Still sick

I'm still in a dazed after like being sick for a week plus.. Totally not fun as this cold is driving me nutters as I feel like i'm high perpetually most of the time... I can still do stuffs but I do feel that I may be in a dream or was that real? Really sux!!

I'm sitting in the clinic now ... Like the 2nd time for the bitach didn't give me antibiotics.. I mean total waste of my freaking time sitting here for 2 hours where I can be sleeping in bed!! Yes I'm in a foul mood, like how to be jolly after 10 days of sickness...

Like V got sick then dd t.. Now me... N as usual the mummy gets the potent virus... I tahan-ed with panadol extra the 1st few days but the dripping snot drove me nutters and so a visit to the dr was necessary... Then biatch gave me 5 miserable pills which I finished in no time and suffered for another 3... Dd t finally made the decision that I needed antibiotics for I slept all I could but was still grouchy ...

So.. I'm still waiting ... I'm pissed, tired, sick... Doesn't help that the many people around me are sick just like me and breathing the same air is so not fun...

Did I mention I have to wake up 7am for princess is having mandarin holiday program at 9am... Went for a class today and being in a class for 2 hrs is totally not fun.. Boring in fact.. N we learnt "xiao ji" .. Will write about V's 1st mandarin exposure like soon.. That is if I ever get well ... Arggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!


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My 2 girls

How my girls play... Rough la

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Baby Prom

Got there 5 mins late today...

No thanks to Lil Ms Grumps who refused to wear her clothes and refused breakfast and bathe and all things we did was wrong ... Oh oh oh teething

Thank goodness the concert was something she really enjoyed... Was kicking her legs and clapping, I knew we could always count on music to make her happy.








Think was DD T's And my 1st SSO concert, never went for obe despite we were both part of our school's band hahaha... He was in percussion- drums, me in brass - french horn/e flat horn, so maybe V should do strings *we are still thinking real hard. Being in the hall reminded me so much of my competition days when in school, we always had concert competition and military competition in alternate years. But I still prefer being in the audience...

The baby prom concert was really entertaining especially when they got the kiddos to go up to conduct ... V was also conducting, waving her hands like a conductor! Maybe she has a calling to become one?






Till next year... When she will be ready to go up on stage... Can't wait!!


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Fever ... She

She was slighty warm on Monday, got warmer yesterday...

V was really sticky to me yesterday but I had meetings the whole afternoon... Knew it was the teething period for she always is like this when a tooth pops. Managed to con her by bribing that I would buy her colouring book keke .. Came home that night and smelt her breath and it smells .. Hmmm I had a feeling she may be sick. Applied her bonjela and felt the gums all swollen with a slight cut caused by the tooth eruption.

So that point I knew her immunity has hit a real low, for books always said that cutting gums attract viruses. Traced back the last few days activity but she wasn't in any contact with children except on Friday in school. So I ruled out flu or any drama sickness which was good.

But both of us decided to still visit the doctors to get medicine just in case.













We went to Mt A's A&E for it was a PH... He gave us a whole lot of medicine coz I was quite sure it may turn to tonsilities like the last round hahaha. Like might as well right?? Then to go dr 2 times.. Rather keep stock... Costed us $111 like omg... Tried using the CDA card and we couldn't get the pin no right! Can't be helped as get last visit was 8 months ago(her 1st flu, which I traced back blog post)... But think the card is spolit!! Sian to have to go bank to fix it.. Really need to settle on a proper pin, DD T used our wedding anniversary date as pin but issue is we both can never agree whether we got married on 280406 or 280407! 2 weddings on 2 same dates but 2 different years.

Anyway V is in a foul foul mood!!! Molars are not fun... It's been a long time since I have seen her to grouchy, n like our sleep is so so broken for she wakes up like every few hours crying... It's only been 1 night and We felt so tired that we slept in 3 hours for our nap today ...

Like oh well... This 4 molars will be the last till she reaches 6-7 years old...

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Deepavali in school

We were dressed up for deepavali last week....

Made a trip to Little India that week to find an outfit for V... but most of the shops were closed as it was a saturday and I believed a lot of them where still celebrating their holiday. So after few shop, we found her an oufit... its abit too long for her but for $18, we really can't complain. Guess we can use for 2 years or so...

too long

with her nest teacher .. ariel

I bought me self a outfit too... wore with my jeggings

had no idea how to tie the string.. so I did the farmer style.. then in school teacher told me I was supposed to loop in it *opps

with Rina

with Nas

With Rino

Grasshopper's 25 anniversary concert

this is my secret ... no one knows except my sec school classmates...


I adore adore the Grasshoppers... Yes me.. the potato english speaking girl who studied in a convent school since Pri 1 is a fan of them hahaha. I have yet to miss any of their concerts in Singapore till date... thats how much I enjoy going :)

Hmmm how did I start? Well it all started when I was in Sec 1, the one with atrocious chinese grades.... My classmate is the daughter of Super Coffee, so during that time they advertised alot in TCS or rather mediacorp... So she had tickets to go watch some variety in the studio.. free. A bunch of us was invited, we were keen to go as it was something different and who will miss best seats, with connection like this. That night, Grasshoppers performed.. man they were just so awesome! So the next day in school, we started to find out about them and what songs they sing etc. Just silly things we did then... I mean I like english songs all these while and was never exposed to the Mandarin pop. But this was great fun as our whole class started to go crazy over them... was something we did as classmates I guess.

So with free time on the pretext of revision after school, we will go to my gf's house to watch those TVB variety shows coz her mummy rents them... they were rich and we were not, so we tapped on the mom hahaha. I started to buy their music tapes, cd eventually to listen to them when I studied... Was a good thing as my mandarin improved alot and my cantonese too! We went for a concert at about 16 years ago and it was THE best concert I have ever been, Metallica couldn't even beat it!!! No joke.. We were standing on the chairs, dancing and the screaming!  ... concert had like 3 or 4 encores.. it was crazy!! All the concerts that I went after paled in comparison...

I was also introduced to a lot of other hongkong artistes at that time... But eventually it died down... then I went on to Robbie Williams (not Take That days hahah) Yes Im a fan! for I think he is very F**k-able ... I like bad boys... but sad to say I don't ever think he will perform here.

No one who got to know me could comprehend why is it that I love to go canto pop clubs. Maybe it reminded me of their concerts... which is why Grasshopper's concert is always touted as the party of the year concert. It is really a stand and dance for 3/4 of the time type of concert...

When DD T heard that I wanted to go Grasshoppers concert many years back he was shocked! He cannot see me as a  person who will appreciate chinese concerts... but eventually accepted it as part of my weird past. Like how I would watch cantonese series but not chinese ones.... listen to cantonese/Hongkong artistes rather than Taiwanese artistes.  But its just something I do.. I drive and listen to chinese radio for this is my only time to listen to chinese as I don't watch much Tv any more. I don't speak mandarin much as no one in my family speaks.. we are all english educated... so there are times I just speak in mandarin to my friends for that is the only time I can practice.

So today I went for their 25th anniversary concert and all I can say is it brought back so many memories ... songs that were sang brought me back to that chapter of my life. The simple girl before I started to fly.. where aspirations and dreams were just words with no meaning. I am so so so digging out the CDs...

the crazy crowd.... when standing and dancing is the norm in this concert... you hardly sit here.

Heavy

V is at that stage where she wants to be carried..not funny especially when she is no longer a little thing but a heavy monster with kicking legs and hands that keeps wanting to touch + head which cannot stop turning about. I am trying very hard to want to carry her for I know this is my last chance to carry for after this phase the chances will be rare.

But but but... So heavy you know, plus the bag .. The "mummy walk mummy carry mummy walk mummy carry" ... I no longer shop with her, can't deal with the shopping bags and her.. DD T took her for a few hours just now while I had to conduct a class, took the car with me.. I came back to the mall and he was grumbling about the shopping bags, balloon, V and her bag, all on him hahaha . With no place to offload....

Parenting... 99% love and 1% hate


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need donations

My dear babes... can help me donate ?


I posted this in my FB:  I finally got the time to sit down infront of the laptop to do this... friend of a friend found an abandoned dog and she decided that she would try to keep it alive for SpCA may eventually do the drastic when no one come forth. But the sad thing now is that to keep this dog alive, many operations have to be done on the poor dog.

Can my kind hearted friends help out a little by donating some change? I thank you all.... xoxo

"Please help "he who needs a name".

Angie found a dog, who's owner just chucked him out cos he's no longer 'perfect'. He needs a few operations - to remove his left eye, a cyst on a back and has to get neutered. He needs surgery ASAP, so please if you could spare a few bucks email ho.angeline@gmail.com, she'll send you her account number and update the contribution online so we know how much more we need to pay for the surgery. "

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In the train

Just finished my blog tour...

I'm plucking my feathers today again.. I'm in the train with my iPhone and catching up on my fav readers' blogs... Finally got a chance to do so as I'm hardly online to chat, do this is the best way for me to do so...

Today mrt route is sooooo long.. I'm hungry as there wasn't any food at home and mrt has no food stores sad... Anyway I'm gng to bukit gombak which is like 1000 stations away, taxi would have cost me less than $20 right? Pluck pluck pluck... This mrt of ours is starting to be like London tube man, that is if you have to walk alot! But with aircon and air freshened air, oh with escalators too, so really not too bad. Just that I'm hungry and have 12 more stations. *wails

Anyway... My weeks have starting to get real packed, there are things to do everyday! So nice.. I so treasure my
Mummy day with V, like yday was JG, brought her to jones at demsey for lunch, gogo bambini for play after... After all that I went to DD T to do some paperwork, had dinner with them and left to conduct a class at someone's house. So fulfilling.... Tomorrow is mummy day too, I have it all packed to have hi tea with my friend n V, swim in the evening with her, dinner and put her to sleep. Nice...

Today is supposed to be my day too, but DD T decided that I should sleep in for I have been really busy last few days. Just in case I fall sick for I'm a baby , I need sleep... For 2 weeks i tried to pluck another feather and that wake up earlier like 8am, but the problem was I was able to do my stuffs like blogging at night I lacked sleep. Then my throat started to itch and it got croaky hahaha .. Like a child right?

So he made a decision to whisk her off to grands, I woke up today at 8am played 1 hour with her, had her fun and she left me with so much hugs and kisses .. Then I slept in. Now off to do some work, have a class today.

I story

I always tell people I am an accidental beauty consultant on the way to be a Mary Kay Sales Director...

I spent all my time waiting for Victoria to grow up, waiting for the day my husband decides that he may one day get a new place, change a new car or something that excites my life a little. Go on holidays more, bring me on his business trips ....Of course days like this didn't come.. or rather it didn't come as fast as I hoped.

I stayed at home most of the time and the internet became my new found best friend... I made my close knit friends in the forum and found solace in writing my blog... The blog became a outlet for me to write down my thoughts, frustrations, happiness for me, I found like minded mummies here too. After V started to grow up, from flipping to crawling to eating solids to talking to walking.. That sense of achievement of parenting started to grow dimmer by the day. There was really nothing to look forward to except wait for the day for her to start dating I think! hahah, I can obviously do the next thing that is to have another child... do the same thing over and over again.  

Nothing changed much, during my "ME" time, I did the same stuffs,  go for High Tea, shopping, read my books, basically spend money, just swiping the credit card....but sadly it no longer made me happy. The husband told me if that is what I want to do this same thing after completing my mission of bearing him all the children? I told him I don't know what else to do.... I remembered I cut my 21st birthday cake in Seoul 11 years ago.... my wish was to be the best mother I can be. By the age of 30, I travelled around the world many rounds, got my degree, got my driving license (come on I went to do boat license too!), got promoted, got married to a wonderful man and have myself a great family. I had the craziest hobby, boating, collected expensive watches, bags collection, wine appreciation; almost going for my sommelier course if not for the fact I got preggers. 

I know you all are reading this and is thinking.. BITCH she doesn't know what she is missing.... but I'm telling you, its because I had it all, it no longer meant anything. I don't even bother wearing my watches, hardly carry the bags, I wear clothes that cost me less than $100, happy with shoes that are $39.90... I told the husband ... tell me what to do, what can I do?

I felt lost... I had more to me than this ... I told the husband, maybe I should do my MBA, since my dean had offered me a sponsorship of 1/2 of the cost of MBA. But he asked me what I want to achieve by studying more? Then I said I wanted another child, he said "No" for until I can find myself out of this rut, made it clear that its a vicious cycle. It was then I told him I want to go on holidays cause I missed outstations, so he made plans to fly me away on whatever opportunities his work allows. I came back still not happy.... I told it was because we did it with V, so we did a holiday ourselves.. and I still didn't enjoy. It was then I knew it was not about the travelling, it was just me.

I knew whatever I have to do, I have to do it quick. To divert my attention from becoming down, down, down. So there it was... right in front of me. I remembered I was very sour about Singapore's concept of parenting help, how they don't have flexible hours for mothers. The measly 4 months of "bonding", making the mother jittery if they do intend to extend it for fear of losing their jobs, how the have to answer to the superiors when a pregnancy is supposedly "good news". I remembered googling alot on the jobs meant for mothers, best companies to work in and flexible job hours etc. Never did I knew that Mary Kay is the top 100 companies to work in and the top 10 dream company for Mothers! I swear when I heard this statement while I was in class, I came back to tell the husband... I may have found the career that I want.

part II continues........

The weekend

Today was a very interesting and fruitful day...

I woke up late, just one of those mornings we decided to sleep in.. V slept at 720pm the night before, saturday was ridiculously horrible day, she decide to behave odd.. With lots of screaming and crying.. We call days like these "the eclispe day" something about the moon emitting odd stuffs to make children behave like werewolf...

Anyway, we worked together to apprehend situations like this. Had to go Little India to get her outfit for school on Wednesday.. Was a warm warm day.. She refused her nap which made matters worse.. So we forced to keep her awake till 7-ish, then change her to her PJ and she finally fell asleep in the car.

She slept 15 hours straight, woke up at 1015 Sunday morning... *bliss I got dressed to go Chace's bb thingy before I left for my champagne brunch at mezzanine at hyatt.


After 6 flutes of Pierre Jouet, 4 glasses of Cloudy Bay, many oysters, 2 slices of foie gras, roast beef, dessert and many more stuffs later... Oh I cut cake too!!! Left my favourite girlies at mezzanine and decided to go fix the hair. Reckoned this was the time to go light on the hair for after years of school, 11 years of strict decoram when flying, 3 years of pregnancy/bf ... I was ready to go light.. Just a little lighter la

Anyway the post is not about the hair, it's about what happen after. For some reason, while in paragon, I happen to share a cab with a lady who was going my direction... She was to go metro and get a Loreal face cream.. Haha Something about how she travelled to 3 metro today just to get the item... Was telling me how her helper likes it and she is buying for her too ... So the conversation turned to helpers and how to manage them. Although they have differences she has gotten it straighten it out and was able to fly away on her golf trips with the hb, leaving her 2 kids to the helper. She further stressed that as a mother is not about feeding them, bathing them and washing their bum, all these she never does, leaving it to the helper. Doesn't believe in eating the children's leftover or sharing their food with them. Monday-Friday is their own time = school and she /hb will play with them only on sat/sun for half a day, spending only quality time by going to park, arcade or what not. After that half day, the both of them will go out to do their own things.

I asked her how old her kids are.. 5 and 4 she said.. Stating that she was rather old when she got married (now 38) which made her the mother she is, for she refused to be like her mother or sister.. Both from what I hear are hands on mummies... For she said she didn't want to grumble about the lack of money or trying their best by scrimping cash like not taking taxi but take a bus for short distance.

She feels that parenting is about managing people.. Taking a step back and let the "worker" do their job and telling the children what she expects. If it's a no means no and "if that doesn't make her happy, it's a no"

She and her husband have no issues on flying away on leisure at any point for she says the helper will report to her on everything that happens. The last was a week away with no help from grands... Insisting that money solves all issues, for all she needs is to leave money at home and the helper brings them to dr when they are sick. She is looking for a 2nd help since government gives her subsidy for children and don't know what else. A believer that money does the job for her....

Hmmmm.. What do u gals think?

Came back, sat down to see this... My daughter spending her day with daddy = new toys...


Related the story to DD T, he sat there wide eyed, thinking very hard on what to say... His reply was " I'm very sure she will end up in a old folks home with no one to care for, as like she said, money solves all issues... " "oh and her children will end up with a maniac in Facebook for she doesn't monitor and I guess it's the maid who may eventually be the person to tell her as it's the maid's job to report right... For does she care?"

I'm so glad that I have a husband that thinks like me... For I kept very quiet the whole trip...

Oh and V did this... Feeding mickey...she sat there for a loooong time.. Think she is feeding milk keke


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Mary Kay new Time Wise Body

For those who wants to tone the skin!!!! and best its anti aging!  am so dying to order when it releases on Nov 16...   tried it in office and the effect was wow! my arms felt tighter! The reviews have been raving around asia since its launch.. use it before exercise for maximum effect!

Plus my neck is starting to age man!! the hand cream and decollete is to firm up the neck... get one for the mothers, they will be so happy. Or those who drives, there is SPF for the arms and neck area.

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This offer will be on magazine stands in the december issues of Her World, Female, Simply Her, Women's weekly. Its a great offer as you get a free Timewise age fighting eye cream worth $70 when you purchase this two items together... you can only get through a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant which is me!  Help me tell your friends too....


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Daddy's 35th

celebrated DD T's birthday yesterday... for he wants to play his football today... thursday is his football day... so we decided to do dinner 1 day earlier... 

Chose Barrosa at esplanade for their wednesday "all you can eat beef buffet" We watched it once on Tv, that buffetlicious show... food was not too bad, Black Angus cut was the best, Waygu a big disappointment, T-bone not too bad... But the restaurant did one thing very wrong and that was alfreso dining... without backup air. Gosh it was so warm! Grands had it good for they had their seat with the breeze, but us had the spotlight and a weak fan. But most importantly, DD T ate 3 steaks... and was real contented about it.

I bought a cheesecake from The Cheesecake Cafe in Frankel Ave.. ooo Beri nice ah.  We decided to cut the cake back home, for I couldn't bear the heat....

 

Happy 35th birthday Daddy!!

CMI

saw this in my couz's fb account... he got a warning for parking his bike near the school ground..

So the issue is not that he park there but the note that was written...

would you ever send your child to this school?

Me n my scones

We had lunch with my girlfriend ... Who btw is my personal shopper (loves her deep!) today my package includes pearl powder, the oh so "in" jeggings and the oh my F-ing famous scones from Marks and Spencer in London! I still lead a life like how I was flying man! That day was a bag of my foodstuffs from toyko! Woots woots...

Came to the east to drop off princess as I need to go somewhere to do my challenge and make calls, buy DD T's birthday cake.

So auntie nita took her to her room to sleep.. While I opened my yummilous scones, took the new paper and read while savouring! So the news articles was depressing... 1st was the freak accident at the driving centre, the gal fell off the building.. 2nd page a young boy lost his arm in a freak accident... 3rd the oh so sad story about the boy who got killed and his father who stood by the pillar facing away from the crowd. At this point , I lost my appetite in finishing my last bite of the scone....

Best part.. There wasn't any happy news or gossips in that paper... I still feel depress


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I'm tired

It's 11pm and I'm still out.. On the way home... Never knew I can be so happy despite feeling so tired after exhausting all my enthusiasm the whole day...

Love what I'm doing lots..

I started my day real early... Got V to my mum's while I left for a early class... Enriched 2 ladies lives and more to come... Made a point to stay in late as I need to learn some stuffs.

Today I took a train... Coz driving and parking into CBD is a pain for the parking is crazy. You must be thinking why I'm blogging about the fact I'm taking a train? Becoz it's a feather I'm plucking... I'm never liked taking trains or buses, I love taxis... Maybe I should say I never want to take them. So I'm making a effort to try like them.

Today marks my 2nd day of breaking my beak! It gets easier by the day! I'm going to hug V to sleep today and wake up to her smiles in the morning!

Tomorrow is mummy's duties, it's off to JG, late lunch Marina Square and DD T's birthday dinner at Esplanade... Tell me, tell me that I'm the luckiest mummy alive!!!

Xoxo

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end of blogtober fest

K I think I owe u all 1 post...  or I can cheat and publish the post on other date.. but hellya...

So I will try to blog more in november... Got to update you girls about my challenge .. us the parents' birthday is this month!! so alot of stuffs to blog about... may be a month of short but many posts since I'm planning to blog from my iphone.. just a task I gave myself keke

I'm loving November... so its Nov Nov blogafest!

21 months

I believe she is going to start swearing soon.... since we swear too much...

her speech progression has heighten and they are coming out fast and furious... she can stand there and talk  for a very long time, while we sit there, listen and really try to appreciate the conversation though it can be real funny at times. Was in the supermarket that day... this lady was pushing her trolley and V was trying to squeeze through, the lady stopped and allowed her... she stooped, cross over and touch the lady's leg .."Dank you" Cuteness!!!!

We will be doing the holiday program in mandarin.. yikes!!! So taxing man... I started on some chinese words and she can say stuffs like xie xie mama... call the whole family in mandarin, fluent.. really. Grandpa Ng heard her recited her chinese and was "shit, you are going to a ah lian!" ya i have supportive in laws..  

I can no longer carry her for long... sobz.. why? why do they grow up so fast...  which is why I can't bear to let her sleep away from us.. yes its always my issue..  her princess bed is meant for her toys while she squeezes with us... I totally love it when she is always there, smell her feet (she loves to sleep the other way), and best of it all, wake up to her lovely smile! Still not trading that for more space....

I often think I'm too emotional and I can't let go of stuffs... But it seems that DD T is too the same. He refused to let her sleep away from us... *scorpios. We do lots of silly stuffs with her, cradling her after her bath, wrapped in towel and refused to let her out, telling her that she needs to be swaddle... many things we do, brings us back to her infant stages. There are times we actually carry her in cradle position when she drinks her milk... just rekindling. Today in church she was playing with other children in the cry room... treating us as non-existent. Oh well... its going to be like very often now. Going to church has been getting easier, she is that type of child who dances to the church hymns.. no joke Was telling DD T, like oh dear we can actually see her future in the church grounds... she will those who goes on the stage when called on, performs on every single program, may even be those who reads or sing... then us, hanging around in canteen for her to finish everything.

whatever it is.. I'm so glad we are there to watch her grow.. blossoming... oh did I mention, soon I will be tie her hair and her double eyelids are permanent now, seems to be getting thicker too! Told you, I'm of simple pleasures!

so true!!!

If your baby is "beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time," you're the grandma."-- Theresa Bloomingdale