Who likes gardening?

Who needs to go to gym when there are so much gardening tasks to be done in the backyard?

Gardening is a tiring job. It's dirty and sweaty. However, one should take a look around the garden and enjoy the God's nature?

You dare to eat the berries?

It's a jungle out there, in our garden. The neighbour's son used to cut the grass and clean up the garden waste for RM30. But he's been busy doing Rela job. I had no choice but to buy a bottle of weedkiller and "See you in Afterlife, Grass"

Paku pakis

I took minutes to cut it off one stalk at a time.

Fern with its baby

The weed and grass started to turn brownish in a couple of days. The hard work of cutting them off started.

It took me a whole week to cut such a small portion of the weed-filled garden

The front part of the house.

It looks gloomy when compared to the green grass, isn't it? That's the only green patch that I left to flourish. Trust me, cutting grass is a lot of hard work. Save your time going to the gym. Mother Nature has everything ready for us.

Son's Report Card

When I sent Son to his Taska this morning, the assistant teacher passed me his report card. That's so nostalgic. Report card at the age of 2 years and 4 months old!

Should Mummy or Daddy signs it? Both should sign the report!

Son cannot sit still

Son is talkative

It's confirmed that Son is a very sociable person. That's bad news to us, parents. If one do that in KL, it only takes seconds to have Son kidnapped! Eyes have to be on Son ALL the time.

Photo taken by Taska's staff

Let's see some of his 'masterpieces'.

Hand print. Two thumbs?

I wonder how much of it was done by Son.

Son seems to have a lot of activities done in Taska. If he's at home, he'll be practising his soprano pitch. Again and again!

Toilet training

Son had not used the diapers since he's around one and half years old. People asked me  how did I toilet trained him? I didn't do much. One day, I simply didn't put on his diapers and told him sternly that he had to go to toilet to pee. It took at least five days. Lots of scoldings when he released himself on the floor. Using rattan to threaten him, he suddenly stopped urinating on the floor. He would run to the toilet and pee into the toilet hole. 

But be prepared to wipe the urine and even stool left by the kid on the floor! I would make sure that he saw the urine pool or the stool he left behind and showed how disgusting it was.

"Yuck! Bau bau.." while showing Son the disgusting look on my face. I promise you will smile when he/she starts to imitate your disgusted look!

Then again, Son sometimes does not want to pee in the toilet..

Son's Golden Fountain

When Son shrieks, I pay no attention to him

A friend asked me for parenting tips. With due respect, I’m far from being qualified to be one to give advices. Some even said that I’m a good father and husband. I don’t agree to those views as well. My wife can strongly affirm my confession. However, I did gain some experiences taking care of my Son for the past 13 months; full time!

To begin with, Son is super.. err.. hyper (should be the word) active boy. He’s a friendly jolly old kid when seeing strangers but he’s as good as any professional sopranos when he’s at home. In the West, he’ll probably be given a timeout where he has to sit at the corner by himself for fifteen minutes. But in my care, he used to be caned by rattan. When he started to act violently by hitting us or caning us, rattan is now merely a tool to threaten him. At his age of 2 years and four months old, we left him with his cries, shouts and shrieks. He’ll calm down after awhile and starts to plead for attention. I will not give in to his shouts. Too many requests all the time. Sweets, drink (read: Coke), ice cream...

It is hard to divert his focus. At least, he’s willing to read books, stack blocks, play with the animal toy, ride his bicycle, watch Happy Feet, Barney show, Elmo show...

Yes, taking care of Son is tiring but when you see the child’s smiles and being hugged by the kid..

that’s the joy of being a parent.

2 years and 4 months - Son was having Kuching's best lui char