Who is this little monkey ?

Mom, Where did u make me sit !!!..
.I am scared but dont want to show that

 I have overcome my fear....I am loving it.....

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It is nice to see sanju drive his bicycle for almost 1 km in the beach. He us quite trilled to cycle fast on his own.


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Third karthigai deepam

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First photo shoot

The subject of all my photos has suddenly become interested in taking photos by himself. Some of his shoots using my iPhone.

Good improvement. 



With help from me



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Christmas decoration 2010

Jurong Point Mall is the first mall we visited to enjoy the 2010 Christmas decoration.Many more to
follow before end of Dec.

 

In front of the Christmas tree



 

Enjoying the Cho Cho Train ride



Diwali gift

This is Diwali gift from Bramma thatha for Diwali....He simply enjoys the swing (doesn't swing anymore in the manner he is supposed to swing.)

Trying to accomadate his Mickey as well

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Important Friday(12-11-2010)

Wondering what was so important on last Friday..infact I wanted to blog about it on Friday itself...unfortunately no time. Nevertheless....It remains important...
Today we registered Sanjiv into pre-school. Hopefully he can go there till primary school.  He will be starting his school from 3rd Jan 2011. Initially he will be going for half-day and if he enjoys it he can be there for whole day(till 3.30pm)....We took him to the school on Friday and he simply enjoyed being there. Not sure if he will enjoy it this much without us around and for longer time on daily basis.
He will be going to EtonHouse Preschool Outram branch.
Ok now some update on the process of selecting the school.
I didn't want to write out the frustration I felt while selecting the pre-school. Now that it is all over,I am at ease to write about it. This has been the most tedious thing I ever did w.r.t to education (even while selecting my engineering college i never felt any tension). The criteria I had for the school was

•    First of all, I wanted a school where he can be enrolled till primary school.
•    Close to my home.
•    Then I wanted a place where he can interact with all races( Indian, local Singaporean, Chinese, western) 
•     learn proper grammar.
•     I wanted a school with open play ground.
•     Not way to expensive (Private education in Singapore is expensive).
•     With good reputation.

Doesn't my requirement sound reasonable. With these criteria I started shortlisting for schools.
Eton house outram was the first school we saw as it was close to our working place (far my home though). We saw it to get an idea and to set a bench mark. Murali liked it the moment he stepped in. I also liked it but didn't want to get too excited about it as it was far from home. So we left saying thanks and we will get back to you soon.
As I stay in less popular expat location, good school close to house was ruled out in first week of the search. One international school is coming up next to my house but the fees, esp the non-refundable registration fee is way too high. So ruled out. Then we saw few schools slightly far from our home but with transport facility, then, remember Murali liked Eton house and me too. So somehow we came up different reason for not liking those schools.
Then I was getting tensed up or to say irritated as I couldn't finalise a school and it was almost three weeks since I started doing this. I was finding it hectic, as round the clock it was the only thing that running in my mind. I had called up almost all the international school. Either they were too far or we were in waiting list. Then Murali came up with the suggestion of enrolling him Eton house and forget looking around. The justification he gave
  Flexible timing (Can be half day, full day or till 7.00pm in the evening)
  Good School reputation
  Good mix of all races
  Close to our office

But still I wasn't comfortable as it is almost 20 min drive from my house or 35 min of MRT ride. Then I also liked this school. So, we comprised by saying that it is close to our office and in the afternoon anyway he will be asleep. Then we just went ahead with enrollment.

Happy B'day Appa

Today it is my hubby's b'day...It was very nice to hear our son wish him on his b'day. Today morning, half awake Sanjiv wished Murali in his own style 'Happy Birday appa' (Happy Birthday). I had ordered a small cake and one candle (cake is too small to hold 33 candles). Upon seeing the cake and candle, Sanjiv became wide awake. He said 'baby cake and phooo candle'...I requested him to wait till his dad gets ready...He started calling out 'appa comeonna...cake...phooo...comeonna...Eventually murali came and Sanjiv happily blew out the candle and cut the cake...
After that he really wanted to play with the cake and I was quick enough to distract him...Otherwise Cake could have gone to its original dough form.....It was a sweet starting for all us....
May god shower all his blessing on my dear hubby......
Once again we wish you a very very Happy Birthday

Off the record....so far me and Sanju haven't got any gift for him....heeeeeheeeeeee...

Happy Diwali

First of all, Wish you all a very happy Diwali (05 Nov 2010) from Sanjiv, me and Murali...
Sorry for the late wishes...as usual we all went to India for Diwali celebration....Very very hectic trip as we went only for 4 days but worth all the effort.....Sanjiv enjoyed the lights and sounds...He was the sweet tasting expert......He simply loved the attention he got from the entire family (My parents, my in-laws and my aunties and uncles and his aunties and uncles ).....He was the centre of attraction....
I pray that all the coming years Diwali should be celebrated just like the past ones.....Surrounded by loved and dear ones.....
I seriously miss Sanjiv growing up in India.....