River Angbao

Hmmm..totally boring and not worth the trip...



Something interesting happened before we left home though:

Jared said "daddy bao4" (daddy pls carry me)...when we were at the doorstep, waiting for him to notice that we are going out. Usually he will be busy playing, walking around...but will dash immediately to the door when he noticed someone leaving...

New Toy

The Indian neighbour from Whampoa gave Jared this bear bear..Confirmed he's the neighbourhood's "aunty killer" hehe

Birthday...Happy Burst DAY!

Its a CNY that revolves around birthdays...3 in a wk!!!

22 Feb Mah mah's Bday @ Sembawang SAF yatch club


23 Feb Wai gong's Bday @ Bottle Tree Park

25 Feb Chienh 21st bday (daddy's cousin) @ at AMK

By the way, Bottle Tree Park in Yishun is really a nice place to dine in with beautiful views with lakes and fishing pond surrounding it...except the MRT noise though. But the food was so so, too blend when were there..We've decided that we'll give it another attempt in near future, cos Bottle Tree Village's food in Sembawang during normal days was quite good.

Happy CNY 2007!

We've got Jared a Foxbaby-the long sleeve t shirt, and purposely choose one with 6-12mth so that he could wear it now. The one with 12-18mth is way too big for him. Similarly all the clothes that we got for him from US, is still way too big, so this year he could only wear the round neck t shirt. Special thanks to ah yi and uncle Wei ming to sponsor a set of aeroplane clothing for Jared..like I mentioned many times...Jared would love to wear the no. 3 big pony same like Uncle Wei Ming for his 3rd bday yeah! hehe.

We went to Kee Kee's place to have a gathering dinner on 3rd day of CNY-21Feb, together with Kee Yong's family and invited them over to our place 24Feb. Pics in the collage showed all Jared's cousins...another 6 of them(Jessie, Christopher, Michael & Angelina...Lincoln & Lewis). Jared can't seemed to know how to mix around with other kids, most of time is pretty reserved. Didnt manage to take any pic for the gathering over at our place though.

Reunion Dinner 17 Feb 07

As usual, we had the reunion dinner at both place, our own place at Sembawang

@ 3pm and another session @ Whampoa at 6.30pm.

We had steamboat + yu sheng at Whampoa while at Sembawang, is usually all kind of dishes...We(daddy & mummy) contributed curry chicken this year..easy one hehe..

To keep us free during the makaning session, Jared is usually entertained by his Baby Einstein DVD-Van Gogh..the only one works so far..hehe.


p/s> Anyone noticed Jared korek my nose?? hehe..so unglam but I like the pic lah, very natural..hehe.

Jared is 15 mo!

Development for the past 1 mth:

1) Raised his hand when asked Who is Jared? Who is clever boy? Who is handsome boy? When being commented naughty boy, he will replied with an angry tone "humphhh(1)!"
2) Says star, car, yu(fish) - Loves to look into sky at night to search for star, and point to the star and say star
3) Can recognise horse, pumpkin, mango, dog, cat..and many many other flash cards. Will point to the object when being tested, only when mood is good though. Stand up to yell happily when we clap hands.
4) Start sweep his palm accross my face when asked to sayang mummy.
5) Know more parts of body like knee, head, ankle, tummy. He don't know where is his own nose though, when asked about nose, he will start pinching that person's nose..hehe
6) Loves to lead the way when go shopping, no holding hands allowed.
7) Suspect molar coming soon, loves to stick finger into mouth lately
8) Recognise way to go from lift lobby to Whampoa or Sembawang house.
9) Clap hands and do gong xi gong xi
10) Sleep through (Keep our fingers crossed) that this will last...but need to drunk him with approximately 12oz in total. 9oz at 9pm..another 3oz 1hr later. Kam cheong daddy will still wake up in the night to check on Jared if he keeps tossing around, needs milk? etc
11) Squat down at corner to poo poo, turn around the spot to relax tiring legs after squat down for long time
12) Loves to play hide and seek, hide himself and let us search around for him
13) Favourite CNY goodies are bak kwa & prawn cracker (even though its favourite, he will only take 1 to 2 bite...the rest?.. he simply throw it the moment he got hold of it)
13) Will complain if he don't like the nursery ryhme we sang
14) 10kg and 78cm

Fishy Fish

Jared says yu for fish!

Updates on Coming CNY

New year is coming this weekend. We had sooo many uncompleted task..hehe...

(i) Jared's hair Seriously, need a good hair cut, The last hair cut was done before his 1yr old bday, so it has been almost 3 mths..and he has begin to look more & more like mushroom

(ii) New shoe
Been to colottee many times, but yet to find the perfect shoe...looks like have to settle with the old bobux liao hehe.

Aimed to get Jared's hair trim by Wednesday V-day...cheapo daddy & mummy will be celebrating their V-day earlier, that's Today to avoid the expensive restaurant charges..haha.

Night Safari

Has been real busy lately ever since I came back from MCs.

Nothing much happened except we've been to the night Safari on 2 Feb, Thanks to sabrina who helped to buy the discounted tickets. We started with walking in the trails, but the surrounding was really dark..We had hard time to spot the animals..hehe..So Jared fall asleep even before we manage to take the tram.

Some pictures taken at Night Safari.

Who is Jared?

Pardon my high pitch voice, very irritating..hehe..I tried to re-do this video, but Jared just won't cooperate anymore..

Ouchhh!!

Finally got my wisdom tooth extracted..need to suffer the physical pain and heart pain (3x more ex compare to my 1st extraction 6-7yr ago) ..hehe..But good thing is I'll don't need to go to work till next Mon...Hooraaaayyy...

During the extraction process, the c-section process I had when Jared was delivered came to my mind (need to convince myself wisdom tooth surgery is nothing compared to c-section..hehe).. Suddenly I got phobia of the giving birth process and the post delivery trauma ...Never get to hold and breastfeed my baby till the 4th day..and need to creep my way to NICU to stroke him on his back...So so the pitiful..!..


Poor Jared @ Day 2 & day 3:


It's so the painful now..I think I prefer to go to work..

Jared is 14mth!!

Progress for the past 1 mth:
1) Walk all the time, and apparently has forgotten how to crawl..cannot get through tunnel in playground..cos will get stuck as he would stand up trying to walk through it..haha.
2) Good in using remote control to turn on air con, change tv channel. Fave toy so far..
3) Attempting to do somersault by raising high his butt
4) Still bb tok, nothing meaningful yet…best word is when ask ai mai (want or dun want?)..he will answer “mai” if he don’t want..hehehe.

We are back!!!

We are finally back in S'pore..Home sweet home..!

This trip is not exactly a smooth one. Our flight to Sibu on last Sat was delayed a total of 6hr..we actually had to wait at Senai airport for full 8hr!!. It was caused by plane skid at Kuching airport..when we finally reached Sibu, it was already close to 11pm...1 day gone..Luckily Jared could walk now..he self entertained by walking around in the airport..hehehe..



We practically change house/location every 2 days. First 2 nite in Sibu, followed by 2 nite at Kapit..and finally last 2 nite at daddy's house in Sarikei.

Jared behaved really well in the boat trip, slept thru..On flight, occasionally cried unconsolable while scratching his ears..Pretty scary..nothing helps.

But every meal time is a disaster, worst during the wedding dinner (It's the 1st wedding dinner we attended as a family).. For all the meal time, we had to take turn to carry him walk around so that he won't throw everything on table..

Jared also being the youngest in the family, lots of ppl offered to carry him throughout the trip. On and off he will lost from my sight. In fact we need to go around to search for him, once daddy found him on motorcycle ride by ku3 gong(grandma's bro)...and once to my horror, his whole mouth is stained with chococalate...till now, I'm still not sure who fed him the chocs. hehe.

Bon Voyage!!

We will be leaving for daddy's hometown Sarawak today afternoon..hope Jared will kwai kwai throughout the journey..and no flood in JB!! Cos we need to go JB to catch the flight.

First time Jared going back home to let all relatives watch him ..hehe..Unfortunately this morning he fell, and resulted a curry puff on his forehead and a scratch on his nose...

Jared with his own luggage..all fill up with his stuff!

POSB Kids Account

Finally Jared own his own bank account! So all his ang pows from 1st birthday celebration can goes into this account...Before that?? All contributes to mummy's fund hehe.

More more more...Orange!!

Orange yum! yum! More more more!!

Happy 2007!

To mark the beginning of 2007, daddy took leave to spend whole day with us. (Daddy's off day is strictly Fri & Sat, all others, he had to work including CNY).
We did our favourite family activity again! Cycling at East Coast..hehehe.

I woke up early to prepare porridge for Jared’s lunch on new year day and off we go to East Coast. The day started with breakfast at the Irish Pub, Scurphy Murphy Café facing the east coast beach. We had been dining there since Jared was 3mth old. See the pics below, for a 3mth old Jared and 13mth old Jared..so much difference! Getting more & more handsome? hehe.

This round we cycled way beyond Bedok Jetty..reaching some yatch club towards the end of the park. In fact, we were rushing to meet the timing to return the bicycle. So we actually cycle close to 1.5hr, of cos in btw we stopped to let Jared have his lunch, while we had ice kacang hehe.

Then at nite, daddy arranged a couple only dinner at Hard Rock Café…We had the cheesy nachos for starter and combo bbq chicken+ribs. Promised ourselves never to order that nachos anymore..cos the portion is way too big that we could never finish it, even though that’s the 3rd time we had this dish, after Bali and Paris. Time to try another dish!

Overall, it’s a nice start for 2007! Hope 2007 is a better year for all of us!





Jared @ 3mth old at the same restaurant while we having breakfast.See how fast baby grow just over 10 mth.

Botanical Garden

Thanks to boss who's so nice to let me go off at 3pm on last working day of 2006 (29Dec06). That's why we could make it to visit the long waited Botanical Garden. I couldn't recall when was the last time I visit..probaly at least 20yrs ago. The Botanical garden is now so nice and good to have a walk.

Our Monster

During the weekend over Christmas, Jared was like a monster at home.

On sat 24Dec morning, he pee on our blanket. Well, waipo always say he is a genious..he will get down the bed by himself if he needs to pee/poo. So that morning after removing the heavy overnight diaper, I left him bare while playing on my bed. Plan to get him bath soon before change to a new diaper. To my surprise after a while he started peeing...on my blanket!!!! So angry!..After that in the late morning daddy being recalled back for work, so I was left alone to feed him lunch...Another nightmare, he was walking around the house for me to feed him and occasionally split out the food, overturn my plates and messed up every where with his kisses on the wall.

Later after the Christmas party, while we get ready for swimming, Jared poo. So I got daddy to change for him. But daddy didn't manage to control his movement, so in the end he was crawling around our bed with his poo!!..I asked daddy to cool down and continue with the plan to swim..... So we change the bedsheet at night...haha

After the bad experience, I sent Jared back to wai po's place the next day. I continued to take my morning nap at Sembawang, only go back to see him after lunch with daddy.

Again on Monday 25dec, he's a monster again! Refused to take his morning nap..and keep walking around the house. I finally made him sleep at 11am(normal 9am) with a bit of milk. Sigh.
Last year xmas, Jared was such an angel baby only sleep&eat. In fact, we managed to join xmas party at Grace's place even though he was a meer 5 week bb. This year he can make our house turn around! Gosshhh.......

Walking/Christmas Party/Super friendly Jared

Walking Since last fri 22Dec , Jared is able to walk more and without needing us to be there to encourage him. He will walk from 1 place to another if he felt distance is short & standing position is more convenient. Ocassionally he will surprise me in the kitchen when he walk over from dinning table area to grab my legs.

Christmas Party We went to a christmas party at Kee Kee's place on 23 Dec. The place was crowded with so many kids, more like a kids party..I think there were at least 9 kids including Jared. Jared was overwhelmed by so many ppl there, and started behaved extremely well, sit quietly...then at half way of party he started walking around, turning the knobs of DVD player(what he does everyday at home)..and finally at the end of party..he fight with other kids for toys!!..

Super friendly Jared Since last Fri also, Jared started to smile with sound somemore (sounds like ~gheeee) to any strangers inside the lift. If the other party response, I won't feel so bad...sometimes the other party simply ignore him..left me and KP feeling embarrasing hehehe..If the person smile back, Jared would start stretching out his hand and do a hi-5 to that person...Super friendly huh? hehe.