Another Hospital Trip

Yesterday was a strange day for you, everything was out of sync. On an hour drive to your grandparents you decided to fall asleep, which usually means your afternoon nap will now be very late in the afternoon, and that is exactly what had happened. You went to sleep at around 14:00 (missing your lunch) and didn’t wake up again until 17:00 after which you had your lunch.

Your mother and I were at work, where I received a phone call from my mother saying that you were behaving rather strangely. Apparently after your (very) late lunch my mother gave you a small biscuit and that had somehow made you threw up, after which you had acted like something was stuck in your throat/nose. You were walking around and opening your mouth trying to cough and keep rubbing your face with your hands.

Your grandmother was also not feeling well (very upset stomach), so your mother had to rushed home to take you to the hospital, accompanying you was my aunt (she is fantastic and absolutely adore you, she has been helping to look after you since you were born).

After parking the car at BNH, you decided to have a huge sneeze… and guessed what happened? A piece of mince pork came out from your throat… and that was it, all was fine again, but to be safe your mother took you to see the doctor anyway, after a lot of probing (I was told you were being your difficult self again), you were declared in perfect health (touch wood).

You are right now at home, probably running around chasing either the spider by the rear of the house, a couple of cats that keep coming to the garage, or most likely the dog next door.

Love you.

D

Wonderful Saturday

For the past couple Saturdays you were pretty stuck at home because of a runny nose, and with all of this H1N1 thing romping through Bangkok we thought it would be best for you to remain at home. We were told to stay away from crowded places (over 6,000 have been infected and with 44 deaths we are taking all the precautions we can), meaning department stores were also out of limit for you as well.

 

But this week, your runny nose had gone, and we were afraid that you were getting bored out of your little skull, we had decided to go back to Gymboree for your weekly class (I don’t think you can really call it a class, more like an assault course for babies)…

“Oh Mum, how many times do I need to tell you, I don’t want to work in a circus when I grow up.”

  



It was great to see you running, laughing and doing all you can, not to do what we asked you to do (nothing new here :) ), after Gymboree we had some time spare so we decided to go back to Phuttamonthon (it had been a few months since we were last there).

This time we had chosen to visit a new spot, somewhere more open so that you can run around and feed the fishes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

  

 

 

 

This is a huge place, I am sure you can visit it everyday and not going to the same spot twice, anyway it was a great way to end the day. I should be having some free time soon, and we are still deciding to either take you to a huge waterfall or back to the sea again, looking at the weather we are having lately, together with the ‘flu’ thing, I think it may be best to stay home a while.  
Love you.

M & D

Short Trip

This is Wat Don Wai, apart from being a very well known temple, another of its attraction is the colourful market and restaurants, many people seem to be selling ducks (cooked ones) as well as traditional Thai sweets, in fact the list just goes on and on.

Unfortunately, with only the 3 of us being there, this subsequently means we had to follow our primary formation… in simple words, your mother carried you, and I carried everything else (your mother’s rather HUGE handbag (made from elephant’s skin, and it must have taken at least 17 elephants (ears and all) to make this bag, because it is gargantuan colossal of a bag), all the shopping stuff, my bag, your bag, I think you get the picture). 


So, with my hands being rather full, it was darn near impossible to put everything down, then take out the camera to shoot a few shots of you and your mother… So the camera stay mainly in the bag… sorry.

What I had managed to shoot was not too bad, but the background is so boring… nonetheless, you had a great time seeing and hearing new things…, we can not wait to take you overseas…

 

Skiving Off Work…

We had only found out on the Friday that our beloved boss had decided to give us Monday (06.07.09) off, thus making it an extra long weekend from Saturday through to Tuesday, a 4 days weekend, it just doesn’t get better than that… well… it just got better because I had decided to take Wednesday off as well.

I must say that Wednesday was spent to the fullest, after lunch we took off across the city to your grand parents, it must have taken just a little over an hour by car to get there, but we were there only long enough for you to have your snack before heading off again to Safari World… what a laugh that was…

Here is a little Bambi waiting for a shot gun… Only kidding :)

   

I don’t think you were actually looking at anything in particular, but the puzzlement on your face was probably due to the smell of Rhinosaurous’ poo, calling it pungent just doesn’t do it any justice…

  

Driving through the dangerous animal enclosures reminded me of  the film Jurassic Park, waiting for the heavy metal gates to open and close… was kind a fun, but by the time you got passed the gates and saw the tigers and lions (in separate section) it was a bit of an anti-climax… I mean, I didn’t expect them to be in hunting mode like on the discovery channel, but to see them just lying there and relaxing was nice… that’s it… just nice…

Definitely going back there soon, we didn’t have enough time for one of the highlight, feeding the Giraffes…can not wait to see your face being that close to the Giraffes, assuming we all survive the H1N1 flu… hee hee.

Love you…

M & D

Waiting For Mama

 

“Another day, another morning walk, but today was different… when I woke up, I was all alone…

After screaming a little, no one came…

What else could I have done if I didn’t follow my daily routine,

jumped out of the cot, walked gingerly downstairs to make my own bottle.

Got dress, still having a hard time tying the shoe-laces, so that took a bit of time.

Trying to reach the keyhole in the door also took forever...

Now that I was out, there wasn’t a soul in sight… decided to wait for Mama…”

(actually she is really only behind me in this photo :)

Nothing Like a Brisk Walk in the Morning…

 

Since you have started walking (kind of), it had become one of your routine to have a quick walk most mornings. We think the only reason you enjoying walking so much is in fact because of the ‘Chase’… The little dog’s name is ‘Chao-Gooauy’ (which is actually a Chinese dessert, the best description is ‘Black Herbal Jelly’ eat with brown sugar (absolutely delicious)).

First thing first, you must be wondering what is on your head… am I right?

That is a rabbit hat, now now, don’t blame me, I did my best to hide the darn thing, but you see, your mother has this 7 sense (the seventh sense is a gift to catch me out in whatever I am trying to hide), luckily there were no fashion police around, for if there were, you would surely have been incarcerated for atrocious headgear! (99 days prison term and 25 lashes).

  

The Alexandria Link – Steve Berry

Finished it around one this afternoon, this was my first book by Steve Berry, it certainly didn’t blow me out of my seat/bed/car/toilet (for the past 2 weeks I must have read this book almost everywhere) but it certainly was a good ride… I think if you enjoy Dan Brown, then there is no harm to give this book a glance.

To me, you can break the book down into 3 fights. Cotton Malone vs Dominick Sabre (aka Jimmy McCollum), I think this was supposed to be the main fight, but honestly I found myself attached to this book not because of the ‘road’ to the “Library” (by Malone and Sabre), but to the second and third fights.

Second being between Stephanie Nelie vs ‘I don’t know who to trussssssssttttttt’ (Brent Green? or Danny Daniels? or Larry Daley?, and the third fight was between Henrik Thorvaldsen vs Alfred Hermann. It was these two co-stories that had me glued to the book, I think this was Steve Berry 5th book and the second with Cotton Malone as the main character.

Like Star Wars, I have decided to move backward, I have just started ‘The Third Secret’ by the same author… looking forward to it, there is no doubt by year end I should have read all of his books (8 or them, and 5 had Cotton Malone as lead.

A Bunch of Lens

When I got the  D90 a few months back, I had promised your mother that I shan’t be buying any accessories for the camera, so far so so so ‘terrible’… Somehow the D90 had turned me into an old woman, I began to have ‘bags’ (camera) fetish… I just could not get enough of the camera bags… just bought another one from my latest trip to the Philippines (Crumpler 7 MDH, just like all the bags before this, I absolutely love it… until the next bag of course).

Before this your mother got me the best present ever… the grip for the D90… and now I have an itch for lens… listening to TWIP (This Week in Photography, www.twiplog.com) every week doesn’t help… 50 mm prime lens is a must have for portrait or should I get something more interesting like a fisheye lens, how about lensbaby, or tilt shift… or this… or that… aaaaahhhhhh

Time to meditate… and let it go… the kit lens 18 – 105 mm is great, and fine… (repeat 100 times).

It doesn’t help, when one of my colleague (Mink, who had actually studied photography at Uni.) brought in her old University kit (Nikon 801). Once she found out I had a Nikon, she was wondering if her old lens (16 years old) would work with the new body… eerrrmmm I was salivating.

24 – 50 mm, 105 mm micro, 70 – 210 mm, not to mention all the filters and loads more stuff, it was such a laugh. Mink was kind enough to offer them for me to take home, but I had decided against it, I mean, a weekend with these bunch of lens would probably mean an end of my marriage… haa haa, I am not kidding, your mother would have kicked me out of the house quicker than you can spit your milk all over the cat.

Love you.

M & D

Not as difficult as the real 2 iron

Right after Songkran (April) we were told you’ll be moving up to level 3 at your weekly Gymboree class, meaning it will now starts at 15:00 rather than 14:00, which is of course great for us, no more rushing around trying to get there on time (but somehow we still managed to be late).

Level 3 is for babies who are just started to walk, most of your classmates have also moved up as well (Taeya and Pound). It is such a laugh for me to see all of you walking and falling all over the place, this time your teacher was trying to get all of you to kick a ball… what a lark that was! It was more like playing golf, I mean, I was the golfer and you were my 2 iron, because there was no hope in h$%^ you were going to kick that ball so I cheated (just) a little, by picking you up and used you like a golf club to hit the ball… your mother was not impressed. 

Building a new system

It is such a bad time to think about building a new system, I was just gathering some information about building a new PC, and have come across so many factors that have put me off for the time being…

First of all Core i7 is still so expensive at this moment, all the new motherboards look so attractive but again I think USB 3 is coming, and it will be a while before that is incorporated into the MB. USB 3 is such a huge leap from USB 2, I think it is worthwhile to wait, this is especially true when I am in no rush to upgrade. Although my set up right now can be look upon as ‘pre-historic’ with Pentium D at the heart of the system.

Apart from the hardware, Windows 7 is only just beyond the horizon, and hopefully it will be as good as everyone is saying. Another development I am waiting for is the SSD, there is no doubt that soon it will be the standard C: drive (as soon as the capacity increases and the price drop). Another thing I am waiting for is the Drobo to come to Thailand, there are is no official distributor yet (fingers cross).

The most important thing is to get permission from your mother… :) and that could take a while…