CNY Crafty Work

As usual, Shenny would make some arts and craft related to CNY at her kindy and art's class before CNY.

At art class, Shenny made a big Ang Pow pocket and a pink lantern.

Her art teacher gave her a ready cut red paper and teach her how to fold and glue it to make a big pocket.
Then, she could draw, colour and decorate the pocket as she likes.

She wanted this for our family only.

At home, her papa suggested Shenny to make one big Ang Pow pocket for her grandmother and grandfather since we would celebrate CNY there. Shenny agreed with papa's suggestion.

Luckily, mommy had some red paper at home, so Shenny happily drew, cut and glue to make the Ang Pow pocket.

As for the chinese writing, Shenny was not so good at it. She asked mommy wrote on a piece of paper and she followed the strokes.

Shenny said "This big Ang Pow pocket is for grandmother's whole family".
Therefore she drew lots of people including a baby (her little cousin, Calvin).
Both her grandmother (in pink dress) and grandfather stood right in front.

As the art work from  her kindy, her teacher gave all children two ready made CNY cards, and had them to do a bit of coloring, sticking and writing on the cards themselves. 

Mommy thought this is too simple for 6 year old children and much less creative compare to her enrichment art class.

Wishing all a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year !!!

Gong Xi Gong Xi 恭喜恭喜

Shenny plays a simple Chinese New Year song for everyone.

Wishing everyone Happy Chinese New Year. May joy, good health and happiness be with you all the time.

Drawings (5)

It had been awhile mommy did not log Shenny's drawings in her blog.

This time mommy would like to post some of Shenny's drawings for birthday, X'mas and Chinese New Year.

Birthday:

(13/1/2011)

Since Josiah is a boy, Shenny did not write "I Love You" in the card because she felt embarrased to do it.  Instead, she drew a heart shape. 

Josiah was there to fight with Ben10 monster.

Six candles.means her friend turned to 6th year old.

(2/1/2011)

Six balloons flying means her friend has turned to 6th year old.

Leanne was dancing in the picture.

(16/10/2010)

All girls play balloon together. 

Chinese New Year:

(8/1/2011)

This is for her grandmother in Holland. 

The drawing is done at reverse side of the greeting card.

Since the coming year is rabbit year, so Shenny drew two big rabbits there.

X'mas:

(21/12/2010)

This is for her music teacher, Kelly.

Santa was in a sleigh, pulled by three colourful reindeers, flying across the sky.

Teacher Kelly was there singing.

Santa dropped a present into chimney for her teacher. 

The house was a rainbow house.

Make Cookies

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Mommy got to know about this Horlicks Doggie Cookie through Chloe's blog.  After checking the actual recipe , it seems to make this cookie quite easy and fun. 
Since Shenny kept on complaining that her school holiday was very bored, therefore mommy decided to occupy her time by making this cookie.  And she loved it.
Actually, this was the first time mommy make cookie at home.  Since we did not have any mixer at home, mommy had to mix ingredients by hand,that included cream butter and make dough.  Ha..mommy really felt hand soar to cream the butter.  Shenny was there observing mommy doing everything and kept on asking "Can I try?".

Shenny was centrating to decorate the doggie face.

Shenny felt it was fun to decorate doggie faces with coco crunch, chocolate chips and chocolate rices.
At first, mommy let her decorate doggies ears, eyes and noses. Shenny was ok to decorate doggies eyes and noses, but she pressed too hard when decorate doggies ears, that ended up doggies faces became crooked.  See picture below: 

The decorated doggie cookies were crooked due to Shenny press hard to decorate doggie ears with coco crunch.  So mommy later decided Shenny to decorate eyes and noses will do.

Tada...the finished product ready to go into oven.

We managed to make 42 pieces.  Shenny loved to eat the Horlicks Doggie Cookie.  It was not too sweet and has some butter flavour.

Since it was a bit heaty after eating it, mommy had to control Shenny to take one or two each day only. 

Shenny also shared some cookies with her aunt, cousins and her music teacher.

A New "Shenny"

Shenny had a hair-cut before new year (2011) began.  This was the 2nd time Shenny had her hair-cut in the same saloon.  Her last visit was three years ago.

Why does Shenny need to have hair short? 
The reason is that Shenny had a very fine (baby hair) and natural curl hair, and it creates lots of knots after shower.  Mommy finds it is difficult to comb. 
Also, her hair needs to be tied up, in order to look neat.  Shenny used to like to call herself as "Wild lion" when her hair is not tied.
Papa was a bit reluctant to reconcile with mommy's intention.  He wants his princess to keep long hair, so that she will look more feminine.  
Too bad, mommy still brought Shenny to saloon when papa was at work.  *evil mommy*

Before hair-cut:

The new look of Shenny in short hair:

Don't you think Shenny look gorgeous with her new look?

Of Papa's Birthday @ 2010

Shenny made a foldable birthday card for her Papa this year.  Mommy didn't help much though.

It was a real surprise to her Papa.  Mommy believed this is the most precious one for his birthday presents so far he ever received from his little one. 
(Hehe, Shenny chose to buy a bottle of papa's favourite hair gel continuously for last two years as his birthday presents.  She just tried to act funny to her papa during that time.)

Before Shenny wrote anything on the card, mommy reminded her that she could only put a positive word in the card. So, wishes were written on her own thought.

Below are the meaning of her wishes:

* have long live - so that Shenny could see her Papa all the time

* have Good health - so that Papa can not be tired when he is at work in his office

* have a lot of muscle - so that Papa can use one hand to carry Shenny and also can carry his mother

* have a Good time - so that Papa can be happy always

Of all the birthday cakes Shenny saw in the bakery shop, she chose the chocolate cake with white icing and many little hearts for her Papa.

Halloween Charity Party 2010

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On 4th December 2010, Shenny's ballet school organized a Halloween Charity Party.  All classes took part in the dance performance. 
Shenny was very excited with this event because finally she could dance on stage again for this year, since she didn't get to do it in her kindergarten.

Her class would perform a "Monster" dance for the event.  In order to have the event smooth running, the participant classes would have to do lots of practices one month before that.  Shenny's class had no exception.  She had to come to class to practice twice a week ( 3 hours in total).

Although the school had advised parents to dress halloween costume, but not many parents did so including mommy and papa. 
On that day, Shenny was told to reach the venue 2pm in afternoon though the event only began at 8pm.  Teachers would have to prepare students things like familiar with stages, make up and dress up.  They were many make-up artists there too.

This is the video clip of "Monster" dance Shenny had performed:



Here are few photos to share:

Shenny likes her make-up especially the drawings on her face. 

She asked mommy not to wash her face because she wanted to keep this till tomorrow to show her cousins.

Shenny purposely closed her eyes to show her layers of eye shadows.

Adventure in Paris 2010

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Both mommy and Shenny were excited that finally papa agreed to bring us to adventure in Paris for a few days(3D2N) during our trip to visit her grandmother in The Netherlands (Holland).

We took a fast train (bullet train) to Paris from Rotterdam.  The train took us directly to Paris in 2.5 hours only.   It was a smooth and comfortable train ride.  Shenny could do her drawings and light reading on the train too. 

Shenny pretended to read the newspaper while waiting for the train.  The newspaper was written in Dutch.

This is a cafeteria in the train.

 

Papa had booked us to stay in a hotel next to a metro station at Paris De Est.  That was for our convenience in travelling. 

The hotel which we stayed was Hotel Amiot.  We asked for a big bed but the receptionist was kind enough give us a big bed  plus an extra single bed (without extra charge).  So, all of us had ample spaces to stretch our legs and arms after a whole day of walking.
We also had free breakfast every morning in the hotel.  Therefore, we had no worry to ponder what to eat and where to buy after woke up.

This was the first time for both Shenny and mommy to explore Paris while papa was the second time.  Although Papa had visited Paris 10 years ago but he still could remember very well how to navigate us around.  According to him, Paris did not have much change. 

Both Shenny and mommy followed papa to explore Paris by taking their metro system.  The metro system in Paris was well-structured, though a bit complicated, but we could reach most of our destinations easily and in a very short period of time.  We could see all walks of life in the train too.  It was a great experience for us.

Shenny was waiting for the train. 

Shenny was in the metro train.

These were some pictures we took while in Paris:

Eiffel Tower
We took an elevator to 2nd level of Eiffel Tower to view Paris city.

 Day time view from Eiffel Tower

Nightview from Eiffel Tower

Nightview of Eiffel Tower
 

Notre-Dame

We climbed up thousands steps to the roof top of Notre-Dame to see BIG BELL.

We had a fantastic view of whole Paris at Notre Dame.

Arc de Triomphe

We climbed 284 steps to the roof top of the Arc de Triomphe.  Again, we had supert view of the whole Paris city.


We saw two rainbows appeared at each side of La Basillique du Sacre-Coeur (famous white church on a hill).  Some tourists includes us at top of Arc de Triomphe cheered happily when this happened.  We thought this was a miracle.

I'Obelisque

A gift from Eqype to France.  But Shenny thought this was a Giant Pencil.

Busy street at the Arc of Triomph at night.  The Avenue des Champs Elysees ( 名牌街）is at both sides of the Arc of Triomphe.

La Basillique du Sacre-Coeur (the only white church on a hill in Paris)

Passage Verdeau

Both Shenny and mommy wish that papa will bring us to visit Paris again because 3D2N trip is too short for us.