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It Is All About The Base

Christmas is coming!! 🎉🎉🎉our family is so excited to have our first ever christmas tree in singapore.. we had a mini tree last time but it does not count as it does not have the feel as much as a tree with proper height.. So we bought this tree last sat and tried to set it up on sun and mon.. what took it so long?!.. the biggest issue was we can't make the tree stood straight as it is supposed to.. several tries it leaned backward, another few tries it was slanted to the right.. so frustrating because of 2 things: 1) our expectation is so high as this is our first christmas tree but we could not make it right 2) we hate to dissapoint kakak gide as he kept talking about decorating the tree.. After several battle scars trying to tighten the base we realized that the issue was with the base itself.. it did not serve as firm foundation for the tree to stand straight and tall.. thus we decided to come back to the shop.. cut the drama short (the store's real opening hours differs ...

Life Counting Questions

Recently gide got this lcd pad from his neighbor friend's birthday goodie bag (thank you khalif and tante putri!!).. we started to use this pad to have math quiz where we give each other math problems to be solved.. p.s. if you are a parent yourself you know that how we need to be creative in engaging our kids to learn.. gide is very happy when he could answer the problem that i gave him.. of course i started with easy one like 1+1 or 2+2 and so on.. he would be puzzled if i give him tough questions (according to him anyway) like 1 million + 1 million or 2 million + 2 million 😂🤣😂🤣 oh dear gide if only you know solving these questions are as simple as like solving 1 apple + 1 apple or 2 apple + 2 apple.. another thing which makes him very happy is when he thinks that he could give me very hard question (again, this is according to him).. he would smile wildly expecting i would not be able to give solution to the problem and end up dissapointed that i could solve the problem in l...