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!

Alphabet mania!

Recently, I have been crazy about books and flash cards. No longer show much interest in my toys, except when it comes to 'feeding' my toy elephant, dog, giraffe and lion! I like to sit and flip thru the books, and ask yeye or mummy by pointing when I dont understand some pictures or letters.

Now, I can say quite a few alphabets when shown the letters either on books, cards, newspapers or signs along the road - A,C,M,O,R,S,W,X. Can also recognise majority of the remaining alphabets by pointing to the correct one when asked.

Yeye finds it very amusing to bring me to the back of the ABC market, and asking me to read simple signs on the electric or water meter such as SR 10, M 11, etc.. meaningless yes, but think they find it funny to hear me go M Yi1 Yi1 like I really knew how to read! hahaha :) so bo liao..

Not bad for a 15 mth old toddler huh?

OCD, or just a cleanliness freak??

Mummy's scared that I am displaying OCD traits!!why?? 2 incidents...

Incident No 1

Went to Ma2 Ma4's house yesterday as usual. Papa and mummy left me there in the afternoon while they went to sort out the new kallang flat, and when they came back, Ma2 Ma4 reported that I had been drawing and playing with pens, when suddenly, I accidentally drew a line on my leg. I didnt like it too much, and according to ma2 Ma4, my face immediately change. But cos I was not at home, I didnt cry and once ma2 ma4 clean my leg, I was ok already.

Incident No 2

Mummy was showing me my favorite pamphlet - the OCBC one with pictures of granny, grandpas, babies, etc.. when she decided to be funny and test out something nai nai told her a few wks ago. She turn to the page with the granny and grandpa, and showed me the spot on their hair which had torn off and asked me : How come like this?? I look at it for abt 30 sec, then look at mummy, and started to CRY like I just fell down and knock my head! Mummy was so shocked at my reaction she quickly promise to find me a new one and I immediately stop crying!

Cause for alarm?? Maybe I just like things neat and tidy! hehe.. :)

What to do with a ball?

So far, I can bounce a ball, throw a ball and kick a ball. Oh, I can also roll a ball. All that got boring, so I invented a new game : ferrying a ball to and fro by 'giapping' it with my neck!