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Birthday Present

2006-06-16T00:44:00.000-07:00

As a user of UOB bank credit cards, I received a birthday present from them last weekend (first time in three years). It was a voucher to redeem something from Ogawa. Since we were at the Curve for our movie outing, we decided to redeem the gift, since it's free anyway. Being the cunning fella I am, I asked J to do the favour. She ended up listening to 10 minutes of salesgirl talk and demonstration while they process my voucher. In the end, we successfully walked out of the Ogawa shop with nothing but my free gift!

Back home, Little Skywalker decided to ~~help me~~ open my present. You could just see how excited he was...

28 Years Ago...

2006-06-15T00:44:00.000-07:00

28 years ago, a baby girl was born at Kuala Lumpur Hospital. Two days later, a baby boy was born at the same hospital. Both of them did not know each other then, neither did their parents. For all we know, they could be lying next to each other in nursery, looking at each other, competing who could cry the loudest for attention. Both their parents could have walked pass each others' shoulders at the hall way. They could have chit chat with each other and shared some moments. They could have bided each other farewell upon discharged.

A few years later, the girl's father got reassigned to work at JB. Consequently, her entire family moved down South and settled down. Meanwhile, the boy's family continued their lives in the busy town of KL.

18 years later, the teenage boy and the teenage girl were sent by their parents to study at Malacca for their tertiary studies. One fine day, the boy caught the girl staring into the clouds at her balcony while he was helping a friend to move her electric piano into her hostel room. Since he was not wearing his spectacles then, he could not get a clear picture of who she is. But nonetheless, he was sure she looked familiar.

The boy then ran some background check on the girl. It turned out that she was living next to one of his friend. He managed to get her phone number and asked her out for the first time! They walked almost 20 minutes to the nearest shopping complex. After spending some time there, they walked back. It was the last day of the semester, they decided to write to each other during the break.

After almost 4 months of courtship, the boy and the girl decided to go on a steady relationship. They moved to Cyberjaya after spending two years at Malacca as the University campus has shifted. Their relationship remained steady all the way. Although they led separate lives (as they have different circle of friends), they managed to find time for each other. During the semester breaks, the boy would always make time to go JB for a visit to the girl's family.

As they graduated, the girl found a job with an audit firm in JB while the boy landed on a job in KL. They hardly get to see each other as often anymore. Most of their conversations are through the mobile phone. Although they quarrel sometime, their relationship remained on solid rock.

One year later, the boy introduced the girl to a job in KL. She managed to nail the interview and moved up to KL. The boy proposed to the girl a few months later and they got married. Their families were reunited again after 25 years. The couple bought a house and settled down in KL.

14 months later, Little Skywalker joined them and turned their lives upside down on the day of his arrival itself. Since then, three of them are living happily in their small little home, enjoying life as the day goes by...

Quite a story huh?

Let's see if anyone get what I am trying to say here :P

Playhouse Skywalker - "Laugh"

2006-06-14T00:46:00.000-07:00

Synopsis:
Little Skywalker is showing off his fake laugh when we turned on his toy train. We didn't know why he did it. Maybe "laughter" was meant for his parents who are always coming up with new ways to make him laugh!

Genting Vacation - The Outdoor Rides

2006-05-03T00:25:00.000-07:00

As soon as we settled our accommodations and luggage, we brought our impatient and overly excited Little Skywalker to the Outdoor Theme Park. We bought ourselves a pair of 2 Days All Park tickets at RM148 (it's free for children under 2/3 years old) to make sure we can enjoy all the fun we could. I will let the pictures do the talking on the kind of rides that a toddler could go for at Genting since many of you were asking. Bear in mind that we've (I mean including Little Skywalker) been going on all these rides since our first trip when Little Skywalker was about 9 months old!

When Tabby says it's good, it must be GREAT! A nice fountain located at the entrance of the Outdoor Theme Park with a little river which flows out of the fountain for you children to "freshen up" before proceeding further.

The double decker mary-go-round ride is always the first one for a spin!

The rotating aeroplane (as our son calls it) and the flying elephant will be our next spot as they are located next to each other. This is the closest thing to an actual aeroplane ride for him!

The small little children playground is a must-go for Little Skywalker although most of the stuff there are similar to what we have at the playground nearby our house.

The Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang ride (as our son calls it since we bought him that show) is Little Skywalker's favourite! We must have gone for at least 6-7 rounds throughout the two days because it was all he could talk about! He kept singing the chitty-chitty-bang-bang tune while he's "driving" as well!

The locomotive train ride that travels the same route as the Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang cars is another one for us to sit, rest and enjoy the scenery.

The Matahari ride is a good ride for everyone (except those with height phobia) to enjoy a bird's eye view of the entire Outdoor Theme Park!

The monorail which circled around the entire Genting hill is also a good way to enjoy the beautiful weather and scenery. Little Skywalker gave two thumbs up!

Apart from the above, we also brought Little Skywalker to Dinosaur Land as well as the Pirate Train. Both rides ventures into the total darkness (even with some scary black light figures)! We were surprised that Little Skywalker showed no signs of fear for darkness in both of them. However, we still don't recommend them to other parents with toddlers.

Other rides like the Rodeo Rider and Kiddie Rides requires the kids to be over a minimum height and no adult accompaniment. Those are not for Little Skywalker to try out yet, but could be fun for say, Twinsmom's Belles?

... Next - The Grown-up Rides

Back To Work

2006-02-05T19:13:00.000-08:00

After a full week of holiday thanks to our multi-cultural nation (including Chinese New Year, Awal Muharam and Wilayah Day), I am now back to my daily working routine. Will spend a day or so to sort out myself and get used to waking up 5.30am instead of 10am. Will have to get used to not spending a whole day with Little Skywalker. Will have to get used to the crazy KL traffic again. Will have to get used to blah blah... all over again!

So, as you can see, I have many things to get used to before I can get used to daily blogging. However, I will be able to give you a sneak preview on what's coming up in the next few days:

Chinese New Year celebrations (many parts as usual)
Kepong Bloggers Gathering II
Gifts for Little Skywalker
Little Skywalker at Kidsport
... cannot think of any for now

Stay tune for more!

Woof! Woof!

2006-01-26T21:59:00.001-08:00

Tomorrow will be Chinese New Year's eve and we will welcoming the year of the Dog soon. I am sure everyone are busy doing their once-a-year spring cleaning at their respective home and preparing for the big reunion dinner. J and I are no exceptions. We have been shopping for more than 3 weekends to get Little Skywalker some new clothes and new toys. J also exchanged plenty new notes to be used as ang pow money ~~(there goes our bonus!)~~. We do not need to do much cleaning at home except to vacuum every spot and everything in the house as we will be spending most of the time in either my parents or my in-laws' place.

This will be Little Skywalker's second Chinese New Year since he was born. Our family started to celebrate the Big Day in KL area since last year. We used to travel back to our hometown, Parit (somewhere near Ipoh) before that. It's more exciting and happening at our hometown. Nevertheless, it's also fun to celebrate CNY at KL as there will be less traveling needed since everyone lives quite close to each other. My newly-wed brother (in Penang) and my sister (in Singapore) will be arriving at KL today.

J will still be working half day tomorrow. I will be at home with Little Skywalker as usual. I am still deciding whether to bring Little Skywalker to a small bloggers' gathering at 1U because nobody wants to go with me. I needed someone to hold Little Skywalker down while I am driving since I do not have a car seat for him. Even if I had, I doubt he would wanna be strapped in. Anyway, I hope someone would be kind enough to fetch us there (*wink).

J and I will be off for the whole of next week. Hence, this blog will not be updated for the next 9 days. My family and I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone:

Happy Chinese New Year
恭喜发财, 财源广进
龙马精神, 身体健康
年年有余, 一家团圆

狗年发大财!
汪! 汪! 汪!
旺! 旺! 旺!

p/s: Jazz, how's my son's card? LOL!

Back To School

2006-01-26T21:59:00.000-08:00

Little Skywalker spends most of his time at my parents' house during the weekdays. His favourite playmate is my 13-years-old brother and my 3-years-old dog. He usually follows my parents to send my brother off to his school. It's not surprising that he's able to pick up words such as bag, book, school, school bus, pen, pencil etc. easily.

Ever since someone gave Little Skywalker a bag and us buying him a table, he likes to carry his bag and pretend to be at school when he comes home with us. He would open up his book and flipping it non-stop while muttering on pictures that he recognizes.

I guess the little guy just can't wait to go to school!

Naughty Face

2006-01-26T21:58:00.001-08:00

Being the mischievous monkey of the household, Little Skywalker is always entertaining us with his funny antics. A few days ago, he showed me his latest trick.

Behold, "My Naughty Face!"

With any luck, J and I will get a hint before he plans anything naughty in the future...

Moon! Moon!

2006-01-26T21:58:00.000-08:00

Little Skywalker was playing with his magnetic dust drawing board in the living hall one afternoon. J and I were doing some house work (mine was probably watching TV). Out of the blue, Little Skywalker came running towards and kept yelling, "Moon! Moon!". Despite being proud at his perfect pronunciation, we were still puzzled as to how he managed to catch a glimpse of any moon in the middle of the day, not to mentioned being indoor.

As we were still hanging by our jaws trying to figure out the situation, Little Skywalker persisted with his "Moon! Moon!" chant and tried to pull us by our fingers to see "his moon"...

Voila! "His Moon"!

p/s: This Luke van Gogh masterpiece entitled "His Moon" is being auctioned at RM1 million!

Talk About Bad Gifts...

2006-01-25T21:57:00.000-08:00

My son was invited to a birthday party by that funny mummy whose job was to hunt down people's head (head-hunter). As a proud tradition of mankind, we planned to bring along a present in "exchange" or the free lunch at Burger King. We were supposed to get the present on Saturday evening when we went shopping at Tesco, but I guess we were distracted by the crazy kiasu crowd there. I mean they basically killing each other over some boxes of so-called honey mandarin and soft drinks. So much for developed mindset!

J and I brought Little Skywalker to have our breakfast at Jusco on Sunday morning around 11am as well as to buy a birthday present. Probably due to the "traumatic" experience the night before, I got the gender of the birthday person all wrong! I thought it was Reeve's (her son who was actually just over 16 months old) third birthday instead of Renee (her daughter). We ended up getting the wrong stuff! Served me right for reading over 30+ of parents' blogs daily and get mixed up with all the names of the "little people".

It was not until we arrived at Burger King that J realized my HUGE mistake! Being stucked between making a total ass of ourselves and giving Renee a "weird" present, we chose the former. Fortunately that funny mommy emphasized repeatedly when she invited us about "NO GIFTS!". Or else, we might have just took off immediately!

The party was great! (I totally recommend her as a party planner!) I got to meet up with other bloggers including r&r mami, Ray Ern's mum and Lauren's mum for the first time. Although we did not talked much (probably feeling too pai seh for "not bringing any present!") and spent most of the time chasing after hyperactive kids around, we enjoyed it very much (you can read more about it here). Little Skywalker was his sociable self as usual, he hugged almost all the children that were present at the party and made many new friends. Other mommies were quite convinced about what I wrote previously how Little Skywalker is not afraid of strangers.

Later at night, we were deciding on what to do with the "bad gift" that we bought. Unfortunately for poor souls like us, shopping malls in Malaysia do not have any return policy. Or else, we would have exchanged it for a Barbie doll or something more girly for cute little Renee. Finally, I decided to keep the present for myself and get another replacement gift for Renee later. As you can see, we actually bought a remote control F1 car intended for a three year old boy! Too bad it never reached its intended recipient...

After putting in the batteries, I tried out remote car in front of Little Skywalker. He was quite ecstatic and scared at the same time. After a few minutes of careful maneuvering, I finally calmed him down as he watched me "drove" happily around the house for the next 10 minutes (I guess boys will be boys... forever!).

As I took a break from "driving", J decided to take over the steering wheel and continued my task of entertaining Little Skywalker. She made the car go around him in circular pattern instead. Little Skywalker was spinning himself (and laughing all the way) while locking his eyes on the car as well.

A few seconds later, something horrible happened! I did not witness the event as I had my back facing them. All I heard was Little Skywalker crying! I guess the poor guy must be feeling dizzy and sick from all the spinning and fell on the floor. (Lesson learned: never let a mummy behind the wheel of an F1 car!) On the bright side, he only fell sitting down on his ass. Unfortunately, he landed on the F1 car and got bruised on his thigh! As you can see from the picture, it looked as if it crashed into a wall and damaged it's front wheel! It's such a pity that my new toy didn't survived even 30 minutes after coming out of it's box...

Served me right for buying the wrong present!

p/s: Sorry Renee, u.Egghead learned his lesson :(

Four

2006-01-24T21:55:00.000-08:00

Kena twice in a day! Anyway, this is for Selba and De Book Worm...

4 Jobs I’ve Had In My Life

Citibank Clerk cum IT personnel (lucky me, work 3 months after SPM and yet get to attend their annual dinner)
IT personnel at the Archbishop office in KL (am I a saint or what?)
Software developer (first actual job and still doing)
Managing Director (can put any title I like because it's my own company - 1 boss/staff)

4 Movies I Could Watch Over and Over

The Rock (Sean Connery rocks!)
The Hunt for Red October (Sean again, am I that gay?)
The Sound of Music (that where I learn my do-re-mi)
My Fair Lady (that's where I learn my Engerish)

4 TV Shows I ~~have~~ Love(d) To Watch

Friends
Star Trek - Voyager
Everybody Loves Raymond
Seinfeld

4 Places I’ve Lived

KL
KL
KL
still KL :(

4 Places I’ve Been On Vacation To

Korea
Europe (I was 4, cannot remember a thing)
Perth
Genting (my favourite due to the low temperature!)

4 Places I Would Rather Be In

my own private jet
a huge cruise ship
a banglow in the Swedish mountains
starship

4 Of My Favourite Foods

Lobsters
Crabs
Oily and fat stuff
Any food that suit my taste, regardless the material

4 Websites I Visit Daily

This site (and I suggest you to do the same)
Malaysiakini
Jeff Ooi's
anyone at my side bar (provided they are updated)

4 Unfortunate Souls Tagged

Twinsmom
r&r mami (this is how I repay you for inviting me to your son's birthday bash)
Jazzmint
Zara's mama

Again, I don't owe anyone anything before CNY :P