18 posts tagged “sarah”
its insane. No wonder companies existed just to do cleaning services and packing/unpacking. Its tiring. No excuse. Except no internet. Which is not fun. What can I say..its a full time job. In fact it took us more than a month to get things ready.Finally settled down
Sarah is now in school -- she is learning fast. Just today she said to me " must have self control"
Yeah -- my 2.6 years old kid telling me that... hahaha
She is absolutely delight to watch her. We went to Ikea, she was running everywhere ( with a leash on her -- yes literally speaking) , she played some mind blogging games for kids in the area. Here she is singing out loud for everyone to listen in and play her games. Yes out loud. No qualms there. She can command an audience let me tell you.
Anyhow -- jumping to another story -- we were in Bangkok June 2008. My bad; no pictures.
We were resting in the Emerald Buddha Palace temple in the gazebo. A platform of marble floor/sit
Meant for people to take off their shoes and sit on it. We put her on the platform. So what did she do?
She started to sing and dance. Yup, hot summer, a nice breeze. She sings and dance. When she was done.
She asked all her audience to clap for her. Yes clapped for her. Not just the family. The audience. She pointed to each and every person who watch her... HAHA
Talk about addiction...
Let me warn you... you should stop here, if you don't want to know much about foreign music/movies.
So we do brain dead stuff -- watch TV/Movies.. haha My latest addiction.Watching Korean
Movies; introduced by one of the video store sales person -- he said " ma'am you got to see it, if you love kung fu fighting plus LOTR type CGI" .. so here I am a sucker to movies/drama of the genre bought it for $50.00
Now not only watching the show, I ended up listening to one of Joe Hisaishi musics which featured in the Korean Drama. Joe Hisaishi very well known in Japan because most of his music appears in a good number of Japanese Anime. Spirited Away, Howling castle just to name a few. Beautiful. His latest work, as I have attached the audio here
is a masterpiece I am enjoying. Being an avid music "orchestral" type base, I am a sucker for it too.. So I ended up buying the CD too.
Name of the Korean Drama : The Legend bagged 8 awards.
태왕사신기 (Tae Wang Sa Shin Gi) / 太王四神記 (Taioshijinki)
I shall not get into the details. Aside from the actors hotties in there, the ladies are equally beautiful. Great CGI.
Want more details ... try use YouTube. you will be surprise!!! If you want to watch it, you can also try out veoh.com -- for US residence; who can watch for free.
If not try http://www.mysoju.com
So enough of it.. already.
I am going to try to do something outrages, start adding tons of embellishment..
In the meantime...using the photo for another scrapbooking stuff. I just love her eyes.. amazing.
Ok... so its been awhile. Been busy with the holidays here . Chinese New Year mainly, accounting fun fun.. NOT!
We dread it every time we have big holidays like that. Meant the schedule is pack full of errands to do.
This holiday, however we attended Best Friends' wedding - Vick & Joey. Absolutely funny - witty couple.
Of course, Joey is my best friend for like --- FOREVER. We were in grade school, we were mean girls, gang up on the guys to play a joke on them. We were most inseparable. Until we were in college years. But we kept in contact.
This wedding is like a glue to all the 3 friends together. We love to see. Not forgetting Shandy & Jimmy and their daughters Za za & Mae Mae, whom Sarah absolutely love them to death. The wedding is held during the holidays, which makes is easy for us all to meet up. We had tons of fun meeting up with the couples.
In the meantime, Sarah's progress is tremendously improved. She is now 21 months old.
Things that she said just crack me up.
Mommy : "Wash your hands Sarah"
Sarah : "wash hands"
Sarah : " Wash it clean"
Sarah : " Good habit!" " Wash hands" " rub hands g'ther"
Smart little girl huh?
I was filing out a form for Sarah.. here is the question on the form
Race/Ethnicity..
Malaysian Forms
1. Malay
2. Chinese
3. Indian
4. Indigenous
5. Other
US Forms
1.Caucasian
2.Hispanic
3.African-American
4.Asian/Pacific
5.Other (fill in box)
Notice the "Other" in both forms...
If Sarah goes back to US.. the people may see her as a Chinese
While she is here in Malaysia, she is considered as Caucasian...
( One similarity on both situation both starts with "C" -- other than that it is " Other")
Wanting to do this a long time... just couldn't find a way to make it any outstanding....
Playing with garden colors...
I love simplicity... I love how this one turn out...
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Credits :
Miss Peppermint - Paper After Midnight paper
Rachel Bohal - Inner Child Kit elements
http://grumblescraps.blogspot.com/
http://digiscrapshak.com/
When we embark on this journey... to educate Sarah as much as we can, and as much as we want.. we never thought
it would be far beyond our expectation.
We made a video of Sarah reading her words and books.. it is so rewarding to see all our efforts pay off when she started to read. She has been able to read since she was 9 months old. We have never ever recorded her reading the words or her reading her books.So we decided it is high time to do so on tape. It is great to see other parents in the group is making the same progress. Which makes is even better. So happy that the other children is progressing fast as well.
Our persistence and her yearn for knowledge is remarkable for the past 4 months. Wish we could turn back the clock, so we can input more knowledge... ( we were so busy with the business & her being sick - not fun) -- her education was on slow mode.
I dare not post the video of the parent -- whose child is reading ( absolutely cute & smart), without her permission.
The child is Sarah's ex classmate -- age 18 months old. As for Sarah, I have not converted it yet into soft copy to upload it onto the site.
Been busy busy. I have burning burning cds for the rest of the mothers. Up till 4am this morning. The little girl is like a clockwork. Up by 6.30am . So the parents had 2 hours sleep only. It is worthwhile to see the progress with all the late nights.
She is sitting here now reading her books and asking her daddy to read more...
Yes she is only 19 months old. Already telling us that she needs to use her potty especially the big one.
Refuse to do it in her diaper. That is a good news for us. Since 2 months ago we have been trying to train her to do the small one in her potty. We were not diligent enough, plus she was almost sick for 2 weeks in Dec.
There are days she would stay off without any accidents, then there are days, we keep having it. Not been consistent.
Our goal is changing it all from diapers to panties while we are indoors and for outdoors is diaper and ask her about every other 45 mins whether she needs to do it.
Here is the catch, every time she needs to do, she DOES TELL US! BUT... it is like 2 seconds before she really needs to go. Sometimes we are able to catch it and sometimes no. Nevertheless, potty time means storybook time for her & puzzle, stacking time. She love it.
She just love reading the books especially potty books. She reads it out a loud " I LOVE MY POTTY!!!!" -- "" POTTY POTTY!!!" Sometimes we ran out of reading material.. this is sad .. we give her our IKEA catalog!! She thoroughly enjoys the toy & children section.
We praise her everytime she does it in her potty, and if she has an accident -- it is practice time.
See what I am saying...
