3yrs and 5months old

Theson is now 3yrs and 5months old.
he is 1-inch taller than he was on his 3rd birthday.
His appetite has increased very much and will eat anything and everything. he's less picky and will try almost anything these days, well, depending on his mood.
He is very smell oriented as he will smell the new food first before eating. (like thewife and her brother as well… me, I’m taste oriented)

Things he can do by himself:
Eating his food
Drinking his water
Climbing stairs.
Getting in and out of the car
Picking his own clothes
Going to the toilet to pee by himself

he still cant brush his teeth by himself, though. we also actively stated brushing his teeth 2x a day since we noticed a “hole” on his front teeth. Dentist appointment has been set up..



Favourites phrases:
I donno
Oh nooo
mimi ...... (are you surprised?)
Let me talk laah
Papa/mimi, go work..
No
Don’t want
Nevermind laah

He can speak a lot of Mandarin and Cantonese phrases as well… I can’t translate though.. sorry…
he know a few nursery rhymes and still loves to us to read books for him.
cat in the hat is still a favourite, followed by peter&jane, gingerbread man, hansel&gretel, 3billy goats gruff.
he knows some of the words like "Run, run fast as you can, __ catch me, I’m the gingerbread man…", "trip trap, trip , trap, i'm going to eat you, papa"...

note:
When thewife was on night shift last week, I called her to chat and once theson got on the phone he said, “Mimi, come home … please… mimi, come home…”
I definitely would not want to be thewife on the other side of the phone. Once in a while theson will pull some “drama” stunt like this.. (well that’s what I call it.. )
I try not to fall for it (but sometimes I do…), but thewife falls for these things all the time..



hes quite good with numbers and alphabets and can recognize most of them.
and we recently taught him to read time as well.. all the major ones..

going to school so far has not been a real problem. its only difficult after long holidays breaks and we need to convince him to go back to school.

music class also is not a problem. again its more of whether hes had his nap or not and his attention span. most days. he will participate and sing but sometimes he will just sit there and ask me to hold his hands to do all the song actions. :-P



and hes still a zombie for oswald, elmo, barney, tubbies and pingu tv shows...

thewife blog

thewife started a blog a few weeks back.
it is interesting to see her insights on things.

vacation plans

we had originally planned to go to goldcoast queensland in australia in may/jun, but with the drastic changes being seen on my project, it definitely not happening. we will need to push it out by 10weeks. sucks.. but thats life..
want to make sure we travel again before thewife gets pregnant.


places we intend to go....
Australia
Italy
Hongkong
Belgium
New Zealand

time to celebrate.

the yearly review really surprised me this year. i kept a poker face throughout the whole conversation when my boss was giving me the good news. 30% up.
i'm also amazed at myself that i jumped nearly 6 grades since I joined the company nearly 10 yrs ago.
wow, 10 years? has it been that long?
i'm nearly at par with thewife. but I have to be careful though. She wants to quit her job and become a fulltime housewife once I earn more than she does. My thought is that in this day and age, we need dual income in order to get by, especially if we want to have another kid. milk powder cost a lot these days.

eating again..

where has my diet gone? arent i supposed to be losing weight? :-)
i'm trying, really... only weight 68kg now..

Went out last Friday to B-Bay to buy dinner since thewife was on night shift. I was hoping to buy the belacan rice and tomyam but the tomyam noodles stall was closed so I had to go with Belacan rice and Koaykak instead. The Belacan rice did not disappoint and the koaykak was surprising good. Nearly as good as the one near our market which I normally frequent. theson also enjoyed it and ate nearly ½ of the koaykak. As usual, after I bought everything, it started to rain…. Had to run to the car with theson in one hand and all the food in the other hand.

Had pork ribs at a ribs restaurant at G-Drive over the weekend since I’ve been craving it for months. Was a bit disappointed although it was much better than the other ribs place that I went to with thewife. This place was actually deserted at 630pm and it was just the 3 of us. i have no idea how they survived all these years. thewife was also very amazed.
anyway, I ordered 2 half ribs with 4 ribs each with mash potato, corn, beans and soup for theson. Ribs still taste good but I noticed they were smaller than what I was expecting. Thewife did not like them much so she passed me ¾ of the ribs on her plate which I happily ate.
Theson enjoyed the mash, corn, beans and soup. His belly was pretty full as he had 4pcs of chicken nuggets earlier on as well. Hes really a growing boy as he will eat everything these days.
Overall rating of 3/5.


We also invested in a half boil egg maker. Previously all our attempts at making ½ boiled eggs with just boiling water and a bowl would end up with only less than 60% success. This time around its 100% success everytime.
i'm always amazed at how thewife eats her ½ boiled eggs, which is drinking it directly from a cup or bowl with a tad of soy sauce. me on the other hand cannot have it without dunking it with buttered toast bread. i never drink it, never.. ever... it's just not right :-)
i also prefer Worcestershire sauce rather than soy sauce.
half-boiled egg and roti canai is also very good combination. with eu-char-kueh is even better. but both are super duper oily and very very very unhealthy.



bought a box of Cadbury triple choc ice cream. taste ok only and its another case of buying something that does not looks like what is shown on the picture on the box. it was supposed to be a treat for myself since i got a raise. i shud have gone for baskins or bulla. too bad no ben&jerrys around here.. darn sad.

also bought a jar of sweet hotdog relish. I had some with my sandwich last nite for dinner, with chicken burger, cheese, lettuce and it was pretty darn good. Will be eating the same thing again tonight. yay!

thewife said that i'm becoming like wanglung from the good earth. i think so too. i called her lotus though.
i must strive to be less extravagant on the food items.
well, i'll try.....

very fishy indeed

went for dinner at the man-fish-market at the nearby shopping mall a few days back.
i ate:
-flaming platter for 1, with fish, rice, chips and prawns
i really liked the fish and the rice but the chips and the prawns were a total letdown. the sauce for the prawns killed it for me as i felt it was too sweet and the fries were like they were made yesterday. i've had better fries.
theson ate practically all the rice.

-mussels in garlic butter sauce with bread for dipping
dont think the mussels were fresh and the bread was quite dry. if i could turn back time, i would not have ordered it.

-sweet alabama
it was a chocolate shake type of drink and i really liked it. i like anything chocolate..

-fish and chips kids meal for theson
fish was quite oily and fries were dry but theson seemed to like the fish.

it was a weekday so not many people and no complaints about the service. but for the food, oveerall, i was not impressed. 2/5 rating only.

night, earth, dragon and diamond

just finished reading elie wiesel's night abt the attempted annihilation of the jewish race in worldwar2. really sad to read abt all the senseless killing that has happened and how they had totally no control abt what was going to happen to them. reminded me abt the oscar award winning movie called life is beautiful by Roberto Benigni about how a father struggled to protect and keep his son alive in a concentration camp.

currently on the last few pages of pearl buck's the good earth abt a chinese farmers struggle and rise from poverty. its also quite a good read and there is a moment in the book i found to be funny, where an older "wanglung", the main character in the book, is reflecting abt his past and abt how simple his life was when he was poor and how it has become more complicated as he got richer. from a poor farmer living in a hut to a master of a household living in a huge mansion.

thewife is reading a jeffrey archer book, false impressions, i believe.

just saw blood diamond as well and again abt senseless civil war in africa because of diamonds and abt child rebel soldiers. good movie with excellent acting from leonardoDC, djimonH and jenniferC.
Eragon on the other hand sucked big-time with really crappy diaogue. i think i'll stick to the books. neither arya nor brom really looked impressive at all.