My Diary

where has my time goes?

2011-12-21T13:27:00.002+08:00

I didn't realise that I have neglected my blog for so long! So much had taken place in the year. All in all, I am thankful to God for His sustaining grace, though it was a year full of challenges.
The girls have grown so much in a year. Qi Ning is done with her std 1 and is moving on to std 2 in two weeks time. Qi Yu is 5 and is asking for more siblings to play with. she told me yesterday that she wants to have two brother so they can play cowboy and red indian game!

New school year

2011-01-19T10:43:00.004+08:00

When the school year begins, we had planned to send the two girls to school, Qi ning to standard 1 while Qi Yu to kindie. But Qi Yu after first day in kindie decided that she is not going to the kindie anymore. She wanted home schooling like jie jie. I actually went with her for the first day and observe her throughout the class. My heart goes out to her as she has no friends and since it was a government kindie, is all malay. Teachers are also malay and during the break, they have to eat with their hand. Poor girl, I think she really didn't enjoy it. So we let her stay home after day 1 since she came down with running nose after that. I guess the stress is too much for her! Told the teacher will wait till after CNY to see how she goes.

Qi Ning started her standard 1. She has never being to school since I home school her for kindie. We were really concerned how she will cope with school. She did well and even being chosen by her classmate as class monitor. But i don't like the long hour and big class. She had 52 in her class and with three hyper active boys in the class. How on earth the teacher cope i don't know. I really wish that the class size is smaller but is just a wishful thought. They have 13 class of standard 1 students and each class have 50-52 students.

Everyday, the students have to arrive school early to avoid the jam. The school recommended the parents to send their kids by 12.30 but the class don't starts till 1.05pm. So this mummy never follow instruction, will only send her to school at 12.45pm to reach school by 12.50pm. Our home is only few minutes drive away. She often worried that she will be late as she is usually few of the last to arrive to the assembly hall. I see no point in sending her earlier to the hall, as the class only starts at 1.05pm and by the time they do to their respective class is already 1.15pm. Schools does not finished till 6.50pm (mon, tues) and 6.25pm(wed-fri). She asked me when i am gonna home school her again!
Guess mummy has to quickly get her thesis done and then can look into home school her!

Christmas Eve

2010-12-22T15:04:00.003+08:00

Christmas eve is coming soon
Dear O old Saint Nicholas,
please turn your ear to me
whisper what you bring to me if you can

Qi Yu has been singing this song a lot lately. She is waiting for Christmas to come! We are going for the caroling this Friday and i just got some goodies bags ready for the kids.
Time just zoom by so fast another year coming soon! Wishing all a blessed Christmas and a happy new year.

So fast

2010-12-01T15:26:00.002+08:00

Time flies, feel like 2010 just beginning not too long ago but now is already December. Next year Qi Ning will be starting standard 1 and next week she has to go for her trial class for 10 days. We were also thinking baout sending QI Yu to kinddie but i am two heart about it. feel like i should home school her myself instead of sending her off to school. Brought her to school the other day and the teacher commented that she is so small.
Last night, Qi Yu asked me to pray for her that she would be brave at school, really unsure of whether to send her or not to send her. Hubby said for me to quickly finished my thesis then i can talked about home school them both. At the moment, my time, everything is so tentative, i dare not commit myself to homeschool Qi Ning. Qi Yu because she is only 5 next year, i think i still can manage. How i wish to get this thesis over and done with. I am at the last lapse but is taking me soooo long! wish it to be over soon!

Home schooling

2010-10-12T16:17:00.001+08:00

I have been teaching Qi Yu all the alphabet sound since March this year. Being lazy myself, i only teach her once in a while, maybe like once or twice a week. I was feeling guilty about not consistent in teaching her. But thank god she is catching up fast. She already know the sounds to all the 26 alphabet and i am trying to use these alphabet to make words for her. Her enjoy sounding out the words and sometime will sound out the words for me to read. Of course she is not able to read just yet but when she holds book in her hand and do the read alound, it make people think that she already can read! And people will often give her the "wow" which she is pleased!
From time to time, she would request to have class when mummy is being lazy! I used to play hide and seek game with her. i hide the card and say the sound, she goes to search for them. And the jie jie is complaining why her learning is not as fun as meimei! Guess i need to put in some time to look into ways of making learning fun for the jie jie as well!

Imagination!

2010-10-06T10:36:00.001+08:00

Qi Yu loves to let her imagination run wild. She often imagine herself to be different kind of thing, usually animal. One day she can be a cute little puppy, another day cute little pony, whale, Dumbo the elephant, Simba the lion king or whatever story she read, she would turn to that and wanted to be called that name. So her name is changing everyday and when you address her with the "wrong" name she would be cross!
She loves to tell story and loves to ask questions. She is a real inqusitive girl, adorable and sweet!

Too Harsh?

2010-10-04T10:30:00.002+08:00

With daddy coaching her, Qi Ning's piano is moving on great. She just started to learn piano beginning of this year, she is now at grade 4 pieces and started being Sunday School piano the sunday just pass. She is able to play well but I am not sure whether if we have pushed her too hard. There are time she would cries because it is too hard for her and she say she feel like giving out piano! I don't know whether if this is just part of a learning process or because we pushed her too hard. I just want her to enjoy playing piano and not feel pressurized. She is a smart girl and when she overcome the challenges she would share her happiness. hope we are not too hard on her!

My cooking adventure

2010-09-21T15:41:00.002+08:00

i am not a good cook and seldom cook when i have maid, never cook when i was single. Since the maid left beginning of this year, i have to cook for the family. Actually i feel very guilty for not doing a good job. i think we eat out more than at home and very often bread is for breakfast and lunch. one day a friend commented that if i eat sandwhiches all the time, the kids don't get enough fibre. and eating out also not good for the kids. really i would love to cook more often but my cooking skill is so limited.
So lately i started to try simple cooking by using oven. i make pizza, grill chicken. The result is quite encouraging. My girls like the pizza that i make and hubby commented that it is the best pizza he ever had. :) it give me such encouragement.
Cooking can be quite fun, guess i need to be more diligent in trying out different recipe.

smoke coming out!

2010-09-13T16:51:00.002+08:00

I went for a seminar last week which was approved by my boss and HR which was on Tuesday and Wednesday. Unfortunately, i was down with severe throat infection on monday, so i call in on MC Monday. Tried to call my boss but she did not answer the call. so left a message with receptionist to inform her as i know she is very particular about this. Trying to show she is in charge!
Then today, i went to submit my claim, Mc etc to the HR and the HR manager ask me what is the email about me not turning up to work on Wednesday. O boy, my boss ditch me in such a way. Is she she threaten or insecure or what? why try to do things like this to me! blind me, power who are power craze! Angry with people who is like this, smile in front of you but don't know what they do behind you!

My joy

2010-08-18T10:34:00.002+08:00

Is so much joy to see the two girls growing day by day. Qi Ning is now concentrating on her piano since mummy slack off in tecahing her everyday. She is having class with mummy 2 days a wek instead of 4 days now. so her piano is improving tremendous now. Her piano teacher was saying maybe she is a little genius. She started her pianno lesson this year and is now into grade 3 pieces! She put in lots of practice daily and daddy coached her daily as well. There was tear at time but soon the beautiful music covers the tear! She is peservering on and aiming to be a painist at chuch by next year. Daddy say if she progress on at this rate, she might be one by end of the year!
Qi Yu is progressing well in her own way. She never cease to amaze me with her street wise response. At time when i want to reprimand her for not sharing, before I could starts, she would say "no Mummy, i only want to choose the biggest one for jie jie". Her mind turn so fast! She is getting interested in drawing now adays. sometime she would draw mummy, daddy, jie jie and her.
I have been using SWR with her but his lazy mummy is not discipline in tecahing her everyday. So up till now, i only have taught her about 22 alpahbet sounds. She knows it well and i am trying to teach her all the 26 sounds. She loves reading so everyday i would read to her. She is a sweet little girl.
I thank God for the two beautiful girls He has given to me!

Busy

2010-08-11T15:41:00.002+08:00

Lately, i feel so overwhelm with the things i need to do. Probably is due to the new semester begins and I am in the midest of doing thesis. DUe to maternity, one of the subject i was to take a year ago was not offer until now. So i have to juggle between data collection, assignment for the family therapy and also teaching. Luckily this semester i am teaching advance technique in counseling so i no need to prepare for the lesson as it is all prcatical. At first, i thought the course work would not be a hindrance to my thesis writing, as it turn it it is a pest and feeling upset about!
With this busy schedule, often is the children's learning took a back seat. I have not really teach Qi Ning and Qi Yu lately. Actually feeling guilty about it. Hope I will get my thesis done soon so that i can have more time for my girls. Lord, please give me the strength to hang in there and be discipline in my studies!

Touch base

2010-08-04T10:13:00.002+08:00

I haven't have time to blog and follow blog for a long time! Nowadays, i seem to get caught up in so many different things. Housework, kids, studies and some teaching and counseling work and church work, they all seem to be never ending! ANd I have this nagging thought behind me regarding my thesis, when am i going to finish! I met a friend who just had her gradaution on Monday and she is continuing on with her post graduate research, oh mine, when will my gradaution be! Guess i just have to put my head down and keep myself going with my data collection and data analysis!
I am really thankful for the two girls. They are really good in allowing me to do my studies. They would play by themselves when i need to do some work.
Qi Ning started her piano lesson beginning of this year and she is progressing very well. She is now in grade 1 level and moving on to grade 2 lesson. She puts in lots of time in practising piano with daddy as her guide. I think she is musically inclined but she does put in the effort to prcatise everyday. I am very proud of her achievement but sometime I wonder if we pushed her too hard!
I have to say i have slacked in my home schooling program with Qi ning and also very slow with Qi Yu. AM thinking of sending Qi Yu to kindergarten next year onward but feeling guilty about it. Really wish that I can be the one who teach her at pre-school. This little girl of mine is alo grwoing up fast and she is a quick learner in her own way. Her mind response very fast. She loves reading and is a chatter box at home.
I just loves to have my two girls with me.

Down time

2010-05-12T16:01:00.002+08:00

My two girls are down with high fever since yesterday and we are due to go to Cameron Highland on Firday! Really must pray that they will be well by then, if not how to go!
Feeling a bit stretch with all the last minute thing to do for family week and also looking for spaeker. Looks like June holidays is a busy time for speakers, all tied up in camps, seminar etc.
As for my thesis, I am looking for participants for my research. Not easy to get people to wanna share their expereince of violence or abuse so I just need to be patient and circulate the info as widely as I can.
Feeling a bit stress especially by the girls sickness. Sigh, wish they don't get sick often!

Kids development

2010-05-03T16:00:00.002+08:00

I have not been keeping a log of my two girls growing up in writing for a long time. Today, quickly find some time to do a quick write-up of what is still freash in my mind.

Qi Ning has three permanent teeth now, so fast when the dentist say uusally it will not happen till age 7 or so but my girl is only 5 plus. She started her piano lesson begiing this year and her teacher is impressed by her performance. Piano tecaher is thinking to start her on grade 1 soon. She puts in lot of practices. I think she really like music. Still not going to school yet and I have slow down in home schooling her. Instead of 4 x a week, is only two times a week. Lazy mummy! She can now read better and can read Peter and Jane till book 4 level with no problem. She need to stop to sound out the words in book 5. She is very articulate and would not hesitate to give you a piece of her mind. She is very mature for her age but I must always remind myself that she is still a child and can't expect her to be like an adult!

Qi Yu is also growing up fast. She is a book lover and what amaze me is that she could recite all her favourite story well. She likes to be called names. Earlier on she want me to call her monkey, and now Garfield. In between, she wanted to be known as Panda bear and Koala bear but only for a short few days. Monkey and Garfield has been for months. Don't know when she will change name again!No more monkey now but Garfield!
Started her with the phonic lesson now. She is enjoying it as I have make it into a hide and seek game for her. She has to find all the letter that I hide. So far she has learnt from a-j and numbers 0-9. Daddy is teaching her some simple mandarin. She gets really excited when she recognise the letter in a word be it books or advertising bill board of the tv screen. She will quickly tell me about it by the sound of the letter.
She has a good memory. she thinks about what we tell her and has a quick mind. This morning she was upset with me and was wanting to hit me. When I told her daddy say cannot beat mummy, she turn around and say "Mummy I want to pat pat you and not hit you!"
Such joy is to have two girls like Qi Ning & Qi Yu. They are a real blessing from God. Love them very very much!

Moving On!

2010-04-30T10:50:00.002+08:00

Had my seminar 1 yesterday. Really thank God for His goodness in seeing my through. I have got tow kind readers and my supervisor was very supportive and stood up for me at one point. I was told that usually he is very quiet and remain silence. But God's favor was upon me so despite the many querries and question, i pass my seminar. it was a stressful expereince but i learn. Like the chairperson say, I may have blind spot that I don't see so their questioning may help me to see and indeed it has help me to learn and realise that what i take for granted was not so easily understood by others. Anyway, I am glad that is all over and now is time to move on to another stage of my thesis, which is data collection. Of course there are some admendment to the first three chapter with alll the comments given yesterday but i have overcome the first hurdle and allow to move on to another stage. Hurray, praise be to God!

Maidless life

2010-04-21T14:28:00.002+08:00

We have decided to go maidless since Jan 10. So far so ggod although there are time when the lazy bone strike, I still wish to have a maid. But overall, I would say we are doing alright without the maid.
For the past years, I never not never but hardly do any cooking, now I have to cook for the girls and hubby. I found out that cooking can be quite fun and give me a sense of satisfaction seeing them enjoying the food! One new achievement for me. Seriously, I have never really cook for my whole life, always have people to cook for me. Only now that I am maidless, I started to cook.
The girls are a lot me independent and we do lots of thing together including the daily chores. in the past, there was maid to clean after us. now we learn to clean after ourselves. Hubby is of great help.
But I am looking to get some help to do all the ironing though!
I must learn to be discipline in my lessons with the girls and also writing my thesis. Sometime, I find myself so laid back, probably a bad habit since my aussie day! Take it easy mate! :)

Seminar 1

2010-03-30T11:15:00.000+08:00

I submitted my fisrt three chapter last week.mWaiting for the department to give me a date to defence my proposal. They will appoint 3 readers to read my proposal and then test me on it. Pray that right reader will be appointed and give me constructive feedback. Was feeling stress for a while then I later, i told myself so what. IF I don't pass the seminar, the worst is to redo, no need to die so no need to be so stress! See I so "Ah Q".
Now better prepare myself for the seminar 1 so that I won't be slaughter on the day. still don't know when yet. I was told it would be somewhere mid April or late April. Betetr get all my slides ready!

Sendimental

2010-03-29T11:09:00.002+08:00

Two nights ago, we were lying down getting ready to bed. It is our usual routine to lay on bed and chit-chat before we sleep. The topic on the nite somehow turn to wedding and marriage. Then Qi Ning ask me.
Qi ning: "Mummy, I want to know after I get married, who do I stay with? You or my husband?"
Mummy: "of course your husband. But if you want you & husband can stay with mummy or you can have a place for mummy & daddy to stay with you."
I hear no reply from her for a while then I heard her sobbing away. Later I found out that she was already feeling sad having to leave mummy!
I think she is a sanguine, she is socialble and her emotion go up and down very fast.

Challenging few weeks

2010-03-15T10:35:00.002+08:00

For the past three weeks, life was full of challenges. MIL came with us for a visit after our balik kampung trip for the CNY. It was good to have her around to teach me some cooking, unfortunately, she had a fall and frcatured her left femur on 19 Feb. She was admitted to the hospital and had an operation. As most of hubby's siblings are in Penang, there was only us to shuttle between hospital and home. It was quite a stressful week for us as we felt responsible in a way to have MIL fall down at our place. Fortunately, the family were understanding of the situation. One SIL came and help for the first few days after MIL's operation. That was a great relief for us. It was hard to juggle between hospital, two kids and home.
Qi Ning caught a virus while MIL was still in hospital on 28th Feb, her fever was running high for a few days and then ulcer break up all over her mouth. She could eat or drink for about four days and then she was better. She could eat but at time there was blood ozzoing out from her gum. It was a scarry site for a while. MIL was better and was discharged and went back to Penang on 1 Mar.
As Qi Ning recover, Qi Yu caught the virus from Qi Ning. She got it real bad, her fever was up high above 38.3 most of the time. She was not eating since Friday 29Feb. Yesterday was the first time she told me, "I am hungry Mum!" What a joy to hear that few words. She couldn't eat for the past two weeks and find it hard to drink. We have to coax and try all ways to get any liquid in. even ice-cream was no longer attractive to her! She lost about 4kg in that two weeks. She is all bone now! But I am glad that she is on the road to recover and is her active self now.
It was indeed a challenging few weeks with MIL hospitalised and children falling sick but thank God for His grace and strength to substain us through!

Maidless

2010-02-01T12:34:00.002+08:00

Two Sunday ago (18 Jan) we sent off our maid for good. Her time was not up yet but she has been showing lots of tantrum of late and we decided not to keep here any longer. So we are kinda off maidless with a short notice though hubby and I are mentally prepared for this day. We have been talking about sending her off early with her lousy attitude of late but just haven't got to do it but she blown it out big time on Sunday and we send her off to the agent right away.
How's life without a maid. Good I would say, the two girls are chipping in to help in their own ways. They like to help mummy wash dishes, I guess they enjoy playing with the soap and water. They help with folding clothes, keeping thier own things. Good way to teach them about responsibility. Hubby is a great help, he did most of the household chores. Overall, I would say not having a maid is good, at least I am not so lazy! But I need to be more discipline in my usage of time so that I can finish my study as well as keep on tecahing my girls! I have been slack in classes with my girls since this year!

Year end post

2009-12-28T11:47:00.002+08:00

I have been so slack in updating my blog, some thought I have gave up blogging. No, I haven't give up on blogging only have been busy and lazy to update my blog that's all. But will try ot update my blog more for the coming year.
Didn't know why this time near the year end, I feel so restless, like not sure what to do even though I have lots on my hand to complete but I just feel very restless!
My two girls are growing up fine. Have to post some of their recent photo soon.
Happy 2010 to all!

Classic answer by Qi YU

2009-11-16T14:32:00.002+08:00

Lately, Qi Yu has been giving quite a few candid remark which is worth recording.
This took place last week (10Nov) when I heard that my grandma pass away. Me, Qi ning and Qi Yu was in the sitting room.
Me:"Tua Ma" pass away oledi.
Qi Ning:You sad or not?
Me: Of course I feel sad.
Qi Ning: Why you feel sad?
Me: Because I don't get to see her anymore.
Qi Yu: (She came and sat my lap) Mummy don't be sad ok, I got two "poh poh", I give you one, so you don't be sad ok!
How sweet of her!
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On sunday, we went out for lunch with some friends after church. Across the hawker centre, there were monkeys kept by one pakcik so Qi ning and Qi Yu wanted to go across to see Si Merah. They invited aunt Karen to go along. Aunt Karen pretend to me afraid.
Karen: Aunty scare
Qi Yu: Don't be scare, I am here!
Heheehe, isn't she sweet!
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After lunch some friend came over to my house, Qi ning packed some mangoes and ranbutans for a friend. Qi Yu saw the rambutans and starts taking the rambutans. Ranbutans is one of her favourite fruits.
Qi Ning: See mummy, Qi Yu take aways Si Si jiejie's rambutans
Me: Qi Yu that's for si si jie jie, don't take ok we still have rambutans ata home.
Qi Yu: No mummy, i saw ants on the rambutans and I only chase the ant aways!
See how fast her response is.
Is really a joy to see the wo girls growing up. Really love them heaps.

Upset!

2009-08-17T15:36:00.002+08:00

Dunno why these people want to have replacement class during semester break, upset! Supposed to set off for a week break tommorrow, to visit my parents and then my in law, now has to cancel it all because my lecturer want a make up class this friday!
Arrgh....

I can ride by myself!

2009-08-12T11:21:00.002+08:00

Qi Yu knows how to pedal the bicycle by herself now! Yesterday we went for a ride. Usually, mummy is the one pull her along but yesterday, she starts to peddle by herself. She still need help in handling the bicycle handle so that it would goes in the striaght line and not side way but I am glad to see her cyling by herself!

Flower girl

2009-08-03T13:27:00.002+08:00

This Saturday (8/8) is one of my good friend's wedding and Qi ning is gonna be her flower girl! This little girl of mine is so excited and is counting her day that she will walk down the ailse before the bride! Girl will always be girl, loves to look pretty!

Breakfast in Bed!

2009-06-26T13:52:00.000+08:00

I have read and seem on movie about breakfast in bed and about 3 weeks ago, my dear daughter make it come true in my life. I have mean to blog about it but somehow forgotten!
I was reading the book to my two girls about "When I am sick, mummy did this and that for me...and the boy was well, he make breakfast for mummy." So Qi ning was telling me that she want to make breakfast for me.
Lo and behold, one morning she woke me up from sleep and show me the tray that she has brought up for me. It was a cheese sandwich! We sat on the bed and ate the snadwich together. Qi Yu saw what her jie jie did and went down stair and prepare breakfast for mummy as well! So sweet of them. Mummy is all ear when thinking of the sweet acts that the girls perform! :)

All I want for Christmas is my four front teeth...

2009-06-24T11:14:00.002+08:00

Whenever i look at the four front teeth on Qi Yu's mouth, I can't help feeling the tint of guilt on my part for neglecting her oral hygiene from baby. I have left it to the maid to clean her teeth when she was younger. But many time when she closed her mouth tight and refused to be clean, the maid never told us. So by the time when i noticed the erosion on her teeth and asked the maid if she wash Qi yu's teeth her answer was "Qi Yu tak mahu!"
That was when she was about 1 year old, I did send her to see dentist when i notice that her teeth was kind of eroding but the dentist say not to worry. We have been bringing the kids for dental check up every so often ever since. But nothing will help her four front teeth oledi. Now her upper four front teeth has decayed and dentist said has to wait as there is nothing so can do at the moment.
Last night, i heard this little girl of mine pray that god will help her teeth to drop soon! I asked her to pray that her permanent teeth tol grow soon only then the four decay one will fall off.
Qi ning oledi had two permament teeth even though she is not five yet! Hopefully, Qi Yu four front teeth will also grow qiucker than usual!

Swimming Lesson

2009-06-15T16:43:00.002+08:00

I have been thinking of sending Qi Ning for swimming lesson for quite some time but never actually get to do it. Since we have been going swimming very often lately, I saw a swimming coach teaching people swimming at the Condo where I took Qi Ning and Qi Yu for a swim every now and then. So hubby asked me to check him out so last Saturday we started the first lesson for Qi Ning. She really enjoyed it.
I must say that I am really thankful that God has provided this coach, I don't need to send her far, just to the condo across the road where a friend is staying! And he seem to be quite good with children. He even brough a fin for Qi ning to try. I am pleased with the first session!

Prayer

2009-06-03T11:13:00.002+08:00

Everynight before we sleep, we tend to pray and ask for a goodnight of rest. And also to pray for special needs as it arise, maybe for someone who is sick or special requests. I remember in April when i was bogged down by assignments, I asked the girls to pray that mummy will do her homework aka assignment well. And lately, I have heard Qi Yu prayed this prayer before she sleeps quite frequently. She would actually knelt down to pray! Bless her heart.
"Dear Jesus, please help mummy do her homework well so that she could be Dr. Ling and no more Ling Mee Chooi". When i hear this i couldn't help but laugh, it indeed brings joy and encouragemen to me as i plough on in my studies.
Really appreciate the girls for putting up with the time when mummy have to do homework and can't play with them and for hubby to take on the responsibility of taking care of the girls when i have to rushed to complete assignments! I guess with their support, i will have to be discipline to finish it up fast! Love them all.

Holidays

2009-06-01T13:49:00.002+08:00

Since my last exam on 8 May, i have been going for a few holidays. My plan to do literature review for my thesis has been delayed. Two weekend ago we went to Fraser hill, last wednesday we went to Penang to meet one of my SIL and her family,whom we have not seen for more than a year. Her two kids are about the same age as my two girls.
Took the kids to Penang hill. Qi Ning asked "Is it because we are children, the cable cars are not in the air (she is refering to those cable car at Genting) this is more safe"
Qi Yu nowadays starts to mimic mummy in emphasising the sound of the words. Since I teach Qi ning phonics, I try to emphasize teh sound of the words, and Qi Yu is picking that up from me. Sometime she will tell me, "Mummy, I am Sa..d." and this little girl of mine likes to call me "mum" when she is in her cheery mood. She will be "hi mum" here and there!
Two weeks time, we will be travelling to Ho Chih Min City. This will be our last trip before my semester starts again!

Discpline

2009-05-25T15:47:00.002+08:00

Ever since my last exam in May 8, i have been so slack in my PhD study. Have planned to do more literature review during this long semester break but so far I have not done very much. Is always giving myself excuses to start tommorow sigh! No wonder my lecturer always say when one come to Phd level, is no longer about how inteligent one is but how discipline one is. Hopefully I am discipline enough to finish my study!

Photos of our trip to GuangZhou

2009-05-20T14:02:00.003+08:00

Some of the photos of our recent trip.

Nen Nen Crave

2009-05-06T16:15:00.002+08:00

It has been more then two weeks now that Qi Yu is off my breast but I think there are time she really misses it. Last night, before she sleep, the following conversation took place:
Qi Yu: "Mummy, your nipple still painor not?"
Mummy: No, it is well already, Qi Yu prayed that Jesus would heal mummy's nipple isn't it?" (She prayed for me in the first few day when i wean her off by showing her my cracked nipple)
Qi Yu: "Mummy, can i nen nen?
Me: "No, Mummy nen nen dry up already.
Qi Yu: "Why your nen nen dry up?"
Me: "Because Qi Yu big girl alreday, can drink cow milk".
Qi Yu:(begins to cry) "No, I am still a baby, i want nen nen!"
I have to distract her for a while before she stop crying. Poor girl, still craving for mummy's nen nen!

Successful in weaning

2009-04-29T09:31:00.002+08:00

I have finally wean my Qi Yu off the breast since mid-April. In the past, whenever I tell her to wean she would protest so I have been checking with her every now and then, just to see if she is ready. Everytime her response to my request to weaning is negative so i thought it would be hard for me to wean her. ANd I notice that it is more for comfort nursing then anything else that she want to continue nursing.
Somewhere in mid-April, i show her my cracked nipple and told her that mummy pain pain and nipple need to rest for a day. So she sort of understand and hubby suggest to give her pacifier. She took it without much fuss, though she didn't really like the pacifier, she was just playing with it in her hand. throughtout the night, she did try to come near me asking for "nen nen" but I told her no. she was ok with the answer. the second night before sleep, she pray that Jesus would come and heal mummy nipple! :) She is still thinking of nursing. By that time I was so engrossed that I was so tempted to nurse her, I ask her if it is ok that i let her nurse for this one time and no more, of course she wants it but hubby remind me that if i want to wean her off, i shouldn't tempt her. So i did not carry out my i offer to her. She had a little fuss about it, crying for her nen nen and i felt so bad for tempting her! bad mummy. And from there on ward, she has been off my breast for good! It was much easier that i expected, hurray! So all in all, I have nurse her for 2 years four months!
I fund that she sleeps better after i wean her because she don't wake up middle of the night that much to look for her feed!

Brief moment

2009-03-25T15:40:00.003+08:00

I have been away from the blogsphere for the last few months. Was sooooo busy despite the fact that I am not working full time! I took four paper for my PhD class, started home schooling my girl, all beginning this year, that's why I am sooooo busy! I sure miss blogging about my girls development and hopping aorund people's blog. Today, I give my self a break and do some light blogging. since I have done most of my assignment, still about two more to go but the dead line is not so soon.
Next week, we are going for a holidays, to Guangzhou for 6 days all together. I am looking forward to the break and then come back to face the exam!
My two girls are growing up real fast, Qi Ning is very independent now and she is learning well. She has asked me for baby brother. Qi Yu still want to be called "baby" even though she is oledi 28months old. She still refused to be weaned. overall, she is also quite independent. toilet trained for the day time, but still working on it for the night. some nights, she will be dry some night she will wet her daiper, I am too lazy to wake up at night to bring her to pee so still let her waer her daiper. but at time she will wake me up to bring her to toilet.
Both girls are "competing" with each other and the younger one is always imitating what the jiejie is doing! Is real fun to see them growing up together.

My thoughts

2009-01-21T10:24:00.003+08:00

In a few days time, it will be CNY oledi somehow this year, I am still not in the CNY mood yet. Maybe because I still have to attend classes on Saturday and still having assignments hanging over my head! Also didn't buy any new clothes for my girls yet but i heard form my niece that the gugu has bought for them! Lucky me, having all the different family members doing all the CNY shopping for me.
Even though now I only go to office two days a week, my time seems to be occupied. I started home schooling Qi ning and she is getting used to me teaching her. Of course is still a challenge for me to learn all the phonics myself first before teaching her. And Qi Yu sometime would sits in the class but at time she would "disturb" the class by insiting that mummy carry her!
I quite like the current arrangement, which give me more time with the children. Only thing is that I need to be more discipline so that I can get my PhD study going or else i think it will take me a long long time to complete. I am working hard to be discipline myself.
Here is to wish evrybody a very happy CNY, "Gong Xi Fa Cai" "Xin Nian Ru Yi" "Wan Shi Ang Kang"

Holiday Mood

2008-12-15T10:53:00.003+08:00

Yippie, holiday is coming, today is my last day at work, then I am off for the rest of the year. The girls are waiting excitedly to visit their grandparents at Sitiawan and Penang. So tomorrow morning, we are setting off to Sitiawan for a few days, then to Penang. will be back to KL for Christamas and then heaqd back to Sitiawan again for a family get together. My sis from Tawau will be back also. We will be celebrating my parents 70th birthday and take family photo!
Oh i so look forward for the break!

Something about me

2008-12-10T12:00:00.003+08:00

In another five days time, my status will change from full time working mum to full time mum for a while then to part time working mum(2 days a week) from 2009 onward. I am excited about the changes but at the same time feeling pressured as I want myself to be more involved in my girls life yet not sure how will i manage. I guess it is the uncertainty that's stressing me.
I intend to home school Qi Ning and Qi Yu since it is only pre-school. I am learning up the phonics myself and am having a hard time remembering all the sounds hence the stress! hahaha getting old, memory is failing.
One thing i am very please with myself is that I manage to get a scholarship for my PhD study even though is only for a year but is renewable yearly. At least is some kind of affirmation for me and also will serve as a motivating factor to complete my study in the duration the scholarship allowed for if I want to renew it next year. Thankful to God for His provision of the scholarship!

My girls

2008-12-04T15:32:00.003+08:00

The two girls are growing up real quick. They are now at the stage where they can play very well with each other and also fight and argue with each other. I love them so dearly and Qi Ning would say :"I love you much more Mummy!"

Recent Happenings

2008-11-27T16:14:00.002+08:00

I have been so busy till no time to blog and blog hop for so long! Now, finally everything is slowing down. Exam is over and all the seminar is over, I can "kiew kar" liao.
So many events have taken place within the last one month. Celebrated Qi Yu 2 year old birthday, celebrated our 5th year wedding anniversary as well. Sat for my first semester exam, received the news of getting my scholarship. Finished marking exam paper and submit the grading to UM. Signed the scholarship contracr, did the stamping etc. Went to Melacca to give a seminar. It was really a hectic month. Glad that things are slowing down.
From next year on ward, i shall be fulfilling Qi Ning's request to work part time only. My boss offer me part time, two days a week. Is quite a good deal. Really thankful to God for His ever faithful provision.
I perceive thing will be different next year but will be for the better with more time with the little one. Do pray that I will make good use of my time.

Art Class

2008-10-23T10:01:00.002+08:00

Today is the first time Qi Ning attending an official art class. She seem to be excited about it. The teacher is a lady from china and she is teaching from her home nearby my house. There will be Qi ning and another girl who is 8 year old.
I am keen to find out how she fares being in class by herself for the first time. We have never leave her alone in any place prior to this. The teacher initially say it will be one and half hour but we felt might be too long, so we are starting her with one hour first.

one more month

2008-10-08T09:56:00.003+08:00

In another month time, Qi Yu will be two years old. This little girl of mine is growing up so fast. She has definitely grown taller but I did not get her meausrement. During the Raya holidays, everyone commented that she is so much taller now.
At 23mths, this little girl of mine impressed a lot people with her singing. she could sing many many songs now till mummy also lost count. All the sunday school songs and also the song from the 四千金CD that was passed down by my sis-in-law. It is very enjoyable to sit down and listen to her singing. Now she will sing for others as well when she is in the mood. I think she getting a bit more sociable.
She has also begins to develop her reasoning and has been using the word because for quite sometime liao. Recently, we were talking about the big bird who cooked breakfast for the grandma and brought the breakfast to the bed for grandma bird who broke her leg. We had the following conversation.
Me: "Can Qi Yu cook breakfast for mummy and bring it to bed for mummy ?"
Qi Yu: "No, because Qi Yu is too small to cook!"
See she is good in answering back now!
She still have not learn to sleep through the night and still need mummy to nurse her to sleep. I try to wean her off the breast but failed! She is quite a light sleeper and wake up easily. So mummy is still having panda eyes!
She is a delightful little girl, i just loves her soft voice! Happy 23 mth old my dear Qi Yu.

Sian

2008-09-29T10:42:00.002+08:00

I have been so slack in updating lately. Was so busy caught out by work, study and what's next after i quit! There is just so much on my mind.
Last friday, I bang my car in um carpark. I don't know why I was so careless, my mind was just so blank when it happen. ANd that cost me RM500, all the left front light is all gone and the car is still in the workshoptill today. So "sian" I am!

Changes

2008-09-08T11:27:00.002+08:00

They say the only constant in life is change. Even though i know it but when is time to change, it can be so tough at time!
I am making a major change today by putting in my resignation letter. I have been working in the college as a counsellor for the past eight years and making the decision to move on is not an easy one. I don't know what I will be doing next after quiting here. Hubby say to concentrate on my PhD and maybe do a bit of part time.
Letter has been typed and signed, waiting to be sent in to the relevant people and I am moving on. What comes next I really don't know but I know the God who hold my tomorrow. So I guess with that knowledge, I can step out in faith!

Walk by Faith

2008-09-05T10:59:00.002+08:00

Last nite, the people from 生命之路came from Sibu to share on how they started their evangelistic trust and how God told him that to do God's work, one must not based on man own understanding but must be based on what need to be done for the kingdom of GOd. don't let the financial resource constraint what one need to do. he was sharing how when there is only RM3,000 in his account when the need for that moment is to produce CD worth RM16,000. He obeyed God's prompting and went ahead to get the CD and started distribution. when they finished distributing, the money also came in for them to oay off the debt. He challenge us to step out to experience God.
For the last two months, hubby and I have been talking about me quitting my full time job as Counsellor and maybe to concentrate on my studies and maybe just do some part time teaching. I have been struggling with it for the longest time, wondering how we can manage with all the rising cost. Hubby assured me that we will be ok but still I am kind of worried.
But since Wednesday, I have been seriously thinking about leaving. Originally I was thinking of leaving only after i am sure I can get the scholarship but now, it seem like is time to leave. I felt i really should move on and allow God to lead my next step.
As I look back, when I resigned from church in 2004, I also had no where to go but God provided the job at just the right time. So I think I should just step out by faith again as HE knows what's best for me.

Working's Mum Dream

2008-08-22T14:13:00.002+08:00

Qi Ning have been requesting that I work on alternate day. Last night I was asking her why she want mummy to be home all day. Guess what is her answer? Her answer was "i loves you" heart also melted after hearing her answer!
So i am working hard to get a scholarship from the University. Just saw the advertisement on Monday where UM is giving out scholarship for full time post graduate study. If I can get the scholarship then I will quit my job and be a full time student. Then I think I can be home at alternate day as requested by Qi Ning if not more.
I told her about the scholarship application and she has been asking me if I have got the scholarship almost everyday. How i wish is so simple, apply and know the result immediately. I am so tempted to quit my job but can't if i don't get the scholarship. The closing date for the scholarship application is next friday. They told me they will atke about 1-2 mths to process the application and if i don't hear form them within 6 mths that means no hope liao. So is still a long process of waiting and dreaming about getting the scholarship!
How' nice it would be if I do get it then I can have more time for my girls.

Snap shot of my girls

2008-08-19T15:10:00.003+08:00

Long time didn't post any photos of my girl, here are another two recent photos of my precious darlings. Qi Yu is now 21 mths old and she is chatter box at home but as quiet as a mouse when there is any unfamiliar faces around her. She can sings many many songs and attempting to do self care task such as dressing and wearing shoes and sock by herself now.
Still not much hair but is growing. after the milkstrike, I thought I could wean her off totally from my breast but she is fighting for her right. So she is now back to nursing on demand!
Qi Ning is growing up fast as well. Even though she is not attending kiddie yet but she can write her own name now. She was proudly showing it to us this morning. She always tell us she don't want to go to school as she want home schooling!
Qi ning is quite independent now as she can do most of the self care task by herself, like changing her dress, tying her hair(of course not as tidy), putting on sock and shoes for herself. She liks to help up with the house hold chores whenever she is in the mood. Nowadays she will make her request known to us as to what she want for her birthday etc. She is a sociable girl who is always inviting friends to come over to her house!
Life is fun with two girls!

Bikers

2008-08-18T14:59:00.004+08:00

It seems like this is a seoson for cycling. The children in my neighborhood are cycling and my Qi Ning caught on the fever and my baby girl also want to cycle. Luckily, we have two bicycle at home so each girl can have one to themselve.

These photos were taken on Saturday at a playground near my house. The first photo is that of my two girls and their favourite play mates from the neighbourhoodSuanne and Julian. Qi Ning can manage the bicycle by herself as the training wheel is attached while Qi Yu still don't really know how to peddle yet. She just put her feet on the peddle for show. But she enjoys sitting on the bike and having me pushing her from the back as if she is carrying me on her bicycle. She seems to like the idea that she is big enough to be carrying mummy around on her bicycle!

On strike

2008-07-31T10:29:00.002+08:00

For the past two days, Qi Yu goes on milk strike. She refuse to drink powder milk as well as breast milk. Her usual quest to be nurse at night also stop! Even though I have stopped expressing milk at work, each day when i reach home after work, her first request is "Mummy, I want nen nen." But this request stopped two days ago. And ecah night before she sleep she will request for her fix as well and in the middle of night, she sometime will request for comfort nursing. But all these stops in the last two days!
She had fever on Monday and then go on strike Tuesday. She is drooling a lots, maybe she is teething again. Also because we had too much of a durian feast lately, so everyone is down. Qi Ning was also not well and mummy too.
From the strike, I think I am going to wean her off the breast permanently now. At first I thought it would be difficult to wean her off the breast because before the stike, any mention of weaning her off the breast will bring about a big fight from her. Now with the strike on, even when I offer her she would say "NO". Looks like mummy is going to have a breeze again in weaning my girl off the breast! :) But I do hope she won't goes on the milk strike for too long. Will need to ask her jiejie to persuade her to drink cow milk as she likes to follows her jiejie!

After 30 months....

2008-07-23T11:56:00.004+08:00

Yes, is about 30months liao, my good friend didn't visit me and yesterday she came by. It has been 30months that I have enjoyed without the monthly period pain or discomfort that goes with it. but now it has return with a vergence. Yesterday was the first day and I had bad headache, today is the second day and I am having period pain.
After so long, i sort of forget what it is to have menses, now I am feeling it all over, don't know whether should celebrate or what. Hubby said is good isn't it, is normal to have mense!

Two months more...

2008-07-21T14:20:00.002+08:00

In another two months time, Qi Ning will be turning four, how time flies. My girl is a big girl now. She can do most of the self care tasks by herself now. She can change her own clothing, tie her own hair, wear her own shoe with sock, brush her own teeth and feed herself. There will be time when she would want to "manja" mummy and want mummy to feed her. I try as much as I can to encourage her to be independent. Overall, she managed all the self care task quite well.
Qi Ning is a sociable girl and she loves to invite people to come to her house for visit. She loves to play with other children who are slightly older then her. She can play badminton quite well and the other day, she was teaching a girl who is 7 year old how to serve a ball! I was having a good laugh observing how she was showing her new found friend at the play ground how to play badminton! she seems to like to be a teacher, I guess that give her a sense of control.
She loves durian, this durian season, she really get to eat lots of durian especailly this few days. I think she is like mummy, loves to eat and can really eat. So I have to always remind her not to overeat.
Two more months to her 4 year old birthday and she has been reminding mummy to buy her birthday present. Mummy has to really look around for a present for her, if not she would be disappointed. But with kids, I think whatever present given with love, would be apprecaited, so i don't have to worry about the price tag yet! :)

She is

New journey

2008-07-14T14:38:00.002+08:00

Last week the semester at UM started and that mark the beginning of my PhD journey. I finally decided to plunge in to take the challenge. It was a stressful week to begins with as there were so many thought going thru my mind. To study or not, to teach or not, how many classes to take, what subject to take, to resign or continue working . etc , it was so stressful.
My Prof. told me to apply for tutotship in UM and offer me to teach one subject in UM. I applied for the tutorship, no news yet but I am tecahing one class. He asked me if I wnat to tecah another class, after consideration and making all the necessary arrangement I say yes. Then was told that due to some techinical limitation on the amount a part time lecturer can claim, only claim a maximum of RM9000 per semester, I am not able to take two class. Now I have to reschudule my class and everything. So upset with them for messing around with my schedule! And even though I have registered as student, I can only starts to borrow libary book one month later, how inefficient! Only consolation I have is that I get a staff parking after paying a RM20 deposit so I don't need to fight for parking space as I can park at the designated area for staffs.
There are no answer to all the questions I have but at least I am more settled now, knowing that I can only teach one class, take two subjects. Still need to change the class time with my students. They probably think that I am frickle minded but I have no choice. So wish my all the best as i goes on this new journey!

Twenty Months

2008-07-07T11:22:00.003+08:00

Qi Yu is twenty months old today. Gosh the time just flies. She is one sweet darling to behold. At twenty months, she can sing and talk very well. But she will only sing to her family members i.e mummy, papa n jie jie. She won't sing to other poeple. still very shy and cling to mummy a lot.
Now she want to dress herself and will want to choose her own outfit. She would be very happy if she can successfully pull down her panty and sit at the potty by herself. She is toilet trained for the day time.
The growing sense of independence is getting stronger nowadays, she will exert her right by saying "this is Qi Yu" and push you away if you try to impose on her. When you ask her something and she don't want to answer, she would say "I don't know." And she know how to use the word because. She has got quite a good sense of comprehension. When ask her the who, what and why questions from the story books, she could answer quite well.
Still want to nurse to sleep and throughtout the night. This is one habit that mummy is trying to break but find it a battle.
Such joy to have her!

Milk Powder

2008-07-01T16:12:00.003+08:00

With the recent increases in all sort of things, milk powder has also increases. Good for those of us who are breastfeeding, we saved quite a lot on milk powder. But there will be a time when breastfeding stop and we need to buy milk powder.
I breastfed Qi Ning till she was about 20months then I swiatch her to formula as I was few month into pregnancy. I am still breastfeeding Qi Yu who's gonna be 20mths soon and I am thinking of weaning her off my breast. I am tired of expressing milk when at work, mummy is getting lazy. So I was browsing through the prices of different brands of milk powder and talking to different mummy about the type of milk powder they give to their kids. Many try to give the best as claim by the advertiser. Those with all the DHA, AHA lah whatever knot being added to the formula so that the child will be cleverer by taking that formula. When I looked at the prices different between those which supposed to make the child cleverer, it is almost 3x more expensive.
For Qi Ning, when I wean her off my breast, I was fortunate to have the formula supplied to me via my SIL. So I didn't mind whatever brand as it was one of those that claim to have all the important ingredients to make the child cleverer. Later when the supply discontinue I just buy for her whatever that is cheapest on the supermarket shell. Sometime is Dumex, sometime is DutchLady.
Now that I am thinking of weaning Qi Yu, I am thinking of giving her the same milk powder that I give to Qi Ning. But then there is this nagging thought of if I have given my children the best in their growing up years in term of the kind of formula milk that I choose? I think the advertisers is feeding on this kind of fear that parents might have.
So shall I just give them the cheaper version of the milk powder or should I go for the branded milk powder which is 3x more expensive? Will they will less developed mentally just because i didn't buy them the 3x more expensive milk powder? Hopefully not! Looking at my girls at the moment they are growing up very well and are achieving their developmental milestones spot on! But being a mum, the nagging fear is still there, what if I miss giving my girls the best nutritions (aka milk powder) that they need to help their brain to develop in the early year! But I can rest a bit because I breastfed both of them for as long as I can!

Saturday Excursion

2008-06-23T14:09:00.002+08:00

When we were young, we go places via public transport aka bus. But nowaday, almost every household have cars so travelling on bus become a novelty. Qi ning has requested to go on bus for a couple of time since last year. So on Saturday, we took a bus ride down to cnetral market. The two girls enjoyed the ride very much and Qi ning wanted to requested to go on another bus ride on Sunday!
I haven't gone on the bus ride for soooo long myself. If given a choice I prefer the comfort of private car. It took more than an hour from Puchong to Cnetral market and the stop and move cause me headache. But it is all worth all since the gilrs enjoyed it. Is an experience for them. MAybe when Qi Yu is bit older we will have another go at taking bus down town.

Hospitality

2008-06-17T14:12:00.002+08:00

Qi Ning loves loves to have visitors. Very often she would ask why isn't so and so visiting us and ask if we could get her cousins to come to her house.
Last night, one of the church friend came for a visit. She was very happy. After greeting the guest, she went to the kitchen. I was wondering what she wants to do. I saw her pulling a chair and climb up to take a cup and starts pouring water. At first I thought she wanted to have a drink of water. Only later I found out that she wanna served the guest!
My maid was telling me that if there were visitors, Qi Ning would tell her to serve drinks, I guess now instead of asking the maid, she decides that she is big enough to do the serving herself! My girl is growing up.

Catching up

2008-06-12T15:58:00.002+08:00

Yesterday was an extra ordinary day for me. A very good friend of mine whom I have not seen for almost two years now came to meet me for lunch at my office. Then another two very good friends of mine who was my ex-colleague & exstudent came to my office and suprise me with an early birthday celebration with cake from Secret recipe! She stays in Melaka and since she was coming this way, she wanna surprise me. Indeed I was very touch by their visits.
Today, another of my old friend called and we had a good chat as well.
Sometime life gets so busy till we forget to be in touch. I do hope to touch base with all my friends from time to time. I thank God for all the good friends that He has blessed me with. ANd now, with the blog, I am also blessed with all the kind bloggers who leaves encouraging comment on my blogs, I am so apprecaitive of you as well all my blogger friends! I am catching up on reading all your blogs as well. So this seem to be a season of catching up for me. hehehe

Changes

2008-06-09T10:52:00.002+08:00

Someone say the only thing that is constant is "change". I think with the increase in fuel prices, many changes will have to take place for income earners! For a start, I have slow down my speed since I was told that driving at 80-90km/h is most fuel economical. Heehehe, i feel like an old lady driving when I am driving at such speed where I used to go at 100-120km/hr. We also try not to swich on the air-con at home so often. Use to have it on for the whole night.
Have been feeling so comfortable at my currently work place even though it is far from my home, I still hardly consider looking for a job nearer to home . I stay in Puchong but work in Nilai. With the increase in petrol price, I got to start thinking about work place again, is it worth paying RM500-600 per month on the fuel?
I have been offered a place to study PhD in university of Malaya for the July intake, so hubby is saying to pursue my PhD, try to get a job with the university. Changes again. So many thought is going through my mind, to study or not to study? The thought of continuing the study is both exciting and scary. Exciting as it is always my dream to do a PhD, scary because I don't know if I have what it take to complete it!
I don't know how it is going to be if I have to work and study and having to have time for my two girls. As it is I already feel guilty of not being able to spent enuf time with my girls as a working mum. As a counselor, I heard lots of sad story about poor/bad family relationship, parents & children, husbands & wives..etc. Enough for me to alway keep a look up for my own relationship with my girls and husband. and that make me feel guilty sometime. Thoeritically, I know what should be done but sometime I just don't practice what I know 感觉有心无力. That's bad I know that's why I feel sorry for my girls sometime that I don't spend enough time with them and leave the maid to do thing for them.
Looks like I have to face more changes ahead of me!

One Year Seven months

2008-06-06T15:56:00.002+08:00

So fast my Qi Yu is gonna be one year seven months old tommorrow. This little girl of mine is such a sweet heart. I just loves her.
Shae has grown taller and her has got more teeth now. She can speak quite well for her age. Many have commented that her words are very clear, even stranger can understand her sentence. She speaks in simple sentences nowadays. She will compete with her jie jie and learning the concept of "be number 1." She can sings lots of songs now. But she will not sing for you if she don't want to. She has a mind of her own.
Her favourite phases at the moment are "I don't want", "No", "Mummy Up". I loves to hear her speak and sing songs. Her voice is so soft and sweet, really will melt your heart especailly when she put her arm around me and say "i love you mummy". That really make my day.
One thing she dislike is ZZZZZZZZz. Each night, when is time to sleep, she would try to delay and fight to stay up as late as she can. She only goes to sleep at 10pm nowadays. Her afternoon nap often is cut down to one, only sometime she would take two naps.
Still quite a shy girl. When there is some people whom she is not very familiar, she would be very quiet and stick to me. Still would not let other people hold her except immediate family members.
Still loves to imitate her jiejie in whatever she does. Weight wise still pretty much the same but definitely grwon taller.
she is a sweet darling.

Best friends

2008-05-15T11:20:00.003+08:00

Mummy always remind us to be each other's best friends and indeed we are. Just look at the fun that we have when we are together and the joy of just being sisters!

Bandung & Jakarta

2008-05-09T11:45:00.002+08:00

Have been really busy for the past few weeks till I have no time to blog and blog hop. In the midst of the busy schedule, I managed to escape to Bandung & Jakarta for 6 days (30April-6May). It was indeed a welcomed escaped! Good thing I booked the holidays early in the year if not, this escape would not have taken place.
We went as a family and let the maid go back to her kampung. We stayed 1 night in Bandung then my friend send his driver to pick us up to Jakarta. We spent 4 nights with my freind Min and his family. He took us to the Sarafi in Puncak which was really good. Then we travel back to Bandung on our own and spent another night in Bandung before fly back.
Bandung is really a shopping heaven, even a none shopper like me likes shopping there. Wish I had spent 1 more day there to shop!
One not very good thing about this holidays is that we all have food poisoning of some sort. My two girls lost weight from the trip. Qi Ning started to vomit from the second day, hubby down with purging. Me and baby girl caught the germs on the last day and carry it back with us. Thank God we are all well now.
Will post some photos of the trip soon.

My girl is growing up fast!

2008-04-09T13:51:00.002+08:00

Qi Yu turns 17 months two days ago. This little girl of mine is growing up so fast and brings so much joy to us. She is speaking so much nowadays and can speak a simple three or four words sentences. She just absorb everything she hears like a sponge and imitate what she hears. She loves to sing and can sing these songs "baa baa black sheep" "haleluya praise the Lord" Happy birthday" “我要依靠神” by herself.
Her favourite book at the moment is the "big bird" book. Everyday she would bring the book and ask me to read to her.
She is jie jie Qi Ning big time follower. Whatever the jie jie is doing she would follow suits and wnat to have what Qi Ning is having or doing. When Qi Ning sit on my laps, she would come around and push Qi Ning away or she would say "ecuse (excuse) me jie jie", fighting for mummy.
She still struggle with sitting on her car seat despite the fact that we put her on car seat since birth. She will try wiggle out of her car seat by requesting to nurse. Last week, when hubby was out of the country, I told her mummy have to drive the car and she has to sit in her car seat. She protest at first then subsquently she comply, murmuring to her self, "mummy drive car". So the few day when hubby was away, she sit in her car seat without a fuss. Now with hubby around, she starts protesting again, wanting to sit with mummy.
She is half way down the road of being toilet train. She goes diaperless during the day time. Sometime she would tell when she wants to pee but sometime she just forgot. She will definitely tells us when she want to poo. Only night time, she is still on diaper.
Not sure why her teeth has holes in some of them. took her to see dentist, dentist say nothing to be of concerm! Mummy reckon she lack cqalcium as she doesn't drink much milk during day time. She nurse through the night though.
Day by day my girl is growing and much joy she brings!

I need a wheel chair

2008-03-31T12:02:00.005+08:00

Yesterday was not a good day for Qi Ning. Not sure whether is because she is tired or what, she seems to lose her balance easily and had a few fall within one hour. Her lip was badly bruised. In the evening, we went out for dinner with some church friends. Upon reaching home after dinner , she showed us a cut on her right foot! another mishap for the day. It was quite a bit cut, I don't know how she substain that. She said it happened when we first arrived at the restaurant but she didn't mention anything to us while at the restraurant.
I apply some iodine for her and she requested to be carried to her bed as the cut was on the sole of her foot and is painful. So we obliged. After we changed her, we were lying down on the bed for a chat before we sleep, she was telling me how painful it was. And she told me she need a wheelchair now because it is too painful to walk. I had a good laugh with her request!

Hide and seek

2008-03-25T11:17:00.001+08:00

Hide N Seek, this is one game that kids never get tired of. Even my Qi Yu is catching on with it lately. She would tell me to hide and her favourite hide-out is behind the door. Each time when she meant to hide, you will find her behind the door and she would try to find other people behind the door as well.
Another of her favourite hide-out is the big sofa. She just get so much kick out of this simple hide and seek game. Mummy loves to play with her and the jie jie also like to join in the fun.
I guess is the "wow" effect that is contagious!

Qi Yu's development

2008-03-17T11:16:00.002+08:00

Qi Yu is picking real quick with words. Lately she has been saying simple rhyme. I was surprise that she could say it on her own, of course missing a line /words here and there. One of her favourite is "rain rain go away, Qi Yu want play!" She could also sing burung kakak tua and say some of the Indonesian rhyme such as "Cicak cicak di dinding"; "pelangi song" courtesy of my Indonesian maid.
She is not a chatter box type. Many people comment that she looks more like a thinker as she often appear to be thinking hard on things that people say to her. I guess she is absorbing all that is happening around her and when she is ready only will she reveal it! Just like when she was learning to walk, she didn't attempt to walk very much till she is fairly confident of herself then she took all the bold step. Now that she can walk quite steadyly, she is attempting to run!

Clever girls

2008-03-12T10:03:00.002+08:00

Really, I am often very amaze by my two girls. Below are some incidents that took place two night ago.
It was drizzling outside and Qi Yu was at the door wanting to go out and take umbrella. Then I remembered we had a small umbrella tuck away somewhere. Since I only had one of those, so I told both girl to share. (Had to clear this or else two girls will end up fighting for it). Each is to take turn playing with it. After while Qi Yu refused to share. when she was supposed to pass the little umbrella to her Qi Ning, she went and took the toy train instead and give to her sister! I have a good laugh, so young oledi know how to get her way!

Last sunday, we were having dinner with my brother's family. Qi Ning was dressed in pink and had a pink hair band. My sister in law was teasing her.
SIL: Qi Ning, your hair band is so beautiful, can I borrow it for a while.
QN: Not matching (SIL was wearing blue T Shirt), see I wear pink, pink and pink only matching!
SIL: never mind, I just want to try.
QN: cannot, not matching not nice!
What a clever way of saying no!

Sixteen months old!

2008-03-07T11:05:00.002+08:00

My little missy (Qi YU) is turning 16 mths old today. She is one checcky little girl that brings much joy to my life! She is so muc fun now as she can response quite well to our instruction and can hold a simple conversation with her. What I like best is when I ask a question related to her she would answer me with her sweetest voice and sometime couple with a cheecky smile.
Me: Who is a good girl? or Who is mummy's precious girl? Who wanna go playground?
QY: Qi Yu......!
When she wants something from you, she would stretch out her hand towards you and say "may I, may I " till you fulfill her request. She likes to imitate her jiejie.
She went on a milk stike after CNY, fortunately she is slowly going off the strike last two days. Beginning to drink her milk when I am not at home by using her jiejie's bottle. She shows the maid Qi Ning's bottle and in her own way communicated to the maid that she wants her jiejie's bottle. So for the past two days, my maid has been giving her milk in Qi ning's bottle and she finish it! She is getting quite good in communicating her desire and we can understand most of her requests.
When she wanna do big business, she will say "poo poo" since two weeks ago but still don't know how to tell us when she want to pee. Often only tell us after she wet her pants then she would tell us "Qi Yu wet wet"
She can walk quite steadily now and wanna walk everywhere by herself, refused to be hold. Soemtime it seem like she is trying to run then walk. I have to remind her to walk slowly and take one step at a time.
She hasn't put on weight for quite sometime, still remain at 9kg plus, grow slightly taller at 76cm now. She is one active girl.

To stop or not to !

2008-02-29T16:48:00.003+08:00

Qi Yu is 15mths plus, going to be 16mths soon. Lately, since the CNY holidays, she has been refusing to drink her milk during the day time. The whole day when I am away she absolute drink no milk. She is also not a good eater hence not gaining weight much. She only want me to nurse her at night especially just before she sleep. Maybe because she is getting very mobile these day and are more keen to move around then to eat.
Since she is not drinking any milk during the day time, I am thinking to stop expressing milk at work and just let her nurse directly after work. Anyway my production is very low nowadays. But on the other hand, I worry she don't take enuf milk as she totally reject milk powder. If I stop expressing at work and she starts to want to drink milk during day time then I have no spare for her. The milk inventory at home is quite low now as I have reduce the pumping session at work to only one time. And now this lazy mummy is thinking of totally no pumping at work!

Breastfed will breastfeed!

2008-02-21T15:28:00.003+08:00

I saw these wording in one of the lactation consultant clinic "breast fed will breast feed". It was with a picture of a little girl imitating her mother who was breastfeeding a baby. I saw this in my two girls. I breastfed Qi Ning till she was about 18mths and is still breastfeeding my Qi Yu who is 15mths old.
When Qi Yu was still a baby, each time when I am breastfeeding Qi Yu, Qi Ning (about 2 year plus) would also take a dolly and sat beside me and breastfeed her baby. Now is my Qi Yu's turn, two days ago, after I nurse her, she stood up and hold up a soft toy saying 'rabbit want nen nen". She then proceed to pull up her shirt and pretend like she is breastfeeding the soft toy! I was having a good laugh seeing the scene. Only 15 mths and she is imitating mummy! I must try to capture one of this moment on camera one day. Is really amazing to see how little one imitate the action of the parents. I hope when they have their own baby, they would breastfeed them too!

Do you love me?

2008-02-19T11:44:00.002+08:00

Qi Ning is gonna be 3 years 5 months old tomorrow. She is going thru a very sensitive stage at the moment where she would querry our love for her. Whenever I say to Qi Yu "I love you Qi Yu" she would immediately ask "why you don't love me." I have to assure her that I love her just as much.
During the recent CNY, she was quite a teary case when at my SIL place. She somehow is fearful of my SIL's husband, to the extend that she refused to come out of the guest room and if we make her come out of the room she would cry. Even her favourite treat of "longan/lychee" cannot draw her out of the room. She rather not eat then to have to meet with her "da gu zhan". Each time when I manage to lure her out of the room, when she see him she will be tearing and immediately goes upstair. This is the first time my girl is behaving as such and she rather end her holidays sooner than staying extra day at her "da gu" home. I guess maybe he scared her earlier on when he was in KL. He wanted to hold her and Qi Ning was telling him" I am four year old" . Her way of telling people please don't carry me but he miss the message and proceed to hold her up. Immediately she burst into tears.
Generally she is quite an independent girl except being emotional lately. She can dress and undress herself. Feed herself and do many self care thing by herself but form time to time, she would want mummy to do for her. Sometime she still want me to carry her like baby especially just before bed time.
Heven't sent her to Kindy yet but daddy is teaching her some alphabet. She is doing quite well. Overall I am happy with her development. She is a good girl and I do love her dearly.

Fun Stage

2008-02-11T15:15:00.000+08:00

Qi Yu is now at one of the most fun stage to play with. She is rsponsive and would mimic after you. She turns 15mths on the first day of CNY. The other day when I was at my sis-in-law place, I was calling out for hubby asking him if he is ready for dinner and Qi Yu also follow me and shout out her daddy's name. Everybody who heard it was laughing as she speaks so loud and clear her daddy's name!
Qi Yu is on the slimmer side. Everybody comment that she is gonna be slim and tall when she grows up. I don't know how they predict but maybe by looking at her built. Qi Yu is not as good a eater as her jiejie. She only eat a few mouthful then she would shake her head and stop eating liao. Still don't drink much milk, whole day is still 150-180ml. Still fully on breast milk. I am trying to introduce milk powder to her but she don't like it.
Height wise she is 76Cm, weigth wise still at 9kg.
Language wise she is speaking a lot more and it seem like Malay is becoming her predominant language as kakak is spending more time with her than mummy (mummy is feeling guilty about this). Whenever I ask her if she want anything, she ould answer "mau" (meaning yes in Malay). Sometime I would hear her pointing to her body part and name them in Malay. Her favourite body part is kaki (leg). I often see her point to her leg and say "kaki". Her vacabulary has definitely blossom lately and she loves to repeat after us.
Emotionwise, she is showing more variety of emotion such as fear, jealousy, anger, cheecky faces. At such a young age, when she sees someone crying, she would move forward trying to comfort people and tell the person "don't cry". When reading one of her favourite book, she would point to the crying monkey and tell me, "monkey cry". She is still stranger shy.
Dunno whether is just mummy or really she is beginning to knows one and two. Yesterday, on the way back from hometown, I was asking her how many teddy bear she is holding and she answered "two", which is the correct no. The maid was laughing away. I tried testing it agian, took away one of the bear and ask her immediately but she was distracted by other things so I can't confirm.
Oh yes, what mummy loves is nowadays is her massage. When I lie down on my stomach, I ask her to massage for me she would pat my back, really nice to feel her little hand on my back, so gentle and relaxing! She learns the massage from Qi Ning. Mummy now can enjoy free massage at home!

Gong Xi Gong Xi

2008-02-04T10:36:00.000+08:00

Two more days to go and is going to be chinese New Year! I am excited, waiting to balik kampung so is Qi Ning. She has been telling people that we going to Ah Ma house. Will be going back to my mum's house tomorrow and then to my in-law on the eve after we had our reunion lunch at my mum.
I just love to be around family members, be it my own family or hubby side of family. I always said if I am any younger I would love to have four kids but due to age constraint, I am contented with two.
This is to wish evryone a very happy and blessed new year!

GONG XI GONG XI

Handbags collection

2008-01-31T15:20:00.001+08:00

As I mentioned 2008, hubby is venturing into some business. He had chosen to be a wholesaller of ladies fashion. These are some of the handbags design that he had in his collection. Anyone want one for CNY? :)

I can feed myself!

2008-01-24T11:30:00.000+08:00

Hey everyone, see I am a big girl now, I can feed myself.

Sickly

2008-01-21T10:14:00.000+08:00

The germs are flying round, finding preys to attack. My two girls took turn to fall sick last week. First it was Qi Ning, down with fever and vomit. Fortunately, fever and vomit subside after one day. Is easier with Qi ning as she would take her medication without any fuss and she would co-operate with us when we need to take her temperature or feed her medication.
On Saturday, Qi Yu started to have fever. Oh boy, is hard to feed Qi Yu medication. She fight with us when come to time for medication, we had no choice but to force thru the paracertamol. Obviously, she would cries so pitifully. She even refuse for us to take her temperature. She is very clingy and at time crancky for the whole weekend. Refusing to eat, drink and even sleep! She just want to be carried by mummy! When the medication take effect, the fever subside, she would play for a while. Other time she just want to be held. The fever comes and goes, yesterday evening, she also vomitted, fever subside after that. So far so good, her fever has not return. Hubby theory is that all the germs are out with the vomit so she is on her road to recovery. With the germs all out, may my two girls continue to grow healthily. Kesian to see them fall sick!

She calls me Mummy!

2008-01-16T14:00:00.000+08:00

Qi Yu has been calling papa, jiejie, porpor and all other people for the longest time. Occasionally I have hear her saying mum but wasn't sure if she was refering to me. But lately, I have heard her calling me mummy but still not very often. Yesterday, upon reaching home from work, my maid brought her to the gate to meet me and I heard her calling me "mummy"! What a joy, now I know she is calling me for sure. My maid also heard and commented that "QI Yu sudah tahu panggil mummy ya! "
Qi Yu is at the stage of learning to speak and she is picking up more and more words each day and she is very keen to learn. She would repeat words after us. She can even say bubbles now as she loves to play with bubbles during bath time!
Is a real joy to see her grow each day, every little milestone brings much joy to my heart. Oh how I loves to see my little girl develop each day. Such is the joy of parenthood!

Eeeehh

2008-01-09T10:07:00.000+08:00

I can't believe it but I saw it with my own eyes! Is not a pleasant sight and I was shocked to see it. I wonder how did she get it. What is it that I saw? Any guess? ......... eeerk, is a big worm that I saw two days ago when I was cleaning up for QI Ning after her poo poo. I quickly call my Pead and she said is quite rare for kids in urban area to have worm morever we don't keep any animals as pet, only gold fish. She ask about my maid's hygiene and sadly I have to say that her hygiene is not something we are not proud of. So the Pead told me to give the de-worm medication to the maid as well. Sigh, I guess I need to monitor her hygiene more closely now. My sis-in-law just told me on the weekend before not to let my maid prepare any meals for my kids as she also notice that my maid hygiene is not up to the mark.
Hopefully after the de worm medication no more worm. I really hope QI yu is not infested by the worm as well.

Qi Yu is 14 months old

2008-01-07T10:53:00.000+08:00

My baby is 14 months old today. So how is this precious girl of my doing. Here are some of her vital statistic.
Weight: 9 kg
Height: 76 cm
Mobility: crawl really fast and started to walk, few step at a time since last week. She loves to push a chair and walk around
Dextirity: She can feed herself with a spoon now, of course craeting a mess as well! :) She loves to copy her jiejie when she see Qi Ning drawing or coloring. She would also ask for a pencil and start scibble on paper.
Speechwise, she definitely understand more than she speaks. New words that I am hearing her are porpor (grandma), car, cold cold, cat, gorgor (elder bro), somemore can't remmeber.
Now that she is beginning to walk, she also starts to "dance". she would stand up on her two feet and start swaying her body as if doing a dance. When asked if she is dancing, she will say "uhm, uhm" her way of saying yes.
Foodwise, she is taking three meals a day. When she doesn't like certain food she would not open her mouth and even if she had taken a bite she would still spit it out! Whenever we are eating, she will demand that we feed her too!
She is still fully on breastmilk. I am trying to introduce milk powder to her but she does not like it. In fact she refuse to drink it, so would drink one or two mouth full then pass the bottle to her sister. Sigh, that mean mummy cannot stop expressing mik. Mummy is getting lazy in expressing milk at work and is thinking of weaning her off the breast. With her refusing powder milk, mummy will still have to continue to be a moo. Hopefully she would take on the milk powdersoon!
She is observing everything that Qi Ning is doing. Nowadays, she knows that sweet can be eaten as she had seen Qi Ning unwrapping the sweet and put it in her mouth. So if we give her a sweet nowadays, she would make demand for us to unwrap it for her. Getting harder to trick her oledi, she is getting smarter!
She still loves her bath time and still dislike her carseat. Often will have to find ways to get her sit in her carseat without making a fuss. So far, we have use cornflakes, raisins & biscuit to keep her in her carseat.
Qi Yu is a loving girl, she would give hugs and kisses freely. Is such joy to see her grow each day. I do loves her dearly.

Exciting year ahead

2007-12-31T11:12:00.000+08:00

So fast, another year coming to an end. Tomorrow is a beginning of new year and there are new challenges awaiting me in 2008.
Hubby is venturing into his own business in 2008, lots of uncertainty ahead, as a wife, I must and I want to give him all the support that he need. I pray that all will go well.
Hubby also has been encouraging me to further my study so I may apply to do my PhD in 2008. A decision that I had been delaying for so many years. I have filled in the application form, buy the bank draft, write my proposal, now only left submitting the application form only. ANd I am still half hearted, should I or should I not go for it.
Whatever it is , is gonna be an exciting year ahead, with God by my side, what is there to fear? Here is to wish everyone a very blessed year ahead. May the love, joy & peace of God abound richly with each of everyone. Happy 2008!

Caroling

2007-12-24T10:05:00.000+08:00

Carolling is part of our church Christmas event. Few nights before Christmas day, we will be going round to houses that are open for us to sing carol. Last year Qi Yu was still a new born (1 mth plus) when we took her along with us for her first Christmas carol. This year she is 13mths oledi. Qi Ning enjoy carolling because she get lots of sweet or candy! We the carollers get to feast on all the yummies food that the host prepare for us after the carol!
Last night one of the host cook spagheti for us. On the way home, we were yakking away. Then I ask Qi Ning if she enjoy her spagheti just now (she loves spagheti). Her answer melt my heart hehehe. She says "Mummy, your spagheti is better." See, so young oledi know how to "ambil hati"!
Saturday was "tong zhi" but I didn't make any "tang yuan" I only mentioned to Qi Ning about the festival so she ask me what is "tang yuan". This lazy mummy tell her will make "tang yuan" for her when she grow up a little bit more! :) Luckily she didn't have to wait for long as the host last night also have "tang yuan"as dessert!
I am so much in a holidays mood since last friday, here is to wish everybody a very merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!

I want to be like you

2007-12-18T14:40:00.000+08:00

It is a big responsiblity to be parents. The litttle one is watching what you are doing and following every bit of what parents are doing. My Qi Ning has been imitating me quite a fair bit and she doesn't hestitate to tell me that she wanna be like me! I often has to remind myself to try to be a good role model in every aspect for the sake of the kids who want to be like me and is real hard at time. I guess being a parent is a life long learning process!
I can see clearly how Qi Ning is following some of my way of teaching her. Qi Ning has been playing with stickers for quite sometime now and she has many book of stickers. some Winnie the Pooh, mickey mouse, snow white, and all the walt disney cartoon stickers. She loves to dish out to people and stick it all over the room's door, the dressing mirror etc. Can't remeber since when, she begins to use it as a reward. If you will to follow her instruction she would give you sticker. Sometime she will tell me, "Mummy, you listen to me and I will give you sticker, if you don't listen, I don't give you sticker!" (sound so familiar ya!) Whatever things that I have told her, she would use it on us as well.
Just last night, when we were all getting ready to sleep, hubby n I were chatting away softly on the bed. This little girl of mine start to give us instruction "Is time to sleep, sleep lah, don't talk." So really need to be careful what one say to the little one, you never know when they will use it on you! :) Such joy to be able to experience parenthood!

Thirteen Months

2007-12-10T11:20:00.000+08:00

My baby is growing up fast. Qi Yu is now 13mths & 3 days old. This little girl of mine is a very determine girl. Once she set her mind on something, she would find her way to get it even at such a young age. She is very clingy at this stage, whenever I am around, she only wants me. If I go out of her sight she would make a fuss.
Foodwise, I am allowing her to eat some of what we are eating especailly when we are out holidaying, otherwise she is still having her home cook porridge. She doesn't like to eat egg nowadays. When she doesn't like certain food she would push it out with her tongue. She loves to feed herself. So we let her practise self feeding using finger food. We give her biscuit, sliced fruits to feed herself etc. Sometime, she would feed the food to her toys as well! :) She has seven teeth now.
She loves to follow whatever her jie jie is doing. When her jie jie is coloring , she would also gesture for us to give her paper and color pancil. even those she can't speak, she would gesture for us to give her what she wants. She use her finger to point to whatever she want and when we give her the right item she would answer "ehm,ehm,ehm". If is not something that she wnats, she would shake her head.
Qi Yu is not taking many bold step yet, she is still cruising a lot and prefer to crawl. I have seen her take one step then quickly sit down for few time oledi. She could stand on her own for quite a long time.
Her favourite game for the past two months have been "peek a boo". Whoever play that with her, she would laugh so heartily and excitedly. She is such a joy to have, I really loves her dearly.

Good ole time

2007-12-04T14:42:00.001+08:00

It has been quite some time since I last blog and go blog hopping. Have been rather busy and was away for training and holidayings as well. Went back to my hometown for about a week. Wow, is rambutan season there, I wallop so much of rambutans. every morning, first thing after I wake up is going to backyard for my rambutans feast! This brought back so much childhood memory. Too bad I didn't have my camera as hubby took with him to China. My two girls were thrill with being able to just pluck the rambutans off the tree. My mum have two rambutans tree at home, one in front of the house and one at the backyard.
They both love going round to see the chickens, ducks..etc that are running around the neighbourhood. Show my girls durian tree, pineapple plant, went to Teluk batik etc. Of course also enjoyed eating the local delicacies.
Was good to meet up with one of my childhood friend who is also my neighbor in hometown. Usually during school holidays she would have brought her children to Singapore but this time round she was home. So we had good time together and our children were playing together quite a bit.
My sis and her family was also home during those time. So all the kids were having fun with each other. Qi Ning keep referring to my sis three sons as her prince! :) My little niece prefer to stick with us rather than her parents so my sis and her hubby is able to enjoy 2 people's world! This is the first time that I am able to spent such a long time in hometown (23-29Nov). Enjoyed every bit of it just like the good ole time. My two girls also enjoyed themselves very much, we may be heading back again this weekend, hurray!

Happy birthday to Me

2007-11-09T10:29:00.000+08:00

Yea, I turn one year old on Wednesday. Actully my birthday is very easy to remember wan, 7 Eleven, easy or not. And daddy & mummy wedding anniversary is only one day after my birthday. So this year they decide to take me on holidays for my birthday. I got a feeling they may mark these days as a yearly holidyas for the family! My jie jie sing birthday song for me on stage in one of the cafe. And we also had cakes at Secret Recipe. I still dunno how to blow the candles but I really enjoyed eating the cakes.
I am happy to be one year old because I am no longer a baby and mummy will allow me to eat more variety of the adult food which I have been dying to try. All this while I can only watch jie jie eat and mummy will say I am still a baby cannot eat. SO now that I am no longer a baby I hope she will be more relax with me when it come to food.
At one year old, I can understand a lot more but I still can't speak yet, except the few words. I can stand but I am still not brave enuf to start my baby step by myself. I have six strong teeth that can even chew the nut that was hidden in the cake that auntie nelly fed me on my birthday without realising it till mummy saw me chewing away!
I am beginning to fight with my jie jie for toys and am jealous when she is close to mummy. I sometime will push her away from mummy and mummy will tell me not to be so selfish as she loves both me and jie jie. When I can't win the battle with jie jie, I will cry so loud then, mummy or daddy will intervene! hehehe this is my secret strategy but sometime it don't work.
I am quite a determined person and people often comment that I have a cheecky smile. I love to play & love bath time. whenever I see water, I just wanna jump down and swim but mummy will hold me so tight!
I will ask mummy to post you some of my birthday photo ya.

Beautiful Me!

2007-11-05T15:44:00.000+08:00

My hair is growing longer each day and Mummy bought me lots of hairclip. The above is just part of my beautiful collection and I loves each of them. Each morning I have such hard time to choose which hairclip to wear so I decide that I should wear as many as I can on my head. Don't you think they are so beautiful? :) But to my dismay, many people tells me that is not nice to wear so many hairclip at one time. Initially, mummy also says the same but later she tells me is also quite nice, it looks like a crown on my head. I have been wearing my "crown" for the past few weeks but often got mixed comments from people who see me with my special crown. I am undecided now whether I should follow the crowd's advise to only wear one or two piece or follow my own sense of fashion, to wear all my beautiful hairclip at one time. Sigh, why people can't leave me to do as I please? Mummy say I can choose to wear all or wear one or two, is beautiful anyway, you think she is bias or not? Can someone pls give me your comments? :)

Desktop tag

2007-10-31T14:43:00.000+08:00

Jo-n wanna know what's on my desktop. Very typical I know but I loves to see their pictures as often as I could so couldn't help myself thus allowing myself to be one of the typical mummy! :)
What's on your desktop ZZM and Blinka?

Picnic at Botanical Garden Putrajaya

2007-10-25T15:18:00.000+08:00

During Hari Raya break we didn't balik kampung, we took the girls to Putrajaya Botanical Garden for a picnic. Qi Ning have read many books on picnic and have been talking about going to picnic with me many time. I have been telling her I will take here picnic till now. So here is just a lazy mummy style of picnic. Sandwiches, potato chip (Qi Ning's favourite) , hotwater and all the three in one drink, milo, coffee and also campbell instant soup mix! hehehe. To be healthy, I included some celery and carrot stick! Daddy prefer to have maggi mee on the cup so we brought that for picnic as well. I purposely bring along the red table cloth for picnic as well. See Qi Ning and Qi Yu looking on as my friends lay out the picnic goodie!

Since is a garden, with plenty of space to run about, a beach ball for Qi ning to run with is a must. We did lots of walking round and eating as well. We went there quite early and went home about eleven just before the hot sun at noon. When we were first there there were hardly anyone but as we leave, we saw more people around.

Such easy and yet enjoyable trip for kids to enjoy their day. We all went back for a good snooze that afternoon after all the walking and running! :)

Three classic of Phuket

2007-10-22T10:25:00.000+08:00

We went to Phuket for a holidays early this month (1-4 October). It was Qi Yu first trip on the plane and she seems to like it. Nowadays when we ask her how the aeroplane fly, she would stretch out her hand and make the "ogu..." sound. This time round, Qi Ning was a bit frightened as she saw the buildings and things on the ground become smaller as the flight takes off. I guess her imagination just run wild. So for the whole flight journey, she was not able to rest well. On the way from the airport to the hotel, she had car sickness when the car starts going round and round up the hill. So first day in Phuket we didn't do much just stay in the hotel. Qi Ning had fever that night and was vommiting. Second morning she was ok so we went for city tour but half way through, she is not well again so we went back to the hotel and get her to sleep. On the third morning, she wakes up well and we went to the beach. Both of them had so much fun. The evening we booked to go for the Fantasea dinner and show. We only spent an hour or so at the ebach and went back hotel for the kids to sleep so that they will be well rested for the night events.

While they slept in the afternoon, we all take turn to go for our traditional thai message. It was good. Took the girls for a swim at the hotel's swimming pool. They both enjoyed the swim.

The Fantasea show is grand and the place is kinda of like funfair. Too bad our camera run of memory so didn't take many photo at the Fantasea. Saw baby tiger drinking milk from bottle while tourist take photo with them . This of course has to pay lah. I kesian the baby tiger because the keeper would shove the milk bottle into the baby tiger's mouth and let the tourist hold it n take photo. Elephant rides are also available there.

If you miss the Fantasea you miss Phuket so the saying goes. So I am only posing the momento photo, one on the aeroplane, one on the beach and one while at the Fantasea!

Sendimental

2007-10-18T10:21:00.000+08:00

I guess Qi Ning is quite a sendimental girl. Whenever she come across a sad song or story she would tear easily. Few night ago, as we were getting ready to bed, she was singing the "小燕子”song. As she was singing I notice that her eyes suddenly turn red and I see tears flowing down her check. Hubby quickly hug her and she said she so sad。
The song is about a little swallow who seem to be homeless and not was not sure where is the papa & mama swallow and the little swallow was crying.
I think this little girl of mine begin to think of herself as the little swallow. So hubby has to quickly comfort her and tell her that we both loves her and her home is in Bukit Puchong. Such sendimental girl she is.

Over due- 11mth old

2007-10-16T14:58:00.000+08:00

Well, Qi Yu is 11month 1 week plus old now. Mummy wanted to post a belated milestone and a recent photo of her and mummy when we were at Phuket for holidays. The photo was taken on oct 3, four day before her 11 month. We were having buffet dinner at the Fantasea show compounds in Phuket. More story of that later.

At 11mths, these are some new happening with my darling Qi Yu

- two more teeth on the upper jaw

-can pull herself up and stand without support

-will follow simple instruction such as clap hand, give the book to Mummy etc

Emotion wise, she is not so stanger shy nowadays. At least she don't cry when she see stranger now. But is still reluctant to let people hold her. Only those who are close to her is allowed to touch her but at least she don't cry now, she just hide her face from people that she don't want to "see". She knows who is who by name. When we call out a name, she would sometime point to the person or at time just turn her eye towars the person. She is beginning to be a copy cat, copying what her jiejie is doing. She seem to be able to judge if people are angry with her by people's tonation. Whenever I rise my voice when she bite me during nursing, she would cry. Sometime I was not even scolding her, was just telling her in a firm tone. She would starts tearing pitifully!

She seem to be very aware of her surrounding. She knows when we were on holidays and try to wiggle out of her routine nap during our recent trip to Phuket.

Food wise, she is still fully on breast milk. Her milk in take during day time has increased to 7 ounce a day. And is still nursing throughtout the night. She loves solid and like to eat whatever we are eating. When she sees us eat, her mouth will start moving and will pull my hand that is holding food towards her. She will be saying "mum mum". Weight wise she is still around 8.5kg and height wise she looks taller but I have not measure her.

Her bowel movement is regular nowaday. During the day time, I am starting to toilet train her for 2-3 hours a day but putting her to the potty on a regular interval and she seem to be doing ok. So sometime, if I am taking her to do grocery shopping or to the church or 1-2 hours trip, I will not put her on daiper and she is doing fine thus far. Of course got accident lah one or two time but I am quite happy with the success rate thus far.

She is quite a happy baby and I love her smile but she can also scream so loud. That's my baby Qi Yu, whom love dearly!

Qi Ning Birthday Photo

2007-10-11T11:31:00.000+08:00

Mummy has been busy lately so hasn't been up to date in posting. Here are some picture of Qi Ning 3 year old birthday photo and brief up date of my girl's development. The first photo was on sunday before her birthday. Uncle Yap bought her the cake to celebrate with all the September baby in the church. The other two was on the actual day, a simple celebration at home. She got what she want, a cake with strawberry decro!

At three, she is more conversant and really exert her independent. She is picking up more on her Mandarin and speaking more Mandarin nowadays.

She could color within the line now and she loves to sings and dance. She could sit down and read books on her own and tell story. She is learning to make up story line. Getting naughty as well. Hsd to be firm in discipline. She is showing the traits of human falleness and she knows. So somethime, she would pray that Jesus would grant her self-control.

Her favoutites things now are hair-clips. She wanna tie her hair in different ways and clip her hair with different types of hair clip. She would notice how other people tie thier hair and wanted to follow suite. She is really into wanting to be beautiful all the time and will feel jealous when other looks beautiful. Girl will always be girl I guess! May she grows more beautifully each day not only in appearance but in her character!

Holiday soon

2007-09-27T13:53:00.000+08:00

Yeah, we will be going to Phuket for a short holidays on Monday. Mummy is looking forward for it. Qi Ning is excited and this will be the first time going on board the plane for Qi Yu. Not sure how she gonna take it, hopefully she will enjoy the trip as much as Qi Ning.
Haven't been to anywhere ever since Qi Yu was born and dare not go when she was a baby, now that she is older, going to be 11mth soon, we dedided to venture out again as a family. Yippie!!

Birthday Coming

2007-09-18T16:48:00.000+08:00

It will be Qi Ning birthday in two days time. this little girl of mine has been waiting for her birthday. She wanted a cake with strawberry as decro. Luckily didn't demand for a party but we are going to have a simple celebration for her anyway.
Is funny that when we the adult wanna remain young while the little one wanna be a grown up quicker. When ask how old she is now, she wanna tell people she is four instaed of three just because she wanna be a grown up!

10 months old

2007-09-07T09:26:00.000+08:00

Time flies, my baby Qi Yu is oledi 10 months old. Qi Yu is a playful baby and she has quite a strong mind of her own. At such young age, she oledi show her strong will. If she wants something, she will find her way to get it and if you take it away from her she would cry.
Qi Yu does not like to sit down very much. Is always a struggles to put her in her carseat, high chair and stroller. So each time before we want to put her to her seat, we will need to tell her way in advance that she needs to sit down nicely. At time she still struggles but after the intial struggle she would settle down if we prepare her in advance.
She is still having the four teeth, two up and two lower jaw. She is an expert in crawling now and is cruising when holding on to something. She loves to climb from the floor up to sofa and also from our bed to QI ning's bed. She is pro in climbing. She trying to stand without holding on to things and I have seen her doing that a few time. She could stand on her own without holding on to anything for about 5 seconds.
Language wise, she is able to understand simple intruction. Eg, when daddy ask her to pick up the mickey mouse toy and give to mummy verbally, she will do as instruct. Since she like to climb up and down the bed and sofa, I have been teaching her the safe way to come down beds and sofa. I told her and at the same time help her to put her leg down first. Lately, I notice that when she wanna climb down form the bed or sofa. she is put her leg down first. She seems to be able to understand simple instruction quite well. She loves the song "if you happy and you know it clap your hand." Whenever I sing this song to her she would clap her hand excitedly.
She enjoys going to playground more nowaday. Every evening when we take her and Qi Ning to playground, she would start to kick his legs when she saw the swing. She loves sitting on the swing and will laugh and scream so happily whenever she is in it.
She is quite a talkative baby, babbling away in her own language. the only three words that we can make out of it often enough is "baba, mama, baobao". she seem to understand that conversation with other means that each take turn to talk. She would babble in her ugh ah ugh ah for a while then stop, waiting for any of us to response and then she would reply again. So cute.
Like mummy, she like to eat. Whenever she see us eat, her mouth will be moving as if she is eating and her hand will be pulling my hand for foods. Every morning she will have breakfast with us. Sometime I will let her have some bread dip in breat milk but most day is an eggyolk with breast milk. In between she may have a fruit sometime is half a kiwi, orange, banana, apple, papaya, dragon fruit, mango depending what is available during the time. Her milk intake during the day is still very low, only 5ounce in a day. but at night she keeps wanting me to nurse her. She will have her afternoon porridge or cereal when she wakes up from her nap. Dinner she will heve porridge while we have our dinner.
She take 2 or 3 nap during the day depending on the length that she sleep during the nap. Each nap is between 30mins to 2 hours. She would ratehr play than sleep anytime! At night she would play at least half an hour after light off before she is willing to doze off. She would roll here and there, do her free fall stunt, ugh ah ugh ah til she is happy then only will she lie down and sleep.
What else could I say about my precious Qi Yu but that I am thankful to have her, a playful and cheeky baby!

Competition

2007-08-29T15:37:00.000+08:00

My baby girl now know how to compete with her sister Qi ning for mummy's attention. Each time when she see me holding Qi ning, she would definitely crawl towards me and wnat me to hold her as well. Every now and then Qi Ning would complain "mummy why you carry Qi Yu and don't carry me?" And sometime she will tell me "I am angry already you don't carry me!" Sometime she would tell me she want to be carry like how I carry Qi Yu and she would act like a baby. I try to give her as much attention as I can but I guess it is not the same as when she was the only child at home!
Qi Yu is very clingy nowadays, whenever I am around, she would clingy to me and not want any other people to carry her. Qi Yu is able to understanding a fair bit of our conversation. For example, when I told my maid to look after Qi Yu while to go to do something, she would quitely turn around and grab hold of me tightly! They are learning so fast.

Phuket

2007-08-24T16:54:00.000+08:00

We are planning to go to Phuket in October for a short family holiday, anyone know of a good place to stay that is suitable for family with two little girls? Any suggestion of things to do, food to try and places to visit will be welcome as well. Thanks in advance.

Cinderella

2007-08-20T10:58:00.000+08:00

One month from today shall be Qi ning three year old birthday. And she has been waiting for her birthday since DH's birthday in April. Each time when we celebrate someone's birthday, she will be asking "is my birthday coming soon?"
Today, she is 2 year 11 mths and very soon she will be three. She has grown so much in the last few month and pick up so many things. She can hold a decent conversation with people now and her imagination is real good. Here is one classic that brings smile to my face.

She was running around and I saw her with only one shoe on:

Me: Qi Ning where is your other shoe?
QN: I am Cinderella (Show me a big grin)!

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For a girl her age, I consider Qi Ning very understanding. She don't make unreasonable demand and most time, we can reason with her and she don't resort to crying or throwing a tantrum to get her way. Sometime I fear I am "forcing" her to grow up too quickly!
She is learning her math without being told that that's math. Everyday she will ask for her sweet treat so we took the opportunity to teach her simple addition and subtraction. She could add and subtract with one hand.
She is a very sweet girl.

Rides

2007-08-16T16:04:00.000+08:00

The merry-go-round ride is one of Qi Ning favourites ride. We ask her recently if she would like to see the Royal London Circus or go for the Merry-go-round, she chose the merry-go-round! She said she only wanna see elephant so we decided to take her to the Zoo rather than the circus.

See my baby Qi Yu is also enjoying her ride! Though she doesn't know to request for it yet, unlike the jie jie who would ask to go for the rides every now and then!

This little girl of me is growing real fast and asking lots of "WHY" nowadays. Everything she will has a "WHY?" So mummy has to be patient answering all her why.
Such joy to see them grow.

Genting Trip

2007-08-15T14:08:00.000+08:00

Last month we went to Genting for a trip. Qi Ning really enjoy the cool weather and the indoor rides. She was very happy to have an opportunity to wear her "winter" clothes! Qi Yu is also happy to join in the fun.

My baby girl

2007-08-13T10:49:00.000+08:00

Haven't being updating my blog, was lazy & kinda of busy as well. Qi Ning & Qi Yu are growing up so fast. Next month, Qi ning will turn three and Qi Yu is oledi 9 mths old now. I have been wanting to post photo of them for a long time but always didn't get round doing it. Mainly also because I don't know how to convert the big file to a smaller byte so I can upload easily. Sorry ya for not responding to fellow bloggers request for photo of my two girls sooner. I promise I will do it by this week.
Qi Yu can crawl very well now and is now looking for every opportunity to stand whenever she find a chance. Of course not standing on her own yet but holding on to something, she can stand and walk along. She loves climbing up to the sofa in our sitting room and she is an expert now in climbing up the sofa on her own.
I think her liquid intake is too little and she is having constipation. So "kesian" her when she has to push through the hard stool. She has been passing hard stool for the past two week and she only poo every three days. I am working hard to help her to move her bowel more regularly. Has been feeding her kiwi, papaya, green and the dragan fruit. Ask the maid to give her more water as well during the day.
I think more teeth is going to sprout soon as she is drooling and bitting more nowadays. Mummy is one of the victim of her sore gum. She bite me when I was nursing so mummy has got a sore nipple now. So every time I have to remind her not to bite mummy! She still doesn't like to drink milk very much.
This little girl of mine is a playful girl, she would rather play then sleep. Every night, after light off she would still try to crawl here and there and will take another half an hour before she sleep even when it is well past her bed time.
She is a sweet little girl.