is anyone even surprised only 7% architectural graduates stay in the industry. 

It’s lunch time at work and I’m quite sleepy but there’s no better time to pop by and so here I am. 

I’m here again to talk about my little hailey and how funny she is as a person. She’s definitely a cool girl and I’m the wannabe who wants to be her but ain’t her. Every time I try to hug her she presses my face away with the palm of her hand 😆 why tho hailey?? i just want some baobao! 

but every time she sees me back home, she runs towards me so fast that I just feel like a gazillion fireworks have been set off in my heart. she drops everything to come rushing towards you and her little body is still quite wobbly but you can tell she’s not holding back cos she lunges with all her might. I wanted to film it but it’s not easy cos if I have my phone out, she gets distracted by it instead. I feel like her oasis every time I get home. 

She enjoys songs a lot and quite like books as well. She’d say “bus” and do the wheel motion to tell me she wants me to sing wheels on the bus, and she’d sign “again” before I’d even finished. In fact she’d sign “again” throughout the whole song. 

And the best thing is when she dances along to the singing! To teach her “Sun” in Chinese (I’m supposed to be the Chinese parent but I sometimes default to English), I say “tai yang” and sing the “Grandpa Sun wakes up from bed” song popularized from a very old Channel 8 show starring Chen Liping as Aiyoyo Laoshi. 

So I do the whole routine with the “tai yang”, rooster “wo wo” call, “forget all your worries” hand gestures, 

and she does it too -  but one step ahead of me! 😆

she doesn’t always dance along, it depends, but now I know that she can. 

And also, she can say “apple” but she doesn’t usually do it. She just says “a-”. I only know she can say the full word cos she’ll randomly call out ‘apple’ in the most irrelevant contexts like when she’s crawling down my bed. 

maybe one day if I’m not around, she may discover this little blog where I write about her and from then, she may know more about how loved she is. 

her favourite pastime is a game of catching. she either runs on her own or she scuttles into papa’s arms and he carries her while I slow-ly slow-ly…very slow-ly…. fastfast fastfast fast fast catch her hahahaha. sometimes I even jump! she laughs and shrieks like it’s the most thrilling thing in the world. sometimes when she falls, it sounds like itd hurt and I’d stop and say ‘hailey are you ok?’ but she’d continue like it’s nothing, cos nothing can stop her from this game 😆 When she eventually tires (way after her parents have worked up a sweat), she runs towards the monster(you) and gives you a hug to ‘save you’ so you transform back into a nice parent again. 

Again I can’t film much of this cos it’s hard to film and run around at the same time. The baby monitor’s recording makes it look like true crime. So.. guess it’s just for the memories haha. 

If only I had a team like in Return of Superman to film her moments discretely hahaha. 

Can’t wait for her to run her first errand like in that Japanese show. 

:)