Just a Diary for my everyday thoughts

Week 37 - Feeling Heavy and Tired

2009-08-20T16:09:00.003+08:00

Wah.. time flies soooo fast... Now Baby J already in Week 37! Counting down to less than a month and I will have him in my arms..

Recently, I experienced light bleeding/spotting and it really freaked me out... Thurs night had spotting and it continued on Friday morning. Hence I called TLC and the nurse asked me to go down and have a check as I had slight cramps as well.

When I was at TLC, I realised the spotting had turned into red blood instead of brown!!! Sharks... It really freaked me out... After seeing Dr Paul, he did a check and confirmed that baby's fine and also consoled me saying that Baby J's big enough and even if he decides to arrive early, he will be alright.

After hearing that, I don't know if its good news or not... It suddenly dawned on me that we are not ready for Baby J! @@

Cause we still didn't get like tonnes of items, cot not set up, bedding not bought.. hahahah

I'm recently hooked with watching 命中注定我愛你... Very very nice show... can watch till I cry like mad.. hahaha

Lots of things to do.. hope to be to settle everything, pack my hospital bag, set up cot and etc and wait for Baby J!

We are also torn between names Jordan or Joel... Hub likes Jordan and Joy loves the name Joel... hahah But one thing were are sure is the middle name would be Isaiah... :)

Stay tune!

I've started a new blog to document my Scrapbook Journey!

2009-07-13T11:30:00.002+08:00

Hey friends,

I've just started a new blog to document my scrapbook journey: http://stephie1735scrapbookjourney.blogspot.com/

This blog is dedicated to my Scrapbook works. Although now only have a few items uploaded, I hope to have more Scrapbook work done and upload the pictures :)

Do visit it when you are free... heheh.

Prince Josiah's Look-alike Meter

2009-06-26T14:56:00.003+08:00

Princess Look-alike Meter

2009-06-26T14:39:00.002+08:00

My Bro bought Bird Nest for Me

2009-06-04T13:42:00.001+08:00

My bro bought BirdNest for me!!!! They went Fu Hua and bought the dried birdnest leh!!! SUPER EXPENSIVE loh... I so touched..!!!

Thanks Bro! Love Ya

Josiah's 1st Day of School - 1st June 09

2009-06-04T13:16:00.003+08:00

1st of June was a big day for our little Prince, Josiah Elisiah Anandha!!!

1st day of school, meeting new friends and having a new schedule didn't scare him a bit. He was happily carrying his bag and follow Jie Jie and Kor Kor to school. As it was school holidays for Kor Kor Joshua, so I enrolled him for some Before and After School Care activities for him in his previous Childcare YWCA.

Some pics of Josiah in school, I only have a few cause he was all over the school and it was hard to get a nice picture of him STAYING STILL! lol.

Assembly Time with Jie Jie's Class:

Time with his new Friends during lesson time:

Lunch Time!!! Lunch time has never been a problem for our little prince. He was enjoying his fav food of Toufu and Soup!

Hmm....

He totally enjoyed himself and poor teachers had to tolerate him running around during classes. lol

五月初五 - 端午节

2009-05-28T15:10:00.002+08:00

Today is Dumpling Festival... and I had a yummy dumpling.

As I was coming to work, I recieved an SMS which said "I brought a dumpling for your breakfast" from NORA!!!

This year, no one at home made dumpling, don't know why so I have no dumpling to eat... but Nora brought a rice dumpling that her mum made. I was so touched...

Here's the pic of the dumpling that of course no longer exist cause I ate it.. hahahha

Another pic of it:

It was yummy!!!

Thanks Nora!

My Crazy and Expensive Meals

2009-05-28T11:56:00.015+08:00

As you know, being pregnant sometimes may make the mummy have cravings. Well I didn't have cravings but just hahah spending lots of money.

26th May 2009 - As colleagues were all either on leave or on training, I was alone for lunch. Hence I went Kiddy Palace @ TPY to check out price of baby items. After thatI walked to Mac for lunch but it was too pack and it was raining... So I walked down along the walkway..... ha ha in the end I ended up in ICHIBAN BOSHI! Ha ha

I was hungry and bored, I ordered 1 Ichiban Bento( which consist of Grilled Fish, Salmon Sashimi, Chawanmushi, Assorted Tempura, Rice, 2 slices of Orange and Miso Soup!) and 1 Hot Green Tea. After having that, I ordered some deserts so that I can get another stamp on my Ichiban card hence I ordered 1 scoop of Matcha Ice Cream and 1 scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream. I ate everything just leaving 1/2 scoop of vanilla... Haha scary isn't it?

The costs?... I spent $26.95 on Lunch alone... Oh man...

27th May 2009 - Alone again, I went to Novena Square 2 for lunch. As I didn't know what to eat, I just stood at the mall directory to see where I could go. Although there was a lot of things listed there, I just saw this word as if it was calling me: OLD HONGKONG!!!

This time, I took pictures when my food was delivered... heheheh

It started with Longan and Red Dates Tea, the small cup is so interesting and it will not get hot at all even the tea is very very hot, cool isn't it? Then a Pear Soup... 清凉润肺。Look at the Yummy Soup!!! Fried Carrot Cake

Look at what I have on my table at first... Hahahah Then... Here comes my Roast Duck + Roast Pork Noodles:

And lastly, Fried Beancurd Skin with Seafood in it:

Its Yummy isn't it? Heheh

Now look at the whole table of food just for Mummy Steph and Baby J in her stomach... Yes I admit I'm a glutton!!! Ha Ha HaThis meal again cost me $26 +

Here's the harm done *^_^* :

So morale of the story is... "don't leave Stephanie alone for lunch..." hahah esp when she's pregnant... wahahaha

Joshua Look-a-Like Meter

2009-02-26T22:51:00.002+08:00

Which one should I trust? Hehehe

#1:

#2:

Officially announcing Baby #4

2009-02-18T14:07:00.002+08:00

Hi Everyone,

Not sure if anyone's still following this blog cause I've not updated this for many months.... again... I know... I've been busy with kids and busy getting sick.

Have been sick since 8th Feb till now, 10 days... still coughing. Bronchitis has hit me bad.. real bad this time...

Anyway, the reason for this post is to officially announce that the Anandha family is expecting our 4th child... EDD on 18th Sept 09. I know its a surprise... its a surprise for us as well cause recently I've been very stressed about many issues and busy with our Eldest boy going to P1. We didn't have much "activities" and also that my health has not exactly been the best.

But we both acknowledge that this baby is God's blessing and we will try our best to give equal love and care to all our 4 kids.

A count of our nestlings: Joshua (7), Joy (soon to be 4), Josiah (soon to be 3)... so what should we name our 4th? We hope for a girl though so that we have 2 boys and 2 girls, I really can't imagine having 3 boys.. hahah but most importantly is to have a healthy baby lah...

I know many especially my family members are worried about how we are going to cope financially and physically but I think we will survive. We've survived with 3 kids, I'm sure we can do with 4. Of course I pray that God will bless us with the strength to stay together strong as a couple and parents to our wonderful children. I hope that God will bless us with patience and love to survive parenthood.

So do keep us in your prayers and be happy for us k?

Lots of Love,
Steph

Xmas Elf Family

2008-12-18T15:33:00.002+08:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Birthday Surprise by my lovely Jie Meis

2008-12-12T17:27:00.016+08:00

Its 1 more day to my 26th Birthday and since my birthday falls on a Saturday, my lovely Jie Meis and Brothers surprised me with a little closed door party.

I am really thankful as its always this bunch of pretty ladies that gives me surprises on my birthday. I don't have all the pics but here's the presents they gave me for my birthday... (Will upload all pics once I have them)

THANK YOU SWEETIES, I AM REALLY REALLY HAPPY... NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES THANK YOU I SAY CANNOT DESCRIBE HOW THANKFUL I AM.

I will remember what you girls say and look after myself well.

Really love you guys and girls very very much.

MUACKS!

They got me a DKNY WALLET!!! You should have seen my face when I saw it. I just couldn't control myself and I cried... Yes, I know, cry was an understatement for what I did. I poured... I've never bought myself branded stuffs except a 2nd hand Braun Buffel Wallet. This was my first BRANDED 1st hand item, I was touched... actually touch was an understatement, I was totally crushed.. Crushed by the love the girls and guys are showing me. Crushed by the sweetness and effort the girls put in for me walking in Taka "like aunties" as what Regina described...
My dearest "Ah Girl" Got me BIRKY Voucher for me to get a BirkenStock!!! So Sweet... I never thought of buying Birkenstock cause its too expensive.

They got me my favourite flowers too!

And a Card with sweet words...

Here's all the cards and gifts!

Lastly, Thanks to Regina, Jie Jie Christine, Wendy, MaMa Mag, Yann, Jeff not forgetting Jia GeGe who is now serving the nation... heheheh and Carrie whom is in Aus. Muacks Muacks... Really Touched... Love you guys.

Let go, Let God. Rest in Him

2008-11-27T17:18:00.000+08:00

Hi Everyone,

I know its been a long long time that I last had input published. I actually did write something in this blog but they were never completed hence never published.

However, as I was multitasking this afternoon I know I have to blog this immediately and pass this on to as many people as possible. I was attending an online course, watching Hagen's interview in Taiwan and writing notes at the same time. After watching the 53 mins video and having many pauses in between, I had this very warm feeling and tears started to roll in my eyes.

Again, the love from our Heavenly Father touched me again.

I want to share this with all of you and always remember "Let go, Let God. Rest in Him".

Dearest Father in Heaven,
Thank you for sending this message through Hagen.
As you know, I've never been a person that can talk very well or pray very well but you know what I mean and you know what I need.

Thank you Lord for all the wonderful things and people you have put around me. May you bless everyone around me, family and friends and bless those that watches this video and may more people know of your love and know you as a loving father.

Amen!

In Jesus's name I pray. AMEN!

I hope you guys can take some time to watch this video clip and may the Lord bless you with peace and love:

Guilty of Neglecting My Blog

2008-10-06T12:03:00.007+08:00

Hey Guys... Hehehe I don't know if you are still checking my blog for updates cause its been near to a year since my last entry.

I know I know.... I'm guilty, so guilty... :( You guys must be scolding me for wasting ur time.. hehhe come in here but no updates..

I promise that I will update this as regularly as I can.

Well, some updates on myself. One of my latest fav is a singer cum song writer Hagen Tan. Check out list blog on the right of this. Hagen's a very creative and friendly guy. He's just like any boy next door friendly and etc but is really talented. He has wrote many songs which I really love... As everyone knows that I'm a Christian but I haven't been to church for about 3 years at least... But through him, I went to Church and attended my first service after 3 years!! It felt really really good... I cried... 0906, Queenstown Baptist Church....

Its as if my Dearest Daddy was telling me "Girl, you are finally back, I've always been here waiting for you". The warmth I felt that day was like Daddy hugging me. I know I had forgotten about him for a long time. I was too coped up with other stuffs that I forgot to worship him and praise him. I took for granted the things he did for me, the 3 wonderful kids he blessed me with.

Dear Father in Heaven, Thanks for always being there for me. I know that every thing that happened, happened for a reason. Even though they seemed very heart wrenching at times but I know you must have prevented something worse from happening. I just want to say I Love you very very much. I pray that you will continue to bless my family and myself with good health and wisdom for everything.

Love Ya Dad!

From:

Me.

Will try to post the pictures soon..

Other updates like: Hubby got me a new phone which he has yet to pay me... Be... rem hor.. hahahha Its a LG KU990R!!! PINK! hahah

Went Sentosa for like 3 times in 2 months.. hahahh

Went St James Power Station, Power House for the first time. 1003 7th Party!!! - Oct 3rd

Queenstown Baptist Church 0906 - Hagen's Concert.

Lynn got Married!!! 2nd Sept Furama Riverfront

More Updates coming up!

Hagen's Concert.. Must Support

2008-08-19T23:48:00.002+08:00

Hagen's Concert's coming. I'm so happy for him. He's a very good song writer and singer. Young guy and could achieve so much...

Must Support k?
Jia You Hagen

Joy is 3 on 5th April 2008!!!

2008-03-25T13:20:00.002+08:00

Make a postcard - it's easy!

October 18th 2007

2007-10-18T11:06:00.000+08:00

Today is a big day for me.

It marks 8 years with my Dearest Lao Gong Shawn.
He sent me a very very sweet message this morning which made tears roll in my eyes.

Shawn says:
yes dear
thank you for believing in me and standing by me all these years
its been my blessing to have you as a wife

Me to you:
Dearest Hubby, I just want to tell you that I am grateful and Thankful to the Lord that he has put you in my life. It has also been my blessing to have you as a husband, I can never imagine my life a day without you. I Love You and pray to God that we will have many more years ahead for us to age together and see our children grow old with kids.

I Love You!!!

Love,
Me *^_^*

1st Day at Business Objects.... SYDNEY!!!

2007-08-13T19:45:00.002+08:00

It was my first day at work in Business Objects today... I had checked the online map yesterday and roughly know how to get to Miller Street but the biggest problem was..... how to get out of hotel.. HAHAHAH

I woke up early in the morning and took a bath in the cold... Sydney's having its winter now and its about 16-18 Degress Celsius outside... hahah and remember, my hotel room heater is faulty? hehehe

I took a hot water bath and wore my suit to work... Went downstairs and walked out of the main door... Hmmm... how do I get to the streets without having to walk down the slop? Went back into the hotel again and took the lift down to basement... Oops... basement is just the underground carpark.. I still can't get to the streets.. At this time, a caucasian guy came in to the lift at basement and I think I look quite lost.. hahah he started asking if I was lost... I said that I'm trying to get to Miller Street and he offered to bring me there cause he's going that direction as well... I was delighted..

He took me to Level 1 and instead of walking to the main door, he turned left and walked the other way... As a caucasian, he's tall... and walks super fast also... I had to like be in a half running mode to try to catch up with him. So... what I had to do is to walk to the back of the hotel and there was a door which led to a short flight of stairs to the streets.. Yeh!!! So I walked to Miller Street as per what I remembered from the map...

As I walked and walked, I still couldn't find the unit I was looking for... :( There were some shops under renovation but I don't think that's what I'm looking for... I walked to the next junction and started asking around... I asked some contractors working on a shop under renovation and they do not know where 80 Miller Street is @@... can't believe it man...

Thinking back about the map, I remembered that its before the junction so I walked backwards.. Guess what! I walked past the building earlier.. hahah Its really just before the junction... how could I have missed it...

I quickly walked to the lobby and went upstairs.. I introduced myself to our lovely receptionist, Carmen... Carmen quickly called for Michelle and she came to bring me to our desks... After settling down, she took me for a quick tour around the office and introed me to the wonderful pantry that I will never forget. It had orange juice, milk, bread, butter, cereal, fruits, DISH WASHER... and etc...

The next surprise was that it wasn't the only pantry... There was another pantry which had a dishwasher, a microwave, a toaster, fridge, LCD TV!!! can you believe that I was watching Oprah during lunch!!! hahahha Not forgetting to say that it had a beautiful view!!!

I will never forget the office.. it had the best pantries I've ever seen...

In Sydney - Warning Very Long Post

2007-08-12T23:00:00.000+08:00

Arrived at Sydney Airport at about 7 plus Sydney time which is about 5pm Singapore time. There was a lot of ppl at the Airport, very packed.

It was cold. About 16 Degrees C, brrrrr it was dark as well. Totally feel like night time... In SG, 7 plus, we still can see some gleam of light in the sky but its different here.

Dragged my luggage to outside the airport and sat there for a smoke plus wear my business suite cause it was really cold. Called my hubby to say that I've reached and they are still at my parent's place. So I told him I was fine and will be heading for the airport soon. At this time, Aunt Glenda called. I was so happy cause she's was married to an Aussie, Uncle Geof, and is residing in Aust now. So I told her I am in Australia already :). Then she says that she will find a day and ask Uncle Geof to drive to North Sydney to meet me... Was thrilled cause I have not seen her since she got married.

Well, back to my little adventure, I went to look for the taxi queue outside the airport. The queue was really long but moved really fast. After a short while, I got on a cab told the driver to drive to Habourview Hotel. On my way to the hotel, I heard very loudly "Pop, Pop, Pop" on my left. I turned to see what it was and I saw Fire Works!!! Hahaha the driver said jokingly that Sydney's welcoming me... He's got such good humour. I understand from him that they don't have this often and they must either be having a celebration or a rehersal. Whatever it was for, its nice. My first time seeing fireworks "Live" at such close proximity. After some time, I reached the hotel and it costs me about AUS$40plus. Thats expensive. It was only about 20 mins cab ride. Hehheheh

Hotel's up a little slope and it has got a very nice view. I took my luggage and went to the hotel. After informing the Hotel Guest Relations personnel that I have a reservation, he asked me for my credit card. Well, it was my first time abroad and checking in to a hotel myself so I was like @@, I have no credit card and I thought it will be covered by the company. So I informed the gentlemen that I do not have one and I will have to check with the company tomorrow when I get there.

They brought me to the room and it was at the top level Suite. Cool....

Well it looks like a normal SG hotel room with TV and working desk. But it was real exciting as it was my first "adventure". I kept my luggage and laptop and suddenly realised that I hadn't had dinner. Hahahah too excited and forget all about it. It was already 10pm. In house Restaurant was already closed hence I decided to call for Room Service and ordered this.... Pizza. Well, everything on the menu looked so expensive hence I chose to eat Pizza. hahahha

Pizza was huge and I love it.

I have a bathtub and a heater... Like I said, I haven't travelled before hence it took me some time to figure out how to operate the heater.. hahahah In the end, I actually spent the first night in the cold cause the heater was faulty.. hahah

Tomorrow off to the office!!! More to come :)

12th Aug 2007 - My First Flight

2007-08-12T13:18:00.000+08:00

This was blogged when I was on the plane. My first flight and I was flying ALONE!!!

Hi Everyone… Guess where I am now?

I am blogging from many many feet above ground. The Mountain tortoise has stepped out of her little SGD!! heheh I’m on SQ 219 on my way to Sydney… I’m now some where above the Indian Ocean (As at 12:46pm SG time , Still got 4:15 more hours to go…) heheheh, am already a little restless as I have stayed about 2 hours plus in flight.

Bags have already been packed last night and I was ready to go physically but was I ready mentally? Was I ready to leave my 3 kids and hubby for 5 days? We Shall see…

I want to blog as much as I feel and can rem since it’s my first flight. Let’s see what I have done so far:

6:30am 12th Aug: Hubby woke me up, bath and change to get ready.
6:45am: Dad called to say that he’s on his way
7:00am: Woke Joshua and Joy up to change. Josiah was already up since 5plus 6 am… heheheh
7:10am: Daddy reach our place, went down and started our trip to the airport and hubby was so nice to help me carry and load my luggage… Think he will miss me very much.. heheheh *winkz*
7:45am: Arrive at Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 2 and approach Counter 8 to check in my luggage. It was quite a long queue.
8:00am: Luggage checked in and we brought the kids to the Macdonalds to have their favourite breakfast.
8:30am: Kids finished breakfast, I told Daddy and hubby that I will go in already cause I didn’t want to be late… :) so gave Joshua, Joy and Josiah a hug and we tool the escalator up.
8:40am: Arrive at the “gates” (dunno what u call that… immigration gates?) hehehe and realized that the display states SQ219 “Last Call” (at 8:45am last call?? I pondered)…
Gave all three of them big hugs and told Joshua to listen to his Daddy, I hope he does…
Gave Shawn a hug and kiss, bid daddy and mummy bye and walked in.
8:45am: Went through the “XRay” inspection point and put my lappie back through then walked pass the “counter” where the lady checked my Visa and boarding tix and proceed to walk in. I’m boarding at Gates F60 and it was all the way in. Gate F60 was the end on the right side so walked on 3 parallel travelators before arriving at the inspection point. There was soooooo many ppl queuing. So I went to the washroom first, well the flight is 6 ½ hours u know…
8:55am: Went through the queue of ppl and put my stuffs through that “XRay” machine again. This time, I was asked to take my laptop out and put it in a separate box. Luckily, there was not much problems except that when I went trough the metal detector, its beeped.. heheheh, actually it beeped for many ppl… so we had to step over, and raise our hands to the side while the use the manual metal detector to screen pass each hand and each leg… :) Was quite “exciting” though…
9:15am : Proceed to the boarding counter and pass this nice lady my boarding pass and she returned me a section of it which stated my seat (58H). Couldn’t get a window seat as I was not fast enough… I will sure get the window seat on my return trip… lol. After the boarding counter, walked through another passage way to the plane.. Hubby called (I stepped aside for others to board) to say that they are going to my dad’s place cause Joshua wants to play guitar.. Wonder where does the Guitar comes from… I bid him goodbye again and phone and boarded the place..
9:35am: Pilot announced that we are a little behind schedule due to some issues and will get clearance in a few minutes..
9:45am: We are finally taking off… I felt a bit giddy when Plane taxi out, cause it kinds of feels like a car moving and stoping, moving and stopping. It also felt a little like roller coaster… soon we are up in the air already… Everything looks so small… hahahha the clouds looks like Marshmallows and it really looks very cool…

Current time:

1:18pm SG time: Local time in Sydney is 3:19pm.
I’m now over Timor Sea… reaching the edge of Aus soon
Distance left to travel to destination: 3653km

Ground Speed 866km/h
Time left: 3:43hrs
Altitude 11300m
Head Wind:62km/h
Outside Air Temperature: -46 °C

Estimated Arrival time 7:06pm Sydney time.

Okie.. That’s all for now.. I feel very sleepy, shall sleep and blog more later or when I reach the hotel..

10th Aug 2007 Marks my last day at WW

2007-08-10T16:30:00.000+08:00

Today marks my last day at Whizzwork.

I started in Cybermedia since 8th Apr 2002, so have been in the "same" company (or should I say same employment since Cybermedia was taken over by WW) for almost 5 1/2 years. Have seen really nice colleagues now friends and some not so nice colleagues.

Really feel very sad leaving cause we really have a very cheerful and fun bunch here whom we work really closely with each other. If its not for some people, I would really not have made this painful decision cause I'm a Nian Jiu person :(

We had a farewell dinner @NYDC Orchard on 6th Aug night but cause I sotong never bring camera, so no pictures on that... :(

People whom attended: Regina, Alan, Adeline, Jarol, Lyn, Me (obvious.. heheh), Sherry and Stanley (poor Stanley, we coax him there one.. hehehe)

Some pics of some really close friends I met here : Will miss u girls sooooo much!

Picture Stolen from Lynn.. heheh sorry ah, you a bit too far now for me to ask so I decided to steal.. hahahha

Taken: 6th Aug 2007, Location: The Balcony @ Heeren
From left: Jarol, Lynn, Sherry, Me and Adeline - Regina not in Pic cause she was the one taking it :P

A toast to my brighter future

We went for another farewell with the SS Team on 8th Aug 2007.

Went dinner at Marina South, Steamboat BBQ. Again Sotong me for got to bring camera.. hahah

People whom attended the dinner: Adeline, Lucas ( Whom went despite having assessments to rush, thanks!), Gui Xiang, Wong, Hai Yong, Sherry, Stanley, Yi Ping and of course Me!

After having dinner, a few of us sneaked in the Arcade for Air Con and Games.. hehehe

Then we headed to Party World @ Shenton for KTV session after dinner...! I think its more of drinking session for them.. hehehe

In total, they ordered 2 Martel and 1 Chivas and there were only 6 ppl drinking loh!!! Damn good drinkers in SS, best drinkers in WW.... heheheh

Taken: 8th Aug, Location: Party World @ Shenton, taken with Stanley's Phone...

Me and Sherry... My best friend, cum sister, cum smoking buddy.
Will miss you most girl...

Stanley and Haiyong when they are still sober.. hehhe

The still sober Wong and Gui Xiang... Wong was not in Singlet when we went to the KTV....

Subsequently when he was drunk, he even took of the singlet and Sherry scolded him.. hahaha

Sherry and Stanley.

Me and Yi Ping

Me and Stanley
Thanks guys and girls. I really enjoyed myself very very much.

Today... the team sent me gifts which caught me off guard... When Ivy called me to say got delivery for me, I thought stupid I*M send 1-1 exchange parts to the wrong place again issit? hahahah Instead, I see a delivery guy with a huge bouquet of flowers... I'm really touched girls.. Thanks..

The dog which was eyed by many, I heard.. heheh very very cute!!!

A big bouquet of 6 Sunflowers (My Fav)

Also recieved a box of Godiva Chocolates from the SS team, Bryan, Hong, Adeline and Sherry.

Thanks!!!!!!!! *Muacks*
Will really miss you guys alot.. no words can describe my feeling.

Do keep in touch... when u guys go out must jio me k?
Love you guys lots.. ! Hugz...

Faces of Joy

2007-07-24T11:05:00.000+08:00

Recently through Singapore Motherhood Forum, I came across a mummy whom has a blog on digital scrapbooking.

I found a lot of useful templates and tips on digital scrapbooking which I would like to recommend all my friends...

Do visit her website at Free Scrapbook Zone.

Here's what she has done for Joy...

Isn't she cute.. lol...

I have decided to master it and design some for Joshua, Josiah and for me and hubby on a wedding theme.. heheh

Do visit her blog as she is still giving away 1 free Digital Scrapbook Page for the first person whom post a reply in her new posts.... Don't forget to subscribe to her blog in order to qualify k?

Enjoy...

My Little Adventure in Macpherson

2007-06-27T13:03:00.000+08:00

I had a little adventure in Macpherson today... *giggling

It all started as a mummy is giving me some baby items and as she is soon to due for delivery hence we arranged that I collect the items from her office...

She works at Ruby Industrial Complex so adventurous me >.<>

At 12pm, decided to walk to post office to send money to Mildred's family first since its urgent (story below)...

So I walked to the post office in the super hot sun... After post office, I started walking into Lor Bakar Batu, cut across through Ruby Land Complex... Just realised that there are a lot of Ruby *** in Machperson... so I see until blur... As seen in the map below, I was kindoff lost and went walking around in the hot sun to find the place I want to go.... hahaha

I calculated the distance I walked... lol (Sherry say I'm mad... hahaha)

I walked 400m (In Purple) from Pines Industrial Building to the post office, then 750m (In Red)from post office to Ruby Industrial Complex... (using red cause I was lost.. hehehe you can see how sotong I was when I arrived at the junction where Ruby Industrial Complex was just diagonally opposite and I didn't see.. hahaha) then another 525m (Blue) back to the office... totally I walked 1.68km within 45mins leh!!! Wah.... hahahah

Okie, here comes the angry part...

Last night Mildred was having a problem with his already SEPERATED husband. Yes they have been seperated even before her coming to work in Singapore. He has been asking for money with the excuse that the kids need money for school and food.

It all started that someone (whom the husband denies knowing that HP number) sms Mildred's friend (IN PHILIPINES) to say that the kids have no money for dinner. So her friend called her and told her about the problem... I was so pissed that I could literally feel my blood boiling cause I sent him 2900+ Pesos end of last month!!! How can the kids have no money for food now? Some more they didn't even pay for any additional school annual commitments which is due this coming month... what happened to that money!!!

To the bum: "You don't need 3500 Pesos a month just for the kids loh... Admit it, its for your own lazy bum's usage.. Tell us that as Mildred was repaying her loan for the first 7 months, never send him money so he's in debt. Oh please, those debts are yours... In the first place, you don't know that she has come to Singapore to work.. ever since you know, you have been indirectly asking for money... You don't even make an effort to find job to feed yourself and you expect your ALREADY SEPERATED wife to feed you? You are so despicable to even trick your mother in law in handing your youngest son to you so that you can extort more money with the excuse that you want to look after him for a week and never return him. Your wife has to work 16 hours a day, to be far away from her kids to only earn $320 a month! "

Poor Mildred have no choice but to keep sending him money till she goes back for vacation in April next yr. She's just too soft, everytime say anything lah.. send $ to him loh.. :(

After the whole commotion and speaking to that bum, remembered that I still have a very important document to do up.. :( Dragged myself to my super slow Pc which I'm on the verge of throwing it down 4 storeys, hahahah. Worked it till 2am then sleep.. hahah must look like a panda now.. Just hope that this document is useful ba... Crossing my fingers now.

Poll - Should I do it or not

2007-06-19T14:29:00.000+08:00

Hi All, need ur help in this...

I accidentally formatted my SD card's picture and those pics are very precious to me.
They are pics and videos of my girl girl's 2nd birthday with pics of the cupcakes and Agar Agar cake that I bought and videos of the whole celebration.

Now I have a vendor that may be able to restore those info at $75.

Should I do it or not?

14/6/07

2007-06-14T10:03:00.001+08:00

Sky is blue, I am blue....

Quarreled with hub last night as he completely ruined the surprise I had for him.

The thought of it makes me tear as I type this.

I have placed an order at Tiramisutra for him for Father's Day and I dunno how come he knew it. He didn't like the idea of me sending it to his office. I ordered an 8"Diameter Tiramisu with Kah Lua for him to enjoy with his colleagues and he didn't like that. He didn't appreciate what I had planned. :(

He wanted me to send the cake home instead...

Found some cute pics taken last time...

2007-06-12T16:08:00.000+08:00

Today finally brought my card adaptor to the office so I can load pics in my hp to the pc and found some cute pics.

Does this looks like two poor homeless kids touting? lol...

See my poor son, insisting on carrying all the bags... lugging it all the way home.. :(

She's got what she wanted and moving to the next unit... lol..

Taken when he's just a few days old.... Oops...

Dreaming in his sleep... How do I know? Look at the next pic

Must be something good...

Confirm sweet dream.. lol

Can't rem where this was taken, just find that his expression is cute..

Why did mummy squeeze my head in between Pooh and Piglet.

Part 1 - Who's that superman on the horse??? *scroll down for an ans.

Part 2 - Oh its superboy...

Finale - Yap that's me! (Pic of Joshua after Ice Cream)

Here's a little Diva. Now she's a babe...

Then a fairy...

Then a Bumble Bee!

Weekends 9th and 10th June

2007-06-11T11:30:00.000+08:00

9th June:

Sat after kiddo's school, we brought them to the playground for a while...

Joy has been enjoying these trips to the playground every sat .

Here are some pics..

Pic of the little handsome boy. He's growing more and more like the Kor kor... Or should I say exactly like Kor Kor when he was young..

Isn't he cute? Awww.. hahah I'm a obsessed mummy... hahah

Well I noticed that Josiah has been very naughty even though he have not learnt to walk...

He will deliberately play with his saliva and will do it more if u try to stop him. I have come to a conclusion that he will be even more mischevious than his brother and sister... :(

The two of them...

Cheeky girl at the stairs... "what's she looking at?"

Joy standing at the top of the slide.

Monkey at the top of the stairs.. heheh

Monkey trying to go head down at the slide caught on camera...

Met Joy's classmate at the playground. She the girl at the top of the slide..

Joshua's tring to do stunt and Joy's trying to climb up the pole.. hahah

Joy crying cause Joshua trying to push her down the slide...

Pic of Joy taken from the top

A sad clown.. lol

10th June:

Went to Michelle's house warming. Got her 2 Queen size Bedsheet sets as gift cause she says that she already has a lot of appliances and the bed sheets are things that she will need.

Took some pics of the kids before we left home...

(Do ignore the date stamp cause its wrong)

Joy rubbing her eyes... Isn't her top nice? heheh

Joy trying to act cute... but she IS cute right? :)

Joy saying "Cheese" when taking the pic.

Caught Josiah eating paper... recently he has a habit of eating paper, magazines and even my letters... have to be very careful now...

Also he has learnt the trick of climbing out of his walker!!! Litterally whole body out with only 1 leg hanging at the seat of the walker and the other leg in mid air... will try to catch a pic of that if I can.

Pardon me for the lousy cam, this is how it looks like when I try to zoom.. but here's a cute side view of Josiah's chubby cheeks.

Took a pic of myself with makeup on... Pretty or not? No longer "Huang Lian Por" right?

Hehehe I put on make up myself one leh.. confirm an amature.. hahah

Pic of my Lou Gong... :)

After the house warming, we went to the coffeeshop to get dinner before going home..

Finally a decent pic of Joshua cause he always make funny faces when taking pics.

Pics of my sleepy and cranky girl..

Pic of Josiah... What's he doing?

He's aiming on something...

He's trying to get something.

He's got it... Still trying to figure out what that is.. lol

Pic of my monkey, he wanted to make a funny face, I caught him on cam before he did.

Crying Joy... She was crying at the coffee shop and making a big fuss... ppl looked at us as if I kidnapped this kid.. hahahah

Well, good thing is I'm not mummy that is afraid to loose face... hahah thickedskin... cause I really bo bian when she cry... she will have to cool down on her own.. :)

That day no Gong Gong with us , so we were pratically lugging 3 kids, 1 stroller, 1 big bag trying to get a cab. lol.. miss gong gong man.. lol... Finally got a cab and reached home near to 8pm..

2nd June

2007-06-05T18:13:00.000+08:00

Hi all, Kiddos all no more Fever... Yipee....!!! but all still coughing.

So nice daddy, mummy, gong gong and por por brought the kiddos for a swim on Sat... Had promised Joshua for some time but as we had to go get his new bags and stuff on Vesak day, so we set that we will go swimming on Sat instead..

Sky was a little dark when we reached Jurong Swimming pool.. was very far for us and a little disappointed cause the kids pool are all closed for renovation. We hesitated on whether to go in or not but my little prince insisted that he wants to go in to the wave pool so in we went...

Brought all 3 little ones to the wave pool. They will have waves in that pool every 30mins or 45 mins interval. In between the waves, we brough Josiah whom is a first time waddler to the pool...

He was sitting on his own at the pool playing water.

Initially he didn't want to touch water and hung closely to me but after 15mins, he kindoff find that the pool was fun.. being a very very junior crawler, he attempt to crawl in the pool! Joy and Joshua was very daring and explored the deeper side of the pool with daddy...

Pic of Josiah, was enjoying more in the water

All of us...

3 Down, how?

2007-05-30T17:33:00.000+08:00

All 3 kids are sick...

Josiah had high Fever On and Off and bad cough since Thurs night...

Aparently he had a Viral attack, same as jie jie... After the 3 weeks ordeal with Jie Jie, now Josiah has got it... His fever always on and off, morning may be fine but night time, the monstrous fever would be back... :(

He can't sleep well cause phlegm is stuck at both the nose and throat so when he sleeps, he will get choked while breathing... Am very worried... Sunday night after a visit from my gran's place, his fever is back... I stayed up to look after him till the next med feed at 3:30am worried that he may over heat... at 1 plus, fever shot up again... Its 2 hrs plus before the next medication.. how?

Monitored him, never had a wink of sleep no matter how tired I was and his fever didn't seem to go away except, it went higher. So woke hubby up at 2plus and argued if we should bring him to the doc or not... He thinks I'm making a big fuss that its only high fever, his body's way of fighting the virus... I know that but which mother will not be worried... I quarreled with him cause even though I woke him up and tell him that Josiah's fever is 39.3°C, he went back to sleep after a while.. which made me more pissed. I couldn't understand how come he can still sleep when I'm like already on my toes...

Josiah's fever shot up higher and I couldn't care less and decided that I should send him to KKH even if the doc were to say that he's okie.. At least get some medication meanwhile before Doc Tan comes back right?

Eventually, he went with me... He still cares afterall.

We took a cab with Josiah and went to KKH, waiting time was okie.. Doc called for us... She told and assured me that no matter how high is the fever, it WILL NOT cause brain damage... Hello??? Can u imagine that ur own child burning till 39.6°C or 40°C and a mother can think that it will not cause any harm to her child.. her precious child..

Anyway, doc on duty suggested that the nurses will attempt to suck out the mucus from his nose with the machine... I thought it will make him better but I was wrong... Nurses ask us to wait till 4am since Josiah just drank a little milk worried that he will puke if they were to suck the mucus now. So we waited outside. Josiah seemed better and started babbling to us and to others. Another mummy even commented that he was sick yet he still wants to play... lol

At 4am, Josiah was sleeping when I passed him to the nurses and he woke up once "mummy" didn't smell right... they placed him on the bed and drew the curtains. The next thing I heard was the motor being turned on and Josiah crying... My heart ache started... Its was a nightmare hearing ur baby cry, not able to see what they are doing to him and he's screaming. Hubby ask me to go out of the room knowing that I cannot take it but I insisted to be there.. I want to be there to carry him once the nightmare is over... I want to be the first to hold him and assure him that I'm still around and I didn't want him to go through the pain but I have no choice... Tears just formed in my eyes.

I heard the motor turned off and the nurses drew the curtains. I went over to carry him immediately and assure him that mummy loves him and I'm sorry... Nurses then told us that they couldn't get much out from his nose and may have to do it again later... They told us to wait outside for a while and give him the glucose water cause he may vomit.

Josiah after that was not himself cause he didn't want the glucose water... A while later, doc called us into the room and advise the medication to give... I was quite happy that she didn't ask for another session of the horrible mucus sucking machine... So we just went to the pharmacy to collect the medicine. Shortly, Josiah sneezed and we got a shock cause we saw strands of blood. Immediately I brought him back to the Doc's room and Doc explained that it's temporarily. Most probably, due to the sensitivity of the nose membranes, membranes may have tear but doc assures its temporarily. If bleeding persist, it should be some other problems...

Brought him home and he was still fussing... He didn't want milk cause I think its painful... Really breaks my heart to see him like that.

Now he's still having fever... just hope that the ordeal will be over soon...

Tomorrow will be bringing all 3 out to see Doc Tan since she is back.. Kiasu mummy has already made appointment for tomorrow. Just hope that its not something serious...

*crossing fingers...

Sick Sick Sick

2007-05-24T13:43:00.000+08:00

Recently, family members fell ill one by one... feels like its a curse... Sigh... spent a lot on medical bills this month.

Everyone seems to have caught either the flu bug or the "cough" bug...

I lost my voice for 2 weeks, on and off... went to see doc and doc say its Sinus... Ears blocked, throat pain & etc... Doc said if I take that med no good, have to go hospital to insert tube in my nose to drain mucus.. goodness gracious... :( Med that day costs me $42 loh... :(

Hubby got bad cough, diahhrea and sore throat.. he will cough in the middle of the night till he puke.. :(

Girl Girl having bouts of high fever on and off since 3rd of May... sigh...

Both boys coughing... Oh my, what should I do?

Family doc is away for holidays, dun trust the other part timers leh..

Girl Girl's fever went up to a high 40.6°C two nights ago... totally freaked me out... So last night went KKH to buy the AquaCool "water pillow" for her to lie.. Its a pillow with Coolen inside to keep body cool... Coax her till she sleep soundly then put her on the pillow cause she refused to be placed on the pillow or to be sponged despite her high fever of 39.7°C... What should I do?

Really hope that her fever comes down soon.. haven't been sleeping much lately..

Radish says that he will be talking to me tomorrow ... Hope its good news... at least any form of increment can help the family abit...

Am sad that Berry's leaving soon.. as time goes, the "She Bu De" feeling is getting stronger and some more she has passed me her stationaries liao... I now have 2 hand me downs from ex colleagues.. sad to see ppl leaving but well, think its inevitable if there are greener pastures outside, isn't it?

Well wishes to Berry - all the best k? Still the lau tao hua: All the Best for your future Endeavours...
Wishes to Ducky and MB - Hehehe wish u fulfil ur Recep dream k? Got Bonus liao dun forget me hor.. hahahhahhaha

Will update more on days when I have enough sleep.. hahahah
TaTa

Aunt's wedding... Dec 2006

2007-05-17T13:12:00.000+08:00

Hi, Finally got hold of the thumbdrive that has all the pics...

From left: My cuz, Aunt in her gown and Gran (taken before Uncle Geof came)

Didn't have pics of Uncle Geof being locked out of the house cause we were crowding at the door that my bro couldn't squeeze through.. heheheh

As customs are such that the groom got to pick the bride up, bring him home then come back to thank the family. As Uncle Geof's home is in Auzzie, doesn't make sense for them to go to Aus and come back right?heheheh. So they went off and got in the wedding car and drove 2 rounds before coming back...

This was taken after Uncle Geof came to pick the bride. Aunt has already changed into her 2nd costume... Now its Tea Ceremony...

First cup of tea is always for parents... As my Grandfather is not around... only granny is there to drink the tea... although my aunt is not her own daughter, she still teared seeing her get married...

I've always think that my gran is a very nice and strong woman that she could tahan her hubby bring home 5 kids from another woman for my gran to look after... If it was me, I think I would have killed the man. But gran didn't and brought up all 5...

Aunt is one of them... but when she got married, my gran cried... Aunt cried too... She have always recognise gran as her real mother...

Don't they look good together?

As Daddy was the eldest, it was their turn... But dad couldn't make it as he was working that day... So mum had to drink the tea on his behalf as well... :)

Another pic of mum drinking the tea... My little girl decided to join in the fun but we had to get her out of there before she breaks the cups... lol

This is my Aunt, 2nd in line... so her turn for tea.

More tea and more ang pows... Chinese traditions is that the elder ones will drink tea served by my Aunt and Uncle... So as my Aunt is 2nd from the bottom, she had to serve tea to about 8 bros and sis then be served by 1 uncle cause he is younger than my aunt... kekeke

So more pics of teas being served...

As this uncle is the youngest, he and wife has to serve tea to Aunt and Uncle Geof... and of course got ang pow to take... quite good to be the youngest isn't it?

Uncle Geof's bro - heheh realise who's the little girl at the bottom of my pic? Lol, my girl like to "Chap Ji Kar"

My crazy aunt wants to take pics with her "Shao Zhu"

Another Crazy act by my Aunt, asking Uncle Geof to kiss the ass of the pig with her... lol

As we requested, what's a wedding like without the bride and groom kissing... lol

The bride and groom before they left...

The wedding car - Compliments by my Uncle.. heheh cause its his car..

Rem I talked about Uncle Geof making his own Fondant wedding cake...

Here's the pic...

See the ring on the cake? Its their wedding ring...

Close up pic of the cake

At the hotel, Holy Matrimony. Aunt was crying all the way. Well, it was tears of happiness...

Exchanging vows...

Aunt was crying and couldn't say anything... She was very emotional that day... too happy I guess...

Group photo after the ceremony.. Aunt still crying... lol

From Left: Uncle Geof's sis or sis in law... Uncle Geof's brother's daughter, Aunt, Uncle Geof, his bro, and the Registra

Aunt still crying but she still looks beautiful in her wedding gown..

Cutting the cake..

Lastly a pic of my chubby little prince... :)

I'm very happy that Aunt got married. She's in Aussie now and we miss her lots...

Wish her happiness forever and ofcourse hope that God will bless her with a blissful and fruitful marriage... Hope that soon we'll have news of little baby Geof... lol...

Picture time! Lol

2007-05-10T18:06:00.000+08:00

My Aunt got married many months ago which I didn't have time to post pics... She's married to an Aussie and is in Australia now... kind off miss her now...

She is a sometimes blur and guilible but definately very kind lady..

Here are some pics taken at my gran's house where she held her customary...

Uncle Geof was willing to go through the customary of "Ying Jie Xin Niang" so he came in the morning and found himself locked out of the house until he gave us the Ang Pow... hahahah

We as the Jie Mei, since aunts are all married, we were authorised to lock him out till we neg a good price.. hehehe

Two cheeky monkeys which went to "kop" Banna and hide at the corner to eat... Hoping that mummy won't realise...

See the "give me the banana please" faces... lol

"Yummy" They were waiting for the wedding thing to start...

They were eating and eating... My girl got herself a Char Siew Pao... lol

See her gleaming.. hahaha

Still eating Char Siew Pao

All dress up in her pretty white dress... Actually she was the little flower girl but too bad.. family issues they got her uncles and aunties to be the flower boy and girl instead...

Don't have much pics of the whole process as the pics are in dad's thumb drive.. Will upload pics of the tea ceremony soon.

After the Tea Ceremony, we went back to mom's place to rest for a while before heading to Merchant Hotel for her Holy Matrimony.

From left: Joshua, bro, mum and dad at the ballroom waiting for ceremony to start.

Girl Girl at the Ceremony.
Uncle Geof even made and brought his own Fondant cake and brought it from Australia... So sweet isn't it? He made his own wedding cake... *wished that I have the pics now cause I took pics of the sweet looking cake...*

Aunt and Uncle Geof... with her friend..

We had dinner at the same hotel...

It was a buffet style and desert was Fondue...

Look at his chocolaty lips.. hahaha

Girl Girl also wanted to have a go at the Fondue.. lol

The three of us

Josiah... trying to reach the bag.. lol

2007-05-10T17:12:00.000+08:00

How should I start this?

Was wondering why I have a blog for when its only for posting pictures... shouldn't it be something for me to write for my everyday life?

Recently have a lot of discussion about my colleague leaving... Have a lot of "Gan Chu". I understand what she's going through cause I've been through the same thing before...

3 yrs ago tendered my resignation as another company was trying to poach me and paying me a market rate salary for my duty at that time... I know I've been under paid for my role at that time and it was about 30% lesser but as I was very happy and contented in the current co, I didn't thought of going to find another job... Its about the comfort zone thing again... who would want to go out of your comfort zone?

So I tendered to my manager... At lunch, saw my boss at the coffee shop so just told him that I had tendered (my intention was just to inform him about it since he was the one whom bought over my company and brought us over to the current one..). Never thought that he told me that he will have a talk with me later...

After he had his lunch, he really came to approach me and talked to me... So I told him about my offer and told him that I really needed the money and it was also the market rate for that post. He counter offered.... although it was not higher than the other company but I knew it was the best that he can offer cause as an SME, they had a lot of restrictions and I knew that if I had left, the company could lose the contract with the customer since I was the only person heading that. After much consideration, I stayed.

Unfortunately, after less than 1 yr later, the contract ended. I was reverted back to my old salary and position. I was very disappointed as I could not see what the company had for me. Even though I had the licensing knowledge in Microsoft products, no one seem to knew that and I am just left at the helpdesk taking calls. Sometimes I feel dejected as I know I can do so much more than just helpdesk... Unfortunately till now.. its been 2 yrs already and I'm still at helpdesk level. Its never where I thought I would be 5 yrs in this line.

I seriously feel that in this company, you have to carry balls in order to climb but I'm not such a person. I don't see why a person have to "por" and all the office politics are so scary...

The pickles and cabbage thing is a very good example... Bcos she can feed him with a lot of information heard from us, she's very well "valued". I feel very sad as I know I don't want to be still in the same position another 5 yrs down the road but my charactor is such that I don't like to "por"...

I also feel that the company only look out for themselves and not employees... when they need us, they try all means and ways to make us stay. But when they don't, they don't value you...

BB, I really feel happy for you as this opportunity is very good for you... even if you do not stay there for long, having an MNC experience in ur resume will add so much more value. Of course its not easy to stay in an MNC but do take it as a challenge and not personal. Don't stress urself too much in a job, yes you got to give 100% but dun give ur life k? U read the story that MB sent? The girl over worked and over stressed in MNC then in the end . You must know how to cope with stress k?

I am looking for better opportunities now as I have 3 mouths to feed. I haven't been getting much stuffs for myself and all spending on family and kids...

After having my sometimes adorable, sometimes can be devil, little ones, I have been keeping or spending all my money on them... But its a pleasure to spend on them.. lol seeing the smile on their face.

I've got friends or just acquaintances asking me how I cope with 3. Lol... I get by by doing side line loh.. hahahah

I do boarding of dogs to earn extra income loh.. I've always loved dogs but as my bro has been asthmatic since young, we couldn't have any pets... Now that we have our own family, we adopted Rosie 1 yr plus ago. Now having 3 kids and 1 dog, hubby dun allow another dog in the family so we can only do boarding... so I can earn some extra income and can play and look after different breeds of dogs... 1 stone kill 2 birds isn't it?

Recently some one offered adoption of Charcoal, a CHH but my request to hubby was rejected... sigh...

Here's a pic of him:

Here's another pic:

Pity that I can't adopt him right?

Well.. hubby say when his 3 Mil deal comes in or when we have 100K in our bank, he will get me one CHH to fulfil my childhood dream... let's hope by that time he will still rem about this promise...

Hahahah maybe by then, I this sotong may have already forgotten about it.. hehehhe

Some assorted pics of my princes and princess.

2007-04-24T15:54:00.000+08:00

Caught him smiling..

My Little Prince and King... lol... talking about baby fat... look how chubby this baby is...

My Monkey's "The Look"... hehehehe

See... My girl's first performance... :)

Teacher feeding her after the performance

Joshua doing the dance and mei mei trying to follow.. lol

See the Pretty Teacher? She's the principal's daughter Ms Lim...

Eating on her own

Oh I soooo love her... Even though sometimes her tantrums can be scary.

My boy standing straight... with his paper aeroplane

Updates on the kiddos & Joshua's Extravagant 5th Birthday

2007-04-20T18:04:00.000+08:00

Hi hi to everyone whom has been reading my blog but always find it not updated... really sorry cause I've been super busy since the birth of my little prince...

Now I have 2 prince and 1 princess... whom keeps me buzy buzy... I really mean buzzzzzzyyyy... Quick update on their pics...

Brought the kiddos to the Zoo on 1st Jan 07.

Taken on 1st Jan 2007 Joy at the Children's World...

Joshua and Joy...

Taken on 2nd Jan, Joshua's 5th Birthday. Look at the amount of toys he got...hahahah mostly from me... The top Racers set is from my bro, the Drawing board at the back is from my dad... the rest are from me.. hahahha
The little sister trying to get a share of the KorKor's toy... only to be knudged by him... Poor Joy.

Another pic of the many toys I bought for him

Heheh Picture of Joshua and Captain Dazzle.... I actually booked a clown to come to his school to give him a birthday surprise.. heheheh He was really surprised.. :) I search high and low for the picture for the cake... cause he was crazy about Heffalump at that time..

We had magic shows for the whole school... The kids loved it and so did the teachers... They even told me to book one next year for his birthday... lol..

More pics of magic show.. see how happy Joshua is sitting beside me... lol.. cause Captain Dazzle asked everyone to shout HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSHUA... lol

As the birthday boy, he was asked to be the little assistant for Captain Dazzle.

We then had tranquilist (pardon my spelling) show.

Lastly, the show ended with special appearance of Fluffy, the bunny... Look at the way my princess looked at the bunny.. lol

All the kids had a chance to pat her...

Then we had the cake cutting session after the whole show.

Photo taking with the girls in his class

Then with the boys...

Picture with the whole class , everyone was happy.

Brother and sister sat together to eat the cake...

Wondering what's Joy doing with the fork...

Joy's Dirty Hands.. Think she used the fork to attack her kor kor, so use hands to eat.. hehehe

After the tasting the cake....

We had balloon sculpting session for his class and Joshua was the first to get his "Fishing Rod".
Then he got a Sword

The Girls all got a flower... Joy too....

Caught a candid image of her scratching her head, isn't she adorable.. heheheh

After the exciting morning, we headed to Tung Lok Noble house for dinner. Spent a lot on this monkey's birthday... hehehe I normally scrimp and save and end up spending for kids... :)

Don't ask me how much I spent cause you wouldn't want to know.. lol

I like to go Tung Lok cause they have buffet dinner, so I don't over spend and dun have to worry that the bill will shoot higher than my budget... and the food is good...
As some one was holding their wedding dinner there, we got to sit in VIP rooms at the sides... More privacy...

Pic of my little prince, see how much he have grown... Many says he looks like a princess... hahahah Aunties or ppl outside always go : "Aiyo... so cute... girl or boy har? " ;)

See why I call him a monkey.. While we were eating, he and mei mei were crawling all over the the place, hiding under tables and stuffs..

And look at the Birthday Boy, he was lucky that its his Bday... Else I would have killed him... He's under the chair loh... !!!

He was enjoying his desert.... Look at his sis...

Cute right?

I like this shot... actually a lot of other shots.. hahah

So pretty... heheh I'm an obsessed mummy.. lol

Eeeeeewwwww.... Please dun ask me what happened... lol

He had a very very happy birthday that day but kind off forgot about it 2-3 months later.. hahaha expected...

Josiah Elisiah Anandha

2006-08-03T16:37:00.000+08:00

Our Pic in the Delivery Suite... before all the intense pain kicks in.. lol

His First Picture, His first Cry

In Midst of being cleaned up...

After Being Cleaned Up.

Little Blue Ridding Hood... Isn't he adorable?

In The Warmer

Taken on Day 2 in the hospital infant bed

Contented

Look at that Deep Set Eyes

My 3rd Labour Story

2006-07-31T16:04:00.000+08:00

Hi All,

I'm back!!! lol...

Popped on 27th Jul. Supposed to be induced on 26th night but end up when I went there at 9pm, I was already having contractions and 4cm dilated.. hahahah
Baby's name is Josiah Elisiah Anandha, hahah. couldn't decide which one so end up writing both on BC.. hehehe.

Birth story pretty chop chop...

9pm: reached KK Delivery Suite to prepare for admission and do the necessary paper work for induction.Strapped on to CTG in Induction Room 3 while hub go do admission.Having slight contractions since 4pm after the Vaginal Swap doc did in the morning checkup but since it was very mild, I simply ignored it.. heheh

10:15pm, nurse did VE after seeing CTG graph and say that I'm already 4cm dilated and don't need to induce already. So I went (walked) to the delivery Room 16 which is nearby.

11:30pm: Requested for Epidural and informed them about my Scoliosis condition. Doc came to put me on drip and break water bag... Pain getting more and more intense. Breathed the "laughing" gas while doc tried to administer drip. Anaesthetist came and tried to locate my spine down my back.. ask me to sit up and put my feet on the chair then bend forward.Kept breathing in the gas, finally she found the right place to insert the needle. After epidural, could still feel the pain on my left side but still bearable.

12:45: Informed nurse that I have the feeling to push. Nurse and mid wife encourage me to push...Adter several pushes, Baby Josiah arrived in this world at 1plus am @ 3.19kg. Head Circumference: 34cm. Length: 48cm.

Pic taken right after birth

Pic taken on 28th Jul

Baby Josiah and Jie Jie Joy

My 2nd Labour Story

2006-07-03T15:43:00.000+08:00

Again copied from http://idobaby.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2412

I went for routine check up with Hubby at KKH on my 39th Week as per normal, Doc told us “be prepared for labour anytime and just go to the delivery suite when you feel contractions but if by next week still no signs then we may consider inducing cause cannot let baby stay in for too long.” Went home with a heavy heart just waiting for THE day.

On 3rd April 2005, EDD date, went KKH for check up, still no signs. So Doc schedule me for induced labour on 5th April 2005 and ask me to be warded by 12pm if still no signs of labour. On the day, we took our bag, camera and etc to the hospital to be ready for induction. Went delivery suite to register and then they monitored me on CTG for half an hour to make sure baby heart beat is fine.

A nurse came to me and explain to me the procedure of induce labour. They will insert a pill for me that day, if I do not have any contractions at all, they will insert another pill the next day. If after 3 pills baby still refuse to come out, then may have to consider caesarean. The sound of it really sends shivers down my spine, cannot imagine a drawing a line on my tummy…

While alone in the room, my hubby went around taking photos of me. He then went to 7-eleven to buy me mags to kill time and bought me a can of Milo, went to smoke and etc.At 1plus, they inserted the prostin pill and asked me to stay in bed and they will monitor me. The nurse told me if by 3:30pm still no contractions, they will send me back to the ward. Was hoping if I deliver anytime, my son would be able to see his baby sister by the time he came in the evening but that did not happen. At 3:15pm, I was sent back to ward to rest as there was still no contractions and I was only 3 cm dilated, still long way to go was the comment I heard from the nurse. Sigh… I decided that since I was going back to the ward, I was determined to wait for my son to come visit me before delivery. At the ward, the nurse told me to call for them to bring me back to delivery suite if there is severe contractions and if I can no longer tolerate the pain. “How to determine intolerable pain?” was the thing in my mind as everyone have different tolerance level.

Hubby then went downstairs to get Macdonalds for me cause I was feeling hungry… Wanted to eat Sundae… lol and he went for a smoke too.At 4:30pm, contractions started, I told hubby that I want to endure till Joshua comes cause I know my son would want to see me since he will be spending the night at gran’s place.Contractions got more and more intense, and I got hubby to request for a paper to jot down my contraction timing… It was coming every 1 min… then every 30 secs. I asked the nurse what is the defination of intolerable pain, she just replied with “whenever you feel like going down, I will get them to send you down”. I tolerated all the way till 6pm, kept doing breathing exercises.

Finally Joshua came, I gave him a big hug and told him that Mei Mei still refuse to come out but he must behave himself and he will definately see Mei Mei tomorrow. Contractions got so bad that I could not even eat the Macdonald’s meal that my hubby bought for me. After Joshua went back, I told Hubby, “I think its time”. My hubby was so excited and called for the nurse. The nurse sent me down on a wheel chair. When down at the delivery suite at near to 8pm. The staff nurse came in to get me changed and introduced herself and asked if I wanted any pain relief. She really made me feel very comfortable and at home. Again Hubby ask me to get epidural cause dun wan me to go though so much pain but was worried that it may be too late cause contractions already very intense. But still we requested for epidural.

The nurse came in and told me that currently no anaesthetist is available at this time so I only have my gas mask available. After my previous experience of labour, I could really handle this better. Was breathing slowly to calm myself down. Finally after 10 mins, an anaesthetist came and I told her about my scoliosis and about my first epidural which did not work. She asked if I could sit up as she could see from the graphs that my contractions are very intense now and mentioned that she will try to insert the tube only when I do not have contractions. I sat at the side of the bed and was struggling through the contractions cause the mask was not long enough for me so I had to tolerate through my contractions without any help. The anaesthetist took a very long time to locate the soft part of my spine due to my history of scoliosis. Finally, after around 5-8 contractions, she finally inserted the tube and I felt the tingling sensation. I lay in bed and suddenly felt so good. Epidural is finally working, I can no longer feel the pain but was shaking a little. She told me it was the normal but I did not mind. I turned to hubby and said “Dear, now I can 100% confirm that the epidural did not work during the labour of our first kid.” He agreed seeing the differences. I was so relaxed and even jokingly commented to my hubby that maybe our daughter will be born at the same time as our son as our son was born at 22:12hrs and it was already near 2200hrs.

Hubby then went down for a smoke thinking that labour may not be soon.After a while, the doctor came in the room and attached another "thing" at my thigh. Think that is for sensing baby’s heart beat and left the room. The staff nurse came in to check on me and upon looking at the graphs by CTG,
she asked: “Where is your hubby?”
Me: “He went down for a smoke, lol”
Staff Nurse: “Call him back immediately”
Me: “Is there anything wrong?”
Staff Nurse: “Just call him back”

I called hubby but he did not answer. I then called again and told him what the nurse said. When Hubby came up at around 9:55pm, he told me that he was calling my dad to update him on my situation and was telling that most prob I will deliver after midnight. The doctor came in to check and said “ You have to deliver now, get ready.” I asked him what’s the hurry as he seemed a little worried. I asked him if baby is okie as there was a fear in me. He told me that Baby’s heartbeat not very strong and that really scared me…They got ready with gloves and etc and reduced the dose of epidural to let me feel the contractions so that I can push. A midwife came in at this time and started to help me into position. I remember that the midwife was using her body weight to pushed against my left leg and the doc on my right.

They asked me to push as if I was trying to push them away and after 3 pushes, our daughter was born. Guess @ what time? Our Angel was born @22:13hrs… Just a difference of 1 min from her bro! Hehehe The first thing I realized from my baby was that she is Big…. She was born 3.4kg! Bigger than her Kor Kor and she kept crying. The nurse put her on my belly and I was so happy when I saw her…As I thought everything was over, the nurse came and told me that there was no surgeon to stitch me up and I had to wait… but the worries was overcame by the happiness of seeing our daughter . The staff nurse asked me if I would like to Breastfeed my daughter, I said Yes. She asked if I know how to do it, I shook my head abd told her honestly no, as my first breastfeeding experience was unsuccessful. She patiently guided my baby to latch on and SHE SUCKLED!! I felt so good and satisfied seeing my baby drinking. I really would like to thank her cause she was very patient with me.Finally the surgeon came to stitch me up and she too was patient and told me what she was doing. I rem her telling me “ okie ah.. I’ll be done soon… bear with it, will be over soon, last stitch already k?” She kept repeating that to console me.

After she was done, the staff nurse gave me biscuits and milo to drink and she kept telling me take my time, she’s got plenty of rooms available for other moms so drink and eat slowly and regain strength. That really touched me… When I could be sent back to ward, the staff nurse took a float like thing for me to sit, it was something which did not happen in my previous labour.

Hubby this time round stayed with me even till I went back to my ward and help me wash up and ready for bed . And this time, the stitch did not feel as bad as the last. After the birth of my first kid, I could not even walk properly even after the 3rd day but this time, I could even walk to the bathroom myself to bath early next morning .

I sincerely would like to thank the staff nurse that took care of me and also want to thank my hubby.

Love you lots Hub .. Muacks

2006-07-03T15:20:00.000+08:00

Extracted this from http://idobaby.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2407.
Wanted to copy this into Singaporemotherhood for mummies to read but somehow "idobaby" was not allowed in the forum so have to upload here loh.. :)

Okie, let me pen down my First labour experience for my Boy.

First Labour was in Yr 2002 Jan 2nd.My EDD for my first Baby Boy was supposed to be 31 Dec 2001. Thinking that my baby may have the chance to be the last baby for 2001 or first baby for 2002, I was pretty excited.I was a single mom at that time. The full story was that I was not married at that time and my hubby was no longer my bf. Initially after realizing that I was pregnant, now hubby then bf wanted to get married. But I know it was against his will, he was still not in the right state of mind to get married so I called off the wedding plans. Went through the pregnancy on my own, went checkups alone, ultrasound scans alone and etc. He was around but we were just no longer in a relationship and we discussed on how we were going to raise our baby, we agreed that I will still put his name on the BC of my boi and he will always be the baby's father and we’ll bring him up together but both of us agreed that we should continue knowing new ppl and if any of us find our life partner, we should get on with life. We also agreed that he should be with me during the labour process.

So on that fateful day, 2nd Jan 2002 3 am, I could feel slight cramps. I timed the contractions to make sure it was labour before going to the hospital. at 6 am, decided that I should leave for the hospital as the slight cramps were right on time at intervals of 30sec- 1 min. Went to stick a note at my parents door to say that I have left for KKH, I took a cab and called my partner. As his house is very near KKH, I expected that he should reach the same time as me. When I arrived at the Delivery Suite at 6:30am, I did not see him around so called him again... And that Ass was still sleeping, ought to be shot . So I told him to go work instead and will call him if its really labour. Went in to delivery suite and was put on the CTG and after doc monitor me for 3 hours, he told me to go home as it does not seem labour even though I was 2 Days LATE. Doc did not even offer to admit me, just told me to go home. So went for a Macdonald's breakfast before heading home at 10:30am.

The day went on normally, rested on the bed watching TV when suddenly at 3:30pm, I swear that I heard a “Pop” sound even though my bro did not. Realised something was not right, went to the bathroom immediately and a gush of water flowed out and I went “Oh Sh*t”. Immediately, I went to put on 2 sanitary pads (at least that was what I could think of) and called for a cab immediately. Upon reaching hospital, the pads could no longer hold the water and water was flowing down my legs, I quickly walked up to the delivery suite and apologise for “dirtying” the place. The nurses were very kind and consoled me saying that its okie. Was sent to delivery suite, changed and lie in bed. After 10 mins, the Nurse pushed in a drip and I asked her if they were going to put me on drip. She said “Yes”, I then replied “No one told me give birth must put drip one… “, I never put drip before so was worried. She poked the needle into my left hand and I went laughing… That was my way of handling pain, whenever I test blood, once needle poked, I will start laughing… Weird right… Was then told not to move around too much. As I waited, I kept calling my partner with the phone in the suite but coincidently, he was away at the Runway (he was in the Air Force) so did not bring his phone. So I got my bro to keep calling his office. Was left alone in the suite…

Finally partner arrived at 4:30pm smelling VERY good. Can you imagine, he went home to BATHE and CHANGED before coming, giving me the excuse of smelling good to give baby good first impression… LAME… Labour pains started and I was taking as much Gas as I could.. hahah.. felt as if I was floating in air and I kept on laughing.. Nurse said I took too much gas already .. heheh. Nurse asked me if I want epidural but I declined. Partner advised me to take cause he worried that I cannot take the pain. So I budged in the end and had epidural. They asked me to lie on my side and curled up, felt a needle poked into my back then this cool liquid flowing in…. Labour pain got more intense till gas no longer working, could feel very bad contractions and I was biting my own thumb. My Partner told me not to bite my own thumb and bite his, was a little touched. Told Nurse that Epidural was not working as I should not feel so much pain and I could still move my legs but she did not believe. Got the anaesthetist to check and put a second dose of epidural for me. It was still not working, pain was still very severe. My Partner got worried and went to ask the nurse. Nurse said “ It is definitely working, else she would not be so calm…” No one believed me… sobz. I’m suspecting that it may be my condition of Scoliosis, (crooked spine) which results in ineffective of the Epidural.Doc came in and check on me and said, “You should be ready for delivery”. Felt that pain was very very intense so I did the breathing exercises that I saw on TV and started to hold the pain. I remember hearing the nurse/midwife said “Only push when you feel contractions, dun push when there are no contractions!” Could not really control and did not know how to as it was my first labour, didn’t really know when to push. After 5 mins, the Midwife asked me to start pushing when I felt contractions. Was quite a messy situation as I pushed at the wrong time and etc. Nurse and midwife had a lot of actions at my lower body but I could NOT feel a thing when they cut the Perineal area (only knew about the cut after delivery when partner told me).

After some pushing, at 22:12Hrs, my son was born! He was so adorable but had a cone shape head due to my pushes at the wrong timing. (Felt so guilty when I saw his head) After cutting the umbilical cord, the doc put him in the baby bed while nurses started to clean him up and did initial checks on him. The surgeon stitched me up while talking to the nurse. Gave me a feeling of unprofessional and her pager kept beeping for her. Can you imagine when she was stitching me up, she asked the nurse to reach for her pocket to take her pager to return the calls. Don’t even know if she’s doing a good job or not. As I was over bleeding , they had monitor me in the delivery suite and if I’m still over bleeding by 11+, I need to be sent to ICU. Midwife did not offer to let me carry him. At 11pm, asked my partner to go back home first as he still need to report for work the next day. Prayed really hard to hope that I would not have to be sent to ICU. Nurse informed me that my baby will be sent to the nursery first and I had to stay back to be monitored.

At 11:45pm, the nurse told me that I should be able to be sent back to ward but told me to alarm the nurses if I had terrible pains. I missed my baby so much, hope that he would be fine. When back at ward, my perineal was so painful that I could not even sit. Suspected again that surgeon did not do a good job in stitching again. No one really came to teach me on breastfeeding after deliver and did not even asked if I want to fully breast feed my baby and did not see my baby after that. It was only until the next day, a nurse brought my baby to me and teach me how to breastfeed my baby but my Joshua was too sleepy to drink. Whenever I try to latch him on, he slept. The nurses in the nursery also told me he doesn’t drink much cause whenever they try to bottle feed him, he falls asleep.

On the 3rd day, I was allowed to go home with my baby after seeing the councilors (as I was a single mom). Felt very helpless at that time cause I need the councilors approval to bring my baby home. Once home, my son started to crying for milk, lucky we had a tin of milk powder ready. Tried breastfeeding but was unsuccessful and gave up after that. Now I really regretted for not trying harder cause breast milk will really boost his immunity. Sigh.That’s my labour story and I think I only have one word to describe…. Traumatised… Now he is a cheeky 3 Yr old boy.

Look out for my story on my 2nd experience in Labour.

2006-06-23T15:44:00.000+08:00

Incident 1: Bitten by Blind Husky, Wolfie 14th April

Left: Shawn's injured left wrist...
Right: His injured right wrist...

Both being "wrapped" up.
This was taken when he was asleep.. heheheh

Incident 2: Hospitalisation + Operation 15th May - Hub's 28th Bday
Pictures are taken after oxygen tubes and drip was taken out.

Left: Taken after Op, topless. See the Flower on the bottom left corner of pic? Its my present to him for his Birthday to cheer him up.
Right: I made him hold the flower to take pic with my Hp... Lol.

Aneastetic still have not fully wear off mah.. still not so painful, so I can still play.

Left: The "successful" workable drip that was done in Operating Theatre.

Right: Taken on 30th May - Dragged to the Doc by me and was found running high fever so got to put on mask.

After all these pictures on the unhappy incidents, let's see some happy ones.

Don't know what's up with Blogspot... I keep having problems with posting pictures... Maybe they want me to start a new post to post happy pics.. heheh

So Many Things have happened....

2006-06-20T11:56:00.000+08:00

As you guys know, since 1st Apr I had my 30% pay cut. On 14th Apr Good Friday, Hub was bitten by a Blind Husky that we were boarding. Sent him to Doc Tan immediately and doc gave him a jab saying that its quite a bad bite. Wolfie had bit both his wrist and blood was dripping. He had to go for dressing every alternate days to clean the wound. On the 3rd day, doc said that the wound is having a bad infection, resulted in having pus and was surprised why hub was not having a fever. In the end, he has to go back to the clinic everyday to let doc clean the wound. Poor Hub, it was kindoff painful as the wound was deep...

After around 5 days of daily cleaning of wound by doc and of course medical bills, doc finally allow me to do the dressing for him myself at home... so I had my fair share of fun wraping my hub's wrist... hahhah Ba Zang time.. Lol... But Wolfie also another problem one, why must bite both his wrist??? In the end, he couldn't do anything, cannot bath himself, cannot carry the kids... I had to do it all by myself coping with a new maid too.. Sigh. Best part is, we spend almost near to $100 on medical not calculating the pain and trouble, but the owners of Wolfie refused to pay for medical claiming that they were not around to see the incident happen. But when they came, we say Wolfie mouth his owner's wrist too and he did not correct him so we guessed that it must have been a habit... :(

After this whole incident blew over, it was already beginning of May. Initially, hub planned that we will send kids over to my parents place and go for a nice buffet dinner on 11th of May. But.... Around 2nd week of May which was around 8th May,Hub had a terrible pain near his bum and had high fever for several days. In the end realised that Pus was the culprit. Brought hub to the doc again and was given antibiotics to clear the infection and painkillers to stop the pain and was told to go back for review on 14th of May. On the 14th, his pain was still very bad, he couldn't sit or lie down properly and was still having high fever despite medication given. After seeing Doc Tan, he was refered to TTSH and was admitted immediately. The Docs at TTSH said that he has to go for an op on the very same day and have to fast immediately. No food no water till the op. It was around 12pm that he was sent in, still in pain. No one advised if he could take the next dose of painkillers and he was just pushed to the observation ward with the many other patients. Seeing him in pain and shivering, I told the nurses there that he's running a very high fever and is due for medication, they say that they will check with the doc and get back. Finally, they came to give him a jab, hub felt better and finally fell asleep. We waited in the observation ward till around 9pm at night before he was wheeled to ward. After all the hustle bustle, I accompanied him till around 11pm, the doc still did not come to put the drip for him. He was nearly dehydrated as they wanted him to fast for op but no one put drip for him. Its already almost 12 hrs with no food and drink... I called for the nurse many times and before I left for home about 11 plus, she assured that the doc is on his way and will keep an eye on hub for me. Kissed hub goodbye and I went home. Went downstairs to the taxi stand and realised that there was quite a queue so decided to walk out to see if I could hitch a cab. After walking out, felt that "hmmmm, maybe I can walk home since its so near", so guess what, I walked home!!! hahahahah, freaked my dad and bro out.. lol.. they scolded me and say that I'm already 7months plus preg and still walk back at wee hours not forgetting on Mothers' Day. I don't mean to be cheeky, its just that I dun wan to waste more money already.

Reached home at 11:30pm all alone.. (kids at parents place), had a nice bath and went to sleep as I gotto wake up early next morning to buy breaky for hub. As he fasted the whole of Sunday, he wanted to have Uppuma and a nice ice cold drink... Poor Hub spent his first hours of his 28th Bday in the Operating Theatre. Op started at 1am. When dad sent the kids back to my place in the morning, he too sent me to Tekka to pack food for Shawn.

Reached hospital about 8 plus in the morning, I got a shock. Cause I have never seen hub so vulnerable before. He had tubes in his nose, looked so pale and on drips. OT Gown was with blood also. Heard that the drip they put for him after I left was not working so they removed and poked another one. It did not work again so in the OT, they poked another needle into him for the drip. 3 holes! Talk about professionalism... It seems that after the op, they let him inhale pure oxygen (that explains the tube). It was very very painful cause it was an open wound which has to heal on its own. He couldn't sit nor walk much due to the location of the wound. Hub was also pek chek with himself as he couldn't do anything on his own. He was discharged on the very same night. While in TTSH, I went to buy him 2 slices of cake to celebrate his Bday... Poor Hub, whole of his Bday was spent in the hospital, some more in so much pain. In the end TTSH only gave him Anti Biotics and PARACETEMOL.

PARACETEMOL leh!!! Freaking open wound about 5cm big 4cm deep, only gave paracetemol?? What are the docs thinking about man.. Asked the nurses about it and they say that's normally what they give, we can request stronger painkillers from the GP when we go for dressing. S0 no choice loh, we then took a cab home, cut the cake while hub was standing and brought him into the room to rest.

For the next few days, it was pretty hectic for us. I went to work early in the morning after making sure hub was okie, rushed back during lunch by cab to bring him to the wash room, wipe his body then took another cab to the clinic. Doc had to use the (dunno what) solution to wipe/wash his wound... It was so painful for him that he was shivering in pain then doc put on fresh dressing for him. It was so painful that he didn't want to go to the doc at all... He couldn't do much stuffs on his own, if I had placed him in the chair in the morning, he would stay in that position till I come back during lunch cause it was very painful and due to the aneasthetics, he didn't have much strength for the first few days and cannot pull himself up. This went on for roughly a week. This drained us mentally, physically and financially. :(

Hub was very worried about our finances cause he was still under probation and all these MCs would be considered as unpaid leave. And daily dressing costs $, cabs costs $. Hub didn't even want to go or suggested that we could do the dressing at home ourselves so that we don't have to waste money on cabs. Told hub that we won't be able to do it ourselves and doc will not allow as its a pretty big wound and if infected, it will be pretty serious. Also during this incident, we realised that hub was allergic to a specific painkiller cause after the painkiller, he had rashes all over his body... :( We had to change to another lighter painkiller instead. As he could not sit, he was given priority to see doc, so hub in the end guai guai de go for dressing everyday.

His MC given by the hospital ends on 24th May but as wounds have not fully recovered, Doc extended MC till 26th May. BUT :( just before he was supposed to go back to work, his back had some mosquito or bug bites which resulted in another bouts of infection and led to pus. As hub was very worried about work, he insisted to go back to work with the pain despite docs advise. So doc had no choice but to give him antibiotics and pain killers and insisted that he must go back to the clinic for review at night on 29th May. Doc also instructed that we have to do hot compress on the wound followed by applying Bactroban (antibacteria cream) on the spots hoping that the pus will burst and can clear on its own.

On 30th night, I dragged him to the Doc as he still had that terrible pain and upon reaching there, nurses tested his temperature and it was 38.9°C! And to think that he said that he will look after himself lah... all were bullshit... I warned him that if things got any better, he would have to get off work and stay at home to recuperate. Doc analysed his situation and advised that we need to continue the hot compress and the cream, if the pus filled boils dun clear on its own, he would have to go back to TTSH for another op to drain the pus.

Upon hearing this, I got pretty worried. Did the hot compress for dear hub every night and prayed for the boils to burst and pus to clear. Finally after 3 -4 days, the boils burst but it was still a slow process and I had to bring hub to the doc again for her to squeeze out the pus. It was really painful cause the biggest boil had a diameter of around 3.5-4cm. The hole itself was about 3-4mm. He had to again hold his breath and tahan the pain while doc used a medical apparatus to pull out the mucus plug of the boil and squeeze out the pus. Doc says that she had never seen so much pus in a man before and that hub really poor thing cause it is real painful...

But sigh, what can we do? Doc couldn't tell us a specific reason why all these happened but just said that hub's immunity level is quite low. Finally in around 2nd - 3rd week of June, he healed completely after daily changing of dressings done by me eventually. I joked that he has a private nurse now and after roughly 2 months of experience, I can be a nurse.. hahaha minus the bloodly scenes part...

Finally, I had time to prepare for my baby after all these hoo haa... I realised that in the end, I had less than 2 months to get everything ready. Best part was, we were running low in cash too. I had already owe bro $ and now.... sigh.

I posted a thread in Singaporemotherhood for help in buying baby stuffs and if anyone is giving away anything. I was overwhelmed by the help that was rendered. Some were mummies whom I've not known before and some were those that I've helped before when I was better financially. I really felt touched and my baby items were quickly stocked up and now, I'm almost ready for my baby's arrival.

Things have really not been smooth since Apr, after paying for all medical bills, hub's Road tax and Insurance expired and as he was "sick" during Apr to June, he could not ride his bike let alone say bring bike for inspection. So in the end, after not riding bike for 1 months plus or so, his bike also gave him problems and could not start. We called for tow on 17th June and asked the bike shop to also send his bike for inspection. That again costs money... In total, we spent $515 on his bike (Road Tax + Insurance + Repairs + Tows) ... Sigh. Seems that the $ we owe my bro was rolling to a bigger amount... seems never ending.

I really thank God for the mummies whom have helped me in times of needs and I too have promised that I will pass out the items after I have passed this difficult times.

Now I only can wait patiently for my little prince to arrive without complications and in good health. Please do pray for my family if you do read this and I will soon post a pic of my little prince once he arrives in God's blessings.

Ps: Dunno why I cannot post the pics on this post. Will post a seperate post with the pics.

Its been 4 days...

2006-04-03T18:14:00.000+08:00

Sigh.. its been 4 days since I handover my project, till now my boss haven't give me other jobs to do.... not worried about rice bowl but am bored. Have been helping Sherry on Pracbiz calls but still not my own baby mah... so dun have much force to work.

Some more haven't been sleeping well since the night I fired Marizel as I'm looking after Joy at night. Think tomorrow will take MC already.. really feeling very sick... Everyday reach 10pm at night, I practically look like a Zombie... :(

Brought Joshua and Joy to the doc yesterday. Doc says that Joshua is better, now only need to continue Antibiotics, Actified Compound Linctus, Ventolin Puff, Seretide Puff and Flixotide Puff twice a day instead of the usual 3 times a day. As for my girl girl, she got to increase her dosage to twice a day instead of the previous once at night cause seems that she caught the virus from Kor Kor, coughing more and more phlegm already. And doc instead of giving Ventolin syrup, advise us to give Ventolin Puff. Sigh... think now I can become part time nurse already.

Sigh, just got to know from my good friend Serene that the baby boy is not her's... She's been lying to me for the past few yrs.. Sobz... But still I wish her all the best in her current relationship, hope soon she can invite me to her wedding lah...

Joy's First Bday!

2006-04-03T11:52:00.000+08:00

Hi Hi, How time flies...

Its Joy Joy's First Birthday. Her actual birthday is 5th April but we decided to do the celebration on the earlier weekend.

Thanks for everyone who came for Joy's first Bday celebration. Really gotto thank Richard for taking time to come over although he didn't have much sleep the night before. Thanks Dad, Mum and Bro for bringing us around to get stuffs for the Steamboat dinner and thanks for your generousity... heheh

PS: Please ignore date on camera.. hahah. The right date should be 1st April 2006

Here's the Birthday Girl

Here's her Birthday Cake!

Closer shot of her cake... This cake is chosen by Kor Kor cause he wants the toy motorbike.. lol

Family Portrait, look at bday girl.. Look so blur.. heheh

Notice the sliver thing on her ankle? We bought it for her first bday!

From Left: Por Por, Princess, Jiu Jiu, Kor Kor and Gong Gong

Again, all of them in the pic. Everyone looks so happy....

See my Princess looks so pretty in this pic. See the pretty anklet.

Joshua waiting to cut the cake

Still waiting to cut cake...

Aiyo, Birthday girl so "Manja"

Silly Daddy trying to get his 1 Yr old Princess to blow out the candles.

Don't understand what happened to this pic. Daddy had a weird look on the face, Princess not looking at the cam, Kor Kor looking at ceiling? Hmm...

Por Por with blur Princess. See that rabbit ear? Its that stupid Jiu Jiu loh..

The Big Family.

From Left, Por Por, Gong Gong, Jiu Jiu, Big Kor Kor, Mummy, Princess and Daddy

Joy checking Richard out... Lol

Wonder why is everyone holding their head up high... Look at Joy and Richard

While cutting cake, we caught a giggling Princess...

Here's a blown up pic of the giggling Princess. She really looks so happy.

Is Joy Joy eyeing on the steamboat?

Kor Kor eyeing my cake. Its MY Birthday leh...

Hmmmm... Mummy can I have a big big slice?

See... this is Uncle Richard and me... Aren't I pretty in that Yellow Dress?

Close Up: See me pretty in Yellow.. hehehe. This is the dress Aunty Ling Ling bought for me when I was 1 month old... And Now I'm 1!

Thinking *Hmmm.... Why no one give me the cake...*

~~Yeh, Its my birthday!~~

I am 1!!!

Gong Gong was trying to catch me on photo when I'm smiling.. hehehe. But I only laugh when I see the flash.

Gee Hee Hee....

The Anklet that Daddy and Mummy bought is too big for me already.. keep dropping

My Bro's 22nd Birthday

2006-03-26T14:19:00.000+08:00

Here are some pictures taken during my bro's birthday celebration. It was pretty simple, we just went to the place we always go for Zhi Char.

Here are the pics and the story between the Birthday Boy and the Naughty Boy:

Birthday Boy's cake, chosen by Naughty Boy cause he wanted the blue and pink wagon on the cake...

See, 2 big candles and 2 small candles... 22nd Birthday

Lighting up Ceremony + Creepy hand...

Birthday Boy + Naughty Boy...

Again Birthday Boy and Naughty Boy. See the smug look on Naughty Boy's face...

More of Birthday Boy and Naughty Boy

Naughty Boy trying to cut Birthday Boy's Cake while Birthday Boy poses for pic.

Sooooo sweet. Naughty boy showing his gentle side by shoving the fork into Birthday Boy's mouth. heheh

My mum enjoying the cake.

Dad, say cheese... hehehe.

Princess wondering: What's Mummy doing?

Look at the Monstorous Mouth!

Look at that Mug of Beer, Is that Josh's? OMG, heheh

See the little monster attacking his cake.

See My Princess soooo

happy.

After a long long break from my blog

2006-02-08T11:41:00.000+08:00

Hahah, since some of my friends are complaining how come my blog is dead, let me revive it today...

Spent a good CNY, haha, didn't give much ang pow but got quite a lot back on just First Day of CNY. Didn't know my maternal Uncle got another daughter after having a son..

Interesting this is, his son is 1 yr younger than mine and her daughter is 1 month younger than mine but both are uncle and aunty to my kids... lol

Her's some pics taken during CNY complimentary from my cuz

From left to right:

Yuan Ee (my cuz, the sister of the gal whom took these pics), Zi Yi (my another cuz whom is 1 week older than Joshua), Joshua! My Prince in his CNY clothings.

This is Joy, in her CNY clothes... heheh Sexy hor..

Actually I don't like her to laugh like that and this cheeky monkey like to smile like that to spike me... hehehe. Look at her cheeky face.

Isn't she pretty? She is simply charming... The one beside her is my Aunt, Joy's GrandAunt...

Any similarities?

More pics taken last yr:

Our Family Portrait

See the cheeky Joshua and Joy in walker

Me and my Prince

Prince Charming

The Three of Us

Me and the little cheeky Princess with very little hair... heheheh

The almost botak Princess...

Last but not least, my Princess again...

My Jap Dinner

2005-12-29T12:43:00.000+08:00

Have been craving for a lot of expensive food recently. That day wanted to eat Pizza so ordered for dinner, costs $25. Then on Tues, wanted to eat Jap food, didn't get it on Tues night but got it last night... hehehhe

My baby so sweet, wanted to surprise me with the food I wanted... so he arrange to meet Penny at Novena Square. But.... hahah there's always a but right?.. kekeke

But Penny called me at around 3:30pm yesterday to tell me that she is meeting Baby at Novena Square and that she will be late so ask me to inform him as she does not have his no.. HAHAHAH

So I called Shawn.
Me: Where are you? (Hostile voice)
Shawn: Outside.
Me: Doing what?
Shawn: Meet Clients.
Me: Meet who?
Shawn: Meet clients lah
Me: Oh.. meet clients ah? (started to giggle)
Shawn: No lah, I meeting Penny
Me: Yah I know.. Cause u know why? Cause she called me...(broke out into laughter)
Shawn: Aiya, She spoil sport lah..

Hahahah so I know my hubby going to get Jap food for me loh.. heheh So hungry once I thought of Tempura and Chawanmushi.

So my nice hubby went to Ichiban Boshi at Novena Square level 2 to buy Bento for me. So, knowing me whom loves Chawanmushi and Tempura, he bought the Ichiban Bento for me for dinner. The most expensive set with 2 Tempura Prawns, 1 Tempura Ladies Fingers, 1 Tempura Sweet Potato, 1 small slice of Unagi, 1 piece of stewed fish, 5 Slices of Salmon Sashimi, 1 Miso Soup, 3 Slices of Orange and my Fav, Chawanmushi!!! Sounds delicious right? Its all in my stomach now... hahaha. And it costs him $23!!! Just for me alone!!! heheh *evil*

Sigh.. don't really have time to go upload my pics leh.. let's see when I do it k? kekekek

Merry Merry Christmas...

2005-12-27T12:10:00.000+08:00

Christmas over liao... so fast... Hahah Just set up Christmas tree on 21st, now have to take down liao.. hahah Maybe I should hang Ang Pows so that it can be used to CNY also... kekeke

Sat morning dad sent us to the market to buy the food for tonight's BBQ, then we went to collect my bro's Motorolla V3 and to collect my BenQ Digicam... Yes! I got a digicam liao!!!

For the BBQ, had to force my bro to come... we had cray fish, prawns, chicken wings, sprite and calamansi marinated pork (made by Marizel) and my marinated pork, taiwan sausage, normal sausage.. that's all I can remember. Surprisingly, we finished all the crayfish but not the prawns.. funny right?

Then u know what, my bro was playing with my digicam then he accidentally deleted my photos!!! Ah!!!

Anyway, from my memory, we had many many mahjong sessions.. Sat night, bro stayed over to play Mahjong, we played till 3am in the morning... Then woke up at around 9plus to have breakfast (Sauteed Mushroom, Scrambled Eggs, Hotdog and Bread... Yum Yum) then continued Mahjong again.. hahaha. Played till around 4pm, Dad came to fetch us to granny's house cause Aunt Susan having BBQ session there... Yah... Another BBQ, sian right? But since she invited, not nice to decline so went loh.. Shawn lazy so stayed at home.. After the BBQ, he had a brilliant idea and sms me to say that he wants to go over to my dad's house to play Mahjong... Pengz..

Dad and Bro was okie with the idea, only mum didn't like it cause she keep thinking that I teach my bro Mahjong, "jiao huai ta" Wah Piang...

So we left my two sweethearts at home with Kibbles and enough wet food and left for my dad's place...
I was so tired that I fell asleep even before I could touch the Mahjong Set.. hahah.. Woke up at around 12 am and realised that Hubby was so nice to let me sleep first. Then we played till 5am. hahah Now like Zombie...

Then Monday, same thing.. Played Mahjong after breakfast till evening.. Crazy right... that's how we spent our Christmas for Yr 2005!

Met Up with MumLoveFiFi

2005-12-22T10:05:00.000+08:00

Yesterday wore the really high high heels to the office and my poor feet hurts like mad... walked to the post office to post the skirt out and my sole + toe hurts so much that I want to cry...

So when I was on my way back, hubby needed to go to Watson's to get a Christmas Pressie so I went watson's to buy a bathroom slipper to wear home... Hahahah. U know Bathroom slipper is so Soong right? heheh..

So, wearing this stupid but comfy slippers, we even went Sheng Siong to buy Beef and spaghetti. hgahaha. I practically look like a Ronald MacDonald with the HUGE slippers..

At around 7:15, as arranged, MumLoveFiFi brought Fi Fi here... Fi Fi is a Silky Terrier whom does not have much hair and so she looks skinny. I can see that Maggie really pampers her a lot. Maggie is 22 weeks preggy with a Boy.. so I gave her a low quote also to let her save money for baby.. heheh. Maggie is a very forthright person, she not afraid or shy to say certain things which ppl will feel paiseh one.. heheh
For eg: She say her hubby at times will help her wash her undies and hang but the whole world will be able to see her panties and bra.. when she said this, I saw that Hubby went @@. hehehe. She's just straightforward that's all .. heheh

The good thing was Fi Fi got along very very well with Rosie... They were playing ear biting... wrestling.. FiFi is smaller than Rosie but definitely won't lose in playing.. heheh. Poor Sugar was just standing at the side looking at them play cause Sugar is more dainty then the two Chor Lor girls... hahah. But I'm surprised that Rosie looks as Fi Fi like a Jie Jie... cause FiFi can be chewing her ears, jumping on her but Rosie doesn't bite or snap back at her... She just sat there and let her jump all over her initially... then they both started to wrestle in a very gentle way.. hahah

Think Maggie is very comfortable putting FiFi at our place... She say that she might make it a yearly thing cause her hubby is a Malaysian so every CNY, she will be going back to Malaysia for visits for around 15 days. So every Yr, Rosie will have this Jie Jie over to play with her.

I'm really happy to have found friends like Esther and Maggie that are dog lovers... and I Love Rosie, Sugar and FiFi.

Oh Yah, sms Caslyn last night and heard that Ding Dong's better. No more vomiting. Asked if she was having heat, Caslyn say no leh.. no more drops of blood... Hmmm weird right? But as long as she is well can liao lah.. I just hope that all doggies will have love from their owners and no one abandoned.

++Peace++

Rosie's Portrait

2005-12-21T10:51:00.000+08:00

Oh forgot to write about this BIG thing...

On Dec 17th, I recieved an email from Aunt Suzi. I offered help to distribute the stones to fellow DS members and recieved an email from her.
Contents:
hiya Stephie
Am really appreciative that u offered to help although i know u are veri busy...
My friend is coming tomorrow and should be back in singapore a day or 2...will inform Jean once he goes back to singapore...
Anyway, ur kindness have not gone unnoticed...please accept this gift for christmas..
Thank u veri much...
a.suzi
And guess what... It was with an attachement. When I scroll down, I went @@! Hysterical, crazy ... watever words can describe...

This was what I saw...

It was a portrait drawn by Aunt Suzi as a gift for me.... just because I offered help. I was so touched and also guilty cause I wasn't much help in distributing the stones cause Jean didn't want my involvement.

It all started with my boarding stuffs. Jean wants to board her dogs at my place before and during CNY. So I qouted her $10 per day since its many days and many dogs, all was settled and confirmed but last min she says that she will only be boarding her dogs during CNY and only for 3 days. So I explained that I would have to give her a quote of $11 per day per dog cause I need to be fair to other dog owners also. I am already giving her a lower quote than other doggy owners cause I normally charge $13 per day for a Public Holiday. In the end, she decided to cancel the boarding.

So when I know from Aunt Suzi that I should contact Jean, I called and made some suggestions like we can start a thread for DS members to reply to see where they want to collect the stones and offered my place to be one of the collection point. Finally, she started the thread but did not mentioned anything about my place as a collection point... Hmmm... I also never say much, just keep quiet. I just hope to be able to offer help and make sure Aunt Suzi's effort not wasted. I went to collect my stones and portrait on Monday night after sending Ding Dong home, never say much to her also.. just took my stuffs, thank her and left.. I was so mesmerized by the painting.. Now its safely locked in my wardrobe till I have the time to bring it for framing.. Will post a pic after I frame...

Christmas is coming

2005-12-21T10:27:00.000+08:00

Can u believe that we bought the christmas tree last month but its not set up yet!!!

Hahah. cause we board Ding Dong and worried that she chews the tree so we thought to only set it up after she goes home... Now that she's home, her fosterer sms me last night to say that she vomited and asked if we fed her any other food but I think for very long and replied no. All this while, I only feed her the Science Diet dry food and lots of water. Nothing else leh.. I feed Rosie the can wet food lah but not to Ding Dong leh.. Sigh... Caslyn says she vomitted brown wet stuff and may be having her heat cause got drops of blood. And she didn't vomit or anything during her stay here. Hmmmm...

Ding Dong grow up liao.. got first heat liao.. why all dogs at my place all so heng will get heat one ah? heheh Am worried about her. Told Caslyn to update me on her condition.

As for Christmas, think nobody will be coming for the BBQ. Sherry will be out to chiong, Esther will be in Malaysia and Matthew has a function to go so think only will have daddy, mummy and GY here for the BBQ.

Boring... okie back to work after 2 days MC of staying at home and rotting... will blog about my boring life again soon..

Summary of My Friday...

2005-12-14T17:15:00.000+08:00

Friday was a very sleepy day cause I have been waking up 3-4 times the night before cause Joy is sick...

So a sleepy me was lying on the mattress when Marizel(standing by the window carrying baby Joy) says "Gong Gong come already". I was lying there and was puzzled.. I even ask Marizel if she saw correctly. Why would Gong Gong come on a Friday afternoon, 1pm?? Its almost telling me that I strike 4D $500, possible but chances are low..

So I asked "U sure?"
But Marizel then said " Yah, I see Gong Gong's car"
So I thought maybe same car but its not daddy's car till she said
"I see Jiu Jiu also"

I went @@!
My bro? What's he doing here? He's considered a tortoise cause he never likes to come out of his shell.
So when Marizel said that, I knew it is really my Dad... But why are they here.
Best part is Marizel said " Oh dun tell"
I was like Huh? why dun tell, Josh is not here... hahaha
My bro meant dun tell me... hahah but too late, I was already at the window... kekeke

It was a surprise Party for me... My Mum was here to cook for me and BY RIGHT, I was suppose to be at work and when I'm home, I would be so surprised that there was a cake and a lot of food for me... It was all planned by my sweet hubby a few weeks ago... yes, u read correctly A FEW WEEKS AGO and I didn't know a single bit...

My family didn't say anything, even my friend didn't leak out anything.. hahahah

My dad, bro and mum went to Seng Siong earlier on to buy all the stuffs like Duck, Coke, Fish Ball, Sotong Ball, Tung Hoon, Cucumber, Chicken Wings... etc.

Few days ago, I saw a name and phone no written behind a piece of paper so I asked hubby who's no is that.. Hubby told me Mdm Chew is the Auntie that sells food downstairs his office.. I even ask how come he got her no? To call her to order food before going down to pick it up? He even said Yes.... And Guess what? Mdm Chew is the Auntie downstairs, yes that's the fact, BUT its downstairs our house whom owns the coffee shop. Hubby ordered Sambal Chilli and Nasi Lemak from her for my birthday...

Hahah everything he told me are all lies to cover for the surprise party.. hahah. On Friday morning, he was msging on his phone so I asked who msg u? He said Matthew, so I asked him how was he coping alone in the office.. He said he's okie.. Then a call came and he was talking to the other party and this was what I heard vaguely ".... Ten Mile ah... ... how much?... $13 plus? Okie loh" And I only realised after that, that he's talking to my Bro whom is at Seng Song Ten Mile Junction.... hahah I very silly hor.. Hubby say A, I believe its A... hhahaha

At night, Esther came with the cake, Matthew came also.. We had a wonderful dinner + a Tiramisu from the cake shop from towner Road. Was so happy.. Blow candles, cut cake with Joshua... He stole the chocolate pieces on the cake!

But on the whole, really had a wonderful Birthday.

I sincerely thank My Hubby!!! Whom secretely planned weeks before. Muacks!

I wanna thank my family for coming over and cooking for me...

I wanna thank Esther for her effort in going to get the cake and walking back to my place in her heels.. heheheh... And also her SPA gift set... and also able to keep it from me for so long even though I msn her everyday.. kekek

I also want to thank Matthew, Dennis and Jonathon for coming for the celebration. I really enjoyed myself very very much!

Summary of My Thursday Night...

2005-12-14T16:56:00.000+08:00

Hmmm.... Friday.... Friday.. what can I say about my Friday???

It was SIMPLY WONDERFUL, MARVELOUS, EXCITING day!!!!

Okie, it all began with Thursday night... My poor daughter was down with fever and my helper DIDN'T EVEN KNOW!!! Joy woke up around 8 plus and didn't want to sleep so Marizel carried her out and place her in her walker. When I approached her and want to carry her, I felt that her temp was high. When I asked Marizel, she told me " Ah... its because weather cold".. I was like WTF? What has weather cold gotto do with her temp high?

I insisted on taking the thermometer out and tested her temperature... It was a good 38°C!!! Immediately, I got her to pack some stuffs and I rushed Joy to the Doc. Call me a paranoid... I don't like my kids being sick and no one even know about it... Its called NEGLIGENCE!!!

Upon reaching the doc, there was many ppl as Doctor Tan is the Doc on duty that night. The Nurse took her temperature and guess what... within 15 mins (travel time between my house and the clinic plus waiting time), her temperature shot up to 39.6°C!!!

I quickly request the nurse to put the cold plaster on her forehead and request for a dose of Paracetemol but Nurse say cannot give med as she needs doc's instruction...

Shortly, doc ask us to go in even though its not our turn yet.. so nice...

Doc gave a dose of Fever med and cough syrup and ask us to monitor.

So I decided to take Urgent leave to stay at home to look after her at night and on Friday...

Another story begins.. hahahah
Read "Summary of My Friday"

Very Very Happy Day!

2005-12-07T09:32:00.000+08:00

Hey!!! I'm in a very happy mood today...

You know why? Cause I just met two angels.. One whom told Aunt Suzi that my birthday's coming and the other is Aunt Suzi.. hahahah

Esther, you really made my day... You've shown me a really beautiful thing and gave me a very very big surprise... Thanks... Muacks

Aunt Suzi, you were wonderful to have given us this as a gift. That's really sweet of you, I know you drew these till 2 am in the morning.. Thanks!

Okie, after talking so much about the "thing", let me show you guys...

Isn't it beautiful? Can you guys identify who this is?

Its Rosie!

Its done by this DS member Aunt Suzi whom does stone paintings and paper paintings... Her drawing really reflects the spirit of the dogs.

Her's a picture of Rosie's Stone and Sugar's Stone.

Sweet right? You guys made my day...

Thanks so much.. Muacks...

Am upset.. Y is life so vulnerable?

2005-12-06T17:41:00.000+08:00

How come life is so vulnerable?

Saw on DS that a dog was ran over by a car and needs fosterer urgently so I offered to take her in... Called Angel and say that I can foster her. Angel told me to call Ricky so that he can brief me about looking after an injured dog. Spoke to Ricky and he said that he will bring the dog over once Angel bring her to the Vet. Most prob Vet will discharge her and Ricky will bring her over.

So I prepared myself mentally for the waking up at night, possible of Dog's incontinence and hubby even agreed to do this and support me even though no money can be earned.

We asked for help in resources like Play pen and etc and ppl came and help.

But.....

Just recieved a call from Angel that the dog passed away even before she can reach the vet...

I have a little life in me who's has a little heart pounding and I realised that life is so vulnerable....

Counting Down to my Birthday.... 1 week to go.

2005-12-06T10:44:00.000+08:00

My Birthday is coming soon. Means will be older by 1 yr soon... Coming to 23rd, getting older and older...

But come to think about it, 3 kids by the age of 24, quite okie right? heheh

Actually birthdays are no longer a big issue liao... There is no longer any wish list for my pressies cause I also dun have much close friends... Hahah Dun know when that started but now feel very sian about Bdays..

I'm not single whom can go out and chiong or shopping for bday...
Birthday is another day to spend time with kids and etc...

Feel blessed to have 2 sweet kids with me and a "sweet" hubby whom never fails to piss me off.. hahaha to spend my bday with

My Last Weekend

2005-12-05T15:41:00.000+08:00

Its Monday again... Had a kind off long weekend... Didn't have Josh with us on Friday night so time seems to have flew pretty slowly. Okie.. As my Birthday is near, my hubby brought me out for dinner at Fish & Co on Friday night hence my little Joshua had to spend his weekend at Por Por's house.

We had seafood platter for two but Fish & Co at Novena is getting from bad to worse... Food didn't seem very fresh so it was not really nice, hubby agreed on that too.

After dinner, Dennis and Jonathon called. Saying that they are downstair our place and we were like still in Novena Sq. So we said that we'll come back asap and we'll buy dinner for them since they have not eaten and that its Dennis's bday in a few days time. Best part is, there are 2 ATMs in Novena Sq, and coincidentally, both cannot dispense cash... Then what good is an ATM which cannot dispense cash??? So with the left over $18, we decided to just buy the BK and take a cab home.. But since I was craving for Vienetta, we decided to go to Cold Strorage to get those items and swipe my nets card.. heheh (No cash). So we bought 3 cans of Amsterdame and 1 trio Chocolate Moouse cake for Bang and of course my Vienetta.. hehehe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Saturday was an interesting day as I plan that we "bomb" the house. Am sick and tired of Rosie's constant tick problem. Its not serious at all but it doesn't go away for long. Rosie will have like 1 or 2 ticks found like in 1 week, then after constant checking for few days, no ticks.. then maybe 3-4 days later, found another 1 tick. Can't ticks just get out of my house? Therefore, I decided to bomb the house and evacuate everyone to my mom's place.

We searched high and low at NTUC, Coldstorage for the bombs but non was found... So we decided to call the pet shops to try. US Pet house no stock, found some at Perfect Pets Paradise. The brand is PPP, not sure if it works cause I've always heard like either Mortein Tick and Flea Bomb or Fido is better, never heard of PPP Fogging although PPP stuffs for ticks are good.

So after carrying 5 cans of chemicals home, spending more than $89 hahah (cause couldn't help indulging in pet food Rosie and Sugar), we left the shop determining to kill all ticks, fleas, mosquitoes and etc, whatever pests in the house... hahahah

Side track a bit ah.. I found this at the pet shop... Anyone can guess what is this?

Its.... Jelly for dogs!!! This is another pic of it .
I took all that is left in the shop.. heheh. Cute right? Hope furkids enjoyed that.

Okie, back to the Ticks topic... Hubby was the one whom actioned on the cans of chemicals cause I'm preggy mah.. so cannot inhale this type of stuffs. A lot of preparation work to be done. We wrapped all the cushions and mattress with garbage bags, all soft toys and etc. Then packed Joy's milk and etc. Packed Rosie's toys, Sugar's cage and even dismantle the kitchen safety gate... hehehhe
We closed all windows, evacuated the place while hubby started the fogging. Then I took Sugar and Rosie down with all barang barangs and packed inside daddy's car and we headed for Bukit Batok.

Clever me bought can food, Oats with Beef and Veg for furkids so that we dun have to prepare HCF at mum's place. But the stupid and kiasu me happily bought 4 cans.. hahah thinking not enough. In the end, 1 can is more than enough for the 2 furkids.. still got some left...

At night we played Mahjong (3 legs, Shawn, me and my bro) while Sugar and Rosie played in the kitchen. Surprisingly, they behaved very very well at my mum's place.. No barking at all.. We played Mahjong till near 2am man.. I was so tired that I kept dropping the tiles.. hahah
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Sunday woke up very early in the morning cause need to pack, clean up and leave for Market. Sunday went market, didn't buy any groceries.. Lame right? We decided to give Marizel a break and not cook dinner at all... Hahahah. Actually is Hubby a bit tired off Marizel's cooking so decided to eat packed food for a week..... Bad hubby, dunno if he will grow tired of me or not. heheh.

After Marketing, my parents and I went to Hougang NTUC to buy monthly groceries... and you guess how much I spent? $416!!! Wah Piang eh... every month getting higher.. Think bcos of the titbits I bought.hahahah so can't blame anyone ya...

After groceries, carried everything home with Marizel's help. Realise that my house getting smaller or things getting more.. no place to put liao.. think gotto bring titbits to office already... (hahaha excuses)
Anyway, after Jean came with her 3 dogs, the rest of the days was just nua and watch Star Awards....
Than knock out and sleep loh... heheheh
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Now coming to Monday, another standard day for me, working. Tonight bringing Joshua to the doc and most prob having KFC for dinner. Josh's coughing is getting bad to worse.. Maybe bcos of last night's mango session. Sigh.. Let's hope we dun spend too much.. Else I will be broke man..

Life is so unpredictable.

2005-12-01T11:53:00.000+08:00

Life is so unpredictable. Still rem my both my twins uncle used to be very good in their business, drive big car (mercs) and got a lot of money. But both of them now share the same fate that both biz fail.

The younger of the twins now got depression and is on the verge of commiting suicide. Grow up, escaping cannot salvage the situation, only standing up and facing it does.

My poor Aunt is very stressed in facing him cause they still has a 5 yr old daughter.
I told dad, the cleverest thing and the right thing my uncle have done so far is to have married my aunt. If he does not have her now, he would have died long ago. He forsaked her when she was pregnant and now she could have done the same to him when he is down, but she did not. She is trying her best to stand up for him.

My poor dad is running around trying to resolve their problem when he's got tonnes of them himself. I know he is trying hard to be sane and to help everyone but who helped him in his problems then? He is both mentally and physically tired out by my mom, his mom, his bros and sisters and his own debts. What else you expect a 53 yr old man do? Dad had hours and hours of talk with him and encouraging him and there was once he even spoke to him overnight to encourage him to stand strong till 7-8 am in the morning...

Even after work and coming to fetch us, he dropped by my uncle's office to see if he's working hard or backing out... Then after that, he had another talk with my uncle till late and my aunt had to send us home first to leave the guys to talk at the coffee shop beside his office.

It was already 9pm, so I invited my Aunt to have dinner while waiting for the guys to come. After dinner, QiQi (their daughter) called to see how come her parents still not home yet. I have a feeling that my aunt is rather jealous that QiQi is closer to my uncle and is feeling upset to a certain extent that "QiQi's father" which is my uncle is making her life miserable and now QiQi called her to ask how come she's not home.

Last night, Shawn talked to Dad on the phone till about 1am to see what ideas they can come out to salvage the situation the company is going through and Dad touched a bit about the background of this family and Shawn said that Dad cried... I know Daddy is very tired.. very tired of having so much problems but he is still standing strong!

Can u guys please stand up and fend for yourself? My dad is already old and if he can take all these nonsense and all that he's gone through, what gives u the right of going through a depression and give others problem? Life is not a game... Not u say dun wan to play liao means just give up!

I just hope that all problems will be resolved and Dad can have a better life and retire and have many grandchildren to be with.

Its just a simple wish, is it hard to achieve?

Weightloss time again

2005-11-30T15:17:00.000+08:00

Sigh, its weightloss time again. Other mummies gain weight during pregnancy, I'm the opposite. I loss weight.

First pregnancy lost around 15kg but gained back after delivery.
2nd pregnancy lost about only 5kg cause of my constant cravings of M&Ms and Smarties.
Now #3 liao, think the same trend is going to happen looking at things now.

See ah.. I had a very small packet of bee hoon, that I managed to finish cause its seriously a small packet. Lunch I ordered "Za Rou Fan" which I seriously only see "Za Zhu You Fan" hahah. Its supposed to be fried Pork Cutlet with Rice. The Pork Cutlet is damn damn oily loh, looks like fried pork fats.... owww... GROSS!

I ate some of the "pork" then 2 spoonful of rice... Hahah the leftover can pass off as brand new plate of "Za Rou Fan" hahah. Didn't really eat a lot...

That's why I say, its weightloss time again!!!

I'm Pregnant!!! Confirmed already!!! No 3 is on the way!

2005-11-30T00:55:00.000+08:00

Hahaha, its confirmed! No 3 is on the way. Its confirmed that I'm 5 weeks pregnant and my EDD should be about 27th July. If I'm not wrong, think that is Jie Yi's Bday. Please dun let it be the same day... kekek

Can U imagine that I'm having the same bday as Uncle Mark (Jie Yi's Father) and my #3 shares the same bday as his wife and daughter? Its just so creepy!

Now, my blog will still name the baby as #3 as its too early to tell if its a boy or a girl. My crazy husband is hoping for a Long Feng Tai, he's nuts, admit it dear.

This explains my losing of appetite, feeling letargic (forgot spelling) and bouts of food cravings... Talking about cravings, felt like eating 7-11's Mr Softie! Unfortunately, its raining now. Can only get my Mr Softie after work tomorrow. Hope can tahan till tomorrow.

Anyway, I've chosen to follow up in Polyclinics(unlike the previous 2 times which I follow up in KK), to save $$. Every visit to KK is $27.50 excluding of tests and scans. But visits to Polyclinis will only cost around $13-$15 every time inclusive of standard urine test. Hahah maybe when I cannot tahan Polyclinics, will get them to refer me to KKH. Now gotto save money since #3 coming along, not to mention tat I still owe my bro $900. Sigh.. when am I going to be able to return him the money.

The good news is that Dear's cousin bro finally signed the letter! The lawyer will be proceeding with the relevant docs and HDB will not take our flat at this point of time. Hopefully letter will be done by the time baby #3 is born so that we can pay for this house via CPF instead of the current $300++ by cash. So by then we can have spare $300++ for baby's expenses. Good news having been coming since we got this baby. Dear hit his sales target this month and got $500 as incentives... Should be able to let us have good celebration for Joshua's bday. I don't want to shortchange him just bcos he's going 2 siblings. I want to make sure that he knows mummy will give him the best she can even though got many mouths to feed.

We really thank God for all that he's given and we believe that he will provide. Amen!

Do give us ur blessings and keep us in ur prayers.

Will update more about this pregnancy soon.

Very boring Monday

2005-11-28T11:05:00.000+08:00

Y am I so bored today? I am sleepy and bored and sian and tired.. hahahah

Tonight got dinner at Marina South, hope it will be nice.. Sigh, now very very broke... Hope tonight cab fare is low, if not no money to pay liao.. heheh

This Bitch really piss me off.

2005-11-25T13:06:00.000+08:00

Rem the case of the sofa? You know what? The bitch replied portraying the picture that she is the fucking victim!

Look at her reply:

claire (clairecheezel) New memberUsername: clairecheezelPost Number: 7Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 10:56 pm:

Look who's turning the table around? Ms Stephanie Goh's imagination is eating right into her and she's turning it into a fictional fact. Let me just put it this way, if a 4-D number just striked the 1st prize,and you said that you've intended to bet on the number and wanting to claim the prize from S'pore Pools, do you think that they'll entertain you? This is a simple logic of action speaks louder that words!! Frankly, in a virtual marketplace like this, although sellers don't need to pay a cent to advertise, they're usually the one spending hours of efforts translating their items e.g taking pics, editing pics/words, mending enquires and calls etc....Not to mention prospective buyers or takers playing them out, leaving them stranded with the items after all those work!!!! Anybody with sentiments to share???

Mabel (mabel05) New memberUsername: mabel05Post Number: 36Registered: 10-2005
Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 11:20 pm:

Hi claire, You hit right on the nail head regarding the seller's effort!! Had experience with a buyer who also offered to take up all my items for further discounts. I was eager to clear them then, and agreed to discount certain items. In the end, this fellow took part of the items and said he needed to arrange transport to pick up the other big ticket items e.g furnitures, but he never showed up and remains uncontactable!!! Of course, items that he first took were further discounted items. And till now when I think of this harmless looking rat, I'm still burning with anger!!!
claire (clairecheezel) New memberUsername: clairecheezelPost Number: 8Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Friday, November 25, 2005 - 2:24 am:

Dear Mabel, I empathize with you. There's just too many such wolves in sheep skin walking around. And in my current encounter, a wolf crying out "WOLF"!

I really feel like slapping her. Fucking Bitch you know!!! Pissed the shit out of me...

I see some light....

2005-11-24T15:46:00.000+08:00

Finally after these years, dear dear's cousin bro finally agreed to go see the lawyer. I will arrange for dear to go too so that Lawyer can psycho him to sign the letter immediately!!!

Finally I see "Yi Xian Shu Guang"!

Signing this letter does not have any restrictions and dun need him to pay or anything mah.. Its just to co administer the property. Won't even need a hair off his body mah... dunno why he refuse to sign all this while...

But now its good that finally he agree to see the lawyer, hopefully after explaining what this letter of grant is about, he can sign on the spot.

So that I can have a roof over my head and dun have to spend another 3K to redo the letter.

I really thank God that he never forsakes us, at times I wonder why he put us into this situation but he never will leave us to fend for ourselves. He will test us only to a certain limit.

And one more thing... Dunno if he has already bless us with another kid or not. Waiting patiently till end of this week and we should know the answer by then.

Pics of my sweeties

2005-11-24T12:02:00.000+08:00

Thanks Esther for bringing the cam over. Here are some pics we took (Erm, theoratically is she took.. hehehe) :

Mummy says that I look blur, do I?

Aren't I sweet or what?

Struggling to break free from mummy..

This cap is simply too big for me!

Mummy, I've got a question!

Can anyone guess what I'm trying to do?

Ha Ha, I am very interested in the new gadget mummy is holding. Can I eat that... hmmm

Lastly, here's a very charming smile to all the aunties and uncles out there.

Damn Pissed

2005-11-24T09:18:00.000+08:00

Sorry for the vugarities that will be in this post. I am really pissed to the core. Yesterday's post, I was saying that I will be getting a 2nd hand Digicam and a 2nd hand sofa. Last night, that Bitch called me (Yes she is a Bitch for sure!) to tell me that she has already gave the camera to someone else. She didn't apologise and even got the cheek to ask me if I still want the sofa. I asked her, what if I confirmed the sofa already and you going to tell me the same thing that you gave it to someone else??? She just said yar yar. She didn't even apologise for not honouring her word..! What the fuck is wrong with you?

I posted in the thread which she posted on the camera and this was what I typed:

Stephanie Goh (stephie1735) New memberUsername: stephie1735Post Number: 43Registered: 9-2005
Posted on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 - 9:39 pm:

Sorry to say this, we agreed verbally that I will take the camera plus the sofa plus the tripod stand. We have already agreed that I will collect items on this weekend. How can you just call me and say that you've given it to others and still got the cheek to ask me if I still want the other two items. You didn't even apologise for it! How can I trust to buy the sofa from you? What if u agree to sell it to me and tell me "I've sold it to others" w/o apologising again? I think you are very dishonest. For other mothers out there, I just want to highlight this cause I don't wan u guys to also be the victim.

She still got the cheek to reply with this: She's really a bitch man. On the phone sounds so nice but actually is a fucking screw up bitch!
claire (clairecheezel) New memberUsername: clairecheezelPost Number: 6Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 3:06 am:

Hi all, I'll like to tell Ms Stephanie Goh not to take kindness for stupidity!! Yup, you called me to "chopped" the digi cam with a perceived dangling carrot of taking in all my items (Thanks again to all you postees out there for your overwhelming response).To be precise, you said that you'll take my cam this Saturday first and then consider the rest after that.You think I stupid or what???Why get so sore over a mere $20 digi cam ??!!! By the way, may I know how are you victimised?

So I replied:
Stephanie Goh (stephie1735) New memberUsername: stephie1735Post Number: 44Registered: 9-2005
Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2005 - 9:25 am:

Claire please dun insult me. I told you the camera confirm and request for pics for the sofa discolouration verbally. Then I sms u after that to say that confirm the sofa, camera, and tripod stand and say that I'll advise the collection time this SAT. I still have the sms, now u r turning the tables around?? So by smsing u means that I'm dangling a carrot and lying?? Then by what means is confirmed? collect item immediately? I have already confirmed with you to take the other items as well. I already told my husband and have confirmed to get transport for the sofa. If I wan only the cam, I can always tell you that I want the cam, dun have to tell u about the other items and ask you to measure the sofa for me to see if it fits into my dad's matrix. You posted in this thread only about the camera?? But I found on another thread about the sofa. How can u say that I want to chop the camera by telling you I want ur other items as well? I'm not sore just over the camera. I'm angry that u didn't even apologise!And now you are insulting me? If you have no intention to sell your items, pls say so. Dun post something and cannot honour it. Like what I posted, I confirmed all 3 items. Then call me to say that camera taken at night? You can't even honour ur word, what makes me trust u on other items. By then I pay for transport liao then u tell me items taken then what am I supposed to do. I just don't wan others to be cheated by you like I was. YOU DUN HONOUR YOUR WORD. Other mummies there, I won't comment anymore, you guys look at the situation and decide yourself.

Why are there ppl like this??? We are all mommies and should help each other. Who else can we trust? Am getting sick and tired of these things. I didn't even want the sofa anymore. I just feel upset upset and upset. Why are there so many bitches around???!!!
I feel like punching someone!!!!

Canon PowerShot A200 digital camera specifications

2005-11-23T13:54:00.000+08:00

Hahaha I very very happy. At least got things to cheer me up today. I found a digicam liao... unless the person back out last min. I found on www.singaporemotherhood that a lady by the name of Claire is selling her Canon Powershot A200 Digicam for only $20!!! She also has a modern L-shaped simulated leather sofa with suede throw cushions for sale. She bought this sofa about a yr back for $750 and she's selling at $30. There's some scuff marks and a small area of faded tone otherwise, structure still very good with inner spring. Legs are chromed stainless steel.

Show you the pic I found for the digicam and specifications below:

Features:
2.0-megapixel sensor captures 1,600 x 1,200 images for prints at sizes up to 8 x 10 inches
Autofocus lens with 4x digital zoom
Included 8 MB CompactFlash card holds 24 images at normal setting (1,600 x 1,200)
Movie mode captures 30 seconds of video with no audio
Includes 2 AA alkaline batteries (also uses NiMH rechargeable); connects with PCs and Macs via USB port

Product Details
Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 4.3 x 2.3 inches ; 7.8 ounces
Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds.

It is definately not in perfect cosmetic condition but its in perfect working condition... $20 leh.. what u expect?

And here's a picture of the sofa:

She's selling only at $30. I will definately grab one... its just that how do I transport it back... Hm... Calling for help! Anyone got lorry or van??? Can help?

Lastly, she is selling a brand new Tripod Stand for Camera. I was thinking I can take "Quan Jia Fu" with the camera and tripod with the new yellow sofa.. hahah

Me start to dream liao. Please hope that I can get these items.... ehehe.

Moody Wednesday. Digicam dream gone...

2005-11-23T13:13:00.000+08:00

Sigh. Today recieve call from Pauline about the housing one.. Sonner or later me gonna have no roof over my head. Called cousin bro, claims that he called the lawyer but lawyer never return his call... Possible meh? Why must you do this to us??? Its just a signature, never ask you fork out a single cent... why can't u just sign???

If I'm going to redo all paper work, where am I going to find $3K???!!!! Argh!

Hate ppl like that. When they need help, we just help. When we need a f*cking signature, give me problems...

Lucky I got my Ice cream uncle.. hahah. He normally comes on Tues and Thurs but yesterday he didn't come cause it was raining and he came today!!!

See.. my lovely cup of ice cream.

See All Peanuts.. hahah. Its my favourite scoop scoop Peanut Ice Cream

Hahah while finishing the blog, I'm already done with my ice cream!!! All in my round round tummy... hahaha

My New Scrap Book

2005-11-22T11:30:00.000+08:00

Today another rainy day. Boring...

But bought something to cheer myself up... While having lunch, someone came over to sell things, normally I don't really bother about them but when I saw what they were selling, my interest was aroused and I bought it instantly.

Its a Scrap book album!!!!

Here is some (not so good quality bcos of my HP) pictures:
When will my digicam dream be fulfilled? :'(

Here is the cover. Album is black with a window to slot in family picture.

This is one of the pages which says "School Days". See the windows of this bus can actually slot photos in.

This is one of the pages which says "Girl Stuff"

This is one of the pages which says "Boy Stuff"

It consists of small blank boxes for me to stick the photos on. Some have windows to slot photos in. Its so nice! And the best part is, it costs only $10!!!

It even has a pets section to post pictures of pets!

I have a new album! I'm definately going to work on it as soon as I have got time!

Thinking of Buying this cam for $230

2005-11-21T15:50:00.000+08:00

Should I or should I not.

Quote from Yahoo Auctions:

I've a used Kyocera Digital Camera, Silver Finecam SL300R for sale.
Bought in Dec 2003.
Selling cos upgrading to a higher pixels camera.
Great to buy it for your kids to use, don't have worry that they will spoil your expensive camera.
One of the slimmest digital camera, 100 mm width x 62.5 mm height x 15 mm depth, excluding protrusions
LightWeight, Approximately 125 g, excluding battery and the recording media
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*****Basic Specifications of the Finecam SL300R*****
-3.17-megapixel CCD delivering image resolutions as high as 2,048 x 1,536 pixels.
-3x, 5.8-17.4mm lens, equivalent to a 38-115mm lens on a 35mm camera.
-Maximum aperture of f/2.8 at full wide-angle and f/4.7 at full telephoto.
-Intelligent Video AF focusing system, with Single and Continuous modes.
-Up to 2x digital enlargement.
-Color, TFT 1.5-inch LCD monitor.
-Program AE, Aperture Priority, and Long Exposure modes.
-Shutter speeds from 1/2,000 to eight seconds.
-Built-in flash with six operating modes.
-Adjustable White Balance with six settings, including a custom setting.
-Multi-Segment, Center-Weighted, and Spot metering modes.
-Sensitivity equivalents of 100, 200, 400, and 800 ISO, plus an Auto setting.
-Files saved in the JPEG format.
-SD memory card storage.
-Power from one lithium-ion battery pack, or included AC adapter.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
*****Special Features*****
-Movie with sound recording mode and adjustable frame rate.
-Continuous Shooting mode.
-Adjustable Color mode, with black-and-white and sepia settings.
-Two-second and 10-second Self-Timer.
-Manual focus option.
-Wide and Spot AF area options.
-Scene mode with seven preset "scenes."
-Chroma and Sharpness adjustments.
-DPOF (Digital Print Order Format) compatibility.
-USB cable for connection to a computer.
-Software CD with Adobe Photoshop Album.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Package Contents :
• Kyocera SL300R Digital Camera
• 16MB SD Memory Card
• Lithium Ion Battery Pack
• AC Adapter/Cable (100V – 240V)
• USB Cable
• Software CD
• Camera Case
• Hand Strap
• User's Manual
Will added in another battery pack, and 128MB SD memory card.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

My Sat and Sunday

2005-11-21T10:14:00.000+08:00

Sat I made a big blundder.... The Mouse buyer sms me few days ago to change time to meet on SAT but I mistook his msg as another buyer. Sat morning, hubby brought me to Tekka to have breaky and also to buy duck cause mummy coming over to cook. At 10:22am, I recieved a sms from an unsaved no saying "Hi morning, I've reached". Looking at the msg, I was seriously thinking whom it can be... cause I was not expecting anyone.. So I called back and a guy picked. Conversation as below:

Me: Hi Morning, may I know who is this?
Guy: Hi, I'm the buyer for the mouse.
Me: Oh... where you now? Aren't we suppose to meet at 2pm?
Guy: Erm, but I sms you to change the time already
Me: Oh did you, I didn't recieve leh? Did I reply?
Guy: Yah, you said okie
Me: Oh issit? Oh no... I'm very sorry, can you give me sometime cause I'm outside now. I will go back to take the mouse and go meet you. I should be there by 20mins. I'm so sorry.
Guy : Okie.

So I got my sweet sweet hubby to rush through his Mukta Thosai and his hot coffee and send me home to take the Mouse... Thanks Dear, sorry for the rush.

Sat afternoon went concourse to view the Christmas trees, all quite ex leh although very nice.. Didn't buy anything there. End up went upstairs to see the party stuffs and bought quite a few things. Bought 2 hairbands with ears for the kids... Jo

After sending mum and kids home, me and dad went to NTUC to buy Milk as I promised mum to buy a bottle of milk for her so that she can have warm milk at night. Guess what I found....!
I found a BBQ pit, with wheels at a cheap price... normally the good quality big ones are selling at maybe say $400 each. The one I bought is slightly smaller (around 25" by 15") and maybe not so good quality at $11.90!!! But I think its worth it loh, even if I use for only 5 times and throw away, still worth loh. Yeh... this Christmas, we can have a small BBQ!!!

Sat night mum made Braised duck, as promised, here's the picture.. Sorry about the quality of the picture, its taken with my HP.

It was Yummy despite me buying an Old Mother Goose.. heheh

Sunday as usual went to Tekka for breaky and marketing. After putting the groceries home, we headed for the west of Singapore.

Went IMM to search for my cheap and good christmas tree and present for Marizel's kids. Walked for almost the whole day. Went Diaso, its so big. Everything at $2, so many ppl. I bought I black T-shirt for Rosie, bought brush, soft toy and Christmas Ornaments. Spent lots of money again. Oh, forgot to mentioned that I found a Santarina in Diaso, wanna see?

Here's a pic of her:

Isn't she Sweet... I should send this piture for competition hor.. hahahh

Then daddy found a Christmas tree sold in Giant so we all went down to Level 1. As usual, my Joshua did not get his nap in the afternoon so was very cranky. Even though there was a lot of ppl at Giant, he never failed to roll on the floor, jump around and etc. Nearly pissed the shit out of me. I bought a Singlet for Joshua, bought a T Shirt for Marizel's Son. Finally saw a Christmas tree... its selling at $39.90 for a 6" tree. Bought more accessories, hahah. Dead broke that I had to borrow money from my bro... Die.... so much debt.

After walking and buying these, went to Clementi to search for cheap and good shoes for Marizel to buy. Went to the K Shoppin which has got so many Kids shoes and kids clothes at cheap prices. Hahah, got ladies ones too. In the end, I too bought a pair of shoes (since mine going to spoil soon) for myself at $6. Cheap right? I admit, I'm a cheapo nowadays.. hahahha. What to do, got 2 kids and a maid to feed. I bought a black spag top for Joy which says 2005 with a bear in the middle. Its so cute...

After the shopping and splurging, we went for a simple dinner and headed home...

In total, think I spent around $150 for everything.... Broke..

But I am having a dilema now... You know for boarding Sugar, Esther pays me $300 a month. She paid $150 to me beginning this month liao and will be paying $300 end of the month and $150 end of next month. The $150 she paid this month already gone liao... I seriously dunnno how I spent the money... but the dilema is whether should I take the $300 she going to pay end of this month to invest in a Digital Camera. Something which I have been thinking for the past few months. Cause if I don't now, then I think this dream can only be fulfiled next yr... Haiz...

What should I do? but if I take the $300 to buy digicam, I abit heart pain leh... cause I can use the $300 to have a very good Christmas Party or buy things for the kids. Hmmmmm.. what do you think?

Do post some advise for me k? Muacks..

Raining again... :(

2005-11-18T17:37:00.000+08:00

Its raining again.. Think gotto ride in the rain. Just now heard the thunder, scary. Me for one is a scardy cat... thunder too loud, will cover ears one.. hahah. Dun laugh at me k?

Daddy today car broke down after his lunch at 4:30pm. Yes... he has his lunch at 3plus almost everyday. He was at Bukit Merah for lunch then when he went to the Multi Storey car park to pick his car... realised that car cannot be started...

My already broke daddy had to call for the mechanic. Mechanic came and check and say that most probably problem lies with the battery... Then have to change...

But the nice and sweet mechanic helped daddy save money. Normally for the first 200000km/20000km (hhahah dunno which one), replacement of battery is free. But daddy already exceeded that mileage cause of constantly driving us around. The mechanic called his boss to say that the mileage is lesser than that so replaced the battery for daddy for free.. So nice right?

So daddy save around $100+++! Sometimes its nice to have these type of nice ppl around, although it may be a gimmick to let customers stay with them but why not? Customers get to save money right?

YEH!!! Sunday confirm going Daiso... Can go see what they have there. Hope I dun spend too much... *crossing fingers*. So Long, me going home as soon as my Baby call me. Have a good weekend k?

A Pic of Me in the Office

2005-11-18T14:39:00.000+08:00

Hahaha.. I just ask Sherry to take a pic of me in the office..
A bit bo liao right? hahah. Me in my Pooh Bear T Shirt... Today Friday mah.. so wear T-Shirt to Office.. hahha

Friday Friday! TGIF!

2005-11-18T11:31:00.000+08:00

Hi Hi, have been playing with the shoutbox feature but it doesn't seem to appear on my brower... It did appear on Sherry's.. Can Anyone help??

Its Friday loh.... Will be very busy this weekend but am still looking forward to it. Had a good night with hubby, no quarrels, just talks and jokes and giggles... So sweet.

Plans for tomorrow as follows:
AM - Go market buy duck cause mummy coming over to cook her delicious Braised Duck. Will post pic if I can.. ahhahh, but chances are low cause it should be in our stomach by the time I rem about taking pictures..
PM - Go deliver a mouse to the buyer at Kallang MRT @ 2Pm.
Late afternoon if possible, go Concourse to see Christmas Trees and do planning on which tree to buy.

Sunday:
AM - Standard place to visit, TEKKA MARKET, for our weekly groceries purchase. By the time we are done, normally already noon.
PM - Bring Marizel (our wonderful + blur helper) to Clementi to buy things for her kids in Philippines for Christmas. Hopefully after that, we still have time to go IMM Daiso. Heard that they have good and a big variety of items going at only $2 each. Planning to go see the Christmas ornaments. Oh Yah... Esther gave us a very very beautiful star to put on our christmas tree... Its a sparkly sparkly one... Thanks Girl..
Was still thinking of putting on the christmas tree or hang it, it looks too nice to put on christmas trees, should hang it on its own in the living room, what do you think?

Hmmm.. we are planning a Christmas Party on 24th Dec at our place... Calling all friends!!! Those who are free and no where to go, please drop me a note at stephie1735@gmail.com to advise attendance. Do let me know early so I can prepare food. Will be doing a gift exchange too so do prepare a gift which costs more than $15 each k? If anyone wants to buy me a pair of diamond ear rings which costs $150, go ahead k? I welcome that.. hahahha

Anyway, what do you guys wanna eat? Planning to roast many many Chicken thighs as suggested by hubby, mashed potatos, sautead vegetables, fried rice/fried bee hoon.... what else you guys want? We welcome suggestions. If anyone do suggest Abalone type of food, please do prepare your budget, I too will welcome that and pls make sure ur funds is transfered to my account 2 weeks before Christmas.. hahha

Christmas is coming... so excited...Think I am into Christmas mood liao.. After Christmas will be Joshua's birthday... He will be 4 soon.. times flies so fast.. me also turning old liao.. hahah

Oh, today recieved the pictures taken during HongEng and LengWei's Farewell Dinner. Post some pictures for you guys to see:

Here's a group pic

Here's a picture of Sherry and Me!

Okie, do give me suggestions for Christmas k? So Long... Take Care!

Rainy Rainy Morning

2005-11-18T03:20:00.000+08:00

Woke up this morning and saw that sky was still dark, thought it was still early till I saw the clock. Hey, its already 7:15am and I was still wondering what happened. Looked out of the window and realised "Its Raining!!!" I love rainy days but .... that would mean that we cannot take bike to work and gotto spend money on cab...

Josh wore his slippers to school this morning by accident and he started crying in school bcos of that. Told him that its okie and I will go and bring his sandals down but he just cried and say that he wants to go home with me. Think he is worried that the teachers will scold him or laugh at him... I had to reasure him and Mrs Chew had to forcefully bring him in assuring him that mummy will be down soon and to coax him to have breakfast first. Cause kids have to be in school by 8:20am in order to be in time for breakfast and assembly by 8:35am. .. So I went up and down to bring his sandals to him while he waited in school. Finally he was settled and agreed to have his breakfast and finally I can go to work without worrying about him.

Oh... Shawn bought a pair of sunglasses for me.. its nice.. If I got chance, will post pic of that pair to show u guys... Looks quite good, small lenses, quite cool.. hahha. Last night let Joy and Joshua wear that pair and took photos... Joy looked very good in that.. hahah. When she grows bigger, maybe will let her wear that out.. she seems to enjoy wearing it too..

Okie, gotto go back to work already... will write more maybe in the afternoon.

O Lord my God,Teach my heart this day where and how to see you,Where and how to find you.You have made me and remade me,And you have bestowed on meAll the good things I possess,And still I do not know you.I have not yet done thatFor which I was made.Teach me to seek you,For I cannot seek youUnless you teach me,Or find youUnless you show yourself to me.Let me seek you in my desire,Let me desire you in my seeking.Let me find you by loving you,Let me love you when I find you.
- St. Anselm

A very stupid conversation

2005-11-16T17:38:00.000+08:00

There is a very stupid ass which made me angry last night then just now he called me, first q is whether I bathed this morning as there is a very heavy rain.

Conversation as below:

Him: Oic, this morning u never bathe ah?
Me: What? Dun be an ass. Am I talking to u yet? call me ask me stupid bo liao Q.
Him: Answer me, you never bathe this morning right? That's why raining heavily.
Me: U were too busy sleeping so u dun know right?
Him: Oic, I bought something for you leh.
Me: Dun bother
Him: I buy liao then u say dun bother
Me: U never ask me before you buy what.

Stupid Conversation right? hahaha.
Thunder's getting louder and louder, I can hear it even in the office. Lucky daddy coming to pick me cause he brought mummy for followup.
Yeh.. Its just like Santa just dropped from heaven.. lol.
Daddy, you are the best!

So damn pissed..

2005-11-16T13:54:00.000+08:00

What's up with ppl nowadays??? Pissed to the core. Waste my time!

I'm trying to sell a quite new 2nd hand Avent Sterilizer which, RRP is $163.50, at $70. This woman contacted me and want to negotiate the price so I told her $60 if she self collect at Bukit Batok. I can try to arrange Daddy to come pick up the sterilizer and bring to his house. She still got the cheek to tell me that she check with friend, its selling at $120 so she wants to get it lesser than half price $55. I already lowered for her liao but she wants to force me to lower till the price she wants. I am also throwing in 2 lightly used Avent Bottles, 1 brand new bottle brush and sterilization tablets.

What's up with ppl nowadays? Want to bargain, then go market loh... Already a good bargain liao, still like that.

Angry Angry Angry!

My Blog, My online Diary

2005-11-15T14:25:00.000+08:00

Hi Hi!

Thanks for looking at my blog. I first started blogging in Yr 2004 but that was all the past and I hope to start blogging about happy things... So I start a new Blog loh...

Okie, here goes.
Let's start from my background. I am a married 22+ Yr Old (Birthday on 13th Dec, so still considered 22 right? hahahha) with 2 beautiful kids.

I first met hubby on 18th Oct 1999, know him through his childhood friend... Then somehow in Yr 2001 May, we realized that I was pregnant for a 8 weeks... Hahah. What a great birthday present for him *giggles*

Now, then developed embryo, has grown to a 18kg handsome and clever, soon to be, 4 Yr old.
He was born 2nd Jan 2002 @ 22:12 hrs, 3.045kg, 40wks + 2 days.
Here's some pictures of the little charming guy in my life

This was him when he was around 1 1/2 Yr Old.

Also around 1 1/2 Yr Old...

This is him now. Taken last Sunday at Big @ Harbour Front on their Beanbag.. See how big he has grown.

In Yr 2004 June, a good news came. I was 4 weeks pregnant with my 2nd child. This time round, we decided that we should get hitched officially and we are more settled to be bound by that paper. So in 2004 19th Oct, we got ROM!

Baby Joy was born on 5th Apr 2005 @ 22:13 hrs, 3.400kg, also 40wks + 2 days!
Did you realize the similarity? Joshua and Joy has an age gap of 3Yrs, 3Mths, 3Days and 1 min!

Here comes Joy's picture.

This is sweet little Joy at 1 Day Old.
"Mummy lar... Pay $80 to take this photo for me, then they wrap me so tight"

Joy at around 2 1/2Mths Old
"I love bathing time. So happy in my little pool"

Picture taken when Joy was around 3 1/2 Mths Old.
"Kor Kor playing with me on Gong Gong's car, Kor Kor is sooooo funny"

Also at around 3 1/2 Mths Old

Taken when she was around 5 1/2 Mths Old
"Mummy say I'm adorable... Am I?"

Say Ahhh... "My first meal at Macdonalds"

"Hi Uncles and Aunties, this is me taken on 13th Nov 2005 at Big@ HarbourFront. Haven't I grown to a big girl now?"

Not forgeting my sweet doggy, Rosie. Youngest member in the family. She is born end of May 05

My life has been a roller coaster since young and my marriage has been shaky but I am still happy and proud to have 2 wonderful kids. They have brought so much joy, not forgetting the anger too, to my life and have made my life so complete.

Lookout for my blog as I will definately upload more pictures of my two sweethearts and will be posting more updates in my daily life.

If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, "Move from here to there, " and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. Matthew 17:20