@ the beach

the weather was perfect, the breeze washes our face gently, the bright blue sky encompass the background and the ray reflected the not so clear, not so blue water. the setting was set for the first beach trip for Gabby.

well, a story indeed well written for Gabby's beach trip. you see, i love the sea, a lot...i love to just gaze into the horizon. i love the sound of the sea water crashing into the rocks. so i think its just natural that Gabby should love the sea too.

but to our surprise, on her maiden visit to the beach she just totally enjoyed it. She loves the wave, she loves the sands and she loves the sun too. No fear or whatsoever when she first set foot on the wet sand.

Think about it....

When you bring your child to the park, do you worry about the hygiene of the equipments, that is like do you wipe every equipments that they going to touch? I can be sure that the answer would be a NO. Why is that? When we go to outside food stall to eat, we wipe their utensils before giving to our children, we wipe the high chair and everything right? Needlessly ironic and hypocrite right? I'm not pointing fingers to anyone else though. I am what I hv said.

So, the question is that, are the park's equipment clean?

I brought my Gabby to Youth Park a couple of times in the past 3 weeks and i didn't remember that I ever clean or wipe the things that she gonna touch. Think about it. In the meantime, I include a video on my Gabby's last trip to the park where she took a ride down on her own.

a milestone achieved....

The first few days...


1 and 1/2 years later

One Saturday morning back in April 2007, I was awaken by mewife. With tears running down her cheek and one hand holding the test stripe, she told me that its "POSITIVE". I was like still in dreamland, just too shock to say anything.a moment of true blurness.

Then in the evening of 17 Dec 2007, my girl saw the light of the world. It was the beginning of new phase in our lives and also the screeching halt to late nite movies at the cinema, supper beside the road and road trips with frens to the end of the world.

Moving forward to present days, this little baby grew to become the cutest and most adorable girl in the family. Likable and found favour in the eyes of many, strangers and frens alike. Much love has been poured to this girl.

This month marks a milestone for her,she is one and a half years old on 17th Jun. A milestone achieved with great joy. We are looking forward to see her grow and learn...

prosperity.. or not?

The chinese will always have anecdote for every situation..some are spot on and some are really ridiculous.

It has been a couple of times when it rained heavily, my workstation was flooded...ok.ok..not exactly flooded but the ceiling above it just opened up. and a pool of water sprung up on my desk. When my colleagues know about it, guess what was their comment? "Prosperity is coming", they said.

When people talk about big belly and round face, what do the chinese says? They say its a sign of Prosperity.

For me big belly and round face means closer to the grave. Come on and stone me for saying that but I think it's the truth and nothing but the truth. The photo below was taken back in Feb'07. And the most recent photo taken with my baby girl was just last mth. Can you see the difference in just 2 years of continuous food intake and without even exercising. Scary right? Do you call that prosperity? I called it incidental suicide.

Last weekend during a visit to Youth Park while bringing my Gabby out to play, I met my frens, This couple with 2 children just came down from hiking up the hill. When I look at them, both of them look so energized. They do exercise on very regular basis. This fren of mine is preparing for his triathlon next year. This guy has 2 kids and still able to do it. I'm like, what the heck? what was i doing for the past 2 years?

So after a knock to the head last week, I realize that this got to stop and i got to start somewhere. So I decided to skip my usual heavy lunch of Banana Leaf Rice, "kay Pui" and the "not so" economy rice.

I thought of having breakfast and then some biscuits in between. The funny thing is that for the days that I was seating in my workstation during lunch time, colleagues were asking, "you on diet ah?", "you not eating ah, thats not you lah" and so on and so on.

I'm like look here, can't you guys at least support me here. I'm trying to stay healthy here..duh!!

Anyway, my point is I got to start somewhere and from here i will move on to like start exercising. Hopefully with my new gained determination, I'll be living a much healtier life..

Taken in Feb'07


Taken in May'09 with Gabby