Car Seat is Important

I know there are parents who refuse to use car seat for their children. They can have thousands of reasons. But please take a look at the video clips. Don't tell me the kid don't like. Parents must insist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZFMmNqCvbc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN-zv6n5pTk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU2jrQ4uunU&feature=related


My son don't have any option. Since day one, from the day he left the hospital back home, he has already in his infant seat.

His seat is rear facing. People asked me, won't he cry? Of course he cried, especially after 6 months. He wanted to look for people. But I still insisted as I know he will be safe in his chair. To ease my worry, I bought a baby rear view mirror which can be attached to my rear view mirror so that I can monitor his movements.

I wish I can have this but I can't get it in Malaysia.

When he was 1 year old, we got him the toddler seat.

This is a front facing seat as his leg length and weight can't take the rear facing infant seat anymore. He still cried. This time the challenge is he wanted to move around. One year old is the exploring stage. Everything seems interesting to him. He wanted to touch everything in front of him. Restrict his movement is unbearable for him. Thus he cried as loud as he can. This is the most challenging period for parents. You have to calm him down, start to explain to him (even though he might not understand), while concentrate your driving.

He is now 2.5 years old. He knows he must be in his seat and put on the seatbelt. We won't move the car if he refuse to do so. There's no option for him. We can even have him travel for long distance (more than 3 hours drive) and he is still singing happily in his seat!

I hope all the parents can understand the importance of baby car seat. You can save their life!

My second honeymoon -- Cut the queue --

Again...A lazy person's blog...

Haven't updated this blog for more than 6 months, the only reason is LAZY. Also, for my New Zealand trip journal, maybe it has been too long ago, it's a bit hard for me to recall. Let's put NZ journal on hold, and, before I forget, let me put up my Paris trip first.

This trip is actually my second honeymoon, after 3 years marriage. Hubby is trying to put up a complete journal of this trip in his blog. So I'm not going to repeat everything. I will blog only about my feelings, my thoughts and some special things to be remembered.

After having Ryan, we have very less private time to be together. Life is just full of tiredness and dullness. We both know that this is not a good sign. The foundamental of a FAMILY is the relationship of husband and wife. So this time we decided to leave Ryan to nanny and wanted to have some intimate time together.

I always believe that we need to put in efforts to maintain a relationship. Never ever take for granted for any relationship. But most of the time, we are busy with life and forgotten about the most important person in our life. We have forgotten to take care the heart of our beloved.

As for me, I know sometime I brought my negative feelings from work back home. This is definitely unhealthy, I know. But sometime just can't control. I am sorry dear. Thanks for your understanding. Thanks for reminding me and forgiving my bad tempered. I will always remind myself to leave the negative feelings behind before I get home everyday.

This second honeymoon giving me a chance to take a break, to find the feeling that we had for each other few years back.

And we found it.

Will Writing

Everybody knows that will writing is important to protect the person you love. But most of us always giving excuses for not doing that. Reasons given could be no time, do not know how to do it, too lazy to think about it, I'm still too young, I do no have any property...etc.

In fact, will writing is not that complicated. We have just got ours done.

Just spend about an hour with the professional will writer. They would be able to advise you to compose a comprehensive will, to protect your loved one. Cost both of us less than RM600. That's not expensive at all if this will help you arrange things that you wish to arrange when you are not around.

Let's everybody do it today!

離人

好久沒過夜貓子的生活了.今晚,自己一個人,享受著黑夜,聽著歌,忍不住想留下幾個字.原來,那麼多年以後,林志炫的聲音還是那麼動聽...

離人

银色小船摇摇晃晃弯弯悬在绒绒的天上
你的心事三三俩俩蓝蓝停在我幽幽心上
你说情到深处人怎能不孤独
爱到浓时就牵肠挂肚
我的行李孤孤单单散散惹惆怅
离人放逐到边界
彷佛走入第五个季节
昼夜乱了和谐
涨泛任性涨退
字典里没春天
离人挥霍着眼泪
回避还在眼前的离别
你不敢想明天
我不肯说再见
有人说一次告别天上就会有颗星又熄灭

NZ - 3/11/2005 (Thursday) - Day 3

Whole day walking!

We take a Christchurch city walk. The city is clean and organised.

The botanical garder has all species of plants. The ranger must be very good in gardening. One person do all the job at the same time - watering, planting... This is a city that ducks can walk in the town! The ducks must be having good life here. They do not scared of people. There is a pond in the middle of the garden. Ducks are snorkling, diving, swimming and even landing like a plane.

Taking lunch at one of the convenient store. Very expensive! Two buns for NZD4 each. We decided to cook for toninght dinner. Bought some groceries from the supermarket. The supermarket here is amazing. Thhey have everything fresh!

I cook black pepper beef. Haha! very delicious. My dear like it very much!

NZ - 2/11/2005 (Wednesday) - Day 2

We touch down Auckland at about 12pm. 5 hours different from Malaysia time. The airport security check is very tight. Everything is checked thouroughly. But they are very efficient and friendly. We then walk to another terminal for transit to Christchurch.

Finally, we reach Christchurch. Has been travelling for almost a day.

We take a shuttle from a very strong lady driver to a Vegabond Backpacker, a place that we've booked earlier. This is the first time in my life staying in backpacker. It has been furnished with all the facilities - toilets, kitchen, common area etc.

It's now 7.00pm. We are very tired. After shower, we still need to go out town as we can't pack everything from home. There are some stuffs that we need to get immediately from the local groceries shop. Before that, we have our dinner in a restaurant as this is out first dinner for our honey moon. It cost us NZD25! For just a simple dinner. We have decided not to consume in restaurant anymore later in our trip. Really need to have good budget planning as this will be a long trip. After dinner, we just quickly find a supermarket and pack our goods and straight back to the backpacker.

We need rest.

Christchurch, a very beautiful city, peace, calm, quite, less traffic... We will explore more tomorrow.

NZ - 1/11/2005 (Tuesday) - Day 1

We are leaving to New Zealand! A long waited trip. After getting ready for months, finally, we are leaving for NZ!

With food stuff, camping gear and clothings, we have two big luggage and two backpack:
- A big duffle bag to store our tent, tripod, clothes, airbed and sleeping bag.
- A green ice box to store food stuff. We bought a lot of packed food (e.g. Maggie Black Pepper Beef, Asam Curry Fish etc). We also bought our favourite 3-in1 Nescafe, Aik Cheong Coffee-Tea and the most important is RICE!
- A big backpack for my dear David to keep our fleece and books.
- A small backpack for me to keep my personal stuff like camera, passports, air ticket etc

My dear do all the planning for this trip. I feel so guilty. But he's really good in planning and organising. He started planning 3 months ago - route, stuff to bring, accomodations, tranportation etc. I feel so proud of him.

Our flight leave KLIA at 5pm. Then transit at Singapore Changi Airport. 10 hours flight to NZ is very tiring.