In His Time

I have so much to spend by end of this year but so little income coming in. The compulsory spending would be for my youngest sister’s wedding which will be held a day before my birthday. Not only I have to save for her angpow but I need to buy gold for her tea-ceremony session. This will be the last wedding in the family; I can’t be giving only angpow. Furthermore, I am the eldest in the family. Relatives will be whispering behind my back of I just hand to my sister angpow unless I wave to them a 4 figure cheque.

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It all started with playing “Catch me Wave.”

Running away.

Running away.

Running away.

Clarissa didn’t get herself wet at all. That is the nearest she went near the water.

Going off balance.

Mommy stopped snapping and run to the rescue. He got himself wet and requesting me to change him. “No need lar…just go get yourself wet some more.”

He insisted me to change him but this mommy was snapping away. He cried and shee-shee in his shorts. Ok lar, since shee-shee already, have to change lor…

After stripping him off, I went to car to get his dry clothes. While waiting for me, he paraded his baju-less body on the beach! He refused to wear his shirt and shorts until we were about to head home half an hour after that.

This is the most decent one. Got lots of others showing his cute lil bum but that I shall keep for his viewing only when he became a young man!

My youngest sister just came back from her company trip to Cameron Highland last weekend. When you go for a holiday in Cameron Highland, 2 things that you will surely bring home; roses and strawberries. If not strawberries coz most of them are sour, you will surely buy their roses because they are very cheap. The last time I was there, I paid RM10 for a dozen of roses. I wonder how much the price is now. Here, one stalk of rose will easily cost for than RM2.

My girls were so excited to see so many roses in their Ee Ee’s room. They kept asking me to bring them to my sister’s room so that they can admire and smell the roses. They wanted to have a rose each but dare not ask from my sister. You see, even small girls like roses. So I told them that one day we will bring them to Cameron Highland since daddy already promise our missionary friends that we would visit them sometime this year. Unfortunately that won’t be that soon coz their mommy is broke and jobless. With the petrol hike, we would think more than twice before traveling to far away land.

I received my first Bento Tools from HK yesterday. So I head to the nearest supermarket to buy bread, cheese and chocolate spread.

Upon reaching home, my girls wanted to eat the bread and they wanted a bunny sandwich. So I did one and left the table to catch some opp. While I was busy at the computer, they got themselves busy too. Look what happened to my bread and my Bento Tools!

They made their own bunny, teddy bear and elephant sandwich! I think they thought that those cutters are toys! Thank God I kept the cheese in the fridge already. If they do this often arh, wasting my food, I will need to look for mortgage lenders to refinance my apartment for more money! =P

Gonna make my first Bento breakfast for my girls today.

We experienced Malacca City Tour on Double Decker Bus in Sept last year with the girls and another time with Msau and Jess family when they came to visit. It was my first time seeing Malacca from above. It was totally a different view; some parts are more beautiful than looking from down under and certain parts are better to be viewed from down below.

I planned to hop on the bus again when Barnabas is older; maybe when he is 3 years old. I hope by then, there will be much more to see and the bus will make more stops for us to snap pictures of the Historic Malacca. I hope I would not become history by then!

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It’s 8.15am…”Mommy switch on the TV.” I kept quiet. “Kakak bukak TV, Mommy cakap ada cartoon.”

Alamak, she remembered I told her than weekends there is cartoon on TV in the morning. All this while she never ask for TV first thing in the morning.

Well, I need to make them glued somewhere while I prepare breakfast. TV is the best babysitter besides my computer. =P

Breakfast for today; Carrot Fried Rice with no egg but with Char Siew.

A very chubby, cute and super fair baby girl who knows how to say “Milk” on the first day she greeted earth!

Oh! Don’t start cussing me ok…I did not keep this pregnancy a secret. I did not give birth to a genius. It was hubby! Yes! He gave birth to our 4th child!!!

This is a super funny dream. I dreamt it the night I read updates from Chinnee’s blog that she gave birth already. hehe

So, many are asking when my 4th will pop up. Well as for now, I am not ready physically. My immune system is weak and I fall sick easily too. On top of that there is another health issue that has been around since before Belle. It is more prevalent now.

When I have my 4th child, I also want to be able to store my child’s cord blood because I did not with my DoReMi. We know the importance of it but just couldn’t afford it before.

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I have another wedding to attend end of this month. I would love to bring my girls along but hubby said NO. I want to because I can really dress them up like a princess for such occasion. Since their daddy said NO then NO lor…must obey husband. =P

So my children will be at home with my mom because MIL will be attending the wedding dinner too. So I will only see them the days after with some nice wedding favors from the wedding. Nowadays most wedding I attended will surely come up with very unique wedding favor ideas.

It is so nice waking up knowing that I don’t have to rush to office! I am more cool and cheerful when getting my children ready for school.

After sending them to school, here I am blogging away and trying to cowtim some of my assignments then I am off to Jusco with my son.

Yay! What a great way starting a new chapter…SHOPPING!!!

Ok, ok, tomorrow I will repent and start preparing SWR lesson for my girls.

As most mommy bloggers, I snap photos of my children very often; ok lar…almost everyday! Well, I don’t blog all of it. I wish I could but sometimes, I am terribly lazy and occupied being a servant to them!

More photos will surely brings more memory and it sure does take a lot of my laptop memory. So last week, hubby did me a favor by burning all of them into DVDs. I just hope that I don’t lost the DVDs! I am not a keeper!

They are busy watching Kung Fu Panda now and I am busy updating my list of blogs.

It has been a busy and fun weekend for all of us. Will update soon.

On Father’s day, Daddy got 2 Chicken Pox kids. And he went to church without us.

We served him with Sweet Sour Crabs; for lunch and dinner!

Being a Daddy, he brought us for a walk at the beach; Chicken Pox set aside!

Mommy missed the time when Mommy get to sit up there; longgggg time ago.

The girls have to walk with their 2 feet.

Father and son bonding time.

Following Daddy’s footstep.

For supper, we went for ABC with Belle. The other 2, asleep already. Noticed the white dots on Belle’s face? That’s Chicken Pox covered with Calamine!

Oh ya, we didn’t get any present for daddy. Not even office supplies for his shop. He said “Don’t waste money” mah.

My children has one blue elephant piggy bank from Hong Leong Bank. However, the piggy bank is filled with their daddy’s coin; not theirs. And they love playing with them, especially when the play with their toy cash register. Their daddy have another container on the study table is filled with rare coin. When we weren’t looking, Barnabas will climb up there and throw out all the coins in it! Children wouldn’t know the value of rare coin. To them, everything is a toy. Must get daddy to lock that container, if not the coin will really become rare and undetectable.

Taken on his 1st birthday.

Barnabas 2nd birthday is just around the corner. I felt that it does come slow. Maybe it is because he starts talking late and it makes his growing up real slow. Partly I asked for it! Since he is my youngest child, I didn’t want him to grow up so fast like his 2 sisters. I wanted to enjoy the baby him as long as I could. Well, God answers prayer!

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Last night there was black out for 2 hours from 9.45pm to about 11.45pm. I was in my room blogging away and next I heard screaming from Belle. They were watching TV. Since I do not have any torchlight, I ran out to get them with my laptop while MIL went to get some candles. Thank God for laptop!

Then it’s bedtime. I prayed that the mozzie won’t attack and to get them to sleep, I used Clarissa workbook to fan them away. The amazing thing is, I can fan away for half an hour without feeling tired. That is what I called The “Power” of Love.

The next morning, I woke up with a sore arm!

This is how my son sleeps. If I don’t tuck in his top, it will ended up rolled up like that. The same goes with Belle (but she’s a girl, I don’t take picture). I was wondering why they like to bare their tummy like that.

I did ask Belle. She said her tummy is hot.

Sometimes when I woke up, I will unroll their pajamas. It will end up rolled up in the morning!

According to my mom, I wasn’t like that when I was small.

Last night, I saw the same in my own room! Their own Daddy sleeping the same way as them (i was so tempted to snap pic of him sleeping like that. hehe)! Why only last night I found out? Because he seldom wear any t-shirt when he sleeps.

So now, we know where the trait comes from. From their Daddy!!!

Last Saturday, we attended a wedding dinner at EQ. This evening, another wedding dinner at LTP; how to lose weight like that? Since this is gonna be an expensive dinner, it will be such a waste of money with we don’t eat. After this MUST go on diet again. Hmmm…when did I start dieting arh??? Can’t seem to remember.

So tonight, since there won’t be anyone home, the children and the maid will be staying over at my mom’s. They are so happy about it because they seldom get to put up the night at their mama’s house.

I only know the date today. It is in 2 weeks time; June 15.

So what are we having for Daddy? I have no idea! Buy him gold cufflinks? That would be nice if the children are older and earning their own income. hehe.

Daddy doesn’t really fancy fine dining. To him, as long as tummy filled ok already.

I got an idea! All 4 of us will give him a full body massage on Father’s Day. He would LOVE that and the children would have so much fun playing and smearing their Daddy’s body with lotion.

Good idea or not?

The Angpow that I gave my mom, you know what she bought with it? A handbag to put more Angpows for my youngest sister’s wedding this November! We brought her shopping the next day because she told us that she wanted to buy a new handbag.

Ok…like any other woman, my mom does have a few handbags; it is not unusual for her to add to her collection. But why now, in May? Normally when she buys handbag it would be for Chinese New Year. That is the time of the year that she will usually buy a new handbag. Then it strikes my mind when she told me that she needed a big handbag to keep the Angpows. It is for my sister’s wedding.

I wonder whether she would want a new watch to match with her new handbag. The baume mercier collection is nice but I need sacrifice my one month salary in order to buy one. Talking about watch, I have not been changing my watch since 1998. Yup! Have been wearing the same watch for 10 year already. Very faithful and durable watch I have, ya? Actually I am still waiting for someone to give me a new watch. Hehe.

My favorite family picture now. *sigh* Too bad Mommy is not in it. No one else to hold the camera. Next time we use timer ok.

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My mom told me that my sister’s son now dare not sit at the front seat anymore. When entering the car, he will not demand to sit at the front seat as always but will quietly sit at the back seat. The reason to is because he saw the advertisement on TV about an accident and the damage it caused of you don’t wear the seatbelt. I guess the scene terrified him!

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Yesterday was my mom’s 53rd birthday. Yes, she is young. She got married at 19yo and got me at 20yo. So you can guess my age already huh?

When I told my children that “Today is Mama’s birthday.” This is what they told me, “Mommy, I want to give Mama Angpow.” To my children, birthday gift is Angpow, not Toys because toys they can get almost everytime they go shopping with me!

Well, every year I give my mom’s Angpow too. Easier that way, she can buy what she like with the cash. So this year, I split my Angpow to 3 packets for each of my children. I wonder whether she will use her Angpow money to invest in ademco security product. You know lar, she is getting older and alone at home with her grandchildren during working hour.

Upon reaching my mom’s, they stood in front of my mom and sang her the Happy Birthday song then gave the Angpows to their Mama. Then each of them hug, kiss and told her that they love her. I am so proud of them and my mom too. When my dad returned home my mom proudly told him what her grandchildren did to her.

That night all of us went for dinner at Portuguese Settlement. All my siblings and my aunt with her 4 children which my mom used to babysit when they were babies except my 1st sister who is teaching in Kuching .

Clarissa, chewing on her Sotong Fritters.

Barnabas looks worried coz my mom’s put her finger in the fish mouth!

My sis made him cry by telling him that the fish is eating my mom’s finger!

More pictures of the food we had here.

At Tiara Beach Resort, Port Dickson

Day 1

Wiping my mouth with the wall deco cloth! It’s nearer to me than the box of tissue.

While waiting for Mommy to give the green jump in light to go to the water park.

This is what I saw people do when they are at the beach.

Our first deep was in the children’s water park. No pictures though coz Mommy went with us. We don’t like the place at all. The slides are not slippery at all. We have to drag out cute butt butt to slide down. We should have asked Mommy to smear some baby oil on our butt butt.

We spend most of our time in the made made pool. Screaming our lung out when Daddy brought us to the deeper side and tried to let us go.

At the man made pool.

This slide is not slippery too! I better go help Daddy…

Helping Daddy set up the carrom board.

Playing colorful sand.

While we were sleeping. Mommy and Daddy sneaks out for a foot reflexology.

Day 2

This is what my truck supposed to do.

Be careful. Come JieJie help you.

I am not camera shy.

I am crying because I do not want to go home!

We had a lot of fun but I am not sure about Daddy, Mommy and Mama.

Do you buy travel health insurance when going for holidays?

My Children, let’s talk about death today. Everyone will die one day. No one is immortal. So, after Mommy leave this world to be with Jesus, Mommy wants you to cover Mommy’s coffin with mini calla lilies because Mommy loves lilies. If it is too expensive, no need to cover every part lar.

You don’t believe Mommy, just take a look at Mommy’s wedding photo that is still hanging in Mommy’s room. Look at the flower that Mommy is holding. Aren’t they beautiful lilies???

And after burial and when you miss Mommy, come visit Mommy as often as you want but don’t forget to bring calla lilies, ok?

Yesterday evening I sent my DoReMi to my mom after hubby left for work so that I can have some ME time. Meaning, sit infront of my laptop and blog in peace. hehe.

When I went to fetch them at 8pm, my girls are missing. They followed my youngest sister for Ikan Bakar, that’s what my mom told me. So I went home with my son.

My girls came home around 10.15pm. The moment they saw me, Belle told me that she ate Chicken Jump Jump. Clarissa said she ate Frog. I did not take that seriously coz Ikan Bakar where got serve frog and maybe Belle ate the Pandan Chicken and saw the chicken “jumping” in the wok.

This morning my mom told me that they ate FROG meat.

They did not go for Ikan Bakar but to a Chinese restaurant. They ordered frog meat dish and let them eat without telling them. They even asked for more. Once they are done eating, my future BIL asked Belle whether she would eat frog. She said “No. So ugly and the skin not smooth one. So geli.” Then only he told Belle that she just ate Chicken that can Jump Jump coz to Belle all meat is Chicken to her. I wonder how was her facial expression when he told her that.

Look at my poor lil girl. She accidentally slashed her finger with the knife when she was under the maid’s care! Her first cut by the knife!

I didn’t know what happened exactly. All I know, I heard her cries. Not the usual “she fall and hurt her knees kinda cry”. She was really in pain. I rushed to the kitchen and the maid told me that Clarissa insisted that she wants her knife and Clarissa accidentally cut her own finger.

I wanted to scold the maid for letting Clarissa took the knife from her but I was more concern about the amount of blood that is oozing out from Clarissa’s lil finger; the cut was quite deep. I panicked, called hubby to look for any solution to stop the bleeding while I went to get wet tissue to clean her wound. Thank God it stopped after I press it down with the wet tissue.

With some yellow solution, a handyplast and a short pray for healing by Belle, she started posing for my camera.

She slept after that. Once she woke up she told me that it is longer painful. She is a tough girl. Then I brought everyone to my mom’s coz I know she has some Minyak Gamat that is known to expedite healing process.

My mom reminded me to warn the maid never ever let the children play with any sharp object even if they insisted on it. Actually I didn’t want to confront the maid about this. To me, it is a small matter. Accident happens. I am sure she is in shock too. But then since she is quite soft with my children, giving in to all their demands, I spoke to her about it.

I hope none of this will happen again.

I wonder whether I can claim from my car insurance, opps! I mean medical insurance for this cut.

When I was in the Snow World, I really thank God that I am living in Malaysia even though every other day I would complain on the hot weather and dreaming about living in “Snow World”. I can’t wait to get out from there and head for the hot sun but since we paid so much for it, we stayed until our time is almost up; we came out earlier coz my lil Clarissa can’t stand the coldness.

Out from the cold, into the hot water we went. Not immediately though. We walked all the way back to our room and changed to our swimming attire and walk all the way back to First World Indoor Theme Park into the Rainforest Splash Pool.

The water is really really hot. At first we felt like needles poking our legs when we first step foot into the water but after a lil while we got adjusted to the temperature. Oh! It was a bliss. We had a good massage from the water fountain. We had so much fun sliding down the water slide. I did the forbidden way of going down the slide and reminded my girls not to follow what I did! Hehehe. Instead of just sitting down and slide down, I lay down on my tummy and go leg first then head first, then hubby follow suit! We had so much fun doing things that we weren’t allowed to when we were kids.

Enough about Daddy and Mommy, let’s talk about Belle and Clarissa since this is their blog.

Belle did not go on the water slide in the beginning. She just observes Clarissa and me went on it for a few rounds. First round, I hold Clarissa’s arm and we slide down together. Second round onwards, I let her go. Later she went up there all by herself. And then played at other smaller slides all by herself. She is one brave and daring girl.

Belle, I hold her arm for the first and second round and on the third round I planned to let her go. On the way up the slide, she kept telling me to hold her but I did not answer her because I am not going to hold her this time. Notti Mommy hor?

So we sat down together but I let her go and slide down all by herself. I was expecting her to scream and scold me once I reached down there but she smile and told me that she want to do it again all by herself. Yay! Breakthrough!!!

At first I went with her a few rounds then later she went with Clarissa while I waited at the end of the slide.

We played there until they girls really had enough and willingly came out from the pool.

For me, this is the best part of the Theme Park. If I go there again with just hubby, I think I will splash there again.

Thanks to Clarissa, she shared her germs with me and I am having runny nose too. Sore throat has gone though.

Here are the photos from the trip; just photos. I’ll write more when I am feeling better.

At the outdoor theme park entrance. Taken on the 2nd day before we leave Genting. See the counter not open yet.

If you are taller, Mommy and Daddy would have more fun.

With this height, she and daddy went for the 4D Motion Master. Clarissa and Mommy linger around until our legs got tired.

I think they don’t understand the meaning of dizziness.

Flying Dumbo

Astro Fighter

Ride De Paris. They sat at least 5 rounds at different time though.

Carousel. Horsey rides. I was tempted to hop on one myself but hubby signed me to watch over them.

Reindeer Cruiser. We sat on all the family rides besides the Venice Gondola and Monorail because they out of service. My girls kept asking for to sit in the Caterpillar, that’s the Monorail. Next trip ya, girls.

We had so much fun at the Rainforest Splash Pool. I am going to write a post on it soon.

We love our spacious room at Theme Park Hotel. Hmm…I can’t recall whether I see any roller shades there or not.

Good night!

Our children are growing up fast and smarter than us. This is the time that we must show love as much as we could and at the same time discipline them with love. One of the reason is we do not want them to deviate into social illness like drug abuse. Drug Abuse is endemic, touching people from all socio-economic walks of life, from the mailroom to the boardroom. Some may be due to failure of upbringing, some due to peer pressure and some could also due to work stress.

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My throat is so sore even after 3 cups of ACV with Honey.

Clarissa is having runny nose. Her nose is so red coz she kept wiping it with her t-shirt.

Belle’s voice sounds coarse but she did not complaint of having sore throat.

The changed of temperature caused us to fall sick.