Archive for the ‘Daddyhood’ Category

Anak Tiri

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Big Sis learned the term ‘Anak Tiri’ (Stepchild) last week in Bahasa Malaysia class.

On the ride home one evening, Big Sis quietly asked me. “Mommy, when you die, is Daddy going to marry again?” I smiled and asked why.

“Because if Daddy marries again, then I’ll be an ‘Anak Tiri’ and I’ll have an ‘Ibu Tiri’ and I don’t want any other Mommy but you.”

Then she made her Daddy promise that Daddy won’t marry again when Mommy dies.

After which she adds, “Anyway, that won’t happen for a long time more.”
;-)

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Powerhouse Rocks!

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

That is, young people lingo for having done a good job. I think. :-P

I must say that the Powerhouse did an excellent job with their stage performance at the Gaya Christmas Celebrations Thursday night. All their hard work and dedication to the project really paid off. Being the final act for the night, they truly gave the evening’s program the high ending it deserves. Well done yo!

Ok. Let’s switch lingo.

We were part of the Family scene in their thirty minutes or so of a variety of performances. (There was drama, dance and multimedia presentations. *Thumbs up!*) We sang the song entitled We Will Serve the Lord, (or Hand in Hand, Heart to Heart) originally brought by Rick & Cathy Riso of Integrity Music. Both Big Sis and Middle Sis had a solo each. The Hubby and I led the rest of the families that were invited to join us on stage through the Chorus of the song.

When we went through the scenes during practises and then the final stage rehearsal, there was some hiccups with our song. Mainly to do with the Hubby’s Guitar accompaniment. He wasn’t happy with the sound of the guitar he used. Especially when combined with the acoustics of the open air stage. After thinking through his musical arrangement, he finally decided not to pluck the strings but to strum through the music. It sure did sound so much better!

And we did a little vocal warm up before coming on stage which we didn’t do during practises.

And the song flowed smoothly together with the rest of the show. Thank God!

There was even a funny moment. Little Sis caught sight of little Aaron out in the crowd and waved to him! And Middle Sis saw uncle Pastor J in front and waved to him too. Hehehe…

In the midst of all the commotion of getting ready for our show, we couldn’t delegate our camera to someone to take photos for us. I was told however that some folks we know did manage to take some snapshots. Here are some that I’ve been able to get my hands on so far.

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Big Sis and Middle Sis was also part of the Drama as kids who went shopping with their Moms.

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Will need to compile the rest of the photos sometime soon.

It really was a great show. We’re grateful to have been part of such a great team. ;-)

In the meantime, here are some scenes we captured while strolling down the Street last night.

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The Nativity scene at Lintasan Deasoka. Last year they had a ‘flying’ angel above it. :-P

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Check out the throngs of people!

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Giant screens to watch the stage shows from.

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YELLOW Santa! He was part of the Digi booth and he had to say ‘ho, ho, ho’ the whole night. Hilarious!

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And here’s my Little One after some ice cream!

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Alas, with an ending of just a pre-recorded ‘We Wish You A Merry Christmas’ song, we thought the Closing was quite the anti-climax. :-P

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Gaya Christmas Celebrations

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

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Just a shoutout to those of you who are in KK from 17th – 19th December 2009. Christmas celebrations begins with the Gaya Christmas Celebrations at Lintasan Deasoka, Gaya Street from 7 – 9pm. An annual event jointly organised by the Dewan Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu (KK City Hall) & the Sabah Council of Churches.

Yours truly and the Family will be performing a song on stage the second night. See you there? ;-)

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Of Books and Such

Monday, November 24th, 2008

So, Middle Sis got some of her textbooks for next year during her Orientation Week and I spent a considerable amount of time last week repairing & wrapping them. In fact, I even had to erase a previous student’s scriblings. :cool:

Deja vu! I remember doing the same thing for my school books when I was younger.

The Hubby was not too pleased at the condition of some of the books that Middle Sis ‘inherited’ for next year as I had taken the time to wrap Big Sis’ books this year. We returned the books to the school in good condition.

On the bright side, I was able to recycle some of Big Sis’ book wrappers for Middle Sis’ books. Which meant that instead of spending twice the amount on book wrappers, I’ll be spending only half the amount, if any. Not too bad huh?

Schedule wise, life’s a little less frantic for now. For which I am thankful. That’s not to say it isn’t ’spice-ful’ in our home, but at least we’re not rushing from one place to another. Yet.

I do realise that Christmas is round the corner and activities pick up full swing for us around this time of the year. Hence, I am enjoying the slower pace of life while it is.

And look, here are some stuff The Sister got for the Children that will keep them plenty occupied!

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Have a good week ahead Everyone!

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The Latest Thing

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

This seem to be a trend with the little girls in Big Sis’ class at this time.

I don’t remember if I had a book like this when I was their age. (Of course, I did just celebrate a mid-life-ish birthday…) One of Big Sis’ good friends gave her these books and I must say, it’s a real ‘blessing’.

Gives them prolonged amounts of occupied time which in turn works well for Mommy & Daddy especially when having a discussion over a meal with friends. A real headache reliever I must say.  :-P

Now if we could only find something like that for The Little One who, try as we may, just want to escape our clutches and go exploring!

Any ideas?  ;-)

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I Also Want…

Monday, September 8th, 2008

On Sunday morning, the Little One wakes up and enters our room. Quietly she walks over to Daddy’s side, climbs up the bed, takes Daddy’s face in her hands and kisses Daddy.

Daddy smiles at her.

And then she says to Daddy, “I also want drink milk…”

Interpretation: “Go get my milk Daddy. I already kiss you wat…”

She’s got her Daddy wrapped around her (really) little finger that Girl!

 
:-D

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Birthdays at Kindie

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

When I picked Miss D up from kindie one day, she showed me a goodie pack that she got from a classmate, Isaac is his name, who celebrated his birthday that day with them.

Then, excitedly she asked me, “Mommy, can we get Isaac a birthday gift? Can? Pleeeease?”

I was impressed at her thought, so I asked her to call her Daddy to tell him what she wanted to do. Daddy was impressed too, and gave her the green light to pick a gift for Isaac at Likas Square. Later, she told us that when she gave Isaac the gift, “He said ‘thank you’.”

That was about two weeks ago.

When I picked her up from kindie yesterday, she didn’t have a goodie pack, but she excitedly told me, “Mommy, today is Jonathan Chong’s birthday! Can we get him a birthday gift?”

Again we called Daddy, Daddy said yes, and she got Jonathan Chong a sticker pack. When she got home, she wrapped the sticker pack herself. Today she gave it to Jonathan and said, “Mommy, I gave Jonathan Chong his birthday present. He ‘friend me’ today oh!”

I was telling Cool Dad, there are about 14 kids in her class and everyone has a birthday throughout the year, is she gonna get a gift for each one??

Generous juga anak saya ini… ;-) )

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Just for Daddy

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

When the clock struck midnite of 17 September 2005, the Girls and I crept up to Daddy on the bed and broke out in unanimous chorus of “Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to Daddy………, Happy birthday to youuu….!”

Miss D then proceeded to follow up with “How old are you now…” as they normally would at Day Care., which caused Daddy to respond, “Daddy’s OLD Sayang…”

And then Miss D prayed for Daddy something to the effect of “thank you Jesus, tomorow Daddy play guitar..” And Miss Mel started with “bless Daddy, and Mommy, and Che-che, and Spunky and Miss Mel (yes, she mentioned herself too..) and Nana and uncle Bob and Yiyi….. and EVERYBODY!”

And all of us crowded round Daddy and gave him a super slurpy kiss!

We didn’t have a cake this year… but we have each other. ;-) )

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Father’s Day

Friday, June 17th, 2005
Praise God for fathers who have striven to balance the demands of work, marriage and children with an honest awareness of both joy and sacrifice.

Praise God for fathers who, lacking a good model for a father, have worked to become a good father.

Praise God for Cool Daddy!

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