note: I seriously have no motivation to blog, am so lazy to write & upload photos YET i kept taking photos. not knowing what to do with these photos & not gonna rely on FB to store them, i’ve no choice but forcing myself to save them up here 
So this is going to be a photo-heavy post !!
My dearest anak bongsu: mommy’s wishing that you’ll grow up healthily, happy & be a good boy. You’ll forever be the sweetest & dearest sunshine in the family. I might have long for a girl initially but from the bottom of mommy’s heart, there’s nothing i would do to change a thing now, you just meant to much to mommy!!
All of us love you so very much 
In his birthday suit from UK, courtesy of his 3rd yi-yi who has very good taste with fashion !! But yi-yi, my mommy knows all my beautiful clothes will soon pass down to Naythan, your baby boy *blek*
He is currently at his terrible 2 stage …. i’m lost where to begin. People has been commented how angelic he used to be, but guess they were too early to conclude. Wait till they have a chance to see how monsterous he can be of late, they’ll probably suffer a heart attack
I must confess that having 2 monkey kor-kors in his life almost made it impossible trying to keep him away from picking up the ‘bads’ !! I had been trying so badly to get things in control yet sadly to say there’s only so much that I could do. This little fella has been screaming, yelling & shouting a lot esp when he was in a battle with the kor-kors. Not that the kor-kors were not giving ways to him but this fella just wanted “everything” that was in his kor-kors’ possession. I can see, it can be pretty annoying for the kor-kors when this little monster kept disturbing & invading their life. And bet any mom knows how challenging it is to talk & explain to a 2 years old at this stage.
We just have to keep showering him with lots of love (limiting his unreasonable demands) to reduce his thirst for attention
See the monsterous cheeky face who bullied the 7 years old cousin sister at his Ah Kung’s house 
And here the cheeky fella insisted to sit on his toy pram :)
Sean kor-kor fulfilled his demand & pushed him around in his toy pram
Various cheeky expressions during CNY at Alor Setar
kakak putting on socks for the master prince, ready for our CNY mass at St. Michael church, Alor Setar.
again in his R-Lauren blouse from L.A. courtesy of his 3rd yi-yi
Having lots of fun with natures at FIL’s brother’s house at an estate in Jabi.
Bonding time with paternal courins during CNY
Concentrating at a CNY MTV …. he’s particularly sensitive with & love music & dance movements
on the loose at Ah Kung’s house compound, love to see his enjoyment over the freedom
24/1/2012 (2nd day of CNY)
We got a cake from Secret Recipe Alor Setar mall & had a birthday song singing & cake-cutting session with family members from his daddy’s side. The basic cream black forest cake was polished off instantly. The little boy enjoyed rendering the birthday song & love eating spongecake very much.
02/02/2012 ~ Monday
Back to KL on his actual birthday 2/2/2012, daddy bought a chocolate cake from the famous RT Pastry House. It was our first time trying the cake after hearing lots of raves around. We’ll definitely be back to try more of their selections.
Little guy was thrilling over the birthday song, candle & cake again :D
a shot with queen of the house 
Finally a proper one from dad’s camera…..and not from mommy’s iphone, lol
Initially I was only planning to invite my parents & sibings family to our place for a small do over the weekend to share the joyous occassion (since the paternal side has one session, it’s only fair that the maternal side should have one too, lol) But the date clashed with the Lai’s clans annual dinner. So the plan was postponed. Elder sister at the sametime suggested to host an open house at her place, so I thought I might as well co-joined my party with hers since sister & I intended to invite the same group of guests, i.e. Lai family members which could made up to 6 tables of 10 pax, if full attendance is achieve. But much to our relief, there were only about 60% attendance, that’s still about 30-40 pax in total ….. still pretty big a crowd to cater to, no ??!!
And YOURS TRULY was the master chef on that day, lol
04/02/2012 ~ Saturday
Birthday boy …. a very happy one
reason for choosing sister’s place was bcoz hers is a corner unit with a big garden for the kids to run
the joyful & happy grandparents with the 2 youngest latest addition to the family
see how big the fully breastfed baby on granny who’s 6 months V the skinnier baby on grandpa who is 8 months old, lol :D
So what did the master CHEF planned for the day to cater to 40 pax of hungry eaters?? I only have a pair of hands & thank god I have a good helper in the kitchen too.
The host i.e. my elder sister is absolutely helpless with cooking.
So i only delegated some easy to prepare dishes for her :
- green salad with sesame & thousand island dressing;
- steam sausages;
- assorted fruits;
- sister ordered fried meehoon, curry veggies, vegetarian char siew & siew ngor from a vegetarian stall at Putri Mart market;
Yours Truly prepared the followings :
( note: when need to cater for a big crowd, can’t cook anything that require special skills. all the dishes have to be easy to prepare in bulk & shouldn’t takes up a lot of time as i need to ensure varieties of selections )
- japanese vermont curry chicken serve with white rice (photo above on the far left) ;
- cha soba mee;
- simple sushi (which turned out consumed lots of my time, big mistake) ;
- fried chicken wings (adopted my MIL secret recipe which I learnt recently) ;
- fried some frozen curry puffs & mini popiah (to add on the light snacks selection) ;
mom also cooked a pot of ‘muk yee’ braised pork ;
- herbal tea eggs ;
- french fries ;
for desserts :
- barley foo chuk with gingko sweet soup ;
- pumpkin & grated coconut kuih;
- colorful konyaku jellies;
some close snapshots of:
herbal tea eggs, adopted idea from my SIL (but certainly not as fragrant & tasty as hers, must practise more)
crispy fragrant chicken wings
easy peasy to prepare cha soba / noodle serve with crispy seaweeds… good only if u r a fans of it, many of my yee mah ku cheh never eaten this before, the way they serve this was simply hilarious enough lol
no skills required … just bought the bean curd bags, prepared the sushi rice & stuff … stuff & stuff but guarantee yummy
if you want colorful jellies, then yes a lot of effort required esp with different fruit fillings. this was prepared a day ahead.
and here’s another proud production, the pumpkin grated coconut pudding. im a big fan of kuih with sago-like texture & this is one that closely explains what i like. My 2nd attempt & it got so much better this time. Simply delicious. Since i still have some coconut milk in the fridge, i’m going to make this again very soon
the little guy licked my sushi bowl clean as he has never eaten such a yummy rice before ( ‘moi’ accidently put too much rice vinegar & sugar, lol)
As time limits the production of sushi, it became my limited edition menu & were polished off very fast…. haha
Sister & I were SO afraid that we might not have enough food for the guests but it was OK, everyone was well FED…. what a relief
Finally here’s a photo of the little guy with yet another birthday cake for him !!
Pre-ordered the bee character cake from Secret Recipe again. weighing at 2kg. with such cute & fine decor, it only costs me RM135….i reckon it’s very reasonable a price! cake base was a rich moist mud chocolate cake. unfortunately the cuteness & prettiness of the cake last only a while. the moment these fondants hit the tastebuds, it was horrendous esp for sugar freak people. I must say it was way too sweet to really appreciate the cake :(
the grand uncles & aunties gave baobei a play tent & it has since became his new nest
not forgetting lots n lots of other toys to add on to his collection.
Be a good boy, little Stuart …. mommy, daddy & kor-kors love you very much
