Playing catch-up

My friend Karen called me a few days back to meet up, see, I'm lucky I have friends like her who really make an effort to catch up. Karen was my college buddy a long long time ago when I took up Hotel Management, and really apart from looking better as every year passes, she has not changed a bit, still funny, warm with a wonderful sense of Malaysian humour.

Well not that much has changed actually, except that these days Karen & Dennis totes their their 7 month old Kaylie for our late lunch at Friday's @ The Curve. Just a few months back I blogged that Karen welcomed her bundle of joy into the world and swoosh, seven months has passed and Kaylie now has 4 teeth already and well on her way to taking her first baby steps. The girl is adorable I tell you, nice and chubby with cute doe eyes reminience of Karen's own.

So we caught up with our lives over scrumptious food, and had an absolutely wonderful time together. Kaylie was ever nice and stayed alert and happy throughout our long lunch, and it was Niki who got antsy, and wanted to go shopping. We of course took her once we said our goodbyes to Karen, Dennis and Kaylie.

On the way into the Curve, Niki saw Baskins and forced her Daddy to get her ice-cream. She finished it all by herself and Mommy and Daddy didn't get any, well we got to wipe the ice-cream off her face though. Big bully that one I tell you!

Niki vs. Daddy

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree I tell you.

More so, in the case of Niki and her Daddy.

Those two had a battle of "let's see who's the stubborn one" yesterday.

Each one with their own stand, and refusing to backdown.

Me, yeah I'm stuck with the role of a mediator, and mediated a truce between the two, Niki finally gave in and said sorry to her Daddy and her Daddy also gave in and accepted her apology with a hug.

Finally, the " I don't want to friend you" war was over .. after 40 minutes!

Today, it was raining, and the girl didn't want to wake up for school, but when she was up she already buddy-buddy with her Daddy, and the supremely stubborn duo were the best of friends again.

The kindy report

Came back to the office half past two, had a 45 min chat with Niki's kindy principal. Very enlightening, talked about kiddies and stuff, and I guess being a parent today is not as straight-forward as it was back in our day. There's a lot involved and though I may not always know the right thing to do for Niki, of course we'll try our best to provide the best we can for her.

Anyways back to the kindy report, well I found out how they put 30 kids to bed at the same time :-) and saw Niki taking her afternoon nap together with some of her little friends, mental note : to get a bigger blankie for her, well she's not as small as we thought she was! Niki's doing very well at school actually and has her own little gang, ie. Nicholas aka Mohawk Boy (he's got a funky mohawak cut) and Shiu Ling, a cute little girl with a pixie cut. The gang plays together and hang together, according to the principal she does mix with the other kids pretty well but likes the twosome the best!

And after 3 weeks' Niki has learnt how to share, play together, and knows that she can't always get her way.

Ok, gotta go do some work, later!

I'm so Behind

On my blogging, I've meaning to blog but didn't seem to have the time these past few days. I think it's because of work, yeah I'm gonna blame it on work.

Anyways in about half an hour time I'm gonna drop by Niki's kindy for a surprise visit, just to check up on her and how's she's doing in school. Her teacher said that's she doing fine but I'm still curious. Actually I'm curious on how she gets on with her classmates, how she interacts and of course how she's doing the mass napping thing. I mean, c'mon how do they get a whole bunch of 30-odd kids below 6 to take their nap all at the same time, that's an accomplishment, ain't it?

So I'll be off soon and I'll report once I get back.

See ya!

Autobots roll out!

After all the super hype about the movie we finally went and saw it! and OMG it does live up to all the hype! We love it! I loved it! I like Bumblebee coz he is just so darn cute and not to mention he's canary yellow so he kinda remind me of "Tweety" my jeep!

Also we need to bring Niki to go watch Harry Potter, coz she's been asking and we've been ignoring her requests, cannot ignore much longer coz she can be persistent! Seriously, I've never seen a more persistent kid and she's got this elephant memory thing that's kinda scary and irritating at the same time.

Heheheh! and Niki's Mommy & Daddy got to go out last Saturday night and relive past glories, we went to Modesto's and Orange @ Hartamas, it was fun and ended the night with a whopper jr, so it was perfect!

We went and fetched her from Vicky's parent's place yesterday afternoon and boy was the kid angry actually there's a better term than angry which can be initialled as f-g p-d but this blog has a pg-13 tag so no obsenities, hence we shall contend with really angry! Well managed to get back to her good books by watching kipper and pingu 3x on the way home!

Niki's 2 years and 8 months

Our baby is now 2 years & 8 months old.

Our baby can now say "Niki don't want to friend, Daddy or Mummy!"in an indignant tone :-)

Here's two pix of our darling wearing a very girly blue dress with matching a bucket cap before her play date with her cousins Darsha, Lavin & Shaarvin.

Mondays!

Is always blue, nothing's ever gonna change that!

Grouchy me sent Niki to school at 8.25am and went to the office,

at 9.30 - 9.45 had nasi lemak and iced coffee, and stomach's not feeling too good now.

On a brighter note, we went school shooping for Niki last Saturday, got her a new lime green keroppi backpack and spongebob water bottle for school ( I simply, utterly love both of these!!!)and a spanking new pair of jeans among other things. Niw if only I can find her the perfect pair of summer thongs in lime green as well.

I wanna sleep!

It's Sunday, and its pouring outside.

Which is quite nice coz most Sundays are sunny days, but today, mmmmm..

the gang's staying at home, Daddy's cooking and we're having a movie marathon,

watches The Pathfinder (gore! slaughter! and more gore!), snoozefest The Last Time (a Micheal Keaton porn at best!) and another one with Adam Sandler & Don Cheadle which was quite good but I can't remember the title.

Niki's taking a late evening nap now.

While her Daddy and I are just chilling and discussing how much we've aged ... cough, splutter I mean .. changed since having Niki! And yeah, I feel like snuggling up with the blankie and snoozing for a bit, too! zzzzzzzzzzzz ..

Nikita at School

Here's some things we learnt about Niki while she's at school:

1) She has 2 friends that we know of by name : Shiu Ling and Nicholas

2) She loves to pay the slides more than the sand box

3) She loves the music and movement classes

4) She recognizes some of her school mates even though they were from different classes and they recognizes her too

5) She can tell her teacher she needs to wee-wee or ka-ka (the same does not apply to me!)

6) The only time she has on diapers in school is when she's sleeping!

7) Drinks more h2o then she does at home (again this I contribute to peer pressure)

8) Her class is currently practising to put on a show for the school's annual concert in October

9) She sits next to the teacher in class

10) She sits on the first row when they are on the floor

Listing all this makes me so proud of my Niki!

Harry Potter and Transformers has landed!

Two movies of gigantic proportion and so little time, but..must make time, gonna hit the screens this weekend, can't wait. Heard so much hype about the Transformers movie, gonna wait to be blown away.

On a totally unrelated note, JK Rowling said that the Order of the Phoenix was her favourite book, to me it was the longest!!

Tis' the season to be flu-ey

ai sei .. the whole gang is down with flu, its in season now.

nose all congested, throat all dry and scratchy *cough*

however my mind's clear .. yet don't know what to write coz having writer's block.

one thing tho remember I was telling about Niki's toilet training well, it got jeapordized during the weekend, guess we're to blame! Need to have better follow-through, scout's honour to follow-through with her training this weekend!

until then gonna nurse all of us back to health!

BBQ at Mohan's

Bbq nite on the 7th, when people are getting married, we were busy making merry and stuffing our faces at Mohan's pre-house warming party, yeah we're like that.. any excuse for a drinking session, alkie to the end I guess! Vicky made one heckuva marinated chicken ala mediterranean which was oh so good!

Just some updates here;
1) Niki fell from the lazy boy chair whilst there
2) Vicky drank from a "vase"
3) Vicky has like 1 & 3/4 piece of chicken wing only coz he was busy grilling for us, I on the other hand I had like 3 pieces!
4) And yeah, Vicky and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary ;-) there were literally fire works!!

Chicken Pox jab!

Niki's going for her chicken pox jab today, since she's already going to school, we feel its good to ensure that she's protected from the dreaded poxies. Anyways both Vicky & I have not gotten our poxies yet..instead we took the painless way out .. vaccination! Good or bad I don't know la. Now I wonder if the vaccination has an expiry date, coz we took the jab ages ago! Well gonna ask the good doctor this evening.

Toilet-training

Here's a grey subject, when's the right time to start?

How do you start?

With a lot of what-if's in between.

A couple of months back we walked into Mothercare and found this really cute potty helper, I loved the rubber duck design and so did Niki. Niki calls it Toilet Duck (yeah, like the cleaner ha ha!). And so we told Niki to let us know when she wants to go for her shee-shee and her ka-ka but it has not worked out like we imagined, because she has likened Toilet Duck to more of a toy than a facility and so uses it as and when she likes.

So before I go off track again..ok so you guys know that Niki is going to pre-kindy now, right well the thing is .. we think that her teacher has toilet trained her with an 80% success rate, after 2 days. The thing is all the kids in her class are not wearing diapers and Niki is the only one when we enrolled her 2 days back, I'm guessing peer pressure is at work here?!!?

Yesterday night I put Niki in her diapers as usual for bed but it was pretty dry this morning, instead when she woke up she asked us to put her on her Toilet Duck and she shee-sheed! To us that's a small miracle there!

So I think Niki is about 80% toilet trained as of today!

Niki in pre-Kindy

We are so proud of our Niki, she started her pre-kindy yesterday. Today we sent her to school in her uniform at 8.15am, they've got breakfast ready for all the kiddies, and at the same time we feel really nostalgic, our daughter is a big girl now. And she talks about her teacher a lot, we on the other hand are feeling abit left out right now :-( ..after work gonna go pick her up from school.

Niki, Mummy and Daddy are so proud of you.

To Ranee, Vic and the kids, Happy 4th of July!

Happy Birthday Ammu!

A very happy birthday to Ammu who turns 26, and she wanted a very special bash and her wish was to invite kids from the local orphanages to attend, so during her party she hosted 40 kids from 3 homes around PJ, the kids really enjoyed the food and games provided. To a very special person, happiest birthday, we love you!

My Dad's Solo Exhibition @ Frames Network

chillin' in Penang Village after the exhibition

My dad's having a solo art exhibition at the Frames Network in Plaza Damas, Sri Hartamas until the 4th of July. Here's some photos from the show's opening. If you wanna see the works of the artist himself upclose go over to Frames Network, C-0-9 Blk C Plaza Damas.

Here's the official invite;

Frame Network Gallery cordially invites you to A LIFE OF ART Exhibition by Lau Wai Fong.

The artist Lau Wai Fong is a naturalist painter for more than 40 years. He has a reputation for fine oil paintings, line drawing, desa kampung ( a depiction of rural Malaysia) and rustic kampung and paddy fields sceneries which are prevalent in the Northern Peninsular Malaysia. His lifelong personal collection which be showcased at the Frames Network Art Gallery beginning from the 30th June 2007 for a week.

The official launch is at 3pm on the 30th, this coming Saturday, where guests will be treated to light refreshments while they enjoy the collection.

So please come and enjoy the works of life art and be inspired by the beauty of the Malaysian landscape through the eyes of this inspiring artist.

The Location:
Frame Network Art Gallery
C-0-9, Ground Floor
Plaza Damas (Hartamas Shopping Centre)
60, Jalan Sri Hartamas 1
50480 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-62042435
Fax: 03-62035435
Email: framenetwork@gmail.com

So get on down now.

SV Goes Live!

Hello all, its been a super hectic two weeks with the setting up of SV, and today we are live!

To Cristal, thanks for the beautiful bouquet.

I've been super busy lately and that's why posts has also been far in between!

I know!

There's load of pictures that I've taken which I hope to get up, let's see. Ok gonna go into Picasa and edit some, see ya!