Filed under Love & relationships
You can send your hubby a photo that has you looking like total crap, and still he'll say 'I love you'.
Cue: the hubs has been out of town for a week and it's been tough handling the kid alone! To make things worse, he's got a cold and cough, and babies just don't know how to blow their noses yet!
Praying that he gets well soon. I really cannot afford to take another leave day on Monday – next week is going to be a killer week!
Feb19
Filed under Parenting & kids
Paul turned one exactly a month ago. We celebrated the occasion with close family and friends, at a Chinese restaurant in Petaling Jaya.
We had a pretty big do for our kid's full moon party, we got in a caterer, ordered for for about 80 people, set up canopies and all. After the event, we realized that the crowd was too big for us to have meaningful conversations with our guests. In the end we only managed to do simple hi-and-byes to everybody. You can imagine, the aftermath, the cleaning up, the amount of leftovers, as caterers usually provide additional servings.
And so this time around, realizing that Paul probably will not remember anything, we wanted to to use the occasion to appreciate our loved ones above all: our parents who help to babysit Paul while the both of us are at work, colleagues who were with us from pregnancy till Paul was born, friends who supported us a lot from the time we were courting till we got married.
Paul, now thirteen months, is very very different from the tiny newborn I held in my hands over a year ago. He can stand by himself, cruise while holding on to the sofa, CLIMB up and down the sofa, climb up the stairs (my kid climbs before he walks, go figure), and goes around babbling nonsensically. Nope, nothing intelligible yet, alas, but he says 'bababa' far more often than 'mamama' and he says 'jiakjiakjiak' all the time!
His personality is also beginning to reveal itself = Paul is a very very cheeky boy! Sometimes pretending to pick something up from the floor and putting it into his mouth, only to giggle continuously when we react in panic. Sometimes, when seated at his high chair, he would hold out his spoon, 'threaten' to drop it to the floor and just as we react, he would pull it back and laugh loudly.
With Paul in our lives, we quickly realize just how brief our time on earth is, and how quickly it will fly past us. While there is nothing we can do to slow things down, I do cherish every single moment and experience I have of motherhood, and am very thankful to God for giving me this opportunity to be a mother.
My most precious memories from that day have been beautifully frozen in the photos captured by my ex-colleague Siew Yen.
Feb14
Filed under General
Confession time. I have been a lazy girl. I haven't been that diligent in climbing in here and updating the blog. Two reasons: Instagram and Tumblr. The later, you can actually visit, because I post photos there via the former, every single day. Please see My Tumblr site, which, in my opinion, serves very well as a blog for me, at this stage of this life.
On the other hand, I DO NEED TO UPDATE THIS BLOG. I've totally missed blogging on the day of Paul's birthday, or during his party (which, was actually celebrated ahead of the actual birthday itself). *Crouches in remorse, just in case wordpress blogs have feelings*. But I made a promise to myself nearly 10 years ago when I started the blog that the blog serves as my main depository of memories, and if I don't ever contribute, I would most certainly forget – and forget is something that I don't want to do.
Anyway, I wanna post photos! It's been a while, I ONLY BLOGGED one miserable post since 2011 fell upon us!
To make up for lost posts, I thought I'd put down some of my favourite Instagram shots – because they each tell a story.
We celebrated Paul's birthday a week before the actual date and my friend Siew Yen took this amazing shot, which I quickly Instagram-ized.
A week later when the actual birthday arrived, my mum made this symbolic bowl of mee suah and red eggs for the kiddo. He finished half the bowl!
Yup, finally went on my first business trip since baby arrived. This was shown on my TV screen when I checked into the Holiday Inn Golden Mile in Hong Kong. 
The one thing I don't need that I succumbed to buying during my trip.
Officially, the budak now has four teeth, with two on the way.
Which, btw… Eric and I both think, bears an uncanny resemblance to Maneki Neko (the Japanese Lucky Cat.
And on that note, the firecrackers are out where I stay. I've got to go, just in case the baby wakes from the racket. Here's wishing you:
The wings to fly freely
The vision to dream wildly
The heart to love deeply
And the spirit to embrace all the beauty in life!
???? Gong Xi Fa Cai, have a hopping Bunny year, and may He give His choiciest blessings upon you and your family!
Much love from, Eric, Baby Paul and me!
Feb03
Filed under Just Me
I have been a busy busy girl lately. It's because of my full time job as Paul's mommy, and my part time job as an employee of the Malaysian government (a little more about this in another post).
So Happy New Year, 25 days later.
K, now it's back to work.
Jan25
Filed under Just Me
A little less than two hours into the new decade, and then I remember, I STILL HAVE A BLOG!
Looking further back in time, to the start of the decade, or the beginning of the millenia, however you want to look it, the years 2001-2010 put together has indeed been a decade of real change for me. The milestones, as far as I recall, for each year:
2001 - Experienced my very first break up in 2001; got my first official full-time job in the same year. Oh yes, started blogging as minishorts.
2002 – Became the editor of a Ministry of Education approved English text book – and the experience gave me a depressing insight into our Malaysian education system.
2003 – Quit my job as a book editor to try out software content editing.
2004 – Met Eric and fell in love.
2005 – Blogged famously. Gave up on editing as a career and decided to try out Public Relations, by joining the national power utility.
2006 – Work was fun, travelled 4 times to Pulau Perhentian within the same month. Survived a near-death experience during one of the trips (our speedboat got caught in the storm, and we were tossed in the rough seas for over 3 hours before being rescued by a bigger fishing boat).
2007 – Eric finally proposed! Whee, so began the preparations.
2008 – Quit my job at TNB, got married on November 1, 2008. Moved out of the mom's house, made up my very own home with the husband.
2009 - Decided to stop birth control in April, immediately got pregnant. Joined a property development company. This was certainly a year of new experiences!
2010 – Baby was born on January 14, 2010; signed my first S&P agreement to buy a house on that very same day (haha the lawyers brought the papers to my hospital ward!); gained nearly 22 kilos from the pregnancy; survived the dreaded confinement period; moved out from the condominium to be closer to our parents; experienced for the first time the true meaning of 'sleepless' nights; joined the government service (for real this time). .
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So much has happened in 2010, and so quickly as well. The moment 2010 struck, it flew at breakneck speed, and 2011 looks set to fly as well! However I am glad that I've done and achieved much in the past 10 years, and in particular, how meaningful 2010 has turned out to be. And the photos say a lot about how much things have changed in just 12 months!
Took this photo as we were leaving the hospital, just hours after Paul was born.
We took this photo when Paul was nearly two months old, as we were moving out of our first home together at Damansara Perdana.
Took this picture with Paul when he was nearly three months old, with a rather wobbly head. The brave little kid still looked up at the camera!
This was shot a week ago – I'm just ecstatic to have lost a significant amount of the baby weight. Still have about four kilos to go! I shall persevere! Yay!
And our latest family photo! Paul's such a big boy now that he's nearly one!
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I realize that resolutions really do work, so here's my wishes for the next year:
I've learnt not to be vague about my resolutions, mind you, the more detailed they are, the more I'll work at having them happen, so this year, that's how they'll look. And I know it's not entirely up to me, so I'm hoping that that Big Guy up there will lend a helping hand.
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So the fireworks are starting, and my baby's going to be frightened, I think. I'd better run. Happy new year folks!
Dec31
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