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Brainwashing

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Radio & television till this day still remain great influencers to mankind. The influence is so great that even a young child is able to retain bits of what they watch or listen to. This is evident as my kids too are being 'brainwashed'.

Example 1 :
While deciding on where to go for dinner one night Cavin, my sister and I were tossing ideas and suggesting restaurants. Cayden too chips in and...

Cayden : Go to Wendy's daddy..... (suggestion gets ignored while we adults were still chatting)

Cayden : Fresh foods made fast... (everyone stunned and dumbfounded)

Me : Huh.....where did you hear that from?

Cayden : GOT (emphasizing that he is right). On the radio.



Example 2 :
Caitlyn could immediately identify the song 'Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas' from just the intro of the song. Even before the singing starts she would have muttered out either "Boom Boom Bak" or sometimes "Gotta get..get".



Example 3 :
Everytime when we are out and in the car without fail Caitlyn will be requesting for a Mandarin song which Cayden USED to like (Not anymore tho due to the never ending request from the sister for the song to be played. Poor boy is so sick and tired of the song by now :p ).

The song is Richie Ren's - 對面的女孩看過來 or Dui Mien De Nu Hai Kan Guo Lai (translated as 'Girl Over There, Look Over Here'). Caitlyn will be able to sing a line or two whereas Cayden can sing almost the entire song. The MTV can be viewed @ Richie Ren - Dui Mien De Nu Hai Kan Guo Lai



Example 4 :
The romantic side of Caitlyn and the eye for an interesting commercial.

Caitlyn particularly likes a certain part of the Malaysian version of the Ribena - Lemon Meets Blackcurrant "A Perfect Match" TV commercial.

Briefly about the commercial : It has a very catchy tune which has an overall feel and inclination towards Indian music and movie production. The commercial follows the typical Indian movie plots of two single souls in search of love > boy meets girl > both fall in love > dance around a tree (but there's no tree in this instance but just dancing in a circle. However you would get the drift.)

Caitlyn will always wait for the part where the Blackcurrant runs towards the Lemon. Without fail she will shriek with excitement when the Blackcurrant's hands meets with the Lemon's; just before the pair breaks into a dance :)

The commercial can be viewed @ Ribena "A Perfect Match"

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Merdeka Spirit

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Cayden's Montessori has always been supportive of our national celebrations by getting the preschoolers to dress up according to the occasion.

The whole month of August was dedicated to celebrating Independence day.

The first Friday of the month was Malay and the kids wore Malay costumes to school. For lunch, they were all made to sit on the floor and had nasi lemak [minus the sambal tho].

Should have gotten this 'Hang Tuah' a songkok to complete the look.
Totally forgot about that :p





The following week was Chinese but somehow Cayden couldn't tell me what was the food they had. I guess it would have most likely been some Chinese style fried rice.





Kung fu kid aka. Choo Fei Hung





His classmates and teacher
[kesian the lil' Caucasian kid was the odd one out]



The final week before the school break was Indian or any other race in the country and it turned out to be a Bollywood fiesta in the school. The kids had roti canai for their break.

James & Cayden attempting Indian dance moves..


Group act
[Cayden the only one still dancing :o ]


Finale - Solo performance
[I think he does like to dance :) ]



Photographs courtesy of Yee Peng (Ming Han's mummy)

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Growing up too quickly

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In a blink of an eye my daughter is so "grown up" now... I feel. And today Caitlyn is exactly 20 months old.

She knows how to look good and in fact WANT to be in her best. She also try as much to help around the house.....creating extra mess for mummy to clean up (actually).

Anyway, here are some shots of her... (not very clear shots coz taken with the handphone)


Helping mummy in the kitchen...



Trying to strike a pose



Trying to juggle the bottles while staying balanced.



* Grin *




Anyway her latest motto is
"Friends are forever,
Boys are whatever"










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