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Sep
15
2011

How to memorize Mandarin characters

After exactly ONE month attending BaoBei (week long school holidays deducted) Ethan brought home 30 word cards today. One look at them and already I shook my head thinking how on Earth would he be able to read all those? BaoBei word cards But surprise, surprise! Ethan took out those word cards and read them to me effortlessly! Watch this video of him reading those cards! That is Ethan’s progress in exactly ONE month. Just […]

Sep
10
2011

Traffic in the city

We saw a carton box lying idle at the corner of the room and wondered if we can do anything with it.. So we cut them open Lay them flat and taped them together Next we spread glue all over the box And covered the box with brown paper I helped Ethan cut some black foams and he pasted them as roads Ethan painting a toilet paper roll blue. It is later used as a […]

Sep
8
2011

Covered in poop

I was at my work place as usual today waiting for Darling to send Ethan over after his class in Bao Bei. Right on time Ethan appeared at the glass door. I greeted him with a kiss and a hug and asked him how his day was. He said it was okay and I continued by asking how many times he went to the loo during lessons today. I don’t know why but each time he […]

Sep
8
2011

Who’s naughtier?

Trying to get over the Tiger Mom episode, let’s look at some happier moments :D Look at how happy the lil’ one is with the BIG one… 1,2,3.. GO!!! Faster Daddy, faster! Weeeeee! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s SUPERMAN! Human mop? :P Smile – A simple act, but sometimes takes a lot of effort. A smile can cause boundaries to melt, hearts to warm up, and distances to reduce… I <3 U

Sep
7
2011

Too demanding or simply stupid?

It has been a rough day today. Little events lead to some big explosions.. He’s asleep now and when I reflected on today’s event I felt like an arse. Why was I being so demanding? Let me tell you what happened.. It started with him stringing these beads. So cute isn’t he? There we were, happily stringing. He string one and I string another. We then count how many beads we each have. But unlike […]

Sep
2
2011

Right pet for a child?

Since we were surrounded by cats and dogs over the past few days in my hometown, Ethan has requested to have a pet of his own too. I will definitely NOT agree to having a cat nor a dog at home for I kinda dislike them. Sorry to all cats and dogs lovers out there. I thought of getting him a turtle but… He rather have rats! Of course I won’t agree to getting him […]

Sep
1
2011

domestiCATed

Meet Myles, my Mother’s and nieces’ cat. They found her when her eyes has yet to open, lost from its mother. They cared for her and now she is a cute, strong and healthy cat. The thing is, she is so domesticated that she can even hold her own feeding bottle. My mother even bathe and wash her backside each time after she poo-ed! >_< I asked my mother if Myles will be able to catch […]

Aug
31
2011

Koala in Malacca

Am glad to be back in my hometown. But what a bummer this time around as Ethan is such a koala! He is afraid to go anywhere as every corner he goes, there is either a cat or a dog as unlike us my relatives are all animal lovers. ROAR! Looking back at you kiddo! This cat is as big as Ethan :P There are other cats and dogs taller than Ethan but I don’t have pic of them… […]

Aug
30
2011

48 months

Looking through my folders today and found this video taken using my iPhone. I had to rotate it otherwise you guys will be straining your neck viewing it but the quality has been compromised as a result of that :( This is one of my favourite videos of Ethan and I wonder why I did not post it up earlier. He is extremely cheerful here and I wanna hug him just by watching it.. <3 […]

Aug
28
2011

Roti Milo

What is so nice that got Ethan smiling with the thumbs up sign? Long, long time ago when the ayam bertelur my mother used to make this for me to bring to school… Condensed milk Susu cap gantung.. I mean Susu Cap Junjung. Back then it was susu cap Junjung. These days, what is your preferred brand? Spread the condensed milk on a piece of bread Sprinkle MILO all over Cut into bite size pieces […]

Aug
24
2011

Word World – Where Words Come Alive

The creator of Word World – Where Words Come Alive must be a genius! A REAL genius! Thank goodness for Word World! We were first introduced to Word World back in January 2010 when Darling redeemed a set of Word World VCD’s from his credit card points. Ethan loves it instantly that his collection of Word World VCD/DVDs has been growing tremendously throughout the years. His latest Word World episode is Mmm.. Mmm… Milk. Mmm… Mmm… […]

Aug
23
2011

Crafting with recyclables makes him happy :D

I did not get to go ‘jalan-jalan’ after work today. Why? Because Ethan insisted to go straight home to place all his cars into his new craft work. What IS his new craft work? We did something out of card board boxes and kitchen paper rolls… Just look at how happy he is! I’m blessed at how simple it is to please him… and yeah, I’m at home now helping him park all his cars […]

Aug
21
2011

Can’t eat during pregnancy

Ethan asked us once where babies come from. We asked him where he thinks babies come from and he answered, “The hospital”. Darling then explained to him that the Mommy has to get pregnant first, then the baby will grow in the tummy and once the baby is big enough, the baby will be born in the hospital. That is when we bring the baby home from the hospital. After a short pause, he asked […]

Aug
14
2011

Colours in Mandarin

A week after attending Bao Bei, Ethan is starting to speak in Mandarin. Ethan and colours in Mandarin While we were playing with colours last Tuesday, he happily blurted this out… Sweet! He now has the confidence to speak in Mandarin to ME but not to his teachers yet. Why? Because he knows his Mandarin is superior to me so he can show off!! Most of the time I don’t know what he says until […]

Aug
10
2011

How to get FREE ice-cream at IKEA

Smaland @ IKEA Remember I blogged about Ikea’s Smaland? If you don’t, read about it here. Ethan has since been a regular there and STILL, up to today, I did not leave him to go shopping. You can still spot me sitting outside waiting for him :P Today, besides playing in the ball pool, he did some colouring too. Giraffe He coloured this picture of a giraffe and insisted for it to be pasted on […]

Aug
6
2011

Cars 2 go…

Ethan, just like his Daddy is a car enthusiast. It’s not just cars that fascinates him, its the entire vehicle range. He will pledge to work (by working he meant posing for pictures :P) or anything as long as we agree to buy him the toy vehicle he desires. He won’t want to have two of the same vehicle. If he already has a helicopter, he won’t want us to buy him another helicopter. Right […]

Aug
5
2011

Bao Bei Reading Wonderland : Updates

I’ve been busy hence no time to update Ethan’s progress in Bao Bei the past few days. I won’t be updating so frequent-lah, but I think the first week is very important so I took notes of whatever improvement I see in him. Read about Day 1’s update here. Day 2 Ethan still refuse to read nor speak to the teachers unless it is in English. He does not participate in group activities and still […]

Aug
1
2011

Bao Bei Reading Wonderland : Day 1

Today marks the first day Ethan attending Mandarin classes at Bao Bei. We went there 10 minutes early to have a look at the premise before enrolling Ethan. We did not get to see the classroom during our last visit there last week as they were in a midst of a class then. Hand sanitizer I saw ALL the kids getting their hands sanitized before entering the classroom. Thumbs up. Can you spot Ethan?  I […]

Jul
27
2011

Monkey see, monkey do

Every evening when we are at the playground, there will always be a monkey leading and some monkeys following.. @_@ Monkey see, monkey do. Boys will be boys :D

Jul
26
2011

Bao Bei Reading Wonderland : Fee structure

We are looking for a decent place for Ethan to learn Mandarin. Our first stop is the well-known Bao Bei Reading Wonderland. Bao Bei Reading Wonderland, children’s super-learning programme? Really so super? While Darling and I were busy enquiring about the programme, Ethan kept himself entertained… He’s getting restless. Okay, okay… so you are hungry. Let’s go Snowflake :P Before we left, I almost fainted when given the fee structure… For a 1 1/2 hours […]

Jul
22
2011

Ethan’s birthday gift

Yesterday was Ethan’s birthday. He is officially FOUR now :D He has laid his eyes on this for a very long time… Alonso bed from Harvey Norman Darling was feeling a little generous the other day and decided to get this bed for Ethan for his birthday. Ethan got super excited! He quickly cleared the room to welcome his new bed. Why is he smiling so sheepishly here? :D Because he was eagerly waiting for […]

Jul
18
2011

Genting Highland Outdoor Theme Park

It’s Ethan’s birthday weekend so we decided to go up to Genting! We are lucky to be living just an hour away from Genting. Anytime we feel like it, we can just take the car and drive up. Unlike our previous trip where we took the cable car just to let the kids experience the ride, this time we drove straight up to Genting. It was that cold when we arrived shortly before noon. Got […]

Jul
16
2011

Ethan’s 4th Birthday @ Crafty-Crafted Studio

We celebrated Ethan’s 4th Birthday at the Studio today :D Ethan is FOUR! Attire courtesy of Trudy & Teddy :) The kids singing the Birthday song Blowing the flames off the candle Yeay! Cutting the cake Good friends :) Giving out party packs Having fun The sloppy cake from Secret Recipe. Ethan loves it! Thumbs up means GOOD! :D Ethan and I. My boy is now FOUR! <3 <3 <3 They love this the most! […]

Jul
15
2011

Foot in mouth project

To put one’s foot in one’s mouth means to embarrass oneself by saying the wrong thing. But fret not as that is not the issue here today.  The past few days have been very hectic, running from one place to another and come night time, classes back to back. But I like to take things positively, it’s better to be busy than being left idle and grow cobwebs around you, right? Tonight I just don’t […]

Jul
13
2011
Blog // Ethan // Event // Food

The social kid

Today had been a very busy day. I was so worried Ethan won’t be able to pull through the day. We started the day attending a half day workshop for media in Sunway Giza. That is the beautiful Dynas Mokhtar, actress, super-model and an entrepreneur with her 15 month old Khyra. Of course with them there is Ethan :P That is Ethan entertaining himself during the workshop :D Had some light refreshment after the workshop […]

Jun
17
2011

Trudy & Teddy : Winning the RM300 shopping spree

Trudy & Teddy held a tea party recently and we were encouraged to dress up in pastel coloured clothing to match our kid. There is also a fashion parade where ONE contestant will be chosen as the Little Best Dresser. I have blogged about the fashion parade earlier. Read about it here. I came in black and white! Colour blind this Submerryn! >_< There were ten families (including us) involved in the fashion parade. Each […]

Jun
15
2011

Sunny Sandy Style

Ethan and I look forward to the evenings very much for that is the time we can shout, “FREEDOM!” hehe.. That is our playground time. A time for some sun and breeze! It is also a time to get dirty… Sand play! Ethan and my neighbour’s boys. One is six months older than Ethan and another is three months younger than him. So basically they are all of the same age range! What’s with the […]

Jun
6
2011

Little Best Dresser

We got Ethan some Trudy & Teddy apparel some time ago and I blogged about it here. That post (I think) got us invited to a Tea Party with Trudy & Teddy. It is a BIG dress up party! The invited boys and girls can take turns dressing up in pretty dresses, coat, smart shirt with tie, hair band and shoes. Trudy & Teddy, Parkson, Alamanda Putrajaya. To get the ball rolling, we were given […]

May
17
2011

Smelly feet

It’s Wesak and we don’t work on Wesak Day do we? :D My students will be sitting for their exams next week and I’m tied down with back to back classes the whole of this week. Yesterday was chaos with classes right down to 9pm. By the time I was done, I was exhausted to the max. Went to bed at 10.30pm without even going online! A rarity indeed! :P   So what will we […]

May
16
2011

His twisted leg

We went to Tesco over the weekend. We rarely go to Tesco but somehow ended up there yesterday. I needed to go to the washroom so I told Ethan to stay with Darling. Came out of the washroom to hear some commotion between Darling and Ethan! I was gone barely five minutes! @_@ I heard this: Darling: Stand properly-lah! Ethan: This IS standing properly-LAH!! Darling: NO! Stand pro-per-ly!!! Ethan: YES-lah! Stand properly dy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I terus […]

May
4
2011

Teddylicious Trudy & Teddy

I still remember on our 1st wedding anniversary, we toured Europe. I fell in love all over again. I love the culture, the food and most of all I love the Europeans’ sense of fashion. That was five years ago. *terkenang masa dulu.. hu hu hu :(* Try reading the papers or browse online these days and I bet the first thing that catches your attention is the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. […]

May
1
2011

Always have protection on! Wear a helmet!

Howdy folks! How are you enjoying your long weekend? It’s a beautiful day — the sun is shining, the birds are chirping. What could be more perfect than a bike ride? The bicycle is getting more and more popular these days since it’s rather environment friendly. So make sure you ride safe! It’s important to wear your bike helmet to avoid head injury! Wear a bike helmet EVERY TIME YOU RIDE, even if you are […]

Apr
25
2011

Bad coach

I was down with food poisoning today. Can’t even lift my head what else moving around the house? So I spent almost the entire day lying on the couch, drifting in and out of slumber. While I was sleeping, I kinda overheard Darling and Ethan’s conversation. Ethan : How to do this, Daddy? Darling: Err.. dunno. Why so hard one this one? Nevermind, ask Mommy afterds. Ethan: But Mommy sick, kenot disturb! Darling: Ok… Apparently […]

Apr
8
2011

Amber on iPhone

Remember Amber? Not Amber Chia-lah! Am referring to Ethan’s Amber! He loves it SO much that he went looking for her in the App Store. Finally… he dapat! He installed this app in my iPhone the other day and happily told me that he now has Amber everywhere we go! (>_<) I so must change my password! Ethan and his two Ambers! (@_@)

Mar
26
2011

Artistically wrong

You know how Ethan and I love painting? But I think somehow somewhere.. something went wrong! He’s NOT suppose to be painting his nails!!! >_< See lah! Big toe gold.. small toes PINK! Aiyo! *Smack forehead*

Mar
22
2011

Painting an elephant

Ethan loves painting. He can colour perfectly using colour pencils and is now hook on water colours. Here is a video of him painting an elephant :D Enjoy :) Oh one thing.. you MUST watch the ENDING. It is a MUST! Look at him when he finally completed the elephant!!

Mar
8
2011

Smaland, The Magic Forest

I’ve been eyeing IKEA’s Smaland even before I had Ethan. I have always wanted to let Ethan play there but never have the courage to let him go mainly because I won’t be allowed to enter with him. A couple of weeks ago a sudden gust of courage swept over me. I brought Ethan to Smaland and asked him if he wants to enter. Of course he answered YES! I was worried as he will […]

Jan
15
2011

Red Packet Star CNY Lantern

I’m going to share TWO tutorial videos to make TWO different types of STAR lantern for the upcoming Chinese New Year.  CNY Lucky Star Lantern Version 1   CNY Lucky Star Lantern Version 2 Check out the rest of our Chinese New Year decor collections or click on our playlist for the full set of DIY CNY Angpow Decor: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0tRhnSGZm9o9YSiYJApcMibzk35NwoqU* 1) Red Packet Ancient Coin Lantern  2) Ang Bao Gold Fish   […]

Apr
25
2010

Ethan on KidsNews, TV3 – The Video

I’ve been waiting for this for so long already! Finally it came in the mail :D From KidsNews On the 15/2/2010, we appeared on TV3 in their KidsNews segment. They have finally mailed me the DVD. Here’s the video. Enjoy :)

Mar
29
2010

Rabbit Fun Land, Broga

City folks live a life full of stress. If you are willing to go a distance of about a half-hour drive out of the Klang Valley, you’ll discover a fun petting land in Broga just outside of Kajang town. Unlike the old days when the winding road will guarantee to give you motion sickness, the newly constructed road will give you a feeling of calm and serenity while driving pass Nottingham University campus and then […]

Feb
22
2010

Scorching HOT!

We were in my in-law’s place yesterday until this morning. Went back for some kind of prayers held every ninth day of the Chinese New Year. If you know what that is, then tell ME! lol.. What I ‘dislike’ about going back to my in-law’s (besides the Chicken and Duck talk) is the lack of a cooling system ie. air-cond! In the afternoon, it can be scorching hot and without air-cond is ‘a little’ uncomfortable […]

Nov
12
2009

Getting ready

I browsed through The Star’s newspaper today (11/11/2009). And came across the writeup on ParenThot’s Family Day. Read closer and I saw this… Ok. So my name’s appeared in the newspaper today. Time for tension to kick in! Reality check. Have I done all that are needed to be done for this event? Let’s see…. Ethan has been very cooperative. He gets up in the morning and the first thing he does is to reproduce […]

Sep
23
2009

Night-market trader..

For years I’ve not been able to go to my favourite night market in SS2, PJ. Why? Because it is held every Monday, a work day. Since I don’t drive, I depend solely on my driver (Darling) to bring me there. But if it’s a working day, it will be almost impossible to get him to drive me there. Since last Monday was a festive holiday, I took that golden opportunity to get Darling to […]

Jul
21
2009

Ethan is TWO today!

My little rascal is two today. How time flies! I baked him a simple butter cake of heart and star shape. He helped me in the process and got very excited once he saw the cute cake! The cake. This is how they looked like fresh out from the oven. I got these silicone moulds from Daiso. Darling got him a cake that was supposed to be shared with my students tonite. But suddenly, the […]

Jun
22
2009

Ethan reading Mandarin @ 23mths old

I’m so overly excited right now. My little ‘Banana Boy’ can read in Mandarin! I don’t speak a single word of any Chinese dialect, but for the sake of Ethan, we got him some Chinese kindie books and started to teach him simple words such as family members a couple of days ago. Surprisingly, he gets it very fast! Even faster than when I was teaching him to read in English! Now, I myself needs […]

Apr
4
2009

How to start your child on reading (Intro)

Since the posting of Ethan’s reading video, I’ve been flooded with emails asking me to share tips on how to start young toddlers to read. I am all so happy to share my two cents worth as I believe in nothing but to make every child a reader. But, let me clarify with all the mommies and daddies out there that I am by no means an expert in this field and I should not […]

Mar
29
2009

Reading Sentences @ 20 mths old

Ethan has finally started to read sentences. It was quite tricky getting him to focus one word at a time and proceed to the next word and on and on. Initially he was overwhelm with all the words in a sentence that he just look at them and kept quiet! But now, he finally understood what reading sentences means and is slowly getting used to the concept. The whole-word approach is based on research findings […]

Feb
6
2009

Learning to read – Phonics vs Whole Word Approach

I am sure most of us would like to teach our little precious to read as early in their lives as possible. But not many knows what method to use. Generally there are two methods most commonly used in teaching/learning reading, the phonics way and the whole word approach way. The phonics way is reading by making sense of the spelling and sounds of the word while the whole word approach way is reading by […]

Oct
28
2008

Time is BAD… Ethan’s selling off his house…

Time is bad. My dear little Ethan can’t afford to keep his little house, so we had to sell off his house. It was a sad, sad day.. but what can we do.. What needs to be done, needs to be done… LOL.. the truth is, his little house is a ruin now. You know, how lasting can a board house be rite? With a boy as mischievous as Ethan, I was surprised the house […]

Oct
23
2008

Bleeding Nose in Toddler

Ethan’s nose bleed again today. This time around we are very calm when it happened because this is the 3rd time it happened. I remembered the first time his nose bleed, cant really remember how old was he, but I know he was barely 1 year old. It was 2.30am in the morning. Darling and I just slept like.. what.. one hour ago? Ethan woke up crying in his crib. Me, blurry eyed, woke up […]

Oct
22
2008

Ethan is 15 mths OLD!

My little Ethan turns 15 mths old yesterday. As usual, with each passing months, I will look at him sleeping and recall the day I held him in my arms for the very first time. He still looks exactly the same to me. Now I understand when people say that you will always be a baby in your mother’s eyes… My dear Ethan, You are starting to run now. Our daily game of Hide ‘n’ […]

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