'Something new'

When papam and I are in the car, I always ask him to play my favorite music. I call it 'something new' ,but papam call it The High School Musical Soundtrack - quite a long title for a CD, I think. Anyway, I always sing along to every song in the CD and I don't want papam to sing too. So I tell him to 'stop' whenever he starts singing along. I sometimes let him sing along especially when I'm eating my cookies.

Papam always tests me on the 'something new' songs. He will sing any line from any song and I will tell him which song it is. He is very impressed because I am correct all the time. I don't know what the big deal is but it seems so simple to me. He sings a part of the song I know, then I tell him what the song is.

There was one time when I was the one who sang a line from a song and I let mama and papam guess. After some time they are still not able to guess what the song is so I have to tell them myself. I think this guessing game is easy for me but not for mama and papam.

SpongeBob Squarepants in Singapore

Yesterday was a very special day for Kristian because he was going to see SpongeBob Squarepants live in Singapore. The show is entitled SpongeBob Squarepants Live! The Sponge Who Could Fly! The show is supposed to run from 31 May to 6 June 2007 at the Singapore Expo Hall 3. We bought the tickets for yesterday, June 2, as it was a Saturday.

It was Kristian who first saw the advertisement on a big billboard. He shouted "SpongeBob, there!" in the car while we were driving along the Expo drive. At first I didn't understand why he shouted SpongeBob until I saw the billboard myself. And then he said "I want to watch SpongeBob in Singapore."

He was already feeling sleepy when we put on his clothes yesterday and was fast asleep when we arrived at Singapore Expo Hall 3. He was still sleeping when we got to our chairs. We tried waking him up but it doesn't seem to work until all the children made a loud noise. He looked very surprised seeing all the people in one big room then he realized that we were supposed to watch SpongeBob. So he stayed awake until the show has started.

He was very happy watching SpongeBob and would laugh aloud occasionally. It was a musical and we saw several characters like Patrick Star, Squidward Tentacles, Sandy Cheeks, Eugene H. Krabs, Gary, Plankton, Larry T. Lobster and a lot of Jellyfish. It's just too bad that photography is not allowed during the show. All in
all, it was a happy show about making dreams come true that even adults will enjoy.

Kristian has a new favorite movie

My wife and I went out last Saturday to do some Christmas shopping and to buy a new set of chairs for the dining table. We passed by Gramophone to look for new releases of DVDs. I bought See No Evil (by Kane of WWE) and The Omen (new version). My wife bought Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and High School Musical. I asked my wife what is a High School Musical movie all about, she said she doesn't know but kids who have watched it, loved it.

Kristian was still awake when we arrived home so we decided to unpack the shopping bags and I decided to assemble the chairs. We bought the chairs from IKEA Tampines. IKEA Tampines is a new branch in the east which has just opened on 30 November. My wife decided to put the High School Musical in the DVD player so we can all watch it while I assemble the chairs. At first, Kristian is watching me open the boxes and pull out the parts. He would also pull out some parts from the box out of curiosity or probably he thought he can play with them.

Then suddenly, the main characters in the movie started out with the first song. Kristian always likes to watch singing and dancing on television so he momentarily stops playing with the chair parts and watched the movie until the song is finished. Then he went back to playing. I'm almost finished with the first chair when we heard the second song from the movie. This time Kristian went to sit with my wife at the sofa, he of course left the chair parts with me. He somehow knows that those things are for whatever I'm doing and not his to play with. Oh, and we also bought him a toy car which he kept with him while he is watching the movie.

The next thing we knew, Kristian was watching the movie intently up to the end. There were a lot of singing and dancing of teenaged boys and girls in the movie and that's what probably kept Kristian's attention hooked on the tv. So the movie ended and I stopped the DVD player and changed the channel to something else. Kristian was still sitting on the sofa quietly. The next words he said surprised both me and my wife, the exact words were "Mama, sing?". We knew then that he wanted to watch the movie again. So we put back the DVD and played it again and there he was sitting on the sofa focused on the tv again until he finally fell asleep on my wife's lap.

Last night while we were all in the bedroom, Kristian was singing but we couldn't figure out what the words are. Although he does that everytime, if he doesn't know the words, he would think of something else that would fit the song (doesn't matter if it's a real word or not). So I kept on listening to him trying to figure out what he was singing, I thought it sounded familiar. Then he said one line that I'm sure I heard recently, it was from one song in the High School Musical movie. Now I understand why it sounded familiar.

That's it, High School Musical is officially Kristian's favorite movie to date.