Cassandra's Life Blog

All islanders out there, you know what i mean here, don't cha ?! When you're near the beach or ocean, you tend to let loose and just want your hair to fly with the ocean's breeze. Forget the tingling sensation the sand makes your feet feel, the glueyness on your skin from the air and the piercing ray from the hot sun to your eyes. Forget those, they doesn't matter. Instead you just want to hear the sounds of the waves, smell the scent of the ocean and feel the heat of the sun on your face. I love the beach, i think it's in my dna :)

The month of Sept is full of birthday for us. My dad's, my brother and mine b'day all falls in Sept. Most of the time, we just have 1 big celebration. This year we actually wanna plan for some sun and sand in the Rasa Sayang. Unfortunately the weather was pretty bad for the last few weeks. We actually drove 1/2 way to Batu-Feringghi only to find out there's a 'landslide' near that area. So, we took the u-turn and jump into the E&O instead. (See Cassie dancing to the beat in this video)

Because of all the delay, we quickly ran down the car into the restaurant and totally forgot about my camera ! When thd jazz band came along, only then i remembered i left the camera in the car *darn*

It was a fun evening after all. Dad had fun singing with the band, cassie had fun dancing to the beat. Even with the pouring rain outside, the whole place is full of warmth and excitement :) We'll definitely do it again. Happy birthday Grandpa !

Moment # 1
It was rainy most of the evening last week and Cassie snuggle happily in her favorite blanket.

I teased Cassie and said : "Cass, borrow your blanket to daddy ok ?"
Of couse she came back with the answer "No, this is my blanket"
I tried again and said : "You have a nice blanket here but daddy don't have blanket .. borrow ok ?"
Here's Cassie replied : "Mom, you have blanket rite ?! "

*hmpt*

Moment # 2
It was school holiday yesterday and cassie was pretty relax when she knew she doesn't have to go to school. Later in the afternoon, she picked up her bag-pack and her water bottle just like how she does every morning ready for school.

I asked Cassie : "Cassie, what r u doing ? r u going to school ?"
Cassie replied said : "Yes, good morning teacher ! "

*kekeke, she misses her school after all ...

Cassie loves to read and she is now insisting on reading some of her books on her own. Her favourite last month was the 'billy goat gruff' and this month she's moving on the 'the gingerbread man'. The pre-school's books has a lot of repetition and i think that's good for her because she is able to pick up the phases very well.

// "Stop, little gingerbread man" said the old women " i want to eat you for my tea" //

When i read for her, i usually add in some expression and sound effects :) that's why you see her emphasize the word 'STOP' in the video :)

I was preparing Cassie for bath and waiting for the water to fill the tub. While waiting, i then prepared the mob to clean the floor. Cassie saw what i was planning to do and insist that she wanted to clean the floor. That's why you see her in her 'untidy' attire in the video :)

While Cassie participating in the house chores, she didn't forget to entertain herself while she's doing the work :) turn up your volume to hear her sing :)

It's a great reminder : work hard, play hard. most importantly have fun and enjoy :)

It was a bright sunday morning and we were browsing through the 11 Olympic channels and stopped at the Rhythmic Gymnastics event. Just 2 minutes into the event, Cassie has a request.

舒蔚 : "我要大家拍手, 我要美丽跳舞衣!"
Cassie : "I want everyone to clap and i want the beautiful dancing dress ! ".

Yes dear, it's every girl's dream to wear beautiful dress and have the crowd admiration ! I can understand what you want and why you want it ;)

And off she goes, doing her dancing and gymnastics routine :) She followed all the moves that she saw from the TV, including the way they walked to the floor and their facial expression when they sat down waiting for their score after the routine.

Aside from being the gymnast, she has the swimmer event last week. I do not know how good a athletic she is, but what i know for sure dear, you are always the winner to me and here's a gold medal for being the best in the "daughter sports" event :)

This is Cass's 2nd week in school. Overall i think she's doing quite well, she has some friends in her own class and also some friend whom are 5 & 6 yrs old. They will shout her name and tell her to the door when we were there to pick her up after school.

There's a slight change to her schedule and she sleep a little bit late now. Other than that, she seems to grow a little bit more. Just the other day, she was doing some drawing and then she saw my walked by. She stopped me and said, 'mommy, let me show you, let me show you'. Then she start drawing away with mumbling description. I think she's imitating her teacher. Oh, speaking of teacher, she can't seems to pronounce the 'T' and thus she refer her as 'Peach-er' :)

more cass's photos here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/z_vue

looking forward for a bright future ? you betcha ! :)

I asked the teacher how's cassandra and she said Cass didn't even shed a tear and she's a very independant girl. Good job Cass.

She came back and immediately asked for milk and told me she wanted to sleep. :) i insist she take her bath first and she finished up her lunch in double portion !! *must be really hungry ...

Here's what Cass has to say about her day at school :
[about reading] "yes, 有 reading, shu-weih 不会,有学"
[about singing] "有, dancing 一起"
[about eating] "吃 cookies, chocolate 的不好吃, 要 cooking different one, shu-weih 要 cook strawberry 的, 等一下."
[about friend] "没有, 舒蔚"
[about her uniform] "要买new one, 明天穿"
[about going to toilet] "有wee-wee, 要开门"

So i guess she did some reading but there are a lot that she didn't know, then there are dancing session that she joined in without failed, the cookie that i gave her is not good, she's asking me to make her strawberry one for tomorrow, no new friend yet, understand that she will still have to wear the same uniform tomorrow and if she needs to go toilet, someone (teacher perhaps) need to open the door for her :)

i checked her bag and found her exercise book. She proudly showed me she wrote her name (ar .. i bet the teacher hold her hand one) and keep flipping the pages as if she anticipates the learning and can't wait to have more !

Last nite while playing with Cass, G throw Cass her toy bunny softly.
Cass : "why you throw ?"
G : "opps, sorry"
Cass : "cannot throw one, put down slowly"
G : "ok, ok "
Cass : "remember ok ?"

I found her keep doing this lately, she's like a parrot immitate all our speeches and like a programmed robot that repeats after us :)

Here's a new thing we got back from KL to occupy her mind. :) This is where she will do her drawing, some painting and some writing.

Besides all the above, i caught her imagine the easel as her mirror this morning and comb her hair with it :)

Partly imagination, partly expressiveness, partly too much TV and partly pretend play :)

Cass break into dance quite frequently. Here while waiting for dinner and she was doing her 'dinner' dance :)

This is the 2nd trip to the aquarium for Cass. She has been to the Paragon's Siam Ocean World in yr 2006 and the KLCC Aquaria is her 2nd underwater encountered.

Overall i think the Aquaria is too small and not a lot of display. The main attraction in June is the 'piranha'. hmpt.

Comparing to the Paragon' siam ocean world, where besides the tunnel, they have the 'artic' encountered, a lot of different deep ocean creatures like the neon lights jelly fishes. In addition, the paragon's ocean center has a few aquarium tank that are 2 storeys high, well kept surroundings and good ambiance.

With 30,000+ marine animals (Seals, Blue Ringed Octopus, Ragged-tooth sharks, Stingrays, Leafly Sea Dragons, Giant Spider Crabs, and Sharks of various types including Ragged-tooth, Black tipped, and Leopard). No wonder it is the largest aquarium in Southeast Asia.

But then again, with 1/3 the price we paid for Siam Paragon, it's fair we expect 1/3 of the experience in Aquaria KLCC. fair ? This is free market at work here.

Cass is progressing to form longer sentences now, instead of the baby-words (like milk2, bear2, mum-mum and other words in double) she is learning more new words and making sentences.

I found that the new sentences that she's making nowadays are star-wars 'YODA-like' :)
with the action words in front of the sentences. example :

"啊嘛 回家, 没有"
"Grandma goes home, no"

"Dr. 喝完. 说"
"Dr. finished the drink, he says"

"Captain hook 有crocodile, 咬屁股"
"Captain hook has crocodile, bite back-side"

When listen to Cass, one will try to wait till she finished the whole sentence because the punch-line is at the end :)

Cass was watching cartoon yesterday evening and she noticed a character in the cartoon with beard. Quickly she ran over to the kitchen and told me to watch 'grandpa'. I was so puzzle and followed her anyway.

She pointed to the cartoon character and said :
"这个老老了, 是公公来的. 有胡子的."
"this is old already, he is grandpa (kong kong) because he got long beard".

Cass loved to bath and now she insists on bathing on her own including washing her hair.