Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Sick Sick Sick

It hasn't been too good recently with my 3 gals. They had been sick for more than 1 month and spending more than 1K on their medical fees!

It all started out with Rachel, don't know where she got her virus from, started coughing and running nose. After visiting the GP, she was better, but spread the virus to the maid. This stubborn maid refused to see doc when she was taking her medical check-up and slowly, slowly, pass the virus to my husband. Only then, she's willing to see the doc.

After my husband, the virus spread to my sensitive gal, Renise, who is still sick until now. Renise who later spread the virus to Reyna.

Renise was not coughing too badly, but it's prolonging the recovery. After she had been to the PD for the 2nd time after 2 weeks of coughing (she finished 2 bottles of Bambec before that), she was given the neuberlizer which she had to use it for 5 days 3 times daily. At the same time, Rachel got the virus back and visit the PD for the very first time, this time they spent me a total of $360!

They visited the doc for a total of 3 times (PD) and with these series of doc visit, Renise needs to continue 2 expensive type of medicine for 3 MONTHS and Rachel & Reyna are put on antibiotics.

Hiaz..... Financial crisis doesn't seems to affect the business at the PD's clinic.....

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Finally!

I was very nervous since Thursday. This was my 3rd attempt for my driving license. For the 1st 2 times, I failed because I had mounted the kerb which had never happen during practise. It was my bad luck.

Yesterday, I took my 3rd attempt. After going through what had happened in the 1st 2 tries, I was even more nervous and stressed. This was my 3rd attempt, I can't afford to fail again! And this will be my very last try as I do not have that much of extra cash to continue for the 4th attempt. I was really stressed.... The kind of feeling.... was really hard to describe.... It was a nightmare to me.... I couldn't sleep well the day before. The moment I closed my eyes, the incident of my mounting kerb reappeared before me....

My test time was 3.45pm, it was a looong wait from the moment I woke up and opened my eyes till the practise time at 3pm. My friend took the test on the same day with me but she was in the morning session. When she told me she had gotten her license, I was even more stressed..... Can't afford to fail, I've told myself.

During the test, I was extra careful in the circuit. Circuit 4, which was a S-curve, was my 1st circuit during the test. I was extremely careful and went through it safely. But after this circuit, I think I was nervous, but I think the tester was even nervous than me. :P I was asked to turn right, as per my instructor teaching, I have to go forward to the right moving lane before turning right, but the tester was so nervous that he thought I wanted to go straight. :P After turning right, I was asked to turn left again which was almost immediate, but don't know why, I went forward, thinking he was asking me to turn left at the junction instead of the test circuit to do a parking test, but I managed to turn left on time.

I was told to do a reverse parking, again, due to nervousness, I've kind of "miss" out the proper steps and reacted slow on my steering wheel, but when I realised I was very close to 1 side, I made an extra manovuer to make sure I didn't hit the pole. But as I was about to move forward, the tester stopped me and said that I've striked the kerb. The inside me told me I couldn't have strike the kerb and as I was looking around checking whether I striked the kerb, I opened my door to see and luckily I did that, otherwise points will be deducted as I did not strike the kerb. I was given another time to do the parking properly and this time I managed to do it right. While leaving the parking lot, he again said I striked kerb which I did not feel it. But I don't think I had striked the kerb anyway.

The whole process was a long time for me as I failed twice in the circuit, but everything well on smoothly after that and managed to exit the circuit without much points deducted. All in all, I've did well in the driving test (and I'm glad... phew!) and managed to pass the test with only 8 dermits points.

Finally! I can drive my car around!

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

1st Bicycle Experience

Rachel had received a bicycle for her birthday! It's her first bicycle!

On Monday, we finally found a chance to bring her for a ride in her new bicycle. Initially, we had intended to bring her cycle around the estate, but while on the way out, we realised it's not a good idea, haha, cos she was so unsteady with her new bike and with 2 sisters in lug, we abandoned the idea and decided to just let her cycle at the open space downstair.

It's our mistake for not training her to ride her bike earlier. She still can't ride a 4 wheels bike! It's time to train her up.... but seeing her enjoying her bike on Monday nite, I found that she had grown....

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

5th Birthday Party

We had just celebrated Rachel's 5th Birthday @ Melville Park Condo last Sunday. It was an enjoyable party! The children enjoyed themselves very much!

We used almost a month to prepare her party. It wasn't easy, as we had just shifted our house. The coordination of the house moving, her party catering, preparation, packing and unpacking.... all at the same time. Luckily we had the help from all our relatives to get all the jobs done on time for her party.


As usual, I did a cake for her party, it's a Castle Cake! It was to match her birthday theme: Princess! Had prepared for it for almost a week to get it done. I was actually quite nervous, as I had never built a castle cake before, hence I searched around for advice and help. Hope to create the "wow" effect from her friends as well as myself.


I roped her in to brainstorm on the design and decoration of the cake. For it to be round or square and what to put on the castle. I had also roped in Renise help to prepare the turrets as well as the flowers decoration and the hearts. I think they had enjoyed themselves very much in the preparation of the cake. So, when all the heads and hands combined, this was what we had created:

No sure if you can see clearly the doves on the top of the turrets, she actually wanted in on the walls of the turrets, but I felt that doves should fly high, hence I suggested to her to be on top and she agreed to it. I'm acutally quite happy with the result except that I find the colours not bright enough. If ever I have the chance to create it again, will sure to do a bright bright colour castle.

More of her birthday party photos can be viewed here.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Updates

Hihi to all, it's been quite sometimes since I last blogged.... Many things had happened during these times when I'm away. One of the major thing was that we had moved. The next big event coming up is Rachel's 5th Birthday Party Bash.

This is her 1st birthday bash as for the past 4 years, we only did small celebration for her either in school or at home. Since this is her 5th year and her circle of friends had increased, we decided to organise a birthday bash for her so that she can share her joy with her fellow friends.

The theme of this party will be Princess. I don't know why she loves Princesses so much and even her new room, she requested it to be pink! Hence, I've bought her a Pink Princess Dress to match the theme and will be doing her a Pink Castle Cake. I got her involved in the design of her cake so that she could share the joy of preparing for her party. She have been rather excited recently. I've also bought some items for her goodies bag and while I'm so worried she might bring it out to play before I can distribute it to her friends this weekend, I was told she dare not touch it at all as my mum had warned her if she spoil it, she will not have gifts for her friends! I can see that she's very much excited about her party, same as myself. I lost my sleep almost everyday stressing about her cake. It's my first attempt to create a castle and I hope I can create a beautiful cake for her!

Come back to the new house. We shifted in last 2 weeks. Initially, Reyna was abit lost. She kept walking up and down the house, looking so lost! The other 2 were quite alright. Initially, I was kind of worried that they may not be used to the new place. No more MRT train sound, no more car moving sound and the environment is totally different. I also have difficulties adapting to the new environment, but the children surprised me! Rachel & Renise managed to sleep through the night on the first day and they like their new room very much! Reyna managed to sleep through also except that she cried the moment she woke up early next morning and she's kind of shy to lie on her/our bed(Platform) initially as it's so different from our previous bed. Luckily, she got used to it quite fast.

Oh yes, there's another update. I've quitted my job...yes, again..... I hope I can work PT this time round and at the same time look after the welfare of my children. It's Rachel's wish that I stayed home with her, so I hope I can make use of these time to teach and "tame" them. GOD, pls give me the strength and PATIENCE!!!

Ok, that's all for the updates and keep a lookout for this blog again as I will be uploading the party photos soon after this week. :)

Friday, August 8, 2008

Jacob Ballas Garden

Finally, after hearing of this place for so many times, we had the chance to visit it today!

Woke up at 8am, started preparing breakfast before we headed to Jacobs Ballas Garden.

I had heard from fellow forumer that there are a few carparks around the Singapore Botanic Garden and only 1 is near to the JB Garden. SH told in her blog that she parked somewhere far and walked quite a distance to reach the place. In order not to follow her footsteps, we tried our best to look out for JB garden carpark. We thought we had found the place, but we were wrong!! We parked at Carpark A and it's was a distance to JB!

We walked and walked, everytime we walked past a carpark, we thought this should be the nearest carpark, but we had walked past at least 2 carparks before we reached the actual JB Carpark! It was less crowded there! We waited for abt 15mins at Carpark A before we can actually parked as the carpark was fulled.

After 20 mins walk, we finally reached JB!! When we entered the park, Reyna was sitting in the pram quietly, when we reached the photosynthesis area, I let her out of the pram, then she got so excited!! Keep wanting to go and turn the handle on the box!! I don't know what will happen, cos I tried turning it, I can't see anything changes or popped out. :P

Ok, look at all these pictures... the gals had enjoyed very much with the place.... except for Reyna who has yet appreciating it :P





Monday, August 4, 2008

Smoked Blender

I "smoked" my 6 years old blender!!! Haha, I find it very funny, I thought this scenerio can only be found in sitcom or comedy, but it actually happened to me.

I was trying to make some dark chocolate ice cream, but the recipe required the use of an ice cream maker. As I do not have the ice cream maker, I used the blender to blend the ice cream after it had been frozen. It took me quite some time to blend the ice cream till milk shake form, but luckily, it managed to turn into milk shake before the blender "smoked" on me... There's smoke coming out from the motor!! I wondered what happened? Was it I overheated the blender or the water from the condensation dripped into the motor and causing it to smoke.

Anyway, that will be my last use of the blender as well as my last batch of ice cream till I buy an ice cream maker, which is impossible as it's super ex or a new blender which can use to churn the ice cream.

Family Photo

Last Sunday, since we are still early for our dinner, we brought the gals to Robinson for a walk and see if we can get anything for our new house.

While we were there, we were curious about Living Colours from Philips and there was a roadshow going on hosted by Vivien Tay. When she saw us approaching, she called out for us and apparently, there's no one watching her, so she asked if we would like to take a family photo.
Haha, we proceed to the set up in the Robinson and took the photo with the ambience colour purple cos Rachel told her that her favourite colour is Purple.

Not too bad, except that we came unprepared so the dressing were abit obiang. :P

Friday, August 1, 2008

1st Diaperless Night

I know, this is nothing to be proud, but though this happened only now at 5 yrs old, at least it happened now.

Rachel had gone through her first diaperless nite last nite and, managed to survive the night without wetting the bed. I hope this will continue so that our pocket will be spare a little from buying her diaper though she is sharing them with her sisters.

3 cheers for Rachel!! Hip hip.....Hooray!!!

Monday, July 21, 2008

Sick Sick Sick

It had been a loooooooong time since I last blogged. Been too busy.... busy with my work, my family and myself. :P

For the past few days, Reyna was sick....She suddenly developed fever on Friday night and on Saturday, the fever went up as high as 39.8 degC! She was soooo sticky to me.... but she was very tired and sick too... sat on me the whole day long and only wants me to carry her. But at any point when her fever subside a bit, she will join her sisters in their playing... so the moment she came looking for me, I know it's time for medicine. :P

Yesterday, her fever finally subsided to very mild fever and she started her cheeky and funky self. I'm so glad to see her alert and happy again.

Since it's been long I've blogged. Just upload a few recent photos of my gals bah:
This was the recent Barney show which we brought them to and I've spent a few hundred on this as I bought them the most expensive seat at the 2nd row in front of the stage.

It was quite an enjoyable show.... Think Rachel is out-growing Barney cos she's not too excited. It was Renise who got very excited and started screaming like calling out for idol... we were very surprised as we thought she will be irritated by the loud noise. Glad the gals enjoyed the show and at least the money was well spent!

There will be more photos coming up, cos I'm not able to upload this from my office PC. Will do so when I got back home.

Happy Birthday Renise!!

This year, as Renise had started to attend some Art class with her sister, we had decided to celebrate her birthday earlier at her Art class so that she would have friends to sing birthday song and shared her joy.
As promised, I had baked her a Cinderella Doll Cake. She always tell me that she is Cinderella whenever we read the story, so I've decided to bake this cake for her.
Instead of the usual doll pick where it's only the head and half body, I bought her the whole doll from Toy R'us. It was a Cinderella Barbie Doll with a necklace and comb and shoes which she can play with after the celebration. Wow, this cost me $30!! But well, it's her birthday, and this was also my birthday gift for her.
Well, the cake was a challenge. As I'm using the usual barbie doll, the cake was taller than the previous cake which I had done before. It consisted of 4 layers of cakes with 3 flavours, Chocolate Sponge, Buttermilk cake and of course the usual Butter cake. I'm supposed to cover the skirt with fondant, but I do not have enough to do it and my fridge is not tall enough to store the cake if I will to use fresh cream. Even if my fridge can store it, I doubt the fridge in the Art class can, hence, without much choice, I had to cover it with buttercream icing.
This was the cake I did for her:

Beside this, I was worried that this may not have enough to share for all the kids at the class, also, I was lazy to scout for goodie bags and packing them, I baked and decorated the Cinderella Themed cupcakes for her.... obviously.... the glass slippers was the choice :

Again, will update her party photo later. :)

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Sorry, haven't been blogging recently. Had started my new 5.5 days work and been getting low in morale. Hence, I don't have to mood to blog.

During this period of time, I had went to the Barney Show with my gals and the next upcoming event will be the Kungfu Panda movie. Will try to update these here as soon as possible.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Is it Teething?

Last nite, I was woken by Reyna's snorting sound, she's having blocked nose!! Poor gal, she is too having cough!! With cough and flu coming in side by side and with her frequent poo which looks mashy... could she be teething?

I do not know. I will have to bring her to doctor tomorrow to find and out hopefully the TCM will helps. :(

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Update on Little Reyna

Last nite, as I was patting her to bed, I realised how much she had grown. Instead of putting her to sleep, I played with her for a while. She can said many things now. As she's getting smarter each day, she's getting naughtier as well as she is able to know how to demand and in what way her parents and grandparents will give her. But, she is such a sweetie pie, can you bear to say no to her? Plus, she is quite a good actor, she can cry till very pitiful just to get something done.

Here's what she can say & do now:
- daddy de4
- hai2 yao4 chi1
- ear
- nose
- pinch
- bus without the 's' sound
- count 1 - 5 in chinese
- count 1 - 10 in english but not in sequence
- chou4 chou4 (smelly in chinese)
- drink water from cup with little drip
- snatch things from her sisters
- scratch her sisters (*faint)
- climb up a stool
- bring a stool to the designated place for food
- can shower standing (yipee! no need bath tub liao)
- can show her "yes" or "no" by answering or action

Hmm... guess that's all I can think of at now.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Eventful Holiday

Last weekend, it's the "last" holiday for 1st half of the year. The next holiday will have to wait till Aug for the National Day.

On Sat, after my driving lesson, I went for my fish therapy. When I was in the Kampong Fish, there was this man already in doing his therapy and we were early. We brought along Reyna as my mum was not free to help me look after her, hence I brought her along as I've seen others bringing along their kids. As you know, Reyna being a toddler, tends to scream and get excited quite easily, so she was quite "noisy" in the sense. This man, commented to the staff that it's ok for their customer to bring their children, but if the children are screaming, it's disturbing..... customers are here for relaxation. Wa lau, Kampong tends to be noisy one mah, kampong if quiet it's no longer kampong, it's HDB or Pte Estate liao. Furthermore, if he finds Reyna noisy, how about if a group of customers were chit chatting and laughing loudly during the therapy (which it happened previously), will he said it's not relaxing? People gathers to find a time to catch up and doing the therapy at the same time, so if he finds that noisy, what can I say? To me, it's Kampong Fish, hence, it's ok to be noisy abit, otherwise, it's not called Kampong liao. Anyway, I think that man is just sick lah, cos when it's time for him to wash his feet as his time was up, he requested for another 5 mins, putting the blame on us for being too noisy and disturbed his relaxation. If every customer like him, think Kampong Fish will lugi.
Anyway, I'm just feel disgusted by his words and attitude.

After that, I went for my check-up at TMC, of cos with Reyna again. This Reyna had missed her morning nap and when she's in the clinic, she running everywhere to keep herself alert! Luckily the clinic is big and there's is enough space for her to run about. Poor hubby, he was so tired after chasing her and catching her. :p

After the check-up, we went to pick up the gals who were still in their art class waiting for us. (I've requested the help of Jeanlina to look after them while I went for my check up :P, THanks Jeanlina! :) )

Reyna was shagged, since she missed her morning nap and Rachel and Renise were too, tired as they had been using their concentration in their class, they fell asleep quickly.

After their nap, we went back to JB. The whole bridge before the custom was full of motorist! It's just like tiny ants marching along the bridge. It took us about 30mins to reach the custom.

On Sun, we went to do lots of things. Hubby went to make his spectacles, we went for massage and best, Rachel got her hair cut short. So many things happened.

Monday too, had lots of activities...sent the mochi to Shihui, went to maid agency to interview a transferred maid, went out for lunch, went to view a condo show room and last, went out for dinner.

It was such a busy weekends! I don't even have the time for my triple cheesecake.... hmm, maybe I should do it tonite since the process seems quite easy :P

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Official Quitting

Yes, I know, I know, I've been saying to quit my breastfeeding career but am still breastfeeding up till today and STILL, on-going.

But this time, it's for real, I've officially stopped pumping at work and only feed Reyna when I'm home. I'm using the same tactic as I'm using last time for Renise, ie let her realise herself that milk is getting lesser and stop latching on herself. During this transition period, I will also train Reyna to take Formula or even Full cream milk as her milk intake. I will also try my best to introduce dairy products in her diet (she don't like cheesy items).

Very fast, I will be starting my new job at Marina Bay and the time of spending with them will be shorter. I'm hope GOD really have His plan for us and sees me through all these hardship and taking good care of my gals while I'm away. I hope my bond with the gals will not be weaken and hope that the usually activities will not be much interrupted.

Monday, May 5, 2008

Super Sticky

For the past few days, I realised that Reyna had been very, very sticky to me.

She can cling on me the whole day, asking me to carry her all day long and keep coming to me for milk. Like yesterday, I was sicked and took MC to rest at home. While I was sleeping, she kept waking me up and tell me "nei nei"..... then cried when I refuse to give in but the moment she hear the clicking sound, she will chuckle cheekily...really cannot tahan her.

She was such a glutton also, must have inherited her mummy's.... :P Last nite, she just plucked the fu zhou (dried bean curd skin) from the plastic bag and put inside her mouth and chew.... headache leh, then yesterday, while her sister was doing her homework, she also take the colour pencil and put inside her mouth and suck like lollipop!!

Hiaz.... I know ur mummy is a glutton lah, but not that extend of putting everything in the mouth and eat bah.... Then while reading the post from Shihui, I'm sort of worried what will happen if Reyna also took the detergent and swallow it?? At least Shihui are more educated and bring him to A&E, my mum will panick.... and what if nobody knows she swallow the detergent?? It's really worrying and thanks to Shihui's blog for the reminder to keep the chemical safely....

Monday, April 28, 2008

Reyna Reyna

After reading PH's blog, I then remembered that my little nana also have her cuteness. :)

Every nite, when she's tired, she will run to me and cuddle me and pull me into the bedroom, but before that, she will kiss her daddy and her sisters goodnite and quickly run into my room. When she's in my bed, she will lie down and if I try to lie down without switching off the lights, she will kick me and point to the light and say "deng, deng"...... and while I walked to switch off the lights, she will wait happily in my bed and will chuckle cheekily after I off the lights.....then, she will ask for her "nei nei"..... and off to dreamland.......

When it's shower time, she will quickly run into the room, take her handkerchief and towel and say "sho.......wer" and walked into the bathroom.....

When it's meal time, she will find a place and seat down and wait for the food....as she does that, she will mumble "mum mum...."

Haha, and when her sister cries, she will look at us and ask "zou mo"...."ei....shame shame"....

Anyway, she is such a sweetie pie now.......

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Macaroons

Yesterday, I did the macaroons, durian cake and durian swiss roll....

The macaroons wasn't very successful, there's no feet and it cracked while baking, however, the taste was good. I baked and eat at the same time. :P

I've also got the macaroons for Amrita (Fishandrice) while collecting the chocolate from her. It was so yummy and the look was so nice..... I shall try again to do it, maybe.....this Thursday (Labour Day)? :P

Lucky / Suay Day

Last Saturday, I had an "adventure". I went to IMM for dinner with my family and on my way to the carpark, Rachel wanted to go the toilet, so I brought her to the toilet at the 2nd floor beside Osim.

Happily, I just hang my wristlet on the door and since it's only she who was going to pee, I did not close the door. While I hanged up the wristlet, inside my head, I'm telling myself that don't forget about that Wristlet...... however....this pig brain of mind still forgets about it and walked out of the toilet empty handed.

I did not realise it until I reached home before I got out of the car (I usually will search for my wristlet before I got off). I quickly called my sister, who will by chance still in IMM (we went dinner together) went up to the toilet to search for me while I'm on my way back to IMM.

It's GONE!!! I'm not worried about the money, cos it's not much inside. What I'm worried is my PDL and my ATM card...these 2 will have to go through many procedure and queueing to apply for a new one.... but luckily, I went to the customer service counter to check if someone would have bring it there and I was really lucky, my wristlet was there with everything in tact...not a single cent lost.... I must thank the kind soul who had returned it to the customer service counter.......