Emotional Kid

I guess my son is an emotional human as me. When the sleeping time is coming and there is nothing that is occupying his brain, he will recall all the things that is happening during his day. And mummy is a good place to share his day. What does his friend said or did, what song had he learnt today, what colour of his friend's birthday cake, why his teacher always angry him, how jie-jie had to go upstairs and play up there, instead of playing with him.

Before that if I asked what he did at school or nanny place, his standard answer is Nothing :).

I hope he will always remember he can always talk to me although I am a fierce mum during the days :)

Swimming milestone

Yesterday was another Maal Hijrah public holiday. I brought Dylan to the club for a swim. It had been 3 months past since we deep into that pool. Raining and the obsession to play with his bike is the main reason. The day was not hot and there is a lot clear cloud that shun the sunlight. So I thought is a good time to try for a swim.

I purposely didn't bring his round float and instead I brought his arm float and flat float. Dylan is a big boy now. He didn't complain when I asked him to put on his arm-float. We tried it on the kid pool for a start. After a few tries, he threw away his flat float and was happily paddling away with his arm float. I am so proud of him... And suddenly he said he can put his head into the water and see the water underneath !! He was quite please with himself. He said, mummy, u didn't say U are proud of me ah.. hahaha.. Yes, he likes re-assurrance... Of coz, he had swallowed a few mouth of pool water. He asked me if the pool water will be finished by him or not ... hahaha... so funny. Of coz, it won't, silly... Then how the water will be finished ? Well, when they drain the water for pool cleaning la... hahaha...

I hope his love for swimming will sustain so that he can improve on it... Good job, boy!

Happy Mum.

Quiting a job for more than 15 years

Today I learnt that 2 my ex-colleauges are quiting their job of 12 years and 15 years respectively. It is a difficult decision for them. I think if I am in their shoe, I will also feel the same. When I was younger, I tell my self to work hard to save lots of money and will do what I can to achieve that. My mom and dad are always a non-believer of job hoping. There were in teaching profession for more than 30 years. My sister in Miri also is holding to her current for donkey years even though it didn't give her a good pay.

I quit my first company after 7 years !! At that time I didn't feel as emotional as this friend of mine. I just want to leave that damn place after seeing things that is happening there. Most of my friends of same batch had already long left and I felt that I should hv nothing to hold me back. So I took the plunge also.

In current company, i have worked for 3 full years and now I am thinking of quiting too !! :P After all this year, I am really not very happy with my life and would like to try some thing else... I am still wondering where and what I should do.... I hope God will show me the way...

Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2010

Yah, I think I should write about it. This is another personal achievement in my life - running a marathon. During April 2010, my colleague, Ms Samathan Lee, who had taken part in last year Marathon, invitde me to join her in the run. At that time, I was busy preparing demo for our bread and butter customer and feeling preasure and down and despressed with my work life, I thought, why not ? That is something different than mountain climbing. That's how I asked her to sign me up immediately. From then, there is no turning back. I had always thought of running the Penang Bridge marathon since I started working in Penang soon after graduating from USM and until now I haven't fullfilled the dream yet. Also, I thought I will be star in the atheletic field during school day if not for my parent who is very academic oriented. From then, my mind is focusing on this marathon. I started practicing after work with Ms Lee and others at KLCC park every other day if possible. I run for 2 rounds as a start and then increased to 3 rounds in June 2010. When the time almost near the actual running day, I tried running Sg Long big round which is 6.3 KM which took me 1 hour time, training 45 minutes for 2 of the weekend.

And I make it. My gun time is 1:34 and my net time is 1:28:18 !!! Bravo... and I am still thrilled with my achievement. hahahaha LOL.... LOL....

Although I feel body ache and leg pain now (it is recovering) I think it worth it !! And luckily my 'sister' came a few day before the run... hahaha.

FIFA World Cup 2010

Yeah, the FIFA world cup 2010 has finally come. Not that I am a football fan, but just want to be part of it. I have taken part in Office mini football result prediction and JacknJill handphone charm bidding game !! http://www.jacknjill.com.my/charms.php?regthanks=1

All the footballer, u are the best! Let's see what u've got !

Holistic Approach to Pregnancy

I have been trying to get pregnant since my last miscarriage about one and half year ago. This include eating some EPO to resolve my headache problem. Hubby has been working hard on this too. So far there is no sign of pregnancy yet. It come to a point that I almost give up on it. Then I read on this Holistic Approach to Pregnancy. It involve changing your diet and restore your body and spirit to a balance state. May be I should try this!!

Telephone appointment with my dear

Yesterday I joined Dylan's school field trip to Domino Pizza Taman Connaught, TUDM gallery and Vitagen factory. We paid RM 130 for the trip. It was a good experience for me to Y
Then it happened again every time I did this go-together thing with Dylan. He refused to go to nanny place the next day when the school was off for the day. I had to tell white lies just to get him agreed to go to nanny place. ie, office had police that will detain any children in sight, that I worked in other office already, that I will bring him to library after I worked, and finally he agreed on calling him before he sleep in the afternoon. So I set a reminder in my handphone to call him by 12:45 pm. I was in a meeting and I sneak out finally at 1:18 pm to give him a call. Nanny said he was sleeping already. I asked her to wake him up. If not, he will blame me later for not keeping promise. When he finally woke up and called mummy, my tear starts rolling down... asking him if he sleep already, if he had his lunch, and that I will bring him to library this evening when I get back. At the end, he was just nodding his head at the other side of the line. After that, I said bye-bye and asked him to sleep some more. Oh... how my heart is aching... I quickly go to toilet to clear my tears before continuing the QA meeting... I LOVE U DYLAN !!

My name is among the registered owner !!

Yvonne send me this link and I am jumping for joy ...
http://pinalcountyaz.gov/Departments/Recorder/Pages/DocumentSearch.aspx?fy=2009&fn=107243

Yippie... having more faith in landbanking for now...

Just the three of us, bunny and mimi once more

Today my parent is leaving for Singapore, in part of their series of journey to West Malaysia, now going to explore the new casino thingy in Singapore. My sister's family had long departed to US on the 3th May 2010. Now just left three of us and my pet, Bunny and Mimi.

Kind of missing the full house feeling, altho I was lacking ton of my beauty sleep for long time :)

Hopefully my sister's family in Miri will be able to make the trip during year-end!

Memories from the gathering:
1) Have fun seeing Michael's family eating supper at mid-nite
2) Have tonnes of new t-shirts from Ah Hie's trip to Hongkong, yippie...
3) Taking family photos together with mum and dad, dream come true
4) Cutting LingLing hair
5) Dylan having a blast with his LingLing and LingLing was enjoying Dylan company.
6) Dylan consumption of candy, chocolate ...etc junk was the peak of his life !
7) Dylan celebrating his 5th birthday with family members
8) Having seen quite a lot of relatives back home in Sibu, just short of Ti-ti who promoted to be a father!
9) Knowing dad also into land-banking too !!
10) Loss of tonnes of beauty-sleep :)
11) Changing the layout of furniture for 2 guest rooms
12) Mom was busy washing the bed-sheet after the guest left.
13) Had dinner every day after work. Thanks mum !
14) Mum amend my blanket!! Cosy and nice blanket.

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endless ....

Appreciating Your Child!

One of the mummy of my son's Tick Tock Beat class lend me a book entitled is 欣赏你的孩子 by 张弘. The author himself has a deaf daughter since 1 year olds who turn out to be a genius down her life time. This book has enlightened me on various mistakes that I had made in communicating with my son. It emphasized on not belittling him but to highlighting his strong points. For example, if he has homework that have 10 questions and he did only one correctly, instead of start to get aggigated and soaring and blaming him for the rest of the wrong answers, I have to phrase him for the correct one !! Also, it had an example by a well-known Japanese Violionist on how he teached his son, 玲木. He quoted as saying that his son if can get thru passing mark is consider passed la !! No need to get 100 mark ! It reflected on me too. When I attended some course that required some sort of exam, I was happy even I just passed and will not want to sulk at the result. Instead of concentrating on school work, as long as his son finish his school work, he should use other time to read others non-school related book. This bring a great enjoyment to his son life-long learning experience.

I have only managed to read only a quarter of it and I am sleepless over it already. Today I got panda eyes!!!

Panasonic is 松下

This morning was reading newspaper while doing my business, an magazine from Nanyang San Bao, don't know from which weekend. The cover was the MD of Panasonic Malaysia Sdn Bhd, who is a Malaysian. From the article, I only know Panasonic in Japanese people calls it 松下. Wow, I respected him. Sorry, can't remember his name, was never good at remembering thing at one glance. Apparently he worked for Panasonic for 27 years to his current position. Recently I keep in touch with my old secondary school friend who was also working in Panasonic Malaysia for a few years already but had since quited it 2 years ago. She expressed in her blog that how hectic the work life was like in Giant Japanese multinational company. This guy must have work his ass out and the Headquarter in Japan is trusting him so much to give him this position. Gambateh !! Yes, Chinese boleh !!

After reading a news in The Sun today, I finally got the name of the MD, Jeff Lee.

Bunny Dissappearance

This morning I let my bunny went out for a morning walk by itself as usual. That was around 8:30 am. Later at around 9:30 am, my son was shouting high and low that it was no more in the garden. I thought it will be just outside the gate as usual and will hop back when it was done with its exploration. hmmm.... but it didn't. We were just about getting ready to go out to the market to have breakfast. So we just left la.

When we came back, it was still not there !!! I was worried and was wondering when it went. Nevertheless we still got ready and went to mid-valley for some window shopping. After we were back it was still not there wor !! I walked around the neighbourhood under the torching sun and making my 'ju ju' sound hoping to attract his attention and hop back. Still no sight of him ... I was wishing he was taking a nap somewhere. And also partially comforting myself that may be it is a good thing. No need to be bother with rabbit cleaning every day now and get bargain for cheap carrot. Now I know how much 1 kg of carrot is cost !! At least RM 4/kg !!

After waking up from my afternoon nap, finish preparing for dinner, I went out scouting again. Still no sight of it hoping away nearby. When I just about giving up, mum was saying the bunny is back!! He was in his cage munching away hungrily !!! I was so happy and poured it a treat.

Hubby still refused to fence the gate for me... damn !!