Jungle Book

Mowgli Sarah hates her picture taken, and would go to great lengths to avoid the camera. I was chasing this fast-(still) (occasionally)-nappy-wearing critter all around the living room before I could get a picture, and even then she tried hiding underneath the table.

Those who know Sarah (Uncle & Auntie De, Rosli & Mama Danial) knows what she's up to when she undresses like this...

Expensive-ish gift

During Eid last weekend, Sarah has been really struck by Auntie (Kak?) Manda's Steadler triplus, a collection of 10 "superfine, metal-clad tip" pens of different colours and guess what she absolutely wanted during our recent visit to Tesco?

As expected, as soon as she laid eyes on the pen set - she was absolutely intent in getting it. Truthfully, the set was rather expensive, probably I wouldn't even buy it for myself - but in a way I'm glad I did for Sarah. She seems to really treasure the set, tidying and capping them (not that it matter, apparently the pens could be "left uncapped for days without drying up" (<-- says on the box) after each use.

Speaking of use, Sarah is using them to colour and write on her junior maths & shapes book, seen in the picture above. Seeing her interest and concentration, the "Triplus" pens already seem like a worthy investment.

Sarah

A montage of Sarah from day 1 to today: See how she's grown!









Notice the various hairstyles.

4/10/2006: Sarah's 3rd Birthday

Sarah's real birthday is on the 4th of October
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Package from Malaysia (I had to GIMP out our address)
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Birthday card from Atuk & Nanny
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Finding Nemo. Atuk bought this from Australia
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From China - Thanks Nanny
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From her expression you could tell Sarah loves the dresses so much
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Happy Birthday Sarah!

PS
This was also an experiment taking pictures in RAW. I'll comment about RAW later. Busy! Off to work now...

Happy Birthday Emyr & Sarah!

Part 1: Evolution of Sarah & Emyr's Birthday Cake

Sarah made the birthday cake herself
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A layer of whipped cream in the middle, yummm
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Complete with frosting on the outside
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Sarah was enthusiastically decorating the cake
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Auntie De expertly iced the writings (in what looked like Chinese!)
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Final product! (notice the numerous candles)

Eaten
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Part 2: It's a Costume Party

Sarah as Tinkerbell (complete with wings, wand and twinkling lights!)
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Amar as spiderman (roars of laughter as he entered the room)
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Tinkerbell and Spiderman
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Hyper-excited
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Urm, Uncle De - for kids only lah. (But nice new pair of glasses ;)
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Part 3: Sushi Revisited

The rolled egg
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Fillings
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Rice
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Putting them all together
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Rolled sushi
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Final product
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Part 4: The Party

Glorious food (Amanda in the background)
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Sarah and her birthday present, a Barbie doll she wanted so much
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Emyr and his present, a walking mini-Robosapien
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His reaction to seeing the robot walk (whoops)
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Happy birthday Emyr and Sarah!!!
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Blowing on the candles
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The cute Safiya
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... and Emyr enjoying the food!

Birthday wishes
13/9/2006: Emyr's 2nd Birthday
04/10/2006: Sarah's 3rd Birthday

Alone with two kids

Another week of nights oncall completed successfully. It was quite a memorable set of nights, especially as it began with yours truly getting his itchy hands on new hardware. However, it has been a long week of nights, especially without being able to see the family. Above is a picture of the night team at our last breakfast (taken with my mobile, substantially GIMPed). I look enthusiastic finishing that cup of strong coffee as I had a long drive back home ahead of me.

Today, Puan Mama Sarah had an errand in London, leaving yours truly alone with the two kids. For the first time alone, I took them both in the car to Swanswell Park:

The park managed to keep the two little ones occupied for quite a few hours, much to my relief. Both were extremely well behaved, although Amar was quite missing his mum towards the end. I had many more pictures to share (all taken with my mobile, again) but this *bleep* blogger beta has gone all screwy on me. Oh well.

Time to put them both to sleep.