where do i begin...

it's been the worst 2 weeks of my life.

what can i say. from the euphoria and happiness that was the arrival of Kim.

to the depths that we've gone to following her return to the arms of the good lord who, we would like to believe, 'loaned' her to us for the past two lovely months.

this IS the ultimate high and ensuing low.

unfortunately, we must live on.

another pic of Kim and i...

today is the day we all head for home, so it's pretty exciting. did a little cleaning up and furniture rearranging to cater for the lil' one.

speaking of home, it was on the evening news! to be specific, the shophouses leading to my place.

when i was driving away earlier, i saw a bunch of cops (with guns) together with a lot of people, so my first thought was that someone had gotten drunk and killed his wife or something domestic like that.

apparently, loan-sharks had been using an apartment to lock up their debtors, basically kidnap and imprisonment, to get their debtors' family members to pay up. gruesome, right outta a movie, but true...

that area i live in now is like the Wild Wild West of this 'First-World' country we live in, y'all...

Sleeping Angel...

isn't she just so cute... especially when she's quietly sleeping!

the first two nights she came home with us was just so kelam-kabut! totally clueless as to what to do and when, and even to this day we have no idea what she is crying for.

luckily we have come up with a simple checklist to clear the confusion, tension, and headache:

1. check diaper for any 'accident' - if Yes then change;

2. if still making noise - give milk, burp, repeat (1) in case of any 'leakage' ;)

3. quickly put baby back to sleep so we can go back to the latest episode of 24.


senang je, parenthood : )

our little princess...

haven't blogged for some time.. reason being the cute adorable human being above.

she arrived into our world on the 2nd of May 2009 and things have not been the same since.

the reality of it has yet to hit me even though we had about 9 months to let it digest, but when the baby finally does get delivered - POW!!! it's a different game altogether now.

her name's Kimberly and in that photo she's having her suntan for the jaundice which afflicts most babies. trick is for expectant mommas to drink fresh coconut juice a coupla weeks before delivery. it worked for us to some extent.

so, it's been a week and a half of:

(almost) 24-hour wakefulness
diaper-changing (or the observation of, more like, there's enough women in the house to do the dirty job)
crying, farting, shitting, feeding, bottle-washing, bottle sterilizing

and trying to figure out what baby wants when she starts to cry!

it's a great experience being a dad, now i've got to put in some effort to learn all those nursery rhymes again! : )

for more photos, go here

Let's save Chuck!

seems there's a campaign to save Chuck the tv series - it's showing on Astro i believe.

for those of you following this great series, the last episode ( season 2 episode 22, this should be the season-end cliffhanger! ) was just superb, because.... taa daa daa... ok lah i can't put the spoiler here for those who haven't caught it yet.

the series has loads going for it - it's a fresh take on the spy vs spy vs bad guys genre, and it's got EVERYTHING in it - romance, flesh, girl-on-girl, boy-on-boy (you get my drift, no?), guns, hi-tech, gadgets, bombs, car chases, humour, slackers, et al.

loved it since the first day i brought back the S1 box set and finished it in one or two nights!

so please, US network, bring chuck back for more... and more... and much more...

tuesdays at happyville...

it's 9am and i'm already tired out.

but i gotta do what i gotta do, yeah.

or i won't get back on track.

what's the moral of the story? it's to follow our own path.

no matter how rocky or perilous it may be.

as long as the direction we choose is ours and ours alone.

it's getting hot in here...

no, let's not take off all our clothes : p

yeah we know the weather, being all hot and humid, is affecting some of us. people get cranky, get heated up, and take it out on others. such is the frailty of the human condition.

me? i think i'll go for a dip in the pool tomorrow afternoon : )

( again, how do i put smileys up here? do i have to link to an image-hosting site? )

watching the documentary Farenheit 9/11 - it's sad and tragic, and also a reminder of all that is wrong with the world, when politics, power, business, and money-making merge together to bring the Devil to us. i suppose we don't have to look too far beyond our own borders to see this sorta thing happening : p