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

Byan's First Fire Crackers Night

CNY will not be complete without fire crackers. So, hubby bought some "safe" fire crackers from the night market to show Byan, thinking that she will be excited and happy. Ironically, my Byan turns out to be such a "scary cat" and nearly cry out loud when the crackers explodes. Watch her expression here:

The crackers starts to burn.....

Close up shot: Look at her big eyes focusing on the fire with NO SMILE

Feeling so scared although Papa hugging her tight

Fisher Price Stride-to-Ride Walker

Grandpa will help to start the walk

See....I can walk on my own now

Feeling a bit tired now....

My SIL bought this walker for Byan two weeks before CNY hoping that it will help her start her first step faster. It took us quite some time to decide which walker to buy since there are different types for different age group. Finally, we decided on this Stride-to-Ride Walker where it can be transformed for Byan to ride on it or use it as a walker as demonstrated by Byan in the photos.

Byan personally likes it a lot. It is her first pricey "toy", comes with a mini net ball game in front and it is musical!!! It entertains Byan a lot especially during the first few days but she got bored of it at the 3rd day, haha. Anyway, it is worth buying as Byan can stand on her own now *without the walker !!! ** Will post the photos soon

Which means...good bye to the walker... I can now put it back into the box, seal it and keep in for at least 8 months before I can dig it out for Bhui to start her walking lesson..

Bhui At 44 days

Finally I get to capture photos for Bhui and start a collection of albums for her. She is at 44 days, with longer play time as compared to the first month of birth. I like her hair which looks like the CJ7 , that's why I call her my "7 lui"

Byan's Growth Development

Suddenly just feel like doing this. I browse through the collection of photos we have for Byan and just feel like doing this self made chart. *Although it is a little cacat, but still acceptable la hor......

Byan's sweet kiss

This is how sweet my Byan (eldest daughter) is. Hubby captured this shot via webcam while we do the video call over MSN. And little innocent Bhui (youngest daughter) seemed to be enjoying it!!

Byan is famous for her "wet" kiss coz she will normally stuck out her tongue *which is full of saliva when asked for a kiss. HAHA!! She knows it when we ask her to sayang "mei mei" and this is exactly how she does it !

My New Born Angel - San Hui

Left: San Ern at first day of life

Right: San Hui at 2nd day of life

* Haha.. Mind me, San Ern was at 2.74kg during birth and San Hui at 2.86kg.

As expected, I had an early delivery due to my active nature, hehe. I walked and worked a lot during pregnancy *heard that it helps in easy delivery :) indeed true. On 12.12.08, at 2.55pm, I gave birth to my second angel, named San Hui. Weighing 2.86kg, I went through 3 hours on forced induction due to the amniotic fluid in the water bag has reduced. I was admitted a day before for observation after complaining baby is not moving much. I guess this will be my first and last induction ever, I won't want to remember the pain I went through.

Anyway, I like it when one my friend said, my baby came to bring luck and wealth. On 12.12.08, in chinese "Wan tou, wan tou" hmmm..hope it really brings luck and may hubby's career grow!

A comparison on how my two angels look like on the first few days of life. Also, a back dated blog for my San Ern whom I gave birth to on 28.12.07.

My New Cheong Sam from TAI YEE

Hehe... My Tai Yee has just came back from honey moon in Bangkok and this is the cheong sam she bought for me ! *Never know I will fit in so well....

You dare to say not nice meh??!!

Give you second chance, not nice meh?? !!!!

My first Birthday Party

This Dec 28, I will be ONE year old !! But I had an early birthday celebration with Kung Kung, Po Po, Ma Ma, Mummy, Tai Yee, Yee Cheong and Jason Kau Fu. It was such a surprise that they actually bought me a nice bday cake right after they reached from Taiping. Kung Kung and Po Po only took 2 hours to reach KL driving their new VIOS *Geng leh.....

Mummy, see how my magic touch can blow off the candle !! I know you were shocked to see me do that, but it was fun la.... *hehe

I got a new handphone as my birthday present.

I'm very touched and happy to have you all on my first bday !!

My sister is Getting Married soon...

You Won't Believe It!

Yeah, you won't believe it. She took less than a day to learn the goodbye kiss. We were having a video call with hubby over the MSN and before she leaves to sleep, we just taught her to kiss goodbye. And you know what, the next day she could do it already! But it is without the kissing sound la.... but the hand movement is very sweet.. *how I wish I could video it down... time to get myself a personal camera since ours is with hubby!

Today is also the day we took the key to our new house! On 11.11.08 and at 11.00 am! *Notice the date and time? Haha...it was a coincident la.. no any superstitious planning or what so ever. And my goodness, lots to do with the house, lots of defects and stolen things since we left it abandoned for a year! So, it is the time to start working on it now..

A Day Without You

Living a day without my hubby around is like loosing him for life! *That's what I told him and it somehow scares him.. With my second delivery coming very soon, I feel tired easily, often out of breath even just going up the stair case. Counting the days now.. for my hubby to be back on Nov 26, and to my delivery in Dec 20.

Alright, updates on what my little girl (10 months ++) can do now:

• She is of course, the "smiling God" in the house, besides learning how to talk now. Back to the long forgotten baby language "ang gu..." Will scream and answer when you call her name.
• Still learning very hard how to stand firm and start her first step on her own. Still relying on walker to move around but she seldom sits on it now. She prefers to crawl on the floor and to stand by holding on to table and chair *naughty!
• Can clap her hands now, although not loud.
• Learns hand action very fast i.e. touch her tummy when full, clasped her hand together when reciting "Amituofo", claps when we shout "hou yeh", wave goodbye with her sweet smile.
• Able to climb up the sofa on her own now without support. She somehow grows taller very fast.
• Enjoys bathing a lot, but somehow dislikes being poured water over her head. Will pretend to cry even before you started
• Have a very good potty discipline, will normally "do her business" twice every day.
• Started to be a vain pot, to my surprise, likes the watch I put on her very much, didn't even try to pull it out which is so not her! *vain..

Given all these and many more from my little girl, I have every reason to be strong, to be independent when hubby is not around. Yes, it is not easy to cope, especially with a small baby in the house plus another new baby on the way. But life has come to the end yet.. Lots more coming up in my life.

Too busy Life

I am too busy these days as I have been relocated permanently to overseas. I set the photo slide show in my desktop gadgets and it always make me miss my family.

Especially my wife and my BABY, both of them make me feel worth to work hard.
When you see my photos below, i'm sure you will have the same feeling...