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Does anyone have Monk?

I suddenly feel like watching it. If you do, can I have a copy please?

Joe and I had an awesome time watching “Wanted” tonight.

You know how Joe watches movies? He’s a bundle of nerves during thrillers. He flinches before the people on screen do, scoots down when they check around corners, ducks when they get fired upon, writhes in his seat when someone’s being followed or when a scene goes up a long corridor or similiar scenario, and gets restless legs during tense moments.

He’s worse during horror movies, if he even decides to watch it at all.

Like tonight after we got back home, we caught the last 15 mins of the finale of CSI on TV. He actually said to me 10 minutes before the end, “Can we switch this ooooffff???” “No.” He closes his eyes (yes), covers his ears (uh-huh) and goes, “Ma mama, lala la..” (you better believe it!!)

So with that said, we had a butt-clenching, tense arms and shoulders, ducking in our seat thrilling ride at the movies today. Along with some whooping in the middle cos it was that exciting. Phew!

I wanna watch it again!

We had a pretty awesome June holiday. Here’s some of the things we did.

Lauren started off the holiday on the last day of school with her very first field trip. She went to Jacob Ballas Garden with her school.

She also had the unfortunate honour of being our first child under the age of 6 that went for a school field trip without any of us accompanying her. It was a crazy, busy day with 2 back-to-back parent-teacher meetings for our 2 older kids. If you’ve been to one of these, you’ll know that your appointment is at the mercy of other kancheong parents who seem to have lots to discuss with the teachers. Sigh.

My mum felt so sorry to hear about her going alone (so drama la this Mama!) that she took a bus to meet the school folks there. She was just in time to meet up with a red-faced, sweaty little girl who was completely enjoying herself being in her favourite gardens with her favourite friends.

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Here we are trying to spend some time at East Coast. It was crazy crowded!!! School holidays or what??

We had brekkie at Macs, the 2 little girls went cycling with my parents and the maid, Jordan played miniature golf with Joe’s Dad while Joe’s mum waited for them, and Megan, Joe and I had coffee at Starbucks Big Splash. I like it like that sometimes, when we all go do what we prefer separately, rather than force ourselves into a single activity.

More to come in the next posts…

Eh my hubby was on Ellen Degeneres’ show!!!!!!

Well, ok…. not really. But that’s his voiceover for the Osim iGallop ad! And I’m pretty sure it was his dulcet, persuasive tones that compelled her to want one

From Talkingcock.com, a report on why Joe Augustin was fired. The Gahmen reveals that it’s all because of Mat Alamak.

Here’s the last of the articles, this one from Channel NewsAsia. Have a read and tell us what you think about the new pairing.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/352296/1/.html
We think it will be like another Dan and Young show, another youngish feel similiar to 987FM.

Here’s how the story broke. Petrina posted something in the Morning Show blog when no one said anything about what happened to the show not being on air, and on not coming back.
http://petrinaandjoe.com

The New Paper called and ran the story the next day.
http://tnp.sg/show/story/0,4136,166501,00.html

The Straits Times called and ran their story in the Life section.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_244022.html

As well as My Paper.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20080604-68835.html

Tonight, we’re waiting for Channel News Asia online to post their story.

And I’m waiting to hear the announcement on the station about thanking Joe and Petrina for their work for the past 2 years, and then blaming Petrina for setting the ball in motion. I wanna get the exact wordings.

Joe’s most active on his Facebook if you want to send him a msg.

So if you listen to Joe in the mornings, you might be wondering how come the week long leave is turning out so long. Where are Petrina and Joe and their Morning Show? Read http://petrinaandjoe.com to find out what happened.

The Augustin kids are definitely enjoying having Daddy around during the holidays, and I could really get used to seeing him the mornings for a change… but it’s always a 2 faced coin isn’t it?

It’s funny how things can be so different in a short 24 hours.

While in Adelaide, we drove to Barossa Valley to Penfolds Winery to join their Make Your Own Blend wine tour. Quite interesting and fun, tasting, mixing and being a winemaker for the day. You blend 3 varietals to your personal taste - sweet, fruity, robust, etc - and you get to take your blend home.

How time has flown. Here’s Megan being interviewed on Fukuoka Japan’s morning TV show about their experiences about being in Japan and taking part in the APCC camp and forum.