四十不惑生日 (Birthday of A 40 Something)

前几天，孩子们的老爸生日，做姐姐的和弟弟串通买了个他们最喜爱的卡通蛋糕回来庆祝。

A few days ago, it was supposed to be daddy’s birthday. My little girl and little boy conspired to buy home a cartoon themed cake for celebration.

姐姐首先让她的蘑菇小可爱和蛋糕拍了张合照，弟弟也不甘落后，让他的小熊和蛋糕拍张照留念。

The elder sister first posed for a photograph with her beloved mushroom cutie (instead of with her dad), then the younger brother posed for a photograph with his beloved little bear (instead of with his dad).

之后，姐弟俩开开心心的插蜡烛点火唱生日歌，天经地义的让老爸为他们和他们可爱的蘑菇与小熊摄影。这就是四十不惑年龄之后的老爸生日状况，你们快乐所以我快乐。。。

Both the sister and the brother then happily decorated the cake with candles, sang song and let daddy naturally took memorable photos of them with their cuties.

This was how, as a 40 something daddy, celebrated his birthday. As long as the kids are happy, I guess the parents will be happy, too.

Lion and Kids

This Lunar New Year, as usual I drove back to my home town with my spouse and my kids. The journey was a long ones from the southern tip of Penisular Malaysia to almost the extreme north of the country. Furtunately this year the traffic was smooth throughout probably because I went back on Tuesday morning when most of the people must have gone back during the preceding weekend.

I love the feeling of being in the home town with my mother and siblings eventhough the house is normally quite messy during chinese new year due to the large number of relatives and kids who were all around interacting with each other.

My kids also love going back to my home town so much that my daughter shed tears when we were on the way back, not feeling like leaving her "gang" there.

Lion dance is always the kids' favorite and this year was no exception.

I took some photos during my stay there and posted some onto my Flickr account. Surprisingly, one of the photos (posted here above) appeared on the Flickr Explore page on 10-Feb-2011 at position no. 18. However today it slides down to position no. 93, and I realise that the position will change over time subject to some criterion unknown to the public that are set by Flickr.

This is my first photo that appears on Flickr's most interesting photos page and I hope this will motivate me to explore further in the area of photography and throughout the process of continuous learning.