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Photo by the beach

2012-02-01T14:52:00.000+08:00

About nine months ago i wrote about how my daughter scared of the beach, but now she loves going to beach. After we brought her to the beach a few times, she likes running at the beach and also throwing the pebble to the sea. I guess this is one way we can help our kids to overcome her fear, by keep letting them try it! Anyway, I managed to capture this photo of her at the beach - got style ler :

My girl likes to think at night

2012-01-13T14:32:00.000+08:00

Oh, i missed my blog. It's been long time i didnt update my blog. Reason? Busy, or it's just an excused :) Anyway life has been very unstable for me for the past few months. Nothing seems to work as planned...but I'm feeling that it's over and I can see the rainbow :) Ok, lets talked about something interesting...about my daughter :) I was amazed that at her age of 2 years and 4 months; she got

A triumphant feeling....

2011-11-06T14:24:00.000+08:00

It has beenseveral months I tried to potty trained my 2 years old daughter. At first, she wouldn't even want to sit on the potty. Only after many times of persuade, she finally gave in. However, everytimes she sat on the potty, nothing seems to come out and she just want to play with the toilet paper :( Even when I noticed her standing there trying to poo, and quickly put her on potty, yet

Color of Fall

2011-11-05T02:16:00.000+08:00

I like fall because it gaves me a kind of romantic feeling. Here is some photo of my neighborhood to share with you the color of this beautiful seasons.... Three different color at once...

Fun playing with clay

2011-10-31T08:18:00.000+08:00

Recently we brought Kai Shuen to Portland Children Musuem and bought back some clay for her. So we start with simple built like turtle. I make most of the part of the turtle, and she helps me to match the head and legs of the turtle to its body. It's not easy for little kids to rolled the clay or to shape it but she enjoyed watching me doing it, as well as "combining" the part into one piece...

Simple way to cook Asam Laksa

2011-10-21T03:09:00.000+08:00

Pass few days, i was craving for Asam Laksa and thought it may worth a try to cook the Asam Fish using the instant asam fish souce that i bought from Malaysia, the Mak Nyonya brand. I first fried the fish fillet, then pour the paste with water and stir it lightly. Then i put in some tomatoes and red onion, but too bad i cant find the mint leaf. Anyway, i was so glad that the taste turn out to be

Feeling totally lost when the service down

2011-10-14T02:06:00.000+08:00

Yesterday around 4pm, my connection to internet was suddenly down. I try to troubleshoot and found that it was not due to my router but rather there in on incoming signal. As I can't online, was thinking to watch TV. Only that i found out the TV programme is also down. OMG, the whoole service from COMCAST is not availabe, and that include the phone line. This is one of the cons of having all your

Fun Intel Family Day

2011-10-11T01:45:00.000+08:00

We had a wonderful Sat morning attending the Intel's family day at Baggenstos Farm, Sherwood. There was many events and activities available, such as pumpkin bowling, little Hay Maze, Corn Maze, free Hay ride and so on. But the most enjoyable played for my daughter that day was still the slides. :) We were lucky that it was a sunny day. It has been raining for a week's time. We started with

Finally bought the vacuum cleaner

2011-10-03T04:04:00.000+08:00

Finally, after 2 months, I can't stand already and went to get the vacuum cleaner at Walmart. Soon after I got it, unpacked, fixed the handle and tried it out on my living room's carpet. Below photo you can see that the machine is full of dirt half way through my cleaning. Feeling so clean after vacuum the whole house, no more hair and dirt :) And btw, this model that i bought, Bissell easyvac is

How many kids do you want to have?

2011-09-30T05:00:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, as usual, I brought Kai Shuen to the playground near Intel while waiting to fetch her father from work. My focus was been drawn to mother who's carrying a baby of roughly 5months old in front of her chest not because the baby was cute (but of course he is cute too), but because she was calling another three kids of hers. The oldest girl i think is about 6years old, the second girl is

Funny child talk

2011-09-21T13:17:00.000+08:00

Since Kai Shuen has been going to day care and she don't understand English, i thought it might be good for me to start teaching her some simple English word. Below was the funny dialogue happened this afternoon : Me : Kai Shuen, would you like to have some milk? KS : Har??? Me : (I showed her the bottle) Milk...Yes or No? KS : (Pointing to her nose) No.. Me : Hahahaha... The other day I

Amazing invitation from Intel

2011-09-21T01:53:00.000+08:00

Amazing, amazing!!! I'm stunned reading the dinner invitation from intel. It's the letter from Intel Ronler Acres Campus to its neighbors inviting all of us to join a dinner and update meeting on 27th Sept. As the biggest employer in Oregon, I think they really put in lots of effort engaging with the community. It's likes they want everyone in Hillsboro be proud of Intel and be part of Intel's

One of my favorite - How to Talk So Kids Can Learn

2011-09-20T05:43:00.001+08:00

I had just finished reading this awesome book by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish, How to Talk So Kids Can Learn. This book is similar to the previous one - How to Talk so Kids will Listen but with lots of different Q&A from parents and teachers, as well as the success stories from them. I loved those real life example and seeing how each of the parents trying hard to overcome their problem with

Kai Shuen 2nd Birthday

2011-09-17T05:38:00.000+08:00

Kai Shuen is turning two this Sunday. Hence we have a little celebration for her at her day care center today. It was a pretty short one but i guess everyone did have a good time. We gave the M&M, Kit Kat and the animal balloons that we made ourselves to those kids in her class and I can see a smiling faces in them. Too bad we are not allowed to lit the candle due to safety issue. Although she

My girl likes to watch action movies

2011-09-16T10:21:00.029+08:00

I didn't notice how much Kai Shuen enjoyed watching action movie until the other day when we were watching the "kiss of the dragon"by Jet Lee. There was this bad guy no.1 wanted to kill the bad guy no2 and the scene was getting very exciting. The moment when the bad guy no.2 is been killed with the knife, Kai Shuen turn to me and said " the uncle is dead"! I was so surprise that she can somehow

Discover my new talent

2011-09-16T02:23:00.001+08:00

I was shopping for Kai Shuen's birthday party's stuff and found this balloon kit in Fred Meyer store. I never try to make a animal balloon before but was thinking it would be interesting to get one and try it out, and the kids in the day care center would love it! So after a few experiment with refering to the instruction sheet, i managed to built my first dog ballon, see below picture...Not bad

Read to the dogs programme

2011-09-14T03:01:00.000+08:00

For dogs lover, you may wonder what this programme is about. I was surprised to find out this programme at Hillsboro public library. Kai Shuen normally like to play inside a room in the library, but on that day, it was closed. The notice on the door said that the "read to the dogs" is in progress. I was shocked to read this notice. In my mind, i thoguht that nowadays US poeple even read to their

Refuse going to day care

2011-09-09T01:17:00.000+08:00

It is the 8th of my daughter going to the day care and she still doesn't get used to it. She cried every morning when we drop her at the school. Today she doesn't even want to get into the car. Contradictory to what i thought it should be, the situation has become worsen. I really feel stressed each morning when I need to sent her to the day care. But i know that I can't give in. Others keep

Goods and bads sending your kids to day care center

2011-09-02T05:49:00.000+08:00

Today is my daughter's 4th day of school. I encountered different feeling each day when i went to fetch her back from the day care center. First day was a bit worried how would she adapting to the new environment. Second and third days were happy because she waved goodbye to me and seems happy to go to the center, but today I was sad because she told me she don't want to go to the school and

Second day of school

2011-08-31T05:02:00.000+08:00

Today was the 2nd day I sent my 2 years old daughter to the day care in the US. I'm glad that she waves good bye to me when the teacher carried her over. First day was a rough start for her. While I was outside the classroom talking to the principal, i can hear her screaming and crying looking for me. Her teachers said she is fine after a while and starts to join the activities and play in the

Kids' favorite game

2011-08-26T04:08:00.000+08:00

What is your child's favorite game? My daughther's recent favorite is the puzzle games! I bought her one 24 pieces Disney Princess Girls Puzzle and she just loved it! She played at least 5 times a day, arranging and re-arranging it. It was the most worthwhile toys I had ever bought for her. Most of her other toys, she gets bored easily after playing for a few times. This puzzle, she has been

Finding the day care for my daughter

2011-08-20T07:14:00.000+08:00

These week, i brought kai shuen to visit 2 day care centers nearby. One is call the "learning year"and the other is the Kindercare. We finally sign up with the kindercare as it as a 10% discount for Intel employee :) Not only that but the learning year doesnt have the half day program for toddler below 3 years old which I intend to sent my daughter only for the half day. First visit to the

Our first visit in Oregon

2011-08-18T03:30:00.000+08:00

We had our first visit in Oregon to the Oregon Zoo. We take the train from the station near our house to the Zoo. It is very convenience because the train station is directly underneath the Zoo, so we just need to take the escalator up and walk to the Zoo entrance, plus taking the public transportation entitle you for a USD1.5 discount from the adult fees USD10.5. KS is under 2 years old so it is

First visit to the doctor in US

2011-08-14T03:20:00.023+08:00

It's just the 2nd weeks herebut we had to bring Kai Shuen to see the doctor already, too bad. She was vomiting and having diarrhea. I think she got it from her father who was also sick. She vomitted 5 times in a days and my gosh, it was a carpeted floor, imagine how tuff I am to clean it!!! Because she can't wait for appoinment, we brought her to immediate care or urgent care center. After the

My little girl snap photo of me

2011-08-13T03:44:00.000+08:00

I am little surprised to get to know that my 2 years old little girl can snap a nice photo of me with little instruction from me. Good job, little one! Mummy is so proud of you... The photo she taken when we were waiting for JJ to order the food at the noodles & company I also taken some of her photo here in US with her new dress...here you go.. New dress i bought for her, just USD3