Munchkin Fresh Food Feeder

Hah, another Munchkin innovation.

This is what it says on the Munchkin website :

"This award-winning product allows your baby to enjoy lots of delicious foods without the choking risk. Simply put a piece of fruit, vegetables or meat into the mesh bag and snap shut. Your baby can chew, suck and enjoy all the whole food goodness and taste, with only the tiniest, digestible pieces coming through. Your baby gets great flavor and you get great peace of mind!"


I bought this product to put ICE in it for Eugene to suck!

Eugene is teething at the moment and from what I read, his gum could be painful and itchy and something cold would help.

So I put an ice cube in the mesh and let Eugene suck on it without me worrying that he might pop the whole ice into his mouth and choke.

And Eugene loves it!


Looks like a giant pacifier, isn't it?

Munchkin Stay-Put Suction Bowls

I like Munchkin's kiddie products. I find that they create products that addresses the problems like for example : how to stop the bowl from tipping over.

What do I mean?

Usually, when Eugene sees a bowl, straightaway he would reach out for it and of cos, the bowl topples over and the food's on the table and floor.

Now, with these Muchkin bowls which I had bought quite sometime ago, there is a suction base and it will stick to the surface. Some surfaces sticks better and others, well, it will unstick after a while, so you just have to keep pressing it down to stick - but definitely better than a normal bowl with no suction bottom.

Anyway, it really helps a lot as he can try to spoon or use his fork or his hands to take his food without the bowl tipping over.


3 different sizes of bowl : small, medium and large



The suction base

Dirty's the word

When Eugene tries to eat on his own, as usual all his food will be strewn all over the floor and I'll say to him : " The floor is dirty, mommy have to clean the floor".

Yesterday, he suddenly said 'dirty!' - loud and clear while I was mopping the floor. I was so surprised because I did not specifically taught him the word.

Here's a video of Eugene saying the word 'dirty'. Guess since he can say 'daddy', 'dirty' is easy for him.

Think his pronunciation is ok. When he says 'daddy' - he would emphasize on the 'DAD -ddy'
- so you can hear the difference in tone between 'daddy' and 'dirty'.

Most importantly, he understands what 'dirty' means.

Korean Restaurant in Toa Payoh

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Note : This restaurant is now closed. In it's place is this restaurant Wang Thai Kitchen.


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Went to the market area looking for some food to eat during dinner time.

So sian, always the same stuff - chicken rice, char-siew rice, hor-fun, noodles etc.

And then we saw this Korean Restaurant. Hmm...... rather unusual place to be in.

There was a table of Koreans eating - must be good and authentic, right?


Our side-dishes which were refillable!
Yummy ikan-bilis which was fried with some sugar.
Kimchi - tasted nice to me, though authentic taste or not, I don't know.
Eggplant - nice too.




We shared a Ginseng-Chicken soup. I ordered for individual but it was a big bowl - think can feed a family.
Got dates, rice in it and big piece of chicken. Was given some sour plum powder to dip the chicken in. And not forgetting the soup - very, very slight hint of the ginseng only. Aiyah, soup cost about $9.80 only, what do you expect?




Hubby ordered this. Er.. can't remember the name of this dish.




I ordered this set of thinly sliced pork and seaweed soup. Quite a lot of pork given.



We were given a flask of tea too.

Our total bill : $27.40

Think it's a reasonable price to pay.


Mario Kitchen Korean Restaurant (formerly from Liang Seah St)
Blk 92, Lorong 4 Toa Payoh

Kian Seng Seafood Restaurant

What can I say, the sze-char food here is absolutely yummy.

We devoured almost everything before I remembered to take some pics. Thumbs up.





Kian Seng Seafood Restaurant
Blk 4013, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10
#01-450, Ang Mo Kio Industrial Park I
Tel : 6458-2552 / 6481-3873

La Cure - Dead Sea skincare

A friend told me that she have an online business selling dead-sea skincare products called 'La-Cure' which is from Jordan.

I've always wanted to try dead-sea products but was put off by the high prices - what if I don't like it or it is not suitable for me - it will be a lot of money down the drain.

That's why I was pleasantly surprised that 'La Cure' dead sea skincare products are so reasonably priced.

La Cure is giving away free samples at this moment so you can try before buying it.

Free samples

Go-Go Bambini

10 Oct'2009

Heard that Go-Go Bambini at Dempsey Hill is great for kids to go wild.

Eugene in the ball-pit but I only let him stand for a short while before I took him out.
I don't like ball-pits because you can't see what's in there.
According to their website, the ball pits are sanitized with alcohol spray daily and completely emptied and cleaned out once a week - er, so what happens if some kids puked or wet/pooped in the pit at the beginning or middle of the week? - you'll be playing in yuckety yucks!



Just for the photo. Not sitting but squatting - got out of there fast.







Daddy, wait for me.













For Eugene's age which is below 2 yrs, there's actually another play area for his age group but it is outside and hot, whereas as far as I can see, there's only a ball-pit in the aircon- area.

The above area are actually for older kids. It is a couple of storey high with maze, steps, slide and even a rock-climb.

Eugene was actually scared because the children were screaming (the girls were loudest) and they (especially the boys) were rather rough and was shoving Eugene out of the way.

We went up the play area with Eugene, to see for ourselves and I think it's really fun for kids.

I had a young girl who kept following me around and yaking, yaking, yaking and wanting to play with me and she introduced me to her twin sister and an older brother. She's rather sweet and showed me around the place. But man, she's a persistent gal - kept wanting me to acompany her. Seems her mom's not there, only her dad.

So, conclusion is that I will bring Eugene when he's older.

What's Your IQ?

Free IQ test - just for fun.


My score result :


Free-IQTest.net - Free IQ Test







I don't think I'm smart leh, at least where emotions and work is concern. Kena cheated before and career-wise (sigh), what career?

Another Hari-Raya Invitation

10 Oct'2009

Another Hari-Raya invitation from another neighbour.


Our common lobby being turned into a lounge.





Our neigbhour R with her daughter. R can cook very well. Her basmati rice and ayam masak merah were so delicious.




Neighbour R with her colleagues.




Neigbour R's hubby and her son

Poke, Poke

Have tried to let Eugene eat on his own off and on after getting him his own baby fork and spoon.

Ya, I have to admit that it's far easier if I just feed him - no mess and faster too!

I will usually let him try to eat on his own first with the spoon - 'cos he will be hungry and will try to eat instead of playing with his food. Just to let him have a feel of how to do it.

After a while, I will then feed him while he will carry on trying to use the spoon.

Notice I said spoon - Eugene is still not able to scoop very well, though he's able to put the spoon to his mouth the correct way in, instead of flipping the spoon over.

I'm very proud that Eugene is able to use the fork pretty well! I showed him the fork, explained how and showed him how to do it. And when he tries, I will guide him. So basically, I told him to Look, Aim, Poke.

Not bad lah, his aim, quite good I think.

So Animal

When we read to Eugene and there are animals in the story, we will usually make the animal sounds too. But I think Eugene really put two and two together when he sees the actual animals.

He have seen dogs and cats in our neighbourhood and heard the sounds they make and now can assosciate which sounds belongs to which animals.

We brought him to the zoo and showed him the elephants which he only sees on tv or in books and now he will imitate the elephant's trunk with his hands raised.

Here's his animals' sounds :

(a) Dog - still can't do the "woof, woof" - sounds more like "yow, yow"

(b) Cat - not "meow, meow" but close, - it's "neow, neow". You know that he's trying to do the "meow meow" but still can't form the M sound - see his tongue darting like a snake trying to say "meow, meow" but comes out "neow, neow".

(c) Elephant - good effort on the elephant sounds and imitating the elephant raising his trunk by raising his own hands.

Climbing Mount "Chair"

30 Sept'2009


Eugene has mastered climbing up onto his high chair after we have shown him how to do it for only a couple of times.

Now, when it's time for his 'makan', he will automatically go over to his high chair and climb it.

We have showed him how to climb down which is to slide down on his tummy but this boy, he wants to stand up and take his steps down which he is unable to do at this moment. He just wants to do it the way we adults do it! **faint**

Singapore Botanic Gardens

Went to the Botanic Gardens in the late afternoon, about 5-nish - so that it's not too hot and humid.

Have not been to the Botanical Garden for a long time.






Am wearing duck feathers headband which I made. Actually, I bought the feathers already glued onto a felt from US. I bought the headband locally and glued the feathers onto it. Easy!



Here's a closer look. Luckily no ducks at the garden chase after me, ha ha.




Eugene!


















The Palm leaves are so huge!









Think this is some kind of ginger flower.



I was behind the waterfall, not them.