Adam & Amelyah (2007)

The 2 'lovebirds', can't wait to see each other!
Adam's already caught up to Amelyah and is taller than her by about 1-1/2 cms.
Adam says he wants to marry Amelyah but Amelyah has already rejected him because he says Adam's too bossy! Honest! I overheard their conversation!

Adam's eye got scratched by nephew's docile pet cat!

One day after house cat scratched Adam's eye

No witnesses to what happened but Adam says he only wanted to make the cat 'comfortable' whatever that means!!
We arrived in Malaysia on 19June and on 2July, he's got his eye scratched by a very docile cat that belongs to my nephew!
Only heard his scream and next thing we knew, his left eye was all red and there was some blood and 2small scratch marks just below his left eye. Took him to doctor immediately and thank goodness Dr says it's only superficial wound, otherwise, see what he would look like otherwise.
His 'red' eye look was worse the next few days though he says it doesn't irritate or hurt.
Adam's all ok now but took almost 10days for his 'red' eye to recover fully.
I don't think he's learnt his lesson somehow as I still see him eyeing other animals in his sneaky cheeky ways!!

Blood Donation in Nambour, QLD and other updates on our journey/holiday

I've donated blood again on Fri/27July,2007. The time taken; 5minutes 22seconds, amount taken-470ml. Pledge to donate 3times in 2007 and have done it 2times already, hopefully can do my third donation by end of this year.

What am I doing donating blood all the way in Nambour???

Adam & I got back from our holiday in Malaysia and was supposed to get our dependent visa to enter Papua New Guinea but it's just too much to hope for that it will be ready?? True to form, we arrived in Brisbane from Malaysia on 22July and had Adam's passport renewed immediately the next day (paid express etc for it and had it renewed as his passport is only 5years and due to expire in another 7months) and collected it on Wed 25July and went straight to PNG Consulate. Was told the visa approval not received!!! Gosh!!

Anyway, since we had the time, I searched through the internet for the nearest blood bank (as we stayed in a serviced apartment in Caloundra - cheapest apartment we could find) since calling the Red Cross did not get me anywhere; I was told the nearest was Brisbane City which was about 40minutes' drive away! Nambour was only about 15minutes away!

Saw that they were opened till 12noon on Friday and arrived there at 11am. A lady that seems to be in Admin told me that I'm too late!! It's because I have to fill in a form and had to go for an 'interview' (same process each time anyone donates blood here) and the donated blood will be collected at 12noon so if I'm too late, then no point in donating!!

When I insisted and told her another lady already gave me the OK, she relented reluctantly. When I went in to donate, the nurses there was very nice and they said they would have accepted my blood donation, no worries! As I did not want to keep them too long, I keep squeezing the little pole given to me so that my donation blood comes out faster, which it did.

All said and done, we are leaving to Papua New Guinea on Wednesday/1Aug after getting tourist visas (again) to PNG as we couldn't afford to wait as it could be months before we hear anything from anybody! That means another trip to Cairns to visit my brother in September as PNG tourist visa only lasts 60days!

What a trip! After all these travelling, I'm looking forward to going back to PNG!

Holiday in Malaysia 18June-22July2007

Well...here we are, Adam & I, back in Malaysia for a holiday and what has the little terror been up to so far?

We arrived on 19June as it was an overnight flight from Brisbane (we flew out from Port Moresby to Brisbane and was on transit from 5pm+ till  midnite. Didn't go out of the airport, stayed in transit airport the whole time). Not much for shopping if you happen to have long transits in Brisbane Intl Airport. Adam wasn't behaving all too badly considering the long transit time; he is a good little traveller most of the time.

He's managed to fallen sick in less than a week from being back. We went to Genting Highlands on the weekend with his Tua Ae and he had cold and bad cough. Took him more than 2weeks to get well. In between that time, he has also managed to get his eye scratched by nephew's cat!!! He claimed he did not stare the cat in the eye or disturb the cat, he only wanted to pat the cat and make it comfortable. Would you believe him??

Had to go see doctor twice in a week; one for his cold/cough and the other for his eye; had to be on antibiotics for 2weeks. Thank goodness it's just a superficial wound and his red eye is recovering quite well now. Took some pictures but didn't bring camera cable back to Malaysia so don't know when I'll be able to upload them in here but it'll be here one fine day .

Hubby will be joining us from 12-17July (Yippee!!)  thought it's only a short time but we'll see each other again when we meet up in Brisbane on our return journeys.

Still another week and a half to go before I leave Malaysia. It's been fun doing the rounds of marathon food eating which I've missed. Don't know when I'll be back again, hopefully for a joyous occasion like my nephew's wedding!! Anyway, it's about time Adam starts to go to school and mix with kids his age again, he's getting too 'old' for his own good. Getting to be an 'old man' when he's only four. Anyone who's spoken to him will know what I'm talking about! .