CNY 2009

Not much pics for CNY 2009.. all the following pics are courtesy of Ma2 Ma4/Jiu4 Jiu4 and Third grandaunt :)

Posing with the cute little dog at Great Grand Aunt's place.. to mummy's horror, i showed no sign of fear and was dying to pat and hug the doggy! And yes, the pic above and below were taken when mummy was not around to guard me.

papa witnessed me patting this gentle old fellow's head.. unfortunately I wasnt exactly very gentle. Apparently, it was more like thumping that i did :P thankfully my hand still remains firmly attached to my arm now. Must learn to be as forgiving and patient as brown doggy here.

A very toot picture of me trying to pose on the stairs at gong gong's house..

family picture at Great grandpa's house!

Another family pic with my dearest Gonggong, mama and jiu jiu.. dont we look happy? now, if only i was looking at the camera...

Picture with grand aunt ''lao2 Ee1" (ma2 ma4's sis). I have decided to do a weird pose again..

Cheese!!! with lao ee and ma2 ma4 :)

At the end of the 2 days.. mummy realised to her horror that we actually forgot to take a nice picture of just me, mummy and papa! we dont even have one with ye ye and nai nai :( papa has promised that we will take a family pic, this time with 4D in it next year!! :)

Gareth's full month party

Today we attended Mummy's cousin's baby boy Gareth's full month party at Boon Lay. Prior to today, mummy and ma2 ma4 were both so worried I would freak and cry buckets again like I always did whenever I met mummy's extended family. So this time, I was psychoed for an entire week, that I was not to cry, and to say hello and smile to everybody. I was even showed pictures of the extended family.. that's how desperate mummy and ma2 ma4 were :)

Thankfully, with all the training, i didnt disgrace mummy after all! After the initial clinging onto mummy, I was soon too busy looking at adorable baby Gareth to be scared of Grandaunts/Granduncles. Towards the end of the lunch, I was virtually best friends with Biao Ee (Mummy's cousin Audrey) cos she was helping feed (bribe) me with raisins while mummy was eating her lunch.

After the full month, I also got to play at the playground! But for a mere 5 minutes only *pout* Gong gong is paranoid I will pick up weird germs.... shhh... he doesnt know I spend half an hour at the playground EVERY morning. hehe :)

Ang Pao pls??

Mummy has been trying to teach me to say Happy new yr complete with hand actions since last Sunday but I have refused to cooperate and just ignores her everytime she tries to teach me. Last evening however, when she came back from work, I decided to surprise mummy by saying Happy New Year and did the gong xi gong xi action. Mummy was so delighted!

I gave her a bigger surprise later when I chimed Happy New Year at her again, and followed up with "ang pau??" soon after I said Happy new Year! Ye ye, nai nai and mummy were hysterical.. and thot I must have picked up the ang pau phrase cos mummy has been telling me that I have to wish pp happy new year before I can get the ang pau!

I have also been pretty much a parrot recently, mimicking whatever I hear pp saying around me. 2 days ago, mummy was chatting with gu1 gu1 when she let slip an Oh my god.. before she knew it, I was chiming ohmigodohmigod.. mummy immediately had a knee jerk reaction where she said Oh S**T... luckily i was too busy chanting ohmigod and didnt catch on to the other phrase.. phew for mummy hehe.. Mummy vows to watch her language even more closely in front of me now. :P

I also went for my first LNT class (proper one, not trial) yesterday. Yeye and nai nai brought me and reported that I enjoyed the class and paid attention about 90% of the time and didnt run around! I also surprised sinseh at the end of the class when i chimed sayonara in response to her own goodbyes! However, I stubbornly refused to repeat performance more than once at home to Mummy's chagrin!

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!)