watch me wiggle...

after dinner, we usually find some time to go out for a walk. so when we're pushing haley around in her stroller, we try to keep her entertained.

so today, we yanked on her toy that plays a very cute melody. shortly after that.. haley started to wiggle like a silk worm in a cocoon. the way she wiggles around is hilarious, especially when she's strapped down on her stroller. haha.

what's funny is that haley knows she's being recorded and is very reluctant to wiggle. but once she's finish wiggle, she props up her foot like she's a boss lady .

slurping noodle trick~

haley has been eating solid foods for a while now. but her favorite is still noodles. one night, we went to a korean restaurant for dinner and they gave us free chap-chae; which is made of clear rice noodles mixed with veggies and other good stuff.

so after rinsing the noodles off in hot tea, because we didn't want to give her greasy foods, haley started to slurp the noodles in. i guess she was really hungry and didn't want to wait for her mama to put the noodles in her mouth. haha.

presenting haley's new trick...

see if you can slurp a noodle faster than me~

itchy ear... kimochi~

during haley's bath time, i would use a towel and gently wipe haley's ear. but every so often, she would put her wet fingers in her ear while playing in the tub.

so, when that happens, cherie and i would use a baby ear swap to remove any excess water from the inside of her ear. like us, when we use the ear swap, it provides a very tingling sensation as it's cleaning our ear.

but when cherie was cleaning haley's ear, we weren't expecting this type of reaction. the tingling sensation makes haley wants to go to sleep. look at her eyes and her expression.

an expression of kimochi~ (means feels very good in japanese)

e-na~ mecha kimochi e~ (pronouce it in kansai ben 関西弁)

messy, but very yummy noodle...

tonight, haley was eating her usual dinner with noodles. but for some reason, she was very fussy, hungry, and sleepy.

now when you mix all those combinations together, you get a very short tempered baby.

we teach her not to play with her food and she's usually very good at that. however, for some reason, tonight she just felt like playing with the noodles.

some of the noodles got stuck on her face and when we try to remove it for her, she just ends up getting very fussy.

at 9 months old, she has a lot of opinions on how SHE wants things to be done. so she tries to remove the noodles from her face and mouth. it just ends up getting all over the place even into her hair.

these are very cute and funny moments...

haley is 9 months old already?

yup, that's right folks.. haley turned 9 months old on 5/19/09. it's amazing how fast time flies and how big haley has grown.

yesterday, haley went in for her 9 month baby check up and had to get shots and some blood work done. cherie and my mom in law took her there and haley cried like there's no tomorrow.

when i heard about it after i went home late last night from work, i was heart broken. how dare they do that to my baby girl~ :(

besides that, recently we wanted to get cherie and haley a passport before the price increase. so, being the photographer that i am, i wasn't about to go and pay $15 for 2 passport photos that are horrible in the color, exposure and end up making the subject look like a corpse.

thus, i busted out my 30D and took their photos. taking haley's photos is much harder than i thought. when she was 6 months old, she was moving around a lot.. but at 9 months old, she's worse than the energizer bunny on 12 packs of redbull. (redbull gives you WINGS~)

after a while, i got the photo that i think would be the best for haley's passpost. it really does bring out her playful charactor.

voila~ here's our baby haley at 9 months old~

I need a job - China Style.. roflmao!

happy friday ya'll... TGIF!
this week has been hectic at work with our CEO visiting, business trip and all. finally able to catch a few seconds to breathe.

today, i got an email from my sister in taiwan. *thanks pheobe, i really needed a good laugh!*

if you can understand chinese, then you will be roflmao (rolling on floor, laughing my ass off) as well.

unemployment is tough on everyone that victims of it. since there are so many tips on what to do well in an interview, this however, is the opposite.

this is WHAT NOT TO DO in an interview... haha ;)

Definition of LOVE

recently our CEO came to visit our US branch office. everyone, including me, were scrambling around trying to get our presentations together.

well, after a long day of presentation and meeting, we had a company dinner. it was very tasty and expensive, like around $800+ for 10 dishes. lucky me...

anyway, so after a few drinks, our CEO started to share many things about business, life, etc. one of which that really caught my attention was when he is definition of LOVE. now, if you ever see our CEO and his wife walking in the streets of Taipei, you'll see them holding hands like a pair of old lovers.

he's been married for about 33 yrs and still going strong, i guess. this is what he had learned from his many years of marriage of what LOVE really means.

i really like how he defined his many years of marriage and know that cherie and i will be the same; if not more passionate~ ;)

* honey.. did i tell you how much i love you today? *


L = Listen (God gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth.. meaning to listen more and to speak less)

O = Open Mind (marriage is an union of 2 families, so need to be open minded to accept other's differences.)

V = Virtue (marriage is very sacred, likewise, be moral and righteous to each other)

E = Ever Lasting (live and love each other like there's no tomorrow, love as if it's the first time you fell in love with each other.)