of video and goldfish...

i think Ah Shawn might want to have a pet goldfish when he grows older...

of break ins and ADUNs...

wah... this one i must update immediately.
Yesterday a buglar broke in into the apartment unit opposite to mine. fortunately the owner was at home and when the burglar saw the owner, he managed to escape.

Then today i came back during lunch hour because the plumber will be here to fix a pipe int he kitchen.
When i open the doot i noticed the padlock bracket on my grill door has been bent. wah.... the burglar must have tried to break into my unit today.
So now here i am at my apartment and don't dare to go back to the office. who knows, the buglar might come again to finish the job.

To kill time i wrote an email to the ADUN for my area. (Yeah the same guy who did not do a thing about the email i sent to him last time) This time i will monitor again and see how he will respond (or not respond) and maybe this time i will copy a few more people. Who should i copy in the email ah? and can give the email also ah :D

of milestones and a sneaky boy...

Wah... after a long pause from posting in my blog, suddenly so many events that i have to jot down. Like some sort of blog posting diarrhea, but in a good way laaa...

Shawn Shawn Boy hit one of his developmental milestones this evening. He successfully turned! Yay!!!
He have been trying to turn for past week and have not been successful. Mainly due to his hand got stuck. But i guess this time he just forced his way through.
The unfortunate thing is we missed it. We just got home and wifey had just put him on the mattress that we had in the living room while we go to put our stuff in the bedroom.
Then mana tau, when i came out, the sneaky little boy was already on his stomach.

Feeling the utmost responsibility to update you (my loyal readers) with documented proof of Ah Shawn's milestone, i turned him back on his tummy and asked wifey to record the whole thing. (also because it's fun to see him turn :D)

Oh ya, not wanting to be left out, Ah Fie also joined in and cheered him on :D

of kalumpo and miss 'oopsie'...

Wifey, Ah Fie and Me went down to kalumpo last weekend for a bit of a walk see and shopping. Oh ya, we couldn’t bring Ah Shawn because he’s too young, and also his granma misses him and wants to take care of him for a weekend. I know that the latter is a lame excuse but I have to put is so down so that I don’t feel so guilty.

Back to the trip, actually it was more meant as a leisurely recreational trip (but I think ‘leisurely’ is relative) which essentially means going to shopping malls (and yes, shopping is considered recreation :) ). For Ah Fie, it’s like one of those “Get out of Jail“ card in Monopoly. She was like suddenly got out of the dungeon and was all excited. Want this and want that, to which we will normally oblige. I mean after all, ever since Ah Shawn arrived, we have to divide our attention between the two of them. From the get go, she was all excited and keep on mentioning that she wanted to go kai kai all the time. That is… for the first day laa… then I guess the weariness seeps in and requested to be carried all the time. She will just pretend to fall down on the floor and say “oopsie…”. Initially I thought she really fell and picked her up, but it keeps happening all too frequently until it become a pattern…. I guess my little trickster still needs to learn a thing a two about timing…

But, like all good things, we also have to cap off with some scary moments, to cut long story short, Ah fie put her fingers into a small gap between the car doors as I was closing it…. Scared the crap out of me. She screamed, she cried, wife screamed, wife cried. We quickly rush her to the hotel lobby to ask if there is any nearby clinic. After given the directions, the first thing the hotel staff ask was “who closed the door?”. Then at the clinic after checking her fingers, the first question is also “who closed the door?” wah… the guilt ah… it’s like someone have been keeping track of all the bad things I had done and dumped all the guilt on me at one go. Fortunately, it was only some minor lacerations (no bleeding) and no broken bones. As for Ah Fie, just put her into a shopping mall with some of those coin operated ride thingies, and all pain and tears will be gone.

Some other observations on this trip:
1. Either the Swedish furniture place is now officially a tourist spot or the lighting there is exceptionally good for digital photos, because there are lots of photographers there. Some even with digital slr. Maybe next trip I should bring my Mamiya RB67 so that I blend in…. speaking of which I wonder what film to bring… or maybe I just bring the Contax?
2. The most surefire way to cut short the travelling time between pulau and kalumpo is to put a mother who have been away from her son for 4 days in the driver seat. Guarantee to deliver results.
3. The kakak special curry mee at the midvalley food court still taste as good as I remembered. Although I personally think they should put more noodles. Also that porridge stall at the basement also serves some really good porridge and yu char koay.
4. If the smart alec waiter at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Ask you to solve the make 4 triangle by moving only 2 toothppick puzzle, just take one toothpick and make the figure ‘4’ instead of making 4 triangles. We put our best brain on the table for this task, but Ah Fie did not manage to solve it….
5. For our 5th anniversary dinner we had McDs. I had my portion at the restaurant and wifey have to tap pau and have hers at the hotel room… all because miss ‘oopsie’ was hungry and wants her nen nen. Oh ya, we had our 5th anniversary this year. And as a consolation for putting up with a hard of hearing guy for 5 years wifey got something in return. You Know, that iDevice iThat iYou iCan iMake iCalls iWith iThat iRhymes iWith iBone….

as you can see.... Ah Fie is not much of a poser...

... and i often wonder why my back hurts so much

of mood and contax...

i think sometimes film captures mood better than digital photos...
here are some recent shots with the contax

of hairdo and teenage angst...

wah... looks like i am not writing much about Ah Shawn, i hope he don't hold this against me in his teenage angst years...

i think sometimes our babysitter worry more about our kids than us... which i think probably is a good thing ... because sometimes we also tend to overlook certain things.

anyway, i think she's a bit worried that ah shawn might end with a hairdo like his papa. She keep asking when we wanna shave his head and i think she already beh tahan us liao and asked us last week if she can take him to have his head shaved. No probelm for us in that, so we let her loo...

and that's how ah shawn got his first haircut, and ah fie also got a haircut to boot. Like ah fie's time, I also shaved my head just so that i can have the same hairdo as ah shawn.

of throw up and silly remarks...

Ah Fie have been sick since Sunday. Threw up in the middle of the night on Sunday night and then again when I moved her to sleep with me, and again when I moved her to sleep outside in the living room (because both beds in the room is soiled). Then again when she tried to sleep while I held her….
Off to pantai at around 3.30am and she threw up again in the car….
Poor girl….

Anyway, according to the doctor she have gas or something that is caused by virus. Throughout Monday also same case. I took leave to take care of her and she seemed fine, but threw up everything she had (basically milk) in the afternoon and in the evening…. And due to the medication, she had diahorrea. Not sure if it is a good thing or not. Good probably because at least what she ate is coming out from the right end. Maybe bad because both ends also come out….

So she have been on a non-milk diet since today. Poor poor girl… but other than those time when she vomit, she is still very active. I guess it’s just her nature…

Sometimes ah fie can say the silliest things… or maybe she is just a bit koo koo when she is sick…
When I was cleaning her and packing her soiled diapers after a diahhorea episode, she suddenly say “Stop, don’t throw, I want to share with mommy!” apar la inin anak

Then this evening, I sae some dark marks on her legs and asked “Why your leg got dark dark?” and to that she replied “my legs dark dark hor… I change my legs hor…” ??

of princesses and pirate ships and seven drawfs...

After many many moons of not exercising, I went for a hike at bukit jamble last Sunday. Wahhh…. Fitness level definitely dropped… almost cannot reach the top… I guess I must be getting old (or weak or unfit or all the above)…
Anyway, I heard a very nice song sang by Taylor Swift and have been listening to it over and over again…. The song is “The Best Day”, it talks about her and her father’s relation ship….makes me wonder if ah fie will write something soppy like that for me when she grows up….
Oh ya… one part of the song says:
It’s the age of princesses and pirate ships and seven drawfs,
And Daddy’s smart and you’re the prettiest lady in the whole wide world…

Wah….. jiwang nyer… yeah... i am really getting old... and sentimental.... and soppy......

of 2 months and WARRIOR WOMAN...

Wah…. It’s been so long since I updated my blog. (wifey also complain oredi liao…)
Anyway, ah shawn turned 2 months old yesterday, and to celebrate that we send him for torture.
Well not really laaa, we took him for his jabs. Yes, emphasis on plural, jabS. One on the left leg and one on the right. Then there is also the oral one. So I guess you can say that we were as kiasu as you can get… but you might be wrong, we are not considered kiasu enough…
To top off the kiasuness we also took ah fie to get her hepatitis jab. So all in all 3 shots L.

Ah shawn of course like all babies wailed like there is no tomorrow, but only for a while laaa… I mean he got better things to do… e.g., sleep…

Ah Fie on the other hand was a WARRIOR WOMAN!! (yes in full caps). I tried to distract her when Dr Hasanah inserted the needle, but she felt something and look at her left arm (where all the action is happening). She just looked with a non-chalant face throughout the whole process and did not even squeal or squeak. Nothing! As if nothing happened. And when we let her go she just got bacl to being busy with Dr. Hasanah’s toys. I was amazed at this little warrior woman… I guess maybe if we tell her that an injection is something normal, she will just take it.

Anyway, back to ah Shawn, he is 2 months old now, and his face is getting rounder and rounder. But still a lot of gas especially when he is having his milk. I guess that he must be thinking that since his mouth is occupied when he is drinking, he might as well make noise from the other end :)
Likes to talk too, I still dunno what he is saying but he likes to talk and laugh when he is taking a piss or right after he have done his business. So I guess it’s all good.

of waiting and extreme pain...

Since the last entry of my blog was a quick update on wifey’s water broke, I better give a quick update here. Else the three (yes you three readers of my blog) of you will think that we are still in the labour room and wifey is having a super mega mega long labour.

Anyway, wifey was putting Ah Fie to sleep when she noticed that her water has broke. We got ourselves ready and double and triple and four-ple and five-ple check if we got everything. Strangely, although this time we knew what we need to do, I was kinda nervous. I guess probably with this second time, I have some idea what I am in for compared to last time when everything seem new. I guess it’s something about ignorance is bliss kinda thing.

Called my mom over so that she can take care of Ah fie for the night, but ah fie was still not asleep yet. At this point we still not manage to successfully train her to sleep with other people (me included) except wifey. So I was worried if Ah Fie will have any problems. Fortunately Ah Fie managed to sleep and did not give any problems. Anyway, Ah Fie have been very matured about the whole process of her brother’s arrival. I will probably write something about it (but not now, lest I jinx it)

Anyway, my mom arrived and we proceeded to the hospital. Quite uneventful, still no contractions. The nurses got wifey prepped and we watched a bit of TV. Boring shows, some re-runs on AXN.
Anyway, but around 2.30am wifey decided that I better go back and get some sleep since we thought that there will not be much actions.
I kinda feel bad leaving her alone at the hospital and it’s the first time I am away from her for a very long long time. But I guess it’s the right thing, because I don’t think I can do much if I were there the whole night.

Next day, after dropping Ah fie at the baby sitter’s place, I went over to be with wifey. She had little sleep and was worried that she might not have strength for later. Dr Tan came and checked at around 9-ish and told me that baby should arrive around lunch time.
So we wait….and wait… by 11.30am the nurse put wifey on drip. But according to nurse, the something something (I forgot what is the correct term liao, but given the situation, I think it’s forgiveable laaa) is still small and have to wait longer.
As predicted the contraction comes when wifey was put on drip. Really breaks my heart to see wifey in pain. And to make it worse, wifey said that this time it’s more painful then ah fie….

So mah wait… and excruciating pain … and wait and extreme pain and wait…….. until around 1 pm++ Dr tan came and check again. Then he called me aside and told me that Ah Shawn still have not come down far enough yet and that something something opening still only 8cm. Since wait so long liao and worry about risk he say have to go for c-section. I went in and see wifey….Somehow I feel relieved because finally wifey’s suffering can stop and lesser risk to Ah Shawn.

So they pushed wifey to the OR and I have to wait and wait again… Felt like the longest time to wait because no one can tell me for certain how long she will be in there. Everyone I ask also cannot say. 1 Hour? 2 Hour? 4 Hour? But all give same answer -“Dunno”. Anyway after the longest wait they brought Ah Shawn out. The nurse told me Ah Shawn’s head shape was a bit big. “See la… no wonder cannot come down…” but I was too preoccupied to hear her… I picked him up for a while and took a photo of him. Wah… it’s like suddenly engulfed in a totally different feeling….. suddenly like a nice feeling engulf your whole being… I want to say like the good feeling after letting go a hard sai… but this is more than that… maybe you have to be a parent to feel it…

The next series of events are another round of waiting … waiting for the nursery to clean Ah Shawn … and waiting for them to push wifey out from the OR….

I get to see Ah Shawn again later and got to hold him again… and of course the photos…. Then much later they push wifey out from the OR… she still blur blur and stim stim like that so I let her rest… but she kept saying sorry…. I also dunno why… maybe the medication thing laaaa….

So back to now.. ah shawn is 2 weeks ++ liao and doing pretty well… Ah Fie have been very well behaved and I am proud of her… so I guess all in all it’s a good thing J

Here we go...

we are in the labour room now....
water broke at around 10.30pm....

here we go....