My Memories, As Time Goes By

An Amazing Teeth Movement

2011-11-28T03:01:00.006+08:00

I still remember how my seven years old boy’s teeth looked like when the two permanent lower front teeth coming in. It seemed there was not enough space for the two permanent teeth to move forward into the correct positions after the double teeth fell out. Later it really amazed me to see his teeth moving into perfect alignment.

25 Feb 2010

29 March 2010

31 July 2010

31 July 2010 (When the 2nd double teeth fell out)

2 October 2011

12 October 2011 (When the 3rd double teeth fell out)

Now he is waiting for the 4th double teeth to fell out and we hope that the teeth will be properly aligned.

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Finally His Stubborn Tooth Came Out

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Julep Maven Nail Polish

2011-11-28T02:33:00.003+08:00

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Teng Hong Turned 8

2011-11-28T00:52:00.006+08:00

It was 23rd November 2011. Early morning he told mummy that it was his birthday and kept asking for his birthday present that he had reminded mummy to buy a few days ago.

To train him to be more patient, mummy made him wait until dinner time when we were going to celebrate his birthday at home.

He was very happy to find out what is his birthday present. There are six mechanical pencils which he loves very much and some other presents from a Kong, Po Po and his sister. Daddy promised to get him a present later.

His 3D Angry Bird Cake

His Birthday presents

Happy 8th Birthday to you, Teng Hong and also to your friend, Ashley!

Our 10th Wedding Anniversary

2011-09-26T10:53:00.009+08:00

Today, 26 September 2011 marks our 10th wedding anniversary. It’s hard to believe that ten years have flown by. And I have to say that there are many changes in our lives over the years, the two little things, in fact.

Happy Anniversary to you, Darling.
Love you always.

Their First 3D, Transformers: DARK OF THE MOON

2011-07-25T22:29:00.005+08:00

After several weeks, finally hubby managed to get the Transformers 3D tickets. A friend helped him to purchase the tickets online. It cost us RM 85.50 for five.

At first, I was afraid I won’t like the movie but later I found that it’s quite interesting and I am able to understand the story. Most of the characters are quite familiar to me; hubby and my boy have a series of Transformers toy collection at home. My boy, Teng Hong ever lectured me about the Autobots and Decepticons. All these helped me to understand the movie better.

Some of the Transformers Toy Collection

Hubby and the kids enjoyed the movie very much. I would enjoy it more if I didn’t feel dizzy after watching the 3D.

Anyway, I like the movie.

This is the kids’ first 3D movie. They had their first 2D movie in 2009 Christmas, Princess and The Frog, followed by Toy Story 3 a few months later, next The Last Airbender and Kung Fu Panda 3 at last school holidays.

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2011-07-21T10:09:00.011+08:00

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A Visit to Sime Darby Medical Centre, Subang Jaya

2011-07-21T01:41:00.007+08:00

Last Tuesday, we spent almost three hours at the hospital. Xin Yi had a series of check-ups due to lymph node enlargement in her neck.

It has been a week since she complained her neck pain; later our panel doctor found out that it is lymph node enlargement. She took a five-day’s course antibiotic (Klacid 125mg/5ml)) but after the course completed there was still no improvement. So the doctor referred her to pediatrician for further check.

Lymph nodes are a part of the lymphatic system, a component of the body's immune system. Swollen lymph nodes in the neck can be a sign of an infectious disease, such as the common cold, mumps, rubella, strep throat, ear infection, or mononucleosis, as well as an infected wound. Swollen neck lymph nodes can also indicate certain types of cancer.

The Pediatrician confirmed it is lymph node enlargement and did some check on her body including her liver area. Everything is fine except the swollen lymph node in her neck and the enlarged tonsils.

He told us the painful lymph node might be caused by previous infection. Xin Yi had cough, running nose and sore throat which had been resolved about a week before the lymph node enlarged. To make sure it is not indicating other sign, such as: blood disorder or cancer which we worry about, doctor sent her for a full blood test and later to ENT Specialist for further check on her tonsils.

After check Xin Yi’s ears, nose and throat, the ENT Specialist said the enlarged tonsils look fine and smooth, no pus around or infected. Since Xin Yi doesn’t suffer recurring throat infection quite frequent, the Specialist recommended us to keep the tonsils. He also said the enlarged lymph node might be caused by the previous throat infection.

When we went back to the Pediatrician, he told us that the blood test result is normal. He prescribed Xin Yi a six-day’s course of strong antibiotic (Augmentin 228mg/5ml). This is her third course of antibiotic within three weeks time.

During our visit to the hospital, Xin Yi is quite happy and excited. It is a new place to her. She happily told doctor why she needs to visit him and asked some questions which she doesn’t understand. She was quite strong when they took the blood from her arm; she didn’t cry out but only shed a bit of tears after the procedure is over. Maybe she is a bit shocked.

At home, she will take the medicine herself after mummy prepares it. Good job, darling. Mummy is very proud of you.

We do hope that the enlarged lymph node will go away soon after the medication otherwise we need to go back to hospital again.

My Not-So-Little One is now five!

2011-06-16T23:53:00.010+08:00

I just have to say it, “I can’t believe she’s turning 5!” I am so proud of her… She is bright and enjoys learning.

This year she wanted to have Hello Kitty birthday cake and Monopoly game.

Mummy went to her kindie this morning, celebrating her birthday with her classmates. Not only she, her class teacher and mummy also love the Hello Kitty cake. Beside the cake, she gets other Kitty’s presents, like: bed-set and pencil case.

Her photo is telecasted in Astro Xiao Tai Yang Birthday Book for June. It is not as excited as last year when she first saw her photos in the TV.

Since her birthday falls on weekday, daddy promises to bring her out for lunch on weekend. She is so happy.

Happy 5th Birthday to you, my dear Xin Yi!

Related post : She Turns 4

My Journey to Be a Malaysian PR (Permanent Resident)

2011-05-30T01:32:00.010+08:00

It started nine years ago when I got my first three month social visit pass.

As a foreigner (wife of citizen) in Malaysia, I needed a social visit pass to stay and a re-entry visa to travel during my stay in this country. So every time before the social visit pass expired, my hubby and I needed to go to the Immigration Office to get the renewal.

After three successive three month visit passes, I was eligible for the six month visit pass and after that; I was eligible for the one year visit pass application. Since then we only needed to renew my visit pass annually. Later after five times of one year visit pass renewal, I managed to get 4 years visit pass (4 times of one year visit pass given at a time). This reduced our visit frequency to the Immigration Office.

In September 2008, five months after I completed five times of one year visit pass, I submitted my Entry Permit Application (Permohonan Permit Masuk) to Pusat Bandar Damansara Immigration Office. There are many documents to be attached and all of them should be copied in A4 size paper. Actually I can submit the application as soon as I completed the fifth one year visit pass, but hubby was busy at that time and later I totally forgot about it.

At the submission, I was given a receipt (Akuan Penerimaan) and a date for interview. It was about two months later. The interview was done in Malay Language and as an Indonesian I didn’t have trouble to understand it.

In January 2009, I got a letter from Pejabat Ketua Polis to attend an interview regarding my Entry Permit Application. After that there was no news until November last year, I received a letter from Putrajaya Immigration. It informed me that my application has been given attention and appropriate action.

I was so happy when I received a letter from Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia Putrajaya early this year. Inside the “Urusan Seri Paduka Baginda” letter written that my Entry Permit Application (Permohonan Permit Masuk) has been approved and in order to get my Entry Permit issued, I have to submit a RM 120.00 Bank Draft, three passport size photos with blue background, copy of latest social visit pass, “surat akuan sumpah perkhawinan masih kekal” to prove that our marriage still exist, copy of children’s birth certificates and hubby’s MyKad. I also need to comply with the conditions stated in the letter.

It was about a week before Chinese New Year, so a few days later when hubby was on leave and Teng Hong had cny holiday, after sent Xin Yi to school we headed to Putrajaya Immigration Office for the documents submission. The submission queue was not long but we needed to wait for the documents to be processed. Afraid we won’t have enough time to pick up Xin Yi from school, we told the officer that we will go back to get the Entry Permit after lunch time.

My Entry Permit was ready to be collected when we got back to the counter. I was told that I can straightforward apply for my PR Identity Card (IC).

Soon we reached Putrajaya Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara, I got the ticket number and enquired for the documents needed to apply for the IC. Since there was a long queue, we had time to have our lunch and prepare all the needed documents.

Upon submission I was asked to choose which JPN I wish to go to collect my IC, then again I had to queue for photo session. After that I needed to go back to the counter and was given a receipt.

We can call JPN to check the approval status after 3 months of application.
The first time when I called them after 3 months, my IC application has been approved but not yet printed, they advised me to call back in a week. Later when I called again, it was ready to be collected.

So yesterday, we went to Putrajaya JPN to collect my IC. It is called myPR or Red IC.

Finally, I am a Malaysian PR!

Related post: My Stay in Malaysia

Designer Eyeglasses from Warby Parker

2011-03-29T22:59:00.006+08:00

I have been wearing eyeglasses for more than 25 years. It may look fashion or professional when wearing eyeglasses but it can be very troublesome at times especially when I am going to swim. I can’t wear my eyeglasses while swimming, right? Instead I have to wear my goggles with corrective lenses. And not to mention, I have to change my eyeglasses every one or two years which eventually cost me a fortune.

Now with the revolution of eyeglasses industry by Warby Parker, I don’t have to worry much about it. For those who stay in United States and Canada, one can order a Stylish Prescription Glasses online at just $95.

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I have gone through their website and learnt that they have a new collection of designer eyeglasses. They also offer free shipping, HOME TRY-ON Program and returns.

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Our New Computer and Internet Service

2011-03-28T18:47:00.022+08:00

Being addicted to anime series, hubby spends most of his free time on YouTube, looking for anime series to be downloaded and watched. Last month, he changed the old Philip LCD monitor to Toshiba Regza LED 24 inch TV so he can get better images viewing.

Toshiba Regza LED 24 inch

Early this month, after many moons of searching a high speed internet connection, hubby finally registered with TM UNIFI. He prepared a new computer, Mac mini to be linked to our LG LCD 43 inch TV for the installation purpose.

Beside ASTRO, now our LCD 43 inch TV also connected to Mac mini + UNIFI internet service

The installation was done last Friday. It took about two hours for the two UNIFI technicians to get the internet ready to be used. Now hubby is quite satisfied with the 5Mbps internet connection. His movie download can be done in fast speed and he can enjoy his movie in big screen.

Gifts for Your Loved Ones

2011-01-28T00:56:00.006+08:00

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He Got Stitches

2011-01-24T23:39:00.000+08:00

This morning father-in-law went to a nearby government clinic. He has not been feeling well since last Saturday. He complained that he has a lot of phlegm and no appetite; he only had a few bites of breads since Sunday and as a result he felt very weak and like floating in the air.

Back from clinic, I bought him vermicelli (mee sua) but he has no appetite. He only took a bit and went to nap. Later when he woke up, I asked him to eat some biscuits. I saw him ate some and went back to his room to rest.

At around 4.35pm, to refresh himself father-in-law had a shower. As usual he took a long shower.

I was shocked when I heard noise from inside the bathroom. Father-in-law fell down; hubby who just came back from office, rushed in and crashed the bathroom’s door. We found father-in-law half-sitting half-lying on the floor; he was too weak to get up on his own. There was an open wound on the back of his head and two scratches at his back. He slipped and knocked his head on the wall. Luckily there was not much bleeding.

After let father-in-law rest for a while, hubby called his brother and later they sent the father to hospital for stitching.

Came back from hospital, father-in-law napped again. When he got up, I managed to get him eat some rice before he went back to sleep.

Poor father-in-law, hope he gets well soon.

RepairPal Car Care

2011-01-09T01:04:00.002+08:00

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If only we have this service in Malaysia, I would have tried it out when my Renault Kangoo car got accident last Christmas Eve. I would also get my car oil change and brake job done by them. So for those who stay in US and need car repair or maintenance, what are you waiting for? Visit their site today at http://repairpal.com/.

Back to School (3rd Jan 2011)

2011-01-08T01:45:00.008+08:00

After a long year-end school holidays, finally the kids went back to school last Monday.

Both Teng Hong and Xin Yi were not as excited as last year. Teng Hong even cried when I woke him up that morning. Beside tired because we just came back from our Singapore trip two days before school started, he afraid of doing homework. I told him there won’t be any homework at the first day of school. But later he came back with one homework and complaint that I didn’t let him bring the workbook to school. Oh boy, I think teacher won't start teaching, it’s the first day of school and there was no timetable. I was wrong!

At the first day of school re-open, Teng Hong copied back the timetable. I am glad that he was able to copy back all. In fact, I made a copy of the timetable too while I was at the school. I was afraid he would miss some of the characters.

Xin Yi already went to kindie when I reached home. Luckily hubby was still on holiday, so he could help Xin Yi to get ready and sent her to kindie while I was at Teng Hong’s school settle the required payment.

Teng Hong @2010

Teng Hong @2011

Xin Yi @2010

Xin Yi @2011

Look, how much they have grown in a year...

Related post: Their New Milestones – Going to Kindie/Primary School

We’re Back

2010-12-25T22:36:00.013+08:00

After three weeks having great time in my hometown (Medan), finally we were back to Kuala Lumpur last Sunday. Hubby joined us two days prior to our return day.

On board MAS, Teng Hong & Xin Yi are so excited, can't wait to meet their cousins.

During our stay in Medan, Teng Hong and Xin Yi were so happy playing with their cousins and friends. This time, Teng Hong was able to speak better Chinese with them while Xin Yi was still trying her best.

On 3rd December, my family had a simple memorial ceremony for my late father at home. This was the first time I was able to attend it on time since I moved to KL.

At the weekend, my brother took the kids to play water at Mutiara swimming pool and on 7th December, my best friend in Medan, Che and her family took us to Mora Indah at Tanjung Morawa. There the kids visited the poor mini zoo which is not well-maintained, rode on the train and marie-go-round, and played at the water theme park. This is a newly built water theme park which gets the kids very excited; they played at the long slides for more than an hour. The entrance fee is IDR 30,000 for adult and IDR 20,000 for children.

Mora Indah Water Theme Park

We went back to Che’s house before she took us to Babura Steamboat for dinner.

Beside visiting relative and friends, I had a few gatherings with ex-school friends and ex-colleagues whom some of them I never met for more than 20 years. We had lunch at “Sedap Nusantara’ and “Lembur Kuring” restaurants; both are Indonesian restaurants which serve Javanese and Sundanese food.

We chatted for a few hours while enjoying the food.

My friends Fang, Merry & family, Jenny & family also bought us lunch / dinner. They always give me good treats every time I return to my hometown.

Thank you very much, friends!

We enjoyed our trip very much. Teng Hong even asked me to take him back to Medan the next day when we're back to KL!

Teng Hong looking at the Arapaima fish and Catfish @ Lembur Kuring restaurant.

Here’s wishing you all a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
Hoping this Christmas & New Year bring you and family joy, love and excellent health.

November Boys in The Family

2010-11-26T23:58:00.003+08:00

There are quite a few November boys in my family. They are my father-in-law and his two grandsons; another one is my brother’s son. So in November, normally we’ll be a bit busy celebrating a few birthdays.

Today is my father-in-law’s eighty-two year old birthday. We have celebrated it last Sunday at a nearby Chinese Restaurant. Father-in-law was so happy to see all the children and grandchildren (unfortunately one granddaughter couldn’t attend because of having fever). To share his happiness, he then gave RM10 to each of the grandchildren. 

Surrounded by his grandchildren, he kept smiling while the cake cutting session.

Many happy returns of the day!

He is 7

2010-11-23T23:38:00.016+08:00

Teng Hong turns seven today. We celebrated his birthday at Roast Duck Restaurant, Bangsar Village. It wasn’t a fun birthday party like the one he had at Kizsports & Gym last year but only a simple dinner with the family. Mummy knows that he is a bit disappointed. He questioned us a few times: “Why don’t we invite his friends to his birthday?”, “Why no people come to his birthday celebration?”

After dinner, he insisted to get a birthday present. Actually daddy has bought him an early birthday present last week. It was “Beyblade” which he recently likes very much. This was another one to add to his collection of Beyblades (“Powerful Spinning Tops”). His first Beyblade and its stadium was bought last month while he was having his final exam, but we only let him play after his exam over.

Beyblades ("Powerful Spinning Tops") and the stadium

So tonight, daddy bought him a comic as his other birthday present instead of Ben 10 new Omnitrix which costs RM 129.xx. He then chose “Billy Batson and The Magic of Shazam” comic. Reading comic books is one of his hobbies.

Before we went home, he also insisted to buy a birthday cake.

At seven, his weight is 26.2kg and height is 124cm. He still drinks milk 300ml, once a day. Since early November he has stopped using milk bottle (another new milestone). He loves curry and garlic very much.

Beside Beyblade, he is still interested in balloon, toy car, Ultraman and Ben 10. When he is on the road, he likes to spot cars and told us the names. He likes to look at car pictures in the magazine or on the internet, and tells us that he wishes he could have Ferrari, hehehe…

His ability to recognize and memorize the cars is really outstanding!

Happy 7th Birthday to you, Teng Hong and also to your friend, Ashley!

Related post: It's His 6th Birthday!

His Primary One Performance

2010-11-17T00:40:00.006+08:00

Last Thursday Teng Hong came back with his school report card. I am quite happy to see his Primary One result. Despite that he suffers ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder), he still managed to pass all the subjects. He even scored 95% for English subject. Others are ranged from 59.75% to 96%. He gets an average rank in the class, 28 from 48 students.

Keep up the good work, boy!
Mummy hopes you can be better next year.

All this while, his teachers complained that he couldn't concentrate during the lessons; his attention span is extremely short. He was seated alone right at the front of the class, next to teacher for a few months. He was kept “under the nose” of teachers.

While doing his exam, he was not able to concentrate too. One of his teachers said she had to call him many times to remind him to do his exam until she had to stand near him.

A few times when I went to pick him up early from his class, I could see instead of facing the teachers who was teaching in front of the class, he looked at something at the back or did some other things.

During his Tae Kwan-Do class he is not able to focus too. I can see him looking around while practicing. But I must admit that he is now much better than two years ago. A parent also told me about that.

Talking about homework, he hardly copied back the homework list; luckily his school provides a website for parents to check it online. Homework is something really tortures him; he will nag or cry every time I ask him to do. It takes him a few hours to start doing it no matter how we motivate him. Daddy even offers him RM1 if he can finish his homework before 6.00PM. He wants the money so much because we only give him pocket money once in a while when he did something really good or when he gets all correct in his spelling test. However, he could only get daddy’s offer less than 5 times for this whole year.

He had trouble in copying his homework from whiteboard. Most of the time, he couldn’t able to copy it all. Sometimes he even didn’t copy at all. I couldn’t figure out why? His therapist said that he will help me to assess him in this case.

Though he completed his homework daily with mummy’s guidance, he always didn’t hand-in his homework. Afraid I will scold him, he left them in his school desk’s drawer. There was once I spot-checked to his class and found out that he left 18 textbooks, workbooks and exercise books there. Just imagine!

He is very much disorganized. I think he is the messiest student in the class and in the school. Books and accessories are all over the desk and floor. According to teachers, when they asked him to pick up, he will take his sweet time to pick or sometimes he even didn’t pick up. Just imagine he lose 4 or 5 boxes of color pencils, dozens of pencils and erasers, a few sharpeners, rulers, textbooks, exercise books, wallets, etc in a year.

There was once I followed him quietly to his class and saw his school bag lying down on the floor near the classroom’s door. Instead of put it at his seat, he just simply put down and went to see his friends playing badminton. *slap head*
Everyone who entered the classroom should walk aside to avoid stepping on his bag.

Almost every day he came back with a very dirty knees, face and uniform. I have to use the shower brush to help him clean the knees. I guess he must be crawling on the ground.

Since there are so many complaints from teachers regarding his poor concentration and some other problems, like: slow movement, poor hand-eye coordination, etc., last August I managed to get an appointment with a Psychiatrist. He was diagnosed with ADHD Inattentive type.

Last month he started his therapy at a “Terapi Cara Kerja” to train him to be more focused. With this monthly therapy plus home training, I hope that he will have significant improvement in this near future. I really hope he can outgrow the disorder soon.

School holidays starts today, Teng Hong is so happy and has been asking for his birthday present. Soon he will turn SEVEN!

Related posts:
Finally It’s Over
Their New Milestones – Going to Kindie/Primary School

Our October 2010 Diary

2010-11-13T01:44:00.022+08:00

5th October- 22th October 2010

Teng Hong had his school exam (PKBS 4). There were 14 papers in three weeks time. At the last day of his exam, he woke up at 5.00am and complained that he felt uncomfortable. He had mild fever; mummy fed him Paracetamol, later the fever subsided. Since there was no more fever mummy sent him to school.

He cried when mummy picked him up after school, he said he vomited. He also could not finish doing his Chinese test paper. Poor boy!

16th October 2010

Xin Yi had her school year end and the six years old graduation concert. She was so excited. She participated in 4 years old group dancing; the song was “Tie a Yellow Ribbon”. It’s a nice song.

Xin Yi was awarded “Best Reader Award” for her class.

Daddy and mummy are very proud of you.
Keep up the good work, girl!

In the afternoon, we attended daddy’s company Family Day held at “Kelab Golf Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah”. There were games, clown magic show, playground and swimming pool. The kids had so much fun.

18th October 2010

Today is Teng Hong’s third visit to Psychiatrist. Mummy requested the new Psychiatrist to refer Teng Hong for therapy.

20th October 2010

Daddy’s Birthday & Blog Anniversary

Since the boy was having year end exam, we didn’t go out to celebrate. Mummy ordered a layer prune cake from her friend, Angela. We loved it very much.

Also, "My Memories, As Time Goes By" is 3 years old.

26th October 2010

Teng Hong’s first visit to Therapist. The main purpose is to increase his attention span so he can be focused.

Our 9th Wedding Anniversary

2010-10-01T22:39:00.003+08:00

Last Sunday marked the ninth anniversary of our marriage. We celebrated it at OUTBACK Steakhouse, Bangsar Village. It was the first time we dined here. We ordered Lamb Chop, Fish & Chips, Crab Cake and Burgers.

At this ninth anniversary, I tried to explain to our boy in brief about daddy and mummy’s wedding nine years ago. I don’t know whether he understood or not, but he was quite excited. I will let him watch later the video taken during the wedding ceremony and wedding dinner at my hometown, Medan.

Happy Anniversary to you, Darling.
I hope that there will be many, many more happy anniversaries for the two of us.

They are the most precious gifts I ever got.

What’s Your Kissimmee Story?

2010-09-15T01:13:00.006+08:00

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Kissimmee Tourism. All opinions are 100% mine.

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Cleaning Mattress

2010-09-14T23:00:00.004+08:00

A clean bed may make you sleep better.

Since I bought the “Karcher” water filter vacuum cleaner last April, I vacuum my mattress regularly. To my surprise, this was what I see at the first few cleaning. The clear clean water which was used to filter the dust turned out to be milky and brownish.

Finally I have a proper vacuum cleaner which helps me clean my bed regularly. Now I can sleep better on my clean and comfortable bed.

Our August 2010 Diary

2010-08-31T23:31:00.005+08:00

It’s a tiring month for us.

Teng Hong had his school exam (PKBS 3) from 3 August till 20 August. There were 10 exams in two weeks time. I was glad he was co-operative in doing his revision. This time he was not blur like last exam; he knew exactly what exam (subject) he did.

At the last day of his exam, my sister-in-law’s aunties (one from Medan and another one from Jakarta) came to stay with us. The younger auntie just had a surgery to remove a lump in her tongue at Penang. Glad to know that the surgery was successful and the lump is not cancer. They were here for a week before go back to the hospital for follow-up check-up. We were quite busy accompanying them during their stay.

Due to lots of complaint from Teng Hong’s teachers regarding his short attention span, slowness, messiness, etc. and feedback from one of Teng Hong’s ex-kindie's teachers who is also a teacher of special needs children, I managed to get a referral letter from a nearby clinic to get Teng Hong to a hospital for consultation.

He got his first appointment with Psychiatrist on 23 August. After about an hour assessment, the Psychiatrist said the slowness is caused by the inattention, not the muscle problem. He couldn’t response fast because he wasn’t concentrating or paying attention. Anyway she will go through the problem one by one.

She then gave me a few questionnaires to be filled by parents and school class teacher. She recommends placing Teng Hong at a small class size so he can get more attention from teachers. She will start medication for Teng Hong at the next visit.

And today is Malaysia Independence Day. After a tiring month, daddy took us to IOI for a movie treat. We watched “The Last Airbender”. Teng Hong is the happiest person; he had been waiting for this movie for weeks. This was the third movie the kids watched at cinema, the first one was “Princess and The Frog” which we watched at last Christmas day and the second one was “Toy Story 3” which we watched in July.

All of us enjoyed the movie very much. It’s a Happy Family Day!

Finally His Stubborn Tooth Came Out

2010-07-31T23:41:00.011+08:00

Teng Hong’s two permanent lower front teeth coming in behind his two baby teeth end of last January.

25 Feb 2010

Afraid Teng Hong might get trauma if dentist pulls out his teeth under local anesthesia, we decided to wait until the teeth come out by their own. Four weeks later, the right baby lower incisor (his first baby tooth) started to get wobbly and fell out in about a week later (4 March 2010).

29 March 2010

We were so happy and waited for the other one to get wobbly, but it was so stubborn. Only after three months since the first tooth dropped, it started to get wobbly. We took him to his dentist in early June to seek advice; it seems there is not enough room for the second permanent tooth to move forward. We checked with the dentist whether he needs or not to have another tooth removed, to make way for the second permanent tooth to move to its correct position after his second baby tooth comes out? The dentist said “No need, the jaw is still growing and if we remove another tooth to make room for this tooth, what happen when the other comes in?” So we just wait and see what will happen in future. The worst he might need braces if later the teeth really crooked.

31 July 2010

Back to the wobbly tooth, Teng Hong felt so irritated since he came back from school yesterday; the tooth’s hanging there but still couldn’t come out when we tried to pull it out by hand. Finally this morning, his second baby tooth came out after being wobbly for two months. It’s so easy, mummy only needed to pull it up a bit. Finally, after six months since the two permanent teeth coming in, the second baby teeth fell out.

Phew, what a relief!

What Happened to Hubby in the Past Three Weeks

2010-06-30T23:36:00.008+08:00

Hubby initially wished to bring the kids to Singapore during last school holiday, but I felt like I don’t want to go. So I suggested to hubby to go to the Deer Park instead and he agreed. We saw this Deer Park when we visited Lake Garden last April. Hubby also planned to bring the kids to "KL Hop On-Hop Off City Tour", just to let them have fun and know more about this city. At the end, none of the plans is done because of the incident below.

A few days before school holiday started, Teng Hong had sore-throat and later passed the germ to mummy (me). I was having fever and chill that night when hubby suddenly woke me up in the middle of the night. It was 7th June 2010, 2am! He told me to take him to a nearby 24 hours clinic. He had severe chest discomfort, heart burn, nausea and vomiting but nothing came out, only the gas.

The doctor gave him injection and some medicines to stop the vomiting, gastric and wind. He said hubby had food poisoning.

On the way home, hubby asked me to send him to Sime Darby Medical Centre Subang Jaya (previously known as Subang Jaya Medical Centre); the discomfort seemed to get worse.
Arrived at the Emergency, the medical officer examined hubby and gave him a painkiller injection. One and a half hour later they sent him to ward for further diagnosis. He felt sleepy soon after the injection and I went home to get some rest after shivering the whole night in hospital.

In the morning, there was no more pain and the nurse sent hubby for Abdomen Ultrasound. They found out his gallbladder is swelling but no definite stone is identified. However, tiny stones especially in the neck of the gallbladder may be missed. This may be suggestive of cholecystitis.

Hubby never had gallbladder attack before, no such pain as what he just experienced. All he had were 3 times of mild discomfort like having gastric and heartburn within the past month. These were actually the symptoms of gallbladder problem.

In the afternoon, hubby had an endoscopy followed by ECG. Both results are OK. Doctor then prescribed him antibiotic and some gastric/wind medicines; ask him to go back to control next week. Hubby later discharged in the evening.

The next day everything was fine until midnight. Hubby started to feel the discomfort again; this time the attack was worse than the first one. At 6am, after the continuous pain for six hours, he woke me up to send him to hospital. Again the medical officer gave him a painkiller injection and sent him to ward, waiting for the doctor to visit him. This time the pain attack didn’t last.

The specialist who handled hubby previously was on leave, so another on call specialist visited hubby about three hours later. He examined and did some pressing at hubby’s right lower chest (beneath the rib cage) where the gallbladder is located. Hubby was having cold sweat. The specialist said hubby’s gallbladder may be infected and need to be removed. The antibiotic given by the other specialist couldn’t help anymore. He then recommended a surgeon to hubby.

Soon the surgeon visited hubby. He examined hubby, same as told by the other specialist, he said hubby’s gallbladder may be infected and need to be removed. He explained to hubby about the gallbladder removal surgery, the side effects and method: Laparoscopic and Open surgery. Open surgery will be done if Laparoscopic couldn’t work well. He then handed out a letter of surgery agreement to hubby to sign if hubby agrees to undergo the surgery. Thinking of the unbearable pain and infected gallbladder, hubby signed it as he had no choice! The severe pain didn’t last; he was not able to rest even after the Pethidine injection. Pethidine is an analgesic used for relief of moderate to severe pain.

An hour later the nurse sent hubby to have Chest X-Ray.

It was an emergency gallbladder removal surgery, so hubby was prepared for the surgery as soon as the Operating Theatre was available. The surgery was done at around 6pm; it took an hour to get the gallbladder out. About two hours later the surgeon came out and told me the surgery was done and everything was alright. Half an hour later the nurse pushed hubby out from the Operating Theatre; he was reclining on the bed, feeling much better after 18 hours of torture. What a relief! It was 9th June 2010 8.45pm.!

Three days later hubby discharged from Sime Darby Medical Centre Subang Jaya. Total medical bills for the two admissions are almost RM15k.

The infected gallbladder and the small stone

HistoPathology of the infected gallbladder showed there is no evidence of granuloma or malignancy.

After came home from hospital hubby was on a semi solid diet for about a week. Life is pretty normal after the gallbladder removal but in future he should avoid too greasy and too spicy food because this food may cause some discomfort.

Look Younger and Healthy with Oxis

2010-06-26T01:57:00.002+08:00

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He Got His Tae Kwan-Do’s Yellow Belt

2010-06-26T01:06:00.002+08:00

After got his White Belt with Yellow Stripe October last year, Teng Hong went for another test to get Yellow Belt last April. In this test, he had to demonstrate:

- Chon-Ji pattern
- Front kick, side kick and turning kick
- 3-step sparring

He was so happy, he passed it!

Last Saturday when his Master reminded that there will be Belt test in this coming July, he told me that he wants to join. So I registered and let him try!

She Turns 4

2010-06-16T23:23:00.016+08:00

Xin Yi had an early birthday celebration at her kindy on 3rd June 2010, just a few days before school holiday started.

Early celebration @kindy

Mummy ordered a Chocolate cake with Cinderella picture (her choice) as her birthday cake. She loves it so much. Yeah, as she grows up Xin Yi now loves Barbie and Princess, not only Ultraman, Transformers, Ben 10 and all sorts of boyish toys. She wishes Barbie as her birthday present. And of course her wish is granted. It is her first Barbie!

Xin Yi with some of her birthday presents

This year has been an explosion of learning for her. She is able to read and understand about 60 Chinese characters and books with simple words, like: "Peter and Jane book 1a", "Odonata Chinese books 100 words book 1", etc. At bed time, she hardly miss her story books reading session, she will ask mummy or daddy to read for her or some time she will take turn to tell the stories.

Her growth is quite good; weight 16kg and height 103cm. She stopped wearing diapers since she was three and a half years old.

Her milk consumption remains the same, 200ml 1-2x daily. She now can drink her milk and finish her meal a bit faster. Once in a while she can drink and eat by herself. Mummy hopes she can do it all by herself soon.

She is in Playhouse Disney and Astro Xiao Tai Yang Birthday Book for June

Two months ago, mummy managed to send her photo to Playhouse Disney Birthday Book and yes, she was selected! She was so excited when she saw herself in the Birthday Book. Her photo is also telecasted in Astro Xiao Tai Yang Birthday Book for June.

Xin Yi @ Playhouse Disney Birthday Book

XIn Yi @Astro Xiao Tai Yang Birthday Book

On Her Actual Birthday

In the afternoon daddy brought her to Baskin Robbins for ice cream treats. So coincidence, Baskin Robbins has promotion on Wednesday; Wed = Pink day. If you show them something in pink then you will get your Double Jr. scoop for a price of one Single scoop.

Later at the night we had simple dinner with immediate family at a nearby café. This time birthday girl requested a Barbie cake, so A Ko (daddy’s sister) managed to get it for her. Thank you very much, A Ko.

Happy 4th Birthday, Xin Yi. May you always stay healthy and happy!

The Best Prune Layer Cake We Ever Had

2010-06-08T18:35:00.008+08:00

My family love layer cake very much especially my boy, Teng Hong. He can eat a quarter of the cake at one sitting if I don’t stop him.

This is the best Prune layer cake we ever had. It was made by hubby’s Ku Je (father’s youngest sister) last Chinese New Year. She is a very good home-baker specialized in layer cakes. We are so lucky to get the cakes FREE from her at times. :)

Mmmm, it's so delicious!

Side Effect of the Second Booster Double Antigen Jab

2010-05-27T23:55:00.007+08:00

As part of school health programs, yesterday my seven-year-old boy got his second booster Oral Polio and Double Antigen jab at his school. He told me that he felt scared and cried after the jab. It was painful and he kept complaining the jab area was painful when he went to sleep. I thought he only wanted to make a fuss, so I didn’t really attend him, only told him not to lie down on the jab’s side.

This afternoon when he came back from school, I was shocked to see his left upper arm, the place where he got the jab yesterday. It looked big, swollen, red and hardened. He never got any side effect from immunization since he was a baby.

His left upper arm, where he got the jab

His normal right upper arm

I tried to call a clinic which we always visited, but instead of getting an advice, the doctor told me to bring my boy to let him check, sigh!

Later follow a friend’s advice I applied heat pack on the affected area with the hope it can soften the hardened site, then follow sister-in-law’s advice I applied cold pack to ease the soreness.

At night, he even complained that the jab area was very itchy and I had to give him anti-histamine to ease the itchiness, then only he dozed off.

Poor boy, hope you get well soon!

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2010-05-17T22:46:00.005+08:00

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Finally It’s Over!

2010-05-16T06:10:00.002+08:00

Being a foreigner and a first time mother to a Primary one student in this country, I was a bit shock to see their half year assessment schedule. Just imagine, there are 14 exams to be carried out in 9 days (3 weeks time).

What surprise me more, during the exam days they also have lessons and homework as usual, sometime the homework is even much more than usual. *fainted*

Compare to my niece’s school at my home-town, Medan, there are only about 7 exams for Primary one. During the exam days, they don’t have any lesson and homework; after the exam, the students can go home to prepare themselves for next day exams.

Back to here, the past three weeks were really a tiring weeks for my seven year old boy. This was the first time he had exam in Primary school. He had to do his homework and revision for the subjects for next day exams which can be one or two subjects. For the first two weeks everything was going on smoothly, but at the third week suddenly he felt sick.

He had high fever 40C, headache and vomited on Sunday. Got a sick leave on Monday; there was no exam on that day. Luckily, the fever subsided later that day after he took two doses of antibiotic, otherwise I would be sick worry that he might be infected by H1N1 virus.

The next day he insisted to go to school though he had a severe cough. There were two exams on that day. I was a bit worry about him and his exams. I afraid he would feel drowsy cause I fed him the vomit and cough medicines. So I went to pick him up earlier (after his second exam). He was quite blurring as he told me he had only one exam??? There should be two exams on that day.

During the third week exams, every afternoon he napped for more than 3 hours but couldn’t rest well at the night. It might be due to the medicines effect besides he had not fully recovered yet. Pity him; there were 7 exams in this week and he needed to do revision for those exams. I asked him to leave the homework as he won't have enough time to do them. At the last day of exam he really got bored and tired, he couldn’t focus while I was guiding him through-out the revision. So I just told him to try his best in the exam.

Finally it’s over and he can get some rest before his homework time again!

My New Water Filter Vacuum Cleaner

2010-04-30T23:57:00.007+08:00

After saw the demonstration a few weeks ago, finally I decided to get the “Karcher” vacuum cleaner model DS 5600. Thanks hubby who bought it for me. XOXOXO… :)

This vacuum cleaner washes the dust with water filtration system, by combining water bath with HEPA filter. This is the vacuum system which I actually looked for quite some time after my friend in Singapore recommended me the Rainbow Hydrocleaner. Later, introduced by a blogger friend (de little ones) I got a chance to see the Rainbow demonstration two months ago, no doubt I like the product very much but since the price is too expensive for us, we tried to hunt for another brand with the cleaning system close to Rainbow. Finally we found one which cost us less than half of the Rainbow’s price.

This afternoon I started to use it. Though the unit is a bit bulky, the cleaning result is quite satisfied. So from now on, beside clean the floor, I am able to clean and eliminate dust mites from the mattresses as well. I hope it can help me to get a cleaner & healthier home.

Teng Hong’s Weird Habit

2010-04-02T23:12:00.003+08:00

His weird sleeping habit since two years ago still goes on. He still prefers to sleep on the floor rather than the King Koil Kid’s mattress. There are many times he asked me to change his 6 inches mattress to a thin one. I just wonder what happened to this little boy…

And now he has another new habit. He likes to eat “garlic”, cook or fresh. He can finish about one teaspoon of garlic, taken with or without soya sauce. He would finish up all the garlic he could find in the food. Can you imagine a seven year old boy enjoy eating “garlic”?

Shark Teeth in Children

2010-03-31T02:02:00.006+08:00

I had never heard of it until I saw my boy’s two permanent lower front teeth coming in behind his two baby teeth end of last January. Immediately I called his dentist to make an appointment but unfortunately she was fully booked for the whole week.

I talked to the nurse about Teng Hong’s shark teeth (double teeth) and my worry. She then told me her son had the same experience and dentist advised her to wait for a few weeks. Later her son’s baby teeth fell out and the permanent teeth moved forward into the correct position on their own in several weeks.

Afraid Teng Hong might get trauma if dentist pulls out the teeth under local anesthetic, the nurse advised me to wait for another 1 or 2 weeks. She told me no need to worry, later after the baby teeth fall out, the permanent teeth will tend to move forward into the correct position on its own if there is nothing in the way and there is enough room.

So with the hope the baby teeth will fall out on its own, we kept waiting until four weeks later, the right baby lower incisor (his first tooth) started to get wobbly and finally fell out in about a week later. It was 4 March 2010! He was so happy and asked me to put the tooth under his pillow so that the tooth fairy could find it!

Now it’s been two months since those two permanent lower front teeth coming in but there is still no sign the other baby incisor to get wobbly. In fact, we did bring him to another dentist a few days before his first tooth fell out; the dentist said it would be better to get those teeth out but we still can wait for another 1 or 2 weeks if we wish. Since one of the teeth already so wobbly, I decided to let it come out on its own!

Now one baby tooth has fallen out but there is still one more to go. I just hope this other baby tooth is not so stubborn otherwise Teng Hong would need a dentist’s help!

A Call in the Wee Hours of the Morning

2010-03-13T06:00:00.001+08:00

Last Saturday, when I was still snuggling under my blanket suddenly hubby woke me up, telling me that I had a call from Indonesia. I dragged myself up. For a second I was wondering who is calling me in the wee hours of the morning. It’s only around 4.30am!

Before I got my answer, the other party already started to blame me for having an affair with her husband. For a moment, I still couldn’t figure out who was on the phone until she mentioned her husband’s name. I told her that’s not true. What happened was the husband sent me a birthday message a few days ago. That’s all!

Being so emotional, she, whom I never talked to, couldn’t accept what I said!

Later she sent me a few SMS (Short Message Service), saying that I am so lucky, I have been married but still received birthday wish from her husband who didn’t remember his own wife’s birthday.

She also said her husband already confessed to having had an affair with me, why don’t I confess? And bla bla bla…

OMG, I don’t know whether she or her husband made up such a silly story. Though her husband and I were good friends during our University days, we never dated. And now, I am a happily married woman with a happy family which I love so much. It never crossed my mind to have an affair!

She called me again in the late afternoon while I was sending my boy to Tae Kwan-Do class, so I just ignored it. I then sent SMS (with a copy sent to her husband) to tell her that nowadays it’s quite common to send birthday wish to friends and this year I received a lot of birthday wishes which came from my family in Indonesia, my hubby and kids, ex-university friends, school friends, colleagues, etc., not only from her husband!

At the end, I told her to never disturb or call me ever again!

As soon as I sent the SMS, her husband SMS me to apologize.
Two more SMS from her were sent to me on that day but I just ignored them and since then she never disturb me again.

It has been a week now; hopefully there will be no such problem happen again in future!

Our 2010 Chinese New Year Celebration

2010-02-26T06:49:00.001+08:00

Here’s wishing you a Very Happy Chinese New Year!

This year Chinese New Year began on 14th February which is also the Valentine day.

As usual, our house was packed with relatives on the first day of Chinese New Year. There were about 50 relatives visiting us and among them father in law is the eldest.

For the celebration, this year, I only bought four types of cookies, but I fried a few types of Indonesia prawn crackers from the small round one to the big one and the stick type which looks like French fries. These crackers then became the favorite food. The rest which were more than twelve containers of cookies were brought over by sister in law, brother in law and Angela (my hometown friend). Also butter cake and prune layer cake from hubby’s aunties.

Beside cake and cookies, hubby cooked porridge prepared with scallop, oyster (“hou si”), dried squid slices (“sotong si”), pork and winter melon soup for the relatives.

It was about 4pm when we finally were able to take some rest.

Later at the night, we went to sister in law’s house to celebrate her youngest daughter’s birthday.

We were exhausted on that day but happy!

On the second day of Chinese New Year Xin Yi started to cough. She ate too much cookies and prawn crackers! On the fourth day I had to bring her to doctor as her cough became worse. She had high fever the next day because of her throat infection. After one dose of paracetamol and antibiotic the fever then subsided.

Now she is getting better, no more fever and cough but her voice still yet back to normal!

Chinese New Year decoration @Megamall, Mid Valley

Reunion Dinner

We had our early reunion dinner (7th February 2010) with late mother in law’s sister, brothers and their families at La La Chong Seafood Restaurant, the same restaurant we had last year.

We had yee sang, la la (clams), prawns, chickens, crabs, vegetables and a few others which I forgot. Unfortunately I had fever on that day and no appetite. The only food I enjoyed was la la but I “da bao” back my favorite food “crab”, hehe…

Since we had quite early reunion this year, at Chinese New Year’s Eve, we had reunion dinner again at home with our own family members: brother in law, sister in law and their families. We had yee sang, a few dishes and soup, one of the dishes was chicken marinated with garlic, onion and ginger (“lou gai”) from the grandmother recipe.

Time flies, in another two days it will be the 15th day of Chinese New Year, the end of the Chinese New Year celebration.

High Fever Attack

2010-01-31T23:59:00.001+08:00

After seven months didn’t get sick, this morning Teng Hong woke up with headache. I gave him Paracetamol, he then played “snake & ladder” and “ping pong ball” for almost an hour.

Later while we were having lunch at Lucky Garden, Bangsar, he vomited. We took him to see doctor; he is prescribed fever, vomit and gas medicines. His body temperature climbed up to 39.8 °C when we reached home. He felt very uncomfortable with the high fever attack and I sponge bathed him to bring down the fever. He then fell asleep and felt better after that, but the fever is still on and off.

After the high fever attack in May and cough & cold in July last year, this is the first attack in 2010. I hope he gets well soon and won’t pass the virus to others!

Their New Milestones – Going to Kindie/Primary School

2010-01-13T06:40:00.016+08:00

Finally Xin Yi is going to kindie this year. She is 3 ½ years old. Last Wednesday (6 January 2010) was her first day of kindie. She was so excited! Arrived at kindie, I told her that I would park the car and take her to her class but I was so surprised when she told me that she didn’t need me, she would go in with her teacher. So I just dropped her and went to fill in petrol, after that I went back to see her. She looked happy playing with the food and cooking toys, so I just monitored her from far away. She noticed me about half an hour later and smiled to me.

Since everything was alright, I went to have breakfast and go back an hour later. The teachers entertained them with puppets, they then sang songs and one of the teachers played guitar for them until it was time to line up to go home. It was the end of her first day of kindie. I was so surprised and happy that my clingy and timid girl didn’t cry at all!

Xin Yi's first day of kindie

The second day onwards she was all by her own! I only need to send her to kindie and pick her up later. When I checked with her teachers, they said: “She was OK, so far she didn’t cry!” This is good news as she is a timid girl who always tags along with me almost everywhere I go since she was a baby.

Well done, Xin Yil! That's great!

As for Teng Hong, he finally goes to Chinese Primary School after three years in kindie. His first comment when he woke up at the first day of his school: “Mummy, why we go to school at night?” Yeah, in Malaysia the sky still looks damn dark at 6.30 am, so no wonder he asked that question as he never went to school so early in the morning. I laughed inside me and pitied him at the same time.

I accompanied him to his new school until time to go home for the first day but most of the time I quietly monitored him. Once in a while I would go to survey other places and also had breakfast at the opposite coffee shop. I noticed that a few of the new students cried.

At the first day of school, Teng Hong looked happy, he met a few of his kindie friends, three of them are in the same class with him. In less than five minutes his teacher started to speak in front of the class, he already made trouble; he was drawing something instead of paying attention to the teacher, so the teacher walked to him and told him nicely to stop his work. Later when I met the teacher, she also commented that Teng Hong can’t sit still, not focused and can’t line up properly.

Oh my boy, at the first day of school, your class teacher already noticed you!

At the second day of school, I only accompanied him for about two hours. Later when I went back to see him, I saw him cried, telling his teacher that he wanted mummy. After told him that I would come to pick him up after school hours, I left him.

On the third day onwards I only accompany him to his class and then go back home to send Xin Yi to kindie. Once in a while, he would ask mummy to stay back, but I told him teacher won’t allow. He complained that the school hours are too long, from 7.30am to about 1.00pm and he missed mummy. What to do?

So far he starts to adapt with the new environment, just hope that he will get use to the new school system soon.

Teng Hong's first day of Primary School

Both Teng Hong & Xin Yi did a great job, daddy & mummy are very proud of you!

Realted post: First Day at New Preschool

A Thoughtful Wish @ Christmas Eve

2009-12-29T07:54:00.012+08:00

Since the past few years, every time I went back to my home town (Medan), I took the opportunity to visit my friend’s mother. Janti, one of my best friends who is now staying in Singapore; her mother has not been feeling well for a few years and lately has been bedridden. So at my recent visit to my home town, I took Teng Hong and Xin Yi to visit her mother; we chatted for a short while and I told the kids what had happened to her.

After the visit, we never talked about it anymore. Everybody was too busy with the holiday until the Christmas Eve, I was so touch when Teng Hong came to me and suddenly asked me: “Mummy, how is Auntie Janti’s mummy now? She gets well already?” and he then sent a message to Santa: “Wish Auntie Janti’s mummy get well soon.”

Oh my boy! I couldn’t hold my tears when I heard him saying that. Instead of asking for more toys as what he always wished, he made a thoughtful wish to Santa at the Christmas Eve. My six year old boy, who drives me up the wall at times, really melted my heart that night.

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2009-12-23T20:03:00.004+08:00

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Xin Yi @ 3 ½

2009-12-19T06:36:00.002+08:00

My little girl turned 3 ½ year old on 16th Dec 2009. She is getting more independent and more “mature” by the day. She doesn’t cry anymore when somebody visits us. I could even leave her with my mum or sister-in-law when I was in my hometown recently.

Since July, she has been able to recognize numbers (1 – 10) and read the alphabets from words. She likes to ask mummy the spelling of a word. Hopefully from this habit she can learn more spelling.

She likes to ~~draw~~ scribble and color but doesn’t like to write.

She can count objects, add them or subtract them. Recently she starts to do simple picture addition.

She is able to sing quite a few songs including the National Anthem, Negaraku.

Affected by her kor-kor, she is interested more in Ultraman, Transformers and Ben 10, not Barbie or Princess like most girls do. She can get along with her kor-kor well.

Her growth is quite good, weight 15.5kg and height 101cm, compare to 10 months ago her weight is increased 2.0kg and height is increased 6cm.

Her milk consumption is getting less, 200ml 1-2x daily. She started to take Pediasure Complete formula since September. Lately she can finish her meal faster. That’s a good improvement! *wink*

At home, sometimes she is very kpc, try to help mummy to brush the toilet bowl when she finished poo poo, wipe the dusty things, sweep or mop the floor, etc.

Next year we are going to send her to kindie, so mummy will have more me-me time, hehe... :D

In Loving Memory, My Father (1934 – 1999)

2009-12-14T23:37:00.004+08:00

Ten years ago today, my father passed away. He was 65. Although my father had high blood pressure for years and swollen heart, his passing was very sudden.

It was around 10.30pm when my father’s friend’s knocking at our front door, telling us that my father was unconscious after vomited at a nearby coffee shop while playing Chinese chess with him. My mother rushed to the coffee shop which was only about 3 minutes walk from our house; she still could feel my father’s breath. They were transporting him to a doctor who stayed a few doors away from the coffee shop when I reached there a few minutes later. I tried to feel the pulse at his wrist as I have always monitored it for him, but I couldn’t find any. Soon after, the doctor confirmed that my father had died.

All of us were shocked; he was on medication and looked well when he left the house.

Last Saturday, when I was in my hometown (Medan), my family had a simple prayer ceremony for my late father at home.

Time really flies; he was the greatest man I’ve ever known!

The Much Awaited Day!

2009-11-24T14:12:00.006+08:00

Finally the much awaited day arrives! In a short while we will be leaving to airport to fly back to mummy’s hometown, Medan. The kids have been so excited since early morning; they keep asking when we are going to leave.

By the way, still fresh in mummy’s mind our trip back to Medan last March. They were so happy!

See you soon, Medan! See you soon, my family and friends!

It’s His 6th Birthday!

2009-11-23T22:52:00.007+08:00

Teng Hong turns six today. We threw him a birthday party at Kizsports & Gym 1Utama Shopping Centre yesterday. We invited daddy’s relatives, some close friends and two of his close classmates.

It’s indeed a happy day for the kids. They played together in the parachute game organized by Kizsports’ entertainers and had fun at the playland for a few hours; they ran, climbed, slid down and crawled through the tunnels. I am sure all the kids had a very good sleep last night.

Happy 6th Birthday to you, Teng Hong and also to Ashley (Vicki’s princess).

They were born on the same day, same hospital.

Teng Hong’s Last Day of Preschool

2009-11-23T06:00:00.000+08:00

Teng Hong had his last day of preschool last Friday. It’s a party day! Mummy prepared some golden kiwi fruits and home-made jellies with “longans” for him to bring to the school’s party. Beside food, mummy also helped him to make a small gift for his teacher.

Bookmarks for his teachers

In mummy’s mind they must be very happy, having a party!
Later when mummy picked him up from school, mummy was a bit shocked when the teachers informed mummy that he cried out loud!

Inside the car, he told mummy that “It was a sad day! Next year he will go to Primary School, won’t be at this kindy again and can’t see his friends and teachers anymore. Everybody in his class cried except one only.”

Oh, it’s so touch to hear all that. How a six year old child can have such a sad feeling for the last day of their preschool!

Dirt Devil Holiday Buying Guide

2009-11-20T11:51:00.004+08:00

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Teng Hong's 2009 Second Semester Assessment Report

2009-11-18T23:53:00.021+08:00

Finally the six year old assessment report was handed out to mummy at a teacher-parent meeting last night.

The test results are as follows:
(First semester is written in red and second semester is written in green)

English : 100%, 96%
Bahasa Malaysia : 99%, 88%
Chinese : 93%, 84%
Numbers : 70%, 65%

He is doing quite well in English, Bahasa Malaysia and Chinese. Though he scored less, because of his careless mistakes especially in Bahasa Malaysia and Numbers and because the second semester’s exams are much more difficult; daddy and mummy are quite happy with the languages results. The Numbers (mathematic) result is far below mummy’s expectation. He made so many careless mistakes! He got 65% only, scores in his class range from 40%+ to 90%+. Teachers said he did his test very slow, so during the last minutes he might be distracted by the friends who had finished doing the exam.

According to his Bahasa, Chinese & Numbers teachers, lately he is very playful and talkative in class and as a result he can’t focus at all, even worse than before. He is also very slow in writing; they have to wait for him to write his name in the spelling test, huh!

His English teacher said “She is very happy with Teng Hong’s improvement”. His blends, spelling, reading skill have improved a lot. He is one of the good readers! But in class, he is still restless, can’t focus!

“Han Yi Pin Yin” teacher commented, “Teng Hong improves a lot in his recent exam, he can do it independently”. This teacher also told mummy that “Teng Hong is actually a smart boy; he can absorb lessons quickly when he is focused!”

The problem is “This boy is hardly able to concentrate!”

Any advice how to stretch his attention span? How to make him act faster? Or maybe we should just wait for him to grow out of it.

This semester Teng Hong doesn’t hit the target given by daddy and mummy, “Score 85% or above for all the subjects”, so he is going to miss the “Ultimate Ben 10 Omnitrix” or “Deluxe Ben 10 Omnitrix” as his coming birthday present!

Last night when mummy came back from the teacher-parent meeting, he was so excited to know his test results; later he was a bit disappointed when mummy told him he can’t get his dream Omnitrix!

Mummy can see at such a young age he still doesn’t understand what all those scores mean! He only knows there is exam and he has to do well. Other than that, in his mind is “ALL ABOUT PLAY!”

Daddy who just came back from outstation today had a look at all Teng Hong’s test papers. He is quite happy with the results and told mummy, "don't take it too serious!"

Here is the Numbers test papers:
(Click at the picture to enlarge)

Chinese test papers:

Han Yi Pin Yin test papers:

Bahasa Malaysia test papers:

English test papers:

A Wedding in Early November

2009-11-14T04:50:00.009+08:00

Hubby’s cousin brother got married early this month. The whole family was busy attending a series of events, from Bachelor Party to Wedding Dinner.

It was Saturday evening when we headed out to Villa Wangsa Maju for Bachelor Party. Arrived there, the security guard accessed the lift for us. All lifts in this place need a Lift Card Access. We had trouble accessing the lift when we went to the wrong floor; we were trapped and had to call hubby’s cousin brother to take us up to his condo. We had a chit chat and woman being woman; I didn’t miss browsing the wedding photo albums. They are wonderful; my eyes caught some photos of the bride in her work uniform. She is a Singapore Airlines air stewardess!

We then headed to the function hall at another level for dinner. It is located just beside the swimming pool and you know what will happen when the kids see the swimming pool? Yup, after dinner they couldn’t stop themselves from dipping their legs in the shallow part of the pool.

The next morning, we attended the wedding tea ceremony at the same place. This tea ceremony is considered a significant event in a Chinese wedding. The bride is formally introduced to the family of the groom through this event. This takes place on the wedding day itself when all of the family members are present. The same wedding tea ceremony will be held at the bride’s house.

@ Wedding Tea Ceremony

After the tea ceremony again we all went to the function hall for lunch. The hall was full with balloons. The bride and groom and the bride’s relatives did a wedding balloon release at the pool side. This was the first time my kids and I witnessed bunches of balloons flying high up to the sky. It was a great view!

Function Hall

Wedding balloons release

Since hubby’s cousin brother is an event manager, don’t wonder when there were quite a few professional photographers taking pictures throughout the whole wedding events. I was thrilled when one of them taking picture in front of my eyes, very close to my face with a very quick snap. Just wonder how is the result? Hehe…

After lunch, as plan the kids (Teng Hong, Xin Yi and their cousin’s sisters) had some fun in the swimming pool. They played a few rounds at the slide before finally we were able to get them out of the water.

The kids playing at the swimming pool

Xin Yi fell asleep on the way home while Teng Hong refused to take nap, so I went ahead to help him with his books revision. His exam was only two days away!

In the evening we attended the wedding dinner at Crown Plaza Mutiara, KL. There was a corner near the ballroom entrance specially setup for the attendants to take photos. We took this opportunity to have a family photo with the bride and soon after that we got our photo printed out by the Cannon photo printers. Thanks for the good service from Cannon and of course bride and groom!

Big size printing of the bride

Photo taking corner

Full size printing of bride & groom, welcoming guests @ the Ballroom entrance

Teng Hong had a wonderful night with his cousin sister, Sze Monn. As requested by them, they sat together, played, chatted and later danced together. At first Teng Hong refused to dance in front together with other couples, when Sze Monn took him out and danced, he ran away. Daddy then bribed him with RM1 note and here he goes…

Teng Hong dancing with his cousin sister

It was 11.30pm when we reached home. After freshened up, the kids dozed off when the clock moved past midnight. It was indeed a very tired but excited day!

School Holiday Is Coming Soon!

2009-11-06T23:58:00.004+08:00

Finally Teng Hong’s school exam is over today. As soon as he came back from school this afternoon, he couldn’t wait to play with his PSP (Portable Sony PlayStation) which I banned him from playing since two weeks ago. Not only PSP, I also banned him from using computer for a week.

Though he is still in kindy, I want him to do his revision before he has his exams. I want him to get used to this habit so next year when he is in Primary School, he has already known what to do!

In another two weeks, school holiday will be back! So far our family has had some plans. Among them, the most excited one is: "Going back to mummy’s hometown in Indonesia". Teng Hong and Xin Yi were very excited when I told them we are going to visit Grandma ("po po") again this coming school holiday. It means they will fly again; and they are looking forward to playing with their cousin sisters, brother and friends in Indonesia.

See you soon dear!

Fun Holiday Eyeglasses from Zenni

2009-11-06T22:54:00.004+08:00

Looking for a Holiday Fun Eyeglasses? Zenni Optical will be the right place for you. This online eyeglasses shop offers a great selection of affordable & stylish holiday frames. Beside the New Arrivals, they also have $8 Prescription Zenni Glasses and other types of frames, such as: Half Rim frames, Women’s fashion, Bifocal / Progressive frames, etc. You can see one of them at the below picture.

Do visit Zenni Optical today. I am sure you will look good and feel great in your new glasses!

Dentist Visit (5th October 2009)

2009-11-05T23:01:00.005+08:00

Teng Hong had an early appointment with Dr. Ng last October due to the new finding of tooth decay at his upper primary molar, and pain while brushing his lower right first primary molar (the tooth is almost gone because of the cavity).

By the time we visited Dr. Ng, there was no more pain at his lower right first primary molar tooth, so after had a check Dr. Ng said there was no problem. Mummy just hoped it was not an infection caused by the cavity. She then did the filling for Teng Hong’s upper right second primary molar tooth.

It seems that Teng Hong’s teeth are very prone to decay no matter how hard we try to keep the teeth clean. Since we found out his teeth decay three and a half years ago, we have had limit his sweets, chocolates and other sweet sticky food intake; every time he ate sweets or chocolates at home, we would brush his teeth immediately, but it didn’t help much, we still found decay at his teeth from time to time!

This time, mummy really hopes there won’t be any other tooth decay in the coming months.

Related post: Six-Monthly Dental Check-Up (13th June 2009)

His First Tae Kwon-Do Exam

2009-10-30T01:02:00.000+08:00

According to Wikipedia, Tae Kwon-Do is a Korean martial art, which may be loosely translated as “the way of the foot and the fist” or “the way of kicking and punching”. It combines combat techniques, self-defense, sport, exercise, meditation and philosophy.

Mummy enrolled Teng Hong in Tae Kwon-Do class at a nearby Chinese Primary School November last year. The main purpose is to let him mix around and exercise; then slowly help him to learn to concentrate, self-discipline, confidence and respect. Teng Hong is a timid boy especially when he is put in a group of children who are mainly older than him. It takes time to warm him up; he will usually only mix around with kids about his age.

At the first few months he joined the Tae Kwon-Do class, he hardly talked / played with other children. Together with another boy who was also 5 year old, they were the youngest in the group.

Teng Hong who likes Ultraman very much thought the kicking and punching in Tae Kwon-Do resembles the Ultraman action, so he is interested in learning it. But after some time he started to get bored and refuse to go at times. Mummy has to encourage him, sometimes reasoning him otherwise he would just stand at the side and watch his friends practice only.

After more than half a year joined the Tae Kwon-Do, although he is still not able to focus on the practice or follow his Sir’s instructions, there are improvement in his attitude, socialization and gross motor skill development. He has better balance, not cry so much and mix around with more children.

Finally after eleven months of practice, on October 10th he followed the exam to progress to a higher grade, White Belt with Yellow Stripe. It was his first Tae Kwan-Do exam! He passed it and last Saturday he proudly showed me the Yellow Stripe on his White Belt.

Keep up the good work, my dear!

Charter on Demand

2009-10-25T01:58:00.002+08:00

Watching movies is one of my hubby’s favorite activities. Every time when he is free, he will definitely switch on the movie. Lately he likes to watch the manga or anime series, like: Naruto, Bleach, Avatar, Dragon-ball, etc. which at first he bought for the kids to watch, but instead of the kids, he is the one who gets addicted. He will sometimes watch it at TV channel or Youtube but most of the time when he couldn’t wait or miss the show he will go and buy the DVD which cost him a lump sum of money.

I just get to know about Charter On Demand up until somewhat recently. It’s free to access. There are more than 6000 movies and shows available for you to watch anytime you want. The favorite shows, like: Heroes, 30 Rock, The Office, or kid’s movies, like: Barney, Tom & Jerry, Dora, SpongeBob which my kids love very much. HD (High Definition) shows are also available.

It’s just a click away! Isn’t it so easy?

I am going to tell hubby about this service and learn more at charter.net/ondemand. It will definitely save him a lot of money.

Anyway, we can also get updates and fun extras on Charter’s Facebook page.

Daddy’s Birthday & 2nd Blog Anniversary

2009-10-24T02:45:00.006+08:00

Four days ago was daddy’s birthday but unfortunately he was outstation so we didn’t celebrate it. On that morning, mummy, Teng Hong and Xin Yi sent a birthday wish to daddy and later called him in the evening. He told us he got a birthday cake from the hotel where he stayed. :)

We had a brunch at Fong Lye Restaurant, The Gardens, Mid Valley on the Sunday before daddy left. It is a Taiwan restaurant which accepts payment in cash term only. We ordered Sweet Potato Ball, Taiwan Glutinous Rice Sausage, Fresh Tomato Fried Egg with Fish and Seafood Fried Noodle. The food taste good and suit our taste buds (include the kids), but the price is a bit high.

In fact, this was the third time we had our meal there.

Sweet Potato Ball (some already been taxed by the kids), RM 5.30

Seafood Fried Noodle, RM 17.80

Fresh Tomato Fried Egg with Fish (set meal), RM 19.80

At the same day, it was mummy's blog’s 2nd anniversary. Mummy started it two years ago but due to time limitations, it is updated only once in a while.

In this opportunity, mummy would like to thank all this blog’s readers and also those who leave such nice and helpful comments. Mummy appreciates them so much.

Happy Blogging!

Kangoo Modified for “Life-Saver”

2009-10-17T23:45:00.007+08:00

“Goothering” of Kangoo Club Malaysia (KCM) was back last Sunday at A&W Drive Thru PJ (Petaling Jaya). There were about ten of them and the focus was more on Allan & Helen’s Kangoo where the Kangoo was modified to fit Allan’s Powered Wheel-Chair.

They bought the Kangoo in its original design and took it out for modification. It needed five months to complete the modification.

A Family Day Event

2009-10-09T23:47:00.009+08:00

Last Saturday hubby’s office organized a Family Day event. It was held at one of the managers’ house at Bukit Tunku. We reached there around 5pm, not many families there yet. Teng Hong and Xin Yi were so excited when they saw some children playing in the swimming pool. Too bad, the pool is too deep for them otherwise they would have jumped into the water!

We chit-chatted with some other families while waiting for others to arrive; some of them got lose and had to go round and round to look for the so-called “jungle house”. We then had a buffet dinner and while having dinner the kids were entertained by the clown who just arrived. Each child was given a choice and he made balloons sculpting for them.

There was also a comedy magic show where the kids were fully entertained by the clown for almost one hour.

After having a great time there, we finally left the house at around 8.20pm.
This was the first time ever we attended such an event and on the way home, Teng Hong has already asked daddy: "When can he attend another same event?"

Mid Autumn Festival 2009

2009-10-05T23:56:00.003+08:00

Mid Autumn Festival, also known as Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival is held on the 15th day of the eight month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually around late September or early October in the solar calendar. This year it fell on 3rd October.

To celebrate the festival, a day before the actual day we had dinner together with brother-in-law, sister-in-law and their families at a nearby Chinese restaurant, Carol’s Place. After that we went home to let the kids played with the lanterns. They carried the brightly lit lanterns for a short while before all were hung up!

They then lighted up the candles, sang the Happy Birthday song and having fun blew the candles… That’s how the kids celebrated Mid Autumn Festival, haha!

The next day, after came back from celebrating Family day at daddy’s colleague’s jungle house, Teng Hong and Xin Yi played with the lanterns again. This time we invited Anjella (Teng Hong’s ex classmate at Tadika Bethany) and her mum to join us. They are from Philippines and never seen this festival before!

Ben 10 lantern

Ben 10 and Ultraman lanterns

Snow White lantern

Train, self-made lantern

Kids light up the candles

As part of the celebration, besides played lanterns we also ate some mooncakes. This year we bought about ten mooncakes which most of them were finished up by Teng Hong. He loves mooncakes so much!

Germany Black Forest mooncake

Lotus Paste Single Yolk mooncake, from Hong Kong

"Teo Chew" Lotus Paste mooncake

Fish shape mooncake cookie

Our 8th Wedding Anniversary

2009-09-26T11:25:00.007+08:00

Today is our 8th wedding anniversary!

It’s hard to believe that

eight years have passed,
eight years I have left my home country,
eight years I have been here in Malaysia,
eight years I have been through all the ups and downs,
together with you!

Happy Anniversary Darling!

Love you always!

During The Raya Holiday

2009-09-24T23:33:00.012+08:00

This year, the first day of Raya fell on 20th September 2009.

Early morning the kids woke up excitedly, thinking about the birthday party they were going to attend. Yeah, they were invited to two birthday parties by their cousins during the Raya holiday. One was tonight and another one was on 22th.

The kids were so happy when they finally met their cousins at Chatter Box Restaurant, Bangsar Village Shopping Centre. It was their cousin, Sze Monn’s birthday party. They played for a while before dinner was served and later, after the dinner, they dropped by the MPH bookstore. It’s time to cut the birthday cake when they were all back from MPH.

Xin Yi who loves cakes very much finished her piece of cake pretty fast and then she asked for another piece *roll eyes* .
Mummy really hopes she can finish her meals as fast as the cakes.

It was about ten o’clock when we finally said good bye …

Two days later, they attended another cousin, Nicholas’s birthday party. It was at KizSports & Gym, Bangsar Village 2. We arrived there at 1pm, two hours earlier so the kids could have some fun at the playland.

@KizSports Playland:

@Party Room:

Xin Yi @ the party room

The kids stopped playing when the party started; they had their food but before they finished everything on their plates, they disappeared back to the playland. The kids were more interested in playing rather than having their food.

Later they gathered again at cake cutting session. It was a big jelly bithday cake with animal jungle/zoo theme.

Teng Hong managed to get the “lion” and he proudly told mummy that he ate the “lion”.

Xin Yi cried when she couldn't get the “elephant”.
Poor girl, instead of “elephant”, she got “butterfly”, “flower” and “ladybird”.

After eating the cake, all the kids were stuck at the playland again.

Later, after four hours having fun at the Kizsports playland, we finally could get the kids out of the playland. It was indeed a very exciting and tiring day for them. Just imagine they ran, climbed up the ropes, slid down and crawled through the tunnels for four hours!

Junko’s 2nd Visit to Kuala Lumpur (6th – 7th September 2009)

2009-09-12T21:37:00.018+08:00

Junko Kishi is my Japanese friend who I met fifteen years ago at Taipei City tour. Since then we keep in touch by sending greeting cards to each other every year and some lovely presents once in a while.

Last year in September I was so happy and excited when she visited me and my family. Yeah, finally after fourteen years we met again. She stayed with us for a few days and we had a wonderful time!

This year she was back to Malaysia with her sister, Tomoko. This was her sister’s first visit to Malaysia. They went to Kota Kinabalu a few days before came to Kuala Lumpur.

Last Sunday upon their arrival, we (hubby, me and my two kids) went to Park Royal Hotel at Jalan Sultan Ismail to meet them. We then bring them out for sightseeing to Thean Hou Temple which Junko didn’t have chance to go at her previous visit to KL. After that we went home to pick up father-in-law before went to buy “Kam Lun Tai” mooncakes and some curry powder to bring back to Tokyo, also some fruits like: mango, mangosteen, pomelo, dragon fruit, etc. Junko and her sister love Malaysian local fruits very much. According to them, the fruits are delicious and much cheaper than in Tokyo.

@ Thean Hou Temple:

Later in the evening we had Nyonya food at Ah Tuan Ee’s place @ SS2. We ordered Pai Tee, Gulai Tumis Fish (Asam Fish), Jeu Hoo Char, Stir-Fried Four Angled Beans with Sambal, Stir-Fried Kangkung with Sambal, Curry Chicken, Fried Golden Beancurd topped with Minced Meat and Ice Cendol. Both Junko and her sister love Nyonya food very much, especially the Curry Chicken and Pai Tee.

Nyonya Food @ Ah Tuan Ee's place:

After the dinner we went home for chatting and having some fruits and mooncakes. The two aunties also helped Xin Yi out with the Sanrio’s Flower and Clothing stalls decoration which Junko bought for her. This round, again the kids were showered with plenty of gifts from Sanrio Puroland, also some cakes and cookies.

We sent them back to hotel at around 10.30pm after the fruit party. :)

The next day I let them join the KL Hop-On Hop-Off City tour which they can easily access from their hotel. Later in the late afternoon, after grabbed some RotiBoy (their favorite bread) from KLCC, I managed to meet them at hotel before they left for Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

It’s time to say goodbye; though it’s only a short visit, we really had a great catch up!

I really thank them for coming to visit me and my family, I appreciate it very much!

During The Past Weekend

2009-08-26T06:22:00.002+08:00

Since there are more and more new influenza A (H1N1) cases were reported in the country and the number of deaths rose to 70 nationwide yesterday, my family tries not to go to crowded places.

So last Saturday, instead of going to the Popular Bookfest @ Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) we went to the Popular book store @ Pearl Point Shopping Centre, which of course has much less visitors than KL Convention Centre. At Popular, daddy can get Naruto and Avatar’s DVDs cheaper than other places, like: Speedy or Rock Corner. Yeah, recently daddy is getting addicted to Naruto’s movie, that’s explains why he likes to go to Popular book store nowadays, not to buy the books but DVDs!

As for mummy and Teng Hong, we were quite happy because we could have a meeting with Anjella and her mum who live at the condominium next to the shopping centre. Anjella and Teng Hong were classmates at Tadika Bethany Montessori when they were five years old. They never met each other since Teng Hong moved to another Tadika early this year.

At Pearl Point, we had a chat and lunch at Domino Pizza after daddy done with his shopping. There the kids played together and had so much fun until we had difficulty to ask them to say good bye.

The next day, we went to Bangsar Village Shopping Centre for dinner with brother-in-law & family. Again the two kids had a good time playing with their cousin sister.

In the end, it’s definitely a great weekend for the Kids!

In Memory of My Pet

2009-08-17T23:59:00.006+08:00

Remembering … “Poli”
(1999 – August 17, 2008)
You will always be in my heart.

He was the last dog I ever had while I was in Indonesia. It was my late father who took him back in 1999. Ever since I moved to Malaysia in September 2001, I couldn’t be with him anymore. All the while he was under my mum’s care.

He never forgot me! Every time I went back to mum’s house, he would greet me with his special barking and wagging tail. He did it excitedly in the same way as when I was still in Indonesia, when I came back from work, requested me to play with him or took him for a walk.

He left us last year while Indonesian was celebrating 63rd Independence Day.

This year when I went back to Indonesia, there was no more greeting from him. Deep in my heart, I still can feel the loss! May He rest in peace.

Meeting My Good Friend & Family

2009-08-13T23:44:00.004+08:00

Though we were at the same senior high school, I was in morning class and he was in afternoon class, we only got to know each other when we secured a place in the same major, Industrial Engineering and Management Science at a local government university, University of North Sumatra, Indonesia. Since then we are good friends. We had quite a few group assignments done together and always helped each other during our University days.

After graduated, both of us were pretty busy with our work. He is in the banking industry and I was in the manufacturing company. We hardly see each other anymore especially when he moved to another city, but we still keep in touch once in a while through SMS or email.

Past few days he was in KL with his father and younger brother. They were here for holiday, trying to help his father to cope with loss of the loved one. They just lost their mum to cancer early this year. I hope time will heal the grief though it may never completely disappear.

While they were here, we took the opportunity to have a meeting and dinner together before they left for Singapore today. I went with the kids and father-in-law; hubby was in Penang and just came back this evening.

It has been more than three years since our previous meeting which was in KL too. At that time, I was pregnant with my girl and now she has been 3. Time really flies!

To: Jansen & family. Have a nice and safe trip! Glad to see you and your family again.

Confirmation of Primary School Registration 2010

2009-07-22T05:34:00.004+08:00

Finally we received a letter which stated Teng Hong is accepted at the Chinese Primary School where we registered him March last year and we have to confirm his registration within 20th July and 20th August 2009, otherwise the placement may be cancelled.

For the confirmation we need to bring:

Original child’s birth certificate
Letter from “Jabatan Pelajaran Wilayah Persekutuan KL”
A properly completed Form.

Teng Hong was so excited when he heard about it and could not wait to attend his 7 year old school, as what he always says. :)

Related post: Primary School Registration 2008

A Best Friend’s Visit

2009-07-09T17:42:00.029+08:00

I was so excited this past weekend. My best friend since I was six, Siek Hui was coming for holiday. She was here with her family, her sister and brother in law; they were on their way back from Penang to Padang, her sister and brother in law were on their way back to Medan. It has been a year since her husband underwent a procedure to insert a ring into his artery at Penang; two of his heart blood vessels are partially blocked. At this visit he went back to the doctor for annual check up and glad to know that the result is good.

Teng Hong and Xin Yi had been so excited a few weeks before their arrival. They were looking forward to playing with Alvin (Siek Hui’s son). As soon as they met, Teng Hong couldn’t wait to play with Alvin’s Nintendo DS, and later he exchanged his Sony PSP with Alvin's DS whenever they met. Kids being kids :)

They arrived at KL last Friday, soon after they checked in and had their lunch, we went to KLCC by train. Since they stayed at Cititel Mid Valley, it took only a few minutes to walk to the Komuter train station which is located just opposite to Megamall Mid Valley. We stopped at KL Sentral station and then continued the journey with Putra train to KLCC. We took the kids to the KLCC pool, but they were so disappointed to find out that the pool was closed due to some upgrading work!

Later I took them to Dinotrek at PetroSains while the mummies were busy shopping. The kids played happily in the Dinotrek for two hours. There are: Dino Chase, Dino Dance, Dino Dig, Dino Puzzle, Dino Feed, etc. With only RM 3 for children (5 – 12 years) and RM 6 for above 12 years, it really worth to let the children learn something about dinosaurs and have fun there!

Around 5.30pm we left KLCC by Putra train. It was so packed; we could only get to KL Sentral station. At Komuter train station we have to give up our tickets, we couldn’t get into the train after waited for so long, so we decided to take a Cab but none was available at this “after office hour”. At last we went back by bus after waited for some time, sigh!

Arrived at Megamall Mid Valley, hubby and father in law already there waiting for us to have dinner. :)

On Saturday, instead of going to Genting Highland as plan, we went to Desa Water Park for water blast. There are many pools there but they only had fun at Shock Wave pool (with waves as high as 1.5 meters), Surf Shark pool (children’s water playground), Action River (a river stream which is 1200meters long) and Water Factory (with machine which enables you to shoot water). Their main attraction Thunder Bolt, the longest and the first gravity-defying water coaster in Asia is too dangerous for the small kids to ride.

We left Desa Water Park around 3.30pm after having fun there for almost four hours. I sent them back to Megamall Mid Valley to do their shopping before I went back to pick them up at night, for dinner at Bangsar Village. Finally after dinner, it’s time for us to say good bye as they would leave KL the next day.

I miss you, my dearest friend. It’s great to catch up with you and your family!

Related post:

My Old Best Friend

During Her Stay in Kuala Lumpur

Teng Hong's 2009 First Semester Assessment Report

2009-06-30T23:59:00.001+08:00

After three weeks of waiting, finally the assessment report was handed out to mummy at a teacher-parent meeting last week.

The test results are as follows:

English : 100%
Bahasa Malaysia : 99%
Chinese : 93%
Numbers : 70%

Teng Hong was quite corporative with mummy in doing revision for his first semester written assessment.

Though his numbers’ test is a bit below mummy’s expectation, mummy and daddy feel quite satisfied with his test results. According to his teacher, he was playing with his pencil and day dreaming while doing the numbers’ test. Later when it’s time up, he simply wrote the answers! That’s explained why he only scored 70% for that paper.

For skills which include gross motor skills, fine motor skills, work habits, social emotional skills and language skills, he is getting improvement and some of them are satisfied.

Teachers’ feedback: he has short attention span, can’t focus or concentrate in lessons (especially those he is not interested) and messy place (books and accessories are everywhere under his table).

Ah, this is my boy!

Mass Birthday Picnic at TTDI Park

2009-06-21T23:16:00.014+08:00

This morning a group of June babies celebrated their birthday at Taman Tun Dr Ismail Park, Kuala Lumpur. There were thirteen kids in total and Xin Yi was among them. Located near the shallow stream, they did not only celebrate their birthday which was organized by demoments, but had fun playing water & sand as well.

It was indeed a perfect morning for family picnic! At first mummy was a bit worry when there was heavy rain in the morning just a day before, but thanks God, the mass birthday picnic turned out to be a wonderful event!

Happy Birthday to all June Babies!

Yummy Birthday Cake with mini flags bearing the names of the June Babies

No lighter! The kids had to pretend to blow out the candles, hehe...

Having fun playing water & sand in the shallow stream

Planting mustard seed, provided by Liz

with some of the mommies & kids

She is 3

2009-06-17T17:20:00.010+08:00

Happy 3rd Birthday to you, my little princess!

Hard to believe but my baby girl turned 3 yesterday. Time really flies. It seems like just yesterday when she did entirely depend on me. Now, she has grown into an adorable little girl who is very talkative and helpful at times. She never fails to show me her intelligence and really fascinated me at the time she uses up to ten words in a sentence. She is only 3!

The only complaint I have is “her eating habit”. Just imagine, other than junk food, it takes her 1 hour or more to finish ½ bowl of rice. Any idea how to make her eat faster?

Last night we celebrated her birthday with immediate family at Chatter Box Restaurant, Bangsar Village. It’s indeed a Happy Birthday for her!

Xin Yi with kor-kor and all her jie-jies

Xin Yi with her birthday pressies

Apart from the above celebration, we will bring her for a Mass Birthday Picnic with a group of June Babies at TTDI Park this coming Sunday.

Six-Monthly Dental Check-Up (13th June 2009)

2009-06-14T06:19:00.002+08:00

Yesterday the whole family had six-monthly dental check-up at Dr. Ng clinic, Subang Jaya.

Teng Hong is not scared anymore; he was the first one to get his teeth checked. Dr. Ng managed to fill up the cavity at his lower left secondary primary molar and as usual Dr. Ng gave him some stickers as a reward. By now all his first molar teeth have erupted which means we have to take extra care of his new permanent teeth. We don’t want him to get any cavity for those new teeth; the past bad experience has made him suffer so much!

Xin Yi was the next one to get her teeth checked. She gave us a surprise; without calling her, she climbed onto the dental chair by herself and opened wide her mouth to let Dr. Ng check and brush her teeth. Dr. Ng only managed to brush her lower teeth; she refused her to brush the upper part. However, that’s a good improvement. At the last visit, she even refused to sit at the dental chair!

After that was mummy’s turn and as usual, mummy only needed some scaling.

This time daddy decided to make dentures after a few years ignoring it. He accepted what Dr. Ng advised and recommended him and for this he needs to go back again next week.

Related post: Routine Dental Check-Up (4th December 2008)

Dinner @Pasta Zanmai, Mid Valley

2009-06-10T23:52:00.012+08:00

Today after shopping around and let the kids played for an hour at Jusco Smart Wonderland, Megamall, Mid Valley, we had our early dinner at Pasta Zanmai, a Japanese Casual Pasta Restaurant. We never been to this restaurant; mummy who had no idea about the food just followed and let daddy choose the order.

Here are what we had:

Unagi Kabayaki to Onsen Tamago (Roasted Eel & Hot Spring Egg with Kabayaki Sauce), RM 19.00

Ebi Tempura no Gomadare Shitate (Prawn Tempura Pasta with Sesame Sauce), RM 29.00

Garlic Rice, RM 8.00

Ice Fruit Tea (Jug), RM 16.00

The kids liked the Ice Fruit Tea very much; they had it more than the main dishes. They didn’t really like the pasta and rice, they only ate the prawn, roasted eel and miso soup.

Mummy who was actually not in the mood to eat Japanese food would say it’s YUMMY! Just imagine mummy could finish the garlic rice, miso soup, the delicious salad and the kids’ portion (Prawn tempura pasta). As for daddy the taste was pretty good except the sesame taste which was a bit too strong for him. He ordered another bowl of garlic rice for himself after "income tax" a bit from mummy. :D

Location:

Lot F-051, First Floor,
Mid Valley Megamall,
Mid Valley City,
Lingkaran Syed Putra,
59200 Kuala Lumpur

Tel: 603-2283 2160

A New Baby @ His Eighty One

2009-06-02T23:29:00.004+08:00

After consider it for quite sometime, finally father-in-law got a new baby for himself, a Perodua VIVA. It’s a handy car to drive around in town.

At his eighty one, FIL still can take care of his baby very well. It is now 10 days old and he likes it very much. According to him, it’s very lively!

That’s My Boy

2009-05-27T06:20:00.012+08:00

Teng Hong turned 5½ years old on 23rd May 2009. He is getting more independent and more “mature” by the day. He always makes sure mummy feels happy and loves him. Almost every morning he wants mummy to lullaby him like a baby before he really gets out of his bed.

Since July last year, he has been interested in Ultraman. He has about 20 Ultraman DVDs and more than 40 Ultraman toys. Last Saturday he got another toy from daddy, the Ultraman Agul.

Beside Ultraman, he also likes Transformers. Daddy bought him a few Transformers since April last year but he started to get interested in it since his 5th birthday (November) when daddy bought him the TRANSFORMERS Nemesis Prime. Later there are few transformers, like: Bumble Bee, Optimus Prime, Cybertron, Star Scream, etc added to his collection.

Boys will be boys after all; he becomes the Ben 10 fans soon after being introduced by my friend’s son who came to visit us. Since then he has quite a lot of Ben 10 accessories, like: comics, DVDs, stickers, watch, omnitrix, pencils, pencil case, school bags and shirts which has become his school uniform. *wink*

He also made daddy bought him a Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable) early this year. We didn’t buy him a Game Boy which he looked forward to having it as his birthday present last year.

See, how lucky he is! Sometimes mummy just thinks whether he is spoiled or not.

Mummy enrolled him in Taekwondo class November last year. The main purpose is for him to mix around and exercise. At first he couldn’t pay attention during the practice; he would just look around or play. Lately after six months joined the class, mummy observes that he has better focus on the practice.

Last Saturday while running (part of the Taekwondo class) he had a fall and knocked the back of his head on the ground. Luckily it was not serious!

On 22nd April 2009, he just had a great fall while playing Gym ball at his kindie and as a result the back of his head was swollen as big as half of a “marble”. The principal called and told mummy about that incident. When mummy went to the kindie to see him, he cried out loud and mummy was shocked to see the big bum. He never got such a big bum on his head before. Later after the school outing to Domino Pizza which he insisted to go, mummy took him to check with his pediatrician. After looked at his head and checked his knee jerk reflex, doctor said there should be no problem but we had to monitor him for 24 - 48 hours. If there is pale, vomiting or drowsiness then we have to get back to her or go to hospital directly.

We were glad that he was fine and the swollen was disappeared in about one week.

In the sense of direction, he is excellent! Last two weeks while on the way to “Aman Suria”, he suddenly asked mummy if we are going to the “Hot Air Balloon” place. Mummy then recalled that we ever been there last year for a “Hot Air Balloon ride” at Dijaya sales night. See, we only passed that road once and he can remember it well! There are a lot of other places that he can tell us well.

Early this month, mummy just discovered that his lower first molar teeth have erupted; the right tooth has emerged more than the left one. Last week the upper first molar teeth have erupted as well. He is only 5.5 years old; still doesn’t know how to brush his teeth properly, sigh!

At kindie, according to some of his teachers’ feedbacks, he can’t focus or concentrate in lessons and that has caused him can’t do well in some of his work!

After received that message and talked to some of his teachers, we talked to him, encouraged and tried to coach him more on his school work at home. Now his concentration has improved a bit but we still need to encourage him on this matter. This week he is having First Semester written assessment for English, Numbers, Chinese including Han Yi Pin Yin and Bahasa Malaysia, we do hope that he will concentrate and do well on his tests!

A Fun Day for the Kids

2009-05-17T23:59:00.011+08:00

After no family outing for more than a week because the kids were sick, finally we took them out for having fun yesterday. We went to Tropicana City Mall at PJ and it turned out to be a happy day for them!

They played at some coin-operated kiddy rides, read some story books and comics at Borders, had their favorite ice cream, played at Toys”R”Us and bounced at the Bouncy Castles. The last one was the most excited for them; they bounced and bounced until their bodies were up and down.

High Fever Attack

2009-05-07T23:57:00.002+08:00

Teng Hong started fever on Wednesday morning; he woke up at 6am with mild fever. After took medicine he went back to sleep, his fever then subsided and he attended his kindie as usual.
Back from kindie he was fine until late at the night, his body temperature suddenly climbed up to 39.4C. I quickly inserted a suppository into his rectum, the temperature stopped going up but it took about an hour to subside. I then kept on measuring his temperature every hour and was shocked to see the reading was 39.8C. It was about 6 hours after the suppository! I quickly gave him Paracetamol and sponged bath him with a big towel. He felt better as the temperature started to drop.

This morning I took him to a doctor, who confirmed that he got a bad sore throat besides flu and for this, he needs to take antibiotic, sigh!

The same thing happened to his little sister, Xin Yi. She started to have fever this morning, also cause by sore throat but not as serious as his brother. Though I get the antibiotic from the doctor, I haven’t started the course for her, try to wait and see for another one or two days.

Until now both of them still have fever off and on. I hope they will get well soon after the medication!

My New Skin Care Line

2009-05-06T02:57:00.010+08:00

Last December while people were busy shopping for Christmas gifts, I was busy searching new skin care products for myself. The Lancome Pure Focus skin care products which I have used for years have been discontinued and this has made me think of switching to another brand.

After read some product reviews, heard some advice from friends and skin care consultants finally I decided to try this brand, Beaute de Kose.

I have been using these products for four months now and I am happy they are suitable for me.

Last Tuesday when Kose had promotion at Megamall's Centre Court, Mid Valley, I purchased another bottle of Sekkisei Lotion and Emulsion. I also purchased the RM30 Kose voucher which enables me to get a door gift Kose Pore Serum 30ml worth RM152 and a photo shoot by photographer with a minimum purchase of RM150 include the RM30 voucher. Isn’t it worth?

She never wants to pose for me and this is her first time :)

Having her hair done for a shoot

Her first make up experience!

A Visitor in the Night

2009-04-27T23:59:00.003+08:00

Monday, 20th April 2009

It was about 3.30am when hubby yelled at me while I was in my beauty sleep, asking me to switch on the light! I was a bit shocked and quickly on the light; I saw him trying to trap something with his blanket. It was a centipede, about two inches in length.

Without thinking much, I passed an air-conditioner remote control, the nearest thing I could get to hubby and while he was pressing on the centipede with the remote control, I then got an envelope for him to put it in so I could take it out from the bedroom.

Luckily hubby woke up when he felt something’s crawling on him and managed to catch it. I just could not imagine how if the centipede runs away, crawls on the kids and bites them.

Thanks God it’s not happened!

This has made me recall the incident happened more than ten years ago! A big centipede crawled on me and bit my hand while I was sleeping, caused pain and swelling. I woke up because of the pain and could feel the centipede crawled away from my body. The movement was very fast, I can still remember the feeling of those legs until now. The worst I could not manage to catch it at that time and I had to stay awake the rest of that night trying to find it.

That explained how scared I am of this creature!

Learn to Read

2009-04-21T22:45:00.005+08:00

Teng Hong has been able to read books with few and simple words before he turned five. Mummy introduced him some books like: “Peter and Jane”, “Odonata Chinese books” and “Disney’s Mickey Mouse Clubhouse”. Though he’s still not able to read some of the words, he shows good progress in learning to read and from there later he gets interested in reading comics. Every time we go to shopping he will ask us to bring him to the bookstore. The first comic we bought for him was Doraemon (Chinese version). Of course he is still not able to read the sentences completely; most of the time he will only browse the pictures. It’s so difficult to find a suitable comic for him.

Lately he likes to read from the computer. Everyday after school, he will go to starfall.com to learn to read from the site.

Starfall.com is a free website where children can have fun learning to read in English! Mummy’s friend Angela introduced this site last year. It started from ABC’s till I’m Reading and there are many more to learn, like: calendar, color, counting, shape, etc.

Xin Yi who is going to turn three this coming June also joins the kor-kor to learn. She learns the ABCs and likes to have fun with some other programs, like Snowman and Gingerbread man. Now she is able to control the computer’s mouse; she knows how to point, click or drag the objects and this has made her getting more interested in exploring the site.

For those with children who are learning to read, it’s worth to visit Starfall.

This is not a paid post! Just want to share ...

Simple Healthy Salad

2009-04-13T01:16:00.004+08:00

Yesterday, as usual, we had our outing at shopping mall. We had our breakfast at the food court then let the kids played at the play land and toy shop for a while before proceeded to do our shopping.

After spent some time at MPH bookstore we then went to Carrefour (in the shopping mall) because mummy needed to check on something there. It’s quite crowded and there were many promoters introduced the food products. We tried a few samples and were surprised when our boy who never liked vegetables said that he liked to eat the salad, he even asked the promoter to give him some more.

At the end we went home with lettuce, cherry tomatoes plus Thousand Island dressing and had our salad party!

It’s the first time our boy wished to eat vegetables. How we wish he can do that everyday :)

We’re Back

2009-04-01T23:54:00.005+08:00

We just returned from mummy’s hometown, Medan a few days ago. It’s a two-week trip and we all enjoyed it very much. This time, we managed to visit “Danau Toba” (Lake Toba) and “Pantai Cermin”. They’re worth to visit; the kids were so happy playing in the water. Will blog about the trip later.

Lake Toba

Pantai Cermin

FIL’s not feeling well

2009-03-03T23:21:00.003+08:00

Father-in-law has been sick for over two weeks. At first he had cough with horrible phlegm, he visited doctors twice (different clinics) but after two courses of medicines finished he still had the horrible phlegm. He couldn’t stand it anymore; a relative advised him to get antibiotic from doctor.

A few days after he started the antibiotic course he’s recovered. He then went to McD for breakfast with friends but unfortunately after the breakfast he experienced uncomfortable feeling in his stomach and also felt giddy. We gave him medicine to expel wind, but it didn’t work. He lost his appetite but still could eat his meals. Two days later his condition went worse, he couldn’t take his meal and kept complaining that he felt giddy and uncomfortable. He visited two doctors and a sinshe (Chinese traditional physician) in three days but the uncomfortable feeling in his stomach grew even worse. We then took him to a 24 hours clinic at Sunday night; doctor said that he got indigestion and stomach wind. After took the medicines which are mainly for relieving gas, he felt better but till now the problem will still come back in every few hours especially in the morning.

This afternoon he even vomited and got heartburn.

Father-in-law worries that something might grow inside his stomach or something wrong with his heart, so he insisted to go to government hospital for a check-up. There he had the ECG’s test which showed that the heart is ok. The doctor said that he probably got mild food poisoning. He then was given some medicines for giddiness, prevent vomiting, paracetamol and multivitamin. We just hope that he will get well soon. It’s quite suffered for an 81 year old!

Xin Yi @ 32 months

2009-02-23T23:07:00.003+08:00

Xin Yi turned 32 months a week ago. Mummy can notice that she’s growing more mature, bigger and taller. She outgrew a lot of her sweet clothing recently!

@ 32 months:

Her growth:

Weight: 13.5kg
Height: 95cm

Her diet:

Milk, 2-3x daily, 150 to 200ml per feed. Since last November she has been willing to take the morning milk again. Mummy manages to feed her at least 350ml milk per day.
Solid food, 3x daily, loves cheese very much, can take 2 or 3 slices a day if mummy doesn’t stop her.

Her development:

Till now she can recognize about 9 colors, her favorite color is blue. She will choose blue bowl, blue cup, blue shirt, etc.
No longer use bottle since few months ago but mummy has to do extra work to feed her milk using spoon. It takes her about 20–30 minutes to finish 200ml of milk.
Likes to make excuse when we ask her to share her favorite food with others.
Started to learn abc from starfall.com, but most of the time she is interested in the pictures only. She still doesn’t know how to control the computer’s mouse, she will lift up the mouse and point it to the screen when mummy asked her to point (move the mouse’s pointer) to the letter, hehe...
In language wise, she can talk almost as well as her brother when he was four and a half year old.
Likes to use scissor to cut paper into small pieces, good thing she cut them into a bowl and later throw them into the dust bin by herself, so mummy doesn’t need to clean up the mess :)
Loves to arrange puzzles; can arrange 12 pieces puzzle
Still hates to wash hair, always refuse to have her hair cut
Her favorite cartoon character is Mickey Mouse, she won’t wear skirt or dress unless there is Mickey Mouse picture on it.
Lately she likes to bite things, such as: table cloth, pillow, bolster, toys, plastic cover, etc.
Still likes to do stunts, now she even stands or crawls on the sofa’s back rest (if the back rest is being pressed, the sofa’s cushion can slide down when nobody sit on it and make her fall). At the last Chinese New Year reunion dinner, she had a fall while standing and leaning on the chair’s back rest. It happened when mummy and daddy were busy chatting with the relatives.
Not so scared of people anymore.

To read previous development: Xin Yi Turns 28 months

Cheap Air Tickets

2009-02-17T02:27:00.004+08:00

I was so excited last week; tried to grab some cheap tickets to go back to my hometown (Medan) and I was so lucky to get the return tickets from Malaysia Airlines for me and my two kids at RM441 only (normal price will be RM2k+), also from Airasia at RM 294 only (normal price will be RM800+). Malaysia airlines offers RM1 fares (base) and Airasia offers free seats for different travel period, so I grabbed both of them, greedy, greedy, greedy, hehehe…

And now I am so excited, I’m going to meet my family and friends again. See you soon, my dear!

Had Great Fun in Coloring Contest

2009-02-08T03:06:00.007+08:00

In conjunction with the Chinese New Year Open House, Hong Leong Bank (Sri Petaling branch) organized a coloring contest for kids aged between 4 – 12 years old yesterday. Besides coloring, they also had the Sand Art activity for the kids and free manicure for the mummies.

This was the first time Teng Hong took part in a coloring contest. He was very excited and finished the coloring in only about 30 minutes. Mummy was so surprised because normally he did his work very slow.

Here is the result … nice or not? Kekeke …

Though he didn’t win the contest, he had a great fun in the colouring contest and enjoyed himself in the Sand Art. His little sister, Xin Yi also enjoyed doing the Sand Art.

Our Chinese New Year Celebration

2009-01-31T23:50:00.007+08:00

Reunion Dinner (24th January 2009)

Started a few years back we celebrated our reunion dinner with my late MIL’s sister, brothers and their families. All together, there are about 40 persons.

This year we had it at La La Chong Seafood Restaurant. Same as last year, we purposely celebrated it earlier to avoid restaurant nightmares, where most of the restaurants will be fully reserved for a few rounds at the Chinese New Year’s Eve. The customers are then requested to finish their dinner in the given time.

We had yee sang, la la (clams), prawns, chickens, crabs, tofu and vegetables. The food was pretty good especially the la la (clams) and crabs which are my favorite food.

We enjoy the dinner and had a great reunion!

Chinese New Year decorations @ The Garden, Mid Valley, KL

First Day of Chinese New Year (26th January 2009)

Every year, on the first day of Chinese New Year our house would be full with relatives. This year, there were more than 60 relatives visiting us. Just imagine how busy we were on that day!

FIL was very happy to see all the relatives; he is the eldest among them.

Though it was very exhausted, we had a happy and excited Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year

2009-01-23T01:00:00.009+08:00

Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is one of the most important traditional Chinese holidays. This year it falls on 26th January 2009. Now it’s just another 3 days to go.

So far I have done spring cleaning and all my Chinese New Year shopping but there are still some corners needed to be arranged and prawn crackers (food that most people love) to be fried. Hopefully I can get all ready before the Chinese New Year’s Eve.

Chinese New Year decorations @ Megamall, Mid Valley, KL

Here I am wishing everyone

a very Happy Chinese New Year of the OX 2009!

May the year of the Ox bring you good health, happiness and prosperity.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Myspace Chinese New year Graphics

My “Stunt Girl”

2009-01-18T03:40:00.006+08:00

Nowadays my girl likes to crawl on the sofa’s back rest; sometimes she will stand high up there. No matter how many times I told her that it’s very dangerous, she will do it again and again, sigh!

Here are the pictures I managed to snap while she’s performing the “stunts”. I wonder where she learnt all these “stunts” as I know her brother never did it.

Yesterday when I took her to a nearby store, she had a fall from the car. It started when I carried her out from the car but she insisted to do it all by herself (this was not the first time), so she went in the car again, closed the car’s door and then opened it again but out of a sudden she lose balance and fell to the ground (a tar road) with her head down first. She got a knock at the forehead and sand was around her lips. Poor little girl cried for a short while and then forgets about it!

Pots and Pans!

2009-01-11T22:59:00.003+08:00

My father-in-law still enjoys cooking very much at 81. In fact, he cooks almost everyday. He told us story about his younger days that he did all daily marketing chores during his early teen years and how he “overcharged” some of the items so that he could go for movies during the weekends. :)

Beside cooking, father-in-law also likes to buy cooking utensils. Don’t be surprise the moment you step into our kitchen, you can simply see woks, pots and pans everywhere. I think there are more than twenty in different sizes, from cast iron to stainless steel!

I bet that he will be the next customer if he sees this online shop which sells a wide range of kitchen and dining products.

First Day at New Preschool

2009-01-05T23:55:00.012+08:00

After our last minute shopping yesterday, finally Teng Hong was ready to go back to school. Yeah, this new preschool briefed us on what to bring to school. Beside the common items like: school bag, pencils, color pencils, eraser, glue, scissors, and water tumbler, the students also need to bring wet tissue and dry hand towel, water color paint brush-flat tip about 1 cm in width and a black White Board marker pen Artline 500.

Teng Hong was so excited since a few days before school opening. He was even more excited when he saw his new school bag which was sent by Aunty Junko all the way from Japan. He kept asking mummy whether he can bring that bag to school or not? Yup, of course he can, but he has to promise to take good care of it since he had spoilt at least 3 school bags last year (all were spoilt at the zip).

This year Teng Hong is going to another preschool. Mummy decided to move him to this preschool with the hope he could get some improvement in character building.

This morning he woke up early and asked mummy to help him get ready to school. He was so excited. Arrived at school, with confident steps he walked to the lift which will take him to his class, but all of a sudden, he changed when he saw a male teacher near the lift. He refused to go into the lift; instead he walked up the stairs, sigh! Yeah, this little boy has been scared of men since he was a baby; mummy also doesn’t know why? He is only not scared of his daddy and grandpa!

Mummy took him to the class and stayed with him for about 10 minutes, after convinced him that everything would be alright and talked to his teacher (a lady), mummy then left. Later when mummy returned to pick him up from school, he looked so happy and told us that he likes his new preschool!

Phew! What a relief!

New Year Celebration

2009-01-01T18:51:00.004+08:00

We had a wonderful New Year celebration this year. The whole family (except sister in law’s husband who is on business trip) gathered together, had brunch / lunch and chatted for a few hours.

The children were so happy. They had fun running around the garden, taking some pictures, playing hide and seek and some other games.

Do you know where this place is?

New Year, New Look!

2009-01-01T02:51:00.007+08:00

The Year 2009 is finally here! People all over the world celebrate it with hope and enthusiasm. With great joy they bid farewell to the old year and welcome the New Year! You can see fireworks and count down at certain places in the world.

A New Year,
A New Start,
A New Chapter,
A New Beginning and
A New Look for me!

Yes, some people tend to have new look for a New Year. How about you? If you are one of them, you can consider to visit Zenni Optical to get a new glasses for a new look! This online eyeglasses shop offers a great selection of affordable & stylish Holiday frames; you can see one of them at the below picture, which is my favorite pair of frames.

Start from as low as $ 8 you can get a Complete Rx Eyeglasses, isn’t it a great offer? There are so many $ 8 Complete Rx Eyeglasses for you to choose, beside the Holiday frames, they also have other types of frames, such as: Variable Dimensions frames, Children’s frames, Bifocal / Progressive frames, etc.

Do visit Zenni Optical today. I am sure you will look good and feel great in your new glasses! Have a Blessed New Year!

A Call from Our ex-Maid

2009-01-01T01:35:00.006+08:00

It has been eleven months since our ex-maid Sikar went back to Indonesia and since then we didn’t engage a new maid anymore. So far we don’t have any problem and can cope well without a maid. Keep our fingers crossed!

Last two night our ex-maid called us; this was not the first time she called us after she went back to Indonesia but the sixth I think. Yeah, once in a while she likes to call us, not to ask for a job but just to say hello, ask about the kids, talk to my father in law or update us on her news. Sometimes we will call her too.

This time she had a good news for us, just before the new year arrived; she just gave birth to a baby girl last Friday. We are so happy for her! Last time when she helped us to take care of our baby girl, Xin Yi; she always said that she wishes to have a baby girl if she has chance to get pregnant again! Her only child at that time (boy) has been twelve years old already.

The mother (our ex-maid) is doing great but the baby is premature, she weighed about 1.5kg only, other than that baby is in good condition. According to her, baby can latch on well. So we just hope that baby will be alright and grow well!

Congratulations to her and the family!

Ceiva Digitial Photo Frames

2008-12-31T23:42:00.006+08:00

Have you heard of Ceiva Digital Photo Frame? Visit their website and learn more about their digital photo frames.

Digital photo frames enable users to receive and show their digital photos in a more convenient way. With Ceiva Digital Photo Frame, one can automatically receive photos sent to the “Frame” from anywhere easily via the phone or email sent directly from a camera phone or a computer.

Ceiva Digital Photo Frame has a Picture Plan feature which automatically display new photos sent from friends and family anywhere around the world without having to do anything further. It has a feature that I like most; the photos can be customized or personalized by adding messages or titles.

Ceiva Digital Photo Frame is also suitable for commercial purposes. It is a powerful tool that shows the pictures of your products and services in endless slideshow. It is perfect for real estate companies, restaurants, car dealers, doctors, dentists, optometrists, or anyone with products or services that are worth showing off.

To know more, please visit Ceiva Digital Photo Frame website today.

As for me, I am going to let my dear hubby know about this “Frame”; Ceiva Digital Photo Frame might just be my next birthday present.

During the Holiday Season!

2008-12-31T02:36:00.012+08:00

Hubby has been off from work since last Saturday in order to clear his annual leave, but I notice he still needs to work from home at times. So far we don’t have any plan to go for holiday. In fact, how I wish I could go back to my hometown to spend some time with my mum, my brother & family, but you know the last minute airfare is killing. So what to do?

We can only hop from one shopping mall to another, try to grab some good bargains during year end sale and bring the kids to see the Christmas decorations as well. Although we didn’t celebrate Christmas, to share the joy we did get some presents for the kids too. They were of course very happy!

Here are some presents for Teng Hong: TRANSFORMERS Optimus Prime & Crocs Shoes from daddy & mummy, ULTRAMAN Tiga from May Yee Por and some notebooks & accessories from Ku Je.

As for Xin Yi, daddy & mummy bought her “Touch, Feel & Sing-Along Nursery Rhymes” books and pajama with Cinderella picture, while Ku Je bought her a small pouch and some hair clips.

Christmas is finally over and New Year is coming soon. Here I would like to take this opportunity to:

Wish you all a Happy 2009!

Great Service from EOE

2008-12-27T07:28:00.004+08:00

Remember my earlier post about EOE Online? I participated in their Blogger’s Review Program II and uploaded 50 of my family photos to be printed.

Finally the photos arrived at my doorstep 3 working days later. I was so excited and couldn’t wait to have a look at them. They were nicely inserted in the photo albums and the printing quality is really good. To be honest I feel very satisfied with their service. Thanks to EOE Online for the great service. It’s so easy and convenient! I would definitely recommend this site to others.

If you intend to process your digital photos from the comfort of your home, EOE Online would be the right place for you to visit and as they are having online print promotion now, 4R @ RM 0.30 and 5R @ RM 0.50. Hurry up before the promotion ends!

Merry Christmas 2008

2008-12-25T01:14:00.006+08:00

Christmas Glitter

Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas!
May the blessings of Christmas be with you today and always.

EOE Online Photo Printing

2008-12-20T07:51:00.007+08:00

I came across this site while I was blog hopping. It’s a home-grown Malaysian photo retail site and now they are having online print promotion, 4R @ RM0.30 and 5R @ RM0.50. Isn’t it a good deal?

After years never get my family photos printed, now I am so excited to try it out at EOE Online. It’s so easy; just upload your photos and they will print and deliver them back to you. For orders above RM35 they even offer free delivery!

EOE Online is currently running a Blogger’s Reviews II contest. You can do a review on EOE Online and get 50 4R photo prints for FREE! You will also stand a chance to win a grand price Olympus E-520 kit with a 14-42mm lens worth RM2499.00.

Interested? Do log on to EOE Online today!

Holiday Glass Frames from Zenni Optical

2008-12-18T02:50:00.002+08:00

The Holiday Season is here! Let the Holiday Glass Frames from Zenni Optical be on your Christmas Wish List! This popular online eyeglasses shop offers a great selection of affordable & stylish holiday glass frames; you can see one of them at the above picture.

There are so many $ 8 Complete Rx Eyeglasses for you to choose. Do check out their website for more information.

Christmas Decorations @ Shopping Malls in KL

2008-12-16T04:30:00.002+08:00

Christmas is round the corner, I like to see the elegant and creative Christmas decorations in shopping malls during this holiday season. They are well setup with various Christmas themes to entice shoppers.

Here are some of the Christmas decorations photos taken during our family outings.

Christmas Decoration @ The Curve
A serene and well planned fantasy garden which also features sculpted animal shapes like: elephant, bear, rabbit, squirrel, pony and reindeer.

Christmas Decoration @ Ikano
The white and blue Christmas trees, Santa’s village and snowman will greet you there.

Christmas Decoration @ 1 Utama
"The Magic of Christmas" with the glowing Christmas trees.

Christmas Decoration @ Megamall, Mid Valley

Christmas carnival with the theme “Twas the night before Christmas”, which tells about Billy and Jane who were hoping to see old Santa arriving with presents and toys.

@ Centre court:

@ North court:

Christmas Decoration @ Bangsar Village
The Gingerbread men

The Gingerbread House or Christmas Tree decoration contest

Christmas Decoration @ Bangsar Village II

This special Christmas tree was made from over 3000 empty plastic bottles.