Sunday, December 06, 2009

SinterKlaas + Zwarte Piet

We were @ amsterdam today and @ the central station, they were offering free photo opportunity with SinterKlaas & the Zwarte Piets.

As it's an instant photo, it's kind of low quality and after scanning .....the image is even worse... ;(

But for memory's sake, here it is :

CHOW FAMILY WITH SINTERKLAAS & ZWARTE PIET



p/s SinterKlaas NOT EQUALS santa claus. ;p i was very confused the first year i was here. hehehe.

Friday, December 04, 2009

White Hair

Nothing surprising @ my age i suppose. i have lots of them. In fact, i've had them since i was a teen.

However, a couple of days ago, i spotted ONE strand of white hair on kaira!!!! thought i saw wrongly. happened that my friend was here, so i asked her to take a look and she confirmed it.

2 year old with white hair!!! 太恐怖了吧!

一定是遗传了我"不良" 的基因! **哎**

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Weighty Issue

For months i've avoided going onto the weighing scale.

I know that i have definitely put on weight and just can't bear to know exactly how much weight i have put on.

today, as i wanted to weight little kaira, i decided to just do it!

well, little kaira weights ard 13kg (maybe slightly less).

and me????

I have put on 5 kg in 2009 alone!!! quite terrible. so much!! and they probably came on in the second half of 2009!!

u know in 2008, i lost all the weight i gained in my pregnancy plus a few extra kgs which means i lost a total of appx 18kg.

I thought i wouldn't have to worry about weight gain for a while.

but alas, +5kg in 2009. really have to watch the chocolates, chips and cakes that i eat so liberally each nite!! ;p

Conclusion : 2009 has been a good year! how else to explain the weight gain? ;p

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Where?Where?Where?

I know about the "Why?" phase.

But nobody told me about the "Where" phase!

the last week (or was it last 2 weeks??), her favorite question is "Where is xxxxx?"

even after we have answered her question, she will ask "Where is xxxx". sometimes when the item is right in front of her, she still turns to us and asks "where is xxxx?"

quite funnie. Ok, at least we both find it amusing still.

an example of her "where" question.

on friday night, we were out. the traffic was slow due to the rain and crowds. We were in the car, and we were simply not moving. So i was talking to hubbie about the "traffic jam"

and she asked " Where is traffic jam?".

tried to explain to little kaira that the cars on the road are not moving cos of the rain etc. and that our car can't move cos the cars in front of us are not moving. that's what a traffic jam is. and she goes "Where is the traffic jam?" and starts looking around.

after a few tries of trying to explain to her in different ways.......gave up! decided that it's best to distract her with other things instead. ;p

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

H1N1 vaccine

received the notification last wednesday that Kaira was to be vaccinated against h1n1 today.

so the last few days were busy spent scouring information on the net on the vaccine. having some knowledge of the controversy of the vaccine (presence of mercury) plus the fact that some countries (such as singapore), the vaccine is yet to be approved for children, made me uncertain whether i should send her for it.

on the other hand, with the cold season now, flu is really rampant. and therefore risk of getting h1n1 is higher.

i don't know if i am thinking too much? quite a few of the dutch i know didn't even think of not giving their children their vaccine. but a few of us foreigners were concern (myself, my indian friend and a japanese acquaintance).

it's really a hard decision. cos how does one weigh the risk/benefits without full knowledge anyway?

wellz, after much prayer, i brought her for her vaccination this morning. Thank God she was very cooperative. Didn't whine/wimper at all when the shot was given. Seems like she didn't feel any pain. hopefully she doesn't have any great/adverse reaction to the vaccine ....... shall be monitoring her......

2nd shot, 3 weeks later! and then we will be going home to singapore! and with all the travelling and changes in climate, guess i can have a bit more reassurance she's "relatively safe" from the h1n1 ;9

Monday, November 23, 2009

A Warm November

So different from last year's!

although it does rains very frequently ;9.

the last few days gave us some lovely weather and we could even go to the fruit orchard on kaira's birthday to enjoy the lovely weather!


*ripe for picking* ;p

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Happy 2nd Birthday Kaira!!