If you look, you might see

Wish I could have pointed these out to you...

Seagulls in the sky...

an olive tree bursting with fruit...

a cobweb with 6 or 7 dozen spiderlings...

and a beautiful sunset.

Total Darkness

Read somewhere that if you don't get 6 hours undisturbed sleep in total darkness, you start producing cancerous cells. Eh, I neither recall sleeping in total darkness nor getting through 6 hours of sleep without being disturbed for a long long long long time now. So how arh?

Which reminds me of my last trip. On the leg from Frankfurt back to Singapore, dead tired from not too much sleep in not too much darkness, I sat next to this University Professor from I forgot where. He had quite a heavy breath which, could be why he was interested in what he was doing - researching bacteria in the mouth! Hahahhaa!! Anyway, he was interested in bacteria that create antibodies to fight off other bacteria which means that these bacteria actually protect us from those other bacteria as well. Interesting. Now, does that mean that I shouldn't brush my teeth daily?

Talking about dental habits...recently attended a seminar hosted by one of top research companies and they had a pop quiz that goes like this:

" 70% of the population in this nation brush their teeth once a day "
(A) China
(B) America

Answer: (B)

I did my own quick research and it's TRUE. 34% of Americans have gone one to three days without brushing their teeth!

Currently, your dental habits are horrendous! You don't brush your teeth daily and if and when you do brush, you prefer brushing the sink, pouring away the water in the cup or drinking what you should have spat out.

Hello from Perth

Here's what I do for work.

Start the day with brioche french toast with butterscotch baked apples & mushrooms for breakfast,
visit 'The Swan Bells',
make a trip to Fremantle with some friends for a fish&chips lunch at a place called Cicerello's &

travel around in a Limo. Hahhaa...right! This last bit is not true. This was just one of the props in the set for my shoot here in Perth.

Tickled...

Found these pictures on my phone. One of your 7 girlfriends who came over on Sunday must have been playing with it and you must have been happily posing and smiling for the camera / her.

Am still tickled over what I saw on Saturday. We had some colleagues over for BBQ and there were 3 very pretty ladies. Saw you point to your right cheek, indicating that you wanted to be kissed on that spot from one of them - She did. I have never seen you do such a thing before so it was pretty amusing, albeit a little shocking. Aunty Sparkles told me later that you held on to the skirt of the other lady when we moved everybody back to our apartment - She didn't mind it at all. Hmm...you know you can really get away with quite a bit when you are 2.5 years old don't you?

CNY

You made this train...

Big deal

Went out and bought you 3 pairs of socks, 2 T-shirts, 1 short-sleeve shirt, 5 books, a bag of white nectarines and a plug & play video game console.


Something to wear, something to read, something to eat and something to play with. Not a bad deal for going to school yah?

Your Papa's looking at me with one raised eyebrow. He must be wondering... what's the big deal about starting school. Hmm... I wonder if he cried when he started school. He says he doesn't remember. I bet you he did! (",)

1st Day At School

7:30 *Giggles in Dreamland* I don't look like I'm exactly excited by the prospect of going to school huh? 7:45 Mummy woke me up 8:00 Off we go to school 8:10 Hello school! 8:15 Sponge painting exercise. 8:30 Breakfast - 2 slices of Pandan Cake and a drink 9:00 Outdoor water play with Teacher Lui 9:15 Mummy leaves 10:35 Mummy comes back with my water bottle and takes a peep. I'm seated on Teacher Irene's lap. Mummy's told I was crying earlier. Mummy can see the tear streaks running down my cheeks. Her heart aches. 10:55 It's almost lunch time. Mummy takes off again 12:30 Mummy picks me up. Teacher Irene told Mummy I fussed only that one time, ate 2 bowls of Macaroni for lunch, learnt about the letter "F" and made a flower today.

Enrolled

You'd start school tomorrow! Pretty excited on your behalf - my little boy, who now stands taller than me when I'm seated on the floor, is going to start school tomorrow!

It's almost "shere" !!!

Irresponsible Blogging

Sorry friends, forgot to report that the son is much better now. He coughs still and we, or rather my parents, are watching him closely.

On a phone conversation with him earlier...

BY: Mummy, where is Papa?
Me: Papa is sleeping.
BY: Where?
Me: Papa is sleeping on the mattress.
BY: Where?
Me: Papa is sleeping on the mattress in our new house.
BY: Not upstairs? Not downstairs?
Me: No. In the rubbish bin!!
BY: *Giggles* NO!!!!!!!!!!
>>>Eh? He catches the joke?
BY: Papa is in the water bottle!!!!
Me: *my turn to laugh* No lah, Papa tooooooooo big, cannot fit into your water bottle!
BY: Yes!!! Water Bottle!!!!!!!!!!!!*Giggles*
*HaHHaaaaaaaHaaa*

>>>Your Papa, sometimes our Genie in a bottle. True.

Shifting Sands

Had a strange dream yesterday. It's strange because I'm no longer a student anymore but still getting these type of dreams?

>>>I'm sitting for an exam. Most likely my 'O'levels. Not prepared. Not surprisingly. Anyway, so I walk in, sit down and started solving the problems in the Math paper. Question No.2 - I couldn't see the numbers properly. They were tiny and had a lenticular effect - the numbers changes depending on which way you look at it. So can you imagine? Calculating the volume of an object with constantly changing variables? I raised my hand to ask the invigilator to help me out. Asked him if he could see the numbers. He comes back saying, "You lied!" I was so bewildered by his outburst. He pointed to this scribble I had on the top of the page and said that I already knew the numbers. I was like "If I already knew, why would I ask you?" To make things more difficult, everytime my hands so much as brush over what I've written, it falls away like dust into nothingless. So here I am trying your best to work my answers out but it just keeps falling apart and disappearing!

When I think about this dream now. I see it telling me that I have no control over what is happening in this one particular part of my life right now, regardless of how much effort I put in.

How do you achieve your goals when events in other theaters influence your ability to maintain any semblance of a plan?

Frustrated

Haven't seen you since yesterday morning after we packed you off to Ah Marh's house. Mummy's down with a horrible flu & cough combi. Literally coughing blood. Papa's having a fever too. It's terrible!!! 2 episodes of merry-go-round viruses in the family in 6 weeks! ANGRY!!! DIE DIE DIE YOU FREAKING SUBMICROSCOPIC PARASITES!!!

Shoots

Things we do to keep the toddler occupied

(A) Plant a garlic which has already sprouted. Found a small tray, gave you some cotton balls to place inside the tray and some water from the tap. Doubt the garlic will grow very well given that you prefer pulling it by the shoots. Entertainment value - 15 minutes

(B) Made a badge with your name on it. Was given one during a seminar recently - one of those name card holders. So, I wrote your name on the reverse side of my name card, drew a penguin, a chair, a sofa, a wall (this last request was a tough one) and slip it back into the holder. Bingo, your very own badge, which you wore for like only 2 minutes.

(C) Downloaded Thomas the tank engine episodes from youtube...Heheh, this one kept you occupied for more than half an hour.

Hmm... I should dump you in a playschool soon.

Growing up conversations

(Part I)
/YY, who do you want to be when you grow up?
/Huh?
/Do you want to be Papa?
/Huh?
/Or Ah Gong?... Or Gu-Gu?
/*thinking face*...Papa and Mummy!
(".) aw

(Part II)
/YY, you want to be a Papa when you grow up?
/Yes
/How many babies do you want?
/One and one and one
/Ok ok! Enough enough!!

How many mistakes am I allowed to make...

...as a parent? It seems so innocent to let you play in the water yesterday. You enjoyed it so much. It was noon, the sun was high up in the clear blue sky and you didn't shiver in the water. You even tried swimming, paddling so adorably with those silly uncoordinated strokes.

This morning, I woke up to find a boy with a raging fever. One whose temperature refuse to go below 39 degrees until at last resort, I used Voltaren. A superactive boy whose main activity is to buzz around the house and talk non-stop, is suddenly reduced into a baby-like state - dozing off quietly in your arms every now and then and staring into space. It's scary!

Dapper Boy

Fish & Eat

You see fish swimming in the water
You see fish in the market
You see fish in your porridge

Questions: At which point do you reconcile the fact that the dead fish you have in your porridge was once alive and swimming in the water? At which point do you start feeling for the dead fish in your mouth which was once alive?

Crazy prices

Received this SMS from a property agent: Beaufort on Nassim, within Good Class Bungalow area, 30 units with facility, pte lift, basement carpark, est TOP 2nd half 2008, 2 bdrm 1238 - 1496 sqft. 2+1 penthouse 2153 sqft. 3bdrm 1755-2174 sqft. 3+1 ground floor 2260-3584 sqft. 3+1 penthouse 3186-3681 sqft. Please contact me for appointment, thx.

I replied: How much for a 2bdrm?

The response: About $4.2m (list price)

*JAW DROP*

Just imagine. How much space you need for your toilet bowl. 4 sqft? @$3k/sqft, that's $12K for that toilet bowl! And if you have a maid, she will have to sleep standing up. Just hang her on a hook behind the store, unless you are generous enough to provide a 5X2ft ~ $30k bunk bed space.

A day off

Took a day off yesterday. Felt like I've spent very little time with you recently.

You ended up having to endure Mummy's barbering with kitchen scissors during bath time but was rewarded with a trip to the beach and a new SIKU snowmobile. Hahha! A snowmobile on the sandy beaches of warm sunny Singapore. What were we thinking? ...welcoming baby Denise to your world. Hmm... it's not so long ago you were that tiny too!

...and getting your feet wet in a man-made stream.