Wen Jia went to school again

This Wednesday, Wen Jia went back to the kindergarten that she used to study for 1 month in Feb.
The reason she quit the previous attemp was because she was too attached to mum that she couldn't even see her mum went out of sight.
We realised that that wasn't an ideal time for schooling yet for Wen Jia as she was not ready.
Over the last few weeks, we noticed that she has made great improvement in wanting to mix around with other kids. She has been doing OK when left alone with my neighbour's kids. That implied she was then more ready than before in making herself detached from mum, at least for a few hours.
On her first day of schooling, we left the "kakak" with her. She was a bit shy when facing other kids on her first day, but she did not cry. She has been asking for Mummy but was managed to be pacified by toys and activities.
She has gained more and more confidence on her second and third days. On her third day, the teachers put "kakak" out of her visible range and amazingly she was fine without even asking to be in company of "kakak"
We will be trying to let her alone in the kindergarten without "kakak" next week.

I know now my girl has grown up, so fast that we didn't even realize that.

By the way, we are not ready yet to let her be in school for full day. She is now with the school for 3 hours only and this is going to be the case for some time.

爸爸的生日

六月二日是父亲七十岁生日。
当天为他老人家办了个小聚餐。刚好爸妈都来了吉隆坡，我便在家附近的酒楼订了座。 其实也只是家常便菜， 主要还是咱几口子能一起好好吃一顿。
还有，蛋糕当然少不了。特地定了巧克力香蕉蛋糕，因为爸和女儿都喜欢吃香蕉。
人生七十古来稀，那是爸爸的福。也祝愿爸爸安康快乐，逍遥无忧。

烟霾来袭

昨天早上驾车途经IOI, 拍下一幕烟霾来袭的“惨况“。 这两天可说是烟雾弥漫， 太阳公公羞答答的躲了起来。
第二幅相是到了公司从窗口拍的景象， 时代广场近乎被淹没了。
下午时分，听闻巴生及蕉赖空气指数极度不佳。看了当今大马，下载了空气指数图表，下了一跳。能见度已到了少于两公里。








拜邻国焚烧耕作之“福”，我们也毫不客气的照单全收。
回顾历史，此情此景也非首遭。好像有十余年了吧，我们都重复着同一件事，就是很无奈又无助地吸入“恶烟“。
不想来得都来了，大家唯有自求多福，留意身子。

Wen Jia Learning Alphabet Now

I started showing Wen Jia flash card of Alphabet A-Z three weeks ago and she has managed to picked up a few alphabets since the first week.
She was able to tail with the name of objects when I uttered the Alphabet, for example A for (she will say Apple), B for (Ball ball), etc.
This set of flash cards was among her favourite flash cards now and she is now able to master at least 10 out of the 26 alphabets now. She is making quite a good progress now.

Life without maid

I have just sent my maid home this morning. She has been with us for 15 months now and should rightfully be with us for another 9 months.
She didn't pass her health check therefore it is compulsory to send her back now.
Life has changed a lot since the helper is now gone. We have to take care of the house chaos for a while until the new maid arrive.
We will be getting help from Siew Wei's sister for next week while waiting for my mum to be in KL the week after next week.
It is definately not something easy for us as Wen Jia has grown up now and she can walk, climb and mess up the house. We just need to pay more attention to her in view of the fact that we are now without the helping hands.

Interesting Article about Dr M

I came across a series of blog posting by a person called Aspan Alias on our beloved ex-PM.
I am quite impressed with how informative this guy was about the story of Dr M and Umno during the 70s - 80s.
For those who interested, please visit http://aspanaliasnet.blogspot.com/2009/04/mahathir-happiest-man-part-1.html and starts the many threads about this man.

Trip to Zhang Jia Jie (张家界）

We have finally materialized the holiday to Zhang Jia Jie that we planned 8 months ago.
It was a 7 days 6 nights trip from 4/4 till 11/4, with stops at Macau, and Guang Zhou.
Our ticket was with budget airlines to Macau. We crossed the border to Zu Hai, took a 2.5 hours bus to GuangZhou. We spent the afternoon in GuangZhou, taking night train to Zhang Jia Jie. It was a long travel with 14 hours on train. As we did not get soft bedded seats, it was a truly unforgetable uncomfortable journey especially for two poor guys who took the beds at the top (and i was one of them :))
Despite the bumpy and sleepless journey, we enjoyed the remaining three days in ZJJ jungle park. What was needed then was good strength on both legs and also a good camera.
We spent 4 days in ZJJ, 2 days in Fong Huang old Town (a Miao settlement). View at Fong Huang Old town was just amazing with lots of ancient time buildings and also witnessing the living styles of the residents at riverside.
Our remaining 1.5 days was in GuangZhou - with nothing but shop and shop and eat.
I probably have forgotten to mention that our tour there was with 4 other friends and we were on our own without joining any tour group.
Some pictures for your viewing pleasure.