23 September 2007

Cool shirt eh?



Jia Xiang with Ah Ma

Daddy and his kids




First time on the shopping cart

Lantern / Mooncake Festival

Jia Wen had her neighbours come over to play lantern with her last weekend.

Mooncake Festival

My mooncake boxes this year.

25 September 2007

24 September 2007

Update

OMG, I have just sinned – big time! I just had the biggest plate of spaghetti bolognaise ever and am sitting down here watching “My Super Sweet Sixteen” on MTV. Well maybe my big plate of pasta isn’t as big a sin as the 16 year olds who spend like a gazillion bucks on their birthday just for fame or am I just envious, jealous? Ha… I think not. If my parents had that much money I’d rather for a holiday with best boos. Well, that’s just me.

Anyways, let me get down to business. I haven’t quite blogged in a while so I better do my blog some justice. I don’t really have anything in mind that I want to blog about so I am just going to shoot with whatever that comes to mind.

I think most of you already know that Shien Wei will be leaving Malaysia Airlines for a Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) company called the Sepang Aircraft Engineering. While it is a step up in his career when he assumes the post as a foreman there, it was a very tough decision to make. It was tough for us and even tougher for him. Leaving the company where you started your first job and when you have been with a company for 15 years, it does pick your brain a little. The few weeks before the decision was made and the letters signed were emotional and stressful for the both of us. But we made this decision and hope that everything will work out fine. I am pretty sure that this move will be good Shien Wei’s career. Oh yes, we will be losing our airline benefits so no more flying cheap. Air Asia will be the way to go!

Everything else in the home is fine. Jia Wen will be 4 in a few months and Jia Xiang will be 1 in December. Time just flies by us so quickly these days that we don’t realize its there anymore. But sometimes, I do wish that it can go quicker. Of course I wish that only when I have my bad days, when the kids are giving me a hard time. That’s when I wish they were already 18! I am not being mean but I am sure many mothers share the same sentiment as I do. Yes I know I am supposed to cherish the now and make the now as wonderful as I can but sometimes, but sometimes it does get a little frustrating when you try and try but my kids aren’t in the same wavelength. Oh well, that’s just me ranting.

Jia Wen is her usual self. Energetic, full of “smart” answers to every comment and remarks, intelligent, stubborn and sometimes very challenging. Am not sure about other kids her age, but she’s going through some kind of ultra sensitive phase where any remarks said to her can result in severe crying. I don’t know why that is but it can be very irritating especially when someone teases her. Sometimes I just don’t know what to do with her. She’s ok with me and that’s because I know her very well and I try not to do anything that will make her cry. Whenever someone says something that might make her cry and if I am around, I’ll so a “cover up” before she starts to cry. I am not trying to protect her or try to encourage her behavior, I just don’t want to cry and don’t want her to then develop a “hate” for the teaser. I don’t know what to do about this but I sure do hope that it will end fast.

Jia Wen has had sleep problems ever since I got pregnant with Jia Xiang and up till today, she’s still having those problems. She’s still not sleeping through the night, waking up 3-4 times a night and coming to our room. Although she is sleeping in her own room now and does go back whenever we ask her to but there are nights where she wakes up 5-6 times! We are not sure what is causing this but I think it is already her habit. We have tried many ways to break this habit of hers but she’s very tough to break. We have tried so many tricks but nothing seems to work. I have tried the nicest approach and the meanest approach but no avail. I even tried to punish her by taking away her TV time but that too doesn’t work. What I did was depending on how much trouble she gives is the night before, I’ll decide on whether she’ll get to watch TV and CD, or just TV only and no CD or not watch either. But guess what? One night before she went to sleep, she told me “Mummy, tomorrow I don’t need to watch CD, I just need to watch TV” and when I asked her why, she said “I don’t want to be a good girl tonight”. You see lah my daughter!! Now what would you say to such a remark?! I know she’s very smart and does think ahead but she just dumbfound me all the time!

Jia Wen has also developed a leech like closeness to me which she never was when she was younger. You remember the times when Jia Wen would willingly and happily go back to Melaka with her grandparents for the weekend? Well those days are gone. Jia Wen now refuses to go anywhere without me. She even refuses to go to Melaka or spend a night in Puchong without me there. Me going out for dinners is also tough for her. I would need to talk to her properly before I go out and assure her that I will be back, etc. Shien Wei and I haven’t been able to go on a holiday on our own because Jia Wen just won’t let and I am too scared of leaving her behind knowing that she will be a problem to whoever that is taking care of her. She won’t even go out shopping without me. She’d rather stay at home if I am not going with her. Sigh.

Jia Wen is doing well in school. She is now learning how to write in school so she would come home, take out pieces of paper, draw lines on it (like exercise books) and start to write. Often she would ask me how to spell words and she’ll make sentences. Like today, she sort of wrote a note for her EE. She wrote “Jia Wen want to send this to EE”. Haha.. cute isn’t it? Everytime after school while driving home, she would tell me all about what her friends were up to and all. Today she told me that her friend Jerrick likes to push his friends and when I asked her why, she said “he’s being a boy”. We will be stopping her from Vital Years by the end of this year and she will then begin the formal kindergarten next year somewhere near here which I am so looking forward to. We haven’t decided on which kindy to go to yet but she’s expressed great interest in going to a Mandarin school. We’ll see and scout around. One thing I am not looking forward to is her bringing homework back. I know that will be another huge challenge for me.

Jia Xiang is now 9 months old and is crawling all over the house and his favourite place to crawl to is.. you’ve guessed it – the kitchen! I really do not know why children just loves the kitchen, they just do! We only have one gate for the time being from Jia Wen’s time which we have put it at the stairs. Yes, Jia Xiang already knows how to climb up the stairs! We are now looking for a gate for the kitchen. We need to look for a gate where Jia Wen can open on her own – ironic isn’t it?

Jia Xiang is now taking 3 meals a day. I’ve been a lot more adventurous in his recipe for him as compared to Jia Wen. All I knew to cook for Jia Wen was rice porridge but since I bought a recipe book for baby food, I have tried several different type of food for him which he loves. He hasn’t been too big on milk. Am not too sure why. I have changed to another brand and hope take more milk now. Maybe its just a phase.

Jia Xiang is also quite attached to me. At nights, when he cries, he wants no one else but his mother to soothe him. Shien Wei tries very hard to soothe him whenever he cries but the moment I walk into the room, he’ll stop crying. I really appreciate Shien Wei for trying. So I guess that’s it for me and holidays on my own eh?

He now has 2 teeth! I first noticed his two bottom teeth on the 16 September 2007. He is very cute lah. Although he isn’t as easy a baby as his sister was but his smiles are just so wonderful.

Oh yes, did I mention that I love pasta?

21 September 2007

This pic is so cute!

OK Mummy, enough photo taking!

Sleep time

Jia Xiang fell asleep on daddy's lap while watching TV

16 September 2007

E-E Left

My sis left for UK last Friday and has arrived safely at Sunderland University in Newcastle. These pics were taken during the last few moments with her at the airport & at home. Jia Wen misses her tremendously. She cried for her when we left the airport and kept asking "Why EE has to go so far?" I know this entry is going to make my sis cry, right May?!

We miss you May. I know its going to be hard the first few days but you'll get the hang of it and when classes start, you'll feel better. Take good care of yourself. We love you...

... now don't cry.

I forgot

to tell you all that I won something from mix dot fm again last week. I won a RM200 voucher for Universal Traveller. Not that I need anything from there but what the heck! I won after guessing the correct song from the Mix Fm's Almost 90s at 9.

This time I was extremely lucky because I didn't even intend to try and I wasn't even listening to the songs until they announced to "call now" and RM200 Universal Traveller is up for grab and that's when it ding donged and said hey, maybe my sister would find the voucher useful and so I dialed, rang twice and the picked up the phone! I was like wow - so lucky. When they announced to "call now", Black Eyed Peas' Where Is The Love was playing so that was the non-90s song!

And today, my sis won some "mystery gift" for the same contest again - also from my phone! hHahahah... Lucky isn't it?

Good Morning Mummy

DJ Victor G Ah Ku

Jia Xiang & his DJ Uncle

(my brother)

Before & After

Before and after haircut

Jia Xiang's First Haircut

Both my kids had their haircut

Firework at Putrajaya

Fireworks at Putrajaya

Fireworks at Putrajaya

We were crazy enough to go for the finale of the International Fireworks Competition last Sunday. Of course we didn't drive into Putrajaya itself to watch it. We stayed as far as possible from the horrific traffic jam. We've see the traffic jam and it is really bad. People go as early as 3 hours before show time and get out only 3 hours later! So we stayed at Dengkil, one of the furthest spot to see the fireworks clearly. It was a mad house! But it seems the finale was a disappointment compared to the previous competition night and according to the rest of the by-standers around, Japan was the best! Nonetheless, I went because I wanted to let Jia Wen see the fireworks.

Some pics taken from some 2-3 kms away:

The traffic jam at Dengkil
(imagine the jam in Putrajaya itself)

Literally picnic by the road. We got there about 1 hour before showtime

Some of my best shots

Starbucks and My Mum

It isn’t every time that I get to enjoy my drink at Starbucks without my son fussing about. Its only when my mum is around that I get to really sit down, take out the notebook, take sips of my drink (non caffeine drinks only) and have a decent 1½ hour of blogging and surfing. So whenever my mum is here, I leave my son at home with her and the night before coming to Starbucks while I wait for Jia Wen to finish school is always filled with excitement! Hahah… I am not being mean but you’ve got to cut me some slack isn’t it? Coming all the way to Seremban almost everyday having to bring Jia Xiang along isn’t all that fun. Although he is not all that difficult to take care of these days, its just a wonderful feeling not to have to pick things up from the floor every single minute when Jia Xiang throws something down from the baby chair. In fact, I rarely come into Starbucks anymore – too much hassle and expensive.

It’s nice to have my mum over. I can sleep in for a while longer while my mum will take care of the kids, bathe them, feed them. It is a wonderful relief. Sadly my mum can’t be here all the time which is a good thing or I’ll just end up a fat lazy mother, not that I am not already fat! My mum will be going to China with her sisters tomorrow for 10 days and after that she will stay on for another week before she goes back to Labuan. Woo hoo! My mum does the cooking when she is here which is again a great thing – I don’t have to crack my head about what to cook and for a few days, there’s decent food on the table. Sometimes I wish my mum is a PR at our house but of course that wouldn’t be fair lah.

I Love You Mum!

1 September 2007

1 September 2007

Me and my kids

(finally a decent photo of us 3)

JWJX

Jia Wen's picture was taken on the 13 August 2004 and Jia Xiang's picture was taken on 1 September 2007. Jia Wen was 7 months and Jia Xiang is nearly 9 months.

Optimax

I am at the moment recovering from eye corrective surgery. Yes, I went for the lasik treatment at Optimax. I did my surgery on Thursday and have been going back there everyday for follow-up checks. Although I don't feel any irritation or discomfort, the optometrist said that I have some inflamation which I am treating with more eyedrops. I went for the intralase treatment. There are many types of treatment in the market suited to individuals. The type of treatment depends on your eye condition, thickness of your corneas and of course your power. According to this morning's check, my vision is near perfect but of course this will fluctuate in the coming months but at least I do not have to wear my glasses anymore. I can now look over my husband and check the time on the digital clock on his side without having any problems! I can see clearly now! Woohoo... Shien Wei did his corrective surgery last week and is recovering well.

The pic above is a pre-op picture. Felt like being in Grey's Anatomy for a while there. They didn't allow me to bring my camera further than this! Sigh. I was hoping to taking pictures of my eyes lasered!