I haven’t been blogging for a really long time. Blame it on the job pass downs, and then job transition into a new place. A holiday smacked right in between. The no-laptop-provided policy, thus lessen my time for social networking as I depended heavily on free wifi and hubby’s data plan. Plus at home, most of my time are occupied by Ian, and others are spent sleeping. If ever there was a chance that I did not fall asleep, I might be chilling while watching Vampire Diaries, drooling over Damon Salvatore, or catching up on Grey’s, ogling at the good looking doctors and marveling at the relationship between Christina and Meredith.
Ever since starting the new job here, I felt like I have lost touch with most of my friends. The greys and the blues hardly mix, or maybe the policy that bans all forms of internet chat made sure of this. Hence, at times I think friends start to have the feelings that I suddenly dropped into a black hole on mother earth. Messages on fb are replied late, sms-es on phones also are replied late, don’t even mention whatsapp or viber. Best way to catch me now, is through IM. That’s the most real time as you can get.
Anyways, some of them are curious enough to mask their questions under the pretext of “how is your new working place?” instead of the “do you regret your decision?”
My answer, has always been “it is a different place, but I am adapting”, which is translated into “no, I do not and I won’t regret”.
The way I see things, once I decide on something, then I shall look forward and make it better instead of harping on the what-has-beens. Why live reliving the past when you can create better memories?
The undeniable fact is that, this is a different company. It is a different place. There is no space for me to regret my being here, but it takes a lot of adjusting. For instance, no laptop policy. No café in my building. No kooperasi to buy snacks. And cars reigns over pedestrians. Other than that, I am still discovering the perks of this place. It is very quiet here, and everyone works late. I find that a little disturbing. Haha…
Other than that, I like the fact that it is small, and well kept. Facilities are good too. Benefits are about the same, except the thumbs up on maternity package. But today, I am not going to be talking about my work place. Main reason to blog here is to jot down some notes on Ian, lest I forget them in the future.
Ian has grown tremendously, especially height wise, as opposed to toddlers his age, or those older than him. He is smarter and cheekier as time passed. And I fell more and more in love with him, that at times I felt I could not love him enough as a mother. He gets so amused watching his tv shows, that I am contented just sitting there watching the expressions on his face at times. More often than not, I sit together with him, with my arms around him, and his papa calls us BFF. 
Yesterday, I taught him how to peel off the garlic skin. He took to it like a pro. So gung ho to complete his task. Of course he tend to miss out the thin layer, which stuck to the garlic, but I clean that up after him. Most of the time he got the big pieces off. And was happily doing it.
And I also trained him to throw his diapers in the dust bin. And he’s learning that well too.
Apart from that, to throw his dirty laundry in the laundry bag.
And he reads every night (unless he is too tired, I normally don’t skip this ritual), and takes evening walks around the block with his dad.
He likes to be cuddled, always asking me to “bao bao” (it means carry in mandarin), and said “pa-pa” (scared in mandarin) whenever the dogs bark.
He now talks in simple sentences that sometimes makes no sense. Haha..
And whenever I tuck him in, he likes me to put my arms around him. Normally he sleeps under my armpit. Lol… sometimes I teased him, by purposely sleeping with my back to him. He will call me and tried to turn my body over instead. And then take my hand and wrap it around his body.
And whenever he reads, and sees strawberries, sometimes he play pretend. He will use his hand, pick up the strawberries from the book and pop one into his mouth and laugh. Such is the animated young mind of his, it amuses me to no end.
Oh ya, whenever we are out, he is so obsessed with vehicles! Truck, car, motorbike, plane, lorry, bicycle, and he repeats whatever he sees. And he can’t pronounce bull dozer properly yet, so it was funny hearing it. Lately, he caught on to our swear words, “oh shit!” and says them whenever he watches cartoons. For example if the car crashes in the movie, or someone got whacked, he goes “oh shit” and I went “oh no!” and exchanged look with hubby. So I tried to say “oh no” and “uh uh” nowadays and he seemed to go with that instead. But the other day, he surprised me with another “oh shit” again. Oh well…I guess this kinda things, takes time.
We tried talking to him like an adult at times, and the other night I was telling Ian off, when hubby told me to cut it. And then I grumbled jokingly to Ian, “you see, now papa don’t even let me nag you” and made a face. 
Hubby went “aiyo, I did not say you cannot nag him… etc”
Hehe… yea, that’s me. Always trying to guilt hubby. One of my favorite tricks :p
I love my kid very much, and it is hard to talk to someone who is childless about it, because they never get you no matter what. So I can only wait till one day when my friends have kids, and then finally they will get my drift.
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