My V-Day Pressie

And "I LOVE YOU TOO".... Hubby can be so sweet. It came all the way from Bangkok, right to my office desk in front of my big eyes. It was a normal busy morning for us at the bank and receiving parcels and documents are what we normally do. I am always the friendly one to greet the office boy who does the delivering and whenever I see him carrying a parcel towards us, I will ask "Hadiah untuk saya, ke?" And that day, he spontaneously said, "Ye.." Of course I did not believe him as I did not expect to receive anything from anyone, what more from my hubby !!!!!##@@@

This little pressie came in a box, nicely decorated with a nice pink ribbon and on the delivery note, it is written "Ear ring - a pair". Aaaaa.... ear ring! Hmm...what type of ear ring huh? Coz it is so not him to buy me ear rings you know? Firstly, I DO NOT wear ear rings and secondly, I DO NOT fancy all these girly stuff... *hehe But after admiring it for some time, I thought it is not bad la.... a nice gold ear ring to suit my "round" face now. Immediately my colleague suggested that I put it on!

And this is the part I like most, along with it, there is heart shape card and in it, it is written "Nothing's gonna change my love for you"

I LOVE U, MY DEAR

Working in overseas is really not an easy task. Too many things to consider:-

* Language Barrier

* Various Culture, Practise, and Behaviour

* Different Expectations...etc

Almost all the time I have to eat alone, work alone, think alone...etc

But thanks to my wife who is always giving me full support, who takes care of my babies, who helps to take care my parents...etc

I LOVE U, MY DEAR!

Life With TWO Babies

Time flies. In just a blink of an eye, I have completed my second two months confinement and I am now back to work! For those who have not seen me for so long will say, "Huh, so fast meh...?" and I will say, " What so fast ah... who knows what tough time I went through?" Then again, I do agree that it is "fast", I got promoted from single->married->daughter-in-law->mother-of-ONE->mother-of-TWO in less than 3 years !!!

Being a mother of two is indeed not easy. Time is the main factor and in which I am always chasing after. 24 hours a day is indeed too short for me coz it ends me without me realizing. With so many promotions, my obligations get bigger and there are just too many things I need to handle.

And these are my obligations as a mother of two:

• to wake up at 5 plus in the morning (currently) to feed my little baby before I prepare myself to work
• to travel to office with my colleagues' car (thank god I have her to send me to office every morning)
• to complete my daily task in office and leave office as early as possible. So, do not talk about performance in work, I have somehow prioritized my family first. Time flies in office too, without me knowing, it is the end of the day and I had to start rushing back. Going back will be with the LRT plus KTM and I will always be the one running to catch the train. So, forgive me if I do not greet you if you happened to bang into me along the street.
• I have my in laws to look after my two little ones while I am at work. And I know taking care of them is like taking care of twins although they are one year apart. So, I understand very well that they will be tired easily and I have to be home early to take over the baby sitting job.
• Besides, to complete the house cores like sweeping and moping the floor, wash, hang and fold the clothes, cleaning my own room, preparing two meals of porridge for my Byan (that is the only food I can prepare, don't talk about cooking for the family), ironing my clothes and manage my time well so I can have little time to blog (like what I am doing now) and chatting with hubby online.
• The day ends early for me. I try at my level best to go to bed with the baby before 10pm every night to make sure I have ample rest for another new day. And I will talk to my little baby to be "good" so to let me have enough rest before I fall asleep every night. You won't believe this, it works!!! Don't wish to praise her here, as I am superstitious to believe that it might turn otherwise. *touchwood!

Having said all these, I think I am a grown up. I am now able to multitask and to be more independent as compared to before. I used to be a very emotional person but I guess I now have to be tough to face the challenge I have in bringing up my two babies. My life has to be changed to accommodate them and these are the sacrifices which I have made:

• sacrifice my afternoon nap which I used to have, especially during weekends.
• forget about window shopping as I used to be a shopaholic (my husband knows this very well)
• have my long straightened hair cut short to make me feel and look better taking care of two babies
• forget about meeting my friends, yam cha etc... actually I have stopped that long ago...
  
• to spend wisely and to prioritise buying babies needs. But I am not known to be a big spender, so not much of a sacrifice, but rather a new commitment from me *ceh...self praise
• to have a healthy diet to sustain a healthy body. I have now say NO to spicy food which I love a lot i.e. sambal belacan, tom yam, laksa...

All and all, I believe I will blessed with better life in return (self consoling). Yeah, it is tough now but still not that tough after all. I feel happy seeing my babies grow and to have this self achievement in taking care of babies. I have no regrets not sending any one of them to the baby sitter although it means sleepless nights and tiring days for me. Like I said, "time flies....." and in no time, they will be big and be an independent person like ME!

So, to all the new mothers out there, enjoy your parenting life. Take each day at a time and treassure the time you have with your babies while they are still small coz for all you know, they have grown up and you will miss these moments then. "If I can, why not you.... coz to me IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING"

Hhhhmmmm.....I hope after reading this, my husband won't come telling me, " How about another baby then?" HAHA!

Cheers,
The successful mother of TWO

Many Happy Faces of Byan

Here are many captured moments of how happy Byan is celebrating CNY. Somehow, I must agree kids are the happiest, with no worries.. just eat,sleep, play and eat, sleep and play. I am sure you will feel happy when you see my Byan in the photos below. She's a very tricky person, with lots of new patern, which you will never expect from her....

CNY 2009 2nd Day - Trip to Taiping

This year I finally get to go back to Taiping during CNY, thanks to my MIL who helped to take care of my little Bhui. We left KL at about noon and reached Taiping at half past three. As expected, Byan is very sticky to me especially since grand-mama didn't follow and everyone else in Taiping are not so familiar to her. She won't want anyone else to carry her except for myself and hubby, that also most of the time is only me myself.

So, we tried to make her feel being home by bringing all her toys back and let her have her favourite ride-on-shoulder, which Grandpa normally does. This is how happy and excited she can be:

I am also very happy to have my good old friends over, reason being it is not so convenient for me to go out with baby. My best friends: En Jee and sister, Evelyn, Li Chen, Yoke Yin, Su Ann, Wei Wan and Neeta came to visit me and my Byan. However, I only remembered to take photos of a few of them...

Left: Evelyn with the loving hug

Right: En Nee, En Jee and Evelyn with Byan

My parents have prepared steamboat for the night and this year it was a little special, we had it "outside the house". My dad came with the idea of having it in the porch since we have so many people this year: my sis and husband, myself, hubby and Byan, my parents and Jason and my cousin brother and family from KL. We enjoyed ourselves very much since we have not met for almost two years now.

My goodness, look at how hungry Jason can be..must be very tasty that everyone can't wait to eat

This is what my parents have prepared....look better than the ones we had in restaurants huh?

CNY 2009 - 1st Day

This year's CNY celebration is still the same, except that we have another baby in the house. A recap of what we did last year when we had our first baby-Byan in the house:

On the 1st day morning, we took Byan to the temple in Kepong for CNY morning prayers. I must say I like this Picasa software a lot, the way the albums are organised in the Library makes it so convenient for me to search back all the photos we took. This is how I looked after I gave birth to Byan and Byan was at 42 days. After prayers, we went to the old folks home for donation before we head back for mah jong session with MIL's relatives.

This year, we didn't manage to go to this same temple again as we have TWO babies to meddle with. We woke up a little late in the morning and by the time we finish dressing up, morning prayers ended. So, instead we went to the temple in Rawang for prayers and donation. It was such a sunny afternoon and both Byan and Bhui were sweating all over throughout the whole trip there. Thank god my Byan had her bare back Cheong Sam on, at least it is not too hot for her. And I must thank hubby's nephew for these photos taken, he took lessons on photo taking it seems.....

Left: Byan posing with her new bare back Cheong Sam at home *Notice how she can stand on her own now?

Right: Byan with Papa at the temple

Left: Byan's favourite pose, trying to "look cute" konon....

Right: Byan with Mummy *Notice my new hair cut