it’s official and an announcement has been made to the relevant parties.

*drumroll*

there will be an addition to the family!

here’s a quick recap of what the person in question will be going through in less than nine months time…

oh, and here’s another hint.

IT’S NOT ME!

:D

look out, dadam & aniq, you’re gonna have to work even harder for your oma’s attention soon…

ps: aniq ONLY just turned nineteen today, so shh, no suggesting/requesting/coercing/demanding that we plus 1 ourselves YET, hokay? shh!

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due to lack of viable babysitting arrangements and bad parenting (ha ha), you can now add another ‘cartoon’ to that list of yours which already includes x-men and superman, babe.

this time, though, you can walk (or sneak) into the cinema yourself.

TRANSfat?

our ‘rombongan’ occupied two and a half rows, thanks to your unty esah who booked the seats waaay in advance. (well ok, two days ago.)

TRANSitlink?

since there was an extra seat in our row, we plopped you on a booster seat, where you munched on your snacks, goggle-eyed.

TRANSvestite?

you generally behaved, as we’d thought, only occasionally climbing down during the less explosive bits to escape to the aisle, which was barricaded by uncle fadz’s legs, and badgering unty rini and uncle naz sitting in front for their popcorn, which kept you quite busy hehe.

otherwise, you sat, TRANSfixed, as the helicopters and planes and cars went berserk on screen (which i tried, and failed miserably, to shield your eyes from – you kept swiping my hands away, grrr~), and ended up perched on my lap, waving your arms and fists at the screen (as unty esah said, “dengan muka-muka sekali!”) as thunderous shots were fired and orange flames burst to monstrous effect.

alamak, this show, SO GUY lor. testosterone overdrive habis.

so, what do you think of the autobots?

well, you nodded off two-thirds into the show (as you did all the other movies), so perhaps you were only mildly impressed by them.

then again, it WAS your bed-time!

mummy and daddy thought the storyline was kinda, well… lame. alah, macam frodo protecting and running away with the ring from the dark lord of mordor to save middle-earth gitu. (that witwicky fella pon cute and kecik macam frodo jugak.) daddy thinks the ol’ skool cartoons had more heart. mummy, well, she never bothered with boy stuff back then, she was more into smurfs and gummi bears, so she went in with pretty much zero expectation. :p

in any case, we reckon hasbro did a damn good job at creating a dizzying hype and emptying the pockets of a sentimental generation who grew up on the cartoon on tv and can now afford to buy themselves the slew of toys and collectibles, manufactured in conjunction with the movie.

and kudos to the special effects people for making my head spin from trying to figure out (and failing miserably, again) how the massive, gangly, apes of steel can turn into cute, compact little vehicles in mere seconds. (and also, how alien robots always end up in america, speaking english and trying to save the human race, and how the american air force and army ALWAYS win in heroic battles between good vs evul. sekali sekali kalah tak boleh ke?)

we hope that the movie will not cause much detriment to your fragile young psyche. violence is bad, ok? cannot fight fight, shoot shoot like that, you know?

and no, that small yellow car you pointed to at the carpark when you woke up after the show, that was NOT Bumblebee.

ps: friday night, and the place, ie. orchard cineleisure, was packed with youths, ie. young people, and made us, ie. your parents, feel old-ish coz we were the only one with a babe in arms. or at least, like wayward teens with an out-of-wedlock child, boohoo! :D

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inspired by sharleez, mummy got out HER (rather chunky, i must say) tkg dolly.

thankfully, i’m not a girl, so she couldn’t force me to squeeze into that froggy green outfit. phew~ (besides, that is SO not my colour.)

i’ll just pretend this is sharleez for now. i hope to date her someday, you know. maybe i’ll be the boy wearing a white uniform next door. (eh wait, tktech no more next door now, right?)

my goodness, look at that hair. girls’ school don’t have grooming lessons is it? ceh.

come i change diaper for you. you want some powder on those luscious buns? ho ho, ‘Demure & Resolute’ indeed!

alamak, semangatnye, were you in TAF Club? what, Girl Guides?! ok nevermind, let’s go to bed… *oof*

did i tell you daddy had the hots for mummy when she was in this uniform?

eww, daddy!

ps: speaking of schools and uniforms, mummy, as usual, got unnecessarily worried about, of all things, primary school registration. what’s this phase 1 lah, phase 2A, B, C lah. she fretted coz she wouldn’t be able to put me in her old school with yukky yellow pinafores since i’m a BOY. like, hello, i’m not even in pre-school yet, woman! just chuck me in a ‘neighbourhood school’, maybe i’ll get a controversial figure as my relief teacher some day. ;)

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because of this lil plush fella, i actually did something i’d never done before.

pre-order a copy of a harry potter book! from borders, no less.

coz i figure, i’ll buy the book aaaaanywaaaay, so i might as well get something out of it. (vair lame but i’m a freebieholic, can?)

i used to download the first few books in my PDA and read the entire thing for free, or borrowed a hard copy from a friend. i don’t know why i was so resistant to buy them myself even though i REALLY like the stuff. i did eventually purchase the last two installments, and i should get around to owning the complete set, erm, some day.

anyway, the hype is just avada kedavra killing me. will dumbledore resurrect like fawkes, his phoenix? is snape a good guy or a bad guy? will harry snog more chicks? will hermione and ron get it on, like, finally?

nevermind the movie, i want the book! (AND that owl!)

meanwhile, some entertaining nuggets from jk rowling as we count down to 21 july…

ps: did you know that Dumbledore is an old English word for bumblebee? more than meets the eye! [;) @ kak m.]

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dear gwen,

as much as i like your style and covet your yummy milf status, i’m afraid the husband and i will not be seeing you terkinja-kinja on stage come august.

it’s stranger than Fiction but we unanimously decided to go watch these old geezers instead, whose singer incidentally wears the same amount of make up as you.

THE CURE!! WAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

i’m stoked! i am! i heart them many many for a long time hokay! i used to play their Wish album over and over again coz it was a rollercoaster of delirous happy (‘friday i’m in love’) and depressing sad (‘letter to elise’), just like i was at the time (ie. a teenage mess of extreme highs and lows).

we don’t have such sentimental history with you, gwen, but we wish you all the best and know that you will be playing to a full house when you’re here. our friends will joyously tramp along with you to ‘wind it up’ and swing to your ‘sweet escape’ and spell out ‘B.A.N.A.N.A.S’ at the top of their lungs, no doubt (pun intended).

oh my, it looks like august is shaping out to be quite a rawking month, eh? (not to mention, a pokai one. yikes!)

hollaback (er, whatever that means),
haNajuku girl

ps: for those who prefer EVEN older geezers, engelbert humperdinck is also performing next month. wuaahahaa!

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we were at dempsey the week before, and we were there again on saturday, this time at loewen gardens.

ouhh, this show is way better than that christina akurela concert!

the birthday princess fell into a deep slumber before the cake-cutting. no she was not poisoned by an apple by her evil stepmother, she was just totally knackered!

o where art thine prince to wake you with a kiss, fair lady fynna?? zzz…

the other little ones, on the other hand, were WIDE awake. like that boy in the blue shirt who managed to swipe some cake with his tiny finger (and grabbed a chocolate spire with his grubby hand).

i bet christina akurela didn’t give out cake at her concert, nyeh nyeh!

i think his naughty streak is rubbing off on me. oops, sorry kids, i think i exceeded the weight limit on the trampoline. (hey what’s a birthday party without at least trying out one kiddy activity?!)

bouncy bouncy smack smack, i’m gonna give me a heart attack!

meant to go to the free happy feet screening at the botanic garden since it was so, so near, but looking at the queue of cars waiting to get in, i guess other cheapo singaporeans had the same idea. bah, we’ll just have to wait for it to come out on HBO then.

and speaking of cheapo singaporeans, a bunch of them were found dotting the side of the river across stadium, waiting for another kind of free show. the little one didn’t care so much for that, though, he was too busy running around with the other kids, as usual. hehe.

and the show? as rini put it, macam ayam kentot lor! LOL!

poot…

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