Happy lunar birthday!

Dominic turns 1 by the Chinese lunar calendar today. Mother-in-law held a mini celebration of sorts in the morning.

She cooked a bowl mee sua for Dominic, with 2 red eggs, 2 chicken drumsticks (must be opposing legs to represent a pair), and other ingredients in the soup. After prayer, Dominic was fed the yummy food.

Then we all had mee sua too for lunch!

Later that evening, Daddy and I decided to let Dominic partake in the traditional choosing of objects to symbolise his future path. The options are:

Chicken drumstick - plenty to eat
Orange - good luck
Celery - "qin cai", hardworking
Calculator - career in finance
Ruler - career in engineering
Pen - scholar / literary career
Stamp - official / career in the government (we didn't have a stamp so substituted with a wooden toy puzzle that looks like a stamp)

The items were laid on a tray and presented to him. Dominic went for the pen first, then the stamp, then the ruler!

This is supposed to signify that he will have a literary or scholarly career, or one as a government official. And if all else fails he'd probably take up engineering LOL.

If I try to explain his choices by logic, I think he went for the familiar items first (pen and stamp), although the pen was not outstanding at all since it was the same blue colour as the tray. The ruler was even less outstanding, it was transparent plastic! But even though he looked at the other items he kept going back to these three and fiddling with them - especially the pen and stamp. I do know my boy and he is a creature of habit, once he likes something he'll always go for it! :D (A bit like dad.)

After a while daddy and I got a little bored and gave him the celery and orange, which he also played with. LOL

All in all it was a fun day, and a fun experiment.


Mummy marked this day by doing her first hair chemical treatment in almost 2 years! I have not had anything done to my hair other than wash and cut since I got pregnant until now, almost 1 year after giving birth, due to the risk of chemicals being passed on to foetus or through breastmilk. But I thought to give myself an update and so invested in a new hairdo - loose curls by digital perm, new dark brown colour and light brown highlights! Husband said it took five years off LOL. While I am flattered, I do think he is too generous, but the new do does make me look fresher.

It cost me a bomb though! Like pasting money on my head. How does it happen that there are promotions and discounts everywhere but I always pay full (and inflated) price?? And I think the stylist thinned my hair too much. It's a reasonably good outcome, but overpriced, and I'll likely not go back to the stylist again. Nice girl but meh skills.