i can't describe to you

after watching pm lee's speech in the national day rally last nite, and after the excitement the girls in my office is stirring up, i can't help but to blog about it...

i guess the hottest topic now is the new baby bonus scheme that is yet to be announced officially... everyone is talking about it, and expressing their excitement over it... i guess, our govt's plan is working... maybe able to push the birth rate to new heights (that needs to magnified and magnified again in order to see the tiny winy increase on the birthrate graph next year bah)...

but i feel, its not about the amount of money and leave entitlements offered to the parents... it still come down to the mindset... i meant, it would sound pretty stupid for someone to actually wanna have baby for the sake of money and the leave entitlement bah... its still not answering the problem faced by parents in the workforce lor...

what really put off people to having children is mainly coming from the employers bah... i meant with interview questions like "are you planning to have kids in near future?" tell you pretty much about the company policy... maybe our govt can work on a new iso standard that certify companies that are pro-family, and you know, give corporate tax rebates to companies that excel in doing so... we can have so many iso standards, having this additional one doesn't hurt right?

ok, i'm sprouting nonsense again...

 

this morning, i met ys (my colleague) on the way to work... he just became a proud father again (2nd child)... we were discussing about our babies and were describing how tiring it was to nite feed babies, to change diapers in the nite, to have no time for ourselves and devoting most time on our babies... thru-out the conversation, it sounds like 2 fathers griping about the hardship of being parents, but as we are about to be parted (ys stationed at gmt, whereas me at concourse), we ended the conversation about how fulfilling it was doing all these things for our babies...

that fulfillment, is something that cannot be shown or described... i was so against having children when we were younger... we then decided to have kids due to the fact that we are getting old liao... and its now or never... then we started to have this tot, lets have a fruit of our love... and really! we got a fruit!! 小木瓜 wor!!!

from the moment the pregnancy test kit shown positive, till this very moment, my life changed... its more meaningful and complete now... it seems pretty amazing how tiny little things can satisfy me nowadays... things like, megan burp after she drank her milk, that happy look after changing her diapers... even being able to make her smile is so satisfying...

like i said, i can't describe to you lor...

 

oh ya, last nite, this morning actually, its my turn to nite shift... megan woke up at 1am feeling hungry... as usual, i put her on her pinky chair, went to kitchen to make milk milk, came out and once again, she is happy and excited to see me coming back with her milk bottle in my hand... this time, i decided to snap a shot to post here... and i missed the happier look of her...

 

so i tried to get another shot... and it turned out...

my bad... she is really really hungry... haha~~~ bad papa, i presume some readers would say... :P

2 things today that made me smile from ear to ear

first: megan's first wean

today, we brought a pack of cereal to megan's baby sitter to start megan's first wean... we were pretty nervous about her first wean, afterall, it all depends on megan herself, on whether she is ready or not... stories had been told of how babies would split it out, not swallowing, not opening mouth for the cereal...

and to our surprise, megan's baby sitter said megan took her first wean very successfully... thou its only 3-5 spoonful, but megan managed to finish all of them... and the amazing thing is, no splitting no messy... as the baby sitter puts it "没有大花脸"...

i think i played an important role in megan's success wean... remember how i always sit beside megan and how she enjoyed looking at me eating peanuts? she is learning it by looking at me wor... haha... ok lah, i shouldn't claim the credit lah... the credit should go to megan's baby sitter, who had started spoon-feeding megan when she is feeding her gripewater... and that explain how megan got to learn feeding from a spoon... which mrs wong did mentioned in one of her lesson that we should start spoon feeding milk to give a good head start towards weaning...

 

second: this sight when i'm fetching megan this evening

she is happily sitting on this wooden antique chair comfortably... and the way she smile at me when she saw me walking thru the door, as if wanting to tell me "daddy, i had my first wean today and look at me, i'm sitting"...

but of course, she is still not very stable. head occasionally falling forward... but overall, her neck is getting stronger these days... which we find it pretty amusing when she lifts her head up everytime we put her on her pinky chair...

 

there is something we noticed too... dun know if its the effect of the haircut or she is getting smarter these days... it seems she is becoming mischievous, especially the way she wants to be fed or to have diaper changed... and her that cheeky satisfactory look when her demands are met... 真受不了她...

this week's star for the family photo category

look! we are this week's star at mumcenter.com wor!!
thanks to all frd and readers who voted for us... so the happy... keke...

we are not aware of it until joelle's colleague told her that our photo won... hee... but then, thats not all yet... we are only qualified to take part in the lucky draw... 拭目以待吧!



oh ya... there is another one coming up soon... will annouce when we send in the entry... keke... omg, we are so addicted to these baby thingy... haha...

a very early nite for us...

went over to my parents' place for lunch today... as usual, megan is happy to put on nice clothes...

but then, she kept shunning away from the camera... because she knew she got short hair mah?

got a few great shots while on cabby... megan really enjoy cabby rides... maybe because got air-con and she enjoys looking out the car windows...

now this shot looks like she gotten 2 grapes inside her mouth...

as usual, megan don't really like to be carried by my mum... (my dad even worst, megan cries just by looking at my dad...)

but when my brother returned home, he started playing with megan and megan seems to like my brother... she even tried communicating with him with goo-goo-gaa-gaa baby talks and extends her arms as if asking to be carried... my mum and dad were green with envy...

and we managed to get home before 7:30pm to catch the ping pong match between singapore and china... and meanwhile ordered pizza!

 

halfway thru the match. we got really tired and decided to turn in for the nite... dun know why 3 of us so the sleepy today... good luck singapore... (i dun think will win also...)

a girl who look like a boy trying to look like a girl

today, we are getting megan a haircut... her hair is getting really messy and she is feeling very warm with the 'overgrown' on top... see, very messy right? we got to on the air-con for past 2 nites to cool off the dense 'jungle' for megan...

but first, bfast at mcd again...

megan didn't cry today when she is getting her haircut... probably no electric cutter thingy is used and its a male hairdresser today... she was crying pretty badly during her first haircut...

now... i'm expecting lotsa comment, maybe complaints about megan's haircut... so, how did she look now?? cool eh?

and her short haircut made her look so the... boy lor... omg, she look really boy...

i was telling joelle how boy megan looked with short haircut and joelle decided to 'zeng' megan to look more girl... and it turned out to be THIS!

i told joelle, whats worst than having a girl looking like a boy?

... having a girl who look like a boy trying to look like a girl lah...

this hair band is terribly OUT OF THIS WORLD... kaoz... darn the ribbon...

at least this cap can make it lah... thou its a bit small... ok, its too small for megan... anyway, we meant to trim megan's hair short short, so she wouldn't feel warm warm and yet we gonna make her wear a cap??

so, no cap for her today... we're going out today as i'm gonna change my phone... now, megan looks like a cutie school girl.... with short hair lah... :P

still got girl girl look lah... (think i'm trying to console myself now...)

a few shots of joelle with megan, who seems kinda moody thou... and she refused to look at the camera when i'm trying to take pictures of her... she dun like short hair mah? hmmm, come to think of it... the house of LOKs got short hair cuts wor...

see... moody right?

anyway, think megan is having a loong day... but we managed to shop around for her clothes... we got this cutie sailor suit and only to found out its actually for boys... but, girls do look good in sailor suit right? sailormoon?

our fav...

and a nice bear bear...

all from bossini baby... and we get to keep the hangers wor... that means another $50+ gone... we tabulated our expenses for megan for the past 1 month and found that, including baby sitter's fee, milk, clothes, etc, we spent a total of $1102 on megan... that means, each of us (joelle and me) is spending $18 everyday for 30 days... ghee...

 

ok ok, now... lets look at my new phone... samsung soul, sgh-u900... had been eyeing on it for the past few weeks...

 

not much of functions, except those basic camera, media player, bla bla bla... phone features are getting more and more similar nowadays... what attracts me most is the sleek design... i'm really a sucker for sleek and black... :P

 

okie... time to play with my phone now... the m1shop initialised my phone with its m1world button that i finally managed to get rid of it after browsing the web, desperately... now, where can i find nice cool themes for my phone... :P