Dinosaur Model

For the first time, my Cutie got her own model and it was a dinosaur. She was very excited and curious when her daddy helped her to put them together. Look at her happy expressions.

I love you. 사랑해요

Creative Drawing

Bought a set of rainbow pencils for them. They simply love the pencils and had a great time at their drawing corner.

My Sweetie can draw with both of her hands, but with more tendency towards her left. Guess she's ambidextrous (hee... just like mummy).

My Cutie is also getting better in her drawing (too bad that the eyes and mouth cannot be seen well on camera), but mmm... what long legs her characters have (ie. cat standing on the steps/somebody who stands on the wheelchair ). She can write the alphabet quite well too, see her letter "A" in the picture.

Mummy enjoys watching them having fun together.

Conversation with 3-year old Cutie

My 37-month old Cutie is getting more imaginative and conversant in her language skills. Mummy overheard her interesting conversation with her Papa (father), can't help feeling amused with her imaginative story.

Here's a transcript of their conversation (see video below):

C: And my teacher says "잠깐만" [Korean language for "wait"]. And my teacher, I go to school, my teacher went off. And here show, with me. I tell "선생님" [Korean language for "teacher"], go here, go there, then go to the zoo and show. She says no, you got to go to your home.

F: Then what did you do?

C: Just go to the zoo.

F: (laugh) Your teacher asked you to go home and you just go to the zoo. What did you do in the zoo?

C: I saw a playground, then I play with my friend. And up there got see-saw. Then my 1 friend, my baby, my Meimei [haha, she's deciding which character to go into her story] cannot go, Meimei was crying.

F: She was crying, (yes), how did you take care of her?

C: It's ok, I tell her it's ok. You can come up yourself.

F: Did you help your Meimei?

C: Ya, I go down with her and fetch her penguin [that's Meimei's baby].

F: And then what happened to Meimei?

C: Meimei was crying for mama.

F: (laugh) Then what should you do?

C: Kiss ah.

F: Kiss Meimei?

C: Then Mama walk, walk, walk and mama says come friend, you can play outside next time. All of us go "terd, terd, terd, terd, terd, terd, terd"

F: "Terd, terd, terd, terd, terd, terd"? Go where?

C: Go home.

F: Go home. Did you enjoy, have a good time?

C: I have a camera, in the zoo. My teacher gives me my camera, my friend don't have a camera anymore. They have a pal of cats. (???)

F: Did you take a lot of pictures?

C: Didn't, just one picture of ... my 10 friends [she's been emphasizing to her daddy that she got 10 friends].

F: Oh, so nice of you.

C: I got a big camera.

F: How big?

C: It's very long.

F: Mm, very long. (laugh)

Hearty Meal

Fascinated by a toy advertisement on television, so mummy went to buy it for my darlings (and me too hee...).

It's actually just a sushi shapes mould which is very easy for kids to use, ie. to make their own meal. All that is needed to do is just to scoop the rice over the mould and press.

See how excited my darlings are. Haha... guess there's never a time that they will not get excited over their own "hands-on" meal.














Yummy, yummy. There's my favourite mushroom too.

Sweetie's Independence (Part 2)

Found these jigsaw puzzle blocks (hee... got a lot of hidden treasures in the house) and so gave them to my Sweetie to play.

She enjoyed stacking them up into a tower. The sweetest moment was when the tower blocks came tumbling down. Mmm... isn't that amusing?



In the end, she learnt that it is more stable to place blocks together horizontally instead of vertically.

Gee... mummy is proud of her. What a straight line of blocks, doing all by herself.

Sweetie's Independence (Part 1)

In about a month's time, this little Sweetie will be turning 2. Oh dear, realises that mummy hasn't blogging much solely for this darling of mine, so will be dedicating a few individual blogs for her.

Since our arrival here in Korea, this Sweetie has changed a lot from a sweetie little baby to an independent, iniquisitive young toddler and mmm... still sweet too.

Tho' she hasn't reached 2, she is already declaring her independence starting a few months back. The picture on the left shows her wearing the socks and err.. her Jiejie's shoes all by herself. Mummy's shoes are often not spared too.

Like her Jiejie before, this Sweetie also loves to wear her clothes herself and also to "designs" her own clothes. See her self-designed dress using the blanket on the left. Even at home, she often puts on her hat/cap herself. During winter then, she would often put on her winter jacket herself too.

Since young, her daring nature has always been a worry for mummy. She still loves to climb onto the coffee table and stand on it. Even her study table is not spared (see picture on left). So you can see this little one is not afraid of height.


Everytime we climb up the stairs to our house on the 4th storey, she wants to walk up all by herself and doesn't want anybody to hold her hand. But the stairs are just too high for her to walk by herself and mummy often has to fight to hold onto her (can't imagine she falls facedown onto the steps). While walking up the stairs, mummy often has to hold onto her very tightly as this Sweetie wants to walk with 1 leg only for each step. When walking down the stairs, she wants to move 2 steps per leg. *Sigh* seems like she loves to leap before she could walk.

With this adventurous nature of her, she often has bruises here and there, a few of them were on her face too. So you can imagine mummy's pain whenever this little Sweetie got a fall. Just pray that this Sweetie will be careful and not to try anymore dangerous "stunts".

Fun with Nature

It's great to have Spring popping by cos' we can finally go outdoors without freezing.

It's amazing how the landscape can change from a dull brown to a beautiful green scenery just within a week. And to see flowers popping up one by one and subsequently seeing them in full bloom.

It's indeed refreshing to be back with nature again.

So, we brought our little darlings to a stable to see horses. Though mummy has taken pictures with real horses before, the feelings were a little different when standing at the entrance of the stable, seeing only the heads of the horses sticking out. In the video, my Sweetie just woke up from her afternoon nap, guess it's a big surprise for her to see a horse strolling past her.

We had fun watching the horses galloping round the field. The best is when the jockey stops by to let us have a close contact with his horse. My darlings were excited too to touch the horse (the feelings are different when you are near it or watching it at a distance). The visit helps to strengthen my Cutie's understanding of what a stable is while my Sweetie is now better at identifying a horse and especially it's long tail.

We also had a visit to a strawberry farm. Note the big strawberry hairclips on their hair, hee... Mummy loves this visit cos' finally, my darlings know where strawberries come from (I hope). Last year, this Cutie told me that oranges come from SUPERMARKETS when I asked her where they come from (hee... guess it's a universal answer from modern days' kids).

The strawberries were indeed big, juicy and sweet. Of course, there were small and medium sizes too. My darlings love this visit very much, haha... cos' of the freeflow of strawberries for sampling from the auntie selling them (strawberries are their favourites).

On the way home, we popped by to a cow farm. But the smell from the cow-dung is a little over-bearing. My darlings were actually quite frightened to see so many cows, so ended that mummy had to stretch my leg behind them and quickly snapped a picture of them.

Bet we will have more nature visits here in Korea.

Guitar Concert

Found this video taken last month. Both of them were having fun with their new guitars then.

My Sweetie's guitar is identical to her Jie Jie's, but... not the same. Haha...

Well, when there's 2 kids in the house and having only 1 guitar, creativity is greatly needed to keep the house in "harmony".

Instead of buying another guitar, mummy cut out the same "guitar" from the box and tied a string on both ends. The second guitar looks exactly the same as the first (hee... only from the front).

The most wonderful thing is that this Sweetie of mine loves it and claims "Meimei's" (it's Meimei's). She is happy and contented with this guitar of hers and does not fight over the real guitar with her Jiejie. That's the sweetest thing about little babies. "Muck" (kiss).

Another concert again

Here's another concert to share.

Look at my Sweetie, guess she can be quite a fashion fab next time, from the way she put on her head band. Listen to her version of the song "Mama Mia".

They were holding onto their microphones (transformed from their golf clubs). This time round, my Cutie brought along her "ear phones" which has a "microphone" function. Haha... that was actually a stethoscope from her doctor's kit.

Fun with boxes again

Gave my darlings a box to play again.

First, they placed all their balls inside the box. Next, both of them squeezed inside the box with their babies (the doggie and penguin). Then I overheard my Cutie telling her Meimei that they were in Gogobambini. Hee... they still can remember having a fun time with all the balls at Gogobambini and that was a year ago already (March 2008). See how happy they were.

Then at night, heard them singing their favourite "Goodnight" song and this is what mummy saw when I popped over.
Both of them were lying down with my Sweetie inside the box. The box had become a cradle and this "Mummy" was singing a lullaby for her "baby". So cute.

Hello, hello

During our tour, my darlings were having fun communicating with each other (haha... using the light sticks that I've got for them).

How great it would be, if things we have, can be transformed into a communication tool easily.

Watch the video.

My Cutie loves speaking Korean language recently, hear what she says (with some of her own self-invented ones) while my Sweetie was calling her mummy (hmmm... aren't I just next to her?)

Mickey Mouse Fans

Gee... mummy realises I've been crazy over mickey mouse lately.

I've bought a set of mickey mouse tees for everybody cos' hee... the design makes me feel as if I'm being hugged by mickey mouse. My darlings love them too.















I've bought a set of cushion covers with small mickey prints for our home. Even our humidifier is of a mickey mouse design/brand too.









For our car, we bought a mickey mouse contact number tag (fyi, it's important to have a contact number tag on your car in Korea). Of course, with mickey mouse sunshades too.

Besides mickey mouse, our territories have also been invaded by Winnie the Pooh, Miffy, Pororo, Tweety Bird, Dora the Explorer and definitely, Hello Kitty too. (There wasn't much Elmo stuff here in Korea).





See my mickey tee and hairclip too.

Bye April.

Oh my, can't believe it's now May already. The month of April just passed by so quickly without me realising it.

Well, it has indeed been a very busy and tiring month for mummy. We has been touring around Korea with Gong Gong (grandfather) and Lao Gor (grand-aunt). They came just in time to see the cherryblossoms and many other vibrant-coloured flowers in bloom. Spring has been a beautiful sight indeed.









There was also the Cultural Day Event in which mummy and other foreigner wives have to share a dish from each other countries. It was, for the first time in mummy's life, to cook for so many people. Besides cooking the delicious hainanese chicken rice, mummy also made agar agar as dessert. What an experience.

Mummy really felt like an embassador for Singapore wearing our Sarong Kebaya SIA uniform, promoting Singapore to the Koreans and many other foreigners. My darlings were also busy preparing "food" on that day. It was quite amusing then when my Cutie tried to display her stuff on our table too.

The numerous outings/gatherings with friends also tires mummy out. Mummy longs for a break to stay at home and laze around. Mummy has so much to blog about my darlings. So I'm gonna stay at home and do nothing but blog? Gee...



I'm an embassador for Singapore.






Me too.