Once a while credit cards give a really good deal. I quoted this from another blog here.  If you are a frequent AXS user, which many of us are, you will notice this good deal offer till Jan 2011.  Just make payment using your DBS or POSB card and every $50 gives you a chance to win a condominium.  However, many of us fails to see the last wording - Terms and conditions apply.  And as always, you will only find out the terms and conditions later, usually a little too late.

Since I said yes to participate in the FREE draw,I became extremely popular.  I get invitation to all kinds of property prelaunches on office phone, mobile phone, sms, and email.  I have calls from ERA, orange and whatever you can think of.  And the best part is, they love you so much, you decline or unsubscribe but the love notes keep coming. It has been a long time since I felt so pampered.

Boy, 5, is 21st to die from H1N1. 

As I read this headline from last week, I knew I should pen this down for the benefits of all parents with young children.

When did this happened?  It was most untimely, it was end-October 2009, when I just got a fresh maid from Myanmar. Both my boy and me were hit by the H1N1 strain of virus. We did not know it.

For the very first time, I went home and heard news that my boy was running a fever.  I was a little shock, as since birth, he never gets fever.  He, has a special ability to release the 'heat' though his skin, i.e. heat rash.  Each time I explain this observation, daddy will scream and think I imagined too much.  Heat rash is heat rash, don't 'over-cloth' him, weather too hot.  But, hey, every child is different.Anyway, I did not think much and started feeding him paracetamol, which I stocked in the fridge. 

How to making reading interesting and becomes a lifetime habit?  Why not start a book club?  It's really simple -- a reading group or a book club is just a bunch of friends who decide to read the same book and then get together to talk about it.  It's easy, and it's lots of fun! Here are some tips on how to get a club started.

I was at the pantry on Monday and ran into a colleague.  She was busy preparing her bread spread when I spotted this japanese label on the bottle that she was holding.  What's that, I asked her.  She told me it is black seasame paste spread.  Then she went on to spread that black thingy onto her bread.

For a long time, I had heard the goodness of black seasame to dark shiny hair. In my heart, I was already thinking, how on earth she found this interesting stuff.  My hubby has been so sick of the magarine each morning and I had been searching for ages for a better alternative.

When we complain and lament about life, think again. Many of us, have not learnt to appreciate "The Things" that we already have.

With more and more videos for babies being produced and the sudden influx of new TV channels aimed at preschoolers, parents are once again asking "should I really let my child watch television?"

My baby Samson started watching TV at 6 months old with incredibly long attention span (an awesome hour!). I bet many of you would have screamed at me "YOU TERRIBLE MOTHER"!  I can't help it.  He is an active baby and when I played the babysongs, that's the only time I can get some quiet moment for myself while he enjoys. 

Is watching TV really more harmful than beneficial for your baby?

There are two school of thoughts.

One says that babies under two years of age should not be allowed to watch any TV; the other says that limited amounts of high-quality educational TV accompanied by adult interaction are fine - and may even be beneficial. When DVDs are used correctly, the repetition and familiarity they provide can actually aid learning.

ClickN READ Phonics teaches the entire kindergarten to 3rd grade phonics curriculum taught at USA public schools through 100 interactive cartoon animated online phonics lessons. Children learn english correctly in a phonics game-like environment that is great fun and easy to use.