kiban, Mar. 1, 2009

shaken

From time to time I read news that shakes me. Today, is one of those days. The BBC reports that Israel is preparing to cut off power to Palestinians in Gaza in order to halt missile attacks. To read that something as abhorrent as collective punishment is planned, and to imagine that it will likely go ahead without serious attempts to halt it from either American, Canadian or other Western or Asian authorities leaves me literally nauseous. How can such a demonisation of a human collectivity be tolerated? I want to vomit and cry. If this is an accepted way for humans to treat humans in this time, what kind of world will our little Kicker grow into? What horrifying possibilities are we permitting to encroach on our horizon? I hate to imagine. No matter the challenge, there must be a separation of the combatant and the civilian, the individual and the collective. Without these human society not only stagnates as possibility is strangled, but security, the basis of social sanity, is made to evaporate. Collective punishment is thus an attack not just on a particular group of people but on the infrastructure of peaceful and prosperous human society.

kiban's new friend

good old days

Still Happy Days~~~`

aaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggg

At Uncle Robin's ranch
Somehow I like this photo a lot. Kiban looks sooooo super cute with his curly eyelashes whenever he cries... (I am a bad mom!)

It's been 2 years!

It's been two wonderful years since Tyler and I tied the knot. We got married at the Canadian embassy in Seoul on Mar. 14, 2005, and then our second one happened on the 20th of March, the same year at the Chosun Hotel in Seoul, and the last one was at the Kelowna Golf Club in Canada. All our weddings were so much fun! ;)

kiban and mommy

Our once little boy Kiban now weighs 9.6kg (maybe about 19-20 pounds??), and is 70cm tall. such a chubby healthy baby! :D
Mommy tried him in a sling, since carrying him in the bjorn baby carrier has been causing so much pain in her back. (Imagine carrying a 10 kg sandbag in your arm...)
However, Kiban doesn't seem to be enjoying the new method. :(

haha!

he's a star!

funny hat!

kiban's smile

kiban's professional!

family photo

Yesterday we took a family photo at some studio in seoul.