My side of the coin

Today Steven and I went to Demsey to order an umbrella for our rabbits and on the way home, we detoured…..click the link below to see more details on why we detoured…….

http://www.hamstershelter.org/forums/index.php?/topic/917-meet-my-new-babies/page__view__findpost__p__12120

You may be wondering what is the meaning of the title of this post……… well…. here’s the explanation…….I came to know a few people who are rescuing hamsters and rabbits. They love these animals very much, which is why they will go around rescuing them, but in my opinion, some love too much and they ended up feeling that no one else other than themselves can provide these rescued animals a good enough home………….so the end result is that they ended with too many for themselves to cope…………….

Today at SPCA, I saw how they conducted the adoption and I have to say that I really prefer their method. To me, that is called Love without the attachments! I guess they are experienced to know that those who will abandone the animal will do it anyway regardless of how much effort was being put in to scrutinise the adopter……so the only way is just let people who are interested to adopt a chance to adopt and see what the end result is………… instead of doubting everyone left right centre, pushing all the adopters away.

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When I was a kid, Christmas was never an occasion for my family as my parents associate this holiday with the Religion and being aTaoist, they do not see the need to create a xmas atmosphere for their children……….which is why I had been dreaming about having Christmas feeling during Christmas.

Being “deprived”, I now want to make up for the lost time so I will try ways to give my son, Teddy, a xmas feeling and here’s what we did for this year……..

On 1 Dec09, Teddy and I went to Ikea to pick up our own tree, and we put up the tree with Steven on 3 Dec. 

4 Teddy Bears wishing you a Merry Xmas this year

A photo of Teddy in front of our live xmas tree is being printed as post cards and sent to our family members. Teddy had “hand-write” his wishes on the back of all the cards, I helped him by printing the address labels.

On 5 Dec 2009, 34 friends I met at Hamster Shelter @ SG (www.hamstershelter.org) had a xmas party at my place. Teddy was with us that day and he was in charged of distributing name tags. One of our guests has a nick name as “Bear”, when he told Teddy his nick name, Teddy said “Hi, I am your cousin.”  Teddy always like Buffet and that day was a pot luck session so it is almost like a Buffet, I think Teddy had at least 3 rounds!

On 17 Dec, we walked into Alan Bake at Pasir Panjang Village and returned with this,

While cutting this cake, Teddy asked if he can have a reindeer to keep. I am so happy cause that shows that the plan to create xmas for him is working.

Today is the beginnin of the cooking for the Annual Xmas Party for Steven’s family. Below is what Teddy and I made together.

Fresh from the Oven and now in the Cooling stage

All stacked up ready for next stage

Teddy's creation Part 1

Teddy's Creation Part 2

The "First Attempt" Tray

Teddy Bear! not sure who created this, Teddy or me?

Mummy's MonoTone Creation

When rolling out the dough to make the first GingerMan, Teddy picked the biggest size cutter and told me “This is the Father”. Then I passed him the middle size cutter and said to him, “Go make him a girl friend” and he replied immediately “No, the wife will be upset.” ~lol.

And then he started making 2 of the middle size Cookies, and a few smallest size cookies and he said this to me : ”Now that’s a Father, 2 Girl Friends and many children, they can now fight for custody”. ~lol

I laughed so loud as I am so happy to hear him joke about this.

I was separated when Teddy was not yet 2 years old, many people  told me he was still too young and that’s no good. I had doubts about that believe system. Teddy’s ability to joke about custody is a sign that it is not the age of the child but how the divorce is being handled by the Divorcees that matters most to the kids.