Little Vance's 3rd Birthday

Winnie the Pooh cake from Bengawansolo for his 1st birthday, Cars cake from Bengawansolo for his 2nd Birthday. This year, for his 3rd birthday, I ordered the Fire Engine Truck cake from ecreative. I did a research and found a wonderful, almost complete list of websites of cake shops that has cakes for kids.

When I first saw the Fire Engine Truck from ECreative, I know Little Vance will definitely love it. Indeed, after showing him the picture of the cake, he said "我要！" Hubby was in Darwin and before he left he reminded me many times "Remember to order cake for him!". Ok, I'm not that forgetful! Over the long distance call, I told Hubby that little Vance has seen the cake and he like it so I'm going to order that. Daddy said I make the call.

I hesitated and waited for Hubby to return and showed him the picture of the cake (the good thing about 3G, you can surf whenever and wherever you want without switching the pc to access the web!) While waiting for Hubby to return from Darwin, OCBC's Mighty Savers Club sent a list of discount vouchers and wished Junior "Happy Birthday" and one of them is a $10 discount voucher for ordering cakes from ECreative however, after reading carefully, the TERMS & CONDITIONS at the back of the voucher, the $10 discount is only meant for Mighty Savers Cakes and not the Fire Engine Cake which falls under Children collection. Anyway, the voucher can still be used for deducting $5 for ordering any cakes from ECreative. So happily I called up ECreative and ordered the Fire Engine Truck Cake. The lady from the customer service who took my order was very polite and she answered all my queries patiently.

The good thing about Ecreative cakes is that, it's not very sweet.Just nice for all ages and delivery is FREE!!!! Except for orders less than $50. Indeed, the comments of ECreative cakes from Mummy.sg forum is reliable.

So overall, although we did not organise big party for Vance but all of us are happy because little Vance has his big Fire Engine Truck cake and both hubby and I and our in-laws enjoyed the cake. Most of them commented the cake is nice and not very sweet and $5 discount with free delivery hahaha!

Besides the cake, we even prepared goodie bags for Little Vance's classmates and teachers. I got some of the ideas from My Tidbits Shop.

Your Sakae Sushi Experience!!! Win $$$

Blog about your dining experience at Sakae Sushi and win $50 voucher! Am waiting for their Sakae Junior Club! Remember to apply for the Swensen's Kids Club too!

Email from Readers!

Survey for Ice Cream Lovers!

Dear all,
We've a survey now for Ice Cream lovers!

Project type: Focus group

Duration: Approx 2hrs

Venue: Town area

~CRITERIA~
Looking for those who are:
1) ENGLISH SPEAKING adults
2) Eats PREMIUM ICE CREAM (Andersens, Haagen Dazs, Swensens, Gelare or Ben & Jerry) at least FORNIGHTLY.
3) BOUGHT or SHARED a gift for friend worth >$50 in last 1yr.
4) Outgoing, sociable, open minded and expressive.
5) Visited ICE CREAM CAFE (Andersens, Haagen Dazs, Swensens, Gelare or Ben & Jerry)
6) Not from sensitive industries including marketing, advertising,
journalism, food & beverage related companies or other related industries.
7) Must NOT have taken part in any surveys or market research in
the last 7 mths.

Group A – 22 Sep (Wed), 4pm
# FEMALE Students (age 18-24yo)
# Incentive - $80

Group B – 22 Sep (Wed), 7pm
# SINGLE FEMALE working adults (PMEBs)
# Incentive - $90

Group C – 23 Sep (Thu), 4pm
# MARRIED w/o kids, FEMALE working adults (PMEBs)
# Incentive - $100

Group D – 23 Sep (Thu), 7pm
# MARRIED w/o kids, MALE working adults (PMEBs)
# Incentive - $90

If interested, pls email me by 16 Sep 2010 & we'll contact you if you're selected:

~ EMAIL to viewsshare@gmail.com ~
Project name: IC

Group: A/B/C/D
Name:
Age:
Gender: Male/Female
Occupation/Industry:
Contact#:
Most Often BRAND of Premium Ice Cream consumed (>10times in last 6mths):
2nd most often brand of premium ice cream consumed:
How often have you eaten ice cream in last 1mth?:
Visited ice cream cafe in last 6mths & was served: Yes/No
Have you bought/shared gift >$50 in last 6mths?: Yes/No

Get Paid for Tweeting?

For those who loves to Tweet, you might want to consider earning some bucks from Tweeting? Yes. At RevTwt (Revenue from Tweets), a Twitter advertising network is paying you to tweet their ads. Sounds interesting? Give it a try and see for yourself. But if you are worried that it might be a scam, Google for reviews.

Joshlam has wrote an article on whether the website is real or scam. Hubpages also has an article showing you how to make money through RevTwt. Twitdom as well.

Have fun tweeting for $$$!!!

Nice Activity books for Kids

Passed by a bookstore at Suntec, same level as Toy R Us. Bought these for Little Vance. They have lots of nice books imported from foreign publishers. I personally feel that the books are worth buying because you can't find them at the local bookstores.

As I spent a little time at the store (while Little Vance was having fun with the car and bus rides with Daddy, I sneaked into the bookstore to take a look at the books.), I only manage to grab these 2 wonderful and attractive books.

The Tracing Trails @ $5+ and The Cars Sticker Book at $19+. At first, I thought the sticker book is just a normal sticker book for Junior to collect his stickers. But its not. The sticker book comes with many stickers and Junior will have to search and paste the stickers on the missing parts.

The book has quite a number of activities inside. From matching, to searching for missing parts, to let your imagination run wild, etc.

Healthy Snack for the Family!!!

IPhone Apps for Vance: My Colouring Book

Little Vance love this App-- My Colouring Book when I first downloaded it. He was busying filling up the pictures with colours. By kids being kids, he's still learning to understand the colours of objects.

Some of his ARTWORK!

Mummies can earn some extra cash (Part 1)

Ever since I started loonshi moneyland, I have received quite a number of emails from Mummies asking how they can earn extra cash during their free time. I will try to share as much as possible. Stay tune!

Mummies can earn some extra cash by doing the following:

1. Selling Stuff

At times, we often have baby stuffs to sell. Things like baby clothes, baby walker, baby stroller, etc. If you do not want to give it away, you can alway sell them away to convert them into cash. By saying so, it seems easy but I receive many emails from Mummies asking how we sell stuffs online.  First of all, snap pictures of the stuffs you want to sell. Secondly, mummies can choose to sell on Ebay, Motherhood forums such as Singapore Motherhood, Mummy.sg or selling portals such as 88db, Cute4Ever, 99auction, etc. I normally choose to sell on free sites. For Ebay, I will use the free section which is to sell on in Singapore. Mummies can also choose to swop with other people on Youswop which require invitation from a current Youswop member in order to join. Mummies interested can email me and I will send you an invite.

Besides selling online, you can also sell them through flea martkets (Google Flea markets, bazaars or fairs). Recently, I received a newsletter from eXplorerkid that there's a Enterprising Mum session at Downtown East whereby you can sell your baby stuffs.

2. Do Paid Online Surveys

Besides selling stuffs, mummies can join websites which pay you to do online surveys, attend focus groups.

3. Do Freelance writing

Help bloggers to write articles. They will ask you to either re-write an existing article in your own words or to write something fresh.

I have more to share... Stay tune!

Money Savings Tips Ting Wo has to share

1. Eat breakfast at home. 4 pieces of bread and 3 in 1 coffee would cost at most 1+. But, fried bee hoon with egg and cabbage plus a kopi would cost 2.90. Bread is less oily some more.

2. Eat at hawker centre rather than food court and restaurant. This is pretty obvious right? The food court and restaurant would definitely cost more. Pick those ulu hawker centre which still charge less.

3. Eat mixed vegetable rice. My office lunch gang frequent nearby food court. Mixed vegetable rice is the cheapest food that can be found among the stalls. Even a fish ball noodle also cost $4, compare to $3+ for a plate of rice. Furthermore, mixed vege rice would give you more nutrition.

4. Watch movie on Mon-Wed. The price is cheaper and the crowd is much lesser than weekend. So, if you really must watch, watch on Mon-Wed.

5. Exercise more. Instead of drinking, party going or karaoke, why don't get some friends to jog together. It is fun, and much more healthy this way. Other entertainment cost much more during weekend, but exercise does not cost more during weekend.

6. Avoid window shopping. People have tendency to go window shopping with nothing to buy in mind. More than often you bought things on impluse. So, if you didn't go, that won't happen at all. Have a shopping list and only follow it closely.

7. Utilise broadband internet connection more. You can chat with friend online to reduce traveling and meeting time. You can read news without buying physical newspaper. There are many ways your unlimited broadband connection can help you save some money.

Spend on what you need to, not what you want to. --- I love this phase!!!
Soure from: Ting Wo

Received a box of surprise from Singpost

Received a notice to collect a registered mail from the post office. Went down to Singpost and to my surprise it was a red box of "things". Wnt to have a box of surprise too? Go to Singpost's Thingsbox! Little Vance love the Carl's Jr "fake" burger. He used it as his cooking toys! Haha!!