Baby Jerome is going to celebrate his one year old birthday very soon. I still can recall the moment when nurse passed me the new born baby about 12 months ago. He was so little that had to be handled with care as i hold him in my arm. At that time, i wish that he can grow faster so that he can learn to crawl and walk as it would be easier for us to take care of him.

Time flies, the little baby is now a naughty boy who like to take everything that he can reach, shake his baby cot whenever feel boring, roll around on my bed and shake the headboard every day before he sleep. Both my wife and I have to spend much more time and attention on this little boy whenever he is awake. Sometime we just wish that we can go back to the time when he was small as it is easier to handle a newborn baby than a baby who is actively move around.

Happy birthday to my boy.

Following are some of the photos taken throughout the last 12 months recording Jerome’s growing path.

Jerome was suffered from serious viral infection for the last two weeks starting with fever then followed by ulcers in his mouth and blisters on both hands and feet. This little boy experience extreme discomfort on the 1st 2 days as he was crying almost every half an hour during the night. Luckily after visited 2 doctors consecutively his condition getting better but the rashes and blister are still visible until now as it is disappearing slowly.

These photos were taken a week after Jerome had his hair all shave for the very first time since he was born. At the age of 10 months, he look like a little boy more than a baby with his bald head. I just love to touch his bald head and call him “botak” even though this little boy obviously dislike anyone to touch his bald head or call him “botak” .

You can choose to close your eye whenever you wish not to see,

You can choose to shut your mouth whenever you wish not to talk,

but you just can’t shut your ear when you don’t want to listen.

常常忘了父亲现在几岁,

只因对父亲的印像一直停留在儿时那四十来岁的脸孔。

然而岁月却不停的在父亲的脸孔留下一丝丝的痕迹。

不时的提醒着我时光已静巧巧的流失了。

还能再有几个十年。

祝天下的父亲们，父亲节快乐。

This is my worst experience with the optical shop that I patronize for years since my school time. I never thought such established company with branches all over the town will give such poor service to me.

Back to a month ago, I dropped by this shop to get a pair of new spectacles for myself after realized that it was almost 2 years already since my last eye sight check-up. The unfortunate event started when the salesman mistakenly addressed me as Mr. Lee instead of Mr. Lo in the receipt issued. Ok, I don’t mind that silly mistake because I am more concern with the glasses. I was told that the glasses would only be ready in 2 weeks time as it has to be ordered from KL so the expected delivery date written on the receipt was 29^th May 2010.

Time flies, I waited for 2 weeks. On the 29^th afternoon, they called me up twice but I missed their calls so I dropped by their shop in that evening expecting to collect my new glasses. Only then I was told that there was some problems with my frame that they need to order a replacement and it is expected to be ready in 2 to 3 days time.

Time flies again, I waited for a week and received nothing so I called them up. This time the salesgirl told me that it was still not ready, giving the excuse that they lost the parts of the frame and the delivery of the frame was hampered by the Gawai break. Well, as far as I knew Gawai break is only applicable to Sarawak so the supplier’s delivery from KL should not be any problem. The lady told me the glasses should be ready in another 1 week time.

Simple mathematic, 2 weeks plus 1 week plus 1 week again then is close to a month already. I still hear nothing so I called again. The salesman told me that he had to check with head office and get back to me soon. Well, he did not lie and I received his call shortly. To my surprise he told me that he has to wait for his head office to contact the supplier in KL on the next day to check on the order status then only can let me know how long it going to take for me to have my new glasses. The reason he told me was that the frame that I ordered is more expensive so that longer time to delivery. Now only i realised paying more doesn’t mean the service rendered will be better or faster.

One simple problem, I waited for a month long, received 3 different answers and my glasses delivery remains as question mark. They are challenging my patience.

Baby Jerome was not feeling well again since last Saturday starting with serious diarrhea followed by continuous high fever. My wife and I had to cancel all the holiday activities planned earlier just to take care of this poor baby at home. Just imagine that he suffered from 30 over times of diarrhea in the first 3 days that we had to get his diaper changed almost hourly during the daytime. Situation went worst on the 4^th day as he suffered from acute fever in the midnight. Eventually we had to adhere 3 pieces of “Kool Fever” on him just to bring his body temperature down.

It was a tough job to feed him the medicine since he would cry and kept his mouth shut whenever he saw I brought the medicine. At the end, I became the bad daddy who keep on forcing him to open his mouth and made him cried louder until vomit.

Last Sunday morning was little Jerome’s first visit to the barbershop. In fact this was his second hair cut since he was born and his first hair cut was done by my mother on his full moon day.

We tried to reach the barbershop early to avoid the long queue but obviously we were not the early bird. Anyway, the owner was kind enough to do the haircut for Jerome first so that we don’t have to wait too long. Since the salon chair was too big for little Jerome then the barber just put a timber plank across the chair arm so that he can sit higher. Throughout the hair cut, he was a bit nervous and not dare to move around as the barber trimmed his hair with the powered hair trimmer. Luckily the whole process only took less than 5 minutes to complete.

“Who are you?”

“Why you are here?”

“Do you know me?”

These are the questions that my grandmother threw to me during my recent visit few weeks ago. Obviously she cannot recognize me anymore and suddenly i become a  stranger for her. It is a disaster for me when someone who i knew for years suddenly ask me such questions.

Time is flying fast and most of us never realise that our parent or grandparent are getting older too fast until we saw their health problems arose.That’s the reason for me to come back to Kuching after i graduated and stayed close to my parent all these years. I believe the time that i spent with them is definitely worthwhile.

Happy mother day to all the mothers in the world.

This cute baby with fair skin and brown hair always attracts many people attention whenever we go during the weekend. Sometime those people even came closer just to hold his hand and play with him. Last Sunday while we were having our breakfast at one of the famous “kopitiam” in town, some people even called him as “AngMoKia”. It suddenly reminded me that i used to have a similar nickname too when i was a toddler. A friend of my dad always called me “AngMoKia” whenever he saw me, even until now he would still call me “AngMoKia” when i meet him. So baby, you are the AngMoKia Jr.