(to his grandfather)
Zayden: Ye Ye! Good night! Harg!
(hugs exchanged)
Zayden: Kees!
(kisses exchanged)
Zayden: Mama! Good night! Harg!
(we hug)
Zayden: Kees!
(we kiss)
Me: Love you!
Zayden: Lob yew!
Me: Take care!
Zayden: Tak care!
Me: Sweet dreams!
Zayden: Shweet dreem!
(runs back to grandfather)
Zayden: Ye Ye! Tak care! Shweet dreem!

Aww *hearts*

Happy Birthday, my baby Zayden!

Happy Birthday to you, too, Zefeng!

This morning, his Ah Ma asked him, “Did mosquito bite you last night?”

He pointed to the bump on his hand.

Yes, he knows what a mosquito bite is

It was pretty easy to entertain people on Saturday since there was a wide screen TV and a home theater system. All we needed to do was pop a DVD in and hey presto!—people are entertained.

Totally into Avatar

Since Guan had to entertain his friends and his parents, their relatives, I just made sure that there are enough chairs, that people have taken their food from the buffet and making sure that everyone has a drink (or two). Inititally, when some relatives and friends came early, Zayden was pretty cheerful and socialized. But as the night went on and more people came, the crowd became a little too overwhelming for him and he clung onto me every now and then.

(While going through my photos, I realized that I am missing photos from my sister’s camera so there are a lot of photos that I can’t add to this post. I guess there will be another post on this event.)

Really yummy cake!

Lighting the candle

As the birthday song was sung, he got all happy and clapped along.

A few days prior to this celebration, Guan’s father tried to teach Zayden how to blow out his birthday candle. It wasn’t successful so on that day, we coaxed him to attempt to blow. As we were encouraging him, “Go on, Zayden. Blow the candle. Remember how to blow?” He suddenly stuck out a finger and extinguished the flame!

Everyone was so shocked! I quickly checked his finger but it seemed fine. In fact, he looked like he was about to cry with everyone’s outburst

Cutting the cake

Having his first taste

Yup, he loves cake

On Sunday, Guan, Zayden and I went over to my old home at noon to help decorate the house. I have to say I was rather surprised because I did not expect my parents to actually decorate! On my first birthday I remember not having any balloons nor streamers/banners hung up around the house. Grandparents really spoil their grandchildren, eh?

(After the party, my mom insisted that I should take a few photos of the decorations. It wasn’t much. But, still.)

Zayden was actually rather cranky because he didn’t nap. So when most of the guests arrived, he was napping away

My cousin’s kid, Cheyenne with Nicole

Cousins and second cousins

My sister with Dylan (Cheyenne’s brother) and Yoda

My family (minus my dad who’s the photographer) with my grandmother

My friends Tarmidzee and Li Lin

(Um, yes. He doesn’t really like to wear clothes.)

With Joel

At the end of the day, Zayden had a lot of presents.

Left: my side; Right: Guan’s side

We decided to let him open one

“Ooh, I wonder what’s the biggest gift like?”

“Thanks for helping me Daddy!”

“It’s a Winnie the Pooh airplane!”

“Awesome!”

Due to the size of the gift, Guan and I initially thought it was a car. But since Guan’s in the airforce, my cousin got him the airplane. Sweet, ain’t it?

Did I forget to mention that Zayden started walking?

Looking at cute little girl items from this Etsy store just makes me wish for a girl sooner than I’d like! Though I wouldn’t dress her up in pink or over frilly dresses and such, the images from the store just makes me want to stare and dream

The weekend was an exhausting one since there was a double celebration for Zayden Asher’s first birthday Here’s a sneak:

Admittedly, when I was a young girl, (yes, I was once a young girl) I did dream that I could be a little fairy girl. Not like Tinkerbell though; she seems bratty. A fairy with blue wings, a silver crown and a blue dress.

Yes, I guess I was girly when I was a kid.

It’s pretty good and I really wished there is such a thing as Trapar waves so I can ref in the air

I’m starting on an old show, but it’s new to me since I’ve never heard of it before. Fawlty Towers has been making me laugh out loud so far (even though I’m on the first episode).

Invites for Zayden Asher’s first birthday party has been sent (being the tech-y person, I texted message instead of sending tangible invites) and I’m feeling a little excited now

In our last meet-up (more than a year ago), Rey was telling me about this awesome anime that I should totally watch. That anime was Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

It was only a couple of weeks ago I managed to get the whole thing so I started watching a couple of episodes on Monday and finished the rest yesterday. Yes, I watched 25 episodes yesterday. Like whaaat?!

To be honest, I wouldn’t have picked this and followed it through. I was more of a Fullmetal Alchemist and BLEACH fan (although I haven’t followed the latter in a really long time). But when Rey told me most of the storyline and what happened in the show, I couldn’t help but catch some of his enthusiasm.

It’s a pretty good and short anime (not like those that have over 200 episodes, always littered with lousy fillers) about human evolution.

From wiki:

Gurren Lagann takes place in a fictional future in which human beings have been forced under Earth’s surface and live in isolated subterranean civilizations. These “villages” have no contact with the surface world or other villages.

Giha Village, one of the underground villages, regularly experiences earthquakes; because these earthquakes damage infrastructure, the village must constantly extend deeper into the earth—individuals relegated to this task are known as “Diggers”. Giha Village is the home of Simon, a fourteen-year-old digger who was orphaned when his parents were killed in an earthquake. Although Simon is respected by the village elders as the best of the diggers, he is ostracized by his peers. Simon discovers a special drill key deep in the ground and is soon recruited by an eccentric fellow orphan and friend named Kamina into his group, the “Gurren Brigade”. Kamina dreams of the surface world, which he once visited as a child, though he had to return home as he was too young to survive there.

Recently, while chatting online, he was telling me about another awesome anime—Eureka Seven and I started watching it today. At the moment, I’m in the 10th episode

I’m still trying to figure out the anime but you can read it up on wiki. What sort of sparked my interest was that Rey mentioned they surf in the air. They surf in the air! How cool is that?

He also mentioned that the female protagonist, Eureka, reminded him of me

Okay, back to Eureka Seven

Admittedly, I (somehow) do notice pretty girls more often than cute guys.

As I was browsing through my Google Reader, I came across a post which led me to this shop called ban.do; yes, I was attracted to the model who carried the accessories rather well.

This was the first photo that caught my attention though I do not like the accessory.

A really sweet look (that I will never be able to pull off). This particular piece is not really my thing either.

But this—gosh—this totally got me. Yes, I got it.

Uh, yes, that was all.

On a side note, Nicole and I went to watch the first qualifying round for the Women’s Gymnastics (Artistic) at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) held at Bishan Sports Hall. It was really cool. Now we regret that we can’t watch the finals live since it cost quite a lot

More on the YOG later, perhaps. Good night

Not until I heard this song again on the radio today. And I totally related to the lyrics.

You can watch the video here. (And, because it’s Eminem, there is explicit contents.)

(Oh, gosh! I just watched the video! Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan stars in it!)

(Not like I’m a fan of either, but, still, wow!)