A Different View

My view of the world has been mainly the ceiling and sky until recently. My neck is stronger, nowadays I get to see the world like the everyone.

Me with my Snoopy and Bear-Bear friends.

Watching Olympics with Mama, I am a TV addict like Mummy ! Any TV program is great, except for "Your Baby Can Read", which Daddy repeatly make me watch, so boring !

No more yummy !!

Mummy found out my secret !! Where is my hand hand and thumb thumb ??? I need them badly, Mummy please return them to me !!..

Yummy, New Food

I am bored with milk milk, I decided to explore myself and found a new taste ! Yummy, you want to try ?

Wardrobe headache no more

Well, certain things in Japan are quite a bargin. Seeing Doctor is free for kids like me ! No wonder all the baby doctors are always crowded.

Remember my wardrode problem, Daddy and Mummy recently did major clothes shopping for me, and I think they overdid it. Also Daddy always trying to save laundry, sent me to school without pants, just diaper. In the end, teachers think I am got no clothes, they also donated some clothes to me from children who graduated.

Some of my new clothes.

This cost Y199 (S$ 2.60)

These were best buys. Guess how much ??

Y99 (S$1.30) each

This was the most expensive piece. Is a Disney Shirt.

Y499 (S$6.50)

Another cool shirt, Daddy bought for me some time back.... hmmm why am I so girly, showing off my clothes.

Sars Outbreak

Home is like Sars outbreak period, everyone wears masks and temperature are measured at every hour. Mummy and Daddy look scary without nose and mouth !! Yes, everyone is sick at home, Daddy passed his diseases to Mummy, and me too was sick. On Friday, late morning, teacher in school measured my temperature, it went up to 38.4c, Daddy was called to bring me home. Being inexperience, Mummy asked her colleague what to do me, everyone suggested to keep my temperature down, wear little etc. The doctor also said keep cool to bring down the temperature, ice pillow is good to bring down the temperature. In end, I am almost like living in the fridge, I had 2 small ice gel sheet on my armpit, one piece on my forehead and lying on a "snow pillow".

Keep cool ? How about bear-bear ice-cream ??

My First Day at School

Yeah, I am a big boy now. I go to the school ! On my first day to school, Daddy backpacked me and cycled to school.

Once I reached school, I will be changed into the "school uniform" and nappy. Looks like the fashion in school is no different from Mummy's, pants pull up all the way to my chest !

Yes !! there are cute girl-girl in school !! When I first reached the school, I can hear the teacher telling the other kids that there is a new friend today. At school, things are different, there is no more milk milk whenever I cry, teacher only gives me milk at 3 hour interval. I am the smallest baby in school, other babies are either crawling or walking around. I got to grow up faster, so that I can go down play with other kids. Within 1 day, I have already attracted one girl-girl, she kept standing at the gate looking at me as I was picked up and carried off by Mummy to go home. We waved sayonara to each other, and said "ah-goo-ga-ga" which means "See you tomorrow" !

Another New Toy

Tell you a secret, I know how to trick Daddy to buy me toys. I just have to look at the toy long enough and give him the pathetic "I-want-it .. pleaseeeee-look". Daddy will ask, "Aloysius, you want this ?" I continued to look at the toy for another 5 seconds, and Daddy will say "Ok, you want, Daddy buy for you".

I almost tricked Daddy to buy me this remote control car which is for 6 years old and above, but smart and evil Mummy was not easily tricked. She said no to Daddy, and there goes my remote control car !!

Instead, Daddy bought me this Gym. It is suppose to stimulates all the different parts of my body. It is created by some Japanese Doctor, supposed to be medically proven, however, I think this Doctor is not too music inclined. It produced some old-fashion sounding music, you can imagine some granny and grandpa dancing cha-cha to this music.

Wardrobe Headache

On Sunday, the weather was super nice and cooling ! Daddy and Mummy brought me out to Kawasaki Lazona for shopping. I am having some kind of wardrobe problem. Since I inherited most my current clothes from babies from Singapore, they are all summer clothes. I have nothing to wear for the upcoming autumn and winter.

I am starting school this week, I also need to get some cool outing clothes, my clothes are all pajamas like ! So embrassing if I wear pajamas to school, no face if there are cute mei-mei (little girls) in the class. See, Mummy made me wear clothes like Ah Pek (old man), she pull the pants up until my chest, so ugly. How to impress mei-mei with these kind of dressing in school !!

This was what I wore out on Sun, is one of my best looking clothes, and even this, I have out-grown it, see Mummy can't even button up the bottom, so embarrassing to go out with underwear peeping out !

After a whole day of outing, what did I gain ?

• 1 T-shirt
• A gym
• 3 rattle and teething toys
• 1 toothbrush
• My own fork and spoon
• My own bowl

There will be more shopping trip coming up since I did not get any clothes during the last trip. Hopefully, there will be more toys too.

Happy Birthday, Papa

Tummy time

Since the lost battle with Jin-kun on the growth, I am now forced to exercise to strengthen my neck faster. I hate tummy time on the bed, so I try to leave my saliva all over the bed to make Daddy and Mummy give up ! However, I enjoy tummy time on Daddy and Mummy's tummy, cos can move up and down, especially on Mummy's fat fat tummy .... soft soft one ! ; )

I am sorry, Papa

Since Mummy went back to work on 7th Aug, Daddy took 3 weeks leave to look after me before I go to child care on 18th Aug. On Daddy's 3rd day of looking after me, he fell sick quite badly. In the morning, he woke up with such bad sore throat until he cannot talk. I kept "goo-goo, ga-ga" at him, but he gave me sign language, which I don't understand.

Is my fault that Daddy got sick. Sorry, Papa....

My First Baby Friend

Last Sat, Mummy's colleague invited us to her house. I got know Jin-kun. Jin-kun is about 1 month and 10 days older than me, but he is almost 2kg heavier than me. I look like a tiny baby beside him. Of course I am crying and not happy, lose out in weight, Jin-kun neck also strong enough to hold his head up, I can't even do it yet. I don't like to lose out ... sob sob ....

After the trip, Mummy and Daddy tried to convinced me to drink more milk to grow bigger. I think they are a bit crazy. Everyday, they complained to each other about backache, shoulder ache, arm pain from carrying me. Somemore, they like Ah Gong, Ah Ma, paste "ko-yo" sticker for each other on their back to relieve pain, still want me to grow fatter and heavier, so ironical, sighz typical Singaporean kiasu (scare lose) syndrome.

Who am I ?

Last week, Daddy and Mummy brought me to the child care school to visit the principle, Kobayashi-san. There was some form filling, as expected, ALOYSIUS (アロイジアス) is very difficult for Japanese to pronunce. My chinese name 勇輝 read as ゆうき-Yuuki in Japanese seems to be ignored by the principal. Somehow, Daddy tried Louis - short for Aloysius as "Rui" in Japanese, the principal seems happier with Rui.

After coming home, Daddy and Mummy think it will be too confusing for me to be call Rui in school. After all, Daddy and Mummy cracked their head to come out with a Chinese name that will read nicely in Japanese, so I should use Yuuki when I am in a Japanese school. They decided, I will be call as : when speaking English-Aloysius, Chinese-YongHui, Japanese-Yuuki. How confusing !

By the way, Daddy is also confused, he was just telling his colleagues that my Chinese name is read as YongGuang. That is how bad his Chinese is, can't even read my name, also he has already forgotten my birthdate !!

Present from Daddy's colleagues, a photo album with my name embroyded on it.