My almost 2 year old.....

Dislike....

• eating fruits or vegetables with skin such as grapes and tomatoes. She will keep them in her mouth until I got fed up and ask her to spit it out. She simply refuse to chew on it.
• strangers, will cry or make noise if someone she is not familiar with comes to the house or attempt to play with her, but she will warm up to this person in 5 mins
• putting her toys back to its original location, will have to threaten to throw them into the bin to get her into action
• noise, a small sound coming from the neighbour or the sound of thunder will frighten her to tears
• napping, she hardly show signs that she's tired, I will normally have to force her to nap

Likes....

• taking out all her toys, play with it for 2 seconds and then leave them all on the floor
• going to the playground to watch the uncles fly their kites... she prefer running after the kite than sitting on a swing or a slide, weird kid I have here
• taking baths, she will open the drawers and pull out her pyjamas and head towards the stairs on her own (the bathroom is upstairs)
• sitting or standing in between the papa and me, what a light bulb!
• likes singing and dancing, rather good at booty shaking, still teaching her hip rolls at the moment
• reading, for 5 mins only. She will take out a book (its normally the same book from a bunch of books) and will ask me to read to her. After 5 mins she will run away and do something else.
• swimming in her own private pool
• holding the label of her handkerchief when she's having her milk and the label of her napkin when she's napping/sleeping, very weird
• saying hi or bye to strangers she meets in the lift, at the mall etc but when people walk near her to get to know her, she will run away and said she's scared
• playing with gadgets such as our mobile phones, cameras, laptops

In another month my little girl will turn 2. I can't wait....

Maybe its time to consider migrating?

I don't usually write about stuff which relates to politics or ministers or the country on my blog. I find most of the things I read in the paper (the first few pages) to be brainless and childish so I didn't really bother. If an ordinary Malaysian like me can feel this way, I always wonder what Malaysia would be like to the eyes of foreigners?

But today, after all that has happened in the past few days, I am just so upset. I am an ordinary Malaysian who works hard everyday to make sure I am able to put food on the table and I have enough to buy milk for my little girl.

Her formula milk was previously (a year ago) at RM55 and today it was RM68. Gardenia which is another one of her favourite snack used to be RM2.10 and its now RM2.20. These are essential items people! An average income earner like me is struggling to keep up with all these price increase and I can't imagine what the poor would have to do to stay alive. While the ordinary Malaysians like me are worrying about the escalating costs, I am surprised that there are people who have nothing better to do but to spend time arguing about the use of a particular word, demonstrating and burning places of worship! Does it really matter who uses the word?

I used to be proud being a Malaysian. We are the only country I know that lives peacefully despite being multi racial. I don't think that is what I am feeling today.

I have never thought about migrating. I have friends who told me about their migrating plans for the betterment of their children's futures and I just listened without taking it to heart as deep down I am happy staying and working hard in Malaysia. My family and friends are all here, my home is here.

But after seeing all the things that has happened in the past few weeks, I guess the idea of migrating is not just for a better future for the kids, it is for the safety of the family and should be considered. If they can burn places of worship today, how can I be assured that they won't burn homes or schools tomorrow?

I wonder if things will change in the next 10 years, will it be better or will it be worst? Will Gardenia be RM4.10 in the next 5 years? Will a teh tarik cost RM2.10 then? High possibility. Will our salary be increased fast enough to keep up with all these escalating costs? you can go to bed early and dream....

With all that is happening, I am not even sure if I should have more children. Why bring him/her to this world to suffer?

Malaysians, why can't we just live in peace and harmony and use our strength to create a better country that benefits us all?

'Everybody' sleeping

During bedtime last night, Hayley kissed her giraffe (the Big Headz I got from Guardian, yes I spent RM600 in less than 2 months at Guardian to collect the 40 stamps) and her all time favourite dog good night and said this "everybody sleeping".

Her giraffe. It is just too cute and Hayley fell in love with it the moment she laid her eyes on it. I am hoping to get her the elephant as well but I think I have ran out of things to buy at Guardian.

Then she started humming to the Happy Birthday song. It doesn't make sense, everybody sleeping and Happy Birthday doesn't come together. Then she repeated the word 'everybody' again and ahhh.. I finally realised that she actually pronounced the word everybody as 'ehbidy' which rhymes a little with her 'appy biday' and she nicely continued the birthday song like this

"ehbidy to u...... ehbidy to u......." Kids... simply amusing :-)

Hayley's 1st Christmas present

This year was the first year we bought Hayley a Christmas present. Now that she is almost 2, her character, likes and dislikes are slowly showing. The babysitter told us that she is very good at playing remote control cars using both her thumbs and we decided to get her one for this Christmas. We also thought it was a good gift to stimulate her eye and hand coordination.

We decided on the above Ferrari bought at Toys R Us. The remote comes with 2 controllers, the left is to drive the car forward and backward by pushing it up and down and the left is to steer the car left or right by pushing it left and right. She was playing with it a lot on Christmas and Boxing Day (so was the papa) and was slowly getting the hang of playing with it. Today, 2 days later she broke the antenna and the right controller on the remote control that steers the car to the left and right. She wasn't rough with the toy but when the car didn't react they way she wanted it to, she hit the remote or the car to the floor several times. Now the car can only go straight or reverse :-(

I guess we have to start getting used to the idea that toys won't last.

My first blood and urine test

Apart from a simple blood test when I was pregnant to determine my blood type, I have never had a blood or urine test done for as long as I can remember. You see, I am terrified of needles, I can faint when I see a needle or when I see blood. I have a phobia towards this combination - blood and needles.

After Hayley was born my weight plummeted and my regular GP recommended a blood and urine test just to make sure I am ok. I got his letter back in Sept, went to his clinic a week later but he failed to draw blood out of me. He said my veins were too fine and my blood was thick. He poked both my hands and couldn't draw a single drop. My face was turning white and I almost fainted. I told him to stop. He asked me to come back next week to try again. I didn't go back.

Last week (yes it took me so long to build up my courage) I went to Pathlab. This time papa and Hayley came with me, I need their support. The lady at Pathlab escorted me to the back of the room and took out 3 bottles (to store the blood) and big needle. I kept telling her that I might faint, I have phobia and she must be quick and gentle.

She poked into my hand, I wasn't looking but I could feel it. I felt my head getting light and then it was over. She took out a big bottle of blood and transferred them to 3 smaller bottles. I didn't dare to see but was glad it was over so quickly and with so little pain. I also provided urine.

Yesterday I went back to collect my report and thankfully there was nothing major. Apart from being low in iron I had slighlt high cholesterol. I was advised to take multi vitamins to boost up my iron and to avoid fried and oily food.

I am relieved that I don't have to worry about this anymore until end of next year. Yes, I want to do this on a yearly basis to keep my health in check. From now on, I am going to try and eat more healthily cause I want to be alive to see my baby get married and I want to be alive to see my grandkids. In order to do that, I must be healthy :-).

Merry Christmas And Happy New Year

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all family and friends a

MERRY CHRISTMAS

&

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Please do not drive faster than your guardian angels can fly!

Tuesday is my REST day

Tuesday is the only day in the week where I can sit in front of the TV from 8pm all the way till 11pm without having to do anything, except during commercials... haha. Cause on Tuesday I have to watch my favourite 'So You Think You Can Dance' and nothing in the world can stop me. Dancing has always been my passion and since I have stopped dancing after Hayley was born, watching it on TV would be the only way I can feel alive and connected to dance. I really miss dancing and going crazy with all my dancer friends.... those were the days....

Come to think of it, Hayley is almost 2 which means I have officially stopped dancing for almost 3 years!! How time flies.

I am so thankful that papa has been very supportive and understanding and he will take over Hayley for the night from bathing to entertaining her various requests to bringing her to bed. I truly appreciate the 'break' although it was only once a week. I wonder what will happen when the episode ends... hopefully by then American Idol would have commenced and I can change my rest day :-)