Cuteness overload ♥ Gurashis featured in books

During the past few years, i have gradually rekindled (no pun intended) my old love for reading and books   
only old-school hardcopy ones please! no kindle/internet for me (: 

Especially after i started teaching, the hope that my "kids" will someday realise the joys of reading has made me spends hours in the children's section of bookstores in search for good books for them (:

 Heading down to the library on one of my weekly/fortnightly trips to borrow books for my class' mini "library", I thought: "maybe there are books about Sumikko Gurashi!" (I am a huge fan of these San-x characters ). But i searched to no avail ):

Then...

While browsing at Kinokuniya (JEM) a few days after... I glanced passed the Chinese Section Highlights and saw that it was featuring a Sumikko Gurashi comic book! 

(It felt like a wish come true! 
and in Chinese too! finally something i can actually read!)

 

角落生物的生活  S$17.35

(roughly translated as The Life of Summiko Gurashis)

Milk Tea pearl and Tempura plushies not included :P

And then I happened to be at Takashimaya the week later and i spotted this!  

Sumikko Gurashi Japanese Book  S$18.20

 This was in Japanese though, but still bought it to enjoy the pictures. (:

(The Japanese book seems more like a storybook, unlike the Chinese book which is a comic book, ie: the pages are in comic strip form)

Curious as to whether the Taka branch stocked the Chinese Sumikko Gurashi book, I asked the counter staff and he led me to the 小品 section which had SO many different books based on all the cute characters! Can't believe i had missed this section all along!

...and so my last pick was this!

 

 Kutsushita Nyanko book S$16.80

 

My haul! 

Always believed that buying books isn't a waste of money as it shows support for the authors/illustrators who write them and helps to keep the bookshop industry alive too!

 (Anyone else misses the HUGE Borders @Wheelock? It was such a big part of my childhood!) 

Stumbled upon any good (or just plain cute/fun) books recently? (:

Cuteness overload ♥ monkey year cuties

To celebrate the Lunar Year of the Monkey, here are a few monkey cuties to cheer up your day (: 

Disney Tsum Tsum monkey! 

 

Oh wait! It's a Tsum Tsum piglet!

 Nope! Its both! (:

Disney Tsum Tsum monkey piglet S$16.50  Seimon Cho

Thc cute banana peel on the top was what caught my eye. too cute! (:

 

And haha 

♥ 

 

 

 Disney Year of the Monkey 2016 Tsum Tsums!

photos credit to Disney Tsum Tsum 

Gund Monkey Plush S$19.90

Cute monkey keychain S$12.90  A'N'BC

The small things in life ☺3

Attended a housewarming last week

good Food. good Fun. good Friends. (:

Thankful for being able to become part of the big R family. 

Can't ask for better colleagues who make worklife so much more memorable and homely (:

新年快乐 2016!

HAPPY MONKEY YEAR EVERYONE! (:

(haha. yes this post is a bit late but technically its still the new year! 初十五 hehh)

Clockwise from top left:

Yusheng with the family! - Lo Hei is a CNY must for dad (:  -

Yearly ritual of getting flowers on the eve of CNY eve. (Just before shops close for the long CNY)

CNY buffet at Hotel JEN

Annual steamboat with the TQ (:

 

 

How did you spend your CNY? (:

猴年蒙恩！