Monday June 28, 2004

One Year Old!

My baby just turned 1 year old and my gosh it was a big deal.

Not fond of the idea of DIY parties, I opted to pay. It was so much more fun to have a party and not having to clean up afterwards. We picked a nice "town club" (as oppose to a "country club") The Legends Fort Canning Park and catered a spread of chinese dim sum for afternoon tea. Fort Canning Park is just next to Sun Singapore's office at Central Mall which was one of reason I know about the place.

We sent all (except 1) invitation cards through e-mail, talking about digital age. After putting together a guest list, we soon realize everyone has email addresses.

We received so many gifts we almost felt guilty ... nah... at least my daugther won't. Well I do need to thank everyone for a wonderful party. Here's the cheeky thank you card we sent out (less the photo) ... supposedly written by my daughter :-)

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Wednesday June 09, 2004

How could you not like children?

Ask me that question a year ago and I would say, "how many ways would you like the answers?"

But now, how could I not like children? Look at this cutie cute cute baby baby... ahem... btw, that's my daughter, she's turning 1 year old this month.

Even my mother submitted that I was not the children-kind-of-person; even when I, was a child myself.

I was may be 7 or 8, a tidy, I should say "pristine", toy crate was an obsession. Every toy was in it's box, and every box has it's place in the crate and all was in harmony. Btw, I am the youngest of four so absolutely no one touches my toy box. Except of course, the "guest".

When mother says, go "play" with your little friend! Gasp, my worse nightmare! I wished she meant hide-and-seek. They're just like "guest" accounts, password is always "welcome", they log right in and head straight for the confidential and proprietary. The worse was the phrase "Go play with", which was always taken as an implied "take ownership" permission to what they want and trash as they see fit!

I wonder what happened to that toy crate? You should see my cubicle today. Everything got it's place alright, which is just about anywhere that fits, or not. Ok, mostly not. It's not gonna get me any cleanliness award from Workplace Resources but I can find my stuff. Afterall, I need to keep up with the image of an engineer.

Parenthood does strange things to people. I couldn't imagine how I would take care of my own children which is may be why we waited so long before having our first. But now, just can't ever seems to spend enough time on my new obsession!

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