One more, Two more, Three more...

Thousand thanks to Jason for helping me to upload this movie clip. It takes us 1 whole day to do it... big file and slow line (I mean my site lar), or maybe China checking the link so makes it so sloooooooowwwwwww.....

About Xuan

Showing affectionate...

“mummy yang-yang….. yang-yang mummy…” *hug my legs from behind*
“... ... ...”
“darling… darling mummy… darling… darling…” *peeking me from kitchen door*
“... ... ...”
“mummy 要 xuan xuan” *look at me with his cat-cat face*
“... ... ...”
“mummy 抱抱 xuan xuan… mummy 抱抱我, 抱抱我” *crying for carry*
“... ... ...”
“Xuan Xuan mummy….” *patting my back*

Xuan can say…

“Xuan Xuan good boy! daddy 买 car-car.”
“... ... ...”
“good boy 买 tractor… good boy 买 bulldozer… good boy daddy 买 forklift”
“... ... ...”
“去 shopping 买 yoghurt… daddy 回来买 yoghurt…”
“... ... ...”
“daddy 买 yoghurt… mummy 买 yoghurt… mummy 喂 Xuan Xuan 吃 yoghurt…” *very good boy hor can say like this hehehe…*
“... ... ...”
“吃 yoghurt… mimish (finished)… mimish yoghurt… mimish…”
“... ... ...”
“Bob Builder Yes we can!! Bob Builder Yes we can!!”
“... ... ...”
“Xuan Xuan 喜欢 car-car… Xuan Xuan 喜欢 tractor… daddy 喜欢 ambilerns (ambulance)…”
“... ... ...”
“吃饱不要跳…” *but still jumping on the sofa*
“... ... ...”
“不要倒…不要丢…” *but still pouring and throwing toys onto the floor*
“... ... ...”
“daddy 去做 gom (工)… daddy 回来…”
“... ... ...”
“Xuan Xuan 有 bulldozer… Xuan Xuan 有 plis (police) car-car… Xuan Xuan 有 rescue car… Xuan Xuan 有 ambilerns (ambulance)… Xuan Xuan 有 fire gingin (engine)… Bob Builder mi (没) 有!”

4th Wedding Anniversary

Today is our 4^th wedding anniversary. Hooray!! Wow so fast 4 years lioa, anyone can suggest how to celebrate it? But definitely not a candlelight dinner lar huh, u know me well lar that’s impossible for us as we have a 'Monkey Tarzan' to jaga. (eh, hubby complaint why i said our lovely son is Monkey wor, so mah change it to Tarzan loh... Tarzan - brave, great agility and smart too :D)

Nevertheless, I am expecting to receive some beautiful flower or special gift from hubby tonight ;) BTW, I already ordered an Italy TORTA DAMA Chocolate-Pistachio Butter Cream Cake 巧克力开心果酱蛋糕 from Waffle Boy 窝夫小子 for him, and they will deliver to our doorstep on 1800, and of coz hubby gonna pay for it too. :p I will upload the nice pic of the cake tomorrow.

My Dear,

Happy 4^th Anniversary!

Love,

* these photos updated by LeeCS on 0020 16th Dec 2005*

My 5 6 Childhood Memories That Relate To Food

I am being sporting KPC enough to tagged myself from mumsgather ’s blog for this meme related to food. Since she open up for anyone who interested to take part then I found myself really got lots of childhood memories which ties with food mah… so mah blog about it loh. 5 memories are indeed too little for me, thus, I am going to blog about 6… hehehe… then I mah can pass it on to another 6 little ‘hungry ghost’ 喂食鬼 loh :p

Steamboat

Based on my memories, we would have steamboat on our reunion dinner for Chinese New Year. Yes, every year the same only steamboat until now still the same. However, I no longer join the reunion dinner at my mum’s house already, I married liao mah of coz eat at PIL house loh.

Our steamboat ingredients including prawn, fish, sotong, fish balls, meat balls, pork kidney, pork liver, steam chicken, and of coz some greens… etc. Beside, we have char-siu, siu-yok, and roasted chicken too. Place until the whole 10-course table full of food. We have a very happy and lively reunion dinner.

Mango

My mum planted many fruit trees, especially mango. We have 3 mango trees, 1 Ciku tree and I start-fruit tree in our garden. Let’s talk about mango first, I love mango and I love to climb onto mango tree act like a Tarzan with my brother#2. I am very tomboy type and play that kind of adventures game with Bro#2. For example, like swing climb from one tree trunk to another and pluck some branches and leaves to set a campfire. We even nap on a big trunk in the mid-noon but never get to fall. Terror leh ?? haha…

During mango season, we would transform into a monkey to enjoy the juicy mango fruit on the tree branch helped with the harvest. Our mango is sweet, juicy, and big in size. If that is a large harvest, we even sell it to people who bought it then sell at the market. That’s my sweet memory bout mango.

Ciku

One of the fruit tree got it in my mum’s ‘plantation’. Don’t know why we seldom eat the fruit, it got ripe and fell onto the floor all the time. The reason why it related to my childhood was because of this Ciku tree does attract many bats. Some of the bat even make home under our roof. They will fly out to eat the Buah-Ciku every early morning and night. Sometimes they fly very low at the lever about our face, this make me very scare of going outside during night. Sometimes, we saw the dead baby bat on the floor. Especially after a thunderstorm night, I guess they dropped from their nest under the roof during the storm hit. I don’t likes bat but I felt sorry for the dead baby bat lar.

The Ciku tree no longer there after the major renovation for our house on 1989 if not mistaken. Now only I realized I love to eat Ciku, I was trying to search for it at pasar malam or super market but they selling quite expensive sometime. However, whenever I saw Ciku, it will remind me of the dead baby bats lying on the floor.

Star fruit / Carambola

Another fruit tree in my mum’s ‘plantation’. I love the raw star fruit than the ripe one. I ate with plain salt or dip in the soy sauce mix with white sugar. Yummy…

Not only love the fruit, I like the flower and its leaves too. I always play ‘masak-masak 家家酒’ with my sister#6, we used its leaves as vege. We set up 2 bricks with standing position, lit up a candle set between the 2 bricks, put a Milo tin’s cover over the two bricks. That becomes our cooking stove. We fried the leaves, or we squeeze out the fluid from the leaves (dark green color) to make fake drink or ABC (air-batu-campur). The flower always use for decoration purposes, sometimes also fry it with the leaves. We often get scold by mum, cos we pluck the flower. Simple, we cannot have fruit without flowering right. 无花不结果。The flower is very unique and beautiful too. *wahlao we 辣手摧花 tim :p*

Durian

The scene of my whole family squatting on the kitchen floor and eating durian is always floats in my head whenever I saw this fruit. I love to eat it right away from the shell, taste much nicer than the one already in the plate. Does u try before to eat durian with rice? I like it either, the taste was just very different when eat like that.

Many years ago, father bought a land, and then turns it into durian plantation. My dad puts so much effort on the farm, we use to go there everyday, by watching my dad walking around the big plantation and harvest banana, which plant along with the small durian trees to provide shade to the young durian trees. That’s why I have great memory for this fruit.

Black Vinegar Trotter (or called Tu-kah-chor in Hokkien)

This in one of my favorite dishes, not much story to tell but I just love it. My mum is expert in cooking this dish, every time she cooks this I will eat up with 2 big bowls of rice. Simply love the taste and the smell, so great. Somehow, I don’t get to eat a lot during confinement. Don’t know why, may be I have restless mind during that time and totally forgot to ask the confinement lady to cook more for me.

This dish relate to my mum’s cooking skill, which I admire very much. Now mum does not need to cook anymore as all handle by an Indonesian maid. She just becomes a ‘kap-pa-lah’ to order the maid what is to cook nia.

That’s a lot more I wanted to write about but cannot lar, must force myself to stop here otherwise people will fall asleep before finish reading all this funny and non-sense childhood memories of mine.

Ok now is the grand time to announce that this meme are going to the following 6 little ‘hungry-ghost’喂食鬼. I believe their childhood memories will never exclude any nice food in it.

1. Maria aka Twinsmom (haha u can’t escape this time loh...)
2. Jason (this fei-chai big guy definitely cannot left out if talking about food)
3. Egghead (revenge for tagged me to do that killing-brain-cells meme)
4. Soohk (since u blog a lot about food also mah :p)
5. Domestic Goddess (eh don’t talk about ur hair liao but food ok? :p)
6. Selba (wonder how is ur childhood and any memories about food, cos u are the only non-malaysian that i tagged and u love to eat too rite?)

Actually, I wanted to tag more than 6 people but unfortunately I have only 6 ‘vacancies’ to fill in. However, I am going to do like MG, anyone who reads this and feels like taking up the meme, well..... just consider yourself tagged! And remember to let me know when you post your meme up so I can come and KPC :D

立冬了！！

终于立冬了！

从现在开始是初冬了，也是属于初冬深秋或者是秋末冬初，气温还在一般的一度到十五度之间。但就本地人说北京一般冷得晚，尤其 是今年，因往年的这时候气温已在零下了。虽然如此，并不代表还会有暖和的天气。气温会一直下降， 估据入十二月后才会有降雪！ Wow！！！ 降雪呖！听后开心到半死，还没看过真正的雪呢！看过那些人造雪是脏得要命，好期待看真正的雪。不知有没机会打场雪仗呖？

好期待！好兴奋！唔~~~

Obituary

With heavy heart to post up here, my uncle (伯公, father’s eldest brother) has passed away last night. We never know he was so sick until we received the bad news.

Deepest condolences to my uncle’s family.

Now my heart goes to my mum, with seeing all folks as her age gone one by one. All of a sudden, I miss her very much.

Routine Check

I was tagged by egghead to do this boring interesting MEME sometime ago. Ok let’s start now.

Before Marriage

As an interior designer working in the foreign company, we live in “no-boss-here-to-control” world. 山高皇帝远 (mountain high king far-far). Life wasn’t routine BUT full of excitement. Although some of the daily activities might seems repeated but I still can’t call it a routine.

Every morning, I wake up at 0730, lie on the bed day dream for another 15min, then get up to bathe, put on some make-up, styles my hair, choose clothes to wear (I have my very own style of clothing trust me, as a designer we should have it right?), etc… Ready and sit in the car at 0845, think about what to eat. Usually will drive to the nearer nasi lemak stall to buy breakfast then headed to work, or straight away to office then go to the canteen located next to my office to get some other food to eat, of cos must buy “The Star” paper to read as well during breakfast with colleagues in the office.

During breakfast, everybody chitchatting on some interesting news in the paper and trying to search for any ‘warehouse sale’ or ‘big sale’ advertisement on the paper too. If we found any big sale going on, our lunch will be quite pack and rush. Cause why? We have to rush to the sale spot to grab some cheap on sale item, after that go have some nice food nearby that area then only head back to office. Normally this will take us 2.5 hours to accomplish our mission. However, if that is a quiet season without any big sale going on, we will buy our lunch at the back lane of PNB building, with a lot of temporary food stall selling Malay food, fruits, drinks over there, then have our lunch in the office. Sometimes we will go to KLCC or Ampang Park as our office was in Menara Tan & Tan, very nearby with walking distance only.

We usually leave office on 1900 if that is some works to do BUT not a rush work. Needless to tell if need to rushing out tender or when project on construction, we might have to stay late in order to finish out the work. When free day come, no tender no work to do, we will leave office sharp at 1800 then gather again at Starbucks Coffee KLCC, or mamak stall near my area for ‘happy hour’ cum dinner. After ‘yam-char’ with colleagues, go home and bathe. If still early, go sister house which located at the other block of my apartment. I love to play with my nephew and chitchatting with sis. Somehow, when I am tired and late from work, I will stay home to watch TV or listen to light music while surfing net. I only clean my house twice a week... hehe lazy ya :p

Did u realize that I never mention about my fiancé? Cause he is traveling oversea and only come back every fortnight, and usually on weekend. Therefore, my weekend will be a bit different. When fiancé was around, shopping loh... what else? If he not around, I go back to my hometown. That’s it. I am a good girl will never flirt around even though fiancé is not with me.

Thanks Greenapple correct me the spelling error for 'fiancée' to change to 'fiancé', keke... I am definitely not a lesbian :p

Ok now say goodbye to my exciting and wonderful life before marriage.

After Marriage

For the first year, I went to work in Jakarta together with hubby. Experienced a total different lifestyle but still enjoyable, carefree, and yet full of excitement. Working in a non-related field sometime do stressed me out, but that is a passing rain and cloud, and sun will still shine and brighten up my day.

Morning wake up at 0630, have to wake up so early cos I use the bathroom first then hubby’s turn. After bathe, put on make-ups, styles my hair, wear stocking (I hate this but have to cos this is to suit the high heel shoes), change cloth (not much choice now as need to wear formal not like last time can wear how casual/style as I wish), etc…

By 0720, go down together with hubby and colleagues to the apartment lobby to wait for company van to fetch us to office. Reach office at 0800, go Dunkin Donut for breakfast, ordered coffee and plain donut everyday. Start work at 0900. Lunch at 1230, usually we have it at canteen. Only Friday, or some special day, we may opt for some special food like Thai food or western food. Once a while there will be a ‘flee market’ on the 21 floor of our office building or at the ground floor open-air area located between two buildings. I love to shop around after eaten my lunch, with colleagues of course, then only can buy more things mah haha… Almost everyday work till late, let’s talk about if no need to work late first. Few of us will take turn to cook dinner or we cook it together. Sometimes do eat out at Samudra, or Eaton, or Suki, or some Chinese restaurant whereby we can order lot of dishes and share. If we need to work late, we will go dinner at the other building located behind our office block, need to walk quite a distance to that place. Also mostly Chinese food we choose, or else will go to the Euro Café in the same building with our office. Sometimes unexpectedly work late, our good boss will treat us good dinner at some nice restaurant. Sometimes we planned to go home early but somehow still a bit too late until all food stall closed shop already, then I have to cook simple dish like fried noodle or easier way, we eat instant noodle.

We work thru the weekend, but go to work late at about 1100 with packed MacDonald or KFC for lunch. Dinner will be the same either we cook ourselves, or with colleagues, or eat out nice food at nice restaurant or someone belanja… haha…

Second year, I got pregnant. Back home in Malaysia doing only sit, and eat, and sleep for the whole 9 months.

After ZhiXuan was born

Life before came to Beijing. In the early stage, wake up 0600 in the morning, sometimes 0530 all depends on Xuan’s timing. Once Xuan was awake, milk him then bathe him (yes, early in the morning before go out from our room). After bath, lay him on the boucle whereby I can sip my coffee and eat my bread while playing with him. After breakfast, nurse Xuan to sleep then start to do housework. The cycle of milking, playing, singing, nursing Xuan to sleep, continue housework repeated for the whole day. Forgotten how I have lunch and dinner (memory lost) but only can recall I am on strict diet that time, so I guess I skip my lunch and dinner or what, or maybe just have tea and biscuit.

After become SAHM, no more make-ups, never styles my hair, simply grab any wearable cloth from my wardrobe. However, the good thing here is I still don't need to cook, only to cook porridge for son.

When Xuan was 5 months old, I started to bring him out for morning walk. Sometimes I brought him to play ground to mix around with other kids. I let him crawl upwards on the slide, play swing with him… have lot of fun. Made friend at the play ground whom also staying at the same apartment with us. She has a boy exactly same age with Xuan, only 2 week younger than Xuan. We meet everyday, visiting each other house in the afternoon. Call to go swimming together in the evening. I brought Xuan swimming everyday and he love swimming too. Xuan sleep at 2000 every night, then I can have my quiet dinner sipping coffee eating biscuit and watching TV alone. Hubby still travel at the time.

After Xuan is above 1 year old, I brought him go breakfast every morning. Seldom let him try my food but always baby biscuit until right before I came Beijing, I let him eat some bean curd and noodle. After breakfast we will go wandering around our area, pack my lunch (yes pack it in the morning then heat it up before eat). Afternoon and night would be repeated the same routine as above.

Life after we came to Beijing. Morning wake up early (time depends on Xuan too), prepare breakfast. Usually cook American breakfast with fried eggs, ham, or bacon, greens with bread, or bun. Sometimes make French toast. Sometimes steam the ready-made pork meat bun or red bean bun (char-siu-pao or tao-sah-pao).

After breakfast, start to prepare lunch and cook at 1030, Xuan will have his early lunch at 1100. Xuan finished his lunch at 1200 or 1230 (took 1 or 1.5 hours to finished it *roll eyes*). Bathe him and nap time, he has to sleep on his own whereby I can eat my lunch with hubby. After lunch while Xuan is still asleep, I do washing up and mop floor. When everything done, hehehe… my free time for blogging and blog hopping!

After become SAHM and live in Beijing, not only no more make-ups, no more styles the hair, simply grab any wearable cloth from my wardrobe. I even have to cook for son and hubby too. Yeah luckily, I love cooking.

Xuan wake up from his nap 2 hours later, after milk play awhile with him, or read some books for him, or watch his DVD with him. Evening, prepare his dinner then feed him (hubby and me always skip our dinner. Usually we eat biscuit with coffee only). Hubby come home at 1830, he play with Xuan and I go finish up the remaining housework. After that, bathe then nurse Xuan to sleep at 2100, and I always goes dose off too and awake again at 2300. Follow by my little free time for blogging and blog hopping before I call it a day (notice that left only 1 hour for me to do this). Now is already 0100 in the morning I am still here to do this boring interesting MEME, no thanks to egghead by given me this opportunities to write and tag someone else for this boring interesting task.

The poor souls I am going to tag with this will be:

• Selba
• Soohk
• Yong Kian
• Bro Peng Shyong again

Added here 3 more poor souls to tag for the reasons of firstly, want to know about routine life for other mummies, secondly, they have been lazy~ing busy for quite sometime without updating their blogs already.

• Mumsgather
• 1+2mom
• Domestic Goddess

Updated:
Ok I know someone might have problem to blog about all this marriage thingy and start to scratching their head, here is some tips. U can modify it to your very own way, refer to this clever girl see how she modified the MEME and u can try out yours.

Too much thinking recently

For both of us husband and wife, we have too much thinking in our mind recently. If happen, that’s going to be a big change in our life. If nothing happen, then we will back to our ordinary life.

Ai… nothing can do now, we shall wait and see….

p/s: don’t talk to me about having new baby ya, definitely not that issue bothers us.

My boy (as on Oct, 2005)

Xuan’s physically grows:

Height: 85.5cm
Head size: 50cm (big head!!)
Legs length / pants’ length: 43cm (in case u wanna buy pants for him and prefer longger as he is growing fast :p)
Shoulder width: 26cm (check this out if u wanna buy shirt for him :D)

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Last night before sleep, as usual I lying beside him and trying to relax while waited him to be asleep. Xuan suddenly turn his head towards me and says:

“Kiss mummy”

Follow by kissing my mouth.
Wah!! All of a sudden I felt so contented… then I was kept smiling with my eyes closed pretend to sleep. Short while, Xuan touching my mouth then said:

“mummy 笑 (smile)”

My heart melted.

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今天治轩一大早就醒来了。

哇！很冷呖。看看床头的钟，还没到七点。好在他没来烦我只是吵着daddy 带他到窗口看车子，两父子都是超级车迷。我懒得睬他们躲在被窝里在躺多几分钟。冷，冷，冷… zzzZZZ

迷糊中听到老公问治轩：“要喝 nen-nen 了吗？”

然后轩很快的转过头来对我大喊：“mummy起来冲nen-nen!”

噢！吓得我一下就完全清醒了。也觉得好笑，这是个很长的句子哩。数一数共有七个音节呢！而且轩说得很快也很流利。呵呵，孩子又长大了。

Xuan woke up very early today.
It was very cold and I check on the alarm clock place on the bed head, it was before 7am. Luckily, Xuan didn’t disturb me but his daddy, keep wanting daddy to bring him to see the car from the window. I was lazing in the bed while they both watching cars passing by on the street down there. Slowly I fell half asleep then I over heard hubby asking Xuan whether he want milk. Xuan reaction is turn his head over fast and shouted loudly to me:

“Mummy wakes up make nen-nen!”

I was frighten by his loud voice and suddenly felt so awake. It is kind of a bit funny cos he never says that long sentence before. It contains 7 syllables in that sentence and he can speak fast and smooth. Hehe… my child grew again.

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Disconnecting with outside world

Someone can’t goes online because of her network down.
Someone can’t goes online because of his physical down.
Today, I can’t goes online because of my notebook down.

I was disconnecting with outside world for more than 12 hours today.

Thanks to my hubby again as he was trying to make this notebook to perform faster and better. He was clearing out the un-use item in my his notebook but accidentally uninstalled the yahoo messenger. Therefore, he tries to install it back, so the frequent install and uninstall actions that crush the notebook. Luckily it is back to normal after reboot so many times in the evening, but not sure after shut down later, will it going to perform good tomorrow. I wonder.

I am praying hard that hubby this notebook do not upset me again by tomorrow.

My ugly hand and crack fingers ~ 爱的代价

People often think that SAHM’s (stay at home mom) life is very enjoyable and ‘senang’ and can ‘goyang kaki’ at home. Yeah maybe few of them are lucky enough can have maid to handle all the housework for them and maybe they don’t need to bathe their baby too. As for me, I will not want to have a stay-in maid nor part time maid to help me. As with their present, u can’t really enjoy your family life with their busybody eyes keep following your every steps. Until recently, I have to tolerance to agree on taking a part time maid to help me 3 days a week, and 2 hours each time. She mainly helps me to do some cleaning up works in the kitchen, bathroom, mop floor, and windows. Guess u people will start to yell “wah good life loh u.”. Believe me I have my own reason why I take up a part time maid.

Once Mumsgather has blog about reflections of SAHM – part 2:

I'm certainly not ashamed or embarassed of the fact that I'm a housewife, staying home to look after my kids and my home. The response I often get when I tell ppl that I'm a housewife is:

• "Wah. You have the good life." or "Enjoy life lah you."
• "Wah! You goyang kaki lah. So good"
• "You can tahan ah? Stay at home all day? The kids don't drive you up the wall?"
• "Don't you feel bored?"
• "Good lah you. Made such a sacrifice."
• "Don't you feel that your skills are wasted staying at home?"

Well I have my very own answer here.

• "Wah. You have the good life." or "Enjoy life lah you."

Good life ar? Wait until u sees my ugly hand and painful crack fingers than only u comment lar.

• "Wah! You goyang kaki lah. So good"

Goyang kaki? U do all the housework for me then I can goyang kaki lar.

• "You can tahan ah? Stay at home all day? The kids don't drive you up the wall?"

Why cannot tahan? I rather let kids drive me up the wall than let the JOB/bosses push me down to the hell. Am I right?

• "Don't you feel bored?"

Bored? U must be kidding, with tons of housework and the kid will make sure I always busy too.

• "Good lah you. Made such a sacrifice."

Err… this I have to admit. Can’t say that’s no sacrifice of being a SAHM but I certainly know it’s worthwhile.

• "Don't you feel that your skills are wasted staying at home?"

Never wasted lar, people sees how you raised your child and what kind of person they turn into when they grew up. This needs such a good skills and great effort to accomplish my duties.

Winter is around the corner, and it’s very cold now. My skin and hands are very dry due to the low humidity in the air, and fingers started to dry and crack again. Anyhow, this isn’t the first time my fingers crack but since I became SAHM. With here, I would like to show u my ugly hand and crack fingers due to often wet while doing housework and cooking. I have a sensitive skin and hand. I wearing glove whenever I do the housework and washing up but I don’t like to wear it when cooking. Wearing glove is a bit troublesome and u can’t really feel the texture of your food u going to cook. I like to cook and I like to feel it and test it and examine it with my finger. Therefore, due to my sensitive skin, my finger started to crack and fungus started to grew in my nails. That cracks are painful especially at night, I have to put on thick cream and plaster them before I go to bed. Usually I have 3 or 4 out of 10 fingers are plastered every night. Or else I can’t go to asleep, as it’s too painful and dry because of the dry air in the air-cond room. Been seeing doctor and seek for treatment, what doctor advice is to avoid of wetting my hands anymore, by then it can cure in at least 6 months period. Does u think it’s possible for a SAHM without a maid to avoid touching water for that long of period? That’s is my reason why I taking up a part time now, as she will help me on the wet jobs by then can minor down my chances of wetting my hand. Hubby pity to see my painful fingers and felt sorry to my sleepless night mah.. :D

I used to felt embarrassed or ashamed with my ugly hand when meeting up friends, but I am not anymore after I blog about it here. During my KL trip, I met up my ex-colleagues. Hearing them making the same statement like “shiaulin so good lar, now became 少奶奶 ‘siu nai-nai’ no need to worry about work, etc…” By that time, I felt like explaining but somehow I was 欲言又止speechless.

Have I scare u off my blog now? Do I scare u out of making decision of become a SAHM? I hope I am not; otherwise, your kids will blame me on pulling their mummy aback of becomes their SAHM.

Simply likes this phrase very much, it makes me feel so 'kembang' :D

"Nothing to feel embarass about, it just war hero showing the scars of war...you should feel proud...

Commented by a friend Pak Soo,

# posted by SooHK : October 25, 2005 9:06 PM

My KL trip

As promised to write about my 3 weeks trip in KL but somehow, I felt lazy to do it. :p Anyway, I must keep my promises, so kindly proceed to read this , as hubby already writes a detail blog about it.

BTW, I would like to add in some details here which u can’t find in his blog.

On the first day, we reach my mum’s house around 2am in the morning. Xuan couldn’t sleep as he afraid to see the ceiling fan and maybe he thought the fan will turn into alien fly down to haunt him hanging on top of him. When he slowly gets use to the fan, the flying curtain blows by the wind frighten him again. Therefore, I have to pat him and accompany by his side to make him sleep. This drag until it was about 4am. Moreover, I haven’t bathe and feel so sticky, tired, and sleepy. I couldn’t stand any longer with my sticky body so I told hubby to lie beside Xuan and try his best to make him sleep.

When I came out from the bath, all I can hear is only the calm wind blows and dogs vows from distance. I certainly know that Xuan wasn’t cry anymore. However, I don’t think he is asleep as daddy never success to make him sleep. When I walk into the room, all I can see is daddy and son slept cradling together! Haha… I was so amazed to see this cos for the first time hubby success to makes my son sleep! The next morning, I asked hubby what actually happen last night and how he make it, and his answer amused me. Hubby said he kept mumbling talking this and that (hubby also don’t know what he talking about that time as he was also exhausted already) until Xuan got bored then fell asleep. Hahaha… one of the memorable efforts I must jot it down here! :D

Meet with Jason.

Had breakfast with him on Sunday morning after night long of BBQ and chitchatting with my siblings. Never thought Jason was that big and tall. He is almost double of my size no kidding. Haha… he told me Annabelle wasn’t like him when their first met, yet my Xuan wasn’t friend him too. Yeah he talks so much in his blog but in reality, he really doesn’t speak much. In spite of that, he is quite a good person as I promised to buy him ‘big meal’ but he ordered one glass of teh ais and one plate of nasi lemak only. However, I ate one plate of nasi lemak + one roti canai + one glass of teh ais that morning.

Meet with Maria and her twins.

We met on 3^rd Oct, Monday at Coffee Bean Mid Valley. Maria has already blog about our meeting in her blog here . Maria, thanks for the earring it is very nice. However, I can’t wear it cos after 2 times of painful ear piercing still failed to keep the hole in me due to my sensitive skin always get infection. After many sleepless and painful nights, the holes no longer there and hubby has warned me no more 3^rd times again. Ah yes, Belles are so beautiful and they are friendly, have some fun time with them too.

This is some funny conversation between me with Annabelle. She was playing with the magnetic necklace I gave her.

Anna: “Mummy, mummy, u see... see what I make?”
Maria was busy talking to my hubby and our friend Yen, she didn’t hear Anna was calling her. I notice it hen I try to make friend with Anna.
Me: “Huh? Let auntie see, what are u making?”
Anna: “I make Love, I MAKE LOVE!” pointed on the magnetic necklace in ‘love shape’.

Wahahaha… so cute, and so innocent.

Maria has blog about this similar joke in her blog long time ago, and I was glad to meet belles in person and have chance to hear and see them making this joke by myself.

This is a very tiring trip for us. We don’t have much time for ourselves and we have to running places to places and meet one people follow by another. Although it’s tiring trip, but we are enjoy very much. Thanks everyone for sparing there precious time to meet us; we do have some fun and happy moment together.

Congratulations

Congratulations to my 5^th sis!

She has delivered a healthy and beautiful baby girl on yesterday morning. How and why I know her baby girl is beautiful before I meet her? Because sis said baby looks like her Son#2. Why looks like son#2 sure beautiful? Nah show u his picture lar…

Liang-chai + cute neh??
Somehow, in my family we all know so well that her son#2 looks so much like his mother = my 5^th sis….. That means my 5^th sis is beautiful. :D

I was force to have change my blog template!!

This is all with my hubby’s fault help….
He trying to steal copy something from my template but accidentally deleted some code in that make my blog cannot display at all !!! *so, we decided to change template and see whether can help anot.

Anyway, I forgive have to thank him as he give me chance to change a new look for my blog which i wanted to do it long long ago.

And then hor, he also help me to put back all the links, videos, statcounter… but forgot my bb’s birthday timestamp pulak, but he promised to do it tomorrow first thing in the morning ! will do it only when he has time to do so.

Ok lar, thank you lar... hehehe...

I am a "Bad Mother"

My boy tends to be very talkative nowadays. I enjoy “chatting” with him and it brings so many joys to me. I also jot down some funny conversation between us in my blog here and here to share my joys with other reader. Until one day, someone commented in my blog that confuse me.

At October 15, 2005 6:07 AM, Anonymous said…

as a mother, you have to realise that speaking to him in full sentences is very important.
a child his age is very easily influenced by his parents. make sure you speak full english or full chinese sentences to him.
he should not be growing up in a family environment where singlish is frequently used.

Although I know he is absolutely right but, somehow, I not fully agreed with him. Recall the time when I was still a new mother, my MIL told me that she read an article from newspaper (I failed to trace back the article from internet) saying that we should use more kiddo words to communicate with our baby/toddler. For examples like sleep = oiin oiin, urinate = shh-shh, past motion = umh umh, milk = nen-nen, etc.

”He should not be growing up in a family environment where singlish is frequently used.”

Must I speak full Chinese/English sentences to my toddler?
BTW, I watch my nephews and nieces growing up in this kind of environment which singlish/manglish is widely used. Do not care they are English Ed or Chinese Ed; I can proudly tell that they all scored distinction in their English subject, and not bad in Chinese subject too.

All I want to do now is to encourage my boy to speak more and provide a friendly speaking environment for him. I believe that we cannot have friendlier environment when pure English/Chinese sentences is in use. Yes they might understand if we speak full English/Chinese sentences but, I doubt he won’t speak as soon as he will tend to be worried too much on the words he have to use in speaking.

Anyway, please correct me if u feels that my thinking is very wrong.

What Color Should Your Blog Be?

Your Blog Should Be Blue

Your blog is a peaceful, calming force in the blogosphere. You tend to avoid conflict - you're more likely to share than rant. From your social causes to cute pet photos, your life is a (mostly) open book.

What Color Should Your Blog or Journal Be?

阅读小扎

哇！土阿妈 “点指兵兵” 又 “点” 到我。嘿！我很懒没什么看书的呖。(gua boh-thak-chek wan!!)

(1) 自家書架上的藏書數量

很难算哩，社内设计的参考书或杂志算不算？如果算的话呢可多咯！hmm… 大概一，两百吧。不加上在娘家的书。

(2) 現正在看或想看的書

现在在读《宝宝你在想什么》 姜聚省与刘儒德著。

想重看的书是 《古堡僵尸》，很久以前看过，很紧张刺激加恐怖，但详细内容全忘了。

(3) 最後買的一本書

《宝宝你在想什么》 姜聚省与刘儒德著。北京出版社。

(4) 你最喜歡的五位两位作家

只能想起两位哦…怎办？

• 张小娴作品
• 卫斯理/倪匡 的科幻故事

(5) 有特別感想、印象深刻的五本書

不能说有特别感想或印象深刻啦，我只是很喜欢罢了。

• 荷包里的单人床 ~ 张小娴
• 三月里的幸福饼 ~ 张小娴
• 思念里的流浪狗 ~ 张小娴
• 木炭 ~ 卫斯理
• 古堡僵尸 ~ 不懂作者哩…

(6) 接下來想傳給以下5個人

• 老公
• 快乐家庭1 + 2 妈 ~ Happy Family 1+2mom
• 杰申咕哝 ~ Jason Mumbles （因为你没做蛋头 给的功课，整天顾着吃和钓美女!）
• 外科工作社 ~ yk’sworkplace
• 所有能阅读这咒语的人，你已被诅咒了！！ 哈哈哈…

My Boy's day

“轩要 oiin oiin 吗？”

“oiin oiin... ”

“oiin oiin 前要做什么？”

“bath-bath”

“bath-bath 后呢？”

“冲nen-nen！喝nen-nen！ ”

“喝nen-nen后呢？”

“oiin oiin... ”

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Xuan woke up from his afternoon nap, he came out from the room and look for mummy with jumping steps and sweet smile on his face.

*Usually he will whine and cry when awake from his nap.*

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The time I change and wash him, the water from the tab are a bit too warm.

“哇！水烧烧喔... 有烫到 bird-bird 吗？轩的bird-bird呢？”

“飞掉...”

“哈哈... 飞掉了啊？飞去哪里？”

“去做工... bye-bye...”

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Xuan mumbling again...

"thunder... lightning... raining... thunder... raining..."

"es-strator (excavator)... es-strator... "

"关著... 开... 关著... 开... "

"大大风... 吹吹... 大大风" *pointing at the curtain*

"mummy, sun !! sun !! shadow... shadow..." *pointing at the reflection of sun*

"玩... 玩... 抹抹... 玩... "

"raining... thunder... raining.... thunder.... lightning... "

"玩car-car... plis car-car... "

"做工... bye-bye... 做工... bye-bye... "

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Updated on 5:00pm:

Xuan just pangsai, and it's very smelly.

"wah !!! yiak-yiak leh..."

"yiak-yiak... 臭臭..."

"什么臭臭？"

"大便... 臭臭..."

Happy Birthday My Dear

To my dear,

***Happy Birthday to you!!***

I didn't have any special present for u but, I am giving u permission to buy ONE of your favorite gadget as your birthday present lar... hehe... happy?

love,
wife

Big Announcement

Announcement I:

Yeah… I am back from my 15 days vacation in Malaysia and 3 weeks of blog-holiday ended so fast. Trying to blog something about my holiday but I can’t, my mind is still blank even though got so many things to blog about. No mood kua… later lar, sure will korek out the happy and funny thing happen on our trip.

Actually still want to curi-ayam to rest for another few days, for me to read the blog I have missed out for 3 weeks.. but hor..

Twinsmom hope for my return to blog sphere so much…

DG is waiting for my return too…

Egghead question me on whom approving my long holiday…

To avoid Jason start to mumbling (which I can’t stand it :p), I had better start to blog now hehe…

Announcement II:

Previously I have blog about why I can’t stop spam cos China here blocks most of the site including blogspot. Recall back when we are on the way back to Malaysia, hubby told me that google has finally step into ‘big land’ 大陆 liao. Just now, I try to load my blog without going thru proxy, and the result is yes and yet very fast the page load! Yoohoho… happy !!!

So now, I can read blog fast, and I can turn on my word verification to stop spam, or maybe just leave it as I can delete them any time I want. And hor, I can leave comment on the blog who already using work verification, which I can't do it last time. So, be ready to see me ka-ka-cau-cau in ur blog soon huh ;)