4 Months Old

Review On DVD - World of English Vol.1

I like to pop into Popular bookshop whenever I pass by any because there're always new preschool activity books. One day when I was checking the shelves, I inadvertently found one new DVD title - World of English. The cover's simple and straight forward enough - teach beginners verbs, nouns, adjectives and antonyms and that's what I would like Rynae to learn next. However, I hesitated about buying it because it was priced at $19.90. I'm also doubtful about its content. Couldn't possibly rely on packaging ya?

Went home and googled it but there were no relevant search results. The closest result was a DVD bulk purchase exercise organised in SMH. I read from there that the content is animated and I could buy it at just $15.50! Of course I grabbed a copy.

Rynae is a TV addict and was so excited that she has a new DVD to watch. Ask for my review on it and I'll say it's a pretty good buy. Besides a shortcoming on the flat and back-dated illustration style, language used is simple and teaching approach is soft.

Cow Boy's First Trip To Zoo

Rynae's been requesting like a broken record to go to the zoo and we felt that it's time to visit that place before our Friends of the Zoo membership expires in November. Anyway, the last time I brought her there was when I was heavily pregnant with Raynen, and that was already 5 months ago! Gosh. Our membership is so under-utilised!

We wanna hit a weekday hence Daddy's gonna take leave. Last Sunday, we checked NEA's weather forcast for the next 3 days' weather outlook - Mon to Wed morning showers with thunder. Well, no choice, gota postpone. HOWEVER, there weren't a single drop of rain for that 3 days! Mummy was miffed. Who needs a forecast if it has such low accuracy? Next check - Thur to Sat morning showers with thunder too. Heck. Friday it shall be. And guess what? It was bright and sunny on that day. Now.. I'll never believe NEA's weather forecast again.

As it was a weekday, there was no crowd at the zoo. It felt so touristy with the presence of many ang mos and hybrid expatriats. After paying insincere visits to some of the animals there, we headed right for the main attraction - the Rainforest Kidzworld. My lass had a whale of a time there. As for Raynen, he is still too young to enjoy the outing... for now..

The happiest person in this excursion

'Guest of Honour' at Rainforest KidzWorld