Megan's Blog

Munich Carnival

2011-03-08T09:10:00.000-08:00

Munich holds a carnival yearly and this year, we are lucky to witness it. It is like a smaller scale of Mardi Gras and they call it Fasching in German.

The highlight is on Tuesday where people take leave to dress up in pretty or funny costumes and parade around ViktualienMarkt. They have concerts, drinking and dancing there for the people to celebrate.

The Glockenspiel tower dressed up for Fasching.

The party starts from 10 in the morning but mostly people stream in later.
Viktualienmarkt without much crowd yet and some of the early birds all dressed up!

The only person dressed up that Megan wanted to take photo with coz it's a princess.

This is the time where you can legally litter the streets, confetti sellers are at each corner and you can buy a bag to throw at anyone. People throw it at anyone anywhere!

Megan getting into the fun by throwing confetti at other kids.

The parade with people dancing and singing on a lorry.

Hamburg

2011-03-05T12:24:00.000-08:00

Lovely sunset view over Hamburg

We decided to visit the Miniature Wonderland museum (Modellbahn) which is all on mini railways, trains and displays since it seemed interesting and suitable for Megan. Daddy said there was a long queue the previous time he was here so he didn't manage to see it.

Walking towards the Museum which is situated along the canal banks, where they convert the old warehouses into museums.

Some of the displays in the museum. They have displays of trains and rails in Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Austria etc. It's amazing how the people could craft out these models and look so real.

Pictures of the warehouses and canals.

We headed for the city centre which was a short walk away.

Taking the river cruise in an old boat to admire the river and waterways.

Kassel

2011-03-02T08:16:00.000-08:00

Daddy had to travel to Kassel for work so we tagged along and stayed there for 2 nights before heading to Hamburg for a weekend trip.

The city centre where the Kassel Palace is, a wide open space in the middle of Kassel Town.

A wide and lovely area with a big park. Megan loved to roll on the grass and run about the grounds.

After playtime, we had a tea break at one of the cafes in Kassel Town. Coffee, cakes and pasta! Yum! And Megan again has a little corner to play in.

Dachau

2011-02-27T08:44:00.000-08:00

We visited Dachau, pronounced as "Da-Hau" by Germans.

It was a short regional train ride away.

Thing about Germany is that there are many different trains to different places but the network is really good so we do not really need a car to go around as many places are quite accessible.

Anyway, Dachau town is known for being the infamous Nazi concentration camp in the past. Mainly, people come here to visit the horrors of the past.

Taking the bus from Dachau bahnhof (train station) to Dachau Concentration Camp

This was the very first concentration camp by the Nazis. Here we are at the entrance.

After purchasing our Audio guides, we took a short walk to the entrance of the camp.

Taking a shot of the roll call square through the gate.

The roll call square

Tall trees lining the way towards the memorial, crematorium and churches.

Along the sides were previously all the camp bunkers but no longer standing. Only one is left to show us how horrible were the conditions in the past.

Berlin, Bear city!

2011-02-27T06:34:00.000-08:00

We did a weekend trip to Berlin. As Daddy was in Kassel for work, we took a train to Berlin to meet him there instead.
Some of the highlights of our trip:
After checking into our apartment, we took a subway down to visit the Berlin Wall. Berlin was even colder than Munich and look at how Megan was wrapped up in her stroller.

Here's the Brandenburg Tor (Gate) in the night.

Day 2: we took a 1 hr plus regional train ride to Potsdam, a beautiful little town.

Highlights of the town include the Sansoucci Park, which is a very HUGE park.
We visited the Schloss Sansoucci and the park. Megan enjoyed looking at the ducks that were all around the frozen pond in the park.

Waiting for the bus to bring us back to the train station

Day 3: We visited the Brandenburg Tor again first to admire it in the day. As we were early, we had the chance to take it without hords of tourists admiring it as well.

Traces of the Berlin wall around the city, the line is still there for us to see how Germany was divided.

Then it was on to The Reichstag, which is the Parliament house or Bundestag in German. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to go inside as we need to make an appointment earlier on. This was implemented only one week ago due to fear of terrorist attacks!

Last day in Berlin: We visited Charlie Checkpoint which was one of the checkpoint crossings in the past to cross between east and west. Now it's mostly for tourists with just signs to mark the spot.

Our favourite part: A respite from the cold weather by having a hot cuppa in Starbucks. Then it was to Mini Berlin, cute shop with all the Mini stuff.

Finally time to catch our train back to Munich. Love their ICE or Intercity bullet trains. They are nice, comfy and lots of room. We managed to get a child cabin where there's a little corner with games and even a toy rocking horse for Megan to play.

Zugspitze, Top of Germany

2011-02-21T13:48:00.000-08:00

We took a weekend day trip to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, to visit the Bavarian Alps. We chose to go all the way to the top, the Zugspitze, where it is the highest summit in Germany. Half of it is shared with Austria though. We started off early to catch the 6.30am regional train to Garmisch-Partenkirchen from the Haupbahnhof (main train station).

Megan on the train & the snow scene outside in the early morn.

From there, it was a short walk to the Zugspitze train station. We bought our round-trip tickets to the Zugspitze that included the cog wheel train ride, 2 different cable car rides and entrance.

As it's still winter, you can see many avid skiiers on this weekend, going up to ski at different locations.

Quick snap of railway while waiting for train, skiiers hooking up their skis on the side of train

Boarded the Zahnradbahn (Cog wheel train) towards Eibsee

Upon reaching Eibsee, a short walk to the cable car station.

The Eibsee Seilbahn is a steep cable car that sways and swings up to Zugspitze

Cable car swinging its way down to us!

Sight from the cable car itself, going above the snow and clouds!

Upon reaching Zugspitze, we went up to the viewing gallery to look down but it was cloudy and cold so decided to go down to Zugspitzplatt first.

Megan stepping and touching onto real snow for the first time. Brrr...

The fake cable car on the top of Germany for photo posing

We then transferred to the Gletscher (Glacier express) cable car, down to Zugspitzplatt.

We had a respite from the cold by sitting in the cafe and having hot coffee and cakes. What a haven from the cold outside. Time for Megan to enjoy her milk and pretzels!

The view of ZugspitzPlatt where there are many ski slopes around us.

Megan was really excited about snow for the first time and started to play and roll around in the snow. She enjoyed touching and tried rolling snowballs.

Look at her "cool" pics because of her sunglasses, We had to put them on because of the bright sunlight reflecting from the snow.

Then it was back up to Zugspitze Peak and the weather cleared up a bit. Behind us is the peak where there's a cross. Look at the mountaineers attempting their climb up there!

The lovely view from the top

The frozen lake from our Eibsee cable car down to the cog wheel train station.

Then it was a short train ride back to Munich towards home.

Munich City

2011-02-20T13:46:00.000-08:00

Along Schwanthaler Strasse (str) where our apartment is...

Walking towards the train station

First day In Munich, we toured Marienplatz, the centre of Munich.

Neues Rathaus(New Town Hall)....where there is the glockenspiel on show daily at 11am and noon. We were late so will have to wait another day to see it.

HaxnBauer: Famous Pork Knuckles restaurant ( We went during lunch so it's not as crowded as dinnertime)

Megan enjoying herself in the restaurant with the colouring materials given.

Walking around Virtualienmkt

Nice flowers in bloom, something you don't get to see in Sg.

More pictures the next round...

Munich- The Move

2011-02-19T13:39:00.000-08:00

The move to Munich

As Daddy is being attached here for work for half a year, Mummy decided to join him over there with Megan. This is also the chance to tour around Germany and other parts of Europe. Hee...

Munich is slightly different from the other parts of Germany as it's in the South and it's the capital city of Bavaria.

It's not a very long time but the packing took quite a while. Phew! Trying to squeeze 6 mths worth of stuff over to Munich in our luggage. As brown rice is not commonly found there, we had to find ways and means to ship it over. Thank goodness Daddy's colleagues are making a trip up in Mar and we had more people to help bring rice over.

Also, we are still in the midst of ending winter so extra load had to be taken up for winter clothing.

Daddy flew over first to Munich to settle the apartment and other issues. We joined him the next week so as to allow things to be settled in.

HongKong Day 3 and 4

2010-12-04T06:52:00.000-08:00

Day 3:
We walked down to have dimsum breakfast at Langham place restaurant, recommended by our hostel boss.

We decided to have a leisure day walking around our area Yau Ma Tei and Tsim Sha Tsui, looking out for dried goods that Popo wanted to buy.

Stopping by for our favourite steamed milk at Yee Shun Milk Company. If you are a milk lover, you must try 双皮炖奶－ Double layer steamed milk!

Mummy and Popo needed to do grocery shopping in Yaumatei, buying herbs and dried goods.

Megan decided to help out in the small shop, trying out the old time weighing scale and checking out all the herbs.

Then, it's the buying of preserved meats. This trip, we had others recommending us some shops selling the preserved liver sausages 腊肠. So we decided to check out these shops as well.

If you are wondering how to eat the sausages and waxed meats, we steam them over rice.

Old timer along Shanghai Street - Also called "Wing Wah" like the famous cake shop.

Megan sitting with the waxed ducks! Super old school right?

Stopping for lunch at a local Cha chan teng,
Daddy eating his roast goose thigh again.

Then, to a small eatery for nice and smooth tau fu fa!

Day4:

We took a train down to Tsingyi where we had dim sum at Tao heung. This is one of our favourite places to eat since they have many branches and the food quality and variety is very good. As we had some vouchers to claim with compliments from 4th Auntie, we decided to go to this branch instead of the one we normally patronise at TST.

After a full breakfast, we headed to Tung Chung again where we walked around the citygate outlets for some shopping.

On the train. This is one of the cutest trains as they pasted these stickers saying " Please do not eat me yet" （唔好吃住我）asking people not to eat on the train! Megan loves it very much!

Dinner at Tsim Sha Tsui, at a Teochew Eatery. Roast pork and goose, fried salt and pepper squid, Pig's blood soup with chives...

A famished Megan tucking into her rice.

Time to walk down to Salisbury Road where we can catch the light and sound show by the harbour.

Hongkong 25 Nov-03 Dec Day 1 and 2

2010-12-03T08:31:00.000-08:00

We decided to have a holiday to Hongkong since SQ was having promo for their tics. It was more of a leisure eating cum shopping tour since Mummy and Daddy had already visited most of the famous sights previously. We asked Popo along for this tour too since it has been a long while since she went to Hongkong.

Enjoying a bit of fun before departure at the waiting lounge.

Enjoying her kid's meal and ear phones just like an adult

Our flight there was in the evening at 7pm. By the time we touched down in Hongkong, it was already close to 11pm.

Upon touch down, we needed to take a train over to the main airport to collect our luggage before heading over to our accomodation in Mongkok.

Next day:

Took a train to the famous Wong Tai Sin first after our porridge breakfast.

Here's Megan making friends with a Hongkie Ah Peh.

Outside Wong Tai Sin

Then it's onwards to Tung Chung for the Cable Car ride to Ngong Ping. This was also Megan's first cable car ride.

This cable car ride is super worthwhile because of the long journey uphill and downhill, the sights of sea and land, you get a view of the airport too!

Megan saw these cable cars and insisted that Mummy take a pic of her with every single one!

These are just 2 of the ones I took.

We didn't bother with climbing up the giant buddha and instead just walked around the surroundings.

Having a tea break with the Lantau famous Spring water tofu fa (tau huay), sesame paste and HK street food of curry fishballs etc

Back to Mongkok where we had our guillinggao after dinner!

More street food : Smelly Tofu!

Waiting for our order!

Then it's off to Marketplace at Langham Place to get milk for Megan and other essentials.

Do they have this mini trolley here in Sg? This is really cute and Megan loved pushing it around.

A stop for dessert at Hui Lau Shan. Slurp!

Mummy's birthday

2010-09-25T08:01:00.000-07:00

This year, Mummy's birthday fell on a Sat and Daddy decided to have a dinner at Honjin7 at Adam Park. It was just a simple dinner together with Popo, Gonggong, Chorchor, Ah ku and Auntie Jocelyn. The series of photos I snapped... Hmm...what to eat??

Mummy and Chorchor

Hard Rock Hotel weekend getaway II

2010-09-17T07:34:00.000-07:00

17th Sept

This is the 2nd weekend getaway in Singapore we had. ( didn't blog about this since photos was posted up on FB)
This was a really last minute offer of a free room but nevertheless, a free room is great and we went ahead.

We checked in into Hard Rock on Friday evening after Daddy and Gonggong got back from work. We went for dinner first before heading over to Sentosa.
Finally, we arrived at the hotel!

18 Sept
Next day, I woke up really early as I was excited about swimming in the lovely Hard Rock Pool.
This is a bigger fake beach pool compared to Hard Rock Bali. We had breakfast at Toast Box before heading back to swim.

Since we had the room, we got 4th gu gong's and 2nd gu gong's family over to swim as well.

All that swimming made everyone hungry and we headed over to the Irish pub for dinner. Since it was full and we were a really big group, we had to wait quite a while so ended up having drinks at the bar first.

There was a queue outside for free lanterns so Mummy got me a few lanterns to hold. They were really quite good since it was battery operated and came with 2 free batteries even!!!

19 Sept
We had our morning swim again the next day before check out. That's the end of our little getaway.

Couch Potato

2010-09-07T02:56:00.000-07:00

= Megan???

Megan's turning into a TV addict!

Changi Chalet 3-5 Sept

2010-09-03T07:46:00.000-07:00

It has really been a long while (many years) since our family had a chalet at Changi so after some discussions, Mummy managed to book a huge bungalow at Fairy Point Changi using her civil servant rates.

It was a really great gathering with Yong ku coming back from Melbourne as well too.

Mummy checked in on the 3rd and we went down in the evening. We had our dinner at Changi Village.

Day 2
Next day was rest and relax day. Daddy brought me to explore the Changi boardwalk which was just a stone's throw away.

All the other Ah Kus and yis were spending time on the PS3.

They went down to the boardwalk to take a walk too tog with me.

At night, the barbecue was the highlight. Everyone had fun eating, chatting, playing games etc.

I'm in my PJs pants since there were many mozzies waiting to bite me!

Day 3
'Mahjong'ing time! (Nope, it's just building blocks!)

We spent time swimming at the nearby Civil service club.

I had fun taking photos with all my ah yis and kus while the rest had their 2nd round of BBQ in the evening.

It was truly a fun time with family, gathering together at the chalet.

Playtime- The Magic Ocean

2010-08-30T20:56:00.000-07:00

Mummy went for a theatre show with Megan. It was just a short 40 mins drama which is suitable for her age group, since we did not know how Megan can sit through.

We decided to take a train down since driving is more troublesome with the jam at peak hours.

We tried out the Circle Line for the first time to go to Esplanade station.

Megan on the train to Esplanade

No photos of the play since cameras are banned.

Megan on the way back after the show.

There was a fly on the train so Popo said that she has to close her mouth to prevent it from flying inside.

Turkey 05 - 20 August

2010-08-06T06:49:00.000-07:00

We did a family trip to Turkey for 2 weeks in August.

This is the longest flight I have taken so far. 13 Hours to Istanbul! Mummy and Daddy survived the plane flights and trip and enjoyed the whole experience.

(Look at Facebook first for photos)

Sleeping and waking up for breakfast on board

We flew off at past midnight from T2 and transit in Dubai for 1 hr before flying off to Istanbul.

Upon reaching there, it was not our final destination and we went off to the domestic terminal to catch a 1 hr domestic flight to Nevsehir, Cappadocia.

At the domestic Terminal, Megan watching the planes outside

Megan enjoying her plane ride, when we flew off, she was too tired and fell asleep.

Our first taste of Turkish food on our domestic flight. White cheese sandwich with Apple yogurt puree. (Not bad eh, still got food on a 1 hr flight)

At Nevsehir, we took a half hour bus ride to our final destination, Goreme Town in Cappadocia. It was hot!!! Super Summer heat in full blast!

Phew!

After travelling such a long distance and for a long time, we arrived at Bedrock Cave hotel where it is to be our home for 4 days.

A glimpse of how Goreme town is like...

Guppies

2010-07-05T02:08:00.000-07:00

I am not for pets for Megan now at this age coz frankly she doesn't know how to take care of them.

One morning at the market, Gonggong decided to get guppies for Megan to enjoy at home. Sooo...here she is playing with her fish,

shouting "hello" at them excitedly...(oh my god! I think they might die of fright instead)

Last count to date: 4 died, one left which is the longest survivor! (maybe coz there's no others to fight with it??) poor guppies...

Ryan's birthday party @ Fidgets

2010-07-04T20:52:00.000-07:00

Mummy brought me to Turf City Fidgets to attend Ryan's 3rd birthday party there.

First, Daddy and I headed for the play area to run and climb around while Mummy was busy chatting with her friends.

Mummy had to convince Megan to go back to the function room where the staff had some games planned for the kids.

See all the younger kids "stoned face" when the staff enthusiastically tried to rally them around for a treasure hunt. They were probably thinking "what are you talking about??"

They absolutely had no idea how to play the game.

L-R: Shannon, Charlotte, Aldan, Megan. All looking so cute!

Megan looks kind of shocked when this unknown boy sat next to her. Haha....

Aldan and Megan

After all the games, it was time for the birthday cake. Every kid had their own seat.

It was a very nice 'Chugginton' cake, coz it's Ryan's fave character.

Ryan, the birthday boy on his throne.

Megan enjoying her fries...

Portraits at Compass Point Kopitiam

2010-07-03T07:13:00.000-07:00

Snapped a few pics while waiting for Daddy

Megan snapping feet

Showing Daddy the wonders of the LRT

2010-06-27T20:51:00.000-07:00

Megan wanted to take the train instead of Daddy's car again when we wanted to head to Compass Pt so we brought Daddy to take the LRT.

Being the seasoned traveller on the train she is, she showed Daddy where to walk to the station, tap the EZ link card and to take the lift to the platform.

Here she is, happily sitting on her beloved train.

She snapped a pic of her feet!

Cousin Javier's Birthday

2010-06-26T20:49:00.000-07:00

It was cousin Javier's 1st birthday party. Auntie Junie invited us over for lunch.

Practising my "saranghe" with Mummy

I had a great time playing with balls, balloons and other kids of my age.

Tips to Enjoying cake

2010-06-22T08:23:00.000-07:00

Brought Megan to Compass Point for a short trip today with Popo. We decided to
have high tea or rather coffee at Toast Box.

Surprisingly, this is Megan's first attempt at eating cream cakes! She totally shuns cakes all the while.

This time, she was enjoying that slice of Kaya cake though.

Megan's tips to enjoying a slice of cake

1) Attempt to cut the cake

2) Look apprehensive, take a deep breath and cut it with a spoon.

3) Taste it

4) Good? Taste it again...

Lazy Sunday

2010-06-20T20:47:00.000-07:00

How did we spend our Sunday?

We went for a swim in the morning.

And then headed over to Honjin restaurant at Adam Park for a Jap lunch. They have nice and value-for-money bento sets, plus it's not that crowded like the usual Jap restaurants in malls.

So we had a peaceful and quiet lunch in lush surroundings.

Wow! Nice spread!

Sake, anyone?

Taking the bus for the 2nd time!

2010-06-17T07:49:00.000-07:00

Megan once took the bus when Mummy was on a previous sch hol.

Since then, it has been many moons back and decided that she should take the bus again and make a short trip down to Thomson Plaza.

That's the only interesting place the "One and Only Bus 163" available at our bus stop brings us to!

Here she is waiting very seriously for the bus...

Enjoying her soya bean milk after our lunch.

Mummy asked her to pose with Barney on the kiddy car ride.

Weight time

2010-06-16T09:01:00.000-07:00

Update: I am now 19Kg and 95 cm.

Still on the 90 something percentile??

To the library again

2010-06-16T09:00:00.000-07:00

Mummy has ran out of interesting places to visit with this little one since we normally try to go out after Megan's lunch and come back for her afternoon nap.

So it was off to the library again where it's cool, convenient and nearby. Mummy can get lunch and coffee too.

Cousins

2010-06-14T01:39:00.000-07:00

Since Daddy was off the day after he came back, we paid a visit to Megan's Ah ma during lunchtime and she had a fun time playing with Faith meimei.

Megan likes oranges

Enjoying oranges together.

Can you tell they are just 5 mths apart?

Painting on Sunday

2010-06-13T07:26:00.000-07:00

Mummy decided that we should do some painting to while away the time at home before Daddy's arrival in the evening.

So out came the paints and brushes and Megan's off to create her little masterpiece.

Da Vinci in the making?

She decided that finger painting was much more fun.

See the intense concentration on her art.

Also, her singlet turned into her apron as well! Fingers naturally went to her top to clean off the mess.

"See Mummy, so pretty!" (in her own words)

Saturday Weekend without Daddy

2010-06-12T02:47:00.000-07:00

Mummy decided to bring Megan to Sengkang library on Saturday as the malls are usually packed on the weekends and did not want to spend time jostling around with people.

From our house, it's convenient to just take a train to Compass pt so decided to use public transport instead of driving.

Waiting for the train to arrive

Having coffee and pie for lunch at the library cafe before browsing books

That's how we spent our little weekend together without Daddy.

Ikea

2010-06-11T08:59:00.000-07:00

Today, we headed to Ikea for lunch and shopping. Popo and Gonggong wanted to look at some stuff over there so we had lunch there and I had my playtime.

Having fun at the children's play area

Megan decided the dog was hungry and fed it. The wonders of kid's imagination!

Shopping, shopping

2010-06-10T07:29:00.000-07:00

Mummy, Popo and Gonggong decided to head down to town for a bit of shopping at Robinsons since Gonggong was also on leave.

Having lunch at the food court there.

Why is there a long wait for the food???

Time to help myself to the noodles!

Off to shop, no pics since Mummy was obviously busy!

Building blocks with Mahjong

2010-06-06T07:25:00.000-07:00

Pose is good ya, but nope, Megan is not a gambler yet.

She's just playing with the tiles as if they were building blocks while we were at 4th Gu Gong's house.

And look how she squeezed herself into small spaces... underestimating her size. I hope she doesn't get caught anywhere next time.

I'm going swimming

2010-06-03T09:06:00.000-07:00

in my PJs...

Water baby

2010-06-02T08:17:00.000-07:00

Megan have been swimming very regularly now as Popo will bring her down to the pool every morning. Managed to take some pics of her swimming since Mummy's at home.

Here's some pics of how she is used to the water: she insists on taking off her float!

Submerging almost her whole head into the water while relaxing

Little rascal calling out 'Mummy..mummy...mummy' while submerging her head in.

Hmm, maybe can plan for swimming lessons already...

Skype with Daddy

2010-06-01T07:08:00.000-07:00

Since Daddy went to Germany, we hardly had chance to skype because of the time difference and Mummy is usually at work.

Finally while Mummy was on holiday, we managed to skype with Daddy.

On the phone (fake)

2010-05-31T20:55:00.000-07:00

Here's how Megan is imitating us talking on the phone.

She's pretending to talk to Ah Ku who's away for work too.

Getting Megan to sing

2010-05-31T07:55:00.000-07:00

In an attempt to get Megan to sing in front of the cam, nonetheless backfired since she always refuse to do what you wish her to do, being the little cheeky rascal.

She ends up trying to get Mummy to sing instead.

Favourite question for now...

2010-05-28T19:58:00.000-07:00

"What's this??"

whether Megan knows that particular item or whatever, she will still ask this question??!!!

Day out on Vesak Day

2010-05-28T01:16:00.000-07:00

Not much planned on this Vesak long weekend as Daddy wasn't around and the weather these days is simply too hot and humid to go anywhere!

All Mummy want to do is laze at home.

Since Popo needed to go down to Si Ma Lu to grab some dried goods and essentials, we decided to make a quick trip there and have lunch there too.

Mum...it's so hot here!!!

Look up~

There's a peanut in my mouth... oh well, still must smile!

Are we done yet??!

blowing a horn

2010-05-26T05:05:00.000-07:00

Megan decided to be creative one day and took Popo's funnel to use it as a horn or whatever u call it for speaking into.

She must have seen it from one of her songs videos and decided to imitate the same action.

Evening Walks

2010-05-24T20:24:00.000-07:00

Mummy normally tries to bring Megan for evening walks along the fields next to Popo's house often.

In her usual get up of singlet and panties...

I have absolutely no idea where did she learnt this stance from?

According to Megan, she is shooting something~~~~

It's worktime!

2010-05-23T05:34:00.000-07:00

Said Megan, "Megan do work"

just like Daddy and Mummy...

Playtime

2010-05-23T05:17:00.000-07:00

Mummy was at Popo's house and she had some time to spend with Megan.

Here's some pics to show her at play.

Registering for nursery

2010-05-22T21:10:00.001-07:00

Time flies and it's finally time Mummy registered Megan for school.

I decided to save all the hassles and register her for the PCF kindy just downstairs under our void deck for convenience's sake. Although she's an end-year baby, she still has to go to nursery for 4 yr old kids, even though she will just only turn 3 at the end of yr.

Little did Mummy expect that PCF kindy is super "hot" and by the time I appeared for registration at 8.30a.m. ( which was the stipulated time for reg), the early slots were all filled up!!! Was left with only the 1-3pm time slot. So it pays to be a little KS next time since parents were there since early morning to queue to wait!

At least I wasn't put on waiting list like the others who were later. Phew!

Think it's due to the increasing population around the Fernvale area plus being a young estate.

Daddy's gone away again

2010-05-15T21:04:00.000-07:00

Time for Daddy to travel for work again...after being back for a week from Munich.

This time he's off to Erfurt, Germany for a month of training. He will only be back on 12th June. So Mummy and me has packed our bags too and gone off to Popo's house to stay instead as it's more convenient.

Now Megan can say when being asked:

"Where did Daddy go?"

M: "Daddy go to Germany" (pardon the grammatical errors though)

"How did Daddy go there?"

M: "He take aeroplane"

"Where does Daddy take the aeroplane from?"

M: "Go to the airport"

Bump!

2010-04-22T02:20:00.000-07:00

One day, Megan fell down like Humpty Dumpty and got this in return. (See how she looked...even more frightening, coz she scratched her nose previous day and her cheeks were red!)

Was playing at Gugong's house and got so excited that she ran straight and hit the door!!!

This is after 2 days, where she lifted up her hair to show me her bump.

(Look at the bruise mark near the corner of her eye where the blood has flowed down)

Happy birthday Daddy!

2010-04-17T20:55:00.000-07:00

Daddy was supposedly due to fly off on his birthday to Germany but due to the volcanic ash in Europe, his flight was cancelled.

So last minute, we settled for a simple dinner at home with a birthday cake from Emicakes.

Megan decided to use the cam to take some snapshots. It turned out quite well...

Dinner at Peramakan

2010-04-10T20:29:00.000-07:00

Ah Ku wanted to give us a treat at Keppel Club's Peramakan so we headed there for dinner. This is the first time we tried the place and it was good.

Cheeky Gal closing her eyes on purpose!

Family shot!

Out and about

2010-04-10T20:23:00.000-07:00

Out and about...
accompanied Mummy, Popo and Daddy for a shopping trip to Bugis, Si ma Lu...

Dinner on weekends

2010-04-03T20:13:00.000-07:00

We decided to go out to try out the Korean restaurant at Bukit Timah with Popo, Gonggong, Ah ku and Auntie Jocelyn.
Unfortunately, the wait was too long and the sky was threatening so we decided to just walk down to the nearby 5-Star Chicken rice to have dinner instead.

Followed by coffee at Old Town, even more 'shiok' with the pouring rain outside.

Tricycling

2010-04-02T19:55:00.000-07:00

My hand-me-down tricycle from cousins...

Daddy brought me down to ride it around the playground...

Dim Sum breakfast

2010-03-27T19:40:00.000-07:00

Had a lazy dim sum breakfast at Aljunied's He Ji on Saturday

Daddy with the food...

Handstands

2010-03-18T19:35:00.000-07:00

This is how Megan does her yoga, learning from Popo...

Morning walk

2010-03-17T18:56:00.000-07:00

Brought Megan for a morning walk around Popo's house since Mummy had sch hols. She enjoys watching and feeding the fishes, plus the playground.

Look at how the cheeky gal posed.

Off to the playground...

Megan wearing her own sandals.

Have yourself a merry little xmas!

2009-12-25T22:57:00.000-08:00

Christmas was just a small affair at Popo's place. Ah ku organised a family gathering there with lots of food and wine... We did a Xmas exchange as well with everyone bringing a gift for someone else.

The cousins gathering to play games. Playing a game of Taboo

Megan posing with 'Chor Chor'

Time for a family photo!

The log cake...look at how excited Megan was with the cake, but just for the xmas tree on it! She doesn't eat cake.

Perth: 6-16th Dec 2009

2009-12-06T22:59:00.000-08:00

We decided to take a drive trip in Perth this time since the trip to Brisbane when Megan was 7 mths was enjoyable. Booking tickets and checking in was a hassle as Megan had not turned two before us flying off and the online checking-in didn't allow it at all for the child's tic. We were still supposed to buy an infant tic!!! Imagine her sleeping still in a bassinette?

So we had to call to book her tic and call to check her in!

Day 1- Sin to Perth
We were flying off after midnight.
Grabbed Megan who was actually fast asleep and Gonggong drove us to the airport.
She woke up pretty fast and was very excited about going on the plane.

We met 4th gu gong and family at T3. She got really excited and kept looking at the planes, forgetting all about her sleep. We relaxed by enjoying a cuppa at Toast box first.

Luckily, for this night flight, Megan was very well behaved on board and sat quietly while the plane took off. After the lights went out, she went back to sleep, only waking up in the early morn during the morning breakfast service.
She enjoyed herself thoroughly during this flight.

Touched down at Perth's airport and waited for the rental company to send both cars to the arrival carpark.

For this trip, we decided to drive all the way down south to Albany first instead of staying in Perth city directly.

Megan fell asleep again once we were on the road. Guess she must have been tired out by the break in her sleep last night.

Stopped at Williams rest point along the way.

On the road again

Stopped at a small deli to have a break and beef pies!!! The egg and bacon sandwiches were shiok!

Finally, we reached Albany after a long drive. We booked a 3 bedrm apartment at Dolphin Lodge.

It was in very nice surroundings. There was a park nearby as well as the beach is a short walk away too.

Day 2- Albany

The beautiful scenery around the coast near our apartment

Breakfast at our apartment

Bacon, mushrooms, eggs and crumpets!

Breakfast shot at the table. Picture of mummy's favourite crumpets that can't be found in Sin at all.

Time for a nice walk outside with the cool weather!
Behind is our huge apartment.

Megan meeting ducks for the first time!

Then it was a short walk to the beach. Imagine how cold it is in Summer! Brr... freezing wind!

Lunch was in Albany main town where we tried out this little restaurant 'Mean fiddler'. Food was great!

Megan had a fun time in there too being served like the queen!

Time for a spot of shopping for groceries at Coles for cooking dinner.

Day 3: Albany

We decided to drive around outskirts of Albany and visited a windmill farm. This gave us a chance to see the windmills up close, something that we do not find often. Although we saw it in Taiwan but didnt have the opportunity like this to go closer to the windmills.

Nice view from far... Impressive sight!

Time to climb up the the top of the hill to watch the windmills.

My first bus and LRT trip

2009-12-03T15:21:00.000-08:00

All along since birth, Megan have only been travelling around in a car so during Mummy's Dec hols, we took a short bus ride to Compass Point and back via LRT.

Waiting for the bus

We boarded the bus and Megan was very seriously looking around and enjoying her ride. Look at how serious she looked!

Taking the LRT train back home

She thinks the train is too loud for her ears.
Having the same old serious look again on the LRT.

Arriving at our stop at Fernvale.

Happy 2nd Birthday!

2009-11-29T22:54:00.000-08:00

This post has been long overdue. Mummy has been either too busy or tired to post up my blog.

We decided to have just a small family celebration for Megan's 2nd birthday. This time round, we held it at home. Since we were flying off to Perth before her actual day(11 Dec), we celebrated it much earlier on 29th Nov.

As Samuel Kuku's actual birthday fell on the same day we celebrated, it became a double celebration.

Here's Megan helping Mummy out with the balloon decorations.

The cakes...
Mummy decided to still order from Pine Garden this year with a Hello Kitty theme.

Everyone gathering around the house, see how small our 4-rm becomes once it's filled up with many family members...

Cake cutting time!

Playing in her room

Weekend comes again

2009-11-28T06:12:00.000-08:00

Megan tries to pout.

At the Toa Payoh market waiting for food to arrive...

Went down to Polliwogs again before heading for the bbq. I managed to sit on the swing finally!

Hanging out at Popo's...

2009-11-25T05:30:00.000-08:00

Up till now, Megan still enjoys her play yard. Mummy brought Megan over to Popo's place and we had fun playing inside.

Pouring out water to drink in her little cup.

Playing peekaboo with my fingers when Mummy wants to take a photo.

Having a mouthful of water...

Megan trying a hand out at taking photos of Ernie

Hugging her favourite Ernie...

Having some art fun again

2009-11-15T06:56:00.000-08:00

Having some time, we decided to have some art work done today.

Look at how lazy Megan can be. She prefers to sit rather than stand to draw.

She decided to use both hands to draw.

Alright, time to put up the masterpiece!

Polliwogs

2009-11-07T09:04:00.000-08:00

This was the first visit to Polliwogs at East Coast after hearing so much about it from others. Since Megan has not turned 2 yet, Mummy decided to bring her before the price doubles. Now she only pays $8. and we get to go in for free.

We decided to go down during lunch time when Megan had finished her lunch. Mummy and Daddy had Burger King first before going into Polliwogs.

Megan enjoying some fries before playtime.

Finally, she's free to run around...

Megan really enjoyed herself running around and playing with the balls. We will be coming back again soon.

Reading

2009-11-07T07:52:00.000-08:00

Here's how Megan enjoys the comfy sofa...she relaxes while reading a magazine.

Saturday dinners...

2009-10-31T07:24:00.000-07:00

It's Pasta making time... look at that big pot!

Car entertainment again!

2009-10-28T05:56:00.000-07:00

Seems to be that most photos are now taken during our car rides. Mummy should stop that and get more inspiration somewhere else! It's hard having to entertain Mummy.

Roast chicken on a Saturday night

2009-10-24T05:40:00.000-07:00

Mummy decided to try out her cooking skills again and this time round, it was a roasted bird.

Megan's walk-about

2009-10-18T15:25:00.000-07:00

Mummy had a day off from school and brought Megan for a morning walk around Popo's place.

Here she is looking at fishes. Her new style is to fold her arms. She also insisted on carrying the little bag containing her towel and water bottle.

We proceeded to the playground where she enjoyed her see-saw, driving activity and rocking animals.

Relaxation in the car

2009-10-18T07:34:00.000-07:00

A car journey can be rather dull so I entertain myself with rummaging through Mummy's bag, often grabbing the camera.

This time round, I try to take shots of the driver - Daddy instead. Not too bad for an amateur photographer right?

Finally, time to throw my hands up and relax while the car is on the move. This is the life!

Another few breakfast snapshots

2009-10-17T07:21:00.000-07:00

This time round, Megan played hard to get. She just simply won't look at the camera when you want to take her photo. She will try to hide as if she is shy. Gosh!

Random shots at a Sunday market breakfast

2009-10-10T07:09:00.000-07:00

Was at our usual Sunday marketing cum breakfast when we took these random shots.
Look at the cheeky gal!