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It’s papa’s

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photo taken last year after I shave his head bald :)

I usually use Hon’s laptop at home whenever I need to access to internet as I’m too lazy to boot up my office laptop. One night while I was busy playing FB games, this conversation took place:

Vyktore: Mommy, you better stop playing.
Mommy: Playing what? (pretending blur :P )
Vyktore: This one, the game (pointing at my laptop)
Mommy: Why?
Vyktore: Papa will scold…
Mommy: Why papa scold?
Vyktore: Because this is not your computer. You are using his computer, later he scold you. He will find out
Mommy: (=.=) takut nya aku LOL…But papa is not here :P . You don’t tell papa OK, then papa won’t scold me *LOL*
Vyktore: OK, I won’t tell. But you better stop playing now.

Lets hope that he keep his promise and won’t betray me when his Dad comes home.

P/S: My son, papa won’t dare to scold me, if not nobody gonna fix his laptop when it breaks down :P .

Laici Skin Idea

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Few days ago, Hon bought some laici from Beijing. They were huge. Not the ordinary size laici that we usually see in the market. Faythe was delighted cause she’s a laici lover. As for Vyktore, he never liked it before because it was soft and mushy. I’ve given him to try canned laici.

But since it was his first time seeing the fruit itself, he wanted to try it. Each of them took 1 laici while we were walking to the restaurant for dinner. I told them that they could only eat it when we arrive at the restaurant to avoid all the mess and juice dripping.

While walking, Vyktore came and told me this:

Vyktore: Mommy, you know I can use the laici to scratch?
Mommy: huh? Scratch what? (while looking at his hand with the laici)
Vyktore: See, I use the laici and scratch my neck (he put the laici on his neck and started to scratch his neck with laici instead of using his fingers)
Mommy: LOL, yeah, that’s a good idea.

I guess he was tickled with the slightly rough skin of the laici and thought that using it as scratching is something new to him :) .

Busy Designing, Printing & Cutting…

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… stuff for Vyktore’s Birthday Party.

I’ve been pretty busy since last week preparing stuff for Vyktore’s Birthday Party. Planning the menu (what to serve for both adults & kids), the games we gonna play, some decos to spice up the party venue, booking of venue, etc…Not forgetting pinning some ideas over at Pinterest. Gotta love that website tonnes!!

Now I wish I could be a party planner LOL. Much more fun that my existing job haha..Anyone wanna join me?

Well, I’ve been cutting up alot of printed stuff which I’ve designed with photoshop, from food toppers, to food labels, and even banners and invitation card. I’ll share some of the steps with you once all these partying is done and over. Good thing is that some of the cutting the kids can help up. I actually prefer them not to get involved if not they won’t be surprised on that day, but heck I’m short of time and any help would be great at the moment.

We’re not gonna cook up a storm as the kitchen is limited and time is limited as well. Hence making some simple food (popiah) and ordering some pizzas, that’s about it.

Will be on blog hiatus for the mean time. Hope will be back next week. And my office project is due on 11th June!! OMG…I hate to plan parties when I gotta deal with other deadlines in office. Sigh, what a life.

Here’s a snapshot from Instagram of the food labels I’ve prepared.

I’m getting pretty excited now. Nyek Nyek Nyek…

English or Chinese?

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Few days ago while we were getting ready for Church, Vyktore asked:

Vyktore: Mommy, how come we are Chinese but we have to go to English Church?
Me: Ermm..*seriously I’ve never thought that he’d ask me such deep question LOL*…you want to go to Chinese Church? Then I can ask Uncle Liau bring you to his Church, and we bring Ting Ting to our Church. OK?
Vyktore: No..
Hon: Are you Chinese or English?
Vyktore: I’m English

hahahaha…….he’s still having his identity issue I guess, speaking English most of the time, but calling ourselves Chinese.

next..while on the way to Church, he asked this: (this was related back to me by my friend cause she and Hon brought the kids to Church that day)

Vyktore: How come Ting Ting comes to our Church? She’s a Chinese and our Church is English…

Again, both of them were caught unfounded and just answered him that Ting Ting follows up to Church cause she wants to learn more English and mix with English speaking people.

Obviously, he’s trying very hard to shake off this little girl, named Ting Ting and trying to find excuses so that she won’t follow us to church LOL.

Hence we tried to explain to him that we are all Chinese, but just that we speak English most of the time, doesn’t mean we are English people. I showed him that English people are people like Uncle Bruno, Uncle Marc (Hon’s friends). I hope he understands hehe..

The Chicken Egg Question

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The other day I asked Vyktore to help me put the fresh eggs into the fridge. So happen, there were 2 brown eggs remaining in the fridge, and the fresh ones were white eggs. Here’s the conversation that took place:

Mommy: Vyktore, can you help me to put these eggs into the fridge. (Took an egg and showed him how to put it since it’s his first time).
Vyktore: OK..(as he was placing the eggs) Mommy, when will this egg turn into this?
Mommy: (I was busy cooking, so weren’t looking at what he was doing) What do you mean this egg turn into this? Turn into what? Chicken?
Vyktore: No. When will this white egg, turn to brown egg (pointing the 2 different coloured eggs).

LOL, I couldn’t help but burst into laughter. Isn’t he so innocent hahahaha..

Mommy: Oh no, they don’t change colour. These are different eggs, that’s why they are different colours. They come from different chicken. Maybe the white ones came from white chicken, and the brown ones came from brown chicken. *Yes I was half correct, read further to see why they are in different colours ;) *
Vyktore: What about black chicken. What colour is the egg?
Mommy: Err..no there’s no black egg OK. They should be brown

Sorry, I didn’t know the answer. So today went to google to find out more. Seems that the colour of the eggs depends on the pigments which are deposited as the eggs move through the hen’s oviduct. The pigments are decided by the chicken’s genetic, with some breeds producing rich dark brown eggs while others lay snow white eggs. The eggs inside are essentially identical; there are no major flavor differences between chicken eggs from different birds, as the flavor is determined by the chicken’s diet.

Further reads, I found that there are even such thing like blue/green eggs. :| . Read here:

“It is also possible to find blue to green chicken eggs, which come from the Aracuana, a breed of chicken developed in Chile. Araucanas have also been crossed with other breeds to produce the Americauna, sometimes called the “Easter egg chicken” in a reference to its multicolored eggs.”

Whoa that’s interesting. Thanks to Vyktore, we now know that why the chicken eggs are in different colour.

If you are interested to know more, there’s an article that you can read thru. Thus solves the Chicken Egg Question.

I’m gonna tell him this tonight, and I bet the next question is gonna be: “Mommy, when can you buy me the blue egg, I want to eat the blue egg” LOL.

Origami Conversation

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Faythe loves to make origami by referring to the origami book we’ve bought for them. And there’s this particular origami that makes puppet animal (just the animal face) that she has remembered the steps and do not need to refer to the book anymore. She’s been folding many of these to give to her friend, and while she was at it, this was Faythe & Vyktore’s conversation:

Faythe: Mommy, I’m going to make 2 more origami puppet for my friends.
Mommy: OK (while I was folding clothes)
Vyktore: I also want jie jie
Faythe: OK..what animal you want? Cat dog or panda?
Vyktore: I don’t want, I want dinosaur
Faythe: But this one cannot make dinosaur. I can only make cat dog or panda.
Mommy: Maybe rabbit?
Vyktore: I don’t want…I want dinosaur (sounded impatient)
Faythe: That might be difficult
Mommy: Hmm maybe pig
Faythe: Ah..can also. Vyktore you want pig?
Vyktore: No!! I want dinosaur. I want carnivore animal ONLY. I want T-Rex
Faythe: Cat is also carnivore you know. Cat eat fish

I couldn’t help but burst into laughter when Faythe answered him back so quickly and she was quick enough to turn the situation back. She really tickled me with her wittiness. Yes, cat eats fish, I totally forgot about that.

Vyktore got upset and stood up from the dining table and wanted to catch Faythe because he refuse to accept that cat is a carnivore.

Day 8: Bloggers Farewell

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Whoa, just 9 more days to go….

I’ve packed 3 farewell, 1 dinner & 1 party in just 1 weekend. Keng chau!! Obviously I didn’t realise that on Saturday, it was also the Bersih 2.0 day. So some bloggers were worried and asked if we are still going ahead with the farewell. Seriously, I have no more slots available LOL. So we still gotta march on with our farewells.

The bloggers that I know some lives nearby, but some lives at the other side of the town. And to have all of them together is not easy task. Especially some have to rely on drivers to fetch them, obviously the driver will not be keen to drive all the way to our side of the town just to watch us yak till cow comes home while they sit there and stare at the kids LOL.

So when I thought of bloggers gathering, it’ll be good to have it at 2 separate places so that they can choose which one to attend to.

Damansara/Bangsar Gang – Morning Session

Supposingly there were more people coming, but in the end only 6 families. It was a very cloudy morning. Best time for picnic :) . We met in TTDI Park, Peggy & Mei Leng came first. Then us. Then Dinah with Aidan (and his bike). Finally, Patrick & his 3 boys and Rachel & Philip came pretty late.

Kids enjoyed themselves building sandcastle and getting wet. We just sat there relax, chit chat a bit. Didn’t take any photos lah *doink*.

We left the place about 11am, went home to clean up the kids. Then head for 2nd farewell.

Kajang/Cheras Gang – Afternoon Session

Before I left PJ, I made a few calls to check the situation over at the other side. Because we are meeting in Crittersland, Serdang, I foresee that I’ll pass by some roadblocks along the way, and was trying to figure out the best route to escape.

Packed McD to eat in the car (I don’t wanna die of hunger stuck in the roadblock). Packed my phone charger as well, in case emergency, I don’t wanna run on low batt. And off we go.

In fact the traffic was pretty smooth except for the stretch at Bukit Jalil that took me 30mins to get out of there no thanks to roadblock.

This side of the town gathering was huge turn out. There were 9-10 families (can’t recall). Kids had a great time playing in Crittersland while Mommies can sit and chit chat outside.

It was also my first time meeting Chooi Peng, Anggie & Michelle Sau. Funny, we bloggers, talk on MSN, read each other’s blog, but only meet after so many years. And for farewell pulak LOL.

We finally left at 430pm since Mr. Hon & me has to attend a dinner with some friends.

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To all my blogger friends,

No doubt that we are no longer active in blogging (some of us, not all), we will always keep in touch with each other via other methods. I feel so happy that I have another group of friends who shares alot of common things. Sometimes, when you have friends that are not married, it’s hard to relate to them your issues because they have not encounter it. But with bloggers, it’s a different story, cause our kids are mostly same age, so we basically have the same set of issues like maid, kids homework, and so on. And we learn from each other, for the benefit of our kids.

Each and everyone of you have a special relationship with me. Be it we just knew each other, or we’ve known each other for a long time. I thank you for being part of my life for the pass 7 years of blogging, and may there be many more gatherings to come in the future.

See you ladies around, be it the next time I come back or in Hong Kong. Will give you ladies my contact there :) .

Note: Photo to be uploaded later.

Day 16: The Shipment

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This is the 1st installment of our countdown before leaving the country. From now till 17th of July, I will be posting one post a day, of which each post represents a part of our family and what has been happening over the pass 1 month and of course the coming last few days living in KL. Some of it are quite boring, so read whichever you prefer.

everything went in and ready to sail to HK

On 11th June 2011, it’ll always be the day to remember. Movers came and moved all the stuff that we want to ship to HK. The moving weren’t that bad, but the preparation for the move was crazy.

Mr. Hon came back mid May with a big bomb. We gotta start packing cause we target to move the things into container and ship it on 18th June. And because I will be in HK starting 15th June, they have to come earlier to collect the items. So I basically had 2 weeks to pack everything and finalise the list so that they can get quotation over at the HK side.

It was really crazy. He started packing his teapots, only some, then it was all mine mine mine. I tell you, I’m now a qualified logistics worker :P . I bubble wrap every single teapot. Packed every single tea into bags, and then into plastic container & seal them, to make sure in case they fumigate the shipment, it will still be safe for drinking. Clothes, kids books, kitchen utensils, groceries which I bought from Vietnam and some other stuff. Not forgetting tagging all the furnitures that needs to be shipped.

And from time to time, Mr. Hon will add 1 or 2 item into the list *grrrr*. I worked OT everyday after work to pack all the 10 boxes. As for the furniture, we left it to the movers to do it. The house has not been swept/mop since then till last weekend (26 June). Can imagine how dusty is that :P . It looks like a warehouse more than anything.

At the same time I also have to pack things which we want to keep & things we want to throw/giveaway. It weren’t easy, but I just continue to push on.

So when the day came for the movers to collect the items, I was relieved. At least the bulk of mess is gone. And I can move on to dispose/giveaway/keep rest of the items.

Now when I think back, I really can’t imagine how I did it all by myself. Crazy or what. I even used a packing list template from my vendor and printed packing list and stick it on each box haha…really like professional logistics OK :P .

And on that very day, at night, we also celebrated Vyktore’s 5th Birthday. He wanted a Yellowman Cake. Gosh, son, you are really testing me. I didn’t want to waste RM250 ordering a 3D cake for him, so I made the yellowman with fondant, and put it on the orange/cheese cake that I order from Suzette :) .

Vyktore, Faythe, Cousins (Gabriel & Raphael) & Partner in Crime, Jayden

Sweats…that’s the first & last time I’m gonna do anything with fondant. Really not easy lah. But I’m glad that he was very happy when he saw the cake. Can see the grin on his face. He wanted to eat the yellowman O.o.

Happy Birthday my little man…we all love you, very very very much :) .

Easter Egg-stra Activity

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All the colourful eggs. Sue & Jenny did a great job collecting empty eggshells

Every year when it comes to Easter, I’d drool over those lovely looking Easter Eggs and wonder if my kids would ever have a chance to have such fun activity.

So one day over MSN, I was telling Sue, hey wanna do Easter Egg Hunt this year? And we instantly got into work LOL. We emailed a few Mommies living nearby, confirmed their participation and everything just started to kick in.

Yummy food. (L-R): Fried Beehoon, Marsh mellow covered with chocolate, quail eggs & sausages on satay stick, mash potato, curry chicken, sinfully delicious BBQ pork

Paik Ling was kind enough to let us invade her home sweet home with 12 kids and at least 5 parents. We were at her place as early as 11am. Started off with lunch, all those yummy food that we brought over to her place. After lunch, we started the kids with egg painting.

Vyktore enjoying himself painting the egg blue

Each of them had at least 4 empty eggshells to paint. I bet the kids enjoyed themselves painting & decorating their eggs once it dried off. We brought along some art & craft materials for the kids to use to decorate the eggs. Dinah even brought some of her old nail polish and it was a hit among Agnes’ kids.

Ice cream santa

After the egg painting, all the kids & adults were given ice cream treat by Paik Ling. We all rested and yak for a while before Jenny & myself went to hide the eggs.

It was getting dark, so we had to hurry and make sure the eggs don’t get wet.

The hunt was so quick, I barely have a chance to snap any photos LOL. Lesson learnt, must hide the eggs better next round. Within 1 minute the hunt was over hahaha…

Then it started to pour like crazy!!

Winners of egghunt goes to the Chan brothers

Sue prepared some prizes for the winners and some stickers as consolation prize.

It was great fun and I certainly don’t mind organizing another session like this next year. But we definitely need to improve our hiding skills!!

Some painted eggs

Faythe with her blue egg

Vyktore specifically want me to buy these pair of goggle eye for his egg

Faythe & her crepe paper eggs

A bunch of hungry egg hunters

Their collection of eggs

Split tooth

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Both my kids are short of 2 canines at the bottom. Somehow it never grew. Does it happen to your kids as well?

Apart from that, Vyktore has an alien tooth as well.

If you look at this picture carefully, you probably spot his lateral incisor at the bottom (near where I put my finger) looks jaggered. If you go really close, actually it’s 1 tooth, but the top part of it is split into 2. Macam 2 head snake you know.

When I first spotted it, I thought he was 2 teeth that grew closely with each other, then I did some inspection and found out it’s actually just 1 tooth that splits at the top O.o.

I’m quite sure it’s not broken or chipped off because I’ve been looking at that tooth for at least 4 years now!!

The other day, we brought him to dentist, it was his first time (Date: 19 March – just for my record). I was pretty worried he might freak out and bite the SH!T out of the dentist, so I did some demo at home to set his expectation right. He did chicken out in the morning while we were picnicking at the park, but after that he was OK. Actually, there’s a big hole in one of his molar and we need to get it filled.

He was fine with the brushing, though a bit fidgety. Then dentist suggest minor cleaning and scaling, that’s when he didn’t agree and refuse to open his mouth O.o. Even with much coaxing, he didn’t want it. So we ended up doing the filling for him without scaling. After the filling, he was so happy. And as a mini reward, I gave him 3 stars, for not freaking out at the dentist.

It’s his 1st experience, so consider quite good.

So back to his alien teeth. Apparently it’s nothing. Dentist say some people just have teeth like that. But the permanent teeth might just be a normal one. No worries bout it.