Sam's 1st Imaginary Human Adventure

Sam's imaginary games until now have been solely limited to, what else, CARS. It started with him mimicking our family car's reverse sensor, then he mimicked us locking his Trunki with any key he got his hands on, and recently his Madagascar figurines stomping on & around his toy cars (I introduced him to that).

So I was both relieved & amused yesterday morning to find him acting out a new drama with only his ELC fireman:

Fireman figurine moving quickly along the sofa.

Sam: "Run."

Fireman tips forward. Sam picks up the figurine, point at it & says to me mournfully: "Pain pain!"

Then, "ban-ditch!" - Sam's way of saying 'bandage'.

So I picked up a torn sticker & gave it to Sam, who then solemnly stuck in on the fireman's arm.

Ha! Sam was re-enacting his episode of falling down while visiting his maternal granny & scraped his knee, causing me to spend the next 2 weeks putting bandages on his knee.

I guess this not only means that my little devil is growing older, it also means he's not forgetting this painful episode in a hurry. ;P

Sam Playing with his Mattress

Sam playing with his mattress, while we were (still are, by the way) busy trying to tidy up the flat to make it possible for Sam's mattress to fit in.

After 8 days since our sea freight arrived, now our master bedroom is nearly done. Tomorrow need to try to organise Sam's 6 toy boxes, & possibly the bookshelfs in his new bedroom, so that can fit in his mattress, and re-start the long, tedious process of getting Sam used to sleeping in the new room.

Then I'll have to catalog my unwanted VCDs & try to pass them on, and try to sell off our 2 sheepskin rugs, foldable playpen & Quinny pram complete with car seat, all of which are filling the storeroom to the brim. Also need to find a place to keep the baby cot (dunno why hubby wants to keep that).

Nearly forgot: need to sort through our boxes of decorations, including one whole box of souvenirs I bought while training in Japan (box already collected plenty of dust from KL stay). Most probably need to make another trip to Ikea & get a display cabinet (if study room still has space for it) and some shelves to display all our souvenirs from our stay in Europe, including 2nd cuckoo clock, all my Starbucks mugs, numerous drawings, 1 bagful of Hard Rock Cafe pins, my entire music box collection, the Dutch clogs, etc, etc, etc............

Am still thinking how to get the 3 boxes of unwanted items that are too sinful to throw away to the Salvation Army without a car............

Getting tired just thinking about it...............

Complain, Complain, Complain!!!

Have only been gone from Singapore for 3.5 yrs, and the service level of everything seems to have dropped!!!!!!!

The Singtel 1626 screwed up my simple re-activation of hp line. Luckily the stuff at the Ngee Ann City hello! shop are still helpful & knowledgable, else my 3 trips there over the past 2 weeks would have gotten more white hairs on my head! Just hope their account manager who's supposed to fix the problem really did so when they resume work tomorrow, else I'll have to make a 4th trip there........

No one in Singapore ever mentioned to me that you need to submit my income tax assessment form in order to employ a maid. I mean, we've been overseas for the past 3.5 yrs, how to present direct proof that hubby has been earning > S$30k a year????? The agency even solemnly promised me the initial application will definitely be rejected without the damn assessment form, & if they didn't manage the appeal with all the pay slips, employment letter & such, we would have to appeal to our MP to get the maid! Hell! After all the effort I went through to bring my son back for education in Singapore now I can't employ a maid to help with the housework????

Worst of all is Borneo Motors!!!! 6 yrs ago we got our 1st car from them with absolutely no trouble at all. Now, we've already lowered our expectations to make do with the silver Toyota Wish (hubby had wanted the grey one, but that won't be available till Feb 09) so that we can get the car within this month. Then, the company didn't make the COE bid for us this month, when the price of the COE plunged so much!! The agent said the car shipment won't be in till Dec, so no point getting the COE now anyway! So hubby now lamenting the potential lost of nearly $3k on the COE, while I fret the possibility Borneo Motors failed the next COE bid in Dec, and delay our car delivery!!!

I was so angry to hear the news this morning, I contemplated bringing Sam down to the showroom & let him loose on a rampage on the cars on display, esp. those that are specified "SOLD"!! Car showrooms are often crowded on a Sunday, how about letting Sam play driver on the Toyota Wish in the showroom, so that other potential customers won't get to view the car properly? How would the company like that, huh????? After all, my son didn't get to sit in the family car, so there's nothing wrong with letting him stand on the showroom cars, play with the wiper switches and bang the car doors! ;P Better still if I lament on the poor company service & scare off other customers, then there'll be less competition & I have higher chance to get the car next month, huh??????

Still fuming mad!!!!!!!!!

Sam Driving a Toyota Camry

We went to the Toyato Showroom today to buy the Toyota Wish. And while hubby is settling all the paperwork, I had to keep Sam occupied, which is basically following him around while he tries out all the cars in the showroom! His fav - the Toyota Camry:

Sam will pretend to drive the car, and would ask me to sit beside him, made sure I closed the door, and even tried to put on the safety belt!

"Gong Gong" Sam

Sam wearing a pair of his cousin's toy specs.......he seems to enjoy it & kept wanting to put it on even though it's a trifle too small for him!

Guess he thought this makes him more like his Daddy & Mummy.......I just hope he won't have to wear any real glasses when he grows up!

My Fav Christmas Tree

It's X'mas time again, and this year, I get to see my fav X'mas tree in Ngee Ann City the day it's fully set up! Yeh!!

Always loved the X'mas tree in Ngee Ann City...........so warm & lovely feeling just looking at it. Think it must be a Jap thing - the X'mas trees I saw in Japan were wonderful too.

This year's tree is pink (balls) & white (snowflakes) with twinkling golden lights. Lovely!!! But Sam didn't like it, silly boy! ;P