Jan 05 2009

05 Jan 09

I must admit that I have alot of backdated post, which I’m gonna post it up later..to the correct date (time travel LOL). But this has to be the most updated…

First day of school today and how did my 2 precious children fare? I’d rate it as 80% not bad…well at least they didn’t cry :)

Faythe was all ready for school as usual after much psyching from me. I bought her a Princess Bag which has little mermaid and she loves it (she’s very crazy over little mermaid now). I’ve wrapped all her books and brought it along. Got those books during the orientation on Sat.

Vyktore, since he’s only joining the 3 yrs old class, there aren’t any books, so we still use his old bag, which he didn’t like it last time, but he likes it now. He actually asked me to put on for him and ran around the house with the bag at home (probably he saw Asimo had a bag, so he was OK with the bag LOL).

When arriving school, they were both OK. I left Faythe with the class teacher and she was fine and started playing with toys. She didn’t even look for me.

As for Vyktore he froze when he saw so many children. I brought him to the class and stayed there. Got my maid to stand at the side and watch him. He settled down and started playing toys.

The school very cool yah..1st day so many toys LOL.

Faythe was OK. She followed the class to wash hand and had her bread. I was there for a while to make sure she was OK and reassure her I’m around, just watching over Vyktore.

Meanwhile, Vyktore got restless and he even attempt to open the classroom door and runaway. Teacher manage to catch hold of him hahaha…He got pretty restless for not able to runaround towards the end he wanted to escape from our maid.

Class was dismissed at 10:30 and I showed the kids the auntie that’s gonna fetch them tomorrow after school. Fingers all crossed and lets hope everything is OK on 2nd day.

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Jan 01 2009

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Published by jazzmint under Household

Do you believe in fengshui? I don’t!! But sometimes, even if you don’t believe, you’ll end up believing it after sometime because life just gets tougher!! Some people say, when bad things happen to you, it happens 3 times berturut turut (in a row).

By looking at these pictures, I’m sure everyone is shocked. Me too!! I just can’t imagine how it could happen.

On the day after Christmas, we were all sleeping very nicely. At 630am, I was actually awake, but lying down on the bed thinking if I should get up now. Then the air cond went off…and it came back again…after a few mins, it repeated it’s on off stint.

Then I was thinking, what the he** is happening man. But I continued lying down on the bed, till suddenly I heard fire crackers sound. And so happen, my whole house went blackout. The I thought, OH SHIAKS…IS THERE SOMEONE STEALING DADDY’S BIKE!! Yeah, it sounded like someone started the bike.

Then next thing I knew, there were people outside my house and my neighbour was banging the gate, “Fire, fire”.

I was upstairs in my room when I open the window and heard my neighbour shouting, “Fire, Fire!!”

Then I rush down to check what happened. To my amaze, the meter outside the house was on FIRE!!

This time I really panic…cause I had to open up 2 locks to get out of the house (Thanks to the you know who, we’ve added extra security, which turns out to be cumbersome at times like this).

Once I opened the sliding grilled, I rushed to the gate as one of my neighbour was already holding his FIRE EXTINGUISHER. And while he run in, I quickly pull the hose and wanted to open up the water, but thank GOD that he manage to pull off the fire with the extinguisher and it ended up with another bang!!

After that, it was SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES time. My whole house smelt of burnt rubber. One of my neighbour offered to let us take shelter and settle down the kids. While I went back inside and got my handphone and start making call.

First call: Mr. Hon for sure. It’s only like what 5am his time, so when he picked up the phone. I told him, eh house on fire just now. Then he went, you joking right? I was like duhh…you mean I call you at 5am to tell you house on fire as a joke, c’mon lah, it’s not April Fool. No, I’m serious, really it was on fire!! The electricity went berserk and it caught fire. Then the neighbours came and pull it off.

He put down the phone after that, after telling me what to do and giving me a lecture the house must be overloaded bla bla bla…and the maid so blur, bla bla bla…what I did, bla bla bla….

Anyways, after that he called again and ask me to call this n that…oh, and he never forget to ensure his dear fishie was alright, despite the fact that the trauma happened to me and the kids…”kanasai betul laki ni”. I know him, if I can pick up the phone and call him, means I’m still alive and kicking. So no need to worry bout me.

I call TNB and reported the incident. And I specifically ask them to come ASAP if not my hubs is gonna be so mad about what is gonna happen to his fishie due to lack of oxygen in the tank.

Then I called MIL and told her I’ll drop the kids off early.

Then my boss & colleague. I thank GOD that my boss is very understanding. Somemore just started work. I think if other boss, they would have skin me alive for taking EL every week :|.

Then I sent a few sms to get electrician contact and my good buddy replied me with the contact. So I quickly call the electrician and ask him to come over.

I drop the kids off at MIL’s house and went home. The floor was oily…don’t know why!! So I decided to mop it while waiting for TNB & electrician to come. But it’s still oily after that..eww…anyways, since they took so long to come, I decided to snap some photos of the incident as proof (in case I want to sue TNB for causing such a havoc in my house) & testing my new camera (yes, I went to get myself a big present!!).

While waiting for them, I made calls to Alarm man, Roof man as well. I’ve actually made appointment to meet them in the evening, but since I’m at home, might as well the whole bunch come one shot and rob my purse lah…*big damage everywhere*

The people finally came at 10am. TNB checked and confirm the mains were crossed and it was the one giving problem. Arghh…wear and tear wohh…bla bla bla wohh….

So they changed the main incoming wire. Then the electrician spent a good 2 hours drilling, hacking and what not to fix up the temporary bypass electric for us.

TNB says they do not bring meter, so gotta wait for the meter (from meter dept), meanwhile use FOC electric (but according to Eve, they don’t give free, they backdate & charge you…grrr…).

Seriously, I think I’ve had enough of bad luck.

First it was the water tank. Yeah…we used up 400 Gallons on water in the house (till the vy last drop) and yet thought that something was wrong with Syabas, till later I realised it wasn’t and finally when we call the Plumber over, we found out the float was broken and caused the water not to fill up the tank.

Then it was the break in last week.

And now it’s the fire.

It all happens to the house, hurting my pocket so much…so do you believe in fengshui…I do, at least for now for these 3 cases.

Lets hope that’s the end of it.

At night Daddy called while we were at Atria getting something. He seemed to have mellow down from his wake up call and start to talk some sense in him. At least he asked what’s the outcome and all the other stuff (apart from his fishie). As usual, the super wife has settled everything. And he hung up the phone with a “Bye, Love you darling”..wuaahh…so senang only…

Now, I think next thing I really need to buy home insurance. Choi choi..must go call my agent now.

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Jan 01 2009

My dearest brother

Published by jazzmint under Duit Kopi

It’s holiday once more. I still remember when I was young, one day Mommy brought my older brother to optician. It was only then that we realized he has a pair of lazy eyes. The power for one side of his eyes was really bad, if not mistaken close to 700. But the other side was only like 100+. No wander he has problem in school. He could barely see the teacher and the blackboard and strained his eyes.

If we would have discovered this earlier, probably he would have done better in school? So instantly we got his eyes fixed and got him a pair of glasses.

I still remember each year he has to change glasses and he can barely see without his glasses. Even up till today, he’s still wearing his thick glasses. Now I think if he has extra cash, he should go for lasik. At least he don’t need to live with glasses anymore. But not knowing if he qualifies for it or not.

Well, since it’s holiday now, probably I should get him a pair of holiday frames for his New Year Present. I think he will like these frames, and it’s pretty versatile to go with the sunnies too.

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Dec 31 2008

The Year of 2008…

Published by jazzmint under Jazzmint

The year of 2008 has certainly left alot of memories for the Hon family.

Jan - Daddy change his job. It was tough in the beginning, but as 2008 comes to the end, I must admit that we are used to the arrangement and getting into our comfort zone.

Feb - I celebrate my 30th birthday with a surprise gift from Daddy. He’s ever so thoughtful (whenever he remembers).

Mar - Participated in Badminton Tournament after not playing this sports for 4 years.

Apr - Started doing pregnancy photoshoot.

May - Did our very 1st newborn photoshoot.

Jun - Kids started school.

July - Extremely busy month for the family with Daddy’s PPN Installation, Travelling to Cameron Highlands & Vietnam.

Aug - Went to Australia for the 1st time, had back to back newborn photoshoot. Survived without a maid for 2 months.

Sept - recovering from travel bug.

Oct - made a bold move and tender my resignation. Looking back now, I’m really glad I made the move, not because of the $$, but it’s pure job satisfaction.

Nov - Hit by travel bug again…

Dec - Started my sideline income finally, got robbed, house nearly burn down (next post coming), invested a new camera (next post coming)…I think Dec must be the highlight of the year, with so many things happened back to back.

Seriously…I can’t imagine so much has happened and had I not kept a blog, I would have forgotten what has happened for the pass 1 yr.

Good bye 2008. I certainly won’t hope that the bad luck gets carried into 2009. May 2009 be a better year, for me, for Daddy & everyone in the family (and all of you out there).

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Dec 30 2008

> New watch <

Published by jazzmint under Duit Kopi

Ever since the break in, we’ve lost alot of valuable items at home, inclusive of our watches. Daddy is pretty sad cause he had like 5 watches, only 1 left LOL. Same goes for myself. I guess it’s time for him to get a new watch for his coming birthday. He’s a sporty person, maybe Oakley watches would suit him.

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Dec 30 2008

> Pomegranate <

Published by jazzmint under Duit Kopi

I’m a Pomegranate fruit lover. I recall when I was young, as young as 5 yrs old, my Mom used to bring us to my nanny’s house. And boy, she has this huge Pomegranate trees smack right in front of her house. Mommy will usually bring some of the fruits home and we will sit down and enjoy the yummilicious fruit.

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Dec 30 2008

> Truck driver <

Published by jazzmint under Duit Kopi

My dad owns a couple of trucks. I still remember when I was young, back then he didn’t have a truck license. And he really dread when the day came where he had to get his truck license. So did he went for classes in the truck driving school? Obviously not. For all the experience he had, he just went and took the exam. And of course he passed with flying colours ;)

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Dec 30 2008

> Insurance for kids <

Published by jazzmint under Duit Kopi

Do you need to get insurance for your children? I always think that it might not be necessary but I sure did change my mind after recent happening to the house. It’s really a big saviour having been insured. But most of the insurance agent is pretty aggressive. I wish there’s one website that could offer free term life insurance quote which I could do comparison.

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Dec 22 2008

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Dec 21 2008

Printing Photos

Published by jazzmint under Photography

As a professional photographer, printing photos is a norm. But I realise that I don’t usually print photos in hard copy. I guess the main reason for that is that it’s troublesome. I just can’t decide which shop would give a better result. Which shop would charge cheaper. Which shop is more convenient for me. There’s just too many questions in mind.

But when I heard about EOE Online, I couldn’t resist but to send in my 50 copies of photos for printing. It’s such a breeze. Just select the photos, upload them and go thru the shopping cart. Now I can’t wait for them to be printed and sent to me. Fingers crossed.

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