Now, who insisted she called him first?

Thursday, 26 November 2009 by strawberrymilkmama

I guess that makes Mr Fluffy Hubby the ultimate egoist.

Kiddy Christmas Shows at the malls

Wednesday, 25 November 2009 by strawberrymilkmama

There are so many, but these are the ones I think we may try going for (I’m not very sure yet because I hate crowds and detest fighting for Meet & Greet sessions. The stuff I do for her!):

Takashimaya
Mr. Men and Little Miss
Dates: 20 – 29 Nov 2009

Show Times: 1pm, 4pm & 7pm

Venue: Takashimaya Square, B2

Parkway Parade
POKÉMON Live Show
Dates: 28 Nov – 6 Dec 2009

Show Times:
Tues – Thur: 1pm & 7pm
Fri – Sun: 1pm, 4pm & 7pm
No shows on Mondays

Meet & Greet: With a minimum spending of $30 (same day single receipt) you are entitled to redeem a meet & greet pass to come up close and personal with the characters. Hurry, limited passes per show.

Venue: Basement Atrium

Catch the latest POKÉMON characters Piplup, Turtwig, Chimchar & Pikachu in an exciting musical!

Plaza Singapura
Care Bears Musical Intro Meet & Greet
Dates: 1 – 6 Dec 2009 (Tue to Sun)

Show Times:
Tues – Thurs: 1pm, 7pm
Sat & Sun: 1pm, 5pm & 7pm

Game Segment:
Tues – Thurs: 5pm

Tea Party:
Thurs only: 3pm

Meet & Greet: Spend a minimum of $30 (limit to 30 passes per session only, each pass admits family of 4) for a photo opportunity after the show. CapitaCard members only need to charge $20 to redeem.

Venue: Main Atrium, Level 1

Meet Love-A-Lot Bear, Share Bear and Funshine Bear. Sing along to delightful tunes and have a “fuzzy cuddly” good times with Care Bears this Christmas!

United Square
Barney’s World of Imagination
Dates: 2 – 14 Dec 2009

Show Times:
Mon-Fri: 2pm & 7pm
Sat & Sat: 2pm, 5pm & 7pm
No shows on Tuesdays

Meet & Greet: Spend $30 in a single receipt to have your photo taken with Barney & Friends after the show. Photo passes will be issued 1 hour before every show. Bring along your own camera. Limited to first 50 families per session.

This Christmas, embark on a journey into the World of Imagination with Barney & Friends as they perform “Live” in the mall. What’s more, we have lined up exciting activities for you and your family.

VivoCity
Mickey & Friends Meet & Greet
Dates: 4 – 14 Dec 2009

Meet & Greet Times & Venues:
2pm & 3.30pm at Central Court, Level 1
6pm & 7.30pm at Amphitheatre, Level 3
Spend $100 to redeem a pass for Meet & Greet session

Suntec City Mall
SpongeBob Square Pants Live Musical Show
Dates: 5 – 13 December 2009

Venue: Tropics Atrium

Come and join us as we celebrate SpongeBob’s 10th year anniversary with an all-new live musical show, Stories from Bikini Bottom!

Centrepoint
Sesame Street Live Show
Dates: 15 – 20 Dec 2009

Show Times: 1pm, 4pm and 7pm (20 minutes musical show)

Meet & Greet: 10-minute meet & greet after musical show

Watch & Meet Abby Cadabby, Elmo & Friends from Sesame Street! Make friends with Abby Cadabby – the newest resident and fairy-in-training at Sesame Street, as well as Elmo, Bert, Ernie and Cookie Monster!

Downtown East
Looney Tunes Mini Musical Live Show
Come catch the exciting Mini Musical Live Show by the Looney Tunes Active Characters happening on Weekends and Public Holidays and have your photos taken with these lovely characters!

Dates: 22 Nov – 25 Dec 2009 (Weekends & Public Holidays Only)
Additional show on 21 November 2009 at 12.30pm.

Show Times: 6 – 6.30pm

Venue: Event Square

Meet & Greet: Limited to 50 photo-taking passes per session

Nite Parade
Looney Tunes Active Characters will be appearing for this magnificent Nite Parade! Come join your favourite Characters at this Nite Parade!

Dates: 21 Nov – 27 Dec 2009 (Weekends Only)

Show Times: 8 – 8.30pm

Parade Route: Event Square, The Alley & E!hub
Parade route subject to change without prior notice

These, on the other hand, are the ones we’re definitely going for:

Tanglin Mall
Enjoy the Snow Session in Tanglin Mall
Dates: Daily

Avalanche Times: 7.30 – 7.45pm & 8.30 – 8.45pm
Snow Times: 7.45 – 8.00pm & 8.45 – 9.00pm
Subject to weather conditions

We have Kindermusik classes at Tanglin Mall. I’m sure we can manipulate it such that we attend one of the classes in the evening, have a great dinner, then go for the avalanche and snow!

Robinsons
Photo-taking with Santa Claus
Magic show by Danny the Magician
Balloon Art by Balloon Sculptor
The Beary Christmas Musical
Dates: Every weekend

She met Santa Claus last year and he gave her a lollipop. She is looking forward to her lollipop this year. Besides, she has a lot of stuff to tell Santa!

And how can we not go say hi to the bears of the Beary Christmas Musical?

Changi Airport
Christmas is Bigger at Changi
Dates: 11 Nov 2009 – 4 Jan 2010

Get Spellbound By The Big Musical Ball
Over 6 metres high, this revolving creation of wonder will play your favourite Christmas carols. Watch the musical ball perform and bring home gifts and candies that delight the young and old!

Show Times:
Musical performance will be at half-hourly interval from 6am to 10pm every day – 6am, 6:30am, 7am, 7:30am, 8am, 8:30am, 9am, 9:30am, 10am, 10:30am, 11am, 11:30am, 12noon, 12:30pm, 1pm, 1:30pm, 2pm, 2:30pm, 3pm, 3:30pm, 4pm, 4:30pm, 5pm, 5:30pm, 6pm, 6:30pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm, 8:30pm, 9pm, 9:30pm and 10pm

Sweets and gifts will be dispensed at the end of the musical performances from 7pm to 10pm on weekdays and from 12noon to 10pm on weekends.

The Big Musical Ball will take a break from midnight to 6am hours.

Venue: Terminal 3, Public Area, Departure Check-in Hall Level 2 (in front of Departure Immigration)

Be Enchanted By The Big Snow Fantasy
Kids will love spending hours bouncing and sliding at this delightful wonderland and experience the magic of snowfall at Terminal 3, Departure Check-in Hall.

Show Times: 12pm – 10pm

Venue: Terminal 3, Public Area, Departure Check-in Hall Level 2 (Check-in Row 11)

Enjoy A Sure-Win Gift When You Shop And Dine
Spend $50 in a single receipt by VISA (or $80 in a single receipt by any other means) in the public area and take home a sure-win gift. Enter the redemption booth and pick a bauble that you like and keep the present within. Each bauble will contain a gift – either a $5 Changi Dollar Voucher or a customised Christmas soft toy.

Time: 11am – 11pm daily

Venue of Redemption Booth: Terminal 3 Level 3 (next to Crystal Jade Shanghai Restaurant)

Sweets and gifts at the end of the musical performance! It will be her perfect Christmas.

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Morning Sickness

Tuesday, 24 November 2009 by strawberrymilkmama

A couple of days ago, at a party, I was told that mothers who suffer morning sickness produce smarter babies. The worse the morning sickness, the smarter the baby.

My first thought upon hearing that was:

Hey, I had morning sickness for FIVE months.

During those 5 months, I had morning sickness so bad, I threw up day and night – in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening and in the middle of the night. Yes, I got up at 3am just to throw up, so morning sickness is obviously a very misleading misnomer meant to dupe young women into thinking they will feel miserable for at most 6 hours, between 6am-12noon. 6 out of 24 hours really isn’t that bad. That’s just 1/4 of a day. It is outright trickery then, morning sickness. But frankly, that was the last thing on my mind when I was sick with morning sickness. Because having morning sickness round the clock meant that I completely lost sight of the hours and the days, running between my bed and the bathroom’s toilet bowl.

I had morning sickness so bad, I was not just sick from morning sickness, but I also got sick of holding up my hair in a bunch whenever I bent over to throw up in the toilet bowl, on the bathroom floor, on the bedroom floor, on my bed, over the furniture (sometimes I didn’t make it to the toilet bowl fast enough), etc. So, to get it out of the way, I chopped off my waist-length tresses and trimmed it to a short little bob stopping just beneath my ears.

I had morning sickness so bad, I was admitted to the hospital to be put on an IV drip. And having that needle stuck in me? That was blissful, compared to morning sickness.

I had morning sickness so bad, I had to withdraw from my PhD modules and take a leave of absence from the university. Even though I had almost completed both modules and was just short of handing in 2 essays and taking 1 exam to qualify for the next stage of the PhD course.

So hey, if the worse the morning sickness, the smarter the baby, then my kid should be a veritable prodigy! 5 months of miserable morning sickness for inherent genius… that’s not a bad trade-off, not bad at all. In fact, I think I got the better end of the deal!

On second thought, however, my mother was never sick when she was pregnant with me. What does that make me?!

Ah, I knew there was a reason why I still haven’t gotten that PhD.

I guess you can’t have your cake and eat it too, not with morning sickness.

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Saturday magic

Sunday, 22 November 2009 by strawberrymilkmama

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Facebook is bad for marriage (and hamsters)

Tuesday, 17 November 2009 by strawberrymilkmama

Now, this is totally unfair.

1. I didn’t say I need A SMALL HAMSTER. I said, I need A BUNCH OF HAMSTERS. What good is ONE TINY HAMSTER? GIMME A BUNCH OF THEM!!! Sheesh, represent me correctly, mister.

2. Did my husband just call me a BEAST?

In my defense:

PS. I’m not the kid who squeezed the hamster till its eyes popped out. Really!

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The best birthday present in the world

Friday, 13 November 2009 by strawberrymilkmama

The night before her father’s birthday, while snuggling together in bed, I asked her, “Do you have a present for Papa? It’s his birthday tomorrow.” She thought hard for a while, before informing me, “Yes. For Papa’s birthday, I’ll let him WHOOOOOSH!!! me up and WHEEEEEEEE!!! down I come.”

I blinked stupidly in the dark, taking in her idea of a birthday present for a moment. Then I ventured, “Is that a present for you or for him?” “Both!” she shrieked in laughter.

So the next morning, the morning of her father’s birthday, right after waking up, she sought her father out and presented herself, unkempt and unwashed, to him. She stretched out her arms and declared, “Happy Birthday, Papa! I’m ready to be WHOOOOOSHED!!! up now!” Her father graciously accepted her gift. He picked her up and swung her into the air. “WHEEEEEEEE!!!” she shouted amidst giggles on her way down.

I don’t know who enjoyed it more. Mr Fluffy Hubby or her. Or me watching them. But I think we all agreed, it was the best birthday present in the world.

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