Revisitng Singapore Museum

After seeing some picture my wife took during her trip to the museum with Juan and son, I thought I should take a look too and see if there’s any opportunity for good picture to take. And so, I packed my beloved Canon EOS400D and ask my wife to revisit once again for me together with my daughter of course (to be my model for my picture).










THE LAST THREE PICTURE BELOW, I CAPTURED WITH THE HELP OF THE SUNLIGHT THAT GIVE A GOOD COMPOSITION. I LOVE IT.

Gracia With Fork

Guess Gracia started understanding the concept of the fork and spoon. Today, mummy let her try eating potato using a fork on her own. Despite lacking accuracy getting her food right on it, you can see she’s really persistent, and paying attention while focusing tirelessly on picking up the potato and feed it into her own mouth. Daddy is proud of your achievement today baby. Keep it up and in no time, you’ll see yourself joining us at the dining table with your own pair of fork and spoon.



I must give credit to my wife for always giving opportunity for her to feed herself, after which she has to clean up the mess for her. I know it’s an enduring process to always have to clean up the messy food all over the place. Your sweat and effort is noted.

Young And Deep In Debt

Both news from The Sunday Time and The Newpaper today prompt me to add this label regarding finances on my blog from today onward. Already, parents now’s a day are constantly worried about the future that lies ahead of their children in this competitive and corrupted generation. Just days before, I was shock to read about the university cost ones will need 20 years later from now. It’s a shocking $800’000 to a million including living expenses if your child is going to get her degreed at any top uni from Australia or the US. Unless she’s able to qualify entry to NUS or NTU, but the consolation amount you’re going to pay will not be anything lesser than a couple of hundred thousand. But I’ll put aside this university cost today and share about the other two news I’d just read.

NEWS 1 : YOUNG AND DEEP IN DEBT


That’s the front-page news from the Sunday Time today. They are below 30, employed and mired in debt. And it’s reported that the main cause for all this are snared by materialism and a desire for the high life. They splash money on cars, branded goods, overseas holidays, clubbing and gadgets.



NEW 2 : WON $390’000 FROM TOTO AND SPENT IT ALL IN 6 MONTH AND BROKE


That’s the 2nd news I want to share from the Newpaper. A man who won $390’000 and left only $200 in his account after generously giving away a portion to his family, lent $50’000 to a close friend, and spent lavishly on high end bird ness and restaurant.

My first reaction after reading both news? What can I do to stop this from happening to my daughter? Is there a way or lesson to be taught? Ironically, there isn’t any absolute solutions to this problem consider that she’ll grow up being independent, have her own group of friends and influences and pressure of course. Though there aren’t any certain answers to all this woes, but as a parent, I think it’s important to teach her money management at a young age. I must not only focus on her academic result but I’ll pledge to teach her more on human value so that she will not be tempted for materialism and become a material girl.

Toddler's drawing

I've read that over the last several months of a toddler first year, the child's fine motor skills improved steadily. since Gracia is now physically ready to grab hold of a colour pencil and start experimenting,we had converted one of our unused coffee table for her to draw. She has already scribble vigorously on the paper mummy paste on top of it. She seems to enjoy dragging and scrawling all around on the paper, of course what she draw seems unrecognizable for us now. We just want to kick start her interest and hopefully her writing and drawing skills will improve in tiny incremental steps throughout the toddler years eventually.

Chicken With Oats.

Much more delicious than chili crab, lobster or abalone. That’s my confession of the dish my wife cooked for me yesterday, “Fried Chicken With Oats”.
I am telling you the truth because the dish is painstakingly made from the love of my sweet heart and is marinated with affection and fried with flame of devotion. The tenderness of her is felt when I bite onto the meat, and the way she wanted to pamper me I can smell it from the smoke. What an appetizing dish I haven’t eaten for a decade. I just want to thank my wife for the effort, time and scarify considering that she still need to look after Gracia while making this heavenly chicken. Thank you so much my dear, I truly appreciate your contribution and had pleasurable moment from you. Thank you.


The Ingredients:
200g boneless chicken drumstick
50g tapioca flour
1 egg white
Marinade:
1 egg
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp minced garlic
2 tbsp lemon juice
50g plain flour
1 tbsp egg yolk flour.

Method:
1. Beat the egg; rinse chicken and cut into same sized thin slices, remove to drain, add in Marinade and set aside for 1 hr.
2. Coat chicken meat with some tapioca flour, egg white and oats.
3. Heat up oil in pot, add in chicken meat and fry over low heat for 5 mins. Remove and drain.
4. Heat up oil in pot, fry chicken meat again until golden brown, remove to drain and cut into pieces. Serve.

A toy from mustafa center.

Mummy always wanted some building material to engage her with more creativity and motor skill activities. Daddy hasn’t found any affordable one(not that we really can't afford, we're just being very thrifty) until I went Mustafa center and saw this Lego similar building toy but for a quarter of it price I guess. Perhaps the quality might not be as fine as Lego, but it’s good enough since Gracia is still too young to really appreciate this kind of architectural toy. Most of the time, it’s daddy or mummy who construct one for her hoping that she will see and learn from us. We build her a plane recently and we are quite happy she can recognize it.

The wave.

She reminds me of Shine.

We brought Gracia to the beach again, this time trying to let her over come her fear of the gigantic ocean. It turn out that, the sound and force of the wave still tremble her much. When daddy try to bring her closer to touch the sea water, she will back off and cry when ever the wave sets in, that reminds me of Shine, my previous dog. But today, she did much better than the time she had with Julian, at least she manage to seat very near the sea for a short while when daddy saw the current not too strong and escort her there. Like Shine, I believe after a few more trips and she will definitely buildup her courage and soon she’ll find amusement in the wave instead of terrifying. But we decide not to visit ECP or Pasir Ris Beach anymore because the beach is never clean, every time we went there, we’re quite disappointed with the rubbish floating near the coast. We will try visiting Sentosa the next time, heard many reports and comments that the environment and the quality of the sea and sand there is much better.





One thing she truely enjoy much, is the sand.