Ouch!

Got a call from the school today while I was at work. Everytime I see the Caller ID showing his school number, I always have a feeling that he was probably up to some mischief & that the teachers were calling me to tell me about it.

This time though, the call was from "W" 老师 who told me that Baby G was bitten by his classmate, "A". She explained the entire story to me on how it all happened..... but here is Baby G's version....

When I saw him.....
Baby G :- Mummy, mummy, "A" bit me today.
Me :- Oh dear, what happened?
Baby G :- "W" 老师 asked me to look after the (white)board when she went to take her 故事书. Then the marker dropped on the floor and "A" picked it up. I wanted to give the marker to "W" 老师 but "A" didn't want to give it to me and used the marker to write on the (white)board.

(.....Accurate so far...... teacher said he was assigned to be the class monitor while she went to get some books)

Me :- And then what happened?
Baby G :- I took the marker from "A" and he bit me on the face. It's so painful. I wasn't fast to push him away.

(... I have always told him if anyone wants to hit him, he should run away towards the teacher and tell her......)
Me :- Let me see where he bit you.
Baby G :- Over here, mummy. "W" 老师 put some cream for me. All the teachers said "A" is very naughty and no one loves him.
Daddy :- Did he say 'sorry' to you?
Baby G :- Yes, he did. He even went to Miss "T" (principle's) office.
Me :- I think you're a good boy cause you told your teacher and did not bite back.
Baby G :- Yes, aren't I good? Do you know that "A" daddy *makes sound of camera* of my face?

(.....Baby G doesn't say "take picture" but he makes the sound of the camera instead.....)


Here you can tell that "A" took a big chunk of his skin......

As long as it doesn't leave any scarring, I'm not worried.

San
Poor boy

Dinner @ Swee Choon

Dinner on Saturday night was one full of surprises & the unexpected.

We left our house, planning to go Dempsey Hill for dinner @ Dome. We travelled along CTE and it was jam packed with cars, it took us half an hour to make a exit & when we did, Daddy realised he took a wrong turn. So somehow, we ended up near Aljunied area. As it was aleady slightly past 7pm, we decided to abandon our plans for Dempsey.

Since we were close to Geylang, we decided to go for the 'Dou Jiang' instead. We reached the place close to 745pm, by then, I was super hungry. We still had to queue up before we could get some seats. While queuing, the lady told us to order first. When we looked at the menu, no 'you tiao', only 'dou jiang' & the rest of the food items were mainly of the dim sum nature. No choice, we just ordered our food.

When the food came, to our surprise, it was really delicious. We had the feeling like we were im those HKG restaurants. Food was yummy.

L->R : Fried Doufu, Pancake with prok floss & omelette, Xiao Long Bao, Zha Jiang La Main & Carrot Cake

We ordered Century Egg porridge for Baby G. He loved his porridge, even told us one bowl was not enough. He demolished the entire bowl, although he didn't quite like the century egg itself. He slurped down to the last drop.

We finished everything we ordered and even 'ta bao' 3 portuguese egg tarts for next day's breakfast.

Our original plan was to go shopping after our dinner, but it was too late to drive down Orchard, so we went to the nearby City Square Mall to look for my pair of shoes that broke 2 weeks back. Finally found my pair of shoes @ Metro, woo hoo... only $18.90.. cheap cheap.

After all the 'walking', Daddy decided for some desserts which he & Baby G shared so lovingly....

San

Yummy!

Chinese New Year - Year of the Rabbit

Reunion Dinner

We started our reunion dinner at Grandpa's & Ma-ma's house. We had our usual chicken curry & crab meat balls. Forgot to whip out the camera for this as I wasn't feeling too happy with Baby G for not wanting to join us at the table for the traditional dinner.

After Round 1, off we went for Round 2 at Ah-Gong's & Ah-Ma's place for the yearly steamboat affair. This time, it was Daddy who remembered to take out the camera for some shots.

Before our dinner commenced, we must have our 'Yu Sheng'.

We even brought a new set of PJs for Baby G to change into. He was pretty excited to wear the new 'sleeping 衣服'.

First Day of New Year
For the 1st day of new year, all of us looking forward to our ang pows.

Next, we went to the temple to pick Ah Ma up before going back to Ah-Ma's place to convene. Our first stop is Bright Hill temple to pay our respects to Baby G's great grandparents. This year was his first year visiting them as previously, Baby G was deemed too young to understand what was going on.

Next stop, another temple near Kembangan area where we break for some vegetarian beehoon.

Final stop was at Daddy's cousin's house. We would have steamboat, MJ session, watching shows & generally, a get-together of families.

San

Keeping all of Baby G's ang pows.... kekekeke

Outing @ VivoCity

As Daddy had to work on Sunday, we decided to spend Saturday together. Firstly, we went down to Punggol Plaza to pass some stuff to Auntie Ro and have our breakfast there. It's been a while since we ate there, especially now that Baby G is no longer taking classes from Shekinah. As usual, Baby G had his prata breakfast, while I had my vegetarian noodles & Daddy had dim sum. Baby G actually ate both pratas, only giving me and Daddy one bite each to 'try out'.

After breakfast, we also decided to let Baby G have his hair cut @ the barber's in PP. He only allows that particular auntie to cut his hair and even then, he doesn't like to use the shaver. Only scissors are allowed to touch his hair. By the time we finished, it was almost near noon.

We then went down to Chinatown to stock up on some toiletries @ Swanston. It's been a while since we dropped by and we were quite surprised by how big it has expanded. It's almost comparable to a supermarket. They even started to sell household items like the MagicClean wipes, floor detergent, etc. We spent more than $100 there. Phew. Now we need to find place to keep all the stuff we bought.

Lunch was our favourite Ngoh Hiang store, but I think we won't be going there anytime soon. The prices they charged were really quite high. Just us, we spent $15 which is unsually high as our average was less than $10.

After our lunch, we went down to VivoCity as we wanted to let Baby G play at the water park. We did some shopping as Daddy wanted to buy a pair of slippers. Although, end up, we didn't manage to find any that he liked.

==> Mummy was in the ladies

When we reached the place, almost 3/4 of it was under renovations. Baby G was super disappointed. Luckily, there was still a small area that allowed kids to wade & play with water. In the end, he had to settle for that. But I think he still enjoyed himself, although he was so particular about not getting his pants wet even though I already told him I brought extra 衣服 for him. (This time, we were well prepared with extra set of clothes & towel)

After changing, we went down to Carl's Junior for some snacks & rest.

Round 2 for Baby G was at the playground. Again, he played and didn't want to go home, even though, earlier on when we were shopping, he complained he was tired & sleepy.

After the playground, we stopped by Giant for some groceries. This time, Baby G was really tired and actually fell asleep in the trolley. First time, we managed to shop super efficiently as he wasn't awake to disturb us & insist on 'scanning' every item we bought into the trolley.

As he was still sleeping, we decided to 'ta-bao' our dinner. We chose the Punggol Nasi Lemak near Kovan. It was a long queue & I queued for almost 30mins. By the time, we reached home, it was almost 8pm. Me & Baby G shared a packet. He liked the fried chicken wings & would've finished it, but I suspect he was really too tired to eat much.

We watched some cartoons before calling it a day.

San

*Yawn*

Happy Birthday YeeYee

On Monday, we celebrated YeeYee's birthday at 2 Chefs along Commonwealth. She had her heart on steamed fish cooked in the soya sauce.

Baby G especially loved the Butter Pork Ribs. Yummy.

After dinner, we went back to PR for our traditional cutting of the cake & singing of the birthday song. Only then we realised no one bought the cake. Haha. So we detoured to Elias Mall to get her a cake from Prima Deli. Baby G was in charged of putting the candles into the cake.

Happy Birthday, YeeYee

San

(Daddy not around due to some urgent work at office again)

Happy Birthday Grandpa

It is grandpa's birthday today. Since he just had his major surgery done, we decided to keep it simple and celebrate it at home. Plan was to have steamboat for dinner since it's more healthy. Baby G and myself went over slightly around noon as Baby G was busy making Grandpa's card and was watching cartoons the whole morning.

We went to White Sands Fairprice to get the groceries and had lunch at the Xin Wang Cafe. Grandpa decided on Chicken Chop (his only indulgence for the day), Mama had Pork Chop, YeeYee had her instant noodles & Baby G had his cheese baked rice. I shared with Baby G and had my Iced Ying Yang.

Our steamboat dinner was a simple affair. No fancy foods like prawns or crabs (after all, Grandpa is still recovering). We had minced pork, beancurd, straw mushrooms, etc.

After dinner, cake-cutting time.... and photo-taking time.

==> My family

I wasn't too sure how it came to be... but I happened to walk out to the kitchen and saw Grandpa & Baby G putting up the card onto the fridge. Then I heard Baby G say "Grandpa, when you are sad, you come to the kitchen and read my card". I think Grandpa was very touched to hear him say that.

San

Note : Daddy wasn't around as he had some migration happening over the weekend.

Baby G's N2 Concert

Baby G had his year-end concert on 20th Nov, Sat. The days leading to the concert, I found out from Baby G that they would be performing 'Top Of The World'. Soon Baby G started commenting about his 'coconuts' keep falling off. I was trying to figure out what is the connection between coconuts & the song, 'Top of the World'.

As the days go by, he started to tell me something about a Philippine folk dance. Then he started to sound like he was rehearsing for some speech. Then it dawned on me that he could be the announcer to start the N2 song & dance routine. But then, I still had doubts and told my family that most likely he's the reserve for Eugene who did it last year with Alexis.

Only on the day itself, I realised that he really IS the announcer, together with Faustine. I started to get nervous and wondered if he'll just freeze on stage upon seeing so many people.




These are the photos that were taken during an earlier full dress rehearsal and this is the photo that finally clued me in that he was the announcer.

His item was the 8th on the list so it was a long wait for me and the tension is building. Just before his item started, I actually spotted him peeking out of the curtains to take a look at the audience. He looked really cheeky and it kinda made me feel less nervous (He asked me later if I saw him peeking out & I said 'yes'.)

Faustine did a slightly better job than Baby G. Her voice was clear and she started well. I suspect Baby G forgot his first line which was supposed to be spoken together. But luckily, he remembered the remainder of the script. Overall, not too bad and thank goodness he did not freeze up. But during the dance, he actually 'lost' his partner and was the only boy wandering around the stage looking for his partner to sit down together. That was hilarious. I asked him after the show and he told me he couldn't find Sherri as it was so messy. Haha.

The finale was 'Top Of The World' which Baby G remembered most of the moves although the starting was a little slow.

Finally the concert was officially over. The children were given a bento-looking set which had 1 muffin, small-cut sandwiches & nuggets and a green tea packet drink. Then the parents went on stage to pick the kids up. This year, there were no refreshments as compared to last year. I guess cause the refreshments last year so pretty measly & lots of parents had to rush to get the food.

We also managed to get Baby G's English teacher to take some photos.

We brought him outside of the concert hall so that he could eat his food as he said he was very hungry. He gobbled up all the nuggets.

What a day... it is finally over. Good job, Baby G.

San

Phew!