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• Hahaha, I did not bully him ... he is the King of the house now!
• Is another belated post again .... early week of November, send Dylan for routine check-up and vacinnation by Dr. Cheok.
• Dr. Cheok told us that my baby is super extraordinary special (another words, big size and fat loh). She said Dylan's behaviour is advanced like 6 months old baby ... the size and the weight is like 1 year old baby ...
• Agree with her, we are buying 12-18 months shirt & pants for him now.

• Looks like the white Michelin man, right?
• He still feeds on breast milk 100%.

Did not pamper Dylan at all ...

• Most of you all see like me and yve are over pampering him ... in fact we did not. You will be shocked and might think we are abuser instead.
• At 3rd months old, we sleep seperately from Dylan by putting him to sleep alone in the guest room. Of course, with the baby monitor turned on.
• We want to train him not to be sticky to us and does not want him to sleep the same bedroom with me & yve when he grows up.
• Now when he wakes up, he will talk to himself and smile ... which awake us at 6am sometimes.
• Secondly, we did not buy him much toys. Dylan got few toys only which people present to him. He enjoys the swimming pool the most now.

• His hair starts to grow back long already after bald him during his fullmoon.
• So far Dylan is healthy & fine and he is the one bullying the mom and the daddy instead.

Labels: baby dylan

Note: Firstly, would like to say sorry to all my commentors .... I have been MIA lately and not able to reply all your comments and cbox messages, I will do so this weekend. I was very busy at work at the moment...sorry yeah!

• It was a team event again ... hehehe ... yeah, when I say team event ... sure makan-makan again.
• This time my boss recommends to have the team lunch at Restoran Sari Ratu @ Subang Parade...
• This restaurant was famous for its Indonesian authentic Nasi Padang ...

• I would say the price of the food and drinks was fairly reasonable.
• Have to tell you upfront, for sure will gain 1kg with the amount of food we have ordered just for 9 pax only.
• When go makan with my boss, sure u will never lose weight one!

• The chillies was splendid good ... we sapu finish all the chillies.

• Must order their fried fish ... very crispy and the flesh is nice to eat. It is one of their hot and famous dish too. Taste yummy when u dip with the black sauce

• I can't remember the drink name below ... it was their signature drink ... blended avocado with coklat! must try! taste good ler...

• Team event ... meaning gain 1kg event for me ... anyway, it was a good lunch and a good chit chat session with our big boss. Thanks to my boss again for the treat.

Labels: digi colleagues, digi event, food pictures, food review, Restoran Sari Ratu, subang parade

• WANG SAI's location, directly on the beach, means it is on the pricey side, compared to our other picks.
• However, it is probably the best seafood restaurant in Ao Nang and is not more expensive than any of the other places in the tourist centre.
• For a special night out, walk from Ao Nang in the direction of Nopparat Thara. Wang Sai is located just across the bridge.

• Tanks at the entrance to the restaurant are filled with four or five varieties of fish, as well as crabs and clams.
• This is actually my first krabi food hunting. After checked into the resort, we proceed to have lunch. In my food hunting list, this Wang Sai restaurant was located near to our hotel only. It was just a 5 mins walk.
• Very nice view of the beach and the sun too ... reminds me of my Bali trip ... dining at the beach and seaside.

• We thought the food price is expensive at here but it is reasonable I would say.
• For the fried shrimp tempura ... for that portion of shrimps, just cost RM 12 only.
• Can't wait to try out their Seafood Pineapple fried rice ... good choice of order ... it taste yummy from our local Malaysian style. It cost RM 6 only!

• It was a 20-30 mins drive out from the beach town to the main Krabi town.
• It was just an ordinary town only .... not much of kwai lou there and also nothing much to see and shop.
• We bought some of their local brand coffee to try ... not bad except was too sweet ... must remember the Diabetes World day ... reduce sugar consumption ...

Labels: Krabi Holiday, krabi town, Wang Sai Seafood Restaurant

See how Dylan swims like a pro ...

• The first time we put Dylan into the pool ... he loves it. This is how excited he was when he starts swimming at 3 months old only.



• By the way, this is my first YouTube video uploaded by me ... me damn kao outdated! hehehe.
• What are the benefits of swimming?
  a) Swimming helps to develop the heart and lungs of the baby.
  
  b) Increase food digestion and absorption, increasing the immunity of the baby.
  
  c) Develops the neurotics and intellectuals
  
  d) Helps newborn/baby to develop regular sleep
  
  e) Reduce newborn/baby crying and improve relationship between parents and the baby.
  
  f) Develops newborn/baby’s motor skills and flexibility
  
  g) Swimming is not just about coming into contact with water, but it trains the sight, hearing, touch and balance of the baby.
  
• How old can a baby start to swim?
  
  The babies starts to swim from 4-6 weeks. We recommend babies to start swimming after the umbilical cord drops off (after 4th week)
  
• What is the best position a baby should swim in?
  
  A newborn less than 2 month loves to swim backstroke, they do not cry and feel very comfortable. If you take them out of the water they may even complain! Another position baby loves will be kicking of the water.
  
  Their legs will start kicking, their fist will be clenched and their arms will be rowing inwards. The movement of the legs is much higher than that of the arms. After 2 – 3 months, babies prefer to swimming chest down.
  
  Swimming will train the baby not to be afraid of water, and as long as they can play and stretch leisurely in water, any position counts as long as it is safe.

New order arrived ...

• Yve got order from Canada and Perlis ... the furthest so far ... the power of online shopping via blog.
• My house becoming a temporary warehouse .... time to deliver the new stocks away ...

• Interested to purchase one for your baby ... visit http://mybbshop.blogspot.com/

Labels: baby dylan, mybbshop.blogspot.com, swimming pool for baby, youtube video

• Yve have gathered all the famous Krabi restaurants which food hunters must go and try. One of it was this Ruen Mai restaurant which was very popular in Krabi.
• Ruen Mai Restaurant located in the southern town of Krabi.
• The name of Ruen Mai means wooden (mai) house (ruen) and it was, in fact, located in a graceful older wooden house. We were charmed by the decor, which was understated and consisted of beautiful Thai objects.

• The entrance to Ruen Mai is simple, just a little dirt road off the main road. It’s hidden from view, so entering into this restaurant made me feel like I’ve stepped off into some exotic oasis.
• And yes, the roundtrip taxi fare cost more than the dinner ... the taxi fare was 700 baht (RM 70) and dinner cost 520 baht (RM 52)

• It serves impeccably delicious food in a beautiful setting. Look at my dinning place ... big lantern light under the tree ... cool huh.
• The only drawbacks of this place is filled with mosquito and it is humid cause there is no fan at all. I was sweating badly when enjoying the food cause there is no wind blow as well.

• The food pics quality not that good as takenon my digital camera and not the best of pictures.
• The portion was huge ... esp the pork dish ... gosh ... not able to finish the meat at all. Taste nice, very alike like the Cantonese stir fried pork.
• The fried asparagus with shrimp was my favourite dish ... the prawn is fresh and this dish is very cheap (RM 15).

• This restaurant served one of the best Tom Yam Kung soup but in my later post, I will post the BEST Tom Yam Kung in Krabi!
• It really taste spicy and sour ... very balance of the taste which makes u want to sip more even ur tongue feel spicy a bit.
• The pork in black pepper was too spicy for me and yve .... they cooked in mild spicy only ... wahsei ....ear until my stomach feel the flame inside.

• 315/5 Maharaj RoadMuang Krabi,
  81000 Thailand.
  Tel : 075-63179
• If you're ever in Krabi, this is one restaurant you don't want to miss!

Plants & Flowers in Krabi ...

• Not related to Ruen Mai food post above ... I just want to share some of the macro shots I took on the plants and flowers I came across in Krabi.

• Very unique flower below ...

• Stay tune for more Krabi post, this is just 5% of my holiday post only!

Labels: food pictures, food review, Krabi Holiday, Ruen Mai Thai restaurant

• Finally the moment I have been waiting for ... it was a planned trip to destress ourself after taking care of Dylan for 4 months. Need to re-charge back our batteries and energy.
• Depart from KL at 1.30pm ... the flight from KL to Krabi took 1 hr 10 minutes only.
• We pre-order our lunch meal for cheaper price - the famous Nasi Lemak meal.

• Got to know that there is no monsoon season except for raining season only. Anyway, the weather was perfect in the morning and noon. It only rains from 5-7pm.
• Nice place to shop for souvenirs, shirts and decorative items. Food and drinks are cheap!

Krabi La Playa Resort review ...

• Thanks to Yve for sponsoring the accomodation and flight tickets ... hahaha ... she planned everything and even the itenary. The itenary I modify a bit cause don't want snorkeling.
• I got tough time to pronounce this resort name actually ... so I always tell my friend I will be staying at 'Playar' resort.
• We upgraded our room to seaview by paying 1000 baht = RM 100 base on currency conversion (10 baht = RM 1)

• I was fascinated by the room design esp the bathroom ... very nice with the huge bath tub.
• The bedroom was spacious and mattress felt very comfy to sleep at.
• The lacking part is they should upgrade to LCD flat screen!

• This resort cater one of the best swimming pool in Krabi ...
• In noon, lots of westerners sun bathing along the pool ...

• If you stay in this resort ... it is a paradise for photographers ... many pics to be taken in here.
• It's kind of safe staying at this resort cause outside the hotel, is the police station.

• The package comes with Breakfast .... the food was not too bad actually.
• Just that very limited choice of food only ... anyhow, this is a free breakfast ... cant comment much. As long is edible and taste alright.

• I like their fried omellete egg ... damn kao huge for one person portion and she puts lots of ingredients for me.
• My final day, they served carbonara spagetti .... YUMMY, just that it is not so creamy as I wanted it to be.

• Oh yeah, the kuey teow noodles very weird in shape ... very big and flat ... taste ok.
• Their fried pineapple rice was nice ... compare to Malaysia fried pineapple rice ...

• There are many nice resort out there along the beach line ... you can google and check it out.
• I enjoy the stay here except they need to beef up their English communication. The staff are very friendly, whenever you walk across them, they will say Hello or Sawadikah.

Labels: airasia.com, food pictures, food review, holiday, Krabi Holiday, Krabi La Playa Resort

• My holiday trip won't happened if wasn't Fanny and Dae offer to take care Dylan. Me & Yve planned to cancel the trip if we not able to find a right nanny to take care dylan at night. We visited few nannies actually but we don't have the comfortable feeling with them.
• After job interview between Fanny & Yve which was so funny (requires my approval somemore!) ... we feel very confidence and trusted Fanny thou she got no mommy experience at the moment.
• They came and stay over night at my place ... Me and Yve really appreciate & thanks to Fanny & Dae for taking care their God-Son so well.
• Me and Yve doesn't feel worry with Fanny capabilities at all even apart with Dylan for 4 days 3 nights but we certainly do miss him so much.

My resort ...

• I have took more than 1k pics ... of course impossible for me to post all the pics in my blogsite. Therefore, will try my best to give u the best piece of advice and direction if u are planning ur trip to Krabi.
• Sure I write and post many pics of my accomodation ... interior and exterior ok!

• Very exciting and scary feeling knowing your boat stalled half way middle of the river.
• Something wrong with the motor actually and I need to transfer to another boat.

Sceneries ...

• Took many beach sceneries with bikini chics ....

People go Krabi for snorkeling, but I went for elephant ride ...

• I told Yve, I dunwan snorkeling cause we have snorkeling before ... I haven't sit elephant before!

Leng Chai & Leng Lui in Krabi ...

• While having lunch at the road side stalls ... I spotted the leng lui (pretty girl) ... then after that the BF came ... wahsei ... immediately Yve told me so leng chai with the nice body shape!
• Ressembles like Tom Cruise rite!

Sunset pics ...

• Will share some sunset views taken by Yve ....

My pro skill - F&B ...

• My most luxury dinner ever! .. What's dat below?

Labels: Krabi Holiday, Thailand

• The food taste at this cafe is actually normal ... but not sure why each time when I am One Utama, I will come here and order the same food.
• Simple answer, cause felt worth it and sumore I love deep fried noodles with cheesie creamy sauce on top of it.
• On top of that, with lots of seafood.

• I am alone here enjoying my food while Yve busy with her shopping ...

Labels: ChatterBox Cafe, food pictures, food review, One Utama

• It was a hot weekend ... therefore we decided to go for some free aircond which we can get at the mall.
• Of course we are hungry that time as well. Out of sudden we thought of taiwanese food.
• We saw this nice restaurant - Xian Ding Wei ... a taiwanese restaurant.

• The interior is nice and ambience is cozy ...
• We ordered a mini Buddha Jump Over The Wall which taste excellent! The soup is 'kao' - deep in taste. I believe the taste has been changed to suit to Malaysian taste.
• I remembered the taiwanese milk tea doesn't taste alike in Taiwan actually ... very localised! I ordered the red dragon fruit juice.

• The fried noodles taste ok-ok only .... nothing special to shout about it actually.
• The portion size is ok ...

• Anyone tried this restaurant before .... feel free to commend in here.

Labels: baby dylan, food pictures, food review, sunway pyramid, taiwanese tea room, Xian Ding Wei restaurant

• I got this article from Louis Lee which publish in Yahoo News .... the Baby Einstein video is not cheap at all ...
• The New York Times reported Thursday that Disney is offering a refund to buyers of its ubiquitous “Baby Einstein” videos, which did not, as promised, turn babies into wunderkinds.
  
  Apparently, all those puppets, bright colors, and songs were what we had feared all along—a mind-numbing way to occupy infants. This news has rocked the parenting world, which had embraced the videos as a miraculous child-rearing staple.
  
  Videos that make your kid smarter while you prepare dinner? Genius!Or not. According to the article, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children under two years old stay away from watching screens. In the letter threatening Disney with a class-action lawsuit for "deceptive advertising," public health lawyers hired by Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood cited a study which found a link between early television exposure and later problems with attention span.
  
  For many parents, this was the most unsettling of "duh" moments, and a confirmation that nothing, when it comes to child-rearing, is as ever easy as we'd like to make it. So why were we so quick to seize on Baby Einstein videos as technological tutors? Call it the perfect storm of parenting. Who doesn’t want to believe that there is a magical, wondrous, no-parental-guidance-required product that will turn their kids into Mensa members? The combination of our lack of time, our paranoia over our kids performance, and our faith in technology primed this generation of parents to accept the clever advertising around "Baby Einstein" as truth, just as parents before us have seized on corporal punishment, or the teachings of Dr. Spock.Still, the idea that a caper this big could be pulled off (according to the Times, in “a 2003 study, a third of all American babies from 6 months to 2 years old had at least one 'Baby Einstein' video") is mind-boggling.
  
  Disney’s refund is about as close as we’re going to get to an actual admission that we were sold snake oil, and it casts a pall over the other "educational" toys out there.So now what? Lose the Leapfrog? Whisk away the Wii?


• How do you plan on keeping (or cutting out) technology in your child's life?

Labels: Baby Einstein scam

• While I am drinking coconut at Krabi resort ... here is another food post ... do enjoy it.
• Firstly, I would like to say thanks to my buddy James for the lunch treat ... he is my ex-colleague in Maxis.
• He recommended this restaurant ... it is very near to my office actually but I did not try it.
• At 12.30pm, the restaurant will be packed with people.

• I like the dishes there ... very nice chinese cooking taste.
• The fish was huge for 3 pax actually.

• The Guiness Stout 'Ku Lok Yok' is damn kao rich in taste ... thou it is fattening.
• I notice they server big portion which I like it.
• Yum yum, another nice chinese restaurant around in Subang-Hi Tech industrial area.

Labels: amanda koo, digi, food pictures, food review, james tan, restoran sin leong huat, subang hi-tech

• It was my second time to eat here ... the last time was my farewell celebration ... http://vialentino.blogspot.com/2009/05/farewell-lunch-treat-by-raymond-at.html
• Anyway, the objective of this lunch is for Amanda to distribute her wedding invitation cards.

• I kind of miss the food here since my last visit...
• Like their char siew dish a lot ... one of their signature dish. Of course, still prefers Canton-I char siew .... yum yum.

• Below is the fish cooked in two variety ... not bad ler.... yum yum

• Thanks to Amanda for her big treat .... the damage cost RM 173!

Labels: food pictures, maxis colleague, restoran siu siu

• Flying off to Krabi today ... and below is the resort which I am going to spend my entire 4 days in there ...
• Wonder is Dylan joining us??? ... answer is NO ... is my holiday trip between me and yve only to destress ourself.
• No worries, I have scheduled some post to entertain u all and thanks for ur NuffNang support!

Labels: holiday, Krabi Island, Thailand