Wiper Bear...

The other day, around our carpark, I saw this,

The original wiper's gone, and the owner put a bear there,

I thought it's quite funny, and snap a pic.., haha!

Brain Teasing...

Got this from one of my subscription, quite interesting…

1. Click start,
2. Remember the number, and start clicking from the smallest number…

There's no time limit per question.. (well, I supposed)

And my result, not bad, haha!!!

2 years younger than I am now…

Not bad eh!!

Addicted to iPamper...

I was having a bit of stiff neck and shoulder lately…

My definition of stiff neck/shoulder can be different from his,

He does feel the pain there, but I don't,

What I gathered was, in fact, I couldn't feel anything, when I touched there,

I thought of going to sifu@bangsar for some massage, but then, it's a pricy solution, and I were to do it on regular basis…

Then, I suddenly remember, the ipamper from osim that we've bought since 2005,

We used it for quite a while, but while we're both busy working, and then, I started to get busy as a stay-at-home-mom, I didn't bother to even look at it, so, one fine day, I put it in the cold storage…

Then, I realised, maybe I can just take it out again…

And so I did…

Yesterday, after my shower, I started using it…

Kinda feel cool…

After that, I'm not sure if it's because of the massage, that'd loosen up my muscles on my neck and shoulder…

I'd such a deep sleep last night…

Well, not really deep sleep, but my body was sooooooooooo relaxed that, I couldn't pull myself up, to get online… as usual…

Considering last night, ie. Sunday night, we're all not too tired, Sunday's not a hectic day for us, but then, I really was sooooooooooo "tired" in a way, that, I couldn't get up… sleep through the whole night, till this morning, when baby got up around 10 something in the morning…

Phew!

GYM + Café Life

Another quick post,

Ok, I just want to write about it,

But I want to sleep already, but I just want to write about it… ^_^

For the past 2 nites, I've been trying out new games on facebook,

Searching and digging, and browsing around the internet,

Just to make sure that, I don’t miss out any city building, café/restaurant/cooking games on facebook…

After "installing" and "removing" almost 50 games,

It's down to 2 games that I'll keep, and I bet, they'll pick up in the next few months.. (for social gaming chart!)

GYM, and Café Life…

GYM's using the same methodology as Café World,

While Café Life's a bit of Baking Life + Café World…

Both are pretty cute and lovely games..

There you go…

And another latest addition,

Hot from oven,

Ie. Chocolatier: Sweet Society…

The methodology's a bit like "My Vineyard" (which I ditched, cos, I hated the graphic!)

But, this one, I think, I'll keep…

The little and the big musicians...

I was excited when I saw the musical instrument toybox, it's only at 24 bucks… ^_^

And it's quite a few of different categories, ie. woodwind, brass, percussion…

Ie. flute, saxophone, trumpet, cymbal, clippers (if that's how you call it) and this china thing, I don’t know the name…

I mentioned to him that we should get 1 set, to let baby explore, and that, we'll know her intention in which type of musical instrument that she may pick up when she's at the right age…

Oh, and the guitar too… ^_^

When we got home, he opened the box for us, and I quickly took those trumpet, saxophone and flute, and started blowing…

Ooh, sound!!

Of course, they won't be real woodwind, or real brass, it's all plastic-wind, ^_^

And guess what?

She started crying…

Then, I suddenly remember, while we're back in his house, in his hometown,

While I was bathing her,

I saw a little trumpet (the plastic one!) sitting there,

So, I took it and blew!!

Guess what?

The next minute, I'd to rush her through her bath,

Cos, she started crying…

Ok, at least, I can kinda confirm, she hates plastic-wind type of "musical instrument"…

At least, she's playing with the percussion now…

But I wish, she'll pick up the guitar…

^_^

Primadam

Ok, it's a jDorama show, Primadam,

It's basically about,

Life after marriage, after mid-age, we still can dream, ie. being ambitious,

So, it's about a bunch of housewives, and mid-age uncles (their husbands) joining this ballet class, and preparing for public performance…

Anyway, I'm not going to talk about this show, first, I didn't really watch the whole series, second,

What I wanted to say is…

This afternoon,

Ok ok… since baby's been pretty cranky lately, maybe it's just with me…

See, if he's around in the house, she's basically more cheerful (in a way) and she'll actually go play with her toys, and so on,

But when it's just 1 to 1 with me, she just want me to carry her, almost all day, or at least, keep my eyes on her, ALL DAY…

She will whine whenever I look away,

So, this afternoon, I decided to ditch whatever's in my mind, especially my computer, my internet, my blogs, my games, etc.,

She will allow me to cook, to do my launderette, or any other work in the house, EXCEPT THAT I plant my butt on the seat in front of the PC… ^_^

Therefore, I put on the 862 classical channel, and decided to carry her, for a dance…

Yep, ballet…

Not that I've attended any class before, but I've watched some childish performance while I was in school, and I loved it… (I still love it)

I've watched Billy Elliot, and some ballet dance on and off…

If I was sweeter, slimmer, prettier, probably I'd had joined a ballet class, but back then… I didn't even think of it…

Cos, imagine? A fat girl with the ballet pompom? Yuck!!! No, I didn't even bother to ask if I could join such class, or, maybe I should have, cos, maybe after joining the class, I'd had shedded off some fat much more easier…

Oh ya, not to forget all those dance-related manga that I've read, during class hour, ^_^, from inside the drawer LO!! ^_^

So, I was carrying baby in my arms, swinging and swaying happily…

Then, I felt kinda good, and I sms'ed him about this,

I did some skippidy, and some stretching, some whatsoever, and that, I decided,

I should primadam more often with baby, since she won't allow me to take my eyes off her, right?

I must as well, do something beneficial to us…

And of course, after dancing with her for a while, she really was less cranky, ie. happier!

That's the time…

I suddenly thought of Primadam… (you get what I mean?)

How I met your Mother… 我喜歡的無厘頭 (silly talk?)

Ok, about the "silly talk" first…

It's the term given to stephen chow's "mo lei tau" (wiki's explanation, and stephen chow happily accepted it!)

There're quite a couple of famous sitcom in the whole TV history, I mean, those from the hollywood…

Probably… the most famous friend-based sitcom will be "FRIENDS"… (of course!)

However… all these many famous sitcom, I've kinda watched before…

I'm not condemning the content of theirs, but, there're only a FEW that I'll actually enjoy watching…

Even if I'm alone…

See??

Sometimes, if you watch with your friends, certain shows will be very much enjoyable, but not when you're alone…

Ie. these are the sitcom that I actually like… ^_^…

Lately… (ok, since quite a couple of years ago, they're on season 5 now? That says… ooh, 5 years ago…

It's also bunch of friends, who're like not doing much daily, ok, I know marshall's law student, and lily's a kindy teacher… robin's a newscaster? (or a reporter who wants to be a newscaster) and ted, barney, can't remember…

I remember I got hooked on it, with the stories between ted and barney, in their office…

Ah… now, it seems like there aren't many shows about them in the office, or are there?

Yep, that's the type of humour that I actually enjoy… almost all episodes,

Maybe it's because there's a ted who always look so pathetic, and robin's hot, and barney's funnily sarcastic, but also, he likes almost any girl… (oops, except his cousin, haha!)

Anyway, of course, I'm not the "master" of this show, cos, I didn't really follow through each episodes…

Just today, I was watching some season 1 episode, and twice, within that half an hour, I actually bursted into laughter, all by myself, ok, baby's with me, not that she understands a wee bit…

Mainly it's when ted brought victoria back to the apartment, and they're doing this soul-talking in the living room,

While lily and marshall were peeping from the bathroom… (ok, they're nice enough to try to hide and pretend that they're not in, so that, ted can get to be together intimately with victoria, the new girl he's met in a friend's wedding…)

Both of them were kinda like "disgusted" by the conversation between the innocent 2, ie. ted and victoria, cos, victoria was saying something like, "I want to know your soul,", and "what makes you cry?"… haha…

However, since 2 of them, lily and marshall had nothing much to do, in the bathroom (after they've brushed and flossed their teeth)… lily suddenly talked about, they've not been having much of "first time" type of feeling lately… (cos, they've been together for so long, and most of the time, wa ha… they'll just go straight to bed… ^_~)

Then… at the end of the show, while ted and victoria have finally disappeared from the living room, 2 of them came out, and sat on the sofa… suddenly, marshall started those exact words that ted's said to victoria, and lily, vice versa…

Wa haha!!! Yep, I thought, that's funny…

Maybe things that tickle me, will be different from what tickles you, but then,

HIMYM's formulae suits me almost 100% (so far, I've not found any flaw in the show, ie. there isn't anybody that I dislike, or any scene that I dislike, oh, only 1 part, which I didn't follow through… that makes it to 99%, which is the part, when lily decided to leave marshall to pursue her so-called dream… but in the end, I kinda  know that, they got back together in the following season)

Oh, back to the laughter…

That's the first one,

The second scene was, when barney and robin went for the laser war game,

Ha~ the way the shoot it, it's like barney and robin doing some "first blood" scene… which I thought was quite funny… especially with robin, cos, robin always strikes me as, some pretty girl, who… well… just have to act pretty…

It's not that with this scene, she can proves herself to be somebody elses, but then, at least, I get to see a slightly different robin…

When an Organization's too forgiving...

Ok ok, I know I'm supposed to be forgiving, and I'm supposed to forgive 7 times x 7 times, and x 7 times again… (if you know what I mean!!)

Anyway, I'm not talking about those type of forgiveness…

I was just thinking the other day…

When an organization's too forgiving to its non-performing staff…, ie. you're actually paying a dormant, non-contributing staff, with the revenue that you make, which, if you're good, it can be given out as bonus, to those PERFORMING AND CONTRIBUTING STAFF…!!

Ya, that's my theory…

And if this organization's basically not too strict, or demanding enough on every of their staff… ie. those who can perform get more work, and leave alone those who're not performing…

Not performing, ie. you make neither no contribution, nor mistake… to these non-performers, they think they're smart/safe hiding there…

And that works for an organization's that's forgiving, like I've said…

However, if there's strict measurement in the organization, these people, will not be able to hide for long…

When you actually allow these people to hide in your organization, let me tell you,

You're not going to go anywhere, I mean, your business…

It'll get to a point, where all appraisal exercise is just a show to put on, yearly… and all appreciation's just for those who're close to the management, there's no REAL crediting, and punishment… people who're getting below average are still getting their decent-enough pay, right???

Yes, this type of organization will just not get to anywhere they want, though they may have BIG dream!!! Look at Google, for eg. Why are they good? (I seriously think that they're good!!! In any aspect!) cos, they put strict measurement onto any of their staff, if you're not contributing, better pack and leave…

Same goes to the management of a country… and come on!!

Look at our country…

Corrupted people are forgiven from time to time, that's why, WE'RE NOT, AND WE'LL NEVER GET ANYWHERE!!!

Irregardless what BIG and HUGE ambition you put on, during the national day, or, during whatever plan!!!

You and and us, as long as we're here, we're just not going to get to anywhere!!

Cos, the "top management" people, are just very forgiving people, including forgiving themselves, with mistakes, over and over again, plus forgiving those "bad managers"… from time to time…

If there's any so-called punishment… oh! Come on!! We all know that, it's just A SHOW!

That's why, we're just not going to reach any ambitious farview that we've set for ourselves!!

Get it?

I hate games...

Oh no! oh no! not that I hate games…

I've been back to fb games lately, I don’t hate them,

Like what I've told him, some games are just too cute to be avoided,

I've been mainly on the big giants' games, ie. playfish, and crowdstar…

Not so for zynga, cos, it's a bit too taxing for me, even my favourite's Treasure Isle, I've ditched…

But then, I've also ditched playfish Hotel City…

Therefore, I concluded the game types that I like,

1. City buiding/town building, I've tried out almost all the games of this genre on fb, and it's down with Playdom's Socity City, cos, I think the graphic's just too good to ignore…, and Crowdstar's Hello City…
2. Island resort games, Crowdstar's Happy Island, and Playdom's Tiki Resort, ok, the mechanism, I'll say, is almost identical to each other… though, my contacts mainly are on Tiki Resort, but somehow, I think, Happy Island's cuter…
3. Café / Restaurants, ie. the famous games, Zynga's Café World, and Playfish's Restaurant City… ever since Restaurant City's on the shift-basis, I'm back to it again, cos, it's one of my first serious games, and I still think that I like the graphic more than CW, in fact… oh ya, and the latest, not so pop yet, Baking Life...

The rest?? Similar to island/city style, ie. all the above,

Are Playfish's My Empire (well, it's shoreline, ie. like island, but it's city building basis…) and some unknown gamer's Castle & Co., hey!! Castle & Co. are damn cute, ok?? If you click on the jumping little girls, to cheer them up, they'll actually make some cute "hurray" sound, but then, I notice that, it doesn’t really add on to the points, so, I don't bother clicking on them anymore, unless, I suddenly feel like listening to cute voice, for eg. When my baby's sleeping… ^_^

Concluding all the above, you know what games are my type of games??

Ya, I've also just concluded it to myself, ie. just realized…

I hate those games that I need to scroll to the left and right (petsville, pet society, mero park, and mall word), up and down (hotel city), drag around the map (ok, not so hate, but then, I find it tiring, ie. treasure isle, that's the reason why I ditched the game), RPG (mafia wars, and whatever wars, ie. no graphic, you do tasks to earn point, ie. to get to the next level, and the key things that I hate is, YOU'LL ALWAYS REACH A POINT WHERE YOU NEED MORE "CONTACTS"! Ok, I've only 1 last game to keep, on my dashboard, which is Castle Age, simply because whenever I feel like it, I actually can use firefox greasemonkey to run the "autopilot"… ie. I don't have to bother whatever things and tasks that I need to perform in this game, but then what's the point?? The point is, I then can a lot of $$$ in my dash, that gives me the syok-ness!! ^_^)

And… most importantly, all the games left for me, are those games that I can view, all in 1 page, yep… that's my top most preference… ie. whenever I login to these games, I actually zoom out… maybe I'm weird, but I really hate scrolling left right up down of my view…

Ooh~~ I thought after some time without underwire, berlei's underwire bra's pretty good… ^_^

Going maidless… (and madless, ^_^)

Lately… (ok, in fact, I wanted to write about this quite a while ago, but I just leave the "title" in my notes for THAT long~~)

Therefore…

Lately, there're quite a couple of people that I know, have dismissed their domestic maid…

Ok, I'm not going to comment on how one should treat their maid, or how a maid should work up to the expectation to their employer…

But it's kind of a popular topic, where the "employers" do have problem (from small to big) with their maid, or whoever helper that they're getting…

All those who know me, know that, I'm not a "pro" about having a maid… (again, I'm not going to discuss this BIG topic, of why, I'm kinda against the idea… cos, I don’t intend to attract unnecessary "discussion", if not argument online… it's just a matter of choice, among individuals, what's the priority in their lives, and each and every one of us, obviously is different from each other!)

As for me… having a maid at home, meaning, asking for unnecessary headache… (if not problem!)

Anyway, we don’t own a huge house, and we don't have many naughty kids in the house, who mess up the place every single day, and every single hour… moreover, both he and I, are "private" people… ie. we do like, and enjoy our privacy at most!!

In a way, I do feel quite "relieved" (don't ask me why!! Somehow, I feel that, at least, there're people who're on the same "league" as I am, ie. WE CAN SURVIVE AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER, WITHOUT A STAY-IN-"7-11" MAID!) and at least, somebody out there, is agreeing with my opinion…

Ok ok… cos from time to time, whenever you've kids, or you're about to have 1 kid at home, people will start telling you, "oh!! You'll need a maid soon!!", and I just wish, so much, to prove these people wrong…

That's why, I feel "relieved", and kinda happy that, there're more and more people, joining the boat!

But I do, and I admit that, I've been engaging with a part-timer lately,

3 hours per week, just to do those chores that, I really really do not have that long wee hour to do, and I kinda hate to do, irregardless, I'm a married person, or, I'm not, irregardless I'm a SAHM or I'm not…

With that…

I guess, both me and the helper are actually happy souls…

We have our privacy guaranteed, and freedom to walk around naked in the house!! (ok, I'm kidding, just an example!)

And she's the freedom too…

I once chatted with her, in fact, poor them, coming all the way, faraway from their hometown, and the worst worry of them, ie. the first thing she mentioned to me, is that, they're worried about the "master", ie. the man of the family!

Ya, imagine, if I'm them, I'll be dead worried too!!

Therefore, I do see that, the part-time helper's the way to go, at least for our current generation… those who hate certain domestic chores, but yet, need the utmost privacy!

In my opinion, at least, it's MAIDLESS~ MAD-less!!

Smaller toilet bowl...

Ooi… today, I noticed one thing, in those newer shopping complexes… (well… we're at ESG)

Good things…

And I was pretty happy about it…

This was what I told him…

Ie.

The ladies (later he went to check out on the gents, but then, I'm really not sure, if it's all the same thing for the gents)…

The ladies, I mean, the washrooms, have smaller toilet bowls…

I've mentioned before, that, I really really hate those bloody "users", who stand on the toilet seats… TOILET SEATS ARE NOT MEANT FOR YOUR SMELLY FEET!

The smaller toilet bowls, therefore, have smaller toilet seats, which… unless you can pee like a man! Then, you maybe able to stand on it, and pee, else, I guess… one can hardly stand on it (I mean for the lady), squat, and pee, right??

Also, @ESG, the facilities are pretty good, the building management actually provides good quality toilet tissue, and toilet seat cleaning drops in every single compartment…

My verdict? Ok, I think, this place, ie. ESG, though being a community mall, it's definitely a class above many of the shopping complexes around the city…, and I told him something rather… "hopeful"…

That,

If the mall in our area, will be as such, the price of our condo, probably can fetch up to 2 folds… ^_^

Fat hope NYA~~~

Fb gaming plus point, 1. music's lovely, 2. I can bake, 3. I can cook, 4. combine 2+3, I see some interesting recipe, 5. graphic's normally cute! 6. I can see how my "contacts" would deco their places...

My Precious Moment...

My precious moment, I mean, MY VERY OWN moment, ie. at night, surfing the net…

I tweet,

I blog,

I may edit some photos,

I read my subscription via rss reader,

I read the chinese (taiwanese, I mean) entertainment news, and...

I check my friends' facebook status, I test out some facebook games (cos, I subscribe to insidesocialgames.com) and…

I played some facebook games regularly…

You may think that this is not that type of moment that you'll like for yourself, well.. That's for me… pretty straightforward and simple in my opinion…

However… lately, baby's been pretty demanding, in terms of my attention… I can hardly sit in front of my PC during the day, yes, I still can use it somehow, but I cannot pull a chair and plant my butt, I just have to kinda treat it like one of those internet kiosk, a few clicks, a short moment of browsing, and that's all…

At night?? Well… I suspect, she's kinda into this nibble nusring, I do hope not.. But then, she's been doing it for the past week… ie. I've to nurse her very frequently, and she refused to come back to me, once she decides to turn away from me… @_@

THAT means… my precious moment's tremendously decrease…

Since this is my precious moment, of course, you'll have to understand that, it really is important for me to kinda have that, on a regular basis… I mean, after a long day… with baby and house chores...

Luckily, with the part-time maid, it's been reduced a lot a lot!.. But I'm not complaining here… I've NEVER regretted, and will NEVER think twice about going back to workforce, but I cannot pretend that, I'm a super mom, or super housewife, and smile and tell you that, it's ok, and it's easy job!

That's just part of life, part of growing up, and growing old, and that, we all have to endure… I'm not born to be a princess… somehow… if you get what I mean… ie. say, you go out to the café, you see that the table's not that sparkling clean, 1. you'll get the waiter/waitress to come and clean for you, and you'll just have to sit there and wait when they come and clean for you, or, 2.  you'll get some tissue/wet wipes, and clean it yourself, I'm not referring to the very dirty type of tables, that, you've no choice, but to wait… it's just one of those slightly dirty tables… ok… I'll be the latter…

Once, somebody, similar as my personality, did say that, ie. she's not a born queen, well… that's a mid-age lady… she said, she's just not that type of "tai tai", and sit there, and wait to be served… another eg. There're girls who like to carry those handbags with short straps, ie. you've to carry it in your arm, ie. you'll have 1 less free hand to use, for other chores, for me? Ya, I'll rather use a backpack, then, I can have 2 free hands, to do other things, ending up?? I may have to carry more things… while those girls, will have other people (mainly guys) to carry the "extras" for them…, get it??

That's sidetrack… back to my precious moment…

See… I'm concerned, and VERY concerned, about those health issue, like sleep early, and bla bla bla.. Yes, I know very well about it, and probably, I know more than any of you… (if you're not considered one of the expertise in the field, but, at least, in the amateur world, I consider myself, do know quite a bit of them!)

… and I do want to live long enough to see my baby grows up, goes to college, and gets married… and have kids… wow!! How happy~~~

But, I was just thinking… if I can't write down my thoughts, or record my daily lives, record my baby growths, record happenings and activities around my life… see some of my friend's online updates… (though you maybe so much against the virtual thing, but to me, compare to the fact that, I may have to pay thousands of dollars to fly to another destination to see my friends and get updates, at least, online thing, does help a bit, for me to get the latest information about my friends, well… if one bothers…, pros and cons…)

Then, what's the point of living long???

My life, my memory, and my online activities, which, constitute the major part of my life… IS very vital daily routine for me…

Of course, if you have the luxury (and the energy) to go jogging, teatime with friends, movie time, as a vital routine for your life, then enjoy it…

As for me… this is the very minimal of a moment… that's so precious, and solely ME!

^_^

Maid… Part-time...

Haha… we've been having a maid coming over to our place, for 2 weeks…

I've to say, it feels good..

Good as in, we still maintain our privacy, but yet, we can have our house clean…

Since there're some chores, that I'll still prefer to do it personally.. For eg. Folding the clothes.. What? Ya, I do "whine" about it sometimes, but it's just pure whining, no matter what, I do not quite prefer others to go through our undies, and so on…

But like I said, there're jobs that I do not like to do, for eg. Ironing, mopping, vacuuming, washing the washrooms…

THAT, I pass it to her, happily…

I've to say, it really feels good…

And I actually just kinda figured out, I do get stressed up because of this… as in, living in a "dirty" house.. Not just it'll kinda attract my biggest enemy (oh, you sure know "who") but also, it just feel good when you're walking/stepping on sparkling clean tiles, living room, bedroom, or backyard, washrooms…

Oh ya, we've our used-to-be-damn-dirty balcony sparkling clean too…

Stressed up? Ya… kinda… not because anybody will comment on my housekeeping skill or anything, it's just that…

Subconsciously, whenever I know that the floor's not clean enough, I'll not dare to really step on it "fully"… imagine? I kinda tiptoe, or maybe tilt my feet a little bit…

Mainly it's because, baby sleeps with us in the same bed… and if it's dirty, I don’t want to imagine bringing up the dirt to the bed, with baby…

See?

However, on a side note… I did come across an article saying that…

The dirt, maybe better than the chemical we use to clean the house, ie. please choose the chemical wisely…

Now… all my roach traps were RETRIEVED, since, I may rely on her to catch one, if I see one (she used her bare hand to pick up one mummified baby lizard the other day) and I've the super "weapon", BYGON! (intro'ed by mr. ti)

And,

Now, our place, hehehe… feel like serviced apartment, well, those 'discounted' service apartment, where the clean comes and cleans for you on weekly basis, but.. Not bad eh??

Good choice!!

At least, neither he, no me, feel stressed up about cleaning the house…

Yes, we do get stressed up, kinda…

It's like,

"oh!! Need to iron clothes this weekend," or…

"oh! The bathroom's too dirty, need to clean it!" or…

"oh! The floor feels oily.." bla bla bla…

^_^

God sends her to train my...

Patience! Is the word!!!

Yep, I've problem with patience, ie. I'm not that a very patient person, anything, people, things, happenings…

Many time, whenever I went for confession (those were the days), I did confess that, patience, I didn't have, and I still don't have…

However…

I guess, parenthood… either make you an even more impatient parent, or, a more patient parent, it's either this, or the other way…

And I do praise to God that, having a baby… is a training path for me to handle my patience, or tolerance level… well, to me, they're more or less similar…

When she refused to sleep at night, I lost my patience, I actually smacked her, sometimes, pretty hard, on her thighs…

And it's of no use, she still refused to sleep…, then, I let her be… and it got better…

When she's trying to sleep at night… (oh you see, it seems like my baby's a sleep problem!)

She'll sometimes kicks me, scratch me, poke me, bla bla bla…

Ya, THAT, I sure loose my patience… but then again, however furious I feel, she's still the same…

So, I told myself to stop… (not that, I've perfected the "skill" now, but well… learning in progress…)

That's regarding sleep… my latest strategy is… I will keep quiet, throughout her whole bedtime routine, total darkness, and total noise-less… I know a lot of people may "advise" that, one should not train his/her baby to sleep in such environment, else, when they grow up, they'll have difficulty in sleeping in any other environment besides total darkness and quietness, but… what can I do, she's already NOT ABLE to sleep, when there's distraction…

There was a period of time, she liked to do her signature "octopus" face, ie. she'd squeezed her tightened lips together, and showed me that, she's "beh song", or, when she wanted something done, and then, she'd start whining and whining and whining…

Well… she still does that on and off lately… however,

I switched my mood from being impatient and dislike, to… well… "just let it be"…

THAT… somehow works, as, she, at least, has reduced the frequency of showing me face like this, from maybe 20 times a day, to around 3-4 times a day…

I guess… to deal my baby…

I don't know about other "tactical" things to do…

The only thing I know I'll sure need… is…

Patience!!

(learning… in… progress…)

Learning (the excitement of parenthood II)

Yes, it's amazing, to see how our baby learns… and how your baby learns, I'm very very sure, it's amazing, for everybody, for every parents…

Imagine, when our baby's just arrived, in this brand new world…

She couldn't move on her own, not to say, flip, or sit up, or stand up… (the last one, still in progress, for my case..)

Today, she's able to flip, sit up, and crawl, crawling everywhere… and is very eager to walk, run, and probably… FLY?? Haha!!

I remember when our first feed, for her solid food intake…

Gosh!! Of course, she doesn't know how to take the food from the spoon, into her mouth, and chew? Or munch?? The food… all spilt out, the water from the cup? Spilt..~~

But today?

Everytime when I think of it, I really want to cry… cry of joy!!

Slowly… she eats semi fluid/solid food, she's never liked porridge… as in cooked porridge, ya, I know my porridge, afterall, it's not really one of the best!

I struggled for a while, we've no "convenient" choice, since she didn't like porridge, so, she's been having the organic baby cereal, for a while…

Today?? She's moved from rice-blended-soup (or the other way round?) to rice! Rice and dish!! Hurray!!!

Though… she actually cries more lately.. Cos, she knows how to use it to show her dissatisfaction or her strong-will to want to do something, or to not-want-to-do something that you expect her to… for eg. Sleep~~~????? ~_~

However… comes together with the package, she blabber a lot too… (oops? Like me?) I just wish, we'd understand what she's said… all that she's saying, to us, is only "ta ta ta?" in a super duper cute voice! And tone, and super duper innocently done!

While I was trying to teach her all the "good" gesture… (for eg. Wave "bye", shake hands..) I wished so much that, she'll be able to mimick… but she didn't… her first "wave goodbye", was when we're back in my hometown, seeing her cousins for the first time, and saying "good bye" for the first time when we're heading back here… first time, she waved…

From then onwards??

Now, I just wish, she'll at least, try to mimick whatever we do, SELECTIVELY!!!

^_^…

She'll point at my coffee, wants a sip too… (ditch her own sippy cup, and PLAIN WATER!)

She'll point at my instant noodle, want a bite too… (ditch her own whatever boring baby food, or, food… that, if not GOOD for babies, at least, not DAMAGING to baby… like INSTANT NOODLE??)

She'll point at our magazines, books… (ditch her own baby books like board books, cloth books, or small mini flash cards)

And definitely, she'll wish to be at the front of the wheel (steering) while she's in the car…

THAT'S WHY I SAID, I wish, she'll mimick our actions, SELECTIVELY!!

Looking at present,

Looking back to 1 year ago…

She's learnt so much…

Well, in our perspective, hey!! Come on!! It's not easy to really get any adults to pick up new skills, right?? We're just so reluctant ot learn or pick up new skills/activities/languages, when we're getting older…

The older we are, the more reluctant for us to learn new things… and the more reluctant we we, that shows, we're THAT old!

For one nonsense obvious reason: we're old, it's too new for us, or, it's just pointless for us, (cos, we're dying? And so, one fine day, we decided we'll just stay status-quo, unwilling to move forward? And waiting for the DAY to come?? For eg. If I suggest you to learn to do some sommersault stunt, you'll probably think that I'm nuts, right? But if you ask a toddler? They'll for sure, more than eager to acquire this skill… oh!! Only when their parents, like you or me, tell them not to, cos, it's DANGEROUS!)

That's why, it's good to have baby in your house… then, you'll LEARN how much you've missed, and how much you've left behind, and how much more you've yet to pick up, to learn, and to acquire...

Who moved my baby?? (the excitement of parenthood I)

After nearly 15 months of becoming and parent, and we, the parents…

I'll have to say, it's kinda exciting.. ^_^…

Looking at the soundly sleeping baby, I was thinking… "wow!! It's really fun to have a small baby at home, in our household!", and I'm seriously truly speaking of this…

You may think that, having a baby at home it's troublesome, or maybe, with all the toys lying on the floor, or sometimes appearing behind the doors, underneath the couch IS aweful, it kinda "spoils" the look of your house, however… that's the exciting part, of being parents, right?? Or, rather, having babies? Baby… ^_^

Only by having a baby, a small cute little baby at home… I'll get this…

1.

In the middle of the night, after surfing on the net for a while, I enter the dark room, ooi??!!! Where's my baby? Oh, at the other side of the bed, she's flipped and sat up… ~_~ and that, I've to carry this half-sleep-half-awake baby, quickly back to her sleeping position, and calm her, before she really GETS UP!!! (there goes my night!) and that happens, once in a while, while she's experiencing her major growth spurt, ie. developing new motor skills…

2.

After washing her up, changing her diaper, dressing her, I put her on the floor, in the living room, back to our bedroom to tidy up, clean up… ooi!!!~~~~ suddenly one cheeky baby appears at the foot of the bed, looking at me, like "SURPRISE!!!"… ya, she sure wanted to give me this surprise, from her expression!!

3.

In the middle of the night, again, when I enter the room sometimes, I don’t find her in her normal sleeping position, she can be ANYWHERE in our bed.. Oh ya, baby's with us in the same bed, I know some of you may shake your head big big!! But then, does it matter? Every parent has their own belief, in parenting… and that's why, we produce different kids, different generation, and that's why you're different from me…

4.

Sometimes when I'm busy at the kitchen area… I'll peep into our living area, just to keep and eye on her, and ya, it's exciting, to peep at her, cos, while she thinks that you're not "around", she may do funny things, or go to funny areas… (forbidden areas for BABIES in our house, for eg. In front of the TV, close distance, in front of the CD/DVD players, close distance, or underneath the table, chairs, etc.) and that's when I can find her "true self"… ^_^ AND~~~ just the other day, because of one peep, my heart probably stopped for 1/2 sec., why? When I was looking into the living area, ooi?~~~ where's my baby? Not underneath the table, not in front of the TV, not near her toycar, but I could hear her crawling… where? Where? Where? I followed the sound, ooi~~~~ yo~~~~~~~~ she's crawling all her way towards our room!! Ya… I don’t know why (I still don’t know) she'd suddenly want to go back to our room! Maybe she just want to do something excitingly new, as compared to the normal "to the living room, play with the boring toy, wait for mama to entertain me" kinda thing… I really don't know…

At that time, I quickly "pick" this LOST baby up… (pretending she's LOST) and put her back to where I can see her… and ya… me? Back to the kitchen, ^_^… (that's why, it's boring for her, haha! I can see that, I can see that!)

But, not boring for me… ^_^V

Ya, then, I give her the multiport adapter...

She "ta ta ta", I give her the markers, she "ta ta ta" again, I give her the pens, she "ta ta ta" again, then, I give her my thumb drives… ooh… must as well, give her the name cards that I've collected which are with the thumb drives...

Bad Robot Inc.

Whenever baby's sleepy, her motion will go all hayewired,

Put her down on the floor, or in bed, she'll start crawling in all direction, ie. those "spots" that usually I tell her not to go, under the "normal" circumstances, she won't, but then, when she's sleepy, she'll go anywhere, and FAST!!!

He described it as, "bad robot", ie. when you've a robot, and where the internal circuit board got hayewired, that's how the robot will react…

Just now… while was trying to put her to sleep, as usual…

She was turning and tossing, trying to sleep…

Normally she'll go from "noisy mode", then to silent mode, then, she'll fall asleep…

While she's in the silent mode, I know that's the cue that, she's going to fall asleep, and that, I can go, "phew"… (finally!!)

Suddenly… ~_~

She clapped her hands… while she's on her side, facing away from me…

I wanted to laugh…

Then she turned back towards me again,

Clapped…!!! @_@

Fine!!!

THEN~~~ she fell asleep…

>.<

Me and hawker… food...

See… (if you've not already known, my friends) I'm not really a hawker food person…

From where I came from, or rather… in my growing up years, I never thought of those food in those kopitiam, as hawker food…

Anyway, those food was mainly just 2 things, "kampua", and "laksa", that's all…

In those days, there wasn't much other variety like fried "kuey teow", oh, ya, there's one, I still remember, we used to go to this see-hua daily news café, to order the fried "kuey teow"… and I'll have my peanut soup, again, ti's nothing near to the version here, people here, like to have the thick peanut soup, but there, it's white in colour, you still can see peanut, and you use some condense milk in it…

Anyway, I'm not a hawker food person, and therefore, when I was in london, while everybody misses hawker food, I didn't really… I know, everybody elses made a big deal of it, but then to me, it's just some food, that I simply don't miss…

Lately I've been thinking about my "feeling" towards hawker food…

Again, I'm really not a hawker food fans… if I do eat, it's actually those hawker food, with "kam cheng", ie. sentimental feeling…

So, you don't have to bother to tell me, where I can get superb penang style fried "kueh teow", or superb "wanton mee", or superb whatever XXXXXXX…

I don't bother,

Mostly… I'll only eat those that I've been eating, and that's all, or, those that I somehow "picked up", just happened that I was there, and I'll just eat them, forever… unless those hawkers plan to close their stall…

Back home, sarawakian laksa, I only eat the one in the so-called MAS corner, ok, I eat others too, but then, the only thing that I want to eat, is the one in the so-called MAS corner,

And oh ya, the chicken rice, only THIS stall, next to the post office, ONLY their chicken rice is THAT special that, I must eat, whenever I go back to my hometown, ONLY them, can't find it in other places…

Penang fried "kueh teow"?? ONLY the stall outside the housing area back in his hometown, on and off, I'll be told that, "oh this stall's kueh-teow's not that nice anymore, must try the other one!", bla bla bla… but then, I don't really care, I must have that fried "kueh teow", as simple as that… but I've not been having lately…

And…

Fried "hor fun" (another noodle version, similar to "kueh teow", which… frankly, I still cannot differentiate which is which, and to me, they all taste the same), somewhere in chai-leng park, corner stall, at present, they're still selling for RM3 per portion, I simply think that, there're some element of charity, oh!! Come on, there're some vege, some pork, some little shrimp in there, though portion is pretty small, but it's just a little bit too cheap for me, however, this, remind me of the fried "kueh teow" back in see-hua office's café during my childhood time, and DAMN GOOD!! Lately, we went back to his hometown, we takeaway… ahem… 7 portion for 4 adults, kekekeke… no need to say LA, both of us finished 2.5 each… kakakakaka!!! One word, SYOK!!!

I know most of the people when they hear about penang food, sure go crazy, but then, to me, it's probably something like these 2, the rest, I'm not so into it, overall, regardless penang version, or what other version…

Generally, I'm just not a hawker food person,

In short, if I were to have something to eat, and to long for, it's basically those that have some sentimental value to me...

Nacho Figueras

Haha, it's not nacho, it's another look-alike, at least for me…

Ok, I know you'll give me a big NO NO!!!

But when I saw that poster, I was thinking,

"since when christian bale advertise for polo?"

Sara La Fountain

http://www.alasara.fi/eng/

Ooh… did I mention to you before, that, she looks like winona ryder?

I first saw her on travel & living, and I thought, "what? Winona Ryder's a cook now?"

Hehe… oh! It's Sarah La Fountain, finnish-american chef…

History of Social Gaming

Haha, I thought it's quite an interesting summarization…

Taken from insidesosialgames.com