Looking back 2008. What have I done...

• Found a satisfactory job at DFS
• Know a few nice colleagues 
• Enrolled Charlotte to childcare
• Decorated my kids' room and spend $600+ at IKEA for it\
  

Looking forward what I want to do in 2009...

• Eat healthy
• Drink more water
• Be more stern and learn to teach my kids well
• Learn to bake cupcakes
• Be more patient
• Learn to be tough in work and home
• Go for holiday
• Enrol Elia to childcare around Jun 09
• Watch movie

Okie.. the last one is so funny but seriously it's been 2 years since I stepped into a cinema. I really want to watch a show in peace. haha

Did not go out for any countdown party. Staying at home watch tv and play Viwawa is my plan for New Year Eve. No life ahhhhhhhhh..... :`(

Yesterday was a bad day for me. Before I even go on ranting, I wishes all a Merry Xmas and enjoy your time with your loved ones.

Unhappy at work due to a weird people with her weird thinking. Don't know if she is picking fault on me or it's just a "casual" remarks but it made me feel very sad.

Anyway knocked off at 1pm and rush to childcare to pick Charlotte as her centre closes at 2pm on Xmas and New Year eves. Boarded Bus 25 ( Plate number SBS7481A ) at 1.05pm and the driver is driving at 10-20km/h and he tend to likes RED traffic light so much tat he have to stop at EVERY traffic lights. Even if it's green light, he will drive SLOWER to wait till it turn RED.

I am so pek chek on the bus that I thought I might be late for Charlotte so I called my mum to ask her to fetch instead. I purposely use LOUD voice on the phone telling my mum " I will be very late la.. u fetch Charlotte cos i am in a SNAIL bus! " but my mum was cooking halfway so she cannot fetch so I tot it's ok to be abit late bah.

Heng reached childcare is 1.55pm and EVERY teachers and aunties were waiting for me together with Charlotte. She looked so sad and scared. The teacher told me maybe she's afraid no one come to fetch her when she saw so many ppl left liao. haiz.. pek chek.

Went Hougang Mall with Dar and Charlotte after that. Bought groceries then to pasar malam walk walk. I told Dar " Sianz... this is how we celebrate our Xmas EVE? hahaha "

My cupcake is a failure again. Really duno where went wrong. I think I have to heed Eileen's advice to join some CC baking courses if I wana master the art of baking.

Bought Charlotte to the gift exchange with Ursula and Cynn yesterday at Raffles City Shokudo and I think Charlotte had lotsa fun at the playground. The food not nice at all and we ate the cheapest among 3 couples. Cynn and her hubby ate the most ex one cos they ordered sashimi.

My kids drove me crazy today. They were snatching each other toys, screaming at each other and fighting followed by crying just now. Dar so engross in  his PS3 game and he totally not affected by their screaming and I think my head is going to burst soon.

Before the time bomb in me explode, my mum came and pass us some 汤圆 as today is 冬至. She saw my 2 kids so cranky today so she offered to bring Charlotte over awhile to "cool" them down. After Charlotte left with my mum, Elia sat on the floor and fall asleep within 5 mins when I am hanging my laundry. Phew!~

Today took childcare leave to bring Elia to Polyclinic for her measles jab. As Charlotte's childcare centre having spring cleaning so she dun have to go to school today. Hence, my mum and me brought them to Polyclinic then to AMK hub.

Tiring cos did not bring pram with us. Gotta carry them when they fall asleep. Bought my cupcake ingredients and will bake tomorrow afternoon.

Tomorrow night meeting Ursula and Cynn together with our husbands and kids.

Random pictures.

Taken on Monday in my house living room before Charlotte goes to sleep.

Last Friday at my office Xmas party with Kimmy and Josephine ( got this photo from Facebook, duno why so small )

Taken on Monday at Sakae with my birthday present from Jessica and Jeramin

Met up with Jessica and Jeramin after work just now. They treated me Sakae Sushi and bought me a Estee Lauder makeup platte with a pouch. Looks classic and I like it very much. Thanks alot gers! I know you two reading this. :p

Took some photos inside Sakae and immediately develop them outside Sakae. Although not very pretty and needs ALOT of touch up, but since we already have SO many ugly photos together so add one more also nevermind. hahaha ( remember our schooldays photos? ) :PpP

Jeramin giving birth in Mar09 and she's 6 months pregnant now. Envy her cos it's a boy and I think she envy me as mine both are girls. Haiz... how I wish we can trade one child so we can have a 好 in our life.

Early in the morning wanted to sing "Bad Day" already. So bumpy today. Not smooth at all... hope tomorrow will be better.

Oh ya... one good news today is my sup told me I no need to go back to work on 1 Jan 09 cos she give privilege to mother. Happy to hear that... but still need to babysit at home. 

I am sooo addicted to watching 小娘惹 .. like the songs and like Ou Xuan acting. I know alot of ppl dun like her but I find her acting natural leh.. haha

Tomorrow night meeting Jessica and Jeramin. Friday took leave to bring Elia to polyclinic for her last jab. Saturday meeting Ursula and Cynn at Raffles City for dinner.

Both eve of Xmas and New Year we get to knock off at 1pm but sad thing is need to go back to work on 1st Jan 09.

Tired... duno y...

Feeling PMS whole day...

Tmr took 2 hours time off to leave early for no reason...

Just wana rest...

Tired............

Went Kovan and have dinner with parents, sis, dar, auntie and my children to celebrate my dad, my aunt and my birthday just now.

Charlotte and Elia were enjoying themselves so much and Charlotte seems to be very high cos she keep on shouting like " WOW!!! Xmas tree!! " " Wahhhh... chi fan le... " " You see you see!!! Bear bear!!! " 

Elia took her passport photo just now. Very cute. Will scan it when I am free to post it here. She is more photogenic than Charlotte.

Tomorrow got department lunch again. This time is Tung Lok Rstnt. Looking forward to it. 

Took an hour time off together with Joelle today. Went Vivo to meet YX and we had sakae for dinner. 

After that went Xmas shopping and bought all my colleagues pressie. Most of them at Sanrio and they cost a bomb.

Took cab home with them and the cabbie driver uncle is damn observant. He noticed YX coughing and he told YX must take panadol if not tomorrow will get worse. YX mumbled no panadol at home then this super good uncle offered her 4 panadol and ask her to take once reach home then take in the middle of the night or tomorrow morning. So caring right ? I asked YX to remember his cab plate number then we going to buy on weekends. haha might be able to recover some of my Xmas pressie expenses.

Ya... today suppose to be our company dinner and dance but was cancelled due to recession period. We were still given door gift ( since HR have already prepared them ). Our big boss came to us in the morning and ggive to us one by one shaking our hands and thanking us for our hard work. Door gift is a stainless steel wine opener and each also given a $100 NTUC vouchers.

Kimmy exchanged her NTUC vouchers with my Tangs vouchers. Since I dun buy things from Tangs and she dun buy things from NTUC ( yet ). hehe and I dun think she's willing to pass her "hard work" to her mum to buy groceries lor.. :p

Could someone praise me? I have done so much things today.

I took Elia to doctor, went home to wash 2 toilets ( super thoroughly ), washed bedsheets, mopped the floor within 2 hours. Whereas Dar wipe the dust, clear ( ermmm should be clearing ) his messy study room. Why clearing leh you might ask. Cos our headmaster of the house clean 10 minutes, play PS3 30 minutes then continue this pattern for these 2 hours. Even can tell me 工作不忘娱乐 ! I nearly vomit  blood. Really wanted to throw his PS3 away.

Anyway, I am not helping him to pack the room. I have done my part of the housechores and now I am resting and surfing internet. Picking up my babies in an hour time. Both of them at my mum house now.

Tomorrow going Ursula house for mahjong. So long never touch mahjong tiles already. I think nearly 2 years never play. Quite excited. Maybe having steamboat at her house.

PS: GMAIL is the bestest email site to have!! They came out with Themes and it's sooooo sweet looking now. Everyone should apply for gmail !!! But if u r a dull person then ignore this PS. hehehe

Tiring day. On leave and woke up @ 8am to prepare Charlotte for school then went mum house to play with Elia. Return home ard 1030am to get myself ready to go out.

Meet Jessica at 12pm and we took one hour to decide what to eat. In the end we went Paragon to eat Sushi Tei. After that went for shopping mission and took quite long to decide what to buy. After buying, went coffee club for a cup of cuppacino then continue shopping.

Bought 2 pairs of cute sparkling shoes for Charlotte and Elia at Taka basement children's fair at $13.90 each. Also bought some gems hairclips and a mini barney fan for them.

Went Charles and Keith and bought a pair of office heels then bought a exchange gift for xmas between Ursula, Cynn and me. Suppose to meet up on 20 Dec for a mini xmas celebration cum dinner.

Dinner was at Cineleisure Pasta Mania and we spend quite long chatting about my colleagues and those days when we were schooling. A lot of memories flowed into our head...

Charlotte and me reached home around 9pm and she very fast fall asleep while watching cartoon with Dar on the bed. 

 Was so surprise when I packed Charlotte's bag just now. Her 2 pampers still in her bag and according to my sister, Charlotte was not wearing any pampers when she went to fetch her just now. I was wondering did the teachers toilet trained Charlotte? If yes, I am so HAPPY cos can finally save some money on pampers liao!! Tomorrow I must ask the teacher and thank her.

Dar PS3 controller been missing for 2 weeks already. Last seen in Elia's hand and Dar been searching high and low for it and today I used my motherly instinct to find the controller. I go to those places Elia always goes and I found it under a shelf that is quite low and you can hardly see anything under it.

Dar was surprised and asked me how i managed to find. I told him have to imagine myself to be Elia and look at those angle that she can see. hehe 

Tomorrow on leave again. This time dated Jessica for shopping. Excited as we have a mission to accomplish. This Saturday going Ursula's house for mahjong session with Cynn. Super excited again. hehehe

Went DFS, Far East Plaza and CK Tang with Ursula today. Shopped for 6 hours and bought quite a number of items.

Bought a sandals with sparkling gems cos my shoes killing me. Bought a few items that goes ( buy 2 get 1 free ) or ( 1 for $13, 2 for $20 ) and shared with Ursula. Quite worth it but all the clothing I bought is not for office wear lor.. hehehe 

Charlotte slept for 5 hours from 3pm to 8pm just now at my mum house. I think she is not going to sleep later liao. I will turn on the TV and let her watch her Jim Jam free preview channel til she tired. Dar is snoring already so I think he's very very tired cos normally after work he will play his PS3 till 2-3am.

Sidenote: I watched 不良笑花 until episode 10 and stopped liao cos I can't find anyone uploading episode 11 onwards!!!! OMG!!! Am i going to miss this drama or should I buy the DVD and watch? Or wait for cable to show? sianzzzzzz

Meeting Ursula on Wednesday and meeting Ursula and Cynn on 20Dec for pre-xmas exchange gift cum dinner.

Maybe going KTV this Friday with Jo and YX. Haven't confirm yet.

Today Piotr did something crazy. He printed out a piece of paper writing etiquette in office and he wanted to pass it to a manager in office who always uses speaker when he's on the phone and he talks real loud. We really find it disturbing but no one dares to say anything but this Piotr he really very pissed off by this manager and he wanted to be hero to tell him off. But after consulting our manager, supervisor and our advices, he chickened out as he is afraid his intern appraisal might be affected. hahaha

But he said he will pass the piece of paper to this manager on his last day in DFS. hohoho we shall see.

Charlotte fever again cos I bathed her yesterday when I see her perspiring in the afternoon. I think she caught a cold.

The only clinic opened on Sunday is the 24 hours clinic and they charged me $35 for consultation and $36 for medicine!! Total $71 lor!!! 杀人放火.

Friday ending soon and there goes my 2 days leave. Time really flies when you are not working. Watching 不良笑花 acted by 杨丞琳 and 潘伟柏 on UTube. Very funny and 台 acting by 杨丞琳 and the show is about reforming a girl ( who thinks she is wearing very pretty but was actually a Xmas tree in everybody eyes ). But her primary school mate likes her the way she was cos she's the only person who befriend him cos he's fat when young who grew up to be a handsome and slim guy ( and also super rich .. he even can play golf at home ).

潘伟柏 acted as an image consultant and he helped the guy to slim down and he's the best friend of this guy. I think he transformed 杨丞琳 and fall in love with her eventually. Watched 2 episode already and will continue when I got the time.

Going to cook dinner for Dar and Charlotte liao. Boiled 莲藕汤 from morning til now. Should be very tasty.

I got a feeling Elia will turn out to be a shopaholic when she grow up cos she took all my paper bags and hang on her arms and walk here walk there as if she is doing shopping. She even wave and said byebye to me hahaha

What's worst then company Dinner and Dance cancelled, freeze new hiring and maybe no bonus??

All thanks for recession. My company decided to cancel our annual D&D ( which suppose to be at 28th this month ). sianz...

Heard this from my colleagues just now when I brought Elia to office to lunch with Jo and YX.

More photos... hehe and ya Kimmy... this is addicting. hehe

Parent went Genting last night and as usual today and tomorrow I am on leave to take care of Elia.

One of my colleague under my region met an accident last Sunday and he's on MC for this whole week. Josephine and me have to do his work too ( mostly Josephine do as I still have Abu Dhabi )

Super busy for the past 3 days and since my leave cannot be cancelled, Josephine have to do so many work today and tomorrow. Felt quite bad for it. 

We were joking about US election in office together with the intern Piotr. He ask us does we know who wins the election and Joelle answered him" I dun even know who our President is " hahaha and I said " We dun have to know US President as we will never meet him on the street and forget to greet him" hahaha

Ok i am not ignorant lah... I know is Barack Obama and I know US President election affects the whole world economic. bleah..

Sidenote - Seeing Elia playing with her piano, my radio turned on the max, fan blowing my face now and me using a charging laptop... makes me think of the high electricity bill and makes me wonder will batteries increase price? since is producing electricity too? ermmm

Thanks Kimmy. Nice recommendation. : )

Today planned to bring my babies to swimming with Dar and my mum but went to a "used to be" swimming pool near Serangoon CC. Now converted to a Woman and Girls duno what club so in the end went Kovan instead. 

Rained very heavy when we reached Kovan so went to buy kids float for them and we decided to go next weekend.

So long never wear my swimming costume liao. My stretchmark very very fugly leh...

Today feeling great and started my spring cleaning.

Scrub all my pots and pans. Clean my kitchen cabinets, stove, hood, basin and clean my fridge. Dar helped me and we finished in 2 hours time.

Finished kitchen and children room so now left master bedroom, study room, store room and toilets. Will do it in the next weekends and those days I taking leave.

Meeting Ursula on 12Nov for lunch and shopping at DFS. Should not be spending alot cos only wana buy cosmetics and perfume.

I guess Elia is very excited cos she only come home on weekends and now she's playing with Charlotte and have not even take their nap and now is nearly 4pm already.

Yesterday MC again.. this time is stomach flu. Today although still sick, I have to go to work cos it's closing and I cannot dun go. I can hardly walk and the feeling is like contraction.

Today is Halloween night and my colleagues all went to Timbre for partying whereas I took cab home after an hour of overtime. BORING!!!

Thanks Ying Xuan for contributing the hit counter of my blog. hehe ( u koe what I mean ).

Anyway, super busy today at work. Everyone clearing their 4 days work whereas for me, 5 days. Shag like hell now but still dun feel like sleeping yet.

Finally my dress will be reaching by this week. Been waiting for very long already. The spree organizer told us Batch 2 arrived Singapore first as the supplier send the wrong batch. So 1st batch have to wait and I waited for almost a month. Yesterday send an email to the organizer and today she emailed us that the stock have arrived.

Another 2 items from other organizer will reach me in Nov. I think I shall stop buying from online for the time being cos there isn't any new spree that attracts me.

Finished decorating Charlotte and Elia room. Did not let these 2 days go wasted. Fully utilized. 

Tomorrow is my first wash after I permed my hair last Friday. Hope I can style it to something more presentable. I really dun like it to be too pong.

After reading Cynn's blog and saw her photo, I realised my hair is very similar to her's. haha only my fringe is shorter. 

Here are photos from my mum's handphone.( no time to rotate the photos ) hahaha

Last Friday childcare centre Kids-In-Charge activities. Charlotte is very active in the Trail barrier thing.

Hmmm... nearly 2 years ago... they took photo together at my mum house ( he was babysitted by my mum for few months when I gave birth to Charlotte ). Last Friday, they took photo again at the childcare centre and look how 深情 she is when she's looking at him.. hahaha 

Last but not least, my cutest Elia posing for super baby of Lorong Ah Soo... hahaha

This coming Friday I am taking leave to make my hair. Was thinking whether I should rebond or perm my hair and finally after some suggestions I decided to perm again.

Going alone to Jenny's salon this time. Never go there alone before, everytime went there with Joleen and Jessica but since Jessica change her hairstylist, we never go liao.

Yesterday dine with my colleagues at No Brand Seafood @ Geylang Lor 24. Company treat and we had such a filling and sumptuous meal.

First, we had fried squid, cuttlefish kangkong, pork ribs, da tou aka big clams, white pepper crabs, chilli crabs, prawns, fish and desserts. The waitress served the food damn fast and we are all so pressurized to finish the food fast.

Will update photos once my dear colleagues update their blog as they brought camera there and I only took a few using my phone. All are candid shots and with me and Josephine. Those 正经 and food photos are with Kimmy, Amy and Ying Xuan.

This morning Dar and me brought our babies to market for breakfast and so many people asked me whether the 2 of them are twins anot. hehehe Elia growing so fast... going to catch up Charlotte's height soon. : )

This is Elia before going market. : ) dun ask me why dun have Charlotte's photo... she's busy playing with my handphone stylus that Jeramin gave me. 

Oh ya... Dar said i tied Elia's hair like Shrek. hahaha I did not do that on purpose lor.. :x

Meet up with Jessica and Jeramin after work just now. Had dinner at Kovan Xing Wang then went walk around Heartland Mall and bought few stuffs at Watson and Guardian Pharmacy.

Congrats to Jeramin on her pregnancy. She has been wanting to have a 2nd child for quite long already and now she's 4 months pregnant. She will know the baby's gender on Monday and we all will pray for her that it's a baby girl cos her 1st child is a son.

This Friday is Charlotte's childcare Kids-In=Charge event but I cannot attend cos we are having department dinner at No Brand Seafood. But I really want to see how the childcare teaches the kids. Considering to take time off and attend the event or go to the dinner.

Today went visit mother-in-law then went Plaza Singapura had Swensen for dinner.

This is Elia before going out..

Both of my babies sittin in a "car" driven by Elia. : )