Beautiful Flowers

Went to buy Christmas Tree 2015.  And saw this pot of lovely flower at Far East Flora @ Queensway.

Jay Jay His Ozobot

Date:  Oct 8, 2015

This year, I gave Jay this birthday present.

In responding to LSL’s Smart Nation propaganda.

So, we need to teach kids how to do simple programming.

This is Ozobot.

It is a small little robot that will move.

It moves according to black lines and color coding.  You want it to move fast, you do a blue black blue black blue black line.  If you want it to turn right, make sure your line has blue-red-green in there.

It is quite cute.

It comes with these route cards to demonstrate what it can do.

You can also go to the website to download games and print it out.

At the moment, the Ozobot program is as simple as this.  You can re-program it using the Blockly app.

For kids at this age, don’t jump into that yet.

Let them understand using colour you can program the robots too.

You can make them do funny things too.  All simply by using color coding.

That is why you need the magic pen.  Or you can draw on the white board too.

You can play games from the printed sheet, and fill in the color to make it work.

Jay Jay explaining the robot.

Jay playing with his Ozobot.

He is so happy about it.

Very eager to explore too.

Happy Birthday Jay Jay!  Hope you like this present!

Jay Jay has been a very good kid for the past 1 year.  And he even not to forget to study his Chinese (daily reading and listening) on his birthday before sleep. 

That is why I top up with this.  Which I save S$88 when buying it from Malaysia.  

We finally have a Millennium Falcon at home.

Not So Scary But Fun Halloween Night 2015

Date:  Nov 1, 2015

This year, all the good buddies are gathered together.

It will be their first time for most of them.  Carving the pumpkins.

Best buddy are thinking to carve the scariest pumpkin tonight.

Or can the elder siblings win the contest.

First, you must draw and outline the eyes, the nose and the mouth.

Kay Kay!!!! don’t draw the eyes so close together, don’t draw the mouth and teeth so small!!! 

What should I draw leh?

Cut open the brain, then next it is time to scoop.  Scoop all the seeds out from the pumpkin.

If you can’t get it out, just do like this.  

All the kids both elder and younger siblings as well as the parents are so so excited.  They love drawing and emptying the pumpkins.

The kids can use the scissors to cut the pumpkin webs...

Wait!  Where does all the kids go?  Only Kayden left at the table still drawing and designing… 

And all the parents pick up their scary knife.  And start craving.  

Well, it was a lot of fun seeing the doctors carving.

It was also fun seeing some potential dangerous carving such as knife pointing and cutting in the direction where the fingers are… hahahha

My heart pounding hard man… hahaha

Only parents get to use the knife that day.  And they all really trying to produce the best of the best pumpkin for their kids.

This year, we see real teeth on the pumpkin head.

It’s amazing.

And the parents talk about anything… from school work to golf.

Did I mentioned Rusdi had a birdie few days ago when I played with him?

And of course, we trying to help Ben to get more Visa to play golf together.

Wow, I am impressed.  Small eye and scary teeth.

A more happy Mr. Pumpkin.

While the parents busy carving...

The kids entertaining themselves...

Chilling out.

Playing new toys.

All the pumpkins are done!

Let’s eat together with the pumpkins.

All the good wines are out tonight.

I am happy that the same group has broke the record… 4 bottles of wines today, keep it up parents.  Show the kids what we made of.  hahaha (bad influences).

They been to the party for so many times.  So, they know how to entertain themselves.

The girls seems having lots of fun too.

Kay Kay specially invited Rusell to come.  Thank you his mommy for seeing Jay and refuse to collect money for the doctor consultations.  HaHaHa… 

Now, we have 3 doctors in this house that night.  What can go wrong man.  HaHaHa.

Playing with knife… no big deal.  No casualty that night too.

Our weekly playdate guests.  Photogenic!

Let’s light up the candles.

Wait… For Mr. Pumpkin #2 got smoke.  Let’s check it out.

Boys and girls, look here.

Boys and girls, now, look here.

Let’s introduce the pumpkins.

Pumpkin #1.  Simple with a rectangle shape of mouth.  Looks pretty unique and pretty.  Like a robot.

Pumpkin #2.  Eyes very big with no nose.  The cheeky smile.  Looks like he is thinking of a lot of scary things.

Pumpkin #3.  You can see the pumpkin has fear in its eyes.  Hey Mr. Pumpkin, you suppose to scare us, not get scared by others.

Pumpkin #4.  Innocent look.  Very happy indeed.  This is a happy pumpkin.

This is my creation, designed by Colette.  Pumpkin #5.  Biggest eyes.  Half sharp teeth and half no sharp teeth.  A lot of lights inside the pumpkin make it a perfect lighting piece in the living room.

Pumpkin #6.  Small eyes, small nose but very scary teeth.  One by one the teeth is glue to the mouth using toothpick.  Nicely done.

Pumpkin #7.  Obviously, all parents got watch the “How to carve pumpkin videos” (Youtube).  This one got teeth too.  But the forehead antenna is cute.  So as the eye patch.

Pumpkin #8.  Another happy Pumpkin.

This looks like pokemon.  Pumpkin #9.  Well done!  

Best dress award.

Happy Halloween!

If you want to see all the pumpkin we craved since 2011.  Here it is...

http://miniliew.blogspot.com/2014/10/mr-pumpkin-2014.html