by atai @ 22:16 | Comments (5) | Filed under: misc, updates
I have to apologise for not updating my blog (though I prefer to call it my website). I’ve been tied up with a few things and a lot has happened over the past two weeks or so…
On a sad note, a classmate passed away last week. Ya… Someone my age passed away. I would think that many people my age would think of themselves as being invincible — nothing can harm us. This classmate just fainted and then passed away — I don’t have any additional details besides what was told to us by his girlfriend, Yenny.
I suggested to Yenny to write to Facebook so we could have Lawrence’s page memorialised. I think she’s done that already because I noticed the link has changed.
Anyway, his death just jolts a few of us into thinking… Are we ‘prepared’?
At the home front, my garden wall is now complete and work has started on the grass… Photos will come (hopefully) over the weekend.
Gabriel… He is now starting to ‘talk’… OK, not really talk but vocalise (I think that’s the word, if there is such a word). He would happily go about making sounds as though he’s talking. One can tell the mood he’s in by ‘listening’ to him. When he’s happy, it sounds very soft and pleasant. But when he’s upset, it’s curt and loud as though he’s scolding someone! But he absolutely loves to smile! When he sees me walking over to his bed early in the morning (he wakes up before me), he would smile at me. When Mrs Tai picks him up from the babysitter’s place, first thing he would do is smile at Mrs Tai. Even the babysitter’s relatives nicknamed him ‘the baby who just loves to smile”. Mrs Tai and I tease Gabriel by saying he’s very good at sucking up… But seriously, we tell him that it’s a good thing to have — a smile on the face all the time.
Together with a few residents, we also met the developer to discuss some security concerns that we have… That was like yesterday and I’m very pleasantly surprised that changes were already made today itself!
Speaking of today, Gabriel had his 3rd month jab today — he’s a few days shy of being three months old! 
Over at the office… We will be going office expansion — yeah, just less than 3 months since moving to the new location and we’re now going to expand and take up the empty office next door.
What else? Chinese New Year is just around the corner! So many things to do — wash curtains, tidy up the house, do up my Ikea cabinets (hmmm… Why does that line sound so familiar… heh heh…)
Hey Mr. Tai,
Youre baby is the cutest thing ever! Thank God he looks like Ms. Tai.. sorry ah .. had to kacau u lama tak kacau lah.
Wanted to share with you this thing that i found out about baby signing.. its ASL (american sign language) but for babies. Do check it out (google baby signs malaysia). It helps baby communicate better and also increases their iq of course im just interested coz i thot it would be good we had a secret language. I bought the book ‘baby signing for idiots’ and started bout two weeks ago.. its recommended your baby start at bout 3 months so mine is kinda late. anyway lo and behold he signed me bye! bye! yesterday.
Anyway been teaching him to sign money so he can get some moolah from his dad on my behalf.. sigh! no ’sign’ of that yet!
Joke : Told a friend i was teaching my baby to sign.. she politely said “ooh thats good!” I later heard she called another friend of mine to ask “I didnt know Becky’s baby was deaf???”
Anyway do let me know what u think of it okay.
Take care
Rebecca
Comment by Becky — Thursday, 28 January, 2010 @ 15:35
Got news here in singapore some times back about this guy who was very fit, exercised a lot, ate healthily and was at the prime of his life… then one day jog jog, gone liao. Was diagnosed as a stroke I think.
Life is like that, full of surprises. Sometimes, we think we know whats going on next, then something unexpected comes up. That’s life ba.
Just enjoy what u have now, cherish everything that comes by and deal with things as they come ba. That way, will be happier…
Comment by Phenom — Sunday, 31 January, 2010 @ 13:40
which lawrence psssed away? the big size guy at our school? goosh…. life… my deepest condolence and shall pray for his soul to rest in peace….
Comment by joodey — Sunday, 31 January, 2010 @ 21:50
Hey Adrian, i just happen to found your after googling for Setia Alam. Great blog you have
I am considering to get a house in Setia Alam and was wondering what is it like staying there? I hope you’d be generous enough to share some of your thoughts owning a house and staying in Setia Alam. Thanks
Comment by Marcus — Monday, 1 February, 2010 @ 16:21
errr… Becky… errr… sign language is soooOooo ‘outdated’. nowadays, its mind-reading and telepathy… heh heh… *kidding*
but seriously… are you serious or not. with you, its quite hard to tell leh… heh heh… need to see facial expression to tell…
phenom… yup… hmmm… is that why you’re still not married?!? ouch… heh heh…
joodey… yup, that guy…
marcus… i’ll email you…
Comment by atai — Tuesday, 2 February, 2010 @ 18:29