J u t z 1 B l o g

At the age of early 30s & being a mother of 2, I often get questions asking me if I ever gonna have no. 3. Certainly not at the moment. Having 2 kids which are only 18 months apart is already keeping my hands full. I can’t imagine I have another 1 or 2, though the perfect situation is 2 boys & 2 girls.I don’t want another child and either Faythe or Vyktore will have no companion to play with. Kinda pity lehh…

Anyway, I don’t need to give birth to 4 kids to experience being a mother of 4 :P. Had the chance of doing that few weeks ago before CNY, when Sue drop her kids off at my place (together with her Mom who helps to take care of Jolie) while she cleans up her newly renovated house with her maid.

It was crazy in the house LOL. All 5 of them busy entertaining themselves. Ivan & Faythe plays very closely together. While Izac & Vyktore more on their own. But Vyktore is not very generous person and at times when they took his toys to play he’d fussed.

Jolie of course still too young to fight, but she defended herself well too.

In the end I thought, I better bring them out for a break before Sue’s Mom & me go nuts LOL.

1st thing, is to put Vyktore to sleep. He’s very tired from the looks of it, within minutes he KO-ed.

Then, I told the other 3 to follow me out. I’ll bring them to McD for some ice cream.

Managed to park my car without any problem, but ordering the sundaes was a total mess. Mother of 3 (at that time), failed. I was actually very worried cause they were all over the place and I’m worried they got kidnapped by strangers. Paranoid mother :P.

Got them to sit down and eat their sundaes.

Faythe & Ivan was pretty easy. They were happily entertaining each other and eating. Even up to the extend of teaching each other how to roll tongue O.o.

Izac, he didn’t want the wafer. Only ate the Ice Cream.

After finishing the ice cream, I took them back home and rested a while before Sue came over.

Seriously, taking care of 3/4 kids at the same age is not easy. I really salute those Mommy that has more than 2 kids with a close age gap.

Mental note to myself that I will not go for no. 3 LOL. I have enough on my plate :).

Often I watch TV, and I see this olay regenerist Serum they talk about on the ad. It looks quite interesting to me and makes me wonder how this Serum work? How can it regenerate dead cells within such a short timeframe? I never tried this before, but based on what I’ve heard from some friends, it works like miracle O.o.

Thinking how I can reduce body fat over my waist…sigh. Realise that the spare tyre been building up of late O.o. Must be sitting around too much looking at the computer screen. I recently found out that my co has badminton session every Monday. High time for me to move myself back to burn some extra kilos..at the same time to maintain my health once more. I still want to be chasing after my kids when I’m 40!!

I have really bad dark circles around my eyes, sometimes it seems like I put eye shadow on :P. All this thanks to late night work, taking care of kids etc. Again, tried and tested many products, but so far nothing that works significantly. Maybe cause I still continue to have lack of sleep, so no point applying all those cream. I must go do some research to find out what actually causes deark circles under eyes and any other way to improve them apart from applying cream.

I’ve been trying so many various types of creams, soap to see if the scars left on my face due to acne problem will ever go away. Needless to say, it failed so far. Probably 1st thing I need to relook is my consistency in putting on creams on my face. Which shame to admit that I have no discipline at all!!! So probably even with best acne scar creams applied on my face, without consistency I’ll never be able to tell if it works or not.

It was a long weekend last week. And it’s a pity that Daddy had to leave on 25th, just missing the long weekend, sigh.

And I have 1 photoshoot scheduled on Friday. So I thought I must be a bit rajin since it’s weekend. And I did :). On Friday night, we had dinner at Lala Chong with Jayden & Family. Hence I didn’t cook.

On Saturday, did a whole list of stuff. Early morning went to do marketing. So I actually woke up at 6am to plan what I want to cook for the kids for the weekend. Yeah..I seldom cook, so whenever I need to cook, I have to dig out all the recipe books & go thru my feedreader (read those cooking blogs LOL).

After marketing, I packed my PC and went to digitalmall to get it inspected as the Display is giving me problem :(. And it still is right now *fumes*.

Then went to SP Setia to cancel off the house that we booked 2 months ago. No no, we are not moving, but someone itchy somewhere just went to book 2 units of houses in SP Setia for investment, then decide not to take it later. So I had to go cancel it off.

When we got home, all so tired…apalagi..nap time :P. Woke up at 4pm and did a photo session for Faythe.

Seriously, when I start taking photos for my kids, I realized how much they’ve grown before my eyes. Their feet are no longer wrinkly like the ones of the newborn babies. They no longer like to pose in front of the camera (cause they get so sick of me pointing the camera at them LOL). I even have to negotiate with her to take photos.

And here are 2 photos which I like most.

Yoh..so young already got eyebags O.o.

After that, I drop Faythe off to art class & went home and cook up a storm :).

Vyktore is a picky eater. Sometimes I really don’t know how to describe him. He’s not those type that refuses all food, but only certain food. Since I had plans to cook Spaghetti, I had to think of something for him, cause he doesn’t eat Western Food. But he eats Nuggets though :P.

So I cooked Pumpkin Spaghetti for Faythe & rest of us. While for Vyktore, I fried Nuggets. Yes, we had homemade Chicken Nuggets!! Simply delicious..slurpss….We had so much that I even manage to freeze some uncooked ones for this coming weekend.

The nuggets were a hit for Vyktore. He easily polished off at least 10 pieces. Faythe ate like 5 pieces and she finished her spaghetti as well. She told me that the Spaghetti not nice haha..but she still finished it. She wants me to cook the bologna spaghetti next round.

On Sunday, I woke up at 10am :P. Why? Cause at 1am, Vyktore had a very horrible nose bleed. So I had to clean him up and put him back to sleep. After that I couldn’t sleep. So I decided to finish up 2 photobooks to rush for the 40% off. Yes!! Then after I woke up, continue to finish up another photobook (shiaks..got addicted to making photobook O.o).

1. 40 pages book for Eelaine’s baby
2. 136 pages book for my Australia Trip back in 2008
3. 40 pages book for Phuket Trip in 2009

This also means I’m so so broke..even with the discount I still had to pay RM600 for book 2 & 3. Gotta be more rajin to paid post :P.

Then we had simple lunch, Lotus Root Soup & Rice.

Later on, put the kids to sleep for their nap while I do my own stuff.

Sent Faythe to art class at 5pm, then cook up a storm again. This round I cooked Mustard Cabbage Rice. It’s a 1 pot recipe. Just dump everything into the rice cooker and cook. Simply delicious. I got the recipe from Women’s Weekly Magazine. Will share with you later when I have time to put down the recipe hehe..

Didn’t take any picture cause too lazy liao.

With so much of cooking & eating, I wonder when I’m gonna find myself diets that work for me.

So that was our long weekend. And here’s a photo of Vyktore, pretending he’s listening to music :).

He’s slowly loosing his chubbiness and getting taller by the day.

Before CNY, I had 2 business trips, one to Jakarta & one to Hanoi.

I didn’t take much photos on both the trips, especially Hanoi cause the schedule was so tight & there are alot of jobs to accomplish.

When I was in Hanoi, it was during Winter. But the weather didn’t even show a single sign of Winter. I think even Genting is colder than Hanoi O.o.

I stayed in Intercontinental Hanoi @ West Lake. Known as one of the best hotel in Hanoi (apparently only Sofitel Metropole can match Intercon - according to Mr. Hon, cause he stayed in Metropole before). But to local Vietnamese Intercontinental is the best.

Yes, this place is incredibly beautiful. A resort hotel built on West Lake itself. It looks more like for leisure than for business. As usual, I don’t really spend alot of time in hotel, so it’s like a bit of waste. But I told myself, last night before I leave, I must take some photos. It’s really stunning. Of course room rates are also stunning LOL.

I took these photos on my last night before I check out the next day.

From far, the Pavilion on 2nd from left is where I stay. The one in orange is actually the bar, where they serve drinks at night.

I so happen to stay at the furthest most Pavilion, hence I get a chance to see the whole resort everyday by walking in and out.

This is the hotel block where it’s joined to the Hotel Lobby as well as other facilities e.g. Swimming Pool, Cafe, Restaurants.

Another view of the hotel block connecting to the gym on the right side. Behind you can see Sheraton Hotel, which is facing West Lake as well. Mr. Hon stays there when he’s based in Hanoi. Good life huh…

This the path I walk everyday while I get back to my room. As it’s quite a distance, you can also opt to take a buggy if you decide not to walk.

This is how my opposite neighbour looks like.

View from my room at night.

And here’s a view of what I see in the morning. That’s Pavilion 3. It looks pretty gloomy due to the winter weather.

Here’s how the room look like. They even have different types of pillow material to suite your needs O.o. TV also bigger than my house TV..haiyooo…

Lastly, the nicely decorated bathroom which I barely touch anything apart from taking shower & doing my businesses LOL.

Well, don’t get mistaken, I don’t get to stay here all the time. But because this trip was decided so late, I barely had time to book the hotel and wonder why, the other hotel in the list was fully booked O.o..so had to stay here.

If you have all the money to splurge when you go Hanoi, definitely should stay here :).

I stayed in Intercontinental in Jakarta too, but it’s definitely not as great as this one. Probably the lake was the deciding factor LOL. Oh…but Intercontinental SG is on par with this too…will upload some photos when I have a chance.

The fact that my 1st day of CNY was dampened with cold & fever, it somehow or rather affected my mood over the Chinese New Year. I had actually took leave for the whole week except on 4th day of CNY I was working due to standby.

On 5th & 6th day of CNY, we wanted to getaway from the kids at Bukit Tinggi, but I was too lazy and just recovered from sickness, I rather give it a skip.

Note: if the photos are too bright or too dark, it’s cause I’ve not calibrated my screen…gotta get it done soon!!

On eve of CNY

Faythe inserting notes into the angpau.

Kids help me to pack angpau packets. We did a lot of packing cause we are visiting old folks home this year. Faythe as usual is ever so eager…girls are girls :). As for Vyktore, he did help too, but he didn’t have the patient.

Vyktore inserting a stash of RM1 into angpau which I’m holding. I always prefer use RM1 instead of RM5 or RM10, cause it’s bulky hahaha…

On 2nd Day of CNY

Early morning went to old folks home to distribute AngPau. It’s a tradition from FIL’s day and Daddy wants to continue this. This is also the old folks home that we went during our wedding day.

Then we went to catch movies: Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thieft (double thumbs up!!)

I had friends over at my house, ex-BB gathering. It’s great to catch up with friends who came back from all over the place (London, HK & Singapore). And we went gaga over lil Tsun Chuen who is already turning 2 months+.

And nope, my friends never forget my birthday, WJ even bought me a birthday cake :). How sweet…thanks dear. No photo of me and the cake as the photo was taken by Audrey. Need to get it from her :).

We spent alot of time chatting, catching up, gossiping (about office and love life of course :P). Then Eelaine & WJ left, so Audrey, Hui Shi & our family went to have dinner behind my house before proceeding to some drinking game at my house where my maid tried to poison all of us O.o.

On 3rd Day of CNY

Never do anything, just continue lazing around the house. We did manage to clean up the room upstairs which is now vacant since Lawrence & family has moved out to their own home. Packed a few bags of old books, notes and what nots. And we went for movies while the maid clean up the room.

Received a love sms from my MIL: I give you lots of hugs & kisses…xoxoxoxo…(as my birthday present O.o)

On 4th Day of CNY

Work Work Work….I’m on duty on 4th Day. It’s great to work during CNY actually, cause you can clear alot of backlog work and there’s no disturbance.

We also manage to catch movies: Little Big Brother. OK lah…I prefer Jacky Chan’s other movies.

On 5th Day of CNY

Went to GEL to sort out insurance payment for Daddy cause he cancelled his auto payment earlier.

Then we went to EPF Office to name our Pewaris as well as activate the online access.

After that, I went to splurge RM2700 to buy myself a birthday gift comprising of: A new desktop, 20″ LCD screen &  a bamboo fun. I definitely couldn’t see myself getting netbooks since my usage is pretty high.

On 6th Day of CNY

More spring cleaning & laze around the house.

On 7th Day of CNY

Vyktore been reminding us to take him for train ride ever since we started passing the LRT Station on our way to school in the morning. So we went for LRT ride. We took a ride to Pavilion hence we changed train at KL Sentral and it’s a big mistake. Cause from KL Sentral we had to walk to far to the other train!!! Should have just head straight to KLCC.

Here are photos taken on that day.

Want to join me for a ride?

Another shot of them with the ticket.

Father & son time. Vyktore is very scared of Mr. Hon so it’s not very often he will wanna get close to Daddy, but since he’s taking a train ride, he’s OK with Daddy.

The train parked far from the station.

Boarding the train. Thought Saturday nobody, but turned up quite packed too.

In the train. Vyktore is all excited.

Faythe looking out.

Vyktore looking out. He brought along Bumblebee for the train ride.

Pavilion. My first time setting foot here. This used to be my alma mater…sigh…I simply can’t imagine my school was that huge!! The moment I step into there, I kept wandering, which part of my school is this.

Fake cherry blossom trees outside Pavilion. Hate the scorching sun…super hawt & overcast!!

My latest punk hairstyle :)…Gosh, I look so fat!!

Outside the fountain. I suppose this is near our school Saga Tree & parking lots.

Entrance into Pavilion (ex office block), filled with lanterns.

Inside Pavilion. I must admit that they are so clever to put up the trees like growing from the sides of Pavilion. Nice!!

Another shot of the trees & lantern.

Faythe with her kungfu post with the Crane.

Vyktore trying to check out if the Crane is real :P.

Pretending to eat lotus seed LOL. We have lots of these at home, bought it from Vietnam. Simply delicious & healthy snacks!!

Vyktore at one of the stall checking out the CNY decorations.

Faythe trying to put the deco on her head as headgear.

Checking out some stones. Vyktore has obsession over stones O.o.

Tang Lung decoration from the inside.

A random shot from the top. I think this a coffee bar or somesort.

On 8th Day of CNY

It’s my Chinese Birthday. And of course it’s also the Pai Tin Kong day. We had fireworks all night which we watch from our bedroom window. I only manage to sleep at 2am :(.

On 9th Day of CNY

It’s back to work officially. Had visitors from Beijing & we had dinner at 1World Hotel. Didn’t take any photos cause very *pai seh*. Eating with big shots, takkan wanna take out camera take pic of food right :P.

And after that it’s work all the way……

On 13th Day of CNY

Morning went for a newborn photoshoot.

Evening went Lala Chong with Jayden’s family & my brother. Good thing we were there early. It started raining cats n dogs the moment we arrived. Bump into Wai Leng there too.

Will upload the photos later after I download.

And the coming 2 days…it’s the end of CNY…will get the kids open up their angpau and bank into the bank.

Not a very eventful CNY, but I’m sure this year would be a better year for all of us :).

I recently went to my local insurance co to settle some payments which went hair wired due to hubby canceling his credit card. Then I realized that is the sum I bought some 10yrs ago sufficient? Looking at our std of living these days, it’s not gonna be enough definitely. I hate to speak to insurance agent as they are so persistent and annoying!! I must go look around where I can obtain free insurance quotes.

My colleague recently told me that I can loose weight by playing Wii Fit. I’m surprised, is that true? I must get a few workout CDs and try if that’s gonna help. I seriously need to loose some weight and getting a home gyms solutions is definitely way more expensive than getting a few workout CDs. At least it won’t take up alot of space as we are already running out of space at home.