{"id":15714,"date":"2012-01-22T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T08:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=15714"},"modified":"2012-05-05T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T11:36:26","slug":"sticker-books-and-work-in-progress-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/01\/22\/sticker-books-and-work-in-progress-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticker Books and Work-in-Progress &ndash; Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While our girl on the whole is still quite well-behaved e.g. never goes into public tantrums, she still hasn\u2019t outgrown the habit of talking to herself, and also in third-person. We\u2019re pretty certain it\u2019s just a growing-up phase, but we\u2019re also getting a little nervous that at past 2.5 years old, she\u2019s still yet to pick up on our reminders to refer to herself as \u2018me\u2019 rather than \u2018Hannah\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ling picked up a thick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usborne.com\/\">Usborne<\/a> sticker book from Kinokuniya for Hannah\u2019s Christmas present, and she\u2019s been pretty hooked onto it. The book is actually low-priced in its original UK retail price of about 10\u00a3, but in local stores here it\u2019s SGD25. Ugh. Opportune time to pick up a bundle of those books then. A couple of clicks later at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookdepository.com\/\">Book Depository<\/a> and three books were ordered, arriving in two shipments earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah\u2019s an even happier camper now. She goes about the house carrying all three and saying to herself \u201cHannah has so many sticker books!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-OLYP5324-sticker-book-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/blog-2012-hannah-OLYP5324-sticker-book-flickr_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-OLYP5324-sticker-book-flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evidence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We swung by the construction site of our new place too at the Minton to check out the state of progress. Our third visit to the site, and this visit from the 11th floor of Block 158. Our block (the center one in the picture) has reached its highest floor.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also impossible to tell from the small thumbnail picture below, but when blown up in its original size, we could see that window frames have been installed in the bedrooms.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-OLYP5349-visit-pano-B-stitched\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/blog-2012-hannah-OLYP5349-visit-pano-B-stitched.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-OLYP5349-visit-pano-B-stitched\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wonder if those workers get a CNY holiday too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ling\u2019s thinking of visiting the showroom again. Apparently, they\u2019ve finished the 2+1 bedroom mockup, and she wants to go in to get more ideas on how our new home in 2013-end should look like. There\u2019s also another new condo project just down the road from The Rivervale with another one of those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/01\/16\/naming-conventions\/\">ridiculous but uniquely Singapore-sounding name<\/a> \u2013 \u2018Riversound\u2019 \u2013 that she wants to check out too.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-OLYP5360-visit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/blog-2012-hannah-OLYP5360-visit.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-OLYP5360-visit\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the lift-lobby of Block 158.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s Chinese New Year tomorrow too, and opportunities for pictures, celebration and weight-gain. More posts to come. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While our girl on the whole is still quite well-behaved e.g. never goes into public tantrums, she still hasn\u2019t outgrown the habit of talking to herself, and also in third-person. We\u2019re pretty certain it\u2019s just a growing-up phase, but we\u2019re<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/01\/22\/sticker-books-and-work-in-progress-part-3\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Sticker Books and Work-in-Progress &ndash; Part 3<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,526],"tags":[515,508],"class_list":["post-15714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","category-new-home","tag-minton","tag-e-pl2","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-526-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}