Day Out

Had a few errands to run recently such as making the kids passport, Sending the kids for their monthly checkup and this round there would be a jab as well and I also decided to get my identity card changed.

Took the kids out the other day to the Singapore Immigration to collect their passports. I had submitted their application for a passport online with a photo I took at home using a white background, uploaded the image and paid the fee, was just worried that the images could be unusable, but as it turns out they were ok and soon a letter came to inform us that the passports were ready for collections.

After a quick breakfast we were off to immigration I had made an e-appointment before I went down, since this should reduce the waiting time and it was really fast, within 15 minutes we were called and they did final checks on the passport before handing them over to us. While I was at Immigration I decided to have my identify card changed as it has never been changed since the last upgrading exercise (guess it would be more than 20 years ago) which was sometime when I was in secondary school. Had to pay a fee for it which I felt should not be since the card was damage mainly due to wear and tear over the years as the identity card is now being used for a fair number of things from library loans to queue numbers. It took some time but since I could get it done on the spot the wait was relatively ok about 20 minutes to get registered and 30 minutes for the card to be produced.

After that was done it was off to babies check up with the paediatrician. The kids were doing well, their jabs were administered which caused them to cry like no tomorrow but that lasted just a short while and soon they were back to normal. The paedi gave some panadol incase the kids came down with fever which would last a day or 2. Little Nat had some extra medication to ease her tummy, and Nigel had what they call cradle cap. There was an interesting conversation with the doc and the missus on this and it went something like this :-

Me the Dad [D] : he has some roughness on his head.

Paediatrician [P] : oh, its just some minor rash we call cradle cap, if you want just get some olive oil and when you bath him just rub some in to soften the area and wash it off.

LATER

[D] to my missus, the Mummy [M] : So that cradle cap thingy we need to get olive oil, go NTUC buy those olive oil is it? the extra virgin type or what ?

[M] : No lah not that type of olive oil, there is baby type olive oil for skin not cooking, you want his hair to catch fire ah !!

Well thank goodness for mums else if leave it to the Daddy probably end up with an MJ Pepsi Commercial Moment.