Happy Birthday Boon Heng!

Birthday celebration is becoming a challenge as each year passes. This year, Boon Heng birthday fall on a Saturday, and we took Friday to celebrate without the kids. Eat comfortably at our own pace. Once again, it took me quite a while to look for the ideal place to celebrate his birthday. However this time round, the restaurant which we ended up was totally different from what I had initially planned. Good thing is that it turn out to be the best choice.

At the eleventh hour.. it suddenly struck me that Charles and Yvonne mentioned there was a french restaurant in Keong Saik Road (Chinatown) which offered great french food. After doing a bit of online research and desperate sms to Yvonne, I managed to find the name of the restaurant - Nicolas Le Restaurant , and were lucky in getting a table for two, considering that the restaurant was quite small.

Boon Heng and I visit Keong Saik Road very often on Saturday morning for our dose of caffeine at the coffee shop. We almost thought of dressing casual, and I glad we didn't. The place was quite posh with even the server donning a suit. Usually, I prefer informal setting which we could talk and laugh really loud, not right here, got to hold back. It was not until a mother with a baby entering the restaurant that I started to feel more relaxed. I was impressed with mother and her baby who sat on the counter seat, especially the baby who sat on the seat for at least half an hour without making any noise. It took me almost to dessert time to realise that the mother and baby were actually family of the chef Nicolas Joanny, when I saw them mingled together.

Generally, I was quite impressed with the quality of food. Boon Heng had his favourite blue cheese and champage. Definitely a place which I would come back for more. Happy 3? Birthday to Boon Heng who still thinks he is early 30s.

Oliver Omelette

Sophia and I went to this place that serves all they breakfast, without Oliver and Heidi so that we can have some peace. It's a place called Hatched and their menu revolved around eggs.

I ordered something from the Oliver Omelette series. Being egg lovers, I'm sure they will love the food there.

Taking pictures for passport

Proven very tough for a picture perfect shot.

Diarrhoea

Since Saturday night, Oliver has been having diarrhoea. I suspect that it might be the East Coast Waraku sushi, although it might be a virus as well.

Although he is still in good spirit, his stool is not. Strange that he seems quite ok in school, but once back home, he keeps wanting to go to the toilet. As many as seven or eight times before he sleeps. I am so tired of washing his backside.

Puffer fish

I always thought that puffer fish can only be found in Japan or elsewhere. If it is found in Singapore it is probably in some Jap restaurant. I've tried it once in a Jap restaurant at Robertson Quay, tasted like bak gua. Subsequently, I read that if the fish is not prepared properly, it can be lethal. Oh well...

We brought Oliver and Heidi to East Coast Park to cycle today, and as we reach the end of the long Bedok Jetty, I saw a few teenagers crowding around this uncle in blue. He was holding a puffer fish!

He seemed to be quite an experienced fisherman, and was friendly too as he showed the catch to curious onlookers. As he put the fish back into the styrofoam box, the puffer fish let out its breath and became just like any other fish. But the guy picked it up again, tickled it somewhere, and the fish inflated again. Once inflated, it looked like a cat or an owl. Amazing!

Wu Min Tau - We are back!

Caring Kangaroo Newsletter

Hello! How was your week? Mine was filled with fun activities and I can't wait to fill you in on them! Are you ready? Here goes...

According to our theme, we talked about fire-fighters all week long and we couldn’t seem to get enough of it. We learnt fire-fighters not only help put out fires but they save animals up in trees too! We were also taught that in the case of a fire, we have to call 995 to get help from the
fire-fighters.

While at the station, fire-fighters rest, read and exercise but once they receive a call, they immediately put on their masks, coats and boots, and slide down the fireman pole to head off to put out the fire! That's really tough work, don't you think?

Oh yes, before I forget, we did role-play and took turns being firefighters as well as the victims of a fire. You bet we had lots of fun driving the fire-engine, spraying at the ‘fire’, and using our mattress cover to wrap ourselves so we can escape!

In phonics, we were taught the letter "j". Our new friend this week is Jumping Jim. We learnt how to write the letter and came up with words that start with "j", like, jigsaw, jeep,
jungle, junction, juggle, jam and jelly.

For craft, we did our very own Caring Kangaroo's fire-truck. We painted it red and Ms. Dee
helped draw the outside of the fire truck for us. We also did charcoal drawings, and mind, it was quite difficult. For messy play, we had our hands on mango pudding. We cooked it and it was really easy. You can buy the instant, powder mix from the supermarket with simple instructions on it. You know, we didn’t add sugar to our mango pudding and it still tasted very good!

I am sure that by now, you would have heard all about our trip to West Coast Park and how we enjoyed ourselves. Although it was a hot day, we were not afraid as we were armed with water guns! With those, we pretended the park was on ‘fire’ and went around ‘putting out’ ‘fires’.
We, too, went in search of a fireman's pole and took turns sliding down it. You bet we were delighted to go down the pole just like a real fire-fighter! Sad to say, it’s time for me to say goodbye. Stay tuned for more updates next week! Till then, take good care and enjoy the long weekend ahead! :)

Hugs and kisses from your Caring Kangaroo
26 March 2010

给爸爸妈妈的信 (from Del-care)

三月十五日至三月十九日

亲爱的爸爸妈妈,
你们好！很高兴我们又见面了。上一周我们结束了“医生”的主题之后这一周我们走近“邮递员”去了解他们到底是什么样的人，他们每天的工作是什么。

星期一，有很多小朋友都从家里带来了许多信件，广告纸等等。通过认识邮递员这一职业才明白这些都是邮递员投递到自己家里的邮箱里的。为什么会有信件呢？原来除了打电话，上网联络之外我们还可以通过书写信件来表达自己对他人的想法和感受。就让我们从了解信件开始吧。我们发现有许多信件中都是有一个小小的‘信封’装着的，在这些不同颜色的信封上面都会有一到两张像贴纸一样的“邮票”，邮票上还有一个圆形的“邮戳”信封的上面会写上收件人的“地址”。有了这几样的东西这封信经过一个长途的旅行之后到达收信人的手里。不过这些都是“邮递员”的功劳，他们每天都会到各地的“邮箱”里收集信件，然后把它们分类整理检查，最后面盖戳，最后剩下的就是送信了。别看这个过程简单，做起来要特别仔细呢？为了让我们也体验“邮递员”的工作，老师让我们也过了一把做一名邮递员的隐。首先，扮演邮递员的小朋友需要到每个老师那介绍自己是邮递员，然后在每个老师的手中接到信件，根据信件上的地址（形状）找有相同图案形状的邮箱并把信件投递到信箱里面。

除了邮递员送来的信件，很多小朋友对大家带来的广告纸也很有兴趣，于是我们展开了一次“谈话活动”我们分成几组围绕“广告纸的内容”话题自由交谈自主选择广告纸。将自己交谈的内容大胆地讲给全班小朋友听。而老师将收集好的语句反馈给全班幼儿，让我们学习用连贯的语句表达自己的想法。

在欢快的游戏中, 我们结束了主题“邮递员”的学习，我想每位小朋友都会对这次的活动留下深刻的印象吧.O(∩_∩)O

这次先聊到这，我们下周见！

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