Funny Editing with Microsoft Word

We let Hong Zheng to play around with Microsoft Word if he asked to sit and use computer. Today surprisingly he edited some a funny dot matrix in the screen. I do not know how this is created. Do you know how?

Second and third try at Kumon Center

After second and third tries as a teacher at Kumon Center i finally gave up! Hong Zheng get himself injury at the corner of his eye as his height is just about the table's height in center. Although not bleeding and eye sight was not affected but it was bad!

Hong Zheng was not able to be independent at most time. He came to me ahd asked for water and food for several rounds. Sometimes i even had to carry him while teaching the students. That was absolutely not proper. I worry parents might complain somedays. So, in order not to put my sister in difficuilt situation i decided to quit.

Another Visit at Taman Seribu Bunga

Since Taman Seribu Bunga was just launched in Melaka this year and i decided to bring my Raub family for a walk. We reached there about 10am and whether starts to be quite hot. This round, i took those route that i never visited before in the past visits.

Just realize there is a pond with a fountain at the far end of the corner. Quite a nice place to take a rest but just a little bit watching for the toddlers are needed. There are some lotus in the pond too.

Unfortunately orchids does not seem to be in blossom season? Most of the orchids plants only have the plants but with no flowers. Lotus pots with not many lotus although there are same camera men doing shooting on that day.

To my surprise we saw roselly plants and pandan leaves in the garden too.

Still a nice place to take a breath but just do not put high expectation i would conclude for this round of visit.

My Nasty Mother In Law

I use to gave some tea regardless milk tea or Chinese tea to Hong Zheng whenever we had our breakfast or meal outside. That was one of the way to keep him stop making noise. However, many aunties, especially those selling the tea told me not to give to my son since he is still young for such unhealthy drink. Not one aunt but a few gave me the same advice so i decided to stop giving him tea.

This morning when we went for bak kut teh breakfast we had tea again. I prohibited Hong Zheng from taking it and he hit me. So, i hold his palm and trying to hit him. My mother in law stop me and said not nice to hit him in the public. I asked her to STOP! Hong Zheng was sitting at my right and she was sitting at my left. Ignoring me, she continue to fed him with tea with her arm across me. Can you imaging how angry i was? This is really very ir-respect to me! However i still manage to control my self. My mother in law is 55 years old but i never expect such a stubborn woman. She is so much stubborn than my mom. She will be my best role mode for "what not to be" as a mother in law.

Do you have such a nasty mother in law? Drop me your comments.

Unpleasant Rewards after two tired days

My hubby family came to visit us from Melaka for three days two nights stay. Off course as a daughter-in-law cum sister in law, i must make sure pillows and beds are clean and sufficient since there will be three adults and three kids. I tried my very best to clean all corners in our house that include thier two rooms, my hall, my kitchen, backyard, storeroom and car porch. That took me two full days stretch for clean up non stop. On top of that i promised to bake a cheesecake for them too. So, can you imaging how busy i was for this christmas holiday and weekend?

End of the day, Hong Zheng's dad rewarded me with an ugly face after gettting tired with his dearest son. Hong Zheng kept asking him to play with him that resulted a very unpleasant weekend and holiday. As for me, that was the rewards i received, an ugly face with hatress and angryness. I was very sad indeed.

Shopping with only shoe

Today we went to Mahkota Parade's Osim counter with my sister and Hong Zheng's cousin. Hong Zheng climbed into my sister's car on his own. He immediately drop his shoes as he needed to climb on the sofa. So off we went. Upon arriving we just realize one of Hong Zheng's shoe was missing. No choice, we had to shop with only a shoe for about 1 hour. We drove home and realize another shoe was lying on the place when the car was parked earlier on. I only realize he dropped his shoe outside the car since i told him to leave his shoes before climbing on the sofa.

Socks

Tonight, i asked Hong Zheng whether he needs to put on a pair of socks so that he wont feel cool at night. I also showed him my socks which i wear them at night. Immediately he nodded and asked me to put on the socks for him. After putting on his socks he wanted my socks too. I told him if i give away my socks to him i will feel cool at night but he insisted. I was trying to test how kind or cruel my son is. He asked me to take off his socks and put on mine and then he asked me to wear his socks since i do not have. I told him it was too small for me since i have longer feet that him. He then search around the bed hopping for another pair of my socks as i just left our socks near the bed. After searching he gave up and he asked me to remove my socks from him and he gave me my socks and then he put back his socks. My son is still very kind as i expected. Every child is kind and lovely. I strongly beleive!

Your Baby Can Read 5 Vol DVD - Part2

Today we had received the Your Baby Can Read DVD after two days placing the order. We got it around 10am and i was very excited with it. Hong Zheng was as excited as i did :-)

Well, the parcel was received in very good shape. The forwarder is Skynet which is one of my hubby's favourite forwarder. A 'fragile" sticker was sticked on the top of the parcel that show how nice the arrangement was being taken care.

I found a shiny sticker indicating "original". That type of sticker that you can always can find on an original CD or DVD. It has five pieces of DVD ranges starter video, vol 1-3 and review video. I immediately play the starter video to him and off course watching together with him. The video started with some images clips when Dr Rober Titzer showing flash card to his daughter. Some words and then presented one by one with different colors, font size, font style and backgrounds. The concept is exactly like Glenn Domm's way. Some images with kids, baby can animals are included to illustrate the meaning of the words. Around twenty words are tought in the first DVD. More new words are added in DVD Vol 1 but the olds words are repeated. So far, Hong Zheng seem to be quite happy with still less favor compare to Baby Einstein.

However, when i show this DVD to a four years old boy he commented "Boring! Why the words are kept repeating". I personaly feel the DVD is quite boring as the same set of words are kept repeating although i understand repeating is the key for words recognition. Let's see how long it takes for Hong Zheng to recognize some of the words there.

4 years old son request to stay overnight with his cousin

My sister had a four years old son and lately he asked to stay overnight at his grandparents house so that he can play with his cousin (7 years old) who was back from Kuala Lumpur for school holiday. When my sister has to work in Kumon, she will place this son at this grandparent's house. My sister was in difficult situation as she did not want to leave his son alone. She asked his son to call his dad for permission. His dad works in Kuala Lumpur and will only travel home during weekend. His dad agreed so my sister left him behind and drove home with his second son who is 1.5 years old, sad. My sister was very upset as she had a hard feeling that her son starts to become more independent and willing to stay up with his cousin instead of follow her home. My sister had once advised his son to pursuade his cousin to stay with him at thier house instead her son stay at his grandparent' s house and her son told her the cousin did not want to. I tried to console her and one point that she struke me : Why a four years old son so easy influnce by others? Why he cannot stand on his point, his cousin cannot come so he has to stay? Cousin is so important than his son?

Hong Zheng is now two years old and how i wish he can grow up faster so that he is more independent. One day, when he really so independent i will feel loss as my sister. My sister told me, you must slowly release them else you are going to be very hurt.

Bring up a child will never stop thier parent's from worry.

Bad temper

When Hong Zheng asked for somthing and i refuse, his first reaction will be giving me a hit. Actually i do not hit him in most of the time and i would say rarely but why he behaves in this manner? I really do not understand. How can i help him? Sister told me this is "Karma". WE cannot change much and just modulate it. I hope i can teach him slowly and step by step and i believe he will change to be a better person under my love and care. I strongly believe.

I accept the fate!

I only have a son and up to today i still do not plan to have another one as for me, up bringing a child is not a simple process and i think having Hong Zheng alone will be contented for me. I gave away all the baby stuffs and never keep any pieces.

My sister told me it is not worth it to stay at home and loss the pay check. Plus, your son might not turn up to be "someone". He might just leave you alone and enjoy his own life some where up there since children are very independent these days. I fully agreed and i told them, if this really happen, it is my fate as i already trying my best. Although the end result might be not what i want but i think i already did my best.

I confessed!

Today i finally confessed to Hong Zheng. I told him i should not said the sentence "go away" to him at the first place. It was my mistake to say so. I promise him that i will not say that again i wish he also stop saying that again. I told him i was hurt and sad when he told me to go away and hit me. I wish he can understand me and start to change. I will too.

My Baby Can Read 5 Vol DVD

Hong Zheng is not able to recognize words. No matter how many books he read, he just cannot recognize the words. After browsing information from net and i decided to give a try with My Baby Can Read DVD series. It costs me RM127.40 with RM7.50 shipment fee. Just make an ordered and payment has been done through Maybank2U. Why i trust the online shop? It is mytoyandbooks.com online store.

I had earlier cancelled the order due to my maybank account had been suspended after idling for more than a year. I had a few sms with the shop owner during the first order and i did see this sincerelity in liasing her customer although they do not provide CIMB online payment service which i am more fond to it.

Let us see what products which are going to deliver to me in 2 days time and whether the DVD will reach me safely and in good shape. I hope it does!

Go away!

Hong Zheng asked me to go away after being scored by me. I put him at the dining table and have his lunch with us. He was not seriously eating his rice but throwing away his food on the floor and mess up the dinning table. I was very angry and scored and beating him. As the result he push me and ask me to go away. Why he knows to say so that is because few months ago when i was angry with him i shouted at him and said "Go away!". Now this is the feedback i received. Ever since i heard he altered "go away" and i was shock and got alert last two months ago. Unfortunately he already embeded this word hard in this mind. I wish he will forgot about it only if i stop using it again. I will learn and i wish he gives the chance to improve. I still love him.

Pushing and snatching

Hong Zheng has a very bad attitude which really worry me. He likes to push his cousin who is 6 months younger than him. He also like to snatch away his food. How am i going to teach him on this? At first i only keep telling him his cousin is still a baby and you cannot do that but it did not work. Sometimes i will hit and yell at him immediately when he repeat the mistake but he just does not change. I observe this since two months ago and there is no sign of understanding from him. How am i going to do?

First try in Kumon Centre

Today i went to my sister Kumon Centre to help her up as she was run out of hand for hunting good teacher for high level math. To be honest, i very salute my sister and i always treat her as my role model as she is a woman who really devote in her work as a Kumon Instructor. If my son has a teacher like her, i will have a peace of mind sending my son to her centre. Unfortunately Hong Zheng is still too young to be accepted as her student.

Today is my first try out as i am planning to bring along Hong Zheng to the centre started next weekends. As i am too newbie to the Kumon method, i decided to put Hong Zheng at home with his dad since today is saturday.

Early in the morning, i get ready with today's lunch and dinner, the potatos, carrots, breast chicken meats and muchroom. Get them cook and keep them in warmer after finish cooking the rice. Nicely inform his dad what to do then i set off. Off course Hong Zheng crying to ask for tag along but his dad manage to keep him up with his favourite CD, the baby enistein.

The journey travel to Kumon centre is not near. It took me 11km and around 20minutes with not heavy traffic. Well, i think i am going to waste a lot of time travelling in the subsequent weeks. Anyway this is too early to worry about this as Hong Zheng might not able to stay easy in the centre while i am the teacher in the centre.

Being a teacher in Kumon centre is not easy. Alot of worksheet marking and correction. I was so busy with marking and correction in the 5 hours non stop. Unfortunately i still not able to finish correcting all the papers as many students brought back thier homework since they were off for thier holidays.

An encouragement from a parent as they called my sister and they told her thier son like me very much. They wish my sister to keep me as his son teacher in the coming lesson. What an encouragement right? Neverless i did also observe a student who tears out of control after several of correction. Panic when seeing this.

Back home Hong Zheng jumping with joy seeing me home. He immediately asked me to hug him,. He kissed me non stop and want to stay with him and play with him. His dad told me he behave very well and occasionally he will mentioned about me. I am so glad to hear this. I think Hong Zheng is mature enough to understand me. I am so pround of him.

Next monday will be the first challenge to me and Hong Zheng as i am going to bring him along to the centre. How i wish he can coorperate to me in the 4 hours time. Hong Zheng, you can do it!

Fallind down from sofa

When I was washing the dishes in the kitchen. I heard a "kok" sound and found that Hong Zheng was landing on the floor near to the sofa, crying. His dad shouted "oh my goodness"! What happened? Hong Zheng fall down from the sofa. How can this happen since he is already very firm and steady in climbing up and down the sofa? I asked his dad who just sat next to him at his computer but he had no idea either. Hong Zheng was crying very loudly and i quickly approached him and hug him. I was very very sad and i started to cry too. When Hong Zheng saw me crying, he stopped crying immediately and kissing me non-stop. I was so touched of his move. I remembered i told him when he pain and hurt, mommy will feel pain and hurt too. I knew he just did not want to see me sad. I love my son.

Breast Engorgement

My cousin's wife just delivered a baby girl. Everyone was very happy, especially my eldest sister as she has "promoted" as grandma. Well, she called me after two weeks of delivering asking me for tips how to overcome breast engorgement. She was falling into slight fever and dizziness.

I tried my best and share her my experience. Point to ponder, how many first baby mother is aware of this breast engorgement and breast feeding do and do not while awaiting their love one this world?

Dont want and No!

Since a week ago Hong Zheng's common vocabulary is "Don't want" and "No". When i ask him to address the elder person, he say "No". When grandpa offered him food, he said "Don't want". When come to interacting with people, he turns his head away and say " no" and "don't want".

How am i going to address this? I also do not know.

3D2N Trip at Grandpa House.

My brother and my sister-in-law were away for their vacation so left my parents at home. I brought Hong Zheng there to keep them accompany. So, that was so called our 3D2N trip at grandpa's house.

Hong Zheng's grandma is a hemo-dialysis outpatient. She has to go to Bachang St John's dialisis center for dialisis every alternate day. So, i was assgined to fetch them to and fro the center. Finally i got the chance to cook dinner for them. They like steam fish. So, the steam fish were served two days in the row. I also took the chance to cook the pumkin with shrimps dish and they said Yum!

I was worried that Hong Zheng will ask to go home at night and to my surprise, he just said "go go go" but still fall asleep with no much noise. Bed time was still as usual at around 9:30pm after bed time story. Unfortunately the second nite morning, he was bit with mosquitoes and wake up around 6:30am and asking for "go go go". So, we had an early breakfast on the third day morning at Tim Sum Restaurant at Bachang. Where else serving food at such morning if not Tim Sum.

The 3D2N trip was very pleasant and i found the bonding between Hong Zheng and his grandparents are stronger now. Glad to see this!

Baby KIKO Baby Contest 2nd Price

Tatatata...here comes our present from Baby KIKO contest!
It is a hamper and a RM50 cash!
I will give away the hamper to Hong Zheng's cousin who just have a full month baby. As for the RM50, i will buy some new clothes as his chinese new year clothes. Coming next, what i will buy for him?

Cousin's Big Day

26th Nov 2009 was Hong Zheng's cousin big day or wedding day. We were all invited to attend the dinner reception at Good World restaurant in Melaka Raya Melaka. Hong Zheng only sat still for the first two meals then he started to move around. He even went to the stage to run, jump and dance. His daddy and myself had to take turn to look after him. Luckily he allowed some relatives to carry him and that ease me abit. Hong Zheng started to mix around well in his relatives.

Stacking Up Up Up

Look, how excited he was with all the stacked up blocks. These are all the blocks he has and he manage to stack them up in very short time. Great!

Art Class

What are activities should i give to a two years old boy? I bought some water colours from Carefour the other day and hoping Hong Zheng will have some fun with it. Off course he did!

I shown him the three primary colours, red, blue and yellow and then the secondary colours, green, purple and orange. I hope he can understand what i was trying to address to him.

His final art work was the red handprints. Fortunately he did not ask for my handprints as i was busy preparing the food for lunch and dinner.

Healthy Breatfast

It is always my mission to serve good and healthy food to Hong Zheng. I manage to find some nice cereal from Cold Storage Parkson Melaka Mall. It is whole wheat cereal from F&N. The cereal is not sweet only the added rasberry, canberry and blueberry taste sweet. So, i just sort out the berries from the cereal and add it with some fresh milk. Yum! Neverthe less, whole wheat bread is always our healthy bread choice.

Free Gift from Jusco Member Renewal

Today we renewed our Jusco membership and entitled for a free gift, it is a Teddy Bear with word Peace. Gave it to Hong Zheng and he loves it.

Speaking Capability

Today i heard Hong Zheng altered a sentense :"Mama sits red chair". Very sweet to hear this as the sentence with subject, verb and object. I think he progresses very well in term of expression himself.

We had a book called Body IQ. There are eight expression which are:
Excited
Happy
Angry
Shy
Surprise
Scared
Upset
Silly

He can say them out. So glad to see his progress. I am proud of him.

Second runner up in Parenthots Precious Moments Contest

Remember i mentioned about taking the Precious Moments Contests held by ParenThots? We won the second runner up in the contest for month of Nov 2009.

As for the presents, they are the RM50 Baby KIKO humper and RM50 cash voucher from Baby KIKO. I was told to collect from the Baby KIKO branch at Parkson Melaka Mall Melaka. Let's see what they offer.

Putting on his pants

I was surprised to see Hong Zheng put on his pants on his own one week ago. Although it was front side back but i think it was a great achievement on himself!

I told him to come to me so that i can help him to put on his shirts and pants but refused. So, i had to ask him to do on his own. After a while i found that he actually putting the pants on his own. On yes, this is the first day i asked him to put on his underwear :P

Art Class - Crayon

Today Hong Zheng art class lesson was drawing with crayons. I noticed he likes blue colour very much. Blue should be his favourite color. He can hold the blue crayon and pass all other colours to me.

Unfortunately he did not seem to able to draw but he always asked me to draw for him esoecially drawing cars for many colours.

Removing pins from curtain

Today we decided to send our house's curtain for wash looking at the nice weather today. Off course Hong Zheng will never fail to help me on this. To my surprise, he actually can remove it from the curtain after a few demonstration and trial. Good job!

Kampung Lapan Healthy Bak Kut Teh

Today we went to have bak kut teh lunch at kg8. The sign board says it is "healthy". The reason is no MSG added. Anyway, without MSG does not mean it is a healthy food rite?

Restaurant interior design was good. Learn that the shop renovation costs RM200k++, do not worry, the customer will bare the cost afterward.

We place the order but at the end the food is not served as we expected. Quite disappointed.

Mum said food is not as yum as she expected maybe we are so use to the taste from Teo Chew Bak Kut Teh.

Wooden Toys

Wooden blocks are always very attractive to kids and same applied to Hong Zheng. My sister just bought a set of 50 pieces blocks from Dataran Pahlawan Melaka. Hong Zheng had a chance to play with them. These blocks costs her around RM50.

Pizza Hut Lunch

We never bring Hong Zheng to try pizza at pizza hut. So, today we brought him there. We went to the restaurant which is not far away from our house. We ordered a set of one person pizza set and the garden salad hoping Hong Zheng will munch some vegetables and fresh fruits. Unfortunately Hong Zheng did not like the fresh food, he just like the cheesy sticks and pizza crust. I always feel guilty if i do not serve a healthy food to my son but he enjoyed it!

New gadget : HTC Magic

Today Hong Zheng's dad bought a new gadget after get bored with his Apple iphone. Guest what it is? It is HTC Magic, powered by Android OS which able to link to google earth, gmail and other google products.

His dad was actually wanted to keep this gadget away from Hong Zheng but i requested him to show Hong Zheng so that i can take some photos. Look at his dad's face, he was so scared that Hong Zheng will scratch his new lover.

Very Tiring

Lately i am very tiring at home. Why? I need to clean up the two guest rooms as my father-in-law and my hubby's family are coming to visit us from Raub. Ever since we shifted house from Kulai back to Melaka i just dumped all the stuffs in the guest room. So, time to clean up! Chinese New Year is around the corner. I need to clean up the whole house include the house's wall. Oh no, how am i going to cope with all these. Why not spend some money to hire someone for the job? Think and think, why not i save the money and do it on my own? Blogs! Oh, my recipes next door blog has been iddling for some weeks. I need to update some new recipes. My hug mama hug blog should also add more new blogs. How can i cope with all these? I am like a deflated ballon, slowly running out of air. I do not sure how long i can cope with it. I need strength!

I was so sad

Today Hong Zheng asked me to stay away as he wanted his dad to walk with him in the Tesco.
After that he wee wee in Tesco, on the floor and wet his pants. I was very very sad. I asked him to say sorry to me and promise never repeat again but refused. After several rounds of pursuade, he finally came and said sorry to me.

My son has grown up. He likes to play with his dad when his dad is at home. It looks to me kids like to cling with someone who seldom meet. Maybe i spent too much time with me as as the result, he does not appreciate me? I was sad, very sad.

Big World Theme Park Melaka 2009

We went to visit the lanterns at the Big World Theme Part at Ayer Keroh Melaka.
The exact location of this park is situated right before the Macdonald Ayer Keroh. At night, if you travel from Melaka town towards the Ayer Keroh high way, you should able to spot some lanterns at your left before the Macdonald restaurant. Not difficuit to find.

Entrance fee is adult RM10 and childrens (age 3 to1 2) is RM5. On top of exhibition, there will be some shows such as acrobats and black magic. The show time is 8pm for weekdays and 5:30pm and 8pm for weekends. We went there around 8pm so after some nice shots with the lanterns we proceed for the show at 8:30pm as we were told the show only started at 8:30pm. Insider tips will be to visit before the shows as the shows take about 1 hour and 30minutes. Night visit should be more worth while for lantern visits. So, make sure to watch the show then it is worth while to spend for the entrance fee.

Oh yes, the exhibition and shows are presented from China, Shanghai. Surprisingly, the ladies in the show can sing and talk same malay language. They must have learn very hard.

Hong Zheng was so excited to visit the lanterns and as the result, we had hard time to snap photos with him. He was attracted by the animals sound came from the lanterns.

Personnaly, i think it is a good exposure to us especially the china acrobats and black magic. We usually see this in TV but today they come live to us in Melaka! Do not miss the show.

I love you!

We went for a porridge lunch near to Melaka River. My sister parked her car near the Melaka Church so we have to walk a short distance to the porridge shop. My mum was so tired after the walk as she was very physically weak so we decided to take a rest. I took this picture after asking my dad and mum to stand closer to each other. My sister and her son and Hong Zheng were about to go to the car but they manage to stop and join in the photo. Look, sweet memory that will forever embedded in my heart. I love you, dad, mum and all my family members. Deep in my heart, i am very glad and gratefully to let Hong Zheng have some memory about his grandparents which i will never have.

More Christmas Shots in Dataran Pahlawan Melaka

Today we went to Dataran Pahlawan Melaka with my sister, my sister-in-law and my cousin. More Christmas shots were taken. Hong Zheng was munching a cookie. I managed to take a photo at a shop selling Japan's stuff.

New hair cut

My mum started to complain Hong Zheng hair was long. So, today during the bath time i gave him a cut with a simple scissor and comb. 5 minutes job as Hong Zheng was good enough to let me trim his hair. Off course i put him in bath tub.

Study the car structure

I borrowed a CAR structure book from the mini library near by our house and Hong Zheng loves this book.

I brought him to his uncle's car workshop and tell him each part of the engine and how the engine works.

When Hong Zheng saw the engine, he will starts to mumble like :" When the spark plugs sparks, the explosion will press down the piston, the piston will turn the crankshalf and move the wheels." Although not very clear but i can know he was describing right.

Melaka Jeti View

In the afternoon, we went to Melaka Jeti hoping to have some nice sea view and walk around the shops along the Jeti. Unfortunately most of the shops are closed for afternoon and one shop that i was there was already closed down. Sea side is highly polutted and the only nice scenery was the newly built mosque located in Pulau Melaka. We will plan a day to visit the mosque since many people told me the view there is fantastic.