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Eventful Wednesday

2010-11-29T10:33:00.001+08:00

Last Wednesday was a Barney Day for little Jewel.. It was raining heavily and the plan to watch The Barney show was a very impromptu thingy.
In any case, I booked a cab and rushed to United Square with Jewel in the midst of the rain.

Oh my, it was so crowded even though there was another half hour before the show begins!!

Suddenly I thought of walking into Chocz n ordered a cuppa coffee and cake while having a great view seated down! Momentarily, I felt so smart!! Hahahaha

Jewel needed time to warm up ( just like Ja when he was young)! And by the time she was dancing, singing and waving at Barney, the show was over!! But this gal really did enjoy herself.

Guess being a mum of 3 means I have to have time together with each individual kids, to bring them out for a treat etc.. It really does work magic! We did that for Ja ( his beyblade competition) last week and now with Jew for her Barney treat.. This makes them feel special that daddy and mummy are spending time with them ALONE and at the same time, they also will think about their other siblings while they are out with us!

Never did I know that J3 also wants to 'spend quality time'
with me!! That very night, my helper Jona discovered that his urine was stained with blood. We were shocked and scared and rushed him to KK children's emergency. Poor Josh was diagnosed with UTI ( suspected) and had to be warded.

The rest was history. We spent 4 days in KK and he was only discharged on Sunday. Throughtout this stay, mummy was so so tired. Though we opted for a Single bed room( as we had insurance to cover), it's just not the same as Gleneagles!

Everything in KK has to wait and wait and wait! Treatment only started 2 days later as we had to WAIT for the test results to confirm it's UTI. Waited for half a day for another set of results to be out before Josh was discharged. Upon approval, we waited for another hour before we can walk out of the hospital!!

Sigh, guess next time I will opt for Gleneagles if there is anything (God forbid!!)

Well, thank God it's finally over! Ja and Jew were so happy to see their baby back home again. They had been waiting and asking for Josh..

Those 4 days were one of the worst I experienced... To see Josh having needles and tubes poked into his little hands and feet.

Now whenever we put him down for diaper change, he would screamed his heart out! He must have thought it's another round of blood test again:( poor baby...

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Today's special

2010-11-22T16:26:00.001+08:00

Drinking coffee at MOF now.. Catching up on my readings while waiting for time to pass..
Am reading this book by Myrna B. Shure

Will be fetching Ja n Ethan to watch Rapunzel later. Meanwhile both boys are playing beyblades at Ethan's place..

Poor Jew has to stay home though I really wish to bring her along.. This gal just refused to watch movies in the cinema cos she is scared of the darkness!! My mum said it's just like me when I was young and she brought me to watch 'Lao(3) Fu(1) Zi(3).. I was crying when Lao Fu Zi was being chased by a tiger n my mum had no choice but to carry me out! So embarrasing!!

Ran a few errands n settled banking matters.. I really feel like I m the Finance Minister, the Home Affairs, Communications n Transport, and Education Minister of the Tan family!!

It's good that iPhone has this blogger apps so I can pen down my thoughts n happenings whenever I m free! It's like writing a diary:)

Well yesterday we had a funtastic time at Duxton! The kids had a great time playing n dancing with uncle Handi's new X box! It was so entertaining that my mum wanted a set for her Christmas present!! Lol!

We shall see how long this fire will last for her:)

Ok, gotta go n post some letters now!

Toodles!

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Lazy Sat

2010-11-21T03:20:00.001+08:00

Relaxing at Starbucks with hubby now.. All 3 kiddos are sleeping already:) Mmmm this is heaven!

Brought the kiddos out today.. Honestly we really are clueless about where to bring them to especially so on a rainy Saturday.

Jewel has been bugging us to do painting again so we made our way to suntec again! This princess really loves handicrafts and painting.

We also saw a roadshow by AIBI and the 2 kiddos ended up jumping on the trampoline.

It was quite hilarious cos Jewel couldn't really balance well especially with her gorgor jumping vigourously!! She ended up hitting him n screaming instead..

YouTube Video

Sometimes I really feel very challenged in my motherhood when the kiddos or rather, Jewel, starts to behave like a little 'monster'! She even attempted and sadly to say, succeeded in biting Javier's arm today!!! His arm now has her teeth marks and the wound bled a bit:( oh my!!

That's why I have been visiting the library and reading up on parenting books ( on disciplining, educating children) before I resume my hectic lifestyle again.. One and a half months more to go..

Looking forward to meet up with my sis tmr!

Toodles for now!

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Our new HOLE

2010-11-19T13:19:00.001+08:00

Finally! We bought our new place. Signed the papers at HDB Hub this morning.. So happy!!!

After which we went to United Square to help Ja sign up for his beyblade competition.. Yes it's the latest thing on town. In fact, it was his classmate who told him about the competition and
Ja has been wanting to take part.

Stage is set!

Well, his daddy bought for him more gadgets to add on to his collection. No wonder daddy is always the favourite one around!!

Competition is at 2pm so we took the MRT to Orchard to get our hair cut n colored..

Daddy finally colored his hair!!

Well hopefully Ja does well for the competition later. Pray with me together!:)

Toodles!

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Ressurection and thanksgiving

2010-11-18T10:27:00.001+08:00

Finally, after 8 months of 'fasting' from blogging, I have decided to ressurect my blog once again!

In fact, I forgot how to log in n had to ask Jiaying!! What a joke!

Actually I had wanted to blog again quite some time ago but there are so many happenings and thoughts and I just didn't know how or where to start.

Just to get started, I just want to thank God in this post now that the year is coming to an end...

I thank God for His faithfulness, His grace, His providence, His favour in so many things..

1) my smooth transition into my new job this year despite the fact that I was pregnant!

2) new found friends and colleagues and lots of favor from my bosses!!

3) our new addition baby Joshua into our family.. He is such a
Joy to all of us!! And it's so tempting to produce more!! Hahaha cos I personally think my kiddos are one of the cutest around!! Ok I am biased! And of course factory shall be closed very soon:)

4) People that God has brought into our lives. Honestly this year has not been easy.. Each step is led by God and I am so amazed at how God brings different people.. Especially those that I least expect, to be a comfort and joy to me and Ck..

5) our new house!! This is such a miracle.. The location is fantastic and the price is unbelievably
Awesome!:) so looking forward to next march! We are now enjoying the process of searching for designs and furniture to create our cosy hole!:)

6) My mother in law for housing us in the last one year! There are so many horror MIL stories but I thank God my MIL is one of the best around! Making our stay so smooth and being such a great help especially with BB Josh! Honestly, I think I will miss staying with her.. Miss watching drama series and discussing the plots together:) I thank God that I had the chance to stay with my in laws! It's a priceless experience:)

7) my family, especially my dear sister Jiaying! Thanks for being there to listen, to talk, to shop and go thru our transistion together! I must say we are such an envy for others! Lol

So many so Many more to thank Him for.. I shall stop here for now as my breakfast is done and this auntie is on her way to do grocery shopping! Hee:)

Toodles for now!

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Arise and Build!

2010-03-08T13:19:00.003+08:00

Ja came to me excitedly yesterday after service and said,"Mummy, do you know we are moving to Suntec for church very soon?"

I asked him how he came to know about it and he said children's church told them.

So when he saw the Suntec Convention Centre on the front page of City News, his first response was.. "Wow! So they are going to knock down this whole Suntec and build a City Harvest Church there??" LOL! Think he imagined the building to be liken to Jurong West St 91 where there will be a big cross and a big CHC name!

I clarified with him that its not going to be so.. think should have made him an EM and let him hear the explanation from Pst Kong himself during the AGM! (Just joking!)

Then Ja's next response was.." Wow! Then next time after service, I can go straight to the arcade and also Toys "R" Us!!! Wow! That's NICE!!! (I nearly fainted!)

Ja: "Mummie, teacher said to bring my piggy down to church next week for Arise and
Build.."

Moi: "So, how much do you intend to give to build God a house? How about the whole
Piggy?"

Ja: "Erm, No la.. let me count my money inside first, then I decide.."

(FAINT FAINT!) Actually, I think Ja is a smart boy. He loves God but he doesn't just give without thinking! Hahaha or rather, should I say he is counting his cost!!

Well, perhaps today i will empty his piggy and count his coins together with him. Will have to let God touch his heart for the amount to give.. I will just stay out of the picture!

Unequal amount, Equal Sacrifice!!!
Let's Arise and Build!

Exciting 2010!

2010-03-05T11:37:00.002+08:00

Went to visit my buddy's baby yesterday and I must say babies are sooo cute!!! Another buddy of mine said that I better don't do so much hospital baby visits after my third one cos every time I do so, my heart opens up to babies once again! Anyway, come to think of it, if everything is to turn out as planned.. Maybe... just maybe... I can have a 4th one??!! HAHAHAHAHA.. Erm, but Ck didnt say NO to that idea!

We'll see how la hor.. after my third little one is out! OH gosh! I am such a MOTHER PIG!

So far my pregnancy is getting on well. I always tell the little one inside me..."Baby you got to be strong ok? Mummy is going to have a hectic lifestyle but you will be safe in my tummy! Enter into the rest of The Lord ok!" And honestly, this is what I have been speaking to the baby every morning especially when the day is a hectic one for me!

I am feeling slightly better from the evening sickness.. Now I crave a lot for fruit juices, smoothies, sour drinks, yogurts... and this is so different from Ja and Jew! Think it's better too.. more healthy.. as I always crave for Ice milo DINOSAUR in the past and Tsk Tsk.. its so sweet! Planning to engage a second helper probably in a few months time.. Think Jona's hands are really full with the chores, cooking, Jewjew and the tird baby that is to come.. SO praying for yet another good helper! My buddy said should look for a helper whose name starts with "J". Cos it seems like the trend is the "J"s helpers are usually quite good.. proven! Lol!

I must model myself after my buddy Eileen.. who only gained 7 plus kg in total and her baby already takes up 3.4kg! Wow! She has only gained 3 plus kg on herself! My inspiration!!

So for this time round, I hope.. really hope I will only gain at most 10kg?? As compared to the previous 2 which were a consistent 17kg!!! Cant tell right? I honestly don't know where the extras went to as they were not big babies too..My Bottom?

Am really believing that 2010 is going to be the best year for me and CK! What the bible says is true.. There is power in agreement! Felt this year, our marriage has grown stronger and closer! Haha maybe we have passed the trying year of the 7th year! Felt this year both of us have entered into a maturity level where we can share deeper fears and concerns of our own lives to each other, agree on our common goals for the family , the way we handle the kiddos.. yeah, I feel happier! Think in every marriage, there is always seasons of bashing through, building deeper trust and respect.. all these sound so cliche when I heard them in the past but its really so so true!

So to all married couples out there... Keep on loving, sharing, respecting, hugging and building your family... Its a MARATHON! Cheers!

Ja's first visit to his school dentist!

2010-03-03T17:57:00.002+08:00

Last Sunday after service, Ja came happily to me from his children's church and showed me 2 missing teeth in his mouth! I was shocked cos for once, he looked so Boh Gey! Hahaha! Think the chldren's church teachers all freaked out cos he was bleeding quite a bit! But that boy was so proud and happy that his teeth that have been bothering him for a week have finally dropped off!

Two days ago, he came back from school and showed me ONE more missing tooth! That means THREE in total! Well, he is really "AIRY" now:)

He was so proud of the fact that he visited the school dentist to pluck out that loose tooth and that the dentist gave him lots of freebies like cartoon toothbrush, toothpaste, activity booklet etc! Kids nowadays are so brave!

I remembered when I first stepped into the school dntist when I was in Primary one, I was literally shivering with fear. And yet to Ja, this was like a fun experience! Well of course, he can skip a some classes while at the dentist! I hope his other teeth will not drop too soon cos he is really "BOH GEY" now!!! So much so to the extent that Jewjew saw his mouth, she would start pointing her fingers at Ja and LAUGH!! Literally LAUGH as in "Hahaha"!! That really pisses Ja off!

Thought of sharing this funny story here:) Cos for the first time, I saw how Jewjew teases her gorgor and make fun of him:) And that didnt stop after one day!! For the past 2 days, whenever Ja comes back from school, she will run to him and say " Gorgor, gorgor, teeth teeth!!" and start laughing! lol!

Preggy Updates

2010-02-08T16:27:00.002+08:00

Wah man! Think they don't call it "GRAND FINALE" for nothing!

While I am going through this "grand Finale" (as this should and WILL be my last pregnancy!!), all the symptons of sickness be it day or night start manifesting themseleves on me!! Arggh!

It really takes a toil on me and my face looks so OFF colour!

Well, I am now at my 8 weeks.. as I revise those pregnancy books, this is the time when the baby's major organs are in place and can now move around his/her arms and legs. Wow! Father I pray that this baby will be healthy in all his organs!

This time round my tummy balloons up faster than before.. guess it was just 20 months after giving birth to Jewel so the kangaroo's pouch is still "loose"? Anyway, will seriously do something to slim down after this one! For all you know, you might see me sharing testimony of how I receive blessings from some slimming centres? Wow:)

Almost every night around 10 to 11pm, I will be craving for TeoChew Porridge. Think it's more of to suppress the nauseous feeling with the warm porridge rather than a craving on its own! Ck has been pretty caring and sweet to me:) I mean considering this is the 3rd one.. He still entertains my cravings by bringing me to various Teochew Porridge shops after the kiddos are asleep. My MIL has also been cooking nice soups and steaming my favourite TeoChew style fish with tomatoes, ginger, mushrooms for my lunch:)Yummy!

Well, I do hope the next 7 months will pass by like a breeze for me.. THis is really not as easy as I thought as compared to Ja and Jew. The 2 of them are very sweet to Mummie though.. Ja will not throw his tantrums as much as he knows I am not feeling well and of course though Jew doesnt know what's happening yet, but she has been practising her BIG SISTER act by feeding her "baby", bringing baby for a walk in the stroller and letting me sleep through without disturbing me.. She will in fact say"Shh" to everyone when I dozed off:)

Aww I know I am biased but I still want to say that I think my 2 kiddos are one of the cutest and sweetest ones around:)

Leaving you all with a quote I read somewhere:

"Fifty years from now,
it will not matter what kind of car you drove,
what kind of house you lived in,
how much you had in your bank account,
or what your clothes looked like,
but the world may be a little better
because you were important in the life of a child." -Anonymous

Happening Jan!

2010-02-03T17:07:00.002+08:00

Ya finally back after a month.

Jan has been such a happening month!

1)SPOOKY EVENTS

Ya I am sure from my FB many of you would have heard about the "spooky" encounters Ja and Jew had on some of the nights. Anyway, we have been praying over the house and finally these few nights are much better. Jew doesn't cry anymore. In fact there was even once that she laughed in her dream! THank God for that!

2) Yeah J3!
Yup I am pregnant again! Just after less than 2 years! It came as a "shock" but yet became a pleasant surprise:) We thought the age gap is just nice for us. 7 years from Ja and 2 years from Jew. Guess our zone is really anointed for growth and multiplication! Be it growing the zone or growing our families! Hahaha
So till date the TTFA club has 3 pregnant ladies all due one after another from July till Sept! Oh yes, not forgetting Lennie too! So to the other mummies and wives, get ready to jump into the flow!
But children are really such a blessing from the Lord! Ja is such a grown up boy now, everytime I browse through his worksheets and work, I can't help but feel so proud of him! THere is such a big jump just within one month in Jan!!
And for Jew, she is such a darling! Think God really answers my childhood prayer when I used to envy girls with natural curls when I have straight and limp hair. And Jew is such a cheeky girl who knows how to use her "Daddy" and "Mummie" to melt our hearts and get her way! Mmmmm.. what will J3 be like?....

3) HOuse Hunting
And yeah because of the exciting events, we are really geared up for house hunting. PRay that we will get our next ideal house in the exact location we have always wanted! And pray that we will get it by Feb or latest Mar! Amen!!!

4) Happy 8th Anniversary
Yeah, celebrated our 8 anniversary yesterday. Nothing spectacular like the Merlion at Sentosa, or romantic getaway to somewhere... But we just went for a yummy lunch at Shangri-La and went to enjoy our Gold Class movie at Vivo.. ITs a nice feeling.. to just enjoy a day without any agenda or program! Come to think of it, I have known Ck as just a FRIEND for like 13 years!! became an item for like 12 years! Married in the eyes of law (ROM) for like 9 years!! Ya Feb is a month of celebration... 2 Feb (Wedding Anni), 14 Feb (Valentine's Day), 22 Feb (ROM/official wedding anni) hehehe... After 8 years of marriage, it really feels like lao(3) fu(1) Lao(3) qi(1).

Guess the next big thing is the Chinese New Year? Big for us as its time for $$$ to be spent again!!! But it sure is a great time of gathering and oohh my Bak Guas!!! Hopefully by then my evening sickness would have subsided already so that I can really enjoy my food and not look like I am dying!

Happy Chinese New year to all of you! HUAT AH!

Alright! Toodles for now!

Ja's New Beginning

2010-01-07T16:16:00.007+08:00

It has been nearly a week since Ja embarked on his new journey in his primary school. Many have been asking how he is, whether or not is he able to adapt to the new lifestyle and his new environment. Honestly, I was a bit or rather very anxious since Sunday. Cos like many of you, I was not sure if he being so playful and carefree in nature, was able to settle down in the Singapore education system.

On sunday night after church, we brought him to Jurong Point to let him enjoy his "last night" of freedom. Of course first stop being the arcade at the "Animal Kaizer" which is now the lastest craze of many students.

ON Mon, all of us woke up at 5.30am to show him our support! Honestly, it feels good to wake up so early! The air is indeed fresher and you seem to have lots of time too:) Ja boy was very spontaneous and woke up immediately and he even wanted to take a hot shower to freshen himself!

Ja and a very excited daddy
By the way, Ck has been praying over Ja and anointing him with oil before sending him down stairs. It seems like Ja knows what is happening and he will bow his head to receive the prayers of blessings his daddy would say over him! A great start daily!

Ja and his "Tak-Glam" mum!

All ready to set off! His Gonggong and PoPo bought him the jacket from KL! It was put to good use every morning!

As it was raining cats and dogs, we couldnt really track his school bus thus Ck and I went to the RailMall along Upper Bukit Timah to have our super early breakfast of Roti Prata at the Ah Mei Kaya stall.

Then after, we proceed to his school at Bukit Timah Pri to meet up with Ja. He was already seated for assembly and Silent Reading when we arrived.

All the parents and students jamming the assemby area

The funiest thing was, when he took out his book "Clifford the Big Red Dog" to read, his classmate, a girl took out an Enid Blyton book which was very thick and full of words!! You should have seen Ja's face when he saw that book! Ck and I were giggling as it felt quite "paiseh" to be reading his book when his neighbour was reading a thick one!! Hahaha peer pressure!

See Ja's look on his face as he was looking at the "powerful" classmate!!

We also dropped by during his recess time and Ja was already savouring his bowl of fishball noodles and a glass of "Kickapo"!!!

See Ja enjoying his glass of "Kickapo"?

He was so excited about recess and said that was his favourite part of his school!!! HE also had a Pri 5 buddy attached to him for the whole of this week! His buddy Gerald will be showing him where to place his used cutlery, where to wash his hands, the toilets etc. I thought it was good to have a buddy for a week and that really helped Ja to settle down in his new school!

Ja and his buddy Gerald (Think Ja looks more at home than his shy buddy:))

School officially ends at 1.30pm after which he will be taking a schoolbus to a student care centre near Palm Garden where his "Yee Nai Nai (Ck's auntie) works as a pre school teacher too. We thought it will be good for him to go there so that he can complete his homework under the supervision of the teachers and when he goes home in the evening, he can just bathe, have his dinner, watch TV and relax before bedtime at 9.30pm.

As for Jewjew, she definitely feels the difference as her gorgor is now out of the house for more than 12 hours daily! In fact for the first dew days, she kept saying "GorGor Gorgor.. no more..." as she goes into his room. Poor thing! Perhaps its time for her to join a play group so that she can be occupied with more things rather than being cooped up at home!

Ja was telling me during dinner 2 days ago: "Mum, I think I have grown up!"

Yes indeed, my boy has grown and I can see that over this one week, he has become more responsible and mature! Well, that means I also have to change my lifestyle which was easier said than done!

For one, I cant really get to sleep at 10pm!! My eyes are just wide open! And though I have no difficulty waking up at 5.30am, I realised I cant go back to sleep after that though my body is tired! Every night, I find myself busy sharpening pencils, checking his bag, preparing his books etc. Of course, eventually he will have to do all these himself. But I thought I let him settle down for another 1 week before throwing him with more responsibilities!

Well done, Ja!! We are so proud of you!

Happy New Year!

2010-01-02T01:46:00.003+08:00

Happy New Year! After all the anticipation, we have finally crossed over! Actually I had a lot of mixed feelings from 31st Dec 2009 to 1st Jan 2010. In fact, everyone is confessing that 2010 is the best year yet to be! But somehow, I always wonder that after all the countdown parties and feasting, it takes time for everyone to settle back and get back the momentum again. I can almost guarantee you for sure that tis coming Monday blues are going to be much much more compared to the other Mondays! Why?? Simply because the excitment and fun built up from Christmas to New year is too much!

So, I must say to myself: GET STARTED!!! THE YEAR HAS BEGUN!!!!

This Monday is going to be really excited.. cos Ja will be starting his primary school!! Woots!! GOsh! I don't know why an I getting the butterflies in my stomach?! I am not the one going to school!! But I guess like most first-time primary school goers parents, I am just anxious whether will Ja be able to wake up so early, will he fall asleep on the school bus, will he know how to buy food at the canteen, will he find favor with his teachers and friends (Yes he will, Amen!!), will he be accustomed to the after school care that I will be sending him?? And the list goes on and on....

Will be going to Popular later to get all his stationery and other stuff ready. Thanks to his Yee Yee and my sis-in-law for their presents-school bags!!! I remembered as a student, I always look forward to the start of a new school term in the new year as that would mean new bags, new shoes, new textbooks, new stationery , new seating arrangements, new teachers blah blah blah! I pray that Ja will enjoy his primary school years so much that they will form great memories in the later part of his life.

Well, this Sun I will be zzing really early cos Ja's bus will reach at 6.15am on Mon!!! Can you imagine that??! Should I drive him to school instead? Mmmmmmm.... Anyway, I will be following behind the bus to check out its route and ensure Ja goes to school smoothly. Also, I will be popping by during recess to ensure he is fine and finally to drop by his after school care centre to ensure he settles well. Busy Monday! Well, 7 years have passed since I gave birth to dear JaJa.. Time really FLIES! My boy has grown!!

Yippee!!!

Counting Down!

2009-12-16T19:08:00.003+08:00

2 more weeks to 2010!!

Think will be packed with a lot of parties and gatherings from next week onwards!

21st Dec: My "21st" Birthday bash with my "sisters" in Prudential.. Yummy looking forward to the Jap buffet

25th Dec: Celebrating a dear friend's house warming and her boy's birthday

28th-30th Dec: Celebrating (rather enjoying) FUN time with friends and family at KL Sunway Lagoon! THink the zone appreciation nite will be heaps of fun! I know cos i am in the "planning" committee::))

31st Dec: New Year Countdown at another dear friend's house:)

Wow! THink I will be loading myself with heaps of FOOD!!!

Recently, its the "IN" thing to be pregnant again! Hahahaha.. YEah its very tempting BUT I shall be Rational, Logical! Don't be rash!

Both Ja and Jew have really grown.. Of course for Ja, its not so much of the physical milestones but more of his emotions and intellect. We don't really converse with him as a little boy but somewhat more like a small adult! THe things he will say, the thoughts that will run through his mind... think this generation of children really mature faster than the last era.

As for Jew, this princess is really so adorable! Just today, she smacked her gorgor's head and it was so painful that Ja had tears in his eyes! So I told Jew to apologize.. and this 20-month old toddler actually said" Sor--rri"! Hahaha! But she said in such a sweet way that Ja can't help but to giggle and that solves the problem!
Think she can really get her way around with both her daddy and her gorgor!

Of course, she is getting more vocal now and being a lady (aka busybody) in nature, its very easy to get her to run small errrands like taking towel, passing me tissues, throwing away things etc..CUTE!

Her Morning Look! Super messy hair esp with her curls!!

Not very ladylike but still I love her hair!

Her favourite pastime

Enjoying "nude" swim with her gorgor!

The 2 of them love to lie next to each other and enjoy their milk while watching HI5 or Barney!

10,000 hours

2009-11-30T16:43:00.003+08:00

As per what was preached last week, or rather from the book "Outliers", I believe we are all into this 10,000 hours thingy!

I totally believe in hard work! But I also believe in our God Who doesn't just limit Himself to "1+1=2" kind of mathematical formula. For He will do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think!

Nevertheless, with the 10,000 hours theory.. I am also praying and believing God for open doors, new opportunitities, meeting those key people who will lead to new endeavours.. in other words, the kairos time! Infact in chapter one of "Outliers", the author did mention that successful people like Steve Jobs were given that ONE opportunity which opened up their lives into a new dimension! And I am truly believing God to do likewise for me as I am chasing donkeys while clocking in those 10,000 hours!

Some areas that I would really want to revive by clocking in those hours:

1) PIANO

Yeah when I posted this on facebook, some comments were like "play to the cows?" blah blah blah..

But I am serious, not joking for I was actually about to complete my grade 8 of piano when I pleaded with my mum to let me off as I was having my A levels.. As usual, I promised her I would resume but of course that didnt happen at all! hahaha If I were my mum, I will be sooooo SIAN!

Anyway, music has always been a part of me. It is a channel for me to unleash and to zoom into another zone.. So I have decided that when I am settled into my new place, I will get myself a piano and take some refresher course once again. At least Javier is also learning piano now so that will spur me to get started too!

2) Exercise
THis is so cliche but YES, I am really in need of it. Not so much of weight loss (though that is a HUGE motivation) but also to ensure my health is in a tip top state. Mmmmm, Juslin's blog on her weight loss regime really inspired me.. but I think I will just start on simple exercise like jogging and perhaps resume my Yoga sessions again!

3) Recruitment

Yeah have not been recruiting much this year. So I have decided to clock in the 10,000 hours worth of recruitment from next year onwards! With the hard work plough in, God is going to do the rest and create that miracle for me!

4) Media Exposure

Hahaha what's this all about? Well, Did I mention that more than 10 years ago I was actually involved in a Mac TVC while waiting for my A level results? Well, recently there were some opportunities opened for casting for some TVCs as well. In fact in the last 10 years, I have rejected a lot of these opportunities as the money is not really fantastic and the casting sessions can be quite cumbersome. Nevertheless, I feel that these exposures will do good for me as it will force me to face new people and new things and I will also need to put back that confidence in me. So I am actually "forcing" myself to do these stuff.. So don't be surprised if you do see me appearing in your TV box one of these days! LOL!

The list goes on, but think that will be all for now.. will add on as I zoom into Dec and plan for next year!:)

Excited!

Toodles!

Self Talk

2009-11-24T19:25:00.003+08:00

It's the time of the year again! THis year, it seems like the weather is colder and has a more christmasy feel:) I like it! But yet again, does it also mean that the earth is falling sick?

Anyway, well, I had an interesting talk with my hubby recently.. rather a "discipleship" session! Hahaha.. Guess discipleship is hard for him cos I am a tough disciple.. difficult lah!

As usual, we were talking.. and recently I was reflecting on my life for the past few years.. realised that my personality has changed. My hubby said that I was not as confident as I used to be (at least not like 10 years ago when he first knew me)...

Guess I need to learn how to manage my emotions bah.. for the last few years, I have been disappointed by people.. I mean, who doesn't? But somehow, I got so disaapointed that I became a person who is very "compliant". At least this was what the personality test concluded and I took it just last week..

I became a person who is fearful of other people's opinions, who wants others to be happy even at the expense of myself.. And honestly, I realised I became even more vulnerable inside.

My dear hubby told me straight in the face: Stop being fearful of what others think! Have faith that God loves you!

Hahaha, of course I couldnt digest it at first. So, I refused to talk to him! LOL! But upon calming down, I realised its true! No matter how I try to accomodate and please others, there will still be people who will find fault with me and be displease with me. So why make things so difficult for myself? Seriously I am not happy with who I am right now? Where is the zesty Eve? Think it's true that Jewel's personality takes after me.. The "dao dao", know what she wants and do it herself style. So when I see this little princess daily, I feel God is also telling me to just be myself! Not that I take pride in being DAO, but at least don;t be too bothered about trying to make everyone else happy. I mean, I got to be happy and God must be happy with me:)That's what matters!

Well, I am still breaking forth... THis is a good pitstop for me. Many people may think that I am not doing well in my career blah blah blah.. But rather I feel this is a good time for me to reflect and have a pitstop! Like what I have said in the earlier post, I got to be secure to have a pitstop!

Actually I am rather excited for the things that are to come next year! hehehehe... A year of NEW beginnings:) So I am declaring: NEW HOUSE, NEW SEASON, NEW FRUITS, NEW TEAM! Exciting!!!

As for now, I will be looking forward to my 21st birthday celebration with my girlfriends eating my favourite Jap food! Yummie:)

And of course, the leaders retreat which I believe is going to be so fun (cos my parents are going too!), of course Christmas, New year... And Ja's new start in his primary school!

Thank You Jesus:) I love you! Muack!

Toodles:)

Pitstops in life!

2009-11-10T14:56:00.002+08:00

Someone actually asked me what are some pitstops in my life? That makes me ponder..

Guess I didn't really purposefully, deliberately go for pitstops.. That has got to be a way of life..

I mean, we don't actually schedule pitstop dates on our diary.. as in when to go Esso station, for car wash etc..

Like today.. I just drove into an Esso station to pump petrol cos the fuel tank is at the LOW side and to wash my car cos my nose is sneezing and I just don't feel my car is clean!

Yesterday, I was watching the movie "CARS" with Ja... (yes for the umpteen time again!)

Lightning McQueen (the red car) was actually trying to finish the last lap and he purposefully skipped the pitstop cos he wanted to "chiong" and be HERO!

Guess what happened? His wheels came off and though he was just a tiny bit to the finishing line, he just couldnt touch it as his wheels were coming off...

So i learnt some key lessons:

1) A good pitstop involves a good TEAM! You see that every F1 racing car has a team at the pitstop ready to pump the car up befoore it sets off again!

2) We need to be secure to allow ourselves to stop at pitstops while some other cars are racing pass you.

3) We need to have longevity in mind... to run for the long haul rather than chiong for the NOW. Jesus has Eternity in mind, not just your 5, 8 or even 10 years of ministry on earth.

4) Your engine doesn't stop completely at a pitstop. Cos when the tyres are changed and the car is refueled, it zooms off immediately rather than hav ing to restart the engines again! Vrroom!!

So what's a good pitstop?

That depends on individuals.. For me, I have my seasons as well and though it may be hard, I have to be secure when I am not taking the frontline.. even when my "title" as a P's wife may sometimes creates unneccessary pressure on me to do so..

Take time to evaluate to recharge, to refuel.. most importantly, it's our walk with Jesus that matters.

Jesus loves me YES I know:)

Toodles!

Plank in your own eyes!

2009-11-06T14:51:00.004+08:00

Alright this blog is not about my family or kiddos..

But I just came out of a meeting.. can't help but want to blog my feelings right now!

Have you ever come accross a leader, a boss, or just anyone who can blame everyone and anyone for certain things that happened.. yeah all but himself??!

I can't help but Matt 7:1-5 began to spring out ..

Don't condemn others, and God won't condemn you.
God will be as hard on you as you are on others! He will treat you exactly as you treat them.
You can see the speck in your friend's eye, but you don't notice the log in your own eye.
How can you say, "My friend, let me take the speck out of your eye," when you don't see the log in your own eye?
You're nothing but showoffs! First, take the log out of your own eye. Then you can see how to take the speck out of your friend's eye.
I especially like this version from the Contemporary English Version..

That's the word exactly.. "SHOW-OFFs"!!

And that also explains why some people love to keep saying that they are always being tested, pass test and kana tested again before we know it, and then pass the test again! Oh Gosh! Think God would love to spend more time with you, to love you rather than always thinking of test scenarios to test you and put you in wilderness!

Everything rise and fall on the leadership.. So I guess, I cant stay too long with the leader that has a BIG LOG in his eyes.. Mmmmmm...

THIS IS IT!

2009-11-03T01:56:00.002+08:00

Hahaha perhaps to some the title may shock u, is Evelyn manifesting again??

It's actually the late Michael Jackson's movie "THIS IS IT".

Me and Ck brought Ja to watch it yesterday afternoon.. for some reason, that boy started to love MJ's songs after his death.. or rather, he started to know who MJ is after his death!

And Ja's favourites are " BEAT IT, Heal the world, Black or White, Billy Jeans"!

I must say I am not considered a fan of MJ.. always felt that he was a person with lots of scandals and controversy.

But after watching the clips of his rehearsal for his concert, I must really salute him for his passion, enthusiasm for music, his professionalism and his love for people!

I was especially impacted when he was telling a female bassist to hold on to her high note after all music stops and said "This is your time to shine!"

WOW! This man is willing to share his stage with his team! And he was secure enough to give others a platform to shine!

You must really watch it to know what I am saying..

Life is so fragile.. it's such a shame that he has to go so soon.. I was thinking if time could go back, I would definitely buy myself a ticket to watch him LIVE! (of course provided there was one in S'pore!)

Go with friends to watch the movie cos you will feel like clapping and waving your hands after every song cos its just so phenomenal!!!

Me, Ck and Ja clapped and Ja even sang along his favourite songs! Too bad we watched at Jurong Point where the cinema was only half filled and the audience was not spontaneous at all. So that makes the 3 of us look like enthusiastic fans!! Hahahaha...

p.s. btw, is there anyone who can dance MJ's signature moves well?? Especially the one that he has to like touch his front??

Erm cos Ja loves his dance moves and tries to imitate MJ and you know la, if that move is not properly done, it just look GROSS! :) So pls help me anyone??!

Toodles!

Crossed Over!

2009-10-30T17:19:00.006+08:00

Hi Ya!

Has been back for a week already! But think it's a matter of momentum.. when you start blogging, the flow comes and once you stopped for a while, there will be an inertia to start:)

Anyway, this Bangkok trip is a very different one from the last few trips I went. THis is my 4th or 5th time to Bangkok already and I must say their standard of living has definitely increased. Things are no longer as cheap as a few years back. We felt that the masseurs have all been head hunted to overseas like JB (lol) cos we don't feel the shiokness as much as the last time we did massages in THailand!

Basically I didn't shop much cos this was a trip to attend an engagement ceremony. And with kids around, we had to spend a day at a theme park! Can you imagine going to a theme park that is one hour's drive away from Bangkok City??!!

Well, here is a snapshot of our itinery in Bangkok:

Day 1: Arrived at 7:50am in the morning! Yeah me and Ck didnt sleep at all and
hence we all zzzzz at the hotel till about 3pm.

Went to Central World (liken to Vivo?)for a good but expensive Thai food.
Expensive cos we went to a restaurant)
Spent the rest of the night there at their Toys "R" Us and Kiddy World

After getting the kids to sleep, we sneaked off to enjoy a massage.. but it
was.... BAD! THe masseurs had attitude with a capital "A"!! And their skills
were lusy.. like kneading flour

Day 2: Had breakfast at Central World and went to Platinum Fashion Mall for a whole
day of shopping!!! We ended at 7pm and had foot massage followed by dinner..

Day 3: Set off at 9am for DREAM WORLD.. left there around 3 plus and went for a 2
hour massage before heading to Central World to have dinner and meet up with
the couple to catch up!

We can't even zip up this bag! We specially bought this at the mall to contain our shopping bags!

Ja knocked out already!

Jew's favourite pastime now is to push her "baby" in a stroller:)

I love this pic! We have perfect figures here! Lol! Tempted to print this out and show CK everyday to inspire him! Hahaha

This is a warning to us if we continue to have late night makan!

Day 4: Checked out of hotel and went to the engagement ceremony followed by an 8-course lunch at a Chineses Restaurant. Visited the family at their home too.. so cosy!
Went for another 2 hour massage and then straight to the airport to "stone" till our flight home.

So as you can see, this is indeed a very different Bangkok trip! Nobody will have such an itinery in Bangkok! Hahaha! But nevertheless, it was an enjoyable one cos for the first time, our helper Jona came along and we were able to be relieved of taking care of the kids and tiring ourselves out! It was a good balance of Family Time and some Couple Time..

Think for Jona it was fruitful as well cos she bought so many things back to sell to her friends! Sometimes I think it's not a bad idea to be my helper too! Hahahaha!

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Had an enjoyable dinner at Karen's place last Wed! It was fun cooking together.. alright, I just cooked the rice, cut the vege and posed for pictures while stir frying the vegetables ok! I must say that Daniel is very fortunate wor!

It was funny cos during dinner, I made a statement saying " Mmmmm! THis dish is nice! How did you cook it"...... I must get Jona to do it too!"

Derrick was amused cos he expected me to say " I must try it at home too!"

Hahahaha I don't cook one... But I must say my theory in cooking is good. I can verbalised a few dishes and even taught Jona how to cook certain Cantonese dishes.. VERBALLY! But I really can't do the practiculum! Think my fingers are just not created for cooking! Hahahaha..

We ended the night playing "Who's the boss!" IT's a very "rough" game... at least VERBALLY! Derrick and Ruxin literally QUARELLED during the game and hurled "verbal abuses" at one another! Think I spent more time laughing than thinking!

Thanks Karen for cooking for us!

Mmmmm... must pray that I can get my own home soon.. so that I can invite you all over to enjoy a good meal..... by my helper, of course!!!

Toodles!

Oh ya.. why is this titled "Crossed Over"? Did I mention that Jewel has crossed over???!! She is now into the Terrible Two stage!!! She will pretend to cry and will spread herself flat on the floor when she doesn't get what she wants. And the funny thing is my MIL will say "Get Ck to pray over her..." Hahaha! Think it's just plain naughtiness!

Like Father Like Son, Like Mother Like Daughter!!!

2009-10-19T00:49:00.006+08:00

And how true that statement is!

As Jew turns 18 months, we all realised that though she looks like her daddy, her internal make up is very much like her Mum.. MOI!!

God is fair! Lol!

Let me do some analysis of these 2 teams:

Father (CK) Son (JA)

1) CK: DISC: S/I (Are you surprised???!)
Ja: S/I (We concluded after 6 yrs of observation)

2) CK: Street Smart, Witty
Ja: You would have seen these traits from Ja too!

3) CK: Creative
Ja: CREATIVE!(In coming up with reasons too!)

4) CK: Jovial, easy-going
Ja: Just like his dad, Ja's laughter is contagious

5) CK: Soft-hearted
Ja: A Very sensitive boy, heart breaks easily

6) CK: Not very structured!
Ja: He is like that too! Creative people!!!

7) CK: Likes Berms and T shirts
Ja: He loves this combi too! Plus Slippers!!

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Mother (MOI) Daughter (JEW)

1) Eve: DISC: I/D, but appears to be S (Lol!)
Jew: Appears gentle, but I think she is a D/C!!

2) Eve: Needs to do things STRUCTURED!
Jew is V Structured! More than Me even!

3) Eve: Not so creative, but good in executing!
Jew: Yet to discover...:)

4) Eve: Vain! Loves to look good!
Jew: Needless to say!!!

5) Eve: Well known to be ICY!! (DAO)
Jew: She is real DAO! Only Ja has seen the Rugged Jew when she is tickled by her
Gorgor's funny acts!

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Well, Jew is still young so she may change as she grows! Just like how I think I have changed to be more S!! (LOL!)

Anyway, some of her actions really surprised us... Like we were in Jurong Point shopping... Jew saw a Barney water bottle and was holding on to it. When I found another cuter version, I showed her and asked her to take mine instead. To our astonishment, she actually went back to the shelf that she took the bottle from and put the bottle back to its original position before taking what I had to offer!!! Wow! Talking about Structured.. Hope she doesnt turn out to be a Miss 'C' as what CK is calling her now!

There was another time when she was asked to throw away her soiled diaper.. she actually wanted to roll the diaper into a bundle like what Jona usually does before bringing it to the bin!! Gosh! I see a great housekeeper in the making!::)))

Recently, she has been mimicking Jona cooking in the kitchen... Mmmmmm Perhaps she is preparing herself to be a great cook for her husband too! Hahahaha, making up for what her mum can't do! Lol! Karen and Ruxin, help me train her ya??

Okie, this is a long post... I am getting ready to fly off to Bangkok on Tues with family and Jona.. So this will last you guys till we are back!

Toodles!

p.s. Jewel is getting more VAIN! See these pics and you will know..

I am ALRIGHT!

2009-10-09T19:44:00.002+08:00

Alright! For those who saw how I manifested yesterday in my blog must be thinking Oops! What had happened?

Actually nothing really did happen. Maybe I am going thru a PMS? But M just left lei so can't be too..

Anyway, like I have mentioned, when you are staying with parents and you only have one room to yourself and you have to share it with your son, most of the time our emotions are bottled deep inside us as we do not want to alarm or disturb our parents. So I really feel for those who stay wtih parents or in laws. I mean it's great to have their support but in terms of privacy there is definitely a compromise.

Nevertheless, I realised it's so important to have an avenue to LET OUT and LET GO! I mean not just in prayers but an avenue. Mmmmmm, I pray that I can buy a house near the sea one day and whenever I need it I can just SHOUT it OUT LOUD!!

Hahaha.. Anyway, I am that kind of person who needs to vent out and then I will be ok like in one hour?

Many of the people in church always think I am a super mum, super woman, super this and super that... just because I never show my emotions out.

But well, I am still a human being and I am not a very emotionless being or "STRONG" being. Many times it's more of "Others can but I can't"...

That's why there are times when I just pray that I can be NORMAL.. as in living a NORMAL life, having a husband with NORMAL working hours, having weekends spent NORMALLY with my husband and kiddos blah blah blah...

Ok before anyone think that Evelyn is NDW, (in fact a bit la.. hahaha), don't worry, as said, I need to vent out... So just let me indulge in this VERBAL DIARRHEOA...

I am not a typical P's wife, so treat me NORMALLY...

Alright, going for my cg now.. looking forward to see my members!

Tadah!

AHHHHHHHHHRGH!!!!!!!!

2009-10-09T00:19:00.002+08:00

ARGHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
ARGHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

This is what you'll do when u r frustrated but yet can't scream out loud cos your boy is sleeping next to you and you are staying with your in-laws/ parents!!:(

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CG Dinner/ F1 ROCKS!!

2009-09-25T17:21:00.006+08:00

Went for our regular cg dinner last Friday. It was a sumpteous one! Seafood at Long Beach (Dempsey Road).

Think food really opens up the hearts of people. We had a new friend and within that 2 hours, he opened up and began to sing acapella all the different CHinese and Hokkien songs for us!! LOL! IT was hilarious but everyone enjoyed ourselves!

Uncle David cracking crabs for his darling Katherine!! How SWEET!! btw, they just celebrated their 31st Wedding Anniversary on Wed!:) Congrats!

We are all hungry and waiting for dinner to start!

Their favourite: See Humm.. I only ate 2..

Chilli Crab! Salivate...

Drunken Prawns.. Yummy!

Their signature dish: Black Pepper Crab!

The members are fantastic, they always leave the BEST for me!:)

Whispering Sweet nothings?? James and Annie just celebrated their 29th year of cleaving to each other! Ooohhh:)

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Me and Ck went to F1 Rocks Concert yesterday...at Fort Canning. Thanks to Jiaying for the tickets! (By the way, its not the F1 race!!)

Well, my hubby said we can park at Liang Court as Fort Canning is just opposite. But what we didnt realise was that the event was held at the top of the hill!!! SO we ended up "park Toring" and climbing up (in my heels!!!) to the top.

IT was an open air event and no seats.. THe first 2 bands were new (at least not from our era) so we were quite bored. Then we realised that Ah Mei and Jacky Cheung were on only at 9pm and 10pm!!! Wow!!!

At the end, we decided to have our dinner at a Japanese Restaurant at Liang Court.. "Sampopo Jap Restaurant"

Wow! THe Wagyu beef is mmmmmm Super Duper Delicious! The salmon sashimi is oohh la la!

It's been some time since we have dinner (just the 2 of us) at a restaurant apart from the West area.. and Ck said we should do this more often! Hahaha! I am in for more yummy treats!:)

Chinese Sinsei

2009-09-22T17:48:00.003+08:00

Brought Jew and myself to the Chinese Sinsei yesterday as our coughs were not getting better. Mine was a marathon of 2 months! And Jew's 2 weeks!

Well, as usual, Jew refused to let the Sinsei touch her hand at all and I had to coax her..

Asa for me, the sinsei said my gastric and stomach is weak, too "cold" and asked me to cut away my favourite Ice Teh!!!:( That's my "starbucks" daily!! Sigh.. this will be hard.

ANyway, the medicine she gave us is HORRIBLE to the power of Infinity!!!
It's like a million bitter gourds grounded into power and YUCKS!!!

I almost vomitted while taking it...

So can you imagine the ordeal that JewJew had??

It was like slaughtering piglets!! She screamed, yelled, wailed, cried, kicked, struggled, shouted....:::(((((

It took 3 of us (Me, Jona and my MIL) to hold her while we forced it down.

And then she will try to vomit it out cos of the bitter after taste..

And then we will have to wipe her, change her, clean the floor....sigh:(

But the good thing is...

MY COUGH HAS IMPROVED TREMENDOUSLY!!! After 2 doasges::))

And Jew has vomitted out her phelgm twice since yesterday!

Mmmmmm.... So TCM really works??

Back from Cruise!

2009-09-17T15:50:00.010+08:00

OK OK! I know I have been slacking in my blog...

Well, have been back from the cruise for about a week already. It was fun but tiring cos Jona was not there and I had to handle the 2 kiddos...

The cruise was fun and we got to eat eat eat eat eat... like 6 meals (FREE) a day!!!???
Jewel ate so much that she Poo 3 times daily!! Wow! She has a very efficient digestive system!

As for me, I felt so bloated after the trip.. like I can never eat again.. Neverthelss, my cg members broke the "fast" by bringing yummy food for cg refreshments! Sigh! If you ever were S31's cg leader, you don't just grow spiritually, but HORIZONTALLY too!!! At the rate they are feeding you! In fact, we are going for a seafood dinner on Fri! And planning for our BBQ during Deepavali! Woots! Our BBQ is awesome! There is red wine, lobsters, beef, and their favourite
MAO(1) SAN(1) WANG(2) durians! So any takers for my cg??? Hehehehe

Ok, back to my cruise...
Anyway, we spent the first day exploring the ship VIRGO.. swam at the pools with Jacuzzi and 100m water slide!

The kids loved to visit the arcade and we spent about $200 over on tokens alone!!! WOW!

Father and Son slacking and enjoying the sea breeze at the deck... we were trying to make Jewel sleepzzzz...

Jewel's favourite spot in the cabin.. the window with the phone!

A preview of the Thai massage that was to come.. courtesy from Javier!

Father and Princess enjoying themselves in the Jaccuzi..

THe trips to Penang and Phuket were very rush as we only had about 5 hours before we had to board the ship.

Did nothing much in Penang as it's Malaysia.. you know.. my hubby's 2nd home.. so we visited Jusco, had Old town white coffee... it's exactly what we noramlly do in JB!

Nevertheless, want to thank Amelia and Daniel (members in Penang) who took the trouble to drive us around and took us for makan.. Yumm! Their Chendol and Ice Kachang is super delicious!:)

On the way to Jusco in Penang.. the kiddos were knocked out cos the weather was very hot and they were very drowsy..

Well, we went to Phuket on the third day. Managed to squeeze in a 2 hour massage and a seafood lunch. But cos the port is far from Patong beach, we could only enjoyed these treats at Phuket Town which is something like their "CBD" area.. So things are slightly more ex than Patong Beach.. But honestly we don't feel satisfied cos it was all very rush! So it only made us yearn to really fly to Phuket on our own one day...:)
Oh ya, the BOYS had fun too cos we went to ride the Go-kart..

Jewel waiting for Daddy and Gorgor to finish their play at Go-Kart

We had the pics posted in my facebook.

The kiddos were down with fever and flu and cough after the trip.. so spent another $100+ visiting the doc!! Sigh! The price to pay for overseas trip.. eat too much:)

It was funny cos the nurse wanted Jewel to wear the mask as she was coughing.. How to??? It was bigger than her face! LOL!

Ja and Jew really enjoyed themselves tremendously! So we are now looking forward to our next trip in Oct.. BANGKOK! Ok this time round Jona is going with us! So heee massages.. Here I come!!! Woots!

Saw from the pics that you guys had great fun at Georgie's first birthday party.. Wish we were there too... Anyway, think there will be more birthday parties to come!:)

Well, I have fulfilled all righteousness:) Will TRY to update my blog mroe regularly..

OFF TO PHUKET!!

2009-09-03T21:56:00.005+08:00

Wow! Holidays come really early this year!

Am planning to go Bangkok in Oct cos of a member's wedding there. But a few days ago, we were invited to join a family on a cruise to Penang and Phuket!!

Initially we were caught by surprise and were not ready and willing to go.. but cos its a close friend of ours, we decided to join in the fun.

And now, I am really EXCITED!

Heard there will be 6 meals provided DAILY!!! 100m water slide, SPA, basketball court, gym, movies.. blah blah blah..

The last time I was on a cruise was like... 12 years ago??!! Wow!!

And now it will be with my own immediate family.. Ck and the 2 kiddos! THink they will really enjoy themselves!!!

Well, will be sailing off on Sun afternoon and that means....

WE CAN"T BE AT DEAR GEROGIE'S 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!::(((

Already gotten his presents... and will be planning for a birthday bash on Sat at Mum's place! Where are the balloons???!!

So to all of Ja and Jew's buddies... do enjoy yourselves on Sun which I am sure you all will!!!

See you next week:))

p.s. Wonder if I will get to massage in Phuket??? Mmmmmmm....

Oops! She did it again!

2009-08-31T16:26:00.006+08:00

Had a very busy yet FRUITFUL weekend:)

It's amazing what God can do when you step into His rest and assurance that He is our Abba who provides:)

Anyway, congrats to Derrick and Ruxin for receiving the anointed BANDANA from Pst Phil! IT was so funny that me and Claire were laughing while seated at the back of the hall:)

Brought the kiddos for grocery shopping yesterday.. We went to Jurong Point at 10.30pm cos of their 24hr NTUC Fairprice..

Oh ya... SHE DID IT AGAIN.... I was referring to Missy Jewel... She 'attacked' her gorgor Ja cos he was disturbing her in the car::)) So don't even try to irritate her man! See the casualty below:

It was very funny at the NTUC.. I was taking Gardenia White bread and putting it into the pushcart..when the princess said "Mummm Mummm"... Oh my.. I forgot that gardenia white bread is her favourite snack! Hence, even before we paid for it, we had to take out a piece for her to savour while sitting in the pushcart! I was so scared the security would come after me!

Another funny conversation took place when we were eating at Mac yesterday...

Ck and I were talking about water baptism that took place in church yesterday... how it was pouring cats and dogs... when Ja joined in the conversation....

Ja: Daddy, do you know why the floor was filled with carpets in church today?

CK: Oh ya why? (He just flowed with him)

Ja: Oh they had water baptism la.. You know why it rained so heavily today also?

Ja: Cos there was a big man who stepped into the baptism pool and all the water gushed out! Thats why everyone became wet too!

Ck: Hahahaha Really? Who is the big man? (We thought Ja was referring to ck cos he was baptising the members and u know.. he is big too!)

Ja: God la!!

Me and CK: ????!!???!!

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Ja: YOu know ah.. actually God is not real..

Me and CK: Huh... WHY??

Ja: I mean, God is real but only in America.. In Singapore, He is not real...

Ck: Why do you say that?

Ja: Mmmmmm... actually nothing la.. I am joking la!

So as you can see, we feel Ja is getting more aware of God and His being.. He is starting to question, observe, challenge....

We are praying that he will have a personal encounter with God cos we realised Ja asked many many questions that cannot be satisfied by just a model standard answer. An encounter and experience is what he needs. So Lord let Your will be done, Amen!

Monday!

2009-08-25T02:17:00.003+08:00

Brought Ja and Jew to ION after Ja's school ended..

Recently we enjoy going to ION Food Opera.. love the roast duck, char siew and especially the fried hokkie prawn noodles there! YUMMY! The price is a bit steeper for a food court though. But since its an ATAS one... we felt it was ok as the standard of the food is GOOD!

Oh and we love the fish-shaped Japanese Pan cake at the stalls outside the food opera too! DELICIOUS!

Jew LOVES SHOPPING! She got so excited running around in ION that we had to "catch" her again:)

Ja DOESNT'T like shopping (unless he gets to buy something...)

That's the difference between GALS and BOYS! Hahaha:)

Anyway, brought them to BORDERS after that and they love it!

Jew loves running all over and taking books off the shelves!

Ja loves to "squat" in one corner and read books like "The Art of making the movie "SPIDERMAN"...(Basically lots of photos and little words!!)

Then brought them to LOT ONE (CCK) to play at the water play area and playground while I go off for my appointment with a client.

These are the times when I really love having a flexible job::)) I get to control my time:)

Georgie's 1st birthday is drawing near:) Excited cos the kids and myself can SWIM!!! Yeah! Not forgetting the gathering of the mothers and kids on that day!

Thinking of getting him his FIRST pair of authentic CROCS:) Just bought a pair for Jewel last week. They are sure expensive! But yet so cute with the cartoon buttons u can purchase (separately!) to attach on. How I wish I was the one who came up with CROCS concept! I would be a multi millionaire now!!! Sigh!

Ok stop wishing and start WORKING! Tmr will be early start... So TOODLES!

Sunday!

2009-08-23T23:57:00.002+08:00

Was not feeling well.. has not been feeling too good for last 2 weeks.. The flu bug has been extending its holiday in my body.

Nevertheless, Jona was off today so I can spend really good quality time with the kiddos:)

After service, we went to Ethan's (Pst Derek's eldest boy) birthday party! It was at Jurong SAFRA, just diagonally opposite the MRT station. It has Asia's longest slide? ( At least that's what they claimed). Indeed, the slide is 3 storeys high!!! Quite SHIOK but I didnt slide down:(

Cos firstly, I have fear of heights and secondly, Jewel was with me! Anyway the place is kinda like those kids play gym thingy where they and parents can climb up and down, in and out of holes and the whole structure is 3 levels high!!

The kids played from 4 till 7.30pm!! I am EXHAUSTED!

After that we went to have dinner and Bt Panjang Plaza and the 2 kiddos played on the playground yet again!! SUPER TIRED TIRED for me cos Jew was running all over the place and I had to "catch" her!

SO can you imagine how i am feeling now? Stuffy nose with itchy throat and a very tired body! But it's still worth it cos Jew actually didnt want to follow Jona to her room to sleep which she used to want to go (as she is used to sleeping with Jona after our shift).

OOHH!! She miss me::)))
Hahahahaha.. Ok its a self gratification thingy.. but I LIKE IT!:)

Going to zzz now....

Toodles!

What's happening?

2009-08-20T16:51:00.007+08:00

Wow! I am finally blogging again! Been busy with exams, and also cos blogger had some hiccups so unable to blog with pictures.

So what's been happening? Honestly I also dunno where to start. Perhaps let me bring you through the pictures and do a photo blog instead!

Day at the Zoo:

Can u see how BIG Jew's tummie is now? Cos she has been asking for "Mumm mumm" Not me (Mum) but Food (MUMM!):)

Went to NDP preview with Ja.. That was just a week before national day and boy I was very tired cos I just had one major paper in that morning and then received news that I had 2 tickets to NDP preview! But it was worth the trip cos the fireworks were spectacular! Ja was so excited that he kept shouting "I Love Singapore!"

On national day itself, Ja wanted to catch the fireworks again.. so we went to Marina Sq Food Court n poor CK carried him throughout while waiting for the spectacular show! Can u catch them in the pic? So to the daddys out there... this is the price to pay! hehehe

Jewel is growing up fast! She is such a cutie now and she loves to doll up! As for Ja, he is going to Pri one in 5 mths time! Well, at the end we decided not to go into the frenzy mode of balloting so we decided to enrol him into Bt Timah Pri Sch. He is pretty excited about it as he will be in the same school as his little aunty!

These were taken when we went bowling the other time!

Shopping for bags! Pretty much like her mum!

How time flies! Many of the babies born last year are turning 1 in the next few months! And for Jew, she is almost one and half yrs old!

Well, recently have been thinking.. should we? Or should we not??.... Hehehe guess what we r thinking of?

Stay tuned!

Toodles!

Healthy Family Fun

2009-07-20T01:49:00.004+08:00

Wow! Busy weekend! Didnt know being an entourage can be so challenging n tiring! But its great fun! Just that I felt indignant that the guys launch a 'terrorist' attack on us! NOT FAIR! Next time PLEASE have a higher class ok:(

Anyway, really happy for Mr and Mrs Thong. Enjoy your honeymoon! Think thats the BEST part of every wedding:)

Sunday was challenging cos I woke up feeling sleepy. Went for a birthday celebration in the east n then to Old Town coffee at East Coast Beach. After which we decided to drive over to Mac Donalds side to let Ja and Jew have some time at the playground..

However when we reached there, we suddenly thought of bowling at the Marine Bowl! Wow! We have never tried that as a family. So, we played 10 games.. Ja, Jona, me and Ck. People would have thought that we are a pro! Cos we kept cheering and shouting! Especially Ja! Hahaha! But think our scores are really "family" standard! Guess who was the winner??

JONA!!! (My Helper!) Never knew that she was so happening and bowled bak in the Philippines! Ck lost one point to her (cos Ja offered to 'help' him out! Hehehe). I was third and Ja was last cos he 'helped' too many people and lost his stamina for his own round! That was so funny! In the end we all refused to let him help cos our scores were STAGNANTING!!

It was fun! We went to the arcade after bowling before heading home. It was 12 midnight when we reached home! The kids were totally knocked out..

Think we may bowl more often as a family in future cos we concluded that it is a fun, healthy and cheap activity! Only cost $4 per person for one round!

Ok..going to zzz now...

Toodles!

Let Your Will Be Done!

2009-07-15T19:57:00.003+08:00

Finally settled down in my MIL's place..

The next BIG THING?? Ja's Primary One registration!

Wow I tell u its like buying stocks in the market... Yesterday me and CK were studying the "trend" (ie)Number of vacancies left after phase 2A1 and 2A2... and also trying to interpret the "demand and supply" this year.. the mindset of parents.. the distance of 1km, 2km and more than 2km etc..

Also on that day of registration, we have decided to be at the 2 schools we targeted
at the same time to see the "market" before putting our stake in at the last hour.

Sounds very exciting! But we are down to 2 schools to place our stake namely:

1) Pei Hwa Presby (Toh Yi)
2) South View Pri (CCK)

Of course, Pei Hwa is a much better option, better grades, mission school and more disciplined! But South view is also a very good school in the vicinity. We shall see.

God! Let Your will be done!

The results will be out by 11th Aug! So please pray for us!

OK got to go now.. still in office and I am going off to meet a client now.

TADAH!~

The BIG Move

2009-06-24T17:24:00.004+08:00

Have been missing in action for like.... 1 and half week??!

It was so funny, when I came into office, people were asking me
How's your teeth? I heard you were sick..."

But actually the teeth thingy only took one day away from me but it was the BIG MOVE that kept me busy busy busy!

Since last week, we started packing our stuff into boxes... Gosh! IT's really a feat cos I can't imagine how on earth we can squeeze the whole house into 40 boxes??!!

Nevertheless, we did it. Thank God we found a great deal and sent 20 of the boxes to 2 storage containers that cost us only $80 per month! Very very Cheap for storage space!

We shifted, unpacked, cleaned my MIL's house from 10am till 1am on Monday.

Really thank Ben 10 and Jermaine and Vincent for coming over to help with the move as well as the setting up of our internet, printer etc...

On Tuesday, me and Jona made 3 trips back to our old place to transport the remnants to Bt Panjang and revamped the whole place especially the kitchen. I must say my MIL threw away 3 big boxes of pots and pans and one of them was already 50 years old?!!!!

The final trip back to my CCK place was quite "Emo" for me. not that I cried or what but I kept walking to all the rooms, toilets, kitchen living area in the name of checking if we left anything behind...:( After all, this was where we started our family and built our home! From nothing to having a family of 2 kiddos! Really miss the place.

And when I found out that the new owner is going to revamp everything.. as in change the cabinets, floor, toilets,etc, I actually felt indignant! HAhaha you must be thinnking that I am very Bo Liao... since it's not my house anymore!

Well, well... life got to move on. As the Chinese saying goes... If the old doesn't go, the new wouldn't come! So Praying that this will be the start of something NEW! Hehehe:)

Anyway, I must say that my MIL's place is really very big.. SO big that it can contain 2 sets of sofa and coffee table (New style: Fusion of the Comtemporary and Traditional)and still has lots of space to move around! My MIL said that the space can be used as a dancing floor! Can u imagine how big it is?

And for our rooms, we made it almost like our original state just that we have one more TV in each room.. Yes! Even the room that Jona stays! Hahaha there is such an abundance of TVs in the house!

Ja is very excited and even Jew thinks that they are in a hotel room.. with aircon, music, LCD TV, Orange Lamp... Mmmmm very COSY!

I realised from this move that to make every move a smooth transition, one got to look out for the 5 senses or at least 3!

1) Hearing: We also play the same few music for sleeping time etc

2) Feel: That's why we installed Air-con to FEEL cool and Comfy

3) Smell: Can't do without our Candle Burner and scent.. and of course the Harpy Lime smell for the bathroom!

4) Sight: We always need a dim yellow light to create the soft and cosy feel!

5) Taste: Get Jona to do the cooking so that it will taste the same?? NO la I think I like my MIL's cooking! Yummy!

Tadah! There you have it! The 5 senses rule to a smooth transition!

Teeth Problem

2009-06-19T01:07:00.002+08:00

I thought the wisdom teeth saga was a great success and a breeze for me until 2 nights ago...

I was bathing when suddenly blood started to GUSH out of my mouth uncontrollably! Yes, I wasn't exaggerating...

I was so scared that I shouted for CK immediately and quickly bit on to a cotton pad while I quickly finished off with my bath..

And after which, my wound (which should recover by now) started to feel painful and then my 2 bottom front teeth started to ache for no reason..

As a result of that, I felt really irritable as it is painful (even as I am blogging now)!

Went to the dentist on Thurs for emergency checkup...

The wound got infected and the stiches may have caused a tear.. that explains whay it bled profusely!

The dentist cleaned my wound, washed my teeth, did some filling... and said that the stinging pain from the front teeth may last 2 weeks! OMG!

Sigh! Praying for speedy recovery! This stinging sensation is worse than childbirth in my personal opinion!

Anyway, brought Ja for a show yesterday.. Alies VS Monsters.. Very nice show! Very funny! We both laughed like nobody's business in the cinema!

There will be more shows (kids) coming up...Ice Age 3, UP etc.. Trailers look good! Anticipating!:)

Eventful Thurs!

2009-06-12T13:18:00.003+08:00

Finally extracted my wisdom teeth yesterday! I was actually looking forward to that despite the horror stories I heard from some of the GUYS (yes, male by birth... man by choice) in the zone!

Nevertheless, I must admit that I wa a bit scared too cos I went with the idea to extract just one.. but Xray showed that I had 3!!! However, the Doc, Dr Ong who attended to me from Pan Atria Dental was really good.. HE is experienced and will tell you things to calm your nerves before the surgery!

In the end, I felt nothing and it was like a short sleep for me. When I woke up, all 3 teeth (and they looked gross!) were plucked out!

I guess the most unbearable experience was when he put me on laughing gas! Sorry ah, I did not break into holy laughter... but my heart beat increased rapidly and I felt like "dying".. ya I dun know why but it felt suffocating for me in the midst of knocking out.. So I feebly asked the doc for HELP...

He realised that something was not so right ad then lowered the dosage before injecting me something to make me sleep! Phew! Thank God I never attempted laughing gas for my child birth experience! IT felt so out of control!

Anyway, I guess my weight losing plan may not succeed as expected! COs I dun feel much pain, just a lot of bleeding and VERY VERY HUNGRY!

In fact after the surgery, I went straight to the Youth Camp.. Wow! THey served a buffet with Siew Mai and chicken wings, fried rice and mee goreng!! Yummy! I tried to eat 1 siew mai and some fried rice at the slowest pace ever as my mouth was swollen and cant really open much! But still, I was not satisfied! Sigh... it was really a torture!

Anyway, the youth camp was great! We broke the Guiness Book of record by making the largest Youth Olympics Logo with 2010 lightsticks!! THe "opening ceremony" started at the strike of 2010 (8.10pm) with our strike force marching in! They were super FANTASTIC! Well done! THe representative from the Youth Olympics Council as well as the Guiness book of records also came to grace the event! And oh yes! The camp fire was great.. The whole feeling is like a mini opening of Beijing Olympics!! (Hahaha ya i was exaggerating a bit!)

But Ja was so proud of his daddy as he lit up the fire and he kept shouting" Thats my daddy lei! He won He Won!!!"

Hehehe... I wonder what he won? Ja must have thought his daddy was a runner for the Olympics??

Anyway, we had a good but long "Forum" with some senior leaders after the event..

Who are the senior leaders there? Well, ask around for the 4 heavenly kings! and also heavenly Queens! Hahaha.

Whats the conclusion of the forum?

Well, its all about Developers, Main Con and Sub-con!!! (Parables?) hee!

Left the school around 2am:( Ja was around all these while and he really enjoyed himself so much! Helping out at different stations of the camp! He is only 6 and already involving in Youth camp! We were saying when he is 12, will he grow so fast that he will be joining ADULTS group??? Esp his favourite Uncles and Aunties will all be leading adults by then??!

Anyway, after the camp fire, Ja boy went around to collect all the used light sticks and started "selling" to some 'Aunties' like Ruxin and Audrey! And you know what? He managed to earn $5 by selling USED light Sticks! Wow! Now I am worried that he may be doing trading when he goes Primary School next time.. Selling erasers etc...

Thank God for painless teeth extraction!

Toodles!

Youth Camp CODE RED II

2009-06-10T02:01:00.003+08:00

Imagine a 30 plus year old mother excited about the YOUTH CAMP??!

Well, I am more excited about the camp fire.. like I've said.. deprived childhood.. hehehe

Anyway, I am excited also because I have prepared a session for sharing on the first day. It's been some time since I last shared to the zone.. spent about 2 days preparing it...

What's the topic? Well, It's something in my heart that I have been wanting to share for the longest time... since our church embraces the cultural mandate...

I hope it will turn out good tmr!

Anyway, I heard that Ja's power ranger sets have been borrowed for some thematic performance:) Ja is very excited about it cos he feels that he is contributing something to the camp! He has been bugging me about the camp and that he wants to go tmr!

I told him tmr will be a whole day of prayer meetings! Hahaha.. so that he only attends Thurs:)

Ok gotta zzz now... Ck just reached home!!!

Toodles!

Excited for things to come!

2009-06-05T00:10:00.002+08:00

Well, here I am blogging again...

This is what will happen when:
1) Husband not home yet.. so no one to talk to..
2) Son not home at all.. cos staying over porpor house for his hols!
3) Daughter knocked out already cos too tired from playing and laughing..
.....

And here I am, doing up some reports for clients, checking out the investment market, msning with some friendz... and blogging again:) hehehe

Well, I am excited.. for many things...

1) Moving to stay with my in laws soon.. end of the mth.. So a lot of packing to do, and planning for some minor reno works at her place to make the transition better for us hee!

I am excited and yet a bit apprehensive... Well, I have not stayed with in laws before and though they are really some of the nicest and most easy-going people around, yet its not easy to stay together.. a lot to give and take and closing of not just one but maybe even 2 eyes! Think my fellow taitais in TTFA can testify to that ya?

Think I am a bit too imgainaitve too.. I even thought of buying some new home clothes to wear! You see, I am used to wearing SHORT shorts at home.. comfy mah.. and also sleeveless tank tops.. cooling mah...

But with my in laws, think they better not be too short and too cooling! So another reason for me to shop! hahaha

Reno works... Mmmmm what colour should I paint for the bedrooms there? Any suggestions? I cant be too slack about this cos we be staying there for at least a year or more!!! Wow!

And nice soup to drink every now and then! Yum Yum!

2) Any other exiting things? Well, it may sound a bit out but yes! It's the Code Red 2! Even though I am not very involved... but me and Ja are exited about the campfire night! Hahaha...
Can you believe it? I have not attended any camp fire before in all my life! Erm maybe once when I was a BROWNIE... Huh? What's that? Its a CCA or rather, a little girl guide for Primary schoolers. They wear brown uniforms and also stand around a small mushroom to say the pledges... quite funny.

Also I will be doing a session on the first day... oops have not prepare yet! HELP!!

3) Next happening thing is the extraction of my wisdom tooth next Thurs. Scared yet excited cos it's been bugging me for 3 years! So pardon me if I seem to diminish in wisdom next week cos u know la... the WISDOM tooth is being extracted!
Gosh! Hopefully I can lose a few kilos after the extraction:) Think I am more excited about this aspect than the extraction itself!

4) Next exciting thing is to look forward to see my income SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT up like never before!!!::)) How? Why? Aiyah, BF over so I am full of expectancy! Now is the time!

5) Another exciting thing is the TTFA first gathering at Shuying's place next sat. It's been a long time since we gather to eat, talk and be merry:) Think it will be such fun!

6) More exciting things... of course not forgetting the 3 couples who will be tying the knot in june and July.. Looking forward to their weddings:)

Are you excited for what's to come? I AM!!! SO EXCITING!!!:)

Toodles!

What a Dinner!

2009-06-04T16:07:00.002+08:00

Remember I was mentioning about the unbelievable dinner we had last Sunday? Well, here it is....

It was supposed to be my dad's and Ja's BD dinner.. So we chose this Chinese restaurant at Novotel Hotel Clarke Quay.. (Next to previous Liang Court?)

It looked posh and not crowded.. at least I thought so for a sunday night!

Then... I realised why...

Case #1:
We ordered Jasmine tea and They served us Chrysantheman tea.... ok still alright...

Case #2:
When the roast chicken was served, Ck asked for some soy sauce from the captain and this was what we got in return....

Captain: "Huh u wanted soy sauce for your son to eat with his rice? I thought you
found the chicken to be too bland.... Anyway it's not healthy to do that
for your son... You should educate him to eat with sauce instead...
there were no other dish with sauce out yet and Ja was HUNGRY!)

Boy, come sit up straight and eat... ya then take some yam and vegetable
to eat too.. its healthy for you... BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH..."

And he went on and on standing there and lecturing us and went on and on and on........
As you can see, I am really ANGRY!!! Cos he is such a busybody... and he looks like.. u know.. Phua Chu Kang? Ya with curly hair!!! and Big rings on his fingers!!!

By the way, Ja was rolling his eyes too! He couldnt stand this guy hovering over him and teaching him how to eat properly, sit properly....

Case #3:
My mum forgot to order sharks fin soup and halfway thru the dinner, she requested to add on to our order...

Captain (again) "You can't eat sharks fin soup at this point of the dinner... you
should have ordered at the beginning. If you eat now, you wont be
able to taste it..."

I mean, we appreciate his honesty.. but in the end he simply refused to let us order!!! Help! This guy is so irritating and has absolutely NO favor at all..

Case #4:
Towards the end of the dinner, he came back and realised Ja did not finish the noodles (precisely cos it's not tasty at all!)...

Captain (yet again) "Boy, why you never finish your noodles? Be good, finish it,
don't waste it..."

Me: "Hahaha no la, just now you supervise him to finish that bowl
of rice... he was so good to finish it and has no more space
for noodles now... Ja, come thank uncle..." :(((

And with that, the PCK captain went away and never came back to our table again....

WHAT A DINNER! DON'T GO TO THIS RESTAURANT ANYMORE.. SERVICE IS BAD AND FOOD IS BAD AND ITS NOT CHEAP TOO!!!!! DUH!

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

ok.. I am done with manifesting:) It's over now... I am happy now! :) Hee

Nice Place!!

2009-06-02T13:55:00.002+08:00

Ja had a wonderful yesterday with his buddies in the zone.... namely that gang lor! Uncle Aaron and Yujie... and the rest of the gang like Aunty Cheryl and Tina blah blah..

Thanks for making his day so great! He really enjoyed himself V much!
Kept talking about his day and his Fish and Co BD celebration!

And becos of that, me and Ck were able to take a break and went over to JB...

Initially I was like... JB.. again? Cos I was thinking of City Square and the same places..but Ck brought me to his usual hangout which is away from the busy city square area.. and I must say I really like that place!

It's nice and clean and quiet but not too quiet...

We had massage by authentic Thai ladies or aunties i would say... Price is good!
Then we ate at Old Town Coffee at half the price of Spore cos of the currency... went shopping for groceries and clothes at a very big and clean mall and the prices were good too!

At night, we went to eat a stone grill thingy which is FABULOUS! YUM YUMMY! And we ended the day with a good cup of ice Black Canyon coffee! Mmmmmmm!!! V NICE!

So I have decided to take this kind of break once every fortnight if possible... The massage makes me feel like I am back to Phuket again!:)

So, WHERE IS THIS PLACE???

Sorry, cant tell cos my husband says he wants to keep it personal... at least for now! Hahahah!

But the JB leaders should know... Please Hush Hush!

Will blog about an experience me and my family had while eating at a restaurant last Sunday.... Ya, I need time to blog about that.. cos its really infuriating!

Stay tuned!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAVIER!!

2009-05-28T17:35:00.000+08:00

Happy Birthday dear JA JA!!!

You are the DREAM SON that any mum would want to have:)!

Mummie and Daddy love you!... oh ya and Jewjew too:)

Updates...

2009-05-27T19:11:00.006+08:00

Updates! Updates!

Yup have not been blogging for a while.. busy working (hahaha)

Ja's tooth finally dropped! Last Sunday was his FIRST 6th birthday celebration.. His tooth was already shaking and almost dropping in church.. I cant pluck it out for him... cos my hand grew weak.. I have this thing about blood and stuff:(

Zhihong tried to do it.. hahaha but his finger was bigger than Ja's tooth!!! Hence his one finger was holding on to at least 2 of his teeth!! OMG!

Anyway, it wasnt successful as Ja said it was painful.. Nevertheless, he was feeling quite "burdened" cos that loose tooth was really bugging him..

We went on to celebrate his birthday and had BBQ at Palm Garden with our family.. Fun and tired. His "Kampong" friends from Palm also joined us and ate up most of the ice cream cake!!!:(

(Don't know why he wanted CHICKEN LITTLE for his cake??!)

(Ja and Grandma posing)

(Ja and his Uncle Zhenjie)

(Family together!)

(Ja and his Uncles, Aunties and COUSINS!)

That very night... around 3am... Ja woke up up and said:

"Daddy, Mummie, see my tooth dropped out!"

And he was holding on to the tooth in his hand! Thank God he did not swallow it like what Ruxin did!

(See my "Boh Gey"!)

(No difference if I smile discreetly!:))

See! Ruxin you don have to worry... his lower lip is still able to cover that empty hole.. look as good as new! Just need to remind him to smile discreetly and not laugh out loud! Hahaha!

Just today, he celebrated his birthday with his classmates! This will be his last year with them as they will be graduating to Primary One next year. How time flies! It's been 4 years since he studied in Kinderland. As good as a Secondary education! Wow!

(A bunch of "Monkeys"!)

(I love my Kinderland Friends!)

Well, more celebrations this coming week! Will be celebrating my Dad's birthday together with Ja this sunday.

Tmr is Ja's actual birthday, uncle Aaron called and said he is coming back for this weekend! Yes! U didnt hear wrongly! So next Monday, Uncle Aaron will be bringing him our for an outing:) Wow! It's good to be kids:) Envy Envy!

Finally!!!

2009-05-19T18:09:00.003+08:00

Finally!!! Tonight marks my last night as a FULL TIME mum::)) Gosh! Time flies but I must say it has not been easy though...

Tmr if NOTHING GOES WRONG, my helper Jona will be back from her holidays. And that will mean Peace and Joy for me and Ck again! Hehehe..

The last 3 weeks have been stretching, but I was glad I went through it, cos it really made me feel more like a mum (at least for Jewel) cos ever since she was born, Jona has been her key care-giver.

Ck and I feel really bonded to our kids now! These 3 weeks made our capacity greater.. cos we have to coax them to sleep, wake up really early, ferry them to nanny's place. fetch them back home after a day's work.. and especially Sundays, I have to single-handedly prepare everything before we set off to church!

Hahaha I know Jiaying is very sian of my bragging already:) But I must say my porridge making skills have gone up since Ja's toddler's days! Mmmm.. maybe age is catching up so my woman's cooking instincts have also gone up!

Anyway, after tonight, I won't have to ferry them to and fro everyday rain or shine.. I can also afford to work later without having to worry about putting them to bed!

The next big thing? Well. Prince Ja's birthday is coming up.. 28th May

He was so funny.. woke up really early this morning and took out our table calendar. And then he took a red pen and started to mark out his birthday and the number of times he will be celebrating his birthday.. (with his cg ie Siew Choo's cg, with Ck's family, with his classmates, and with my family!) Wow! 4 times!!!

So we are arranging for his mini party this Sunday. This time round, we plan for a family gathering as we do not wish to tax everyone of their time and $$$$! Ja has grown up and he is like Ck.. who likes small gatherings with people he is comfortable and familier with.. So guess 6 years old is a right age to down-size his party to a smaller scale! Good for me too! Phew!

But those close uncles and auntys out there, do help me encourage him by wishing him a happy birthday when u see him in church ya?

Toodles!

P.S. I can start wearing nicer for svcs now that Jona is back! Hee hee!

It's dropping soon!

2009-05-12T13:54:00.003+08:00

Ja is going to experience his first ever "Boh Gey" season!!

We were watching tv when he suddenly turned around and showed me his shaking tooth.. the bottom front tooth...

Initially I didnt take much notice as he has been telling me his tooth is shaking but really it wasnt..

But yesterday as I tried to feel it, it was really shaking!!! Oh Gosh! My first thoughts were.. "What should I do? It has been 20 plus years since I dealt with shaking teeth!!

Anyway, he was very funny cos he didnt dare to eat apples though he very much wanted to eat! And every minute or so, he would go in front of the mirror to view his shaking tooth and went around Palm Garden to ask everyone to try "shaking" his tooth.

Guess he is very excited about his first tooth drop!

So friends out there, take more pictures of him before he turns "Boh Gei"... you know.. the season of every child when most of the time he/she will be smiling with one or two missing teeth!

Erm... should I start sending invitation for "Tooth Fairy" to come soon????........

Happy Mothers' Day!

2009-05-11T02:06:00.003+08:00

Mothers' Day this year is a different one for me! Of course there is one more little one to celebrate with me... which i doubt she knows what's going on too!

Secondly, I didnt get to really 'enjoy' cos was busy with the 2 kiddos.. Bathing them, cooking lunch 4 the little one, packing the bags, dolling up myself and then driving them to church! Phew! I told Jiaying i felt like a wonder woman today! Everything was done at a very fast speed!

Thirdly, Ja started to drop me little cards and love letters as early as last week! He is sooo sweet! Instead of passing me the cards personally, he would drop them at the mail box and told me i've got mail! Of course, i pretended i didnt know what was going on and acted really surprised!
He also made me a flower from straw and paper.. Guess this is the reward of seeing my labour into fruition when this boy has now grown to be a young man who can write and do handicrafts already!

Didnt really celebrate much today.. We just went to Jurong Point to eat n buy groceries as usual..
Ja had a very funny conversation with us yesterday.. We were planning to bring him to the zoo on Mon. Hence we made some rainy day plans.

Ja: 'ok, our plan A will be to the zoo.. but if it rains, let's have plan B and C! Plan B is that we will stay home and mummy will cook rice for us! Plan C will be that we stay home and mummy will cook spaghetti for us! Yeah!'

DUH???!!! Do i look like Aunty Jona???

Not Again??!!

2009-05-05T01:23:00.002+08:00

Just when I thought the worst is over.... as in Jew's fever finally subsided and diarrhoea finally ended.....

Ja is now burning HOT!! Wow.. At this rate I am going, I may be next! Really SIAN man!

Right now as I am blogging, Jew just fell asleep.. (she fell from her play pen earlier!!! OMG!!! This girl is so "Sam Seng"! She was trying to climb out of the pen as she didnt want to sleep!! Boy did she WAILED! But think it's a good lesson learnt for her as she really not scared of anything one! SIGH!!

As for Ja, he is burning with a temperature of 39 degree! Still not too high like Jew's fever.. Anyway, he is moe co-operative and will allow me to sponge him..
But it was quite funny cos I knew he kana the fever as his friend offered him Honey Stars on the school bus..

He always have this thing with Honey Stars or other flakes.. Each time he eats just a tiny winy bit, he will be down with fever..

He didnt believe me though.. and always thought a bit wont kill....

This time round he knew it!!! Ah ha! And yet he kept saying it was Jewel's fault for passing the germs to him! This boy!!

Anyway, Ja is very freaked out by the Swine flu outbreak.. and kept asking if his and Jew's flu is the "old" one or "new" one... He said the old one wont die but the new one will!

Hahaha.. thought thats quite funny though!

Well, this must be really test of motherhood part 2! Thought I had passed part one years ago with Ja.. Guess this module never will end for as long as I live!

Jaja please get well soon!

3 Days!!

2009-05-02T01:23:00.003+08:00

Day 3 has passed since i resumed to the previous lifestyle of not having a helper around.. only difference is I m now having 2 kiddos tagging along instead of just one Ja in the past!

Well, things are good so far.. just that Jewjew fell sick and is running a high fever of 39.8 degrees!!!

That day Jona left, I sent her to the airport at 3am.. came back around 5am... woke up by Jewjew at 8am.. and just before I sent the kiddos off, IT STARTED TO RAIN CATS AND DOGS!!!

Wow! What a test!

Anyway, I sent Ja to Aunty's place for his schoolbus... and then brought Jewjew to the doc in the midst of the heavy rain! After an eventful morning, I went to off to work..

That was Day 1...

The next day, Ja missed his schoolbus!! I had to rush down to Aunty's place to drive him to school.. Then "deposited" Jewjew there... went home to do some laundry and chores... then went to cg...

That was Day 2...

Yesterday, I wanted to put the 2 kiddos at my mum's place so that I could meet my clients...
Nevertheless, Jewjew started to have high fever!!!
In the end, I stayed to take care of her, went home with Jewjew as Ja stayed over at my mum's place..

Still burning hot!!! Hence, I had to sponge her and sponge her till she went back to 37 plus degrees.. Phew! I almost sent her to KK Hospital!!!

Then I did laundry, washed some stuff, did some chores and with Jewjew sleeping now, I can finally BLOG!!!

Well, that was how I spent my 3 days maidless.. quite enjoyable thus far.. A bit deja Vu as I was reminded of those days with Ja years ago..

I must say the vocation of a HOME MAKER is definitely not easy! But yet again, if I had the option of a stay home mum, I would gladly OPT for it! Cos the rewards of being there all time for your kiddos and upkeeping your own house are so satisfying!! In fact I was just telling Jiaying that I don't mind being a stay home mum!

But yet again, we have to face reality.. The reality that I need to WORK to maintain our lifesyle.. Well, balance is the key to life! Let me try to balance things out for the next 18 days to come!

Before I end, I must give credit to Ja! He is such a good Gorgor.. when I needed to bathe and there was no one at home, he would entertain his meimei for that 20 min shower I took by doing all sorts of stuff like singing, dancing, making animated sounds, playing hide and seek!! And Jewjew simply loves to be entertained by her gorgor! Just as long Ja doesn't always keep kissing and hugging her:)

Jaja, Well done!

Jewjew, GET WELL SOON!!

Eve, Hang on there!

Maidless, but God is able!

2009-04-28T03:10:00.002+08:00

Jona will be going back for home leave for the next 3 weeks... leaving on Wed 4am!!! That means I got to drive her down to airport in the wee hours!! Gosh! No choice since the ticket is much cheaper at this kind of timing! Also she has not been home for 3 plus years!! I feel so excited for her.. She must really be excited to meet her 4 kids again!

Went shopping to buy chocolates and other stuff for her to bring home.

Ja and Jew are sleeping with her in her room now.. think Ja is starting to miss her already though he says: "Never?" Sure. no one believes him:(

Well, I am dreading the days to come.. especially now that I have gotten so used to having her around. It's really important to have a good helper!

Remember the drama 2 weeks ago on marriage regarding the pst's wife?? I have been telling everyone that the key to overcome those issues..like the "waiting" ministry of many wives, the "husbandless" time coping with babies etc is to:

1) GET A CLASS 3 DRIVING LICENSE!

2) GET A CAR (If possible, if not drive your husband's car! or just take TAXI lah!)

3) GET A GOOD HELPER!!

These were the 3 things that helped me overcome.. So ladies I know some of u have been asking me how I have been coping with my husband's kind of crazy schedule.. so tadah!! This are the keys.

Oh yes.. more...

4) HAVE A GANG OF GOOD GIRLFRIENDS THAT YOU CAN HANG AROUND WITH TO DE-STRESS...

5) HAVE MORE KIDS... so that U will be kept busy and occupied.. eeww soo CUTE!!.. (hahahaha, not to be taken seriously but its a good option!)

6) HAVE A STRAIGHT AND DIRECT TALK TO YOUR HUSBAND IF HE GETS TOO MUCH!!! (Yup I always do that.. but only if its getting out of hand.. u know... men!!)

Anyway, I have told ck that with my point no (3) unavailable for the next 3 weeks, he gotta be there lor.. or else, i think i will really beng san!

This is the time I really admire Shuying for handling her 2 kiddos SINGLE-HANDEDLY till now!!! SALUTE!!! I need that kind of anointing now!

Well, I guess i will adjust my expectations.. More importantly, enjoy being a full time mum to the 2 kiddos instead of calling "AUNTY JONA" all the time..

Pray for me..... Hope you will still see me around in the next 3 weeks..... poised... composed.... pretty (VAIN!).... Smell nice (DOUBLE VAIN!!)... Hair not too messy...and FULL OF SMILES:))))))))

These 3 Wonderful Weeks!!! Here I COME!!!

Jewel has a video!

2009-04-19T00:27:00.003+08:00

Thanks to Daniel for his creation! Really want to thank all the friends who came for Jewel's party and for your generous gifts too! Thank Derrick for helping with the projector and sound (hehehe)! Jewel really enjoyed herself tremendously! She was still so hyper even when she reached home! And YES! She is the proud owner of 2 BIG MINNIE MOUSES!!! And she is sleeping with them right now:)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEWEL!!

2009-04-17T16:03:00.003+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEWEL!

You are 1 today!!:))

And yes, we are getting ready for her little party tmr:)

Javier had a very funny conversation with me a few days ago....

Me: Ja, what shall we do for Jewjew for her birthday party? I am thinking of compiling her pictures from baby till now and...

Ja: Oh ya, I've got a great idea!
We can do a video for her with music! (He meant montage)

Me: Really?! ( I was surprised cos that was what I have in mind too)

Ja: And Mummie, we can get Uncle Derrick to switch off and on the lights and flash the projector on that day!!

Me: Wow! Why Uncle Derrick??!! (Cos earlier that day I have asked Derrick to help me with the montage too)

Ja: Aiya, he did that during Daddy's birthday at the function room meh! Ask him lah!!!

Hehehe I was really surprised cos that Ja boy can really remember who to ask for help for different things in the zone.. like who to help him buy lunch, who to go TOILET with him and clean his bum bum!! (hahahaha)...who to drive him, who to bring him out for fun, Who to do montage etc..

Why? Cos he always observes who his Daddy approaches to carry out different tasks!!

Ja's a grown up boy now! - Turning 6 in May:)

2009-04-13T16:57:00.003+08:00

And yes, I am quite "free".. cos sorting out some photos in my lappy.. came across Ja's pics.. Really miss his toddler days!

NOw he is still cute.. different kind of CUTE..

Jewel turns ONE!!

2009-04-13T16:03:00.006+08:00

Yeah, time flies...

JewJew is turning ONE this Fri (17th April).

It seems like yesterday that I was walking to the Admissions Desk at Gleneagles telling the person,"I'm in labour!"

Hehehe seems quite fun and exciting.. minus the pain aside!

Was looking thru some pics of Jew from birth till now and i realised she has changed so much! Hehe prettier and sweeter.. minus her shouting and screaming at her gorgor!

Hot from the oven!

2009-04-10T01:43:00.002+08:00

Wow!

It's out finally! Bb showed me the book tonight and my first thought was 'it's too low a price to be sold!!'

Anyway, i must say that i am very proud of him, and of course the team that put it together. U guys made it happen and made a Dream come true!

Excited for it's launch, and i am even thinking when it's been translated to mandarin, i must make sure my parents get a copy of it!

Hmmm.. Do u think we can put at BORDERS????
Hehehehehe

Back from Hong Kong!

2009-04-08T22:08:00.003+08:00

Hey! I am back!!!

Our plane touched down on Mon almost 12 midnight.. really tired!

I started my trip with my company last Wed and I had to reach the airport by 6am to catch the plane to Hk then to Macau..

Already could feel the flu bug attacking..

It was nice in Macau as we were put up at the newest hotel in MAcau "The Venetian"

It was like WOW when I reached my room.. (look up my facebook for photos ya)

BUt cos its a casino hotel resort.. you can feel the smoke in the air.. and having such a sensitive nose with flu bug. i know that its GONE...

So for the next few days, I went around sneezing and blowing my nose like nobody's business..

Nevertheless, we had fun.. Have not been out for trip with the same gang for quite some time and we enjoyed the time spent together, posing for photos etc..

We went over to Zhu Hai (China) the next day.. We literally walked over as it's like S'pore to JB if not even nearer!

I must say the imitations there are really A class! Bought clothes for the kiddos and many "branded" bags for as cheap as $10 per bag!! OMG!

The next day, we took a ferry back to Hk as we extended our trip.. Ck brought the 2 kiddos over single handedly all by himself!! (BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR HIM!!)

We went to The peak, Disneyland, OCean park.. and basically just walked around Tsim Sha Shui where we stayed..

I msut say that for this trip, I did not do any shopping except for the time in Zhu Hai, but we spent a great time with the kiddos..

Most of the time were spent in bathing them, jumping on the bed with them, eating with them, taking pictures with them...

Some might feel that its such a waste to do all these things while in HK.. But to me and Ck its really a "luxury" as we don't get to do these stuff consecutively for 4 days!!!

And we made a lot of new discoveries about Ja and Jew..

Felt that Ja has really grown up.. I mean We have been bringing him to Hk almost every year since he was 1 and a hlf yrs old and this time round felt that he is such a big boy now..different responds, different expectations from the trips etc.

Of course since he was not able to sit in a stroller anymore, his energy level went down as there were plenty of walking to do.. So that explains why we missed the night shopping in MongKok areas..

The funny thing was that almost every night, Ja gorgor would be knocked out really fast on the hotel bed.. But Princess Jew would still be full of energy and her daddy would have to bring her down to the HMV nearby to listen to the loud music blasting away before she fell asleep!! And we did that for 3 consecutive nights!!

But one thing for sure, this girl is really more "gang ho" than her bro..

She went on to the horse carousel and the 4D cinema without crying or even showing any tinge of fear! In fact Ja only dared to go into the 4D cinema on this trip!! But Jewjew was already watching the movie intently thruout at just 11 months?! Wow!

Well, this trip is indeed tiring for me and Ck.. in fact i am still coughing now.. but I am so glad we made the trip.. it really bonds us together even closer than before!

BUT BUT BUT I will definitely go back again during sale season..to make up for the lost shopping! Heard the buys will be really fantastic then!!! So who wants to join me for a 3 day 2 night Shopping spree???? Registration is now open! Hmmmm, maybe I should organise one for all the well-deserved hot mamas in the TTFA??!! Sounds GREAT!! Hahaha.. all the daddies please get ready the cash and also the time to take over the kiddos!!!

The Battle of the "J"s!!

2009-03-28T02:49:00.002+08:00

"EHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

I was awakened by Jew's "EH" to her Gorgor...

Gosh! What are the 2 of them doing?

Realised Ja and Jew were "fighting" over CARTOON NETWORK (Ja's favourite channel) and "PLAYHOUSE DISNEY" (Jew's favourite channel)

OMG!! That's too fast for them to start fighting already??? HELP!! I only have one TV and one Cable box at home!!

Time to set some house rules even for that young lady!! Tsk Tsk!

A Day at the zoo

2009-03-26T23:22:00.008+08:00

We went to the zoo yesterday morning.. Why so wierd a timing? Well, cos our nights and weekends are always occupied and we dont really have much time to spend over the weekends with the kids!

Promised Ja that we will bring him to the zoo.. so there we are.. got him to "pon-tang" school.

It was really fun.I must say that the zoo has reconstructed a children's land where they have water play (mini wild wild wet), pony rides, merry-go-round, KFC, BEN & JERRY....

Actually our visits to the zoo are mostly spent at the children's play area only.. Cos that will take up about 2-3 hours already!

Ja and Jew really enjoyed themselves tremendously... I am soooo glad we kept our promises to him to bring him to the zoo:)))

(btw, this sounds and reminds me of my primary school day writng a composition titled:" A DAY AT THE ZOO"....oh YES! Then I must end by this...

WE WENT HOME TIRED, BUT HAPPY!! hehehehe

Gan-zhiong Spider!

2009-03-26T00:48:00.005+08:00

Last Tues was Ja's retest for his phonics..

Perhaps some parents may feel that I am very kiasu.. having to send Ja for enrichment classes! Well! Firstly, I am not a homemaker.. and I dun work from 9-5.. thus to ensure Ja has a good foundation from young, I sent him for this phonics class.
Anyway, I used to think that I am not the kiasu type too (lol).. But wait till your child reaches 5! Then we can review again! (hehehe)

Anyway, Ja has been in the class for a year.. From a boy who doesnt like to read and write and whose attention span is super short.. I must say that he has shown tremendous improvement so much so that even his dad feels he needs to be in a very disciplined environment esp for his studies and not the "creative", "free to express" type only..

Ja was supposed to have his first test in Feb.. That test result will determine if he can be promoted to advance phonics class.

Well, he missed a lot of classes last year due to overseas trips, Jewel's arrival etc,hence he was 'ungraded'...

That was the first time he understood the concept of TEST, RESULTS, GRADES!!!

Thus he attended extra classes of 2.5 hours for one month on every Tues night! I was very stressed! Cos I need to rush home on Tuesday nights to drive him for his class and I also have to miss out on leaders mtgs too! Sigh!

The retest was scheduled on last Tues!

He was very very reluctant to go.. gave a lot of excuses like:

"We are late for the test!"

"There is no class today!".... etc etc

Initially I was puzzled.. until he blurted out finally:

"Mummie, I am scared that i will fail again!!!" (cry)

Sigh! I was really heartbroken...:(

So I reassured him that no matter what, he just go thru the session with a light hearted attitude, treat it as a reading session. Most impt is to try his best..No matter what the results are, I promised to bring him for his Mac treat straight after the session..

Guess what?

When I fetched him, he ran out shouting:" Mummie! I got an A!!!

I was taken by surprise! And indeed he scored an A!!!

I am soooo PROUD of him!

This saga made me realised that indeed, all of us need to work hard and God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, he shall reap!!!

At least for Ja, he finally understood this truth and he has also grown to be more mature and responsible after this incident. With his confidence built up, he has also taken a deeper interest in writing and reading! :)

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(PART 2)...

Just a few min ago, Ja discovered the new blue pillow case that we have been hiding from him in Jona's room. His dear uncle Aaron bought for him a few months ago cos his own one was left in a cab a few months back. But it was a blessing for us and I am VERY HAPPY about his loss cos it's high time he goes without his smelly pillow!!

Jona (my maid) then threw the pillow away cos she knows that we are all trying to help him break the "pillow addiction"... And Ja actually wanted to bring that pilow case to Hong Kong next week!!!

Because of this, Ja CRIED, WAILED!!!...

Finally,he accepted the fact that his pillow is GONE... Forever!! (So Aaron PLEASE dun spoil my market again:(!)

But the funniest thing was he asked me for a piece of paper...
I was puzzled, but nevertheless I passed him one..

He WROTE... (see how he is into writing now...)

"Dear Pillow,

I miss you because you have been thrown away.. I love you...

Love Javier

(hehehehehehehehhe!!!!!) I thought that was very Funny!! (ok I didnt laugh in front of him..) But that shows the very gentle and sensitive aspect of him! I think Ja is behaving more and more like an "S" person in the DISC test!

Thats the power of his phonics class! (lol)

why is Vivo city so big??

2009-03-15T02:11:00.002+08:00

came across this joke over the radio.. When Ja heard it, he kept laughing n wanted to go around asking people...

Here goes...

WHY IS VIVO CITY SO BIG???
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Give up??

COS THERE IS A GIANT in it!!! (hehehehe)

Just blogging...

2009-03-14T02:17:00.003+08:00

Oh yeah! It's confirmed! Kong kong.. here we come!

Finally the tickets and hotel have been booked.. Looking forward to this trip...Why?

Well, it has been some time since I last travelled with my colleagues... So since I have 3 days at Macau with them.. especially my buddies (fellow desperate housewives), am really excited for the "xiao" sessions we will have (lol!)

Then following Macau will be Hongkong with my dearies.. Bb, Ja and Jew!

And this time round, I am not planning to do any shopping for myself (at least this is what I am planning to do! God please help me not to fall into temptation hehe)
Instead, this trip will be really for the 2 kiddos especially for Ja..
Ocean Park, Disney Land...

This will be something like his last overseas trip at this time of the year. Next year, he will be starting his primary ONE! So that means I will have to go for trips only during school holidays when everything is sooo expensive cos its the PEAK period! And that's it! Ja will enter our Singapore MOE system for the next 12-13 years at least!

Recently I have been thinking, it's really easy to get pregnant, deliver the baby and even fun to watch them grow and perform "tricks" like what Jew is doing now!

But the challenge comes when the kids have grown to a stage where you have to deal with their emotions and minds.. And that's really not easy! I really need a lot of wisdom and greater capacity to take care of Ja at this stage! And these few years will set him up for his future.. So it's really crucial! My Ja Ja is now a boy and no longer a baby..And I really pray that God can help us to lead him in the right way and he will grow to be a boy who is confident and secure of who he is as a person and to have the fear of the Lord..

Alright, a bit deep already.....

Pics!

2009-03-12T00:58:00.007+08:00

Has not been putting pics in my blog.. so will update u all with some of my favourite pics rather than words:)

Jewel was having a great time sitting inside her Gor GOr's toy box! Time really flies! She will be turning ONE in a month's time! It seemed like yesterday that I just gave birth to her! And I must say this princess is getting cuter and sweeter by day! :)

These were taken when the 2 kiddos are having their breakfast!! MIIK from their bottles:)

Jew loves to sleep on her Gor gor's ferrari bed.. and to drink from their bottles together is something she really enjoys doing cos Ja is her idol! (lol)

Following these are pics taken after I reached home from my company's Awards nite. Why did I take these pics? Well, the hairdo and makeup cost me $70 and it only lasted for 3 hours. SO in order to maximise it, I decided to take a few pics with Jew and Ck (Ja was overnighting at palm garden)... Jew loved my necklace so much that when we put it on her, she was literally beaming!!:))

Busy busy busy!

2009-03-10T01:00:00.002+08:00

Hey there! I am back!

Has not been blogging cos was BUSY BUSY BUSY! Not so much with work but with a few things:

1) Settling my maid's work permit renewal and passport renewal...

2) Getting her air tickets for her to go back for 3 weeks!! OMG! How am I going to survive??? Grace Grace!

3) Having our house valued and buyers to view... thought of selling it if the price is good (no hurry though) and then wait for a good time to upgrade.. (Ja is looking forward to it! It's funny though cos he was saying," Wow! Mummie can I have a house that has a nice garden and a swimming pool? Please lah!"

Oh ya I am also saying that to my Abba now," God, please lah! I also wish leh!" (hehehehe)

4) Visiting a few primary schools to orientate and check out the environment and the values the school embraces before we decide which to register Ja into.

So you can see that I have been busy... busy with these stuff...

God I need a breakthrough!!

Ja and Jew: Pls SLEEP by 8.30pm will ya?!

2009-03-02T00:36:00.003+08:00

How I wish tt the kids would go to bed by 8.30pm... hehehe like what Pst Tan said this afternoon... the IDEAL lifestyle of every married couple....

Sigh... I think it's not gonna happen that way...

First of all, 8.30pm is still a time when we either have our dinner, have cgm, leaders mtg, appt with my client... in other words... we are not even home yet! How to sleep!!!???

WE are SINGAPOREANS! So that explains why I am still blogging at this time. Also, Ja is still playing with his toys.. his daddy is playing his role of the family man now.. entertaining his boy.. JEw is zzzzing.. finally after one hour of coaxing!

GOSH! So I can finally bathe. relax, read some bedtime stories (which are pretty lacking nowadays!!), Stone, Plan for next week.... blah blah blah... mmmmmm... satisfying!

Well, what do we do when we don't have the luxury of tucking the kids to bed by 8.30pm?

It depends... u can ask around different couples for different suggestions or simply apply what we learnt in svc today:) (A bit lame hor.. cos my brain not working already.... need to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

YEAH! Princess has recovered!

2009-03-01T02:25:00.002+08:00

Wow! Princess Jewel has recovered from her fever:)))

Actually ever since the 39.5 degree saga on Thurs night, her fever subsided after the bath and then it did not come back again!! AMAZING!

Cos even the doc was expecting her to have the fever for at least 2 more days... so we were all watching and watching and watching.... and I am so happy to announce that princess is fine... perfectly fine till now!!! YEAH!

So on Sat, we went to look for baby Georgie.. had dinner at Tampines Mall and did some shopping.. But I must say it was quite a feat to bring 2 babies and 1 boy out.. together with 2 prams, 2 maids, 2 mothers (Jiaying and moi) and 1 grandma!!

Surprisingly, my Toyota Corolla could fit in a total of 8 people!! Well done Toyota! (LOL)

Anyway, we have booked each other for SWIMMING next Sat!! Once again, the same combination... hope it will turn out fun!

ok water baptism tmr.. going to be a long sun.. need to zzzzzzz now....

BYE!

Jewel's first fever

2009-02-27T13:31:00.002+08:00

Princess Jewel is down with fever..

And that explains why I am blogging at this time of the day!

I am at HOME... taking care of this girl..

Yesterday, she was running a temperature of 39.2 degree!!! If it had been 6 years ago, you would see me and CK at KK hospital A&E!!!

But yesterday, I just sent princess for a lukewarm shower.

And she thought it was very fun bathing in the middle of the night!!! (LOL)

Anyway, her fever has subsided.. but it will rise again tonight.. That's how this kind of bacteria infection goes.. (tips for parents!) Cos they are resting and not energetic in the middle of the night, hence, temperature will tend to soar...

So poor parents, we will not dare to sleep too soundly for fear that the temperature will soar too high!

So for now.. pray that princess's fever and infection will be gone real real soon!

I need to zzz a while.. to catch up on my lost sleep...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Excited:)

2009-02-26T01:22:00.002+08:00

Have been down with flu, cough and lost my voice as a result of that...

Actually my voice was lost cos I was "chasing" Javier and making sure he did not run all over the shopping mall when we were in JB last sat for our zone's event.

It was a fun trip... felt that my money was very BIG there! (LOL)

Anyway, we did our hair as in we cut and did treatment and it only cost me S$35!! It was great and i am making plans to go in once a month to treat my hair (hehehe). Javier also cut his hair and even allowed his hair to be washed for the first time in a salon!! Guess it was peer pressure cos his "peers"like his Jiujiu, teacher Siying, Yeeyee and the other uncles and aunties were all seated down and having our haircut together.

Anyway he enjoyed himself very very much! For more pics, pls log on to my facebook account hehe..

Well, what am I excited about then? Oh yeah, my whole family as in Ck, myself, Ja and Jew will be going to Hongkong in April! Its our first family trip ... this year (hehe).. looking forward to it..

However, as I will be flying off to Macau for my company incentive trip first.. I am really a bit concerned how on earth can CK manage 2 kiddos on board the plane?? And with Jewjew's patterns and the fact that this will be her first flight!!!

Well, Ck is very confident that he can manage well.. He said," No prob la.. Easy one!"

Really???

Well, we will all know when the time comes:)

Good night..(cough, cough, cough)!!! sigh.. feels uncomfortable in my throat again!

He is Risen!!

2009-02-20T01:46:00.004+08:00

Easter is coming!!

Actually, i am not blogging about easter day la.. still early. But I felt a resurrection power tonight!! (LOL)

By now, my fellow bloggers would have realised tt my blog went blank suddenly....

I was shocked too! And momentary, I felt like how Serena felt when her old blog was deleted accidentally...

But thank God!! Pst always say.... whenever something needs repair, always go back to the maker.:)

Of course the maker of this blog is none other than Jordan's mummie herself!

And really thank her for resurrecting my blog again!

And yes, I think I am really addicted to BLOGS!! Cant go to bed without all these bed time stories:)

So bloggers out there, please do your part to update your blogs so that I can have enough stories to feed me before I zzzzzz:)

Remember... don't deprive me! (LOL)

Nite!

Testing Testing!

2009-02-18T23:52:00.001+08:00

Envy Envy!

2009-02-18T02:31:00.002+08:00

After reading all the blogs of my fellow blogmates, I felt soo soo envious!!

Everyone celebrated their V day in their own special ways! soo nice!

I spent the entire Sat (V Day) in Tampines.. with my mum, 2 maids, 1 sister and 3 kiddos!!!

Cos the Valentine is in JB...

Sigh...

Romance involves the IMPRACTICAL! Happy V Day:)

2009-02-14T02:34:00.014+08:00

Happy Valentine Day!!

Well, since my V day will be spent with the 2 kids as Ck will be in JB... think he decided to do the impractical yesterday instead:)

YEAH! My favourite flowers!! White Lilies...... I must say that being such a practical person... the flowers are BEAUTIFUL~~!

Thank You BB!

However, can someone tell me what to do with the flowers after that moment???

I don like dried up flowers.. SO i have decided to let the flowers BLOOM instead and they are now sitting in my living room. My helper happily placed them in the vase and when Ja saw them, he said," Wow! Beeeauutiful!!!" (U know.. with his dramtic tone??)

Besides letting them bloom, another usage is to parade in office and "show off"... also not forgetting taking pictures too!:)

Had cg on Fri, it's interesting to hear how my very adult members who have been married for 20 to 30 years share their romances and park tor days... We also did a test to discover our primary and secondary love languages and got the married couples to guess what their spouses love languages are before the answers were revealed...

(hehehe) I realised a few things though...

No matter how confident they were, most of the husbands did not managed to state their wives' primary love languages correctly!!! Reasons??? WOMEN is spelled as CHANGE!! (hehehe)

There was a couple where the husband said CONFIDENTLY:
" Well, her primary language is GIFTS!!"
And the wife said: " NoOOOO!! It's now words of affirmation!!"
Husband: "Huh!!??When did you CHANGE to that??"

(LOL)

Also, I realised that the reason why there are descrepancies is cos when any of the 5love languages is being "starved", we will start to "hunger" for that aspect to be filled! As simple as that!

So couples out there, don assume that your spouses love languages always stay constant... take time to observe and see which areas are "starving" and start "feeding" them NOW!

What's my LOVE LANGUAGE???

(Hee) I was shocked at the results too!!

Here goes...
Present
#1: Quality TIme

#2: Physical Touch

#3: Words of Affirmation/ Acts of Service

#4: Gifts

Past
#1: Quality Time

#2: Acts of Service/Gifts

#3: Words of Affirmtation

#4: Physical Touch

Can you imagine that??!! Gifts is at the last one! But hey! I still welcome gifts ok... dont starve me in that!

And it's funny cos when I got Ck to guess, he got the 2nd one wrong! He thought it's Acts of service... and that was correct in the past.. but (hee) you all know which areas I am being starved right now!! (sob! sob!)

What's your dominant love language?

(if you would like a copy of the test, do approach me...:)

Happy Valentine's Day!!! Enjoy!!!

LOVE IS IN THE AIR!!

2009-02-09T00:30:00.002+08:00

Wow Wow! Like I've said, Feb is indeed a month of lovey dovey romantic stuff!

My last blog sounds a bit nostalgic and reflective.. been wanting to try out that style.. BUt I realised I don really like it. At least I don feel like reading it again...

Anyway, Eve is back to her old style again! At least for now...

Well, todays's service was really so funny and there were so much true in what Pst has shared! But of course right?!! What am I talking about??!! Of course he is preaching the truth!

Anyway, it's wierd telling Ck that statement of " whatever you want.."!!! (Hahahhaha! Faint! Faint! FLIPPP!)

Nevertheless, have to say it la... ( and do it????) Erm, ahem! Censored!! Stepping into certain unknown boundaries here now...

(SO READERS! GET BACK, GET BACK!!!)

Heard of some exciting "chasing" going on.. hopefully can hear many GOOD NEWS by V Day!!:))) Some of you know what I mean!!! Wishing you the BEST in your ENDEAVOUR!

Alright, gotta study now.. having an exam tmr! YES! EXAM! Must upgrade myself mah...
Burning the midnight oil tonight!

Bye!

Love, Love, Love, Love, Love................... (Hey! Did anyone realise that love is spelt LoVe??? Did you see the LV in LoVe?? It's a revelation!!! (LOL)

CHANGEs....

2009-02-05T20:56:00.004+08:00

There are CHANGES all the time...

- CAREER change
- OURLOOK change
- WEIGHT change
- VALUES change
- RELATIONSHIPS change
- BELIEFS change
- MINDSET change
- EVNIRONMENT change
- PRIORITIES change
- ATTITUDES change
- LAPTOPS change
- BLOGSKINS change
- HEALTH change
- HAIRSTYLE change
- DRESSING change
- FAMILY DEMOGRAPHICS change
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So many so many.... Things are never stagnant..
But no matter what, let's guard ourelves that the changes must lead us to a BETTER place, become a BETTER person, so that life is more BEAUTIFUL!

Very Chiem blog hor...

What HE says to me!

2009-02-04T21:00:00.002+08:00

He says.....

1) " Evelyn, you are soo WITTY!" (I know, that's what my JC civics tutor wrote
about me too!)

2) " Evelyn, you make a faithful and dependable friend!"

3) "Evelyn, you can look "DAO" at times. SO please SMILE more!" (Okay!)

4) "Evelyn, you are a woman who can multiply whatever is in your hands!"

5) "Evelyn, your kids love to hear you read them stories in your ANIMATED version."

6) "Evelyn, you are GORGEOUS!"

7) "Evelyn, I will make you stand before kings and I am very proud of you!"

8) "Evelyn, since you have trusted me when you were young and had nothing, you can defintely trust me with the ALL you have now."

9) "Evelyn, I will empower you for your breakthrough this year!"

10) "Evelyn, I LOVE YOU..."

"Abba, I LOVE YOU TOO! THANK YOU FOR HOLDING ON TO ME ALL THESE YEARS!" -Evelyn

Happy 7th Anniversary!!

2009-02-03T01:04:00.002+08:00

Well well, 02/02 is our wedding anniversary. 7th one by our matrimony date. In fact, if we were to go by our ROM date, we were officially married in the eyes of law on 22/02/2001.. and hence, we would be celebating our 8th anniversary soon! (LOL) So many dates to celebrate..Feb is a month of Romance (haha)

Anyway, we always go by the date in the eyes of God (hehe)..hence 02/02!

Nothing romantic happened.. for those of you who are guessing and fantasizing:)))

We brought the kids for Mac Donalds lunch at Lot one.. THen brought Ja to the doc for his X-ray (his leg is healing vey well! Thank God!). After which we sent him to my mum's place.. why?? Cos he wanted to tag along with us for dinner!! Of course,
NO WAY!

But it was very funny when we tried to "shake" him off... Firstly, we tried to explain to him that it's our wedding anniversary today.. so..

"Ja, you go Popo house can?" Daddy and Mummy would like to celebrate our wedding anniversary day!"

Ja: "Why? Today is your wedding? Mummy, where is your gown?"

Moi: "No la.. no gown.. church wedding over long time ago already.."

Ja: " I know! Daddy, have you bought the ring? Wedding must have ring one lei.. Can I be your page boy for your wedding later? Is there going to be a wedding dinner too"

(FAINT!!)

In the end, we have to explain in such a way that it's like we are celebrating birthday.. Our wedding "birthday"... (LOL)

KIDS!!!

Anyway, Ck and I went to this Japanese restarant at river view hotel.. A la carte buffet! $33+++ per pax and the food is really authentic Jap food!! Very Yummy! not much ambience but think at our age, we prefer to go for Good food! HEE!

After dinner, we went to Rendezvous Hotel............................................

(HEY!!!) WHAT ARE YOU THINKING OF??!!

We went to the Coffee Club at Rendezvous Hotel to drink coffee! Our favourite place and past time since Park Tor days..

Well, we made plans for our lives esp for this year... the breakthroughs we want to see..

I mean, it has been a good 7 years.. and God has been so great to us! From nothing to where we are today!!

People always say 7th year is the year that the married couple will start to "itch"..

Well, indeed we are itching..

Itching for MORE!! hehehe...")

Like what Ck said, There is MORE! So we are definitely believing for MORE for our lives this year!!

HAPPY 7TH ANNIVERSARY TO US!! MUACK!

HELP! I AM DESPERATE!!!

2009-01-31T03:04:00.002+08:00

Hee! Like that title?

Well, have not been blogging for at least a week.. Why?? CNY Lor... Been busy visiting relatives.. and giving out ang paos..

But this year, me and Ck quite enjoyed our CNY.. Cos we spent the nights watching movies: "Love matters" on the first night and "Red Cliff 2" on the second..

It was funny cos when we told Ja that we were going for a movie and that he was to stay at my grandma's house with his jiujiu(s) and yeeyee(s), his comment was:

"Oh you and daddy watching movie? Can you pack some popcorns back for me?"

On the second night....
"Huh!! Movie again! You watched one yesterday already right?!"

(LOL)

Anyway, we enjoyed ourselves...

Finally got back to work mode on Thurs..

On Fri, I went for high tea at Marriot Hotel with my 2 buddies who are also my colleagues.. Felt that Marriot's standard has dropped.. but nonetheless, it was a good time we spent eating and chitchatting..

Well, after that the zone had the MARKETPLACE OUTREACH session at riverwalk.. I felt a bit out of place initially (hahaha) cos there were so many youths!!

But I was very blessed by the sharing as Ck talked about DESPERATION.

And indeed it is so true.. Dreams, Diligence and Desire can only bring us to a certain level, but it is indeed DESPERATION that will lead us to BREAKTHROUGH!!

One very good example is my fellow colleague who is also a manager..

He was very very very DESPERATE for his promotion last year. And out of his desperation, he, with his team of consultants actually broke through and did the what seemed impossible!

I am sooo happy for him that he got his promotion!! And i believe it's not just because he has always dreamed, desired or worked hard.. but truly he was DESPERATE! He gave himself NO TURNING BACK and NO OPTION not to get promoted! Wow!! And I think I just was not desperate enough for my promotion last year.

You know what?

For the first time, I am not afraid of saying

" HELP! I AM DESPERATE!!!" :))

Great Food (Part 2)

2009-01-22T01:32:00.002+08:00

Yeah! It was really great food at the leaders chalet on Tues..

Abundance was the word..

BEE HOON, CURRY CHICKEN, BBQ stuff.. THanks to Jason for being our main chef fot the BBQ portion. Someone actually mentioned that your FIRE is powerful.. minimum flame but maximum HEAT!! Wow! How to do that?

Anyway, we all suffered the aftermath of the great food on wed.... DIARRHEOA!!!!

EEKS!! I thought i probably ate too much.. I went to the toilet 6 times!! My maid 4 times!!

Then... I realised that Kenneth, Serena, Huijuan, Ruxin, Audrey, Derrick and I believe many more also had it!!!!

After some "investigation", we felt it's the bee hoon as my maid mentioned it taste a bit funny...

Thank God Ck and Ja were safe.. And the only similarity is that they did not touch the bee hoon at all! BUt they (esp Ja) ate tons of chicken wings...

I was still struggling till I asked my maid:

"Jona, how many times have you went to the toilet already?" (See, even diarrheoa also has the peer pressure element!)

"Maam.. i stopped already"

"Wow! Why so good?!" (As i was indignant about the fact that I just went to the toilet again!)

"Maam.. you want to try this medicine I have?"

I took the pill and VIOLA!!! I am fine...

Moral of the story: Maids can be quite or even more resourceful at times!! (LOL)

Despite this aftermath, I still have no regrets for the food I took on Tues.. Think it might be a good thing too cos garbage in-garbage out! No residue inside my body! YEah!! Can maintain my weight!! Hahaha...

Great Movie! Great Food!

2009-01-20T03:07:00.005+08:00

GOsh! I am sleepy! Just finishing seeing all the pics of Ruxin, Derrick and Karen's Japan trip.. So glad they enjoyed themselves!

Also saw the pics taken during my family/s early renuion diiner on SUnday.. Why so early?? Well, the Zou family going back Jakarta to collect Georgie Boy's Ang Pao!!!

Well, my team (or at least for myself) had a good time together today..

Watched Red Cliff 2 and it's sooo exciting and nice! I mean I never like this kind of show.. the first part was quite slow for me.. but I really dun mind watching part 2 one more time.. got a lot of thoughts.. at least i found some moral of the story stuff... but my guys hor.. sigh! really didint study literature!!! They only thought about the horse "meng meng"... the rice dumpling being given to Zhou Yu (about the Carboh a leader has to eat.. blah blah blah..)

Anyway, I learnt quite a lot from this show.. about leadership, how to fight a good warfare, strategy, relationships etc.. Think I need to watch again to sink in more... "))

After that we went to a restaurant at upper east coast for seafood.. forgot the name.. the place is set in a traditional house (somewhat like the Little Nonya show setting)We ate like 10 dishes!!! And it cost reasonably cheap for 3 crabs, drunken prawns, sald prawns, Venison meat, chicken, Toufu, 2 kinds of vegetables, LAO YU SHENG! Very filling and Yummy!

With that, we bought titbits, ice-cream and drinks and went back to the chalet for business planning..

Think while I am writing this blog, they are still "swimming" (if you know what I mean!) HEY!! ARe you reading this from the chalet now??

Later on (as it's 3 am now), I will be bringing Ja and Jew to the chalet for swimming and fun")) Bought myself a tankini cos all my swim wear were Bikini!! Wow! Now cannot, got tummy:( SO must cover that FLAP first!

Looking forward to that as it will be Jew's ever FIRST swimming session and Ja's FIRST after his cast was off.. Must get him to swim, not too strenuous and he needs to shed some weight!

BBQ with the CGLS tmr.. So I better sleep now..

NITE! (Those in chalet now and if you are reading this... DON "SWIM" TOO LATE!!)

Write down your vision. Make it plain!

2009-01-19T01:13:00.004+08:00

Looking forward to my team's ever first planning retreat (today) cos it's already past midnight now:)

Why first?? Well, for so many years, we have been planning with my director's unit together.. It's been really good and enriching..

But this year thought it will be good to do things differently! After all, our God is a God of new things!

This year, I am not going to make things very long and theoretical.. instead, just simply planning that's enough for my team of FCs to focus on their vision for their business this year!

Bible did mention in Habbakuk 2... "Make it PLAIN".. so think it will be good not to be too complicated this year:)

Anyway, besides planning.. the key focus is to build team up in our synergy and bonding.. hence we are in for a great time of movies, seafood dinner, karaoke and some games at the chalet if we can still tahan! Sounds fun right??

Thought this is a kairos time to do it in this manner as the team is not too big nor small.. just nice for outing like this. Perhaps when we grow to a size of 30? THen most prob back to "Bintan style" again... (LOL)

The Pursuit of BEAUTY is endless!

2009-01-18T01:34:00.003+08:00

Hee Hee HEe! ISn't that a very philosophical title??

Well, WELCOME TO MY NEW BLOG SKIN! All credits to Serena for helping to make us a husband and wife skin... THANKS!!

Anyway, I thought my 'skin' is beautiful till I saw Serena's!!! Wow! Awesome man!

Nonetheless, I AM SATISFIED AND HAPPY:))

UPdates on Ja..

He is off his cast already.. however, as the crack has not fully join back, he is still walking with a limp.. SO doc advised us not to let him walk too much and also to go back to school prob only after CNY!

Ja is HAPPY! I am NOT! It seems like this holiday has been especially long for him..

If he is not back in school, it simply means I have to keep him occupied with programmmes and to at least give him some home work to do..

Well, don't get me wrong.. I am not the kiasu mum.. but it's just that if I dont put his brains to good and constructive use, they will be used for other things like PSP and WII...

Recently he is bugging me for a laptop of his own!! Kids nowadays!! When I was his age, I was only consumed with paper dolls! (Or is it not??)

So, the thing is.. Ck managed to get a lobang for my Fujitsu laptop to be repaired (ie) to change a brand new original screen for only $300!!!

OMG! Why didn't the lobang come earlier??!! So now I have 2 laptops!!

Guess by now you would have known what I am planning to do right?

Yes, I will be putting my old one at home for Ja to log in to his www.disneychannel.com etc.. (of course only with my supervision!)

Do you think that boy has been praying hard??? I mean.. longer holidays.. a laptop for him at home... I really suspect he has been praying hard! The fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much!!

Ja's Recovering!!

2009-01-07T19:17:00.002+08:00

Oh yes! For all Ja's friends out there... I am very thrilled to say that he is recovering well... Doc is quite optimistic..

Will go back on 15th Jan (thurs) to remove his cast and Xray and if the bones have healed, he will be totally off cast!

PRAISE THE LORD!

Soooo happy!

Finally he can go back to school and we can all resume back to our normal lifestyle again! YEAH!

She's gone...

2009-01-07T19:03:00.002+08:00

Rachel is gone... just a day after Brandon...:(

My mum in law was quite sad as she has grown quite attached to the 2 rabbits. It seems like when one of the companions is gone, the other one will likely to follow soon after as they will be depressed by the death of their companion..

Anyway, this marks the end of the rabbits episode... Like "The Little Nonya" (lol)

We broke the news to Ja on Mon...

He was very sad.. in fact, he cried (not the wailing kind) but more of tearing...

We told him the news after his visit to the doc..

Thank God we had other things that day to cheer him up..

1) His new Ferrari RED F1 racing car bed came on Mon and he was sooooo HAPPY! (Will post pics when my new laptop comes)

2) we brought him shopping that day (in his pram of course)... and he bought a "small" toy that cost me $8.95...

As for my mum-in-law, cos it was quite traumatising for her to dispose the rabbit, we (all the Tan siblings) chipped in to buy her a new Samsung LCD TV that comes with a free Samusung Theatre system and camera... To chong(1) chong(1) xi(3).. meaning to break the gloomy atmosphere!

Sigh! What an eventful month! Yet again! It seems that my blogs can form a TV drama serial on its own already!

Anyway, I have decided not to repair my laptop... I am still under warranty, but Fujitsu said that my screen was physically damaged hence not covered!! (Who damaged it? I was just using it a min ago B4 it collapsed!)

So now I am looking out for a lower end lap top since they will spoil within 1-2 years anyway.. Perhaps DELL or ACCER again..?

Any suggestion?

Also, can someone advise me who I should look for to transfer all my data out from my old laptop??

And also to set up everything for my new laptop???

I am really very IT illiterate!

Help!!

REST IN PEACE (Part 2)

2009-01-04T02:40:00.003+08:00

Aiyoh!! Choy choy choy! Why are my first few blogs of 2009 so (Da Ji Li Shi)??

Sat morning...

My mum in law called and said that rabbit Brandon has died!!!!!!!!!!!

Why?? We don know??!!

By right, the rabbits are already 6 months old and have stabilised.. they are also very active and energetic.. WHY??

Anyway, Ck went to dispose IT off.. gross hor.. don ask me for details...(eek!)

Poor Rachel, she is 'widowed'... not that i am sure of their marital status... it's based purely on my assumption.. they could jolly well be 'platonic' friends for all we know.. But I doubt so..Hee..

We are now looking for GOOD people to adopt her... Any takers?

After reading this, some of you may feel that Evelyn is very unsympathetic.. still joking around...

Well, I am NOT an animal or pets person... i rather have more children than pets.. (sorry to the pet lovers out there)...

That's why I am not for the rabbits project right from the beginning.. SIGH!!

Anyway, it's over...

(PLEASE DUN CONSOLE JA YET, WE HAVE YET TO BREAK THE NEWS TO HIM!!!!)

To side track a bit...
P.S some of you are wondering about my wish list.. thinking that Evelyn is wow.. very on for diamonds stuff..
But the fact is when Ruxin asked me for wish list, I really couldn thinking of anything I really want except for the bigger place..so the rest are just to fill up the numbers HEE!

And yes one more wish: Ja to get into our dream school for his primary one next year! (Will add that in!)

Nite...

REST IN PEACE!

2009-01-03T01:26:00.002+08:00

It's really a new year! All things have become new.. Like what i have been confessing in last blog, my FUJITSU laptop's screen has cracked internally on the 31 dec 2008.

'docs' have said that the cost of replacing the screen may cost as much as a new laptop!

So it's still in'ICU'.. Sigh.. Dear laptop.. U have served me well (but too short leh.. Only 2 yrs!)

Nevertheless, rest in peace if u need to..

So guys out there.. Any good lobang?? Any UNI students with extra accout to purchase one more laptop???

Till then, i can only blog with my nokia E71.. And that means.. No pics!

So PLEASE HELP.....

FACEOFF!

2008-12-31T18:27:00.002+08:00

As you would have seen by now, my blog went thru a cosmetic surgery for a face off!

Well, it,s the last day of the yr, time for changes, time for new wine SKIN, downloading of New brains!

So it's time that my blog has a new outlook! Tag me ok:)

Just want to thank Ruxin for helping me with the overhaul:) thanks a MILION!

Well, you shd be hearing more from me as many of you would have known by now...

Poor Ja cracked his ankle and will be in a cast for one mth! He is now resting at home and sits in a wheelchair. Also he will have to be carried to the toilet, to bed... Basically anywhere..

So me and CK have arranged to take turns to be home to support him.

Also want to thank all the wonderful uncles and aunties who have been coming to my place to entertain him, buy gifts for him, play Wii etc.

Ck and I really appreciate all of you and thank you from the bottom of our hearts! Your presence truly made a BIG difference!

It's new years eve... Have a great 2009 ahead!
See you guys next year!

I'm BACK! - What a Dec!

2008-12-20T02:36:00.002+08:00

Well well.. look who's back!

Sorry for not blogging for so long... not to you! I apologised to MYSELF! HEE!

What a Dec!

I had a terrible viral flu and fever and for one full week my temperature was hovering between 38.5 to 39.5 degree! My gosh! I was so worried that I am going bonkers due to the fever!

The whole saga lasted for almost 2 weeks! Couldnt work at all... laid on my bed under the blankets! Wow has not been so sick for a long time!

Guess what! I lost 3kg from this saga! Talk about losing weight...I have been mumbling to my sis about the skinny mummies I saw during Asia conference. Guess God couldn stand my whining anymore... so tadah!!! I fell sick! (And lost 3 kg!) (I don mean God made me sick ok!)

Something funny happened when i was very sick...

It was a thurs, my 3rd day of fever...

At 12 noon, the doorbell rang... my mother in law came to visit me and took care of me.. I was touched! I mean my own mum lives at the other end of S'pore and i was so glad my MIL came..

Guess what! 2 hours later, the doorbell rang again! MY MUM CAME!!

I was like... wow! Why the 2 mums at the same time???

IT WAS JAVIER!

He called them using my house phone that has been pre programmed with the speed dials..

"Halo, nai nai?? (in mandarin) My mummie is very sick lei.. high fever lei.. can you come and take care of her?

Can buy me fishball noodles too???"

(Next call...)

"Halo Po po? (in English) Mummie is very sick lei.. high fever.. Can you come to my house now?

Can buy me waffles when you come? Plain one please? Thank you!"

That was how both my mothers appeared at the same time at my house! You know.. Ja will not let himself go hungry hee hee.. Ok la.. I should say he loves me so much that he gathered help for me when I was sick! :)))

Anyway, I felt so loved when both my mothers took care of me! Felt very loved and pampered..:)

Anyway, Thruout the whole falling sick saga, I was feeling very down... cos has to take a break from work and it's such a crucial time for my sales at this time of the year!

Also, cos my fever kept coming back.. I had to go for blood test etc... And i was quite worried that I might be down with some Critical sickness or something!

Couldn't go near the kids so I felt very deprived and separated from them...

Sigh! I am sooo glad it's over! Not fun to be sick! Even till now, my appetite is still not as good... Mmmm is this planned to help me lose more weight???

Better take more vitamins, and also the TCM (Dong(1) Chong(2) Cao(3)) to get back my energy! It works! I feel much much better now...

Want to thank Aaron Chew ... For helping to buy the TCM stuff to bring down my fever.. and of course you helped to bring Ja out to join you all for cg outing. He enjoyed himself so much! And of course you came to pick him to church and sent him back after... Really appreciate all that you've done! THANK YOU AARON!

Stay tuned.. will be blogging more... :)

What a conference! And more updates...:)

2008-11-24T19:46:00.012+08:00

So tired after the Asia Conference!! But it was great. This time was very differnet from Emerge.. felt that it's not just hyped up but the message of penetrating the society and embracing the culture was spread thru out and really hit the churches of Asia .. even for us in CHC. Many a time, we heard about the Cultural Mandate.. but it became like a slogan after a while. This was indeed a great conference to let us experience visually the impact we can have to penetrate the society!! :)) WOW!!

Anyway, have been trying to blog, but just too tired...

Last Sun after the Baby dedication, we went to Orchard to experience the Christmas Lights!! It's the time of the year again! I have loved Nov and Dec since I was a child... Why? Well more than just Xmas, it's also my birthday (hee), and the weather is sooo breezy and cool! I simply love the combination!

Took some pics... Brought the kids to Borders as well.. Ja loves to go Borders.. Think he loves the "shiokness" of picking up his books and dumping into the basket saying," I'll take this, and this, and this... and that... and that..." :( (He thinks his parents own Borders!!)

Anyway, it was funny cos when he had a basket full of books, Jona (my maid) said to him...," ok Ja, for every book tat you buy, you will have to finish reading them or else no TV for you.."

Ja: oohh, Think I dun need this.. And that one is too thick.... and I dun like this.....

hee hee hee... it works!

We had an interesting conversation after Fri's Asia Conference..

Ja: Mummie, just now in children's church ah.. I saved somebody's life lei!

Me: Wow Really!! Why??

Ja: Oohh cos a boy almost fell down , then I stretched out my hand and caught him! The teacher said I am a hero leh! :)

Me: Wow! I am sooo proud of you!

Ja: Mummie, remember the other time you fell down? (I fell 2 days b4 I gave to Jewel.. think too heavy so my legs gave way:( I couldnt save you cos I was still small (erm.. it was only April this yr!).. But Daddy saved you right!:)

Ja: Think ah, I will be in charge of saving the children.. Then Daddy will save the adults instead! How about that??

Me: Sure!........

p.s. Was he speaking literally or in parables? "Save"??? (Seems like a prophesy:)))

Kids are sooo amazing!

Anyway, see Jewjew reading books in Borders.. seems as if she really reading...

We posed for some pics at Isetan in Lido....

Wondering why we had to bend so low?? Ja was the camera man... that explains why....

Ja was in the superhero cool mode... See his face!

Think he still look better SMILING! Anyway, where was Jewjew??Sleeping in the pram! She buay Tahan already.. after the baby dedication!:)

Busy Weekend!

2008-11-18T15:51:00.003+08:00

OOhh!!! It's been some time since I last blogged!

Busy busy busy....

Just came back to work after taking 2 days MC... But it was a good break.. spent lots of time with my 2 babies:))

Recently, we were on our way to my mum-in-law's place when we had this conversation with Ja in my car...

Ja: Mummie, where are we going??

Me: Going to Nai Nai's (grannie) place lor.. to visit your children too.:)

Ja: Huh?Children?

Me: Your rabbits Rachel and Brandon remember?? Been some time since we last visited them? Don't you miss them?

Ja: SILENCE....

Ja: Huh crazy ah..!!! I AM NOT A RABBIT HOR!!!

ME: LOL!!! :))))

Don't you think he is smart? To think that I am referring him to a rabbit when I did not even have the intention!
Kids Nowadays!.....

Anyway, Took care of the 2 of them over the weekend... Maid went for her off... Really don't know how Shuying manages it EVERYDAY in US!!! WOW!I salute her!

We had Jewjew's baby dedication.. tiring weekend but felt so satisfied!:))

It seems like Jewjew has "crossed-over" after her dedication! She became very PLAYFUL and CHEEKY!! Seems like she has something up her sleeve in some of her responses towards us!

(eg) she will pretend to sleep when I was patting her and when she hears her Daddy's voice, she will open her eyes and give that sweet yet playful smile! As if her daddy is back to 'rescue' her from her bedtime!
And when Aunty Jona tried to carry her back to the room (to make her sleep), Jewjew will look in all other direction except hers!! THink it must be the milk powder they are drinking nowadays! She very "geng (1)"one....:)

FOr those of you reading this, you might be wondering what's the big deal? Yup true cos words cant describe that cheekiness in her! You need to see it for yourelf before you understand what i am trying to say!

Anyway, friends in church commented that Jewel is sooo different from last time.. She refuses to sit still.. wants to get involved in whatever her ge ge is playing with... makes so much noise to get your attention....

But SHE IS CUTE:)))

OOhhh how i miss my JaJa and Jewjew now....

Stay tuned for photos to be uploaded... I forgot to bring my camera out!

Asia Conference starts tmr!!! Get ready for a GREAT WEEK AHEAD!

Eve (in office....)

TGIF!!!

2008-11-01T01:18:00.004+08:00

THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY!!!

Ja is staying overnight at Palm Garden again... Usual routine on Fri. So I can blog :)

Have been working very hard for the past 2 weeks! Meeting up with my clients... So has been feeling really tired...:(

Nevertheless, thank God that I have 2 cuties waiting for me to de-stress every time I get home!:)) Children are such a blessing!:)) Let me de-stress by talking about them...

JAVIER

Recently we bought him a transformer toy (YELLOW BUMBLE BEE). That boy actually gave that toy to his classmate Bryan the very next day!!! I'm like... HUH!!!

Ck later found out that cos Bryan asked him for the toy and "threatened" not to "friend" him if he does not do so... Hence, dear Ja gave him the toy.. Somehow.. Bryan passed the toy to another friend....sigh! neverending...

Ck felt that if Ja gave it away out of his generousity he is fine with it.. but definitely not out of pressure! So the daddy actually went to talk to the principal:) (OMG!)

Ja was very funny.. he was quite nervous and scared.. but all things turn out well. Ck told him that if he asks the toy back from Bryan, he promised to buy him OPTIMUS PRIME (another transformer for those of you who don't know :))!!

(Wed, 29th Oct)

Phone rings....
Ja: "Hello Daddy?" I took the Bumblebee back already leh...
CK: "Wow! That's great! I'm so proud of you!"
Ja: " Can you buy my Optimus Prime? I wait for your surprise ok!!?":)))
CK: (SILENT...)

Heh heh heh! Well ck if you throw this kind of promise... your boy will definitely get the challenge done!

So as at today, Ja is the proud owner of BumbleBee and Optimus Prime and they are sleeping with him at Palm Garden! :))

Recently dear Ja gave us a revelation..

He did something quite clever so me and ck praised him by saying...

CK: "Wow! You are so clever leh!"
Ja: "No la.. I got thousand million brains and i only used one only!"
CK: "thousand million? wow! Why you need so many brains??"
Ja: "Aiya, everyday one brain will die but every morning there will be NEW BRAINS. That's why I am very clever!! Sometimes I use only one brain but sometimes i need to use more..."

What a revelation! And we felt this is so biblical too! The bible has always been talking about God of new things, about new wineskin, etc

Let's think like Ja Ja and we'll never be limited for new challenges to face and new problems to solve every single new day!!!

With so many surprises from this boy... how can one feel stressed??

JEWEL

My dear JewJew has started on her solid food and she is absolutely loving it!!

She eats a great variety ranging from rice cereals, to pumpkins, to sweet potatoes, to carrots... yum yum!

Everyday when it's 11am and 5pm, she will start to make noises to ask for her food to be served!!

Another way to show that she is impatient is to blow her saliva till she looks like a piglet!

(BUt she only does it in front of Me, Ja and Aunty Jona) How about her daddy??

Well, she is a Daddy's girl.. She puts on absolutely the best behaviour in front of CK. Always, without fail... a sweet smile reserved just for him!

Once we tried to play "catching" with CK... and she only giggled!

(OMG!) Cos when she plays catching withher bro Ja, both of them SCREAMS and LAUGHS!!!

What a difference! She likes to IMPRESS her dad and always behaves as a good girl girl in front of CK! But when she is just with us, esp Ja... she makes sure Ja gives in to her! What a Jewjew!!

HAVE MORE KIDS! THEY ARE SUCH A JOY COS THEY ARE SO DIFFERENT IN PERSONALITY AND YET FROM THE SAME DNA!

I wonder how our third one will look like or behaves.....??? (No Pun intended :))

Being ill is costly!!!

2008-10-25T00:09:00.002+08:00

Have not been blogging for a while.. been busy..

Remember in my previous few posts I mentioned my mum slimmed down? Actually it's not just because she took care of baby George, but actually she has been feeling unwell.. Recently my mum was diagnosed to have a 2cm big tumour in her right thyroid.. They call it a NODULE.

After the initial check, the doc couldn't confirm that it's benign (non-cancerous) as they found the cell to be "a-typical".. In any diagnosis, if the report says "A-TYPICAL", then there is a cause for concern as they are not "normal" cells.

My mum was devastated as she is very afraid of the "C" word, namely CANCER. She thought this will be a big catastrophe for her!

Hence I have been busy fetching her for check ups and gettng her ready for admission to the hospital for an operation to remove the tumour and to check if it's cancerous.

Last Mon (20th Oct) she was warded into Gleneagles and had her operation at 8am. Gosh! We were all there at 6am. She was really scared! During then, she was very receptive to prayers made over her.

I always thought my dad was a very "zai (3)" person.. as he seldom shows his emotions or anxiety openly.

But this time round, he was very quiet thruout the op (I later learnt from mum that whenever he is anxious, he will be SUPER SILIENT)..

The doc came out around 9.15am... (it's like the typical chinese TV drama serial)... I finally experienced how family members feel when their loved ones are inside the op theatre..

THANK GOD!!! It's NOT CANCEROUS!! PHEW!!

THe doc asked us to go for breakfast while he stitched up the wound.. What a relief! And guess what.. my dad started to chat again:))

All things turn out well.. with the gracious help from some friends, my mum was treated very well at the hospital and was discharged the very next day. But this really sets me thinking thru many things..

1) When I was taking care of my mum in the ward that whole week, I suddenly felt that our roles have reversed.. For the last 30 years (oops! you know my age now!), I have always been taken care by her, yes even after being a mum of 2 kids myself!:) She will ask me to drink more water... blah blah blah...the usual...

But then this time round, I am the one telling her everything is ok.. scolds her when she starts to think negatively and check her temperature etc... It's a very mixed feeling..

2) Being ill is really costly!! Just an operation and a day's stay in hospital costs $10,000!!!
And cos my mum had this thyroid problem 10 years ago, she was not or could not be covered under INSURANCE!
Morale of the story??
PLEASE IF YOU ARE READING THIS, ENSURE YOU YOURSELF AND YOUR LOVED ONES HAVE AT LEAST A SHIELD PLAN TO COVER THE BULK IF NOT ALL OF THE HOSPITALISATION EXPENSES!!!
(Any queries do feel free to contact me or email to (fongevelyn@yahoo.com.sg) hee hee hee!!!:))

But seriously, I am NOT JOKING! Just an op may wipe up most of your savings. So why bear the risk? Tansfer the risk to insurance companies! (Oops! sounds like a commercial AD!)

3) It's really good to have more kids.. tougher when bringing them up but good when we are older and the kids can take turns to take care of you! This saga caused us to be closer than before and my mum kept saying she is very blessed!!:))) (She said that in the midst of her drowsiness after the op!)

But all things work out for those who loves HIM!!:)

Thank God for a dear friend Bee Sian who was there to offer mental, emotional and practical support for my mum.. calling every 2-3 days to chat with her. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

And you know what, my dad.. being a typical dad.. went to buy 4-D on the day of my mum's discharge..(bet on her ward no) and won $2,500!! WOW!! (Not that I will follow suit!) But sometimes I can't help but feel that perhaps God uses these systems of the world to encourage even the "GENTILES" like my parents who used up a great portion of their savings!

As a result?? My dad is bringing all of us to a good dinner. To celebrate my mum's close shave too of course!!!:)) Thank you Jesus!:)

Eve

NO SCARCITY!! - I will be a MILLIONAIRE:)

2008-10-12T17:59:00.003+08:00

Sunday afternoon... just got home from church... the kids are taking their nap.. or rather only Jewjew. Ja is playing with his NEW PSP!! His old one Dieded!

He is really excited:) ("Wow Daddy, this one is sooo slim lei.. the old PSP was fatter lei, not soo powerful." - Javier?

Today's message by Pst Kong was very refreshing and encouraging. He is so right... Our God is a God of abundance. No SCARCITY!!

from now on, I have decided to make it a point to watch what I say, what I think. DON"T PANIC!!!

I want to be like Isaac... to be prosperous in a time of recession.
I WILL BE A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE!

It will be 1% inspiration (done during prayer in the svc), 99% perspiration!! - time to start digging wells:) (gotta start my quantum leap already! It's coming.. in Oct... I can feel it!!!)

Guys, let's start working hard and move into His supernatural realm!

Nice Monday!

2008-10-09T13:38:00.005+08:00

Recently Ja boy seems to be getting frustrated easily... guess cos me and ck not spending much time with him:(

Hence on Monday, we decided to end our work earlier (anyway I was not feeling well) and we went to fetch him from school (He was overjoyed!!). Then after which we brought him to his favourite Vivo city..

Actually we always do the same thing @ Vivo. I guess it's the time spent together that's more important. It's always dinner @ ck's favourite (jia xiang mian - sarawak noodles) located next to kopitiam, followed by 2 coffee takeaways @ Starbucks and then proceed to the play ground for Ja.

After that we went to his favourite Toys 'r' us to LOOK @ toys (no buying) b4 eating his kids's meal @ BK.

That's all we did and we spent about 4 hours there! BUt it's all worth it cos Ja boy was definitely very happy and satisfied.

Think it's soo important to spend quality time with them. It will raise up confident, happy and secure kids with a good self esteem. All that are needed to give them a good headstart to life!!:)

See how happy he was!!!:))

Of course, we told him poor Jewjew waiting for him at home so he eagerly went home to play with his meimei and posed for pictures with her!

(Mmmm... so satisified:)

Talking about Jewjew, really thank God we have a good maid to take care of the 2 kids, cook for them, bathe them send Ja to school, run errands for us.etc etc.

Of course if you asked me is she perfect? OF course not!!! I can always list down 101 things that I can point out to her. But yet again, I always ask myself: "Will I be able to live up to my own expectations and getting paid for just $350 a month??!!" That thought alone brings more grace and compassion to my heart.

Just last Sun, one mother in nursery commented that she doesn't like the look of my maid, saying that she feels my maid, Jona doesn't love Jewjew. I asked her why and she said cos Jona is always asking Jew to sleep sleep sleep! Oh gosh! I 'm like "DUH!!!" Cos if Jew doesn't sleep then she will be cranky after svc and we normally need to stay longer in church.. in fact, it was I who wants Jew to rest more!

Anyway, that lady mentioned that my maid has got a BF and so on... Well, if she doesn't bring these stuff back to my house.. who am I to interfere and decide for her life? For $350???!

We don't even do that for our church members let alone a maid!

Come on, as long as your helper fulfils what you expect and doesn't cross any boundaries, don pick on them! remember it's only $350, not $350,000!!!

(anyway... this mum just recently changed her maid....mmmm?

Like what ck's aunt always said, "Respect them and they will respect you! Treat them as your family and they will do likewise in return."

(ps) anyway the best way to see if your mail ill treats your children is to see how they respond to her.....

I am an AH YEE!!

2008-10-07T01:46:00.007+08:00

It's Monday... no blues though.. Thank God! But I was definitely not feeling too good.. can feel flu and cough coming.. Still thank God that I was able to sing for devotion despite my throat! That's why I always say it's not me but God's grace for the Praise and Worship:)

Last weekend was busy.. Maid went for her off and we had Baby George's Baby shower!!

Yeah! I am promoted to be Yee Ma! But I dun like the Ma so will teach George George to call me Yee Yee :)

Jewel posed for pictures with him.. They looked quite comparable in size though..

George drinks 80 ml every 1 to 1.5 hr!!! Gosh! My mum and Sis are overwhelmed with tiredness.. Heard that his drinking patterns are inherited from Yohandi.. He was like that too as a baby! Wow! Made in Jakarta.. that's why! My mum has slimmed down so much witin that one month! Wow it's better than going to the gym:)

No matter what, It's nothing compared to the joy of being a mother!! I am sure All mothers will agree with me! So for my dear sis.. remember this: It's all worth it!! Hold on there!!

And for my cute little nephew: Be a good boy ok! Dun bully your mummie and popo!:))

I love my HOLIDAY!

2008-10-01T18:34:00.002+08:00

PUBLIC HOLIDAY!!!

It's nice to have a mid week holiday:)

Feels like it's a pit stop before the final lap and into the weekend~

How did I spend my day? Well, Ja chose to bunk in with his little uncle Zhenjie and Anyu Gu yesterday.. so the house was quite quiet since last night till now.

Gosh! He wanted to go for his children's day special svc tis morning but as he had a change of plans I had to sms teacher Glordia to say "sorry".. not going...:(

Makes me feel like er hem... what some members will do.. (promise to come for svc and then last min "fly Kite")... But anyway, Ja has got plans for his children's day today.

It started on Monday when we bought him a sword (something like a power ranger kind) at Vivo City Toys R Us...

Then he stayed overnight at Palm Garden, Had breakfast with his gu gus and shu shu ... And now he is off to his cousin's place for BBQ!!!

Wow!!! He really knows how to plan his special day well!

What about me and his dad and Jewjew??

Well, We stayed home, watched TV, relax.... Just now went to starbucks to drink coffee and chit chat... now I am blogging...:)) Not bad for a public holiday! At least I am not rushing from one place to another!

Well, tmr is work day again! We are having our final sprint meeting.. pray that Pru will launch some exciting incentives for us:)))

Oh O... heard Jew jew sneezing in the other room... :( hope she is not down with any flu bugs as she is due for another injection next week... Going over to see her...

Signing off,
Eve

I interpreted Prov 29:21 wrongly!! - Confused!

2008-09-30T18:02:00.003+08:00

OH NO!!

Wrong INterpretation! Prov 29:21 is not to be interpreted literally like that.

After doing some cross reference check with TLB and Amplified, it turns out that if you pamper a slave, he will grow to be arrogant, treating himself like a "son"!

Aiyoh!! So extreme!!! Sigh!

What a RABBIT month!

2008-09-30T16:49:00.004+08:00

Back again! Feel so paiseh..:(

Thought that i had broke thru in blogging but it took me ONE month to blog again!!

So many things have happened in this month...

Pst Kong talked about sonship.. Guess what? I was doing devotion and God revealed to me a verse from Proverbs 29:21 ("He who pampers his servant from childhood will have him as a son in the end.")

WOW! I NEED PAMPERING!! That sets me thinking... my husband really pampers our eldest boy Ja very much..

This whole month we have been, or rather, he has been so busy with RABBITS!!!

It all began when Ja kept bugging us to get him a pet.. (he's at the stage when owning a pet is a COOL and IN thing among his classmates..) (Just like us adults.. owning I phone, Mac books etc hee)

He kept bugging us to the extent that we went to buy our very first pet rabbit: a Netherland Dwarf on 4th Sept (Thurs). It costs us $400 + including the food, toys and house for the rabbit!!! (Talking about PAMPERING!)

Well, the story goes on... He named the rabbit:Bunnie Tan Seow Too(Don know where he got that name from?)

When I first brought Bunnie back, I felt like I just gave birth and became a mummie for the first time and back from the hospital!!! Felt lost and afraid of not knowing how to take care of the baby bunnie. What to eat, how many times to feed? How to bathe? Will it be too cold at night??? GOSH!! It as not that stressful bringing Jewel back from hospital!

It (cos i dunnno the gender yet) was very cute! Whitish grey in colour :) Wondering why I wrote it in PAST TENSE??? Cos the whole saga begins...

BUNNIE DIED ON 7th Sept (Sun) morning!!!!

It was a great shock! Ja was very upset and claimed that the cg members scared Bunnie and cause its death:( cos they had cg at my aunty's place where we put Bunnie on Thurs night itself. And some of the adults were mentioning about COOKING Bunnie and stuff like that! In fact, he became quite resentful and said he doesn't want to attend cg anymore!!!

Oh NO! Ck was worried that this incident might stumble Ja... So we went to buy 2 more dwarf rabbits one week later on the 11th SEPT (Thurs). Ja named them Merra and Jordon.

MORE MONEY PAID:((

Jordon died on the 12th Sept (FRI). Ck was grieved.. cos it meant $$ thrown into drain!

Determined to break the "CURSE".. He went to buy 2 more dwarf rabbits on that very day! MORE $$$!!!

This time round, we "engaged" a rabbit specialist by the name of Karen Yeo (hah hah!) She came to check on the environment, disinfect the cage, bond the 2 new rabbits with Merra to ensure Merra gets over the grief of losing her companion. Gosh!

Finally it seems like these 3 rabbits ( oh yes the 2 new additions are named Brandon and Rachel) ( I can'thelp but feel that Ja has been naming his rabbits after his classmates!!!) are settling down and living well together.:)

SHOCKING NEWS: Merra died on 14th Sept (Sun). Think ever since her companion died she has been unwell...

Sigh!!! I had enough.. of RABBITS dying. So did Ck. We decided to bring Brandon and Rachel to my mum in law's place instead.. (Suspected my aunty's helper murdered the 3 rabbits... heh joking!)

After the whole saga, I am hapy to announce that Brandon and Rachel are growing well and it has been 2 weeks since they are there already. Phew! Finally! Peace!!!:))

Thru out the whole incident, I realised that it's not Ja who got himself new pets, rather my husband Ck! He goes to mum's place to visit the 2 rabbits twice a week, cleaned the cage, fed them, played with them. Sometimes i really felt that he spent more time with Brandon and Rachel than with Ja and Jew.... So in the midst of PAMPERING his boy, it became a RABBIT MONTH!

This is Rachel the loop ear rabbit:)) Cute!!

What a month!! What a RABBIT MONTH! Guess who's the Happiest in the midst of all these??

YES!:))

Finally!

2008-08-27T20:12:00.003+08:00

Finally! I am Blogging! Congratulations to myself for taking this first step!:))

After all I used to love writing in my school days.. somehow busyness has taken a hold of me and I have chosen to take the path of many Singaporeans... shutting our inner thoughts within ourselves.. tsk tsk:( not healthy!!

So i guess blogging gives me a channel to release my thoughts and ideas? Soul feels more refresh and spirit lifted up? hee Maybe not exactly.. cos the latter requires us to go into His Secret Place. Devotion, yes not blogging..., will lift our spirit up!

So who is this woman who hopes to play her multiple roles well? This is moi..

Presenting Evelyn Fong... A Woman (of course!), A Wife, A Mother, A Daughter, A Manager, An Employer (to my maid:)), A Leader...etc So many roles to play?

Many have asked: "How can we strike a balance?"

Well, I like to say that the balance is not about allocating a certain number of hours to each role. But rather, to do what is needed at different seasons of our life.

In office, I focus on my work. But when I reach home, sorry it's me and my darlings: Javier and Jewel!

Sorry of course one more .. my BB!

Hear from me soon:)