Family......

Mummy was showing me photographs of so many people. Mummy said that they are part of my family, and are the ones who love me very much. Now that I know how to call "Ah Mah", Mah Mah, "Da Dee", "Ma Mee" and "Ti Ti", I am pressured to learn so many more. There are others like "Yeh Yeh", "Ah Ku", "Ah Kim", "Ku Ku", "Ku Cheong", "Ko Ko", "Chie Chie"... See what I mean? Don't you agree it's not an easy task?

Visit to Aquaria

Wah, daddi and mami very free-ah these few days, after the beach trip they took me to see ...iish (fish). Here am I on the way to a place called Aqua-ria, or daddi says the Happy Aquarium in Kay ell See See.


Wah, so many swimming ..iish, hmmm as I remember the only time I ever see ...iish is when Ah-mah comes back from the market and normally they are lying very still . . .

Beach Todds

Daddi and Mami took me to a far away place this weekend called Kuan-tan. Its the best coz it had beach, sand, surf and sun . . . weeee, just love the water and sand. Definitely turning into a beach bum, now where is my surf board . . .

Faces of Ben Ben

Hey, no more pixs . . . or else














I will roooaaarrr at you . . .

Ben doing his Lion impression ~daddy~

"Pirates" of the Caribbean

Arrrgh me matey's, tis my new sword . . . Ok not much of a sword coz it's made out of a long balloon. Mummy says these things are too violent for me, but hey I am boy 'K . . .

Well if the cap doesn't fit ...

Either the head is too small or the cap is too big . . .

Mozzie carnage

See what one mozzie can do . . .

Sun Sea and Surf at Pangkor

Hiyee, dadi and mimi took me to Pangkor Island recently on a holiday. Boy do I love the beach, especially making mud pies . . . hee hee hee, picture to prove it

Finally...Finally

Hooray!! I've finally managed to say "MI MI". Yeh!! Mi Mi doesn't need to pressure me any more. I've managed to call Mi Mi since 2 days ago. Am still practising hard.... but.... Haiyah... So kacang putih. ..... "MI MI".......

Mummy says: Yes!! Finally.... Am so proud of him.

Pressured......and Desperate

I'm trying...I'm trying..... Look how hard i've tried.

Mummy has been asking me to call her "Mummy" or "Mi Mi", but I just can't. I can call "Ah Mah" (my favourite), "Di Di" (daddy), "Sheee" (Kakak Sri), "Ti Ti" (Tobin Ti Ti), "Yeeee" (My aunty - 'Law Yee') BUT I just can't call "Mi Mi". I just don't know how to call "Mi Mi". It's so hard.

Can somebody please teach me? I don't want to disappoint my Mi Mi.

Birthday (again . . . )

Not mine but daddy's, but I am confused, see daddy is so much bigger than me, why is he still celebrating his first birthday?

Hilltop Holiday......

Daddy, Mummy and Ah Mah brought me to this place which was very cold. So many familiar faces. Saw Ah Ku Jaimie, Nicolas koko, Ashley che che and many other uncles and aunties from church. Saw Kai Yeh too.

Later on, Daddy brought us to somewhere very beautiful and colourful. Sat on a horse which moved slowly. I thought horses would move faster.


Note: Went to Peacehaven, Genting for a church camp. During break time, we went to the Indoor park in Genting Highlands.

Titi Tobin

Titi Tobin is my cousin. Mummy said Titi Tobin is still a baby. Growing big and strong.

Nag..Nag..Nag

Mummy has been nagging alot lately. She'll say.. "Ben Ben, big boy already. You must learn to obey mummy and daddy" or "Ben Ben, big boy already. You must tell when you want to poo poo" or "Ben Ben, big boy already. You must take your potty when you want to shee shee" .... and the list goes on and on and on.

What do i do? I will only respond by smiling to confuse her . Heh...heh...heh.......

What have I been up to.......

It has been more than a month since daddy and mummy blogged. I have no idea what everyone has been up to. Busy, busy, busy. That's all i hear.

As for me, I have been happy. I have been going to many many places for the past few weekends. I have been busy playing and playing and playing.

Here, see me playing with my choo choo train.....

Tunnels and Barrels (Part II)

Guess what . . . gym class ain't so bad after all, especially when I can go on the slides, burst lots and lots of bubbles and sing really cute songs, like this one

"Row Row Row your boat
Gently down the stream
If you see a crocodile
Don't forget to scream . . . ahhhhhhhhh"

See it teaches me important lessons too, like not to forget to scream when I see a crocodile if ever I am rowing a boat down a stream.

Shoes & more shoes

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I think daddy has developed a shoe craze . . . see the other weekend, daddy bought me three pairs of osh kosh shoes, He was telling mummy excitedly that it was such a great bar-gain . . .

Now I think I have more shoes than cinderella . . .


New Shoes
Originally uploaded by Little Benji

The Fierce look

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Yah, this is what I am going to do when someone tries to bully me next time I when I go to kindies . . . see the "kung fu" stance and pout . . . don't play play OK . . .


Fierce
Originally uploaded by Little Benji

Me and My Guitar

Just like Johnny Cash...... I walk the line
(oh yeah and new pjs too).



Just me and my guitar
Originally uploaded by Little Benji

Catwalk Turn

See me catwalking . . . .

"I'm a model you know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk on the catwalk yeah
I do my little turn on the catwalk"




Ben walked unassisted on 16 May 2006, another milestone for this young boy, Daddy and Mummy is really proud ~Daddy~

Tunnels and Barrels

Mummy took me to this place with lots of aunties and children yesterday. They sang, they bounced, but worst of all, they loved entering into this long dark drain...... it looked so dark and scary. Mummy was trying to persuade me to enter, but no way am I entering. What if I get trapped in there?? Who's going to help me?? So I refused to enter any of these places.

But horrors, daddy and mummy brought one of these tunnels home and have been pushing, pulling, forcing and generally trying to entice, pursuade me to crawl through one of them . . . *sigh* army training meh????

Took Benjamin for his first class at Gymboree, he didn't take too kindly to crawling through any of the tunnels ~Mummy

Birthday Boy . . .

Mummy has been very busy for the past month. Mummy seems to be missing most of the time. I don't quite understand what's going on. Too confusing. When I look around, Kakak Sri would say "Mummy pergi tengok Tobin Titi lah....".


Everytime I get to see mummy, I'll open my arms towards mummy. Please mummy.....take me out ..... Why is she so "kwai kwai she she" Go here and Go there ... Daddy too hmmmm, something must be a foot . . . .

I found out why... On Sunday Jaimie ah ku took me and ah mah to this nice place with lots of tables and chairs and decorated with lots and lots of balloons and which had lots and lots of yummy food. Soon lots of uncles and aunties started arriving from church and everyone was like so happy to see me and wishing me " HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN BEN ".

YUP! you guess right I turned one on 30 April. Take a look at my birthday cake


It's decorated with my favourite cartoon Barney Hee Hee . . . My balloons too had Barney's on it. Guess what Yeh Yeh and Mah Mah, ku ku Jennifer and ku jiong Darren and cousin Joel came all the way from Ipoh to attend my birthday party.

And I got lots and lots of prezzies . . . . Ha Ha Ha . . . Toys, Toys and more toys to play with.


Wow, what a day . . . why doesn't this happen every other day???

Meet cousin Tobin . . .

You must be wondering who the little baby is. Meet my cousin Tobin Sia Xianhua (Uncle Jaimie says that Xian and Hua is one word . . . just like my Jingguo) He is cute rite, but he seems to sleep alot, mummy says I was once like that too. . . hmmm that must be a long time ago.

Please pray for Tobin, Doctors discovered a hole in his heart, pray that God will do a miracle and seal that hole and keep him strong, Thanks ~daddy~

Bottle Holding pressure

Mummy got influenced lately by Jin Yang DiDi's "holding the bottle and drinking" stance. Now ah, I also have to learn how to hold the bottle and drink . . . Mummy says ah "See Jin Yang DiDi only 7 months old can hold bottle and drink on his own already . . . YOU must also do" *SIGH* babies also got pressure . . .

Hospitalised

OK OK . . . I know everybody must be wondering why this Ben Ben never update the blog. I've had a horrible two weeks. First it started with the flu and fever, then the cough, then phelgm . . . which got Mummy & Daddy pretty worried. They took me to 3 doctors (a personal record) . . . and the final one was not good. The doctor said that I had bad viral infection in the lungs and I have to stay in hospital so that I can recover faster. And to make things worst, a "jeh jeh" grabbed me from mummy arms and poke a long sharp needle into my arm *SOB* *SOB* so painful, I cried and cried for mummy . . . and mummy cried and cried for me too. After that the "jeh jeh" tied a board to my arm so that I cannot move my hand and hurt myself. The result . . . see for youself. (note the bandage on my left arm).

*SIGH* The doctor says I have to have medicine pumped into me through the needle and to breath in a horrible foul smelly medicine through a mask, or else I cannot get better. Wah so much for a little guy like me to handle. Fortunately for me, mummy and kakak stayed with me, and the "jeh jehs" wearing the white and pink uniforms were also very nice.

I am back now but the doctor says that I need to be quarantined for two weeks. *SIGH* no Sunday School and walkies for two weeks.

Walking Action

Daddy & Mummy got me a walker . . . Weee . . . I can now go from one end of the house to another. Daddy says I look like "leong dei goon" (i.e. measuring land official) Ha Ha Ha . . .

Chinese New Year Pixs

Ah finally, ze Chinese New Year pixs . . . Not much of a New Year though, fell ill, had to stay home i.e. Yeh Yeh's house in Ipoh . . . broke out in rashes after one week of fever . . . *Sigh*, but any how, still managed to collect huge ang pows HEE HEE HEE . . .


First Day of CNY, in my new clothes, getting ready to go "pai lin"

See even daddy and mummy are all dressed up . . .

Ma Ma Ma Mum Mum

OK so mummy's Kong-Xi . . . Kong-Xi lesson didn't work . . . . Ha Ha Ha . . . but I have some new words to share with you all . . . its ma ma ma mum mum . . . very useful when I want food. Mummy and Kakak says I very "manja" ever since I came back from Ipoh, probably influenced by cousin Joel. Daddy is not very happy though, he says I only know how to call ma ma and not pa pa. Don't worry daddy, let me get the hang of ma ma mum mum first then I will start on the pa pa pa pla-y sta-tion 2 . . .

Ben Ben's first words ma ma ma mum mum, was reportedly first heard on 20 January 2006 ~daddy~

OK what's so funny

See the other day, don't know what happened, but Daddy and Ah mah kept on laughing . . . . I was looking around to see what they were laughing at, nothing mah . . . but still the laughing continued . . . "kek kek kek . . . so funny-lah boy . . . " daddy said

Hmmm, are you laughing at me . . .

Couldn't help laughing at Ben Ben's "halo" ~daddy~

Am All Confused . . .

For the past month, mummy has been teaching me to say "Mum...Mum....Mee....Mee....Mummy" but I refused. Now, mummy is asking me to say "Kong-Si....Kong-Si". I don't even understand what that means. Worst of all, mummy has been torturing me......or rather, forcing me to put my hands together and shake them. She keeps saying "Boy....Only 2 weeks left. Must learn already. Otherwise Yeh-Yeh will not give you any hong pow". Can somebody please tell me what this is all about?????

Me no baby no more!!

How ironic. This morning, mummy said to me that she misses the time when I was still a lil' baby. So, she didn't allow me to sit or crawl. Everytime i tried to get up, she would push me down and say "Baby, no...no.... You must lie down. Baby doesn't know how to sit up". When i took my stacking cups to bite, mummy would take it away and say "Baby, no...no.... Baby doesn't know how to hold a cup. Ben Ben good baby. Lie down ok? Let mummy carry you and sayang you"

Sigh.....What is wrong with mummy. Me no baby no more!! Oh...and mummy spoke to me with a funny language. It sounds like "ang-goo ang-goo". What is mummy trying to do to me?

Birthday ticker

Hey can you see the new birthday ticker on my blog. Daddy did it for me, says it helps to keep track how old I am . . . But I just think its rather cute. So as of today I am 7 months, 3 weeks and 1 day old.

Toys Galore

Hmmmm, I have been getting lots of new toys lately, mummy says its Christmas . . . But daddy have been scolding mummy, he says Christmas only happens next week and why is mummy opening all my presents. *Terrible* daddy, can play play mah

Anyway, check out my new toys, mummy got me lots of cups in different sizes, she says it's for nesting and stacking . . . errr what is that? Daddy and Mummy seem to always want to put the cups one on top of the other and I always knock them down . . . don't they know cups are for eating?



Ah, another thing, meet my new bath friend, he floats, he squeks and he is yellow with blue eyes...say hello to Mr. Yellow Duckie. Can get lonely in my bathtub sometimes, now I have a friend to bath with... yehhhh

Ipoh Trip

Guess what??? I went to Ipoh over the weekend. Daddy & Mummy said that Yeh Yeh & Mah Mah miss me alot. I also got to see my cousin Joel. Wah.... He is much bigger than I thought. I really enjoyed myself except for the mozzi bites. Mozzies in Ipoh are small & fast......Sigh.....got 6 bites on my head (2 on my forehead, 1 on my cheeks and 3 at the side of my face....sigh.....)

With Cousin Joel
Originally uploaded by Little Benji.

Big Boy Already....

I'm 7 months old today...... and the first thing that mummy said this morning to me when I awoke was "Wah...Ben Ben big boy already. 7 months old today. What new tricks will you be showing mummy? Can you call MUMMY? or can you sleep longer at night?"

Hhm....saying "Mummy" now will be a challenge. Maybe say "Pa-pa" sounds easier..... Will see how it goes...

Oh...Aunty Su Kim, Mummy decided to buy zambuk for me and Kakak Sri applied it on my forehead. I think the redness has gone down...... Must look at mirror first to see if I still look handsome.....

Big & Strong
Originally uploaded by Little Benji.

-Daddy- Benji is officially seven months old today and weighing in at a hefty 8 kgs.

See why I hate mosquitoes

See why I hate mosquitoes
Originally uploaded by Little Benji.

Got two big red dots on my forehead...terrible mosquitoes. Everyone in church noticed it today, so shy. Any creams to recommend ??

Kacau-ed by Daddy

Kacau-ed by Daddy
Originally uploaded by Little Benji.

I know my Daddy is mischievous, but this is too much . . .

One handed stance

Stylo Milo
Originally uploaded by Little Benji.

Daddy didn't believe that I could stand with one hand. So, as I was playing with daddy and mummy today, I decided to do da post . . . style ler.

What I Like To Eat

No vegetables...... No fish...... I only like to eat mangoes and papayas. Don't quite like bananas too. You may think I am a fussy pot... but I like to think that I am a gourmet.


Kak Sri has been saying that Benji doesn't like vegetables or fish, *ahem* just like his daddy... only enjoys mangoes and papayas. I think he has a sweet tooth. -mummy-

Jumping Ben Ben

I gave daddy a shock today, he...he...

As usual, I was sleeping on my super duper single matress on the floor. This Daddy & mummy ah always so paranoid that I will fall off the bed. They surround me with lots & lots of pillows and bolsters, plus there is even a bed rail!!! Wah so secure hor... but...

Well this morning, I woke up and decided to try a new "stunt". I pushed myself up against the pillows and I started to jump and hop and jump and hop . . . and before I knew it . . . I was over the bed rail . . . Hooray!!! I am free...Ha...Ha...Ha

Unfortunately, daddy came into the room, just as I was making my great escape and he caught me before I could land on the quilt (which was on the floor). How sad..... My escape foiled.

-Daddy- Benji gave me a shock early this morning when I went into his room to check out the noises he was making. He had managed to "jump" over the bed rail i.e. consisting of two bolsters and a pillow piled on top of each other supported by a safety 1st bed rail . . . We have an Olympic high jumper gold medallist in the making.

Internal Clock on London time

Droopy Eyes
Originally uploaded by Little Benji.

Don't know why, but I keep wanting to wake up and play at 3 a.m. in the morning. Most of the time a sleepy, eyes half open daddy will come into my room and tell me the same thing...

"Boy, night is for sleeping, day time is for playing..."

And mummy will say to daddy "Dear, you take care of Benji, I am too tired to play with him"

Poor daddy will then plonk himself down on the bed next to me with his eyes half closed. But I always manage to wake him up by hitting his head with my fists or by trying to do some dangerous stunts i.e. crawling off the bed, hitting my head against something hard.

Hee Hee Hee . . .

Benji has been waking up very early almost everyday much to his parents chagrin. Daddy thinks maybe it's God's way of telling him to wake up earlier to pray and read the Bible to Benji.

Life's Lessons

To avoid getting caught with my pants down always remember that the grey metal thingy daddy is holding is a camera.


Benji is being potty trained...daddy & mummy just couldn't resist this shot

Food . . . Glorious Food

Mummy says I am ready for more "solid" food. Yah, mashed baby carrots, brocolli and sweet potatoes can get pretty boring after awhile

Today I am getting *yum* *yum*. . . fish porridge . . .

OK OK its not lobster bisque but hey at 6 mo+ anything is new.

Benji's pediatrician gave the go ahead to introduce him to meat dishes.

Caught on camera

Asleep
Originally uploaded by Little Benji.

Daddy & Mummy sneaked into my room and took this picture of me sleeping . . . terrible-lah, caught me in such an uncompromising position . . . Daddy & Mummy had a good laugh and just couldn't resist taking this photo. They even called Kakak into the room and she too had a good laugh.

*Sigh* the shame . . .

Am I naughty??

Mummy says I have been a naughty boy, always do not want to sleep, only want to play...play...and play. Yah mah play is fun . . . fun . . . fun

Daddy says my eyes look red whenever I am tired, so obvious meh . . . but I still want to play play play . . . *Yawn* . . .