These few days, our little girl has been very keen to want to be photographed. She will pass us the camera and tell us she wants to 拍照 - Take pictures. And the funny thing is, she will be making all sort of expression and laughing at herself when she reviews her shots.

I took half day leave yesterday to bring her to Compass Point as they were having a Sesame Street show at the mall. This was taken just before we left the house.... and of course with her good pal -her papa! See her wide grin when I told her to SMILE?

While waiting for the show to start, she saw some parents snapping photos of their kids. She stood up and said she wants her pictures taken too... so here's another "Funny Face" she gave me.

Our dear girl totally engrossed with the characters on stage. Her favourites were Elmo, Ernie and Cookie BOMbster (monster).

Here's the both of us... with her famous "piggy face".....

For her good behaviour during the entire trip, I rewarded her with a Barney kiddy ride. She was absolutely delighted with the ride. She would have continued sitting next to Barney had there not been a queue for the ride. I was $1 poorer but the look on her face was priceless!

We had a wonderful Christmassy time in town yesterday. Since Yee Sinn has been pestering us for a bus ride the whole week, we decided to take her to town to view the light-ups via bus. We went down to orchard in the late afternoon cos Hubby wanted to check out the Gundam sale at the Takashimay Toy Fair. We had a slow dinner followed by a wild time viewing the lights.

My excited girl just kept going " Wow!!.... Wow!!!... Wow!!! Lights!!!" at every turn we made. For those who are interested but short of time, the light-ups viewed from Ion would be the best. Oh yah, my little girl just loved the window display at the Louis Vitton store too.... Hahahah. Guess she may be a potential shopperholic like her Ah Yi.

The lights just outside Ion were pretty impressive. Do remember to check out the huge Christmas tree.

Our little girl was being naughty by posing for the camera with a pouty lips with her papa.

Here's myself with my little girl with a cheezy raindeer...

We had our violin recital at Alliance Francaise Theatre yesterday and we all had a blast. We have been meeting up prior to our performance to practise a couple of times. Just before the actual performance, we had a dry run and it was horrendous. We were not warmed up, violins were not tuned and we were off sync with the pianist. So immediately after that, the 4 of us gathered outside the lobby and played the pieces through a couple more times. Thank goodness we got our act together for the actual recital. :-)

But there was a little hiccup though.... as we were crusing through our 2nd piece, we heard a "Thwang...." Apparently Marcus' E string snapped. He walked off the stage and we continued without him. It was a real pity cos he really practiced very hard. He even had a solo piece whereby we were supposed to play his accompanyment.

We're looking forward to our next year's recital. It's really fun meeting the folks once a year for practices and all. Meanwhile, we'll start seaching for interesting pieces and scores. Hee Hee.

I've been so terribly busy at work that I've not posted here for so long. Work sucks and I'm so tempted to quit and be a full time mother... but I don't think I can give up the comfort of having additional income in the family.. well, at least not now.

Another 2 months and my little girl will be 2 years old. Grandma Lee went on a holiday last 3 days so I was a stay-at-home mother for the weekend. I was pretty surprised how much Yee Sinn has developed in terms of her verbal skills. She saw a picture of some fruits and pointed them out to me one by one : "Liu Lian.... Star fruit... Kiwi.... watermeelon" The sad part? I wasn't the one who taught her all those. But nevertheless, it was a nice surprise.

So friday afternoon, after hubby came back from work, we decided to take her to Liang Court. Heard from a friend about a kid's gym (Royce's Kids) that was pretty well equipped and after checking it out, we must agree that it was pretty impressive. Yee Sinn was so engrossed in her playing that she refused to leave the place. We walked away $50 poorer though... cos we decided to sign her up for the membership so we can bring her to there more often.

Yee Sinn spent her Saturday and Sunday afternoon at Grandma Chang's place. Hubby and I had violin practice with our friends so Grandma Chang was kind enough to offer her baby sitting service. She had a blast at Grandma Chang's place.... after all, there were so many people keeping her entertained.