Hann: Dedicated to God: learning chinese 学华语

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Monday, September 2, 2013

Hann语 toothpicks

Who says Din Tai Fung has the best toothpicks?

Check out my power Hann语 Toothpicks
at the Soup Restaurant (三盅两件).

It all started from this character: 中

(must be the effect from yesterday's Mahjong lesson. Oops!)

Then I went on and on and on...

With no guidance nor influence from my parents.
All characters formed by 7-year-old me

and all pictures taken me

so pardon some blur ones.

No prize for guessing the characters...

Hann's mummy says,
"The wonders when you leave a kid bored.
We were really surprised when we saw what Hann was doing cos he always complain that he doesn't like Chinese."

made by Hann

Sunday, July 7, 2013

The Three Little Pigs 三只小猪

The Three Little Pigs (Mandarin)

三只小猪

(3 years old and up)

4-14 Jul 2013

Mummy doesn't like all fairy tales but this is one which she likes cos it promotes good values such as "there is not shortcut in life".

Also quite hard to find chinese children's theatre so don't miss this Mandarin version of the original
sold-out run of the English production in 2012.

click for details and tickets.

Hurry! tickets are running out fast!

My cousin's 1st time to the theatres.

Hann （7 years old)'s Review:
I like the show though I don't understand the songs and dialogue. It's in Chinese!!

Jade (3 years old)'s Review:
I like the show but got the 大狼 leh. if got the 大狼, I don't like. I love the singing especially the song "找一个家“

Mummy's Review:
Very entertaining and fun. Lovely songs, impressive backdrops/ props.

Warning: younger children might find the Big Bad Wolf scary though a mummy-friend comment that she loves the funny and handsome wolf.
Three-year-old Jade was very fearful of the Big Bad Wolf (大狼) but managed to get thru' his 1st appearance. When he started to huff and puff, I had to bring her outside cos she is very frigthened.

Contrary to the traditional 3 little pigs' story, the 1st two pigs built their houses with straw and sticks not because they were lazy but because they were ill-informed or not knowledgable enough.
Sadly, the message "there is not shortcut in life" is not clearly presented in this musical, if they did wanted to portray this in the 1st place.
I thought hard about what is the moral of the story in this musical and came up with 2:
1. staying together as a family is better than being alone,
2. read more so that you can make good decisions.
Unfortunately, none of my 2 kids picked up any of these.

This post was 1st published on 3/27/13