Chaos in a little bundle

...and this is my little munchkin with his Chester Bennington (of Linkin Park) hairstyle...


and his Enrique Iglesias pout...


having a bit of a snooze, oblivious to all the aunties who were going ga-ga over him...


Kanchan says we should try to marry him and Arissa off but I think being a good 18 months apart, they're more likely to be partners in crime. Goodbye civilised conversations, goodbye full, hearty meals where we parents get to chew/swallow properly and welcome chaos!

:)

Anish Neel Perera

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bank balance smaller, home happier, clothes dirty, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.

It is with much joy I announce the arrival of Anish Neel Perera, borne out of 40 weeks of gestation, 15h of induced labour and a final C-section.

At 3.30pm today, Anil calls me sounding so mellow, "Na, my son is so handsome!!" Well, that's not hard to imagine, coming from a handsome couple like them, but more importantly, he can now put to good use the romper he proudly bought on the weekend that says

IF YOU THINK I'M HANDSOME, CHECK OUT MY DADDY

To the cheeky monkey whom I've been waiting so long for, Godma will now go over and bite your 3.5kg buns. Ciao!

S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G it out

For the uninitiated MEN out there (single, married, divorced, gay, straight dll.), these points system is EXACTLY right. Print this out, stick it to your fridge door and you'll find that you'll get lucky more often (minimum requirement is a score of >+10 in each aspect).

You get a + if you do something nice, a - if you do something stupid and a 0 for doing something totally expected of you. The more brownie points you get, the better your chances of getting laid.

Capeche?

SIMPLE DUTIES
You make the bed (+1)
You make the bed, but forget the decorative pillow(0)
You throw the bedspread over rumpled sheets (-1)

You check out a suspicious noise at night (0)
You check out a suspicious noise, and it is nothing(0)
You check out a suspicious noise and it is something (+5)
You pummel it with iron rod (+10)
It's her pet (-10)

SOCIAL ENGAGEMENTS
You stay by her side the entire party (0)
You stay by her side for a while, then leave to chat with a collegebuddy(-2)
Named Tina (-4)
Tina is a dancer (-6)
Tina has silicon implants (-80)

A NIGHT OUT
You take her to a movie (+2)
You take her to a movie she likes (+4)
You take her to a movie you hate (+6)
You take her to a movie you like (-2)
It's called 'DeathCop' (-3)
You lied and said it was a foreign film about orphans (-15)

ENJOY THE BIG QUESTION
She asks, "Do I look fat?" (-5) [Yes, you lose points no matter what]
You hesitate in responding (-10)
You reply, "Where?" (-35)
Any other response (-20)

COMMUNICATION
When she wants to talk about a problem , you listen, displaying what looks like a concerned expression (0)
You listen, for over 30 minutes (+50)
You listen for more than 30 minutes without looking at the TV (+500)
She realizes this is because you have fallen asleep (-10000)

Now WHO says women are complicated...

A Special Mother's Day Gift

...Late on Mother's Day, Arissa pronounced the magical words I've been waiting so long to hear...

::B-A-L-I::

Daddy wanted to do something special for Mummy on Mother's Day because she is always grumpy and complaining about being overworked and stressed so he booked us a trip to Bali.

I don't know what a ple-plane is but Atok & Nenek are always telling me to look at the sky from their balcony and I can see a bird thing flying up high in the clouds. I was very excited about getting on one of those bird things...

...but Mummy spiked my milk so I fell asleep halfway on the flight and didn't manage to explore the inside of the ple-plane much.

We stayed at Bali Dynasty Hotel and had connecting rooms so its fun to keep going back and forth to see Nani and Uncle next door. I got to mess up BOTH rooms too and watch Cartoon Network from the big big big bed.


On the 1st night, we went to Discovery Mall where Daddy and Uncle went ape-shit over all the surfer brands like Quiksilver, Stussy, Rusty and Billabong and disappeared for the longest time. Mummy took me to Starbucks so she could sit down on the couch while I ran around barefoot in the empty place. I heard Mummy tell Nani this is so unlike Singapore, where you literally had to fight to get a place on the couch. The nice coffee lady was so taken by my cuteness that she gave Mummy a free lolli for me- yummm!


Early the next day, we went to the Bali Safari but I fell asleep on the way there because it was an hour journey and it was also my naptime. Daddy put Mummy in a wheelchair (because they dumbly left my pram in the van) so he could wheel us around but it made Mummy look a bit stupid, especially with the brolly my Nani insisted she use to protect me from the sun.


Daddy and Uncle took pictures with some scary looking cats that looked like a stockier version of my cat at home, Oren. They were always growling and biting each other that both Daddy and Uncle became too scared to pet them- what a bunch of wusses! *pah*


Daddy and Uncle also took a picture with a small hairy animal... I thought it was a stuffed toy at first but then it reached out and touched me and I screamed and cried. I didn't like the way it smelled and Mummy was so mean to force me to take a picture with it.


For dinner, we took a taxi to Jimbaran Bay Seafood. Everyone was ooh-ing and aah-ing when we got there..check it out:



I ate a lot of crab and fish and prawns by myself because Mummy said I can make as much of a mess as I want because we're on the sands...


... and besides, she was too busy stuffing her face to give a rats ass!


I got to 'swim' a lot in the bath tub.. (here I am happy as pie):


...and in the BIG pool. I am tall enough to stand in the baby pool and I wished Daddy had bought me the proper arm floats instead of the kiddish tube floats. All the ang moh babies were crawling in and out of the pool while I had to stick close to Daddy and try not to swallow too much pool water- yuck.


We went to some temple place called Tanah Lot where Mummy was again doing her ooh-ing and aah-ing



..but I much prefer to look at the big snake that was on the grass. I think Nani said its called a python.


Late one night, Mummy & Daddy thought it would be fun to get on a horse carriage...


...so they dragged me and Nani and Uncle along.


And just as I got very comfortable in Bali, Mummy said "Arissa, let's take a ple-plane today ok?" and I missed Atok & Nenek so much I nodded. So we packed up, took a few last pictures and went to Ngurai Rah Airport.


I think Mummy spiked my milk again because I fell asleep the moment we got on the plane and didn't wake up until we arrived in Singapore.

So that wraps up our first family holiday :) Mummy claims she is more tired looking after me than before the holidays but I know she is happy because she is always singing under her breath.



Talk later!

Luv,
Icha