Tales of a Tech Shark

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I was able to spend the entire day with CJ yesterday, as I was on leave from work. I soon learned that babysitting a hyperactive toddler can be a totally harrowing and exhausting experience!
We watched cartoons together and we played “mess-up-your-room-with-your-toys-and-let-dad-do-the-cleanup”!
And it was also fun seeing him finally being able to interact over the phone, [...] Read more »

For those who don’t own their own houses yet, do you already have a dream house in mind? I already have a rough design of my dream house etched into my mind ever since I was in high school. This was conjured up during one of my technical drafting classes, where we had to design [...] Read more »

The Bad News:
I wasn’t able to come to work today. With a lot of ongoing projects that I need to juggle, I could barely afford to miss a day’s worth of work.
The Good News:
I was able to spend the entire day with CJ! :) Read more »

Today started off differently. We woke up at 4AM to the sound of CJ’s crying. This usually indicates feeding time, and so I did my now well-versed ‘rouse-myself-out-of-bed’ and ‘fix-up-a-bottle-of-milk-while-half-asleep’ routine. I was halfway through the motion when Conne, sounding rather alarmed and upset, brought my attention to the fact that the lower part of [...] Read more »

Have you ever wondered which word between “daddy” and “mommy” will a toddler be able to utter and pronounce earlier?
I’ve heard somewhere that toddlers usually pronounce “daddy” earlier. And I believe that it’s true as evidenced by my 15 month old toddler, CJ.
Conne was able to write about the experience in her blog.
Here’s a video [...] Read more »