I launched Gbay a while ago and it still need a lot of work in creating back links. For those who have not link to Gbay, please do. Let me know if you want to exchange links.

Recently I have been blogging about some very interesting topics in Gbay. If you have not hop in there, don’t be shy to pay a visit. The doors are always open. I will certainly blog more interesting stuff, non related to my children over there.

Some of the articles that may interest you:

Keep Your Contact Lens From Germs
Mattel Toys Recall (With Pictures)
Spot The Scam
Another China Product In Question
Stress Reliever

Thank you all for your support.

Lately, I am learning how to do more sculpture balloons. Not that I am going to be a clown. :giggles: My church is having a fun event for children. It has lots of children activities and fun fair type of games. If you are in Penang and would like to go, ping me.

Of coz, I volunteer myself to do balloon sculpturing. I found a collection of videos of an expect doing different balloon sculpturing. He is good, professional, can even knot a balloon with one hand. I learn to do a cool sword, flower and butterfly by watching those videos. The website: http://www.balloon-animals.com. Videos here. Now my house is filled with sculptured balloon and I need to get more. Now anyone want to invite me to your child’s birthday party?

One tip I learn about balloon sculpturing that is to prevent the balloon from popping, you let out some air after you inflate it. You need to even out the air in the balloon. It is very fun thing to do as I love doing things with my hands. Try it and you will never need to queue infront of a clown to get balloons for your kids.

Gbay: Keep Your Contact Lens From Germs

Emily loves playing the tambourine, either that or she loves making noise. Every time she is in Sunday School, she will go grab the tambourine to play during singing session. Last Sunday the teacher called her out to join the musician to play. She was overjoyed and walk out without the fear of being looked at. I guess she was not shy to be in the front stage. Timothy stood there for less than a minute, he wanted to return to his seat.

Now I have to think of starting Emily on some music lessons. I am sure she will be interested. I hope she has my father’s gift, able to pick up music and play by ear. I know I am not talented in music. Once I did drive my organ teacher crazy, I really cannot get the rhythm and coordination at all. As for my hubby’s side, no sign of any music talent seen.

I will let both my children have a go at music lessons, will see whether they can succeed in at least playing a nice piece of Beethoven for me. :think:

Gbay: Spot The Scam

Every time we went passed Queensbay Mall Penang, we saw the mini ferris wheel. I told my children that I will take them there. Today after work, we made our way there. There are not many rides available for the age of my children.

Rides were very expensive. Each ride cost RM3 per person. Imagine 4 of us already cost RM12. They have all you can ride, meaning ride as many as you want for RM15 per person. However there are not many rides out there. I rather pay RM2 for them to enjoy playing the Jusco indoor playground.

Anyway, I thought of letting my children at least enjoy the ferris wheel. Bad decision. It went so fast that my children were really afraid. I can see Emily shaking. I kept consoling her that it will be over soon. Not suitable at all for any child below 6.

Other rides that were suitable were the train and the merry-go-round. I probably will not go back again. There is no safety whatsoever and not to mention, most of the equipment are not well maintained.

GBay: Give Your Child The Best

As you know Penang started a new bus system with a batch of new big buses. I am not sure why it has taken so long for Penang to improve their bus system. Not to mention the cab taking a lot of advantage in charging people an exorbitant rate and not using the meter.

Rapid Penang is still new and it covered most of the places in Penang Island. If you want details of the bus route, click here. However, they didn’t publish the rates of the tickets. Tickets are priced at RM1-RM3.

I took the children to have fun sitting on the bus. They were excited. We took from Bayan Baru all the way to town and back. Funny the fare going was RM2 but the coming back trip was RM1.50. Nope, we go on where they drop us off.

The going trip was pleasant, the seats were leather but the return trip seat was hard plastic. It is tough to sit for a long time. My butt was really painful after the journey. The back seats of the flooring of the bus are quite high and the seats were raise up. My head almost touch the top of the bus when I sat there. It was difficult for some senior citizen to climb up and sit.

So when you are visiting Penang, remember to try Rapid Penang (nope it is not a white water rafting adventure). You can almost go round island trip with it.

Hard Plastic Chair – No No.

Gbay: China Toys Recall

Mybabybay is spinning off a new blog. Gbay, in short of Geniuses Bay, will have articles on the latest news, products, ideas, innovations and current affairs. Sounds cool? 😎 The main objective of creating Gbay is I am trying to organize my children journal blog. I hope to move out all non related posts a new blog, eventually.

Please help me to generate some traffic for Gbay by linking to it and of coz visiting it too. I can assure you I will put interesting articles there.

Let me know if you want to trade links too. The link is gbay.mybabybay.com.

GBay Article: Increase your EPF Funds?

Finally after much procrastination, my hubby and I have moved Tim to a new kindy run by my church. The reason we procrastinated was because we need to plan for transportations and babysitter arrangement for Tim. The new kindy only run half day and the other half he will go to the babysitter. We were very glad after a long negotiation that Emily’s babysitter decided to take care of him.

Why did we change his school? We saw no progression or development in Tim. He didn’t speak to any of the teachers and he is not reading. To top it all, the school gave him plenty of homework and there is no interest in him to do any of it. Worst is the syllabus is so advanced and Tim having a hard time to catch up. The teacher just let him be and did nothing to solve the problem. When my hubby had 1-1 with the teacher, the teacher didn’t give him a solution or plan to improve the situation.

I must say that Tim’s learning curve is slow and he needs more attention to learn. Now I have to tutor him in reading and spelling after work. Tell me at what age does boys learn to spell?

Tim has a new buddy and his name is called Ultraman. I am not sure when he knew Ultraman existed. For those who do not know who Ultraman is, it is a Japanese hero who fights huge ugly monsters. Ultraman was around when I was young and still alive today.

Timothy got my mom to get him a 2 episodes of Ultraman VCD. He has been watching it over and over again. I lost count. Almost every day he requested me to switch it on for him. He changed his milk powder to Sustagen because of Ultraman. Last month, Sustagen gave free Ultraman notebook and color pencil. He persuaded me to get the milk for him.

Yesterday his school bag spoilt and he got his papa to get another new ultraman bag for him. Oh, I still owe him an Ultraman T-shirt. I guess this is the power of children marketing.

Emily is getting to a stage of being super manja. She demands what she wants else she will cry aloud. Usually I just let her unless it is in a public area or late at night. She threw one at me yesterday night and got some serious caning from dad. I really hope she improved.

Once she wants me to carry her downstairs. Here is how the conversation goes:

Emily: Please carry me downstairs.
Mummy: *try not to pamper her* Mummy cannot carry you, leg pain.
Emily: Carry me la, I want to fly like Peter Pan.
Mummy: Mummy no energy, see. *giving the lethargic look*
Emily: Wait. *pretend to go to my back* Dit Dit Dit Dit *pretend to open a invisible door at the back of me, take something and put it in and close back the invisible door*
Emily: Mummy, I change your battery already. Now you can carry me.
Mummy: Sigh.

She makes me laugh but I just hope she will overcome her demanding character.

Emily has grown so much and she has learned lots of words. I cannot remember when she started speaking in sentences. Now she can hardly keep quiet. She will go bla bla bla bla bla non stop. Worst, Tim and her go bla bla bla, trying to out beat one another with louder voice. I am seeing a lot of competition between the both of them.

Sometimes it gives me a headache. On top of that, they want me to participate in their conversation, asking me this and that. It is hard to get peace and quiet. I think I can achieve that when all of them are asleep. This is why I love the night time because it is so peaceful.

Emily can sing very well too, here are some video that I promised a long time ago. She was in a good mood today and sang all 3 songs for me to record.