Happy Birthday

Today is my wife's birthday.
H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y ! ! ! ! !

We were supposed to meet back in hotel room around 12-1pm. She wasn't back from her event yet.
At that time, Zyan was crying to go gai-gai again.
So I just brought him out jalan jalan a bit.

When we came back, Karinna was already back in the room

After resting for a while, we celebrated Karinna's birthday.
I bought a cake on the way back from The Peak.

After which, Zyan was cleaned up again, and we made our way to Causeway Bay.

Karinna wanted to buy some stuff. Whatever lah.

We made reservation for dinner, at Ming Court, a 2-Star Michelin restaurant at Langham Place Hotel, MongKok.
IPAD is a good distraction for kid wehen needed. But most of the times, it worked more like an addiction. Use with care.


Well, the food is actually great! Pricing wise is still relatively ok.
These are the dishes we ordered. As you can tell, it appears to be quite a lot.
I think I probably gained the weight back which I lost last few weeks.
Ha ha ha ha ha.




By the end of dinner, we were too full.
Too full to carry Zyan around.
Too full to walk around MongKok.

So the next best place: hotel room.
:P
Have a wonderful birthday!

The Peak

Zyan is a very hyper boy.
He didn't sleep until almost 12midnight yesterday. I think he slept around 2345hrs.
Terrible.

This morning, he woke up at 8am. Once up, I made his milk powder for him.
Then bathed him, washed him, and cleared his poo-ed pampers.

Once all done, and dressed him up, off we go to The Peak.
I decided to bring him to The Peak.

We left our hotel around 0905hrs. My legs were still aching from yesterday.
Oh my god!

Took a real SLOW walk to the MTR.
Took the train to Admiralty, and then I changed to take a bus up to The Peak.
Zyan didn't have the chance to take MRT and bus in Singapore yet, and in HK, he took his maiden train and bus ride!

I shall not grumble about the difficult part in bringing him out along.
And we reached The Peak.

Got someone to help me take a photo of us at the place.


I had my lunch at Burger King up there. Zyan didn't want the bread. He didn't want the meat. He wanted just the fries. Of course, I only gave him some.
Made milk for up to drink for his lunch also.

Took some short walk, and then it's time to head back down. On the way down, I took the Tram. But Zyan was already very sleepy by then, and fell asleep during the Tram ride.

The walk to MTR station is some distance away.
This time, I walked R...E....A.......L SL..............O........w..............L...Y.
Si beh jiatlat ok!

Every step I take
Every move I make
Si beh jialat leh
Wa beh sii liow leh
I will break my leg!

I limped my way slowly back.
It's good to be back at hotel.

Back Breaking

Ahhhhh.
This is me with Zyan, my gear for the time where I bring him out in HK without Karinna.

I had wanted to bring him to perhaps Stanley Market.

As we walked Karinna to her office in Quarry Bay - Tai Koo, I walked towards the Quarry Bay MTR.
At the station, as I was looking at the fares and such and such, my little Zyan looked sleepy.
I quickly shift my gears, and push the baby carrier to its proper arrangement.
And hop up goes Zyan. And he fell asleep within 2 minutes.

So I thought, perhaps walked area the area there, and at the same time, buy myself some breakfast.
It's a bit awkard to carry him in front, and with a big bag behind me, and a side bag along us.
Quite a bulky thing walking on the street I guess. And it's office hours!

People walking by, looking at this strange guy carrying so many things and a baby sight-seeing the place. :P

So I decided to stop/walk along the way, and made my way back to the hotel.

Rested at one of the Quarry Bay Park nearby. Not much actually, just a normal casual park for relaxation.
If not, I would have died carrying him for almost 2 hours.

Just reached back hotel, taking a short break, then I will bring him out again.
Tonight, we will go to Causeway Bay, when his mother is back from work.

Someone, come help me carry Zyan.

Flight Event

Today, we left home at 0730hrs, for the airport.
Karinna is on business trip in Hong Kong, and I had book ticket few weeks ago to tag along.
I decided at that time, to bring Zyan along as well, for him to take his first aeroplane trip out of Singapore.

At that time, Karinna sent me her itinerary, so that I can match the same itinerary as her. Her flight at that time, as not confirmed yet.
I tried, but when I booked for the ticket, I chose 0930 flight, as it was the only plane that is listed as A380.
Since paid for it, why not try A380 right?
So i booked SQ856, and told her to change her itinerary through her company's ticketing agent.

It was confirmed, as was told.

We checked in yesterday through internet (only Zyan and myself), went to the counter this morning to do the rest.
To our horror, we were told her flight was confirmed for 0830hrs flight!
And the flights for 0830 and 0930 were full, so we can't change our flight to suit each other.
No choice, she had to leave earlier than us. It was around 0800hrs at that time.
So the counter guy pushed out her boarding pass, and off she goes to the boarding gate.

Left me and Zyan, loitering around T3 for a while, before I bring our son into the boarding area.

Such uncalled for excitement is certainly not very shiok. What to do?!?!?!

During flight take off, I tried to give Zyan water to drink. This is in the hope that the air pressure will not create too much discomfort to him. So he drank.
While the taxi is still taxi-ing, my son is already like finished drinking 70% of the 180ml of water!
Hello! It's for you when the plane is moving up into the air. Not when it is on the ground my boy!

Well, it's not that bad. He didn't show much discomfort. But he cried when the plane was almost reaching its desired altitude.
I think he's wailing more because he didn't want to be tied to me, and to the seatbelt. I think he wants to move around.
Not allowed boy. So the music plays ... ...

So when the time is right, I had to free him, and be his follower. :P

Meal time is tough. I think it is hard to feed kids on plane. Out of the blue, annoucements came and say to fasten seatbelt. Hey, I was feeding halfway.
I placed Zyan on my seat, and I was squatting at the seat feeding him.
Zyan keeps trying to kick the tray, and that didn't help at all!

Anyway, I just fed him as fast as it was possible. As long as he's not hungry, good enough.
Because of the inconvenience, I didn't eat the meal too.
It's just too troublesome.

For the touch down, it was a good thing that he was asleep. He was tired, and fell asleep when I was carrying him at 1145hrs.
He slept almost until the plane touched down to the ground. But neighbouring, there's a little girl who cried, and woken Zyan up. He just looked at her, and quietly rest his head on my shoulder.
Little rascal.

As we left the plane, I had to find a place to fill in the embarkation forms.
And the immigration was crowded, took almost half an hour to get the passport stamped.

As we go to get the luggage, Karinna had already picked them up. Zyan was happy to see her. I told her to try to meet us at the baggage area, if not at the immigration area.

So it's good. Linked up, and off we went to our hotel.

We stayed at Tai Koo area, East Hotel.
It's pretty nice actually.
The design is suitable only for single person to stay in the room, if not the other occupant must be very close to you.
Why?
Because the toilet and shower rooms have no lock, and it's TRANSPARENT GLASS.
So exciting!

Anyway, we were all tired. Karinna worked till very late yesterday. I was tired by my son. And Zyan was tired because of himself. :P

So we went for dinner, and came back to hotel to rest.
I just made an additional trip to supermarket to get some drinks, tidbits etc.

Here's a picture of Zyan playing at City Plaza, which is just besides our hotel.

Here's Zyan catching 'butterflies' at the lift of our hotel.

脚步

这一两年来，我经常带我父母去看医生。

年纪大了，又不懂英文，所以我是个翻译生。

走着走着，经常把他们遗落在后头。

是他们的脚步太慢，还是我的步伐太快？

嗯 。。。 。。。

Maiden Trip

Today is a special day.
It's Zyan's first trip out of Singapore.

The last furthest he's been out of home, is to Sentosa late last year.
That time, he was still not steady at walking, needing the stroller more.

This time round, he's able to walk much stable than before. But we still need our stroller, just in case.

We took a cab, and almost reached Habourfront late.
I hate to be late for anything.
Anyway, only late for check-in time, still early enough for boarding and departure.

We're heading to Batam. Too bad, not the best best place to go for his maiden voyage out of town.
Our ferry needs to get to Sekupang, and then onwards to Waterfront City.

Zyan was pretty happy. He like a gong-gia like that, look around the ferry, and walk here walk there, like damn kpoh.
Then he made his way to one of the back row of seats, where it's empty.
He wanted to see outside of the ferry.
He even kissed the window. Siow!

Then he happily run around all over the place, before we reach Waterfront jetty.

The immigration was ok. Not too long a wait.
Once done, the hotel transport was ready for its visitors.
It's just a few minutes drive away from the ferry terminal.
We're staying at Harris.
And, we're staying here for 3 nights.
You see it right. THREE nights.
We're not sure what we are going to do here man. It's a little tard too long!

The resort looks ok. The room is pretty good size actually, and clean.

It was drizzling pretty much the whole day, so we didn't go anywhere, except lazing in our own room, and entertaining our little prince.
He's a big thing to handle.

Had dinner in the cafe. I must say the food is awful, not forgetting that it's charged in SG dollars.
Expected, but then ... ....
Anyway.

Tomorrow, another long day of not knowing what to do.
Perhaps to Nagoya town, the most happening place in Batam.
hahahaha

Shall see.

Robots in Disguise

The movie is out!
But I am not a fan actually. :P

With the movie, there's some toys that come with additional purchase of a KFC meal for a transformer robot.

I didn't want to buy initially.
Then I thought, my son will probably like it, hmmmmmm, in future.
He's too young for it now anyway.
So I bought a meal previously, and then added for the toy purchase.

There are 4 of the small little figurines.
Ironhide, Optimus Prime, Starscream, and Bumblebee.

Optimus Prime was my first collected.
Next was Starscream.
And then, I had problem finding Ironhide. I thought it was sold out island-wide.

I was wrong.

I stumbled across it at the KFC near my working place, so I had to buy it.
And the KFC store also has the stock for Bumblebee, so I bought 2 meals with the 2 figurines added!

So there it is, the collection for Zyan Tay.
Hope he likes it when he's bigger.


Personally, I think Ironhide looks the coolest.

Virgin Class

Yesterday, we brought Zyan to Aquaducks.
Simply speaking, we sent him to his first enrichment lesson: swimming.

Actually, he had a trial class many months ago, and we had to be placed in waiting list to be on weekend class.
Afterall, how to send him for weekday classes right?

So after a long wait, vacancy is available for little Zyan to showcase his swimming motor skills.
Ha ha ha.

We reached there early, 8.45am to be exact. We got a shock when we saw that no one was around, not a single soul.
I mean, hello, it's only 15 minutes away, and no one was there at all?

Had to linger for a while, and finally, some souls start appearing.
Wow! They are really on time.

In a jiffy, suddenly the place became alive!
Little toddlers looking around, taken care by their respective guardians.
And a short while later, all the participants were down in the pool, with either their father or mother.
And the lesson begins!

Probably this stage is to get him to be comfortable with the waters.
Swish swosh swish swosh. Play play. Shiok.

You can see Zyan enjoying the water on his face. Hehehe.

The lesson is not long, toddlers should not be in there too long.
It probably ended in about 30 minutes, and another batch of participants got ready.
Good business man!

Well, till next week!

Homemade Bread

Over the weekend, we went to do some shopping.
It's GSS after all!

We're at Centrepoint, then OG.
I needed to buy some shirt, so I got myself some.
OG has a Purchase-On-Purchase, with minimum $50 spent, you can buy a bread making machine for almost half the original price.

The domestic goddess of my house decided to get one. In fact, we had earlier on that day went to a friend's home, and ate bread made from the same bread maker machine.
It was quite 'rocky' then, as it was highly 'fibre-ised'.

We bought some of the bread making ingredients as well, from some other place.

Tonight, it's time to make bread.
Just pour in the ingredients accordingly, add water blahblahblah.
Then just press some button somewhere, and voila!
The fragrance of bread lingers around the area after 2 hours.

It's quite a small machine, so the loaf of bread is not big too.
It can be cut into around 10 slices of bread.

We tasted one piece.
Pretty nice. Especially when it was taken out just hot from the oven. Oooops. Machine.

I wonder if the ROI will be good for this.

The Noose - Something Nina

Quite terok way of saying things ... ...

Leticia says:
Some Ah Beng upstairs keep scolding his wife ah.
I think his wife's name is Nina.
He always shout 'something-nina something-nina'.

Erh.
Like that also ok to broadcast.
Solid siah.

I need to go for a pee-break.

情人时节

情人时节双双飞
飞到远处不知回
回不了家就地睡
睡了醒来才后悔

Ooops! 意识好像不太好！
哈哈哈！
再来！


情人时节双双飞
飞至浪漫烛光会
会心一笑永相随
随君谨记好几回

情人节快乐！
特别是我自己的情人！
*眨眼 眨眼*

新年特备节目

去年虎年， 我想最特别的新年节目，我觉得是小虎队重聚的春节晚会演出。
阔别二十一年。太酷了吧！

我不是小虎队的粉丝，不过看了也泛起许多回忆。

今年，有特别的吗？

New Toy

Today bought Zyan a new toy.

He likes to play such things.
Well, when we were at other friends' place with such toy, he'll be so elated and keep pressing here and there. Hehehe.

Technically speaking, this is the first toy I bought for him.
Well, rare present is a treasure. Yeah? :)

I'm sure he will love it. Just like how he likes to play with me.
Here goes.

He enjoys tickling.

Need to practise my 咕叽咕叽手 soon.

So Handsome!

Yesterday evening, we went to Metra Expo Sale. Wanted to get a particular baby stroller advertised on the papers.
We brought Zyan along.

I took over carrying Zyan as Karinna wants to look and perhaps try out some clothings.
Oh well, whatever. Buy the more the merrier. :P

So I just carry my son walking around.
After some time later, Karinna managed to synced up with us.
And she wanted to buy some Ebene guard.
It's the same sales lady which we bought some Ebene stuff previously.

After getting the stuff she wanted, they were chatting about kids stuff.
Then the sales lady say my son very cute, very handsome.
And then add later say look exactly like his father.

Paiseh siah.

Now I know how I look liow ... ...
Ha ha ha

Brake! Brake!

Yesterday on the way home, it was raining.
There was a little bit of traffic jam leading to the PIE.
After crawling on the PIE for a while, I think after the MacPherson area, the traffic was slightly better.

I was able to drive probably at about 50 or 60 km/hr. Not very fast, because it was raining, and traffic is not exactly smooth flowing.
There was even some accidently around the Eunos stretch if I remember right, which was already clearing off.

Somewhere before that stretch, I put brake on my car, as vehicles were slowing down.
And then, something happened.
MY BRAKE IS NOT CATCHING PROPERLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Damn. Lucky I wasn't travelling at fast speed, and my action to try pulling the handbrake is also, well, pretty good.
Letting go my brake, and pressing it again slowly seemed to work fine again.
In fact, the brake seemed to work flawlessly again.

Well, this wasn't the first time. I think 2-3 months ago, it happened to me when entering the PIE from Tampines.
At the round-turn downhill slip road, suddenly my brake didn't work.
Again, I wasn't travelling very fast, so managed to pull the handbrake to slow down the motion in time.
In fact, that time, the shave was much closer than yesterday.
*PHEW PHEW*

So to be safe, I sent my car to be checked this morning.
Told the service agent that it happened twice that my brake didn't catch well with my car keep moving at the unintended speed.
So the service technician went test driving my car with me.

Brake here and there. Jam brake hard hard.
Everything is perfect.
He said it could be due to road condition, and it just happened at that moment it caused the brake to malfunction for a brief period.
He also checked if there's any leakage or anything.
In the end, everything turns out normal.

So I went to work with the inspected car, but need to be wary of any possible braking problem.

Oh well.
What else can I do? :P