"Shel Silverstein's the Giving Tree is a very short story carrying weighty message. As an adult reader, I love it very much. ....DS asked me a lot of questions and we had an very interesting discussion about life and relationships. this simple story will stimulate your emotion and discussion....It is about the relationship between a tree and a boy. the tree loves the boy so much that it is willing to let the boy cut down its trunk and make a boat to sail away...
there is a controversy on whether the tree's unconditional love can make the boy happy....
personally feel the simple story depict complexity of life and relationships...." HyperKiasu

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.

It was DS's childcare holiday. So we decide to make a trip to Jacob Ballas Children's Garden. It was a hit with DS. The place have a great variety of things to play with and lots of room to run and explore. It was great for mummy too as there is plenty of beautiful trees and flowers with clear signs and little bits of information around the garden to make the trip an educational one for both of us.

Does your boy resist reading?  Having difficulty getting them to pick up that book? The solution? Laughter is indeed the best medicine.

Two years ago, when struggling with getting my then-K2 to start reading on a more regular basis, I picked out a "Humor book" from NLB. I still remember vividly, how ds1 complained that there were a lot of pages (about 60 pages) in that book. Pinning on the hope that he may be enticed by the funny story and finish the whole book in one sitting (actually there are only a few lines in each of the 60 pages), I merely told him that he could stop after 3-4 pages and continue the next day if he wished. 20 minutes later, he told me (proudly) that he finished the whole book and the story is quite funny. Bingo! So hence started our journey down the funny lane....

1.Horrible Series Handbooks (Suitable for K2 to P1)

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.

It was a fascinating sight at Body Worlds. It is not eerie but near the entrance, it was a little dim and the music playing at that point gave a strange feeling, could not quite put a finger to it. That was where the start of the human life cycle was exhibited.

If you like, buy the $2 booklet(pls bring a pen/pencil) at the entrance, unlike us...3/4 way through the exhibit then we realised that there was a booklet to follow through the exhibit. It is just a good way to run through the exhibit if your kids are keen, mine was.

The real-human exhibits were awesomely plastinated. I wonder if I would like to be considered for such in future...   Some of them are really like beautiful art pieces God has created, so I wonder if they have been re-sculptured or pre-selected.

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.