How You Doin'

Saturday, 25 June 2011

This is one of Rania's favourite pose in a picture. I took this photo while she was shopping, she looked very serious in this photo too. What do you think? Cute is'nt :). The second photo is taken from my iphone. Actually it is from a video that I took, her Auntie Sija send this photo took me with the title a ' One Million Dollar Smile'. Hehe.

Safety First

Friday, 24 June 2011

Take a look at Rania's photo on the way to shopping! Whenever she is in the car, we make sure that she is safe and sound. Thanks to Wawa Miah and Uncle Zul for the car seat. They got it for her while she was in Brunei last April. A very useful gift indeed! She love it there too because it is very comfortable and cozy. She love to sleep in them too, at least she get a good rest before she can get busy window shopping. You must be wondering how she is at the shopping mall. Surprisingly, she really love looking at people and things! Sometimes she prefer to be picked up rather than sitting on her stroller, so that she can see things much easier. She seemed to have colour preference when we want to choose clothes for her. She love bright or light pink colour, just like mommy :).

Bon Voyage Wawa Miah

Sunday, 19 June 2011

Wawa Miah spent about 2 weeks here in Brisbane. It was fun having her around, Rania has extra someone to play with while I'm at Uni. We managed to go to so many places too. Her favourite place to shop is Target Chermside and Myers too. I think she can spend the whole day shopping there :P She spend a lot on clothes, socks, bags and Rania's toys! It was a good time for her to be here too because there's a big sale at some of the big shops here. Hope to see you again Wawa! Rania missed you a lot..

At Brisbane Airport

Bru-Brisbane Young Ladies

Sunday, 19th June 2011

On the same day, Wawa Miah left us, we had a farewell BBQ invitation organized by a couple of Bruneians families. They are actually leaving Australia for good as they have completed their studies. Congratulations to the following sisters, Shikin, Salina and Ejah for graduating this year! I hope I didnt miss anyone in the list. If I do, this congratulatory message goes to you too! Took a couple of photos during the BBQ. One photo was particularly special, it is the one by which Rania took a photo with a group of young Bruneian girls living in the same area with us. From the left, Kaka Dayna, Kaka Syaza and Kaka Anis. The last two girls parents are the ones who are studying here in Brisbane and also finishing this year. I actually always saw them playing at the park near to where we live. It is rather quiet now, since they have gone back to Brunei. I hope to see them in the future and Rania will be a bit older to, so that they can play together

Yuen's Seafood Market

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

My sister and I went for an adventure to Fortitude Valley, China Town. This area is just about 15 minutes by car from our apartment. But we went there by train, for the sake of advetnture and took us about 30 mins to get there. I was craving for some crab meat with tomato sauce made by my mom. Manage to get some big juicy crabs today from the Yuen's food market in China Town.

Little Mermaid - Theathre

Sunday, 12 June 2011

Last night, I went to see a theathre called 'The Little Mermaid' with my sister, Mariah. It was actually a ballet show. The show was marvellous and entertaining too! Would love to see more theathre in the future too. The first theathre that I ever watch was when I was in the UK called 'Wicked.' That show was also very memorable too. In Australia, I found people dressed up very well in pretty dresses and tuxedos when they come to the show. They were some young girls to wearing cute princess gowns too. We didn't dressed up though :p.

Photo of us before the show

Brisbane Winter Festival

Friday, 10 June 2011

Brisbane is currently organizing Brisbane Winter Festival for the first time ever. It is happening since yesterday, until the 29th of June 2011. We went to see what was happening too. There was a big ice-skating ring, food stalls etc. Since my big sister, Maria are currently here, we took this opportunity to ice skate! We are both not a good skater but we manage to skate a bit at the side of the ring and took a couple of photos. The last time I skate was when I was undergrad about 4 to 5 years ago. It was very crowded, but was a lot of fun! I hope that Brisbane will organize this event again next year.

'First Class' in Gold Class

Monday, 6 June 2011

Lots of new exciting movies are coming out this and next month too. I'm eagerly waiting for the screening of the Harry Potter and Transformer. The latest movie I watched solo was X-Men - First Class. For the first time, I had a go with the Gold Class seats cinema at the Westfield Chermside. The Gold Class is more of like a first class cabin when you go on the aeroplane. The seat was soft, big and comfy too! It has an electronic leg and back rest adjustment. Cool isn't.

There was also a lounge outside the cinema for a cup of coffee or event lunch. In the Gold Class cinema, we are allowed to get some hot food like chips etc, but we have to buy it from the bar there. I didn't order any, too much eating might made me feel sleepy. You must be wondering, how much is the ticket? Its AUD$25. Oh yeah, this latest movie by X-men was first class! I love it! The earlier movie of X-men was actually among a few first movies that I watched with my husband too and that was when we were still in England. Oh yeah, 2 special people are coming to town this week. Guess who?

Two First Teeth

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

After a couple of shots, I manage to take a photo of Rania's two first tooth on her lower jaw! These teeth started to show about 1 month ago. Right now, you can clearly see both of them, especially when she laughs! It is much easier for her to eat her favourite baby snacks bites right now. She likes to play her teeth with her tongue too. She bites almost anything she can see right now. Have to really keep a close eye on her too because everything she see is going to her mouth!

Development on Track

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Today is a public holiday in Brunei in commomeration with the Birthday of Brunei's Army. Enjoy your holiday Brunei people! Anyway, Rania had another visit by her community nurse, Nurse Vivian. As usual, I was asked about her development so far. She is on track with everything! What can she do now? She can crawl a little bit, but still need a lot of practice. She likes to play bubbles and raspberries. She understands peek-a-boo game too. Apart from that, she is now expert holding her own bottles too. Latest, Rania also tried to stand by holding on to big furnitures or couch in front of her. Caught her a couple of times doing this. Yeay!

Her current weight now is 5.84kg and ength of 64cm. Nurse Vivian said she needs to gain more weight as she is slightly lower than other babies her age.  The next plan is to start taking some meat in her diet, that includes mince chicken and beef. Exciting!

Project Runaway

Monday, 30 May 2011

Do you know the program called Project Runaway? Myself and Grandma are up to something fun these days! Grandma just bought her new gadget, a Singer Overlocker. It was her dream to buy that machine! Got it for her as a gift for mother's day and belated birthday gift too. She really deserve that gift after all she has done for me here in Brisbane.

Back to our project matter, we are going to make her Baju Kurong and a dress. Grandma will be in-charged of making the patterns, and sewing the actual Baju. My job will be to put on some beads on them. I never actually put beads on any my own clothes before, I guess this is kinda experimental for me! There are plenty of designs that I can follow online too. Will see how it goes!

Rania's Latest Photo

Sunday, 29 May 2011

Hello everyone! Take a look at her latest photo! She has grown chubbier and got more hair too. Hehe..

Crawling Superbaby - Another Video

Saturday, 28 May 2011

Princess Rania is just getting much better each day! Take a look at another video of her practicing her crawling skills. Still need practice, but one thing for sure, she is getting much faster!

Crawling Superbaby - The Video

Monday, 23 May 2011

Princess Rania is getting much and much better each day with her crawling skills! Took a video of her just now in-action trying to reach for her toys. She is actually getting more faster too. Mommy and Grandma has to get fit too, will need more energy trying to catch her! Hope you enjoy the video. Feel free to comment! I actually viewed this video a couple of times, made me want to cry actually. So proud of her, love you so much princess.

Crawling Superbaby!

Sunday, 22 May 2011

Princess Rania has made a very wonderful progress! Rania had managed to crawl short distance. Yeay! We let her practice a lot for the past few days by putting interesting toys in front of her. To get into the real fighting spirit, I put on her Supergirl outfit too! She is indeed a Super Baby!

First Step

Almost there! I want that toy!

Success!

RBWH Wall of Honour

Wednesday, 18 May 2011

In my last year's blog post, I talked about a Royal Mum Honour Wall put up at one of the hall in the Royal Brisbane Women Hospital. This Honour wall consists of all Mum that had their baby at the RBWH. The lists are updated every December each year. I was very excited to see that my name was already in the lists too. Yeay! The year at the end of our names, simply means the year that we had our baby at the hospital.

A Walk at Roma Street Parkland

Tuesday, 17 May 2011

My first year PhD confirmation is coming very soon. This is compulsory for all research students. Been busy trying to read all the relevant articles. I have to prepare 40 pages of robust literature review as well as a 30 minutes presentation. Should I be scared? I try not to!! Hehe. Talked to other people who has done it too. Some advices were just to keep myself updated with all the available research papers available in my field of work. Sounds fun isn't? Hehe.

Anyway, in need of some time out and relaxing walk! I've always wanted to go solo walk to Roma Street Parkland. It was my first time to go there too. The scenery was very beautiful and I took a couple of photos of some of the areas. The location of this park is actually not that far from our home, just a couple of stops. My husband love gardening so much too, I think he will also love to see this place.

Shopping Adventure

Sunday, 15 May 2011

Today our Princess Rania went for a little bus adventure to Westfield Shopping Mall at Chermside. It was actually the first time for Grandma to use bus to go to Chermside. She said it was not that tiring because the stop was quite close to the Mall itself. As for Princess Rania, she really enjoy shopping too because she got a lot of things to see around her. Currently, it is very cold in Brisbane. Mommy and Grandma bought her cute sweater for her to wear at home as well as for going out too. We were actually very lucky because some of the big shops were on sale! As for me, I found a Superbaby T-shirt for Princess Rania too, very cute! I wonder when she can wear them.

Her looks before shopping.. Mommy, buy me lots of clothes and new toys! Hehe

Waiting for the bus at Normanby Station

Sweaters and Superbaby shirt



Yeay! She got new toy:  Lulu in Tutu!

Arrived home safely








I Love Books

Saturday, 14 May 2011

Princess Rania's 31st Blogpot;

It has been a while since my last post! I have been busy trying to learn so many things such as talking. crawling, etc. As you can see, I'm a very busy baby :p Anyway, ever since I was in the hospital, my Mommy and Daddy loves to read me books in malay or english. I still love books until now because Mommy and Grandma always read simple books to me. Right now I'm learning colours and alphabet. It is very challenging but interesting!

Solids

Thursday, 12 May 2011

It has been 2 months since Rania started taking solids. She loves them very much! Initially, she can only take a little bit of rice porridge. As time goes, we have started to give her some mixed vegetables and fruits. She love bitter vegetables more than sweet ones. But once in a while we gave her a little bit of crushed sweet pears and bananas. Her favourite solids is still warm rice porridge. Rania is currently taking solids about three times per day. But on top of that she still loves her warm milk!

New Tooth :)

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Exciting news! Princess Rania has two first teeth emerging on her lower jaw. Yeay! We can actually see them  everytime she smiles or laugh. Because of that she had a little increased body temperature. She feels more comfortable when she is able to nibble on something especially her toys, books or rusks. Bought her some teething rusks from Woolworth especially for soothing her tender gums. She seemed to love them very much too.

Learning to Sit

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Princess Rania has started to learn new motor skills. She is currently 5.5kg and her age based on her due date is 6 months and 3 weeks. Her latest exciting activity is learning to sit while playing with her toys and reading books. She is getting much better everyday. Our little Princess used both of her hands as support while trying to sit. She looks cute when she does that! Apart from that, our little Princess also started to learn crawling. Right now, she can crawled backwards just a little bit. Soon, she will be able to master it! Yeay!

Gifts From Wawa and Nini Saba

Sunday, 8 May 2011

While Wawa and Nini Saba were here last March, Rania received very special gifts from the both of them. Both gifts are useful for her to learn to start walking. At the moment, her legs are quite strong already to stand with support, of course. She is learning! Thank you for all the wonderful gifts. She really love them, she play with them almost everyday!

Baby Walker: Gift from Wawa Salambigar

Isle Playtime: Gift From Nini Saba

Rania's Development to date

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Based on her due date, as of today, Rania is now 6 months and 2 weeks. She is growing very steadily and getting more responsive to her surrounding. She can do a lot of things now! Current weight is 5.4Kg.

At around, 5 months and 1 week, she was already a rolling pro. It is now very challenging to change her nappy because she likes to roll to her left or right to grab anything that she can see. Rania love to bite anything that she likes too, especially bright toys. That is why we have to watch her really carefully. Her favourite snack now is baby bites. 

Rania is also a feeding pro now. She already started on rice porridge and Heinz crushed veges and fruits. Rania seemed to like bitter things than sweet things. Rania also started to show authority to all her belongings, when people start to touch or play around with her toys, she will get a little upset sometimes. Mommy is not an exception! Ocassionally, we also caught her waving good bye when we were about to go out the door.

What is interesting is that, about a week a go, she is able to sit on her own with her hands as her support. The longest that she can do is about 1 minute! Not bad! Soon, she will be able to sit on her own, looks like! Yeay!

Overall, she is progressing very well. Mommy and daddy so proud of you little Princess!!

Bye Bye Brunei

Friday, 29 April 2011

It was time to say good bye to all our Bruneian families and friends. Lots of things were happening when we were back home. Rania haa a wonderful time seeing all her nini, aunties, uncles and cousins too. It was really hard to say good bye because we were having so much fun time together. Thanks for families and friends who sent us at the airport. Rania and I really miss you all a lot!