White Christmas at Pavilion, KL

Elly was too awed seeing the snow at Pavilion. It was actually man-made snow, made of water and some solutions that melted once it reached the floor.

The snow starts at 8pm daily at Pavilion main entrance. The place was packed with people. Check out the place if you happen to be in town, and be prepared for traffic jams.

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Christmas is Mommy's new name

Granny asked Emmy what was her mommy's name, Emmy answered 'Christmas'. She confused Christina with Christmas... obviously.

Ho ho ho!

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We Miss 'Kei-Yeh' (god-dad)

We had a short reunion with some ex-USM friends at New York's Deli in 1U. Elly and Emmy were so happy to see their 'kei-yeh' Eric. On the way home, the girls cried and said they missed 'kei-yeh'. The girls has grown very fond of 'kei-yeh' and loved his companion.

Thanks Eric for being there for the girls. Kids don't lie and its proven Eric is a people magnet, from babies to adults. Ice's son, JY even invited Eric and Sky to his home for a play session.

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Malacca Day Trip Part 2

We met Emma and Erin, cute girls from KL too. Elly and Emmy made friends with them and we bumped into them a few times, all the way to Dataran Pahlawan.

Its like that, sometimes when we bumped into someone, we kept on bumping them a few times the same day. Have you experienced such incident before?

Malacca Day Trip

We made a day trip to some of Malacca historical places at the end of November. Elly and Emmy hiked up to St Paul Church ruins and then to A Famosa. The weather was terribly hot and we adjourned to the nearby Dataran Pahlawan for some Taiwanese snacks - oyster mee suah and potato chips.

It was a sad thing that the Malaysia Eye was being removed from Malacca. Else, we will make a trip up the wheels. Next trip, we hope to visit some other interesting places.

Fun Learning with strawberries

Obviously, Emmy loves the playtime with the strawberries. Think deeper about it, each child learning style is unique and as parents we have to be observant to see what makes him/her ticks.

Will put more thoughts into creating more fun learning for the sisters. With so many fun learning classes in the market, its important to understand each kid and see what is best from the kid's view.



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Strawberry Head

I always marvelled by the innovative products created by the Greater China comprising China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Recently bought these 'strawberries curlers' whereby just rolling hair into these strawberries can create beautiful curls.

Besides being a beauty product, its also an education tool for Emmy. She is a lil bit active and conventional ways of getting her to sit and learn does not interest her. I used the strawberries to teach her colors, shapes, counting. She seems to enjoyed the indirect learning very much.

Tried it on Emmy and had fun playing it with her. The effect: yes, it does curls and I found out that the effect is better if the hair is longer.

It is available at Sasa. Check them out!

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Sisters Keeper

Just a candid shot of the sisters.

I just finished a family based novel by Jody Picoult called 'Sister Keeper'. Its a sad story about 2 sisters and how the younger sister wanted to sue her parents for 'deciding' on getting her to do a lot of 'donation' to her elder sister who suffered from cancer.

It ended with Anna, the younger sister died in a car accident and her organs being donated to her sister, Kate and others who need the donation.

Its a great read especially for parents as the author beautifully shared the noble intentions of each of the parents action.



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Rapunzel 1

Elly loves Rapunzel. She had read about the girl with the long hair. In this 1 hour and 45 minutes movie, its entertaining to watch Rapunzel and her experience to escape from the tower.

Do bring your kids to watch this fun-packed movie. For myself, I enjoyed it very much too.

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Merry Christmas!

Its December and Christmas is approaching. Brought Elly and Emmy to watch Rapunzel and we met Santa Claus and Santarina along the way.

And the girls got their lollipops. Thank you Santa and Santarina!

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Twist Twist Twist Dancers

Elly and classmates performing Twist Twist Twist dance during Mayter's year end annual performance.

As her performance was quite good, she was selected to perform at Leisure Mall on Nov 20th, in conjunction with Mayter Story Telling Competition.

It was her first public performance on stage...:)

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Kakak Yati and Elly

Thanks to Kakak Yati, she takes good care of Elly at school and during the daycare. Have to remind Kakak Yati to give more vege to Elly.

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Thank You, Teacher Jacinta

Teacher Jacinta, Elly's class teacher. Met her at the Parents Teacher Meeting. Being told that Elly was doing well in her studies and mixed around well with friends.

When Teacher Jacinta wanted to share something more, Elly praised "Teacher Jacinta, you look like a beautiful princess today". Guessed that soothed the teacher so much, Teacher Jacinta shared that Elly was very generous with her praises and sweet words.

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Elly and Toy Poodle, Rex

Elly always want to have a dog. During school holidays, brought her to Leon 哥哥 house. Elly enjoyed playing with Rex and Leon 哥哥. She even said that she wished to have a brother, hmm...

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Mom Gets 98%

Elly drew this picture on her Mandarin book. She drew Mom and gave me 'A' and 98 marks for spending time teaching her Mandarin.

Thanks Elly, I enjoyed spending time with you too!

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Mayter's Annual Concert - Oct 2010

Its Mayter's Annual Concert and a few kindergartens; Connaught, Mewah, Anggerik branches had a joint concert at Dewan Puteri Islam, Cheras. Elly's performance was 'Twist Twist Twist'. Seeing all other kids performed really marvelled me, its all the hardwork of the teachers. I wonder how they managed and controlled the large number of kids, while for myself, having 2 of them sometimes already drive me nuts..:)

Took the opportunity to take a photo of Elly and her 'partner' in class (who sat next to her). The boy's name is Ya Zhong and the funniest thing was Elly found him to be the most handome person on earth!

Genting Escapade - July 2010

It was the girls second trip to Genting, the first was last year, 2009. This round, Popo and Gonggong did not joined us. For the whole 2d1n trip became a kids trip, with most of the times, we were at the theme parks.

While having a break back in the room, Elly and Emmy danced to the rythm of 'Nobody Nobody' by Wondergirls. A great weekend escapade for young family; i mean family with young kids. :)

Birthday Bash - June 2010

Shangrila hotel served the best buffets in town, well... at least, that was my opinion. To celebrate Gong gong and Mommy's birthdays (yup, we shared the same birthday), we went for a feast at Lemon Garden, Shangrila Hotel, KL. As it was also a day after Father's Day, guessed a lot of seafood was ordered for the celebration, we enjoyed some of the best lobsters and fishes. The other seafood were fresh too!

Yummy! Happy birthday and may Gonggong and Popo always healthy and happy.

Balloon Exhibition - June 2010

While we were back in Malacca for the weekends, we went to the Balloon Competition held at Jusco Malacca. The girls were marvelled by the various designs of the balloons, even myself was awed by the creativity and efforts put in by all the contestants.

Elly especially, loved the mermaid balloons and the pearl balloons.

Playful Children - April 2010

As now only Mommy stopped procrastinating and acted on downloading all the photos from the camera since January 2010, many beautiful moments of growing up times was captured throughout 2010. For April, this was the sweetest ones, the girls just spending time being together at home and entertaining each other, in a way that only they understand...:)

The girls are really growing up fast and will spend more time with them in their growing up years. Now seeing them sleeping soundly as i am blogging, a sense of gratefulness and happiness filled me up.

Many thanks to my Mom and Emmy's babysitter for taking good care of them while we were working.

Elly's Birthday at Mayter - March 2010

Elly was lucky as the second week after she enrolled in Mayter Kindergarten, she celebrated her 4th birthday with her schoolmates. As everyone has to bring a cake for the birthday party, Popo bought a pandan layer cake for Elly (green in color with shredded coconuts).

Petrosains Experience - May 2010

Petrosains Discovery Center, located in KLCC is another excellent experiential place for kids. In May 2010, we brought the girls for a fun day at Petrosains KLCC. There were various areas for learning, mostly by experiential and fun-learning.

As it was a long journey, we rented 2 strollers for the girls and managed to explore all the exciting areas; which was explained at http://www.petrosains.com.my. The ones that the girls enjoyed most includes the 3D short cartoon, helicopter simulation and the Space areas.

Pregnancy Playtime - Feb 2010

The girls love to play. And sometimes, we got crazy ideas and we just let the girls explored the creativity and act into their plays. While we were visiting Gugu's home in Mont Kiara, the girls got the creative idea to play pregnant women.

How they did that? By putting balloons under their clothes and just have fun!

Awesome Aquaria KLCC - March 2010

Thanks to joint promotion by Maybank and Aquaria KLCC, i got discounted tickets to bring Elly and Emmy for an underwater experience. As the place was very crowded and scared to lose sights of the girls, we did not manage to capture many pictures.

And most of the times, Elly and Emmy wanted to be carried by myself and Sky. Nevertheless, it is worth the experience for parents with pre-school kids, open up their world to abundance of life and nature.

It was also a birthday treat for Elly! Happy 4th birthday, Elly.

Elly's Dance Performance

Elly's first dance performance on stage. It is in conjunction with Mayter's Story Telling Competition.

Her dance was entitled 'Twist Twist Twist'. So happy to see Elly dancing to the rythm and performed at her best!

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Just Us...

We love each other a lot! When Elly was performing on stage, Emmy kept giving encouragement '姐姐，加油！＇

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Granny and Us

Just a candid shot for rememberance with Popo after Elly's concert.

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Bride and Groom to be

Elly and Emmy making friends with Mommy's friends, who came to gave '嫁女＇biscuits.

Congratulations to the new bride and groom to be!

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Elly's drawing

In this drawing, Elly shared that she was going shopping with her 'gugu'(aunty). And there were unicorns along the way. Its a sunny day too.

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Beautiful Poem Dedicated to My Daughters

I would love to dedicate this beautiful poem to my 2 beautiful daughters. It was voiced out by one of the character in the movie 'Coach Carter'.

Beautiful poem about being our best, and Elly and Emmy, follow the sunshine and excel in your true calling.

And this poem is dedicated to all the beautiful children and parents who read this message. Be your true self.

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All Girls Outing

Elly and Emmy joined Mommy and friends for a short meet-up. Oi 姐姐 and Quen 姐姐 came back from Singapore for the weekends.

Thanks for spending time having fun with us, and entertaining us. Great camaraderie...

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Cool Emmy?

Look cool? Yes, Emmy thinks so...

We were looking for sunglasses and Emmy wanna join the fun too!

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Thumb Cut

Emmy cut her thumb while try to play with the craft maker, the ones that can punch various shapes ie flower, love, angel etc.

Daddy wrapped her finger with handkerchief and 'design' a candy wrapper for her.

Look like a big candy?

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Water-Lemon?

As recommended by good friend, Ice on using the VCD flashcard, we played them occassionally too for the girls.

When come to watermelon, Emmy will confuse and said 'water-lemon' instead. Despite numerous trials, she still said so.

We will tease her for fun, haha!

Ps: sign of dyslexic?
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Swimming with Daddy

Daddy is carrying Elly and crawling in the baby pool. It was too shallow for adults. Hehe...

Look at the happy faces!

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Splash 2

Daddy experiencing it again with Emmy. Obviously, the momentum created a big splash.

Look at Emmy's expression!

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Splash 1

Daddy carried Elly and splash!

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Swimming

Been a year since the girls last had experienced swimming. Here they were again. They enjoyed it very much especially the water slide experience.

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Waterslide Experience

We went to Gugu's place for swimming. There was even a water slide for kids. The girls having a great time playing with water.

Thanks, Gugu for inviting us to swim at your place.

Ps: luckily Elly's swimsuit can still fit. Bought it last year.

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Bon Voyage, Ah-Mah

Its Ah Mah's visit to Wuxi, China and stay with Ah Pek(paternal uncle) for a few weeks.

We sent AhMah and Sukpo(paternal granny) to the airport. When it was time to bid farewell, Elly cried and want to follow AhMah to China.

And the girls were having a great time with Sharon 姐姐, Ah Em's friend. Sharon will take care of AhMah and Sukpo during the travel to China.

Thanks, Sharon 姐姐!

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Honey, I am giving you honey

I love this picture though blur. Caught a candid moment of Elly and Emmy sharing honey.

Hope when they grow up will check out this wonderful blog that capture their growing up moments.

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Sharing Giant Rainbow Chips Donut @ Strudels

Strudels makes the best apple strudels, in my opinion. We just found out that there's one in MJ, Midvalley.

Another hanging out place for some sweet indulgence. Its cosy too with the sofa and pillows and its in Elly's favorite color!

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What's on Emmy?

Emmy's dad once played with her and put diaper on her head. Now Emmy played the same way and put on her head before she wears it to sleep.

Ya, she and Elly still wear diapers at night. Any tips to make them quit diapers or let it be since is only for night time?


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Montessori Teachings

I am advocate for Montessori teachings, as a way of life for children. Check out this wonderful site, by Michael Olaf, which he himself practised Montessori teachings since young. http://www.michaelolaf.com/

You can also download the above 2 books on integrating Montessori teachings into children life and saving money when it is integrating into kids daily life. Montessori education is not cheap and for that 3 hours education.

Learn how to create 'Casa de Bambini' (Italian) that means Children House at home at the fraction of the cost of sending kids to Montessori education.

I hope to share more on Montessori, as and when i learn something interesting. Do come back and visit this site,yeah!

Zoodle for Children

Check out this cool website! www.zoodle.com, it has a lot of activities and games for kids.

The best thing is once you have launched this website for your kid, it is 'locked' and your small kid will not interfere or delete any of your documents.

The activities and games are based on the kid's age, and parents can monitor and track the kid's activities.

As for Emmy, she starts with alphabets, abc.

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Elly and her Fluffy Dog

Thanks to '玲姐', Elly got this toy dog. She named it Fluffy Dog.

Do they look alike?

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Balancing Act

Elly was playing with her red teddy bear and got a creative idea to exercise together.

Look at this pose, and the red bear on the round stool! Elly created a pose for the red bear and then tried to copy the same pose.

Later on, she taught Emmy to do it too!

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Karaok session

The girls first karaok session. Elly and Emmy sang mostly kids songs, Happy Birthday to daddy and '我爱他' by Dingdang.

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Happy Birthday to Daddy!

Had cake and ice cream @ Secret Recipe.

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Elly's New Look

Cool huh!

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