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“伊丽莎”比较有意思，但是“伊莱莎”也许比较标准。

Becca (Liza’s brother’s wife) gave birth today to Eloise Candace Hutchinson – a healthy 4.3kg. Mother and baby are well. 2-year-old Xander has a baby sister!

The name Eloise, abbreviated as Ellie, reminds me of Dr. Ellie Arroway, the heroine in Carl Sagan’s Contact (played by Jodie Foster in the movie version.)

Congrats Peter and Becca!

I am sure Boo Seng can’t do this :-

Wow.

For reference, this is the original:

Maybe I’m really late with this one, but I found this sketch absolutely priceless:

Here’s some video footage of the day from Liza’s uncle John.

Liang & Liza wedding – video by John Haapaniemi

Finally, the complete video of the salsa routine at our wedding.

I will not go through the detail of  how difficult it was to give Khek Mow a surprise birthday party, it was practically quite impossible, there were so much obstacles (from the birthday boy himself!!) to overcome, we swear never ever to give him a surprise birthday party again!!!

But with everyone’s help (by not saying anything about it), we did at last manage to give him a birthday surprise by presenting him with  Angie (I had to fetch Angie etc from the airport) knocking at our bedroom door, around 8.30pm (way past our evening meal time)  on the 6th July ( birthday eve).  I believe he was all ready to storm at me for being so late coming home, (and do you know how hungry I am!!), when there stood little Angie (who was supposed to yell “Surprise! !Surprise!!), both so shocked by each other for a while, ( I believe Angie didn’t quite understand the game, and had not expected to see Gong Gong !), then a loud shout from Khek Mow,  who then carried up the stunned Angie (with no “surprise!! Surprise!!).  Luckily, they both had strong hearts at the time!!

We had a family union cum birthday dinner on the 10th July (a Sunday) at the Penang Swimming Club.  Angie had practiced hard to sing the Birthday song, unfortunately,her singing that night was not captured on video.

I will try to attach her practice video here, hope it is successful after getting some tips from Yong. If you’re using anything other than Firefox the video should show up (although it will be sideways unless you’re on Safari)

Angie Video

During this trip Angie has taken to saying “Wook! Daddy Wook!”(Look! Daddy look!). “………something, something…daddy” (with the word daddy pronounced like  ( to follow  the 4 sound system of HanYuPinYin) dad(3rd sound)dy (4th sound)

She had always liked to pretend to be Angie Dog, with all the crawling & panting sounds, and asked to be patted.  But during this trip, she had also started to pretend to be an Angie Cat, with hand curl up (pretending to be paw) cleaning up her face and said “meow, meow”

老三舅 may want to say ” Hey, you are supposed to be a cow!”

Oh, another surprise birthday present, Khek Mow was being conferred a D.S.P.N. Dato’ (not Datuk) by the Penang Governor in conjunction with his ( the Governor’s) 73th Official birthday on the 9th of July this year.

D.S.P.N. (Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri)