Shern and Co.

Shern's first trip without us

2011-12-18T01:56:00.005+08:00

My babyshern has really grown. He'll be in Standard One next year. Gone were the days I call him baby :( On the happy note, he has grown so much! A big brother and also a big bully to his sister, sometimes loving and caring but sometimes not so. One day at bedtime, his sister asked me for milk and I was so tired I didn't want to get out of bed, Shern went over to the table and made his sister a bottle of 4 ounces warm milk, oh yes he did. These little actions warmth my heart :)

Tonight, Shern is away. He flew to Singapore with my sis and Marcus. I miss my darling Shern. This trip is Shern's first trip without mom and dad and also without his geegee. They will be there for a couple of days, I'm sure they're having a blast with Baby Aidan and Ezra.

Little sister get spoilt at home with all the attention from daddy and mommy. She's so manja with daddy (like she always does). Tonight we went to Shern's daddy's cousin sister farewell party. She and her kids will be migrating to US, they're really nice people, we're going to miss em'. Maine was cool as cucumber and took so so long to warm up to all her older cousins. She's like the youngest cousin ever and everyone adores her but she refuse to let anyone carry. Funny how those big jie jies tried to make her smile, and when she finally did, they were all so excited as if they strike a lottery. That's how cool this lady is.

Christmas is a week away and no, I haven't bought a single present for the kids. The thing with me is that ME and LAST MINUTE we're kinda best friends :P Got what I mean? If you know me well enough, i bet you'll laugh reading this.

It's late and as much as I try to go to bed early, I always feel like I can wait, I'm not that tired or whatever. So in this recent months, I also befriended PANDA and inherited PANDA EYES :p

Enough said, I just kinda miss the boys at home. House is as quiet as a library without them. Hope they're having the time of their life there, with Science centre, Universal Studio and all, I bet they're not missing us at home. Good night everyone. Sweet dreams...

2011-10-25T13:26:00.003+08:00

Oh well, last post was published on July 10, 2011. At this rate I'm going, this blog will definitely be dead before Maine starts pre-school. So in my effort to keep this blog, this is it! My first blog post on my iPhone!

Just want to note something interesting the kids said lately.

Shern asked me. "mommy, you still need the palmdrive?" He wanted to unplug my thumbdrive so he can connect the USB mini fan.

Over lunch, he asked his daddy "why yesterday's news is in today's newspaper? Why can't they publish today's news in today's newspaper?"

Maine only started talking in sentence shortly after she turns Two. Ever since then, it's very entertaining to hear her speak.

At the store, Shern asked if he can buy a painting set, she said, cannot buy! Rubbish!"

I tickled her, and she said "geli-la"

As usual, the boys monkeying around the house, climbing, jumping, yelling tearing the house down. With her finger pointing at them, she said,"korkor, stop it!"

On days like that, my life is oh-so- fulfilling. Thank God!

Little Fashionista

2011-07-10T01:50:00.003+08:00

This is Maine, at 1 yr and 10 months old and I must say she's oh so vain! I don't know if a girl her age starts picking her own clothes and shoes, but she does it all the time now!

Say for instance, we're going out for a party and I want to dress her in a tiered dress, she'll go rummaged through her chest of drawers and pull out a jeans instead! She even insist of wearing her Mickey Mouse Pj's one hot afternoon.

Today, she wore a tutu skirt paired with her bling bling light Dora shoe! How unglam is that! Sometimes I let her pick, but sometimes mommy insists on wearing what's nice, not what she wants. Who cares if she wails, hell need to break loose once in a while. So then only she'll know Mommy's IN Charge! Yeeee hhaaaaa!

Seen here, wearing her favourite gumboots my sister bought from Vietnam, and her cutie rara skirt with tights, her top from FOX, and bag (originally a pencil box case) from Sasha and Myra. I reckon if I were to keep a journal of her fashion, we'll have an interesting summer collection. She's my cake topper!

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Shern sucks at Mandarin

2011-07-08T19:36:00.001+08:00

What a pity! One post for the month of June. Only one! Is that bad or what? Oh well, I've been pretty occupied with making accessories and in fact, very occupied with the kids. Shern will be in Primary One next year and I don't know if he's well prepared for it.

His last term Chinese exam, erm, was errr...quite bad. His Mandarin teacher was very disappointed at him, when she showed me his Chinese exam paper, I had a shock! WHAT!! 67! Like SIXTY SEVEN ONLY! I couldn't believe my eyes! I knew Mandarin hasn't always been his favourite subject, so I wasn't even expecting 100 marks, but I expect nothing lower than 90. Seriously, for the past 2 years in kindergarten, all his exam marks were no lesser than 96. So this is really really super duper bad.

Teacher's comment goes something like this, "Oh well, he kinda score the lowest in Mandarin exam, that is, if you put the Indians aside! Inside my mind, I was like "OMG!" She continued, "I did extra revision with him before the exam, knowing that counting strokes is not his strongest point, but still he didn't do well in the exam".

Oh my oh me, what can I say? I'm speechless.. That kind of like makes me think whether we parents idea of putting him in a Chinese school is the best decision afterall? I know Kebangsaaan school sucks big time, but what if he sucks in school all because he cannot score well for Chinese. And the thing is 80% of all subjects are all in Chinese.

I cannot possibly handle the stress of having a truckload of homework of a 7 years old E-VE-RY SIN-GLE DAAAAY, especially if I have to literally search for every single character in the dictionary myself! Just to let you know, funny how Shern asked me why he needs to study Chinese? He thinks he's English just because we speak English all the time. "I'm not a Chinese, I'm English". Haha boy, very funny! (mommy's just being sarcastic :P)

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Time flies..

2011-06-07T02:18:00.003+08:00

In a blink of an eye, the children have grown so much. Shern will be in Primary one next yr! Maine will be 2 yo in 3 months! I feel bad for not updating the blog as often as I intended to, not that I have ditched blogging for facebook, I just haven't got time to go online as often as I used to.

If there's anything I want to say now, it's that Maine has grown more and more like her big brother, everything from her look to her attitude, oh my! how can two different human be so alike! This is seriously scary.

She's learning to speak more now, slow in her speech comparing to her brother (well, not that I'm comparing notes :P) but anyway, she's a bright girl, knows her thing! I don't know if it's a girl thing or what, but this girl is already starting to pick her own clothes and shoes! Sometimes even totally refusing my pick, it has got to be her pick, and I must say she has a Dior side of her, good fashion sense. Are your girls like that too? Come on, please share.

Shern on the other hand, is enjoying every bit of his holiday, wishing the holiday can be forever. Oh well, one can always wish. Another week to go and it's back to reality. I was supposed to collect his exam result on the last weekend before the holiday but I totally forgotten about it. He was anxious to know how well he did in the exam ( secretly wishing for an ipad) if he scores well. Kids nowadays, they do really dream big, don't they?

The day I almost lost my brother

2011-03-15T01:28:00.003+08:00

Life is fragile, you might heard it a thousand times but never gave it a serious thought until something happened, someone died or someone you love almost lost their life.

Back in November 2010, on my birthday, I almost lost my brother to an accident, he had multiple fracture on his body, a major fracture on his skull, it was so serious that the doctor at the goverment hospital said there's nothing they could do but to wait for him to die. It was really that bad that the specialist hospital refused to accept him as the doctors said the chances of him surviving the accident is next to impossible.

We asked that he be transferred to a better equipped hospital but the doctors was against it because they said there's no way he can survive the trip!

The other hospital is an hour away. Taking a step of faith, we requested for a transfer,at our own risk. 15 minutes away from the Ipoh GH, my aunt who was in the ambulance with my brother, called me and asked that we pray for my brother, the oxygen tank ran out of gas! For my brother who was in an unconscious state, that was again another bad bad news. He was on a bike when he had a head on crash with an oncoming lorry.

Putting our trust in God, we sent him to Ipoh GH where he undergo 3 surgeries in 10 hours. He had air bubles in his brain and if you know, that's a bad thing. Both his palms were fractured a few fingers were fractured, the surgeons had to amputate his right middle finger.

Half way through the surgery, one of the surgeons rushed out from the Operating Theater asking us to sign a consent form for them to operate him on his abdomen as they suspect he has internal injury, they can't afford to wheel him out of surgery for a CT scan and back into the OT, there's no time to waste. The surgeons just don't get it why after pumping in 4 pints of blood into him, his blood pressure is still very very low and very pale. Our heart dropped when the surgeon told us to be prepared-for the worst.

I believe God hears our prayer and he survived. He regain consciousness after 2 days which was a miracle itself, and after just a week in the intensive care unit, he was transferred to the normal ward where he spent almost a month to recover.

All doctors that attended to him said that if he ever recovers from this accident, he'll either be retarded ( from the impact of the fractured skull) or unable to walk, as for the first few weeks after the accident, his right part of his body, arm and legs included, are not able to move at all, like a paralyzed person.

Thinking back, he wouldn't have survived it not by the prayers. We believed it is God that has healed him, not only that, after the accident, my brother has totally changed. He's so much more humble, obedient and nice to people. Retarded or paralyzed, you ask?? Praise God, he's totally fine and jumping, even fit for a marathon (oh well, not yet but soon I hope!)

My brother's memory is still recovering from the accident, he can't remember exactly how the accident took place, but doctor said that's normal and it takes time for him to regain his memory. I wonder if we should file for compensation from the other party with the help of motorcycle accident attorney Austin, as least get some compensation to pay for my brother's medical bill.

9th day of CNY..

2011-02-11T22:39:00.003+08:00

9th day of Chinese New Year but it feels like CNY is so over already. I don't feel that atmosphere anymore, even in the malls, they hardly play the new year songs anymore. I don't know about the rest of you, but to me, it felt like every year is a step further away from those good old days new year celebration. People nowadays make lesser effort, unlike those days where people will religiously bake the kuih kapit (love letter biscuit) under the burning charcoal, decorating their homes with everything ang ang (red), hanging Chinese New cards all over the house, lining them up from wall to wall like fashion garlands! Oh, those were the days.

I remember those days when we were little, mom will bring us to the emporium to buy new clothes. At least 3 sets of new clothes for her 6 children, that makes 18 sets! Not forgetting new shoes! As long as her children are happy, mom didn't mind she was broke, and boy, we were! Can't wait for new year to put on the new clothes. Those new clothes were to last a whole year!

But kids nowadays get new clothes so often we can hardly see the excitement on their face anymore. i wonder if they get excited if people buy gold coins for them instead of giving them any pow (red packet money).

So this is the year of webbit

2011-02-09T01:10:00.004+08:00

..I mean..rabbit!

Oh, so I actually didn't wish everyone Gong Xi Fatt Chai and today is already the 6th day of the Chinese New Year. Oh, bad me. We balik kampung on the eve of Chinese New Year, just in time to see the fireworks. Shern kept himself busy playing fireworks with his cousins while Maine just cling on to her daddy like a koala bear. Can't blame her, the fireworks were super loud, like it even got my heart thumping out of my body.

It was great spending time with family back home, feasting and all. I haven't got any photos to share yet, but will do if I get any. Now that we're back home, Maine is down with a fever, I think that because she's teething. Did I mentioned her teeth are sprouting out like mushrooms! Told my aunt about it, and she said that's because Maine didn't want to miss out feasting for CNY, and thus the mushrooming. LOL. Hope she gets well soon.

That aside, she's such a darling. At 1 year 5 months old, she's still not talking much. Words she says are quite limited compared to Shern was he was her age. Bad mom, shouldn't even be comparing them but can't help it la. She calls daddy (Papa), and me (Mama), calls kakak (tatak), call my sis (Meme), calls granny (popo), grandaunty (ma), calls Linda (dada), says (ball, bird, wow-wow as in dog, bowl, peh for please, thow for throw), and she says the cutest Oh-oh.. Love to hear her say that. She fights a lot with Shern, pull his hair, scream, pinch and bite, all because Shern always refuses to give in to her. I don't see Maine fighting with Marcus because Marcus is always the Mr. good guy and always giving in to the princess. At this rate Shern and Maine are going, my guess is there'll be more drama between them once that girl starts talking. Oh, boy! I can't wait!

Shern is now in Six Years old class, and next year he'll be in standard one already. How time flies. He's super chatty, super bossy and super manipulative. He cheats when playing UNO, but makes it all sounds like it's part of the rule! He made my brother 'draw 4 x 4 wild cards', and after my brother did that (16 cards at one go, how is that even possible), he took all the wild cards back so he can throw it on someone else later, and he told my brother "it's like that one". Oh well, my brother who was recovering from a bad accident, in his state of bad memory, actually believed him! Oh my boy..

And I don't even know where to start mentioned the other hundred things he said that sounds so real but not. Should really update this blog more often, so one day he will read it and know how cheeky he once was. Erm, I so need my blogging mojo back.

Tiger year was quite a bad year for us, my prayer is that for this rabbit year, everything will turn out better. But seriously, I'm not a superstitious person, I don't freaking care if it's a rabbit or a tiger year, a ~~cat~~ or a dragon year, can't let an animal decide if my luck will get better or not. I'm putting my trust in my God, for that I know I'm now in good Hands. I've seen how he saved my brother, I'm sure he's keeping an eye on the rest of us too.

Here's wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year 2011!

Little vain pot

2011-01-01T02:05:00.003+08:00

Just as I was checking on friends status on FB, wishing people Happy New Year, my little darling girl rummaged through my handbag and found a tub of mini lip gloss, opened the cover and practically wipe clean my lip gloss and applied it on her face and a lot more on her hair! Oh, this vain pot sure knows a thing or two about grooming. I suppose she knows that's something to enhance one's beauty, so she just try her luck applying it on her, where she thinks is necessary.

The moment I looked at her, I freaked out. Grabbed a wet tissue within a split second and wipe her clean! When I told this to my sister and mom, they asked if I took any video of her doing it. What?? That didn't even cross my mind. I was too freaked out with her and her dirty finger, dirty face and hair on my white linen. Are you little girls like that too, A good future candidate for Regency Beauty Institute?

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Happy New Year 2011

2011-01-01T01:55:00.002+08:00

Hey world! Here's wishing you a very Happy New Year 2011. Can't believe a year zoomed by, and now that 2010 is history, I'd say that 2010 wasn't a good year for me. Pray that 2011 will be much better. Shern will be in 6 years old class when the school reopens on Monday, and my hectic routine will begin! Just thinking about it, I feel tired already. Got to enjoy this weekend to the fullest, got to have a good start for this year at least.

New Year resolution? Actually, I don't have any. Well, I did tried a couple of times, but even before January ends, I practically forgotten half my resolution, and by year end, that became the furthest thing on my mind, so I think I am better off without any new year resolution. Just taking one step at a time. Giant steps never work for me.

I pray that 2011 will be a good year for my family, good health, good wealth and as for the children, I pray that they will grow up to be obedient and love God. I'm glad that my brother is recovering well from the accident. At least we won't be needing any Accutane Lawsuit consultation any time soon.

31st December 2010

2010-12-31T20:58:00.001+08:00

Well well, if I were to sum up my blogging effort for this year in one word, it's definitely- BAD! I'm sure I'm not the only blogger who feel this way. One thing I noticed, more bloggers are ditching their blogs and updating their facebook instead! Some blogger friends I know haven't even update their blogs for a year or so, some even decided to call it quit. Pheew, at least I'm still making some effort here.

In 2010, I do an average of 3 post a month, that happens mostly when I have a review to complete. Bad bad. So little update on Shern and Maine. The kids are growing up so fast, and as much as I wish to keep this blog as a journal for them, I hardly have the time to sit down, blog and post photos of them. Never enough. Perhaps 2011 will be a good start for my blog, updating more frequent, even short post is better than no post. What dya say?

Singapore Christmas Trip

2010-12-23T01:37:00.003+08:00

Funny how time seems to fly sooooo fast when we're having a good time. We were in Singapore for 5 days, endless shopping and eating, dragging my pregnant twin sister from mall to mall. Bless her. We even went to Mustafa at 1am to 5am! Are we crazy or what! Mustafa has a new stretch of building, and is now even bigger and cleaner, and also less smelly (no offence). Have you seen their gold department? It is WOW! You can literally buy gold bullion, all sorts of gold accessories of any design and patterns. This uncle Mustafa really has a gold mine :p

Anyway, Shern, all through the trip, annoyed the shit out of me, whining and all. Can someone please teach me how to stop a kid from whining? Sometimes he just want to push me to the edge for fun, so much so until I exploded! Seriously, when that happened, it's ugly.

We were back home at Linda's place one night and Shern wanted to eat his Nougat, of course I said NO. He knows the rule, no sweets at bedtime. But when I went in for a shower, he started whining and making a big fuss of how hungry he is and he really need to eat something- (something-refering to his Nougat).

Once I got out from the shower, I immediately dragged him into the kitchen, asked him what is the fuss all about, and as a mom, I know all his tricks and lies all too well, he's not really hungry, he just want to eat his sweets. Enough of tolerating his nonsense, I grabbed a packet of biscuit, opened it up and asked him to finish it off. All of it! Well, actually it's just a small packet of biscuit, 4 thin slices. Told him that he's not going to bed until he finishes it off.

Seriously, he need to know who's the boss! LOL!

Charlene's Fullmoon Dinner

2010-12-12T01:10:00.003+08:00

Fabulous dinner tonight! Burp!! Excuse me... Today we celebrated Charlene's Fullmoon Birthday, dinner at the Darul Ehsan club. Food was great, of course we had a great time catching up with each other but still princess of the day gets the most attention. She looks absolutely adorable, though I really can't tell if she looks more like daddy or mommy.

Here's a photo of darling Charlene. Only one month old and already she's so alert to her surroundings, like she got back from her round the world trip. :P Maine finally has a girl cousin, someone to play masak masak and barbie doll with. Twenty years down the road, go shopping together, go on date together, or even buy gold coins together. ::Dream big:: Expecting another baby cousin sister next year! Yeah!

His and Her's Birthday..

2010-12-10T02:23:00.003+08:00

Just a quick update on us. Shern turned 5 on December 1st! Initially, daddy wanted a home-cooked meal but then the Birthday boy would rather spend it at the McDonald's playground with his cousins. So that was how we celebrated his Birthday.

Bad me, I have yet to even upload Maine's 1st Birthday photo, which was way back in September 4th. Shame on me. OK, will promise to upload it all before 2011.

Oh, it's Friday! Don't you just love Friday? Have a fabulous weekend everyone.

Oh Friday..

2010-11-27T01:16:00.002+08:00

While Shern's daddy and I accompany Maine to her Schicida Class, Shern went to Sunway Lagoon with his bunch of cousins. Daddy was against him going, but after much whinning, daddy finally gives in and let him tag along. Can't believe daddy actually give in to a whiny kid! Anyway, I'm sure they had lotsa fun.

Then in the evening, we went for steamboat dinner at aunt's place, she prepared so much of food for us, we ate so much and yet in the end there's still plenty leftovers. Over dinner, aunt told us if we have extra money and if we are considering on investing, then gold is one of the best investment nowadays. Property prices will fluctuate depending on the market, but price of gold will never depreciate. She certainly has a point, invest in gold bullion can never go wrong.

Kawaii Shermaine

2010-11-26T01:38:00.000+08:00

Shermaine simply loves this hairband. See how cute it is, with curly wigs on both sides. Sorry for the crappy sort of blur photo, as I took this with my iPhone. Sometimes out of convenience, I couldn't even bother to snap photos with the DSLR, and make do with the iPhone. Maine has so much lesser photos compare to Shern. I should really start taking more decent photos of her. See her rosy cheek? Doesn't it look like someone brushed both her cheek with pink blusher? Erm, actually that's natural, baby doesn't need makeup. LOL.

Holiday sleepover

2010-11-24T00:28:00.004+08:00

The school holiday has just started and already Shern is requesting for sleepover at his cousin's house. He simply loves to sleep over in my sister's place, with his 3 cousins, it couldn't get any merrier. He went last night, so when I called him just now, telling him that I'll come pick him up at night, he said a big NO! He wants to stay for another 3 days! Oh, it's only day one and I already miss him.

Now that he's older, he's alright without mom and dad, as long as he has his smelly gee gee with him. Ya, coming to 5 years now, he still need his softy to sleep. How can we ever get rid of that softy giraffe? He's so attached to it, has always been since he was 3 months old. Don't think he will ever trade it for anything else in the world, not even if we offer to buy gold bullion in exchange for that softy. That softy is more precious to him than gold. No question about it.

Kids Birthday Party..

2010-11-11T14:17:00.003+08:00

It's November already! I feel so bad for not taking the time to even upload and blog about Maine's first Birthday. I have lotsa photos to edit and to upload, but it's taking me forever. I've been very busy with my online store. Two sites to run is not an easy job, but I'm getting there. Like what my sister said, slow and steady win the race.

In two weeks time, it'll be Shern's 5th Birthday already. This time, he chose not to have a party in the school, reason being he doesn't want to give his friend party pack. What an excuse. I haven't got anything planned for his party but he mentioned to me months ago that he wants to have a Transformers theme party. Tough tough! Transformers toys are expensive, same with all the transformers party props, darling please understand that dad and mom we don't have tonnes of bullion stored in our backyard. Unless mommy DIY everything, I'm afraid his dream of having a transformers party is not coming true anytime soon. We shall see how.

Prettipedia!

2010-11-09T23:40:00.004+08:00

See the badge on the right? It says 'Find us on Facebook -Prettipedia'.. please 'LIKE' it. Thanks :)

If you know me well enough, then you'll know that I love craft, sewing and such. Then after Maine was born, I have this little obsession of buying her pretty stuffs, namely clothes and accessories. But seriously, in Malaysia you can't really find pretty, affordable hair accessories unless you go to shops like 'Accessorize', but then again, pretty things there cost an arm and a leg.

:) That's how I started making accessories for Maine. Everywhere she goes, people adores her accessories, so I thought why not make some for sale? :) Fyi, every piece of accessories is Handmade by me, I only use good quality material in producing them, so if you're thinking that those accessories are not worth paying for, think again. You can find us on www.facebook.com/prettipedia or www.prettipedia.com.

My little model

2010-11-01T23:15:00.003+08:00

Have a fabulous November!

Weaning Maine off boobs

2010-11-01T21:28:00.003+08:00

Breastfeeding Maine has brought us so much closer, not to mention the very special bond we share when lying down side by side, touching her hair, hands, legs whatever. I love those moments. After 1 year and 2 months, I guess it's about time I wean her off. But I'm afraid this is not going to be easy for both Maine and I. It'll be more stressful for her, as she won't be sleeping with me for the next couple of days, and no booby call for nap time and bedtime.

Day One:

It feels like I've got ROCK implants! (if you get what I mean). Not a very pleasant feel, especially when carrying Maine, it hurts. She slept with my sister last night, woke up twice and leaned over to my sis's boobs! She didn't realized it wasn't mommy until my sis called her name and said it's ahyi. Sorry, no boobs for comfort sucking.

By night, my boobs feels like exploding, It's as hard as a rock. Ouch, so much to endure. Hopefully, I will successfully wean Maine off this time, so long as I don't give in and give up. Mommy always give in. Will update again soon.

Good girl

2010-10-27T23:47:00.002+08:00

This coming from my mom, saying Maine is such a good girl. She behaves very well, she doesn't cry unnecessarily, isn't clingy to me or anyone for that matters, wow such a blessing! She's indeed a very independent girl, now that she's walking very steady, she's all over the house, she can even go in the kitchen and take out a container and asking us to get her biscuit! Oh, have i told you that she loves to eat! She hearts food! She can eat and eat and eat. But of course I'm try to give her the healthy food and not junk food. She can be quiet for a long time if we keep her occupy with food. We normally give her cereals, grains or oats bits for snacks if we're busy, keep her on her high chair for a while. That's better than keeping her running wild all over the house, climbing stairs and all. The last thing I need is to get help from Depuy Lawsuit to treat a broken hip.

When there are two..

2010-10-27T23:44:00.000+08:00

I don't know about others, but to me, with two kids, blogging is something I"m trying so hard to keep up, I try to update this blog as often as I can, to serve as a journal for them and myself to look at, many years down the road. Shern as a firstborn, gets all the attention that he needs, but after the arrival of the little princess, I've got to split my time between the two. Shern, sometimes feel inferior that mom and dad don't love him as much as little sister. How is that even possible?

Of course we still love him just as much as before, if not more! He is our world, just like Maine. Just because Maine gets more attention, it doesn't mean that we love you any lesser, darling. Gosh, how did my mom managed to raise 6 kids alone? Bless her!

Pheeeew!

2010-10-27T23:43:00.000+08:00

What a record, 4 posts in under 20 minutes! Talk about working under pressure, I think I work better than when I'm not. ::sigh of relief:: I was given 48 hours to complete it but I always wait till the very last hour to complete it. Talk about being lazy. I'm not lazy actually, just that I've got my hands full with other things.

Now, time for a shower and posting some items in my shop for sale. I'll be giving away some freebies, so watch out for it.

Busy busy busy

2010-10-27T23:39:00.003+08:00

Bad bad, Totally forgotten about my assignment and now got to finish work at the very last minute is no fun. I wish I can type faster and think think think at lightning speed. Got so many things on my hand and I literally got my hands full already with the kids and my shop. And worst thing is, mom is here cooking and baking everyday in my kitchen and can't stop complaining about how bad my kitchen condition is. The sink is clogged, and the cabinet is falling apart. Something went wrong with the sink installation, that was after the termite problem. Should really get help from Houston pest control. And you know what's bad, the waste from the sink actually smell kinda bad. Really got to get it fixed as soon as possible.

Get rid of dark circle under the eyes

2010-10-22T02:19:00.000+08:00

Do you know how to get rid of dark circle under the eyes? I can't help but notice that my eyes are so 'panda' looking, blame it all on the late nights. No, I did not say 'late night out', it's just that it has become my habit of going to bed past 3am or so. BAD bad! Does lemon helps? Or tea bags? Or cucumber? Oh, please share your secret. I heard freeze tea cubes helps, maybe it's time to put it to the test. Let's roll!

A stroll in the park

2010-10-21T02:10:00.001+08:00

I'm not a big fan of playground, the whole world knows it. So big sister offered to take the kids to a nearby park for rollerblading, so I thought why not? I could take some photos of the kids playing, so off I went with them, with Maine and the boys.

Oh, the boys were so happy to be able to skate around in the court, and Maine happily chasing them about. Such a joy to see the kids play. But I got to admit, even with a DLSR, it's not easy to capture nice photos, I don't even know to capture with the different types of MODE. Shame on me. Anyway, here are two photos I randomly select to go with this post.

First jog in years

2010-10-20T00:03:00.001+08:00

Shit! It's either the weighing machine is faulty or the fact that I've gained weight, if I'm honest enough, I think it's the latter. Pants feels tighter now, argh! I just don't get it, while breastfeeding mommies around the world swear that breastfeeding help them lose weight, significantly I might add, it just doesn't work like that for me. I breastfeeding Maine, but still I'm fat. This is so depressing :(

Anyway, instead of just sitting here and whine about it, I actually went jogging this evening, with Shern. Shame on me, but I think he has better stamina. After 10 minutes, I was practically breathing my lungs out, and he still has the energy to run another mile! Exercising requires a heck lot of willpower, take this from a lazy fat mom. My mom, on the other hand, jogs religiously every morning, ~~rain or shine~~ , I wonder where she got the willpower from.

I should at least make the effort of exercising regularly, eating healthy. Hopefully, somewhere along the way, I'll lose weight. Like it or not, skinny people looks prettier than fat people, and being fat isn't sexy. Skinny girl can literally wear dangling gold coins earrings and people will still think they are sexy, fat people never get away with it, not even if it's gold from United States Gold Bureau. Trust me, I know best.

Good day, everyone..

2010-10-18T02:05:00.000+08:00

Sorry, if I ruined your day, if you blog-hop here hoping to find something interesting to read about Shern and Maine, but all you can find is story about Tom, Dick and Harry and their gold coins. Oops. That's because I did a record breaking 8 blog posts today, and gold coins is all I was asked to write on, yawn! If only they provide me some sample, daydreaming!

OK, got to hit the sack now. Ciao for now.

Making memories

2010-10-18T02:01:00.003+08:00

When Shern was a baby, I practically took pictures for him every week, if not everyday. Perhaps that's people call 'undivided' attention. With Maine, she'll be lucky if I take photo of her twice a month. Saying this makes me so guilty. Most of the time, for convenience sake, I'll snap a photo or two of her with the iPhone, but of course the quality is freaking lousy. And to say that I owned a DSLR, what a shame.

I should really make the effort of taking more photos of the kids, they are growing up so fast, and I'm sure it'll be fun to look at the photos many years down the road. Something to cherish, forever. That's making memory. Isn't it better than a keepsake? More valuable than gold bullion, even those from United States Gold Bureau ?

Angpow from a 5yo

2010-10-18T01:38:00.002+08:00

For Marcus Birthday, Shern actually took a AUD50 note from his safebox, put it in an angpow packet, sealed it and gave it to Marcus, all this without telling me. Well, I will be fuming mad if he gave the angpow to his friends or any strangers I don't know, but because he gave it to Marcus, I told him that it's good that he shares Marcus birthday joy and wanted Marcus to have something that belongs to him. But in the future, he so needs to tell me if he were to take any money from the safebox else he's so going to get smacking.

Good thing, I have all my 'treasure in the bank safe deposit, can't imagine him giving away my keepsake. Distributing gold coins in school, that's not even funny.

Who's the irritating fella?

2010-10-18T01:10:00.004+08:00

Sorry I've been very busy lately, so somewhere along the busy path, this blog was shoved aside, and to think that I only blog when I have pp to complete, I actually feel bad and lousy about it. Forgiven? Oh, thanks. That's very kind of you.

Anyway, it's been a while since I update on Shern. He absolutely loves to annoy his baby sister! Someone tell me if this is normal, cos he's so getting annoying. And to think that Maine is only one years old and already yelling at her brother, I don't know how these two will get along as they grow! She takes something, he snatches. She eats something, he takes it away. She plays with something, he messed it up. Like magnets that don't attract.

In the car, while driving home, Maine gets a string of fries (for her silents) in the car, so when Shern asked for one, I said he got to wait till we're home. He wasn't very happy and asked me why Maine gets one and he can't, I said that Maine doesn't understand anything yet, so she can't 'wait', he understands instruction so he got to wait.

Thinking that his sister will forever be a baby, he said:

Shern: So next time, when you go to heaven, who's going to take care of her (Maine)?

Mom: You la.

Shern: Where she's going to stay?

Mom: In your house.

Shern: You mean she'll stay with me in my shiny house?

Mom: What do you mean shiny house?

Shern: My house is new, so everything will be very shiny.

So now, Shern, good that you know being a big brother, it's your responsibility to take care of your sister forever.

Keeping nails long?

2010-10-18T01:06:00.001+08:00

Lynd, my twin sister was helping Shern cut his nails when he stopped her at his ring finger.

Shern: Dadayiyi, don't cut this nail. I want to keep this fingernail until it grows very very long!

Yiyi : Why do you want to keep your fingernail so long?

Shern: Cos I like ma..

Yiyi : So, when was the last time you cut this nail?

Shern: Eeeerrm, maybe 6 years!

::Lynd ROFL::

Fyi, He's only coming to 5 in December. Nevertheless what he said is cute. Wonder what I should get his for his upcoming Birthday? buy gold? Oh, he has been bugging me to get him a Spiderman pajamas, perhaps I should get him that. It's cheap and unlike toys, it's not rubbish.

HTC or Apple iPhone 4?

2010-10-18T00:58:00.003+08:00

Which is better?

We were out for dinner with hubs friend when he started 'showing off' his HTC, saying that it does wonders! And absofreaking everything perfectly, like syncronising contacts, facebook shit, blah blah blah, I don't want to know!

Anyway, he was an iPhone user, and to think that someone who actually used iPhone now is a HTC worshipper, I got home and ask Mr. Google what opinion he has on this. Found this from AJ IT website. So we all know iPhone 4 has signal issues but it can multitask, HTC has tiny internal storage which is just a tiny 512MB. Poor thing. Well, there are sure pros and cons, big boos and big fans. Whatever makes you happy la. For me, it's iPhone 4. Bleh!

Sharks!

2010-10-17T23:52:00.000+08:00

7 pp to go and lots more sandwich post to do.. and it's almost one now. I'm so dead sleepy already. Bugger. I totally forgotten about getting this pp done, had so much fun over the weekend, party and shopping, and now suddenly my stress level is way above my head. Crap. For 35 dollars, I can sure blog till the cows come home. Better go get a cuppa coffee first.

Shermaine now 13 months old..

2010-10-17T22:51:00.000+08:00

My baby girl is 13 months old. OH, how time flies. She's walking very steadily now, soon she'll be running around, and even now she's all over the place already. We really need to keep an eye on her, she climb stairs, up the couch, and if she finds that the front door is open wide, she'll just walk right out! She's fast! A speed queen in the making! .

That aside, she can really eats too. She eats practically everything! Hot, spicy, sour, sweet as long as it's edible. If she finds a crumb on the floor, she'll put it right into her mouth! But she's one bright baby though, when she found a coin, she'll pass it to me, and not put it straight into her mouth. Well, I don't know what if it's bullion though.

She's starting to talk now, words she can say now are PAPA, BALL, DOG, BIRD, MUMMUM- which actually meant food and not mommy :( She's such a darling, my little princess.

It's happening today!

2010-10-09T14:12:00.003+08:00

Here's a sneak peak of

The Exquisite Sri Lankan Gem & Jewellery Show 2010

brought to you by

Serindib Jewellers, Sri Lanka

Venue: Royal Commonwealth Society

Address: No.4, Jalan Birah, Off Jalan Batai, Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur.

Date: 9th October 2010 (Saturday)

Time: 10:oo am - 5:00pm

The Sri Lankan Gem & Jewellery Show 2010 is exclusively organized for Ace Advertrade Sdn. Bhd, Malaysia with 3% of the proceeds from the sales going to selected charity organizations.

Serendib Jewellers has been in the Gem and Jewellery business since it's inception in September 1971.

Serendib Jewellers is;

Licensed by the Sri Lanka Gem & Jewellery Authority. The Gem & jewellery featured in the show are certified by Sri Lanka National Gem and Jewellery Authority.
Registered with Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation (SLECIC) of which letters of guarantees are issued for Travel Abroad.
A member of Sri Lanka Gem & Jewellery Association.
A member of the International Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka of which most exports are done under ATA CARNET system.

See you there!

The Exquisite Sri Lankan Gem & Jewellery Show 2010

2010-10-07T01:01:00.000+08:00

This invitation is exclusively for:

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

Shern and Co. blog readers

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

To join us at the

Exquisite Sri Lankan Gem and Jewellery Show 2010

brought to you by

Serindib Jewellers, Sri Lanka

Venue: Royal Commonwealth Society

Address: No.4, Jalan Birah, Off Jalan Batai, Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur.

Date: 9th October 2010 (Saturday)

Time: 10:oo am - 5:00pm

The Sri Lankan Gem & Jewellery Show 2010 is exclusively organized for Ace Advertrade Sdn. Bhd, Malaysia with 3% of the proceeds from the sales going to selected charity organizations.

Serendib Jewellers has been in the Gem and Jewellery business since it's inception in September 1971.

Serendib Jewellers is;

Licensed by the Sri Lanka Gem & Jewellery Authority. The Gem & jewellery featured in the show are certified by Sri Lanka National Gem and Jewellery Authority.
Registered with Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation (SLECIC) of which letters of guarantees are issued for Travel Abroad.
A member of Sri Lanka Gem & Jewellery Association.
A member of the International Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka of which most exports are done under ATA CARNET system.

Note: Attendance is by proof of invitation card only. RSVP confirmation and pre-registration by telephone is required. Please contact Ms. Lee at +60199100002.

Of Lanterns and Mooncakes

2010-09-25T22:53:00.008+08:00

Tonight, we went to the Pesta Tanglung organized by the Opposition party, officiated by Hannah Yeoh. Not that I voted for them, come to think about it, I might do so in the future. Anyway, they give away lanterns, mooncakes, candles, drinking water and even fried mee hoon. How nice. Shern is going to be 5 yo soon, and this is the first time ever he gets to play lanterns and candles on mooncake festival, though not on the actual day itself. He and Marcus enjoyed themselves tremendously, they kept begging to stay longer at the playground.

We should really make the effort to celebrate Mooncake festival in the future, it's a dying tradition, sad to say. It's us, parents that do not take enough initiative to celebrate and introduce it to the younger generation, thus the kids grow up not knowing these traditions, let alone celebrate it.

For those of you who didn't know, it's an occasion to celebrate the mid-autumn festival. I love the mooncake festival when I was a kid. As for the Shern and his cousins, they love Chinese New Year, the only celebration for them on the Chinese calendar. They love to get up early in the morning, get dressed, playing with fireworks, eat good festive food, get red packet filled with money, sometimes wishing it's gold bullion instead. LOL.

Took some photos of the kids playing, bad picture quality with my iPhone.

Woohoooo! It's a Saturday!

2010-09-25T11:47:00.002+08:00

While everyone loves going shopping on a Saturday, we prefer to stay at home, taking it easy. Everywhere will be packed with people, especially the shopping malls, recreation park, especially in Genting. No wonder more and more elderly people start learning computer, have social network accounts, join online forum or even loves to play online gambling through the amex online casinos sites. Well, some elderly are weak and infirm, standing amongst the crowd and getting pushed in every direction can be disastrous. Playing online games as a past time is acceptable, not so much of an addiction.

Anyway, the boys are off to 2 sessions of drama classes because they missed their last week class. (I know I know, you might be thinking, WTH drama class?) Marcus seems to enjoy his class very much. His mom enroll him for the class to build up his level of confidence and to improve his public speaking. He's very a shy and timid boy. It's really not a 'drama' class where kids are trained to be actor or actresses here. We're not taking Jackie Chan or Brad Pitt! Well, if that happens, it's a bonus! LOL. It's more to train up a kid in terms of public speaking, mannerism, build up their confidence level etc. Shern, my chatty boy wanted to tag along, so my sister registered him for the class too. So long that he enjoys doing it, I'm fine with that.

:yawn::

2010-09-22T00:56:00.001+08:00

::yawn::

I'm so freaking tired now but still there's 2 reviews pending. Sharks! Hate and love last minute work. Love it as I can easily think of something related to write about, but hate it when I got to work when I'm dead tired.

2 reviews to write, and say 4 sandwich posts, how long is that going to take? Gosh, I so need a cuppa coffee now!

Accutane

2010-09-22T00:34:00.002+08:00

Sorry if I sound like a bimbo to you, but in actual fact, I just came to know about Accutane after reading the Accutane Lawsuit moments ago. It is time like this that I love blogging, it makes me sort of like a smart-as*, at least I think so.

Come on, I could act like I know every single word in the dictionary or every medical term exist since stone age, (OK, medical + stone age = bad combo), but secretly 'googling' every word I come across, what's the point! The point of blogging is to be 'myself', free to write on whatever I want, whatever that crossed my mind, events happening in my life and in the process, learn to be better and brighter! I admit that I use google a lot, really a lot! I google everything! Smart as* in the making, don't play-play. ::evil laughs::

Back to Accutane, it's actually a type of Vitamin A, but it has a long history of side effects, so always weigh your options when taking it especially when you're pregnant. Never ever take it even if you're planning for a baby 6 months down the road, it can causes severe life threatening birth defect. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn’s disease, or ulcerative colitis are all part of the side effect of Accutane injury, the list goes on and on. You can read more on it if you want, it's all just a google away.

New ads

2010-09-17T02:07:00.000+08:00

OK, I know other bloggers have done this ages ago, and here I am, installing Nuffnung ads only now. Seriously, my blog never generates me any income, through ad sense, linktext or whatever advertising company.

So now, I'm trying my luck with Nuffnung. ::keeping my fingers crossed:: At least 10-20 bucks will be a good start, something to movative me to keep this advertising thing going. Hopefully!

Happy Malaysian Day!

2010-09-16T11:48:00.002+08:00

Malaysian Day? At first thought, is it really necessary? Do we not already have Merdeka Day? But after seeing this crazy funny Malaysian ad from Digi, it suddenly all makes sense. We're all Malaysian, all same same one..no matter what color your skin is, where your ancestors are from, we're Malaysian-lah.

Happy Malaysian Day!

I'm a lefty!

2010-09-13T01:13:00.003+08:00

Being a lefty, I think I'm pretty creative, or so I assume. I sew, I design, I create, I handmade stuffs whenever I have time to. It's not that I'm so free that I've got nothing better to do, I love the sense of achievement I get when I successfully create something.

A couple of days ago, I sew a rara skirt. (sorry no pics here) With no guide, no online tutorial or so whatever, just between me and a plain cloth, a scissors and a sewing machine. And I actually love how it turned out.

When my aunt saw it, she asked if I could sew her a similar skirt, a longer version. I'd love to. She is always telling me that it's such a waste that I didn't venture into designing. I could always take up a lesson or two if I want to. But the question is, with two kids, do I even have time to take another degree? I don't think so.

If I want to, I would have considered going to Regency Beauty Institute long time ago. Nah, that's not a priority anymore, kids come first now.

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My! She's everywhere!

2010-09-12T23:52:00.000+08:00

Like a robot, my little chilli padi is so energized, she just walks and crawls all over the place, until her 'battery runs flat. Now that she's walking steadily, she's all over the house, and we got to fix our eyes on her. She can disappears within seconds, and the next thing you know, she's in the kitchen shaking the pepper, or up the stairs (if the child safety gate is open), she's that fast, just like the Lightning Mcqueen eh.

She's my favorite Duracell bunny.

Taking it easy this holiday..

2010-09-12T01:22:00.000+08:00

It's almost a week past Maine's 1st Birthday, and I have yet to finish sorting the photos. Life is crazy at the moment, with the school holiday, it's always havoc at home, and now that Maine is walking, she's all over the place and needs a lot more attention. For this Raya, we just stay put back in KL, wow, driving is such a breeze in times like this. I like it :)

Anyway, Maine's Birthday was a blast! She got many sets of clothings as gift, pjs-tops-dresses besides the angpows. My sister also gave her a pair of very beautiful gold bracelet, talk about sky rocket high gold price, people are still buying gold as gift, that's because gold, whether it’s gold bar, accessories or bullion, will always have good monetary value, wise investment I say. Thanks sisters, we love it.>

It's a Sunday! Another day with lots of eating out and going out, enjoying the school holiday while I can, comes Tuesday when Shern goes back to school, it's a routine all over again. I'll upload some photos of Maine's 1st Birthday once I sorted it out. Happy Sunday!

Spotted: New haircut

2010-09-01T23:51:00.000+08:00

Shern just had a haircut, his hair grows sooo fast eh. Once it gets longer, strangers think he's a GIRL, poor boy. He's just a boy with a very adorable face, nothing girlie about him :p

But his hair, once short, looks like he has a swimming cap on, cos his hair is so soft, it just rest so firmly on his head. He even asked me, "why my hair cannot stand up spiky like Marcus hair?" No chance for spiky hair, darling.

Shern- loving to learn

2010-08-28T23:58:00.004+08:00

I think it's only normal that when a younger sibling came along, the older one gets next to no attention. In my case, that's because a baby needs so much more attention and care when Shern can take care of himself so well.

He can clean himself after he poops, shower himself (clean or not, that's another story la), entertain himself, read story books by himself, does his own homework, but the only thing he needs my attention when he does his Kumon worksheet. I think it is because, with Kumon, the worksheet is all repetition, maybe after a page or two, it gets boring so he started to wander elsewhere for more fun things to do. Aikss...

He's a very bright kid, reads relatively well, and he mastered the suku kata very well though the kindy only started the 5yo on Bahasa Malaysia subject this year.

Before you started thinking that I'm putting too much pressure on my 4years 8 months old son, it was his own idea to start Kumon, after seeing his cousins in Kumon class. He took up Maths subject back in January, and since then has been bugging me to let him take up English. His tutor told him that when the time is right, he will let Shern starts his English. So last week, when his tutor called and told me that Shern might be ready to take an extra subject, Shern was overjoyed. He went,"YEAH! I can start Kumon English!"

Then only I realised why he's so looking forward to his English class, that's because in his Kindy, the teacher teaches them to read the Fitzroy Reader series, one on one. One day, when he came back from school, he told me that Cass, his girlfriend, is now on Book 10, the best reader in class, he's the second best, on book 8.

And you know why, quote "because the principle is Cass's aunty, and everyday she'll bring the book back home for Cass to read, that's why Cass is so clever in reading". But sounds to me like my son is the competitive one here. He "boh kam wan". He even asked me to go buy all the 60 books back for him to read. LOL. This type of kiasu-ness in learning, I so love it. Keep it up, darling.

Maybe mom can register you for the online military degrees course, just to guarantee you a place when you need it.

What happened to frequent blogging?

2010-08-27T00:00:00.002+08:00

It's Friday! Which means my last blog update was a week ago, and what actually happened to frequent update of blog? Blogging least 3 times a week? Crap!

Nevermind. Shermaine is so walking now. I love to see her walk, just can't get enough. I think she's so sick of hearing, "Maine, come! Maine, walk! Hehe.

Countdown to Maine's 1st Birthday: 9 days.

OMG, she's walking!

2010-08-20T23:51:00.004+08:00

O I'm so knocked out already, but but but, must I ~~brag~~ blog about this or what? I'm so over the moon today, Maine started taking steps today. First 2 steps boom fall, then 3 steps boom fall...start over, 5,6,7! OH, can't tell you how excited I am, and how long I've been waiting for this day! I'm so proud of her, can?

What an achievent for her too, I can tell that she's so proud of herself too, when we clap, she clap too. She's one happy girl today, same with daddy mommy and the rest of the world. She's now officially walking @ 11 months, 2 weeks 2 days old. Just 2 weeks and 2 days behind Shern. (not that I'm comparing notes, just a statistic.) ::grin::

Mommy's sweety pie :)

What a long day today..

2010-08-20T23:35:00.000+08:00

This morning, after sending Shern off to school, I jumped back to bed, breastfeeding Maine and when my sister came knocking at my door, asking me if I want to go to Mid Valley to buy veges. 9am and what has got into her I thought? Waking up early to go buy vegetables? I'd rather laze in bed. I passed, saying that I'm too tired to even get up, then 15 minutes later, she came knocking at my door again, asking me to get my butt out of bed. Then to MV we went. After grabbing some food, we went to the Parenthood expo, met Chin Nee of Mamapatch and Brenda for the first time, and managed to chat with them a little as they were busy.

After that, we walk around a little and without realising, it was 3:30pm. Time flies doing what we love, isn't it? Anyway, we did bought lots of veges then we headed home. Traffic was bad, as usual.

Maine was so excited to see us, Shern...so so. He got his eyes glued to the TV, and can't be bothered. Had dinner with hubby, while Shern went for a movie with Marcus and Tricia in MV , again.

Got to go catch some sleep, it's been a long day. Shern has replacement class tomorrow. Aww...another long day. Have a great weekend y'all!

All well on a Wednesday

2010-08-18T14:33:00.004+08:00

So, Wednesday.. I think I'm heading for a good start.. frequent update on my blog I mean.

Thank God that Shermaine has recovered from her fever, after 3 full days. She's more active today, and hopefully she'll be more motivated to learn how to walk. She did 3 steps, 5 steps at most at one time (that was last week), but like a Humpty Dumpty, she had many great falls. So, maybe she's not very keen on walking since her crawling can bring her places, faster too.

Baby, not that mommy is pressuring you or anything, but your brother started walking when he was 11 months old.

Sorry but it seems all the spotlights are on Shermaine nowadays. Shern is well of course. I'll do an update on him soon. He's so chatty, Marcus dad calls him a 'radio'. A very entertaining one.

Poor little baby..

2010-08-17T01:00:00.003+08:00

Oh, bummer. It's been two days, and still Shermaine hasn't recovered from her fever. Poor thing, she just recovered from one merely two weeks ago, and now her temperature is tad high. I gave her Parmol, it isn't as effective as Progesic, the normal fever med the pediatrician normally prescribe.

So, early this morning, my sister and I brought her to the pediatrician, got her suppositories instead, flu and cough medication. Her pediatrician said that it might be due to a viral infection, as she already had a runny nose before her fever. Hopefully she'll fully recover by tomorrow and will not lead to any complications.

Countdown to her 1st Birthday: 15 days!

For what it's worth

2010-08-13T18:47:00.006+08:00

Yeah, it's Friday! I so need a weekend! Not that I'm going out party or anything tonight, I'll be joining a church cell group tonight. I've been wanting to attend this cell for weeks, but my previous Friday nights were all occupied. I'm actually looking forward to go tonight. For the first time ever.

Anyway, Shern will be going for a school outing tomorrow morning, to the Chocolate factory and to the Safari Zoo. I'm sure he'll enjoy himself.

I did some cleaning today, wow, it's 'amazing' how fast things can accumulate, and the amount of things in this house are way too much. I don't know if people secretly call us 'hoarders' behind our back, but then again, I won't be surprise myself. There are things that I even forgot I owned, like my 3 years old roller blade, a bag of baby's booties I actually want to put out for sale, my pair of favorite boots I wore in UK (which I don't really need here in this hot and humid weather), but still want to keep it.

You see, that the things with ~~hoarders~~ people sometimes, we think that we 'might' need it one day, if I chuck it away, what if I need it, then I will have to buy another one. So, I'd rather keep things. There's another store room that needs a big spring clean, that got to wait for tomorrow.

Hopefully amongst the pile of things we have in the store, I'll be lucky enough to find a something precious and valuable, like a gold coin from United States Gold Bureau. You never know. I keep valuable rubbish. ::evil laughs:: For what it's worth, cleaning is so full of surprises and can be oh so fun.

It's the American sound

2010-08-13T17:18:00.002+08:00

Shern's kindy uses the Fungates system, which I think is fabulous. He reads phonetically and pronouces his words well. As for his Bahasa, he reads all the suku kata very well, though this is the first year the 5 years old class started it. I'm quite impressed with the system overall.

So, this phonic system teaches them prounounciation like, C says ke, A says eh, T says ter. Read the ke-ah-ter and it says CAT.

Sometimes the words Shern says makes me wonder and send me scratching my head, e.g. he says "the 'nerd' on my scooter is missing". When I asked him what is 'nerd'..he said nerd! and showed me a NUT! You know the bolt and nut NUT! I said that's not how you pronounce NUT, he said it's the american sound, neh-er-ter says nerd as in NUT! OMG! So American la my son..Can't say it's wrong tho.

Cute hair bows

2010-08-13T10:01:00.000+08:00

Shermaine is one now but still she has so little hair, almost like when she was born, just darker. Erm, when I was a baby, I had very very fine and little hair, same goes to Shern, so can't expect Maine to be born with bushy hair, can we? That's going to be weird! I really can't wait for Maine's hair to grow, so I can tie up her hair, accessorized her up. There are too many cute hair accessories out there, and every time I see a nice one, I'll be itching to get it for her. Here are some I think which are too darn cute.

Everyone's talking gold!

2010-08-12T23:45:00.004+08:00

It's almost midnight, and I'll be here blogging for at least an hour or so. Good thing that the kids are asleep, so I can work in peace. I'm on an assignment deadline here, and seriously I think I can work pretty well under pressure. It kind of makes me think better and inspires me to write a lot more.

So back to blogging, have you noticed that many bloggers are now talking about the gold and bullion investment? Oh, if you haven't know, everyone is trying to make some money by purchasing gold and silver. Some even suggested opening a Gold savings accounts as the rates are really good. That's the good thing about having a circle of blogger friends, we share because we care.

Anyway, I noticed that I have quite noticeable dark circle under my bag, so I try to go to bed early but after 2 weeks of 'going to bed early', the dark circles are still there. Darn, it's like I 'stained' my under eye. What do you reckon? Any cure for this? Erm, lemon juice? Tea bags? Cucumber? What worked for you? Please let me know. I desperately need to get rid of these dark circle before they claimed their PR status. Duh!

For Sale: Coach Signature Chelsea Heritage Stripe Top Handle- SOLD

2010-08-12T22:44:00.006+08:00

So, here's another item for sale. You can view it on my blogshop or just here.

Coach Signature Chelsea Heritage Stripe Top Handle Bag

(click on the image for larger view)

SIGNATURE CHELSEA HERITAGE STRIPE TOP HANDLE BAG Style No: 43555

Details:

Signature Coach laminated leather
Color: Khaki/Pink
Front has a Black & white stripe with a Coach embossed button
Nickel Polished hardware
Full zip top closure with leather pull
White leather handles 15” handle strap with 6” drop
Interior is lined in pink fabric
Inside open slip pocket
Measures : 8" (L) X 4.5" (H) x 4 (D) (inch)

MRSP (market retail selling price: USD 148 + 9.5% tax

Price in Ringgit Malaysia (RM): SOLD

Why have a blog?

2010-08-12T19:33:00.006+08:00

The thing about blogging is that, once you get the momentum started, it's easy to continue writing. So, you can say that lately, momentum and I, we don't see eye to eye, thus I'm so lacking in updating my blog. Kids, they grow up so fast, sometimes I feel bad for not putting in effort to note their growing up. Of course, in the future, both Shern and Shermaine will want to read on their childhood story. You know, ::touch wood:: if I ever had Alzheimer's, I'd love the thought that this blog will serving my kids their fond childhood memories, after all, everything here is written by me, their royal highness. One never know, when one's memory decided to give out. Imagine, memory completely washed out, to ZERO. That's scary.

A friend's grandma has Alzheimer's, and she can't even remember her own relative, and can't even remember whether she had lunch when she actually ate an hour ago. Erm, poor thing. I'm sure she's feeling so insecure with so many 'strangers' around her, though every one is her loved ones. Bad bad.

So, I'm hoping that I'll be spend a little more time blogging, say at least 3 posts a week, if not more, definitely not a monthly thing. Of course if you see me blogging more than usual, that's because I'm a blogger getting paid to write, trying to make some bucks to buy gold coins. The craze for buying gold is overwhelming nowadays, seriously, it's becoming the talk of the town. Erm, perhaps, buying some it for keepsake for the kids will be a good idea too. You know, something tangible for them to remember me by. Nice.

Coach Signature Stripe Wristlet -SOLD

2010-08-12T15:34:00.005+08:00

Lucky you, my friend got these for me from U.S, I'm putting it out for sale. Grab it before it's gone.

(click on the image for larger view)

Style No: 42618 Coach Signature Stripe Wristlet- one of Coach Bestseller!

Patent leather strap with O rings, 12" strap

Zip top closure

COACH leather hang tag

The interior is fully lined in brown satin fabric

Measurement: 6.5" x 4"

Price in Ringgit Malaysia: SOLD If you are interested, please drop me an email at bucketload@gmail.com..

Maid's 37th birthday

2010-08-12T14:41:00.003+08:00

Maid's birthday falls on 8th August. So last Sunday, we bought her a Pandan Layer cake, which made her very very happy. She said that she never ever celebrate her birthday back in Indonesia, nobody does, as all the villagers are very poor. And of course when you are trying to make ends meet, who would ever want to make birthday a big deal. True enough when we let her ring her husband, she told her husband that it's her birthday and that we bought her a cake and pressie, her husband went, "oh really, your birthday ka?" I think that's not ignorant, it's just that birthday is not one of their 'tradition'.

She was so happy when my sister gave her a pair of gold earrings, as she has always wanted to buy gold earrings for herself ever since last year. So her wish came true on the birthday and she was overjoyed. But of course we think she deserves it, as she is a very hardworking and loyal maid, it's a blessing to have her here in our home. Come December, we hope that she will extend her contract with us for another year or two.

Birthday planning

2010-08-11T23:57:00.003+08:00

So, like I said earlier, Shermaine's birthday is just 3 weeks away, and I haven't got anything planned. Literally nothing, expect that we will have a mini fondue counter for the kids. A very mini one. Ah, if only a birthday planning is as easy as hiring a party planner. ::wishful thinking:: But then again, what's the fun if no planning is involved?

Just this evening, I sat down with Marcus and Shern and told them that we should start planning for the party. So our to-do-list goes something like this, as told by the boys:

Things to buy for the party:

1) Marshmallow

2) Party packs

3) Balloons and balloon pump

4) ...

>what?! That's it? ... That's it! How helpful can they ever get? Thanks anyway, boys.

Of course, if I were to follow suit, rest assured we'll only be serving mashmallows on the party. So what goes in the party pack then, Shern said 'transformers mask'. DUH! I don't think so. We shall see how. Maybe just some chocolate gold bar , oh I love those when I was a kid.

Shermaine at 11 months old

2010-08-04T02:59:00.002+08:00

Shermaine is exactly 11 months today. Wow, how time flies. She'll be ONE soon. She's learning how to walk, and I reckon she'll walk before she turns one, just like Shern. You go, girl! She loves to stick out her tongue, long and sharp tongue she has. And granny says, she's going to be 'ultra kay-po-chi' (chatty) in the future. We'll see.

She's learning to speak now, favorite first word is still 'mum-mum', meaning that she wants to eat, she calls me 'mama', and loves to ask for 'bao-bao' (to be carried), she says 'wow-wow' (dog) whenever she sees a dog or just about any other animal in the world! A tiger is also a 'wow-wow' to her. We taught her to say 'flower', she ended up saying 'ah-wer' at first, and has now improved to saying 'hua-wer' which sounds better I think.

She crawls everywhere, even up and down the stairs ( with supervision of course). And eats literally everything, yes everything. She even tried wasabi green peas, nasi lemak- with sambal, curry, asam laksa, and all sweet, sour spicy, bitter food. Little chilli padi. OK, I know those are not the healthiest food for a baby, so stop judging. Can't wait for her to take her first steady step, then second then third. Then she'll be all over the place!

Now, another month to go for the first Birthday bash! Time to start planning..

Our weekend in Jakarta

2010-07-29T21:25:00.007+08:00

So we went to Jakarta for the weekend- a fabulous weekend with my sisters, mom, aunties, cousin, and nephews Dylan and Marcus, not forgetting Shern and Shermaine. All 12 of us. Shopping was a lil havoc with the kids, especially when Jessie nearly lost Shern in Mangga Dua, cos he ran away looking for my elder sister without telling her. She almost broke down when she couldn't find him, even though it was a matter of seconds. If you've been to Mangga Dua on a weekend, you'll get what I mean. Crazy crowds! After that to Grand Indonesia, but the mall is literally like the malls we have here, with all the same brands we can get here, so that wasn't all that fun.

On the second day, my very kind eldest sis, Trish volunteered to stay in the hotel babysitting the kids, and we went shopping again in Mangga Dua, in peace. with no kids tagging along, shopping was such a breeze and much more FUN! On our final day, we went to ITC Kuningan for more shopping. Not those high end malls but bargain hunting was more fun, we think.

I only managed to get one blouse for myself and many clothes for the kids, plus many accessories for Shermaine too. I know it's not easy to get kid's necklace here, so I actually got extras for sale. Check it out soon in Bucketload ok. I'll be uploading it in a couple of days.

I didn't bring my camera along, so maybe if I can some photos from my mom, I'll upload soon.

Here's one silly thing i did on a very blur Sunday morning in Jakarta, washing my face with the JF Lazartigue hair loss shampoo, and thinking why my sister's facial cleanser smells so dodgy, and not bubbly at all!

What was I thinking?! Bummer!

We'll be away...

2010-07-23T16:08:00.003+08:00

... for a sistas and mamas weekend. Lots of shopping for sure. You have a great weekend too..

Shern's haircut

2010-07-01T23:45:00.001+08:00

Last week, we brought Shern and Marcus to a nearby Indian barber for a haircut. His hair was like already fairly long for a boy. Like that.

When the ah-neh asked what 'style' we want, we said, "jangan pendek sangat, kasi nipis" . After 5 minutes of just layering Shern's hair, he said "OK", meaning done. My sister and I went "HUH!?", the length remained the same, just some very minor trimming overall which is hardly noticeable. We know we did said not too short, but what he did on Shern's hair, we can't even tell. We told him again, "tepi, depan, satu kepala mahu kasi pendek". What we meant to say by 'not too short' is army short, like almost botak type of short.

Then as I sat there looking at him, out of curiosity I asked, "Ah-neh, you ingat dia perempuan ah?" He just smiled! Goodness gracious, only then we knew why he didn't cut Shern's hair like how he should do it on a boy. He was trying to keep Shern's hair length thinking he's a girl! All of us had a good laugh of course!

Here, with his short hair.

Shern's a millionaire?

2010-07-01T22:29:00.005+08:00

Shern started his Bahasa lesson in school this year. Thumbs up to the teachers, he can read his suku kata quite well now. He can easily score in his ejaan, and read sign boards written in Bahasa though he might not always know what it means. The other day, he took out his coin box and started counting it. He lost count again and again, after a while he got fed up of counting and instead of telling me how much he has in his safe, he said to me, "mommy, I'm a jutawan (millionaire) now". Haha, don't think so darling.

Hundred of coins won't make you a millionaire, unless you have hundreds of gold coins, then probably you can be a millionaire. Who doesn't want to be a millionaire, even my 5 years old son wants to be one. Collecting gold coins is a good investment, maybe I can teach Shern to start of by saving up his money, and when he got enough to buy gold bullion, we'll start collecting bullion, perhaps one each year. Our dream to be a millionaire. LOL!

Shern's mid term exam

2010-07-01T22:09:00.004+08:00

I was at Shern's school on Saturday to collect his exam paper and his report card. He did very well for his exams, scoring 100 for BM and English, 92 for Chinese, 98 for Mathematics and A for writing. His class teacher told me that he likes reading Bahasa and he's very well behaved in class. Good, I like that.

Anyway, one of the teacher was talking to girl's mother, saying that the girl's hair has grown very pretty. Well, I can't help but eavesdrop as they were just inches away from me. Then the teacher looked over to me and said, "her hair started falling so badly last year, it almost was bald!". Likely due to stress. I was like "stress?" Well, how stressful can a 5 years old gets? She was 4 last year. I didn't ask her mother the real cause for the hair loss but now, the girl hair has grown so long and so healthy looking. Her mom said she brought her to the specialist, and was given some 'special shampoo' to use. Then her hair started growing again. Erm, stress is a 4 year old, I'm not so sure about that.

Simply thoughtful and generous boy

2010-06-29T15:45:00.008+08:00

When Shern got home from school today, he asked me if he can buy Dashyanne a frog for her birthday. Eeew! A frog? I understand a girl loves dolls, all things princessy, but a frog? Dashyanne's birthday was last month, so I said no. Any present for her, we'll talk about that next year.

Shern: Mommy, please-la..

Mom: No, Shern. Her birthday is not until next year.

Shern: Please mommy, I really want to buy her a frog because her mommy doesn't want to buy it for her.

Mom: If her mommy won't allow that, I think you should not buy it. Anyway, why do you want to buy her a frog? She asked you to buy it for her is it?

Shern: Nooooo. But she said her house garden got a lot of mosquitoes, if I buy her a frog, then the frog can help eat all the mosquitoes!

::slap forehead!:: But what a kind thought from my prince charming.

That's the thing with him, always asking mommy to buy pencils, coloring books, etc for his friends because their moms didn't want to get it for them. Do I have 'Santa Claus' written on my forehead? I don't mind small items like that, as long as he's not asking me to buy gold coins for them.You know how expensive gold price is now, the price just keep increasing like nobody's business. Seriously, if you have some extra cash in hand, I suggest that you invest it in gold, see your investment double and even tripled in the years to come.

My BBG is teething, finally...

2010-06-24T00:47:00.006+08:00

I was so worried, because at 9 months, my BBG shows no signs of teething. What went wrong, I thought? She's a very active baby, started crawling at 6 months, standing up with support at 7 months, give her a stool and holding on to it, she can even walks about the entire house, can say bao-bao (carry) and pa-pa ( daddy), can give a high-5 when asked to, so I'm sure she's not a late bloomer. So where's the first tooth?

Then on Friday 11th , her first tooth erupted, then again on Sunday 20th June , a second tooth erupted from the lower gum. Suddenly it feels like she's not so baby anymore. On Monday, I checked on her teeth, and holy moly, like mushrooms, 2 teeth sprouted overnight! One from the upper gum and one on the lower gum. She now has 4 teeth! From zero to 4 in merely 2 weeks. To top it all, she showed no signs of discomfort, crankiness, fever, diarrhea or whatnot. She's simply an amazingly tough girl.

Here comes my Punjabi boy..

2010-06-04T23:08:00.001+08:00

Friday 4th June, 2010, last day of school before semester break. Shern went to school today in his Punjabi suit, as it's a traditional costume day. When he got back from school, he told me, "my girlfriend loves my Punjabi suit eh!" She said it's very nice. Ish. "Girlfriend".

Time to relax, holiday is here!

Happily dancing in his Punjabi suit.

Don't Chinese just love gold?

2010-06-01T01:14:00.005+08:00

Ask any Chinese you know, chances are they have gold accessories handed down way back as far as 3 or 4 generations back, way back when price of gold is a few bucks per gram. Chinese people loves to buy gold for keepsake, or as gifts for special occasion, investing in gold dare I say it's one of the most brilliant investment of the Chinese, so much so it has become a tradition.

Personally, I have a jade gold bracelet which is handed down from my great grandmother, it was given to my mother and now it is mine to keep. But because it is a jade gold bracelet, it didn't appeal as much to my sisters, so I decided to keep it, for memory sake. I mean, if it's of pure gold, then it would have fetch a very good price in the future, but since I'm not planning on selling it, it doesn't matter.

But the thing with Chinese is, they love to keep their gold, hidden somewhere safe and sound, in the safe box or whatnot where else the Malays and Indians love to wear it all out, the more the better. Why is that so, I really have no idea. In that case, isn't it better for Chinese to buy gold bars or buy gold coins for safe keeping instead of buying gold accessories?

Can't wait for Friday

2010-05-31T23:02:00.003+08:00

A week to go, for the long awaited holiday. The kids are counting the days and so is mommy. Mommy sure need a break from the daily 'chauffeuring' job. I really don't mind sending and picking Shern up from school, but sometimes when the sun is scorching hot, I dread to leave the house. It's only Shern's second year in preschool, imagine how many years more I need to be chauffeuring- plus there's the little princess to be added to the list in the future. OH! How fun! Now you know why I'm so tanned.

Anyway, Shern just finished his exam last week, and there will be a teacher-parents meet this Saturday to collect their progress book. Can't wait to find out how well he did in school. We made a deal, 50bucks for each 100 marks he gets. We'll see how. There will be another class party this Friday, and he needs to be in a traditional costume, and he'll be in a Punjabi suit yet again, and he's loving it.

On her own face...

2010-05-31T22:24:00.002+08:00

See the lines on her face? She found a pen without me realising it, and draw on her own face. Everytime she picks something up from anywhere, she will be sure to put it in her mouth. Taste it, then eat it. So we have to be very careful of whatever that is on the floor. But most of the time, Shern being the not so helpful one, loves to create mess everywhere and place little plastic wrappers or stickers on the floor, and it ended up in Maine's mouth! But in this case, the pen might be too long and not edible, so she found another good use of it. Oh, can scribble with it. She drew on her own face and leg.

When I saw it, I laughed at her. Not knowing why mommy laughed out loud, she laughed too. Kids, how sweet is their innocence. When my twin sister saw this photo, she said that Maine might have seen us 'draw' on our face, when we put on our make up so she's just following. Learning to put on make-up at 9 months old? She sure learn fast. Soon, she'll be asking mommy, when can we book her a place in Louisiana Cosmetology School?

The dress mommy made for princess

2010-05-25T16:46:00.010+08:00

This one should be a last year post, you know why, I didn't even realised I forgot to blog on my beloved twin's wedding! OH MY! That was like the event of the year and it just slipped off my mind, that's the thing about year-end, so many things, too little time. I even promised I'll post photos and I didn't, cos there were like thousands of photos to choose from, and to re-size. Then, I forgot. Sorry.

Never mind, I'm posting this just for the record, the first dress I ever made, for my little princess. I went to the tailor like somewhere 2 weeks before Linda's wedding and bummer, she has no time to make even a baby dress. Then, I thought what the heck, I'll sew it myself. After a first failed attempt at cutting the fabric, the second attempt was a success, so here my little flower girl dress.

Initially, I made her a white sash, but one of the bridesmaid's sash went missing, and took my baby girl's sash and went down the aisle and we never see another daylight of that sash, ever! But that's OK, Linda made some extra flower girl's sash that looks perfectly cute too. A baby princess dress to match the flower girl dresses :)

(very charming and pretty little ones)

BBG only wore it twice, once on the wedding and another time to a friend's New Year party. No one got a nice shot on BBG on the wedding day, I was so busy I didn't even get a nice family photo. Regrets.

Here's BBG wearing her dress with mommy at the wedding lunch.

The second time she wore it, I took a few shots with my iPhone on the way to the party, she looks like a doll.

She has outgrown her princess dress, and the other day I took it out, the maid asked if I'm giving it away. Giving away a keepsake? She must be crazy!

Anyway, here's a shot of the Noel and Linda and their so lovely entourage.

And just in case you're wondering why Shern looked elsewhere, here's why. He was busy posing for another photographer. HOW FREAKING VAIN IS THAT? Nevertheless, too cute!

The 5 ringgit deal..

2010-05-22T00:41:00.001+08:00

Lately, I've been buying many toys for Shern, I don't normally do that but since I made a promise to him that everytime he gets perfect score for his Ejaan, Spelling or tin xie, he'll get 10 ringgit of which he can spend 5 ringgit on anything he likes (toys that is!). And boy, nowadays 9/10 times he gets 100. He works for it, so it's only fair that I keep my promise. Call it bribe, reward or whatever you like, but to me, I think it motivates him to do well in school. And that's good. Last Friday, after I picked him up from school, he jumped into the car and immediately dig into his school bag saying, "mommy I got something to show you, it will make you the happiest mommy in the whole wide world". Perfect score makes mommy thaaaaat happy. Boy, he was that excited over getting rewards.

But seriously, with 5 ringgit, shitty toys is all he gets, which normally ended up as rubbish the very next day once he got sick of it, or when it broke into pieces. So lately, we came to another 'agreement', we'll start a VW and Ferrari hotwheels collection, and he gets a hot wheels for reward. Like those people who buy gold coins for investment, at least hot wheel cars are sort of like collectibles and still cars are his favorite toys after all the Ben 10 and Transformers fever 'die-off'.

Piano lessons, yes or no?

2010-05-15T15:47:00.003+08:00

We have a piano at home we hardly play. All my sisters we learned to play the piano when we were young, but all of us ditched piano lesson half way through. Marcus and Shern, occasionally will play the piano, pretend to be like a professional pianist by laying out all the music books in front of them before they even started playing. Yesterday when they heard me playing the piano even without looking at the music book, I overheard Shern telling Marcus, "Marcus, my mommy really clever leh, she can play piano without seeing the book". LOL.

Anyway, with Marcus schedule packed to the max, he hardly has time to breathe let alone handle another music class, I'm just not sure if Shern is a music person, there's no point in learning and dropping it halfway through right. But I'm sure I will consider letting Shermaine take up piano lessons in the future. Girls, piano and ballet, go hand in hand, am I right?

A new header is finally up!

2010-05-01T10:17:00.007+08:00

When I looked back at the post I did on the previous header, it was way back in September 2008! Has it reaaaaally been that long? When Shern was 3yo! Oh my, almost 2 years has gone by in a blink of an eye. At this frequency I'm changing my header, the next new one you'll get to see will be when Shermaine turns 2! Now, I really don't want that. Let's just see if I can make this header thing work every say 3-6 months max.

As you can see, the new header features the kids, namely (left to right: Shermaine, Ethan, Dylan, Ryan, Shern and Marcus). And if you noticed, my little girl sort of dominates the photo space, with her Afro hair style photo and the princess theme. Let's be fair for once here, Shern has rule the header for the past 4 and a half years, and since this is the first time Shermaine appears in the header, why not let her get the spotlight for once ok.

If you also noticed, I had changed the blog title from Baby Shern to Shern and Co. First of all, Shern is no longer a baby, though he will always be my baby, it doesn't sound too cute to the general public (but it seemed like the best idea when I started the blog), and secondly, Shern now has a little sister who deserves just as much attention as him in this blog, so I reckon changing it to Shern and Co. is the best thing I can come out with. Having said that, I'm still better known as Shern's mom.

The header that says a thousand words, one that sums out everything in 3yo Shern.

Grab Gucci before Gucci is gone!

2010-04-30T00:53:00.005+08:00

Update: Brand new Gucci Sukey Medium Tote in Guccisima Leather

Selling now at Rm4500 /SGD 1900 (that's a saving of RM1390!) Grab it now!!

::Weight dilemma::

2010-04-29T00:39:00.000+08:00

Baby girl is almost 8 months now, and my weight has not dropped since I can't remember when. I'm still as heavy as a whale, and whoever that said breastfeed makes them shed the pounds easily definitely are speaking for themselves and not in general! So, allow me to rephrase this, "breastfeed only makes certain people lose weight fast, not just everyone". So are we clear now? Good, let's continue..

OK, maybe if I stop breastfeeding baby, then I'll lose a kilo or two. You know my boobs are actually quite heavy, cos they are quite huge? Of course you don't know, I'm just telling you. If one breast weighs, say 500g, then there's 1kg there to shed in the near future.

Meanwhile, my eldest sister said that I should help the maid with the house chores. You see, our maid is so petite and skinny, somewhere at the 41+ range though she eats like a pig. She eats a lot of rice (read: carbo) , before the sun even rises, then for lunch, dinner and when the owls come out to play! So much so, there's never leftover rice in the house! But still, she just gets skinnier. All that housework in fact, might contribute to her getting so fit! Shern even noticed she has muscles, not that she takes ALRI CR2.

My elder sister on the other hand, is also on the larger side after her third baby, and she suggested that we both sign up for the gym! Go do some combat dance or whatnot. I did, you know. Twice in the last 5 years. Signed up for 3 months every time I did then back to square one. Guess what I said to my sis, "consistency is the key!" I'm not a gym person, I'm sure she's not too.

If consistency is the key, then we should be consistent with what we eat. But then again, if that works, why on earth is there a thing called yo-yo diet? Losing weight is just so damn hard!

Today..

2010-04-28T23:58:00.000+08:00

Ticker says Shern is 4 years, 4 months and 4 weeks old- how cool is that!

and Shern said he got the "Best Student of the Month" award. How awesome!

Dinner at Garden Cafe,The Curve

2010-04-19T01:03:00.000+08:00

Photos taken from my cousin's facebook, as I'm about to publish this, I have yet to ask for their permission, but I'm sure they don't mind :) My very pretty cousins..

:: Weekend havoc::

2010-04-18T23:10:00.001+08:00

Sunday is usually spent shopping, as much as I dislike shopping on weekends, I always ended up at the mall. Malls are usually jam-packed with people on weekends, and sometimes it's takes forever to get to the car park because the mall management always simply place barricades around and make the public go around the mall in circle looking for an entrance. I hate it when they block the cars from entering the mall. Don't you?

Today the kids were extremely excited because they get to go to Megakids. The maids were with the kids, so my sister and I got to handle the babies ourselves- I mean Maine and Ethan. The mall was packed as the Jobstreet Exhibition was on, and people, I mean lots of people were there on the upper floor, filling in forms along the rails, on the pillar, on the floor, everywhere. These organizers really need to learn a thing or two about crowd control, you know at least with stanchions or those velvet rope. They are mostly youngsters, perhaps they are registering themselves with Jobstreet. It was really crowded we felt uneasy to bring the babies there. Definitely not a place for people with claustrophobia. Stay in line people, stay in line!

What a blur mommy..

2010-04-18T13:13:00.000+08:00

Last week, we went to Shermaine's pediatrician twice, the second time on Friday because Shermaine's coughing went from bad to worse. I brought Shern along, and inside the doctor's suite, I looked up and told Shern,

Mom: Shern, look up. Those are parachutes.

Shern (confidently): Nope! Not parachutes...

Mom (insisting): Oh yes, it's parachutes.

Shern: Told you it's not parachutes. It's hot air balloon ok.

And suddenly it hit me, he's damn right! Those are indeed hot air balloon. How embarrassing is that? Especially when the doctor's assistant said, "Wah boy, you're very clever ah!"

What makes a you happy?

2010-04-17T14:36:00.004+08:00

For me, I have many reasons to be happy, especially when it comes to seeing my two beautiful kids grow up, and for that too, I have many more reason to be thankful. A stay-at-home mom might not sound like the sexiest thing on earth, you know, imagine cleaning poops, dirty laundry, sweeping and mopping, sweats dripping from doing all the house chores, kids yelling and mommy yelling that can almost tear the roof down, driving the kids around to school and whatever classes they have a thousand times a day! Oh, I can go on forever with that list, seriously.

But seeing every details of my kids grow up right in front of my eyes and seeing it first hand, and not hearing someone else telling me,"Oh by the way, she said Mama this morning", makes it all worth it. That's not something you can trade for some cash value, right? I'm thankful to God that my kids are beautiful, healthy and intelligent. Shern, thought he can be very mischievous sometimes, he is indeed a very obedient boy. Shermaine, on the other hand, is growing up fast. For this reason alone, I have every reason to be happy. In the future, no matter what they path the choose to take, be it a car racer or cyclist, or even opting to go to Cosmetology school in Kansas instead of becoming a doctor, I know that as a mother, I've brought them up the best I could, by educating and nurturing them, I guess that's will be the most prestigious award any mother can hope for.

Perfecto!

2010-04-17T10:06:00.001+08:00

OK, another Friday. 3 reviews to complete and with that of course many more blog post coming up soon. Bad- because it's a weekend and all of us want to go out to play! I've got some showing off to do. Shern is doing really well in his preschool, I'm so proud of him. When I asked him who is his teacher's favorite student, he said, "Me!". Nah.. i think he's pulling my leg, but no matter what, he made me so very proud of him every time he shows me this...

He gets 10 ringgit for reward for every time he gets perfect score, on which he can spend 5 ringgit on anything he wants. Kids being kids, he normally he choose to spend it on toys. He gave me snow ice treat the other day, how very sweet of him- he gets to choose the flavor too of course. His money, his call. Now, that is a reward worth getting.

It's Friday..

2010-04-09T13:05:00.002+08:00

...and I'm loving it! Have a great weekend ya all..

Cheng Beng weekend

2010-04-02T19:27:00.003+08:00

This weekend is the Cheng Beng weekend, if you haven't know, is the All Ghost Day for the Chinese. A day where people go pay their respect at the grave of the departed ones. For those who believes in Buddhism, they'll burn joss stick , hell notes, paper stuffs which includes paper clothes, paper luxury car, with driver included, paper bicycle, paper designer bags or just paper everything. They even have paper credit card and Petrol station. Oh, serious. Another thing not to be missed, paper gold bars! For those who don't believe, all these offerings ended up in ashes but for those who believes, those dead ones will receive it down in hell. In that case, that will be a hell lots of cash and gold bars for the dead! Not a problem to buy gold coins in truckloads then.

But for us Christians, we'll only be placing fresh flowers at the grave. Or maybe do some cleaning and pull some weeds. No hassle of burning all the paper offerings. At the end of the day, it's the thoughts that count, am I right?

Shermaine's first 6 months

2010-03-27T19:36:00.007+08:00

::shoooo shooo:: spider webs everywhere!

Oh, this is what my blog has become. You know, I started blogging about baby Shern when he was about 6 months old, and sad to say, anything that happens before I started blogging, I forgot half of it. I mean those tiny weeny details, of course I still remembers when he first started to crawl, ~~first time he got sick~~, started solid food, first word, first tooth, first walk, blah blah blah.

So unfair for baby Maine, I hardly blog about her. Well, she kind of like used up all my time! That's why. She's such a darling, so I totally don't mind. All of us just love her to bits.

Here's a little progress chart on her. I know I know, she looks so much like Shern.

First started her on cereals, she now takes 2 meals a day which consists of cooked oats and brown rice with vege puree.
Started crawling, like at 6 months.. and could sit too about the same time, i think.
Starts going about in her walker at 5m 2 weeks old. She's good, just call her name and she will slide, glide her way to you, like a GPS!
Now, she can hold on to things and stand up!
Two days back when I put her down for a nappy change, she cried oh so loudly and goes maaamaaa, maaaaamaa... perasan-nya!
Then yesterday, when placed in her baby cot, she stand up and cried for aaa-kak, aaaaakak. Seriously?
She's still on both breast milk and formula soy milk (when mommy is too busy for feeding).
Night feed? Oh yes.
And she knows who she wants to be carried by, else she'll cry so pathetically until mom, dad or maid come to rescue. So strangers, don't even think about it.
First tooth? No where to be seen. Can't imagine how my nipples are going to cope with even a tooth, cos she now loves to bite me nipple.
Her hair? It has been like that ever since she was born, never shaved her before but man, those stubborn hair just won't grow! Bummer.
Her nails are like tiger claws, it's sharp regardless of whether it's long or short.
Her tits? Her daddy said she has cleavage! LOL.
I think that's about it.

And yes, my brand new Gucci bag is still for sale!

For Sale: Brand New Gucci Sukey Medium Tote in Guccisima Leather

2010-03-10T14:18:00.005+08:00

'Sukey' medium tote with pleat detail, detachable interlocking G charm, and studs.

light brown guccissima leather with light brown leather trim
light gold hardware
double handles with 6.3" drop
tab snap closure and side snaps
inside zip pocket
15"L x 4.7"W x 10.2"H

Gucci code: 211944 AA61G 2019, Retail price in Malaysia is RM5890.

Condition 100% Brand New, bought in Milan, Italy. Comes with dust bag. Now selling for RM4800/ SGD 2000.

Please email me at bucketload@gmail.com if you are interested.

Here comes the Tiger!

2010-02-13T01:05:00.000+08:00

That graphic is so last year. I've been busy so that explains it all. Anyway, hope the Year of Tiger brings you whatever you wish for. It's been another year of great blogging and happiness, with a new addition to our family, Shermaine. Both Shern and Shermaine, the joy of my life, never fails to bring smile to my face.

Here's wishing all my fellow bloggers friends and readers a Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year 2010. Gong Hei Fatt Choi!

The arrival of the Tiger Year

2010-02-12T23:53:00.000+08:00

This is it! The arrival of the Tiger Year in the Chinese calendar, with roaring Prosperity. Today, all the Chinese will gather together for a family reunion lunch/dinner and have the most heartly prepared meal of the year. Sharks fin, abalone, sea cucumber, yummy seafood are just the few must have food on the list. You know why, the Chinese believes that all good things will follow with a new start, so why not let it start new and fresh. New clothes, good food, the auspicous way to start a brand new year, better more to adorn yourself with lots of gold accessories, which explains why the Chinese New Year is a time to buy gold bullion too. Can't believe how fast the price of gold increase for the past one year. If only I knew, I'll buy more for keepsake. Too bad I didn't.

We'll be driving home back to my hometown later in the afternoon. In fact, Shern was so excited to get home that he bawled and cried out loud when my sister went back yesterday evening. He insisted on following, even without daddy and mommy. He promised me that he will be the most good boy in the whole wide world and not cry at night, so I let him go back with my sister first. He just heart Chinese New Year just like the rest of us.

Shermaine and her little stunt

2010-01-27T23:52:00.009+08:00

Twenty-seventh January, two-o-ten. Shermaine at four months and three weeks old.

The other hundred things he said..

2010-01-21T21:49:00.005+08:00

You know when you cannot keep a good update of your kids development in your blog, it's either you are way too busy or you feel that your kids are growing way too fast, you don't know where to start jotting. For me, it's all of the above.

Shern, he's back to school for two weeks now and adjusting well to the school day routine. Wake up, go to school, come home, have lunch, take nap, play, dinner and bedtime. When I asked him if his new class teacher loves him, he told me that he's the teacher's favorite! Nah, so soon?

He must be bragging again, as always. Anyone who knows him well enough knows that he speaks very well for his age, most of the time, he sound like a little too smart.

The other day, when we were out for dinner, he asked if I could get him ice-cream. I told him that he will only get ice-cream after dinner. He then went to his aunt, my eldest sister, and asked if he could have ice-cream. My sister asked him, "what did mommy said just now? No ice-cream until after dinner right?" He thought for a while and said, "Actually you are bigger than my mommy, so my mommy must listen to you!" Meaning it's OK for her to buy him ice-cream. Ish!

I asked him to finish up his homework after dinner,

Shern: I'm too tired. I want to go to sleep. Mom: I don't care, you're not going anywhere until you finish your homework. Shern: That's not the rule OK. If tired, means must go to bed because no 'power' to do homework already. Mom: Mommy's rule is if you don't want to finish your homework, you get smack!" Shern: OK la.

Marcus singing Lucky by Jason Mraz.

Marcus: Lucky I'm in love with my best friend.

Shern: Wrong! Lucky I'm in love with my girlfriend-la.

Mommy singing Lucky.

Shern: Mommy, you must sing, "Lucky I'm in love with my boyfriend, not best friend".

Bedtime, Shermaine was cuddling Shern's geegee when suddenly Shern snatches it away from her. Looking pissed, he said, "mommy, mei mei vomit on my geegee. Now my gee gee is wet!" I told him it's OK because mei mei is a little baby, she doesn't know a thing yet, not even her own vomit. With the angry look on his face, he said to Shermaine, "kor kor let you hug the geegee, why you vomit on the geegee".

I asked him if he loves his gee gee more than he loves his own sister, he said NO. "Then why are you so angry?", I asked again. "How am I going to sleep now, my gee gee is wet". Maybe because he couldn't fight back with his baby sister like he does with Marcus, he said to me, "Mei mei so naughty, how to love her, you tell me..". I answered, "There were times when you were very naughty yourself but mommy and daddy still love you the same, do the same to your sister, understand?" Shern said OK.

Where did he learnt all that from?? I have NO idea!

Another year, another CNY!

2010-01-20T20:00:00.000+08:00

Can't believe another year just zoom by just like that. Somewhere this time last year, we found out that we're expecting a baby. We were overjoyed and we still are, of course. I was 7 weeks pregnant and now Shermaine is already 4.5 months old.

Now, back to my point, Chinese New Year is only a few weeks away. It was like yesterday we celebrated 2009 Chinese New Year, with the fireworks, endless flow of good food and all. It is no doubt the most anticipated celebration for me and my family, and it's also when we all gather back home at granny's, all 70+ of us for the biggest reunion of the year. It doesn't matter if we only get to sleep on very thin mattress or blanket as thin as tissue paper, or sleep in that wooden house that might be say 50 years old or more, or we got to queue up to take a shower, as there are way too many people around, we always look forward to going home to granny's.

While other people might choose to fly off for a family vacation during the Chinese New Year, at 6 stars hotel with first class dining and beach front hotel, hot tubs and hammocks, swim-up rooms with ocean view with service of a private butler, my entire family would rather riding bike around the village, and not to mention my uncles, they have an impressive collection of old rides we can drive around town. This is one event not to be missed. One thing for sure, we love Chinese New Year. Can't wait.

His first day @ 5years old class

2010-01-06T22:42:00.007+08:00

Shern's first day back to his kindy didn't went well. I expected it SMOOTH but it wasn't. Before the school reopens, he kept telling me that he wants to go back to school "like NOW!" because he missed his friends. But on Monday morning, he cling on me like a koala. I mean cling on to my leg. Boy, why suddenly so shy!

But when he saw Ana, his girlfriend, he immediately brightens up. I grabbed a chair and seated him next to Ana, and then just like that, he sees me walked out the classroom and go home. A girlfriend at 4yo? You must be kidding me, son.

Back home, he told me that he wants another baby. A baby girl. Then he will name her Isa, after his girlfriend's twin sister! ::slap forehead::

Anyway, here's some photos of his last day at school last term with his girlfriends. I'm so behind my blogging, this should be posted way back in Nov 2009. It was also on that day, he celebrated his 4th birthday with his 3 other December-born friends. While they should be in their concert costume for the party, those birthday girls bend the rule and wore their princess dress instead.

The 4 months old chubby chick

2009-12-30T16:35:00.004+08:00

I've been wanting to upload some photos of Noel and Linda's wedding but boy, 3000+ photos to choose from and so much more editing to do. That is going to take forever. Meanwhile, here's some photos of little Maine.

25:12:2009

2009-12-25T01:43:00.004+08:00

On Demand

2009-12-23T13:34:00.005+08:00

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

Tada... here I am.

Like every other morning, the first thing I did this morning when I got up from bed is to check if my Internet connection is UP or DOWN. For the past 20days or so, it was DOWN. So happy to wake up to a stable connection. Someone from the service provider even called yesterday asking if I have access to the Internet, how kind of them. You know why? It only took my sister one call to told them off (I called so many times but no one bothered), and finally they took our complaint seriously These people!

So with me not blogging, I've been spending a lot of time watching movie and drama series. Do you actually know that you can have free access to On Demand Charter digital to access over 6,000 movies and shows! I've been up every night till wee hours to catch up on Desperate Housewives. Now, I sound so much like a desperate and bored housewives, no? Totally! If you need, you can get get updates and fun extras on Charter’s Facebook page, so easy isn't it.

The boys need not wait for their favorite cartoon to be aired on television. It's a good thing you know, especially if I need some quiet time, I can keep them occupied with Ben 10 Alien force on television. ::evil laughs:: Be sure to check out Demand Charter or learn more at charter.net/ondemand. I've so much of catching up to do with my blog and even more blog hopping to do. Pffftt...