Father's Day

Yesterday, we went to a friend's place for some pre-Father's Day celebration.
It's a group where all the parent-couples have only 1 child so far, and each toddler is of the same age.
All were born in the year 2010, and actually, within 1 month period. 3 little boys, and 2 little girls.

Of course, the kids were enjoying themselves, playing and jumping around.
Can't run away from occasional crying for whatever reasons.

We had pot luck for the food.
For ourselves, Karinna prepared one big big plate of Hokkien Mee, a simple dish of egg, and a box of Konyaku (whatever that spelling is).
There were pork ribs, Thai curry etc.
Basically, too much food, can eat until vomit lah.

At the end of the food, there were some 'surprises' for the daddies.
Each of the daddy was given a card, prepared by their child (of course with the mommy's help).
See what I got:
 

That's his little left hand print, and his 'writings' for wishing his daddy.

So cool!

This will be kept with the loads of greeting cards and wedding cards which I have kept since ages ago.

Data Roaming

I had recently went Desaru over the weekend. While there, I received an SMS telling me that I had amassed more than $50 with data roaming, and it goes on to entice me to sign up for the Data Bridging service.

Interestingly, my phone has an option to uncheck data usage while roaming. It has always been unchecked, as I never have intention to use data roaming service at all. I decided to clarify with my service provider SingTel when I got back to Singapore.

I called, logged an issue, and they took down some information from me. It took a while for someone to call me, and tell me that I had indeed chalked up quite a fair bit for using data roaming service. To be fair, I did reject a call from SingTel the next day, as I was in a meeting.

I was advised, to check the applications on my smart phone, and disable the internet connectivity, as they said some applications will still stealthily access the internet even if we may not be using, even when phone was set to stop data roaming.

I was thinking, if I have 100 applications on my phone, I would be quite busy to check all applications to ensure no data roaming is active.
The simpler way is to have Telco stop the data roaming access isn’t it? That’s a form of protection as well.

#1. I never signed up for data roaming, I don’t think it was part of my subscription plan. I did sign up for data plan though.
#2. I had requested SingTel to stop the data roaming service. I was told it cannot be done.

In the end, he told me he can give me a waiver of 20%.
Ultimately, I have to pay for something which I didn’t ask for, and best of all, to pay for not using at all.
I do not need it. I do not want it.

Perhaps IDA can look into it, and propose ways to best protect consumers from unsolicited charges. This is in many ways similar to the various forms of SMS which entice consumers to reply as subscriber, and keep sending charged messages.

Can anything be done to help consumers?
I guess they won't really care.

I guess even if other providers cannot do anything to data roaming, I will probably still switch provider when the contract expire.
HELLo!

Angry Birds!

Zyan always like to play with our phones.
The other night, he took my phone, and sit aside quietly to fiddle with it.

I went away to do something.

I was told by Karinna that Zyan said 'many many' to her, and laugh out himself.

When I took my phone back, this is what I found:

The screen is full of Angry Birds!

Cycling Day

Today didn't make any arrangement for extra work duty.
So we decided to go East Coast for cycling.

Karinna even thought of buying a bicycle, although she has fear of riding one. :P

Anyway, we were there quite early, about 10am.
The place wasn't that crowded yet.
I was contemplating what kind of bicycle to cycle for our family. To split into 2 individuals, or a family-knitted one.
In the end, we chose this:

Main problem is that Zyan is still quite restless most of the time. So might be better to use this type. Still, there's no seatbelt there, so have to be watchful.

We only took an hour ride. It's tiring lah. Old already.
At the end of the hour, the only fresh person is Zyan. Ha ha ha.

Then we took a slow walk to McDonald nearby. We knew it's the last day of service there at that location.
It has been there for like 30years already. Since I was just a little boy, it had been there.
Today is the last day, so went there for a quick bite, and see the last of it.
Quite a fair crowd there, not sure if it is the usual weekend crowd, or the crowd that come to kaypoh a bit here and there.
Here's a snapshop of the counter crowd:

So there we were, 2 days in a row at McDonald.
Same food, same people.
Zyan is obviously enjoying his pancake.


They have a pamphlet telling customers it's the last day, and the new store is has at East Coast, which is now opened at the Seafood centre area.
There's a free apple pie with the pamphlet used in the new outlet.

Who knows?
You may see us at the other outlet later today or maybe tomorrow? :P

Maiden Mc

After Zyan's swimming class yesterday, we went to Centrepoint. Needed to buy some present for a 1 year old birthday party.
After getting some purchases done, we went to McDonald at the basement.

It was Zyan's first maiden trip to McDonald, as far as I can remember.
His first fastfood place was Burger King though, when he was a few months old. Hehehehe.

Bought him some pancakes. Ohhh. Should have taken some pictures of him with the pancakes.
Oh well, only the Milo drink is here with him.

You think he's trying to offer the drink to me?
Fat hope!
He's saying: Papa, I am going to drink it.

我的儿子两岁了

我的儿子两岁了

我的儿子两岁了
身高体重超额了
看来像个四岁童
你来抱抱就会懂

我的儿子两岁了
幼儿班科报名了
吃饭喝水自己能
要他等等却不能

我的儿子两岁了
已经开始乱跑了
永远不累似小龙
爸妈追了不能动

我的儿子两岁了
已经开始讲话了
咬字不清带朦胧
似懂非懂我不懂

我的智元长大了

2nd Birthday

Today is Zyan's 2nd birthday.
And that is the main reason why I didn't go KL for my work trip.

This morning, we went to his child care place at 1030am.
He's on half-day session now, so his party will be in the morning.

We sprang on him, but he's too young to be surprised. Hehehe.
Here you see him in his school uniform with his mommy:

Karinna had someone to help take pictures. Just some simple pictures lah.
It will take some time before we even get to see the pictures ourselves.
So not too many pictures for the school party celebration.

Not too bad, 3 of his classmates were there to celebrate his birthday.
2 others were absent today.
They only had 6 toddlers in the class at the moment. :P

At end of it, brought him back home, for his shower and subsequent nap.
We took the chance to go for our lunch elsewhere.
When we got home, boy was still sound asleep.

We had wanted to bring him out after his nap, but he slept till almost 4pm. It's a long nap today. 2.5hrs! We wondered if he will sleep early tonight.

So we decided to take him out for his hair-cut instead. His last hair cut was like last year October or something. It's been quite a while.
Need to distract him a little for his cut:

At night, we only had a simple cake for him. Or rather, a muffin.
It's so small that we only put 1 candle for him.
He's still happy no matter what.
As long as there's candle to blow, cake to eat, and mommy/daddy around with him. :)

Probably he enjoyed a lot today.
At 9.15pm, already look tired. It's good as we want to shift his sleeping hour earlier, and hopefully he gets more sleep. He doesn't seem to sleep as much as most other babies.
He still managed to roll here and there after his milk, and slept only almost 45minutes later.
It's still good though.

That's my son's 2-year-old birthday.
Happy Birthday Son.