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Daniel's 1st day in kindy

My darling boy entered kindy this year @ age 4

His last week orientation was bad...crying non-stop

But today is better...just a little hiccup

Morning wake up said "wanna go por por house"

Refused to change to his uniforms but at last he did after much mumblings from his mummy a.k.a. Me

Reach kindy and refused to step in

So, I led him to his classroom n tell him mummy need to go to work

He then cried super loud n one of the teacher Rata needs to carry n console him

The other class teacher is teacher Lee

Off I went back home n wait eagerly for his class to dismiss at 12pm

When I went to pick him up, he looks happy

Teacher Lee said Daniel is the only one crying today....but just for a while...

And guess what? Dunno which kid accidentally took Daniel's water tumble home.....muahahahahaha

All this sure happens once a while when u put 13kids together in a class

Looking forward to tomolo...2nd day of kindy!

the last day of Y2011

my last post was the first month of this year..and now it is the last month of the year...LOL

what have i been up to all this year?

travelled to taiwan for a short holiday with my parents and sis....need to go one more time as there are still many unvisited places there :)

as usual we have our spore trip to visit my grandma...this time we went by airplane which mean the kids had their first flight experience....

still working with pru...still learning at work..can u imagine that? insurance line is a never ending one...all cases are diff...but is is a nice learning experience till now...

me still a mother of two only...no sign of 3rd kid yet...hehehehehe...

daniel now age 3 years and 8 months...he started his kindy orientation day and he HATES it... no joke...how to make him accept the fact that he needs to go kindy starting next year???

annabelle now age 2 years and 6 months...she is at her "horrible two" age...always want things to follow her way.....

but they both remain to be most important to me...my darling daniel and sweetheart belle

oooh...and how about my hubby?
he left his job of 10 years at canon.... joined mitsui for 3 months and now working at sam mccoy..

and he is still my dear hubby
:)

HAPPY NEW YEAR to you, you and you!
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words from daniel

as a working mum, most of the we do not hv the privillege to be by our kids side when they hv their first smile, first word etc.....

and dunno since when, daniel's vocabulary has improved a lot.... thanks to the many repititive cartoons he watched on 613.....

and today, two new words from him is treasure & pickles... wonder if he understand the meaning of both words???

LIFE

i can still be considered a new staff at my current working place.... have not know each and every colleague of mine from the next door, PBA Dept....

one fine day, i hv the chance to bump into a colleague, J from PBA..... we hv a short chat.... she's a bubbly & friendly gal... a mum of one young bb..... she's one of our product trainer... flying all over m'sia to conduct trainings to agents but her specialization is training in mandarin....

the next day, just the very next day, her dept's colleague informed us that her hubby passed a way the nite before due to heart attack... he was only 35 yrs old.....

in just a matter of hours after we chat, who would know that her hubby will die just like that? no sign of heart attack before... he onli complained of chest pain on the nite he passed away...

it just flashed to our mind that all this could happen to anyone of us... no matter young or old... no matter married or non married.... no matter with kids or without kids....

it has been almost a month and we hv not seen J at work place.... she has lots of things to settle before she could really be back to work..... as all this just happened in a flash.. without any warning and preparation.....

may her hubby R.I.P. and may J continue to stay strong for herself and her bb gal.... still a long journey for them to carry on...... our heart goes to them....

potty training for daniel

this is the day, the first day which daniel knows when he wanna go "shee shee"... thx to MIL, daniel roughly knows when to alert us when he wanna pee...

at first, he informed mah mah every 15 minutes..... what makes he so co-operative??? it's becoz he gets to flush the toilet......but of course got a few times he totally forgot to inform us... he will then say "SAP SAI" (totally wet) while touching his wet pants.....

hope he still remembers what he need to do tomorrow, the days after etc...... it's time to get off from diapers

anyway, just wanna say to daniel: mummy so proud of you

layered agar-agar

i hv always been fascinated by agar-agar.... thanks to hubby's influence.... i tried out this layered agar-agar... but not before i searched online for the easiest recipe to follow.... on the actual day itself, i followed non of the recipes... instead i ventured on my own... as in determining the level of water, sugar etc..... the result: 50% ok

coz i did two trays of it.... onli one survived... LOL.... which means onli one turned out good... the other one was "rosak"...... as in not presentable as the layers did not stick to each other....

the good one, we gave to nearby friends and relatives.... the bad one, into our own stomach of course....

here's the recipe for my own record... not a good one... will try to improvise it soon

** i used the normal swallow brand agar2 powder **

ingredients:
(A)
one packet of red agar2 powder
900ml water
100gm of sugar

(B)
one packet of yellow agar2 powder
900ml water
100gm of sugar

(C)
one packet of green agar2 powder
900ml water
100gm of sugar

(D)
two packets of clear color agar2
400ml of coconut milk powder
1400ml water
3 pandan leaves
1/2 tsp salt

method:

1) cook (A) pour evenly into two different trays

2) cook (D). Once the (A) has harden a bit, measure about 600ml of (D) and pour evenly into the two trays. If (A) is too hard, lightly scratch it with a fork to form some "holes/ lines" so that (D) can stick onto it. The remaining of (D) to be keep in the pot and keep warm with a small flame

3) cook (B) then layered with (D) and repeat this step for (C)

** if got some leftover agar2, put it into those pattern mould, turns out nice as well **

TIPS:
this recipe is a bit time consuming compare to the normal agar2.for it to be succesful, must be really patience. preferably, the layered agar2 be cool off first before refrigerate it in the fridge for about 3 hours and finally be cut as u like.....

visit from a dear fren....

soon to be mrs lee came for a visit today.... yup.. she's here to give me the invitation card to her wedding dinner this december 26th....

we chatted so much... work... daily life... her wedding preparations..... her life as a soon to be wife, daughter in law and mother(in a couple of years as she wish).......

she is one dear fren whom i miss seeing and chatting with....

got to know her when i was still at tdm... we were both in the same section... just the two of us... two newly joined taking over the section when our senior was transferred to another dept... we both managed to survive with the guidance of our ex-boss... and ex-colleagues....

after she(and many others) left, we seldom get to meet-up as all of us are busy busy with our work & life...

but friends remain in our heart... we need not meet and chat every single day... the most important thing is we know we have a friend to rely on when we most needed them :)

here i wish here a blissful life ahead with her hubby & her new family....

annabelle @ 17 months old

my girl girl is no longer a baby... a toddler now.... a very stubborn little girl who always want us to give in to her request...

who usually gives in to her? not me definitely....

currently belle have a very bad habit which is comes dinner time, she will not want to chew her food but instead keep it in her mouth dunno for what????

daniel @ 31 months old
my boy is definitely growing... but oops... did not measure his height and weight for some time...

he can speak more words now.. at least he can call me accurately as in mummy and no longer bah bee


however, daniel still prefers to call my dad as nor nor and not gong gong.. wonder why????

changes

so many changes in the past few months... work wise, family wise, kids wise.... macam2...

first of all, i had change my job.... an unexpected move i made after 8 years with tdm.... which mean i went through everything again.. sent out resume, attend interview, medical checkup then starts new job.....

many ppl's reaction when they knew i changed job was: serious???? i thought you will work till you retire at tdm

not one commented that... but 9/10 of them did.....

story cut short, i am now working with prudential.... a move which up to now, i have no regrets... so much learning for me.... especially on getting protection for ourself and loved ones.....

everyday is a learning day for me..... i feel like going to school each day to attend class coz the wide scope of learning awaits me... products info, claim enquiries, nominations etc.....

the onli thing i misses at tdm is the many lovely colleagues and ex-colleagues i met while working there.... they are simply the best.....

luckily my current new work place is not bad..... the colleagues are helpful and friendly as well...

as for family wise, i am still married with two kids... not pregnant at the moment... any more plan for the 3rd one? we shall wait and see :)

both kids are growing day by day... getting nottier and nottier each day.... daniel is very stubborn these days... belle is still as stubborn as before... so, i do have two VERY stubborn kids... rotan works with daniel but not belle.. sigh....

my mind is full

i have so much things in mind

- things to do
- things to consider
- things to find solution
- things to prepare
- things to find info
etc..........

and too bad hubby is away..... he has always been my good listener... not always... most time.... why????? becoz sometimes he gave his opinion which is different from mine and i cannot accept.... hehehehe.....

but anyway, thanks to him for listening to my ramblings..... mostly on work wise..... else i would have go cuckoo.... muahahahahahaha...

waiting for the day when i can just say all out to everyone...... nope... i am not pregnant.....
:)

belle @ 14 months old

my little girl is no longer a baby... a toddler at this stage......

she has just begin to walk a lot.... walking from the living hall to the dining, to the kitchen....
she is always busy walking and holding some toys/ paper in hand...... she loves ransacking the cabinets now.... thank god there are such thing as cabinet door lock... else MIL'S cooking utensils sure will be ransacked by notti belle....

and when she is in my bedroom, she loves sliding my wardrobe.... rearranging all my stuff at the lower drawer... and when you asked her to stop, she will pretend not hearing you..... yup.. she chose not to hear us.....

but when you said go kai kai, she will rush to the main door......

kids are like that hor.... they will filter what they want to hear... muahahahahahaha

we adults should learn from that..... this can make our life happier!

daniel's sleeping pattern

the normal bedtime routine will be with me sleeping with him on his single bed till he dozed off......

i will then back to my own bed....

but now when daddy is away for two weeks, in the middle of most nites, he will climb to our bed to sleep.......

and two nites ago, he did that and what happen? he felt down from our bed.. luckily nothing serious... i just carried him back to my bed and we both ZZZzzzzz in less than one minute... muahahahaha

how could he felt down from our bed? daniel can sleep and turn 360 degrees... he can sleep with his leg facing north... then after a while, face east, then face south, then face west... get what i mean???

perhaps he got this gene from his mummy
LOL

dear dear away

been almost a week since dear hubby is away to china for business trip.... very rare now tat he will travel for so long... this time round, it is for two weeks......

without him around, i miss him of course..

as for the kids, they both not so much kua.... hehehehe... when i asked them where is daddy? their eyes search around... daniel will answer NO... and belle will call DEAR(tat's the way i call hub)....

i am lucky coz my parents & PIL helped me out a lot in taking care of the kids for me..... if not, i would not have time to blog... to fb.... to rest when i were sick few days back....

i am so blessed....

good news

yesterday received two good news from two good frens

in the morning, siew li gave birth to her 2nd bb .... it's a BOY..... both mother and baby are fine.... siew li is now a mother of two(same level as me... hehehehe) ....... keane is now a kor kor.... may both kids grow up healthily and happily......

in the evening, kar-yee announced... not really... more of she forgot to inform us yet :)... that her wedding will be this year dec 26th..... so happy for her and alan...... may they have a blissful life ahead....

life is good!

my boy....

who else? but daniel :)

he slept with me & hubby before i gave birth to belle... sleeping on our bed, in between me and his daddy..... he is one notti baby who refused to sleep in his own bb cot... prefering to fight for space to sleep on our bed LOL......

and he is not one who sleep still for the same position... he can turn 360 degrees in one nite.....

when belle was born, he later sleeps with mah mah & yeh yeh .... sleeping on the mattress on the floor.....for a year plus ...

like so kesian ah.... no choice coz too young for him to have his own bedroom..... and PIL's room too small to fit in one more single bed.....

and now, my darling boy is back to my bedroom.... and this time, on his own single bed.....

my boy is growing....

two years plus back, he was just a baby... sleeping in his own bb cot..... on the day he was back from the hospital.......

but now, he can climb up and down his own bed(and even my king size bed) without any problem....

oooh... i so miss his baby's days......

i am still alive..

yeah... of course i am... else, who is blogging here? muahahahahaha

it has been a longgggg longgggg time since i last blog. why?????

two main reasons:
- lazinesssss
- busy-nessssss

there is so much i need to do.... i must start managing my time well between the kids and my own private life..... as in my own social life i mean......

i have not been meeting my good frens for dunno how long ago...... except for colleagues, i have not been lepak-ing with my good frens.... and also except for some small gatherings with the "gang & kids", basically my life is just around the WORK and the KIDS....

i have not been blogging much for my own blog(this blog) and my kids blog(daniel & belle)... so, u can imagine how many things i hv not uploaded on their milestones and their latest pic.....

i have not been managing the hundreds of photos of daniel and belle... all still stored in my house CPU or even the digital cam......

hey! i must do something! yes! i must!

when?

soon i hope.....
:)

things that you can find in a resume

hobby: eating, sleeping, shopping

will you call him/ her for an interview? why not?

on a weekend....
it is not always i get to snap a morning pic of hubby with the two kids... every weekday morning, daniel will be sent to por por house and comes home onli at late evening..... this is a moment to treasure