how life has its own mind..

the kiasu husband and me went ahead and book the taipei trip on sunday night over the 2nd weekend of August.
without first touching base with my mum. mistake.
THEN, my mum told me that she was unable to help me take care of baby during that period!
*gasp*
cos my gramp's ritual (100 days since she passed away) is to be held during that weekend and we are all expected to attend.
my bad.

so i meekly told the husband we either have to change the travel dates or bring yz along.
bringing him is virtually out of the question as we dont want to risk him to H1N1.
hubbi was feeling abit sianz by the whole thing cos he was thinking its troublesome and he didnt want to pay any amendment fees.
but i told him bo bian, we just have to pay if needed.

so we called up SQ customer service yesterday night and managed to get the dates changed to 1 week later at no extra costs! :)

so now left with changing the reservations for the hotel and cancelling my previous leave application and applying for new ones.
the 1st is easily done.
and so once i reached my office this morning, i logged in to my leave system to cancel my previous leave and apply for the new dates.
THEN, my manager called me in and told me she wasn't comfortable with me taking leave (old dates) so near to month-end closing.
ha! so i told her i've already cancelled that leave application and will be delaying my leave for 1 week.
and now, she gladly approved.

hehe. so its funny how things work out in the end. :)

Welcome 2 Taiwan

ok, now im excited!
hubbi has miles to redeem and he has asked me to go taipei with him! :)
not exactly my ideal destination but the silly man has never been there (can you believe this!?)!
so, we are going to book the air tickets soon and i've found a seemingly ideal hotel (thanks to gb's recommendations!)!
cant wait to finalise all these!

ok, yz is not following cos of the obvious.
H1N1 is not a joke.
ok ok, i can hear the "lousy mummy" chant in the background.

he will have his chance to travel with us next year, ya?

*grinz* good food + 阮经天！ here i come, soon!

just the two of us, we can make it if we try!

i had a simple, quiet wednesday evening night with the husband.
and it really warms me up.
sometimes, we got caught up with the everyday mundane stuff and it was already late in the night before we've some time to ourselves.
so i really appreciate such time-alone to ourselves like yesterday.

hubbi was on half-day yesterday and he went to fetch the lil' terror from childcare at 1+pm.
baby was sent to my mum's place for his routine 2D2N stay @ ubi. heh.
i've been tired out immensely for the past 2 weeks taking care of a sick baby and myself, fretting over his transition to childcare and settling work with tight deadlines.
so it was comforting to reach home at 6pm yesterday to a quiet,clean house (part time auntie just came during the day)...

was still feeling tired and not yet fully recovered from my flu and hacking cough.
so i was not really in the mood to watch transformers 2, which was what the husband wanted.
i much perferred to catch something quieter, more subtle.
so we decided to watch "i love you, man".

hubbi suggested teochew porridge around beo crescent and i was game, given the cool weather yesterday. really yummy to have warm porridge with braised duck, salted peanut, salted egg and veges in the cool weather. :)
but not cheap at $16 for the above!
we left for shaw towers later to catch the 9pm show.
had an hour to spare before the show started so we window-shopped abit and had a quick bite at Mac before the show!
really nice to just banter with him. :)

the show was a letdown but still, a nice way to end the night lah.
went home, bathed, hung up baby's clothings to dry and its zzz time for us liao.
hubbi and me should really do this kinda evenings more often. ..

black + P plate

hubbi and me have finally converted our vampire car!
now, our jazzy can see the "daylight"! hehe.
with the transition to childcare for yz, we have decided that this will be the best arrangement:
mon-wed: hubbi will drive all of us to cc, i will drop yz off. then onwards to hubbi's workplace at somerset. then from there, i'll take over and drive to work at bugis.
thurs-fri: drop hubbi off at his workplace before going to work.

we've managed to find a route which has no ERP during the morning(!) and the whole journey took us around 30mins.

but of cos this comes at a costly price. the conversion fee is *ouch* and i've to take up season parking near my workplace too.

still, it's good lah. for lazybones me. hehe.

so now, black plate for us. but the P plate is still here to stay for another 6mths. :P

childcare saga

as some of you would have known by now, yz is attending childcare starting from this week!
we've arranged for him to attend a childcare near our house for 3 days a week (mon-wed).
dont have the heart to send him for full 5 days so he will continue to go my mum's place every thurs & fri.
so this week is the first week!
i took 3 days off just to 陪太子读书!
together, we attended the childcare for 3 half-day this week.
started with half-days to ease him into the routine...

day 1 (mon):
ah long and we both joined him at class. with us around, he was at his best.
he greeted the teachers, was at ease with all the kiddos around him.
he was mad with joy with all the new toys around him and the indoor playground made available to him.
oh, and he got to watch 30mins of barney. a luxury to him! heh.
until its time for us to head home at 1230pm, he said no(!).
what a good start.


looking at the pet fish with interest in the toddlers' section


playing with the many toys there.

Day 2:
i decided to start to "disappear". of cos, doing it the right way.
after his breakfast at 845pm, i told him that mummy is going to work.
will he be guai guai and stay in school till i come and fetch him later?
he said yes, and i started to walk away to the playground area.
within ear shot but out of his sight.
within 3 minutes, he realised im not around, he dashed out of his toddler's area shouting, "mammy!'. the teacher in charge quickly carried him back.
thats when he started crying on-off. teacher came and asked me what is his comfy object so i asked them to give him his pillow n beanie which we brough to school for him.

and guess what, he started lying on the floor while cradling his beanie.
sobbing quietly for me.
when the teachers tried to get him off the floor or carried him, he will shout,"不要!" very loudly and proceeded to cry hysterically.
so they left him be, hoping he will come out of his state soon.
but NO! the stubborne boy really lied around the floor from then till 11+am! crying now and then for me!
so damn heartpain.
the teachers asked me to go back in at 1130am as they cant make him finish his lunch cos he kept on wanting to lie on the floor!
gosh, wonder where did he learn this trick!?

when i walked upon him, he was lying on the floor on a drenched (with his tears) pillow and looking perfectly pitiful.
when i called out to him, he started to pout and cried while scrambling up to hug me.
sigh. i wonder if i made the wrong choice of sending him to cc so soon. :(

i fed him lunch and with me around, he allowed teacher to bath him and after his milk feed, he seemed perfectly alrighty again (albeit the puffy eyes).
and we left for home with a heavy heart for me.
how i dreaded tomorrow!



sob sob. where is mummy? i dont want you to feed me!

Day 3:
likewise, i said goodbye to him after his breakfast. and being smarter now, he started saying no no! but i told him firmly and gently that im leaving for work but will be back after his lunch and bath to bring him out.
then i walked out and i can hear him starting to cry again! :(
teacher came by at 9+am and said he is still crying and lying on the floor again.
so she was going to bring them to the music room for barney video and some dancing exercises to distract him.
i saw her picked up a struggling, screaming yz and herded the rest of the class into the music rm at 10am. so sad.

i waited anxiously till 11+pm when the teacher finally came to the cafeteria (where i was waiting outside the class) to update me that since the music class, he has stopped crying (!) and started to mingle with the rest of toddlers.
though at times, he'll still remember me and got upset and proceeded to lie on the floor for awhile, he'll get up soon and start roaming the place, playing.
im so glad to hear that!
so i made my re-entry at 12+pm to find an OK yz walking around rambling in his baby words to another gor gor. ha.
really hope he can adjust and adapt soon by next week! *fingers crossed*


recovered by music class. eyes abit puffy.

all the above photos was taken by the teachers and emailed to me on a daily basis to keep me updated on how is yz's progress.

im really appreciative of that.

hope to see more happy shots for the next few weeks to come!

i have done alot of things alone in my life.
i have eaten lunch alone like a million times.
i have gone to movies alone like a dozen times.
i have travelled alone like one time.
i have slept alone in my house like 2 times max (ha).

and yesterday, i did another thing alone for the first time.

i...... attended a wedding dinner alone!!
*gulp* in a table of 10, i know NO ONE!
haha.

still, even though the groom was very nice to check again with me if i will still go (as our only other common friend was unable to make it), i said yes.
it just doesnt seem right to reject based on the reason that i know no one there.
my presence is supposed to celebrate the special night for the couple, no?

anyway, alone i went.
and it aint as bad as i thought. i manged to kick up a conversation with the 2 people next to me.
and the food and ambience are quite nice. im in fullerton anyway.
:)

what an experience. @_@

oct babies lunch gathering

its been so long since yz and me have joined the oct mummies & babies for any outings.
the last was during the bday bash which was a good half year back?
last saturday, 20+ babies met again at the coffee club branch @ clarke quay!
i didnt manage to eat much for the lunch for i attended the outing with yz alone. still, so glad to see him having fun with toddlers his age. :)
forgot to bring camera so below are some photos from mummies who took them!
thanks to mummies hippo, tiffy & ponponta!

adri giving yz a tight hug!

me telling him,"must hug back ok!"



look at his expression haha

can you spot us?

work karma bites back

going through the 2nd peak period for the year.
the 1st peak period for 2009 was in Jan when the auditor dropped by for the audit.
it was over in 1.5 weeks.

now it's time for us to make sure that the financial statements get released by this mth!
gosh. coupled with my month-end closing last week, work life is almost unbearable.
bleh.
still, i managed to go off work about the same time as before.
BUT, the outstanding list really bothers me.
i dun like to have too many stuff yet to be resolved.
oh, and my manager on maternity leave. sob.

oh well, im treating it as payback time for all the early evenings i enjoyed for the past 1 year. :P
jia you!

before i know it, we are now in the month of june!
time is passing by too fast.
in 2 weeks time, yz will be attending childcare.
really getting anxious.
worried that he will fall sick, though that is quite inevitable.
worried that he will not eat enough there since he's not really that good with self-feeding yet.
worried that he will have a hard time adapting to the new environment and be unhappy.
can only keep my fingers crossed that everything will be just fine.

been doing nothing much these few weekends.
here's some photos for the weekend.


happy baby

it seems like 2009 has not been a good year so far.
im attending the 2nd funeral for the year this week.
4 weeks back, its my maternal grandmother who passed away.
this thursday, its my paternal grandmother.
im very close to my mum's family, hence i was really upset last month at my m. grandmum's funeral.
the funeral lasted 5 days and was really draining for me for i was down at the funeral every day till late.
there was alot of rituals and praying as well.
and of cos the emotional heaviness that stays with me throughout.

this time round, its different.
im distant from my dad's family and the being there was awkward at best.
still, the departure saddens me.
its never good to see ur loved ones sad. in this case, my dad.
sigh. i just hope the second half of the year will be better.