Showing posts with label Thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thoughts. Show all posts

Saturday, April 02, 2011

Friday night - Sat morn :)

Am happily chilling out in my room while my 3 babies are soundly asleep. World peace... haha... usually that's what comes to my mind when JJ and Celeste turns in. I will be like \(-_-)/. keke... Celebrated my FIL's 66th Birthday today at Hung Kar Teochew restaurant at Poh Heng Building. Our family has certainly grown! Now with everybody in tow including 2 maids, we need 11 chairs and 2 baby chairs! Oops. such a big table! If my 2nd BIL gets married and have a family, we will need 2 tables. hehe.... It's pretty fun. If not for my MIL who always sulks at dinner. super spoiler. buay tahan. JJ - 33months old. Very talkative these days. Can narrate incidents to me. find it very cute. still as stubborn as usual. can climb up to 12th storeys. still likes to ask for pocket money from his ah-gong every day. rich boy. my sweetest boy. can recognise abc and read the phonics sound like "arh" for A and numbers 1,2,3, etc. Learning well from school. Will be able to take good care of his loved ones. Meimei - 9 months old Upper 2 front teeth have sprouted. Another 2 more upper seems to be emerging. Loves eating porridge. Is our happy girl. loves waving bye bye. simply loves her gor gor. likes to scratch her head. keeps on pulling herself to stand. still cries like mad whenever she poo. The 2 of us - 4years and 6months I am getting slimmer ;) Hubby is getting fatter... thou I don't see any upsize. :p new work challenges for hubby during this period. i just wanna say every change will need getting used to and to think of new ways to cope with the new environment. U can do it. I will always be here for you dear. Always thinking of each other whenever we have a moment. Hmm.. havent had our dinner date yet! Dear, we need to let go one night and have our own time. pls.... keke... No plans for No 3 (in case any of u is thinking of asking me. got few pple ask me liao) Looking at short nearby holiday plans. I got my bonus (70%). balance 30% in July. Hubby got a few more strands of white hair. Don worry dear, i like it and I want to grow old with you................................................... Ok ok, enough of the emo stuff. Nite nite world....................................................................

Happy day - work :)

Today was quite a pretty good day. Had a major "breakthrough" in work area. haha... A simple task that can be done easily in previous jobs has to face lotsa constraints in the company that I work in. Damn. But finally it has been pushed through and it feels damn good. And it's kinda funny that I am the 2nd lowest rank in the meeting. Most are managers, Assistant Directors and even a Director. heehee. Feels good to report back to my Assistant Director that this can be done. And went through the final round of Service Contracts that I am handling and things passed through smoothly. My aim is to perform consistently well this year. And to reach the target that I set out. I realised in this company, relationships and knowing when to escalate is the key to success. This is the basis of working life. but here, everyone can bloody freaking play tai-chi cos company too big and too many dept. This simply jeopardise the things that I set out to do. Like my big boss mentioned to me that I need to voice out more. I need to improve on my reporting skills. Not apt in reporting to such high management, I guess. I am still learning and I aim to grasp it well this year. Sometimes the things that I do are supporting our backend operations. It is difficult to be seen or measured. So it seems kinda trivial to bring up and talk to boss about it. I do admire my big boss's vision. More and more, I start to believe in what he says about everything has to come from the ground. It cannot all come from my AD but for someone who is used to working with a lean team and able to manage all, it is really difficult for him to let go just like that. Now that my big boss is promoted to Vice President, next should be promoting Gary to Director. And with that, I believe he will be too swarmed with technical and operation issues to "chap" so much. Good and bad, good in the sense that Gary understands what and how we do things. Can sense he's putting on a "Director" cap now. Good for him too. :) I need to seriously sit down and think of all the things on how to "score points" in this crucial year. Now that everything is settled down, things that needs to buy have been purchased. Things are a different ball game. I am fortunate to get good ratings for last year. Must perform well consistently if want to score 4. But shan't get upset if get 3 cos that will be the norm. Key point to follow-up before I forget: Monitoring supervisors' performance in Maximo. Must also remember to write down handle service contracts (thou not my job at that point in time but I handled them as well as some colleague not willing to do it.) And must look into following up with closure and conclusion. Look into ways of improving on how we do things. IMPROVE. Sorry to blog so much abt work. but just feel like it and must do it so that can come back and re-charge when I need to re-motivate myself. Cheers and have a great weekend!

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Lil updates!

Lil Celeste is turning 8 months soon! She can sit up, crawl around and still just have 2 lower razor sharp lower teeth since she was 4mos+!

Her diet is still cereal + seasonal fruit/veggies once a day. She is quite an easy eater and has tried apple, potato, carrot, pumpkin, broccoli, papaya. :) Gonna try sweet potato tomorrow. She has started to eat some porridge which she shares with her gor gor at times. Life is alot easier to make puree thanks to my friends' advice to get a handheld blender and steam at least 1 week's worth during weekend and freeze the rest for weekday.

JJ who still calls himself a baby seems like a big boy to hubby and me. :) He is very chatty now though his prounciation is not that clear. Teachers in school says they need a translator! haha.... but his teachers like him a lot. When I called school to enquire if he is naughty/beat people/sit thinking chair, the principal told me his mouth very "sweet", they loved him to bits n can't bear to ask him sit thinking chair. but generally he is well-behaved in school. :)

But his temper is still very bad. and gets agitated suddenly at times. Try to ask him to express his anger. If not we really have no idea what he is mad at.

He can't bear to see us go to work during the weekdays. With Ah-Gong's explaination that we need to work to earn money for his neh-neh, he kinda understands and at least doesn't cry that badly. And Ah-gong will bring him to playground and they go for roti-prata + teh breakfast! Hmm... he is lucky to have a loving grandpa who never fails to bring him to playground + bf daily. The roti-prata uncle now see them will automatically make an egg prata and he actually cut into small pieces for him while frying it. So it's bite-size. And the drink stall auntie will serve teh automatically! This boy loves TEH! *faint*

When June comes, all my babies are having their birthdays! Hubby - 33. JJ - 3 and Celeste - 1!!!
Haven't thought of how going to celebrate cos it's all SOOOO Near! Hubby- 10th, JJ - 15th, Celeste - 26th!

As for me, waiting for bonus until neck also long long liao. Grr.....
Patience!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Thoughts

have been wanting to post for a very long time but just don't have the mood or find the time to. JJ was v sick last week so he "pontang" school for 3 days. What else! but bough again. Poor boy :( But boy, was he happy! Wed, we went City Square after seeing doc. Friday, I brought him to Paragon with my friends' gathering. he likes shopping center! haha. He also likes to go to "mum-mum place" aka coffeeshop near my place. Go "oh-up" aka lift cos it says going up! And last but not least ==> PLAYGROUND! :)

I love my babies very very much. While mummy is still at home, I will try to take care of u to the best of my abilities.



These days will think twice before I spend on things like pedi, magazines. will pause and think "do i really need it?" unless i'm in a really bad mood n needs retail therapy then it's a different story. haha.


These few days have been really pretty tiring. Celeste is getting worst with her cough and it caused alot of wind in her tummy. She will cry with high shrieks when she feels uncomfortable especially feeding time. Must put ruyi oil before feeding her. Heartache to see her cry until like this. Brought her to see a GP (highly recommended by my 1st BIL), hell! Doesn't seem very expert with checking babies and prescribed antibiotics,etc. And best part, charge me $76! And he said that must bring go hospital if don't get better by Wed. Allan and I were really worried and we brought her to see Dr Ong@ Mt A in the afternoon. Virus attack again and is on nebuliser. We really heartache to see her always on medication. By right, she will have enough antibodies to last her till 6 months cos I breastfed her. But I guessed the viruses are too strong this time round. Allan actually suggested that he takes 2 weeks off from work and we keep JJ away from school so that he and Celeste can recover fully. and our nieces stay at their home.

We will fetch them to and back from school thou cos PILs are gg for holidays. Hmm, shall discuss with Allan. my tots he can still go work. I will fetch nieces to school and bring their maid over, then bring their maid back together with their dinner to fetch my nieces and send them home.

Ok, my lil baby Celeste is tossing in her cot liao.

Have a great day everyone!

due to technical difficulties, this post was written at 5+am on 19-Oct but unable to post then. :)

Monday, October 04, 2010

Return to Work in 3 weeks' time!

I am returning to work in 3 weeks' time!!! RINNNNNNNNG! alarm is ringing. My babies are not ready to let mummy go to work.

Jayden is getting stickier to me. And when I asked him,"Mummy go office okay?" He says,"Cannot."

As for Celeste, she is used to me being the sole caregiver especially when helper went back for 3 weeks. Sometimes when passed to helper to take care these days, she will wail loudly till I carry her and there she just stopped the yelling. Am starting to get helper to take care of her in the afternoon for a few hours. But after the weekend, she is back to the "mummy mode" again. Teared the house down again today until I carried her and she stopped 3 seconds after I took over.

Mummy really MISSSSSS U babies! It's lots of adjustments for all of us. Mummy hasn't been working for 4months and has to revived her engines with turbo soon! I am treasuring every single day with u babies. Though mummy is quite tired these days from the previous 5 night saga from Celeste (kept waking up) + my Lasik + Jayden keeps asking to be carried, I feel as if I am going to faint sometimes due to exhaustion.

Managed to catch a nap to re-charged my battery. Need to get my energy level up again.

Still have about 400+ emails to screen through(down from 700). Now these emails are being archived. Trying to sort based on subject header. Can only read those important ones when I return to work.

Really don feel like returning to work. I am getting attached to my babies so much! love to see their every growth, their smiles, their naughty, cheeky little antics. sob sob...

Love getting morning kisses from my son. he now knows how to do the muack (used to just put his face close when we say kiss kiss).
When I pinch his nose in the morning, he pinches mine back.
Gonna miss my Wednesday dates with hubby (his off day).

EMO..........

LASIK

Before having Jayden, I had contemplated with doing Lasik. Then came pregnancy and after my 2nd pregnancy, finally I had decided to do it! Since still on maternity leave.

Actually the main push factor is that I am wearing contact lenses every single day cos it is cumberson to chase after Jayden wearing glasses. And I take them off only when I nap/sleep/bath. Sometimes I am too tired and I actually fell asleep in them n it causes my eyes to itch and become very dry. This is no good for the long run. Hence decided to lasik my eyes for the good of my next 10 years before I start to have "lao hua".

I was supposed to go for the consultation cum evaluation of my eyes. Didn't actually tink of doing it on the same day. But who knows there is a slot that evening, so on the date of 1st-Oct, I had my eyes lasiked.

Pretty nervous while I was in the OT. But as we mothers know, what can be worst than giving birth. keke... I had to remain calm and be brave and relax....

It's best to go home and sleep right after before the numbing effect went off and you start to feel all the effects of the surgery.

For me, not so much of tearing but my nose was blocked and became runny. eyes n nose r all connected but my nose is more sensitive n reacted more than my eyes.

It was sharp vision right after the op but just smoky...

I just saw in the Papers that Shingawa Lasik center is charging $1200 per eye for Wavefront lasik. Felt very "tui". Mine is Custom Laser which is $2688 both eyes. Wavefront is better than Custom for night vision. Damn...

Anyway, hope this dryness will go away soon.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Friends

Today's post shall be dedicated to my good friends. If u r reading this, you are considered one. :)

Throughout my life, besides my schoolmates where firm friendships were formed. The rest are formed from various workplaces. We have become so close like "work spouse" though lesbian type. keke... cos it's with female colleagues. NOT Male.

Where we share the ups and downs of our life as well. Give support to one another in need of times be it personal or work. Where we see each other more often than anybody apart from our family. Whom has seen us through marriage, motherhood...

There are some whom has entered the "good friend" category but has left as well as it takes 2 hands to clap to make the friendship last. Though it brings certain sadness at that point in time why it has happened, I had learnt to accept that perhaps it was just not meant to last.

Forum mummies is a special group too cos we have kids ard the same age. I only joined the one during Jayden time cos the first one is "more special" being a rookie mum. those that are more "gam" stay on to be good pals too. We bond over our kids. keke...

Lastly, I am truly blessed to have u as my great pal no matter which point of my life we met.

Ok, time to give my kids medicine before turning in.
Nitezzzzzzzz

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Feelings of a Stay At Home Mom

Prologue:
P/s: I have 25photos to upload in this post but due to some technical reason, I can only upload these for now though I have been trying to do the rest for the past few days but still can't. If u r a blogspot blogger, pls let me know if you have no problems u/l ur pics. I NEED TIPS! :P
Main Chapter:
I have kinda got used to being a mum with 2 kids. I feel blessed to have a great hubby and 2 beautiful children. They are my EVERYTHING. Thou it is not easy to take care of young baby Celeste and Jayden who still demand mummy to make milk for his night feeds(if any). But I feel the tiredness is worth it. They disappear when I see them smile, see them reach new milestones no matter how little it might be.
Celeste smiling when she was few weeks old! I call her my little Sunshine as she is a cheery baby! like to coo alot too!
She enjoys taking her morning bath! Can see her enjoying her spa...keke...


At 6weeks old. Having eczema on her face... poor girl. It seemed like the rash is getting better though it is spreading. Could not take it anymore and brought her see doc to get cream.

1st visit to Grandma house. Oops, above pic also taken at Grandma's house...
Happy Baby in the morning! Seeing her Smile chases away all the morning tiredness!



Jayden taking pic with the cat at amk while we were waiting to c sinseh. He is NOT afraid of cats and likes to touch them! This cat scratched his face! luckily, just a mild scratch!


TRIP TO SUNTEC!

I am super happy to be out with hubby and Jayden!
It's hard to take a pic with J! He doesn't look at camera and keeps moving!



He likes the cold cold feeling fm the sausage chiller area!

My darlings!
We went to the Suntec fountain area and Jayden kept testing the limits of the security officer. He kept hovering around us as J kept standing to the edge of the platform ready to jump into the water!

Using all my might to grab J!

Celeste with her short army crew head. Now, her hair is much longer liao... keke... shall post soon.


Started bringing Celeste for morning walks since she is up at 7+ while Jayden and Allan are still asleep. Will push her to Joo Seng park, get the papers and read my papers in peace at the park if baby is asleep. It is a different kind of life that I see that. Children running around in the playground waiting for the PCF to open and saying hi to their teacher as she came to open the door. Elderly exercising in the park. A peaceful neighbourhood with its own start of the day.
I am cherishing my Maternity Leave days before starting work. Loving every moment.
My motto: Be Positive in every situation. :)

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Life as a Mommy of 2!

Finally our Princess Celeste has arrived on 26-June at 2.08pm!
Weight: 3.19kg
Length: 47cm
Head circumference: 36.5cm

1st time giving birth via C-sect as Celeste is still breech as of 38th week checkup.
Hence, we decided to play it safe to go for Csect straight.

It happened so fast and before you knew it, the baby is out.

There was a false alarm on the night of 25-June (3am). I had regular contractions at 5mins interval for 1.5hrs. Thought that was it. Called for Dr Paul and was told to go to labour ward. Who knows after my 2nd visit to the toilet, the contractions stopped! Had to call Dr Paul to say that we are not going and will monitor how. We went for checkup the next day just to make sure baby is fine. Very embarrasing about the false alarm. He mentioned it is common for 2nd pregnancy to have strong braxton hicks. :P Allan said it's due to the Ben & Jerry ice cream which i ate the night before sleeping.

After deciding to deliver Celeste on 26th July (which is 15th of May in the lunar calendar)
We checked into Mt A at 11am. At 1+pm, I was wheeled into the waiting area of the Operating Theatre (OT).

Finally I was in the OT at 13.55.
I was still kpo enough to ask my anathetist (Dr Philip Tseng) if he and Dr Paul are brothers!
haha... he was candid and just said Yes! Ok, then I was put to sleep V V Fast.

The moment I woke up which is 3+pm, started to feel the wound. pain... and "suan suan" but still bearable. Then I was on the drip which had painkillers and that made me super drowsy till the next day. But I still got breastfeed baby. I think she also blur blur hence the latch not very good and strong.

I got down on my 2nd day to walk around, make sure can pee after cathetre is removed. 1st time stand up abit wobbly. But after that, it is ok. walk slowly... Will visit Dr Paul one week after discharge hence next Tues.

Thank god Celeste jaundice level is not too high hence we could go home together! Visiting Dr Ong tomorrow for her checkup. Next time, we will go to the Tampines one.

We have not received our hospital bill yet as we opted for the credit card payment which we will only be charged the final bill. Hope we don't faint upon seeing it!~

So currently working on breastfeeding but not giving myself too much stress. If don have enough bm, then give fm. It is the breastfeeding part which is really tough.

hmm... gg to rest before the lil one wakes up for feeding.