Words

It's easy to forget how we piece words to form our sentences, especially when we are in a multi-lingual environment, and most of the time we speak without any prior thinking, literally. Mama's never been educated in the chinese language but tries to speak mandarin to Cass.

Lately Cass has picked up more English from her playgroup that she tries to piece them together when communicating to us. She's fast moving from a single words to double words, now even attempts at whole sentences, never mind the languages.

Here's some examples:

Kai, men peas (Open the door, please)
Me, peas (Excuse me, please)
Sit, 'jie', no more (No seats for me here)

And the campaign going on now is to speak proper Mandarin or English, and not Singlish. :)

Naughty corner early in the morning

Here's Cass sent to the naughty corner for 1 1/2 mins this morning. She's wearing the dress Auntie SK and Uncle Adrian bought for her birthday last year. 'Xie xie, ah yi'. :)

Great-granduncle, great-grand auntie and granduncle

Last week we had a few relatives from Kuching, Sarawak. They were here for a holiday and Cass went along for a 'Duck Tour' and a trip to Sentosa's butterfly and insect kingdom. Uncle Vic managed to get a duck whistle for Cass, although it's only given out to those who answered random quizzes on board. :)

Later on Sunday evening, we all went for a meal, with Great-granduncle, great-grand auntie, grand uncle Ah Hau, including Grandma, Uncle Vic, Uncle Jeff and Auntie Veron.


See how young Cass' grand uncle is?

Cass with Great-Grand uncle and auntie. He is late grandpa's brother.



Grandma and Great-grandauntie.

Grand-uncle and Great-grand uncle.

Weekend fun

On Saturday, we had to meet someone in Holland Village, so we went swimming at the Buona Vista swimming complex. It's an old pool, unlike majority of renovated ones. Cass enjoyed herself tremendously. She's now more in control with the arm floats.

Yesterday, Cass was at the zoo. We went with Uncle Raymond, Auntie Janice and little Colin. We all signed up for the family package, so we can have countless trips to the zoo for the entire year!

We only managed to catch the gibbons and the animal show. Cass loved the sea lion show, but she thought the sea lion was a seal. After a few photos, it was time for lunch and we ate at the 'forest fare'. We were stuck there for a while as it rained and Papa and Uncle Raymond went to get umbrellas from the car.

Later we said our goodbyes and picked up Grandma from the temple. Cass would definitely love going to the zoo again. :)

Goodbye Azizah

Cass' friend, Azizah, has moved out. Her family has been staying next door for more than 7 years.

Azizah is 3 months older than Cass, she always come to our gate to 'chit chat'. All's well between the two angels, except that Azizah likes to shriek and that scares Cass off! :) On one occasion, she even pulled Cass' hair, so Cass' reaction was like 'Mai..mai.. mai..' which means 'no..no..no..' in hokkien.

It was so funny that one incident when Azizah had an oversized hair clip right above her ear, and Cass went 'allo.. allo'. She mistook it for a bluetooth ear piece, just like Papa's. Ha ha!!