As you can see, i’ve just discovered Lego Photo on the iPhone! Pretty nifty app which brings the whole brand proposition + fun to an app. In this day and age, nobody needs another photo app, but when you get to be made up of lego bricks, that’s quite cool 
Really nifty stuff. Now go get yours…
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Lego Je-in!
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Hello 2010!
That’s Je-in with his modified room. We changed it around again today, trying to child-proof as much as possible.
I ended the old year with a fortnight of leave but its the toughest “vacation” i’ve ever had 
Been basically babysitting all the way while V is back at work. Thank god for my mum who pops by for short periods during the day. It breaks the monotony of his 4-hour eat-play-sleep cycles. I’ve never camped out so much on my living room floor before…
He seems to be growing well each day and now he’s able to spritely crawl/drag himself around the house, always going for places he shouldn’t be at even though we keep expanding the play area by having more play-mats around. He’s also started to stand on his own using the couch or whatever else he can hang on to. I just hope he doesn’t get round to bashing the TV with his toys. He’s already done it with his bare hands.
2009 has been great, we had Je-in come into our lives, and we whirled our lives around him, moving house and all. I finally completed the NET program and am now helping them with their web communications. The day-job seems stable enough even though the mother-ship gets rocked time and again. Mum’s health has been holding up and she’s able to look after the baby while we are both at work. Its been tough because she’s not as strong as before but so far it all seems good.
Even though we dropped off the entertainment radar and have not been to a movie or the pub or whatever, i still managed to visit Wala 3 times during the year So there are many blessings to be thankful for.
Goodbye o-nine!
And since you’re reading this, a Happy New Year to you too and may the blessings of the Lord be upon you this year.
The end of the year is near and some Xmas festivities have begun!
Cheap and good headgear for party-wear if you ever need one. Army market rocks…
V’s 4 months of maternity leave are over and for now, she still has some leave for the year so she’s worked out a 3-day week using her vacation time to offset these 2 months.
So mum comes over every other day and looks after Je-in while we’re both at work. The arrangement seems alright but everyone is getting a little tired i guess.
Dec will be challenging once she goes back to the 5-day work week. We’ll have to see how that pans out.
Had a minor scare a few days ago when V was at home alone. She picked up the baby from the floor and her back went “pop”. Intense pain shot through her mid back and had trouble breathing properly. Luckily my parents were free and Dad sent her to the chinese doc who promptly referred her to the A&E for x-rays.
The scans were alright so they suspected just a muscle pull and gave her pain killers and sent her home.
Even though it was a trying day, we thank God for all the small things like the short wait, the good timing and that one carpark lot in that otherwise perpetually full carpark.
Its the first time we’re travelling with Je-in and i guess overall he’s been quite a good baby. He just follows his usual cycle of eat, play, sleep etc So we just gotta time all the activities around that. The one thing that bugged us on the plane though was that every time there was turbulence and the seat belt signs came on, we had to pull out the sleeping baby from the bassinet and strap him with a seat belt on mum’s lap. Of course this will wake up the baby and make him cry out. Now we know why babies always cry on planes.. Its the stupid safety rules!
They can simply overcome this requirement by modifying the bassinet to include some sort of safety harness.
Anyhow, the trip was pretty good and we got to see and eat lots of strange things as usual. Just some highlights from the trip:
1. Wedding ceremony – Beautiful and classy affair that included a buffet lunch, with the bride and groom making 3 costume changes for the main ceremony, greeting the guests in the eating area and the traditional ceremony itself.
2. Cheonan – Made a road trip to this city where V’s aunt lives and got to see how a typical apartment out of Seoul looks like. Very modern with electronic locks on the doors, alarms linking to the main guardroom, even the sink had sensors for the foot to tap so you do not have to “turn on” the tap.
3. King Mun Yeong’s tomb – The only tomb where they were able to identify the person because most other tombs have been raided over time. This guy was buried 1500 years ago and its amazing to see how everything was restored and the learnings they gleaned from this discovery.
4. Acorns – Was brought to a diner where everything had acorn in it. They even made it into a jelly and stripped down like noodles. Not much of a taste though, rather plain.
5. Duck BBQ – Fairly rare even in Korea, everything duck was on the menu, from the BBQ, duck soup and some innards.
6. Getting my hair permed – Although i must have swore never to do this, it did turn out pretty good and wasn’t obviously curly. I would have died otherwise.
V is now there with her parents and Je-in making up for lost time from her home country while i’ve got some me-time back here in SG.
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Back in Seoul
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Getting ready for sis-in-laws wedding this weekend. Nice view from our
mcheriville apartment.
So apart from spending time at home playing with little Je-in, and never-endingly changing his diapers whenever i can over the weekends and holidays, I also indulge in my resurgent hobby of cycling. I’m in and out of the house in an hour or two riding around the area which is well endowed with nice long roads. The scenery around the water catchment areas are good too.
Am really thankful to Him that this little hobby of mine has come back to life after the whole degenerated disc episode and all those chiro sessions i’ve attended. So far i’ve done about six rides and the back is still holding up.
Alleluia
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