with boys anyhow though..

Rox meimei decides she wants a piece of the action too!

Another hug yes??

Oops... caught in the act again!

Next stop was at some herb farm, which unfortunately none of us showed any interest in, including the mummies and papas! Instead, the 3 of us bubs were more than happy to just hang out at a shady porch, playing until it was time to reboard the bus!

Shrieking in joy... not sure at what though...

I learnt how to bai bai properly (including bowing and all) today. See how qian3 cheng2 I am!

One of mummy's fav pics... dont we look kinda alike??

Next stop, Desaru beach! I was sleeping on the bus, but papa bochup and just carried me down. Luckily I woke up really quickly, so didnt miss this picturesque and windy spot!

We then visited the Desaru Fruit Farm and petting zoo next. A pity Zevon didi and Roxanne meimei were KOed on the coach. At the fruit farm, we saw durian trees, dragon fruit plants, papaya trees and banana trees! But the place that excited me the most was the petting zoo..papa felt it was more fun than the zoo cos there were monkeys, snakes, ostriches, goats (lots of them, and greedy ones too!), rabbits, crocodiles, chickens, ducklings, turkeys and a lot more! I even got to pet a rabbit (to mummy's dismay.. she went at me with dettol antiseptic handrub the moment i was done).




Last stop was of cos the highlight of the day.. the firefly cruise! To mummy's dismay, the boat used was sampan like.. and to quote papa, it was like we were gonna tou1 du4 (= illegally enter another country). We were also given life jackets that of cos were spoilt. Not a very reassuring experience for mummy. But all in all, the experience was magical, and even the babes could see the dozens and hundreds of stars glittering in the sky above! Guess the fireflies were a bit harder for the little ones to appreciate cos it looked just like christmas lights. The mummies and papas seemed mystified enough tho, and at one point, I think I heard mummy commenting to papa - this would really be romantic, if not for her (gestured to me). HUMPH.

Here's one last family pic taken of us on the sampan...


The day ended at abt 1130pm, and I was fast asleep by the time we got home. Nevertheless, it was a really fun day, and papa is busily trying to think of where else we can go!

Aneo Ha Se Yo! Part II

Now that Mummy has been recharged after 2 days at work (YES you read correctly.. after being thoroughly tortured by me for the past 1 week in Korea, mummy actually finds going back to work extremely relaxing and restful! But dont count on that to last cos mummy always tells me her ultimate dream is to be a SAHM with a maid... hmm dont think that's gonna come true anytime leh mummy), its time to share more pictures and stories about my first (and last, or so mummy says) trip to korea!

DAY ONE
We started off the trip by taking a night flight. The flight was to depart Sg at 2250hr, and reach Seoul at 6am (local time, which is 1 hr ahead of Sg time).

At the airport


Wait wait I wanna say bye bye to ma ma!!

To take a photo, all I have to do is peer thru the eye piece with one eye...


On board and asleep in my bassinet - papa and mummy are smiling so happily cos they thot I would sleep the whole way cos I slept only 30min in the day... if only they knew ....

See how my legs had to be propped up on a cushion? that's cos mummy and papa were too giam to buy me a proper seat and chose to stuff me into a bassinet that is 5cm shorter than i am!

No more pictures of me on the plane cos I decided to wake up barely 15min after take off.. and despite mummy's best efforts to give me as comfy a bed as possible (including sitting on the floor so I cld stretch out over 2 seats), I just couldnt get to sleep well! woke up every 15min to cry and scream my lungs out. For the entire 6 hrs! needless to say, mummy (and the rest of the plane) didnt get much sleep that night.

DAY TWO
Despite not sleeping well the whole night, the tour started the moment we disembarked from the plane. As if one plane ride wasnt enough, we had to transfer to a domestic flight to jeju once we landed at seoul. Of course, I wasnt too happy and did not hesitate to show my displeasure! Luckily, I was better behaved during the domestic flight as I was too exhausted, and managed to KO for an hour before we landed.

First family pic of the trip taken at Jeju Haenyeo Museum

Mummy likes this pic of us cos of the tree in the background and the wind in our hair!

Let me show you how high I can jump!

Taking pictures again.. SAY CHEESE!



Next stop - horse riding!

Mummy why do you look so weird??

I got so excited at seeing the horses that I kept going Ma3 Ma3 (chinese for horse). Also kept wanting to walk around to get closer to the horses.

Not too happy after getting dragged back for yeap.. yet another photo!


Knocked out again while at the Songsan Sunrise Peak

Throwing the number gazillionth tantrum of the day cos yeye refuse to give me the water bottle to play with!


Say kimchi for the camera!

Squatting like the brothers from papa's favorite country (guess???)

WHOOOOSH!


TIME FOR A BREAK TIME FOR A KIT KAT! (stay tuned for Day 3 and 4 of the trip!)

Mummy speaks - Recollections...

I was just searching through the folder of pictures to look for new pics to post on toto's blog, when I chanced upon a small folder tucked away in some obscure place. These were pictures taken by my wonderful old brother as well as my cousin.

Cant resist posting the following pic taken when my baby was 5 mths old - really tickled me pink cos toto's face actually looks bigger than mummy's?!!?? MIL and FIL had a really good laugh too. MIL also commented that toto has really slimmed down a lot recently. Hmm... kinda miss the times when toto was so fat and just so huggable!



Must also post a recent pic of her taken in her bath tub just for comparison! :P


My dearest darling.. you will always be the love of my life (aside from your papa of cos).. whether you are fat and not very mobile (to quote a friend of mine), or not so fat and very mobile. MUACK!

The moonlight before the bed...

Hahahaha the title must have taken u by surprise! that's mummy's lousy translation of one of the chinese poems i kinda know - the chuang qian ming yue guang one!

To date, at the grand old age of 16 mths, I can complete the following 5 chinese poems with the correct word(in bold) at the end of each verse. All thanks to papa and yeye's drilling!

《乐游原》- 李商隐
向晚意不适，驱车登古原。
夕阳无限好，只是近黄昏。

《静夜思》- 李白
床前明月光，疑是地上霜。
举头望明月，低头思故乡。

《登鹳雀楼》- 王之涣
白日依山尽，黄河入海流。
欲穷千里目，更上一层楼。

《江畔独步寻花》- 杜甫
黄四娘家花满<strong>蹊，千朵万朵压枝低。
留连戏蝶时时舞，自在娇莺恰恰啼。

《咏鹅》- 骆宾王
鹅，鹅，鹅，曲项向天歌。
白毛浮绿水，红掌拨清波

** Disclaimer : My pronunciation isnt 100% accurate of cos, but if you know the poem to start with, you can still make out what word I am trying to say. So actually I'm still not as clever as mummy and papa would like me to be!

For english songs, i'm not so proficient yet :( only can complete twinkle twinkle little star, humpty dumpty, london bridge is falling down, and ermm... mummy cant remember what else!

Aneo ha se yo! Part 1

**Pls pardon mummy if the title is spelt wrongly in korean! it just means hello! :P

Mummy and papa brought me on a 8D/6N tour to korea/jeju from 6 oct - 13 oct! Because they were worried about the language barrier, they took up a group tour together with yeye and nai nai.

Mummy still recuperating from the trauma i caused her during the one wk.. so no more words for now. She promises to input more detail and pics when she has recovered :)

Here is one of her fav (cos i look like mummy when she was 1 yr old!)shots of me snapped during our mountain trek up Mt Hallasan in Jeju! (yeap.. mummy and papa took turns to lug me up to a photospot > 1km above ground!

At the top of the peak after much much effort from papa! no joke lugging an 11 kg bundle of rice up a mountain!


other photos taken during the trip :
Posing at our first stop in Jeju!

me and mummy in pretty matching hanboks!

Bookworm in the making?

Ready get set GO!!

My dearest mummy and papa with me!

Having fun at Everland (the only theme park we visited this trip, and only for a pathetic 3 hrs!)

Mummy likes this picture cos I look so pensive and thoughtful... nah.. just thinking of when is the best time to start screaming so I can torture mummy again!


More pictures coming up... mummy's silly office connection so slow! cheh!