Being a Catholic.......

if you are a reader and subscriber of malaysiakini, you will come across this article. in summary,

The word ‘Allah’ can only be used in the context of Islam and not any other religion, said Deputy Internal Security Minister Johari Baharum.

Asked why a new condition will be imposed on Catholic weekly newspaper Herald when its annual publishing permit is next renewed, the deputy minister said this is to prevent confusion.

“Only Muslims can use ‘Allah’. It’s a Muslim word, you see. It’s from (the Arabic (language). We cannot let other religions use it because it will confuse people,” he said when contacted today.

I wonder if Mr Johari is going to get wikepedia and britannica re-written. I suggest Mr. Johari to be a more glocal Malaysian that is bringing his case to the world, rather than just talking about it in Malaysia.

You can also read the meaning of it at newadvent site.

At 11 months

Ee Shuen has start to recognise things in the book, like butterfly, bird, pig, apple fish, bicycle.

When we laughed, Ee Shuen also follow, " Ha ha! "

She'll crawl to the door, and waved to Mummy, sometimes like saying " Bye!"

She loves to go to the playground.

She will stand without any support sometimes.

adding on (by daddy on 25th of December)

She no longer poo poo into her diapers. She will only do her big one in the red 'tam pui' (hokkien), while reading her books. And while she is doing it she will ask daddy to get another book if she has finished the one she is reading.

Sometime after she wakes up from her afternoon nap, we will find her diapers all dry, and she will do her small one in tam pui when we asked her to. We hope she will be diapers free soon. Diapers are not cheap anyway, costing ~rm1 each, mamy poko XL

Christine Ong's Baptism..... Finally

On 9th of December 2007, after much delay, we have finally got Ee Shuen baptist, she is now officially a Christian, Christine Ong Ee Shuen.

It was a long road to baptism, first of all we had to find a date where everyone is free. Mommy and daddy is always busy, there is always something coming up on the baptism saturday, then we have find a date where po po and e e from ipoh could come and witness Ee Shuen's baptism and finally of course we have a hard time looking for a Christian name for ee shuen, even with baby z's daddy Christian name book, we just could find one that we like. After much time spent thinking and looking we finally settle down with Christine, and we like the meaning of the name as well, Christ's follower :).


After days, weeks and months of looking for a suitable day, we finally found a date where everyone could make it, that is Dec 9th at Church of the Holy Name of Jesus at balik pulau.


Father Henry praying over Christine, looks like Christine is more interested is in the book Father Henry is holding. Christine's God Mother on the left....


Christine Ong.... I baptist you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.


Everyone in white.......


Family photo after the ceremony ended, looks like the children found something interesting on the right.....

Gong gong, Popo & Ah Yi from Ipoh

popular words

These two days, Ee Shuen always says," Pa pa", " Ma " ( for Ah Mah, but sometimes when she call for mummy she also say this ), " Ma ma" ( for Mummy ). When Mummy response her back, she'll repeated the same word again and again and she'll laugh at the same time! ( maybe she's thinking how come Mummy is so long winded ).
She will also come to you and kiss you now!

Can you see my teeth?

Ee Shuen has 4 ( 2 from the top & 2 from bottom ) + 2 teeth ( 1 from top & 1 from botttom )now. Four completely come out & two still growing. We suspect there are more coming out, as she has been waking up frequently this few nights, grinding her tooth and gums.

Day at the park... at Sunrise Garden

Every evening... 5-6pm ish.... ah kong would bring ah lerk to the park.... at sunrise garden to play with his buddy ah wei. However these days after ah wei maid return home, ah wei has stop going to the park, so does that means now ah lerk (or ah yek) doesn't have a buddy at the park any more? Don't worry ah lerk now has a new buddy.....


Ee Shuen in action

with ah ma and ah kong


and after a long day at the park.... at sunrise garden, what would a baby request for? of course a hug from ah ma......