Posted on Jan 6, 2009 in
Rachel Huan 18th October 2008 - That was how long ago this post was supposed to have been up! SO old that the funfair has long gone even…
Well, the story begin, with Rachel seeing the lights from the funfair, and asked what it was… Since then, she has been going on and on about wanting to go ‘hunhair’… As obliging parents, we made the trip there, hoping she’ll actually enjoy… Rachel being the scary cat she is, was reserved and very careful with every steps she took…
Full of anticipations, holding on the to entry tickets…
We did a rough check on the ride, and picked up 3 which she can go on, so we purchased 12 tokens (2 tokens per ride per pax) at RM2 each…
So, she took one ride, the mildest possible one, came down, gave me a thumbs up for the photo, and then chickened out… NO MORE rides, NO MORE walking… Hung onto our necks and complained about the music being too loud and too noisy (well, it was) and asked to go home… Whenever we asked if she wanted to go on any of the rides, she’ll say “chel sit car liao, don’t want liao. scared scared”…
What do we do with the rest of the tokens?
We played some ‘tikam’ stall games and got ourselves 3 palm size ugly soft toys… You’d think that after all this, she’ll not want to return… HAH! How wrong… AFTER we left te funfair grounds, she wanted to go ‘hunhair’ again… To her, the enjoyment was just to look at the flashing lights… Well, we did bring her back to the funfair, and I bet she enjoyed the second round more… Why? Well, we stood opposite the road, far from the ear piercing music (if you can even call them music), and let her ‘enjoy’ those lights, did some ooh-ing and ahh-ing while pointing to them, and then left…
p/s: This shall serve as a reminder, for me to think and rethink and then RETHINK before we actually hop onto the plane and bring her to HongKong (something I’ve been meaning to do) as she’ll probably just say scared scared and then waste all our effort and money in HongKong Disneyland… A child being a child, that would probably be the only attraction to bring her to HongKong in the first place… So save some money and stay at home lar… 
Posted on Jan 5, 2009 in
Family You’d think that the new house is complete by now, since we moved 23rd Nov, right? WRONG?!
My dry kitchen is still incomplete, because a piece of granite broke in transportation they other day, and certain mosaics are still yet to be done up… The carpenter was supposed to get it completed last Saturday, but he can’t make it, so this Saturday *fingers crossed*
He did, however, came over on 27th December to do up our store room under the stairs… So with that, we are finally slowly clearing up the boxes… What a way to end 2008 and start 2009 eh? I really can’t wait to see all this things completed… As for the old apartment, anyone interested to buy a fully furnished 960sq ft apartment in Klang? Give me a call or drop me an email… I promise I’m giving you a good bargain…
THAT, is how the house looks like now…
Well, if you see properly, we are an Ikea fan, even got proof on the Poang chair, Ikea plastic bag… We are planning to hang some photos on the storeroom wall, and on top of the TV, so once that is done, I’ll post up more photos… And I have not been posting about Rachel for a long long time, it’s about time I start doing so… 
I really thought that I would have got everything settled by now, and to start building up my routine again… How wrong am I… My kitchen is still empty, and it’s just too difficult wanting to cook with an empty kitchen… So, we are eating out most of the time… hahaha…
It’s really about time to buck up!!! <- That’s the New Year’s Resolution? haha… 
By the way, HAPPY BELATED 2009 EVERYONE!! Better late than never eh?
Posted on Dec 22, 2008 in
Blogging,
Photography I have been thinking a lot about this topic, about how I can’t bear the thought of losing any of my precious photos… Thus far, I have only been storing them on my laptop! I have, on countless times, tried to make backups of them on CD, but having tens of thousands of photos, it’s just a tedious task, even if I was using a DVD…
What other options?
To print them of course… But haven’t been able to find time to do so, what more having to browse through to select, and then to find the sufficient storage area to fit all of it to bring to the shop, and then having to find time to go around to pick it up again DURING open hours… All this explains why the last time I got Rachel’s photos printed on hardcopies was when she was FOUR MONTHS OLD (she’s 2.5 now)… *slap forehead*
I did read about EOE Online a few months back, but was put off by the thought because I thought that it was just IMPOSSIBLE to be uploading SO MANY megabytes of photos online, and thought it was just cumbersome… How VERY wrong was I… I was told about their Blogger’s Review Program, and thought I’d give it a try… I absolutely love their easy upload option, where I can just let it upload by itself, without having to click on any prompts, or select the photos one by one for uploads… The only thing you need to remember though, is that you MUST NOT be using firefox, because the easy upload is YET to support firefox for now… EVERYTHING was done right in the comfort of my house, even at wee hours of the night… Who cares about what time the shop closes? hahaha…
p/s: Did I mention that it’s only 30 cents for a 4R print, AND they’ll print and then send it to your house? Well, they ARE so convenient…. What more, above Rm35 orders, you get shipping for FREE…
UPDATED : OH MY!! Never did I imagined to have received the photos in such a short period of time!
I sent in my 50 photos for printing at midnight of 22nd december, and I received the photos on 26th! That’s like 2 working days, given 25th was X’mas!! I was very impressed with the prints, and couldn’t stop showing them off to everyone… I have gotten EOE Online a few extra customers, one being my SIL whom is compiling her wedding pics for printing! haha… It is extremely convenient and I definitely is happier with the quality of the print than the 2 previous shops I’ve sent my photos to, where the wantan mee turned out GREEN!
Coincidentally, we got 6 new frames from Ikea for decorating the new house, and well, needless to ask, ALL of the pictures chosen to be framed were all from the 50 prints I ordered from EOE Online… Looking at them, well, I must shamefully admit, I’m totally happy with the results…
The 6 selected photos to be displayed (ALL from EOE prints)…
My favourite of the lot…
NOW, it’s time for me to start compiling those long overdue photos for printing… I’m definitely going to earn myself the free shipping, and take advantage of the 30 cents per 4R print promotion while they still have it… NO MORE procrastinating…
Posted on Dec 18, 2008 in
Rachel's Milestone Trust me, I meant to blog… I really did… Just, didn’t get around to actually doing it…
Rachel has been going on and on about wanting a guitar, to my brother and mum… So, everyone was looking frantically for a miniature guitar for her… I nearly choked when my brother was SERIOUSLY wanting to get her a real guitar for kids! Like she’s going to actually appreciate it!! But “it’s a good interest to nurture” says him… Which I agree, but ehh, NOT SO EARLY QUA? She’s going to smash up the instrument!
Anyhow, she’s been singing a few songs, skipping a word here and few words there, some in tune and some not… That part is completely fine with me, but INSISTING that we sing TOGETHER, is the difficult part… Furthermore, you have to know at which point you have to stop singing, so she can sing solo, else she’ll put her palm up and signal you to stop!
My mum got her a toy guitar (which looked pretty real) the other day, and since then, she’s been going places with her guitar, and strumming it together with every word that’s coming out of her mouth when she ’sing’…
A few songs she’s singing now:
- ABC
- Twinkle twinkle little star
- London bridge
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, where’s my friend (in mandarin)
- Barney “I love you” song
- DO RE MI (duet with me at all times)
She’s even actually telling me she like watching The Sound of Music (”the show nice hoh” was exactly what she told me), because of the DO RE MI song, and told me to replay that song, because she like the song (”chel like this song“)…
Posted on Dec 16, 2008 in
Rachel's Milestone We were adamant not to let Rachel sleep in our room in the new house, to make the process of getting her to sleep alone easier… But it was a new place for her, which was why we decided to sleep in her room initially, getting her accustomed with the room… The bed frame in our room has been empty, and our mattress is on the floor of Rachel’s room, together with hers…
Every time I try to get her to sleep alone, she’ll come up with excuses/reason not to sleep alone:
- Chel like daddy mummy… Chel want ngho-ngho (sleep) with daddy mummy…
- Mummy accompany Rachel ngho-ngho… See, dark dark!
- Mummy come… Chel cannot touch mummy…
- Mummy in mummy daddy room, Chel cannot see mummy’s eye…
So, I was trying to coax her, with ALL sorts of explanations:
- Chel BIG girl liao, chel must ngho-ngho yourself liao…
- Mummy on the lights, so no dark dark… Chel no need scared ok?
- Mummy keep the doors open, so chel can walk over to mummy daddy’s room ok?
- Chel wanna be big cheh-cheh right? Chel must slowly learn to be one lar, big cheh-cheh ngho-ngho on her own mar…
Yes, she has been wanting to be a big cheh-cheh (big sister)… Saying want didi (little brother) and meimei (little sister) a lot… So I just follow suit lar…
10th December 2008 -Â DAY 1…
We took the brave step…
First, we told her we have something to do, and left her to drink her milk on her own…
Then, we told her, she’ll have to sleep herself, we will just be outside…
Lastly, we moved our mattress back to our room, left the lights on and kept the doors open…
We slept in our own room, in our new house, for the first time (18 days after we have moved in)…
She woke up at 4am, calling for “daddy mummy”…
She asked where was I and what was I doing… That triggered a thought, of whether she was afraid of missing out in anything that we are doing (since she’s being such a kepoh lately)… So I told her, we were just sleeping, and that if we go out we will definitely tell her or bring her along…
Then, she asked to sit on my lap… VERY MANJA… Which triggered another thought, where I explained to her that we love her a lot a lot, and that’s why we want to train her to be a big girl, to sleep in her own room herself… I reassured her that we will never leave her and that we’ll just be in our room, so she can walk over anytime…
She asked for milk, and then went back to sleep…
11th December 2008 -Â DAY 2…
Everyone was worried about us leaving the stairway open, telling us that we need to close it… We couldn’t find one that is suitable for the top of the stairs because the railing is in the way, and we didn’t want to backtrack in the progress that we are making…
So Tecky came up with this…
She woke up at 6am when I went over to check on her, before getting ready for work…
She still asked for a hug and to sit on my lap…
12th December 2008 -Â DAY 3…
We encountered another problem…
By keeping the doors open so we could hear her calling, we invited mosquitoes into both of our rooms… Her legs are all scarred with mosquitoe bites, and woke up shouting “OUCH!!!” and then wailing for me to tell me that she had mosquitoe bite on her legs… Upon counting, I found 5 new spots, just that night… So yes, that added another thing to be done for the new house - either mosquitoe netting for the rooms (which we think is ugly) or child monitor so we can keep the doors closed and still hear her (the one we bought 3 years ago, isn’t working anymore… )…
13th December 2008 -Â DAY 4…
The same mozzie problem…
But easily goes back to sleep with us accompanying her for a while…
14th December 2008 -Â DAY 5…
She slept through, without a sound…
Giving her parents a peaceful good night sleep…
15th December 2008 -Â DAY 6…
She woke up in the middle of the night, crying…
Reason being, we kept the door closed to not allow mozzie to fly in, and she cried saying it’s closed and she can’t open it… So I just took her to the door and told her, you can open, TRY!! Then she went back to sleep, with us accompanying her…
Here’s to hoping that our determination works, and she’ll learn to WILLINGLY (instead of being forced) sleep in her own room from now on… *fingers and toes crossed*
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