Couplehood

For My Brudder and Mrs. Brudder

Toledo

"What I want is a view, I want a window where I can see a tree or even water."

Saliva Beard!

He's started to bubble his drool. If you can make it out in this picture, you can see it's forming a beard!

I've got a better picture somewhere else. Will try to find it.

I'm out this week.

No, not out of Singapore. The wife and I have not gone on holiday since the boy was born (apart from two work trips). In fact, the closest thing we've had to traveling overseas was crossing the Benjamin Sheares Bridge.

I'm just swamped. Utterly. Need time to rest and be with the family every chance I get, so I won't be online writing so much. Didn't help that I had to deal with obnoxious people over the week, but I'm glad that's over.

And, of course, it was good to be over at the Auyong's. Loved the soup, the fun and most of all, the company. You guys are awesome.

Before and After: Years Fly, Moments Last Forever

For the astute, that's a line from a Ritz Carlton ad that I fell in love with when I read it in a Conde Nast Traveler issue.

Anyway, here's an awesome idea I got from the twitterverse. See the blog post that featured it here.

I can already think of a couple of pictures that I'll love to do that with now.

Well. Enjoy. :)

Monday Faithful: The Way We Roll

Having A Blast
The boy has a good time playing with the kids at church all the time. I didn't get a good shot of him playing with Amy Sng this time, but you should see how he giggles when the other kids poke and tease him. He's especially tickled by funny faces. Right Amy? ;)

The Lady Falls Down and Hurts Her Elbow
I'm a little worried about this one, because it's a little more prolonged than the usual bruise. It hurts when she extends her arm. We're going for an X-Ray soon, especially if the bump doesn't go away.

Mother's Day
After a really strange day on Saturday, I'm convinced that Mother's Days are complicated affairs. I'm just glad the family and I had a good time over some Sashimi and Teppanyaki. Oh, I got the Lady and my Mum a card! (sounds dud-ish but I guarantee you it wasn't. I hope to get the picture over here soon). Man! You had to be there. I wish I caught her expression in a photo, but I ran out of hands to snap one. The Little Boy was so cooperative wearing the shirt I got him and holding the card and passing it to his mummy and grandma. Wonderful. Couldn't have wished for a better expression.

The Boy (Again)
He shocked us last night by standing up by himself, by pulling the side of the crib that we put him in. Imagine our horror when we originally left him sitting down in the middle of the cot (quite a safe place) and then return less than minute later to find him STANDING UP. He doesn't have strength to stand on his two legs, so he was dangling off the side of the crib. I tell you, my jaw has dropped far down from my face before, but I think it reached new depths yesterday.

Then again, I'm rather proud. :)

Go go boy-boy!

Look At What He Just Did!

He stood like, for 5 minutes posing for us while took photos.

Such a little hero.

Can you imagine him running around?

Monday Faithful: 30, and Beyond!

The kids have fun while the parents party.

Nothing Like a Birthday Surprise
This week, the Bradder celebrates his 30th, and he's the first of my friends to hit the big three-oh. Okay, sure, there're probably others already, but his is the first birthday party I've actually had the pleasure of putting together. Nothing like celebrating with friends on a holiday. Shuz, the missus, the boy, Mrs Bradder, and Missy Bradderaeann. Happy birthday Bradder, hope you had a day as wonderful as we had intended it. All thanks go to the Mrs Bradder, by the way. She made it happen :)

New Project: I Will Light Up My World
I'm working on a new book now, amazing as it is. The first one - The Very Special Stone - didn't really cut it for mass distribution. Initially, I didn't have good hopes for this one. Then, 8 hours of arguing, brainstorming, and sugar-depravation, we did it. We nailed an amazing story and plot. I saw Soon and Henry (the project leader and the artist, respectively) literally screaming their lungs out, bouncing off the walls when we finally birthed this idea. I'm excited man, I am. I can't wait to show it to you.

Oh, that's a working title by the way. Still secret and under wraps, it is.

The Lady and The Boy
She's getting busy these days cooking up a storm for him. It's quite fun feeding him, seing him open his mouth in anticipation of the next mouthful of whatever-we-feed-him. I'm marveling at amounts of food that he's able to chow down. Porridge, fish, prok, chicken, brocolli, sweet potato, carrot, soya ice cream, you name it. The only tough part now is finding out when he's full, because when he is, he starts slapping at the spoon. I've had rice catapulted into my eye, so I know that I've got to learn fast.

The Me
I'm on a diet. Don't laugh. You know I need it. Any more inches to this rotund waistline and I'm never fitting into my clothes. Bad enough that I've had to switch belts.

Oh and one more thing. Don't laugh at my new haircut. I'm trying to get used to balding. I hear that there's a cosmic equation that says that the harder you laugh at balding men, the quicker you'll lose hair follicles.

This is so amazingly stunning.

MTV HD Crow from mate on Vimeo.

As the guys at WahLiao Photography said, you got to see this.

Thanks guys. Made my day :)

Why I Love Kids

I saw this here. Lots of other nice things there, but this really, really made my day.

You know, the little boy is starting to get a little playful and mischievous. I'm terrified of the day he starts playing pranks on me.

And some part of me wishes he always will.