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As usual, Singapore celebrates Christmas with a BANG!

Festive decorations. Christmas trees. Fun-filled games and events. And of course, giant discounts on basically EVERYTHING.

Tourists flood the main streets of Orchard Road. And you can always almost find something happening along the roadside. Choir perfomances. Tribal dances. Jugglers. Stalls selling christmas toys and stuff.

Although Christmas itself is VERY commercialised here, I am somehow still glad that the true message of Christmas is still made known to all. That it’s about baby Jesus who’s born on that day. A very special baby. The King of kings who came and died (and rose again!) to bear the punishment of sins that we all actually deserve, so that if we believe in Him we can be saved.

Sure hope the true message of Christmas is caught by all, even by those who busily go about doing their last minute christmas shopping.

PS: And oh btw … this photo’s taken against Thai Express’ wall picture (the one at Paragon’s basement). Wanted to go there for dinner but the queue was just TOO long. And so we went somewhere else.

Someone once said, ‘A spoiled son makes a terrible husband.’

And I agree. Totally.

Many parents unconsciously ‘train’ their children to become ’spoiled ones’ by doing everything for the kids, giving in to all their requests and wants and failing to rebuke their misbehaviours.

One way of introducing a sense of responsibility to kids, I think, is by getting them involved in our day to day chores and tasks.

Anya and I do quite a few stuff together. Housework, I mean.

She helps me carry the laundry. She tidies up her own bed every morning. She puts clean socks into our wardrobe. (And btw, if I have a son, I’d still involve him in the things that I do).

Actually, when she ‘helps’, it often (though not always) means ‘double work’ for me, because she probably makes ‘more mess’ compared to if I do it all by myself. But I don’t mind. It’s something that we do together and we both enjoy it. We talk while we do stuff. I describe to her what I’m exactly doing and she gets to communicate and learn new words too.

And today, she gets to mix my ‘chicken marinade’. Hehe. And she loves it!

Yes, I can see how true it is when they say kids LOVE to be involved. To contribute and to be appreciated.

And it’s amazing how simple stuff that we do every day can actually bond you and your kid even more.