Cassandra's Life Blog

It's the holiday season and the whole KL is celebrating. Here's to Merry Christmas (belated) & Happy New Year 2010 !

Christmas celebration is just around the corner. We've managed to get a 7 ft christmas tree this year. While mom is here with us, she and cassie worked together to assemble the tree. yay ! Looking forward for the celebration this year.

This story is created, narrated completely by Cassandra.

The wolf and 2 little hen
Once upon a time, there was a big bad wolf. One day, the wolf was very hungry and he saw two little hen in the forest. One of the little hen is very clever and another little hen can run very fast. One little hen run very fast and hide inside a bush. The big bad wolf cannot find her.

"" pretty normal story here rite ? wait for the twist down here (mom's comment) ""

The other hen is very smart, she wear her sun-glasses, jump inside a care and then she took out the phone and called the police. She speak to the police : "help police, there's a big bad wolf here, we need help, come to the rescue". And so, the police send over a helicopter and rescue the two little hen from the big-bad-wolf.

(the end)


It ended with burst of laughter from all of us (including Cassie). Tis lil' chick never failed to amaze me ! :)

It's common to be spending more time in the car while in KL than Penang. It's usually because the places we wanted to go are usually packed. Here are some picts taken while waiting in the car and/or waiting in the traffic queue.

It's one of those time i get to spend real quality time together. She will tell me her event of the day, stories and what she saw on the bill board. Sometimes we just sing along with the radio or make up new songs, sometimes we just play the story game and best of all, we just loved to be with each other inside the car .... a bit of quiet ...... away from the insanity of the hustle out there.

it's birthday celebration time. This time Cassie asked for a princess jelly cake. it was wonderfully made with multi-layers of Jelly. It's a wonderful change from the traditional cake type princess cake that usually filled with butter-cream.

Of-course, no birthday is complete without present. Her dad bought her a complete barbie playhouse which can be carried in a bag. She loved it so much that she has been spending a lot of time with it.

Happy Birthday lil' chick !

It was a fun-filling-adventure Hari Raya holiday for all of us. All of us including my mom,dad and brother met in KL and we had a blast. we went to the zoo negara, the twin-tower, had lunch at cheras, crabs near my place, famous Raju's roti-canai, amazing peel road's rong-tofu, visiting many uncles and aunties, many many shoppings ..... & you get the pic !

the whole week was so packed that i don't think i can completely describe them all. We even get the chance to celebrate grand-pa's birthday !! Well, i think those smiles on their face says it all :)

Nothing beats the spur of a moment dance on Sunday morning.

Sept 6th 2009.

Both Hubby and i loved to read and so thus Cassie. Her favorite place in the shopping mall is not the toy shop but the book store. As we are exploring new places here,
one of the new things that Cassie fortunate to try out in the city is the different kids club around the place.

The Storey Telling session she joined on Sunday was organized by the book club in conjuction with the British Council. On that day itself, i told cassie about the event and she was hyper excited about it. She waited patiently infront of the book club and she's the 2nd one zoomed into the room. Just like any other lit' gal, she is an attention grabber!

The storytelling session was excellent. Cassie learned some new words, expand her social circle a little bit (we managed to make new friend), get to do a bit of craft, learned new games and further more win prizes. I too, get to pick up some tips and tricks about story telling to children. She was so attentive and participating until you can see her sleepy eyes by the end of the session. She went home and slept for 2.5 hours that afternoon. wow :) must be a lot of brain juice at work.

We've been shuffling PG and KL for the last 3 months and we've decided to find a place in KL since we've been spending more time in KL than PG. There's abundance of places to stay in PJ area, but finding the rite one in terms of location, proximity to work place, school and amenities are not easy.

Anyway, we've settled down here :) we've moved part of our furniture here and all our favourite things :) Of course, the happiest person is Cassie and she's adjusting quite well i must say.

Well, with the new place, means a new life with new schedule, new things to explore, new school to engage in and new routes to learn. All and all, we're pretty excited about the whole experience. It will be a fun and fullfilling adventure for all of us ! :)

I was doing some housekeeping and saw the star-trek DVD collections a couple of nites ago. It has been a while since i run through those DVD and decided to watch them with Cassie :)

Yesterday Cassie asked me about the movie and she said she wants to drive the car because the car is her space-ship. Then i asked her why, she then told me there's this captain in the movie and she is really great. (yes, that's her own word) After that, she just jumped up and down and said : "LIKE ME! ".

For those of you whom are not star-trek voyager's fans, the captain in this series is a woman (Janeway). Her team was thrown into the delta-quadrant in the space and she's determine to find a way home for her whole crew. Her leadership and decision making based on integrity has been the plus of the whole series because that's how voyager is totally different from the rest of the star-trek series. I was inspired by the character's will power, her confidence, can-do attitude and her ultimate negotiation power.

Now, i'm inspired by Cassie's self-confidence. i'm sure when i'm her age, i have total confidence about myself too. In fact for Cassie's case here, she think the janeway character is LIKE her ! :)

So, what makes us lost our confidence ? why is it now that the first answer we gave when someone ask us is 'No' especially when it comes to change ? is it because we have fear and lack of confidence to do it ? Something to think about yeah ?

Well, here's something more to share about self-confidence.

“Don’t get typecast in your own life,” he says. “You cannot assume that somebody can define you. You cannot assume that the other person is right. No matter how they say it to you, no matter with how much force they say, ‘Oh my god, you’ll never make it; oh my god, you’re not bright; you could never do this’—that’s one person. I can’t tell you how many people told me I would never be an actor.” --Henry Winkler.

This morning, as we were about to leave the house and going for breakfast, Cassie walked out the door with only ONE green sock on her right leg. Proudly she asked me : "mom, am i pretty ?". Of course my answer is always supportive and always a big 'YES, you are ! "

Happily, she walked everywhere with her green sock, ignoring others' strange look at her. She doesn't care how other look/judge/comment on her, just want to do her things and do it her way. Isn't this how we should all live our lives ? gutsy and boldly going out with what we want to do instead of cir cum to others judgments ?

Well, that's how i want to live my life and that's how i want her to live hers. Thus, today is the one green sock on right leg day ! and today, i have no intention to change her sock or explain to onlookers ! Go green sock !

we've been eating out lately and Cassie has took part in the food ordering when we're in the restaurant. We usually will let Cassie decide what she want to have for her meal.

Lately, she decided to be our waitress at home. She will bring me a card and ask me what do i want, then she will go to her table, jolt it down in her paper, and then tell me that i've gotto wait a while for my food because she's going to bake it in the oven. (her toy closet) hahaha.

i usually will say i want some juice, and chicken. Then last weekend, she asked me : "hey mom, how about some fun ?" Yes dear, isn't it great if we can order 'fun' from the menu ? :)

Since her flu+fever+food poisoning and etc sickness episodes last month, we've decided to stop sending Cassie to her kindergarten. Well, at least temporary (i thought).

She has many flu episodes ever since she started school. Due to her sensitive nose condition, she gets flu more easily than others and the flu tends to stay with her longer than others too. Because of that, in certain months, she came back with flu, it went on for 2 weeks, then she goes back to school again and the next day, she came back with flu again. Another thing is of-course she lose a lot of weight and i think she is skinny even when i checked the development chart, she is in the 'normal' range.

Anyways, ever since she stop school, things has gone better for her. She sleep better and she doesn't have the flu condition at all (ZERO incident) ! That is of-course the ultimate result we want to achieve.

A lot of ppl has asked if i'm afraid she might lose out in her academic development, some even proposed she goes to 'special' school. Well, i'm too worry about that at all. in terms of continue kindergarten, i think we'll wait and see. most probably, i think we're going to wait till next academic year before we begin the school routine again. Right now, the main focus is trying to boast up her antibodies' strength.

Now that she doesn't have school routin, it's a totally new home-school routine for her. :)

I gave Cassie a book full of blank pages and a pencil to keep her occupied. She carried this booklet wherever she goes. Cassie will scribe whenever and wherever, including to the restaurant, waiting in line at a checkout counter, in grandparent's place and etc.

I run through her book the other day and found some interesting drawings. This is one of the drawing that has a 'story' in it. It's about a girl and a spider. See how the spider is on top of the girls head and the girl is actually in a sitting position ?! :)

The drawing has a familiar thingie to it and i think it's from one of the rhymes she recites :).

Cassie was pretty concern over my bag and handphone. I did explain what happen to my bag and handphone and how the thief took the things. When i told her thief, she look at my with a lot of question marks because she doesn't understand the word thief.
Then i told her it's just like bad guys from the TV, she then said : "O !" and with a concern on her face. Then she asked me : "mom, who's going to help the bag ? " hahaha, she thinks the bag needed rescue.

Later the day, she told everyone about the incident and keep saying that the thief is really bad. Then she turn and ask me about the bag and phone again, i told her they are gone and i don't have any rite now. She then comfort me and said, 'Mom, it's OK. we'll go buy new one for you. What color do you want ?'

oh, sweet sweet Cassie. She knows how to soothe the pain away :)

I was so busy this week and didn't even have time to let Cassie out biking.

She then came out with the idea to wash her bike when i was out watering the plant.

Of course she got herself all wet, but it was still a satisfactory tasks for her. She then jump straight into her bath tub rite after that.

We were out for a dinner yesterday. Half way through the dinner, Cassie asked me to feed her. She wanted me to cool down her food by blowing into her bowl. Just caught the flu, i told her i cannot do that because i'm sick.

Then, she turned to her dad and she asked : "dad, are you sick ?"
her dad answer : 'nope'

Cassie then said : "dad, can you cool down my food and blow into my bowl ?"
of course, her dad obliged...

hahaha ..

Cassie woke up and started drawing this morning. I left her doing it on her own while i fuss over my morning routine (brushing teeth & etc).

When i check with her after that, i saw this. what do you think is this ?

We were at town visiting a friend and he recommend us lunch in Harvest-In cafe at the irrawady road. I didn't bring my camera along and the photos are taken through my cell phone.

Food are reasonably priced and thus kind of expect the smaller portion. Liked the decoration, i think it's kind of chic. we ordered the chicken mushroom soup, the chicken tikka masala and spagetti with minced chicken (for my weak stomach).

OK, i'm not a big fan on superstitions but when it comes to Cassie, it seems like there are some superstition pattern occuring to her. There are many different superstitions but for Cassie, it's usually about her weight or height in general. She's now 3 years and 3 months old and this is already her third time admitted to hospital. It's almost a yearly event now ... :(

We went out and have lunch with our friends on Monday, then i commented said that no matter how much Cassie eat during meal time, she cannot seems to gain weight anywhere on her body but her tummy only.

On Wed 4am, Cassie woke up and started vomit :( . Note that i said started because then she continue to vomit almost every 2.5 hrs later. 4am, 6.30 am, 9 am and go one ... It was just aweful, i sent her to the clinic as soon as it's open (about 9.30 am) and the doctor presribed some medication to control her condition. I asked the doctor said how will she consume the medication orally especially since she's vomiting, the doctor assured me not to worry and said the medication is to control that and she should be better soon.

OK, i gave her the medication and she was so tired that she went to sleep soon after. After about 1 hour, she woke up and vomit again. This time, it's about 8 hrs since she consumed any fluid and we decided to send her to the hospital. In the hospital, doctor diagnosed her having stomach flu due to virous and gave her some injection. Also the doctor asked me to feed her 'salty' food especially crackers.

Cracker because the food is salty and it will hold on fluid so that she won't get dehydration. when she vomit, her stomach is empty and there will be a lot of 'wind'. She still need to drink water and eating crackers will help to retain the water. But no glucose or any sugary food, this is mainly because the sugar will caused her to 'gag' more. So, first tips for any vomit condition, crackers and water.

Well, i tried what was suggested after the injection but her condition didn't improve. So, we have to admitted her to the hospital. I must say she's really brave in all this, didn't really shed tears when injection, she just 'awwwoe' a bit ... She got better during the nite but need to be monitored for another day before she can be discharged. The hospital pediactric ward comes with a playground and when she got better on the 2nd day, she started to made friends. Even when she got the OK to go home from the doctor, she told me she still not feeling well and wanted to stay. haha, things the kids do !!

She's feeling much better now, still on the no sugar no lactose produced diet, but is now home resting. Thank you all for the help, well wishes and phone calls !!