5 years ago

5 years ago today, I was having fillet o fish for my lunch. Why would I remember that? How could I still remember that?

5 years ago today, God blessed us with a beautiful girl and we named her Faith. Ever since then life was never the same & that little girl has live up to her name.

Faith at her 5th year old birthday party

Resolutions

I've never been a fan of new year resolutions. Just never understand why must we wait till new year to do it. My new year resolution for past 3 or 4 years was "I'm not going to have new year resolutions". Oxymoron, isn't it?

Anyhow, for this year my target are 3 half marathons & a better family man. 1st part is not that hard, i've done 21km before only not 3 times a year. 2nd part will be the main challenge, it'll be tough but hey, if i can do 21km in less than 3hours, I can do the 2nd part too.

various

Since Faith has started school, she seems to grow at faster pace & much more interesting to be with. Sometimes, difficult but this is part of the package. So here are some photos of my little girl in the last 2 mths of 2010.Sleeping in her stroller while shopping in IKEA. No, I didn't put on the sunglasses for the photo. She was wearing it and fell asleep, it was a long day for her.

We were hanging out at the carpet section. Seems to have less crowd & cooler at carpet section. Nice spot to wind down.
Here Faith was pretending to walk her dog while sipping her baby drink. Yes, it's part of the vacuum cleaner.

Her dog's name was Rexie. Actually, Rexie is a neighbour's dog. Wonder where she got the idea of using that vacuum part as a dog. But it was really fun to see her walk her dog. Faith even brings it to dinner! But we left it in the car.

school again

Took Faith to Ipoh over the weekend in the new ETS train. She was really excited about the trip & train ride. Comfortable & fast ride to Ipoh.

She enjoyed the stay with her aunt & cousin. Playing big sister to Ian (2 years younger), still have to learn to share toys though.

Anyway, we got home yesterday & she's looking forward to school again. What a wonderful girl! She helped to pack her towels & clothes into her school bag. Even woke me up this morning "wake up papa! Time to go school!" Faith is truly an amazing little girl.

Faith sings!

Faith singing a mandarin song that she learn from her kindergarden.



Do you remember this song?

The troubles of my heart are enlarged

How true.....

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses. Please

How we spent 2010 New Year's eve & New Year

Though not well but still as sweet in front of the camera.

It's long story & I'll cut it real short.
We were suppose to travel back to Ipoh on 31 Dec evening. Faith was feeling warm, so we measured her with a thermometer - a mercury thermometer. We put it under her tongue as usual, but this time she decided to bite it. So, thermometer broke, mercury was out. Faith spitted most of glass pieces & mercury out.

To be sure, we took her to hospital. Took few xray, yes mercury is in her body. So, she got admitted & stayed until 2 Jan 2010.

Faith was an amazing little girl, praise God. Usually, any kids would cry the house down with needles. But Faith is an unusual girl, she actually looked at the nurse as the needle (IV) going into her little hand. Few drops of quiet tears concludes the procedure while I couldn't even stand looking at the IV needle going into her hand. Usually kids would scream & cry when need to take medication but Faith takes them as if medicines are like sweets. We never had any problems with giving her medicines since she was a little baby, thank God.

We needed few days to make sure all mercury is pass out of Faith's body with her poopoo. It was tough as she lost her appetite due to flu & cough. But it was all out when an xray on friday confirms it. Thank God!

So here are her xrays.On 31 Dec 2009, see the little white dots? Those are mercury in Faith's stomach.

2 Jan 2010, mercury traveled to her big intestine.

8 Jan, yahoo!! Mercury no more in her body!

Falling asleep

Ever seen some of those funny scene where people doze off?

I took Faith out for a bike ride today. She has not have her nap yet, you see. Anyhow, we were enjoying ourselves cycling, just me doing the hard work & she sits like a princess. It was a nice day, cloudy, rained couple hours ago.

After 15mins or so, I asked her what she wanna do next? Faith said " Fast, fast" which actually means asking me to cycle fast. BTW, she is a thrill seeker; always asking fast fast, swing high high... Couple of round of fast rides, Faith fell asleep in her bike seat behind me. It was totally funny yet I'm worried she might fell off even i have strap her in. Thank God she didn't fall off her seat, in fact she was holding on until we reach home, amazing.

Too bad I have no camera. Yes, my phone does not have camera, would you believe it?