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| We thought we were in a foreign land |
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| Watching pple fly... |
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| Happy with the bubble gun! |
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| Uncontrollable excitement! |
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| Finally settled down with ice cream and enjoying it... |
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| Auntie paula keeping them well entertained as usual! |
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| Watching the Song of the sea and seemingly engrossed! |
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| One of Brian's favourite! |
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| Many wows from brian... It was a great and fun outing for the kids who KO right after the show! |
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| I was qutie surprised to see that Brandon has been writing his chinese name on his worksheets in school by himself these days I remember myself being quite skeptical when his Chinese teacher told me that time that he has to learn to write by himself in 2 weeks... but wow.. he did it! I was quite worried previously as his name had too many strokes and was a bit difficult to write, as i had to same problem with my chinese name and i kept writing wrongly even up to primary school! But my son did better than me! |
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| Some randon updates on Brian's progress He is now dry by night, and can wake up in the middle of the night to PU into the child urinal that i bought for him He can recognize quite a no of english words and read them without looking at the pic He is still not too good with mandarin, but will speak mandarin at times as brandon began to speak more mandarin He is still in love with fruits and fruits, i think he has tried all the fruits available includeing promegranate, rose apple, fresh apricots etc etc. He is also very adventurous, he wants to take all the bus nos which he has not tried before??!! and that is quite horrifying for Gong Gong who brings him out! Now that he is stronger and can throw temper tantruns and sit on the pavement.. whenever he goes out with Gong Gong, my helper has to tag along... On the other hand, Brandon seems to be getting more disciplined. He saw the lazy daddy use a spreader for the bread to stir his coffee, he told daddy NOT to do that, and went to the kitchen to take a coffee spoon for him. Brandon is very into nature, and is not into new things like new shoes or shirts etc. unlike Brian Brandon now speaks mandarin like a PRC and i must say the pronounciation for mandarin is better than his english The school is now training him in reading by himself in both chinese and english and he has progressed well and went into the next level. He is also doing practice for public speaking by having a show and tell every week... i must say i am impressed by the schools nowadays.. |
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| Brandon with our neighbour's dog our neighbour let him walk the dog and Brandon wanted to bring him home for one of his show and tell sessions, he brought along his photo with the dog, and after that he told me that he told his classmates that this was his dog??!! |
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| Brandon really loved the dog so much.. yes he was about to kiss the dog... |
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| Brian never really like dogs I remember that there was once at the hawker center when a really big dog sniff his body when he walked past and he became very angry. He then pointed at a sign that says "not pets allowed' and told me "see.. cannot bring the dog here right?' But he has been influenced by his brother and has started to be more friendly to dogs... |
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| The brothers with the dog... I am glad that they pick up good things from each other as well and influenced each other in such ways As Brandon is more into nature and is interested in looking at birds, ants, and insects (likely due to his school), i hope brian will grow to like these too.. |
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| Had to do up our CCK flat before renting out to the new tenant, hence we are back here We took Brian with us while gong gong and por por brought brandon out for shopping, so that we can manage better and do our work in CCK |
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| i sort of miss this place This scene which i always see when i walk there for brunch with my parents last time it has been a long time since i could wake up late and have brunch... |
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| It is nice to see these new addition to my family at my previous favourite carrot cake stall waiting for my favourite carrot cake..How diff it feels now. |
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| After settling some things at the flat, we went to Farmart |
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| Enjoying his ride :) |
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| Tortise |
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| Toad/frogs... watver.. i am not too interested in these things .. but i guess had to appear excited to educate the children |
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| With the fishes in the pond |
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| And brian insisted on feeding the goats among all the animals! |
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| Wow.. Daddy doing some education here.. I think he is better with these things at these places than i am.. |
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| Fresh ones.. saw pple buying lots of it.. Quite an interesting place for brian to be at ;) I have never been here all these yrs while i stayed at CCK ;p But i am glad brian enjoyed himself ! |
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| Decided to have a short evening there when i managed to get off work early one day |
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| These little shops reminded me of the days in IOWA |
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| If u have the time and energy, u might be able to uncover great stuff in one of the shops |
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| nostalgia |
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| Since one of our fav Bak Kut Teh is very near.. |
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| That will be our early dinner A short break during my stressful period at work.. Thanks to daddy for the arrangement :) |
