reminder to treat yourself well

Rest well (from work)

Eat well (enough but not over)

Sit well (good posture is important)

Sleep well (early and enough)

Time we'll (manage it wisely)

23 Nov... GP, polyclinic, GP again, GH... 12 hours of clinic hopping... Left GH at 1am... Home sweet home...

Keep smiling. There's always bad thought or even bad dreams... Keep the light bright and burning. Thank you papa and babies for being there... Asleep...

fruitful day

The kids wished me H.B. when I sent them off to school. Dear and I took our bkf as usual. 

Our plan for a morning cycle was shelved as I had to attend two meetings in the morning. Well, it's a hidden blessing. There's a downpour. We would have been trapped in the rain if we went ahead.

Lunchtime, dear bought me a cake, I had to carry it home by myself. 

After the kids returned and settled with their lunches, dear and i got our Dyson motor replaced. We finally got a vacuum now... We had been "vacuumless" for a week. Yuan yuan did all the ground work...

Dinner, dear brought us to a nearby cafe... Our first visit. Food was so so, ambience was great. Anyway, dear over ordered as usual...

After dinner, dear, R and I set off for our night cycling. Sounds good huh. Actually it's after dinner cycling ard la...

We bought some accessories like lights and pouches fun Decathlon store, had some hot drinks before heading back.

First ride along the Sumang walk area, the view was superb!!! It's HDB by the river. Wow!!!

A the BD song in three languagesv wrap up the beautiful day. Thank you dear, thank you my lovely kids. Thank you, my family and friends 🥰🥳🌈

bluey night to apunggol Beach

byebye Jia Bao Ling

My dear Bao Ling...

I'm always at ease having you by my side... You were borned Popular... I meant, at Popular.

You went with us to picnic, walks, jogging. You went to work with me and make sure I made it through my day in office or home office... You stayed with me when I was pressing the clothes and uniforms... You followed to our staycation and even dinners...

You sang proudly like a Google home mini that even the kids would sometimes tried to hey you... Most importantly, we got to hear our favorite songs and radio from ya...

Thank you for the moments we shared together.  May you rest in peace... 

With Love 😘

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Update:

my Bao Ling just didn't want to join us for our weekly exercise... It's working just fine this morning when we wake up this morning... 3 days of self healing... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😅

20 years ago...

We chatted on MSN, followed by some smses exchanged... Then, dear asked me out this day 20 years ago, before I flew with a team of student group from TP to Kerala, India...

We met at Bugis and went for some snacks at MOS Burger.

Twenty years later, it was a perfect weather in the morning to visit any park... Enjoy family fun... 

And back at home when the sun decided to scorch a little... Some complaining about my messy drawer as I was writing this post 😂

I love every moment, as long as he's safe by my side. 🥰🥳🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Post natal...

Three weeks after giving birth to a 3kg baby Wayne, this is the first time I stepped onto a weighing scale... I am weighing 67kg. 

I smiled, this was my original weigh... No! Wait! My target was 57kg... Freak! I'm 10kg off my chart... oh god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday when I tried on a red dress bought when I was in my third trimester, thinking that I could probably wear it for CNY... The moment I put the dress on, I heard a very unwelcoming background comment, "too tight lah, mama!"

It was Renee who emphasized that it didn't fit anymore... Cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another wakey wakey at 5am

After pump and cleaning Wayne's N times of poo-poo, it's 5:20am... There's not too much wind today but the air outside was so fresh that I started imagining myself going to a jog downstairs... Along the roadside... Passing by Topiary, round about the used-to-be cricket field and back...

Then I realized I didn't have running track shoes... Worse, even if I have a pair of track shoes, I couldn't start exercising yet... Because Jamu Aunty Mona told me  that I could only start after 2 months from delivery. What a good and powerful excuse for myself! Muahahah.. Anyway, even if it's already N month after delivery and having track shoes, I'd probably come up with some other excuses to idle at home, instead of hitting the track...

So the best thing I could do now and going forward, is to sleep back and relax... Kekeke! This year gonna be a 大肥年 for myself... My CNY clothes couldn't fit anymore, should I give it away Or keep for next year... ? Hohoho!

Sweat-cold-repeat

Phoebe had started to utter nonsense when she was having fever at 39.8°c last night. I had to be harsh to ignore her random requests and proceed with sponging, sweating her out followed by change of clothes.

She discovered that we had mixed medicine into her milk, so it's getting really challenging to feed her the legendary pink/ orange fever medicines...

Tonight, after 2-3 rounds of sponging-sweat-change cloth saga, I turned on the Aircon for Phoebe to have a comfortable sleep after she break her high fever.

I overslept my 2am pump but woke up at 4am+ to pump and checked on both girls. Both were not with blankets... Yup, they certainly like to kick blanket during the sleep just like me!

They were doing great but there's something not right Abt me, I woke up at 4am+ shivering actually... I had started to feel extremely cold despite I was in my confinement. I should really be the last person to feel cold at all... Take care, my home... Everyone's taking turn to melt down... ;(

Week 34

Excitement, absolutely excitement...

However, guess I had been too excited and "celebrated" too much lately that I became 70.8kg!!!

O

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T_T

Happy 33!!!

Picnic, kite flying... Lazing on the grass to gaze at the blue sky with cottony cloud...

This is the best outdoor activity that my kids love, besides digging the sand on a beach. Hahhaa!

Many many thanks to Dear for taking leave to accompany me and kids on my sweet (but old) 33 ^^

Moments of life, priceless!

After a long nap, we had a simple bento dinner at Umisushi. A quick shopping for cupcake wrapper and mini M&Ms for tmr' year end potluck party... Then Dear passed by the Polar to collect my Bday cake. He wanted to get me the Wonder Woman but they didn't have it for 500gm...

The nicest happy bday song sang by my girls, clapping their tiny hands and fought to blow out the candles... LOL*

Big hugs from the girls before tucking them in bed. Love you deep deep and sweet dreams!! ^^

New watch, finally

I am not a fan of Casio or should I say I'm not a fan of watch... Although I wear one everyday.

My previous and the one before I previously owned were both Casio BAby-G watches. They are so durable that even when the paint came off from the strap, the watches were still working...

They went swimming with me... Cycling or even jogging, too (must be so long ago)... And they were still working!

When something's not broken, don't fix it. Haha! So I had no excuse to get a decent looking one until recently that I finally couldn't take it anymore...

The baby-G rubber strap was totally disfigured and accompanied with a very sweaty and sour... Pungent of foul smell. That watch had been with me since more than 5 years ago?

Today, I received my new Casio rose gold metal strap digital watch. Let's hope that it will last even longer and not smell that bad after a few years. Wuhoo! Love it and it's only $38!!! Muahahhaaha!

See-saw-ing and finally, ME time!

There's so many playgrounds at the Pasir Ris Park... It used to be just the "red spider web" and "flying fox" when I was a small kid...

We headed to the beach for a picnic during brunch but before we could make our way to our usual spot by the beach, Renee pestered her dad to let her to the playground BEFORE picnic...

So, it turned out her little while of playground became what the whole outing was about... 

Daddy gobbled up his packet of bee hoon, while Mummy tried to look after two girls climbing up and sliding down the giant slide... 

After the slide was another slide... Followed by a bridge, then back to the second slide... The space shuttle... The rotating seat... The car... The fire engine... The 4-kid see-saw... Slide again...

We could have continued with the picnic by the beach but seeing both of them so exhausted, we decided to head back home directly. Next time, girls...

A cute family wefie before we leave the fun paradise ^^

Oh, the bottom right pic was Phoebe in her new Duckie/Chickie waterproof cover, trying to feed herself using her new Doraemon spoon and new Duckie tingkat bowl ^^

Evening was exciting... I, finally, got few hours of ME Time!!! I had separation anxiety until I made my way to John Little to grab a couple of products during this sale period. Wahahaha!! After which, I went straight to 18Chef @Bugis Junction for a farewell dinner with Spencer and all. It was a wonderful catch-up with one another. Thank you, Spencer, for the sumptuous dinner... It was supposed to be on us! LOL >,<

Thank you, Dear, for looking after the family while I was away. Muackz~*

Soar throat. ..

I thought this was the worst soar throat I ever had... or I had long forgotten how soar throat felt like... till now.

So soar... that I could hardly utter any words...

When Renee poop and I needed the toilet, I used my last voice to ask if my husband would be done soon... The respond I got over the door was "...couldn't hear you, can you speak louder?"

So, I gave up and went to the kitchen toilet without the bb seat cover...

So soar that I could hardly discipline the girls when they went too far 'playing' , or rather, hitting each other... I felt like a botttle of exploding cola...

Speaking of cola... Dear bought a 1.5 litres of cola for me. He said that its good for soar throat! We put some salt and it became some salty and non - gassy cola... which looked like some Chinese medicine that even Renee didn't ask for a sip...

Dear was probably the happiest man in this house. He always would be, anyway, since he's the only man here. He was excused from my daily chant because I couldn't talk much now... and even if I tried to... I would just sounded like Zhen Zhi Wei (HK comedian) talking... which was so amusing!

Anyway, I had felt much better after resting my throat for almost a day. By talking less, I observed and listened more. I thought that I had learnt and gained something, though I still love to talk. Hee! 

Watch out, Dear, I might talk double in the next few days to compensate this weekend... kekekkee ^^

Phoebe's First sand stamping... that's something she did before her sister. Pretty amazing, huh!

Miss Malu returns. ..

I created a character (basically from personal moments of embarrassment), called Ms Malu,  when I was 13 years old in some class magazine... crappy reading materials filled with nonsense...

Tonight, I suddenly thought of this character when I recollected what happened in the evening...

I knew that I had no sense of directions most of the time (except when BH and I were at Taipei underground malls...) but this time. .. I was trashed by my own girl... a 2.5 years old kiddy!!!

I carried Phoebe, trying to get out of the car park at my in laws place. BH carried Renee... Both of them saw me roaming further in the wrong direction...

Renee "Mommy!"

When I turned around trying to pacify her that I had to carry Mei Mei (I thought she want me to carry her like she always asked for), Renee pointed in the opposite direction and shouted "this way!!!" (Followed by some loud HAHAHA!!)

Who else, besides Ms Malu....

I am starting to think...

I am starting to consider to become a full time housewife...

BH, don't freak out and yes, your eyes are not playing tricks on you... I am seriously thinking...

12 midnight... I decided to pump the miserably little amount of breast milk that I was left with... I grabbed a 'sterilised' bottle from the kitchen and started to pump. ..

It didn't take me too long to discover a pungent of odd smell... that can't be my milk... well, it is fresh, isn't it? Then I smelt the bottle again... WTH!@#$/^&*

I went into the kitchen and took another 'sterilised' bottle, only to find the same smell even before I pumped!!!

Not right, I smelt all the 'sterilized' bottles and almost all smelt that way... just that the first 2 bottles had a stronger pungent...

I started to take a sniff at Renee and Phoebe's milk bottles. Both were fine. So I went into the baby room to retrieve the steriliser that was bought less than 8 months ago... and the story began...

2 days ago, I cleaned the master room and living room because they were way too dusty. I didn't even bother to get the helper to do it... because if she would, she could have done it... After cleaning, I could tell that the last time she cleaned it was probably 2 months ago...

I had to specifically instruct her to clean up the baby room by washing the anti - slip matt which was covered with stains, to wipe the baby cupboard and window grills... but I didn't mention abt the steriliser.

On the next day, she was reading newspaper at her cosy kitchen corner and did not clean the study room's window grills... she continued reading the newspaper while I followed frantically behind my feverish Renee to everywhere she roamed.

Tonight, at 12 midnight, I spent a good 30mins to clean up this steriliser and re washed all bottles and caps with baby soap... have a look at the before and after...

How can my babies be fed using bottles 'sterilised' with rusty water? And were those stickers recyclable?  Why were they left in the steriliser to decompose? I had told her at least 3 times to remove those stickers before washing... Suddenly, I just felt like crying at the thought of my girls well-being... specially for baby Phoebe...

Basic Detox starts any day!

My greatest new year resolution for 2014 is to take better care of myself!

So, I started to put my red elephant (slow juicer) to work more frequently...

Cabbage juice is becoming part of my green diet but I hadn't derived a discipline routine for it.... As and when I come across organic cabbage at supermarket, I guess... probably once a week or twice a month...

Starting today, I'm trying to flush my digestive system with lemon water in the morning with an empty stomach...

Another week from now (hopefully if it was made successfully), I would have my homemade green apple enzyme daily, as well, and I would make more... WuhoO~* (speaking of which, I should probably get an air-tight glass bottle from ikea to store the enzyme once it's done!

What else? Oh yes... Broccoli or pumpkin soup would be good, too! I love to use my immersion blender for these thick soups. Thanks to Dear for getting me one during last Christmas. Thanks to it, Renee had started to eat egg, carrot, fish, meat, broccoli.... all blended and mashed up! Wahhahhaha~*

Jiayou! ^^

一切皆乃身外物；生不带来，死不带去
唯有智慧、品德、为社会及他人付出的才会留下来。。。

One more new year resolution

Smile more and be more forgiving...

First breakfast of 2014 at coffee shop downstairs...

The PRC young girl served my 'vegan' brekkie like this... which was why I didn't take the sweet sauce...

Happy 2014

Happy 2014... A more crowded place with lesser and lesser porridge...

My new year resolution is to:
1) get to 56kg (BH said that I need to set a target)
2) make skinny or fat but crispy pizzas
3) make cartoon character cookies with my girls
4) do community service
5) re - attend yoga class
6) stay healthy
7) get a juice detox routine
8) invent something
9) help BH quit 咖啡水 (he always imitates 石头 crawling towards 鸦片水)
10) kiss my girls everyday!

破釜沉舟

突然皮痒。

好想更新衣柜里的那些布。

可是每次翻遍每件衣物时,有舍不得丢。

可能是我太有时尚感了,六年前的款式至今还ok穿。

没办法,浪费,奢侈式的破釜沉舟策略根本行不通!我还是乖乖穿着我的破衣裳过冬吧。。。

林北破扁了

鼻涕比尿还多
全身隐隐作痛
林北这次破扁了。。。