outings outings!

hahaha!~

for once nana has peekchas!

PEEKCHAS!!!!!!!!!!!! speak a thousand words. not that their garrulous quibbling nature makes them any less likeable than plain ole lexicology.

so here we go..... wednesday! 4.6.08 :D out to see the cats and dogs with jerlyn... which became a cross-island marathon to vivocity to watch narnia!!!!!! and the canine residents of pet safari instead. no SPCA cos it's seriously a deathwish to attempt to lug a 7 yr old kid who has more energy than a brood of chickens on amphetamines from yishun to serangoon. yes.

so we trooped to vivo, where we were unabashedly accosted by a couple of overenthusiastic promoters for this aromatherapy inspired skincare range with some funny tri-numerical name (i really can't rmb... probably some spinoff cresting on the success of royston tan's numerical film delights). the funny thing was that the lady went bumbling right away to jerlyn and asking her where mummy's bringing her to and which hand of mummy's she'd like to see whitened on the spot. i was seriously trying SO HARD to contain the effervescence in me cos all the CO2 was threatening to bubble out from my bloodied alveoli from the funnyness of being called her mum and the sheer insult of it :D but it's really obvious that promoter schools nowadays teach them to hardsell by the children method - tackle the kid, and the incessant tantrums and MUMMYPLEASEMUMMYPLEASE works like a charm. but anyway i explained my relation to my poor sis, who was being charmed off her pants by the uncle with the amazing Singapore Pools 4D ball shaking machine. haha. it was a instant win lucky draw thing, and i guess they made my sis play so i could be distracted for a few minutes to listen to their rabid spiel on the benefits of smelling the crushed essence of dead flowers. too bad they didn't realise they were speaking to an incredibly dense woman who has never deigned to buy cosmetic products for her incredibly bad skin and besides, had absolutely no money. haha :P too bad then. i whisked jerlyn off once she shook the ball out of the noisy rattling cage and took her for the movie!

but before the beautiful world of narnia overtook our visual field, here's the pre-movie ben&jerry's icecream treat :D

so this is the legendary cow that provides ALL the milk needed to make the legendary ben&jerry's icecream. NOT.

:D

pretty cute to make the cow lure customers into the store, eh :D well me and jerlyn needed no extra encouragement... we fairly stalked into the shop like determined, commissioned commandoes trying to storm a brood of refugees.

this is what someone who anticipates consuming some ben&jerry's magical confection in the very near future generally looks like.

there we go!

strawberry cheesecake, chocolate fudge, and the free promotion jamaican pineapple.

p.s. we REALLY didn't like the pineapple. it was cloyingly sweet, unfortunately... and was like glorified shards of syruppy ice. so we endeavoured to eat our 2 chosen scoops buried underneath by digging trenches around, under and through the free scoop. which was quite funny :D

hesitate no more!

yumyumyum!

*burp*

the 2 dumbdumbs who have never seen, eaten or beheld ben&jerry's in all its frozen glory before.

grinning like... well. dumbdumbs.

heh :D

okay so after that we went to the super comfy, super spacious, super plush red velvety cinema hall that hosted the world of the narnians! it was incredibly cold though :P (reign of the ice queen is over??? hello???) and the impossibly intelligent miss jerlyn tan brought a cardigan that had many holes in a knitted pattern that totally offered ZILCH suffrage from the biting cold.

so we took turns sitting on our hands, which evoked giggles from her. haha.

OH YEAH. and jerlyn has this totally hilarious and malu-ating habit of shouting like a hard-of-hearing old woman when she's listening to music on earphones or when she's surrounded by DIGITAL DOLBY SOUND. (on the mrt - IF YOU NEED ANYTHING JUST CALL ME OKAY JIEJIE!!! *cue 10,000 people turning to look at the source of the booming voice* and at the movies - WHERE IS THE TRAIN GOING JIEJIE!!!!!! *cue jiejie stuffing popcorn into her mouth and glancing nervously backwards at other moviegoers*)

and after the movie we went to kick water at the rooftop pool! well she did anyway. i took a video of her not doing very much, just self-consciously dragging her feet through the liquid and giving up in 5mins. haha. so we went for lunch! after getting money from my depleted account :D and discovering a pair of doors that lead to nowhere! next to the posb in harbourfront centre. which totally amused our little girl as i queued for the cash :D haha. we partook of BK's gloriously fat-saturated food, and while i struggled to finish transferring the contents of the tray to my stomach, i let loose the little gal to play in the playground. haha. and then it was toys r us time! :D since i promised her we'd go either to the arcade or toys r us... guess it was literally a win by the one nearest the "moonlit waters" :D jin4 shui3 lou2 tai2 xian1 de2 yue1 :) got her a pretty cure tamagotchi thingy that cheered her up like she struck lottery twice over :D and then we took the train home, where she slept like a babe. apparently richard clayderman and his piano really knock out her neurones, or else she was just plain exhausted from all the shopping and excitement :)

another spastic picture :D courtesy of nana haha!

but kids just look adorable lah. oven when made to do incredibly embarrassing things.

poring sombrely over the japanese instructions of her new captivity target :D haha. a belated birthday present! doesn't make her any less excited to get it though. and i'm glad i bought it late with her, cos if i went shopping by myself i'd probably get her something like playdoh and she'd never touch it with a 20ft long bargepole in her entire lifetime. haha :D it's always good to get children exactly what they want, cos they've got notoriously picky preferences and mantis-like attention spans.