12 December 2008
a b c d a h l i a
a b c d a h l i a
skwaitwains and bopanes..
i love love this photo taken sneakily with the mobile, of zee and asfa, tengah tengok bopane.we survived trudging our northern lighted selfs along the north west train tracks for quite some time back in the days, eh?
then surprisingly so, when we both worked down south we made it again to share foul body odours (theirs, not ours most definitely) and cramped spaces. ooh and the occasional alligator sightings! heehee!
beb i think catching up during the afternoon we had wasnt really catching up. it was more of a playing catching with the kids! wish The Princess was able to join but apa kan daya, princess sakit kaki terjatuh dari kuda Knight In Shining Armour dia agaknya :)
another proper catching up date soon ok!
Labels: 1-2yrs, babyfriends, sonicyouth
night time terror vs madras' chai tea
two nights ago we battled with the little terror's latest phase, waking up in the middle of the night screaming for no reason. she's been doing that a few times now.. and we've probably exhausted ourselves with all the reasons there can be. "she's sweaty.. tak kena kipas".. "maybe her nose's blocked".. "too much play in the day!" are some examples of what we mumble in our sleepy stupor while cradling a fussy D in our lap.a bit of googling and i realise it is a phase afterall, probably a sense of wonderment and retracting what she's done in the day.. and all summed up in that short sleep she had. we try as much not to throw in the bottle, because we don't want to promote tooth decay. so the next best thing is to squeeze two bear-like beings with one small teddy bear in the middle. top it up with an awkward sleeping position and you have someone with a bad backache reading your RD jokes' submissions.
this morning the boy rewarded me with an early breakfast pitstop before Bad Backache Girl starts reading your RD jokes' submissions. a short trip to our favourite shoppe along upper dickson road. piping hot chai tea tarik, crispy rawa dosai, freshly fried melt-in-your-mouth vadai and you have sated happy me.you can never go wrong with madras. we've never actually ordered anything that we didnt like. and we've never stopped at ordering once hehe. it's nice to know their resident rajnikanth recognises us from the many times we've been there. this time, i thought it was a bit too early for mango lassi. but they surprised us with their fresh vadais this morning. i doggybagged two, but left it in the car only to realise when i entered the office lift :(
we wondered as we sipped our chai teas, if madras will still be here to cater to our early morning best in the world dosai cravings in 2035, and if our little terror will enjoy madras' food as much as we do.
hopefully so, eh? :)
Labels: 1-2yrs, chowtalk, smugmarrieds
comment-comment yang tak membina, no thanks.
today's the 2nd day running in a very very very long time that the little terror finished up both her porridge meals, mashed fish and all! so i'm happy beyond words, coz you see, i get all these jibes about me curbing her food intake and not allowing her to taste everything there is out there.. and things like "try giving her fried chicken, i'm sure she'll finish it! she probably thinks what you cook tastes like crap!" is so unneccesary. i have ideas in my head with what to retort to your unwelcomed comments, but i'm nice like that.
ah, who cares?! she finished everything i cooked for two days straight! let me bask in happiness! and this, i received in the mail..
Are You Ready To Have Kids?
Test 1
Women: to prepare for maternity, put on a dressing gown and stick a beanbag down the front. Leave it there for 9 months. After 9 months remove 10% of the beans.
Men: to prepare for paternity, go to a local chemist, tip the contents of your wallet onto the counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself. Then go to the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office. Go home. Pick up the newspaper and read it for the last time.
Test 2
Find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels and how they have allowed their children to run wild. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child’s sleeping habits, toilet training, table manners and overall behaviour. Enjoy it. It will be the last time in your life that you will have all the answers.
Test 3
To discover how the nights will feel:
1. Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 4 - 6kg, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly.
2. At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go to sleep.
3. Get up at 12pm and walk the bag around the living room until 1am.
4. Set the alarm for 3am.
5. As you can’t get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup of tea.
6. Go to bed at 2.45am.
7. Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs in the dark until 4am.
9. Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off.
10. Make breakfast. Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.
Test 4
Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems:
1. Buy a live octopus and a string bag.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that no arms hang out.
3. Time allowed for this: all morning.
Test 5
Forget the BMW and buy a practical 5 door wagon. And don’t think that you can leave it out on the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don’t look like that.
1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment.
2. Leave it there.
3. Get a coin. Insert it into the cd player.
4. Take a family size packet of chocolate biscuits; mash them into the back seat.
5. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.
Test 6
Get ready to go out
1. Wait
2. Go out the front door
3. Come back in again
4. Go out
5. Come back in again
6. Go out again
7. Walk down the front path
8. Walk back up it
9. Walk down it again
10. Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.
11. Stop, inspect minutely and ask at least 6 questions about every piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue and dead insect along the way.
12. Retrace your steps
13. Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the neighbours come out and stare at you.
14. Give up and go back into the house.
15. You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.
Test 7
Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.
Test 8
Go to the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child.
A full-grown goat is excellent.
If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat.
Buy your weeks groceries without letting the goat(s) out of your sight.
Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys. Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.
Test 9
1. Hollow out a melon
2. Make a small hole in the side
3. Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it side to side
4. Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon while pretending to be an aeroplane.
5. Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.
6. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the floor.
7. You are now ready to feed a 12-month old child.
Test 10
Learn the names of every character from the Wiggles, Barney, Dora and Bob the Builder.
Watch nothing else on television for at least 5 years.
Test 11
Can you stand the mess children make? To find out:
1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains
2. Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flower beds and then rub them on clean walls.
4. Cover the stains with crayon.
How does that look?
Test 12
Make a recording of someone shouting “Mummy” repeatedly. Important: no more than a 4 second delay between each Mummy occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet if required. Play this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next 4 years. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.
Test 13
Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continually tug on your shirt hem or shirt sleeve while playing the Mummy tape listed above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.
Test 14
Put on your finest work attire.
Pick a day on which you have an important meeting.
Now:
1. Take a cup of cream and put 1 cup of lemon juice in it
2. Stir
3. Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt
4. Saturate a towel with the other half of the mixture
5. Attempt to clean your shirt with the same saturated towel
6. Do not change, you have no time.
7. Go directly to work
You are now ready to have kids.
18 November 2008ah, who cares?! she finished everything i cooked for two days straight! let me bask in happiness! and this, i received in the mail..
Are You Ready To Have Kids?
Test 1
Women: to prepare for maternity, put on a dressing gown and stick a beanbag down the front. Leave it there for 9 months. After 9 months remove 10% of the beans.
Men: to prepare for paternity, go to a local chemist, tip the contents of your wallet onto the counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself. Then go to the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office. Go home. Pick up the newspaper and read it for the last time.
Test 2
Find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels and how they have allowed their children to run wild. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child’s sleeping habits, toilet training, table manners and overall behaviour. Enjoy it. It will be the last time in your life that you will have all the answers.
Test 3
To discover how the nights will feel:
1. Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 4 - 6kg, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly.
2. At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go to sleep.
3. Get up at 12pm and walk the bag around the living room until 1am.
4. Set the alarm for 3am.
5. As you can’t get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup of tea.
6. Go to bed at 2.45am.
7. Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs in the dark until 4am.
9. Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off.
10. Make breakfast. Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.
Test 4
Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems:
1. Buy a live octopus and a string bag.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that no arms hang out.
3. Time allowed for this: all morning.
Test 5
Forget the BMW and buy a practical 5 door wagon. And don’t think that you can leave it out on the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don’t look like that.
1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment.
2. Leave it there.
3. Get a coin. Insert it into the cd player.
4. Take a family size packet of chocolate biscuits; mash them into the back seat.
5. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.
Test 6
Get ready to go out
1. Wait
2. Go out the front door
3. Come back in again
4. Go out
5. Come back in again
6. Go out again
7. Walk down the front path
8. Walk back up it
9. Walk down it again
10. Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.
11. Stop, inspect minutely and ask at least 6 questions about every piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue and dead insect along the way.
12. Retrace your steps
13. Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the neighbours come out and stare at you.
14. Give up and go back into the house.
15. You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.
Test 7
Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.
Test 8
Go to the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child.
A full-grown goat is excellent.
If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat.
Buy your weeks groceries without letting the goat(s) out of your sight.
Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys. Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.
Test 9
1. Hollow out a melon
2. Make a small hole in the side
3. Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it side to side
4. Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon while pretending to be an aeroplane.
5. Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.
6. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the floor.
7. You are now ready to feed a 12-month old child.
Test 10
Learn the names of every character from the Wiggles, Barney, Dora and Bob the Builder.
Watch nothing else on television for at least 5 years.
Test 11
Can you stand the mess children make? To find out:
1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains
2. Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flower beds and then rub them on clean walls.
4. Cover the stains with crayon.
How does that look?
Test 12
Make a recording of someone shouting “Mummy” repeatedly. Important: no more than a 4 second delay between each Mummy occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet if required. Play this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next 4 years. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.
Test 13
Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continually tug on your shirt hem or shirt sleeve while playing the Mummy tape listed above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.
Test 14
Put on your finest work attire.
Pick a day on which you have an important meeting.
Now:
1. Take a cup of cream and put 1 cup of lemon juice in it
2. Stir
3. Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt
4. Saturate a towel with the other half of the mixture
5. Attempt to clean your shirt with the same saturated towel
6. Do not change, you have no time.
7. Go directly to work
You are now ready to have kids.
Labels: 1-2yrs, baby d, babymakan, mommyzine
when you lower your expectations..
.. or you're just plain delusional heh.
mak: dahlia.. say i-bu!
anak: aaaa-aaaah!
mak: eeeee-buuuuu..
anak: aaaa-aaaaaah!
mak: dahlia, say eeee-buuuu!
anak: aaaaaaa-bu!
mak: *joget monyet* yeayyy close enough!!!
11 November 2008mak: dahlia.. say i-bu!
anak: aaaa-aaaah!
mak: eeeee-buuuuu..
anak: aaaa-aaaaaah!
mak: dahlia, say eeee-buuuu!
anak: aaaaaaa-bu!
mak: *joget monyet* yeayyy close enough!!!
stock mart
now that D's rejecting porridge and will only take rice, i've started to prepare stock/broth beforehand, simmered for a good 2 hrs before left to cool, and then poured into plastic bags and kept in the freezer.
her mee sua + soup lunch yesterday
ingredients for the chicken stock
10 November 2008
reFresh
the laplips were getting dusty :)
in other news, D's been blurbing out her porridge for a few days now, poor girl's upper set of teeth is slowly but surely popping out so appetite's gone down for a bit. today i had to resort to mee sua and soup for lunch. halfway she started to spit out the mee sua too (!!) so for dinner she had normal rice and soup.. macam betul ajer budak ni.. gigi baru dua dah nak makan nasi!
saturday since pa was away for a roadtrip with his hommies (ha!) and the boy was working, we decided to bring ma and D out for late lunch at the airport.. and someone had fun literally running around T3! shows that my love for the airport was never a mistake.. hopefully she loves the place as much as i do :)
self entertaining while the adults devour popeye's
first time at the playground!
running..
running away from monsterbibik
running after monsterbibik!
baby D conquered T3!
her latest pout
a mickey and friends coincidence!
her cheesy impersonation of mickey mouse
30 October 2008in other news, D's been blurbing out her porridge for a few days now, poor girl's upper set of teeth is slowly but surely popping out so appetite's gone down for a bit. today i had to resort to mee sua and soup for lunch. halfway she started to spit out the mee sua too (!!) so for dinner she had normal rice and soup.. macam betul ajer budak ni.. gigi baru dua dah nak makan nasi!
saturday since pa was away for a roadtrip with his hommies (ha!) and the boy was working, we decided to bring ma and D out for late lunch at the airport.. and someone had fun literally running around T3! shows that my love for the airport was never a mistake.. hopefully she loves the place as much as i do :)
tateh to ibu..
dearest dahlia,
was it just last week that we had that private conversation about taking time growing up so fast?
home alone three days ago, we were tumbling in bed and when i had to have a pee break you held on to my leg and let out the softest mews unwilling me to leave you alone just for a bit. so i tied an imaginary knot in my bladder and continued tumbling around with you, playing peekaboo and tickledoodledoo. not 5 minutes later i REALLY had to go so we held hands and i placed you in the bathtub while you watch heh. then we held hands again out to the living room just in time for your favourite mickey mouse show on 34.
i sat on the floor while you stood, still holding my hand. when the hotdog song came along i slowly let go of your little finger and you amazingly stood still the entire hotdog song! so i inched backwards and let you stand by yourself till you realised, and you shot me the "ibu i'm falling!" look. and that's when i pointed both my index fingers up and said "ok dahlia.. wait.. wait..."
and you waited! you pointed your own index fingers, then took a few steps in front.. your very first confident steps! three days later, a few minutes ago ayah beamed with price looking at you toddling all over the room at Lola's :)
and ibu? ibu had to take a moment and wipe her own tears coz she can't believe her baby's all grown up. we love you Baby D :)
check out her professional u-turning lol. dont mind my ghastly outlook, i had my Peserta-peserta Mencari Teman dari Variapop 1993 garb on for the night heh.
28 October 2008was it just last week that we had that private conversation about taking time growing up so fast?
home alone three days ago, we were tumbling in bed and when i had to have a pee break you held on to my leg and let out the softest mews unwilling me to leave you alone just for a bit. so i tied an imaginary knot in my bladder and continued tumbling around with you, playing peekaboo and tickledoodledoo. not 5 minutes later i REALLY had to go so we held hands and i placed you in the bathtub while you watch heh. then we held hands again out to the living room just in time for your favourite mickey mouse show on 34.
i sat on the floor while you stood, still holding my hand. when the hotdog song came along i slowly let go of your little finger and you amazingly stood still the entire hotdog song! so i inched backwards and let you stand by yourself till you realised, and you shot me the "ibu i'm falling!" look. and that's when i pointed both my index fingers up and said "ok dahlia.. wait.. wait..."
and you waited! you pointed your own index fingers, then took a few steps in front.. your very first confident steps! three days later, a few minutes ago ayah beamed with price looking at you toddling all over the room at Lola's :)
and ibu? ibu had to take a moment and wipe her own tears coz she can't believe her baby's all grown up. we love you Baby D :)
check out her professional u-turning lol. dont mind my ghastly outlook, i had my Peserta-peserta Mencari Teman dari Variapop 1993 garb on for the night heh.
Labels: 1-2yrs, baby d, milestones, mommyzine, theBoy
going green?
still on the topic of baby food, i've lost count as to how many times i cracked my head to think of things to include in her porridge. here's a new addi(c)tion, she wipes the bowl clean with this one!
1 frozen cube of steamed and pureed spinach & asparagus mix, diced carrots, wolfberries and white bait!
isn't really appeasing for the eyes but hey, it's filled with rich goodness hokay!
25 October 2008
1 frozen cube of steamed and pureed spinach & asparagus mix, diced carrots, wolfberries and white bait!
isn't really appeasing for the eyes but hey, it's filled with rich goodness hokay!
syiok makan?
training a baby to self feed is never a no-mess event, so get ready your wipeclothes! here's D with her vanilla yoghurt :)
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