He Made My Day

Imtiyaz never fails to make a good start to my day whenever he goes out of the car smiling, and waiving goodbye – for school.

I hope he does that more often from now on. He will, however, refuse to greet good morning to his teacher with a firm “No, I don’t wanna say Good Morning to teacher” whenever I casually tell him to, just before arriving. And he did just that.

Lately, he has been asking to go to the zoo again. The last visit was to the Singapore Zoo last March. Maybe I should plan a visit to the Malacca Zoo next. Or Taiping. Or maybe the Hulu Klang Zoo again. The nearest!

The Phone Call

Last night, mom called while I was getting ready for bed. It was the first time mom called me at night – ever since we stayed permanently at the apartment, so I was a little bit nervous. What if she’s not feeling well, or something happened. Me, the worrier. Can’t help it, eventhough I did see her just a few hours before, after picking up Imtiyaz from school.

The story was, my sister’s first bibik (worked with her when Adam was born, 5 years ago) called mom at home. Telling she has been working in Kajang for the last 4 years, and wanting to know whether I (yes, she mentioned me!) would want her to work when her contract expires in January 2009!

My, my… with all the bad lucks I’ve had with maids so far, I am in shock one would suddenly throw herself at me!

Anyway, the maid’s performance was superb when she worked with my sister back then. The only reason her service was discontinued was because towards the end of the 2-year-contract, she misbehaved a little. Maybe not so little. Maybe it was more. She did offer to work for me since back then, but I refused with advice from sister. And I haven’t had Imtiyaz yet, so there wasn’t a desperate need for help from a maid.

Then all the bad luck with maids began. I claimed terkena sumpahan Bibik Munah.

My sister got herself another maid, also as good as her previous.

You see how my sister’s luck with maid is wayyyy much better than mine? I think you took all my luck away la sis…

So now. I am considering, but a lot of things need to be clarified. The process, the maid herself after all these years. (kot-kotla dah tak larat ke kan…)

We’ll see. Maybe my luck with maids is about to change. *grins*

Prediction

I was once told – to predict the height of your child when he’s an adult, is to take his height at the age of 2, and double it up.

So I tried. Imtiyaz is at 99cm tall when he was due for his 2-year-old immunization jab (and he wasn’t really standing straight at that time). So that makes him around 2m tall as an adult.

And today, as I was surfing the net, to entertain myself for a while at the office, I found the Child Height Predictor at Parent Center and this was the outcome :

Your boy will likely be 6 ft. 4 in. at age 18.

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Young men often continue to grow a little past 18 until they reach 21, but their height at age 18 is very close to their final adult height. This prediction is a “best guess” but it’s still just that — a guess. Based on the formula we used* there is a 50 percent chance that your boy’s full-grown height will be within 0.8 inches (above or below) of this prediction, and a 90 percent chance that it will be within 2.1 inches.

But then again, this is just a prediction. Tall or short, fat or thin, does not matter. I hope he has a good heart.

p.s. Just for the fun of it, go to http://parentcenter.babycenter.com/child-height-predictor?intcmp=Nav_Global_Tools_heightpredictor&pn=My%20BabyCenter

The Slip

This morning while queuing at a traffic light before dropping off hubs at his workplace, a motorcycle drove by and slipped. I suspected the road was slippery because they weren’t moving fast at all.

The motorcycle toppled, and the husband and wife on the motorbike almost fell and banged the side of the car. Quite loud I would say. Luckily our car blocked them from falling straight on to the tarred road.

The husband helped the wife up, lifted his hand (to show he’s fine or maybe to apologize) and left. We then saw them stopped a little bit further up - to check for injuries, I reckon.

I hope they are not injured in any way, and to be more careful next time. As for the bang to the side of the car, I haven’t even checked, but it’d be nothing compare to what would happen to those 2 motorcyclist had they had fallen on to the road.

Drive/ride safe everyone!

The New Route (and routine)

I’ve been travelling to work from the apartment for a few days already. Going against traffic makes it so much easier, eventhough at times I do get stuck where there’s intersection to go towards the city centre.

But it has not been awful, and the long drive actually perks me up in the morning. I guess being high up in an SUV makes it less stressful because you can actually see what’s going on in front.

I thank God for that (and everything else too of course!).