my lil'Chomel

My colleague was such a sweetie (and always is one) when she bought Jon a kangaroo soft toy during her recent visit to Australia. It is such a softy. When I brought it home, Jon was having fever and we decided to bring him to the doc. But he manage to play with it on the way to the clinic.

Remember the time when I was so worried sick about Jon not talking? The sleepless nights...

Well, I can't get him to keep quiet nowadays. With his high pitch voice and loves to scream (just like the mummy)... he will sing, talk, sing and talk most of the time. Demanding for this and that.. toys, colour pencils, lollipops, balls, bicycle, etc. Voicing his refusal to do things we want him to do like drinking milk and getting out of the bathroom. But no worries, Mr Cane always gets the job done. hehehehe.

Oh ya, we weaned him off diapers at night now. Of course there are accidents if we forgot to make him pee before he sleep. Other than that, he has been a good boy. He no longer wear diapers when we go out. But we have a spare diaper pants in case he needs to pee and we don't have access to any clean toilets. Just wear the diaper on him and kow tim! Sometimes, he'll ask for the diaper (cos he is lazy to go to the toilet...hahahaha). He can roughly tell time now. It started when he refuses to sleep at night and I will tell him that it is 10 or 12 o'clock now... we have to sleep. So, after a few times, he begins to check on the time when I asked him to sleep.

Here's some picture updates:

(big boy liau)

(see my Pooh watch)

(Peace!!!)

Woah... 1 mth++ of no posts.
So many things happening in between. Work was one of them. Everyone was so stressed up and tired (mentally) after using the brain for the whole day, I was just too happy to see the couch upon reaching home.

My office had a bowling competition day some time in May. At first, I was kinda sceptical cos I've not bowled for years.. I think before I had Jon. But I joined in anyways just to have fun and we get to bring our kids! Jon has never been to a bowling arena. He was bowled over with so many bowling balls and alleys. As we were walking into the arena, he jump/ bounce/ pounce around knowing what it was at first sight. He saw many times how bowling alley looks like in Handy Mandy... but this is real life.

It was so much fun. Not because I get to play (and better than I've expected) but to see the kids having fun. Everyone brought their kids. My team mates brought theirs too. The organiser was very thoughtful for preparing door gifts and kids lane for them but the lane was too far away from ours. Trying to play (it's a competition, remember) and entertain the kids at the same time, we had to rent a lane next to ours so that we can keep an eye on the kids (4 to 9 yrs old) too. It was not that expensive after all. We paid about RM38+ for 5 players, 1 game. The kids was just taking their own sweet time to play, run around, play and run around. They can't really move that fast after carrying 6 lbs or 9 lbs ball all the way to the lane, drop it and hope that the ball would roll to the pins. Of course most of the time with help from the adults.

It was tiring but fun. Hope to arrange a simple get-together with some old friends for a mother-and-kids bowling event. More like, mummies get to chat and chat and chat away, while the kids play bowling!

Hey, Sushi Zanmai is having some kind of promotion ie. happy hour 7pm - 8pm everyday for this month only. All you need to do is to pick (from the converyer belt, do not order from the waitress!) your sushi plates according to their theme.. well, I think they change it every week. At the back of the plate there are markings (which can only be detected through IR scanners). And if you get a plate with that marking, you get RM20 voucher instantly. Easy but don't blame me if you don't any ya.

It must be kinda destined for us cos Hubby wanted to eat there (Hubby is no sushi fan, ok) and we happen to eat at 7++ pm and (sorry for too many ands... too excited) I picked only 4 plates of sushi. Guess what? 1 of them got the marking. So, our meal got discounted by RM20. Hehehe.

Happy eating! Remember to ask the waitress there cos they are so helpful in explaining how the whole happy hour thingy works. I'm sure I missed some of the points here.

Some random rantings.
According to here:
smart al·eck
n. Informal
1. A person regarded as obnoxiously self-assertive.
2. An impudent person.

in another word a "smarty pants". This is how I would describe a sales person as someone trying to sell me something and in the course of his marketing "talk", he is telling me what my company's business processes are! It might seem fine and dandy (at first) since if he is going to sell me something, he better be sure he knows what he is talking about, right? Oh, if the person go on and on and on (hmm... about half of his presentation is on what my business processes are)... it can mean a few things:

1. He takes me as someone stupid that does not know what is happening until he has to TELL me what I should know in the first place
2. He is trying to be a "smart aleck" and show off how much he knows about my company (and sometimes to show that he knows more than me!)
3. He has nothing much to present... he tries to make an impression

I really appreciate the good pre-sales guys that try to understand what we want to know about the product and catered his/ her presentation according to that. Nothing more. Sort of like I don't waste your time, you don't waste my time.

I am beginning to find myself buying things for Jon whenever we bring him out just to pacify him. Or he is at the age of being demanding, stubborn and impossible? Oh help me please. But the fact is I do 'spoil' him a bit... in Hubby's term, I've spoilt him rotten! But his is my Darling, my life, my everything... apart from Hubby teehehe.

This weekend alone, I bought him 1 sheet of Strawberry Shortcake stickers, Winny The Pooh's party bags (even though he doesn't want it), 1 big workbook from Borders (thank God for value buys), 1 Dora VCD (which he almost has the whole collection of it) and a tub of a cheaper version of playdoh.

On the other hand, I try to choose things that will be educate him rather than giving him ultraman, spiderman and Ben 10. He still have no idea what those characters are and I don't plan to introduce them to him. So, apart from the stickers and party bags.... I am comfortable in buying 'educational' stuffs like:
Workbooks - he can do numbers exercises
Dora VCD - he loves the adventures
Playdoh - he was having a fun time making shapes and molding into objects. He requested his poh-poh to make him a bird! Now that is very challenging.

Must try to stop this habit of giving him everything the moment he whines. But, how to make him more understanding and patient when we go out?

Easter came and went quietly. Just a normal weekend in Hubby's hometown. Not how I wanted it to be. Next year maybe.... gotta do it my way then. After coming back, my body was aching like I was run over by a herd of cows. It was so bad that I had to take an emergency leave just to rest my broken and aching body. Worse still, my big boss (BB) was assigned to approve my leave. Sigh... not a good impression at all. (Note to self: not getting any younger. be more mindful next time.)

Oh ya... I ordered online a battery-operated eyelash curler after reading rave reviews on what it can do to your eyelashes. Hahaha... need all the help that I can get for my super short eyelashes. The courier decided to send it today - a weekend - when everyone usually is out in a mall or went back to their hometown - during lunch hour when everyone is usually out for lunch! Oh ya, my phone conversation (translated in english) with the courier man (cm):

Me: hello
cm: This is so-and-so?
Me: Yes
cm: I have a package for you from Company XYZ. I am in front of your house now
Me: Why didn't you call earlier to say that you are coming? I am not at home now. Maybe I can call my neighbour to accept the parcel
cm: Can you give me your ID no? How to call? I have a lot of delivery to do after this. (raising his voice)
Me: Errrmmmm...
cm: Can you come back quick?
Me: Hey, this is not my problem because you didn't call me.
(the rest of the conversation is a bit blurly now because I can feel my blood pressure raising)
Me: Why don't you just go back and I will deal with Company XYZ (for not getting my parcel on time)
the end

OMG. Who does not make appointment before sending anything to customer's house. How rude can people get and they are paid to delivery parcels. I'll be more understanding if they are not. This courier company is definitely going into my ban-list. Yup, I have a list of banned places, companies, products, websites, etc. And they say times are bad and a lot of people are jobless. This one seems like he doesn't want his or rather hates doing his job.