Jul 4th, 2008 by khongfamily
Day 3 - After a delicious Dim Sum breakfast (the only food that is cheaper in Hong Kong than in Malaysia), we headed towards Hollywood Road where you can find a lot of high class antique shops.
One of the antiques that Mummykhong found dumped in front of a junkyard at Cat Street.
Jun 26th, 2008 by khongfamily
The week after our go-kart session, we brought Braedyn and Shayanne to Hong Kong together with daddykhong’s family. He and his brothers thought it would be good to bring their mum for a holiday to celebrate her xx birthday (can’t reveal it here - she’ll kill me if I did) instead of opting for a massage chair or some La Mer cosmetics!(Sidenote - daddykhong made the biggest mistake of his life when he bought her La Mer for her birthday last year. She’s been bugging him for more ever since!)
Embarassed to say, it was my first trip to Hong Kong. Kampung mummykhong was eager to see Hong Kong for the first time and when I set my eyes on our lovely hotel, I knew it was going to be a memorable trip.
The facade of the Peninsula. Wait till you see their fleet of limos.
Jun 26th, 2008 by khongfamily
After hearing many things about this place from Chin Nee, Jazzmint and Sue, I pestered my Mr Garmin to bring us (or me?) there. I even sent Sue’s directions link to him. He glanced at it, and said he already knew where it was (hmmmph….and he never took me there).
2 weeks back on a lazy Sunday morning, we headed to Ampang for Yong Tau Foo. On the way back, Mr Garmin decided to detour to Menara Tinjau using the back roads linking old Ampang to old Cheras
Fortunately, the weather was nice and cloudy even though it was only 2+ pm then.
So here are the photos:-
Braedyn & Shayanne all grown up
Jun 25th, 2008 by khongfamily
Braedyn learnt his ABCs very quickly. In fact, he could recognise all the 26 letters since he was 2 years 4 months old. However, he only recognises the uppercase letters since we only had uppercase letters to use.
His secret?
We bought this set of 5 DVDs from Amazon.com after reading this and this. Brae watches the whole show over and over again. He just loves it! After a while, he will follow the phonics sound from the alphabets. We bought a lot of educational DVDs on alphabets but none of them seemed to catch his interest except for this one. No regrets buying it.
After watching the DVD, we will have our ‘alphabet game’ just before bedtime. I will take four letters, e.g. A-B-C-D and jumble them up. Then I will ask him to take the letters and arrange them in order. After all the letters are in place we will sing the ABC song together while pointing at the letters.
Recently, we bought a Crayola easel from Toys R Us and the above alphabet set (that comes with lowercase letters as well). To our utmost surprise, upon opening the casing, Braedyn took all the letters out and started arranging them one by one, referring to the uppercase letters as either “Daddy” or “Mummy” and the lowercase letters as “Baby”! Gosh! We never taught him any lowercase letters and he did not learn it at school because they are only on “L” currently.
Side note, Brae can recognise numbers 1-10 as well. Errr..not really…he will say ‘one’-'o’ for 10! Haihhh….
Well, we are definitely proud of him!
Jun 23rd, 2008 by khongfamily
Daddykhong always reminds me to speak Mandarin to our little boy because he does not want the children to turn into a banana like him! But my Mandarin is ‘bun tong sui’ (half past six)…how to speak? I used to speak a lot when I was working in Gerakan. Since I haven’t been working for donkey years and I don’t speak Mandarin with my friends, my Mandarin has all but rusted.
Now we are having problems with Brae not allowing us to speak in Mandarin.
Scenario 1:
On the way home from Brae’s playschool, Daddykhong would sing a popular Teresa Teng song.
Daddykhong: 忘不了…..忘不了…. (Mamakhong: He only knows this part. 
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Braedyn: No..no..NO..NO…Daddy!!! Drive!! Drive….!!!
Brae is not telling Daddy to concentrate on driving but to tell him to stop singing in Mandarin! LOL!
Scenario 2:
Back home, Daddykhong related what happened to me. This was what I did to Brae…
Just so happened that Brae brought home a muffin that he baked at school.
Mummykhong: Brae, 你的 muffin 好吃吗？(Translated: Brae, is your muffin nice to eat?)
Brae: No Mummy!! NOOOO!!!
Haihhh…how to get him to speak Mandarin? Hmm..I think I must get a Mandarin speaking playgroup for him already.
Separate issue:
Brae is now associating 饼干 (Translated: biscuit) with 謝謝 (Translated: thank you).
It is all started when Brae followed us to Daddykhong’s office. Aunty Jac (one of the staff there which Brae adores) gave Brae a peanut butter cookie. She taught Brae 饼干 and 謝謝 after she gave him the cookie. Therefore whenever we tried to ask Brae to say 謝謝 when we gave him something, Brae would say, “No! 饼干…. 謝謝!!! Daddykhong and Mummykhong are speechless!
p/s: Thanks Jesslyn for teaching me the chinese characters 
Jun 10th, 2008 by khongfamily
What a busy period it has been. 2 holidays, many events and dinners, very tired parents, and very ecstatic kids.
The posts will come in slowly. Lucky first will be our go-kart session in Shah Alam with daddykhong’s cousins.
It was our first time at a kart track. Daddykhong was initially afraid of crashing his kart but towards the end, he kept going for more sessions and even ended up in the bigger-engined karts for the last race.
Braedyn, Shayanne and myself were his cheerleaders and each time a kart passed, Braedyn would shout “Go, Go, Go”. He could tell where daddy was even though I couldn’t. Maybe if he could express himself better, he might say “Easy lah mummy! Daddy is ALWAYS the slowest one lah!”
More photos HERE.
Stay tuned for the write-ups on our Hong Kong & Melaka trips…
May 11th, 2008 by khongfamily
To answer Mumsgather’s meme (errr..a bit too late hor?), there’snothing much that I wish to do on this particular day. Just hope that our little terrors will grow up healthy and happy. I would like to take this opportunity to wish other mummies “Happy Mother’s Day”.
Daddykhong brought us to Bubba Gump on their opening week for an early Mother’s Day celebration. Food was ok but they imported a team from Philippines to train their Malaysian crew and we couldn’t understand what they were saying even though we’re sure it was English!
More photos HERE.
May 8th, 2008 by khongfamily
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, DEAR! Thanks for being a good father of our two lovely little terrors.
May 4th, 2008 by khongfamily
Saturday, 3rd May 2008 is a very important day for me. On that day, I started wearing panties (mummykhong: He can’t differentiate between panties and underwear yet! LOL!).
Actually the bigger news is that I stopped wearing diapers 1 whole week prior to wearing panties. If I do have to wear diapers (at night or for long drives), they remain dry.
Sometimes at night, I would wake up in the middle of the night to use the toilet but when I am too tired, I just wee in my diapers 
Mummykhong says:
Previously we had to remember where the baby rooms are located in the various shopping malls. Nowadays we have to remember where the toilets are and which ones to avoid.
If Braedyn has to pee in the open then we have taught him to ask for permission from his ancestors (Chinese belief to always ask for permission when peeing in the open) but all he says is “Ah Gong, Ah Por….Thank you”. The actual request, he doesn’t say!
Apr 18th, 2008 by khongfamily
Nowadays there’s nothing much to write about. Life is quite routine. Here’s what we’ve done so far this month.
Wendy’s @ Sunway Pyramid - 6 April 2008
Finally, Wendy’s is back in Malaysia. I remember the one in Sungei Wang with fond memories.
We brought Braedyn and Shayanne there on their 2nd day of business because we wanted to find out if they are better than Carl’s Junior. I had the chicken something, daddykhong had their 3/4 pounder & Chili, Braedyn had his nuggets (they taste much better than McDonalds) and Shayanne had fun looking at Wendy’s Girls!
Good things never change
Daddykhong waited 20 years for this
Braedyn with his Wendy’s cup
Look at the hair (not the bottom)!
Penang BBQ - 15 April 2008
Corporate dinner on the beach. We just had to drive up after lunch, eat for 4 hours, then drive down to KL again. Tiring for the car.
More photos HERE.