My new do

So did the necessary


They always say its takes a lot from a women to cut off their hair... ermmm well, hair gives us the women the confidence or maybe to compensate the lack of it...

I have this set of hair for I think.. 8 years? It is really sad to cut them , but it totally lack lustre after pregnancy and motherhood.  I can option 1) go and do treatment every 3 weeks to get back the bounce or 2) cut

one last photo with my hair...

bye bye....

My funky new do

I'm so loving it.... quite the style and quite a looker too...

Next I might wanna shave off the sides.. more

Dream

My mummy reader now mummy good friend msg me this today (hmm okie yday, like its 1230 now, but i'm only free at this time to blog...)


Z: Hey babe, got any good news anot? Hee I dreamt u preggy la

F: Muahahaha ... warrao u damn funny la! My period just over ah, I forgot must do pap smear so never try.. next mth see if you psychic or not

Z: Ya funny right. I was just thinking to myself long time no news from you den I dreamt ha ha. So funny in de dream we had baby shower for u man. ha ha go work hard hee

..............

So do u gals read my blog and actually dream of me??? damn hilarious ah!!!

Btw I'm not preggers k, totally forgot must check check inside .. damn sian the thought of the freaking apparatus being inserted... sianz sianz sianz.. lucky for ange and kim who reminded me that I had to do pap smear thats y I chope and never try.

Then my ever so busy gynae is on convention leave for 2 wks and bb making gotta delay.. so I guess trying starts in oct...  I think.. then who knows what comes up.. then its back to the "everything happens for a reason"

But if I do get lucky... will you come for my bb shower?

Bam Bam

Grandma Tay told us Bamz has been limping for the past few days, been refusing to put down her right hind leg..

So we played the waiting game as westies have a common aliment of dislocating their joints and it pops back after awhile... Sundays are usually her crazy day as everyone will be home and she will play amok with the girls... but it didn't get any make any difference on sunday, so bells rang and we went full speed ahead to get her treated..

So today, I spend 4 hours shuttling the princess to the vet, had to travel to another place to get Xray and back to her vet.. shagged. Lucky no fracture or hairline visibly, though her leg is 1.5 times more swollen than the other side. Med were give and we gotta monitor the princess for 2 weeks and NO walks.. boo hoo for her

Then I got the vet to shave off her fur for her rashes was horrendous! for she was scratching and scratching...westies and their skin issues!!

clearly stressed about her visit to the vet

Her horrendous skin rash below her chin.. no thanks to her drinking and scratching habits

Manja!!! She had to stick to DD T .. for he was going on and on about how much he loves her and "poor thing X 1000"

opps.. k i never knew my iphone can take nice photos.. its quite crappy at times, but when I opened in large screen and was pleasantly surprised. (on our way back to the grands)

Change II

we are going on a summer holiday


I did pray for change... that day in church, Father was saying stuffs about change etc, I turned to DD T and said heard that? he said to embrace change... DD T looked at me and was huh.. okie he wasn't listening... so I knew the message was for me.. So I prayed for "change" and the strength to do so that day in church... We are not regular church goers, shy to say, but we are good catholics in our own way, but its always interesting how messages are put across to us when we attend that occasional mass.

After I prayed for it, that 2 weeks was real havoc, we had arguments for goodness know what reasons, DD T and I don't quarrel, I just get frustrated trying to get things across to him. Man are made to be like that, they don't like change and hates when they are nagged at. Not that I nag but I have to repeat many times before it gets into his head. Its normal daily rants.. but this time, it got real bad as I got emotional, I guess I just got burn out. I mean who won't right?

I won't go into details but after my spate, he got things moving... we have been wanting to go on a holiday for a longest time.. but this time he knows I really needed it. We spoke about us and how it is time to let go... so we muster our courage and booked our holiday together without V! Hahahaha... Like its now or NEVER.. for if the 2nd one comes along, I will get all guilty stricken and want to spend more time with V before the 2nd one comes bullshit!

So this has to be a short short holiday.... can't do my Europe for the obvious reason of the lack of time... we don't do beaches anymore ever since DD T brought me to Fiji many years ago, and from then onwards, all beaches pale in comparison. We were left with asian countries, toyed with Vietnam, Taipei, Seoul... DD T had tickets to go Shanghai Expo and we were so close to booking it till we realized the queues in Expo are atrociously long.

So we want to go on a holiday but no destination!! Then there was a SQ promotion and there it was Beijing... I got excited as I have never been on that wall.. for I never had the energy or the time to enjoy China, the stays were too short for me to forgo my sleep just to sight see. Told DD T that I want to go Beijing, bring my camera, spend my time taking photos, carefree and relax... Do something I never get to do when I was flying, really la Europe I know very well but Asia ermmmm....

I'm a city slicker, I heart cosmopolitanism...

So V will be left at my in laws for the 4 nights, its the weekend and so she will be occupied with all the activities my in laws have prepared.. I believe shopping is tops..

We need to move on, must not be guilty stricken.. as people always say, the child really don't mind as long she is surrounded with love...

Prive Cafe

Decided to do brunch....


The plan was to have brunch then go Hort park.. "was"

I did some search and decided to do something more outdoorsy, since it was sunday .. though I would love a hotel buffet brunch, but with the kiddos it will be wasting our money...

Stumble on a food blog, a defunct one by the time I'm this blog, (FOS the blogger)

The place was quite recommended and I like to give the kiddos some nice view to go along with breakfast..

So off to Marina @ Keppel Bay

Nice ambience... over looks the marina... 

Food is fantastic!!! must must must must must must must eat the egg benedict!!! One of the best I have eaten in a long long while.. especially in singapore...

Child meal Pancakes

Mushroom soup with truffle oil

Ultimate breakfast.. great scrambled! sausage n bacon not up to my expectations

Before we even finish our meal, the kiddos were itching to play with each other...  it got real hot and thety were sweating heaps and were all rosy! so the daddies brought them inside to cool down down and found a kiddos area! 

Ern's artistic cat! lol

So we cancelled Hort park for it was way to Hot! Then it was off to Ikea to check out the table and chairs we saw at Prive.. so typically .. *psst $39 only- table + 2 chairs (oh btw can help me click on the nuffnang ad pls..... I'm $6.70 short before I can collect my 1st $50 .. keke then I can go n buy V her furniture!! will be so meaniful....)

Prive Cafe

Marina at Keppel Bay

http://www.prive.com.sg/

Change

I'm so ready for it


You know when you wake up one fine day and the sun shines, you feel happy coz you had a great sleep and the day don't look so gloomy or long. You have a smile for everything and emit positivity! Well, these are days you know you can conquer the world.

People search for days like this you know... sometimes they go for long holidays to search for inner peace when days gets tired at the workplace, or get a MBA because they missed their promotion and they think by studying, it ups their chance the next round, get a face do when its get bad, nose job when it falls short in luck, removing moles when the fortune teller tells u its ass luck and get married coz they want to buy property or commit adultery when they lack love.

Well, I decided to cut my hair! muahahha after all the crap I wrote..

I have been having this hair; long for the longest time.. suppose to cut after wedding but got lazy, can't possibly cut when preggers coz I will look fat and round with short hair, then totally lost the plot with the hair as ermm I hardly had time for me. Been dropping heaps of hair and the condition of it is like shit, it never gone back to my pre preggers condition! Really.. cant curl, cant straight, lack lustre... I used to go to the salon every 3 weeks.. spend 4 hours sitting there and rot. Now I can't even spare that 4 hours traveling up and down... so the hair is in its most horrible condition.

DD T has been bugging me to cut it as the hair fall is horicible... he walks around with the vaccum and grumbles... But I keep telling him, I will look fat and ugly when I'm preggers with the 2nd! Then he looks at me yday and said "You lack confidence. Which part of you is ugly?"  Okie fine.. woke up today, search the net for nice hairstyles, decided, MMS my stylist, he said okie.. and so we are going for it!

Well, me gotta embrace my 1st change... cut cut cut!!! this week is fully packed, so gotta see when I can slot in that few hours.. I'm going for drastic... totally can't wait!!

Glenn Doman Flash Cards

Mummy reader asked to help advertise her set of GD cards


Are you a fan of flash cards? But totally not want to spend the huge amount on a new set? Well, Mummy is selling off her set of GD flash cards for her kiddos have totally passed the stage of sitting down to watch flash cards and best part its still so new.

Well we all know a new set has a exorbitant price tag to it but mummy is willing to let go at $400 a set,  if you are willing to buy all, she lets it off with a additional discount of $100.

English set Vol 1- Opened, used less than 3 times

Volume 2 -NEW

Maths set - EVEN NEWER!

I did some reading and it seems that GD flash cards doesn't have new or old version. 

Seriously if you are fans of flash cards, you will know its a good deal...

FOV

Per set :$400

All 3 : $100 off total sum

Replenishing Serum C

my skin....I have been trying to embrace my new skincare regime with Mary Kay


Since the last post about me trying to get back my glow, the effort of my masking my face every other day religiously and how I got a lot my readers so motivated to do the same muhahaha...  I kinda of got lazy after a while, I got quite contended on the condition it was and just needed to maintain it, never thought I can improve it further. So came the laziness... what's new right? I'm human after all... Then I dabble in playing with my makeup collections and tried to make it efforts in wearing my eyeshadows out on nice occasions... *woots

Went back to office for a product update meeting last month and was chatting with this director about her skin.. piangs hers is woot woots!!! So she was telling me how she was like me masking her face etc (her son is 1 month older then V) , so we have the same motherhood fatigue keke.... then her senior told her to use Replenishing Serum C, but she was very unwilling to part with the cash as she was like me struggling to strike a balance between motherhood and MK. It is MK's top of the line product,  I mean if I have spare cash, (the irony is that its $200)  I would rather use it for V right? It's a normal mummy's mentality.. But she decided to give it a try and like why not, she is selling this, she must know how good this is. Then the serum worked so well for her, she asked everyone to buy it for she was so convinced with the product. So her good vibes rubbed off me and I decided to place my order for it too.. for I was plain convinced not by her words but her skin.

So I started using it on 1st July coz its was a treatment that is recommended to use 2-3 times a year only and for a duration of 1 month each time. It was advised to use 1 vial once a week...  but I used only 2 vials for the month! hahah and I used it 2 times a day aka day and night time... but I just couldn't finish a vial within a week. Maybe approximately 10 days a vial (for me)... Well, of course there are days I fall asleep without putting anything on my face coz I initially wanted to mask then I fall asleep while trying to put V to sleep and got damn bloody lazy to wake up to put stuffs on the face.. what is new right? story of a mother....

The 4 vials costs $217 which makes 1 vial = $54.25,  I used 2 vials only $108.50 and have 2 more for maybe december usage .. so for $100.. really damn freaking worth it!!!

So after 1 month... I got no words to express how excited and proud I am to present  ..." MY SKIN"

Untouched, not edited, zero makeup just au natural... no bad eh....  I had to tell u all!  can you , can you see my glow??? Damn yaya.. lol

Its damn hard to explain in the blog coz the post will go on and on and on .. I think if you are interested you can read the PDF file of the product fact sheet...

 http://www.marykayintouch.com.my/content/images/PDF/Fact%20sheets/Replenishing%20Serum+C%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

Price: $217 
FOV: $200

Play group

okie I think I'm damn lame...

I was chatting with this mummy last week in school and she was telling me how lax as a mother she has become after having 3 children. This last one by the way was an accident... so was telling me how she was into everything with her 1st and now she is not even bothered to sit down with her this child except for few moments in the class, the rest of the time, the helper looks after. So she was intending to put her at the childcare as she says since she is not even fulfilling the "accompanied parent" part of the JG system.

I have been toying with the idea of putting her in a playgroup to burn off her energy and learn something from it aka toilet training *oppsy. Was in DD T's office and was searching for this childcare this mummy mentioned and chanced upon a childcare near his office. Made a call to them and asked I think a bewildered question... "Ermm do u have playgroup for the times I want to run my errands and have me time?"  Guess WHAT!!! They have la.. its called flexible childcare, a drop off on selected days in a week and the child does all the same stuffs as those that attends it daily. Woots!! I drove down, 2-3 buildings away, paid a visit there and got V to mingle with the kiddos there for 1/2 hour or so. She actually likes it la....The childcare centre is pretty branded and most importantly its darn new!!

They start the day at 830am for brekkie, english lessons actual is at 930, lunch, sleep at 1-3pm, tea, chinese after sleep ... they have a great outdoor playground, water play and soon sand play.. *faints it got me impressed even more lol. There was this little gal sobbing her heart out as her "teacher" left the room to get some paper for some crayon activity. The lady explained to me that each child will have a teacher they are attached to, hmm so true la... The chinese teacher was a middle aged very nice china chinese lady, like guaranteed to make your child slang type. The english teacher was quite young, after school type.. the ratio is 2-14/15 children. Overall quite interesting...

So came bac to the office did some sums and it worked out to about $45-$50 (not too sure la) a day, for my gal to do something and be toilet trained *oppsy again!!!  just a thought... since she is in JG playclub Wed n Fri next term (my duty), maybe we can do Tue n Thurs there (daddy's duty).... monday is R&R day at home together... muahahah excuse me, I know I'm quite lame.. but the DD T thinks its an excellent idea and wants her there everyday (coz it will cost him $35 per day)..  and of course I said no... he likes it coz its just next to him and he is around the corner if any thing happens or she is sick...

I'm so trying to strike a balance here and just finding ways to fill this void of learning that V craves so much....

Craylet

another handmade stuff...

Thinking how to entertain the little one and yet want to flaunt while doing so? I present you Handmade crayon holder la! Its definitely a talking point ....

Personalized, customized, comes with Crayola crayons somemore... free notepad for the doodling, please huh don't allow the child to colour on the wallet...

Mummy only has this on her webbie for now.. it's $22 inclusive of genuine crayola crayons. Embroidery has additional cost.

FOV gets free stickers on top of free postage! yippeee.. 

webbie: http://babysbreathcreations.wordpress.com/

FOV: FOV02
Promo: Free stickers + free postage

The faces Of V

My favourite : Angry face! muahahaha

zakka

chatted on my gf in Fb and she told me she has her new biz online coz clothes biz are too competitive.

Then she gave me her new link... I went it and was like "Eh ppl will buy stuffs things huh?" I was browsing through and was like thinking honestly who buys things like these. Then she replied "Ya alot lei, office people like cute stuffs like that, think office must be very boring .. so cute stuffs make them happy" "A lot of people but for goody bags too."

Then I went in again and saw the webbie in a total different light!! Can't blame me right, I have never worked in a office before .. Lol  Then I kinda like got hooked with the stuffs she carried.

Told her "eh only u will carry things like this!" I'm not joking... when we were in school, she always had the cutest, quirky-est, nitty gritty, odd but damn nice things.. I'm sure you know of people like that! haha

Enjoy this webbie.. I find it real cute...

http://www.welovezakka.com/

FOV code: FOV30

Free postage above $30
Free registered above $80

Guess who is the cool one?

so she gets more n more stylo...

Dinners

I have know these group of ladies for 2 years now I guess? We all have a common denomination that ties us so close till today and that is our Dec08/Jan09 babies. Its really crazy how this friendship that was build just on words in the Singapore Motherhood Forum Jan 2009 thread, from posts to advices, advices to fears, fears to tears, tears to support, support to friendships, our relationship between this crazy group of mummies includes most of all outings with the kiddos and the constant updates with each other on the ups and downs of our children.

I have never made friends in way before and think its fantastic the way this relationship is build on, got to know without expectations of each other.. just pure laughters of bringing up a child. I honestly can tell you, if not for these mummies, I may not have sustain motherhood so long! I remembered one time when I was doing my confinement and dealing with breastfeeding and all..  got emotional and went in to rant, I was so surprised by the support of these people I have never met before in my life giving me the encouragement I so so so needed at that moment!

Now that we have sort of "settle" the kiddos, have been going on dinners without the kiddos just to catch up with life and talk about the kids *what's new*

Here is our 1st meet up at Spruce.. Walau the chatter was horrible .. we were just going and going!!

1 month later .. Coca .. women and our steamboat craving! Just as noisy ...

Its a great friendship that will be around for the longest time... for the kiddos will always have issues and mummies will always need a friend to rant on. What's best than a mummy who is going through the same issue? One great thing too as most of us read each other's blog and so the updates are constant.

Love you all mummies... till this month's gathering

Scrappin Love

OOooo it came ..

and its so darn pretty!!!!

remember V's teacher was retiring after 15 years right, so I needed to get a present and shopping is no longer fun with a child... so I decided to ask one of my mummy's friend to customized/personalized a farewell pressie instead. Her biz is real new and I think she is damn talented! A was designer who left her job to look after her 2 boys and now using her talent to create beautiful things for shopping deprived mothers like me.. heehee

So I did give her a budget, I can't be spending $50 for a teacher's pressie right? Gotta be practical sometimes... so we worked around $35 and I thought a photo stand would be appropriate for a farewell.. got her to put "Family" for her to have her family photo on her new desk.

Isn't it lovely?? I'm so making one for DD T's desk with our family photo!!! I ran into the room to show DD T and he was so impressed .. muahahha

So this was the 1st item I ordered and then Ern's mummy reminded me of teachers' day .. so I ordered another gift item for her other favourite teacher Shoba... wishing her all the future in JG and a notebook for her to write her notes to better her teaching.. Im so thoughtful right!

Webbie: http://www.scrappinlove.com/

FB link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scrappin-Love/135681913128530?ref=ts

She is having a storewide 10% sale till 16 August!!! Enjoy shopping

Long weekend

I feel fat

Long weekends are real dangerous.... I think I put on at least 1.5kg this week! Mainly coz we were just eating and eating. What's new right?

This week we meant up with V's friends at Ern's house on saturday, was a makan, chat session for the families to catch up and talk cock. On sunday, did one maid viewing, church, baby shower, "drink" session night at with the same group of friends mainly for the daddies to have a beer and talk cock again.  Came back home at about 10-ish and washed V up and she INSISTED on wearing this to sleep. Still can pose somemore.... after this photo, she went and wore her necklace to bed.

On monday, we did the Singaporean thing by going NTUC to do groceries coz I got a recipe from Caleb's mummy to cook Mee Hoon Kuay.. die die wanted to cook as DD T was at home to look after V. Then only in Singapore you get NTUC selling joss papers! wahahah thats when I knew it was 7th month... people around was buying those big red pails, coffee, instant noodles etc think for praying? There was a 7th month special for rice! Of course we grabbed the deal...  So I did cook my Bee Hoon Kuey (tks Ophe!!).. wa winner la! DD T had 2 big bowls! I didn't even have any more stock left despite I cooked a large pot. V didn't care for it for she don't really like asian dishes...but nevermind...

Then we spent our evening watching the parade and V loved it so much.. DD T was teaching her how to march, giving his commands and she was stomping her feet, shouting whenever the parade commander gave his commands .. keke was like " ah, wa, da" coz she only could catch the last word of the command. When the celebration started, she was dancing especially when they did the "Stand Up for Singapore" song.

Here is her at 2010 "pledging" her loyalty to Singapore... Cute little thing..

Then we saw fireworks form our window... she was enjoying it so much for it was like endless... shouting "Kaboom, boo, boom, boom" Of course she cried when it ended, what's new...  *upset* Told her that we will try to ballot the tickets for NDP next week and DD T was like wa hot lei, you think we can make it? I went for a rehearsal once for my friend had tickets and I came out a little bit more patriotic, hahah its actually fun.Will see how... think its actually quite nice for the kiddos to be able to soak up the atmosphere. DD T then told her, "its okie, there's more end of the month... we get to see the fireworks from Malaysia side" *duhz*

18 months II

Food: V is has a absolute westernized palate like how I was when preggers... Anything bread, pasta, potato  is okie.. everything rice, porridge is a waste of time and money. Not much of a fan of chewing of meats, I guess all kiddos are at this stage, but then you give her popcorn chicken, its okie... zzzzzz We started giving her spicy stuffs, like that day I was eating Nando's extra spicy chicken and she insisted on eating. So gave her a tiny piece and she vomited everything out! But after drinking water, she wanted more and more and more... and she actually likes it la.. though after a while she started to have the hiccups hehe. A fan of fruits, mainly her apples, pears... she eats durians too, but then the poos damn bloody smelly la.

Can't seem to let her use her utensils, can play but not to feed her self properly. She drops more than she eats but I guess its a phase... she is too well trained as a BLW baby for she still likes her fruits whole instead of cubes.  

Temper: She has tone down alot and we do get things done by reasoning. Its very important that she gets her sleep for if not she starts her temper when things don't go her way. Boo hoo... Every since Phase 2, its interesting to note that whatever things we taught her has actually become her part of life. So to all my mummy friends, don't give up...

There are some actions that I notice; I don't advocate beating but there are times she falls, and we will beat the floor just to appease her.. and now when ever she gets upset, she will say "beat". Walau lor, sometimes I think people must be thinking I beat her or what. *Sigh* She does understand whenever I tell her not to do something , but the issue here is that she wants to do it... so she stands there and cry coz "she knows its wrong, but she wants to do it!" then that is when I know she is in a great dilemma as she is so young and cannot comprehend what is right or wrong. I will take time out to explain that its either dirty or not a good habit, its surprising to note that once I explain, she actually walks away from whatever that she wanted to do. Then of course find something else to irritate me with...haha

Sleep: She has her own mind when it come to her sleep, there was once last month, she clocked a total of 15 hours straight. Slept from 5pm to 9am the next morning with one feed in the wee morning. That was the 1st time she has slept so much and of course got us worried, we kept going to her to check on her and some how didn't managed to sleep well that night hahah. Now we have realized her pattern, if she does skip her nap , we will play with her until 8 pm when she will sleep till 10am the next morn. Most of the time she doesn't need milk in between, though we must ensure to keep feeding her when she is awake. Its great on days like these (example now as I'm writing this post) for we get time out to do our own things. But it is very tiring for me for I don't get a break.

Milk: Milk intake has increase, there was once she drank 500 ml of fresh milk for tea.*Yikes I tell you I got scared pouring the milk... I'm in the midst of choosing a new milk formula for I just realised my Nan Ha 3 is damn bloody expensive! $36.90 for a stage 3 milk ... Honest so dumb right! I didn't know until that day, I was in the mart. and was looking at the other brands.. for they are only $25-$30 *duhz. I think its time she can stop her HA milk, for she shows no sighs of allergy. I have got a small time of Similac at home, so am trying now about 4 feeds how how her reaction  (ermm not her reaction but her poo reaction) seems okie, she didn't finish the 1st two feeds.. but is slowly adapting.

Things she do: She enjoys her "cooking" and dressing up her toys. Here are some examples of her friends.

Panda with her neckalce, bloomers, and her socks

She was eating and insisted that piggy gets a bib too

Paul Frank with her butterfly romper. ..she chose this 

Mousey and her sun hat

Wahhaha so cute right! Think its a sign of single child syndrome .. for there is no one else to play with.

Of course she gets more vain, I only get to paint my nails when I'm at my mum's or inlaws... so here she insisted that Aunty Nita paint her nails too... in the clear top coat

As she gets older, it does so call get better for she has stop her night feeds and her teething issues. But I don't know why I am actually getting more tired than last time.. for maybe she sleeps more when younger? At least I get lie down and snooze.. or maybe I am plain worked out after 18 months. I hardly go online now as she hates me on my lappie and so I'm stuck playing Godfinger on my iphone, or just Fb on it and no chance even to place comments for I just Kaypo and put down before she starts taking my hp and placing on the floor. *sigh  This are signs my daughter has started to control my life...