Another one of those days.

Feelings hurt by the hub yet again, I hid myself in the kids' room with didi and meimei and couldn't help crying in front of them. It was their bedtime hour. Meimei went sad and misty eyed seeing me cry while giving me bear hugs and lugging close to my side. Didi was rather cold hearted. Really lengjai moe boon sum. He kept a distance and didn't offer any comforting words. Pity his future girlfriends! If it's your daughter, let me advise you this, loving him would be very sanfu!

As for korkor, he came in and went out to report about the gloomy weather to his papa. Then much later, as I went back out and in again to my room, papa came in to talk to me. Korkor followed suit and tell his dad "leave mommy alone laa...", seeing me crying even more as we talked. Then he went out after being ordered.

Later, before he went to sleep, he came in and asked "how is your mood already? are you feeling better now?". I asked if he could give me a hug, and he came over and did just that.

I can't describe enough how comforting it was.

My early birthday present.

Last night, whilst grocery shopping at Carrefour, the hub suddenly saw something that didn't belong in the trolley. He picked it up, and asked me "do you need this?". I said no, but I like it, and can? He pulled on a long sour bittergourd face while I turned away to convince myself I didn't see that coming. But I turned back and said "ok lak, jiao dorng hai ngo sang yat lei mud, can or not?" He didn't say anything and paid for it at the counter.

Now, everyone, isn't that so pathetic? Yes, I admit, it's something I don't need but love to have. But I have to justify for something that I like to buy? And that's how I get my birthday pressies these days? Sigh... compared to the dating time, it's sky and ground, man! The perils of marriage!

By the rate this is going, I think I already claimed my future pressies just as well. Will I live up to age 100?

And people, just guess how much he paid for that thing I don't need but love to have? If you guess correctly, I will buy the exact same thing for you!

Transformer make up

Over the weekend, I attended a wedding of my hub's cousin. All my inlaws were here for the occasion and we were out for like almost the whole of 3 days, except back for a shower and dressing up for the dinner.

Since I have very little opportunity to put on make up and transform myself, this time I put in a little bit more effort into this task. And the end result? I was so pleased with myself. I looked so good. At least I felt I looked very good. Though I think it was more suitable for a halloween party.

Korkor did comment on my make up. He said I looked like a panda. I think a beautiful panda at that. Or at least I consoled myself to be. I didn't ask him further.

Do you want to see a pic? Nahh... I didn't dare to take any pictures of myself, and I hope I wasn't photographed either during the night. sigh....

Disney on Ice on April Fools day

It was their first "Disney on Ice" experience, but not mine or my hub's. We took korkor to watch it when we were in Brunei, he was about 3yo then, I think.

I didn't plan to watch it with them initially. A few days before the show, a friend sms-ed me to ask if I was interested to take up 4 tickets for the show for half its value. Apparently, her friend won them through a contest and couldn't make it as the tickets were for Friday night and they stay in Ipoh. I said ok, and she couriered them over and there we were!

Coincidentally, korkor had tuition class that night and since he's too big for these kiddo shows and the fact he went to one before, though he couldn't remember that, we went without him. The two of them were fascinated and I have to say, disney productions are always so impressive, at least to me. The performers skate too well, I so wished I could skate like that. But I couldn't even stand on those thin sharp blades!

The performance was really superb, with the songs, costumes, stage props, I was mesmerized and get misty eyes. I swear I'm not going to another Disney on Ice shows anymore!

It was getting too late for meimei and she was almost dozing off at its last part. Poor her! Sure exhausted la, after her gym training for 2 hours at school just as well! We went home and slept dreaming disney dreams.

Another tooth dropped.

On that birthday dinner night, didi had another dropped tooth! And he looks soooo toothless now! Look at him!

The other gigi taring is still yet to be seen sprouting out, but I heard the longest timeframe you can give a new tooth to appear is 1.5 years. So, I think by the end of the year, if it's not coming out yet, I have to do something! Or maybe even earlier.

With these teeth set, I have to cut all his food up to biteable sizes again, just like when he was a baby. Memories!

Celebrating my dad's 70th b'day

Acting upon my mom's suggestion brought up last year to celebrate my dad's turning 70, as we missed the boat for his 60th year, my brothers and I planned ahead for it months before this date.

The Labor's day weekend was a good time to hold the event, though short, but still better than just a normal weekend as all 3 of us staying at Spore and Thailand would be able to make it home together in 1 go.

All of us got home on that Friday and met up at Woolley's, and oh boy, there were a lot of food court stuffs I myself hadn't eaten for a long time. Seeham, jut-lor, ikan pari, yau-yu-ngong-choi, go figure what they are! Yum yum!

We all bunked in at our old home, sans me and my hub, coz there were really not enough space!

The next day, I went over and picked them up to attend church service. All except my hub, coz he's an AQ's member! Our tummies were growling by the time it was over and all I could think of was the curry mee. The famous shop of curry mee in Jln Hugh Low had sold out! Fortunately I was smartie pants enough to drive my passengers right in front of the shop to drop them off first. We quickly detoured to another one, frantically in search for curry, no matter what. Oh boy! I could have another bowl of that! With the cham-ping and my closest family around, what more can be appetizing than that.

After that brunch, my teenage nephew was hurrying me to scoot off for the next activity. Geez! It was so darn hard to find an activity to suit all of us. There are basically 4 sub-groups in this group of people here.

1. Young kids from age 6 to 8
2. Teenagers from 13 to 16
3. Adults from 40 to 45
4. Elderly from 67 to 70

Only korkor stood out like a sore thumb, as he is neither group 1 nor 2. Poor kiddo! The stuffs that interests the young ones are too lame for him and the teenagers find him too small. He's just neither here nor there.

In the end, we went for a session of bowling, instead of the Lost World, as I suggested. I guess only the adults (that's us!) are the most accommodating people. Did we have fun, you bet! But I think it would be better if all of us jam at my home in KL instead. The kids can still bowl from Wii, and we can just sit and chat and eat. Well, anyway...

We rest for awhile and get prepared for the dinner at 7. There were 4 big tables reserved and it was very crowded. Absolutely full house, with a wedding dinner at the same venue. The night went well, and best part was to see my parents really really happy. They were beaming with so much joy in their faces! And when my dad saw the iPad, my mom wanted to open it up! Lucky I managed to save it! Else, there goes 1.5k...

My nephew asked me why we get an iPad for his yehyeh. I told him because we all wanted that for ourselves, don't we?? He was dumbfounded, but jokes aside, I further explained to him that we should not discriminate the old folks and give an opportunity for them to explore and enjoy the beauty of the new technologies and the delight it can bring to them. I do hope from this, he and our kids would learn too that they shouldn't abandon us when we get old and involve us with even advance technology in the future. Selfish thoughts, isn't it? Yeah, admittedly so. *guilty*

But then again, if it's a win-win situation, I believe it's the best choice! Dad is too happy with his new toy and he is showing off the pictures we took during the weekend to anyone who's interested, or not, for that matter. He even wanted to sign up for computer courses now! haha! That would keep him very occupied. And hopefully my ears can take some rest with the rants from each of them when there's a battle ensued. Sigh! Did I story before how my dad would call me often to complain about mom, then my mom tell her side of story, yada yada yada... I don't like being referee, but I know they just wanted to let it out of their system and all would be good again, but .... can't they just call up my brothers for a change??

Well, ok, here's some pictures from that night...






Happy birthday, dad! We all love you.

Busy leh

I just spent an awesome weekend, followed by a mad traffic crawl back to KL, and ended with another wonderful gathering with schoolmates. Oh, dear! I'm still in a daze. Lucky I'm not about to start my moonlighting job soon, have to make use of this time to finish off some urgent deadline tasks.

This weekend would be another busy time ahead, with a wedding coming up from my inlaw's relative, and everyone jamming in KL. I am pretty sure the kids would be running wild again, where got time to do revisions for their coming exam in 2 weeks' time? Oh dear, oh dear. *sweat*