Author: mesyel

yesterday, i said ‘i promise i’ll come up with a decision before midnight’

unfortunately, i still couldn’t right until midnight…

so now… i decide…. *drum roll*

that I’m so sorry, i’m going to have to pass this one.

well, perhaps next time lah…

you guys have fun & dun forget to post pictures ya…

go to the KK Bloggers Meet?

Thanks for the invite, Gall, but i’m still contemplating dis. i dunno… mmm… shy shy cat bah kunun nih

i know i dont hv much time to make decision *tick-tock-tick-tock* but seriously, i couldnt decide.

i should probably go… after all, this was my dream, to hv a sabahan bloggers community… and was it a coincidence? coz i posted that entry on June 30th, 2005 – which in 2 days, will be exactly 2 years ago. or, perhaps i hv some kind of psychic ability to predict the future

and did you know? that particular post was actually part of Giuk.net‘s history. that post was one of the reasons that has led to the creation of Giuk.net eh, ya ka mrB? prasan plak sya ni….

anyhoo…. i’m still a bit hesitant about going to this gathering… i dont know why…

and mrB? where are u when i needed u most? i need u to decide for me. and since mrB and papajoneh are bringing bodyguards , i’ll be bringing mine too, if i decide to go.

promise i’ll come up with a decision before midnight

yaii… mcm antara hidup dan mati ja

OMG! i dun even know what to say…

kesian juga laa… hehehehhh…

*smack own head* DO NOT LAUGH!

trus kan, dia gusuk2 lagi kepala dia… sakit bah mangkali tu, kan?

this video might take some time to load…

over-excited sikit at the letter ‘W’ bcos b4 this, she had trouble recognizing that letter…

when we get to the letter ‘X’, she actually went to point the letter ‘X’ at her ABC chart on the wall…

*CAUTION : LONG ENTRY AHEAD*

At 2yrs, 3mths & 24 days old, she can already recognize 20 out of the 26 alphabets. quite remarkable, kan? although i know that there are a lot of other toddlers her age who are a lot smarter than she, i just couldn’t help being proud of her…

just now, she switched on the Ogawa Air Purifier and said, “Mommy, mesti mo kasi wangi bilik. Nanti bau. Nanti tidak boleh tidur. Ellone yang sendiri pigi pasang.”

and then, she handed me my sarong, which she took from the cupboard and said,”Mommy nah, pakai sarung. malam sudah ni. nanti sejuk. Ellone yang sendiri pigi ambil.”

she also has a very good memory… especially for words. she’s able to memorize words – even big ones, with many syllables – eventhough she had only heard them once. i still remember having this conversation with cherry, and i didnt even know ellone was listening, coz at that time, she seems too occupied with her toys…

cherry : auntie, Melnas lagi cute kepada xavier…
mimi : no… not kepada, daripada… Melnas lagi cute daripada xavier.
cherry : oo..

cherry had a bit of a problem pronouncing the word.

and then, a few days later, we had another conversation…

cherry : auntie, Melnas lagi cute kepada xavier…

before i had the chance to correct her…

ellone : bukan bah cherry… bukan kepada… daripada….
cherry : oo..

see… even when i thought she wasnt listening…

oo.. and actually i am waiting for the video of ellone saying the alphabets to finish uploading… but alala… baru 6% ooo…

maybe i should get ellone’s IQ tested oo… manatau she can be the youngest member of The Malaysian Mensa Society…

well, Georgia Brown is only 2 yrs old and she has become the youngest female member of Mensa.

Click here for the original article.

This article was taken from the Daily Mail UK

Two-year-old ‘Matilda’ becomes youngest ever girl in Mensa
By DUNCAN ROBERTSON

Her parents knew Georgia Brown was bright. After all, she could count to ten, recognised her colours and was even starting to dabble with French.

Her parents knew Ellone Vanessa Sapphire Ariffin wa bright. After all, she could count to ten (in 3 different languages – English (up to 12), Malay & Kadazan), recognised her colours and was even starting to dabble with Kadazan and Mandarin.

But it was only when their bubbly little two-year-old took an IQ test that her towering intellect was confirmed. Georgia has become the youngest female member of Mensa after scoring a genius-rated IQ of 152. This puts her in the same intellectual league, proportionate to her age, as physicist Stephen Hawking.

According to an expert in gifted children, Georgia is the brightest two-year-old she has ever met.

Parents Martin and Lucy Brown have always regarded their youngest child as a remarkably quick learner.
well, jnr and i also hv always regarded ellone as a remarkably quick learner.

She was crawling at five months and walking at nine months.

ellone was also crawling at 5 mths but only walks at 11 mths.

By 14 months, she was getting herself dressed.

“She spoke really early – by 18 months she was having proper conversations,” Mrs Brown said.

“She would say, ‘Hello I’m Georgia, I’m one’. She was also putting her shoes on and putting them on the right feet.”

i think ellone was having proper conversations much earlier than Georgia, if i’m not mistaken, at 16 or 17 mths. when she started to talk, she pronounced the whole word and not 1 or 2 syllables only… like the word “rumah”, some toddler would say “ma” or “uma”. she also puts her shoes/sandals on the right feet at around that age. she knows tu when her shoes tebalik.

Georgia was so perceptive that after one outing to the theatre to see Beauty and the Beast she solemnly informed her parents: “I didn’t like Gaston (the villain). He was mean and arrogant.” Struck by the similarities between her daughter and Matilda, the title character in the Roald Dahl story about a gifted child, Mrs Brown began to worry about Georgia’s future education. She contacted Professor Joan Freeman, a specialist educational psychologist, for advice. Professor Freeman applied the standard Stamford-Binet Intelligence Scale test to Georgia and was amazed to find this was too limited to map her creative abilities. She said: “Even at two she was very thoughtful. “What Georgia did on some questions was of a higher quality than that which was necessary to gain a mark. “She swept right through it like a hot knife through butter. “I would ask her things like ‘give me two blocks or give me ten blocks’ and she would manage it as easily as you would expect a five-year-old. “In one test I asked her to draw a circle and she did it so perfectly. “Most adults would struggle to do that. Her circle was near to being perfect. “It shows she can physically hold a pen well but also that she understands the concept of a circle.”
ellone also can draw a circle, not a perfect one laa… as the professor said, ‘she understands the concept of a circle’

Georgia, who is at nursery school, was also able to tell the difference between pink and purple – a skill which most children learn at primary school age. Professor Freeman said: “I said to her, ‘What a pretty pink skirt, and you have tights and shoes to match’. “She said, ‘They’re not pink, they’re purple’. Most children go to school aged five and start to learn colours, let alone knowing the difference between pink and purple.

i’m not sure ellone knows the difference between pink and purple, but she sure knows all the basic colors like black, white, yellow, red, blue, green, orange and chocolate.
“I have to keep reminding myself that she is only two.”

ya… jnr & i also keep reminding ourselves that ellone is only two.

To the amazement of the family, who live in Aldershot, Hampshire, Georgia scored 152 points on the IQ test, putting her in the top 0.2 per cent of the population. Those with an average IQ would score around 100 points in the same test. Georgia was then invited to join Mensa, the High IQ society whose members have IQs in the top 2 per cent of the population. Georgia is one of only 30 Mensa members under the age of ten. Mrs Brown, chief executive of a charity, believes Georgia has benefited by growing up as the youngest of five children.

She has been absorbing information from her older brothers and sisters and father, a self-employed carpenter, while not receiving any special treatment.

“There is always someone around to offer her something,” her mother said. “But she still has temper tantrums, like you wouldn’t believe, throwing herself on the floor.
ya, perhaps ellone has been absorbing info from the ppl around her… and yes, she has temper tantrums…

“She doesn’t think she’s better and cleverer than everyone else. She is a very kind and loving child.” Georgia, who has a “wicked sense of humour” is as busy as any toddler, enjoying a schedule of ballet classes, listening to stories, dancing, singing, sport and even watching the TV.

ok, i should stop bragging about my daughter.

maybe it’s just normal for a 2 yr old to be able to tell you all about her day when you come back from work, tell you about all the things she had seen on her way to fetch her aunty joselyn and uncle jayjay from school – the buffalos crossing the road, on how uncle TT had to stop the car to let the buffalos pass, and there are mummy & daddy buffalos & also anak buffalos, and then there are cows in the parit, ask uncle TT some more on why and what are the cows doing there… and while on the phone with daddy, telling him about the show she saw on tv – ada orang kana patuk ular…

or maybe she’s just growing up a bit too fast

so, kesimpulannya…

My Ellone – A Genius?

I wish…

“A wise man once said you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. What he meant is nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you’re willing to lose. Too often, going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right, and letting someone in means abandoning the walls you’ve spent a lifetime building. Of course, the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don’t see coming, when we don’t have time to come up with a strategy to pick a side or to measure the potential loss. When that happens, when the battle chooses us and not the other way around, that’s when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.” ~ Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy – S0222 Blues for Sister Someone

Q: How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
A: Concrete floors are very hard to crack!

Q: If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it
take four men to build it?
A: No time at all it is already built.

Q: If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A: Very large hands.

Q: How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A: It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one hand.

Q: How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A: No Problem, He sleeps at night.

Q: If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A: It will be Wet or Sink as simple as that.

Q: What looks like half apple?
A: The other half.

Q: What can you never eat for breakfast?
A: Dinner.

Q: What happened when wheel was invented?
A: It caused a revolution.

Q: Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A: Liquid

Interviewer said “I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!”

The boy thought for a while and said,”My choice is one really difficult question.”

“Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me this, what comes first, Day or Night?”

The boy jolted into reality as his appointment depends on the correctness of his answer, but he thought for a while and said, “It’s the DAY sir!”

“How?” the interviewer asked.

“Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult question!”

Jika ditanya tentang cinta
Macam-macamlah jawapannya
Ada cinta yang bawa ceria
Ada cinta yang sanggup merana

Sanggup berkorban apa saja
Hilang kawan hilang keluarga
Lebih baik cinta pada yang Esa
Tentunya kitakan selamat selamanya

Hidup ini penuh pancaroba
Kiri kanan masalah saja
Janganlah derita kerana cinta
Kerna cinta bahagia

Kalau benar cinta itu buta
Siapakah jadi bangsanya ?
Kalau cinta itu cinta setia
Nangis ketawa sama hahaha

Kalau kita boleh beli cinta
Berapa pula harganya ?
Alangkah indah kita dicinta
Kerana hidup kita lebih bahagia

This song by Amy Mastura is my daughter ellone’s current favorite…. she would always dance and sing along whenever she hear it on tv, i think it’s the theme song for a tv show called Puteri on tv3 (starring Nora Danish)… since she love it so much, i downloaded the mp3.

yesterday evening, i switched on the computer and played that song. set my media player in repeat mode. bah, apa lagi… ellone and cherry pun sing along and dance berabis laa, enjoying themselves… but after the song was repeated for about 5 times, ellone had stop dancing and looking a bit tired, sweating some more… she sat on the floor… so, that’s when this conversation took place…

ellone : mommy, sudah lah tu lagu…
me : why? ellone tidak mau sudah?
ellone : tidak mau…
me : why?
ellone : NANTI ELLONE KENYANG TU LAGU!
me : errmmm… ooookaaayyyy…

~ Daughtry

I’m staring out into the night,
Trying to hide the pain.
I’m going to the place where love
And feeling good don’t ever cost a thing.
And the pain you feel’s a different kind of pain.

I’m going home,
Back to the place where I belong,
And where your love has always been enough for me.
I’m not running from.
No, I think you got me all wrong.
I don’t regret this life I chose for me.
But these places and these faces are getting old
So I’m going home.
Well I’m going home.

The miles are getting longer, it seems,
The closer I get to you.
I’ve not always been the best man or friend for you.
But your love, remains true.
And I don’t know why.
You always seem to give me another try.

So I’m going home,
Back to the place where I belong,
[Home lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]

And where your love has always been enough for me.
I’m not running from.
No, I think you got me all wrong.
I don’t regret this life I chose for me.
But these places and these faces are getting old.

Be careful what you wish for,
‘Cause you just might get it all.
You just might get it all,
And then some you don’t want.
Be careful what you wish for,
‘Cause you just might get it all.
You just might get it all, yeah.

Oh, well I’m going home,
Back to the place where I belong,
And where your love has always been enough for me.
I’m not running from.
No, I think you got me all wrong.
I don’t regret this life I chose for me.
But these places and these faces are getting old.
I said these places and these faces are getting old.
So I’m going home.
I’m going home.

currently listening to Daughtry’s full album… nice oo all the songs…

was kinda inpired by these quotes today… so, sharing them with you lah

“The early bird catches the worm; a stitch in time saves nine.
He who hesitates is lost.
We can’t pretend we haven’t been told.
We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to ‘seize the day’.
Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves.
We have to make our own mistakes.
We have to learn our own lessons.
We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves like Benjamin Franklin meant.
That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping.
And that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying.”

“Responsibility.
It really does suck.
Unfortunately, once you get past the age of braces and training bras, responsibility doesn’t go away.
It can’t be avoided.
Either someone makes us face it or we suffer the consequences.
And still adulthood has it perks.
I mean the shoes, the sex, the no parents anywhere telling you what to do.
That’s, pretty damn good.”

“The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free.
Whether good or bad, at least they’re out in the open, like it or not.
And once your secrets are out in the open, you don’t have to hide behind them anymore.
The problem with secrets is even when you think you’re in control, you’re not.”

p/s : guess where did i get these from