New look!

Finally the new blog skin is up!

Wanted to change the blog skin very much due to following reason:
1) The old blogskin is based on dull green, I get moody looking at the blog
2) Very narrow width for text entry and images
3) It's the standard template from blogger, everytime I surf to another blog having same skin as I am, I felt awkward..as if we were wearing same clothes..haha.

We also renamed the blog title to "Through the Eyes of Jared", sounds good huh? It was Kee Ping's idea..hehe

Still have some parts need modification, Lack of partition line between post to post, just couldn't figure out how to get it in correctly. But I decided to stop for the time being... cos this is too additive...hehe..Imagine I printed out the template and try to study them while having meeting?? Gosh...hope I could stay put with this skin for quite a while..hehe

Goodbye Old Blogskin!




Special thanks to the layout design by Pannasmontata-Templates.net

Blog - Work In Progress

Started to revamp the blog skin today since 5pm+...Till now, almost everything else is ok liao..except the Blog Title, no matter what, just could not get anything uploaded there...Sigh!

Also missed out the lilypie banner..

Will update again soon!

Tagged: Meaning of Jared's Name

I've been tagged!! Tagged by Tricia's mummy for the meaning for Jared's name.

This is the story..

After 12wk scan, Dr. Ang(my gynae) says probaly we'll have a boy....I went thru all kind of baby naming website to study the names..Short listed a few..but can't remember most of them now. Deepest impression should be Ezekiel..But daddy didn't like it as it sound so much like EZlink our daily bus card. hehe.

One night while we were watching tv together, one of the participant's name caught daddy's attention. Jialat forgot the show name..Confirmed with daddy it was his favourite tv program, American Idol...No, that Jared didn't win the contest....He loved the name as it's not common in Sg, also look and sound nice...

But still I couldn't agree with daddy..hoping 1 day I could change his mind..to the EZ name hehe.

So we were addressing the little baby as ah b all the way till he's borned. When Baby was borned...We have no chance and time to do the re-thinking as we were too busy coping with the newborn. After 1 week (time to submit name for birth cert), we just name him...Jared hehe.

A search on the webbies, showed that the name Jared originated from Hebrew and it means "One who rules"

We've feedback that Jared looks / sounds like:

• Past tense of Jar
• Jia Lat (Occasionally, we will call him this when he make us angry)
  

Chinese Name: 祥毅

Jared's chinese name need to be named after 祥 due to 家镨. My MIL came out with so many name, 祥锐, 祥亨...and finally both me and Kee Ping quickly make up our mind to decide that he should be name 毅 before more o-biang names come into their mind. It means determination(毅力)... Judging from the condition he was in, having a space tank on his head, and leg and fingers kena poke till blue black, we need him to have the determination to over come all the pains.

Similarly, we want him to grow up have determination to goes through all kind of challenge in life.

English name: Siong Yee

English name translated to Siong Yee for Fuzhou/Hokkien Dialect. Kee Ping wanted Yi at first, but I preferred 3 character, so chose Yee instead.

Half yearly date with Doctor

I'm pretty sure this is not coincidental anymore...Every half yearly Jared need to fall sick and this is the 3rd time it's happening...

First time visit to doctor happened on the day Jared turned 6mth old. He fall sick for the first time after he was borned for 6 mth, down with runny nose and slight cough..we got panic, took urgent leave to send him to his Pd that afternoon.

2nd time happened just 1 wk after Jared turn 1 yr old..Down with stomach flu. Action: 2 days after sick

3rd time which is right now also happened 1 wk after Jared turn 18mth. Started with runny nose, and finally bad cough with flame..Action: 1 wk after sick..longer time to take action huh? hehe

I sort of forsee that this would come..Hope Jared would recover soon, else no swimming, no outing, worst, no air con at night..

Maybe I should not complain .. I should be thankfully that he is so healthy and only need a visit to Pd once every half yearly...

Hmmm..He missed the 5in1 booster jab, we re-schedule to coming Fri..Judging at the way he is recovering now, probaly need to re-schedule again...Poor boy!

Last Birthday in May!

Finally it's the last birthday in May...Moving forward we will start looking towards Jared and my birthday! hiak hiak!

We celebrated mei mei's birthday at Nihon Mura, Revenue House. Probaly the cheapest sushi on conveyer belt in town 99cents only...nice environment, and special way of ordering food too ..make us felt as if we are having buffet. They doesn't have any menu, we got to take the sushi we wants from conveyer belt ourself (but we not seated beside the belt), for the rest of the items, we got to take something like ice-cream stick with the dish name indicated on it, and place on a cup on the table. The waitress will then help to place the order.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Jared is 18mth!!

We had a small celebration for Jared’s 18mth birthday. Got Jared to choose a cake for himself..and my smart boy chose the most ex, strawberry short cake out of the rest from the cake shop.



Jared’s progress for the past 1 mth:

-More vocally and easier for us to understand his needs

- Say “抱我” (carry me) when need us to carry. Progressed from last month's bao4 only. We are trying to teach him to say, Daddy/Mummy bao4 wo3. Watch out for next mth's update!

- Say “sit” and point to where he wanna sit, it can be stroller, chair, car sit, bicycle

- Say “喝” when he wanna drinks water

- Say “还有” when there’s remaining of milk in his milk bottle

- Say "高" to describe high building, double deck bus anything high

- Sing a long with me for Twinkle, Twinkle Star and Hey, diddle

* Purple: Jared will sing the part of the song, when I paused there..

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
How I wonder what you are
Up above of the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Note: Daddy happened to realised this after he got back from OT in the afternoon of 18May

Hey diddle diddle the cat and the fiddle,
the cow jump over the moon
Note: I happened to realised this when I was trying to sing this song on 18May in the car ride after our eveing outing..cycling at East Coast...but forgot the lyrics, Jared happened to respond to the song almost spontataneusly. Till now I could only remember the first 2 lines..Jared also can sing the last word "spoon" at the end of the song.


- Sing e-i-e-i-o

- Immitate us say aiyo

- Say curry, rice...Both of these word only need to taught once, he could follow next..Cos we had home cooked Jap Curry today..

- Loves to say "daddy", occasionally he would take photo frames at home, and point to the pic and says daddy

- Say "Whampoa" and "sambabang"..errr something similar lah, Sembawang is pretty challenging huh?

- Knows opposite
Start vs Stop
Inside vs Outside
Black vs White

Happy 2nd Mother's Day!

Jared presented a carnation to me during an activity in Mygym. I thought it was a pleasant surprise..

He was supposed to stand at a white line and walk across to hit 2 balls hanging around before pick up the carnation and pass it back to me…He didn’t give me the flower…I snatched heheh..

Best pressie Jared gave me this year..probaly is calling me "Mummy" ...He was able to say "Mummy" since last week, but he hardly calls me leh. Also at the same time, he knew how to call KP daddy already! He likes calling daddy, sometime when he wake up in the middle of the night he would say "daddy"..probaly he knows I would definitely ignore him...hehe..

I remembered both KP and me went to Outback Restaurant for a small celebration last year without Jared hehe..but really doesn't look mothers day celebration even though we enjoyed the dinner a lot hehe...

So this year, I insist of bringing Jared along..We celebrated the event at Pasir Ris Park..at a restaurant by the beach. Not many restaurant there, but the children’s playground at the park looks good...The stroll after dinner was a nice one, we made Jared walk quite a long way, and as he walked he blahs at the same time, real cute..probaly was scolding us why we don't want to carry him. hehe.. We really need to exhaust his energy so that he could sleep better in the nite..

Multi purpose dinner

The dinner has many fold of celebration..

1) Popo's 80th birthday (Main) 23 Mar-Lunar Calendar
2) Mother's birthday 9 May
3) Mother's day celebration 2nd Sunday of May
4) KP's birthday 29 Apr
5) Wei Ming's farewell He left for Germany the next day and left poor meimei at home..haha

Hehehe..but the kiam siap me still choose a simple place for dinner..at Jumbo Seafood restaurant..so that I won't get heart attack when bill comes..

Nevertheless we had a good dinner..loved their black pepper chilli crab, probaly the 1st time which I get to try black pepper crab...but KP didn't get to try any crab at all (none of the 3 crab we ordered)..cos he's busy entertaining Jared...

Muffin - Taste like Heaven...

Haha..Definitely exaggerated..but this round, our baking was a success! After 2 failure on ready premix cake mixture..we switch to start from scratch instead..although almost back up a few times when we were shopping for the raw materials..

The banana walnut muffin turned out to be soft, moist and so tasty..Jared also like the muffin a lot..Next we look forward to bake scone, plain cake..and more muffins. But our cheapo mixer spoilt during the last stage of mixing (heng ah)..think have to wait for sometime before we could start the engine again..hehe..Sharing the recipe:

Banana Walnut Muffins (Yield 7 muffins)
To sift together as (A):
1 cup plain flour
1/3 tsp salt
1/3 tsp bicarbonate soda
1/2 cup oil (corn oil will be good)
1/2 cup sugar 1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
3 bananas, roughly mashed
1/2 cup walnuts, roughly chopped
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celcius.
2. Stir oil and sugar together
3. Beat in egg. Mixture will turn gluey.
4. Mix in (A)
5. Stir in vanilla essence, bananas and walnuts
6. Fill muffin cups up to 3/4 full
7. Bake in preheated oven at 180 degrees Celcius for 20mins.

p/s: My contribution to the muffin is only mash the banana + chop the walnut..KP did the rest..hehe.

Hay Dairies Farm

We visited Hay Daries Farm on Fri. Thought it might be awkward if there were only 3 of us to watch milking session...didn't expect to bump into so many group of kindergarden kids. Quite fun...free entry and only need to pay $2 for the food to feed the meh meh..Jared refuse to say "goat" ..said meh meh instead..hehe.

We also tried the goat's milk(choc flavour)..but not much taste..pretty plain.