Scrapbook again!

I haven't been updating my blog recently. It's not that I'm really busy to go online. I just spent most of my time doing online shopping for my scrapbooking supplies.

On Friday, as soon as I know that I received the progress package. I immediately placed my orders with Pictures 2 Pages (hehe). And on that night itself, I collected the supplies, since it's so near to where I live. Jane invited me into her house for some more shopping and I'm glad I did. She has a range of absolutely beautiful floral patterned papers! I simply have to get hold of them, even though I will bust the initial budget I set. And I've finally bought a set of acrylic paints.


And from Scrappers Loft, I heard that Daiso carries some useful supplies as well, so I went there for a quick shopping. I should have allow myself more time for shopping at Daiso, cos there's so much things to buy but so little time.

Total Damage
Pictures to pages: Approx $120
Daiso: $10 only

I'm now looking at those postbound albums from Scrapbooking Cove. At only $42.90, I think it's the cheapest in town. Now I'm influencing Sis to scrapbooking too, and she's really excited to start. We are thinking of combining our orders so that we can save the delivery charges! Can't wait to get hold of the album. No need to guess, it's pink loh..

It's pretty right?

With all the pretty papers and my new acrylic paints and foam stamps, I can't wait to start on my new layout. And TA DAH!!

A little blooper though, this picture was taken when Tara was 10 months old, but my tag says it's 9 months. Erm, one month difference never mind right? Out of the 3 layouts I've done, this is definitely my favourite!

I love it.

Nice..

I just took this. Minutes ago, the sky was so dark and threatening to rain. Weather so unpredictable. Must be Nino's fault. El-Nino, I meant to say.

Wonder why I'm so free to take photos and write this entry? Tara went out with Bob just now. Yippee! Freedom and peace are luxuries to me now.

Library

I went to the library last night to collect this book, which I have reserved almost 2 weeks ago. Flipped through the book and found some really fun and interesting ideas to keep the toddler busy.

I think it's not enough to just borrow it, I'm gonna buy it! I think it's especially useful for staying at home moms (SAHM) cos there's a total of 365 activities, one for each day. A pretty good book I would say. Cos there's even solutions for you on different occasions. Can't wait to start Tara on the activities!

While I was there, I saw a notice on the bulletin on a program for toddlers. I think it should be some story telling for little ones so I registered for it too. Actually knew about this program eons ago but Tara was only a few months old then.

Next Wednesday at 7.30pm. I can't wait to bring Tara there. It's time I get her started on some activities. If the program is good, I might be bringing her there every week, provided that the story will be different every time, and also if my little girl enjoys it. I kind of wonder if she will sit still throughout the half hour? Hmmz, I will know next week. By the way, it's $2 only.

My Second Scrapbook done!

It's on my little girl.. Again! Using the photo taken when she was 2 days old.



with journaling this time.

Yummy TV Screen

Just now, I caught Tara licking the screen of the TV in our room.

not once,

not twice,

but three times!! Actually more than that lah, but I only managed to snapped three pictures.

The TV screen very yummy?

Very angry

I'm very angry with my MIL last night. She didn't secure the child-safe latch of the kitchen cabinet where the bowls and plates are kept. Tara ventured in, took a small glass bowl, and smashed it on the ground when she saw me walked towards her.

MIL admitted that she didn't secure the latch. She didn't say forget, she said she didn't latch, which leaves me wondering, does she think that all those child proofing devices are for show only? The sole purpose of me spending over $70 on all these devices is to ensure the safety of my child, my first priority! The thing that left me fuming mad was she actually reprimand Tara for being naughty! Hey! She left the latch loose and she's pushing the blame to an innocent little girl? If my little girl knows the danger of broken bowls and plates, I would not need to spend so much on those devices!

It's not the first time she didn't secure the latches, but I always quietly do it in front of her, just so she can catch the hint. Thing is, I don't talk a lot to my MIL, cos we can't communicate. Many a times, the things I said just don't register in her, so I gave up totally.

I can't imagine if I'm not fast enough to carry her away from those broken glass pieces, she would have start walking around and cut her soles! It's been years since I felt this kind of anger. I've managed to surpress my fiery temper all these while. But this is way too much, and thing is, I can't reprimand my MIL, no doubt she's not in my favourite persons list, it doesn't mean that I don't show her any respect, so I just kept quiet and swept the floor.

Bob knew I'm really pissed cos he saw me slamming the cabinet door. He told me to look after Tara and he took care of the mess. But my anger didn't subside and I actually took it out on Tara, poor Tara.

I brought her into the room with a basin of water to wash her, I let her held on to her PJ as usual, but she threw it into the basin! I snapped and smack her real hard on her thigh, shouted really loud: "MUMMY DON"T WANT YOU ALREADY!!", left her on the bedroom floor and stormed out. I threw the PJ into the laundry pail, saw my MIL wanted to get up and go into the room to attend to the wailing toddler. I'm glad she didn't, if not, it would have fueled the situation more.

When I changed Tara for bed, I noticed a big, angry, red patch on her thigh and immediately, my anger was replaced by guilt. I shouldn't have taken it out on the little girl, I felt really bad and kept massaging her thigh. I even admitted to Bob that I had hit her too hard, and Bob gave me a you-should-know-better kind of look.

It's self-anger-management for me all over again.

Tara Singing

I've never heard Tara sing to any songs before, even when she's watching her favourite Hi-5 shows. She would dance and move but she has never sing.

Last night, Tara was pressing the buttons of the stereo in Bob's car. And accidentally played a song which she started to go "Aiya, ah, la... la... la...". We have never heard her "talk" like that before so we thought she might be singing. True enough, when it comes to the chorus part where both performers were hitting the high notes, Tara would sing along! It's hilarious! We played the song over and over again and when we said "Sing song", she would start to go "Aiya, ah... ah.... la...........". By the way, the song is "The Prayer" by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli. It's a very, very beautiful song.

I've tried to capture it on video but the little gal just refused to sing when I start recording. I've only managed to get bits and pieces. So far, this is the best video I've got. The front part, she sounded like she's making noises but the middle part is definitely the singing. Sometimes, she will sit on my lap, suck on her thumb and sing at the same time. Way too cute.

We realised that not only will she sing to this song, she actually sang to two other songs by Andrea Bocelli. I guessed she must really enjoyed his songs, so I told Bob to get his lastest CD for the little gal.

At times like this, I will always feel that the pains of labour I've went through was really, really worth it. The way she touched my heart every time is indescribable.

Tara's Milestone @ 17 months

So fast, my gal will be 1.5 year old in another 1 month.

No improvement on her vocab. Well, I guess I'd better start reading to her more.

The little kid is running quite a bit nowadays, not sprinting of course, just slow running. The eager beaver must have thought that walking is too slow. And she's learning to jump, but just couldn't get her feet off the floor. But boy, is she doing a lot of climbing! The bed, the dining chairs, the sofa, the stools, everywhere! I'm taking extra care not to put anything near our grill-less windows. I've seen her pushing a stool around, so I'm keeping the stools too, in fact, I'm trying to keep all the moveable stuff, small tables, carton boxes etc. I don't wish to have any freak accident happening to my precious little girl.

I'm giving her more table food to try. But nothing too salty, too sweet or too spicy yet. And strictly no junk food. French fries and potato chips are still not in my kid's diet. They don't benefit her growth so those can wait. But I'm expanding the range of kid's biscuits, which are the only snacks she's allowed for now. And the little girl love bread a lot! Bob said the kid is so "low-maintenace", just give her a piece of bread and a water bottle and she will be so happy. And yes, she's finally stopped taking diluted apple juice, totally, just plain boiled water. Thanks to Mum! She love to eat fruits and vegetable too. Which is definitely a good thing.

I'm teaching her to wash her hair and soap her body during bath and shower. She has learnt how to wash her hair but still not so keen to start soaping herself. And when we change her diaper, she would pull out a baby wipe and clean herself. She will do the same even when her diaper is on, as long as she has a wipe or a tissue in her hand.

Tara will get really excited when she sees animals. Last Friday, Bob had a gathering with his poly friends. The toddler got restless and wanted to run around. We were pretty near to the koi pond so I brought her there. She was giggling, screaming and kept pointing at the koi swimming in the pond. I bought her the koi food at the kiosk nearby and let her feed the fishes. At first, she wanted to put the food into her mouth but after a while, she knew that the food was not for her. She had such a wonderful time feeding the fishes. I guess it's about time I bring her back to the zoo again. This time, I must make sure I will have ample time to bring her to all the different enclosures.

And the little girl wants more of our attention nowadays. When I'm using the computer, she would come up to me, and tugged at my shorts. And she would push me around, attempting to get me to play with her. And if her daddy is using the laptop, she would stand beside him and start punching the keyboard or push the mouse around. Just to get his attention.

I'm giving her more chance to feed herself too. I was pretty annoyed when I saw MIL feeding her apple, using a teaspoon to scrape. I preferred to let her feed herself. She have enough teeth to bite, so I don't see the point of scraping the apple into mash, that's for babies with no teeth.

And don't know since when, the toddler would lie flat on the floor and kick her legs when she's throwing a tantrum. Bob said her patterns are getting more. And now, when she threw things on the floor, instead of scolding her and smacking her butt or her palm, I simply tell her to pick up the things. But she's really very stubborn! And refused to do it no matter how. But I'm adamant that she stop this unacceptable behaviour and I refused to let let her leave until she picked up the item. I haven't succeed as yet. But I'm not going to give up.

Dad ever told me I'm a little too hard on the kid, as in I would scold her or smack her when she did something wrong. He told me the "kid-is-too-young" theory again and again. I had to retort back at him. I told him even if the kid don't understand me, I have to teach and tell her what is right and wrong. If I'm going to have his kind of thinking, and just let my kid do whatever she like, who am I to blame if she grow up to be a spoilt brat? At least I know that as her mother, I've done all that I can to teach her. And touch wood, should she become a spoil brat, I can still tell myself I did all I could. That managed to shut him up, although he don't look too convinced.

Now, it's time I start to toilet train her. But I'm taking baby steps for now. Cos I'm not sure if the kid will be receptive. I'm just taking the advantage of my MIL being Tara's main caregiver for the next one month, when she can get Tara into the habit of using a potty etc.

A chance to learn

It's been quite a while since Tara learnt to discard the soiled diapers, and put the dirty clothes into the laundry pail. But she usually does one task first, walked back to me, and I would give her the other task to do.

A few days back, I wonder if I gave her both tasks to do at the same time, will she get confused? So that day, I gave her both soiled diaper and dirty clothes. It's the first time I've done that, so I wasn't expecting my kid to be so smart and knew what to do immediately. She decided to throw the diaper first, into the sink, yes, into the sink but she did managed to put the clothes into the pail.

The 2nd time I gave her the task was this morning. She walked to the rubbish bag but wasn't able to put it in cos the bag was hung a little higher than usual. She called for my help. After she had discard the diaper, she walked over to the laundry pail and threw in 2 pieces of the dirty clothes. I was half expecting her to throw 1 piece of it into the rubbish bag. But she didn't.

Boy, am I surprised!

Last night, we were at Bob's aunt's place for dinner. I changed Tara's diapers and got her to discard as usual. We don't go there often and I'm not sure if she will know where to throw. But she once again, surprised all of us, and threw the diaper into the rubbish bin inside the kitchen.

Aunt and MIL were nodding their heads, and commenting how smart the gal is. I think all the kids nowadays are just as smart. They were only prevented from stretching to their full "potential" by parents or the old folks, who always have the they-are-too-young-and-don't-know-how kind of thinking. Or they felt that it will be faster or less messier for them to do the things instead. I beg to differ. Even if the kid is too young, it doesn't hurt to try. Let them mess up and let them do it at their own pace. They have to learn, and they will learn if they are given the chance. If only they have the chance.

Every now and then, I will ask Tara to do this and that. Yup, I ask, I don't command and I don't force, I ask nicely. Not that she can do it everytime, but I never stop asking. And always thank her and praise her when she complete a task. I'm always surprised at the things my 17 month old can do.

She's learning to wear her own socks now. But she can only hold the socks open, but couldn't get her foot in. I hope, with more encouragement, she will do it sooner or later. I'm not rushing, I will let her learn at her own pace. I'm just glad she's willing to learn.

New Look

New banner, new colours.

Clean. Simple. Natural.

My style.

Lost Library Book

I left the book on top of the car boot while I tried to strap the struggling toddler onto the car seat.

In the pandemonium, I forgot about my book and drove away. When I reached home, I couldn't find the book anywhere and guessed I must have "abandoned" it enroute.

I traced back my route, but the book was nowhere to be seen. I do hope that some kind hearted soul will return the book to the library. Guess I'll just wait till the date due and if the book hasn't turned up at the library, I'll just have to confess that I, the blur sotong of the century, actually drove a car with a book on top of the car boot.

Pinky mood

Finally, something pink and girly in my car. The scent wasn't anything to rave about. But it's a nice girlish touch though. Yeah, I love pink. Before I had this car, I had even thought of spraying my car a metallic baby pink. That is, before I got this car.


And since I'm in such a pink mood, I bought this as well. Yeah, girls can shop anywhere, even at the petrol station.

Imported from Japan. $2.50 for a twin pack. I thought it's strawberry flavoured, but it tasted funny. Then I realised it's actually made from red bean powder. Yikes, I should have read properly I pay.

Bullied?

This morning, Bob sms me and asked if Tara cried when I left for work this morning. My MIL came over a couple of days ago and is now looking after Tara. She's not that attached to my MIL and in the morning for these 2 days, she would get really clingy with me and would bawl at the top of her voice when she saw me get ready for work. Somehow, she knew that when MIL is around, I will not be bringing her to my Mum's place.

Tara is very attached to my Mum, every morning when I bring her over to my Mum's, she will cling to my Mum tightly and won't let go for anyone, even me, yeah, me, her own mother. She's also happier at my Mum's because her 2 cousins cum playmates are there too. Unlike staying at home where her only companions are the old folks.

And back to the crying part, I told Bob she did fussed a little but I placed her in front of the TV, gave her a bottle of milk and left quickly, so I guess she's fine. Bob asked me if I felt sad when I have to leave the crying toddler, but I said it's not sadness, it's more like feeling bad that she's confined at home, knowing that she loves to go to my Mum's place.

Bob said that Tara will get bullied by her cousins when she's there. I told him that his little girl wasn't that nice and sweet either, having seen her snatched toys, hit my nephew, bit and shout at him etc. He said he don't like to see his kid being bullied and I said the kids are young, and stuff like these do happen, and I don't think she's being bullied, it's just that she can't "win" during snatching matches cos of her small frame. I told Bob that his kid have to learn how to deal with it. It's a growing process too.

Besides, I asked him if he's going to stop his kid from attending playgroups or kindies cos there's bound to be some bullies there. He said no, but still, he don't feel good knowing that her own cousins are bullying her. Well, kids are kids and you can't stop those shouting and snatching matches from happening right? I don't think I would want to see my kid retaliate by hitting or biting back, so it's up to my parents to impart the right behaviour to the kiddos. Besides, if the cousins start to hurt her, my parents will intervene too.

Moreover, I don't see that it will benefit Tara if she's going to be confined at home with the old folks either. She might be safe from the bullies (aka cousins) but she's got no one to play with. No matter how the folks tried to entertain her, nothing beats the fun of having kids her age. I asked Bob if he remembered how a friend's kid behaved when he got other little kids to play with for the first time? The friend's kid was constantly confined at home, but his is a worse case, his parents don't even bring him out for gatherings or outings. How is a kid like that going to react when he has other children around? It was quite chaotic that time, he went around pushing and biting the other children, not knowing that it's the wrong thing to do. He was simply too excited to see a group of other beings of his own age for the first time.

I'm rather bothered by what Bob had said, I'm worried he might start to resent my niece and nephew. Guess I gotta talk to him tonight.

Sales target hit!

Yippee! I hit my sales target for this quarter! I'm gonna save up the incentive for rainy days. So happy.

Scrapbook

After 8 months, I've finally decided to get serious on scrapbooking. Have been contemplating all these while because I've got so many other stuff on hand, and I know that once I start, I will throw in lots of money on this new hobby and it's not exactly a purse-friendly one, so to speak.

The decision was made when I went to the library last week. My main motive was to borrow some books on toddler activities and I ended up searching at the crafts section, where I did manage to get a couple of activities book. But I also stumbled upon scrapbook idea books, just a few of them, but it's enough to spark the passion inside me.


I went on to borrow more books from another library, bought a couple of scrapbooking magazines. And it doesn't help that there is a scrapbook supplies shop so near to my workplace, and also an online shop whose owner is living so near to me. And the best thing is her house is her shop! If I should need to get supplies, I just need to pick up the phone, call her and drop by her place for some shopping. Which of course, I have yet to do that.

Anyway, I've decided to get the basic tools first. And most of which could be found in bookstores. And on Saturday alone, I spent close to $100 just to get the tools, and some scrap supplies for my first project.
I'm so excited to get started. Last evening, while Tara had her nap, I finally start on my first project. And needless to say, it's something to do with my little precious. The most significant moment in my life is the time when Tara was born, and thus, I decided to scrapbook it.

Took me hours to finish and here it is, my pride and joy!

I'm extremely happy and on the roll now, I'm already starting on my second project! But the sickening printer decided to run out of ink at this critical moment. Darn! If not, I would be doing the final finishings on the new project now, instead of writing this entry.

Nevertheless, I'm still feeling euphoric!

Amy's Time

Ever since I've had Tara, I haven't been able to have much time for myself. Everyday, my free time will be taken up by Tara. I will only get a breather after she hit the pillow.

I'm not doing any activities with Tara and thus need to have a lot of time for her, I just thought that I should spend time with her during her waking hours; for bonding, communicating, having fun etc. Every weekday night, I will only see her for a couple of hours, thus I felt I should totally devote these free hours to her. To me, it's sort of like a responsibility of having a kid. Thus the everyday routine is; Tara’s time, family’s time and no time for Amy.

And usually, by the time she sleeps at night, it will be almost 10pm and I would be too tired to do anything else. So it’s usually shower, wash the milk bottles, boil water and sometimes do a little laundry and its bed time for me. Totally zilch personal time for myself. Unless a few pages of novel before bedtime is considered one.

I’m a craft lover. Anything from cross stitching, knitting, scrapbooking interest me. Doing crafts can keep my stress levels down, and completing a piece of craft work is so much more satisfying than clinching a major deal.

But now, having time to do crafts is almost a luxury. That’s why I’m feeling pretty down recently. I don’t have any time to do it, which means I don’t get to de-stress myself.

It’s time I do some time management, and set up some activities for Tara which will keep her occupied and in turn, create some free time for myself.

I need some Amy’s time badly.

Restless Tara

Tara only nap once in the day, so usually by about 9 plus 10 at night, she would feel sleepy and less active.

But don't know what's wrong last night, she was so restless, we tried to let her sleep but she kept climbing down the bed and was running around the room. And I was so tired yesterday, all I want to do was sleep but this little devil refused to cooperate. I tried to sing to her, hoping to lull her to sleep but she stood up and start dancing instead. So I might as well sing the theme song for Hi-5, hoping she will get tired from all the vigorous dancing and go to sleep soon. I think I sang like 5 times of Hi-5 and yet, she was still super active.

Exasperated, Bob off the TV and all the lights and pretend to sleep. Tara didn't care and continue to jump on the bed and doing "free fall". She even hit her head on my ribs, hard! It was so painful, I thought my ribs broke.

Finally, we saw her rubbing her eyes and thought, yeah, she would sleep soon. She lie down on the bed, holding on to her hanky and sucking her thumb. And we thought, peace, finally.

Not for long though..

She started to snore, I mean, she imitated snoring sounds and went "kkkkkkkkk". I shaked my head, and tried to stifle a giggle. After that, she went "wa-oh-wa-oh-wa-oh-wa-oh" and making all sorts of funny sounds.

Haiz...

Hi-5 Concert @ Expo

Ever since Tara got hooked on Hi-5, I've been waiting for the day the gang to come to Singapore for their concert tour so I can bring her. The day has finally come!

We've booked the tickets! Using Everyday credit card. Card members have priority bookings from 31st March onwards and 15% discount. We searched high and low for people who hold this credit card. My bro does, but he's away in some island for a diving trip and didn't bring his card along. And Bob, who's supposed to apply for the card since eons ago, still have not done it. Fortunately, Sis' colleague managed to get someone else to help us out. Everything is set.

I guess Tara will get really excited when she sees the gang out of the TV box, erm, provided we don't sit that far from the stage and she could see them properly.

Date with Hi-5

Date		: Tuesday 30th May
Time		: 4pm
Venue		: Singapore Expo Hall 3

Heard from Sis that a lot of good seats have been taken. I wonder how the non-cardmembers are gonna get the seats cos the bookings will only be opened to public from 7 April onwards and now it's only 4th April.

"Nice" Singaporeans

Had lunch with Cindy today. She started work in her new office, which is only 5 mins from mine, just yesterday.

Today, we met up for lunch and decided to go Ikea, as I need to exchange an item I bought yesterday.

When we went to pick my car, we realised that there's a rather long queue of cars waiting to exit Ikea and Cindy's lunch hour was up already.

She decided to take a cab back, at my suggestion, so I accompanied her to the taxi stand, feeling really bad for bringing her a little too far for lunch.

We were rather relieved to see there isn't anyone queue and a couple of taxis were waiting. When we finally reached the taxi stand, there was a group of 4 right in front of us, pushing a trolley of Ikea stuff, including 1 single mattress. They were discussing how to put the mattress into the cab.

Sensing that they will take a bit of time to sort out the loading, I decided to ask if they can let Cindy take the cab first.

I asked them, and told them that Cindy's rushing and if they mind to let her go first. They looked at the taxi queue, and without looking into my eyes, said that there was a string of cabs, so I don't have to worry about not getting a cab.

As if I can't see, if there's isn't any cab, I wouldn't even ask them. I told them they will need time to load their stuff and Cindy was really in a rush, I think I repeated this twice, before they quite reluctantly agree.

I'm slightly miffed. Actually, I don't expect them to reject me when I first asked, albeit not a nasty rejection but I had said that my friend was in a rush and they have so many things to load, the least they can do is be helpful and let Cindy go first. If they were the ones rushing and someone in front is blocking their way and slowly loading stuff? I think they will be frustrated too, right?

Well, well... Please remind me to always be a helpful and considerate person. Always..

And in case you wonder why I get miffed at such slight things, it's called PMS, so let me just rant a little, can?

Little Miss Helpful & Little Miss Good Habit

We are teaching Tara to help us in our daily chores. Toddlers at this age are extremely helpful. So we decided to take advantage cultivate this good streak in her.

I would tell her to put her dirty clothes and hankies into the laundry pail. She would now do it without me asking, whenever I took off her clothes during shower time.

She would help to pick out the laundry for us to hang or take the clothes pegs for us to use.

Whenever I'm done using a bowl or plate, I would get her to bring it to the kitchen, of course with me following closely behind her. When we reached the kitchen, she would pass the item to me for washing. I got her to do the same thing when she had finished using her own bowl, she would do without a fuss. She used to scream and struggle whenever I tried to take her bowl away from her. Things are definitely more cordial now.

She would help us close or open doors. She even helped Bob take his socks and shoes. After we've changed her diaper, we would get her to throw it into the rubbish bag.

There's nothing she won't do, all we got to do is to ask her nicely. And of course, praising and thanking her when she's done something.

And we are also cultivating good habits. Everytime she stepped into the house, she would sit down and take off her own shoes, placed it onto the floor mat, and walked to the bathroom to wash her hands and feet.

This morning, she dropped the bread morsels on the floor and she picked them all up.

She knows that during mealtimes, she must sit in her highchair and she would do it without fuss.

Everytime she finished eating, we would get her to wipe her mouth and hands. The way she wiped her hands is so funny, she would turn and twist her hands, as if she's washing it.

The only good habit I haven't really kept up with is the brushing teeth twice a day routine, she knows how to hold her toothbrush and brush her teeth. But I'm always in a rush every morning to get her to do her brushing or super lazy and tired in the night to follow up. Quite bad, especially now she has more than 7 teeth and taking regular food, she definitely needs to brush her teeth. Yeah, I know, I must remember to get her to brush her teeth everyday!!

Dinner at Sakae

Met up with Angela, Jaime & Sis at the newly opened Sakae beside the new Jurong West library.

I guess all of us staying around the area have been scratching our heads. Sakae is everywhere but why isn't there and outlet in Jurong? Now, there's finally one! Yay! And it's just beside the library! Double yay!

It's a lucky thing Angela made reservations otherwise we have to join the never ending queue.

Shermaine & her aeroplane kiddo meal

As usual, lots of catching up, gossiping, gobbling and laughing.

After dinner, we went to Jurong Point to do a little shopping. I bought Tara's 2nd bottle of cod liver oil.

Angela left first and the rest of us decided to continue our yakking at Mos. While there, Sis opened up her purse and I saw the newly born photos of her kids, my niece and nephew. So I took out Tara's photo, laid it out on the table and took a shot.

Any similarities? I think they have the same nose

After dinner, I sent Jaime home and had a nice little chat down her block before I went home with Bob's supper, cold fries and nuggets. He was quite upset that I brought the food back so late and said that he will not buy any supper for me in future.

Err, I hope he's kidding..

New entry on Tara's Blog

An entry on how Tara got her name.

An excerpt:
"We sort of had a "family meeting" and eventually, I gave you your name, cos I couldn't agree with what others had suggested. I named you,

Go read it!

终于..

我终于可以写华文了!!

Finally! I tried so hard to get a chinese inputting software. I've installed once and it all turned out crappy, and I have to pay for it! Okay, maybe it's because I'm not that IT savvy, that's why I couldn't figure out how to use the program.

And it's not because I'm really good in Chinese and decides to blog in the language, but I do need it once in a while and I'm really happy I've got it!

真开心!!