Singapura

Ever since we went to singapore some time last month (ie. june 2011),

It seems that, baby's fallen in love with that place…

In fact.. Not this place, maybe… it's my friend's place…

A nice cosy HDB flat, they've just moved in, and they've made it a very nice, homey, and cosy place…

In fact, baby and I didn't do much when we're there,

We both just hang out with my friend, and her kids,

All 3 kids like to play with each other, well… not really, they don't really know how to play with each other yet, especially baby, and her youngest baby…

It's just that, I reckon, all 3 of them enjoyed each others' presence…

Each day, we got up near noon, get changed, and we walked to the nearby food court,

Ya, that's what baby likes… cos, in our place, well… you know our country's not walkable,

Poor quality or non-existence of pedestrian path, and even there is, you don't know if you'll pump into any snatch theif…

Nah… but singapore's a friendly place for you to just walk, despite the hot weather… (same here too!)

So, she's very happy, extremely happy, to walk on the tar road… cos, all these while, sad and shame to say, her walking path's mainly those shopping malls… sad huh?? Indeed~~~~ that's our country, and our people, and our parents, and our kids… SAD~

3 days, we took the lift down, since my friend's kids walked freely and ran freely around the flast, so, my baby followed what they do… and she seemed to be VERY ~ happy ~

That's the time, she actually walked into the lift, walked out of the lift, by herself… again, due to the constraint of the environment in our country, and our condo here, we, most of the time hold her hands…

Cos, there're a lot of funny people, trying to snatch your kids away, and sell them away, and do whatever non-human things to them, IN OUR BLOODY COUNTRY~

But, not in singapore…

I'm not saying that place is 100% safe, but I reckon, it's at least 95% safe… most of the time, you get the news, where the mother or the relatives throw the kids down, or abuse the kids… (same here too!) but then, random street cases?? Rarely…

We'd go to the nearby food court… 3 days, we tried 3 different food courts, it's convenient around my friend's place, any direction you choose to go,

You see a lot of people walking, cyling, and nice friendly bright pedestrian path, not many cars zooming around in the neighbourhood during working hours… and baby definitely enjoyed the journey there and back… though both she and I would be soaked in our own sweat after getting back to the unit…

Each day, when we're there, she'll just keep asking us to bring her down to walk, walk and walk… cos, she knows, it's possible, enjoyable, and safe, probably…

Back here?? Nah… either she knows it's not possible for us to do so… she rarely ask…normally what she asks is, "go shopping"… (ya… I hate to use that typical cantonese phrase, "kai kai"… blueh!)

Then, on the day before we came back,

We brought her to the singapore flyer… that's the purpose we went to singapore, in fact… of course, another purpose, is to get a nespresso coffee machine…

Anyway…

I seriously think that, she truly loved that trip and it's a very memorable trip for her… compared to the first time, when she was nearly 1, we went to botanical garden… though, I love those beautiful pictures we took at the garden… but of course, we didn't expect her to remember any of those… she was still really too small during our first trip…

After coming back,

Just that night, when she was playing "driving" with him, ie. she'll arrange all her chairs, stools, in our living area, put all her soft toys on the chairs/stools… she herself sits in front, and him, at the back, and she starts "driving"…

(yes, of all, she still prefers to drive than to "cook", tonight, she got me to dig out her toy frying pan, played for a while, after I came out from the shower room, she's back to her "bus" again!)

So, that night…

He asked her, "where are we going?"

Surprisingly, she answered quite well, she said, "singapore…", in fact, we expected her to say something simpler, nearer… like one of the favourite shopping centre we go every weekend, for our grocery, ie. empire… but she answered "singapore"…

Then, he commented, "wa, you really like singapore…",

"what do you see in singapore?"

She said, "ferris wheel", ya… ferris wheel is her favourite, before we went to the singapore flyer, she'll non-stop talking about ferris wheel, ask me to open up youtube, get some ferris wheel images and clips for her,

Read madeline's story book, must read that madeline and the gypsy's story, as there's a ferris wheel in there…

Everything's about ferris wheel…

After saying "ferris wheel" to us, she immediately uttered, "singapore flyer"…

Again, we didn't expect her to tell us the name… frankly, as a mother, I was not just surprised, but a bit shocked, and wanted to cry… ^_^ tears of joy…

And so, I asked, "who do you see in singapore??"

Haha… the first person she mentioned, we thought, it'll be my friend's son, the eldest, the one she played with the most, and he's a very sweet and kind little boy, who'll hold her hands when they're walking on the road… (of course, with me, holding the other hand) and he'd walk slowly with her, following her pace…

But she didn't mentioned his name yet,

She mentioned, "uncle …", ooh… we didn't expect her to remember his name, but that's what she mentioned,

I asked, "who else?"

Then, she mentioned my friend's name… "auntie …",

"who else?"

She mentioned a name, but it's a wrong "meimei", I think, she remember, just that, she's a bit confused with the meimeis that she's… so, I corrected her…

And lastly??

Surprisignly, she actually just didn't mentioned the boy's name…

Of all, in fact, each time, when we browse through my digital photos album, she'd recognize him, mentioned his name, mentioned that, she wants to look at his photos, but then, just that night itself, she didn't mention his name… but then,

We smiled, I think, she's doing well…

And just tonight…

They're on that "driving" game again,

And again, he's at the back, passenger,

She's in front, bus driver…

And he said, he wants to go to penang,

But when he asked her, "where are we going?"

She said, "singapore!"

Haha.. Not again!!!

So, he was telling her, "how can? Totally wrong direction, now, we're lost!!"

O.o

Ya… that's my girl…

And yes,

In fact, not just she, enjoyed her singapore trip, but me too…

What did we do? No in fact, what I enjoyed most, was basically hang around with my friend, chitchat non-stop,

Doing nothing, just like when we're at our own place,

Now, it's just putting 2 similar housewives together, addon with those walking and outing trips…

Simple? But nice and memorable… ^_^