Lazy weekend

It is a lazy weekend, we feel too lazy to go anywhere so we just roamed within our neighbourhood.
Went to Bengawan solo today for some nonya kuehs (watched too much of Little Nonya). I did not take any photos of the kuehs as I am more interested to capture every moments of my Aeon.

He is turning 21 months soon... So fast....

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Aeon eating pandan cake happily:


Aeon throwing tantrum, think he wants the spoon:

YX Auntie's Birthday

Yesterday was YX's birthday (my younger sis), Jayern held a surprise party for her. All of us were taken by surprise (although I knew they are serving the cake anytime) when they played the birthday song. Aeon was so shocked that..... look at his hands.....



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Random photos

• AMK Hub NTUC extra, During the Halloween season. Both of us have our fun trying out the hats.

• I tried to scare Aeon with the furry Halloween spider

• Playing with the free bicycles

• At fish n Co , the crew is so nice, he gave us a small serving of raisins as he noticed that I scooped all my raisins from the rice for Aeon.

• Dining at Ding Tai Fung, see this cheeky face (early Nov):

Cooking Papa - Beef Dumplings

Roland whipped up a really tasty beef dumplings for our dinner today. I like it so much! Yummy....

AFA08

AFA08- Animation Festival Asia 2008 at Suntec - 22 Nov 2008 (Day 1):

The first animation festival in Singapore, $5 per entry.
It is not as good as I expect.
We did not bring any stroller as it would be very crowded. We reached there around 4 pm plus, Aeon was napping by then.

• The enthusiastic Roland with Aeon:

• Roland + Aeon + Jones at the fest checking out the events:
  

• The giant-sized Gundam at the entrance:
• Exhibits:

• Graffiti wall:

• Roland + Aeon crowding around the streetfighter4 machine:

• The fake Gundam 'cosplay', this person is so daring. He drew the outline of 'Gundam' and wore it to parade around. He captured alot of shutters and attention:

We waited till 7 pm for Mr Mizuki Ichiro's concert. He sang many Japanese anime hero songs, Roland is a big fan. See this video, he is wearing a khaki shirt, carrying my black & white checked bag swinging his arms:




Here's a video of Aeon, he was engrossed:

Imitate PaPa

Aeon's motor skills as of 20 months. :P
He likes to imitate our actions, but to do it exactly is still quite far away.
But we find him so cute! (In every parents' eyes, their princes/princesses are the cutest!)
He's our pride, our precious golden pig:

Messy hair

Aeon has more hair now. This is how he look like when he first woke up .

Sleepy saturday

Lazing on bed

Injured

He thought i was chasing him and began to run like a mad baby while we were in the living room. He tripped and bumped into the table corner and suffered a cut on his nose. Just a small angle he would have hurt his eye. We are lucky.

Dozed off

Aeon dozed off while seated in the trolley at Carrefour on Sunday:

• A gift from YiJia jiejie - A gingerbread softtoy:
  

At the clinic

Aeon likes to stack and unstack blocks. He cannot stand seeing the blocks being stacked together.
Video taken 2 Sundays ago, waiting for Dr Loke's consultation in the clinic.

Movie

We brought Aeon to catch a movie together with our friends. This is Aeon's first movie "Quantum of Solace-James Bond ". We brought along milk, waffles, panda cake and cranberries. Aeon was amazed and kept on watching the big screen for sometime till he lost interest. So we tried to feed him all the snacks/food we brought along. It lasted for an hour and he started to get bored and kept talking to me. I had to bring him out of the cinema.

There was one scene he started to clap when he saw the actors/actresses clapped.

Learning Mandarin

More about the dvd : http://www.winktolearn.com/

We got him a Chinese Dvd that specializes in teaching Mandarin recently. Here's some funny things we observed.

• When the screen flashes photos of Rabbits “兔“ - he will read/shout out "Rabbit"!
• When the screen flashes photos of Bananas "香蕉“- he will read out "Nana"!
  

Blood donation

I went for my first successful blood donation last Thursday. I tried once more than 11 years ago in Poly but did not pass the screening due to insufficient hemoglobin in my blood, the blood did not sink to the bottom of copper sulphate solution.

Perhaps it is after pregnancy, my body gets stronger (that's what I heard from some experienced mums, they feel that they are stronger than before birth). Of course it may not apply to everyone.

• Vennie, Kristin, Me (The 3 horses) & Felicia (Camera-woman) :P
• The food that awaits us after our blood donation:

I was feeling nervous, enthusiastic, worried, excited, paranoid. What if I failed the screening again? I am so plump now, I should have sufficient blood right? Will I faint? Will I get fatter after the donation? Is it painful? All mixed feelings.... However, I never thought of giving up.

Here's a brief description of how it go:

• Filling up a 4-6 page questionaire, answer many sensitive questions (mostly is to check if one has HIV/dengue fever virus), registration (they even have my failed attempt(low blood count) 11 years ago).
  
• Taking of temperature, pulse, weight (only those that are suspected to be underweight will have to measure their weight, I wish I am one of them....)
• Testing of blood count using a disposable needle on my left index finger - ouch! This time my blood sinked to the bottom of the solution. :D
• Seated in a corner waiting for my turn. Saw someone fainted and the staffs raised his feet up. Vennie, Lian, Kristin all went one by one. When it was my turn, I took the fainted man's chair (at this moment I was a bit paranoid, worried that I will faint too since I am sitting his spot)
  
• Time to draw out my blood:

1. I laid on the chair and the volunteers checked my records and whispered among themselves (speculating I will fail the round). So they asked a lady that looked like those Head Nurse to come over.
   
2. The lady applied pressure on my right arm to check for my veins. Then she turned around and told the 2 guys - This one OK.
   
3. Sterilise, injected a painkiller into my right arm and waited for the drug to take effect. This is a little painful, but still better than the index finger's pain.
   
4. Poke a thicker needle with tube that draws blood into the storage bag. I can feel the warm blood inside the tube.
   
5. Time flies quickly (or rather than my blood pumps /flows out really fast), it seems like a ten minute process.
6. All done, the volunteer removed the needle from me and sealed up the storage bag.
   

• Went for my refreshments

I do not mind having another blood donation next time if what they say is true - every bag of blood saves a life. I will get to save one soon! That person who's using my blood is so lucky to use my rich, well-nourished, fatty blood.

This is considered one of the special things I ever did for my big 30 - doing a good deed, overcoming a new fear & gaining a new form of experience.

20 month old

Aeon just turned 20-month-old 3 days ago! He is about 82~83 cm, 11.4kg.
His favorite fruit is grapes and nana (Bananas).
He is going to learn Chinese words this month, we got him a new training dvd to brush up his Mandarin.

Favourite word

Aeon kept using the word for everything lately.

"Open open open".... (Open the door to make milk)
"Open open open"....(Open the food)
"Open open open"....(Put my hairband on his hair)
Of course, open the fridge!


He will say it 3 times continuously .

Curry Chicken

• Spice of the Orient Meat Curry Sauce, just add potato. I added one tomato and 3 small potatoes.
• My achievement
• This baby accompanied me in the kitchen. He can sit still like this as long as his mouth never stop and his mama is around. He's enjoying himself. He ate raisins, tomato, banana, milk, water while waiting for me to finish cooking (all in small bits):

Aeon's room

We are not done with his room yet. Roland painted the whole room white but i find it too plain and i painted one wall lime green. Aeon is naked again (going to bathe soon). He followed me everywhere! As soon as he saw me on the light, he sneaked in! He just snatched my ds from me (see his left hand)!

Kitchen

I painted the kitchen by myself. Painted it bright yellow and pasted orange tulips. I like colourful deco !

Open the fridge again

This Aeon just sneaked into the kitchen to take out the ice-cream from the fridge, ran all the way into the room and asked Roland to open for him. Roland said no and put back the ice-cream into the fridge and he gave that cute, pathetic look. He explained to Aeon that he got to wait for mama to be back to share the ice-cream.

Since Mama does not like red bean, both of them can share it. Roland told him that Mama said ok (I was on the phone with Roland) and he sneaked into the kitchen again.

Greedy pig.

Mummy ... MaMa

Aeon called me Mummy in public and called in MaMa at home.... Weird right? He called me Mummy in a really sweet and loud intonation outside "Ma.....Mee......"

He called Rolands "Bubble" most of the times now....

Roland is teaching him to call me "Ma-mel" recently and I actually heard Aeon calling me that. But I ignored him till he called me correctly.

Yesterday Aeon kissed and and said "爱你” (Love you) to me, it feels so sweet...

Fridge

He walked to the kitchen to open the fridge to look for ice cream. He remembered that secret compartment where we kept. Roland went to the kitchen looking for him and saw this.

一碗甜品

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We just discovered a new dessert place at our area 2 weeks ago. We have patronized the place twice since our discovery. The prices are quite affordable, $3~$5 and presentation is great. They are famous for their mango and durian.

We went there last Saturday after our brunch - we seem to be their first customer and we get to sit on the cozy red sofas by the window. This place is called 一碗甜品 and it is located at the OCBC stretch (Serangoon Gardens).

I like this video as Aeon is so funny, he kept "haha-haha-haha" non-stop.

Reading his own blog

Auntie QQ showed Aeon his blog yesterday:

Aeon & his new friend

Aeon's new friend, 6 months younger than Aeon. They were playing toys and Aeon doesn't really want to share the toys. He will snatch it from his friend.

Video: See him trying to take away his 'toys' and how he tried to sayang his friend.