To the Land below the wind

Early morning at the airport

Last few minutes at the departure hall

Finally...in the plane

All excited...

Yup...read thru the safety procedures boy..

Seafood restaurant at the Water front

Status of big lobster...

Please smile at the camera and don't move...

Jesselton point..long walk from the hotel..

Brought Zylan's goodies to keep him entertained for dinner...

Seafood again? no wonder i'm bOoored..

Nice and hot afternoon at the Water front.

I've got my sunnies and starbucks ice-blended choc..while Daddy is getting his foot massage.

Lets go run around mummy...

How many times u want me to pose? get the camera settings right this time!

Going home...KK airport is even more boring..

Afternoon nap on the plane...

Lets go see birds!

Public holiday and it was packed! Luckily people are dispersed insid so you can move around with ease.

Beautiful peacock ....still a little shy.

Hey what's the chicken doing here??

Flawless white cockatoo..

I want to feed the fish!
Sorry...mummy didn't bring any coins

Lories feeding... very fun! grab a cup of milk plus honey or some sunflower seeds, raise your hands in the air and swoosh..here they come!

Hi there...
*frozen*

*you can go now...*

Aha! One landed on Daddy's head..pecking on the sunnies. Probably thought he saw another bird!

*ahh....*

*so pretty...can i touch?*

Time to move on...saw some chicks and ducklings at the nursery.

We headed back to lorries feeding again after Daddy's friends came.

Wooooi!

Surprised by the birds the second time around...and he still couldn't get comfortable with their sharp claws.

All of a sudden, all the birds flew right up to the top...? Ahh...it was the thunder that scared them away.

Oh-o...it's going to rain! We hurriedly headed back out and went to Hornbill for drinks together. Z fell asleep, woke up 45min later and we said good byes and headed home.

Goodbye Dino...

It was only last night when Zylan and I was reading the Barney book before his bedtime, we came across a picture of an iguana at the zoo that I reminded Zylan not to bully poor Dino.

Zylan called Daddy this afternoon with his breaking news:
Daddy! O-gwa-nah dai di-di.

Daddy's pet Dino has left us.

Talk like Baby no more..

Zylan was about 14months when he started to learn how to talk. He could call Mummy and Daddy very well by then, and he was moving on to everyday words like dog, cat, bread, banana etc. He would try and repeat everything we'd say, sometimes coming out perfectly but sometimes just amusingly funny.

Zylan's classic ones are (which coincidentally or not? are his favourite things):
baa-bing = balloon
am-bee-ta-ta = umbrella
sor-bree-baa-bee = strawberry

But he could say things like watch or plant with extremely perfect pronunciation that mum was very amazed and proud at the fact that he even had the 'ch' at the end of the word watch and the 't' at the end of the word plant.

Now at 20 months, he could make very good sentences. Every morning when he wakes up he would greet us with 'Gud mo-ning Daddy' and 'Gud mo-ning Mummy'. And then followed by his favourite phrase 'Go downstairs!'. When you are tired and just want to lie for another 5 min, that's the last thing you'd want to hear!

Once downstairs, he would start looking for his ball to kick around or badminton racquet or shuttlecock to play with. And he would ask 'Drink vitagen'. We will get him a vitagen to drink in the car on the way to my MIL's place.

During the car ride, he would tell us 'Many buses' and followed by question to himself 'where? where?' and then he answers himself with 'oh derrr'. Or sometimes he would ask for 'Uncle Joe' - his favourite song from Kindermusik.

You could have a proper conversation with Zylan, but when you ask him a question he would always answer with a 'uh' or 'um', even tho he knows how to say 'Yes' or 'No'.

Today, he almost killed Daddy's pet iguana Dino by pulling the poor guy out from his cage and swinging him around. Fortunately for Z, the iguana was very much tamed and poor Dino has also lost all his teeth over the years of being ill and under nourished. Z has always tried to disturb Dino by pulling his tail which jut out from the cage and poor Dino would know when Z's near he would curl his tail back in.

When we picked him up from MIL's place, I asked him after we got into the car:
Mummy: Zylan what did you do to the iguana today?
Zylan: Uh! Pull o-gwa-nah tail!
Mummy: Why did you do that? Next time don't pull iguana's tail okay?
Zylan: Uh! Daddy! Pull o-gwa-nah tail!
*fainted*

Couple weeks back, Z almost killed my MIL's little fishes when he caught one of them with his hands ad started waving at the fish 'Hi!' 'Hello, fish!'.
*fainted*

LV's salon

Z was long overdue for a haircut. Been getting alot of comments on 'time to trim his hair' so I decided to get it done! We were also going to SG in two days and will be spending a week there, thought maybe he should get a "nice" haircut before that.




The pro at work...











Finishing touches....











Mummy....caaa-rreeee!!

A little bit more please...please.... (almost begging now)

Okay....lets go!