Christmas songs

Aga singing Christmas songs:

Christmas Pudding


We wish you a Merry Christmas

Ox or Buffalo?

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!!!

Now, my question to all Chinese people out there (real Chinese, not fake like me) or those who know, is the year "Ox" or "Buffalo"? I swear this is not a stupid question, just giving the credit to whoever animal was supposed to take the throne.

As far as I know, Ox is not a Buffalo (Water Buffalo). Ox is.. male cow, the one who doesn't have udder. Even Aga knows that. The difference between Ox and Bull is that Ox is.. well.. castrated.

To those who's confused, in Indonesia it's called the Year of Water Buffalo (kerbau/carabao). Not Ox (sapi jantan / male cow). Not banteng (bull). It's definitely water buffalo.

Please enlighten me. What year is it now? Ox or Buffalo? They're different, seriously, so please don't say who cares. The animal in question wants to know! My sister would be gutted to hear that her zodiac is not the one she had believed it was. Identity crisis on the way.

Now the other nagging question that Grace asked (which started out this whole ox/buffalo saga) was: do water buffalos moo??

I think to make it safe, one should say "It's the year an animal that looks like cow with horn".

Christmas and New Year in USA

First off, Christmas. Santa was very generous to everybody this year, he sent so many gifts for the kids!



Look at those gifts!! Most of them were for Aga, Nina and Lila! A few for Ammu, Dylan and Pooja.

Agastya's favourite was the talking and dancing Lightning McQueen.

Look at how excited he was with all those gifts:



While Lila was more interested in the wrappers.

New Year means Agastya's birthday.


He's got two cakes. One for the afternoon and one for the evening. Because... he can. :D


In the evening we celebrated it at ChuckECheese's.





Aga with the cake.


Nina with the cake.



Lila with the cake. Oops. I mean, Daddy.



Lila with Aunt Krithi.



Aga and Rohan posing on stage.


Lila posing. A lot.




Yes, she's definitely girly. She's already obsessed with shoes and boots and bags and stuff. *shudders*

I have loads more Lila posing pictures, so email me if you want to see them because there were so many and I'm lazy to put them all up :D

And this is for you people who thinks she doesn't look like me. She does. She really does. She looks like mommy! She even likes playing piano!



I'm uploading videos next. Maybe tomorrow.

PS: This photo update was a birthday request from Leo. I was so lazy to do it, then he mentioned it and I thought, well, why not. Happy birthday, Uncle Leo.