Recognising faces

Karen's beginning to recognise faces. My mom and dad went for a hair cut and while they are in the salon, Karen fell asleep. She woke up in the car sitting next to grandpa n grandma but instead of the usual happy sound, she started screaming and crying. She was pretty alright with grandpa because he only had a minor trim but grandma had a shorten her hair considerably and certainly looked a little different. We went out for lunch after the salon trip and we had to sit Karen away from Grandma so that she would stop crying. While we were all amused by her "outrage" my mom was really hurt and upset by it. Took Karen a couple of hours to get use to her ganny's pretty new look.

To think I was considering cutting my hair too. ;)

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Karen has her SG citizenship

Karen's SG citizenship has been approved and is now ready for collection from the SG High Comm here. Unfortunately we have forgotten to include a A4 size return courier bag in our application hence they holding her documents ransom while waiting for us to post the courier bag to them. It took around 2 months+ for this application to be approve partly because of her name.

NZ prefers the family name to be at the back hence her birth certificate says "Karen Kai Eng LAU"

SG wants it in a different way, either "Karen LAU Kai Eng" or "LAU Kai Eng Karen"

We choose to go with "Karen LAU Kai Eng" in her application. Karen Lau Kai Eng, when you are much older, you are going to love shopping in SG. ;)

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