And she has disappeared again ...

We have finally moved to our new and humble abode on the 17th September 2005 .... which has nil telephone line and therefore no internet connection .... *sigh*

Mommy is back .....

Thank God! If anybody wants to know why I have been so quiet .. go here . Achoo now is living comfortably ..and I mean really comfortably with her in-laws.

And I will also be quite quiet in days to come coz we are moving house ..... so many things to do ..help Mommy pack etc ......

Til then , I am learning to stand on my own ... duh ...

My Tok and Tok Wan

This photo was taken sometime in 1980, when Tok and Tok Wan were the same age as Mommy and Daddy now. Gosh! (Now, I think Mommy needs to go and start her own blog! She is encroaching into mine!!) Mommy says, Tok and Tok Wan are very funny people. I think they just received those headgears as presents and decided to take pictures wearing whatever it is to look ridiculous.

Their lives were filled with so much love and laughter. Mommy never remembers Tok and Tok Wan being at loggerheads with each other. If it did (which it did, according to Tok), it happened behind closed doors and the children (all four of them) never got to sniff anything.

Tok Wan was a person who loved life. Tok loves her books. Tok Wan loves the sea, Tok would bring her books along. Tok Wan loves to go out to sea in his motor boat, Tok would bring her books along (but I don't think she actually read them!!). Talking about the boat, Tok Wan had it painted bright chrome yellow and fixed it on the roof of the car for their PD trips. He also had one when he was posted to NZ. It was silver in colour.

His love for the sea almost took his life in 1981. Tok Wan had to visit some refugees on some remote island in I'sia. The rest of the family and office staff were enjoying themselves in some resort in the mountains. In the midst of calmness and serenity of the place, they heard Pak Yahya's car horn. Out came Tok Wan from the car, his face ,pale, his forehead had a small white plaster. His spectacles, different.

Apparently, the boat they were on had capsized. There were more than ten people on it, most of them top officials in the military and ONLY ONE life jacket!! Everybody struggled to keep afloat by holding on to the edge of the overturned boat... in the middle of the South China Sea ..... at midnight ...for a good 6 hours before they were saved by an oil tanker/ship which had to take a 30 minute u-turn before it could reach them. If Mommy was not mistaken, the crew were attracted to the light which Tok Wan flashed from his Alba watch (lights? from a watch? don't think they have that anymore). They were treated , on the ship, for their injuries and then brought to Singapore, where Tok Wan bought a new pair of spectacles and clothes (they were only cladded in their underwear when they were found).Then, they were flown back to Indonesia in a propeller plane, where much to Tok Wan's horror, did not have life jackets under their seat!!! Luckily, he arrived safely...

Tok and Tok Wan also loved entertaining. They used to have superb parties. Not the usual buffet parties that we have nowadays. They used to hold steamboat parties where Tok Wan would set up so many tables with so many steamboat sets, at home. There were also ones where there would be many 'stalls' that served different kind of food. Tok Wan has an ice kacang machine (the traditional ice grinder - yup, the green one that Mamak's use). There would be kambing golek and a lot of food I wouldn't know how to pronounce. Food was almost never catered. If it meant entertaining 100-200 people, then Tok would 'kerah' the other mommies to help out. Things like preparing thousand sticks of satay would be a norm. Tok's friends would remember "fondly" of those golden days. The parties would always end with a singing session ... many patriotic songs would be sung then ... "bonda senyum riang " .. and the likes .... There was also a time where they used to hold weekly dancing lessons at home .... chacha, rhumba, waltz, foxtrot .. and Mommy would be dancing with Pak Ngah or Tok Wan.

Most of the time, Tok and Tok Wan would include Mommy, Pak Ngah, Pak Lang and Achoo in whatever they do .... Mommy doesn't remember experiencing a dull moment in her childhood. Wait until I tell you about Mommy's expedition to climb Mt. Sibayak .. she actually managed to reach the summit at the age of 10 yo, wearing a skirt and blouse, leaving her family who was lagging behind!! Aha .... tunggu ......

Mommy says Tok and Tok Wan had lots of adventures together. She will share all her memories with me because she would like me to remember Tok Wan as she did. Even Achoo did not have many memories of Tok Wan as he passed away when she was 6 years old. Mommy was 14 then .........

My records ...then and now ...

Funny, this blog is supposed to be about my developments .. but not much, huh! I just need to put this down and get it over and down with, before Tok hounds me... My records when I was born :

and the updates to date ....

I can crawl very fast

I can't walk, yet .. but then Mommy and Daddy also started walking at 1yr 2 mths ..so???

I have 4 teeth ... first lower set appeared on 13th March 2005 and the second upper set appeared on the 13th June 2005. I bite my Mommy's nippies when I get annoyed with her or just for the fun of it .. ;)

I got my MMR shot on the 30th June 2005. I am due for my Chicken pox vaccination on the 29th of July ..uhggghhhh .. another one ....

I don't eat much .. just whatever is on the floor .....There was one day, when Mommy was totally freaked out like I've never seen before. My mouth was oozing with a red substance, like blood .... Mommy nearly fainted. She didn't know that I quietly bit on a blood capsule which was left lying on the table. They thot I couldn't get my tiny hands on it!! Ha ha .. But I didn't like what happened next. She took a huge syringe and kept pumping it sideways in my mouth to wash out everything. My little teeth were like dracula's ... all red. She was practically hysterical ... and near tears .. I heard her asking Daddy whether to go to the hospital or not, got chemical or not, poisonous or not. Daddy was just laughing it off much to Mommy's annoyance. Daddy is always the cool one.. That's what I love about him. He said it was edible ..not for babies of, course ... ;P

I can say TOK, DIDI .. Mommy can wait ....... Whatever I say , she comes to me .. so what is the difference whether I call her or not ...

I know when to shout for Mommy to pick me up from the bed and not jump down ...(PHEW!!!)

I love my car rides ...

I love my at least twice a day baths

Oh, yes .. I love stopping at traffic lights .....

I am very good at turning my toys upside down

I hate seeing blocks stacked up .. so, I tear 'em down.

I will try and update more .. off to have my lunch ..

My monitor ...

One of the cleverest things that daddy has bought mommy and me is the monitor. One for mommy and one for me.

Mommy told me that she had wanted to buy the monitor even before I was born. She did ask her friends whether it was absolutely necessary for her to buy one. Anyway, one thing led to another and I arrived. The monitor still remained at the shop.

For almost six months of my life, mommy was constantly running to and fro, from wherever she was to the bedroom to check on me. If she was at the computer, things would not be too bad coz it was a short distance but then I would already be crying my heart out for her to come.

If she was at the kitchen, then ... die. I would have to cry and cry and cry and finally she would be next to me. I was very unhappy and mommy was very unsettled. Then, mommy made a decision .. she wanted it NOW ... which was then.

So, to cut a long story short (read:walking to and fro baby stuff outlets in OU) , Daddy finally decided on the above. That was the best thing that ever happened for mom and me.

The monitor picks up the slightest movement I make (most of the time) and before I know it, I get a nippie shoved in my mouth. Most of the time, I don't realize all this is happening. After a good nap/sleep, I will finally wake up, happy and contented and make gurgling sounds to call mommy to play with me.

Mommy is very careful, though. I don't know whether it (??) has ever happened or not, but she is very careful to make sure that the monitor is switched off properly , especially when she and daddy are in the room. I wonder why????

Wanna ride in my car.....s?

I simply love my car rides. I know mommy keeps many one dollar coins in her purse. She asks everybody to keep them and give them to her because she says they are not easy to come by. She even asks Daddy to go and get them from the bank. Yippee ....... more car rides to come.



Here is another one of me. Both were taken at One Utama. I overheard Mommy telling Daddy that before they had me, Mommy could never understand why some parents were always obliging their children's request and 'tantrums' to go on these machines. She says that she always thot these machines had always been such a rip-off. I don't know what she means.

If I see one and Daddy or Mommy doesn't or purposely doesn't look at it ... I will arch my back and tell them that I have spotted one (read:uuuuhhhhhh). I don't scream but I tell them politely. Daddy is more obliging than Mommy ..... but Tok is better...

and more of my collections .....

Have your cake and eat it!!!!

Ain't my cake pretty? Mommy got this idea from Auntie Joji. Buy your favourite cake and buy some pretty plastic figurines then stick 'em on!! Abang Naim had a cake with 30 Ultramen doing stunts on his cake. After he blew out the candles, everybody grabbed an Ultraman each and ran off. Nobody bothered about the cake except for the adults who had the "brownie" with ice cream. No need to buy expensive birthday cake which nobody eats after that!!

Anyway , pls click here for some of the photographs taken on my birthday. A few of the photos have the copyright thingy on them, most of them don't. She (mommy,of course) was happily copying and pasting the thingy when suddenly everything went beserk (using PS) and sudah tak jadi.

I must tell you about my birthday celebration .. later .... now, daddy is calling mommy to go to sleep ... and I will also be calling her in a while for my midnite snack ...... yum yum ....

Happy Bday Amira Shasmeen

"Happy Birthday, baby girl ..... " , sings mommy and daddy ...

See ... mommy is really really busy doing donno what .... ie. looking and running after me ..... I know she has lots things on her mind ..... to help me blog ... but i'll leave it at that ...

I am one today .........................

Happy Bday Daddy

Happy Birthday, Daddy. I wish you all the beautiful things that life has to offer like MOMMY and ME!!! We love you ....

Life in hospital 4/4

I love it when mommy brings me to the playroom. I meet lotsa friends. I can stay here all day ...

Life in hospital 3/4

This is me after my bath ... just thought off making life miserable for everybody ... **evil grin**

Life in hospital 2/4

This is me at about 3am. My temperature shot up to over 40C and the horrible aunty in blue made mommy take off my diapers, exposing my bum to the cold air .. and then shoved donno what up my bum hole ... just you wait ...

Do you also notice that I am sleepipng on mommy's bed? I hate sleeping in the small bed that looks like a jail. I love sleeping next to mommy. So, mommy had to sleep next to me taht night and she ended up with a back ache. I kinda noticed that mommy would wake up every now and then, to stretch and to check up on daddy who was sleeping on the rather uncomfortable looking chairs. Gee .. the things they do for me ....

Life in hospital 1/4

I love my baths. I'm not sure where I am. It doesn't look like the hotel we stayed in Penang and it doesn't look and feel like home either. However, I do kinda like the bath tub, tho. It is not as big as the one I have at home .. but that's all right ... I feel like a baby ...

Kolong ....

Here is another one of mom's bright ideas .. I love crawling under the table, under mom's computer chair, anything that u can term as "kolong". I guess whatever it is they sell in ToysRUs is too expensive for her ..so I have to make do with this .. but I love it ...

My doll????

Mommy made me this body-less doll even before she discovered she was carrying me in her tummy. I just ripped off her headscarve much to mommy's dismay. I also discovered I could rip off her hair ..smart eh? I need to tell that I do have other toys but i love the ones that mommy makes me the most.

My controversial mobile ...

Now, take a closer look at the mobile mom made me ... She wanted to buy me one , even before I was born and pestered daddy to do so .. but somehow .. it never got done. See, mommy had stopped working so she did not have the money to buy me a fancy one. She decided to DIY one for me. Having accomplished this feat within 10 minutes or so, she suddenly took a long hard look at the cloth pegs which became the deco on the mobile. Lo and behold ..the cute teddy bears she thot that I would be staring at turned out to be little piggies ...WAHHHHHH. Tok bought them from donno where, thinking that they were teddy bears indeed. So .. so mom decided to throw them away and it has been almost nine months since she said so... It will go down tonite ...!!!!

My cot ...

This is my cot. Mommy decorated the mosquito net with lace. Daddy didn't take the picture at a nice angle. Can't see the pretty flower with ribbons in front ... She sewed the net at the office and got scolded by pak lang ..

Now, how many times have I slept in this cot? Once ...... the night they brought me back from hospital ... So much for mommy's bright idea that I would be sleeping in a cot FOREVERRRR .... Daddy overruled that coz he tak sampai hati ... HMMMMMmmmmmmm ....

Of boundaries and authorities ......

So they say a baby is intelligent .. Well, they haven't heard the last of it. Two nights ago, I, again, thought I would do something different. I was a very good girl during the day .. an extremely adorable little girl. When evening approached, I began to carry out my "little" scheme. On the pretext of not enough sleep, eemmmmm .. that was about after sunset, I started making theses irritating noises to test mommy's patience. I thought I felt a few strong pats on my pampers .. and I thot hey, that's interesting ... see how far both of us can go.

So, I conveniently bawled my eyes out ... making mommy panic. As there was no one else at home to help her, she thought of putting me in the pram and bringing me to the playground. As soon as she locked the door behind her, I screamed again .. so mommy picked me up and left the pram outside. First she dipped my feet into the pool ... I loved it ...then I got bored and screamed again .. then she sat me on other various toys and equip at the playground .. and I did the same thing.... screaming after each attempt .. Wah ... now I understand how to get things done MY WAY ....

She brought me up again , promising to lemme splash in my favourite red basin .. Nah ..not my favoutrite this time. So after she carefully prepared my bath, making sure that the water temperature was to my liking and all .. she dipped me in. Okay .. I counted to ten ..then .....wahhhhhhh ... Mommy panicked a bit and lifted me out. Thinking that I may be hungey or sleepy, she wrapped me in a towel, didn't even put on my clothes ..YAY ... and shoved her nipple in my mouth.

I was just about to enjoy it when I heard daddy's voice. Okay .. this is the ultimate test ... DO YOUR THING NOW ..........

I screamed and screamed and screamed like there was no tomorrow coz I knew ... Daddy was going to take me for a spin if I didn't stop .. Yahoo ... No matter what mommy did to me in the care, I just wouldn't stop screaming. Daddy brought us around KL ...and finally felt that he had to do something and stopped at the stairs of JAWI infront of Masjid Negara. There he lifted me and soothed me ..Hey, I kinda like that place .... Peaceful and tranquil. So .. I decided ..enough is enough .. I know what makes them tick now .. I know my boundaries and authorities .... at least for now ...

So, there we were, farder, marder and daughter ..lepakking at the stairs of JAWI playing silly baby games for a good 30 minutes......

So, until I need to test my B&A again, I promise to be good ...

Over and out, folks ...

Sit ..up ...

Mommy is very lazy. If not for Tok nagging mommy to blog this ..she still won't move her butt. ..and I bet she will only be typing a sentence or two.

Today, i sat on my own. Didn't show mommy how I did it .. and she is pretty curious. Did it twice tho'. Ha ha. I love my "mandi" sessions. Mommy allows me to play for quite a while in the big red basin. I love twirling my body around whilst holding onto the edges. I am learning how to stand in the water. I managed to do it once, yesterday. Felt like such a big girl.

I got my cough and flu back and passed it on to mommy. Her cough is really really bad. So ..my weekly visitations to see Dr A begins ...

Phew ..that was more than a sentence ...well done mommy .. I love u, too.

Of my tooth and rocks .......

And today, mommy, being the KPC woman that she is .. stuck her bacteria-infested finger in my mouth and slid it along my lower gums and found out that i had cut my first tooth ... which she then coolly ...screamed to daddy of her newfound "finding" ... Then I had another bacteria infested finger forcing itself into ma mouth. Aiyerrrrr ... could 've sworn that they would have jumped up and down if not for the many people around them. Some more tak puas hati, mommy tried to pry open mouth .. now to see ..ma tooth to no avail .. and of course daddy could not miss the opportunity of showing off. Hrmmmppphh ... Mommy was rattling off to dad that now she had to brush my tooth lah ... wipe lahh .. use towel to clean ma gumslah .... Whylahhhh ...

Much to mums chagrin , I showed off to Tok Ngah that I could eat .. no problem .. licked the whole platter clean .. but only that one time. Mum macam biasalah .. sooo .. excited ...

Then .. macam nak bagi can .. so people cud praise me somemore ..(wah!!! so many things i did in this one day!!!), I showed them that i could go on all fours and rock n roll ... ha ha ...

Update on my milestones

Eeekkss ... the date is wrongly published . Today is 16/03/2005. Must be something wrong with the Regional Settings .. check that out later.

So, I am still pretending that I do not know how to crawl. However, I am making mommy chase me all over the house. She keeps on losing me coz she is always on the computer checking Auntie Lilian's blog *humph*. This morning she was looking for me (or so she thot) and accidently stepped on me ..heh heh .. I was under her chair and she didn't even realise it ....

Daddy bought me this really cool walker. The manufacturers guarantee that I will never topple over or fall out unlike the other one that I once used. At least I am not forever "mopping" and "vacuuming" the floor. Let mommy do it. So lazy that mother of mine.

I still hate eating. The other day, daddy tried feeding me this gooey thing they call cheesecake. Yuck ... My eyes, nose,face were all red ... trying to vomit the icky paste out. Oh dear, mommy is going to force feed me this evening ... *SIGH* ...

Mommy says I talk and laugh a lot for these past few days. Yalahhh ... I am no longer sick what .. I was so miserable for the past few weeks ..5 to be exact. Thank God everybody has recovered. ... and I get to go swimming again ...

Mommy says she wants to go and work on her own blog. Good idea. Welcome to mommy's new blog ...

Mommy is a big girl today

Happy Birthday Mommy ... For you, I will be extremely nice today. I will sleep and sleep and sleep so that you will have more time to blog .. (you wish!!)...

8 months today ...

Well, almost ... February doesn't have the 29th .. so, I declare myself 8 months today. I have high fever today. Mom is at wits at as what to do. I was sick for the whole last month. Every Monday was spent visiting Dr A. I did get better but the cough came back coz mom got it, daddy got it, tok got it and achoo ,too. I haven't been eating properly, either. Infact, I just hate anything that comes to my face. Mom tried feeding me this icky, gooey, yucky, slimy stuff she calls banana. Ergghhhhhh .... I donno what I like either.

My mommy is going .......

back to work. Yikes!! That means she will be leaving me with some stranger .. to feed me, to bathe me, to play with me. MN told mommy to get a maid to look after me and the house. Mommy was toying with the idea when Daddy put a stop to it. "NNNOOOOOOO..." he bellowed.

Mommy hates housework. Daddy doesn't do housework. SO???

Daddy wants me to go to a nursery. ...(mommy will continue later ..) ...that woman is soooo.... busy ...

My promise tonite ....

Tonite I will be a very good girl and not wake up to play with my mother at 3 am for hours on end ..... I will only wake up to be fed .... I promise ...............

What today??

Mommy has been so busy looking after me .. Stuffing medicine in my mouth, changing my soiled diapers, playing with me ... Luckily Tok is around to help mum amuse me. I hate it when I am left alone for so long.

I refused to sleep in the afternoon today. I want to make up for my lost (playing) time. I donno what mom was thinking when she kept drugging me. I bet she wanted to complete this blog .. heh ..heh .. no chance.

I love it when I 'demonstrate' something new. They get so excited. Adults are really wierd. I wanted to go to the balcony to touch the leaves and play with the dust and sand on the floor but Tok quickly grabbed me and put me on the silly mattress .. waaaaa .. Mom even created this blog specifically to record my milestones .. Thanks to Auntie Lilian.

Mommy tells people that I haven't started crawling coz I have a heavy bum. How dare she? Just look at hers ..and Tok's and the rest of the clan ...

My mom's thots are jumping all over the place tonite. She has a lot to tell ...but I am greedy. I want her for myself. I love the warmth of mommy next to me but she keeps on pulling her nippies out of my mouth when she thinks I'm deep in sleep.. Danngggg .. Bagi canlah ... I'll make some more sounds in another hour .. then she'll come running to me with her leftie in one hand ... "susu ..susu ..", she will sing, and then shove it in my mouth ...mmmmmmmmmm *grin*.

Mommy was very happy yesterday. She has been helping Auntie Jiej in her breastfeeding journey. I overheard her telling AJ that I was brought into this world for many reasons and one of 'em was to help AJ and Auntie M in their BF journey. AJ told mommy that Baby NZ, who is almost 1 month old, went to see her pead and was told that her weight was above average and AJ's worry about not having enuff milk was laid to rest. Yayyyyy!!!!!

Hmm .. tomorrow will be another exciting day for me.

P/s .. today I showed the world that I could suck in ma cheeks ..:)

The day I decided to tell the world ........

Let me tell you a story of how I emerged into this world ... so much drama from a tiny drama queen ...
I think it happened when mommy just got back from a one week stint in Sabah and had to go off (AGAIN???) for a whole month in Perlis .. a tiny little sp**m got away from the rest and met this fat egg (who was also different from the rest .. Ob-Gyn told mommy that she could only produce teeny weeny lil eggies hence the eight year honeymoon with daddy ..) and decided to do its thing and .. voila ... I came about...UNKNOWINGLY to my dear parents ...

Mommy was travelling all around the country .. particularly to East Malaysia .. where she would jump, squeal, dance, run, pant (??), somemore dancing, running and squealing to some 100 odd kakak and abangs teaching them on how to enjoy the computer.She would stuff herself with a whole pineapple a day and here I was holding on to dear life .. not willing to tear myself away ..not now not ever. I really wanted to meet this person who was so s****d who did not know she was carrying a "human bean" inside her. What a d*ft woman!!

Then , for some reason, she decided to quit her job and join this man, who, later will be known as my daddy. Daddy had to go to China for some recording thing .. (no lah .. not singing ..) and just before he left , mommy helped daddy move office. Mommy is one strong woman. It was 3 am and daddy was so tired. He had a flight to catch in the morning so mommy, together with Uncle Zul carried the office tables (so b****y heavy they are!!) by themselves. Not joking coz I think I almost came out. U know what mom said ... "Adoi ... I think my peranakan jatuh!!" whilst holding on to her growing tummy. She thot she was joking not knowing she was so close to the truth. Mom was in pain and already jalan terkangkang .. but she ignored it thinking it was just a muscle pull .. me .. hanging on really strong .. No .. not now .. Not on the roadside ...

Tok paid for mommy to join a course in Basic Childhood Development. There, once again, mummy rolled on the floor .She and her bright ideas .. Mommy was exposed to how to raise a kid from the ages of 0-4yo .. complete with breastfeeding theories which proved to be so useful later.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I was getting fed up with being neglected. Mommy was starting to rub this stinking oil on her tummy thinking I was a piece of long s**t, Tok constantly poked on mom's tummy saying that she was 'busung', Daddy kept on poking my brains, geez, even Dr KK did a scan on mom when I was 4 months and did not see me ..WAAAAAA

I decided to sit on mom's large intestine (or whatever it is that makes her constipated) and she had to go the doctor. She went to the GP ..and Dr S said .."Ooohh.. you have mass inside you .." (MASS INDEED!!!)and she referred mom back to her gynae (for change in bowel movement problem.HA HA HA). Now, the gynae is all puzzled coz he was a fertility doctor. He told her that she should have gone to an gastroentrologist but since she was already there he decided to check her. Internal checks showed nothing. The raba-raba perut test showed mom had "BONY MASS" inside her ...*RIHTLOL (Rolling In Her Tummy) ...

Dr : OK .. lemme scan u
(Dr scanned and mom saw this really huge thing and she thot it was confirmed that she had fibroid or some sort of growth)
Mom: What is (the he** is that -silently) that doc?
Dr : Hang on ..
(Dr continue scan and I saw things flailing around)
Mom : WHAT IS THAT DOC .....?
Dr : That , my dear, is your baby ..
Mom: WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?
Dr : And by looking at it .. u seem to be abt 7 or 8 months pregnant .....
Mom: WHATTTTTTTTT????
Mom did not know how to react .. cry? laugh? talk? Talk about blur sotong .. this was really blur sotong at its ultimate ..
Mom: Are u sure? U're not joking???
Dr : Mam ...we do not joke about things like this ... (smile)
Mom: But I thot u said I had PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome) and the chances of me getting pregnant without treatment is almost zilch ..!!!
Dr: Allah Maha Berkuasa .....

And the rest is history ............................. (ohhhh .. so many post preggie stories to tell ...)

p/s .. BTW, daddy was at the mamak having roti canai and teh tarik when all this happened .. heh heh ... (guess where he was when mom was in labour??? at 2-3 am????) ...

Cleverer by the minute ..

As of today, I can .......

Roll all over the floor
Twinkle ma fingers
Vomit all over daddy
Push away ma food
Scream when momma syringes the icky medicine in ma mouth
Move forward and backwards on ma tummy
Pretend I don't know how to crawl
Laugh and shout with joy when daddy comes home from work
Cajole Achoo to play with me
and dance for Tok....