Shrek! Shrek!

Guess what I have in my hands? Yes, you are right! I got a laughing and noisy Shrek. Even if I held him upside down, he would give out his ogre-ish laugh and some other snorting sounds. This is a free toy from McDonald's Happy Meal. It's really cute! I do not eat often at McDonald's though. Mommy and Daddy are just not that into McDonald's. But my Kuya Luis and Tito Leo are big McDo fans... Kuya Luis loves eating chicken nuggets and french fries especially when they are on the road.

Many stories and legends have depicted ogres as cruel creatures, who would eat humans and destroy anything that is in their way. Ogres are what put children early to bed. Ogres are what keep children form wandering too far in the woods. Ogres are what keep children from disobeying their parents. Until SHREK came... 

I first met Shrek during Christimas last year at Madame Tussaud's in London, a wax museum where every figure seems real. It was Mommy who introduced me to him. He was indeed a very huge creature, and green and shabby-looking too. But I wasn't afraid. He wasn't real after all. And he looked friendly enough. I even checked out what's underneath his ogre clothes. Hahaha!

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Ready for an Exciting Fall TV?

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Fall is just around the corner and for many couch potatoes like my mom, it means the premiere of all-new seasons, or better yet, of new tv shows. Since we are moving houses anyway, we sure could use a switch to TiVo Premiere so that we can watch the exciting and new Fall TV and be able to relate to our friends when they go talking about it.

Mom for one is excited to watch the new comedy Mike & Molly and I am sure, Daddy will love the Better WithYou show because it was created by one of the brains behind his favorite Comedy show Friends. I am particularly keen on watching Glee because I heard that Charice Pempenco will be in it.

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Timmy, Das Schäfchen

This is my latest cartoon craze:
Timmy, das Shäfchen. In English, it's called Timmy Time.

He's making my Mommy crazy too because I keep requesting her to play the intro video on YouTube. If I want to watch this show, which is almost like the entire day, I would simply say first: "Sheshen" (Schäfchen means little lamb). If she would pretend that I didn't hear her or she is busy working on her eLance projects, I would drag her hand and yell, "Timmy! Timmy!". You know me, I always get what I want. Hihi! It's shown here in Germany on Super RTL but it airs too early for me. Showing time is at 6:30 - 7:00 AM, with 3 episodes per day.

Mommy has found a solution for this though. She has actually managed to program our media receiver to automatically record this series so that I am expecting to be able to watch Timmy when I wake up. Hihi!

If you have no idea what I am talking about, I have embedded the intro parts of the show, both in English and German. Luckily, it's on HD! Come, sing along with me!






Isn't Timmy das Schäfchen just adorable? The characters help toddlers like me to make animal sounds and associate it with an animal too because the characters "speak" with their own language... So Timmy says "baa, baa, baa" each time he wants to say something, Teacher Owl says, "hoot, hoot, hoot", etc. Cute eh!? No wonder I am loving this show!

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