Zac Zac, 1 Month Old

At last! An update...

Here are some pictures of our second child, Zac Arif, from a few days old to a full one month.

We felt really bad as we were not able to throw him a full moon party unlike his sister Shuyin. We were very busy, over-tired and over-stressed, and we also could not find help for the past one month. Hopefully, the new maid will arrive next week as scheduled (yay!).

I think we'll throw him a grand 1st birthday to make it up to him...

Look at the scrawny legs!

He's just so tiny

The proud ta jie (big sister)

His eyes are beautiful brown! Shuyin's eyes are black and you can't see her pupils even under bright sun light

One month old - all fatten up by his mom's milk

Look ma, I can almost lift my head now!

Who's the cheeky monkey?

Don't you just wanna pinch his cheek?

Cotton cloth diaper - very comfy for the little one, but a lot of work for the parents!

Rapid hand movement - another kung fu kid with double hair spirals, bleagh!

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Happy Niu Year! - yeah... too late...

Seriously, I'm up to my nose with work and house work! The maid decided to disappear half way through wifey's confinement. We now have two kids, kicking and screaming and the house looks like a war zone, with the floor feeling really icky and sticky!

Please excuse the long pause and please oh please DO NOT TAG me!

Here are some pictures, really late ones, from CNY.

Happy Moo Year - the 3rd of the 3

Celebrating the Niu Year in sarong

Spent some quality time with my girl - now I call her "ta jie"

My morning exercise for 2 weeks - roast the little one!

My little burp day celebration in the house

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Happy New Year 2009!

The second of the 3.

We didn't go anywhere on the NYE or New Year - can't see the point of partying on some arbitrary calendar event (anyway, been there done that, when I was much younger). Best to just stay at home and relax...

Took my girl out to the park in the afternoon. Here are some pics our little climber – she was born to climb! She has no interest in the swing nor the seesaw – she just loves to climb!


At 20 months old, she is as tall as a 3-year-old, and taller than the 3-year-old boy behind her!

Her dexterity amazes me, every time!

Easy peasy...

Up I go...

...slide down as fast as I could!

Here's a little recap on her physical ability:

2 months old: flipped around on her back and stomach easily.
4 months old: started crawling (stomach not touching the floor).
6 months old: she could stand straight on her own.
8 months old: climbed the stairs on her own.
10 months old: started walking.
12 months old: pulled herself up the dining table and kitchen cabinet top.
14 months old: started running.
16 months old: Ran non-stop from the park to home (a good 120 metres!).
18 months old: tip-toed and danced around.
20 months old: did a perfect jump and landed steadily on both feet WHILE holding her teddy bear! She can now walk up and down the stairs without supervision, holding her teddy under the left arm and using her right arm as counterbalance.

Now, where is that kung fu school when I needed one?
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The Terrible Twos

She’s not even two years old and already behaving like one. Maybe it’s the two spirals on the back of her head...





Today she is 20 months old. She is now clever and poised, headstrong, opinionated, and a real pain in the ass. How could we ever complain as she is a mirror image of her parents?



Always not very generous with her smile, piercing people around her with that killer gaze. Oh what would I not give to see a sweet smile on her face?



She may never know it, but this girl could bring light in my life just by being in my arms during my darkest hours. Cheering me up with her cute babbles with words like apple pie, coconut, hug me, daddy pau-pau and biiiiiiiiiiig bear bear.
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Happy New Year #1!

Maal Hijrah – the first of the 3.

Kinda bored at home today. I was supposed to join my ex-Siputs at a lunch cum karaoke session at Neway in SS15, but the damn autogate decided to malfunction today. I was not even able to manually open the centre magnetic rod as it was jammed.

Since I was not able to go for a spin, I decided to make full use of the bamboo steamer I bought yesterday, while waiting for the guy who sold me the autogate system to arrive and make good the damn thing.

I dislike long holidays as it makes me feel unproductive. So I harnessed the boredom and knead some dough to make a batch of wholemeal pau, complete with wholesome and healthy organic pine nuts, walnuts, wolfberries and dried longans. These will be useful for the mornings that I don’t feel like cooking breakfast. Just shove the prepared frozen pau in the steamer and out come instant healthy breakfast!






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37 Weeks

X'mas day out at Pavillion KL.

She has been carrying our Number 2 for 37 weeks now – full term and ready to “pop out” anytime. The EDD is around 18 Jan 2009, BEFORE the Chinese New Year as we have planned for a baby in the Year of the Rat.

It doesn’t take a sharp pair of eyes to tell the sex of the baby. Look carefully on the ultrasound scan below and you’ll find the answer!






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The Little Psychic

Something spooky happened 2 days before Christmas when my wife went shopping at Jusco in One Utama...

While wifey was queuing up at the cashier near the men’s section, our little cookie monster just walk towards a pile of men’s clothing, in a basket on the floor, stick her hand deep inside and pulled out a small teddy bear! She looked at it, hugged it and carried it away under her arm!

Wifey thought that someone had left a teddy from the toy section in that basket, but then again, the toy section is situated on a different level. Upon closer inspection, there was no price tag and the teddy seemed “worn out”. There was a laundry tag attached to the label and clearly, it was some other kid’s teddy accidentally dropped in the basket.



Now, how did she know there was a teddy in there? The teddy was buried deep inside and Shuyin had no reason whatsoever to dig inside a pile of boring men’s clothing. Yet she was very precise in pulling out the little bear. Is she a psychic or the teddy bear is soft toy version of CHUCKY? Calling her for a rescue, hurr!!!



Shuyin didn’t want to let go of her newfound friend, so mommy had no choice but to allow her to take it back home. Gah!
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Merry Christmas and a Happy 2009!

A warm wish from the Arifs to all our friends - Have a very Merry Christmas and a GREAT New Year!

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