CNY - 2O11 day 9

In celebration of the Chinese New Year, her school put up a casual skit and invited all parents to gather at the foyer nearby on Friday evening (11th Feb).
Kiki sat among the audience as she was not performing. (she's attending class only for half a day and the performers are full time students as there are many rehersals throughout the day I suppose)

But she couldn't sit still and walked up to a father who was filming his kid's performance.

And then she walked to another Ang Moh father to view into his camera's screen.

CNY - 2O11 day 9

Slowly, she inched closer to her friends.

And suddenly, she sprinted towards her friends and stood in-line and danced! Shook her hips and shoulders! Clapped.

Many parents roared with laughter.

We were just too shocked to react and were totally amused by her enthusiasm.

What a performance. Not bad, considering she didn't practise.

Fortunately, I captured the moment on video. You could see that she was initially supporting her friends by being a cheering audience and suddenly, she couldn't contain her excitement and sprang up to join her friends. I guess she truly felt she ought to be with them.

Hands & Feet

I found this among the recycle-paper pile and decided to keep it because I like this piece. It was done impromptu and since then, Kiki would give me her foot to do an outline of it everytime we have the crayons and paper in hand.

She says- "Feet" whenever she sees this.

That's also her hand in mine.

CNY - 2O11 day 2

It is our company's tradition to visit the office on CNY day 2. It is symbolic to show up at work on that day as a gesture for prosperous business the whole year through.
I've done this for the sixth time already.
Only this time, we had a themed attire, which was fun.
Many people were amused and asked where I've got the identical clothing from.

CNY - 2O11 day 2

Day two- at my mom's place and later went to Aunt Magaret's.

Shoes

She's always putting on our shoes these days.

CNY - 2O11 day 4

Day four, we went to Granny's place and also to Aunt Elsie's.

CNY - 2O11 day 1

Aunt Lily's BD.

We stayed at my Grandpa's place for a long time as everyone was amused and entertained by Kiki.

CNY - 2O11 day 1

Kiki enjoys her CNY visiting very much this year.

We had lots of fun.

Kiki - School

Kiki started Playgroup in December 2010.

She took about 4 weeks to settle in.

Initially, she cried every day and was afraid to go to school. But now, she loves school so much she wants to play some more.

We let her attend for only half a day in the morning as I prefer to let her have other activities also. Like watching TV, go to the gym, go for her evening walks etc.

Toys

I bought this Mickey Mouse Pot in 1996 at the then Lane Crawford when it had its outlet at Wheelock Place before it closed its doors. All my toys can become heirloom for Kiki, they are all of so much value, at least sentimentally.

These are from Toys-r-us. I wanted to buy the other set that had healthier food- a variety of veggies, but that frying pan was in an unrealistic colour: Electric-Blue. Who has a pan in that kind of blue.

So I ended up buying a more realistic set which was kind of junk food...... -_-"

Neighbours

My mom bought this little Hawaiian dress for her.
My sis bought her a Mickey Mouse watch and
my friend Iresh gave us the Little Tikes table that she had been using for over 15 years (!)

Kiki yearns for playmate. Not just any person but she seems to develop her personal selection process. She particularly likes this neighbour's grand daughter and led her by the hand to come into our house to play. Unfortunately, the little girl had to go home and Kiki errupted in tears... all of us were a little shocked.

(children don't hide their disappointments well.)

CNY - 2O11 (prelude)

Reunion Dinner is with my mom, sis, Bren, Kiki and Maricar last Sunday 30th Jan

We had

1. carrot-potato soup with abalone


2. cabbage with mushroom


3. fried guo tie (dumplings)


4. steam dumplings


5. cod fish


6. liqueur chocolates

Kiki refused her regular meal, she wanted to eat whatever we were having at the table.

So she ended up having only fish, potatoes, carrots & cabbage.

Music Classes at SEIMPI

Kiki enjoys her music classes very much. She sings and springs into action, tee-tee-ta! (foot work), and drums away with her palms.

We started attending the class in November 2010 and it's been good.

I am not musically trained so I really am not able to tell you in terms of musical rating or standard but here are some lesson outline if you please.

Topics:
Pitch - Treble Clef, Middle C, Treble & Clef, High & Low
Singing using (C-D-E-F-G) and animal sounds for high & low pitch.
(like a puppy's bark vs a bull dog's growl)

Rythm - Rythmic patterns with "Ta" in 2/4, 3/4 time. (TA-TA, TEE-TEE-TA)
Use precussion instruments

Songs / Rhymes - Singing / Chant nursery songs and rhymes, clap / tap the beat/rhythm or use precussion instruments (sleigh bells, castanets, tamborine)

Music Theory- Note Value - Crotchet, Dynamics F, P. Fast and Slow.

Score Reading - Flash cards / Books & Pictures. Recoginze Treble- C

Keyboard Repertoire - Keyboard Banner, 2/3 Black Keys

Music Appreciation - Composers and their works. Nursery Rhymes, songs and classical music

Harmony (in the pipeline)

Transposition (in the pipeline)

Improvisation (in the pipeline)

We pay $100 per month for lessons once a week, regardless how many weeks there are in a month ( ie, there could be 3, 4 or 5 lessons in a month. February itself will have 3 lessons only due to the CNY off day). Each lesson lasts 45 mins.

To find out more, you can call or visit http://www.seimpi-music.com.sg/

HQ : #05-37 Funan DigitaLife Mall
Tel :67376731 Fax :67376031

Pasir Ris : #05-07C Whitesands Shpg Ctr
Tel :65837913 Fax :65837810

Marine Parade : #06-07 Parkway Centre
Tel :63465781 Fax :63465793

Hougang : #05-04/05 Hougang Mall
Tel :63435347 Fax :63435447

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Hope this helps if you're exploring Music development for your child. =)

Enjoy yourselves! Oh, one parent or care giver will have to sit in.
But hey, that's bonding time. I really treasure it and enjoy it too.

By the way, I do not scout for the "best" centres... for me, I scout for the most convenient location and give it a chance.

Premium- Bags!

Bren asked if I was buying bags or magazines, I said, I bought the magazines for the bags. Just like people buy Happy Meals for the toys.

These premiums really enticed me to buy them, they are so dainty and sweet, just appropriate for CNY, I'll have many new bags!

These are also some gift ideas if you're getting for your friend's BD or something.

They range from slightly under SGD 20 to slightly over $40. The yellow one you see here is $28 and the floral - $17.50.

CNY 2011 - Prelude

Pouches to store our ang bows.

Sunday, 23rd January 2011

Strong wind.
The sun was blazing and weather perfect but the water in the pool was cold as ice.
This is the second time we tried to swim but to no avail. It was terribly cold even at noon!
This is because the pool doesn't get much sun at all (due to the enclosed design of the building)
and the wind was at high notch. No one swam expect for another girl of about 10 years.
One younger girl got out from the pool and was shivering despite being wrapped in towel and hugged by the mother.

Kiki was very excited and refused to take No for an answer, but 10 seconds in the pool, she jumped out. So in the end, we settled for sitting on the edge at the pool and she kicked and splashed away just using her legs and arms. That was enough for her and we played like this for over 30 minutes.

Mickey's tail. She loves Mickey.
She now has a Mickey Mouse water bottle.


Discovering she has a shadow.

Sunday, 23rd January 2011

Introduced her to the Chinese Lion.
When we were leaving, she said - Lion, bye!

Nails

Sunday, 16th Jan 2011

The Papa was wondering where the three of us were, cos we were so quiet for over an hour.

I was trying to do some Spring-cleaning (or Sprint Cleaning haha) but ended up showing Maricar my antiques while clearing out the drawers.

As usual, Kiki is curious and would want her hands on everything new to her.
She has already spoilt my mechanical drum-bear and I dread to let her play with my antique toys..... but relented. (That mechanical bear could repeat a tune you let him hear. As usual, many of the toys I like are small in size. And coincidentally, are Japanese).

She played with the black current cup cakes for a fairly long time.

She still doesn't know the concept of these "teekum" vending machines. The later the better!

Maricar had a good laugh over the diapers especially.