I'm such a sucker for the camera

I can't explain what it is but my face automatically looks like this when a camera is placed before me.. what does this mean? Mama said I'm really vain.. but I just can't help myself!

Raiyan's day in Vivo City

Wow! who would have thought a shopping centre could be so much fun! I usually hate being brought out shopping with babah and mama cos they can really take a loooonnngg time and I am just stuck in my stroller the whole time.. (yes, I am still traumatised from the New York trip back in 2004).

But this place called VivoCity is not like other shopping centres! It has so much to offer for kids.. I remember going earlier this year and there was a really fun kiddie's playground on the top floor along with a wading pool.. even though we didn't go there yesterday, I still managed to have so much fun whilst waiting for babah, mama AND nenek shopping.. first I went on the kiddie rides on the basement floor..

Then I was brought to Page One bookstore which had a really cosy nook for children at the children's book section. It was so properly organised that they had two rows of shelves exclusively for books on animals! Needless to say, I spent almost an hour perched on my stool browsing through wild aniumals, zoo animals, pets and farm animals...

Lastly, babah brought me to the pet safari store where I saw the cutest puppies, rabbits and hamsters! If I understand babah and mama correctly, I overheard them saying I can have a mini lop bunny when we get back home for good.. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Nenek's visit

Nenek has been here with us for 3 days now and it's really nice to have her around. She plays with us and takes care of us and we just love having her here...

We are just dreading the moment she has to leave... Hope that wouldn't be for a while...

We are finally in Singapore!

Yay! The long stretch is finally over! Alhamdulillah, we arrived in Singapore to join babah for his last month in the Lion City on 17th August.

It didn't take us that long before babah and mama brought us to the zoo! Yay!! How I have been waiting for that for sooo long! This is my THIRD time to the zoo this year and it feels more and more like home now! All the animals in the zoo just feel like family to me now! Babah and me took a picture with the orangutans and I just had this urge to salam their hands and said thank you but they inda layan :( I dunno why! I was just being polite...

I had so much fun at the zoo too, though it did get a bit hot and humid at times. But I got the chance to cool down at the Children's World part where they had this really cool wading pool for me to soak in.

Aaahhh, but above anything else, we are so happy to be reunited with our babah sayang again!