Obsessed With Train Toy??

Ah.. I am thinking if I am the one obsessed with Dylan's toy. The latest toy collection is Tomy train set. Dylan like the train set altho he doesn't really know how to play.
I went ahead also to buy the additional track for it. Too bad one of the track set has 2 tracks instead of 1 track. Any how, it still can be used. Just that the tracks are not complete yet for the train to run on without falling off the track :)

Now should I go ahead to complete the track??? I just felt it is not complete yet ....

Just hope that Dylan will be grown up enough to play with the train sensibly.... :)

joy ride

Yesterday I brought Dylan to Bukit Jalil park near vista komanwel where I lived many years ago. Once he was on the jogging track, he was running like a adult. I should have bring him to jogging more often. Too bad last few days it was always raining in the evening. So I can only bring him to shopping mall.

I brought him to ride on the LRT after the jogging session. He was very happy sitting in the train. We just ride to Chan Saw Lin station and then turn back. On the way back, he wanted to exit whenever the door was opened :) hahaha....

Next I bring him to carrefour to buy something. He was happy to ride in the buggy that was attached to the shopping cart and didn't want to leave it.

I guess he had a fun day out....

Everyone is Nai Nai

Nowaday Dylan called every one 'Nai Nai'. His nanny said he is following her granddaughter calling her using this name. We think he doesn't know what does Nai Nai means. For him it is just a way to get intended person's attention to his request.

I would try to corrent him when he called me Nai Nai. Ask him to say Mummy. Sometime he get it with a not so perfect pronounciation - muyi.... He can call his daddy quite correctly with Daddy though... That's because I always tell him Daddy this, Daddy that. There is no one to tell him mummy this mummy that... so mummy to him is non-existant.

He can call cats with 'ngiao' but with Mimi I specifically ask him to call her Mimi. :) By the way, I took shower for Mimi yesterday after 1 year :) hahahaha....

He pronounce uncle as unerrr.... car as errr.... can't pronounce well the R sound....

He pronounce 'chong liang' (shower) with different tone :)

Need a Break

Recently, I was quite tired of working life. It is kind of routine. But really still have to work la... to earn some living for old age retirement :).

But again, I think I need to take vacation. And this project that I am doing now seem like non-ending. So I can't predict when I can take leave. And even I take leave, not sure where should I visit. I was thinking of Miri, to spend some time with his family and the kids. Or, going to Memphis to visit my sister there seem I haven't visited her since she move to their new home.

As far as Las Vegas is concern, I think I will pass that :) Coz for me it is just a gambling city that only is beautiful when the nite come. While in Memphis, may be this time I spend more time exploring the city ? :) Of coz, not forgettting Miri, since Sandra mentioned she prefer to stay in Miri than in Sibu. So I guess Miri will have its share of charm.

Hari Raya is around the corner, just around this coming weekend. Didn't have plan so far where to go yet. My mind cannot rest well with the office work lingering around ;( But nowaday, I am better in putting thing down when necessary. That will be a little bit less stressful huh... *sign*...

Share Blanket Together

Yesterday afternoon during nap time, as usual I giveDylan a bottle of water to help his lunch digestion which he took in his bed with blanket on. Later when he was ready to sleep he woke up and then doing something to his blanket so that some part of his blanket is covering me.Not too much,may be only 2% :) As he turned over to sleep, I re-adjust his blanket so that he is properly cover at the body half down. He turned to look my site and started crying. I tot the blanket didn't cover his leg good enough, so I re-adjusted it again. He didn't seem to like it so he woke up again and do his blanket again. Then again turned over to sleep. I do the re-adjustment again and then he noticed it and start crying. It repeated many times. Then I finally got it that he want to share the blanket with me ;) Only then he didn't make any fuss. :) hahahaha....

Nowaday, he will wake me up by force-opening my eyelid and kissed me several time on my cheek :) aiyoh.... so sleepy also hv to wake up lo .... I measured him and he grow 1 inch taller then last measurement. He is growing fast. His appetite seem to be bigger after recovered from the food-poisoning :)

Yesterday evening, I brought him to Jusco as usual for some out of the house atmosphere. When I was still wondering whether need to buy the extra blanket and also doubting the quality of the blankets, he spot the children fun centre again and begged me to bring him there. I have to use this opportunity to train him to be patient. He is to wait until I finish my shopping and queue and paid for the items. Surprisingly he was quite agreeable with what I said. He helped to carry the little tubler ware and queue at the cashier counter. Later we had dinner at McDonald to have his favorite Mc Nugget and Fries. Then only I brought him to the playground. As usual he likes to ride on Merry Go Round several times.

At least now he can listen to instruction not to go in to the escalator by him self. Of course I have to be firmed to him .... So it is like very stern mother's voice in the shopping mall talking to his son ;) ... well, no choice .....

Education - thinking ahead

Monday
Was chatting with Sandra on Skype this morning. She are busy most of the days now. Siet is opening up a hardware trading shop. She is helping up with all the paper works. Sometime she took leave to look after thing regarding the new shop.

We talk about PC connection to the internet at her home. She wanted to have it as well as one in Siet's office. I cautious her on the kids additive to PC game. Only I learnt she has quite some house rule for the kids. No TV from Mon-Fri. Only on weekend :) No wonder her kids academic result is so good :) Strict mummy... following mother's style??? Remember that as we were small, we used to peek the TV from the door's key hole or half way from the stair case. ... hahaha ... She also coached her kids homework. I was worried if I can achieve that the next time with Dylan. May be Dylan will be like most of the city kid being sent to tution centre half of the day which I don'tquite like the idea. In my opinion, those tuition centre are scam to cheat poor parent hard earn money with no guarantee result or cheated result... A lot of scam has been reported lately on exam paper leak in tuition centre. I was wondering how ? And it is such a bad thing to happen. What happen to the real education ... That's why I still prefer to send Dylan to be educated oversea....

Getting Better

After almost a week, Dylan is finally recovered from the food poisoning. And his appetite is picking up. Only once in a while, he is pretending to vomit to avoid me putting more food to his mouth. :) Nanny also mentioned that he will exclaim if the movie scene had people vomitting :).... He made sound like 'errr, errr' to tell u he want to vomit but actually he is not.

I guess he must have lost at least 3 kg from the food poisoning. His waistline is obviously smaller and his chest size from the backview also seemingly narrower. When he raise his hand, can see spare ribs :)

Last Friday at the company's hosted buffet dinner for CIMB group's staff, I also didn't dare to run for the foods especially the oyster. Scared my tummy cannot take it. But I can't resist the sushi fresh salmon's meat :) I ate them with lot of ginger though.... :)

Food Poisoning

Last Friday, we went out for a dinner in Pizza Hut at Aeon Cheras Selatan. Later that nite, Dylan had trouble sleeping well. The next morning, he started to vomit for every thing that he ate. As for myself, I only started on Sunday afternoon, after I spent 3 hours doing flattenning to my hair. I had suspected that the salad bar food was not so clean. Poor Dylan until now still don't have much appetite to eat a good course of meal. Now even can see his spare ribs :(
I hoped he will get well soon within this week.

Yesterday was Farokh's birthday. We didn't celebrate much. Coz he didn't fancy any celebration as usual. I just cooked some dinner. Also, it was Mid Autumn Festival on the same days. We did put up some lantern last Saturday and took some pictures with them hanging on the tree.

Exercise Together

Sunday 16 Sept 2007
We woke up in the evening at around 6pm. Daddy didn't like the idea of driving of the Bukit Jalil park. He wants to do his jogging nearby. So me and dylan also wear our exercise gear and run along side with Farokh. That little fellow can really run. I just scare he will fell down. His knee oredy has 2 bruise mark. I don't want to add another one those knees. Luckily he is quite ok today, didn't fell down once. Later we played ball outside the gate.

Amir like to stay in his room all the time. I am not sure if it is becoz dylan was disturbing him while he is reading downstair or what. But I think he like Dylan to disturb him once in a while, coz feel too lonely kuah.... I wish his school course starts soon, so that he can go out and breath some air sometime....

talking boy

Did I mention that the little fellow is starting to talk to u? I obviously had not. Well, in recent weeks he has been talking more in human language instead of baby talk. He said words like 'nana' which means banana, 'tain' mean trains,'ori' mean lori, 'sin-sin' means stars, 'heio' mean hello !! When he said 'heio', it is really loud :) He can say daddy quite accurately but not too much mentioning mummy of which he pronouces it as 'mury'.....

I sent him to one trial session of Tick Tock Beats class last saturday where the teachers uses music to teach the kids to listen to simple instruction and be able to concentrate for at least 45 minutes. Well, he was running around wanted to try out new toys around ;) He only follow instruction of those insterest him like jumping, shaking toys to make loud noise.

I bought him a train with rail road yesterday and now he is busy with the trains. The nanny advise me not to buy him toys as they have store up some old toys and had not had the time to sort them out. But later she mentions well, u hv to clean up the toys after he done playing with it. Well, so I don't know if she will let Dylan play or not at the end .... *sign*

Visitors from Iran

We have new visitors from Iran since last Saturday. They are Amir Abdanan and his mother, Vida. Amir is coming here to study while awaiting for is US immigration interview arrangement to be transfer to Abu Dhabi.

Vida had gone back to Iran yesterday after helping her son to do course registration and trust Farokh with Amir's expense money. Amir will stay with us until his school starts in Bukit Jalil TPM, when he will stay in the hostel.

Amir mentioned that Malaysia is better than Armenia, where he had stayed for 5 months before his father decided to 'deport' him to Malaysia.

Dylan was sticking well with them after only 1 days with them. Last nite he was disturbing Amir when he was trying to read his story book.

Missing In Action

Hey, I am back again. After missing from action for a few months. I think that was since after I left Canada on the 29th Jan 2007. I am not sure of the reason that I stop writing. May be I was too busy getting thing to the way I want again. Or trying to bring back every piece of my life that was disconnected at this part of the world.

Well, so far, I think I have accomplished that I think. But once in a while I will still think what is going to happen if I am still in Canada. May be I have found a job already. Farokh will have a job too. And Dylan is in some day care playing with other kids. Sometimes, I will think about what is the weather like in Canada now. I get this information from Alex Guo when he show up online in Skype. can't blame myself from thinking about that because that is what I want to see at the first place when decided to move there at the first place. Guess this dream will only be fullfilled when I retire from my job; when Dylan is to study in North America, not necessary in Canada, may be in US, which I think is a better place to live. More roomy country and warmer place :)

Well, as u can see, I am still dreaming about going there some days. Alex Guo still nagging about when we will go back again. He will offer transport from the airport and accomodation... hahahah... that is very nice of him. According to him, he life is great there. Also, David is going to travel with 2 girls !! Good for him .... hahaha... I guess he is too busy now to reply email to me ... Now I am waiting if he is going to get married or not... That's one of the thing that he wants to achieve too !!! hahahaha....

Well, u will see me more here .... More writing in English instead of Mandarin. hahahaha....

Women can !!!

These days, most of the days were raining. The sky was heavy with cloud, grey and thick. Like it is going to blanket u, leaving u with no breath. The only entertainment that we have apart from the TV news and 8pm thru 11pm sitcom, we were observing how people manuvour the giant trucks behind our apartment narrow alley.

This afternoon, there was this lady who drove a truck to pick up a loaded Ring-A-Binn bin filled with next door tree trunks and leave and what ever debris they managed to gather from the surrounding of the house. At first I was not so sure it was a woman or man, can't tell from the oversized cloth and the big rain coat that he/she were wearing. After she had covered the bin with a giant canvas and crawled back to the driver seat, I was confirmed that it was a her with nice curly golden hair. She moved the bin loader arm with skill and at the same time have to manuvour the big truck to load the giant bin in position. No problem at all !!!

I waved bye-bye to her from the balcony window and urged Dylan to did the same. As usual, he only waved when the truck was out of sight. :)

秋天 还是 冬天

近来雨多了 夜也长了
天气阴雨连绵
下午五点多 天空就已黑了
隔天七点早上 天就亮了

想要出去的话 要得想一想
等巴士 有时要等上半句钟
手脸都冷了 虽然我们都全副武装

没有雨的日子 天气更冷了
远处的山峰还盖着白帽呢
晚上的温度下到零下两度呢
温暖机温度调到三十度 所以硕不知到底有多冷
早上起床了 第一件事就是去看一下有没有下雪
虽然没抱多大希望
啊 邻居的车镜有一层白霜
在看看下 地上也有一些白霜的痕迹呢
太兴奋了 机刹的排了几张相片

天气报告说 这是十一月的天气
叫人期代着十二月的天气

秋天的脚印

秋天终余来到。
九月和十月头期间，太阳还每天高挂在蓝天。
近来一星期里，有三四天下雨。
要看到太阳，好难咯！
每天守着气象报告，追踪太阳的痕迹。
遇到‘好’天气，就忙着计划要带华璋去那里散心。
第一次处身在秋天的怀抱里，心情很激动。。。
虽然不是一个太极端的秋天（至少我是这样认为）。。。
看到满地红黄的枫叶，敢快搜出我那2megapixel的相机，机刹的拍了许多的像片，恐怕大风会把那美丽的图画一扫而空。
忙着欣赏风景，不知不觉秋天的风，吹得我俩的手冷冰冰。
啊。。。刚快回家吧！不然又要伤风了。
要顾好身子，下次去另一个秋天的国度游缆！

North Vancouver

Today we had Farokh's friend Kourash who lives in North Vancouver brought us around in his VW. We couldn't get our selves ready by the time he arrived to pick us up. I was just about to take shower for Dylan when he reached...

We visited the Londale Quay Market, a reasonable priced Iranian grocery shop and Capilano Mall. We bought at Tri-cycle there for Dylan. The weather is not too bad although it was a cloudy day and it still is as I am writing this.

Boy in the closet

Dylan has found new place to hide ... in the closet. It doesn't matter whether it is in cloth closet o the closet where we put our shoes... Sometimes he will play under the dining table as well... I will put some shots when I managed to get one :) Ah... last nite w
e have a free used display cabinet given by a friend's father in law. He got new place to hide !!

Deer Lake Park

We went to Deer Lake Park on Sunday. It was a cold day. My hand was freezing. Dylan was sleeping all the while starting from the bus trip. I tot he will wake up when I strolled him on at bumpy path.... But he slept on. Only until I reached the Esso station where Farokh worked, then only he woke up... He missed out all the nice picture that I wanted to take for him.

We went to the boat renting plaace. There Dylan had a few swing all by himself. I hope there is such swing in Malaysia too !!!

We were back by 7pm too after waiting for the bus like 45 minutes. Wow!!! My hand was freezing again. Dylan was wearing 4 shirts, I hoped he doesn't feel cold :P... only his leg is cold when I took off his shoes and sock .... ;P

Cleaniness is my concern now ...

We went to Loughheed Mall on Saturday. My intention is to seek after an affordable vacumm cleaner. My apartment has not been vacummed since we moved in. U know, with all the food that Dylan dropped on the floor and cat's shedding. I don't want to imagine what is happening on the carpet floor right now... just keep an eye closed.

Well, got a Dirt Devel Dynamite on promotional price. Dunno what was the usual price. But this one, I think we still can afford - for CDN$55-$60. Can't remember the exact price. One of these days, Farokh will hv to get it. Hopefully it will not too late b4 the price changed!!!

Ah, we took a bus trip there. Oh my god, the bus went into all the housing area, turning here and there. It made me headache by the end of road trip. When I reached, (with Dylan sound aslept in his stroller), I have to figure out where is Wal-Mart. There are SEARS, BAY, SAFEWAY, SPORTCHECK.... There it goes, Wal-Mart sign said go straight ahead. We walk across Austin Road. We were in Bay Outfitter, went thru it and I was in another shopping paradise.... Can't find Wal-Mart.... well, just walked ahead, oh... it is at the second floor there ... got to find an elevator now... walked back to where I came from, yes, the elevator is right beside the Lotto stall !!

We spend hours in Wal-Mart. Looking for the vacumm cleaner, got which model I want. Looking up to see where is chidren's toy area. Yes, straight ahead. Pick up free food sample - some flake, for Dylan, on the way. While he was busy munchingon the snack, I checked on the smallest plastic bicycle. It was around $40. Put Dylan on another bigger one, his leg can reach the pedal, but the hand handle is too high and wide for him to grip. No, this one definitely he will fail down in no time. Went back to the rubber one. Yes, he is doing fine but the feet can't reach the pedal in front. So he put his feet on the floor to go back and forth... Oh no, now he did't want to come out of the wheel.... A nice gentleman helped to settle Dylan back on his stroller again. Of coz with tear all over.

We went to the toys and got him a Rumble Truck. I let him play all the other toys. why not !

The store is closing soon at 6pm. Here all the stores closed early. Friday has longer business hour. I grap a Peppercorn grinder, a potato chips snack and said good-bye to wal-mart.

I took the skytrain back this train, less headache. Was home by 7pm something. We were out at around 2:30 pm.

I just heat up some canned bean and stir an egg to our leftover food from yesterday. Ah... we had to go toilet after that... guess the food was no good oredy... Dylan just had a bottle of milk and few spoonful of the not so nice food... :P But I gave him plate full of grape.... that was our dinner then...

We are in Canada

We have recently moved to canada on the 9 Sept 2006. Hahaha... people who concern we might have problem in getting into the flight !! U know, becoz of the tighter security in airport and it was close to 911!!! We were travelling ok, except, when in Taiwan, boarding to leave for Canada, farokh's passport is under scrutiny. Farokh was very upset. I told him to show them his PR card. Finally they apologied. We have a nicer seating, economic plus++ The seat are wider. Boy boy basinet was too small for him. The bassinet actually half drop off when he awake for the first time. We put him on the floor. Later the flight attendant told us it was not safe for small people to sleep on the floor... So no choice, i had hugged him on the body. and of coz his body keep sliding down.... there,.... sleepless nite/day ....