Ai Peng's 365

Necessity of Enrichment Class .. ?

2011-01-12T12:15:00.000+08:00

Xiang who is considered as 5 years old (counted by year of birth) went for a trial English Class, but he refused to attend and kept on crying to go back home. We finally gave up and decided to wait until he's ready. I was wondering whether it's too early for him to join such classes?

Qi loves to color, I wanted to send her to art class, but couldn't find one centre which will accept 3 years old kid. My husband too said it's too early for her to join such classes.

I'm just wondering, any moms here send their kids for enrichment / tuition classes? At what age did you kids join those classes? Or do you engage 1 to 1 tuition for your kids? Do you think it's effective and good for the kids?

Haiz .... his elbow ....

2011-01-11T10:33:00.000+08:00

This happened on last Wednesday, 5th Jan 2011.

I brought Xiang to a trial English class in the evening, but I think he's really not ready for it. He was clinging to me and crying non-stop. I called my husband and due to the weak phone signal, he decided to come and look at Xiang to try pursuading him.

After waiting for awhile, from the corner of my eye, I saw my husband coming from over the street, then he slipped and fell on the steps of the shoplots. At first I thought that it was a minor fall, but then I realised that he couldn't stand up at all.

His elbow was dislocated!!! His left hand was in a strange twist and he couldn't lift his hand at all. Gosh, until now I couldn't imagine such a simple fall and do such a nasty injury! With the help of a helpful and kind mom (whom daughter was in the English class), we rushed him to nearest emergency.

The nurse was already calling the operation room for emergency operation, but prior to that, they took my husband for X-ray. My husband was lucky in a way that the dislocated bone actually goes back to the joint, and so finally no operation was needed and he was put in an arm sling.

Luckily, no broken bones, only the tissues, muscles and ligamens were torned and injured. He was on the arm sling so that the ligamens can heal better, and the Orthopeadic finally approved him of removing the arm sling today. However, there's a series of physiotheraphy to go through since now he can't fully bend and can't straighten his left hand.

Oh a minor heart-warm moment for record, when Xiang first saw his daddy back from hospital, he was really sweet. He told his daddy to rest, and instructed that if his daddy needs anything, just tell Kakak to get it. I guess that my husband's pain immediately decreased 50% after hearing it.

[Xiang 4y1m; Qi 2y10m] 2011 First Day in School

2011-01-10T12:02:00.000+08:00

As we moved to a new area, we had to find another new kindergarten for my son Xiang and my daughter Qi. Actually we had a hard time deciding on this kindergarten, but finally we decided to give it a try.

Xiang started his 5 year old on 3rd Jan (Monday). On the first day, he didn't want us to accompany him to school, insisted on just dropping him in front of the door and let the teachers brought him in. How relief and happy we were when we sneaked in to have a peak on him, found out that he's not crying at all. A picture of him on the first day, he's very gan-cheong at that time actually, not wanting to speak to us and just nodding or shaking his head answering us. I guess that I was very gan-cheong too, didn't notice his slanting t-shirt until I post this up ^_^:

But at night, he was crying loud and throwing tantrums that he didn't want to go to school. He told us that he's scared. Luckily, the 2nd day he went to school without fuss or crying. *phew!!!*

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Qi started her 3 year old class on 7 Jan (Friday), she told me that she wanted me to accompany her. Therefore, I accompanied her on that day, standing at the side of her class. She's doing great, no crying. She let the teacher brought her to toilet, playing toys with other kids, lining up to wash hand during snack time, eating on her own, cooperating with teh teacher and enjoying the singing time.

Then like a virus infected by her brother, she too cried on the night before her 2nd day to school *sigh...*, I knew that she's scared and tried comforting her by reminding her how she enjoyed her first day in school. I guess that this little girl is too scared to think or to be reminded, even asking me to stop talking and SLEEP!

This morning (her second day in school) she's doing great again, I let her down in front of the gate and she waved bye-bye to me. Again, sneaky-fox-mommy went sneaking on her and was really relieved that she was sitting on her place, no crying. When picking her up, she smiled and proudly told me that she didn't cry, therefore she got 2 stickers from the teacher (good treats from teacher!)

Some photos of QiQi first day to school, wearing a simple yellow t-shirt and pants:

[Xiang 4y1m; Qi 2y10m] 2011 First Day in School

2011-01-10T11:57:00.000+08:00

But at night, he was crying loud and throwing tantrums that he didn't want to go to school. He told us that he's scared. Luckily, the 2nd day he went to school without fuss or crying. *phew!!!*

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Some photos of QiQi first day to school, wearing a simple yellow t-shirt and pants:

[Xiang 3y11m; Qi 2y9m] Playing with Wii

2010-12-11T12:31:00.000+08:00

It's time to change our old generation 1 Playstation. So, we have finally bought Wii. Hehe, paiseh, this Wii has been in market for so long and we were so outdated right? But all of us are still so excited about it and enjoy the games a lot.

Xiang playing bowling, he's good in this game

Trying to adapt

2010-12-06T18:26:00.000+08:00

For those who know me well, I have moved in to my new house. New house, new environment, not only my kids, but we adults are also trying to adapt ourselves.

There's a lot of plus points about the new environment here, greatest one will be good security and prettier environment. My kids can cycle around the housing area with ease, large playgrounds for them and lots of place for them to play ball or fly kite.

The down points will be there aren't as many shops as in my previous house, no Jusco within 5 min drive (but there's a new Giant within 5 min drive), and not many food to our liking until now.

I'm not sure whether it's because of the hassle and tiredness of moving house, or because the back of my house is doing major renovation, all of us keep falling sick. Never before my kids have ulcers and sore-throat, this is the first time.

Tomorrow, we are going to plant grass and trees, hopefully it will 'clean' up the air a bit. This is my current muddy land, going to have to lay some piping under to 'drain' away the water.

Machines Boycott Me :(

2010-11-10T19:47:00.000+08:00

Oh gosh, what a day I've been through!

Today's afternoon, I was shocked to find out that my 2 little kids have successfully spoiled my sister laptop! The screen keeps jumping up and down, up and down with all the blurry words which I can't even read the error message. To make it worse, this laptop isn't mine, it's my sister un-used laptop which I "borrow" all this while.

I have no choice but used my husband's ancient atuk laptop. Atuk laptop atuk speed

Then, the printer aka scanner also decided to take a break together with the laptop. OK, nvm, I have a backup printer. Then I realised that the atuk laptop didn't have the backup printer software and it's DVD-ROM already retired long long ago. Haiz~~~

So I went to computer shop, spent RM6.00 just to print 3 sheets of A4 size papers to signed and scanned them back in pdf file. The guy told me print 1 sheet RM1 and scan 1 sheet RM1 *sweating*

Then when I came back home at night, checking my fax machine. I couldn't believe my eyes that it's also stuck! Luckily, this one I managed to kao-tim, but have to asked the sender to re-fax the documents tomorrow.

I hope my sister laptop can be fixed, or else my plan of getting a new camera will be changed to getting a new laptop. What a day struggling with the machines.

I've got at least 10 sheets of paper to be printed tomorrow, and here goes another RM10 again!

Help! Semi-pro Camera

2010-11-05T19:20:00.000+08:00

There's lots of experts here, therefore, I wanted to ask for your opinion.

I just know how to operate those digital camera, but I always wanted to get a better camera for snapping my kids' photos.

The lady at the electrical fair introduce me 2 semi-pro camera:

Canon model G12 RM1799, 10MP, 5X zoom, HS system, hybrid IS

Canon model SX30IS RM1599, 14.1MP, 35X zoom, 24mm wide angle

Lense & flash can be added to G12 while SX30IS couldn't. G12 is also much lighter and compact than SX30IS. Personally, I like SX30IS, cause it's all in 1 (I don't think I'll buy extra lense or flash) and it's cheaper.

Help help, do you think it's ok for a newbie like me to get a semi-pro camera and 'play' with it? If you know other models of semi-pro camera which you think it's better, can you recommend it to me?

Thank you so much!

[Xiang 3y7m] My "golden" teeth

2010-08-03T06:37:00.000+08:00

Xiang: Look at my upper incisors! Nice?

Xiang till now has poor refleks. Whenever he fell down, his hands seems to be locked to his side. That is why he always got hurt on his forehead, lips and 2 upper incisors teeth. His 2 upper incisors teeth already turned black and they are shaking. Even Xiang already grown intoto habit of using the side incisors and canines teeth to bite and to tear food.

We wanted to bring him to dentist but I can't imagine if the dentist decided to extract both, so we kept on delaying the thought. I was hoping that he will lost his primary teeth sooner, and not to wait till 6 years old.

Reno: Sofa Hunt 1

2010-07-27T13:52:00.000+08:00

I'd like to blog down my renovation details, for my future reference.

I've hunt for sofa for quite some time now. Last weekend, we have almost booked a set of sofa from Lorenzo.

Almost ..... because the sales person calculated wrong price, and the actual price was way too expensive for me.

Anyway, until now, brands to my liking are Lorenzo & Gucca. During the Homedeco fair, there's a Future & Hermann booth promoting leather sofa, so another brand added to my list.

I've just came back from Rozel Jalan Ampang. All the sofa sets there are so expensive. The salesman is very helpful though. There's 2 sets much to my liking, the seats & back supports are quite firm & hard, suitable to us who constantly has backache problem.

This is the cheapest set of leather sofa there, I think. 2+3: RM6,290

This is the one I like, very modern looking. 2+3: RM7,290!

Close up on 2 seater:

Well, after posting it here, I'm satisfied. I guess these are for my EYES only, not for my fat bottom to sit on. So my sofa hunting continues this weekend, planning to go Mid-Valley Lorenzo as well as the expo there.

[Qi 2y5m]: 40.1 DegC

2010-07-22T09:59:00.000+08:00

22 July 2010

Yeah, my most hateful virus, is attacking Qi again. She has been feverish since 2 days ago. This morning 4.30am her hands & legs were so cold, I could not do anything but put on blanket for her. 1 hour later, her temperature shoot up to 40.1 DegC, gosh!!! She hates us putting wet hanky on her body, rejected putting cool-fever on her forehead and of course hates medicine inserted at her bottom.

X-box or Wii?

2010-07-20T07:25:00.000+08:00

Our PS1 is half-way stepping into grave. However, my kids always having a good time with those car-racing, street-fighting and shooting games. That's why we are thinking of getting a new game device for our kids.

At first, I was thinking of buying PS3. The device itself is around RM1200 - that's ok. The game DVD is around RM200 - that's really NOT ok.

Then the sales persons intoduce us X-box, saying the picture quality is almost the same PS3 if we connected using HDMI cable.

Last week, we asked again at another shop, and we found out that X-box has little game titles for kids. Wii on the other hand has a wider titles. Each DVD only cost RM8. The only difficulty will be the controllers, as some games need to have 1 controller in each hand to play.

I'm wondering anyone own X-box or Wii here? Can you please give me your opinion on these 2? Which one is easier for the kids to play?

House Reno Progress

2010-07-15T18:22:00.001+08:00

14 July 2010

My house finally going into renovation stage. I'm glad that I joined the community website, so much that I've learnt from there about the DOs & DONTs of renovations.

Current progress, hacking out the walls and this week start piling. Piling is extremely important and so far, my husband is happy with our contractor's job. As learnt from the community website, there's lots of contractors using short cut method, which means after they put the side beam / colums, they will brick up the walls and only build the top / horizontal beams. The accurate method is to construct the whole frame first which means side beam then top beam then only stick up the brick walls. I noticed most of the houses around my current area are using short-cut method too.

There's so many things that yet to buy, the important one are sinks and lightings because the contractor needs their size to do the table top and plaster ceiling holes. Oh not forgetting the air-cond and auto-gate. The less urgent one are bathroom accessories, sofa, dining table and mattress. Every weekend were occupied to survey the prices of such items. I'm looking forward to next week Malaysia Furniture & Finishing Fair. Hope that I could get a good bargain there.

House Reno Progress

2010-07-15T18:22:00.000+08:00

14 July 2010

My house finally going into renovation stage. I'm glad that I joined the community website, so much that I've learnt from there about the DOs & DONTs of renovations.

[xiang 3y6m] 2nd Parents Teacher Meeting

2010-07-14T15:47:00.000+08:00

13 July - 2nd Parents-Teacher Meeting

It's the same comments as per the first one:
1. Xiang is very very good in school. He's never a trouble-maker and always paying attention to teachers.
*wow, terbalik at home, always fighting with Qi. When I called him, usually after n-times and raising my voice only he will respond.*

2. His main problem will be reluctant to drink water.
*same old problem*

3. He's very very quiet when facing teacher. The teacher told me that she saw him talking to friends, but when the teacher ask him anything, he will give short & simple answer.
*I discussed this with the teacher, Xiang is scared to her. The teacher told me that one of the students, Noel's mom purposely authorised the teacher to spank Noel because he's out of control. Xiang saw the spanking and that's why Xiang is afraid of her.*

4. As for testing results, he scored 100% on all (Numbers, Chinese & English) while writing scored B.
*I think he just guess correctly in English, cause the vowel sounds is a bit confusing to him. Numbers & Chinese he's able to do. Anyway, not to be proud, because the teacher told me most of the students who paid attention in class scored 100% anyway.*

My curry chicken

2010-07-07T14:50:00.000+08:00

Pai seh to say, I've never cooked curry chicken before. I saw my parents cooked it, I always felt it's so hard and tedious. I felt I'm not "qualified" for cooking that dish.

We went shopping over the weekend. The girl introduce me this:

Just need to fried the chicken & potatoes, then add in 1 pack of this and little bit water. Let it boil and all done. I did my first curry chicken yesterday. I think it tasted just ok, but it's not as fragent as my mom's.

[Qi 2y4m]: Milk time posture

2010-07-07T07:47:00.000+08:00

Qi has a very particular habit, when she wanted to drink milk.

She will put 2 little bolster one on each of her side. She called the tiger print on her little bolster "cat-cat", and she will place the bolster so that the tiger is looking up at her. Then she will put her "duck-duck" long bolster beneth her legs. Finally her little pillow under her head, with the tiger print on top and the pillow case opening on her left hand side. So that she can put her fingers through the pillow case opening and twist it.

pillow & bolsters positioned like this

She won't take the milk bottle until every single on is in position. That's why when she starting to arrange her pillow and bolsters, we knew she's going to ask for milk.

Luckily she didn't insist this when she's away from home.

[Qi 2y4m] Wei Qi progress at 2 year 4 months

2010-06-30T17:54:00.000+08:00

sorry for the blur image, it's the best I can do with my ah poh camera

My precious daughter Wei Qi is now 2 year 4 months, height 86cm and weight 12.5kg.

Her most strong ability will be talking. She can speak in complete sentences in Mandarine. Sometimes I can't believe those words she blurted out. At times, she speaks even better that her brother.

I wonder when I started her bad habit, it's my fault. She requested for sweets almost everyday. When we ignored her, she will ask for her alliance. Both kiddo will pull open the fridge door, stood on a stool and take down the candy box on their own. She also loves fishball, jelly, yakult, orange, pin-pin-mi-guo, barley water, pork, chicken and french fries. She hates vegetables, but luckily likes plain water.

Her favourite play stuff will be anything associate with water - wash hand, bath, swim. She loves soft toys especially cats, that's her favourite animal too. She loves swing and can swing forever. Favourite cartoon - hello kitty (a cat of course!). Loves to sing, sway and dance to children songs and chinese new year songs.

She hates her hair tied up, hence, we have her hair trimmed (wasted 1 full box of hair assesorries). She hates flowery cloths, and now insisting on choosing her own cloths to wear. She likes to wear underwear at home especially those printed with cats.

She can balance on 1 foot, jump and run, even though moved in zig-zag and unbalance way, she seldom fell down. She's already fully toilet train day & night months ago, performing extremely well whereby she only had 1 accident until now.

She recognises A~Z and 1~9. She can count actual objects up to 5. However, she's bad with colors, always mixing them up.

She has a very strong character, will fight furiously with her brother. Sometimes at playground, she even ordered the older kids to line up behind her if being cut Q. She's not afraid of strangers and she got a out-going character. However, due to her strong character, a very bad habit of hers will be throwing tantrum and kicking her legs when her wish is denied.

Oh, not forgetting her big voice, really loud and noisy, but I love it.

[Xiang 3y5m] His first 4yo field trip - KLCC Aquarium

2010-06-25T06:49:00.000+08:00

09 April 2010

Organised by Xiang's kindy, a half day trip to KLCC Aquarium. I think he's more excited about riding the big yellow bus rather than seeing the fish. To his disappointment, we rode on tourist bus.

He and his binocular - a gift from a friend.

The twin tower, he remembered the name easily, thanks to one of his favourite cartoon Dora.

Once we reached KLCC, we first proceeded to the park for our branch.

The visiting was just ok. Xiang loved those big fish, sharks and the diver who kept waving to him.

Colonic Diverticular Disease

2010-03-18T17:24:00.000+08:00

This morning, I received a call from my father's new doctor (his 3rd one, introduced by a very dear friend of mine).

Dr. Wong "I think I know what's wrong with your father, when you reached hospital, give me a call and I'll explain to you."

Me: "ok, will go there and call you"

After I hung up the phone, I was so so scared and worried. I asked my sister to accompany me (luckily, she's not working today).

Actually it's a good news. My father got Colonic Diverticular Disease. After months or nearly 1 year, finally a doctor can tell us CLEARLY what's wrong. My father need NOT go through surgery, but just need to control his diet. If there's no constipation, then most of the time the pain won't attack him again. Sounds simple, isn't it, but why can't the doctors detected and told us earlier???

Thinking back, I can't help "salute" those so called specialist doctors! Not 1 but 3!!!

1st doctor - Dr. A, a gastroenterologist- told my father there's tiny "holes" in my father's colon, but there's nothing to worried about. That's all he said to my father! Every time my father in pain, he just gave antibiotics and some constipation and did not bother to explain why. Did not bother!!! Because he's famous. He got lots of patients, he didn't bother to tell my father what to do to prevent all this, put my father in grey clouds wondering why he kept on getting stomach pain.

2nd doctor - Dr. B, a surgeon - This one my father saw when he admitted into hospital emergency on November 2009 (I can say this is tip-top hospital in my area). He did not check back my father's previous records carefully. He thinks there's something wrong with appendix. He actually bought a friend-gastroenterologist with him to check on my father, his friend just used his hands and fingers to press my father's stomach and claimed nothing wrong. This time when my father admitted again few days ago, he even suggested my father to remove his appendix, at the same time, he can also "look" inside my father's stomach to find anything wrong. A big BUT here is the scan shows that my father's appendix is NORMAL, NOTHING WRONG!!!

I objected to this strongly and one my father's friend also asked him NOT to do it. I called my dear friend, who is a doctor herself. She's so helpful that she called up her squad of doctor friends and introduce me this 3rd doctor - Dr. Wong a gastroenterologist, who is coincidently in the same hospital as my father is staying.

Dr. Wong is so detailed and careful, asking every single records and scan results my father had. He told us that at one look, he knew why my father keep on getting stomach pain. Same as Dr. A, there's "hole" or "lump" in my father's colon. Difference is he didn't tell us "never mind" and explained to us in details!!! He said further scan or surgery in NOT necessary. Most important, he taught us a way to prevent it and lessen the chances of pain attack.

We are so relief and happy to hear the result. I can see that my father is happier and more energetic than yesterday. It's so sad to see him at such condition, not only in pain, but like beaten and don't know what to do next.

At the same time, I do feel angry towards the so called specialist doctors! One did not bother to spent time EXPLAINING, one did not bother to transfer my father to another doctor and insist on operating my father, one just use his hands to press and check as if he had a scanner in his hand and mind! Why???? Because of money they risk the patients life????

P/S: If you want to know more about colonic diverticular disease, click here.

Worry part 2~

2010-03-16T19:13:00.000+08:00

16 March 2010

Never wanted to be a part 2 in this, but happened this morning again.

My father since his last stomach pain ( blog Worry~ ), there's no sign of pain. We asked him to check up in KL, but he rejected and just go for regular checkup at Ipoh Specialist Hospital.

This morning the pain started abruptly and intensed. All the cold sweats broke out and he couldn't walk, sit or lay in bed properly. He was admitted immediately after seeing the specialist.

Scan result, to everyone worried, again NOTHING WRONG. He's give antibiotics now until Friday, after which we planned to fetch him to KL SJMC. We hope at that time his pain is reduced so that he could take the 3 hour travelling.

Anyone here can recommend me good doctors or hospitals?

Popular Sales ; Motor Skills Toys

2010-03-11T13:51:00.000+08:00

Tired, just came back from Summit USJ. As informed by Nicole, there's Popular Sales. Before I reached there, I imagined it to be as great as last time.

Well, I got a bad feeling when it's not held in 4th floor as it used to be. The size is like 10 times smaller than last time. Anyway, I did grab some books, mainly are 70% books. I got lucky in 2 books, which are supposed to be 20% as labeled at the book shelf, but informed by casher it's actually 90% & 50%!!! ^_^

I actually don't feel anything about the book sales. I was actually excited to see a educational toy shop there, which sell lots of motor skills toys just like the one Xiang got in kindergarten. I've searched many places for them before, but just couldn't find them.

Sorry, my camera now on strike, so I just paste the link here just for sharing:

Chain linker - improve fingers strength (this actually recommended by Xiang's teacher, but I can't find them elsewhere) http://www.usleducation.com/product_info.php/products_id/414

Nuts & bolts - improve motor skill, learn shapes & colors as the kids need to find the matching nut & bolt in order to put them together. http://www.usleducation.com/product_info.php/products_id/392

Well, just for sharing to those who are interested. Beside Summit USJ, another shop (HQ) is at Kajang. (can't believe I stayed so nearby but never heard about it!!!)

[Xiang 3y2m] Sharing - how to motivate your kids to do homework

2010-03-04T11:34:00.000+08:00

I have been browsing internet, searching on tips to get Xiang's homeworks done. The power of internet, and I got some useful tips to make me re-think over my strategy.

Just let me share some with you if you are interested to know. Black texts are my thoughts and red text are I copied from How to Motivate Your Kids to Do Homework
(without having a nervous breakdown yourself) *that describe me!!!!*

By Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller

3 Law of Homeworks:

1. Most children do not like to do homework.

*I love the following statement!* "Give up your desire to have them like it. Focus on getting them to do it."

2. You cannot make anyone do it.

You can not make your child learn. You cannot make him hold a certain attitude. You cannot make him move his pencil.

*Very true!!!!*

3. It's their Problem.

Their pencils have to move. Their brains need to engage. Their bottoms need to be in the chair. Too many parents see homework as the parent's problem. So they create ultimatums, scream and shout, threaten, bribe, scold, and withhold privileges. Have you noticed that most of these tactics do not work? *yup, not only not working, I'm tired out as well!*

Our responsibility as parents is to provide our children with an opportunity to do homework. Our job is to provide structure, to create the system. The child's job is to use the system.

It hits me like a 'boooom!!!!' Right, my responsibility is to create a studying system for Xiang!!!! This article really motivates and inspired me.

There's 8 tips, but it wil be lengthy if I post it all up, just hop over if you wanted to read it. I myself find it useful and easy to follow of all the others resources.

http://www.newsforparents.org/expert_motivate_kids_homework.html

[Xiang 3y1m; Qi 2y] Short update

2010-03-02T11:58:00.000+08:00

It has been 2 weeks again, since I last update my blog. Things are not going good though, my handycam broke down, my son's homework and someone took all the money in my car (we are careless, we left the car unlocked) just outside my house.

Chinese new year was so-so, hot weather and I can't recall doing anything special. Guess that Xiang had such great time that he cried and reluctant to go back to school, telling us that he's scared of the teacher and scared of going to school. It's the first time that his daddy need to pull and drag this little fella into the school. We were so worried that we met up with his teacher & kindy's supervisor. The teacher told me he's very well behave in class, actually he's very quiet in class. She told me she only scold him for not drinking his water and that's all. This week he's doing great, went to school willingly, biding us bye-bye.

Actually I'm feeling fatigue and as if all my energy gone in my body. I felt like I'm the worst mom in the world as what I've done to Xiang for over the few days. I really got defeated by his homework, and I have no clue how to teach him. I've screamed at him, and even threw stuffs on floor. Xiang dislike doing homeworks, it's so hard to keep him sit up straight and hold the pencil properly. He's like dreaming and lost in thoughts when we couched him. Only after I scold him hard, or left him alone in room crying, then only he'll concentrate to his homeworks. Gosh!!! I talked to him softly numerous time that we don't like to scold him, that we wanted to teach him patiently but he gotta cooperate with us. No use of all these soft-talks. He'll only concentrate and take us seriously after he saw us fuming. I've been teaching my niece last time and I saw with my own eyes how others teach their kids, it has never been so so so hard!!!

Qi has her birthday celebrations 3 times this year. Once in my hometown, a simple celebrations but can see she smiled happily when we sang her birthday song. Second one in her school, I won't do that again next year if Qi didn't request for it. Coz it's just so "dicipline" since it's in school. She even not willing to cut the cake. 3rd time on the actual date at home. And we took her to Genting for a one day trip, she loved all the rides there.

Oh, not forgetting the presents from the lovely moms here. Caroline, thank you for the fabulous gift. It's just so kind of you. Thank you Alyse for the presents, that's a big parcel! Thank you Leann for the birthday wishes, my phone was out of credit and can't thank you back via sms.

So much writing, really no more energy now. Hope I can keep this blog going...

Hot hot Chinese New Year!

2010-02-13T13:28:00.000+08:00

I'm melting here! My body never stayed more than 5 minutes free-of-sweat even just stepped out from bath! It's as if the whole house turned into sauna room (no air-cond here, sadly). Plus those hateful mossies who never seems to fear any repellants keep on buzzing my 2 little kids especially Xiang. My gastric is attacking me again. Besides that, I'm fine here ^_^

Anyway, my intention of posting is to wish everyone of my friends here a prosperous & a very happy Chinese New Year!

Qi (1y11m): My DNA report

2010-02-08T11:24:00.000+08:00

Qi got this My DNA test for free when I enrolled her to the kindergarten. Last Saturday we got the report back as well as the counselling session.

In case if you ask, My DNA test is a dermatoglyphics code test, which based on 10 finger prints, which was said to be able to analyse one's innate capability; this includes the inborn learning style and brain function. (said to be 95% accurate)

In conclusion of Qi's report:

1. She is strong in logical analysis, speech, 3D dimension. (The counselor said that this means that her maths, science will be strong, she could do 3D designing and will be good in giving speech)

2. She is poor in sports involving both hands & both legs, doesn't appreciates art or pretty photos. (means that she can't dance, swim, draw well, definately not a good photographer and worse, will have bad taste in clothing! :( :( :(

3. Her chances of day dreaming and think-only-no-action is low. (well, I definately agree, coz when I speaks to her, she will immediately response and unlike her slow-motion brother!)

4. She's not a forgetful person. (funny is when the counselor said this, my husband whispered to me and said he difinately will score high marks in this coz he always seems to misplace things!)

5. She's be a practical person rather than emotional person - means will love $$$, won't like to hear those flowery-empty-promises ^_^

6. Main learning style (motive or thinking): Thinking type, likes to analyse & think.

7. Aided learning style (do, listen, see): Listening type, again mentioned that should expose her more to language and she'll be superb in that. So at the same time, speech will also hurt her most and the counselor asked us to especially careful when speaking to her.

The analysis tells that the most useful lessons for her will be mental arithmatics, maths & science games, language, public speaking.

It's good to get such report actually, not that we will 100% following it. I will still let her try those dance classes (ballet!!!) if possible, and if she fails then I know that it's the gene to blame (kekekeke...). I have been not so sure about mental arithmatics classes but now, think I will let Qi have a try and see.

Next is I wonder I should dig my purse and let Xiang do the test ... hmm, most probably will after this few weeks "battle" with him. I will write about the "battle" in my next one.

[Xiang: 2y11m] Completion of 3 year old class . Holiday Program

2009-11-19T16:37:00.005+08:00

19 Nov 2009

Tomorrow, Xiang will complete his 3 year old class. I have no regrets of enrolling him so early, although he is a year end baby.

It seems like yesterday, when we took him for his 1st day class. Then he continueously crying for months! He was such a baby (and he still is, as compared to his classmates told by his teacher).

So after a year completed, what does he gain?
1. Friends - towards the end of school semester, teacher commented that he started to chat with friends in class. (haha, teachers don't like this!)
2. Confidence - not a great degree, but he dares to talk with teachers now.
3. Motor skills - hmm, he's still weak in this.
4. Learning - He's good in this, he knows well his phonics and the items which teachers taught.
5. Prizes or Awards - haha, none for my little boy. He is those so-so grade, not too good and not too bad either.

*************

I have been visiting various schools and centres for holiday classes. I have actually quite keen to enrol him into Bao Bei Chinese Learning.

Wei Xiang doesn't want it. All he wants during the holiday is stay at home and stay with me. When I mentioned about the word "Bao Bei", he will cry immediately. Not those screaming-yelling-cry, but really sad soft sobbing while muttering "我不要去宝贝。。。。我要在家和妈咪一起。。。"

I give up and so, for the coming holiday, I will work out a holiday "program" for him. Well, not those forceful daily schedules. Only one objective in my mind ---> improve his gross & fine motor skills!

Chap Tou!

2009-11-17T01:03:00.003+08:00

16 Nov 2009

Hahahahahahaha! Me & my eldest sister can't help keep on laughing. It feels so great!!!!!! We will sure always go back to Tesco Setia Alam for our shopping!

See this?

Maxim 28cm non-stick pan. The price at the cashier scanning is RM61.90.

We bought for........................... RM32.90!!!

Receipt as prove:

The trick???

We found this on the rack with impossible low price tag. We took 2 pieces, paid at the cashier and told the cashier that it is RM32.90

Tesco Management really deserves the credit, they checked and told us they did put a wrong price tag. But, they will honour the price which ever is lower!!! My salute to them!!!!!

P/S: Yes, we knew it's wrongly tag before heading to the cashier. We were trying out luck and really chap tou!!! Hahahahahahahahaha!

Saturday Morning

2009-11-14T12:43:00.004+08:00

14 Nov 2009

We went to the Paramount Sales Office this morning. They are having a soft launch of their double-storey link house final phase 9 in Kemuning Utama, and today is the fifth day. This is not advertised in public yet. Their official launch will be on January 2010 and only then, will be able to sign the SPA.

We were lucky to able to book a unit for my eldest sister on last Thursday. Today, more than 90% sold out and majority left is having un-strategic location. It was really selling like a hot cake! Some told me that a housing agent booked 7 houses in one short!!!

While I was there, I manage to snap a photo of my new house which was under Phase 8. Er ... well, miniature of my house. We have choosen one just beside the playground.

The two kiddo were running around, playing hide and seek, admiring the miniature "car" in the display shelves.

Inspection of our new home

2009-11-13T18:23:00.000+08:00

Finally it is November 2009. Our new house in Kemuning Utama will be ready in this month.

However, as I bought it from subsales, my wait will be longer.

I've joined the housing area community forum and came to know that the developer has decided to divide into 3 months in handing over the keys. I was so worried that the seller is not in the 1st batch.

This afternoon an unexpected phone call came. The owner was so nice to invite us along on Monday afternoon for the inspection of the house! I really didn't expected it, since all the bank & lawyer transactions were not completed yet.

Looking forward to next Monday and will sure snap lots of photos then!

[Xiang 2y11m; Qi 1y8m] Year End Concert; Tantrum before sleep

2009-11-10T14:48:00.005+08:00

10 Nov 2009

Yesterday was Xiang first school concert. Thanks to H1N1, the school decided to cancel the big event and did a small concert within the school compound. Parents are not invited due to space constrains. So sad and disappointed that I can't see his first school concert. Hopefully there will be photos available for us later on.

Xiang came back home yesterday with blue eye-shadow. I think he had some Chinese Traditional Dance performance but whenever I asked him to dance for me to see, he kept on jumping around and waving hands. Sigh, not so sure this boy really knows how to dance at all!

We had a good laugh at him when saw him being make-up ... like a girl!

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I'm having difficulty with Qi night time. She was so noisy now. Before this, we just put her to her cot, and she'll fall asleep after awhile. For the past few days, she was shouting VERY LOUDLY and I think she did it deliberately. Then she kept on asking for "shh shh" in potty even though we put diaper on her. When we put her on potty, she sat for awhile, then quickly stood up without pee-ing and SMILED at us. This is very annoying especially after N times and already closed to mid-night. Or she'll asked for toys to play but we can see that she's already so sleepy. She just wanted to continue playing. So for these few nights, she was scolded either by me or her daddy, and cried herself to sleep.

Qi cried and screamed just like being forced to take medicine

I received the same complaint from her nanny, that she likes to SHOUT and getting nottier. I knew that she's not those graceful type of girl but all those screaming and shouting really give me headache and ear-pain.

Dermatoglyphics Code Test / 皮纹密码测验

2009-11-02T18:15:00.002+08:00

The first time I heard about Dermatoglyphics Code Test / 皮纹密码测验 is from my sister. Then today I was visiting kindergarten and one of the teacher told me about this test again.

This is a test for kids, base on 10 fingers' prints. It is said the test will find out children talents & potentials, strengths & weaknesses. This will aid in adopting appropriate teaching method and not wasting time pushing the kids to learn something they are totally not fond of.

Any mummies have any opinion about this test?

website for reference:
www.mydna.com.my
http://www.genecode.com.my/

Worry~

2009-10-31T14:23:00.002+08:00

31 Oct 2009

It should be a happy go-back-home weekend. I reached home yesterday night, and was so surprise to see my father lying down, looking pale and in pain. Me & my sister quickly rushed him to the emergency. Doctor on duty & surgeon suspected appendix. My father was amitted.

Today the scanning result came out, they could not found anything wrong, AGAIN!

My father has actually done CT scan many times before this, since he has frequent stomachache for the past one year. The scan shows my father's intestines are clear and nothing wrong with him.

This is the second specialist he saw and again, the same result. Why????

What we can do now is wait. My father is on antibiotics drip and we need to wait till Monday for the next scanning.

Please pray for me that everything will turn fine.

[Xiang 2y10m; Qi 1y8m] This is the way I wash my car ...

2009-10-25T12:23:00.004+08:00

10 Oct 2009 - Backdated post

On a warm evening, my maid was washing car, and my 2 kids joined in the FUN!

Squeeze squeeze squeeze .....

Scrub scrub scrub .....

Hehe ..... so fun!

meimei digging out the rag while gorgor waiting for his turn to add water in the bucket

See ..... all clean!

How come the bubbles sticked to my hand??? (gosh, she's all wet at this stage and her cloths could twist out water!)

Conclusion: It's FUN for them, but TIRING for the adults!

[Xiang 2y10m] M!

2009-10-25T11:56:00.006+08:00

20 Oct 2009

A day after Xiang has his 3 stitches.

Xiang was doodling on paper while I was doing work. Suddenly...

Xiang: "Mami, 你看! Old McDonald."

I was so surprise to see a nicely written "M" on the paper.

(Note: Xiang loves McD fun fries, sometimes when he saw the sign M, he'll say it's Old McDonal just like his song)

I couldn't believe that he just wrote an M :"Wow! 再写给Mami看!"

He smiled proudly and showed me again ....

Using his fingers to trace out a M!!!

2009 Heartwarming Gifts

2009-10-22T17:51:00.007+08:00

Finally I have time to post this up. I felt so heart-warming received so many gifts from my dear multiply friends. Also a big thank you for those dropping birthday wishes to me on my blog. Muacks!!!

Sorry friends, I did not take photos of me wearing them. I'm still too shy~~~~~ *blushing*

Handmade frame from Maggie! Very very nice!!! I have yet to hang it up, wanted to put it together with my wall decorations. Oh, and also 2 CD for my kids, they love it very much!!! Now inside their CD album already.

Very nice antique coin & mold from Leann. I actually looking for one after reading a feng shui book! Just come in time.

White dress from Alyse. Thank you!!! But it's sexy ler .... I think I need to wear it with cardigan.

A cute shirt for me from Steph. Err ... too slim ler, you bought S size for me ke??? I think I need L size now! Don't worry, I'm trying to diet, will wear it once I fit! Also a cute boxer, panty & sticker for my kids!

A very nice dress from Yoki. The material is very soft & nice! There's also cute candy bear and hair band for my kids.

[Xiang 2y10m] – 1910 : 3 stitches

2009-10-20T18:23:00.002+08:00

This is the day which I’ll never forget. Xiang has his first experience of being stitching up.

I brought Xiang to one of my good friend’s house. It was a happy gathering until Xiang fell down. I was too slow to react and just watching him fell from sofa. I heard a loud sound and knew he hit something.

When I picked him up, I was not able to see his face yet, one of my friend shouted: “OMG! BLOOD!!!”. Xiang was crying furiously “头疼疼!!!”. My brain was blank then. He put his hand over his forehead and I too put mine over his hand. Another friend handed me some tissues, then only I realized both of hands are covered with blood, some dripping into his arms & shirt. I told my friend to send us immediately to clinic.

Xiang was amazingly brave, while we rushed out the door. He has stop crying. I told him that we are going to doctor and he’s going to be alright. He understood and told me that he wanted to go to the doctor.

I am so glad that my friends remained calm. I overheard that they were calling the clinic to confirm the available of the clinic. It was lunch hour and there’s none doctor on call. So we headed to another nearest clinic. It’s at the second floor of a shopping complex.

Once we got down the car, everyone was looking at us. There’s a man who’s so helpful. He opened the door for us and even run to stop the lift for us (the lift’s door was open when we saw it). We headed straight into the clinic though there were lots of patients waiting outside; I guess all doesn’t mind seeing the blood from Xiang’s forehead.

The doctor was superb, speaking softly to Xiang, washed and cleaned his wound. Xiang was brave too when having his stitches – 3 of them. The third one is a bit painful, a little crying from him, then all done.

See, he got the blue-black on Sunday (fell from playground). Then on Monday another scar on his forehead. I hope that his scar will not be permanent.

P/S: He seems not getting his lessons, today he climbed up my window grills, letting go one of his hand to grab the baby powder bottle from my high cabinet. Then second time, he pulled his kiddy table to take down the big swimming pool from the store room. Haiz ….

My SAHM life so far

2009-10-07T18:20:00.006+08:00

How many days since I started my SAHM life?

Time passes by so quickly. I was extremely busy when there’s works to be done. I felt my heart beats faster and my whole body was sticky with sweat. It's definately harder than sitting in an aircond office, having 3 breaks a day on time and online-ing away!

I think I’ve changed also, towards the bad side unfortunately. I have been getting more impatient with my son.

I was not realizing it, until for a few times, my son has a scared look on his face and told me :” 妈咪…不要骂翔.

Then, I realize I was shouting to him just now. Sigh & double sigh.

I quit for my kids, but seems like I was doing not very well. I’ve quite got used to cooking, twice a day except weekends. BUT, looking back, I did not do much with them. All my plans of gaining Xiang’s confidence (badly done by me due to my impatient!) and home-teaching Xiang & Qi were on 0% actually.

One thing I did success was making Xiang eats more green vege. He does have hard stools last week when he was on food-strike, but for the past weeks while he has been eating, his stools are very turning into nicer shapes & texture

Hahahahaha, I know I'm yucky!

P/S: It's a fake plastic shit photo taken from internet

[Xiang 2y9m] Appetite down again

2009-10-07T17:07:00.003+08:00

My nanny told me, we can’t talk good things in front of the kids or else they will turn bad. I am not sure how true that is, but it’s what I experience now.

Since I fully took care of Xiang, he has been eating his meal. Slow, but he eats. Last week, I was telling my hubby, my friends and writing in online friends comments boxes that he has been eating well.

The last few days were our nightmares. Sometimes, he didn’t even want to see what’s for lunch or dinner and directly asked us to make milk for him. Sometimes, he just took a bite and immediately clasped his hands over his mouth.

Yesterday, I was so so so furious when he put up the act again when I was trying to feed him.
I told kakak to stay far away from him, and I went to take my own lunch, leaving him alone. He was crying badly in the living hall, calling “mami ... mami ….” but I just ignored him. After a good 20 minutes, I asked kakak to try feeding him. I’ve made up my mind that if he rejected again, he will go on empty stomach! He as if knew I was not going to “manja” him anymore and he finished whole bowl of porridge! It works!

Again, at night, I firmly told him if he’s not eating his dinner, then I’m not going to bring him to see the diggers & dump trucks at the JJ construction site. He finished it.

This morning, I asked him what he wanted for lunch, he replied me mee. So I cooked udon mee for him. After picking him up from school, I firmly told him only after he finished lunch, I will take him to the JJ construction site. It works again!

So now, I’m not going to mention anymore if he’s eating well. Call me superstitious, but I want to be the safe side.

[Xiang: 2y9m] Finally playing

2009-10-01T00:00:00.003+08:00

I've mentioned that Xiang was scared of the fireworks sticks. We gave him a try again on last Monday night.

We curled the wire to a real looooong stick.

Finally, he's playing

New corner

2009-09-30T21:46:00.005+08:00

This morning I went to pasar (wet market) near my house. As usual, bought some vege & pork. Then my eyes spotted something else!

Lavender!

1 pot of lavender looks like this

closer ...

closest (how I wish I have pro camera!)

I’m not sure I bought it at reasonable price, RM8/pot, and I took home 2. I just love those flowers! I think I will go look for more Lavender plants to fill up my new corner ^_^

My Ginger Harvest

2009-09-27T12:34:00.003+08:00

A few months ago, I found my left-over tiny piece of ginger was sprouting. I planted it beside my chili plant just for found.

It has been growing well, I've trimmed it's leaves several times.

Last few days, I think it's enough and decided to dig the whole thing out. What a surprise! Such a big lump under there.

What a nice feeling! Soooooooooo content! Guess who help me? I found the mama with her bunch of little kids among the soil. I've carefully put them back in their home to help me in the second badge.

[Xiang 2y9m; Qi 1y7m] Fun fair near Queensbay Mall

2009-09-24T17:18:00.005+08:00

We went to Penang on 19.09.09 Saturday night, came back on Monday morning. Sorry Penang kaki – Steph & Yoki, I didn’t call you coz our schedules were so full.

I went there to attend my coursemate’s wedding ceremony, a Buddhist wedding ceremony. This is the first ever experience, with charming and monk conducting the ceremony, so special.

At night we make a trip to the fun fair near Queensbay Mall, very nice park indeed, and the kids have so much fun.

This one can fly up punya

This one just go round and round, I was so worried that Qi will stands up, coz there's lotsa space in front of them. Luckily the kids listen to me and hold on to the side only.

I think they enjoy this most, and it will go bumpy up and down, and round a track.

This one fly up high, and quite fast too!

Helicopter ride, I'll be dizzy if I were them.

Chu Chu Train ride, hehe, I'm tired and wanted a ride too :P

[Xiang 2y9m; Qi 1y7m] Lanterns Night

2009-09-24T16:51:00.004+08:00

I still have so much work to do, but I wanted so much to write down the wonderful time spent in my hometown last weekend. Blogger sickness!

We went back to Ipoh on last Friday 18 Sep, we entered into Tapah rest area and were so surprise to receive our first ever Hari Raya Gift from The Lion Club.

The kids were so happy to meet each other again, all played crazily, laughing and running around. When one asked for milk, the others also followed.

On Monday night, my second sister took out the candles, lanterns and fireworks for the kids to play. We were so surprise to see that Xiang stepped back when my second sister lighted a fireworks stick for him. This was what he said:

“不要吓我…. 我怕怕!” (Don’t frighten me … I’m scared!) He walked away so far whenever he saw the fireworks sticks being lighted up. I actually feel heart pain, coz I see the shadow of me in him. I am a very timid person; dislike all loud noises and horror movies. Xiang is just like me, sigh …

So he was playing with candles and lanterns all night. As long as he enjoyed himself, I don’t want to push him to accept the fireworks sticks.

Qi on contrary likes the fireworks sticks a lot! She kept on asking for more, and didn’t even want to play the lantern nor the candles anymore. I should go to pasar malam one of these days to buy more sticks for her.

It was a wonderful night, everyone of us, including adults enjoyed lighting up the candles and hanging up the lanterns. I hope that we could make another trip back to hometown again next week for the celebrations.

Porridge: Simple anchovies, carrot, tomota & potato

2009-09-12T16:23:00.006+08:00

Saturday, my lazy bones are shaking again. I've no mood for cooking today as I have been cooking lunch & dinner for the past week. But I still have to prepare for my kids lunch.

My super easy soup base works for me again ^_^ Add a large spoonful of fried anchovies + small onion (which I stored in my fridge) to water, dump 1/3 of carrot, 1/5 of tomato & 1/3 of potato.

I maintained the carrot, tomato & potato in the soup, filtering out the anchovies and directly put all into the rice cooker with rice. In less than 1 hour, my kids' porridge was done! Hahahahaha, call me super lazy mom!

Xiang was giving face to me, he finished off a large bowl of it. Qi on the other hand only can finish half of her portion. Her teething problem seems to be disturbing her appetide.

[Qi 1y6m] Big Small Eyes

2009-09-12T11:16:00.005+08:00

11 Sep 2009, Friday

On Friday morning, I was shocked to see Qi's left eye.

Her left eye's lid was swollen and reddish. She kept on rubbing her left eye while saying "癢癢!". We guess that it's mosquito bite. Since it is time for her to take her 18 months injection, I asked the paed to check on her eyes as well.

On the way to paed visit, she suddenly said this non-stop "BA BEL ..... BA BEL" while trying to reached something behind kakak (Qi sat on kakak's lap). Kakak had no idea what she's talking about and I suddenly realised that kakak didn't put on her safety belt. This little girl was actually trying to say "绑BELT"! We were laughing non-stop and of course kakak had to put on the safety belt (for safety & for Qi!)

When she saw the nice soft-spoken paed, again she cried furiously, worried for his painful poke again. The paed told me that she can't have her 18 months injection until her left eye recovered. The paed did a thorough check on her, pulling up her shirts. Qi continued to cry, screaming "mi ..... mi .....", begging me to help her. She even pulled down her shirt and said "close". Despite the chaos, I found it really funny and can't help laughing out loud.

Today, Saturday, we are relief that Qi's eye is getting better. Not so swollen as before but she still has a pair of "big small" eyes.

Playschool / Kindergarten

2009-09-09T15:47:00.000+08:00

After searching for our new home in Kota Kemuning area for such a long time, we finally place a booking on a new house in Kemuning Utama. However, things are not confirmed yet as we have not get the bank loan approval for the new house.

Although it will be approximately middle of next year before we could finally move in, I am now searching for a good kindergarten or playschool for my kids. As that area is new to me, I do not know any good babysitter there. Therefore, I plan to put my son in a 4-year-old kindergarten class and my daughter in a 2-year-old playschool. Then, I'll be able to have a morning free time in order to do some paper work or going to bank for my husband.

Any mummies out there can recommend me good kindergarten or playschool there?

I like very much Xiang's current school, which is a fungates school. I've seen one at Kota Kemuning area - Sri Johan, but I do not know how's the reputation of that school.

[Xiang 2y8m] Udon noddles; Dish washing

2009-09-04T01:16:00.006+08:00

As I am a lousy cook, I'm going to do the posting of my dish more often as a record for my future reference and also to improve on my skills. So, all comments & suggestions are welcome!

My sister gave me a pack of udon noddles, so I cook it as our lunch today. I uses anchovies + small onion as soup base. I have prepared a lot and keep in in freezer, so that in future I just need to dig out some and put them in water to make the preparation of the soup base faster. Lazy mom :P

*Wipe sweat* My son able to finish a big bowl without much fuss, even taking in some vegetables.

While I was cooking, my son kept on following me around. He helped me to wash the noddles and the fish balls (of course I need to do it again!). When I've done with cooking, he's still messing around in the kitchen, using the excuse of washing dishes to play water! I didn't stop him though, hoping that one day, he could be my helper after all! I finally put it to a stop when I declared it's meal time.

[Xiang 2y8m; Qi 1y7m] Playing Time

2009-09-04T00:40:00.011+08:00

It has been a long long time since I invested in their toys. Since the H1N1 fear, we did not went to shopping for such a long time. I took the chance of my 3 hours free time to quickly went searching for their new toys in ToyRus last week. All the toys cost me a bomb, but the quality is very well worth it.

Their lacing set

I have been looking for this for a long time. I have another lacing set which has smaller beads & holes at home, but my kids motor skills are just not that good. So I finally got a bigger one.

Their new Slice & Play set

Both of them love it very much, and I'm surprise that Qi has the strength to cut the "vege" & "fruits" apart! But to my frustration, I just realised that enfagrow milk is giving out it as free gift!!! If I knew ealier, I would have bought something else! *arghhhh*

Their blocks set

Last time when I was young, I too have a similar set. This is indeed a good buy, boosting up their imaginations. We build small houses, tunnels and even slide (with my help most of the time). The kids have fun moving their mini toy cars around. I didn't manage to snap many pictures though, because they will run down the whole thing in less than 2 min!

Qi's doctor set
I did bought her a cheap-pasar-malam doctor set before, but it has all kinds of sharp edges and easily broken apart. Since Qi loves it so much, I've decided to invest in this set. See how she pretends doctor on my "injured hand", :P

Xiang's giant puzzles

I got a RM40 voucher and therefore, decided to buy this giant puzzles for Xiang. He loves doing puzzles. I think it's really worth it, he knows his ABC, but if I asked him "What's after D?", he won't know it's an E. I use the traditional method to teach him, since he knows ABC songs, I asked him to sing it out in order to get the next alphabet. After few days of doing, he's able to do better, singing ABC song to himself to complete the puzzles. Any mummies have better idea to let the kids learn about the sequence of ABC?

[翔2Y8M] 嘴嘴,再见!

2009-08-28T22:40:00.000+08:00

Err ... 应该说不要再见!!!

这是翔第二次戒奶嘴.第一次,不到3天后我就投降了,他每晚磨到3点都不睡,哭喊着要他的奶嘴.
再动起我的念头是Maggie,在看到她为KIYO再戒奶嘴时,我想也是否应该再试看.真的要多谢她!
翔其实早在一个月前,在奶妈家已经没奶嘴吃了(也很谢谢她!),奶妈也对我说晚上别给他了.可是每天一回到家,翔就找奶嘴吃!

上个星期六(8月22日)晚上,在我姐姐家住了一晚,就对他说奶嘴忘了拿.他哭哭几声就算了,也明白事理的没吵.(在此之前,我一直对他说奶嘴的坏处.)

星期日(8月23日)晚上,回到家,翔自然讨奶嘴,我又对他说了奶嘴的坏处,也对他说奶嘴不见了.他搬椅子四处找-->当然找不到咯! 那晚他磨我陪他玩到12.30才睡.他愿意上床是因为我给他看我红红的眼睛,对他说妈咪眼睛坏了!上床,转转转,翻翻翻,睡了! 哈哈哈!过第二个重要关头!

星期一(8月24日)晚上,上了床关了灯,翔再讨奶嘴.我们提醒他说奶嘴不见了,也提醒他奶嘴的坏处+他3岁了,不该吃奶嘴了.他没出声,转转转,翻翻翻,也睡了! 哈哈哈哈哈哈! 成功了!

直到今天,有的晚上他讨奶嘴吃,我们重复的提醒他,他也不坚持.有的晚上他没讨就睡了!

翔,2岁8月,终于对奶嘴说拜拜了!!!!!!希望真的能成功吧!

KEMUNING的屋子

2009-08-25T17:12:00.000+08:00

我们最近想搬家,因为现在的家离我老公的工作地点太远了.

想要找KOTA KEMUNING或KEMUNING UTAMA或附近的房子,总而言之离KLANG比较近的.
你们有好介绍吗?

肺炎

2009-08-25T17:06:00.000+08:00

天!!! 我更本不信会发生在我家人身上!

我10岁侄女咳嗽了1个多星期,很多痰.过后就轻微发烧了一个星期.上个星期日,接到电话说她烧到41度,赶快送进医院.

医生说不是H1N1,因为没伤风,也更本验不出,没鼻涕就不能验. 后来检查出一边肺发炎了,另一边也有轻微发炎.

现在正在打点滴药进身体里,烧退了,希望她能平安渡过...

8月21日 & 新生活

2009-08-25T12:34:00.000+08:00

终于到了, 8月21日,我的最后一天上班.写了封EMAIL通知同事及公司以外事务联络人,许多人好吃惊,但也收到好多封谢谢及祝福的EMAIL,感觉上好好,起码证明他们都对我的工作表现很满意(哈!容我HAOLIAN一下^_^).

在我办公桌留下的最后情影.

好像还来不及感到空虚,老公的工作量真的让我吓了一跳.他以前是怎么一个人包山包海的!!?? 我可以预想我将来会很忙,加上翔没上学了,我需要更快的适应我的新生活.我还以为我会很闲呢!!!
大家祝福我吧... 也原谅我不能像以前般一天6个小时都在网上晃了,我会尽量抽点时间和大家联络的.

剪指甲的小妙计

2009-08-19T13:32:00.004+08:00

我试了,拿我孩子们当白老鼠^_^
效果还不错的咧.

Pneumococcal vaccinations reduce H1N1 death!

2009-08-17T17:23:00.001+08:00

I've got an important information, from both my sister and my friend. Both conveying the same massage to me.

Today in the Sun newspaper, there were 3 new cases of death, adding to total of 62 cases in Malaysia. Out of the 3 cases, 2 were of children and both died from pneumonia. I read in a letter sent in by a reader, saying that those who died of H1N1 are mainly due to pneumonia. BUT, children can take pneumococcal vaccinations in order to prevent it! The kids might still get H1N1 (touch wood touch wood) but has 30% lower risk of dying! Please see the full letter version from below link:
http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=37000

Coincidently, when I called my sister to tell her this, she told me the same thing! Today, her kids paed told them that getting pneumococcal vaccinations very important. It's better to be safe than to be sorry.

So, I just want to share this to all my friends, hope this will be useful to fight this awful virus!

[翔2Y7M, 淇1Y6M] 打针. SG LONG H1N1

2009-08-17T13:49:00.003+08:00

带两个小瓜去打针了,疹所满满的生病小孩.

还好医生给我们进另一间房间,因为只打预防针,不看病,所以不用排队.

问了医生,说不会影响H1N1药物的效力,但这针也只是对平常的伤风感冒有效而已.

为何我还是给孩子们打呢? 因为我听说我们那儿的H1N1很严重.

SG LONG学校关了,因为好多学生受传染,昨天还听到说有位学生去世了!

我们今天也没有给翔上幼儿园了,再看看迟些怎么办吧.我怕怕呀!!!

感冒预防针,打吗?

2009-08-14T09:54:00.000+08:00

我前几个星期问了孩子的儿科医生,有关于感冒预防针. 医生说是不能预防H1N1,可是至少,可以增加孩子们对普通感冒的抵抗力.孩子们比较不容易生病,那么也可以减低对H1N1风险.

哦?那好,打吧!

对不起,感冒预防药断市了!放你在waiting list吧!

*#$*%&!!!

昨天接到医生的电话: 药来了,要打吗?

孩子们的爹说,看报子说预防药不可乱吃,不然到时对H1N1的病菌就没效了.吓???那打还是不打好?

上网找了找, 现在的感冒预防针是对流行感冒(seasonal flu)的预防,并不能预防H1N1. 原因是感冒预防药只对100%吻合的病菌有效,但流行感冒病菌每年都在变,所以也不是100%有效的.研究显示1到15岁的大约77~91%有效.

我想问问大家的意见.如有经验的可以分享下吗?你们的孩子们打了吗?

参考网站:
http://www.medicinenet.com/flu_vaccination/article.htm
http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/body/flu_vaccine.html#
http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/swine_flu.html#

美丽的一天 (好友的注册礼)

2009-08-12T17:35:00.000+08:00

八月八日2009年

很好意头的一天,我的好朋友之一在这天注册了!那里能错过呢?!

当天她好漂亮,非常喜欢她的礼服哦!

她们都是中学起认识的好友哦,虽然我们不常见面,但大家都明白,有什么事保证可以上刀山下火海的!

哈!男的是好友老公,我以前读女校的.

很宽阔的礼堂, 我两个宝贝乱乱跑,把一排排的椅子当游戏玩.

爱美的淇一直看着新娘.

新郎不小心撞到淇.你看,淇多么的气!我们惯了没反应,只有新郎在那儿紧张,很有爱心的男人.

心里有满满的感动,真心希望好友幸福,快乐,百头谐老!

滑倒　＊　可怕的梦

2009-08-10T17:21:00.001+08:00

晚上睡觉前，女儿大便完，女佣带她洗屁屁，突然DUM的一声，我心里还没喊OMG，淇已经在大声哭喊，她滑倒在厕所．后脑腫了一粒，好心痛！发觉女儿整身连头发都湿透手脚冰冷，忍不住开口骂，几点了，还跟她冲凉！！！

我在想，是否应该在厕所装PLASTIC MAT．现在他们冲凉时我用小小的一片，冲完了就拿起来．翔和淇都爱玩水，尤其是翔，冲凉时常常走来走去．

＊＊＊＊＊

昨天发了个恶梦．不大记得情节，只记得我的心情．梦见翔爹去世了，很伤心很伤心，很彷徨无助，感觉上我也活不下去了．醒来好害怕，又不敢对老公说，怕影响他．不懂代表着什么吗？

网上找解梦，有以下解答：

１．按中国传统解梦法来讲，梦见健康的亲人去世，则意味着此亲人会增寿。　希望如此吧！

２．　如果亲人正在重病中或者你非常担心失去某人，这时梦见此人的死亡可能表示一种担心和焦虑，但我认为不排除个别第六感非常敏锐的人也有可能做先兆性的梦。　担心失去是有的，以后我们全家都靠翔爹了啊．我从来没什么第六感的，希望不会吧！！！！！！

３．　从西方解梦的角度讲，弗洛伊德曾指出，梦见亲友死亡而且很悲痛，往往是幼儿时因某事件怨恨亲人希望亲友死亡的愿望再现．　吓？！我没那么黑心啦！

４．　梦见亲人死亡也可能象征着自己内心正在变得冷漠或压抑。　？？？不会吧！

翔[2y7m] 翔点滴

2009-08-06T13:40:00.002+08:00

前天我和翔在房间玩,他不小心的弄跌塑胶椅,打到我的脚趾母.

"呜~~~ 阿爸,翔弄妈咪. 妈咪脚痛痛"

不要以为翔会”sayang”我,他知道我假假的.

翔还想玩塑胶椅,我坐下不让他拿,看到他要哭了,才甘愿站起来.

可是我忘了他一直拉,所以他就往后跌,手打到门(放心,不是很痛的)

翔: “呜~~~ 阿爸, 妈咪弄翔...手痛痛…”还学我假假哭,手还假假擦眼睛!

翔爹刚好进来房间,翔那里会放过妈咪!

翔嘴巴扁扁的.: “呜~~~ 阿爸, 妈咪…翔弄妈咪...”哈! 他紧张要向爸爸打小报告,句子颠倒了.

再来!

翔: “呜~~~ 阿爸, 翔弄妈咪… 手...”还是错!

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈! 笑死我了! 爸爸站在那儿一脸不明白.

**************

作天是十五,翔爹一早就准备拜拜了,当然,还有很八卦的翔.

~~~~~

翔爹准备了三盘水果,由于苹果不够,所以放了2粒橙在其中一盘.

翔爹把两盘纯苹果的放好神台后,就去忙拿茶杯.还有一盘杂果的就放在翔的小桌子上,想过后才出去放在天宫台.

当翔爹过后要拿剩余的水果, 吓!剩下2粒橙!!!不会吧,翔吃啦??!

咦?嘴巴没有啊??? “翔,苹果呢?”

翔带爸爸到地主公那儿,好卡哉!苹果在那里. “做什么放在这边?”

翔:“一样的…放一起”

~~~~~

翔爹在烧”大金纸”,翔很”帮忙”的站在爸爸身后,慢条斯里一张张传给爸爸.

爸爸顶不顺他的慢吞吞“翔很慢的… 快点给爸爸…”

翔听后就踩油加速,飞快的把大金纸拿给爸爸.轮到爸爸手忙脚乱了.

翔不耐烦: “阿爸很慢的!!!!!”

~~~~~

爸爸蹲下来在烧金纸.

突然看到翔也在不远处蹲下来.可是他把其中一只脚伸长放左边,又再把它放右边,又尝试把它缩起来,脸上还有一点点困扰+痛苦.

“翔,脚怎么了?痛啊?”

翔没理会爸爸,一边努力的转换他的脚,一边瞄爸爸. 原来他在学爸爸的蹲法!

哈哈哈哈哈,爸爸笑到没有气!

P/S: 爸爸蹲法:像古时接受国王的恩赐那样蹲下.
再P/S: 我上班了,很可惜,看不到,有爸爸的口述我都笑到眼泪流!

部落格奖: Lovely Blog Award & Best Blog Award

2009-08-05T12:26:00.000+08:00

我竟然忘了放上面的照片!!!!!!!!真对不起!
I don't know what's in my head, but I forgot to attach the above photos for you girls! SO SORRY!!!

谢谢Caroline颁这个奖给我,好久没领奖了,所以好开心^_^
达令,谢谢你哦!
(规则与条件) The rules for these awards are:1. To accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his/her blog link.2. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve discovered and think are great! Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.轮到我颁奖咯! (I’m giving the awards to….)

1. 老友阿 Steph
2. 老友阿Kat
3. 老友 Alyse
4. 大肚婆 Leann
5. 快要生的大肚婆 Alicia
6. 也是大肚婆 Angie
7. 还有大肚婆 Jessy
8. Euzac 妈妈 Jaime
9. Jacqueline, Jeremy & Jayven 妈妈 Jesmine
10. Sean & Shane 妈妈 Michelle
11. Jessica & Jacelyn’s mom Nicole
12. 超爱拍照的 Sam
13. Jonus 妈妈 Wyneth
14. Sophie’s mom Yvonne
15. Chloe & Baby Cavin’s mom Vicky

[翔2y7m] YAKULT厂,芙蓉烧包之NO.2校外旅行后感

2009-08-03T14:04:00.000+08:00

7月31日,晴朗

一大早起床, 翔爹带我和翔吃早餐ROTI CANAI.我对翔说我们要去看YAKULT厂,要去做包包,和老师们一起坐巴士去,就好像上次去动物园般.翔想了想,说:”还有坐TRAIN”.原来他还记得我们上次去动物园乘坐的LRT.

8点,集合,同样的老师训话.望望四周,只认识一对夫妇,3年班参与的学生比上次的少.上了巴士,翔坚持站住,因为坐下他看不到窗外.

翔看着外面对我说:”妈咪,车扁扁!” 虾??那里?什么车扁? 他又再说:”BAS 高高” 我才明白他要说什么:”不是车扁扁,是车矮矮” 一路上他都很兴奋的看窗外,站在不同的高度看,感觉不同吧.后来,老师宣布卡拉OK时间到,翔看了几位小朋友唱,样子好像有点跃跃欲试,我问他要不要唱,胆小的他竟然点头,还爬下坐椅站住等.可是轮到他时,他拖着我的手说:” 妈咪带…”,老师也好像很惊讶看到他.他唱得小小声的,几乎听不见他声音,可是老师们都很鼓励的称赞他,我也好高兴好高兴了 ^_^

一路上,翔问了我N次,妹妹呢??? 爸爸呢???后来,他带着要哭的声音说:”我要爸爸…”他看到他有些朋友是爸爸或父母陪同,有所感触吧.还好在他”下雨”前我们到了YAKULT厂,连忙转移话题. YAKULT厂真的好干净,看了他们的生产管理,我以后更可放心的买.一开始,厂安排的讲解对翔来说太闷了,还好过后有免费YAKULT喝,我也有哩^_^过后就去看他们的生产过程,我们不得进入,只从玻璃窗看.全是机器生产,我都觉得好有趣.翔一直看着整条满满的YAKULT空罐在传送器下运传,我看他只明白这个吧.

第二站到了芙蓉烧包,顺便吃我们的冷掉的KFC午餐,好难吃LLL!洗了手,翔就”做”烧包.所谓的”做”,只不过搓扁预备好的面团,然后由工作人员放馅包好,再把它放进孩子们的小手里.孩子们把它放在有号码盘中,拿了个号码牌就完了.我们没机会进入看他们的制做过程,只在大银幕上看.我还以为孩子们有机会搓面粉团,那样一定更有趣.

在旁有个小小的室内篮球场,有几粒小球,翔也进入玩.他没信心的一面出来了,拿不到球,就跑向我说:”没有BALL”我没帮忙他,叫他自己拿,球滚下来就去追.说了几次,他有点明白了,也好多次追到球,还从从下投蓝,哈!可是只要他的朋友身手向他要,他都会轻易的把好不容易才到手的球让给他朋友们.还有一次,有个女孩因为抢不到球而坐在地上哭,他经过她就把球让给她,女孩也对他笑笑.我从来没看过翔的这一面,我当场就想抱抱他(忍下来了,不想破坏他玩耍的兴趣),感觉上有点阿妈老怀安慰!(在家,他常抢妹妹的玩具的.)

过后,我在他们的店里买了烧包,还有一包果子冻,找了个地方做下休息.开了果子冻给翔,他超爱吃.他看到朋友们望着他,自动的跳下椅子派果子冻.朋友吃玩了再向他讨,他也再分,不一会儿,整包分完了.虽然在家,他也很乐意分享他的食物,可是我没想到在外他也很大方.我突然间有点明白,为何有好几位小朋友都很爱照顾他(老师说的),因为他对朋友的体贴,因为他的乐意分享.

3点,回家的路程,翔已精疲力竭,倒头就睡着了.我望着他,脑里还是想着刚才的事,还好我让他去,也还好我一起去,不然我都看不到他那么美好的一面.

照片: http://aplim123.multiply.com/photos/album/20

[翔2y7m] NO.2校外旅行

2009-07-30T17:02:00.000+08:00

明天(7月31日)拿了一天假,为了陪翔去幼儿园所主办第二次的校外旅行. 幼儿园规定3岁班的学生只有在家长陪同下才可以参加此活动.他们将参观Yakult厂还有芙蓉烧包.孩子们还有机会亲手做烧包 (过后会给我们吧,不然还有谁敢吃!!?)

这次又将会是我孤身作战.我记得翔爹他在无法参与上次的动物园之游说过,下次一定不缺席.翔应该不记得了,我倒是很失望,其中最重要的是他的不守诺言.虽然我明白翔爹都为了有个更好的家庭环境而努力的赚钱.可是爸爸也应该参与孩子们的成长过程啊.虽然有妈妈陪同,可是如果也有爸爸在的感觉肯定不同.

我小时候,最最最不满我父母的是他们的不守诺言,他们的约法三章90%是不可靠的.其次就是他们过于保护我,连中学的校外旅行考察我也无法去.当同学们回来时,我更本无法和她们交谈,只因为我没参与,考察的后感报告我也无法做.(还好是团体报告,也还好我有一班好朋友们,肯接受我这个什么都不懂的团员)

无数次我哭着对他们喊:”你们骗我~~~”/”我要去~~~”,更多的时候,我躲在房间里哭着想离家出走(胆小怕事的我当然只是想想而已).这也是可能为什么我有一段非常叛逆的时期,对父母的不礼貌,吃饭后就躲房间不肯出来,还有假期的晚上不到3点是不回家滴.

我曾经有个员工,她在大学的成绩是顶呱呱,什么奖章都有,所以我们对她的期望也很高.她第一个星期来上班就吓了我们一跳.她爸特地请了一星期的假,老远从家乡来到这里.只为了每天上下班时,坐在她身旁指示她驾车,可是当时她已有执照几年了.

我们厂里的生产部向来是和我们品质部的”死对头”.因为她一个小小的错误, 生产部趁机投诉大老板.结果她就坐在那儿懊悔足足哭了3天!还有一次,她乘朋友车来,因为当天她感觉到信心全失,不敢驾车来上班(我们听了都目瞪口呆,不懂说什么好).每个星期六&日,她肯定回家乡,躲回爸妈的怀抱.后来她没做多久,承受不了压力,回家乡另谋高就.我们每个都觉得很不可思议,可是也证实了成绩好,并不代表以后你可以闯一番大事业.

看到别人的经历及自己小时的不满,我都时时刻刻都提醒自己, 不可重蹈覆辙!

P/S: 不懂为何写那么多,本来只想写个郊游就算了,越扯越远.
P/S2: 我要改用中文了,练习下,以应对将来的函授课程.

Back to study again!

2009-07-25T14:11:00.000+08:00

My last working day is 21 August 2009. The same day when I walked out of office, I was feeling very sad, imagining my last working day here after 9 years 4 months of services. I do not know whether I could hold back my tears during my last day, and I will surely missed my colleagues there.

Anyway, one of my colleague is very kind to share with me. His wife too took the same decision as mine few years back, and she had taken up some distance-study-courses offered by Taiwan Chung Hwa Correspondence School.

I have choosen 4 courses in total. Since the school is from Taiwan, thus all the courses are commerse in Chinese Language and following are the outline of the courses (Please forgive me that I did not do the translation, I’m too lazy).

1. Young children development & counselling幼兒發展與輔導
課程簡介　　本課程主要內容包括幼兒發展的基本概念並提出理論背景資料以及適當的解決策略，以為教師或父母在實際生活中輔導幼兒的參考，並促進幼兒健全的發展。　　本課程共十講：　　第一講幼兒發展基本概念　　第二講幼兒認知能力發展與輔導　　第三講幼兒感覺和身體動作發展與輔導　　第四講幼兒氣質與輔導　　第五講幼兒語言發展與輔導　　第六講幼兒社會行為發展與輔導　　第七講幼兒的依戀行為　　第八講說謊、偷竊　　第九講離婚、攻擊行為　　第十講幼兒害怕、飲食問題

2. Family relations 親職教育與親子互動課程介紹本課程以家庭發展週期為經、生態系統理論為緯；用生命全程(life-Span)的概念來探討：從夫婦結婚開始，準備要成為父母的階段直到父母終老死亡整個家庭發展中父母的任務與挑戰。除此之外還包含實務的應用與建議，尤其著重根據近幾年對於華人家庭社群所進行的研究成果而啟發的應用。期許在修習本課程過程中能 (1)瞭解如何適當應用兒童發展與家庭動力等許多研究的發現於親職教育的實務推展、(2)有能力分析不同對象之親職需要、以及(3)增進個人維護健康家庭與親子關係的能力。

3. Children phsycology 兒童心理學 (I’m most interested in this one)課程簡介　　兒童心理學是研究兒童心理發生、發展規律的科學。兒童在發展過程中，環境對其影響很大，需要他人的關懷與幫助，其中以父母、教師的影響最大，如果沒有成人付出關心與協助，兒童恐怕無法發展成為一個健全的成人。在面對與培育兒童時，需要了解兒童的身心發展特質才能勝任，因此對於這個時期心理現象、行為發生、發展任務的探討，即構成了兒童心理學主要研究的對象與議題。　　本課程共十講：　　　　第一講　兒童心理學導言　　第二講　發展的特徵與影響因素　　第三講　身體與動作技能的發展與輔導　　第四講　認知能力的發展與輔導　　第五講　人格的發展與輔導　　第六講　情緒與社會能力的發展與輔導　　第七講　語言的發展與輔導　　第八講　道德的發展與輔導　　第九講　兒童的心理需求與行為目的　　第十講　兒童輔導的策略與方法4. Webpage design beginner　網頁設計入門 (I’m a IT dumber, so hopefully this one will be useful for me)教學目標　　1.培養設計網頁的基本能力。　　2.認識網頁的應用。　　3.學習透過網頁分享知識與資訊。　　4.學習網頁設計的技術。

Actually there’s so much more courses that I’m interested, but it’s stated that I could only take up to 4 courses maximum per year. I am still wondering whether I have the patience and deligence to complete the 1 year course, but never try never know. Anyway, it’s too early to consider such thing, since I still haven’t know whether the school accepts me, crossing my fingers now.

I’m posting this out for sharing to all other mommies who are interested. Please click the following link to read more about the school and the courses offered.
http://chcsdl.open2u.com.tw/

[Xiang 2y7m] Right, or Wrong

2009-07-22T12:21:00.002+08:00

Last Saturday, we brought our kids to the playground in the evening to shed off some of their energy (and end up our energy too!!!). Xiang did not want to use the stairs and insisted to “walk” up the tube-type slide. We were trying to stop him at first, making angry faces and telling him he’ll disturb other children who were sliding down and might even hurt himself. Guess how did he react? He stood beside the slide, giving us a pity look and not willing to move a step. No matter how we coaxed him afterwards, that climbing up the ropes seems fun, or the swing is available, or even threatening that we should go back home instead, he just wouldn't move at all and shaked his head, saying “不要!” after our each suggestions.

Finally with a sigh, I took off his shoes, put him inside the slide tube, with a light pat on his backside and told him “没有人下来了… Go Go Go!!!” He reacted like an animal with his chain untied, dashing up the slide. When he reached the top and emerged from the tube, he waved to us and gave us a big bright smile.

Seeing him like this makes me think again. We adults are making and following all the rules. Who says the slide can be only played one way sliding down? Why not going up instead? The kid is creative in his playing while all I think of is “that is not right”. I’ve sent him to music class in order to expose him to creativity, but I’m blocking him in real life, aren’t it contradictory?

I still have a lot to learn about holding back my “no”s and my “don’t”s. The straighter I am with my boy, the more he’ll resist. I guess that if he did hurt himself along the way, it’s just part of growing, and even if so, he’ll learn from it. Who actually went through childhood without a scratch? If I did not give in to his wishes earlier on, I wonder how the story would end? Dragging a crying toddler back home most probably and I’ll sure miss his big bright smile!

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Supplements - more is better?

2009-07-16T06:14:00.000+08:00

Since the recent Xiang's constipation problems and also his never-ended coughing problems, I was giving more and more supplements each day. I do give it a second thought as my dining table started to overflow with various vitamines bottles.

I'm currently giving my kids (Xiang 2y6m & Qi 1y4m) the following:

1. Seven seas cod liver oil

2. Manuka Honey (from Yu Yan Seng)

3. Multivitamine Usanimals

Do you think it is a lot or too little? I was wondering what type of supplements the other moms out here are giving to your kids? Is it the more the better? What is consider as "enough"?

[Xiang 2y6m] Traces of blood ...

2009-07-15T13:09:00.000+08:00

We were horrified when we saw traces of blood in Xiang's stool last Sunday. We could see clearly the red color blood!

I look up online and some what relief to see that dry and hard motions will sometimes torn the soft tissues and resulted in bleeding. However, when yesterday Xiang's nanny commented that there's traces of blood again, though she said most probably due to heat in his body, we still bring him for a check-up by the paed.

Furthermore, with the recent bad weather conditions, Xiang started coughing again and his voice has become coarse. His ear temperature measured at 37 degC which is showing that he is having some heat.

The paed said the same about the blood, due to tissue torned. He's coughing at the same time his body is heaty, he can't drink cooling drinks like barley but he dislike it anyway. We tried to coax him into wearing diaper again yesterday night so that he'll have a better sleep. But he rejected it totally, I guess he felt more comfortable sleeping without the diaper.

[Qi 1y4m; Xiang 2y6m] Hair trim

2009-07-13T23:09:00.000+08:00

Finally, I've brought my gal to the hair saloon to have her first hair trim. Don't be surprise, yup, her FIRST ever experience. Even on Qi's full moon, we just snipped off a few strays of her hair by my sister.

She was basically screaming and crying in the hair saloon, shouting "美美!!!" because she was thinking the lady were cutting her "beutiful" hair away! It was so so so hard to trim her hair, think the lady just manage to snap her scissors a few times and she declared that it's done After this, I will go get a pair of scissors and trim her front hair by myself. I think the result will be the same as she was struggling so hard in the saloon to get a proper cut.

We too brought Xiang there, this is the first time he's willing to put on the apron and little crying. But he heard Qi cried, he too started sobbing but still under control.

Something to ponder: Running in the rain

2009-07-07T08:38:00.000+08:00

I found the following piece in my old emails. I like it very much. "I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision."

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A little girl had been shopping with her Mom in K-Mart. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful red haired, freckle faced image of innocence.

It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over the top of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the earth it has no time to flow down the spout. We all stood there under the awning and just inside the door of the K-Mart.

We waited, some patiently, others irritated because nature messed up their hurried day. I am always mesmerized by rainfall. I got lost in the sound and sight of the heavens washing away the dirt and dust of the world. Memories of running, splashing so carefree as a child come pouring in as a welcome reprieve from the worries of my day.

The little voice was so sweet as it broke the hypnotic trance we were all caught in "Mum, let's run through the rain," she said.

"What?" Mum asked.

"Let's run through the rain!" She repeated.

"No, honey. We'll wait until it slows down a bit," Mum replied.

This young child waited about another minute and repeated: "Mum, let's run through the rain,"

"We'll get soaked if we do," Mum said.

"No, we won't, Mum. That's not what you said this morning," the young girl said as she tugged at her Mum's arm.

Mum said, "This morning? ... When did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet?"

"Don't you remember?" Little girl replied. "When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said, 'If God can get us through this, he can get us through anything!"

The entire crowd stopped dead silent. I swear you couldn't hear anything but the rain. We all stood silently. No one came or left in the next few minutes. Mum paused and thought for a moment about what she would say.

Now some would laugh it off and scold her for being silly. Some might even ignore what was said. But this was a moment of affirmation in a young child's' life. A time when innocent trust can be nurtured so that it will bloom into faith.

"Honey, you are absolutely right. Let's run through the rain. If GOD let's us get wet, well maybe we just needed washing," Mum said.

Then off they ran. We all stood watching, smiling and laughing as they darted past the cars and &nb!sp;yes, through the puddles. They held their shopping bags over their heads just in case. They got soaked. But they were followed by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the way to their cars.

And yes, I did. I ran. I got wet. I needed washing.

Circumstances or people can take away your material possessions, they can take away your money, and they can take away your health. But no one can ever take away your precious memories. So, don't forget to make time and take the opportunities to make memories everyday. To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.

On a positive note, I've learned that, no matter what happens, how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life". I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. I've learned that if you pursue happiness, it will elude you. But, if you focus on your family, your friends, the needs of others, your work and doing the very best you can, happiness will find you.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

[Qi 1y4m] Wei Qi Progress at 1 year 4 months

2009-07-06T22:51:00.001+08:00

While I still have the enthusiasm, I wanted to do another piece of progress on my girl. My daughter Wei Qi is now 1 year 4 months, height75cm (15%) and weight 9.5kg (41%). Frankly Qi came un-expected, and was neglected by me (shame on me) as compared to Xiang. Surprising, my “negligence” has somehow made her into a better and stronger character today.

Speech:
1. Started to learn to speak with us, mixture of Mandarine, English and even Kantonese.
2 words are the most, eg. “mami”, “daddy”, "bao-bao", “kakak”, “dog”, “cat”, “duck”, “姨”, “popo”, “gong-gong”, “bird”, "no-mo" (no more), “aplan” (airplane), “an~ti” (aunty – her nanny), “oh o” (when something goes wrong), “chuo chuo” (sit down), “要” (want), “na” (same word she said when she wanted to give us something or she wanted us to give her something), “oofih” (Office - this learnt from her brother as Xiang will ask us to “go office” if he thinks that we are “naughty”), “臭臭” (smelly – after she poo she’ll say it with hands waving in front of her nose), “ne neh” (milk - she said this so many times a day!), “mumm mumm”
2. She understands some of the words we spoke even though couldn’t say it out. For example when I asked her to squad, she will do so (when washing her bottom). Others like clock, fan, light etc …

Food

1. As contrast to her brother, she can almost swallow everything I prepared. Whenever I took out her bowl, she will start to mumble “mumm mumm” non-stop. I can say that she has no allergic towards whatever food, but I am still cautious just to be safe, so until now, still haven’t cook any prawns for her.
2. Loves yogurt and Ribena pastilles. But dislike plain water (after a few sips, she'll say "okay" and refused to drink anymore), loves all the other fruit juices, Chinese leong sui and barley drink. She can swallow medicine without fuss but don’t think she likes it as much as her brother. Learned to Loves French fries from her brother also.
3. Having her 6 oz milk at 3 hours interval, and has a trend of requesting milk at a shorter period (1~2 hours). Tonight, she drank milk at 7.30pm, 9.30pm and at 10.30pm. I was worried whether her little stomach could take so much liquid!

Hobby:
1. She also loves water play, can splash the water so well that makes all of us wet!
2. She loves to flip the book pages, but has no patient in waiting for me to finish a story with her.
3. She loves humbling to the songs in her own words, rocking her body and clapping hands when listening to songs.
4. She loves the slide and the swing, loves the musical kiddy rides, and loves to turn the wheel of the rides.

Toys:
1. Her favorite toy is anything with a cap, an empty syrup medicine plastic bottle with cap for example. She loves putting the cap back and opens it up again.
2. Loves to watched children songs, and sometimes even dance with the songs.
3. Loves “masak-masak”, plates, cups, spoons and loves to play pretend with us.
4. She loves to doodle, not on the board but on the floor!

Motor skill:
1. She can walk very steadily now, she couldn’t jump but trying to.
2. Pushed the kiddy car around the house with her legs very steadily.

Toilet-trained
Not yet toilet-trained, but we do let her sit in potty and did not wear her the diaper at home and at nanny’s home. She will say a nose sound “eemhh” when she wants to poo and sometimes will walk to her potty. After pee in potty, she'll look at the potty and praises herself by smiling & clapping hands (coz we did this every time and she follows us).

Character:
1. She loves to snatch the toys from her brother. Disregard that she’s younger, she can certainly win over her brother. She can do a tug war and grasp the toy firmly with her two strong little hands. She’s very persistent and patients and do not give up easily.
2. She’s starting to develop a bad habit of crying. Once we did not fulfill her wishes, she will sit down or lay backwards with her arms supported at her side and cry! (Our fault actually in developing this bad habit)
3. She tends to hit her brother with her hand whenever her brother did something which makes her angry. She knew it’s not right but it’s becoming a habit of her. (I actually was wondering, where did she learnt it from? From us? But we never hit Xiang now and of course, we never hit her.)
4. She loves to wash hand (er, actually playing with water), whenever she heard any of us is washing our hands, she will came with her hands rubbing together while saying “xi … xi …”
5. From baby, she sleeps on her own in her crib, no need to pat or cuddle and after we switch off the lights, she will lay down and sleep on her own.
6. She will get jealous easily if saw her brother sitting / lying on me and will demand to have her share of "mummy" immediately.
7. She loves to be pretty. She'll say "美美" if she's dressed up prettily, then will smile and look for others to praise her. She'll cry if we remove her "pretty stuff".

Health status:
Not much major problems, had her chicken pox at 1 year 3 months.

Kiddy Acts:
1. She will stomp her feet with joy when seeing us in the evening at nanny’s house, then will laugh out very loudly with her little index finger pointing at her nose or pointing up, also will shout “mi …. mi …. “ non-stop (but there are times she mixed up the words and shout “an~ti”). Once I took her in my arms, she will kiss my cheek while making sound “mmmmm” (always make my heart melts when she did this).
2. Whenever we finished singing our songs, she will be the first to applause us by clapping her hands. If we sung birthday songs, she will held up her 2 arms high up and says “yeah”!
3. When I told her to hold her voice down or when her brother is sleeping, she will put her index finger to her mouth & blow air ^_^ She doesn’t know how to say “shhh …” yet.
4. She loves to be tickles by her daddy and will request for many many times by saying “yah …” “yah …” (I think she wants to say 要)
5. She loves to put the coins in the piggy bank.
6. Loves to wear shoes even inside the house. She usually requests us to wear and take off her shoes for uncountable times.
7. She’s good in messing up the house. She loves to take out every single toys she can accessed to. Took out all the puzzles and the vehicles from their boxes and cabinet.
8. When she heard that we are ready to go up the bedroom, she'll get up and walk to the staircase and start climbing.

[Xiang 2y6m] Goodbye diaper

2009-07-06T17:42:00.000+08:00

He had been day-diaper free at 2 years 4 months, and now at 2 years 6 months officially night-diaper free too. I was hesitate to work on his night time sonner as I can’t imagine all the necessary clean-up if he did wet the bed. It was actually Xiang who initiate it.

1st July 2009 - Xiang was throwing tantrum at night and refusd to put on his night diaper. We put plastic mats on our bed and cover it with 2 layers of bed-sheets. At 3am, when my alarm rang, I checked on him. Good, not wetting. I tried to wake up Xiang by asking him whether he needs to go to toilet, but he still sleep like a pig. At around 4am, he woke me up by requesting to go to toilet. He felt that his sleep was interupted and requested for his night diaper. I did not put it on, instead, telling him what a good boy he had been and there’s no need for him to wear it anymore. He was so sleepy that he let in easily (not the usual stubborn him!). In the morning, his father woke him up for kindergarten and he went to toilet after that.

After the first day, the nights afterwards were pretty easy. As a routine, he woke up around 4am to request to go to toilet. Of course, we were praising him all the while, before he goes to sleep, when he woke us up to go to toilet, after he went to toilet, and in the morning after he woke up.

To my surprise, yesterday night (6th July) – he slept through the night without waking up until 7am. It seems like yesterday that whenever I took him out, I have to bring so many stuff along, his diapers, wet tissues, changed of cloths, small towel etc just in case he poo during our outings. I felt really proud of him, but at the same time, and I was feeling a little bit sad at the same time too that he has grown so much.

[Xiang 2y6m; Qi 1y4m] FunFare in Balakong

2009-07-03T14:22:00.000+08:00

I saw the tall ferris wheel from the highway on my way back to home few days ago, even though I could not see the park. Fun-fare was something I longed for during my childhood time, it was something not easily found in my hometown and was certainly not trusted by my parents. It is like making up for what I’ve yearned during young, that I brought my kids whenever I saw the beautifully neon-lighted park.

We reached around 7.30pm, and I wonder why there’s so few visitors. Lucky for us, whichever rides we were on, we were given extra round, err… 3 times extra rounds! My kids and my hubby (being forced by me as I wanted to take photos) sat until they showed boring faces and my hubby jokingly tell me to instruct the operator to stop. Oh, Qi is FOC on all rides

Train ride ...

Helicopter ride ... this was the one which made daddy dizzy

Sort of "Mary-Go-Round" ...

The crowd started to gather after 8.30pm. There were quite a lot of stalls – fishing for duckling, dart-throw, ring-throw, ball-throw, gun shoot and to my surprise, a few betting-concept stalls where they bet on colors or numbers and the reward is 4 times the amount bet.

After spending an hour there, with RM40 well spent, we bought home 2 happy, content, tired and hungry kids.

[Xiang 2y6m] Xiang's Progress at 2 years 6 months

2009-07-03T10:57:00.000+08:00

I just would like to jot down how do my kids look like when they are young. I hope that I could do this more frequently (lazy mom). I did scribble down something 3 months ago. Looking back, it amazed me how fast they have changed and so much they have achieved. I worried that I might forgot one day how they looked like, how they laughed with the most innocent voice, how they cried just the moment I said no, how they munched their food happily (and messing all the floor under), how they cuddled quietly in my arms while watching video and most of all and the sweet scent of their baby smell.

My son Wei Xiang is now 2 years 6 months, height 95cm (85%) and weight 12.5kg (31%).

Speech:

1. Speak to us in Mandarin but recently, he’ll say “I want ….” Instead of “我要.…”. His speech is getting better than before, able to say a complete sentence more than 5 words. He’s able to communicate well with us, able to say something with logic thinking.
2. Sometimes still stutters when starting a sentence, but it has improved.
3. Saliva drooling, sigh … still there.
4. “Oh-oh Ki-ta-yo”(when something goes wrong), “翔自己…” “我拿!!!”(he wants to do EVERYTHING on his own) are his favorite saying.
5. He can read ABC, 1~10; knows how to count from 1~30 (when taking inhaler, he always counts with us); phonic sounds from A~K.

Food:
It’s difficult to prepare meals for him. He loves fish porridge at one day and the next time I cooked him the same dish, he rejected it totally. His favorite is white bread, spread with butter and sugar, and could finished 3 pieces at one time. Loves Yee Hup round biscuits, yogurt, Ribena pastilles. Drinks lots of plain water and loves carrot juice (rejected every other drink eg Ribena, Chinese leong sui, barley drink etc…). Loves Chinese medicine especially Hou Zhou San. Loves fishballs. Loves French fries with tomato ketchup.

Hobby:
1. Doing puzzle is his favorite. When he was a baby time, nothing could keep him sit still until we discovered puzzle. Currently, he is able to do a 25 pieces puzzles.
2. Reading bed time story, current very engrossed in the “Goodnight My Duckling” book and requested me to read it to him every night. He loves to look for the turtle, the evening sun and the raising moon.
3. Water play, well all kids love this! He loves his bath-time, as he gets to bath the ducks, transferring water from one bucket to another or to the pail.
4. Loves all kind of kiddy rides, with condition that the ride has a wheel.
5. Loves to go to the park to feed the fish & tortoise and of course, loves the playground. He called the playground as “wo-wo-wo” (dun ask me why) even though he knew the actual name is playground.

Toys:
1. He loves cars. Heavy vehicle such as digger, fire engine, dump truck and vehicle with sound such as police car, ambulance are his favorite. Loves to place the matching cars on top of his vehicle book.
2. Loves to watched Video – Brainy baby ABC series, Barney and children songs

Motor skill:
1. Not able to use a scissor yet. Pasting skill is good, able to paste stickers within given areas.
2. He still paddle his tricycle with 1 foot. *not tired meh???*
3. He is not the type of physically strong boy. He can run, jump, kick, throw, catch, but can’t do with excellent.

Toilet-trained
Day time toilet trained now, able to go to toilet to pee in the bowl, and flushed the water by his own. But he likes to hold until his tank is full, then with one hand holding his pen*s, another hand trying hard to pull down his pants and then RUN to the toilet. [Now both he and I are working on night time, 2 days night diaper free as of 3rd July ^_^]

Character:
1. He is stubborn! Everyone would say so including his teachers & nanny. When he’s determined to do one thing, no matter how you persuade him, he wanted to give it a try first.
2. He likes to do things on his own, open the auto-gate, the door, take toys, take plates, washing hands, brushing teeth, and even put milk powder and shake his milk.
3. He is particular. For example, he’ll take his small kiddy bowl (not his sister) on his own when we gave him biscuits or snacks. If we wrong take the big kiddy bowl, he’ll reject it and declared the big one is used only when mummy / daddy fed him. He wants his slipper to put nicely on the floor with heels facing outside.
4. He likes to keep himself clean. He’s very scared of being dirty. He dislike sand-play and kept his arms on his back with his fingers crossed. His limit is just to touch the sand with the tip of his fingers.
When he’s eating something messy, he’ll requested for bib to put on.
Before & after he ate something, he’ll go to wash his hands on his own and wipe clean with towel. Sometimes, he’ll be naughty, turned on the pipe to the maximum and splash water on me!
5. He understands when we scolded him, and he reckons his mistakes now. When one scolded him, he’ll stay stone-like-unmoving posture. If any other person asked him to come over (to sayang him), he’ll shake his head and say:”Daddy/Mummy 骂” (Daddy/Mummy scold). Only the person who scolded him can make him move again.
6. He’s scared of hair-cut. All the fallen hair makes him felt so dirty!
7. He can’t sleep without his favorite pillow which he does not allow us to put on the pillowcase and his pacifier.
8. It is easy to fed him medicine, all swallow with no fuss.

Health status:
He has minor asthma (pity boy, he does not know how an ice-cream or a cold drink taste like). His skin is allergic type, and he tends to scratch until bleed. Otherwise, it is OK. Had his chicken pox recently. Missles – not yet!

Kiddy Acts:
1. He loves birthday. Loves to sing birthday songs, loves to blow out the candles, loves to cut the cake but eating is just so-so.
2. He loves to use his legs to pushed little tricycle (the type without paddles) and could go swarming around the house, but able to avoid obstacles including his little sister.
3. He likes to shout “1, 2, 3!!!!!” when the car went through a bump, and will make a sad look or even cried if he miss to shout a bump.
4. Sometimes, he'll still cry going to kindergarten, especially after long holiday.

Full time mom

2009-07-01T13:00:00.000+08:00

After seeing Sam blogging about her future plans, I’ve decided to write out what’s in my mind over the past few months, or should I say over the past year!

I have the thought of becoming a much better & committed mom to my 2 kids ever since September 2008. I have often asked myself how would my childhood be if my mother was a working mom – no one to make sure I took breakfast in the morning, no nicely made lunch box with my favorite fried rice & luncheon meat (my fav!), no one to greet me after school, no hot-mom-cooking lunch & dinner waiting on the table once I finished bathing, no one there to spoil me (撒娇 – I can’t recall the word in English). Of course all of these can be done by babysitter, but I can’t imagine myself being taken care by babysitter either! For sure, I’ll be scared of babysitter in someway won’t be the same as with my mom.

I still remember clearly where I played by myself or with sisters when kids time. It is just enough for me to stay beside my mom and knowing she’s there under the same roof even though all the while she’s doing the household chores. (My mom is extremely particular about cleanliness and woke up at 5am every day until now!)

I have been working for 9 years now in this company, my first job and maybe my last??? My attitude and commitment towards my job have drastically changed ever since last year. I just don’t have the “heart” anymore and were often thinking of how much I could do for my kids if I were at home with them during office hour (and of course, blogging!)

Of course, I am worried and even little bit scared of life being stay-at-home-mom. I need to prepare 3 meals each day and make sure my kids are eating right. This I have to put a lot of hard work in it as my cooking skill is bad. My son is a very picky eater and I need double patience to coax him whenever he is with me during the weekends.

Being SAHM will also put some burden and stress onto my husband as we will be financially dependent on him, which I don’t like neither! I may sound over-worried or thinking too much, but who knows about the future? Furthermore, I have 2 kids to look after and what if there’s problem with our financial status? My husband and I have been through a very down time before married whereby his car was almost pulled away by bank, a terribly hard period for both of us. Of course, I need to cut down my budget, which is a big challenge for me on not to shop too often.

Next I’m worried about my EQ. Can I handle both my kids without going crazy? Can I control my temper? I do have a very bad temper. Can I be a good example to my kids? "Everytime I told someone about my plans, usually I got negative feedbacks and questions "huh, you throw away your degree and become a full time mom???" "why you let go a secured job with good pay just to become wong min po?" "you financially dependent on husband - aren't you worried ...?" "Are you sure it's worth it???"

But I guess that I will be happy if my kids are happy to have me around them for 24 hours a day & 7 days a week. Although there’s so many uncertainly in my head and un-confidence in me, BUT I’ve determined to quite my job on this coming November 2009 and starting from December 2009, a brand new life for me & for my kids.

P/S: in case some of you asked, why Nov? Oct end got bonus mah … hahahaha …

Melaka here I come (4th~5th July 2009)

2009-06-29T05:03:00.000+08:00

[Posted by Ai Peng]

I'll be going to Melaka on this coming weekend. Actually my husband wants to send my mother-in-law back home.

Hui Chen, are you free for a drink or a satay celup session?

It is OK if you are not available, no stress punya, ok?

Anyone interested also?

[Xiang 2y6m] Improvement in speech

2009-06-24T18:04:00.001+08:00

Xiang has reached 2 years 6 month recently. We have noticed that there’s improvement in his speech. He knew sometimes to put his words nicely so that we could not reject his request. His pronunciations are still bad though

*****

It was getting late at night …
Xiang notice that daddy is getting ready for bed and he quickly got up from his lying position
Xiang: 要坐着看(电视),不要躺着看…. 眼睛会坏. (sit up to watch TV and not lying down. If not, eyes will be “spoilt”)
He said this so that his daddy could not ask him to lay down to sleep.

*****

Both Xiang and Qi are playing with some magnetic alphabet shapes. Xiang suddenly took away all the shapes and leaving Qi screaming in protest.
Daddy: 翔, 要share share 玩 (Xiang, share the toys for playing)
Xiang: 不要给妹妹…… 等下妹妹放嘴巴. (Don’t give meimei … she’ll put them in her mouth)
Daddy: .....
Well, that’s the truth. We still gotta watch Qi closely as she sometimes will still test the toys with her mouth.

*****

Xiang woke up early this morning, at 6.30am. Looking at his father, who already woke up but still extremely sleepy and lying on bed
Xiang: 爸爸….. 要下去…. (Papa … want to go downstairs …)
Daddy: …….. [use the pillow to cover his eyes]
Xiang: 爸爸 … (指着床) 有蚂蚁, 有虫虫 …. 要下去….. (papa … got ants and worms on bed …. Want to go down)
Sometimes at night, Xiang requested to sleep at living room. We told him he can’t sleep there because there’s ants and flying insects. Now he uses the same reason so that he could get out from bed. Kids really absorb everything we said!

*****

There’s also some words which he said that we could not understand. Those words of no meaning, something like what we used to say “wa-lao-eh” … I think …

While running to safety after putting some mischevious act or saw ugly insect, Xiang will say: “oh-sei ~~~~”

When something went wrong, Xiang will say: “oh-oh ki-ta-yu ~~~”

When we asked him, he said korkor taught him. We are not sure whether it’s nanny’s son or his friends from kindy (he called them korkor). Until now, I don’t know what’s the meaning of “oh-sei or ki-ta-yu”???

A simple father's day celebration

2009-06-21T18:25:00.000+08:00

Just a simple one, since all of us are in "pantang" now. Xiang is having chicken pox and definitely we could not go out in restaurant.

I did not cook anything fancy also, since so many food we can't have. We did not even have a cake because of the egg content.

So this is what Xiang brought back from kindy on last Friday. A small paper briefcase with a heart shape with Happy Father's Day & I Love You written on each side.

And this is what Xiang, Qi and I made.

I spell out the word and Xiang looked for the alphabet in old magazine. Both of them then put star stickers on their own. On the back of the page, Xiang and Qi made some thumb prints. Daddy asked Xiang to draw a face. He did it after I requested him repeatedly and he drew a simple face with a sad mouth! Aisey, he didn't have the mood for drawing. Then he insisted for a hand print on the card. Afterwards he got tired and declared that is enough. It's not an impressive card but it's the first card we made together.

But he's good in helping to clean up and washed the water coloring utensils (he likes to play water actually).

When I asked Xiang what is the face expression, he knew it represents sad face and pretend crying

So, while we are doing this, what daddy is doing? Cooking for Xiang & Qi "Mi Sua" soup! Sweet dad ....

Finally Xiang gave the card to his beloved daddy while saying "Happy bater Day"! Haha, He still couldn't pronounce clearly. Simple? I'm not very innovating in planning things I guess

[Xiang 2y6m] It's his turn!

2009-06-20T13:47:00.000+08:00

Haha, my "wish" has came true! *sounds like a bad mom, right?* But I've been through it and I knew that the younger we had it, the easier for recovery. Some more, we can have the same controlled meal - no beans, no seafood or *poison* stuff, no egg, no soya source.

Know what I'm talking about? Here's Xiang photos:

We saw 2 tiny red spots yesterday night, thought maybe it's mosqi bites. I hope he did not spread the virus around in the musikgarten class yesterday! This morning after woke up, there's more spots and a few with water bubble. The paed said he should have less chicken pox since he had the jab already.

[Qi 1y3m; Xiang 2y5m] Trial Class at Musikgarten

2009-06-20T13:14:00.000+08:00

We went for the trial class on yesterday, 7.30pm. It was a bit rushed for all of us, rushed back home, bath, took dinner, picked the kids from nanny's house and off we went to the class.

The centre is located on top of the shop lot, security system is very well. We had to ring the bell and they have a camera looking on the visitors before opening the gate for us to go upstairs.

I'm a bit taken aback by the size of the room, I think it's a bit small. But Friday night is a small class, and so it's OK. There's 8 pair of us (1 parent + 1 child). Maybe it's our first time, I too felt could not catch up with the class as they have a lot of short sessions.

Singing songs while waving hello (beginning of the class) and goodbye (end of the class), Clapping hands, stomping feet, playing a simple instrument (sorry for my poor knowledge, I don't know what's that called, something like hitting on 2 bars of steel), sliding a frog and making it jump with hand (that is fun for my kids), shaking 2 oval shakers, walking & running in circle with a soft hanky, jump in a circle when music stop, hitting 2 wooden rods, rocking on parent's embrace, sitting on parent's lap and bouncing, sang 3 tones following teachers (my kids kept quiet of course), all children holding hands and turn in circle. That's all I can remember so far and I may missed out some. All the sessions I mentioned were held with music, either playing from CD or the teacher sang.

As what I have predicted, Qi enjoyed more than Xiang, rocking, shaking, clapping hands etc.. Of course Xiang could do better in terms of teacher's instruction, but he had a serious look on his face while Qi was laughing more and doing the stuff she knew with enthusiasm. There were only 2 boys in the class, both I think did not really "enjoy" the class. Is it because of the gender factor?

For me, I think the class is ok ... a little below my expectations. Most I don't like is the size of the room, still I think it's a bit small. The teacher is very friendly and reminding us not to force the kids if they were not willing to follow.

Anyway, the fee for one month is RM75, there will be 4 family material packs needed to buy, one pack for 1 semester. Each pack is about ..... aisey, my memory really fading on me, I couldn't remember at all! Most probably I will sign up for both of them, but wouldn't buy the family packs until 2 months later or until I see that they enjoy the class.

Oh, forgot to mention about the art class, it's for kids above 2.5 years old, monthly fee is RM75 for Little Artist. 1 hour per session. Xiang kept on going into the art class and observing the kids doing the painting stuff when I was making enquiry. Maybe he likes art better???

Mind to vote for Qi?

2009-06-19T13:33:00.000+08:00

I have totally forgotten about this competition until I saw a mom posting up on this. I've sent in Qi's photo for "Little Model Competition". I think the closing date is on end of this month.

It is based on the number of votes of each photo, and not the total votes for 2 photos. Each girl is eligible for 1 prize only. So do you mind clicking the link below to place vote for her 2 photos?

http://cutiebubu.multiply.com/photos/album/25/25#23

I like this photo best. A bit "hiao" hoh ...

http://cutiebubu.multiply.com/photos/album/25/25#24

hahahaha, big hoh ... this mummy actually wants to keep this set for her to wear later. Maybe next CNY, kakakakaka ....

Oh, by the way, thank you so much for those who have voted for Qi!!!

[Qi 1y3m; Xiang 2y5m] Musikgarten

2009-06-17T13:15:00.000+08:00

I have been long time considering of enrolling my kids in the music courses. I have been to Yamaha School of Music. First, they only accept kids 3.5 years old, my son is too young for it. Then, I am not very fond of the courses they offered and they are using organ as a teaching media (the centre near my house). I'm a much piano person and if my kids to learn up piano in future, they have to start all over again.

Then, I've stumbled across Musikgarten located near my house. They even accepted newborn! Both my girl Qi & son Xiang could be in the same class, under Program Family Music for Toddlers (16 months to 4 years old). This is a class whether toddlers to attend with their parents. The activities will be singing, moving, chanting, dancing, listening and playing simple instruments. The best is upon completion of their courses, the students are able to jump to Grade 2 of piano lessons.

Musikgarten originates from U.S.A. It is a revolutionary early childhood music education company designed to enable teachers to understand how children from birth to age 9 learn music. Musikgarten provides teachers with the tools to help a child grow musically, as well as emotionally, socially and cognitively.

The main problem is both of us (mom & dad) need to attend together with them since there's 2 of them. Each one of us attended to our kids separately. I should be no problem going back on time after work. I have foreseen daddy's busy schedule and I worried that he could not make it in some time. I do not think my kids will like to be with my new maid. Or should I enrol my son first? But I do not dare to left Qi behind with my new maid even for half an hour only.

Anyway, this Friday will be a free-trial class. After this class, I'll see how's their reactions toward it. I hope that it will be a stress-free class, I do not want them to worried about not practicing their lessons since they are just young toddlers. Any mummies have experience of enrolling your young toddlers in such classes before?

Short Blog Break

2009-06-11T10:00:00.000+08:00

Taking a short blog break again. Going back hometown. Will be back on Monday!

Three in a family

2009-06-11T08:16:00.000+08:00

U know what are these for?

They are for applying to the chicken pox spots. From left till right, Wei Qi, Mummy and ....

.....

Daddy!!!

He was saying all day long! hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Wei Xiang was having fever yesterday, but this morning he's ok with no spots on his body. I guess he's the strong one in family

Thank you so much Steph

2009-06-09T10:46:00.000+08:00

I actually got this parcel for quite some time, but so many things come up (Qi's food poisoning and her chicken pox and my chicken pox). Thank you so so so much Steph.

First, there's this book for me to read to Qi. I love books and thank you very very much!

Then, there's a float for Xiang & Qi to share. How do you know that I plan to buy one? So ngam! Too bad that we can't go swimming now (I doubt that anyone will let us in the pool).

Third, there's Yee Hup famous biscuits from Ipoh. This is one of my favourite, and Xiang's too!

1 full bite ...

Yummy...

Finished ...

Last, but our most favourite, the spining top!

It really could fly! In the evening, we brought all the kids out in the garden playing with it and even Qi was giggling though she was still weak from her food poisoning then. I was so happy to see her smiling at that time, and really felt that this gift came in time!

Once again, thank you so much Steph. You are really a great friend!

[Qi 1y3m] Progress of the Chicken Pox

2009-06-09T10:13:00.000+08:00

Qi is now much better, many of her spots are already healing. I've never seen her scratch herself unless it's hot. But now, feeding her water & medicine is a difficult task. She really dislikes her chicken pox medicine. She immediately makes noise whenever she saw me taking the syringe out. We have no choice but to hold a screaming & crying Qi in 1 person arms and the other forced her mouth opened and pump the medicine down.

Many of her spots are turning into brown dark color, I guess it is a sign that she's healing. When I carried her last night, I do felt that she has lost so many weight, my poor baby .... I hope that she will back to her normal self and eating happily again soon.

Her face ...

Her back ...

The brown drying spot ...

As for myself, this is only Day-2. I think I'm having less spots than Qi as compare to her day-2 but the bubbles are much bigger. The most un-bearable is the itchiness and I couldn't scratch it!!!

[Qi 1y3m] - food poisoning progress and gosh, what was that!?

2009-06-06T17:00:00.000+08:00

5 June 2009 (Friday)

I've called numerous time to Qi's aunty from work, and I was glad to hear that she didn't vomit anymore. After work, I came to knew that Qi was still having diarrhea on that day, 4 times at 11.30am, 1.30pm, 3pm & 4pm. I was worried and decided to bring her to the clinic again. The paed said that it's normal, important is she has enough intake of water. The diarrhea will most probably last 3~4 days.

I've also noticed that there is 1 or 2 red spot on her stomach and I assumed that was mosqi bite.

6 June 2009 (Saturday)

She woke up very late, and I'm glad that she doesn't show any sign of vomit. Again diarrhea at 10am & 3.30pm. But I guess it's a good sign since 2 times less compare to yesterday. She is still not very active, and lay on the mattress most of the time.

Gosh, what was that on her body!!?? She has so many red spots all over, especially the neck & chest part. In the evening, I saw there's water bubbles on top of the red spot on her arm!!!

Is that chicken pox? OMG! Why now? She still haven't recovered from her food poisoning and now this? We asked mother in law but she said wasn't chicken pox, saying it was too small. Still, we took her to clinic but it was closed today. So we'll bring her there again tomorrow morning.

I felt so so so guilty. It's because we were supposed to bring her for her chicken pox jab last month, but I totally forgotten about it!!! What a mom I am, right?

There's no sign of itchiness, but the red spots kept on coming out especially her scalp and her back. There's even 1 big one on her private part!

Gosh, every time I thought of forgetting about the jab, I felt so bad. I'll key in their jab reminding date in everything I have next time, phone, computer, table calender, at home and at office! Gosh, I still can't believe how come I've forgotten about the jab!?

Dear friends, I don't know much on chicken pox, mind to share with me what are the pre-cautions when having it and what can make it heal faster?

[Qi 1y3m] - first food poisoning experience

2009-06-05T09:55:00.000+08:00

On Wednesday night (3rd June 2009), my hubby was working late and we went out for a late dinner at 9pm. Xiang & Qi shared a bowl of mushroom soup with buns. At 10.30pm, Qi was getting cranky and started to cry. She vomited after drinking her milk. I was carrying her at that time and managed to dash to toilet for most of the vomit, I saw lots of dark green leaves which I guess it's her dinner at nanny's house.

Afterwards, she managed to sleep. At 12.30am, I woke up from her soft crying and I saw my hubby already at her bed. I was usually a light-sleeper but I do not know why, I did not woke up earlier (feeling very guilty even until now). Gosh, she vomited again on her crib, with all the milk-stain all over her hair. I only knew then what the milk looks like after being processed in stomach - a flour-like white sticky thing and with an unbearable sour smell!!! We have no choice but bath her in the middle of the night. Afterwards, we let her slept with us and our nightmare came. She kept on vomiting until 3.30am. There is nothing left in her stomach and only yellowish color water came out. We were in dilemma whether to send her to emergency and then she just slept.

6am, she started to cry again and asking for milk. Half-way she was drinking her bottle, she started to vomit again. We tried so hard to take her bottle out from her mouth, but she was still sucking it. My heart felt so painful looking at her, she was so hungry but she kept on vomiting. Then the diarrhea came, 3 times and she passed out dark color leaves also. Everything we gave her, even water will come out from her little mouth. Her used-to-be round tummy was flattened.

On our way to clinic, she was saying "Bi bi ~~~ bi bi ~~~" We gave her everything, but she just shoved it away. Finally I realised she's referring to her water bottle, but again, half way through, she vomited every single drop of water in my car.

The paed asked us to observed her closely as she already has the sign of dehydration. She looked so tired and not energetic at all, and she did not pass urine all these while. If she continue like this, she need to be admitted. I was near to tears hearing this. I do not know which food went wrong, her nanny fish porridge with "choi yun" or the mushroom soup with bun.

We went home with all sorts of medicine and some lactose-free milk. She didn't even want to smile or played and wanted to be carried all the time. When I put her down, she can't even sit and will just lied down on the mattress. She was crying for her "Bi bi~~" (her water bottle - I don't know why she called that) all the time, but I could not gave her much or else she'll vomit out again. I guess she was really hungry and thirsty, even the medicine she walloped in a quick movement.

I was lucky that my second sister was here in KL for vacation, she rushed over to my house to help out. We had a quick lunch and decided to go to hospital. Qi as if knew she were to be dripped, she passed out urine and looks more energetic. So we just continue caring for her at home.

By thursday night, there's no more vomiting and diarrhea. But I still woke up at night to checked on her. I learnt my lessons and woke up on her every single sound, giving her 1 oz of water or 1 oz of lactose-free milk until I went off for work.

Just now (Friday 5th June 2009), I've just checked with her nanny, she's alright at the moment but cranky as well, with slight fever. She's recovering well but I wonder when I could see her rounded tummy again.

What a nightmare for me. Basically all the mattress in my house were wet yesterday and there's so many vomit-stained cloths (mine and Qi). My toilet smelled so horrible with the after-vomit. I was tired currently and even my hubby was feeling dizzy & vomited after the sleepless night. But I told myself I can't be sick as well because Qi needs me. She still needs my full attention tonight and on weekends.

[qi 1y3m]

2009-05-30T20:24:00.000+08:00

Qi loves to droodle. Whenever I took out crayons or water color for her brother, she will join in the fun immediately. But usually she'll get bored after one drawing and starts to droodle on the floor! She even put the brush inside her mouth once before I could stop her, sigh ....

I'm done!!! Gosh, all the red paint on my pants!

Don't color the floor, Qi!!!

"O-oh~~~" saying with her little finger pointing. (She said this when she has done something wrong. But, she will purposely did it again and again said "O-oh")

Following is a color pencil drawing which done by Qi one month ago ^_^

[Xiang 2y5m; Qi 1y3m] We Luv Yogurt

2009-05-30T19:55:00.000+08:00

My son Xiang love yogurt since his first taste on it, due to his cough problem, I dare not give him too often. What I did what take it out from fridge for at least 30 minutes for the chills to subside before giving it to him.

Qi recently had her first taste of yogurt, her expression was funny. I think she felt it tasted weird at first, but after her 2nd try, she was yelling "mumm mumm" non-stop. ^_^

Chinese SenSei Method

2009-05-28T10:09:00.003+08:00

[xiang: 2y5m]

Xiang has this cough & phlegm problem ever since 6 months old. He is diagnosis as having minor asthma problem and whenever he is coughing furiously with phlegm, he needs to be on his inhalers again. There were 4 times where he had to put on nebulisers at the pediatrician place. After he entered into the kindergarten, his condition is getting worse. His cough-free days will only last for 2 to 3 weeks and I always wonder whether his little body could take so much medicine.

Asthma is actually a condition whereby the airways (of lungs) become irritated and inflamed. As a result, they became narrower and produce extra mucus. This makes it more difficult for air to flow into and out of the lungs and causes the symptoms of asthma. I’ve also heard from others that taking medicine for a prolonged period of time will make the situation worse as the medicine will not be able to provide relief during an attack after passage of time.

Thus, we have decided to treat him using the Chinese SenSei Method instead. Last Sunday is the second time we paid a visit to the SenSei, waited for more than 2 hours!

The cough syrup has a very strong Chinese herbs taste plus some mint flavor (we tried it ourselves and YUCKKKK!!!). Xiang immediately turned away from the medicine when first time trying it, with his face crooked up and even crying little bit. We use raisins or Ribena pastilles and he managed to swallow the 2 table spoon of Chinese herbs. Xiang is naughty is many ways but he is really superb when came to taking medicine. Even my hubby (who had cough problem and was given the similar taste cough syrup) felt like vomiting after taking his medicine.

After the 2 bottle of cough syrup, we need to prepare a herb-drink 七辛茶 for him. Then, we will take him to the SenSei again for next round of checking up. I hope that this time it will work for him. I can say that it is working well until now since his cough is under control after 3 days of medicine. Usually, he needs at least 3 visits to the pediatrician before he could fully recover.

Here’s a photo of his medicine

And some photos of him taking it.

Other than this, we are also trying to keep our house dust free. Floor is swept & moped daily, furniture is wiped daily, bed-sheets are changed once per week, curtains are washed once per month, and recently, we have installed an air-purifier in our bedroom.

When we were together ...

2009-05-25T10:49:00.000+08:00

23 & 24 May 2009

Last weekend was a busy weekend for me, there's so much that I did, went to help out a green project, bought toiletries for my kids due to their sensitive skin, met my old buddy and her chubby 7 month daughter, brought my son to a sensei, and .... meeting my online friends for the first time!

Frankly, I'm a not-outgoing-person, and I was quite nervous to meet them. When I reached Maggie house, it was already 3pm, last one to arrived. When I went up to Maggie house, all of the 3 ladies are sitting there chatting.

I couldn't recognise Maggie at first glance, she definitely looks prettier and much younger than her photos! Her cozy home is nice and I love her kid's room! Guess what, I have visited Maggie's area numerous time coz my brother in law house is just the next neighbourhood to Maggie's area! Kiyo is super cute, she's just like her mom, small size. Her face is small but her eyes are huge, making her looks like a cute doll. She performed a show together with her father, which makes us laughed non-stop!!! I love to see daughter-father with this kind of relationships, being so closed together ^_^

Hui Chen looks just like in her photo, but she's really tall! When we went to pasar on Sunday, I guess she really gotta squeeze her arms & legs in order to fit into my tiny car! Haha, paiseh paiseh! She won on Sunday morning breakfast time --- to able to get the check and paid for the breakfast! I should be paying instead as she's a guest. She's good with kids, even become a temporary nanny on both days when we were busy.

Alyse is very "si mun" (soft-spoken & gentle). No wonder she's bully by her "si tou poh". Apparently, her house is very near to my house too. Too bad that I did not have a chance to go to her house this time, maybe next time.

One funny scene is that though our Sat dinner place is extremely hot, the 4 of us kept on chatting non-stop after the dinner. All the others have already gone out of the restaurant as it was cooler outside. Then we realised it's late and decided to leave. We stood in front of the restaurant to bid farewell but the chatting started again!!! hahahahaha, really "mu sei tek" to leave.

I've got so many gifts on that day, some which I only realised after Hui Chen went back! So paiseh... Next time we must make a rule not to bring any gifts when we meet!

Haha, I've forgotten take out the 2 mangoes in my fridge when I took this photo.

Guess I was too nervous that I've totally forgotten to bring camera on that day. When they are in my house, I too forgotten to take some pictures, aisey .... Luckily we had some during our dinner, go to Maggie's album to see them ^_^

A GREEN effort

2009-05-22T12:54:00.000+08:00

This came in last minute, each divisions were requested to send representatives. When I was asked to join by my boss, I was torned in between this and my dear friend is coming all the way from Melaka. I'm so glad that she understood.

I guess that everyone should really starting caring for our environment, if not, there won't be any GREEN left for our little dear children. I've recently received an article about the plastic water bottle and gosh, I never realised such a little thing could have done harm to our environment. I'll try not to use such plastic bottle again, and if I did, I'll recycle them for sure.

Anyway, just for promoting, Sony will be having a corner at the Rainforest 1-Utama, starting from today until 24 May 2009 (Sunday). You just need to bring the recycled items as in below photo (in case it's small, I've attached the file) and be rewarded with goodies (don't asked me, I myself doesn't know what's in the goodies). There's some events for you to join in as well.

Anyway, tomorrow will be a busy day for me. Morning, I'll be rushing to 1-Utama as a helper for this green event. Then I'll drop by my good dear old pal who stays nearby 1-Utama. Afterwards, I'll bring my kids to a Chinese sensei (who also stays nearby) for a follow-up checking. Then, I'll be heading to meet my dear Melaka friend!!!

Please vote for me Part II

2009-05-21T13:49:00.000+08:00

I have participated in another EOE competition again. This is a last minute decision. I was thinking long whether to put my photo up there as one of the terms & conditions is to upload MOMMY & CHILD photo.

On 20 May 09 (submission closing date), my itchy hands went clicking again. Unlucky for me, my network had been down on the last day of uploading photo. After numerious times of failing, I tried my luck one last time at 11.45am, success!!! My submission photos are one of the few last photos accepted

So, if you don’t mind, could you please vote for us again? Err, just to be fair, I have to upload 2 photos for my 2 kids.

My son – Wei Xiang & me: please click the following link
http://www.eoe.com.my/en/funs/competitionItem.jsp?_=1242792709341&r=hits

My daughter – Wei Qi & me: please click the following link, or when you are in Wei Xiang photo page, just click the icon NEXT at the bottom of the page
http://www.eoe.com.my/en/funs/competitionItem.jsp?_=1242792483572

The voting start from 20 May until 3 June. You need to go to http://www.eoe.com.my/ and login before you could vote. You can vote everyday once per photo entry. So, if you got time and not troubling you too much, kindly vote for us everyday ... kekekekekeke ... too much or not? Thank you thank you ... Kam Siah ... 谢谢 ... Toh Jie Sai ... Terima Kasih ... Arigatou!

I was also wondering when the previous “My Happy Baby” Competition Result will be out. I have seen the voting results, there’s really a slim chance I could win as other’s entries accumulate as high as few hundreds votes!!!

Neno's Award

2009-05-20T16:46:00.003+08:00

I got this from Angel's Mommy - Caroline .... such a wonderful award! I've never thought that my blog will be inspiring nor friendly, but I'm glad that at least someone likes to read it. I'm really touched receiving this, so lots of hugs & kisses to Caroline!

Terms & Conditions For the Award Recipient:
1. Paste the Award Logo in your blog
2. Give out the award to 10 Blogs that you feels the most inspired and most friendly.
3. Make sure u back linked the recipients' blogs to your blog.
4. Inform the recipients about the award by leaving them comments on their blog
5. Give some love to the person who give you this award.

10 blog only? There's so many on my mind! So I'm not going to name anyone this time, I wanted to pass this to all my dearest blogger friends out there. It's always informative and fun reading your blogs.

Oatmeal Prawn and our Sunday dishes

2009-05-18T13:44:00.000+08:00

17.05.09 Saturday – my family came to my house. My mom & her maid purposely came all the way from hometown to teach my new maid. Phew! My crazy days of cleaning are finally over! The first thing my hubby said to me:”I want to eat the sambal pork!” I guess he missed home-cooked food a lot (and the sambal). So, my kitchen is back to operation again

18.05.09 Sunday morning – I went market with my mom, saw there are prawns. I bought some to cook the Yoki’s oatmeal prawn package.
So here’s our Sunday dishes:
- oatmeal prawn (thanks Yoki!)
- omelet with onion
- home-planted 蕃暑叶
- seaweed soup (紫菜) with kid size fish balls
- sambal Pork
- pancake - eaten as it is or wrapped with some anchovies-onion sambal (大葱江鱼仔)

Nothing special, right? But for us, home-cooked food even though simple is the best!

[xiang 2y4m; qi 1y2m] Super Hero!?

2009-05-15T13:37:00.002+08:00

Introducing the Baby Cat Woman!
*DON"T PULL!!! QI!*

And the Oboman!

Xiang’s creation of a super character name, something like an ultraman, but copy the ultraman poss.

I've never thought of buying my kids masks as I have thought that they would rejected something tied around their face. I was so wrong!
Though they played this only for awhile (well, same goes with other toys), but I had a good time laughing with them. Mommy wore one too, but too bad (or lucky, I should say), daddy not around to take photo of the 3 crazy super heros at home.

[Qi 1y2m] - pom pom hair !?

2009-05-11T09:42:00.001+08:00

Lately, I like to tie my gal's hair into 2 "coconut tree" instead of 1, main reason because her hair is really getting long. But there's also con doing this, see how she looks like after a session of "coconut tree" at night ......

Like my new hair style?

No matter how I tried to comb it, it still "fly" up high like this .... sigh ....

Next time no need to perm hair liao .....

She's holding her favourite bolster by the way. She got 2. Sometimes, when she was awaken in the middle of the night, she go round her crib searching until she got both, 1 hand holding 1.

Wah~~~ thank you Yoki dear

2009-05-06T19:57:00.001+08:00

6th May 2009

Just as usual, I checked my mails when I came back from work today, woh woh woh woh! Got mail for me lei, a very big white envelope, and bulky too! Instantly, I look for sender, no name but a company stamp and it's already enough for me to know who is she, this Sealite Optical is getting very popular here in multiply!

THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH YOKI DEAR! You really very nice to give me all the gifts, not once, but numerous times over the short period which I've known you!

See, so many things inside the envelope:

Let me show you one by one:

1) Doreamon & his sister - I love them a lot!!!!! Handmade with such a nice sewing done. There is a pin on the back. Currently, they are on my fridge door ^_^

2) Instant Crispy Prawn with Cereal - I've looked at the instructions at the back, this seems easy even for a dumb cook like me. My hubby will sure like this!

3) Disney Princess Coloring & Sticker Book - This is for Qi. It even has a princess magnet to close up the pages! Haha, again, bad mama rampas the magnet and put on fridge door ^_^

4) Ben10 Activity & Sticker Book - This is for Xiang. I asked Xiang who is that on the book, he immediately told me "Ben10"!!! His nanny's son is very into this character and he 'learnt' a lot from him! Actually, until now, I still don't know what this Ben10 character does, never watched the carton before ... (no need me to repeat, the Doraemon magnet also at my fridge door, wahahahahaha!)

My kids had a very good time doing the book -

Xiang who is more familiar with his 'A to I', took the stickers and enjoyed pasting them at the book, at the same time practicing his phonics (or I should say teaching the two of us since we do not learnt phonics at all!). He also kept on asking me whether the Doraemon is his, and gave the Doraemon sister to Qi. I've no idea what's Doraemon sister's name?

Qi was playing with the magnet, and was very amazed how could 2 things stick together with pulling force. She kept on sticking them together, pulling them apart and repeat and repeat again. I pasted the stickers on her book for her, guess what she did???

She korek korek with her finger nails to take out the stickers again. That's her favourite. All her toys have torn stickers due to she likes to take them out.

Though I'm a bit cheong hei, but I want to say kam siah again to Yoki. You are too hak hei ...

[xiang 2y4m, 3 Fun class] Field trip: LRT ride + Zoo Negara

2009-05-04T13:17:00.001+08:00

Field trip: LRT ride + Zoo Negara
Date: 30 April 2009, 8.30am ~ 3pm

The day before ~~~
I’ve packed a backpack for Xiang’s tomorrow field trip: change of clothes, Xiang’s water tumbler, my water tumbler, hanky (3), diaper, snacks, handycam, umbrella, fan, hot & warm water for making milk, milk powder & milk bottle. It was so heavy! I wonder I could carry all that till 3pm and what if Xiang asked me to “bao bao”!? Finally, we’ve decided not to bring the hot & warm water for making milk, milk powder & milk bottle, hoping that he will not request for it.

Field trip day!
First thing Xiang said after woke up was: “我要去zoo!” (I want to go to zoo!). He’s looking forward to it and so am I!
Reached the school at 8.30am, lining up and briefing from the headmaster - main point is those like us (parents going together) must keep an eye on our children since the other teachers need to concentrate on others going-alone-children. Approximately 2~3 teachers bringing a group of 10~12 children. The teachers are very dedicated to this event, some even asked their grown-up children & husbands to help out. This is the first I saw D Cheers – “yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah! Su~~~Per~~~Bee~~~” haha, cute!
When we made our moved heading towards the gate, Xiang suddenly cried: “不要去school,我要去zoo~~~” hahahaha, he’s used to lining up when going inside the classroom, that’s why he misunderstood ^_^
This was the first time Xiang boarded a bus! “Bus” is one of his first words, but I’ve never took him on a ride before. He enjoyed it very much and also the hotdog bread (one of his favorite actually) given by the teacher. Along the way, 3 children volunteered to sing, and to my surprise, all 3 year old class. Super good singer even to adults’ ears!
First stop was the LRT station, we waited for around 15 min before going in and a briefing from the Putra Line staff. We parents not missing the chance of snapping photos with the child’s friends! A gal was particular caring for Xiang, even wiped his saliva away using his bib! Hahaha, Xiang has a jiejie in class ^_^
The train ride took around 20 minutes, stopping 2 stops. Later only we found out that there’s a communication problem between the kindergarten and Putra Line because we were supposed to have the train all by ourselves without stopping. No problem at all anyway. Xiang was excited as well, looking out of the window, commenting that the train was very high and fast. He learned a new word – LRT and saw with his own eyes how does a train looks like.
After the LRT ride, we went on board of bus again to the Zoo. When we finally reached the Zoo, it’s already 11.30am! Everyone was sweating but once reaching the zoo, the children all got excited again. The kindergarten’s arrangement was good, they knew that we could not walk much under the hot sun, and so arranged a ride in the tram. If you were a visitor on that day, you will hear the childish voices shouting “Giraffe!!! Elephant!!! Deer!!! Lion!!! Flamingo!!! And all the wahs & ooohs from the 7 trams carrying children & adults. The tram ride was very relaxing and with nice breeze blowing on face. It’s a different experience for both xiang & me since we did not sit on the tram last time.
After that, we walked a short distance to “The Wild” fast-food restaurant. I was at first taken back by why the kindergarten would arrange fast food for kid’s outing, but I guess not much choice in the zoo. They also cleverly put children’s milo in a pepsi-printed-cup and adult’s pepsi in milo-printed cup! The lunch for the kids was nuggets, fries & milo while adults was 2 piece chicken, 1 burger, fries & pepsi. There were some musical rides in the restaurant, I was worried that Xiang might want to go on the ride before his lunch at first. Surprisingly, he sat quietly on his chair and finished most of the nuggets. Hungry I guess. Upon finishing lunch, seeing his pity look (sat on the ride without putting money, drooling at other kids’ moving rides), I exchanged some coins for him. 50 cents per ride, cheap!
Afterwards, we walked a short distance to children’s world. There are some friendly animals there – baby horse, baby goats, baby cow, rabbits and miniature horses! All touchable!
The teachers not forgetting their “nature” instinct: ”Children, H says ……” / “G says ……” / “C says ….”
Kids “huh … huh … huh …” / “ge … ge… ge …” / “keh … keh… keh… “
Teachers :”good good good, so that’s horse, goat and cow!”,
Kids “horse!!!!” / “goat!!!” / “cow!!! “
Teachers smiling and proud include us parents ^_^. At this point, all my tiredness gone, seeing Xiang able to answer too! Hahaha, but the teachers did comment before that he’s good in this.
We didn’t came here last time, as it was raining and we rushed home at that time. Xiang was brave enough to touch and pad the horse’ hare, at the same time giggling and having a good time. Then we went to see a monkey which showing off his swinging skills, making all the kids OHHHH, laughing and clapping. Our last animal before we said goodbye to the zoo was the hippopotamus. 3 giant and lazy animals, hiding themselves inside the water.
When we waited for the other group of kids to arrive, Xiang was already sleeping on my shoulder. A tired but very happy day for him. And me too! Xiang was behaving so great, walking all by himself, eating well, following the crowd and no dangerous acts from him. A very superb arrangement from the kindergarten & committed teachers, taking 5 buses of children & adults, all came home with tired body and uplifted spirit at 3pm. I was so glad that I joined this field trip, so much I’ve earn – being together with Xiang for his first field trip, seeing his great little school friends and knowing some great parents!
Click here for the photos: Field Trip Photos

(xiang 2y4m): 1st Field Trip

2009-04-29T10:51:00.000+08:00

Xiang's kindy is organizing their 1st field trip on this year, to ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ZOO NEGARA + LRT ride on coming Thursday 30 April 2009, from 8.30am to 3pm.

My first reaction was :"What? Again?????" I felt like just coming back from the zoo and going again so soon. The condition for 3yo to join is one of their parents must accompany them. For those 4~6yo, parents joining is not compulsory.

Xiang's daddy is definitely not free on that day. If I brought Xiang there, I'll have to care for him alone since the teachers need to keep an eye on those 4~6yo kids. But, on the other hand, I think he's behaving very well with the presence of teachers. I've asked him numerous time whether he wants to go to zoo. He replied me: "要~" (yes). Just for reassurance, I've asked him why he wanted to go to zoo. He replied me:" 要看elephant,要看duck duck!" Zoo got ducks meh?????

Anyway I've decided bring him to join this field trip, alone and not going to bring the stroller coz we need to follow the school bus and later a ride in the LRT. I hope he's willing to walk on his own. I think it will be tiring for me, but I'll do as best as I could to let him mixes around with his friends. Also, I guess that at this stage, he still "allowed" me to follow him. When he's older, sure he's not willing to have his mom tagging along. So, Zoo & LRT, here we come!!!

Ai Peng's 365

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Haiz .... his elbow ....

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[Xiang 4y1m; Qi 2y10m] 2011 First Day in School

[Xiang 3y11m; Qi 2y9m] Playing with Wii

Trying to adapt

Machines Boycott Me :(

Help! Semi-pro Camera

[Xiang 3y7m] My "golden" teeth

Reno: Sofa Hunt 1

[Qi 2y5m]: 40.1 DegC

X-box or Wii?

House Reno Progress

House Reno Progress

[xiang 3y6m] 2nd Parents Teacher Meeting

My curry chicken

[Qi 2y4m]: Milk time posture

[Qi 2y4m] Wei Qi progress at 2 year 4 months

[Xiang 3y5m] His first 4yo field trip - KLCC Aquarium

Colonic Diverticular Disease

Worry part 2~

Popular Sales ; Motor Skills Toys

[Xiang 3y2m] Sharing - how to motivate your kids to do homework

[Xiang 3y1m; Qi 2y] Short update

Hot hot Chinese New Year!

Qi (1y11m): My DNA report

[Xiang: 2y11m] Completion of 3 year old class . Holiday Program

Chap Tou!

Saturday Morning

Inspection of our new home

[Xiang 2y11m; Qi 1y8m] Year End Concert; Tantrum before sleep

Dermatoglyphics Code Test / 皮纹密码测验

Worry~

[Xiang 2y10m; Qi 1y8m] This is the way I wash my car ...

[Xiang 2y10m] M!

2009 Heartwarming Gifts

[Xiang 2y10m] – 1910 : 3 stitches

My SAHM life so far

[Xiang 2y9m] Appetite down again

[Xiang: 2y9m] Finally playing

New corner

My Ginger Harvest

[Xiang 2y9m; Qi 1y7m] Fun fair near Queensbay Mall

[Xiang 2y9m; Qi 1y7m] Lanterns Night

Porridge: Simple anchovies, carrot, tomota & potato

[Qi 1y6m] Big Small Eyes

Playschool / Kindergarten

[Xiang 2y8m] Udon noddles; Dish washing

[Xiang 2y8m; Qi 1y7m] Playing Time

[翔2Y8M] 嘴嘴,再见!

KEMUNING的屋子

肺炎

8月21日 & 新生活

剪指甲的小妙计

Pneumococcal vaccinations reduce H1N1 death!

[翔2Y7M, 淇1Y6M] 打针. SG LONG H1N1

感冒预防针,打吗?

美丽的一天 (好友的注册礼)

滑倒 ＊ 可怕的梦

翔[2y7m] 翔点滴

部落格奖: Lovely Blog Award & Best Blog Award

[翔2y7m] YAKULT厂,芙蓉烧包之NO.2校外旅行后感

[翔2y7m] NO.2校外旅行

Back to study again!

[Xiang 2y7m] Right, or Wrong

Supplements - more is better?

[Xiang 2y6m] Traces of blood ...

[Qi 1y4m; Xiang 2y6m] Hair trim

Something to ponder: Running in the rain

[Qi 1y4m] Wei Qi Progress at 1 year 4 months

[Xiang 2y6m] Goodbye diaper

[Xiang 2y6m; Qi 1y4m] FunFare in Balakong

[Xiang 2y6m] Xiang's Progress at 2 years 6 months

Full time mom

Melaka here I come (4th~5th July 2009)

[Xiang 2y6m] Improvement in speech

A simple father's day celebration

[Xiang 2y6m] It's his turn!

[Qi 1y3m; Xiang 2y5m] Trial Class at Musikgarten

滑倒　＊　可怕的梦