First Love…never let it go

I felt so relieved that my Primary One daughter has completed her very first examination. We can let the textbooks take a rest for a lil while.

So far, she got back two of her exam papers and her result is very satisfying. She can do better without careless mistakes though but no one is perfect. When I was in school, I did a lot of careless mistakes too and this maybe part of the reasons I get very upset when my own daughter did the same thing.

I am telling myself to take it easy and she is only in Primary One. Let school be fun for her and never to pressure her but encourage her to excel.

I have stopped considering entering the workforce again.

After 1.5 years not needing to step into the office and more than half a year without any helper helping me with my household and kids, I got the hang of it and kinda loving my new “job”. Even if there is jobs in philly that offer very good remuneration, I will pass without thinking twice.

I find satisfaction and fulfillment when I see my children grows up right under my nose.

Yesterday was our ROM (registration of marriage) 9th anniversary and we totally forgotten about it. Hubby remembers though; a day after that. He told me this morning. If he does not, it won’t come across my mind at all.

I guess it is not a significant date for me to remember. Even though we were legally married since that day, we did not lead a married life until we are married before the Lord on May 12 in the same year.

Looking forward to the month of April and May. April; my No. 4 baby will be 1yo!

Hubby is so relieved that his preaching is over. Even though he has been preaching numerous time, he still feel the tense when it is time for him to preach again. His sermon this time was about Joseph. And I felt so kuncheong whenever he mentioned, “my wife” in his preaching. Dunno what he is going to reveal to the congregation about his wife!

As for me, my freedom is having to have my privacy again in my home coz MIL and her maid has left for KL yesterday. Freedom for me means not much free time to be online but I am free to do whatever I like and wear whatever I like at home. And most of all, no one interferes with the raising of my children. No Mak Mak and Kakak to run to when Mommy says, “No!”

Just now I make my face thick thick and send all my 4 children to my mom’s so that hubby and I have can a peaceful dinner. We went to Malim food court to enjoy hot steaming claypot Bak Kut Teh. We took our time to enjoy our food which we seldom get to do when dining with the children.

We had quite a show during lunch today. After church we brought the children to McD to enjoy some ice-cream. After ordering 2 Sundaes and 1 Sundae Cone, my son insisted that he wanted Sundae Cone and not Sundae. The cone was for my 2nd girl and she refused to share with him. After a good 15 minutes of crying out loud by my son, my 2nd girl finally gave in. It was quite a show.

Having a baby is very hazardous to my bank account. Even though I save money from buying disposable diapers and formula milk, I have to spend money on other things like my glasses! He loves grabbing my glasses and bend it. Due to it, my glasses have loosen and there is no way of tightening it coz there are crack at the screws that is holding my frameless glasses. The optometrist told me that new frameless glasses come with clips; no more screws and it won’t loosen too. I hope I will be able to discount prescription glasses when this glasses of mine really breaks.

Yup! Ashamed to admit that I am finally addicted to Facebook game; Farmville. Due to that, I hardly have time or lazy to spend time updating my blogs. It is fun to be able to plant, earn money, accept and send gifts, buy stuff like trucks, home, barn and truck accessories. But it won’t be for long coz MIL and the maid is leaving us this weekend. Meaning, I won’t have anyone to look after my 10mo baby while I glued myself to the computer. I’ll still play; addicted already mah. But I’ll choose the crops that takes 4 days to harvest.

Today is Valentine’s Day and for us, Chinese, today is also our Chinese New Year Day. We are celebrating the Year of the Tiger this year. The year I was born in 36 years ago or was it 24 years ago. I think it is the later.

Which ever celebration that you are going to celebrate, I would like to wish you Happiness Always and Always thank God for the people that He has placed in our hearts to love and cherish.

Happy Valentine’s Day
&
Gong Xi Fa Cai

I really thank God that he healed me just on time to celebrate Chinese New Year. Today, I gladly announce that I am completely healed. No more headache and no more sore-throat. I also got back my appetite last night. I ate a packet of Nasi Lemak topped with one hard-boiled egg and a piece of fried chicken. I will surely need the weight loss pills if my appetite continues to be this big. Furthermore, tonight we will start feasting till the 2nd night of Chinese New Year. We will start of with the reunion dinner, then steamboat or satay celup on the first night and BBQ on the 2nd night of Chinese New Year. Come join me!

Whenever I am awake when hubby returns home from work, I will request him to give me a foot massage and sometimes leg massage. Since a few months ago, when I am having my monthly period, I suffer joint pain too. No period cramp, no leg cramp but joint pain! I think this is due to me not following strictly the confinement do’s and dont’s. Too bad I can’t undo this. I can only make sure I keep my legs warm, eat more nutritious food and swallow the USANA supplements.

I am hook to this Enchanted movie clip since it started showing it’s preview on Disney Chanel. I watched the movie sometime ago but this song is so catchy. Besides that my 2nd girl started singing and humming to this song almost everyday. 2 days ago, while waiting for her teacher to arrive, all of the sudden she sang out loud “That’s how you know, that’s how you know, that’s you know he’s your love.” Only after that she realised that there were other people around her besides me. She started to blush

Now, as I am typing this out and reading the diet pill comparison article, I am listening to the song.

Today we were served with the most oily lunch ever! I can’t believe they let HER cook all our reunion dinner food last night. Nyonya food must be cooked by a Nyonya. No matter how good is a Chinese cook, they can never cook the Nyonya dishes like the Nyonya does.

The Pong Teh does not taste like Pong Teh at all; even my 6yo girl agrees to it! The Itik Tim lacks the sourish taste. The Sek Ak/Bak; I see the amount of oil floating in the bowl and the thick layer if fat on the pork, I don’t even dare to try. I am sure I would need the epiduo to prevent breakouts of I eat them. The Ayam Buah Keluak is way too oily plus other dishes also oily.

Our Indonesian maid cooks better Nyonya food that HER.

In 2 days time most loving couples in this world will be celebrating Valentine’s Day. For some this would be their first time meeting their Valentine. If you are one of them, I am sure you would want to look your best on this first date. What more on Valentine’s day! I am sure the ladies have started dieting and taking weight loss supplement so that they will look their best on this day. But also remember, no matter how good your look or how sexy your are, inner beauty surpasses all outward appearance.

My weight is still hovering at 45kg, plus minus 0.5kg. So far, breastfeeding is still the best weight loss pills for me. However, I don’t drink Milo as often as before, I eat lesser rice and I don’t take supper whenever possible. It is because, my baby is more on solid now and he is drinking lesser breastmilk now. So, I can’t be eating as much as before if I want to maintain this ideal weight.

We built a pangkin in between a durian tree and a rambutan tree last Chinese New Year and wrapped it with the rubber mat. It was the best outdoor furniture they ever built. Hubby slept on it when we gave our rooms away to his sister’s who are back from Australia and UK. I went to sleep at my mom’s with our children.

After the Chinese New Year, it was kind of abandoned and the dogs took over it and make it their bed! The puppies torn the rubber mat and it needs replacement if anyone plans to sleep on it this Chinese New Year.

At last we found the time to send my old junk for another repair. To change the coil that makes the timing very high. I hope there won’t be any major repair after this coz we need our cash to settle our business loan. And if God willing, hubby wants to buy a better car that we can use to travel outstation.

Is there any car insurance where you can claim any repair cost? Just like the life insurance. When we are hospitalized we can claim the hospitalization cost.

Yesterday, I went to hubby’s shop after sending my eldest girl to art class. Before leaving the shop, I asked hubby, “Where is my roses?” He answered casually, “Tomorrow, tomorrow. My roses not yet grow.” Oh! I get it, he is waiting for his plots of roses in his Farmville to grow. Duh!

Anyway, I waited. Better than no rose at all right? Unfortunately, I still did not receive any rose from hubby today. I think his water sprinkler broke down and his roses could not grow in time. And then arh, he did not buy the mechanical breakdown insurance and got no money to repair the water sprinkler.

In that case, I want a real rose!

921202.

That was the number that hubby’s used to write at the end of his love letter to me almost 2 decades ago. In 2 more years, we would have loved each other for 20 years!

I think he purposely chose 12th of February so that he can skip buying overpriced roses for me on Valentine’s day.

MIL’s maid really had a good life in KL; small house without huge compound to maintain and good food everyday. She is fatter now!

Two days ago, I bought her a blouse for Chinese New Year. It was M size but it was fitting for her. She them told me that she has put on weight. So I went to change it to L size; not fitting but I can see her bulging tummy! She has really put on weight!!! Must introduce weight loss products to her lar.

She told me that besides not much to be done in BIL’s house and eating a lot there, she is excited thinking that she is going home soon. Senang hati!

Only this Ma’am susah hati.

I love my Baby boy so much. Every time he smiles, I think I fall in love with him again and again. His smiles will melt everyone’s heart; seriously! Even hubby told him that if he is a girl and older (of course), he will definitely be attracted to him. I told him a million time that I want him to be my boyfriend.

I do not know what I did to get such a handsome and happy boy. Could it be the prenatal vitamins? Or the stimulation that he gets from his 3 siblings that laugh, giggles, scream and talk to him everyday when he was in my tummy?