Bilingual Toddler

You turned 1 year old last week.

You can now....
Walk a few steps unassisted.
Stand upright from a squatting position.
Put both hands high up in the air when we say "So Big!"
Point to your toes when we ask you where they are (only when you are not wearing shoes - you can't find them when you have shoes on - much to our amusement).
Say "UP" when you go up the stairs.
Imitate me and say "Ma~an Ma~aan" when I ask you to slow down.
Wave Bye-Bye & send a flying kiss with a loud 'POUK'!
Shake your head.
Point to the same thing when we ask you where is the Banana? or Where is the Xiang Jiao?

You still....
Refuse to sit down quietly so that we can bathe you, preferring to sit outside of the tub most times.
Cry like a baby for milk in the mornings.
Pick and put all sorts of stuff into your mouth.
Refuse to stay still when we try to change your diaper.

You are now almost 10kg and 78cm tall. You started out a year ago at 3.45Kg and 50cm long.

Your first year.
You probably won't remember much of it.
We will.

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Birthday Party

Your Guest List:
Janelle, Lucas & Chloe (Cousins)
EJ, EK, Charmaine & Rachel (Dad's Friend's)
Tomas, JunYu, Mika (Mom's Colleague's)
Qingyu, Wenjie, Kuan & Athena (Mom's Friend's)

Blogs

Was telling a friend of mine the other day that I have a blog and that it was about you. She commented that if it was about you, then shouldn't it be something private and that I should write it in a diary and keep it at home instead. Not put it all out in the open for the world to see. I guess she meant it was like parading yourself naked in public and enjoying their view.

I wonder if by the time you grow up, what kind of technology you'd be using. Your Porpor tells me that we didn't have a private home phone till I was about 2 or 3 years old. She tells me it was a big deal then to have a color TV at home as well. Our first computer in 1983 costs your Gonggong S$5K which was a small fortune, considering the 4-room flat he bought in 1974 only costs S$22K. Emails and Web didn't feature in my life until I was in the University. I didn't owned a mobile phone until your dad bought me one in 1998. 3G networks are less than a year old in Singapore. DVD home recorders are becoming ubiquitous only now.

So, back to diaries and blogs. I don't even know if by the time you grow up whether blogs will be around anymore or whether you'd get to read this at all.

For now, I appreciate not having to carve words in stone which i imagine would be painstakinlgy difficult. Blogs are the easiest and most convenient way to record my thoughts at the moment. I can access this site from almost anywhere, anytime, with or without my IBM T41 laptop. I can even add pictures, photos taken digitally with my 5.1mpix Sony Cybershot camera or Nokia N90 mobile phone wtih a 2mpix camera! ..... hopefully in the very near future, i can add some video clips as well?