hello there!

HELLO 2016!

2016-01-04T23:22:00.003+08:00

*waves hands*

The last time I actually blogged was in Sep 2015.

Goodness,

where have I been?

Anyway, my 2015 has been a pretty awesome one,

because:

1. Alonso,

the new addition to the LEE family.

He is probably the main reason (99.99%) why I think 2015 is awesome.

To be able to have both a daughter and a son is really a blessing.

I prayed sooooooo hard for a son, really!

I'm not saying that to have all sons or all daughters is bad,

but having 1 each, kind of allows me to say "ok, target met, factory can close down now!"

I am very blessed,

really really blessed.

Thank you God!

2. Arissa

I am always thankful for this cheeky dino obsessed girl.

She is the sunshine in my life,

the reason why I can smile despite a bad day at work.

Actually work is not bad, just that sometimes it frustrates me to no end.

I live for her hugs and kisses.

Every time she wants Mummy, it makes me secretly proud and immeasurably happy.

3. Bei,

the husband.

Another person that I'm always thankful to have,

though I may not show it.

The disciplinarian in the house.

The one who is more involved with the kids than me.

The one who works hard for the family.

The one who still makes my heart flutter even after so many years,

even though most of the time, he irritates me to no end

and I imagine myself stepping on his face too often lol.

4. Family,

both sides.

Some may fail you,

but most do not and I'm thankful for that.

5. Work

I just wish that I can do the work of what a CA do.

Or rather, earn what a CA earns.

Sighs, I think I'm in my comfort zone.

Actually, to me, work is just work.

I've always wanted to climb up higher and faster,

but being a woman and being pregnant will in 1 way or another slow things down.

When things slow down, it seems to just stay that way.

I've lost the direction and became less ambitious,

maybe because of well, kids.

Being a woman is not easy,

you either choose to focus on your career and risk neglecting your family

you focus on your family and your career comes to a standstill with not much progression.

Of course, I chose my kids, my family.

So depressing to talk away work LEH!!!

2016 RESOLUTIONS

1. LASIK

this resolution, I can tick it in Jan (oh YEAH BABY!)

2. ARISSA'S EDUCATION

I found the perfect school (just 1 street away from our house!),

BUT the class is full -_-"

WHYYYYYY!!!!

In the meantime, she will be home-schooled,

by none other than the disciplinarian, Papa.

The curriculum (2 hours) will be:

Monday, Tuesday: English

Wednesday: Chinese

Thursday: Maths

Friday: Science

LOL, how to teach Science?

Hmm, we shall see how it goes then...

3. ALONSO'S 1 YEAR OLD BIRTHDAY PARTY

We have had our eyes set on the venue

(the one we couldn't manage to get for Arissa's 1 year old party)

Kiasu husband asked me to book the venue

and I have emailed and right now, waiting for the proposal.

I'm contemplating if I should secretly book the baker for the birthday cake.

The last time, we (mostly the husband actually) baked Arissa's cake ourselves.

I remember the lack of sleep and the countless trip to the supermarkets and cake supplier shop.

The husband said we should also bake Alonso's cake.

Please NOOOOOOOOooooo please!

4. WEIGHT

I just want to be 48 kg again!

HAHAHA,

is that even possible!?

5. CUT DOWN ON ONLINE SHOPPING

Notice that I did not say quit,

because that is not realistic and asking for the impossible.

6. BLOG MORE

Oh yes, blogger mom leh, lol!

Days of a SAHM

2015-09-22T21:46:00.001+08:00

Hi,

I'm still alive!?!

Everyday is a challenge with a colic baby. I dread or rather we dread evenings as that is when baby let loose and scream his lungs out. In the day, he is an extremely light sleeper so any sound will stir the dragon and we incur his wrath. We tried playing music, turning on the radio, but he miraculously has the ability to differentiate sounds. So even with the radio, he can filter out the door opening, your footsteps, I suspect even humans breathing. When he gets angry, he screams as though he was beaten. Rarely there will be tears. It is just non stop screaming. When he wants milk, U have to give it to him immediately, like NOW! If not, he will scream and scream so much so that your hands will tremble in fear when preparing his milk. And he will be sure to give you hell after he's done drinking. He will refuse to sleep and insist you talk to him until your throat gets so dry and your tongue sticks to the top of your mouth. When you talk to him, he will ohhh ohhh Ahhh Ahhh back, which makes your heart melt and you forgot about the terrible screaming before. But when he is sick of the conversation and wants to sleep, he makes sure you shake the yao lan, pat his butt and stuff the pacifier all at the same time. If the pacifier drops out, you are dead meat and he will scream till you almost go deaf. But when he's finally asleep, you look at that angel face and your heart melts again. But 10 mins later, he will scream and stir again because there's an extremely active and LOUD toddler with shouting grandparents in the living room. So Mr little light sleeper is affected and be angry. So the patting and shaking and stuffing restarts and this vicious cycle repeats and repeats until the active toddler takes her naps or when it's night time. Thank goodness he drinks milk and sleep easily at night. He is better than an alarm clock, wakes up for milk on the dot every 3 hours. Sometimes every 2 hours. He doesn't miss a feed. Maybe that's why he is a little 小胖子 now, but I love fatty people lol.

Do I sound like I'm complaining? Coz I am not, I'm just telling you my everyday lol.

Still feel ver blessed and grateful that God gave him to me, even though he may be a little challenging. But glad that I have a 'challenged' life now.

On bad days, I'm happy to be lead to articles on Facebook about stillborn babies, they make me appreciate the bad days. Thank you, God for the Angel you gifted us.

Is this normal?

2015-08-31T16:54:00.001+08:00

Was carrying Alonso using the baba sling at home to make him sleep and when he had finally slept, the husband commented that it looks very comfortable for him.

Then I said "what if I tell you now that I need to shit?" *serious face*

Him: "it's okay ah, U can just go and shit, it's not hindering you...you still can take off your pants.."

Me: "just kidding la!"

5 mins later...

Me: "hey I really need to shit"

And so I went in to shit, carrying Alonso, wiped the bum, flushed and washed my hands..

Wtf did I just type above?

Motherhood level up!

Please tell me you have done this before so that I know I am a normal human..

Just so thankful that he didn't wake up or cry while I did the deed lol, can't imagine having to bounce up and down the toilet bowl wtf, and stuffing the pacifier back into his mouth..

Okay that's very disgusting!

Maybe you are wondering why I couldn't put him down! That's because he cries when let down on bed, he rejects the spring cradle, the human shake shake!

When I say cry, it actually means shouting/screaming. This little man doesn't cry, but he sure screams and screams! Okay very manly, boys don't cry Ya?

Having a second child

2015-08-22T22:15:00.001+08:00

It's been a month since the delivery of my second child, Alonso.

As parents, we thought experience will make this whole repeated process easier but no, every child is different. For example, with Arissa (my firstborn), she can lie on the bed awake but with Alonso, if he is awake, he has to be carried.

I shopped online A LOT during Arissa's time, but with Alonso, there was practically no shopping online unless U call grocery shopping as shopping.

Okay enough of the comparisons!

No one told me these when I wanted a second kid or when I finally have one.

1. Attention

Everyone or rather most people said to always pay attention to your first kid as they could feel unbalanced. Since the baby can't understand yet, you should try to attend to your first kid first, it's okay to let the second baby cry.

NO. Your second kid deserves your utmost attention too. He/she didn't chose to be second. Just because he/she is second doesn't means that he should be second in line for your attention. If he/she was your first, he would have the 100% attention but because he was born 2nd, he didn't get to enjoy the 100% attention he could have deserved. This little angel of yours didn't choose to be second. So why mama, do U care about jiejie/korkor's feelings before mine? Why? I am also your child, mama.

2. Comparisons

We love to compare, don't we?

Mama, just because jiejie/korkor is easier to take care, doesn't means I'm a difficult baby..Why, mama, do U feel I'm a difficult baby? Why are you always comparing me to your firstborn? If I were first, you would have nothing to compare and you wouldn't think I was being difficult or bad tempered. Why do you call me naughty just because I want you to carry me? Why are U frustrated when I cry for your attention?

3. Panic level

When the first child had any conditions, the alarms in our head goes off and we panicked and goes off to the doctor or even the a&e.

But with the second child, we are more relaxed since we thought with experience, that was nothing.

Alonso had ringworm (skin condition) around his balls (I don't know how he gets it!) and we all thought it was just diaper rash. We tried to self treat it by applying tons of desitin (cream to prevent/treat diaper rash) and even antiseptic powder. He was a cry baby (okay he doesn't cry but he screams) for weeks and had to be carried to sleep. We thought he was a difficult baby, little did we know he had ringworm! Poor baby must be battling the itch! And we only know about that when we visited the doctor for one month review. Told the doctor that he seems to have diaper rash and the doctor took a look and said it's ringworm, some fungi infection blah blah..My heart broke! Then continue to check his mouth and he has some infection as well *cries and bang head on table* MY POOR BABY! U fucking bacteria fungi shit making my baby suffer!

After the meds application, he sleeps like an angel and kind of paying back sleep debt lol, slept like 4-5 hours before waking up for milk. My baby is not difficult, not a difficult baby! Not a naughty boy!

This taught me to be ALWAYS KIASU!

Whatever out of the norms, go to the doctor!

I feel so sorry for Alonso, because he gets compared to Arissa all the time. He was born 2nd not by choice and only have half of the attention by the parents, whereas Arissa at least get to enjoy 1+ years of 100% attention.

The husband said that 1 + 1 is not equals to 2. Having 2 kids is well not the same of having 1 kid + 1 kid. It's totally different from what we expected, I guess.

Will it really be possible to love your kids equally? Honestly? Well, to be honest, I don't think it is possible, since I know my parents love which of my siblings most.

People said to have at least 2 kids so that they can be there for each other, so that they can have company, so that they can share burdens (like when I grow old, both can share in taking care of me financially/physically), so that when the parents die, they have each other..

I totally agree.

There is a lot to sacrifice if U have 2 kids compared to 1, so be prepared if you decided to have more than 1. #iamnotdiscouragingreproduction

When I had Arissa, I was paranoid that I or rather we, couldn't give her the BEST, in terms of financially like going to the best schools, best clothes, best toys. Ya la, I know I was being superficial. That paranoid thinking lasted a month only, let me conclude that was due to post preg depression, shall we? If the problem was about money, then it isn't a problem. The BEST I could give my child was simply LOVE. She doesn't need the best material things in life.

Now that I have Alonso, I worried that my love or rather our love for our kids is insufficient. I worried that we can't love them equally. I worried that others won't love them equally. I worried that my son gets the 2nd kid 'branding'. #thismotherworriesalot

I can't imagine how to manage with a 3rd or 4th kid! I think will go crazy! Choy! Choy! #sorrygovernment #stoppingat2

Here's a picture to make this gloomy post less gloomy!

2 weeks of having 2 kids..

2015-08-03T00:15:00.001+08:00

It's been 2 weeks since I've given birth.

A hectic 2 weeks!

Both Bei and I were so worried that our firstborn, Arissa will be jealous of her little brother and feel unbalanced or insecured.

We tried our best to always be there for the both of them. 1 of us to settle the newborn while the other to accompany Arissa. But the first week, I was practically of no help, since I was recovering from the ahem tear/stitches down south. I was suddenly reminded why I previously only wanted one child, it's was #!?#@ so painful la! Am I the only one who always has the tear till the arsehole?! Fml..

But this time round, I'm healing faster compared to the last time. Stitches ain't swollen, except I got rashes, Fml la! I think it's the pad problem, lol too much details! But rashes recovered in 2 days with a lot of washing and soaking and washing and airing lol. Damn cham, why do women need to go thru all these? Why can't the tear just be glued back and healed completely in a day? Maybe next time, like 10 years later!

Arissa has been nothing but over enthusiastic about the brother. She adores him, I know it. She keeps crying for him and wanting to see him and touch him. I'm so proud of her yet at the same time so scared because she gets so excited and starts to go crazy. Her sayang becomes too rough for a newborn and she screams didi and start to scream "WAKE UP DIDI!" -_-"

Poor didi's eardrums!

I hope they grow up getting along fine, my daughter is so loud, I wonder what will become of the brother? Equally loud? Fml!

Okay, sleeping now while all is peaceful!

Bye!

Day 1 of post delivery

2015-07-19T11:37:00.001+08:00

It is TRUE!

The 2nd labour is indeed easier than the first! Not only that, I don't feel tired after giving birth, wtf except for panting la!

The 1st labour, I totally knocked out after giving birth and slept so well, so drained until when the nurses pushed the baby over, I was like so goggly and said I needed to zzz.

But this 2nd labour, I can't even fall asleep until the morning 6am, faint and slept for 2 hours nia! Diao, hopefully tonight I can finally zzz properly. If not, when I check out and return home, I can forget about sleeping totally lor..

The hub went home and brought back Logan ginger tea, which I was looking forward to..Boy! This time round, maybe ginger cheaper or good ginger season, my mil put in a lot of ginger, I was burning the whole night after drinking yesterday lol, ma cham drinking the soup of fiery noodles. But it's good, cos i perspired a lot and smell stinky now but I think I perspire some fats out lol. Okay I'll go drink somemore of the spicy oil, oops I mean tea..

Arissa honeybun is coming to visit me later! So excited to show her didi! Kept my bread and biscuit from breakfast to bribe her later, food always work with this lady!

Back to watching repeated movies on HBO! Seriously they need to update the movies on a daily basis la, How can yesterday's movies be the same as today's movies!

Oh ya! TMC has free wifi, I just realized!

Damn it, I've send so much media yesterday and bound to exceed my data, geez! Now with 2 kids, need to be more auntie and make use of free wifi haha! Need to inform the hub too, who exceeds his data every month, tsk tsk!

This is it!

2015-07-18T14:15:00.001+08:00

I'm lying in the delivery suite with contractions coming on and off every 6 mins. Pain on a scale of 0-10 is 4.

Most people said the contractions is the most painful, but to me, the cutting of the vaginal is the MOST painful and oh the sewing back.

That's my greatest fear, and this is the last time to go through this (hopefully! Lol)

.....

Okay, Gynae came and said lets get on with this..broke the water bag and now gonna take epidural (greatest invention for women)..Baby Alonso, see you soon!

Hello Kitty fan, at her best :)

2015-06-29T12:56:00.001+08:00

My little honeybun who is not so little anymore!

We love hello kitty as you can see!

All geared in hk to hit the pool!

Lighting just has to destroy this perfect picture *cries*

Top 10 differences between the first and second pregnancy

2015-06-22T14:47:00.001+08:00

1. Diet

1st pregnancy - What diet? Whatever the baby wants to eat, I ate.

Old folks say to satisfy all cravings if not the baby will come out to be a glutton.

OK, point taken! EAT ALL I WANT!

2nd pregnancy - Thou shall not eat.

No sweet stuffs!

I am not going to make the same mistake of putting on more than 20 kg!

2. Shopping

1st pregnancy - ALL SOOOO CUTE!!! BUY ALL!!!

It's a girl and a girl can never have too many clothes.

Moreover, I don't have any pass-down baby girl clothes.

So, I bought all the PINK one can possibly find.

Why is there so many things to buy for a baby girl?

2nd pregnancy - Thou shall not spend unwisely.

I have 2 nephews, so there's plenty of baby boy's clothes.

And when I say plenty, it means it is enough for at least 5, okay maybe 10 baby boys!

My sister is 100 times crazier than me.

I bought less than 20 pieces of baby boy clothings.

So, I splurged on 1 jacket

which I am still feeling very guilty.

1 tiny jacket for the price of 1 kitchen set.

Okay, never mind.

3. Medication / Supplements

1st pregnancy - I ate those pills faithfully.

2nd pregnancy - If I can remember, then I take them.

4. Transportation

1st pregnancy - When the husband can't send me or pick me up from work, I took the taxi.

2nd pregnancy - For the 1st and 2nd trimester, if there's no car, I took the bus (sometimes).

For the 3rd trimester, I took the taxi (because apparently some working adults need to be seated on the priority seats to play some lame iphone games).

5. Finance

1st pregnancy - That Chanel bag is nice! So are the earrings!

2nd pregnancy - If I buy this Chanel bag, I can buy so many shoes and clothes for the kids.

6. Push Present

1st pregnancy - 1 Chanel bag please!

2nd pregnancy - I need no Chanel. I want lasik, so that

I can wake up, open my eyes and see my kids.

7. Husband

1st pregnancy -

Wife: I am thirsty.

Husband: What drink do you want?

2nd pregnancy -

Husband: I am thirsty.

Wife: What drink do you want?

8. Sleep

1st pregnancy - Sleep all I want.

2nd pregnancy - My 1st ~~baby~~ kid needs me, I have to wake up now.

9. Confinement Preparation

1st pregnancy - Read up online intensively,

listen to everyone's views.

2nd pregnancy - I've been there, done that. Nothing to prepare for.

10. Birth Preparation

1st pregnancy -

Hospital bag packed.

Downloaded at least 20 hospital bag checklists just in case I missed out anything.

2nd pregnancy -

RELAX lah,

I will pack it later~

I'm a Merries diaper hogger!

2015-06-14T21:38:00.001+08:00

This is the current storeroom situation.

When there's a merries diapers sale, you whack!

Do not hesitate, you will regret later when U are paying normal prices for it.

I live by this principle

Anyway, I've an excuse for hogging.

Well, if Arissa outgrow these, her brother and nephew can use them!

See!

Savings in the long run!

I'm such a thrifty person, flips hair

Arissa Honeybun 1st year old birthday bash

2015-05-25T00:11:00.000+08:00

After what seems like forever,

here is the post on Arissa's 1st year old birthday!

She is now, 19 months

and her little brother will be out in 1 month' time.

This is how amazing God is,
and how blessed we are.

Her eyes on the birthday cake!

Our eyes on you, young lady!

My 1 and only picture with the 2nd love of my life

Wishing you good health and happiness, my Honeybun

In the end, we let her 'trash' the whole cake.

Beautiful set up of Hello-Kitty candy bar

by SurprisingMyLove

You can check them out at:

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Customized Kit-Kats

Yummy éclairs!

Kids went crazy with the honeystars!

Birthday cake was done by Bei,

took 1 day 1 night to complete!

That explains why Bei looks so tired in the pictures.

I told him for the next birthday or next kid,

we are so gonna order the cake instead and he agreed.

But now, he is saying for his son,

he wants to make his 1st birthday cake too!

*faints*

Cake pops were done by Bei too.

You can't imagine how many trips we made to different baking stores.

Miniature red velvet cupcakes

Photo booth was by:

http://www.unique-colours.com/

Everyone loves the photo booth!

erm, face was itchy -.-

All balloons decorations were from:

http://www.balloonsnkids.com/

If you have any questions about the party,

you can email me at lovjinjin@gmail.com

I'm off to plan for baby boy's full month party now~

lol, my life revolves around kids parties.

15 months...

2015-03-11T22:34:00.001+08:00

Drama queen is full of expression, just drinking water..

Back to haunt

2015-03-07T11:47:00.001+08:00

Sighs!

This 2nd pregnancy, I'm very conscious about the weight gain because if it's rocket high like Arissa's time, I thought I have to go through that diabetics test again. So all in all for the past few months, I've only gained 5 kgs which is amazing lol, I can be Japanese liao!

But but but the Gynae said I still gonna go for the diabetics test, Fml cos I had gestational diabetics during my 1st pregnancy, siannnnnnnnn...

So I spammed all the durians and sweet drinks yesterday in anticipation of the tests next month which requires fasting (starve Preggy woman to death!), 3 blood withdrawal and sucky drinking of glucose!

Thank God that I only want 2 kids and just nice, 1 girl 1 boy! Okay I need to count my blessing instead of whining non stop!

Hopefully my weight gain can remain constant and the total weight gain is just 10 kg instead of the previous 20kg weight gain during 1st pregnancy!

After this pregnancy, I can work hard to be hot mama lol. Gonna sign up all the nonsense facial and body treatments and do lasik and finally, focus on my career!

Underwater world vs Sea Aquarium

2015-02-28T23:54:00.001+08:00

Today, we went to the Underwater World!

When I was a kid, I used to go there with my family and I loved the moving travelator.

I went to the Sea Aquarium with Bei's family before and found that it is so so boring, because they had only 1 station for interactive! And it was just to touch a couple of starfish and it was super crowded, seriously!

Sea Aquarium is a huge ass place for tourists, people to go dating, or simply fish photographers -.-"

There's nothing much for families with little kids..

As a parent with a little kid myself, it is important to go to places that my honeybun will enjoy. So the husband suggested Underwater World! Well, we all know that the underwater world is like past season already cos the latest thing is sea aquarium. I went there with not much expectations though I remembered that there's a couple of stations for u to touch the fishes (interactive yo!)

Underwater world is so so much smaller and emptier (less crowded I like!).

They have stations for u to touch stingrays, feed stingrays, touch fishes, feed fishes! I find these more interesting than touching starfish!

The good fathers teaching their daughters!

Touch touch!

Can you see the baby stingray?

You can also pay a few dollars to feed huge arse stingrays like this one:

You are supposed to hold the food in between your fingers and put your hand into the water and the stingray will eat it from your fingers. Scary shit cos before the stingray eats it from your fingers, you freak out and release the food in the water lol! That's what our friends did!

Bei wanted to bring honeybun to see fishes because honeybun has been saying Fish! Fish! whenever she sees one on the tv and its cartoon lol!

Saw a peacock and some birds. Honeybun kept on pointing at them 'bird bird'!

Went for the dolphin show at dolphin lagoon! Seals and pink Dolphins!

Took a few pictures only cos I was busy watching the show to snap pics!

My favourite family photo of 2015!

Cheeky little kids!

Okay, now go buy tickets to Underwater world please, before it closes down!

So sad to see that everyone is choosing to go boring Sea Aquarium instead!

There's this groupon deal for $35 for tickets to trick eye museum + underwater world + dolphin lagoon!

We are so shagged out after the underwater world and dolphin lagoon that we called it a day and decided to utilize the trick eye museum tickets another day!

Ok bye off to zzz!

So blessed

2015-02-27T22:49:00.001+08:00

Well, I'm pregnant again...

Our latest family photo, 4 of us :)

Angie's factory productivity rate is pretty good, haha! After this production, the factory operation will cease, thank you very much! God blessed me with a baby boy! Oh boy, I'm so lucky to have the next of both worlds, 1 girl and 1 boy, 好I've never been so happy seeing a dick lol. To illustrate it, here's a picture for you!

Actually deep down, I still can't believe that I'm so blessed, and I'm so paranoid that the Gynae is wrong. Gonna ask the Gynae to zoom in the dick during the next check up!

My precious honeybun munching on her smelly Chou Chou! I hope that she can accept the new sibling well...Geez, why am I so paranoid? Everything will work out!

She's becoming obsessed about hello kitty, so much so that when she sees one, she will shout "kittyyyyyyy".

I've created a kitty monster lol.

Grumpy pants here cos she got scolded by the daddy for touching the lift walls lol.

Why I won't vote for WP?

2015-01-14T22:05:00.001+08:00

It took me some time to decide to post this.

A month ago,

I was still hesitating and thought I shouldn't post this,

since it isn't something that is good or worth publicising.

BUT

TONIGHT,

I've decided to go ahead with it.

Because you know why?

Victor Lye from PAP just knocked on our door,

telling us of the high dengue rate in our area and asking us to be more cautious.

He is not in charge of my area,

because my area is under WP.

and He was alone,

doing house visits.

There is no election going on either.

So what I saw was,

a hardworking PAP member,

who took the extra mile to remind residents of dengue,

which is something he does not have to do.

what more, all alone, going from door to door,

when he can be chilling at home with his family.

...

I guess I am a pretty objective person.

If I complain, and you do something about it,

then yes, of course I will vote for you.

And I would like to think that when I complain,

it means it is almost intolerable.

Why I would STILL vote for PAP?

...

So here's the WP STORY:

The car park's lift has been down for a couple of days before this notice was pasted.

So, everyday we walked to the lift,

and went "Oh, lift's still down"

until 1 day we saw the notice

and went "Oh okay, it will be done on 29th".

But NO,

after the 29th, we went to the lift and it was not fixed.

Okay, never mind,

maybe on the 30th, if not they would have updated the notice or something.

Well, for the next few days,

the lift is STILL down and the notice is the same!

I have to carry a 10 kg baby up and down the carpark,

and I pay town council fees.

After 5 days of waiting,

I decided to get some help in escalating the repair works,

since it was pointless to call the town council

who just know how to say it will be fixed today (BUT IT WAS NOT!!!).

On 9 Dec, the lift is still down.

Oh well, I have ZERO faith in WP or Sylvia.

I just resigned to fate and climb up and down with ~~the sack of rice~~ my baby.

That is until I saw the below picture posted on the Hougang Parkview Facebook page:

WIN LIAO LOR,

APRIL 2015!

I felt so angry,

so I emailed again.

NO REPLY FROM DEAR SYLVIA,

YES, NOT A REPLY AT ALL.

then I saw on the papers that she's busy opposing PAP's policies.

OH SO BUSY AH!

Honestly,

do people vote for WP,

simply because they hate the government?

they really believe that WP can make things work for them?

On the 15 Dec,

the town council decided to join in the fun:

The lift is already fixed, by the way!

If I remembered correctly,

it was either the end of Dec or start of Jan..

Oh wait,

was it first week of Jan 2015?

Ah whatever!

The whole point is not to rely on WP to make things work for you.

They have either too much on their plate or

they simply can't be bothered with you because

they know for sure, they will win the election for this area (yucks!).

Okay, please go share this,

so that we can have PAP over this area for the next election (hopefully please!).

Honeybun's 1 year old photoshoot

2015-01-01T18:51:00.000+08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It's 2015 already,

and here I am catching up on my 2014 entries!

Because they become more irrelevant as it has already been,

these are some of the photos from

Honeybun's 1 year old photoshoot

credits to the husband aka photographer

Setting up!

Princess theme,

which I requested, lol.

I think it's every little girls' must!

Behind the scenes:

ekkkk, you smelly!

Behind the scenes:

This is my favourite set!

Behind the scenes:

Heavy cheeks are heavy!

Erm, this is our family photo!

HAHA,

everytime I see this picture,

I cant help laughing!

Next up,

the actual 1 year old celebration,

which I have been procrastinating too.

Why SAHM has a tougher job?

2014-12-13T12:30:00.002+08:00

I just survived 5 days of SAHM cum work from home.

The first 4 days were manageable,

with the husband at home too.

I knew all along a SAHM has alot to do at home,

but I just didn't know it's THAT MUCH!

7:00 AM:

Honeybun wakes up.

I will make milk for her, while the husband watches over the

crawling walking "I want to touch everything" monster.

7:30 AM:

Changed the diaper after she finishes her milk,

put her in her play yard,

switches on the TV (baby TV).

Walks away from a whiny baby (who has some separation anxiety LOL)

to cook her porridge.

I brush teeth, pee & wash the face.

Switches on the laptop to check emails.

8:00 AM:

Honeybun shitted so the washing butt and changing diaper goes~

Steamed some buns for Honeybun & maid to eat,

and freshly squeezed orange juice for her and the husband.

8:30 AM:

Feed the buns & orange juice to Honeybun.

9:00 AM:

Bath her or rather attempt to bath her.

Dress up the crawling monster and my back's gonna break already.

Feed her water and coax her to sleep in her yaolan.

9:30 AM:

Monster is asleep and I get to work.

In between, checking on porridge, blending purees if required.

11:30 AM:

Monster wakes up and lunch is served.

This is a nightmare,

she decided she hates porridge.

1:00 PM:

Gives on feeding porridge,

and substitute with bread.

1:30 PM:

Whiny monster playing with her toys in the play yard,

while I try to get some work done.

Oh, ya! I think I ate lunch too, I can't remember.

2:30 PM:

Gave up trying to work and go inside the play yard to accompany

the separation anxiety monster,

who clings onto you and then walks away,

and clings onto you and watches TV and walks away,

and then running into your arms and patting your back,

and fake cough and demand to be patted back on her chest,

and rolls on your lap and looks at you charmingly.

3:00 PM:

Exited the play yard to make milk for her,

and the monster screamed like crazy.

Feed her milk and coax her to sleep again.

3:30 PM:

She fell asleep.

I get to work again and pour myself a cold drink.

5:00 PM:

Honeybun's up and bring her to walk around the house.

5:30 PM:

My back has broken.

Put her into the play yard and she screamed and whined.

I checked the emails again.

6:00 PM:

Dinner is served for the monster

and it's nightmare again.

7:00 PM:

Gives up feeding and the maid happily eat the rest of the porridge.

7:30 PM:

Bathing time!

and attempt to dress wriggling monster.

8:00 PM:

Play in bed time!

8:30 PM:

Feed milk and monster zzz FINALLY!

9:00 PM:

I have a life now,

go back to working (if I haven't finish for that day),

read a little bible,

checked instagram, facebook, personal emails and it is midnight.

Time to sleep!

FRIDAY

(NO HUSBAND AROUND TO HELP!)

Honeybun decided to shit 4 times,

nap only 1 hour,

and I couldn't get any work done.

And the maid give me pattern,

said her eyes pain

and the current eye solution we gave her to use is not good.

Damn it and tell me she wanna buy other eye solution!

FUCK! HOW TO GO OUT!

LAO NIANG NEED TO WORK AND TAKE CARE OF THIS BABY!

In the end, digged out my personal eye drop and gave her.

TA MA DE,

still feedback to me that it is very good and nice for the eyes!

THAT IS EXPENSIVE DE WHAT!!!

ALL THIS TIME,

talking while I'm trying my best to coax the monster to ZZZ!

I'm so glad I'm going back to work,

honestly.

and so glad my parents in law are back!

I don't know how some mummies can cope and yet,

do the household chores themselves.

They are really really amazing!

Online shopping!

2014-11-20T00:24:00.001+08:00

Shopped at Redmart yesterday for the husband's Coke Zero (12 bottles, to be exact). This is gonna be his 2014 birthday present HAHA! Since he said he doesn't want anything for his birthday, I figured food and beverages will never go wrong HAHA! Also ordered his all time favorite Nissin curry seafood cup noodles (his mom gonna kill me). We can NEVER find this in any supermarket in Singapore, not sure why but Redmart saves the day!

Shopped at Redmart again today because my sister just introduced Goon diapers to me, which she claimed to be the same quality as Merries but cheaper (erm, about 10 cents or 15 cents per piece, wtf I'm such an auntie). So I ordered 4 packs to try. Arissa has been a Merries baby since birth because my sister said Merries is the best so okay, use Merries only! Arissa's room is now officially a diapers and toys storage room.

I have like 3 cartons of pants diaper and a couple packs of tape diaper. This diaper dollar average is getting a little too much, lol.

Shopped at iherb for vitamins, 1sunscreen powder, snacks for Sky and hot chocolate drink for the husband (which I decided this will be part of the birthday present HAHA!)

In the past, online shopping means clothes, shoes and accessories. Now, it means toys, diapers and groceries!

Lol this is called the aging process!

Best place to have Malay food (air conditioned some more oh!)

2014-11-14T21:33:00.001+08:00

The good Malay food are usually in hot greasy places.

Maybe that's why I never enjoy Malay food.

BUT but now

it's gonna change BECAUSE there's a place that is air-conditioned!!!

It's extremely affordable for such finger licking food!

You can dine for 2 for just $10, no kidding man!

The must try is the squid, extremely tender

Baby Sah, who is half Malay says that the chicken is awesome!

She said the proper way is to add even more berlachan chilli.

She did and fed me 1 mouth,

I think she was trying to kill me or choke me seriously!

I think it's already spicy enough the way it is originally!

Perfect half-boiled eggs,

cooked to perfection!

I know this is weird,

but please order them!

MEE SOTO!

This is my 1st time eating a mee soto with the fried potato!

LOVE FRIED POTATO!!

Okay,

I know you want the address!

My Spice Affair Pte Ltd

12 Kallang Ave, Aperia #02-11, Singapore 339511

+6567022785

http://myspiceaffair.com/

https://www.facebook.com/myspiceaffair/info

Nom nom!

2014-10-25T14:04:00.004+08:00

Because there's too negativity in the previous post

(I'm still bitter about that),

here's some chirpy happy pictures!

Meiji Matcha with Azuki Beans ice-cream,

is the new dope!

THIS IS WAY WAY BETTER THAN BENS & JERRY & WHATS NOT.

It's not too sweet which is perfect.

I've been digging (literally!) them EVERY SINGLE NIGHT,

gonna grow fatTTTT.

It comes in a styrofoam box,

and I dunoo why it's so so difficult to scoop the ice cream man.

I literally had to dig it out,

I mean scoop it out for a good 15 mins just to get a cup of ice cream.

I hope 1 day,

they come in bars,

so that I can just rip open the packaging and nom it.

This is my current favourite picture of honeybun!

Always so so thankful and grateful to have her!

More sweets for you!!!

Had Marche at suntec and as long as you charge to your OCBC card,

you can choose ANY cakes from their sweets station!

which MEANS you can get a drink (HAHAHA!) and get a FREE cake!!

Okay, I didn't do that!

But you CAN!

Bei had 2 mains and I had 2 cakes!

#fatdieme

Was so stuffed after that man!

I was wondering right,

now I level-up liao,

I know when there's cheap merries diapers on sales,

where there's free cake, etc.

So,

perhaps I should just update it here the moment I know,

so that everyone can enjoy it.

First,

I need to get a new phone (okay, totally irrelevant wtf).

AGED make up products

2014-10-25T01:18:00.004+08:00

Ordered a couple of skin care products,

and a foundation from a pretty reputable company,

that has many stores all over Singapore,

but has recently started the online shopping.

I had actually prefer them to Guardian.

Geddit?

Everyone, EVERYONE knows better than to use a make up that's more than 12 months old.

BUT

this company sent me a foundation that is 17 months old.

ARE U KIDDING ME?

Did you just went to dig for the oldest foundation in your stores?

Hello, this is not ginseng!

DO U REALLY THINK YOUR CUSTOMER WILL NOT KICK UP A BIG FUSS

RECEIVING THIS AGED FOUNDATION?

How can anyone even use it!!!!!

The next best thing,

the other item I bought was so old,

I cringed touching the bottle.

It belongs to the trash, really.

HOW CAN YOU CHEAT MY ~~FEELINGS~~ MONEY!!

seriously,

whoever that packed the stuffs to mail it out to me,

should be awarded for trying to save money for the company

by sending trash products to the customer.

I've already send my feedback or would I say complaint,

to the company's contact me on their site.

I will take pictures and post,

when I have the time.

For now,

I'm fuming at the attempt to scam me.

Better refund me my money la!

ARGH

How can the packer even do this eh!

If I'm obsessed with anything, it has to be my baby.

2014-09-27T09:57:00.001+08:00

SPAM ALL THE PICTURES!

Oh, not really actually,

but I have zillions of unposted pictures which I need to save

since I have plans of switching over to Iphone 6!

Sundays are Cousins' Day.

She's usually not this demure.

Finally bought her a new car seat!

It was a steal man!

SGD 70 only!

The original price was SGD 250+.

Had to chiong to expo fair like kiasu parents,

thank goodness the fair wasn't crowded at all, heh!

She's currently obsessed with yanking and eating my hair

I've never seen a baby eats as messy as her, really.

This is the after clean-up, biscuit treat after porridge.

During porridge feeding, the porridge will be all over her hair, chair,

face and sometimes, the floor.

This is what online shopping does to a mother.

Yes, can I help you?

Trying on the minion costume her godmother bought for her!

Oh ya, finally a picture of yours truly.

Moved to the new office premises and there's a full length mirror!

When was the last time?

2014-09-17T22:17:00.001+08:00

Has it already been a month since I've blogged?

Seriously, how do a working mother cope with a baby and yet still being able to blog?

It's impossible.

The honeybun is going on 10 months.

Time doesn't fly, it's flashes pass just like that.

Hold on please, I still want my baby to be a baby. But yet I want her to grow up and be able to walk. Imagine all the clothes I can doll her up in.

Double standard baby!

2014-08-12T22:12:00.001+08:00

Honeybun! Why u no take pic like that with me?!? Why oh why? :'(