My Portfolio Cover

Dear Parents,

We need your kindest attention and fullest co-operation in participating in an activity. Your child requires your help in completing an assignment. The assignment is entitled 'Design Your Own Portfolio Cover Page'. The design, colour and font size depends on your own creativity. Looking forward to your participation and wonderful creations! Happy designing...

I was amazed when I saw this note in Rynae's handbook last week when I went to fetch her. Parents kena homework? There was an outline and proposed template so I thought I could easily settle it in powerpoint. After double checking with her teacher the next day, I was told to involve Rynae in the making of the portfolio cover.. Now, this is the headache part. How and what shall I ask her to do? She hasn't the motor skills to do proper, nice colouring (I don't want to end up colouring for her) hence I kept colouring minimum - just 'My Portfolio'. Her major contribution is the punching, glueing and sticking of the leaves. Minusing away the mandatory information, there wasn't much space left on the A4 hence involvement is thus much. We're both quite proud and happy of the end product.

Proud Portfolio Cover

Extra leaves are being used to play as 'food' to play

How Good Friday was spent

21 Mar was a Good Friday holiday and we decided to spend this Holy-day (pun intended) shopping in Cityhall. Daddy needs to make a trip back to office to pick up his forgotten house keys hence we waited for him in Raffles City. We moved on to Marina Square next and got to know that Puma was organising a Fashion Show in the mall. Rynae had her fun with some Fisher Price toys in Kiddy Palace and a S$2 kiddy ride. Tea break was spent at Kopitiam and mummy ordered her fav waffle ice cream and grass jelly! The waffle ice cream was yummilicious! It brought back the good old A&W days. As for the grass jelly, it was disappointingly tasteless!

DVD for Recommendation

I was disappointed when I couldn't find any Little Einsteins or The Backyardigans DVD for Rynae during my last trip to the library. There weren't any interesting titles to borrow too. Rushing for time then, I simply grabbed Bounce:Emotions! with curiosity of what could be within. Hope it's not another crappy show. Production of this title was simple and economically inexpensive as it was casted in a studio with just 5 toddlers and a music therapist. Furthermore, the duration of the DVD is a mere 15 minutes! However, I would say that this is worth a watch as it teaches children about emotions, which is what we feel inside! It identifies emotions such as being happy, mad, scared and silly through friendly and interactive songs and dances. Knowing and understanding how oneself and how others feel is important in day-to-day communication. I would say this brushes a child's EQ!

Orchard Shopping Day

The wet spell that smack right in the holiday week is a curse that's keeping everyone indoors. Thank god the weather's fine over the weekend. Having coop up for so many days, we decided to head down city belt to Orchard Road for a shopping spree Saturday. Timing was coincidentally well planned as a show just started when we arrived at Forum the Shopping Mall. Rynae enjoyed the show and even participated in the boogie dances!



Mummy couldn't be more delighted to chance upon Little Einstein's VCDs in a toy shop. She couldn't find it anywhere else on this little island thus had almost ordered the latest Feb 2008 DVD titled 'Race for Space' over Amazon! Oh Boy, wasn't I glad I hesistated! What a great feeling of satisfaction. I grabbed 2 VCDs, one of which Rynae had seen but I do not mind owning one of our own as it is very difficult to borrow Little Einstein's series in the library.



The Talking Hall in Taka was having a small-scale toys sale fair and Rynae insisted on a S$5 toy. Captured herein was her victory look.

1st School Holiday

7 March is the last day of school before the 1-week school holiday starts. Ever since the little one started school, Mummy has to take note of school terms, which was oblivious to me previously. Rynae received a puzzle from NEA that day. It was actually a public education campaign initiative by the government agency to create more awareness about the prevention against dengue fever. Was good to receive a free toy anyway. Gagaga.. She also brought home another piece of art and craft - a rooster made from recyled honey stars box, bubble tea straw and drawing board. Excellent! Now.. where shall I keep it?

More Prezzies! Yippe!!

Uncle Leslie's Mama came over recently for a short holiday and along with her are 2 blouses that Uncle Leslie has bought for Rynae. Uniqlo (a household name in Japan) is not available in Singapore yet hence there is an almost 0% chance that there would be a child spotted with the same top as Rynae. That's one thing Mummy likes about imported or limited stock merchandises. Fox apparels are simply too common! Well, Mummy used to buy Hush Hush clothings for Rynae but this brand has withdrawn out of Lion City about 2 years ago. Wat a pity....

D-I-Y Play Doh

This is the 2nd time mummy DIY a Play Doh for Rynae. Though a little troublesome, it saves $. Most important of all, the made-from-natural-ingredients DIY Doh does not have a strong synthetic smell and it is easy to clean up! I lost the recipe I tore from a parenting magazine but I could still remember the ingredients used. Not the portion of each, however. Anyway, to share with you, here's what I used:

- half pack of plain flour
- few tablespoons of cream of tar tar
- few tablespoons of salt
- few tablespoons of cooking oil
- water


Freshly made Doh


Doh with permitted food colouring.
No preservatives added.