Our Talkative Boy

Our little boy likes to talk. He imitates what we are saying like and his speech is definitely more clear. He learns to speak Mandarin and English from us and learns to speak Malay from our Indon's maid.

Daily greeting: Good Morning and Good Night.

Eugene will greeting us one by one every morning by saying: 嫲嫲, Good morning. Daddy, Good morning. Mummy, Good morning and Kakak, Good morning.

Uncle, Auntie, 婆婆, 姨姨, 阿Fu (舅舅), 公公,姑姑 and etc.

Eugene can speak more words from the book/ daily conversation:

All about me: Eye, Nose, Mouth, Teeth, Cheek, Ear, Hand and Leg.

Fruits: Banana, Apple, Orange, Berry, Melon, Peach, Lemon, Grapes, Strawberry, Corn and Grapes.

Drinks: Yogurt, Juice, Milk, Water.

Animals: Meow (cat), Woh woh (dog), Cow, Tiger, Lion, Fish, Bird, Butterfly, Bee, Duck, Penguin, Elephant, Owl, Pig, Chick, Turtle, Horse, Bear and Snail.

Colours: Red, Green, Blue, Yellow and Rainbow!

Food: Biscuit, Bread, ahm ahm (food), Ice-cream, Cake.

Instruction: Put Back, Don‘t Touch, Sit, Open, 上楼, 下楼, outside, Turn, Walk, Kick, ngm ngm (potty) and yang yang (sayang).

Manners: Please, Help, No more, 请请, 要/Want, 给/Give, Don't want.

Transports: Car, Van, Lorry, Bus, Tractor, Bicycle, Motorbike, Aeroplane, Boat and Tuk tuk (train).

Toys: Ball, Bear, Robot Man, Balloon and Flower.

Objects: Key, Umbrella, Books, Potty, Comb, Toothbrush, Powder, Teapot, Shoe, Hat, TV, Telephone, Star, Moon, Ladder (He'll describe ladder 爬高高), Hammer (He'll describe hammer sounds like tuk tuk tuk), 抱抱 (pillow), 嘴嘴 (Pacifier), Clock and Fan.

Counting: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten! 一，二，三，四，五，六，七，八，九，十！Satu, Dua, Tiga, Empat, Lima, Enam, Tujuh, Lapan, Sembilan dan Sepuluh!

Eugene, when you can speak a complete sentence with us? :0)

Cardboard Test

This cardboard was belonging to Rachel Tang Jie Jie. And this cardboard now has handover to Eugene. We educate Eugene the Alphabet chart with one word per letter.
Yeah...Let Eugene to present his knowledge to everyone. However, he has not patient to stay long with us to complete the cardboard test!

Leadership Skills

Eugene always instructed us to do things on his own way. Daddy praise Eugene is 'born Leaders'. I firmly believed that nowadays most children are born with leadership skills, and what you actually affect through teaching, is what they will grow to be.

Every morning once Eugene woke up, he will request us to bring him out of bedroom. Eugene:'Outside, outside...open open' (asking to open the door to let him go out) :0)
After we brought him out of our bedroom, he will ask us to bring him to praying room by saying '请请....请请'. Then he will request us to bring him to the downstairs. Eugene:'下楼...下楼...‘
While we are at the living room, Eugene will request to switch on his video by saying 'open, open...'
We would like to help Eugene to develop his Leadership skills. Communicate effectively is one of the key leadership traits. "Good leaders are good communicators". So we always teach Eugene to say what he mean or communicate clearly before we fulfill his request.

We encourage Eugene to read books then by asking question and expecting answers from him. Sometime, we giving him responsibilities and motivate him that he can handle. ie. ask him to get his own shoes if he want to go out for walk walk. Certainly, we also encourage him to be more independence but we will also assist him if he needs help.

Eugene is improving his leadership skill by interacting with us;
- He will instruct us to dance together with him when his favorite music is playing.
- He will lead us to the way where he wanted to go.
- He will request us to follow his step to get the job done.

Satu, Dua, Tiga...

My son learns to speak Malay from our Indon's maid. He knows the counting from one to ten - "Satu, Dua, Tiga, Empat, Lime, Enam, Tujuh, Lapan, Sembilan & Sepuluh"!

When you said "Satu", Eugene will continue the counting "Dua, Tiga, Empat"......

Yeah....My Gene is smart!

I dont know ar!

An funniest and unexpected answer from Eugene: -
Grandma: Gene boy, do you know who is a naughty boy?
Eugene: I don’t know ar!
Mummy: Eugene, do you know how to sing?
Eugene: I don’t know ar!
Daddy: Puji Gene, do you know Eugene is a naughty boy?
Eugene: I don’t know ar!

"I don’t know....I don’t know....I don’t know ar!" LOL!

We are all surprise and we don't expect that Eugene answered us 'I don’t know'. We really do not know where he learns to say these words from. The way he pronouns the sentense 'I don’t know ar' is really cute through! >_<

2D1N CNY Shopping Trip

Chinese New Year is around the corner. We went to KL, Mid-Valley and IKANO to do our CNY shopping this year. We booked a Deluxe room for a night stay at 'The Garden Hotel'. Woohoo...most of mall dressed up to welcome the year of the Tiger. I love the Chinese New year's atmosphere with red lanterns, red spring scrolls, red drapes, assorted red ornaments and Chinese New year's songs can be heard every Shopping Mall.

Pic 1: Relaxing in the hotel. Pic 2: A swimming pool view from our 16th floor room.

Pic 1: The room features lush spaces and sumptuous décor in muted tones of brown and beige. Pic 2: Make a phone call for room service dinner.

The classy bathroom is compartmentalised into a toilet cubicle, a bath and shower cubicle and an open sink/powder area.

We had dinner at the Food Junction which located in Mid Valley just beside our hotel. After dinner, we did our shopping in Mid Valley. The place that we never missed out - 'Toys R Us' again for sure! Toys R us is Eugene favorite place. We bought a V-Tech baby walker for Chi Yen's daughter since we had planned to visit her tomorrow.

Eugene loves the 'umbrella doll stroller' very much. He puts a teddy bear on toy stroller and pushing it around. Does Eugene look 'Girlie' with the pink colour stroller? Hehehe...

I have made a phone reservation 2 days in advance for AVATAR midnight show, 1245am at GSC Mid Valley. We went to collect our ticket while Eugene enjoys his time at Toys R Us. We back to our hotel around 10pm and took a rest while waiting for our midnight show. Mother in law helps to take care of Eugene at night.

After 2 1/2 hours in the theater, Avatar was so remarkable that it was well-worth of watching it. It is almost 4am by the time we finished our movie.

The next day morning, Eugene has given everyone a Morning call at 730am early. :0( Alamak...we just got 3 hours slept and really not willing to wake up! We have no choice as Eugene is keep asking us to go 'outside' >_<

We straight drive to IKANO after checked out our room at 11am. Eugene was fall in sleep in the car while we are on the way to IKANO. Cheh....Eugene, why don’t you sleep late in the morning? We had Thai Food for our lunch. We did our shopping in IKEA and we have bought 2 cabinets and some house accessories. We finished our shopping around 5pm.

Eugene is helping us to choose the furniture in IKEA

We also went to visit our 4th Uncle before heading back to Ipoh. Can u see.....a very cutie baby girl? She is Chi Yen's daughter. She got BIG eyes, a very talkative girl....showing her smiling face all the time!

STOP & GO GO GO

We taught Eugene to recognize the colors of traffic lights. During the driving when the red light is held up, we teach him to request the driver to STOP! When the green light is held up, we ask the driver to GO! When the yellow light is held up, we request the drive to SLOW!

Some Song rhymes for Eugene:-
See the traffic light hanging in the air
When the light's a red light
You should wait right there.
See the traffic light hanging in the air
When the light's a green light
You should go from there.

Eugene now able to recognized the red and green colors of traffic lights. He will shout out loud 'STOP, STOP, STOP' when the light's is red and 'GO, GO, GO!' when the light's is green. Smart Boy!

Red says, "Stop"
Green says, "Go"
Yellow says, "S-L-O-W",
When crossing the street
These are the colors you need to know.

Day Trip to Cameron Highland

Cameron Highland again! We were having a one day trip to Cameron Highland. The main purpose of the trip is because of Frequencee Creative has got an advertisement job from a strawberry farm. Therefore, all Frequencee's employees (Weng Yee, Au Yong and Tina) were joined the trip also. They would like to visit the strawberry farm to capture some photos of uses in the advertisement.

We depart from Simpang Pulai at 930am and arrive at Brinchang around 1045am. We called up the Strawberry Farm Owner, Uncle Seng to bring us to his Strawberry Farm. Uncle Seng drove us up to the top of the Strawberry Farm with his Hilux since that our sedan is unable to reach the farm due to the narrow road.

Nowadays, strawberries are grown hydroponically. This is a method of growing strawberries without soils. It is grown on raised trays fed by water containing the essential nutrients for the strawberries. Everyone was have fun time plucking strawberries and we are pick those bigger in size and try to get those sweeter ones. However, the strawberries are not as sweet as those grown overseas. :0)

We went for charcoal steamboat as our lunch at the 'Water Cress Valley' about 2pm. This is a self-service restaurant, we need to take whatever food (vegetable, meat, fish ball, Prawns, Mee and etc) from the counter, collect your plates and chili sauce except lighting up the fire, of course. We visited the watercress farm after our lunch.

It was almost evening; the weather was getting freezing cold. Eugene caught a cold on this trip. Our last stop at 118 store at Kampung Raja. We bought some juicy sweet corns.

Our trip ends around 5pm. That was a nice trip and we do enjoy it much!

Happy Birthday to Grandma

January is birthday month for my 大姨公, 大姨婆 and 嫲嫲. So we are used to organise a birthday dinner for them every year. This year we had 3 tables of big feast at Tuck kee Restaurant.

Love from Kevin, Kathryn and Eugene:" Mummy and 嫲嫲, Happy Birthday to you and May u live healthily!"

My 2nd hair cut

We had planned to bring Eugene for his 2nd haircut since there is only 6 weeks to go to Chinese New Year. We brought him to the same Indian's barbershop. We had experiencing from his 1st haircut that he was resistant to have his haircut. So this time we though we have well prepared, we brought him to the next door grocery shop and get some toys before heading to the barber shop. We told the barber do not uses the shaving set since Eugene was scare the sound of the shaver.
At first, we managed to coax him with toys. When the barber brings up his scissors, Eugene was started scream and cried out loudly.

He was struggling and refused to cut at all. I was carried him to let the barber cut regardless of his wails and tears.

A new task that I have to go through this year - Train Eugene no more cry on his 3rd haircut!

Super Glue Eugene

After a long weekend together with Eugene, He is become a super glue and always been clingy on mummy. If I out of his sight, he will start calling 'mimi, mimi, mimi....' untill I have to appear in front of him. The ways he calling me really melted my heart and make me wanna to give him a BIG hug. I'm afraid I have probably made it worse by pampering him since he is my only one.

At home, he cant seem to entertain himself and I struggle with getting anything done. We always seem to be doing what he wants to and he's starting to become more bossy and disrespectful toward my husband & me.

We always bring him to the places with crowed people but he never wants to walk towards unless we come along.

Eugene, you are big BOY already so you must be more independent!

1st day of 2010

It is 1st January 2010. First day of the year, and I hereby wishing all of you have a Happy 2010!

We woke up early in the morning. We are so excited and happy today because we going to have a dating with 姨姨 and 婆婆. Let Eugene for his morning nap at 1030am and he wake up at 12pm. I served Eugene porridge for his lunch. We are getting ready and wait for 婆婆 to pick us up at 1230am. Wait ar, wait ar....till 130am 婆婆 is still not coming yet. We want to black list 婆婆because she has made me waiting for so long until my neck longer than giraffe. :-)

Finally 婆婆 reached our home at 2pm. We are going to have a shopping at Jaya Jusco. As usual, Eugene was refusing to carry by 姨姨 or 婆婆. He needs at least 10-15 mins to accept their kindness. :0(

I am enjoyed the day with 姨姨.

I would like to share my happiness here as I have received my surprise New Year gift from my hubby. The gift is with the P/S note: open it on 01/01/10. I was opened my gift on 01/01/10 @ 4am morning. I wanted to thank you my dearest.