E-mun @ 18 months

Dear Princess E-Mun,

Time flies, you are almost 18 months! It’s a great milestone to us. You start playing tricks, learning new things every day. You love exercise, dancing, running, playing swing and slides! We try to enjoy every single moment with you; you will request us to sing you Barney songs whenever you feel boring. Mummy and daddy learn all songs from the Barney video!

Yesterday we brought you a small bicycle or should we say it’s tricycle? Your feet still cant reach the petal or floor once you sit on it. You love sitting on it and ask us to push you around the house. You still can only name ‘baba’ not mummy nor ‘mama’, we think you do not understand the meaning of ‘baba’ now as you will call everyone ‘baba’.

We brought you to Desaru beach quite some time ago but we do not like beach, what a waste! We didn’t do much there, just visited mummy’s uncle and family and of course we went visit mummy’s grandma! Lately the H1N1 Influence flu still actively spread within crowds, we went Hong Kong without bringing and luckily we did that. The first day we reached HK, typhoon started at level 3, we took bus to the town and walked to the hotel, fortunately and unfortunately we brought small umbrella but got to walk a far bit to reach hotel. After we had lunch near hotel rain started heavy and HK government warned people. Very soon typhoon changed to level 8 and 99% shops was closed. Of course there are restaurants still operating, we ate sushi for dinner and went to a supermarket (more like grocery shop) to buy supper. If you were to follow, most properly we will stay in hotel worrying if typhoon will somehow danger to you. It was a good experience to us.

And now we start preparing our Japan trip. Unfortunately travel agency told us our trip got to cancel due to limited response. We have to switch from 7 days 6 nights tour to 7 days 5 nights. Mean we will take a night flight. Mummy very worry about you, the flight will start at night around 11.45pm and will take 6 hours. You normally sleep around 9.30pm and wake up 7.00 in the morning; so the flight in fact very tiring for you. Moreover you may need to sleep in the bassinet, the space is too small for you to turn over and sleep comfortably. We pray hard that you will enjoy the trip and would not give us too much problem during the trip!

又是星期一。。 昨晚你闹到十二点才睡， 妈咪想你可能是感冒吧！麽麽和爸爸都不耐烦了， 你还是哭个不停。今天爸爸早上又有开会。妈咪一大早天未亮就到公司了，非常瞌睡。

妈咪上星期和朋友谈天，朋友说妈咪应该找点生意当副业来做。 妈咪和爹地也想过这问题，妈咪想做个托儿所因为想到同时可以照顾你。但是想到这门生意需要长时间无假工作， 我们止步了。这阵子我们都想着这问题。 看你一天一天的长大， 妈咪真想可以常常陪着你，但是生活环境不允许。有一位智者show妈咪一张非洲难民穷苦小孩照片，对我说他们需要一个人to break out. 我那时的心情非常澎湃，我很认同他的话。很多穷人家世世代代都生活在非常辛苦的环境，不曾想过可能可以离开那环境。或许想过却不曾努力挣脱过。。你长大要知道努力，行动和态度比空想来得重要。当然妈咪也希望能和爸爸给予你好的生活环境，让你无忧无虑地成长。

Hi Princess,

You are now 14 months old! What a big mile stone for us! We watch you grown up day by day, feel so touching. You are such an active baby, non stop moving around, playing and of course “manja” a lot. Moreover you are such an intelligent girl, you can easily differentiate our food with yours. When we use chopstick to eat and we feed you by spoon; you will feel suspicious and refuse to eat. Oh dear, to fulfill you what we need to do is change from spoon to chopstick.

Every day I ask myself, am I doing something right? Am I giving you the best? Mummy try not to pressure you so much by putting high hope on you. We met with a mother of 3 years old girl the other day at Isetan, we had a chat. She used to be a lawyer, quit her job and become a full time house wife taking care of her only girl. Small little girl knows time table, knows one hour = how many minutes, one day how many hours, etc. She is brilliant and even requested her mother to visit book store. However mummy dont feel envy, not even think of want you become like that. I can now imagine by the time u grow bigger, u will become worst than now; extremely “manja” very aggressive (fierce in fact). But I think the only thing I want to educate you is to speak up to family, to us whenever u r in trouble, whenever u need help.

Last week mummy met with two colleagues with sales team, one is sales another is manager managing sales people. Both of them are so aggressive and I can see how motivate how much they enjoy their work. Mummy lost... perhaps mummy should be in sales in stead of backend office. But since daddy already in sales, mummy worry of our living without my salary... How good if everyone can just do whatever they like.

A fine day

Dear BB,

Mummy found I can in fact write you letter in the office during lunch hour or early in the morning, hopefully I can write more to you.

Last weekend we participated in “60 earth hour” which was meant to reduce usage of resources and save the planet. This exercise was participated by many countries and million of people. It was so meaningful that we decided to participate. The exercise was pretty simple to switch off the light for an hour from 8.30pm till 9.30pm. We switched off all the lights at home then we put on some candles. There are some young neighbor also participated in this activities, their children cycled, playing around near the park, etc. We brought you out walk around to feel the darkness. Even it was so dark, you still get so excited. We hope to become a good parent to show you positive example; of course you must also be a good baby! We work together, ok?

29/3 was a Sunday. A lovely Sunday, mummy celebrated birthday with baby E-Mun this year. What a special year!! Although we didn’t buy expensive stuff nor having a great party, mummy felt so full and appreciation for having such a good present from God, for having a baby like you.

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You fall sick again. Mummy was sick few weeks back then daddy also followed. We have been trying not to feed you with our spoon and control ourselves not to kiss you. Out of sudden when we almost recover, you were flu. Mummy starts to realize as a parent we don’t even have the right to fall sick… Now mummy understands there is no other love in this world that can compare with the love from parent! Even knowing there would not be any returns, a parent would not stop giving their love.

1st Birthday

Hi Baby,

It has been long time mummy didn’t write to you. We have celebrated your 1st lunar birthday with own family member; granddad, grandma x2, uncles and aunties. You didn’t behave well. We notice you don’t enjoy big group gathering. You refuse to be the centre of attraction, you cried when we sang birthday song to you; end up Brian and Brendon blew the candle.

We brought 2 cakes for your birthday one is with green tea flavor, Mickey mouse and in “1” shape. Another one was a jelly cake with green dinosaur cartoon! We wished you will grow up healthy with good attitude. At the same time we aim to be a good parent to educate you positive values.

You learn very fast on fancy thingy eg make funny face, dancing etc. But you have refused to act like other babies, waive hands, friend kiss, etc. We accepted whatever you do and didn’t push you to do thing that you don’t like. Well, we still believe in “love education”. I was thinking perhaps you can tell us if we are good parent to you when u are mature enough.

2009 is going to be a busy year for us, daddy and mummy going to Bangkok this April without bring u; I cant imagine how much mummy will miss you, as we see you every day. Then by September we shall bring you to Hong Kong, we want to try the experience bringing you for long journey travel. By October we will have family trip to Japan!! How wonderful!! Even grandma will be joining us. Of course u might not know what is happening but we are just reluctant to leave you alone in KL. How lucky are you to visit Japan at 1 years plus!! haha

Baby E-Mun,

Today is the 8th day of Chinese New Year. We had gone through the first CNY together. Anyway this was not a good experience; you are so “sticky”. We brought you back to mummy’s hometown; there are so many uncles and aunties wish to hug you, or perhaps just play with you, you just refuse and non stop crying. Both of our hands and legs no more feeling after few days took care of you... muscle pain seriously. You collected a lot of ang pow, mummy will keep all the ang pow and give you when you are wise enough to use them.

These few days rain very frequent and further more we brought you to daddy’s friend house for party and coincident that uncle’s baby was having flu… so end up you got sick! We feel so heart pain and so worry. This is the first time you fall sick. We pray hope you get well soon.

Oh ya, we start planning your first birthday party now; not sure you like it or not, we plan to have it at KFC fast food restaurant.

P/S The photo attached taken at D'Kiara Apartment; see... u enjoy swimming so much!!