Rynae's New Look

We collected Rynae's glasses yesterday and had a difficult time conning her to put them on. She will carry this new look from now. I kinda like it.

Diapers Pressies?

The picture you see above is not taken in a warehouse. It is my home, turned temporary storeroom for a bulk purchase order of diapers from ibaby.com.sg. I am attracted to their cheap selling price. Furthurmore, the diapers can also be delivered to your doorstep with a $6 delivery fee top up. Saves a lot of enery to lug them back! I shared the lobang and delivery fee with one of my neighbours and one of my sisters so each of us just need to pay $2 delivery fee! These loots were delivered to me on X'mas Eve and with no other free area to hold them, I had them sit in a corner, beside my X'mas tree. Gee... such large pressies...

My First Taste Of Cereal

I couldn't believe that half a year is gone in a puff. My boy turns 6 months old today! And.. it's also the ripe time to start him on semi-solid. Nah... he didn't quite like it but managed to finish most of his feed (because I thrust it down his throat!).

1 Night In Rasa Sentosa

Coca Cola - The enery drink for swimming.

Enjoying his complimentary morning breakfast buffet. Made such a mess!

Our hunk, basking in the sun

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa la la la la, la la la la... This is what I hear everywhere I go now. The spirit of the season is strong and infectious and everyone's in holiday mood, planning how and where to spend the last days of the year. Even my sisters and parents have gone down under to Perth to greet the kangaroos and do up their christmas shopping.

It is such a hassle to go travelling with a baby hence we chose to take up a 1 night stay at Rasa Sentosa special staff discount in Daddy's company. We brought Rynae there when she was about 2 years old and we're gonna revisit that place again. Asked if she remembered the trip, our friend could hardly recall anything as she was still too young then. Her memory bank started maturing only when she was 3 years old.

Older now, she enjoyed her stay more than when she was just a tot. She wanna get involved in finding the hotel room, wanna insert the room key, wanna soak in bath tub and had many more requests. This trip was planned with her in mind and we had a good family bonding time together. We are sure to be back next time they have such promotion again.

4-Eyed Gal

So the verdict is out - Rynae would need to wear spectacles. I'm not surprised actually because I knew that something is gonna be wrong with her eyes when she rubs and squints them often while watching TV, complains of eye pain and headache frequently. If you remember, I did bring her for an eye check up in March this year but because she was uncooperative, we couldn't find out how serious her condition was.

I finally had her redo her vision test at a polyclinic on Tuesday. Her score was terrible - 6/18 and she was referred to KKH immediately. It was also my intention to route via a polyclinic so that we could enjoy a subsidised rate at KKH.

After a detailed assessment, she was not short-sighted but had rather high astigmatism - 275 for left eye and 175 for the right. Worst of all, she had minor amblyopia, commonly known as lazy eye. The cause of it was due to the long period of poor vision hence the brain has not been working hard to process the image received from the weak eye. Our friend has to be put on glasses so as to stimulate the brain to process normal sight.

I cannot imagine an active young lass like her wearing glasses. Comical or studious? I look forward to see the look.

R.I.P FIL

Our whole family went back to indonesia for about 2 weeks recently. It was always with much happiness everytime we make the trip but emotions were different this time. We went back holding back tears in our eyes and with hearts never so heavy before. 14th November - a date that I'll not forget - the date that we lost someone we love and respect - my FIL, my 2 children's fraternal grandfather.

It happened like this...

We received a call from Indonesia on that fateful day informing us that grandfather collapsed while having lunch but in a moment of frantic, information conveyed weren't clear. We thought he had merely fainted and they were trying to resuscitate him. We were alarmed and stayed by the phone for update, hoping to receive good news. The next call crashed our day. He was gone. We couldn't accept it. My FIL has always held a pink health slip and how could someone so healthy given his age be gone in a puff? In deep sorrow, we packed our lugguages and rushed for the night ferry back. My FIL was a man with a big heart and was the easiest-going and contented old man I've known. He was happy as long as his love ones are. We could not accept his departure.

It is with deep, fond memories of him that I'm writing this blog. R.I.P FIL. You'll always be in our hearts.