Traditional Punjabi suit

Sam in the traditional Punjabi suit that Ama bought for him when they went to India for holiday early last year.
Mar 2007.

Some free studio shots - Aug 2007

Some photo studio did some cold calling and invited us to go for a photo shoot. Of course there was some real "hard-selling' involved but we just stood our ground. We liked the photos but they gave it to us raw, not touched up so Kelv did his own touch ups and I'm really proud of his work! Wonderful isn't it? I love the one with Sam on the floor, roaring and holding a stuffed lion. :)

Pics with mama

These were taken in August 2007, taken with a Sony Ericson camera phone. Sam with funny face daddy. Last pic is Sam with mama.

Some old pics - 2007

Pic 1: Sam and Godma with silly candy cane earrings! Taken Christmas 2007.
Pic 2: Sam posing with a towel as hair! (2007)
Pic 3: Sam hinting that he does not like having crew cuts anymore. (early 2008)
Pic 4: I think Sam looks so adorable here! My favourite picture of all. (mid 2008)

Sam's 5th b'day!

Sam's 5th birthday (2007), pics taken at Godma's house. Cake courtesy of Godma :)

Sam on a tree

Sam on a tree, taken last year end.

Tree Climbing part 2

Step 4: Climbing is hard work!








Step 5: Maybe the tree can help me.



Step 6: Think I'll just hang around and rest first.









Step 7: Success. I'm on the top of the world!

Tree Climbing - October 2008

Sam's latest conquest! I brought him for some tree climbing activity. He was kinda scared at first, didn't even want to have a go at it. But after some coaxing, he relented. The coach was very good with kids, talented young man . He handled Sam pretty well. Making friends, gaining his confidence and then instructing him on what to do etc. I was glad Sam felt comfortable enough to climb. It was pretty fun to watch and I really couldn't help but feel proud to be his mommy when he finally reached the top!

Step 1: Buckle up


Step 2: Tighten the harness




Step 3: Up, up and away!

Still at Kid's Kampung

Sam loves the fishes, he likes to feed the kois. As you can see, they are a greedy lot!

Brought Sam to Pasir Ris Kid's Kampung in September 08. He had so much fun chasing the little fishies around the pond for the whole hour! I was quite pooped too trying to keep up with him! He caught a grand total of 20 fish :) which unfortunately died one by one over the few days it came home with us... oh well! :)

Music lessons

Sam and I started taking violin lessons in December last year. We had so much fun learning the violin. But since I got pregnant and heavier by the day, I stopped going for lesson after my Grade 1 exam -which I passed with Merit (hooray!). Haven't been practising for 2 months now, pretty rusty... really got to get back to it.

Sam's progressing pretty well on his own, with some guidance from me. Here's us together with our instruments.

It's been a long time!

Didn't realise that it's been 2 year's since I've last blogged!!

Got good news for everyone, I'm pregnant again, our second kid.. a playmate for Sam finally! The pregnancy's been okay so far. But being old means that it's more tiring, the first trimester was pretty bad, I was tired every night and hit the sack almost the minute I reached home.

Second trimester was better, wasn't feeling too tired, had time to play with Sam.. poor thing was feeling very left out. I'm into the end of third trimester, and baby is due to make his appearance anytime these few weeks :).

Well I'll be posting some new pics of Sam so enjoy!

I've got a new job

It's been awhile again since I've blogged. As usual having a full time job and having to look after Sam and doing the household chores is sometimes more than I can cope with. Anyway, the situation where I was working was getting from bad to worse with the boss's nepotism at its worse. I decided that enough is enough and left that darned place.

I managed to get a new job and a promotion to boost, all on my own and my new workplace is nice. A simple office, nothing fancy and elaborate with nice (but sometimes mad) people to work with. So far, I'm really liking it.

Thank God for His blessings.

I still haven't found the knack for it yet, I seem to have posted my pictures but in kinda of a weird order, anyway, if you are wondering the pictures posted today were all taken while we were in Genting Highland, Malaysia in July this year. We were there for about 3 days, it was cold, fun and cold hehe... Think Sam loved it best though coz he had lots of rides and both his mama and grand-aunty to spoil him rotten. 

Here's the little one enjoying his cuppa. 

Sam and daddy enjoying their 'teacup' ride. 

Here we are at the cable car station at halfway to the bottom of the Genting Highlands. The pic looks like it's taken with a soft lens coz we were in the clouds, literally! Just seconds before we took this picture, a big cloud came in and froze everyone. It was cold.

Mom and dad's turn to relax. 

Walking into the Theme Park in Genting was really wonderful! The flowers just seemed to double their bright colours and are twice as beautiful! 

A less sophisticated carousel, the coin-operated arcade type.