I HAVE A SWEEEEET TOOTH TODAY

I wake up a little bit later than usual and realise it is a public holiday today! Yay, no more Monday blues! And I decide to go back to sleep for another hour or so :)

It seems like happiness fills the home sweet home, everyone wakes up in a happy mood, especially hubby and GGC. One dances and one sings. Guess who does which! Lol~~~

To boost up my energy for today's play, I make myself a sweeter than usual coffee to start my day. I am awake!

Going out for hubby's belated birthday brunch @ Pavilion. Yay, another makan day!

Now waiting for school mates to come over for swimming!

RAYA LONG HOLIDAY

It has been quite some time since I last enjoyed such a long holiday. I guess the only thing to be happy of being a FTWM (or being a working mad cow in the corporate world, to be precise) is a long holiday for free!!!

4 days off in a row, what are lining up in the plan? Well, nothing much actually... besides a little celebration for my big baby boy's 33rd birthday! We have not claimed for candlelit dinner, movie date, shopping date, tea time since we have our small baby girl. Yeah, for as long as 2 years now...

The first thing that comes in my mind is - what's for my girl for breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner? I have to ask myself the same old cracking head questions on every Friday or the eve of holiday. Hahahahaha... Preparing food for a kiddo is just too not me :)

Let's gao dim our Saturday first before we head for more exciting days after. Hmm...

Breakfast: Cheese stick that I bought from cake sense, KLCC this afternoon + milk

Lunch: Hub suggests broth from anchovies, baby carrots, tomato and onion for soupy baby pasta. I am gonna add in some cubed potato, maybe stir fry the cubed potato a little bit.

Tea: Milk and cheerios

Dinner: Broth from lunch to cook porridge, served with fried egg and green beans (kacang buncis/鬼豆).

Done deal! Planning for Sunday and I am sure the menu will be more appetizing since we will be going to the wet market in the morning. Yay!

Goodbye Friday and we are welcoming a beautiful Saturday in 25 minutes :)

The little baby is sleeping soundly now though she had been crying to sleep. Her crying to sleep behaviour has been happening for 2 nights consecutively. Hope that she is well, hope that she is just being cranky and not tummy flu or whatever. Pray...

Good night folks!

ANOTHER PERFECTO DAY - A CLOUDY SUNDAY HERE

I get to enjoy me time again and do some stuff here and there at my prefered momentum... :)

No laundry, very light cooking and dish washing this morning. Yay!

I am done now and enjoying my day starter - coffee!


I love this cuppa a lot! It comes in a set of 2 for gentleman and lady.
Bought from McCafe, Bangkok a few years back :)

P/S: *Finger crossed* Big & Small Baby, please wake up at 9am, at least...

I AM A HAPPIER PERSON TODAY

I am extremely happy today! Today's timing is just too perfect to start off my Saturday!

6.00am
Wake up.

6.15am
Do up myself.
Load in laundry.
Start preparing breakfast - this morning we are going to have pancake in fruit yogurt.

In between
Finish with the dishes washing while waiting for the pancake on the fry pan to ready.
Finish preparing fruit yogurt.

7.30am
Pancake is ready for photo shoot :)
Finish the remaining dishes washing.
Finish cleaning up the kitchen.

8.00am
Laundry is ready.

8.20am
Load in another batch of laundry.
Relaxing while waiting for the big and small baby to wake up and head to the wet market.

This may happen everyday to some of you but it does not happen to me at all time. Some time I feel frustrated on weekends, where things are not ready and the small baby is up and clings to me like a koala and tree. Some time I blame it on myself too for not planning ahead for the weekends since I have already knew that days will be busier. Just too tired to wake up earlier.

Again a little enlightenment from the Above, if I live my days in content (充實), possibly happiness and satisfaction overcome tiredness and frustration. Today, I live the testimony! I thank Lord for the direction for me to move forward in hope and courage.

P/S: What is more to add onto my happiness today? My mini oven is here and ready for collection at my in-law's! Yay!!!

Today is just too PERFECT!

I AM BACK AFTER ~ 19 MONTHS

I have been hoping so much to be back to a life of blogger. I miss those days when I wrote almost everyday, wrote about almost everything that I saw and experienced, wrote about every incident that happened on me and so on... Indeed, the most valueable topic that I missed out in the entire 2012 was my pregnancy journey and 2013 was my rocking days coping with my newborn, breastfeeding, her growth, her development...

It has been 19 months since my last update and that marks the age of my beautiful daughter, who is coming to 19 months old this coming 14th. Motherhood is never easy, what makes it more difficult - stressful days in working life. Hallelujah, I survived it! Praise the Lord!

I have been reminding myself all the while, to give thanks everyday, to at least one thing that happens to me, be it good or bad. Today's thanksgiving would definitely go to the bunch of ex-colleagues that made their precious time for the dinner cum gathering. I cherish every moment spent as we do not get to gather as and when we like to. We used to gather once or twice a year during Chinese New Year or Christmas and once a while we planned for a short getaway trip. I miss the happy times we had in our Hatyai trip. For that, we have decided to meet up more frequently and we have just set up a mission to plan for a short getawat trip again, within this year, maybe to Port Dickson. Yay!

Guess what... My daughter was still awake when I got home at 10pm+. Her usual sleep time is around 9pm to 930pm. She needs me to sleep. Hmmm... *sweet*

救命啊，我好 DRY!

我好想培養些心情煲下湯水，糖水，燉下補品，慰勞一下自己。

沒有媽媽煲的湯水，很明顯地感覺到自己好 dry。

希望守齋期過後，我可成功購買一個電燉鍋。

我要首先煲鍋老火湯，老黃瓜，怎樣？

APRIL SHOPPING LIST @ IKEA

I love food jars.

I dislike to store the remaining in bags, especially snacks!

This is so unorganised!

I have delayed my laundry schedule for one whole week. 

The laundry bag couldn't stand the overload, hmm...  the stand has broken!

I need to get a new one!

I always wanted to buy boxes to store my 'My Melody' Collection.

At the moment (Erm...  Since the day I moved in),
'My Melody' Collection has been laying on the shelves, unattended.

I feel so guilty...  :(

I have decided to give them a new home!

大功告成

我的書房終于可以見得人啦。。。

書房啊，希望沒令你失望啦。。。

亂檔攤

書房亂到。。。除夕之前，我會把所有的書包好，排好。誓死要替我的書房大翻身！書房，等我！

I AM STILL TIRED

it has been 10 days after 29th nov. although everything has over, i'm still tired. over exhausted from every day's house chores and the thing that affects me so much, the sleeping and wake up time. i need to adjust my biological clock at least 1 hour earlier than before. i used to sleep at 12.00am and wake up at 7.00am. now i need to sleep at 11.00pm and wake up at 6.00am. just that i can't make myself to sleep at 11.00pm, feel like there are too much of work to be done. and i can't make myself to wake up at 6.00am, feel like the dawn is still a long way to be seen.

what if, if i reach home at 7.30pm tonight, have a nice dinner, shower and sleep, without giving myself a chance to watch TV or even look at strands of hair on the floor and accumulative dust at corners of house? i think i could have a better rest...

let's see...

12 HOURS TO GO

just came back from jusco, carrefour and late dinner @ susan's. have bought almost everything for tomorrow and i'm really broke now!!!

gotta sleep earlier today for a dream to reveal a 4-digit number. hahahahaha~~~

tomorrow will be a long day... need to wake up early to leave the house with kiat & daryl, go back home to do some clean ups, fetch mum & dad, jarod & amelie over to my home, ceremony time at 11.00am, bring all out for lunch, do some cooking and desserts in the afternoon, accompany the kids to swimming pool in the evening and prepare for a steamboat dinner for 55 pax.

i'm really looking forward for tomorrow to end and have a good rest the day after... please allow me...

ALMOST DONE

1 day ++ to 29 nov - everything's within control so far. MIL and BIL came this afternoon for some chinese custom ceremonies before the move in. so thank God that she took everything as good, no bad comments and yeah, i'm so happy and relieved.

tomorrow is going to be another busy day, last minute shopping, clean up and that's it, here comes 29 nov!

PLAN PLAN PLAN

i have so much to plan and do this week. starting with house chores, packing ups, moving and back to house chores again. 29 november is getting nearer, things left undone is getting more. really hope that i could do everything before 27 november, just to stop my in-laws and parents from nagging me further. i'm not trying to get compliments from them, just at least, not nagging and pointing out what i have not done, what i could have done better... i want a perfect, not lesser than 98%-'agreement'-first-house-warming-celebration.

i thought the steamboat dinner would only for close family members and friends of my in-laws. i heard there are more coming from the hometown. gosh... shit!!! it would be a long day... yeah, i know i should be happy that so many people are celebrating with us, that so many people are happy for us... yeah, yeah, yeah... it could be a happy one, maybe...

everything is progressing well... i have to pack things up in boxes tonight, i have to shop for groceries tomorrow night, i have to move things over on thursday night, i have to complete some house chores on whole of friday, i have to wait for my in-laws to come over on saturday afternoon for some chinese ceremony and i have to do a final countdown on sunday.

wish me luck, bro & sis, pals & friends... : )

4 DAYS IN A WEEK

wednesday - it was a public holiday and of course we would want to utilise the day to clean the greatest mess in the world - our new home sweet home. everything that we bought for our home, from the thing we planned to put them in toilets, kitchen, bedrooms and study room was put in the living hall, on the floor. can you imagine this and do you think we need to clean this up...???

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friday - my colleagues and i have been planning to clear the store room in our office quite some time ago due to the scheduled shifting from wisma UOAII to plaza sentral in january (tentative... again). we started clearing the room at 9.30am and called it a day at 5.45pm. phew... what a tiring day...

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just received sms-es from my colleagues:-

1. put counterpain on my whole body. now whole body super cool, 发冷...

2. semua tulang pecah. have a good rest everyone. i'm going pig now.

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saturday - i swear this saturday will be the last day i'm doing heavy duty cleaning for our new home sweet home. i really want to put an end to this superb tiring activity. we have geared up with brooms, dustpan, floor mops, toilet brushes... let's do it hard, babe... wahahahaha~~~

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sunday - a shopping day @ ikea - main target - TV bench : )

我接受唔到啰。。。经典作！

MIL: 你既新屋要不要放个神位啊？
Pat: 奶奶啊，我唔拜神既喔。唔放啦。
MIL: 唔拜都拜吓啦。放个神位好D~~~
Pat: 我都唔信你信既个个神，我信既个位唔需要神位既喔。有心就得啦。。。

MIL: 两日前要煞米啊，一日前要挂上红布啊。
Pat: 係，係，係。。。收到！放工载你去。

MIL: 入伙个日要有个炭炉啊。
Pat: 奶奶啊，之后我要个炭炉来做乜啊？
MIL: 收起来啦。
Pat: 收起来自杀啊 （烧炭自杀）？！

MIL: 入伙个日我会带包米上去啊。你有唔有米缸啊？
无，我就一齐带埋来啦。我带个同已家厨房既一莫一样既来啦。。。
Pat: 点解既？我真係无打算要个米缸喔。我都无煲饭既。。。
MIL: 咁我就要一齐带埋个电饭煲啰。我带个同已家厨房既一莫一样既来啦。。。
Pat: （唔係呱？！你已家用紧既係Pensonic, 我要既係Panasonic啊。点咯来比啊？！）
奶奶啊，呢D野有人送佐啦。唔需要你带来啦。咯来咯去，咁麻烦。。。

**日日新鲜，日日甘**

我就是个完美主义者

老公，对不起。我不是故意地骂你的。

我气是因为我着紧，我在乎，我紧张。

着紧是因为这是我们的家。在乎是因为这是我们的爱巢。紧张是因为时间很紧逼。

我的发泄是因为我想拥有一个完美的家，很窝心的，很舒服的家。

每个细节我都很想做到最好的，只因为我是个完美主义者。

我保证没有下次。我不会再冲动了。这是我对你的承诺。

OFFICIAL MOVE IN

29 November 2010

WE MADE IT!!!

at last, my hubby makes the confession!!!
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we've bought our home sweet home some months ago but we haven't announced this big news to my in-law. reason being - simple - we don't want interference, we don't want interruption and we don't want extra extra unnecessary arrangements and opinions, which we'd treasure it if it is left unfolded forever...

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well... we've done almost everything, we've completed the 1st phase renovations, engaged with contractors for the 2nd phase, picked the paint colours, bought home appliances... basically just waiting for the time to get all things completed. we're getting real excited to moving into the new house!!!
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we broke the news to them after yesterday's reunion dinner, everybody was so shocked! not when we mentioned we've bought the house but when we said we wanted to move out from the current house. imagine this... we mentioned moving out in october, yeah... real soon... i think this is why they couldn't take it at first.
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Q& A session:
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are you unhappy living with us under the same roof? i'm sad to see you leaving...

aren't you suppose to feel happy that your son has the ability to own a house? moving out not because of unhappiness, we want to live our own lives out there...

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have you pick a date to move in? don't simply pick a date, this must be carefully done...

we haven't picked a date but if you want to pick a date for us, we've no problem, happy if you could help us. but please make it on a saturday in october / november, we want many people to come and share the happiness.

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will you set a prayer alter? a small one outside the house?

a big no-no!!! we don't trust in the God you are trusting, therefore, we don't want to keep something that we can't and don't want to take care of. but if you want to have a prayer ceremony before we move in, we don't mind but this going to be a one-time-off thingy.

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are you going to move everything out from your room?

no no... we're going to bring over the mattress only as we've so used to it. the rest we'll leave them behind as we'll occasionally come back for overnight, especially during CNY and festive eves, which fall on a friday.

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are you going home for dinner? i mean everyday?

of course won't but we'll make it once a week, we promise, just like we go back to my parents' home once a week for dinner. we've to make it fair, you see... don't worry... we'll take care of ourselves.
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i have to give you a set of cookware, most probably a set of wok and pots.

we aren't going to cook like 9 dishes a day, pots and wok basically to us are useless. we just don't want to waste your nice set of pots and wok. you can use them to cook tasty food for everyone.

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(MIL walked to the store room to look for other things that she could give to me) how about this steamer set?

ok ok... we take this, it helps when it comes to steaming mantou. i love mantou, for sure, i'll use this! thanks!

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what else do you need and want?

basically we've got everything. no need to buy anything else. the steamer is enough already...

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for sure i can't sleep tonight... so sad...

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(silence)
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is your home open to us? can we come over, for a night or two?

sure! we have a guest room for all visitors. you can just tell us that you'll be coming over, we'll get things fixed. no worries... you can always come over for the swimming pool, jaz or even BBQ. we really don't mind... we'll be happy if you drop by...

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the conversation moved on to our BB plan, her pregnancy experience and so on... i feel like vomiting when i talk about this, continuously... anyway, there's no more secrets...

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waiting impatiently...

FINALLY...

YAHOO~~~!!!

we've got the keys to our new home sweet home!!!