My 14 Months Daughter

at 14 months:

1. keira walks around the house happily...

2. she can say a few new words like "one two three", when i say "i love..." she says "youuuuu"

3. she imitates eitan to do astroboy by raising one of her hand and say "booyyyy"

4. she can show you an angry face when you ask her to... very cute!

5. she refuses to eat a proper meal, all she wants is her cheese biscuit!!! yeah welcome to "real" parenthood!

6. oh she loves cucumber too... :D

7. she has a magic blanket that can cause her to be sleepy haha.. in other words, she falls asleep easily when she is holding her blanket

8. last time, whenever she wants to drink milk, the following happens:

keira: nenen aaah....

mom: you want to drink nenen?

keira: *nod her head eagerly*

mom: ok, you wait wait ah...

my baby is quite impatient, so she wants to cut everything short... so nowadays, this is what happens:

keira: nenen ahhhh... *nod head*, *point finger* wait wait!

mom: errr.. ok!

ahahahha it's much faster isnt it? :P

9. whenever she sees my phone, she will say "poh poh" means... call grandma :) such a sweet girl...

10. she has her own words for water, biscuit, blanket, handphone...

11. she can sing one line of elmo song "lalala... lalalala...."

12. she sing the last word of every line of "twinkle twinkle little star"

13. she likes eitan... she calls him taytay...

14. she hits people when she is unhappy... Cindy is the no.1 victim!!!! poor Cindy...

thats all for now :)

here's the video of keira walking, talking and singing!

That One Particular Ambition...

If I honestly ask myself, what have ever crossed my mind when it comes to dreams and ambitions?Well, I have been changing my "dreams" for so many times. Sometimes, I thought I wanted to be a homemaker, sometimes... I thought maybe I liked to sing, the other time, I thought I wanted to own a business, some other times, I thought I just wanted to support my hubby in whatever he wanted to do...

But yesterday before I slept, something came across my mind, something that had consistently excited me. I was imagining myself looking after babies and talking to pregnant mommies and I dont know why, out of the blue... I checked my friendster account (I think i have never heard of friendster for almost a year) and in my profile I wrote I wanted to have a day care centre.

And that was exactly what I wanted to do when I finished my pre-U. But because my parents didn't allow me to study in Montessori, I forgot about it.

When it comes to helping pregnant mommies or mommies with babies, I am full of passion!

Aiks OK, Keira is bugging me now... got to go....

[to be continued]

Hanoi Trip

I just came back from the staff retreat in Hanoi... At first, I imagined about the beach or at least a place like Taiwan... but surprisingly it's almost like Medan T.T just that the weather was cold...

The traffic was crazy, there was no one way street i guess. the motorbikes and cars came from all directions. People were walking on the street in the midsts of the bikes, it was scarier than Medan.

This is the furthest trip Keira had ever been so far. She enjoyed the weather, she loved cold weather. I loved bringing her around too... she was such an angel when we were on the plane to Hanoi, but when we travelled back, she was so restless and she wanted to play with Eitan all the time!

In the whole trip, she refused to sleep. She wanted to go out. She loved to play with Tan Tan.. She called him Tay Tay... and Tan Tan will say "No.. it's Tan Tan! not Tay Tay!" LOL... I took the opportunity to let Keira wear the bee and ladybug costumes that I bought in Taiwan last Dec.

It would be the last time Keira wore the bee costume, cos it was a lil bit too small d...

It's a good year to start with :) Now it's time to work hard before Chinese New Year comes.

2nd trip without Keira - KOREA

this is my last day in korea...

it's a great experience. first time in korea. first time in a snowy country. first time being defeated by weather. first time waking up at 3.30am to attend morning prayer meeting.

... the snow that covered the branches of the trees..... snow on the xmas tree.... snow on the streets... and on the rooftop... snow falling from the sky... oh i so love the view... and btw it was snowing so heavily when we landed. it has never snowed like this in korea in at least 100 years.

the main purpose of this trip is to visit yoido full gospel church. we attended their morning prayer meeting, mid-week service, and we are supposed to visit few places like their tv station, the hansei university etc... but i only managed to visit the prayer mountain. the reason is... sigh... i'm sick throughout the trip! i had terrible flu one day before flying to korea. and it got worse here cos of the weather.

it's so amazing how the members of the church love to pray. they can spend hours to just pray! personally, i know i have to buck up! it's a wonderful thing that i've seen with my own eyes. the weather is about -10 to -16 degree in the morning, but the hall is packed with people. oh btw, the hall has the capacity of thousands of ppl.

i got nosebleed the night after i came back from the prayer mountain, it was so bad, there was blood all over the bed sheet. scary. so... i stayed in the room most of the time during 2nd and 3rd day.

i still wanna come back here, probably during autumn or spring? do you know that my dream is to go to UK and see the Big Ben! anyway, i wish i can say next week i'm going to UK but... next week we'll be flying to Hanoi for staff retreat (hanoi is also a good place la hor?). this time round i'll bring keira along, hopefully she wont be fussy during the flight...

alright! i think it's time to say good night, we'll leave to airport at 8am tomorrow. bye bye Korea!!

Anger Management

i feel unhappy. angry. dissatisfied.

almost exploded.

but then, i thought of a line i wrote from a book yday.

before you do or say anything, think "what is your intention?"

if you explode, can it fulfill your intention?

is it gonna benefit you and others?

if no, probably you should calm down and think about it again.

anyway...

i'm glad i didn't explode, cos it would be way too silly, too irresponsible, too childish...

*breathe in..........*

*breathe out........*

life moves on!!

My baby - almost 13 months

keira took her first 3-4 steps yesterday. Well... she tried to walk few days ago but didn't succeed.

i think she will soon start walking on her own.. woohoo.... hopefully i can lose some weights then!

cheers...

Back in Malaysia

It was my first time going to Taiwan and Hong Kong. At first, i thought Taiwan was much nicer than HK, but after I'm back in Msia, somehow I felt I like both countries, mainly because of the weather.

We ate a lot, well... not true... "I" ate a lot :P Pst Garrick brought us to many places, a shopping place called wu fen pu, taipei 101, dam sui, xi men ding and few other places. (pardon me if the spelling is wrong). Food was great but the chou dou fu was a "no no", the smell was yucky... lol...

Jerry (the guy at the right next to Pst Garrick) was driving us around in Taiwan, he is like our Colin Ong in Malaysia, a very funny guy. There's another girl called Anna, she was the one who took the pic, so she isn't in the photo. She is a nice and pretty lady :) A person that is full of courage and passion for God. Wonderful people.

Of course we weren't there for a vacation only. Keith was preaching in Grace Church on the weekend. The church was fun. The people were very energetic and enthusiastic. They are having a BIG month - iMac (everyone got a free McD burger), iStyle (design competition), iChristmas and iVIP. I believe with such willing and teachable congregations, the church will grow and do great things in their community.

I spent my 25th birthday in Hong Kong, nothing much... had a great and yummy lunch & dinner with my relatives. They brought us to few tourist places, but it was raining, so didn't manage to see the whole HK from the mountain peak. But it was still fun :)

We didn't bring Keira with us during the trip. I really missed her a lot. Thanks to all the friends that have visited her in auntie Linda's house.

Well, overall... it was a great trip.

After leaving Keira with Auntie Linda for 1 week, i think she has grown a lot. She learns quite a lot of new stuff, and she is learning very fast now :) she is so adorable and manja.... She has become more and more lovely and sweet... love her so much!

Oh btw, few of the CGs bought me a DKNY watch for my bday. It's very very nice. Love it to the max. ^^

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the heart is willing but the flesh is weak...

i want to blog abt my taiwan and hk trip, but kinda tired and sleepy now....

and you know... it takes time to upload those pics...

so tomorrow night la... i still have a wedding rehearsal to conduct tmrw morning...

i better write something before the 2 powerful girls complain abt me not updating my blog :P LOL... right right?? whoever they are......... :D

so.. hushhh... good night.. sleep tight... dont let the bed bugs bite!

Separation Anxiety

No.. not Keira. but me.

I couldn't sleep well, I kept thinking about my Taiwan & HK trip this Thursday. I'm gonna leave Keira with auntie Linda. Suddenly I dont feel like going anymore. :(

I'm gonna miss her so much...

Keira's 1st Birthday

Nov 23, 2009

I woke up feeling a bit emo.. cos it was my bb's first bday :)
well we had a small party at night...

check out the photos :)

Wooohhooooo and Phheewwww

Yo!

Emerge Rising is coming... Our youth event in KL.

(www.emergekl.my)

Everyone is very busy in the office. *pheewwwww*

For a moment, I felt so lost, I didn't know what to do... cos there were so many things on the plate...

But it's all good! *woohoooooooo*

After the busy weekend, we'll have Keira's 1st birthday party on Monday.

And Tues and Wed will be our OFF days... *woohooo*

It's great! I can't wait to bring my mom out...

she will help me look after Keira during the weekend..

I hope Keira will be a good girl,

well... i shouldn't expect too much from her... afterall, she is just a toddler now... right? *phewww*

Indonesian Food

i'm not sure how many you like indonesian food.

i personally luuuuurrveeeee indon food... duhhh... i'm from indo...

but really the food is so tasty and spicy.

i found a new restaurant in Subang Parade, it's called Sari Ratu...

the food.... yummmy... cannot be described....

simply delicious...

2 thumbs up!!

(this pic is not taken in the restaurant, i took it from google :P)

the price is a lil bit expensive. around RM20/person.

i felt like i'm back in indonesia when eating there...........

*yumm yumm*

future ahead

2010 is coming... i'm excited.

both keith and i are thinking and planning. we aim to move to our 2nd house next year. with God's grace, we pray that both of us can save enough money to move out. our current house is definitely too small.

saving money is a big issue for me. LOL. unlike many mothers, i'm not good in saving. it's time to BUCK UP!

i really need wisdom to live a better life.

i'm not sure how many ppl know that i'm actually dreaming to be a housewife ;) yeah not many ppl knew that... but to really think abt it, what am i gonna do when keira starts school? i wish i'm like jilly, who knows what she really likes to do, just look at the cards she makes. i really dont mind staying at home doing what i like to do.

i have been asking myself for VERY LONG, what do i like to do?

and i do not know.

i like doing many things i.e. singing, cooking, reading parenting books, looking after keira *lol* but i'm not up to the standard where i can teach singing or opening a restaurant or babysit others' kids.

so...

in other words, i just want to write to remember.. that working is good for me. pastor kevin just taught the church, in order to discover our destiny, we need to WORK!

God i surrender my future into your mighty hands...

Keira - 11 Months and 1 Week

Height: 74cm
Weight: 8.1kg
Head Circ: 45cm

Had got flu for like 4 times in 11 months =.= !!
Just fell down frm the bed yday morning and from the sofa this morning. *haih*
Love food (esp the ones mommy n daddy are eating).
Very manja, esp to her daddy and grandpa.
Fly kiss to everyone before leaving.
Stand in front of TV and feel contented.

I have no new pic to show cos I can't transfer the photos from my new phone =.=

Finally... After 1 Year

I still remember, a year ago, during my confinement, I was craving for Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, but I never bought it... You know.. when you keep postponing, at the end of the day, you wont feel like buying already.

So this time round, I refused to wait and postpone cos I knew what would happen if I waited and reconsidered :P

So this is what i've bought for myself:

Blackberry Curve 8900, known as Blackberry Javelin

I know i know.. some of you might ask, why not BB bold?

This is the only BB that is kinda feminine :P

I asked Adam if there's any other color... white? red? pink also can la... LOL but sadly, there's no colorful blackberry around yet! I heard BB bold white color is coming out soon though, but still the size is too big for me. :)

So far i'm enjoying the phone. esp the blackberry messenger. love it to the max!

TV Time

I let Keira watch TV every morning (and afternoon and night sometimes :P). Her favourite show is Veggietales, in particular: "Lyle the Kindly Viking", a musical cartoon show!

And this time round... she is being super relax and lazy... look how she sat!

Attention to all mommies and daddies! Letting our children watch too much TV is not good, no matter how educational the show is. The reason is our kids will be too used to fast movement, they are more inclined to watching than listening. in the future, when they attend classes,they might be slower in catching up because not many schools teach thru TV program I guess (at least not in Msia), but instead the teachers will be writing on the board or reading or talking out loud, so... the kids get bored easily and they wont be able to focus after awhile. So... try to limit the TV time okay?!

Flash cards are GOOD!

The bottom line is parents must set aside time to teach their babies or tods or children.

I have to discipline myself in teaching Keira too. So to all parents, let's JIA YOU together!

4-5 Oct '09

Looking forward for the next trip!

keira was singing along with the 3 bears...

Toddler Soon.....

Time fliesssss.... Can someone stop the time plssss??? I know noone can :( It's not that I dont want Keira to grow up, but it's just too fast... if time can move a lil slower...

At 10 months and 20 days, my lil girl likes to climb here and there. She understands 'no', and just yesterday she made a sound that sounded like "no no no no no", but she said it "nay nay nay nay nay", I'm still finding out if that's what she meant. She said that when we put her on the sofa instead of letting her crawl and climb around the living room, she said that too when I put her on the baby car seat.

She ate all kinds of food already :P Doesn't sound like a good parent ey? But I just can't help!! I let her try quite a lot of stuff like buns (normal gardenia bun, banana bun from Bread Story, the bun from Mc.D set meal, sponge cake etc), siakap fish @ a Thai restaurant (it was a lil bit spicy), kuewtiao, noodles, beehun, rice, fried egg, coffee (AHAHAHHAHAHA juuuusssttttt a bit) and a bit of bubble tea (jjuuuuuuussstttt a bit of the tea). Sometimes I just want to see her reaction. But really, it was just a lil bit, not more than a drop!!!!

But of course, that's not what I gave her regularly. On normal day, I would cook porridge with either beef or chicken or fish with pumpkin or sweet potato or carrot or some other vege and potato. No salt no sugar nothing... So usually I let her eat healthy food la :P

I love to give her hard boiled egg yolk too (esp when i dont cook and i let her eat rice cereal). Somehow I feel she is smarter after she eats that. LOL.

Have I ever told you that she loved to throw things on the floor, and oh actually she liked to look at them drop to the floor. Sometimes she looked cute when doing that. Well basically she looked cute all the time. HAHA...

She waves bye bye, she gives us her fly kiss, she lifts up her hands when we say "Hooraaayyy", she claps her hands, she dances when we ask her to do so, she has some funny expression which never fails to make me laugh, and she loves it when i laugh, and she will pout and come to me when I pretend to cry. Even when I just bow my head and be quiet, she will be worried and come to me and pat me.

She sat down quietly and looked at how I trimmed her nails. I so like this moment.

She called PAPA very loudly everytime papa not in the room. And of course, papa never failed to show up each time she called. She only called mama in the time of crisis =.=

She is very bubbly and talkative. She talks a lottttttt..... A typical girl la basically.

Sometimes I wish to have another baby soon, but.... in order to give Keira the best, I think I should keep to my initial plan, to have the 2nd one when Keira is 3 yrs old. HAHA....

She is turning into a toddler in less than 2 months!!!!!!! Oh gosh....... It's time to think about the birthday celebration. Where and whom to invite.

Anyway, again it's a long blog, but I have to assure you that raising Keira is such a fun, beautiful, and fulfilling thing. I can't stop thanking God for her in my life, of course my hubby plays a big part in making it easy and exciting!!!

After So Long...

Hmm.. let me count, the last time I went to somewhere out of town for vacation was....... i mean really just went to do nothing...... was.... during my honeymoon???

After Keira arrived, I had never arranged any trip to anywhere unless it was necessary, ie chinese new year or family related events. but this time round, we went to Genting highland (and Keith just planned it 3-4 days before) just to do NOTHING and to relax and to refresh ourselves. It was not as tough and complicated as we thought. Keira was very easy to be taken care. She was so obedient throughout the journey. We really almost did nothing but to play and relax (of course there was still a lil bit of works here and there) but I can say I enjoyed it :)

Keira loved the weather there, she slept for almost... hmmm.. 10 hours!

Oh in case you haven't known, she has been sleeping thru the nights for almost 2-3 weeks now. I know I know some of you envied me... LOL... I didn't do anything actually, she JUST slept thru! Thank God!!! :P

Well... photos will be uploaded soon yeah! but for now, I just write down whatever i remember, if i wait til i have the pics, probably i've forgotten most of the things i'm gonna write now.

Btw we went there with Sam and Eunice :) a wonderful couple that just got married for almost 1 month. And we met up with Ooi, Yen Fen and cheeky Dylan there. On Sunday afternoon, after the check-in, we head off for dinner (yeah we reached quite late), then we took those trains (whatever they were called) that toured around the mall. Keira loved it! Didn't do much after that, just walked around the mall, enjoying the windy and cooling night. The next day, I woke up before 8am expecting Keira to wake up soon, but because the weather was pretty cold, she slept til 9:30am.

We spent about an hour or two and played ... hmm.. we called it "time-zone" game back in Indo. what do you call here? Basically you put in some coins and you start to play the games. Honestly, it was quite fun but tiring as well, cos we forgot to bring Keira's stroller, so we took turn to carry her. At the end, we exchanged all the tickets we won with one towel for Keira and one children book for teacher Eunice ;)

when we reached KL, we went to Segambut and ate the tomyam. It was usually very very very delicious (hot spicy sour and sweaty... oops I mean the food was spicy and sour but the one who's eating would be sweaty), but probably because we went right before they closed, the soup wasn't as fresh anymore. So it was quite disappointing. In case you don't know, inside the soup, they put lots of big prawns, scallops, oysters, fish, squids and clams. *yummy* I used to crave for the tomyam btw. but this time round... *sigh*

Anyway, we had a GREAT weekend ^^ something that we should do every now and then I guess.

I know it's a long blog, so probably I should write another separate blog to update you about Keira. Cos she has grown so much, and there are just so many things I have to tell you HAHA...

Photos coming up soon yeah :)

Erin, wonder if you're reading this blog? ahaha... see i've updated my blog!

Bunnie...

I "printscreen" to show you my favourite bunny...

*swt*