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Dear Imaan,
Been sometime since I logged anything for your eyes to feast upon in the future. Main reason- aside the typical "I'm - so - busy - lots - of - things - to - do - work - piling - and - coming - out - of - my - ears" was that Abah's laptop which Mama had been using (since Mama swapped the powerbook with him) had crashed (as in the harddisk).. along with ALL OF YOUR BABY PHOTOS (you're still a baby, Mama can still get photos of you, but it won't replace those early months which now shall only remain in my memory). Sigh! sigh! sigh! When first I came to know about it, it felt like someone close had just died (in this case; it's the harddisk). It's a good thing I did upload some images of you in the blog, else Mama would feel much more at lost.

That's what we get for being digital. And that's why the world will never go paper-less. The next thing I'm going to do is print out all of your pictures.. so that Mama can still see them when I have no teeth instead of having to say "gemm you schupeed cempwetahs".

Ironically though, the same week the TV show "ed" was having an episode regarding an old lady who wanted to sue one of the local kodak shop for one million dollars. Ed asked why (with an expression that this lady must have gone senile) and she explained that she had brought all the photos she had with her late husband (who had just passed away) to the shop for them to reprint into a nice new album. Apparently they had simply chucked it somewhere in their store where someone had mistakenly threw them away. With her husband gone, those pictures were the only thing she had had left to hold on to. Poor thing! I definitely feel you, lady. sigh.. But in Mama's case, I couldn't really sue anyone for a million, eventhough those photos meant a lot more to me.

So that was why Mama hadn't post anything for quite sometime. Somehow, looking at the blog reminded me of all the photos of you that Mama had edited and wanted to print out when Mama first write to you on this blog.

But time helped things to heal, as always. And as not to lose anymore of documenting your precious growing up years, it's time for Mama start recording your activities again.

Yesterday was the first day Mama actually saw you turn. Imaan bulat dah boleh golek! heheheh.. Mama managed to capture half of the process in my mobile phone's low-res camera (the digicam's always not around when you need it!) in case you would want to see later :)

Mama will be taking a nice 33 days off (excluding sundays and merdeka day--yippee!) starting next 23rd of August. So we can spend time golek-golek together, aight Imaan ;) Actually the leave were the left-over leaves Mama had not taken and now entitled to enjoy prior to my resignation. Remember when I wrote about career advancement? well, for our family's sake I hope this is the right one. Abah is proceeding with his own plans to, and hopefully will succeed with the UTM masters programme, Ameen.

And, oh-- last monday you had your first meal and stopped being an exclusively breastfed baby. (Lepas ni kalau Imaan pee pee somewhere dah tak boleh main renjis2 air je laa! So, Imaan, look before you pancut, huh!). There's lots of other things to tell like the Shichida method thingie I enrolled both you and I into. but will keep that for later.

Till then,
cayang Imaan bulat Mama.. mwahhsss :)

*Alfatihah buat rakan sekerja Abah, Encik Yus yang baru sahaja kembali ke Rahmatullah semalam. Arwah meninggal dalam tidurnya pada usia 31 tahun atas sebab yang masih belum dikenal pasti (disyaki keracunan). Semoga Roh Arwah dicucuri RahmatNya. Ameen.