My Rocking Cradle

McDonalds opened another branch here in Trapalace today. All the ajummas here in our place had been waiting for this opening day since it started renovating the space at the ground floor of the officetel. True enough, we found ourselves, the ajummas, in McDonalds right after our kids came home from school. Most hubbies, mine [...]

I like Mad for Garlic. The restaurant is very classy and the food is yummy. When a friend offered her Mad for Garlic free pizza coupon, I immediately got it and mentally scheduled a lunch date. The lunch date was set. There we were – American, Korean and Filipino mommies - with our respective strollers walking towards the [...]

Flea markets are weekly sights in some of the apartment complexes around Seoul. They usually set up their tents in the parking lot left vacant for the scheduled time to accommodate them. This particular flea market was in Tae Young Apartments in Mapo-gu last week. Noticeably, they are well-organized as the tents are set-up in almost the same [...]

Hubby had been urging me the whole morning yesterday to celebrate Mother’s Day in a good restaurant the way we always do whenever we find even the most trivial of reasons to celebrate. I wasn’t really up to it with a very active toddler and a breastfeeding baby who has totally rejected drinking milk from a [...]

As we are going to the Philippines mid of September, this week is Little Dynamo’s last week in school. This will be his last week to wait for the school bus. This will be the last time he will wear his school uniform. Till next year…

I went to a number of day care centers before I settled for the Kinder Schule in Mapo. For the first three months, my son only attended a twice a week, 2 hours program. This month, I have enrolled him for a three days, whole day program. Whole day program starts at 10 in the [...]

Hubby and I usually stay in Poetree, the coffee shop located at the ground floor of our apartment, when our Little Dynamo is sleeping in his stroller. We either read or he works and I browse the net. The coffee shop is very convenient for us as it has a free WiFi service offering a [...]

A very practical store formally opened first week of February here in Mapo. It is located in the same building as the Mapo English Literacy Center. It is a membership store where you can borrow two toys at a time for a maximum of two weeks. Very practical, isn’t it? All I had to do [...]

In two days, we are leaving for the Philippines for the holidays. It’s a temporary goodbye to my daily dose of PoeTree Latte. The PoeTree Coffeeshop is the latest addition to the shops in the ground floor of the Trapalace III Multiplex. Trapalace III residents are entitled to 10% discount upon showing of the Trapalace access cards. [...]