Photos

Note: Below photos were all taken by the same photographer - Amelie Ang.

It's her turn to be fascinated by the phone camera and since I back up my images almost everyday now (being grounded at home, I have A LOT of free time), I pass my phone to her whenever she requests for it.

In a good way, I finally get images of myself because before that, I never thought of shooting myself in a mirror around the house.

See 1 thing common in the 1st 3 pics? My maternity tops can't cover my tummy anymore. Measured last night, my waist is now 44.5 inches/ 113cm. Idea came from Dad because he came home and saw me lying sideways on the sofa and he was amused. Asked me if I ever measured how long is the circumference and I figured, hey why not?!

Christmas Presents

Christmas came early for us last week.

We got a Nintendo Wii, which came in a promo package which threw in an extra controller, a '12 in 1' equipment package, discounted 'Mario Kart'. Everyone was happy, especially the boy. Little Ammi enjoys watching the racing with 'Peach' (an all pink girl with ponytail) as the character.

As I type right now, the 'investor' is playing his heart's out after the kids have gone to bed. Our house rule: No Wii for Aidan except on weekends. I wasn't sold on Wii until I tested it at Bet and Charles' place 2 weekends ago. Wii Fit was totally fun and cool! Anyway, due to the current economic situation, we decided to hold off purchasing a Fit set ... let's see for how long.

A day before we got the Wii, I bought our new camera. It was quite a hasty decision, let's hope we won't regret. I thought I'll stick to my darling Nokia N95 camera but there were discounts everywhere and the best deal happened to be at Harvey Norman, with those freebies so I grabbed it. Plus aesthetics are pretty important for me and Hubby - the colour must be right! We fell in love with the Gold Canon Ixus 870 so it was easy for us to think we needed a new camera. Moreover, I complained about the night shots that our old Casio produced and the saleslady said only Canon and Pentax have powerful night shots, so that is it. We need a Canon!!

Plus I am going to attend a free 2 hour 'get to know your camera' course tomorrow.

Well, we do need a new camera because we are breaking for a ski holiday next weekend. It'll be a kids-free holiday, the kids get to spend 10 days with their grandparents in K.L.

The Nintendo Wii is also a guilt-trip present to the kids to entertain them in K.L. while we are away. Well, that is Daddy's reason for buying the Wii in the first place, or so he says!

Random shoots

Put a 4 year old and a Nokia N95 together and you get good pictures like this. There were some not so good ones, of course. About 30% of them? I think it's a great way to keep him entertained, except it drained my battery quite a bit.

This last one is taken by me, the 1st dish on a nice evening walk at the Labrador Park with the family and my parents and dinner at the Olive Restaurant. I'm happy because I got to eat Foie Gras and there seems to be a nice hangout place at Villa Raintree.