Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Back from Bangkok

Lucky six week old Ty got a passport and traveled to Bangkok for a 10 day long holiday to visit grandpa and grandma. Check out his passport photo below...truly a passport photo - dull and serious!


It was a 2-hour flight there from KL and every minute I was praying that Ty wouldn't cry. It was just me and him on our little adventure to Thailand. He was a happy boy throughout but on descent, when air pressure became a meanie to his ears, he cried and cried and cried, kicking and flailing his arms so ferociously. It was heartbreaking.

Two hours after arriving in Bangkok, daddy arrived from New Zealand, happy to see Ty again. It was a well-spent 10 days in Thailand - shopping, eating, sleeping, getting wet (during Songkran, an annual water festival), meeting the millions of relatives on dad's side and visiting places. Ty loves shopping, cause shopping means sleeping in his comfy stroller for hours! We spent a night in Pattaya and had bad diarrhoea after 0ver-eating sweet juicy pomelo. It's funny how everything that happens to me, happens to Ty. I get a rash, he gets a rash. I get diarrhoea, he gets diarrhoea. The trouble with breast-feeding!

Anyway, in short, Thailand is such a beautiful place. Spectacular temples, massive and clean malls (that make our Megamall, one Utama, KLCC, etc look so pathetic!), gentle and terribly polite people, scrumptious food and clean toilets. You know what's so impressive about Thais? How they sell durian with each piece wrapped oh-so-perfectly with greased paper! Everything there is presented so well. Thais do things with such care!

And one thing everyone has to see is the club Route 66. Check out the girls toilet, there's a band playing in there! The coolest powder room ever. Girls lounging around, doing make up, chatting, listening to the live music, big huge mirrors. Not the typical revolting pub toilet. If only I had my camera with me then.

Didn't really take many photos of Thailand itself. Will be back there one day to live so what the heck, couldn't be bothered. Here is a bunch of photos of my little chubbiness. (Almost 6kg already.) He had a great time, having so many relatives there to entertain him.




















Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Oops..(another) car accident!

Ok I will finally admit that I am a terrible driver. Even worse than my sis (sorry Belly!). After a few months of being restricted from driving cause of my big belly, I was finally free to go out on my own. My mum kindly offered to take care of Ty while I went out, eager to go shopping. Overly eager, evidently.

Well, I was driving and came to a junction. Thought it was clear for me to go, but no. Right before my eyes came a Nissan Frontier, ripping the front of my car off. My car was a goner. His car? A tiny scratch on the corner of the bumper!

That was a bad day. No injuries but the thought that if I had gone further into the junction just by a little would mean a horrific end shook me up. I am so thankful Ty wasn't in the car. God really was with me, it could have been so so bad. I guess now that I've got a baby to take care of, I value my life a lot more. Time to be more responsible....groan...