Over the weekend, I followed my good buddy, JM, to her yoga workout at a very comfortable and well-kept bungalow along Jalan Ampang. It is an advanced class, and I have no idea what advanced yoga means. The yoga experiences I have had so far before it were a few beginners' classes in Brunei wayyyyy many years ago, and the recent home-yoga sessions with our Wii Fitness.
Soon, I found myself in positions I never could have imagined, stretching the hamstrings and the whole body and limbs. It was interesting and good fun, but the next day every inch of my body ached like hell. I'm so impressed with the instructor's flexibility with his body parts, it's like folding himself up like folding a paper. I hope to be joining her again for the workouts.
That evening, we went to the much-heardabout steamboat buffet at Sunway Mentari, after knowing the popularity of it and how tasty those grilled chicken wings are, for over a year. The traffic at the short stretch from FH along LDP to the U-turn was damn packed. It seems like rush hour traffic. But fortunately we still arrived on time for our 7.30pm booking. Then again, it didn't make any difference, as the staff couldn't find our booking number anyway.
The number of people having a feast there was soooo darn kwacheong. Across the street, there's one where the people were seen loitering and waiting outside the premises, waiting for a table to be seated. Goodness! Recession? What's that?
Hearing so much about it from friends and food blogs, I am so eager to sample the food out and decide for myself if it's that good. The one we went, it has BBQ stuffs too, and both JM and I gave thumbs-up to the grilled lamb and the grilled sotong. The rest are really ma-ma-dei. Even the chicken wings. It was too sweet for our liking.
It is nice to be seated outside though, under the dark black night, with a good breeze, enjoying food and company of people you are with. But for us, we had waited for a lonnnnggg time for the soup to boil, made worse without any cover over the pot. It was really potong stim. Both my hub and JM grabbed plates and plates of raw food to gobble up, but by the time it was cooked, we were rather half full with the BBQ and cooked food served on the platter. The soup was also ma-ma-dei, not much oomph to brag about.
Then again, all of us do agree, for that price to be served BBQ as well, it wasn't considered too pricey laa..but, as a lesson from the experience (not like it's the first time anyway, but the lesson seemed to never stay in the head), never try to eat everything in buffets (at our age, don't overstuff yourself hoh, can die one), but selection is very important. Must choose to eat the most expensive food, that's the only way to justify the money you pay for it. Remember now! Darn!
Monday, April 27, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
English lesson II
Children,
today teacher is here to teach you what "putting words in people's mouth" means.
By a classic ekzampel, listen to this conversation between 2 people:
Anybody: Why is he sleeping, huh?
Somebody: Ohhh.. he's tired, after a long drive, as he's also very old. So let's keep quiet and let him rest, k?
Anybody: Ohhh.. i see, i see.
Hours later, Somebody told Everybody "Any is so panai, she tells everyone that he is tired and drove a long journey, so he's sleeping and asked everyone to keep quiet"
This is what we called "putting words in people's mouth", sometimes can be translated as "eat dead cat" too (sek sei mau).
Class dismiss.
today teacher is here to teach you what "putting words in people's mouth" means.
By a classic ekzampel, listen to this conversation between 2 people:
Anybody: Why is he sleeping, huh?
Somebody: Ohhh.. he's tired, after a long drive, as he's also very old. So let's keep quiet and let him rest, k?
Anybody: Ohhh.. i see, i see.
Hours later, Somebody told Everybody "Any is so panai, she tells everyone that he is tired and drove a long journey, so he's sleeping and asked everyone to keep quiet"
This is what we called "putting words in people's mouth", sometimes can be translated as "eat dead cat" too (sek sei mau).
Class dismiss.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Koko knows division from mommy.
It's a sense of achievement, to impart new knowledge to them. These days, koko learns division in his maths subject. He came home and told me he not understand what the teacher babbles. Hence, mommy is here to save the day! How great it feels.
So, back to basics, still remember how division is done for large numbers divided by a number smaller than 9? Guess we are so used to automatically dividing by the number on top of the line and bottom of it, it is pretty nostalgic to use back the divide symbol.
He is so happy to finally know what was going on in class, and all the exercises was completed in no time, with no errors. I am so proud of him! Certainly has my genes! *ahem*
The next day, he gives me a scenario and asked me what he should do if this this happens. I do like it when he thinks like that. Good thing too I knew what he intend to ask and I knew how to answer it too. And it gives me immense pleasure, making it my day indeed.
So, back to basics, still remember how division is done for large numbers divided by a number smaller than 9? Guess we are so used to automatically dividing by the number on top of the line and bottom of it, it is pretty nostalgic to use back the divide symbol.
He is so happy to finally know what was going on in class, and all the exercises was completed in no time, with no errors. I am so proud of him! Certainly has my genes! *ahem*
The next day, he gives me a scenario and asked me what he should do if this this happens. I do like it when he thinks like that. Good thing too I knew what he intend to ask and I knew how to answer it too. And it gives me immense pleasure, making it my day indeed.
The odd jobs I did not too long ago.
When I was 17, just finished off SPM exam, I flew to Melbourne for a holiday alone, stayed with my elder brother who was studying in Monash Uni in his final year.
At that time, to me, flying to a land so far away was a big deal. It was my very first time on an aeroplane and I was doing it alone, all by myself! Happy and excited, I indeed was.
I spent close to 2 months of the holiday there, going to camping trips, knowing my brother's friends, meeting with relatives, and also worked there in an ice-cream factory for 6 weeks.
It was the evening shifts I was posted to, from 3pm to 11pm, after which my brother would be there at the gate to take me home. He bought an old car to commute to and fro his 2 jobs during his vacations, and a part-time job when studying.
The job was pretty easy, just putting cones into the cups, those cornetto icecreams. After some hands-on training for a week or so, I could pick 16 cones in 2 hands from the conveyor belt and throw 'em into the cups, which are already pre-arranged neatly on a tray, in about 3 secs. That was quite fun in the beginning but standing there doing the same thing for hours can really wear out the legs.
There were about 7-8 ladies there and we took turns to have our tea breaks and dinner. The job was so easy that the time dragged like hell. But payday on every Thursdays make it bearable. I was paid about AUD300+ a week. I had some free ice-creams on some *special* days too, and it all tasted soooo good. Those 6 weeks opened my eyes on how a life as a factory worker is like. *shivers*
The other paid job I had was during the months after the next big exam, i.e. STPM. I went to Spore with a good friend of mine, landed in OCBC as a bank teller for 2 months. We were given 2 weeks training in the headquarters office, which was rather fun. But life changed after the training. The real job wasn't quite so fun. It's killing my nerves going to work everyday. Once I "short"ed, couldn't find where the missing 150 bucks went and I cried! *sob* I was so happy to be back to kampung after that.
Among them and the rest of the jobs I had after graduation, I still loved the one I'm now in best. 'Coz I believe the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. *ahem!*
At that time, to me, flying to a land so far away was a big deal. It was my very first time on an aeroplane and I was doing it alone, all by myself! Happy and excited, I indeed was.
I spent close to 2 months of the holiday there, going to camping trips, knowing my brother's friends, meeting with relatives, and also worked there in an ice-cream factory for 6 weeks.
It was the evening shifts I was posted to, from 3pm to 11pm, after which my brother would be there at the gate to take me home. He bought an old car to commute to and fro his 2 jobs during his vacations, and a part-time job when studying.
The job was pretty easy, just putting cones into the cups, those cornetto icecreams. After some hands-on training for a week or so, I could pick 16 cones in 2 hands from the conveyor belt and throw 'em into the cups, which are already pre-arranged neatly on a tray, in about 3 secs. That was quite fun in the beginning but standing there doing the same thing for hours can really wear out the legs.
There were about 7-8 ladies there and we took turns to have our tea breaks and dinner. The job was so easy that the time dragged like hell. But payday on every Thursdays make it bearable. I was paid about AUD300+ a week. I had some free ice-creams on some *special* days too, and it all tasted soooo good. Those 6 weeks opened my eyes on how a life as a factory worker is like. *shivers*
The other paid job I had was during the months after the next big exam, i.e. STPM. I went to Spore with a good friend of mine, landed in OCBC as a bank teller for 2 months. We were given 2 weeks training in the headquarters office, which was rather fun. But life changed after the training. The real job wasn't quite so fun. It's killing my nerves going to work everyday. Once I "short"ed, couldn't find where the missing 150 bucks went and I cried! *sob* I was so happy to be back to kampung after that.
Among them and the rest of the jobs I had after graduation, I still loved the one I'm now in best. 'Coz I believe the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. *ahem!*
How I sweep the floor
Before I change hat and reveal my silai's image to tell you about how I sweep the floor, lemme show you the pictures I put up around the home sinn..
Must respect the old folks. Without them, there won't be us and the kids. Love them, hug them, tell them to enjoy life (read: leave us alone! just kidding!)
This picture costs us RM350, but worth every cent of it as I love it very much.
Aiks! Ape ni?
OK OK.. these are my brooms I use to sweep the floor.
I remember when I was young, I used to use those brooms made of torn twigs from the trees or something like that? I don't know what it is, but it's messy, dirty and the "old" kind of broom. I started to use those wiper sheets about few years back, introduced by my elder brother to it, and I love it so much as the dust won't be flying around.
But the damn sheets costs money, every other day, I would have to buy packs of it. It became cheaper with other Made-in-China copycats, but the other disadvantage of it is that the area of contact is so small.
My mama who used to stay with me, dislike the wiper sheet, it's rather usual for old folks to just hate "change", isn't it? She wanted to get those old brooms that we used to have but I objected, and the closest I bought for her is a similar version, made with "cleaner" material. I then saw this re-usable cloth material to replace the wiper sheet, and it's doing wonders. Just change the cloth, wash it and reuse it when it's dry.
For some reasons, I don't like using the vacuum cleaner. It's very daunting and troublesome to take those machines out and plug it up, pulling the wires all over the place. We don't have a carpet in any case, for the sake of the children and my sensitive sinus. But we have seen a demo of the water-based cleaner, brand Rainbow and Roboclean. They are really good, being able to clean mattresses, curtains and the air too! But it comes with a high price tag (about 10k) and thus, it remains just a wish for the moment.
But the spongy-broom, does quite the same trick actually. And I use that to clean the floor twice every week, since it takes a longer time to finish off the task. Wipe rinse wipe rinse. Soon, the pail of water becomes a chocolaty color like my morning mocha. And another pail of water for the mop for a 2nd round of cleaning. Though it eats up the time, it's good exercise for me AND the floor is really squeeky clean after that. How come the maid can't make the floor so clean like I do, eh?
I saw on some home fair exhibitions there's a product in the market to auto-sweep the floor, also comes with a high price tag. It moves around on its own, gobbling up any hair or dust or mites and will go on its own to the central-recharging to recharge itself, can detects the edge of the floor so you need not have to worry about it falling off the stairs. It would be useful if your place is just flat. Now, wouldn't that be nice to have?
Are you still reading? Yes? I'm shocked! haha..
Must respect the old folks. Without them, there won't be us and the kids. Love them, hug them, tell them to enjoy life 
This picture costs us RM350, but worth every cent of it as I love it very much.
Aiks! Ape ni?OK OK.. these are my brooms I use to sweep the floor.
I remember when I was young, I used to use those brooms made of torn twigs from the trees or something like that? I don't know what it is, but it's messy, dirty and the "old" kind of broom. I started to use those wiper sheets about few years back, introduced by my elder brother to it, and I love it so much as the dust won't be flying around.
But the damn sheets costs money, every other day, I would have to buy packs of it. It became cheaper with other Made-in-China copycats, but the other disadvantage of it is that the area of contact is so small.
My mama who used to stay with me, dislike the wiper sheet, it's rather usual for old folks to just hate "change", isn't it? She wanted to get those old brooms that we used to have but I objected, and the closest I bought for her is a similar version, made with "cleaner" material. I then saw this re-usable cloth material to replace the wiper sheet, and it's doing wonders. Just change the cloth, wash it and reuse it when it's dry.
For some reasons, I don't like using the vacuum cleaner. It's very daunting and troublesome to take those machines out and plug it up, pulling the wires all over the place. We don't have a carpet in any case, for the sake of the children and my sensitive sinus. But we have seen a demo of the water-based cleaner, brand Rainbow and Roboclean. They are really good, being able to clean mattresses, curtains and the air too! But it comes with a high price tag (about 10k) and thus, it remains just a wish for the moment.
But the spongy-broom, does quite the same trick actually. And I use that to clean the floor twice every week, since it takes a longer time to finish off the task. Wipe rinse wipe rinse. Soon, the pail of water becomes a chocolaty color like my morning mocha. And another pail of water for the mop for a 2nd round of cleaning. Though it eats up the time, it's good exercise for me AND the floor is really squeeky clean after that. How come the maid can't make the floor so clean like I do, eh?
I saw on some home fair exhibitions there's a product in the market to auto-sweep the floor, also comes with a high price tag. It moves around on its own, gobbling up any hair or dust or mites and will go on its own to the central-recharging to recharge itself, can detects the edge of the floor so you need not have to worry about it falling off the stairs. It would be useful if your place is just flat. Now, wouldn't that be nice to have?
Are you still reading? Yes? I'm shocked! haha..
Monday, April 20, 2009
Lucky draw for the middle seat
Do your kids just love to fight for anything at all? I wonder if it's more "happening" this way. Things get easily are not so "appreciated" indeed. If it's fought over and you won, there's a sense of jubilant that brings more joy than just possessing whatever you are having, I think.
I had been settling their fights over who sits in the middle seat in the car for so long. Everytime, someone would lose and sulk and show his/her long face. I liked to let them settle it among themselves, but most times, the noise they generated is really enough to bring your mood down.
So, yesterday I told them it'll be a lucky draw each time we go out. Initially, I told them to just use their hands, go lalalilitatampung! The first time, they had a draw, and koko being more "wiser", knew how to make use of that advantage to "change" his hand at the last moment, while the other 2 moong beibei didn't know what and how happened.
I knew it wasn't quite fair, so I changed it to lucky draw instead. Took 3 toothpicks and broke 2 at its end, told them to draw one each from my hand. Whoever has the whole toothpick would get to sit in the middle. Fair and square. That solves the headache. The boys are willingly happy to accept the defeat when they didn't get the luck, but meimei would always cry when she loses. *roll eyes*
I had been settling their fights over who sits in the middle seat in the car for so long. Everytime, someone would lose and sulk and show his/her long face. I liked to let them settle it among themselves, but most times, the noise they generated is really enough to bring your mood down.
So, yesterday I told them it'll be a lucky draw each time we go out. Initially, I told them to just use their hands, go lalalilitatampung! The first time, they had a draw, and koko being more "wiser", knew how to make use of that advantage to "change" his hand at the last moment, while the other 2 moong beibei didn't know what and how happened.
I knew it wasn't quite fair, so I changed it to lucky draw instead. Took 3 toothpicks and broke 2 at its end, told them to draw one each from my hand. Whoever has the whole toothpick would get to sit in the middle. Fair and square. That solves the headache. The boys are willingly happy to accept the defeat when they didn't get the luck, but meimei would always cry when she loses. *roll eyes*
Cheap thrills and entertainment
Sunday being family day, it would usually be breakfast outside and some cheap thrills and enjoyment for the children. That is, if papa does not need to go for meetings. Today it's their luck, and what I had in mind is BA donuts Buy6free3 promotion. yum yum.
We slept in till about 10, after going to bed only at 1am the night before watching Changeling. Lucky the kids do not kacau when they get up, they just straight go out to watch TV without any fuss. Such a contrast compared to the time when they were smaller. When they would usually have you up and about to attend and fuss over them once they open their eyes in the morning.
As such, we had a late breakfast, almost like brunch. Then we hopped over to the mall and went for some cheap thrills. Bought 3 tokens for the kiddies ride and play, each one is given 1 token only nia. How pathetic!
There's an exhibition of Dinosaurs around, and I told papa to pay for the tickets laa.. how often we pong-chan them. RM12 for adults and RM8 for child. Not cheap too, huh?
Fancy a robotic baby dino? It moves and blinks and wags its tail. And it can get sick, learn new tricks and need to be fed and played with. A toy/pet which would be so weird to have. If not for the high price tag, I would have take my purse out, pay and take home. The salesperson said 1699, papa asked if it's 16.99 or one thousand six hundred and ninety nine. Duh! Isn't that rather a situpeed question?
Not that I pin-sum and didn't like to take koko's pictures, but that young man really hates the idea of camwhoring. I gave up, no good to force people, right? min keong moe hang fook.
We then spent quite a long time doing sand art. It was such a crowd, but the children persevere and enjoyed themselves so much.
Can you believe it? Though sand art had been around for quite sometime already, and we had seen it many times, this is actually the first time my 3 kids tried their hands in it. They were absolutely clueless what to do at first, and after showing them, they were just so hooked. I hope they won't cry for it when we pass through a sand art booth the next time we go gaigai.
As we reached BA shop, they were giving some free donuts out, and papa, needless to say, kiasu and went to grab a few. I still went ahead to use up the voucher and brought 9 donuts home for teatime. After that, we went for a dip in the pool and out for dinner. What a day. I should be in bed now, btw.
We slept in till about 10, after going to bed only at 1am the night before watching Changeling. Lucky the kids do not kacau when they get up, they just straight go out to watch TV without any fuss. Such a contrast compared to the time when they were smaller. When they would usually have you up and about to attend and fuss over them once they open their eyes in the morning.
As such, we had a late breakfast, almost like brunch. Then we hopped over to the mall and went for some cheap thrills. Bought 3 tokens for the kiddies ride and play, each one is given 1 token only nia. How pathetic!
There's an exhibition of Dinosaurs around, and I told papa to pay for the tickets laa.. how often we pong-chan them. RM12 for adults and RM8 for child. Not cheap too, huh?
Fancy a robotic baby dino? It moves and blinks and wags its tail. And it can get sick, learn new tricks and need to be fed and played with. A toy/pet which would be so weird to have. If not for the high price tag, I would have take my purse out, pay and take home. The salesperson said 1699, papa asked if it's 16.99 or one thousand six hundred and ninety nine. Duh! Isn't that rather a situpeed question?
Not that I pin-sum and didn't like to take koko's pictures, but that young man really hates the idea of camwhoring. I gave up, no good to force people, right? min keong moe hang fook.
We then spent quite a long time doing sand art. It was such a crowd, but the children persevere and enjoyed themselves so much.
Can you believe it? Though sand art had been around for quite sometime already, and we had seen it many times, this is actually the first time my 3 kids tried their hands in it. They were absolutely clueless what to do at first, and after showing them, they were just so hooked. I hope they won't cry for it when we pass through a sand art booth the next time we go gaigai.As we reached BA shop, they were giving some free donuts out, and papa, needless to say, kiasu and went to grab a few. I still went ahead to use up the voucher and brought 9 donuts home for teatime. After that, we went for a dip in the pool and out for dinner. What a day. I should be in bed now, btw.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
2 good movies.
Watched over Fri and Sat night: Slumdog Millionaire and Changeling.
The former one, I guess it need not any intro already. And I would say it's not the best movie of the year for nothing. It's a very fresh idea and very meaningful story, definitely calls for a celebration of life though how tough the going gets to be. A must-see, ok?
As for the latter, the story tagline goes "To find her son, she did what noone else dared". Starred Angelina Jolie. Boy! She's really looking better as she ages. I watch until lau-hau-sui. No flesh was bared, please, people.
It's a story which would tug the heartstrings for many moms. I totally feel the heart-wrenching moments in it.
So tired now, have to sleep early tonight. Must.
The former one, I guess it need not any intro already. And I would say it's not the best movie of the year for nothing. It's a very fresh idea and very meaningful story, definitely calls for a celebration of life though how tough the going gets to be. A must-see, ok?
As for the latter, the story tagline goes "To find her son, she did what noone else dared". Starred Angelina Jolie. Boy! She's really looking better as she ages. I watch until lau-hau-sui. No flesh was bared, please, people.
It's a story which would tug the heartstrings for many moms. I totally feel the heart-wrenching moments in it.
So tired now, have to sleep early tonight. Must.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
My "siew lai lai" life.
There are times I feel really grateful for the life I'm having now. And I have to thank my hubby for bringing home the bacon, freeing me from the pressure and stress of KPIs, bosses, working hours, traffic jams. It's also the best years to enjoy parenthood, when the children are between the ages of 2 to 6, at their cutest, say and do the darndest things. I so love the "freedom" when they leave me alone in the mornings, and picking them up from school, seeing their happy smiles on their faces and babbling how their schoolday is.
Yes, this post is about bragging how great my life is!
Just last weekend, I had a whole body pampering session. Bought the Body Shop's Africa Spa Body Salt Scrub and happily scrubbing away every inch of my skin. Except the back. I need to get hold of those "extended hands" for that. Then after bathing, the hair was layered with some treatment cream, and a towel to cover it while I scrub my face and put on SKII treatment mask. Wuiseh! How "refreshed" I felt that time! After 20-40 mins or so, rinsed off the hair, the face, put on this, this, that, that, and the orangy body cream completed the whole session. Whoa! Totally transformed! Not bad! It really was awesome.
This morning, I felt like getting out of my usual pyjamas eating bread for breakfast to doing something cooler. Like bringing my laptop to Kopitiam and eat nasi lemak special with a white coffee while I blog and surf the net. Don't it just complete the whole leisurely life? *grin*
Anyway, I did almost that. Eat nasi lemak, I did but I had the cuppa of cham drink with it with a friend who is back for a short trip from overseas. Had a good time catching up with her though it was only for an hour or so.
She told me about her recent Langkawi trip with just her 2 kids alone (??!!) and how great Bali is for a holiday. That made me kinda looking forward to a trip there. My banker bought this hotel package for a 3 night's stay for RM650, something like that, and I wasn't very enthusiastic about it though. He told me to hunt around for cheap airfare to Bali to realize this family holiday trip, but I had so far turned a deaf ear to his request. Now, I guess I will be doing it. hmm..
Time to change back into my worker attire now.. back to housework.
Yes, this post is about bragging how great my life is!
Just last weekend, I had a whole body pampering session. Bought the Body Shop's Africa Spa Body Salt Scrub and happily scrubbing away every inch of my skin. Except the back. I need to get hold of those "extended hands" for that. Then after bathing, the hair was layered with some treatment cream, and a towel to cover it while I scrub my face and put on SKII treatment mask. Wuiseh! How "refreshed" I felt that time! After 20-40 mins or so, rinsed off the hair, the face, put on this, this, that, that, and the orangy body cream completed the whole session. Whoa! Totally transformed! Not bad! It really was awesome.
This morning, I felt like getting out of my usual pyjamas eating bread for breakfast to doing something cooler. Like bringing my laptop to Kopitiam and eat nasi lemak special with a white coffee while I blog and surf the net. Don't it just complete the whole leisurely life? *grin*
Anyway, I did almost that. Eat nasi lemak, I did but I had the cuppa of cham drink with it with a friend who is back for a short trip from overseas. Had a good time catching up with her though it was only for an hour or so.
She told me about her recent Langkawi trip with just her 2 kids alone (??!!) and how great Bali is for a holiday. That made me kinda looking forward to a trip there. My banker bought this hotel package for a 3 night's stay for RM650, something like that, and I wasn't very enthusiastic about it though. He told me to hunt around for cheap airfare to Bali to realize this family holiday trip, but I had so far turned a deaf ear to his request. Now, I guess I will be doing it. hmm..
Time to change back into my worker attire now.. back to housework.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Here and there.
Ahhh.. finally some peace. All 3 are back at school and leave me alone to enjoy my "me" time. I feel really sleepy this whole week, so tired that I don't feel like doing anything all the freaking time. But I had to, as the toilets were way too unbearably filthy after 2 weeks of non-scrubbing. I was hoping my part time maid would come in as promised, she went back to her kampung as someone in her family went to hospital, apparently. But no news from her after 2 weeks came and gone.
Hence, though tired and lazy, I spread my time about to do the various housework. Eventually, I find that it's really a waste of time laboring on these kind of jobs. I definitely have MUCH MORE better things to do to spend the time wiser and more worthy. Thank God she sms-ed last night to say she's just back and will be coming in. Finally! I so happily leave the pile of clothes that needed ironing where they are, waiting for her to come in and settle that. hehe.. Thank God for these helpers. Now I really have to start working on the urgents tasks.. blogging, chatting, surfing net.. hahaha.. hell, no!
First thing first, it's the month of April, and it means getting the forms for IRB filled and submitted. I hate doing this every year, and every time we would scramble at the last minute, scurrying to the nearest IRB office on the very last day. I so hate that feeling of urgency. Now then, you might wonder, I'm a homemaker, need to pay tax ger meh? Certainly! Homemaker also get paid, in my case. And apart from mine, I have to do it for my hubby. He already reminded me over and over again to read the forms. His BM sucks so badly, his son might do even better than him in no time. Sigh.. I should add on to my role, I'm a secretary to him too.
The other day, I do not know why I had a sudden urge to visit Penang. The last time we were there, I think was about 2004, as I was just pregnant with meimei and the boys were having chicken pox. I wasn't much worried about the pregnancy then as I already have the immunisation, supposedly. Wonder why the sudden desire to make a visit there again, but I had this "image" in my mind, walking in Botanical Gardens with the kids, savoring the VSOP tastes of durians in those durian orchards and walk around the uni ground again to reminisce the good old days. I then told my hub about it the next day, he didn't seem like he heard me. Hmm... oh well.
Time for yoga. And it's Friday again! So fast?
Hence, though tired and lazy, I spread my time about to do the various housework. Eventually, I find that it's really a waste of time laboring on these kind of jobs. I definitely have MUCH MORE better things to do to spend the time wiser and more worthy. Thank God she sms-ed last night to say she's just back and will be coming in. Finally! I so happily leave the pile of clothes that needed ironing where they are, waiting for her to come in and settle that. hehe.. Thank God for these helpers. Now I really have to start working on the urgents tasks.. blogging, chatting, surfing net.. hahaha.. hell, no!
First thing first, it's the month of April, and it means getting the forms for IRB filled and submitted. I hate doing this every year, and every time we would scramble at the last minute, scurrying to the nearest IRB office on the very last day. I so hate that feeling of urgency. Now then, you might wonder, I'm a homemaker, need to pay tax ger meh? Certainly! Homemaker also get paid, in my case. And apart from mine, I have to do it for my hubby. He already reminded me over and over again to read the forms. His BM sucks so badly, his son might do even better than him in no time. Sigh.. I should add on to my role, I'm a secretary to him too.
The other day, I do not know why I had a sudden urge to visit Penang. The last time we were there, I think was about 2004, as I was just pregnant with meimei and the boys were having chicken pox. I wasn't much worried about the pregnancy then as I already have the immunisation, supposedly. Wonder why the sudden desire to make a visit there again, but I had this "image" in my mind, walking in Botanical Gardens with the kids, savoring the VSOP tastes of durians in those durian orchards and walk around the uni ground again to reminisce the good old days. I then told my hub about it the next day, he didn't seem like he heard me. Hmm... oh well.
Time for yoga. And it's Friday again! So fast?
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Of fever and lausai in the car.
There's just no escaping. The flu bug hops from one to another, from the eldest to the middle to the youngest. It's not so stressed as when they were younger, probably I'm now more a "seasoned nurse" than just a beginner.
I find that both koko and meimei have a lot of similarities, even in terms of their behavior when they fall sick. Both are more clingy, more manja, more difficult. Didi really has his own characteristics and personality. He just lies down on the bed or wherever you tell him to, and would make no fuss. Except when feeding, he would throw back all out if food is given when he's unwell. So, I had to do so in less quantity and more frequency. Sigh.. he seems to look skinnier and skinnier, my inlaws do think I am not feeding them well enough.
Wa see wa, about old folks, they do jump and fuss round the kids when they are sick. Yeah, I'm sure it hurts them like hell, so was I, but it do get pretty annoying when they overdo it. And stressing me even more at times like this. And they tend to provide the advice to feed them with paracetamol even when they have no fever! So that the fever won't come back! Duh!
I used to just "try" and educate my mom that it's not the right way to deal with drugs. But with the inlaws, I just nod my head and quickly cabut. It's really better to be home and away from all of these.
Yesterday, I had to drag meimei along to market as I have to do some marketing. We had wanton mee for breakfast and everything went on fine, it was just a couple of things I need to get and didn't spend much time lingering around. When we were about to go, she told me tearfully that her tummy aches badly and need to go to loo. You know pasat toilets.. can enter?
Nah.. I told her to hang on and I desperately try to get us home as fast as I can. I think the urge subsided a bit then, but halfway, she was in tears again, and hanging on so tightly trying so hard not to lau-sai in her pants and in the car. I really thought she did when the air suddenly became so stenched. Well, what to do? I braved myself for the worst, if she had to, I would just have a lot of "dirt" to clean. Lucky we got on home and she hang on till the butts sat on the toilet bowl. What an emergency! And such a brave girl! Bravo!
I think tomorrow, everyone will be fine again. Keeping fingers crossed.
I find that both koko and meimei have a lot of similarities, even in terms of their behavior when they fall sick. Both are more clingy, more manja, more difficult. Didi really has his own characteristics and personality. He just lies down on the bed or wherever you tell him to, and would make no fuss. Except when feeding, he would throw back all out if food is given when he's unwell. So, I had to do so in less quantity and more frequency. Sigh.. he seems to look skinnier and skinnier, my inlaws do think I am not feeding them well enough.
Wa see wa, about old folks, they do jump and fuss round the kids when they are sick. Yeah, I'm sure it hurts them like hell, so was I, but it do get pretty annoying when they overdo it. And stressing me even more at times like this. And they tend to provide the advice to feed them with paracetamol even when they have no fever! So that the fever won't come back! Duh!
I used to just "try" and educate my mom that it's not the right way to deal with drugs. But with the inlaws, I just nod my head and quickly cabut. It's really better to be home and away from all of these.
Yesterday, I had to drag meimei along to market as I have to do some marketing. We had wanton mee for breakfast and everything went on fine, it was just a couple of things I need to get and didn't spend much time lingering around. When we were about to go, she told me tearfully that her tummy aches badly and need to go to loo. You know pasat toilets.. can enter?
Nah.. I told her to hang on and I desperately try to get us home as fast as I can. I think the urge subsided a bit then, but halfway, she was in tears again, and hanging on so tightly trying so hard not to lau-sai in her pants and in the car. I really thought she did when the air suddenly became so stenched. Well, what to do? I braved myself for the worst, if she had to, I would just have a lot of "dirt" to clean. Lucky we got on home and she hang on till the butts sat on the toilet bowl. What an emergency! And such a brave girl! Bravo!
I think tomorrow, everyone will be fine again. Keeping fingers crossed.
Monday, April 06, 2009
Pictures with our old folks.
These 2 pictures will be so treasured. I love how everyone smiled.
Looks nicer than those traditional poses, sit geh sit, stand geh stand, hoh?
Looks nicer than those traditional poses, sit geh sit, stand geh stand, hoh?
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Back home for Qing Ming
Weirdly, koko was fine and active all along, right up till Friday afternoon, less than 24 hours away from our filial duty to get together and clean up the ancestors' graves. Feverish all over and started complaining of headache. When we reached home, took him to see a doctor and he said it's just the flu bug, runny nose totally caused a blockage and headache. Gave some prescription of antibiotics, fever and flu med.
I took that as a sign from his great grandparents. So, he stayed at home with meimei while didi went along as representative.
Lucky there wasn't much cleaning up to do and we got it over and done with without much hassle, but the weather was darn hot.
Our mission completed, we then went to collect our pictures from the digital studio and paid the balance. Quite satisfied with them and it will be displayed over here over time. Already can't wait to use one up to be used in my blog header. The rest of the time, we just laid back and eat, eat, eat.
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Can't wait to go home now, hope koko will recover when we get back to our nest.
I took that as a sign from his great grandparents. So, he stayed at home with meimei while didi went along as representative.
Lucky there wasn't much cleaning up to do and we got it over and done with without much hassle, but the weather was darn hot.
Our mission completed, we then went to collect our pictures from the digital studio and paid the balance. Quite satisfied with them and it will be displayed over here over time. Already can't wait to use one up to be used in my blog header. The rest of the time, we just laid back and eat, eat, eat.
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Can't wait to go home now, hope koko will recover when we get back to our nest.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
April Fool prank?
Hello, everybody, today is the day for fools, I sure hope what happened to my hubby was just a big joke.
Well, the day started like the usual, bla bla bla.. then! I turned on my Wii for yoga session, it said
How cannnn? I was fooled by my own Wii for a moment before it said "just kidding..." Dang! suen mm suen I throw you off my balcony, huh?
Later, hubby suddenly called me and asked me about our home's postcode, then he said he was at the police station, he just met a snatch thief. And that's it! He said he was busy and call later to tell the whole story.
Of course, my heart lor lor luen.. thinking "what happened? what was robbed? Is he hurt? the car? hanfon? ah, no hanfon should be ok, since I just talked to him.. so, what what what??"
Then I can't contain my curiosity anymore and called him again. He said it's like dis..
He was outside his office, just going out to meet customer, talking on his boss' fon while walking. Then suddenly the snatch thief came fr behind and snatched his fon away. Then the bugger got knocked down by a car while trying to make his escape, he gave chase, kept yelling and chasing and the bugger was caught. Yay! Happy!
Then he came back and realized his laptop bag gone! Missing! With his laptop, and all his things in it.
Now.. this is very serious case wei.. all the porn pics of us.. *gasp* leaking! leaking! leaked! BOCOR! now, tan lei tan hui.. thinking what to do. Asked for the porn queen, Goolymama for her advice over MSN, she said "chap toe la lei"..
Guess I will have to get used to being femes soon. Na, you want autograph, you better ask now, later I have no time to layan you all ah..
Hope it serves as a good lesson for him and for all to be extra careful these days. The preacher of "Law of Attraction" has just met a real-life snatch thief. I'm so happy it's not his child who got missing.
Latest update:
The mata-mata apparently gave my hub's fon nombor to the family of the bugger and the bugger's hamka started to call my hub to plead him let him go by not suing him. Said his wife's pregnant la, he's already very "siong" lying in the hospital after being beaten up la, bla bla bla. So, should my hub let him go? He's indecisive. What do you think?
Well, the day started like the usual, bla bla bla.. then! I turned on my Wii for yoga session, it said
How cannnn? I was fooled by my own Wii for a moment before it said "just kidding..." Dang! suen mm suen I throw you off my balcony, huh?Later, hubby suddenly called me and asked me about our home's postcode, then he said he was at the police station, he just met a snatch thief. And that's it! He said he was busy and call later to tell the whole story.
Of course, my heart lor lor luen.. thinking "what happened? what was robbed? Is he hurt? the car? hanfon? ah, no hanfon should be ok, since I just talked to him.. so, what what what??"
Then I can't contain my curiosity anymore and called him again. He said it's like dis..
He was outside his office, just going out to meet customer, talking on his boss' fon while walking. Then suddenly the snatch thief came fr behind and snatched his fon away. Then the bugger got knocked down by a car while trying to make his escape, he gave chase, kept yelling and chasing and the bugger was caught. Yay! Happy!
Then he came back and realized his laptop bag gone! Missing! With his laptop, and all his things in it.
Now.. this is very serious case wei.. all the porn pics of us.. *gasp* leaking! leaking! leaked! BOCOR! now, tan lei tan hui.. thinking what to do. Asked for the porn queen, Goolymama for her advice over MSN, she said "chap toe la lei"..
Guess I will have to get used to being femes soon. Na, you want autograph, you better ask now, later I have no time to layan you all ah..
Hope it serves as a good lesson for him and for all to be extra careful these days. The preacher of "Law of Attraction" has just met a real-life snatch thief. I'm so happy it's not his child who got missing.
Latest update:
The mata-mata apparently gave my hub's fon nombor to the family of the bugger and the bugger's hamka started to call my hub to plead him let him go by not suing him. Said his wife's pregnant la, he's already very "siong" lying in the hospital after being beaten up la, bla bla bla. So, should my hub let him go? He's indecisive. What do you think?
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