Water Interuption Notice (3rd-4th Feb)

Got this from my inbox. Not sure how true but better be prepared ...

JURUTERA AIR BAHAGIAN
JABATAN AIR
PETI SURAT NO.14677,
88853 KOTA KINABALU, SABAH.

22nd January 2010

To all our esteemed water consumers:

Water Interruption Notice

Please be informed that in order to improve the water production from Moyog Water Treatment Plant, there will be a cleaning and flushing of the raw water pipelines from Babagon Dam to Moyog Water Treatment Plant on 3rd February 2010, As a result, water supply to your areas will be affected. You are hereby advised to stock up water in advance. Details of the interruption period are as follows:

Date : from 8.00 a.m. 3rd February (Wednesday) to 8.00 a.m. 4th February 2010 (Thursday)

Approximate duration : 24 hrs.

Affected areas: Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu, Penampang, Kepayan, Putatan, Petagas, Tanjung Aru, Sembulan, Likas, Kolombong, Inanam, Luyang and surrounding areas.

For those consumers with houses located on high ground or at the end of the distribution watermain, it may take more than 24 hours for the water pressure to be normalized. On behalf of Jabatan Air, we wish to convey our apology for whatever inconveniences that may arise during the interruption period.


JURUTERA AIR BAHAGIAN
JABATAN AIR
KOTA KINABALU

Christmas & New Year Greetings!

Picture by InspredbyGavin

With all good wishes for Christmas and every happiness for the coming year!!

From Alvin, Joyce & Ethan

If you want to see more pics of us by Inspiredbygavin see here, here and here :)

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Family pictures 2009

I've always wanted to take family pictures by a professional photographer ever since the birth of Ethan but have not got the chance to really look into it til my dear friend Glo approached me recently. She asked me if we would like our family pictures to be taken by her...At that instant I was thinking, hey what better time to take family pictures then now especially when Christmas is just round the corner. So without much thinking I said yes!! And soon after we've set a date (29th Nov) and time for the photo shoot. See some of the awesome photos taken by Glo below :)

All photos taken by inspiredbygavin.com

More pictures in my Facebook ;p (photos are still being added...)

FYI, photography has been Glo's hobby for years now but it was only recently (you could read how she ended up with this the idea on her website hehe..) that she has decided to take it to the next level i.e. turning her hobby into her own business.

Good news is, she's currently having a Year End Special Promotion packages for family photos and children party. I think it is one helluva bargain as the prices are really competitive!! I guarantee you that you will not be disappointed with her promotion offers! Trust me, you won't!! You could ask me or Glo directly.

Please do it pronto as her offers only valid til year end. Nevertheless, you can arrange for the pics to be taken between now til end of Feb 2010!!

My lil' musician

Like most kids, Ethan likes music instruments ... including violin which sometimes he will pretend to play when he hears the classical music I put on for baby#2 or certain songs... Drum is another instrument that seems to caught his interest...I initially wanted to get him a set as Xmas gift but we changed our mind after the 'noise pollution' he made at MIL's using a plastic soup spoon & a big empty water container a couple of months ago...don't think it will be a good idea especially when baby #2 arrives ;p He will also pretend to play piano on MIL's dressing table or on a box at times.

At home, he only has his guitar and xylophone as music instruments but he broke his guitar a few weeks ago. We intentionally did not want to get him a new guitar as a lesson for him so that he will know how to appreciate and look after his toys. But he is one lucky boy as he got a special surprise from one of this grand uncles from hubby's side two Sundays ago. His grand uncle Edward & family just got back from a family vacation and bought Ethan a really cool guitar from Cebu...and guess what, not only did Ethan got a new guitar but he was able to play with 2 other guitars belongs to his lil' Aunt Katherine and another one of his grand uncle Edward's guitars too! Aren't he lucky?! ;p

Hubby's uncles especially from his mom's side are music incline lot. They love to sing and they can easily form a band. His Uncle Edward is one of them who loves to sing and plays the guitar well and our Ethan has always been a great fan of his :)

Ethan with grand uncle Edward and his brand new guitar...unlike his broken toy guitar, this one looks like a real guitar with real guitar strings and all :)

Notice the way he holds the guitar...not so pro yet eh ;p

This cute pink guitar belongs to his 11 yrs old Aunt Katherine...see how he holds the guitar now...looks more like a pro hehehe...
Another small guitar belongs to his grand uncle Edward...

And what happened after all that hard work of plucking 3 guitars??... a blistered finger of course which Ethan thought was a sticker 'stucked' on his index finger though he did said 'pain, pain' when he showed it to us hehehe...and for the past 1 week although it is almost completely healed...he will still repeatedly 'report' to us about his lil' wound so we can blow and kiss it better ..such a 'drama boy' eh ;p

X'mas Carols by Candlelight

Joining big bro & family, we attended the 10th Annual Amazing Carols by Candlelight at Sutera Harbour in aid of Pusat Kebajikan Good Shepherd. Luckily the afternoon rain stopped before the event started otherwise we would have cancelled our plan. Anyway, overall the event was okay. Despite being a lil' bit too warm to my liking under the huge tent, we enjoyed the Xmas Carols. Ethan of course was more interested with the surroundings whereby as usual, poor hubby had to keep an eye and chase after him most of the time. Ethan did sit still or stay put for about an hour or so though. That's when I finally bought him the little fan with the 'lighted' wordings on it and when everybody were asked to light their candles for the special candlelight carolling moment ;p

Big bro & his family

Finally he is able to stay put...

We thought this curious cat would not notice the carollers on the stage ;p

Resting time for hubby as Ethan finally sat still on his lap...

BUT not for long...here him starting to roam around again...

Fun filled public holiday

During the recent Hari Raya Haji break, we brought Ethan for a day out at 1Borneo to let him enjoy himself at the Boo Boo Land. Enjoy he certainly did, but not so much at the Boo Boo Land but more at the arcade games area where he sat for about an hour just playing with the car racing games. Of course we didn't spent a single cent as for now he is happy enough with just toying with the car wheels and 'changing' the gears ;p We did managed to coaxed and tricked him to go down to Boo Boo Land for some fun rides but to him it wasn't as fun as the car racing games so we were finally able to bring him out from there.

We then proceed to a pet shop on the first floor which caught my attention a few days earlier as they have a few dogs either inside the cage or running freely in the shop. I thought it would be interesting for Ethan to see those cute doggies and of course his mummy is fond of dogs too so why not kill two birds with 1 stone eh ;p He got so excited with the black poodle (I think its a poodle..) that he squealed in delight in his high pitched voice whenever he comes near it and he kept chasing after it too!!...Besides these two places, he enjoyed going up and down the escalators and wandering around the shopping mall. Poor hubby had to keep up with him :)

30 months

Ethan turns 2 years 6 months today. Although he doesn't really speak in complete sentences yet (except for some like 'keep the hat', 'keep there', 'open the door', 'what's that sound', 'who's that', etc) but he has shown improvements on his vocabs. He is able to identify more animals/objects/ shapes on his flash cards or books. In terms of colors he does seem to be able to tell red, blue, green and yellow although he gets confuse at times ;p He doesn't really know how to properly count his 123 but at least he seems to be able to differentiate between 1 and 2 now.

He is also able to 'sing' though not in full but rather bits and pieces of the songs or wordings of a few songs such as Twinkle-twinkle little star, O McDonald, London Bridge, ABC song, Itsy bitsy spider, and Row row row your boat and other songs that catch him fancy or any of his favourite cartoon programmes.

Food wise, he does take his vege and meat/fish but he can also be pretty choosy. He usually takes his fruits i.e. grapes (his fave), banana, papaya while having his lunch/ dinner which is unusual as most children or even adults will take only after meals hee... the cut fruits also serve as a bait to get him to eat his rice hehe.. He still loves only his milk (180ml 3-4 times/day) and water (which can be a lot!). He will however take a sip or two of other drinks but that's about it which I have no complain ;p For breakfast, he either takes Jacob biscuits, plain white/butter bread or buttered toasts, cheese, mini hash brown, noodles or porridge. I used to give him hard boiled eggs but he doesn't seem to like it now. We're grateful that he takes his vitamin c (crushed and with a bit of water on a spoon) and Scott Emulsion (original flavour okay...) daily without fail. When he got on the weighing machine recently the reading shows 17kg (with his sandal on though) !!??