Monthly Archives: March 2008

Ideal preschooler nap times and durations

Posted on 31 March, 2008 | 5 Comments

This post is going to make me sound like an an unappreciative you-little-shite-taking-us-for-granted son in law…

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Posted in A father's POV, Education, Ergonomics

Instantly orphaned, so sad..

Posted on 28 March, 2008 | 2 Comments

It just tears me up inside thinking of the “what’s next for me?” for the child, especially.

Baby safe but four die in crash
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/28/nation/20771732&sec=nation

By HAMDAN RAJA ABDULLAH

TANGKAK: A two-month-old baby girl miraculously escaped death but her parents, grandmother and brother – all Singaporeans – were killed when the seven-seater vehicle they were in smashed into two trees along the North-South Expressway here.

Jolene Bong was flung more than 10m but survived, unscathed.

However, her grandmother Pang Chee Seng, 68, mother Kor Yee Lin, 36, and brother Justin Bong, aged two, died on the spot. Her father Bong Kwang Hong, 37, died at the Tangkak Hospital.

The family was headed north when Bong, who was driving, lost control of the vehicle at the 150th kilometre of the expressway at 8.30am.

The vehicle smashed up two trees beside the expressway, and eyewitnesses said the baby was flung out but was not injured.

The baby and her father, who was seriously injured, were rushed to the Tangkak Hospital, where Bong succumbed to his injuries shortly on arrival.

A team headed by Insp Karmila Mohd Nasir from the Muar traffic police rushed to investigate and sent the dead to the Tangkak Hospital mortuary.

Police found the international passports of the victims, including Jolene’s, but no address was stated in the documents.

Insp Karmila tried to call the victims’ friends from a mobile phone found at the scene but experienced difficulty getting through.

Muar police urged those who witnessed the accident to come forward to help in investigations.

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Posted in A father's POV

Lookie what I can do, at 11 weeks old…

Posted on 27 March, 2008 | 3 Comments

Yo-check it, Adults! I am starting to hold my head up I am starting to hold my head up!

I can also do this already! Yo man I am so clever now! Heh heh! I overhead Major-Adult-2 saying something about the “skydiving position”… What’s position?

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Posted in A toddler's POV, Caleb the heir, Infant development, Parenting musing

Blog design revamp…

Posted on 25 March, 2008 | 5 Comments

Yes folks, I am getting bored with the current look; in less than, what- a year?

Yeah yeah, at this point at least one of you would be sniggering, going “I hope you don’t get tired of your wife as quickly haha.” Seriously, I had that exact quote thrown at me at a recent interview. I didn’t think it was funny, and saw it coming light years away.

So, instead of going completely offline and committing myself to a deadline of a “re-launch” with a brand new look for this blog (and we all know how much I hate deadlines!), I have decided to “remain open” during this construction time…

So, please bear with the mess, the nails on the uneven floors, the bare unpainted walls, the bubble wrapped furniture, the uncultured workers, the poor lighting. Please don’t panic if during subsequent visits you find that the look is suddenly different. It is probably that I am toying with different colours…

I will try my hardest to quickly learn the nuts and bolts of this new theme, while remaining true to the theme and content of this blog….!

First challenge, of course, is to find a new banner graphic. I do like the first one I used- the smiley face one on the candle, with the background of a finished dinner and (chocolate cake) desert at Dr Pixie’s…

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I had chosen that because I thought it somewhat represented the dinner-together-with-family sentiment, symbolically akin to this blog…

Perhaps I will try and be clever and re-use it?

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Posted in Parenting musing

Our first parent-teacher meeting

Posted on 24 March, 2008 | 8 Comments

So, over the weekend we attended Caitlin’s preschool to chat with her teachers on their appointed day of parent-teacher meeting, to see how she is doing in school.

In summary, Teacher Ng shared the following about Caitlin:

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Posted in A father's POV, Caitlin the heiress, Education

How to prepare toddler for preschool

Posted on 18 March, 2008 | 2 Comments

I can’t remember when the word “school” was introduced to Caitlin. But she got the concept pretty early: School is a place where children congregate for some joint activities. They also wear uniforms….

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Posted in A father's POV, Caitlin the heiress

Somewhere in between..

Posted on 17 March, 2008 | 7 Comments

I have been advocating to new-parent friends to invest in a good camera to snap away at their kids. In fact, as a digression my older brother was recently bitten by the photography bug, and invested in a high end camera. He now regrets not getting into it earlier ‘cos the shots he’s now able to take are so much better in terms of quality..

So anyway…..

Just like in the horror movies: The main character is a photographer, and while reviewing the photos he’s taken, comes across some weird aberrations which later turns out to be something supernaturally sinister… (a la the Thai film “The Shutter”)

Okay I dramatise!

Somewhere in between the shots of my kids, during transitions of their expressions, I have inadvertently captured what I personally believe are glimpses of what Caitlin may look like as an adult….. I know it sounds weird, but to Daddee who sees the kids everyday, these expressions are quite different from their everyday look, and it fascinates me!

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They don’t look like she is just 3 years old!
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Okay these ones are just goofy pictures of Caleb!

PS: I just realised that they are both wearing the same shirt! From the link above (with pics of baby Caitlin) and the ones of Caleb! Haha!

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Posted in A father's POV, Parenting musing