Year of the Tiger

• 10 days before: Sweeping of the grounds
• February 14, 2010 (Year 4707 in the Chinese Calendar) is the first day of the Chinese new year.
• As CNY falls on Sunday and Monday, the next day Tuesday 16 February 2010 will be a public holiday.
• 15th Day of the New Year: Lantern Festival.
  

All Highlights of Singapore’s Chinese New Year Celebrations in 2010

Should I go now

Lotte cites Mark Twain today: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

Boulder

Boulder, Dear Boulder, when will I see you again. Janus will in March and I want to get the intense feeling of the mountains, meet up with the old gang, just be there. Flight prices and schedules are crap and it is just not the right time now, but how will it feel when Janus is there and I'm not, on our so special place in the whole wide world.

Twinkle

We have this cool pool, great fun during the day splashing with the kids. Good feeling in the evening swimming especially on the back looking directly at a dark sky with twinkling stars.

Mosquitoes

Whenever reading a Health chapter in one of our travel books I feel like staying at home, closing my windows and just sit very still... Mosquitoes freaks me out, ones again reading on malaria in Southeast Asia. Luckily all the islands of Malaysia seems fine, so back to the more fun part, finding islands we want to see.

Teacher Lydia

How lucky can we be. The teacher we liked so much when we visited LSH @ The Treehouse has relocated to LSH @ Kent Vale and and and Lauge got her - and he dance when she plays the guitar.

Lauge on his way home after first day of Kindergarten.

Perfect timing

Just before x-mas Lauge started talking about he was ready for Kindergarten and today the spot came at Little Skool House at NUS Kent Vale, vuhuuj.

Monkey

Twice this week we have been chased off the playground of a little nuisance that really likes to show his teeth and to say grrrr. He is amazingly fast and annoying. Feel quite vulnerable with two kids. Gotta get a huge sticks and a pepper spray or ??

Know 10 trees

in Singapore: www.nparks.gov.sg/know10trees

Why no swings

In playgrounds or elsewhere in Singapore? Banned?

Update January 20th:
Found swings. Playground at Lauge´s Kindergarten.

Longan

The longan ("dragon eyes") is so named because its fruit, when it is shelled, resembles an eyeball (the black seed shows through the translucent flesh like a pupil/iris). The seed is small, round and hard, and of an enamel-like, lacquered black. [1]

One old, one new

My Ergo carrier... too worn, have had a hard time admitting it would not last till Ulf is out of it. It have a bit of Colorado in it, reminds me of all those Mondays on Hogback.
Ulf likes the new one as much as the old one - and I like that it is not torn all over.