6 Tips for buying presents for children

I have always loved buying presents for children. Its just so easy. The following are the 6 simple tips to get the right present for children, no point buying an expensive present that does not bring a smile on the child's face.

Tip 1, buy something that they have ever said,"Mummy, can you buy this for me?" or "Can I have that?" or "Buy this, please?" whenever you bring them shopping. Suddenly you are spoilt for choice, huh?

Tip 2, get whatever candy, chocolate, sweets, high in sugar edible stuff, irregardless of size and they will stick to you like bee is to honey.

Tip 3, get whatever kids' stuff that has been flashing on the TV screen. Children always want the latest in-trend gadgets or toys. So that whenever the advertisement comes up on the screen, he can say proudly, holding up the exact thing, "See, I have this already."

Tip 4, get whatever thing that has his favourite characters on it. Be it on the T-shirt, the cup, the shoes, the bags, the waterbottle, the toothbrush even if its just a sticker. They will love it.

Tip 5, this is a MUST, do your homework before you dash into the store and get the item. Make sure that the present which you are getting for them is not something which they already have.

Tip 6, if you know that there is something which the child used to own and treasure very much, but somehow it was broken or lost. GET THAT EXACT SAME THING! The child will kiss you a thousand times!

So this was what I bought for my nieces.....

My child - my apprentice?

Did you miss me yesterday? So sorry, I was busy making new accessories for the Christmas bazaar today at the KK Hospital for their staff.

You know how children love to imitate their parents, the way they talk, walk, move and not forgetting the bad habits of their parents. *watch out*




I left my desk full of parts and pieces of my accessories to put my little Binbin down for his noon nap.


When I came back...... I found this.......

8 Objections to Breastfeeding

Its really tough when you don't have the support of your family on breastfeeding. It definitely didn't come easy for me.

My in-laws are the typical traditional Chinese who loves boys more than girls, as the boys will carry the surname of the family and hence producing more offspring for the 'Loh' (their surname) generation.

So lucky them, my in-law have 3 sons. So no child was neglected. My 2 sis-in-law gave birth to girls before I gave birth to my 1st child, A BOY. So naturally my in-law, especially my mum-in-law was over the moon. She wanted to make sure that this boy, the very 1st grandson of the 'Loh' Family, is well taken care off; and she is a woman of strong character who believes in no one else except herself.

She strongly refuse to let me breastfeed him. Want to know why?

so said my child

Allan and I wanted to bring the kids out for shopping in the evening and so we were trying to coax Keatkeat to take his afternoon nap. He hasn't been willing to catnap during the day for a few weeks already. But when it comes to 8pm, he will start to whine. That's the last thing we want in a crowded shopping centre, where everyone will stare at the noisy child.

So Allan "threatened" him, "Mommy is going shopping later, if you don't go sleep now, you will stay at home."
Keatkeat:"Alone? What about Binbin?"
Dad:"Binbin (who is fast asleep) will go with mommy. You will stay at home with me."
Keatkeat:"Why?"
Dad:"To keep me company. I will feel very lonely if I stay at home all by myself."
Keatkeat: Find out what he said here

Handicraft-Santa Claus

Do you think your kids will like this?

See step-by-step instructions...

Blackout Dinner for the Kids

Yesterday, certain units in my block of flats have unstable electricity supply since 6pm. It comes on for about an hour and off for a few minutes at first, then as the night continues, it began to have electricity supply for a few minutes then gone for more than an hour, all the way till we sleep.



We had candles at different corners of the living room. We even had one candle on a plate for us to move around with it. We didn't have proper candle holders. Anyway who would need it when this hardly happen in years!

Luckily we are done with the cooking. Imagine if we were half-way through with the fried fish and it blacked-out....ahhhh...horror!

So we had candle-light dinner. This picture was taken with the flash on. Hey, I have a pretty strong flashy camera ya? Oh please pardon the naked daddy, its hot when there isn't any wind and the house is full of candles everywhere.



Its boring to have no electricity. No TV, no surfing on the internet, no reading to the kids and it was way too early to sleep!

But the kids love it, cos' its their chance to have their hands on the illumine sticks again! Luckily we bought new ones 3 days ago. If not I really wouldn't know how long I can grab their attention for so many hours just by playing shadow games....Phew!

Have you had such an unplanned candle-light dinner before? Share with me in the 'comment'

Keep your promise made to your child

....and so I did what I promised last week.

The Christmas Tree was proudly brought to you by Keatkeat, showing you his brillant smile and Binbin, who is missing in the picture because he was throwing a tantrum on the floor, the typical 2-year-old.....

My boys did all the decorations, with a little help from the adults of cos.

From the cotton wool for the pretend snow, to the candy bars, the lights, the mini presents and the little santa animals at the bottom of the tree, they enjoyed every moment of it.

Afterall it is their first Christmas Tree. So often we see kids lose interest in the things they do, when they do it often. Let's hope they will never lose the joy that Christmas brings, other than the fact that they will have lots of presents from everyone.

Have you put up your Christmas Tree yet? Its less than 2 weeks away only.

My child's new word "Die"

Keatkeat has been saying "die" in almost everything we talked about lately.

An ambulanced was driving past our van with its siren on.
Keatkeat:"Oh no, somebody die" he is still not very good at past-tenses
Me:"No, its just a sick person, he may not die."
Keatkeat:"But the ambulance is driving so fast, so dangerous, sure die."

We were at the doorstep of the supermarket. I squart down and looked at my boys with a serious face:"Now, we are going into the supermarket, what must you do?"
Boys:"Keep my hands to myself."
Me:"Good! If not, the uncle in the supermarket will throw us out."
Keatkeat:"Throw us out!" with eyes wide opened. "Is the uncle very strong? He can carry all 3 of us and throw us out together?"
Me:"Mm! So do you want that to happen?"
Keatkeat:"No. If you fall on me I will die!"

Keatkeat was trying to negotiate to skip brushing his teeth.
Keatkeat:"Why Binbin never use toothpaste?"
Me:"Because he still doesn't know how to spit it out. What will happen if he swallow the toothpaste?"
Keatkeat:"He will die!"

In these days its quite hard to find a pet shop that sells birds. Today we were lucky, we saw a pet shop that sells almost 50 over birds. They were cheeping away and the sound caught the attention of my boys.
Keatkeat:"I want to go see birds."
Me:"Ok, so can you touch the bird cage?"
Boys:"No!"
Me:"What will happen if you touch it?"
Keatkeat:"I will die!"
Me:"No! The birds may think that you are a piece of food and they may bite your finger. What will happen when the birds bite your finger?"
Keatkeat:"(yes, you guess it!) I will die!"

Sigh.....