Got>>> the function room
Considering>>> Chocolate Fountain
Cake>>> Little one has chosen a chocolate cake with a train going round it some weeks back. Will get that one.
More to come...
Monday, July 30, 2007
"Balloon Race"
Photo Source >> Here
Brought the small one to the grass patch adjacent to 'One Marina Boulevard' on Saturday to watch the National Day Parade rehearsals. Had lots of fun and entertainment for close to nothing. The guys with the giant jellyfishes were hidden near where we were, waiting for their cues, and it was quite exciting to watch them go off together! The small one called it the "Balloon Race!" Then there were the choppers and the fireworks... all very amazing stuff for a soon to be 3-year old....which reminds me....... I haven't planned a birthday party for him yet. Oh oh oh oh oh oh dear.......!!!!!!
Friday, July 27, 2007
White shirts
I must ban myself from wearing white colored shirts and ban myself from buying white shirts. I'm wearing this particular one the 3rd time and at the end of today, it will have to go to the bin.
>>>Wear 1st time - Coffee stain on the sleeve... still there after 2 washes
>>>Wear 2nd time - Dropped my pen. Result: Blue ink on 2 different places... still there after 1 wash
>>>Wear 3rd time: Ate "Hock Lam" Beef Noodle but got yummy 'dry' gravy on my WHITE shirt.
It's impossible for me to be neat and clean or to appear neat and clean. JUST IMPOSSIBLE! I should give up trying to look neat and clean in white shirts and stop buying white shirts because of the world doesn't need one more stained white shirt in the dumps!
>>>Wear 1st time - Coffee stain on the sleeve... still there after 2 washes
>>>Wear 2nd time - Dropped my pen. Result: Blue ink on 2 different places... still there after 1 wash
>>>Wear 3rd time: Ate "Hock Lam" Beef Noodle but got yummy 'dry' gravy on my WHITE shirt.
It's impossible for me to be neat and clean or to appear neat and clean. JUST IMPOSSIBLE! I should give up trying to look neat and clean in white shirts and stop buying white shirts because of the world doesn't need one more stained white shirt in the dumps!
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
Inertia at a subconsious level
Dreamt this: .... someone was asking, " When was the last time you exercised?" Was about to respond..."6 months ago?"...Hang on. Son is almost 3 years old. Correct answer should be , "3 years ago?".
Oh my god!!!
Oh my god!!!
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Washington
An old friend of mine is back from Washington! We went to Cafe Cartel @ Siglap for a catch-up.
We chatted while the boy ate bread, french fries with pork ribs & waffles with peaches. He's really been "hungry" since coming out of the hospital and eats and looks like a child who has been starved. Imagine this! >>> Big Head on skinny legs with a protruding tum tum.
Anyway, back to friend. This lady quit her job and flew half way around the world on the pretext of studying for her Masters Degree. Well, not only did she get her postgraduate degree after exactly 12 months, she's now back with the 'real reason'. Better still, she's getting married to 'it'.
A good ending ... with a new beginning.
Am so happy for you HH!
We chatted while the boy ate bread, french fries with pork ribs & waffles with peaches. He's really been "hungry" since coming out of the hospital and eats and looks like a child who has been starved. Imagine this! >>> Big Head on skinny legs with a protruding tum tum.
Anyway, back to friend. This lady quit her job and flew half way around the world on the pretext of studying for her Masters Degree. Well, not only did she get her postgraduate degree after exactly 12 months, she's now back with the 'real reason'. Better still, she's getting married to 'it'.
A good ending ... with a new beginning.
Am so happy for you HH!
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Free Flow
There's just so much so much to do, I pat myself on the back if anything gets done. Because what I do more and more is just stare at it and go into a zone where cranial activities of any form becomes suspended.
When I do emerge from that zone, I'd find that my inbox has once again been topped up. How's that? I sure didn't sign up for any free flow in my contract!
Friday, I accepted a 5am conference call thinking it was 5pm. By the time I found out, it was too late for it to be rescheduled... and so at 5am, I called in, tilted the laptop 90 degrees, put my head back on the pillow and fielded the call....all grumpy, tired and miserable since I worked till 1am the night before hitting the bed. 5am in Singapore, 9pm in Europe, 7am in Australia, 5pm in US !!! Eh, whatever happened to the 9 to 5 job?
But I've been happy this week because they let me hire one more person! My happily overworked family of 7 will soon grow to 8. And once proven that this 8th person is overworked as well, I'd get another 2. How wonderful!
*sigh*
When I do emerge from that zone, I'd find that my inbox has once again been topped up. How's that? I sure didn't sign up for any free flow in my contract!
Friday, I accepted a 5am conference call thinking it was 5pm. By the time I found out, it was too late for it to be rescheduled... and so at 5am, I called in, tilted the laptop 90 degrees, put my head back on the pillow and fielded the call....all grumpy, tired and miserable since I worked till 1am the night before hitting the bed. 5am in Singapore, 9pm in Europe, 7am in Australia, 5pm in US !!! Eh, whatever happened to the 9 to 5 job?
But I've been happy this week because they let me hire one more person! My happily overworked family of 7 will soon grow to 8. And once proven that this 8th person is overworked as well, I'd get another 2. How wonderful!
*sigh*
Appetite
Mummy, I'M HUNGRY!
The stuff he's eating today...
Breakfast:
8 oz milk $0.80
Half a cup of muesli with more milk $1
1 bottle yakult $0.70
Tea:
1 cup milo $1
1 apricot & almond yogurt bar $2.80
Lunch:
3/4 bowl of soy-sauce chicken noodle in soup + 5 wantons $3.70
(",)to be continued....
Mid-afternoon snack:
Half a peanut pancake $0.35
1 chocolate teacake $0.50
Dinner:
Rice with pork chops $4.50
Fresh coconut juice. $1
Later... Milk $0.80
`
Total: $16.95
Gosh, I put in the numbers for fun... didn't realised food that a toddler consumes in a day will cost so much!!!
The stuff he's eating today...
Breakfast:
8 oz milk $0.80
Half a cup of muesli with more milk $1
1 bottle yakult $0.70
Tea:
1 cup milo $1
1 apricot & almond yogurt bar $2.80
Lunch:
3/4 bowl of soy-sauce chicken noodle in soup + 5 wantons $3.70
(",)to be continued....
Mid-afternoon snack:
Half a peanut pancake $0.35
1 chocolate teacake $0.50
Dinner:
Rice with pork chops $4.50
Fresh coconut juice. $1
Later... Milk $0.80
`
Total: $16.95
Gosh, I put in the numbers for fun... didn't realised food that a toddler consumes in a day will cost so much!!!
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Humpty & Dumpty
We were talking, the boy and I. Before bedtime.
The usual suspects were there. Itsy Bitsy Spider, the 40 Blackbirds and Humpty Dumpty.
Somehow, when Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall, Humpty the little boy and Dumpty the mummy both independantly decided to "fall off" as well.
Humpty's head smashed against Dumpty's head. Dumpty cried out in pain. Humpty said "SORRY!" and started rubbing Dumpty's head, asking Dumpty "IS IT PAIN A NOT?" Dumpty said, "YES! IT'S REALLY PAINFUL! RUB HERE, NOT THERE!" Then Dumpty realised Humpty's forehead was red as well. Dumpty pointed to Humpty's head and asked, "Your head hit me too! Is it painful?" Humpty says, "NO! I GOT BONE INSIDE!"
Well, what can we say?
The usual suspects were there. Itsy Bitsy Spider, the 40 Blackbirds and Humpty Dumpty.
Somehow, when Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall, Humpty the little boy and Dumpty the mummy both independantly decided to "fall off" as well.
Humpty's head smashed against Dumpty's head. Dumpty cried out in pain. Humpty said "SORRY!" and started rubbing Dumpty's head, asking Dumpty "IS IT PAIN A NOT?" Dumpty said, "YES! IT'S REALLY PAINFUL! RUB HERE, NOT THERE!" Then Dumpty realised Humpty's forehead was red as well. Dumpty pointed to Humpty's head and asked, "Your head hit me too! Is it painful?" Humpty says, "NO! I GOT BONE INSIDE!"
Well, what can we say?
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Is Advertising Dead?
Attended a 'breakfast club' meeting organised by the British Council this morning. Charles Wigley, Chairman of BBH Asia Pacific spent 45 minutes presenting his case - Is advertising dead?
My takeaway: Message-driven ads will become a thing of the past. The future calls for ads that are rich in content, engaging enough to be self populated and something that allows for consumer participation and/or conversations...
... am thinking of the poly girl whose mobile phone and then content was stolen. That was properly a darn good example of the ad of the future.
My takeaway: Message-driven ads will become a thing of the past. The future calls for ads that are rich in content, engaging enough to be self populated and something that allows for consumer participation and/or conversations...
... am thinking of the poly girl whose mobile phone and then content was stolen. That was properly a darn good example of the ad of the future.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Out
#1
Out of the hospital! Yeah!
His appetite is not good though - It's really hard to stay enthusiastic about plain porridge with soy sauce and bread with a thin layer of jam.
Somehow, the stay has also transformed him. Maybe it's frustration, maybe boredom, maybe helplessness or maybe just too much TV over the last 3 days. He pretends to shoot things with a pen and tells me, "See, Mummy! Holes over there!". He bangs his fist on the shower door to protest against hair-washing and throws his toys on the floor when they don't do what he wants them to do. He also rains blows on me when I don't give him what he wants.
The last few hours at home though has calmed him down a lot. He's no longer confined to moving within the radius of his IV tube. There's no longer a beeper (on the infusion pump) that goes off ominously. It kept going off last night and the nurses had to adjust the catheter on his hand. The catheter finally did fall off for good last evening but thank goodness they also decided that it was no longer necessary to continue him on the drip.
#2
His grandparents have also decided to stop him going to school. They've tried for the last couple of months to get us to stop sending him there. He's been sick every other week since he started school. I've called the school this morning. A notice of one month has is given. No more school. At least for the rest of this year.
Out of the hospital! Yeah!
His appetite is not good though - It's really hard to stay enthusiastic about plain porridge with soy sauce and bread with a thin layer of jam.
Somehow, the stay has also transformed him. Maybe it's frustration, maybe boredom, maybe helplessness or maybe just too much TV over the last 3 days. He pretends to shoot things with a pen and tells me, "See, Mummy! Holes over there!". He bangs his fist on the shower door to protest against hair-washing and throws his toys on the floor when they don't do what he wants them to do. He also rains blows on me when I don't give him what he wants.
The last few hours at home though has calmed him down a lot. He's no longer confined to moving within the radius of his IV tube. There's no longer a beeper (on the infusion pump) that goes off ominously. It kept going off last night and the nurses had to adjust the catheter on his hand. The catheter finally did fall off for good last evening but thank goodness they also decided that it was no longer necessary to continue him on the drip.
#2
His grandparents have also decided to stop him going to school. They've tried for the last couple of months to get us to stop sending him there. He's been sick every other week since he started school. I've called the school this morning. A notice of one month has is given. No more school. At least for the rest of this year.
Warded
The boy was warded last Friday. Not likely to be discharged tomorrow as we hoped because he just threw up again.
More info here >>> Stomach Virus
More info here >>> Stomach Virus
Friday, July 13, 2007
A good 4 days...
... since Tuesday. Definitely good because nobody died and that's taking an optimistic view on things. Been grappling with a stomach virus that has taken the boys down. First the small one and then now, the big one. Came very close to admitting the small one to the hospital several times during these 4 days.
The doctor told us not to give the small one any milk-based products so he hasn't had any for about 2 days now. At 5am, he asked for milk. I said ok, left the room and waited till he fell asleep before going back in. At 7am, he asked for milk again. I said ok and left the room again. 10 minutes later, he started crying non-stop. In my sleep-deprived stupor, I just told him, we ran out of milk! Mistake. It was to him, the end of the world!
15 minutes later, I bundled him out of the house to 'go and buy milk'. NTUC hadn't opened yet so we waited at the coffeshop nearby, where he had some bread and soya milk. That calmed him down aplenty. Played 'I spy ...' with him and realized he knows quite a lot! >>>Ceiling, square, trolley, rooftops, crane, flag, lady eating pau, man reading newspapers, tomatoes, air-con, light, the letter M , words, various colors but the one I was most impressed with was ... jeans! When NTUC finally opened their doors at 8am, bought a tin of soy-base / milk-free formula.
Hey, why does "APLENTY" mean more than plenty while "APOLITICAL" means not-political??
The doctor told us not to give the small one any milk-based products so he hasn't had any for about 2 days now. At 5am, he asked for milk. I said ok, left the room and waited till he fell asleep before going back in. At 7am, he asked for milk again. I said ok and left the room again. 10 minutes later, he started crying non-stop. In my sleep-deprived stupor, I just told him, we ran out of milk! Mistake. It was to him, the end of the world!
15 minutes later, I bundled him out of the house to 'go and buy milk'. NTUC hadn't opened yet so we waited at the coffeshop nearby, where he had some bread and soya milk. That calmed him down aplenty. Played 'I spy ...' with him and realized he knows quite a lot! >>>Ceiling, square, trolley, rooftops, crane, flag, lady eating pau, man reading newspapers, tomatoes, air-con, light, the letter M , words, various colors but the one I was most impressed with was ... jeans! When NTUC finally opened their doors at 8am, bought a tin of soy-base / milk-free formula.
Hey, why does "APLENTY" mean more than plenty while "APOLITICAL" means not-political??
Monday, July 09, 2007
No school!
After the 5th case of HFMD was identified today, the school called to say that all classes will be suspended for a week.
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Sunday
So much to write about today.
It started with a trip to the PD. Doctor goes, "your child doesn't smoke, he doesn't have cancer, he is coughing because he has asthma! No normal person will cough for 2 whole months! If it's viral, he will have a fever and that will go away after threatment or antibiotics! You need to control his condition with asthma medication!!!"
Right, so the Funhaler, an asthma medicine delivery device, which we've unsuccesfully tried to get you to use 10 months ago is back in play. After tonight, we can tell the hiatus didn't make any difference. You still refuse it.
Late afternoon, decided to go to the beach. You found a branch. We found you a line and a hook and also, a dead fish. Tied the line to your branch, the hook to the line, the fish to the hook and threw it back into the water for you. You spent the next half an hour 'fishing' and attracted some attention when some people there thought you had really caught something with your primitive rod.
What a horrid waste of life. Somebody had caught it and obviouly, didn't think much of it. It's tiny but rather than throw it back to live, left it to die rot. Big One said we are only recycling it, rather than have you catch another one...
When it was time to go, you cried buckets. I unhooked the dead fish and put it in your hands. You refused to let it go. Told you it needs to go back to it's mother and back home (heaven) for dinner. With more tears, you threw it back into the water. Very reluctantly. But you did let it go anyways. I'm so very proud of you. *hugs*
Went for dinner at PP hawker centre. You ate very well and so, we let you off to the playground alone after you finished. 15 minutes later, I thought I saw some distress and walked towards you... only to find you hitting another boy. Both of you were going for the same thing. He refused to let go. You hit him. He hung on. You hit him some more.
Pulled you off on the spot and demanded that you apologise. You just cried and cried and cried. So I took you aside, sat you on the bench and waited for you to cry it out. When you were more settled, explained to you that the playground is not yours, it is common property and you need to learn how to share and play with other people because the playground is meant for everybody and that if you want to continue playing, you have to apologise to the boy and learn how to share and not fight or hit other people.
Thing went peacefully for a while, until a boy 3 or 4 years older (not the same guy you hit) decided to rock you violently while you were on the spring rocker. You yelled for him to "STOP!" but he didn't. We intervened only when you lost your grip and slipped off. By then, you were in tears.
Later, the boy tried again, a second time. The Big One intervene and told him off. He stopped.
Anyway, it was time to go. On the way back to the car...
Were you scared when the boy rocked you?
>>>Yes
Were you angry when the boy didn't stop?
>>>Yes
Did Papa come and save you?
>>>Yes
Next time you have to learn how to save yourself ok?
>>> I cannot lift me up!! HOW??
(So true! Nobody has the power to airlift themselves!)
....Eh, you think of a way larh ok?
>>> Ok.
It started with a trip to the PD. Doctor goes, "your child doesn't smoke, he doesn't have cancer, he is coughing because he has asthma! No normal person will cough for 2 whole months! If it's viral, he will have a fever and that will go away after threatment or antibiotics! You need to control his condition with asthma medication!!!"
Right, so the Funhaler, an asthma medicine delivery device, which we've unsuccesfully tried to get you to use 10 months ago is back in play. After tonight, we can tell the hiatus didn't make any difference. You still refuse it.
Late afternoon, decided to go to the beach. You found a branch. We found you a line and a hook and also, a dead fish. Tied the line to your branch, the hook to the line, the fish to the hook and threw it back into the water for you. You spent the next half an hour 'fishing' and attracted some attention when some people there thought you had really caught something with your primitive rod.
What a horrid waste of life. Somebody had caught it and obviouly, didn't think much of it. It's tiny but rather than throw it back to live, left it to die rot. Big One said we are only recycling it, rather than have you catch another one...
When it was time to go, you cried buckets. I unhooked the dead fish and put it in your hands. You refused to let it go. Told you it needs to go back to it's mother and back home (heaven) for dinner. With more tears, you threw it back into the water. Very reluctantly. But you did let it go anyways. I'm so very proud of you. *hugs*
Went for dinner at PP hawker centre. You ate very well and so, we let you off to the playground alone after you finished. 15 minutes later, I thought I saw some distress and walked towards you... only to find you hitting another boy. Both of you were going for the same thing. He refused to let go. You hit him. He hung on. You hit him some more.
Pulled you off on the spot and demanded that you apologise. You just cried and cried and cried. So I took you aside, sat you on the bench and waited for you to cry it out. When you were more settled, explained to you that the playground is not yours, it is common property and you need to learn how to share and play with other people because the playground is meant for everybody and that if you want to continue playing, you have to apologise to the boy and learn how to share and not fight or hit other people.
Thing went peacefully for a while, until a boy 3 or 4 years older (not the same guy you hit) decided to rock you violently while you were on the spring rocker. You yelled for him to "STOP!" but he didn't. We intervened only when you lost your grip and slipped off. By then, you were in tears.
Later, the boy tried again, a second time. The Big One intervene and told him off. He stopped.
Anyway, it was time to go. On the way back to the car...
Were you scared when the boy rocked you?
>>>Yes
Were you angry when the boy didn't stop?
>>>Yes
Did Papa come and save you?
>>>Yes
Next time you have to learn how to save yourself ok?
>>> I cannot lift me up!! HOW??
(So true! Nobody has the power to airlift themselves!)
....Eh, you think of a way larh ok?
>>> Ok.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
S$250,000.00
A property agent called me out of the blue last night. He offered 250K more for the apartment we already sold in January this year. How's that? Spent about 20 minutes thinking about it, then went to bed and slept.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Black Sesame Gelato place
Y2K Super Cafe
43 Dixon Street
Sydney 2000
Ph(02) 9281 2363
I don't get per diems in this company.... wondering if I can put in the claim for a $3.50 scoop of ice-cream...dessert mah, part of dinner what hor? Btw, dinner today was at 'BBQ King' - another of my favourite eating place here. It's at 18 Goulburn Street. Ate charsiew & roast duck dry noodles. Yummy! Like how they'll serve a very large bowl of complimentary piping hot watercress pork rib soup the moment you sit down. Perfect in this blustery weather. Feeling very contented.
43 Dixon Street
Sydney 2000
Ph(02) 9281 2363
I don't get per diems in this company.... wondering if I can put in the claim for a $3.50 scoop of ice-cream...dessert mah, part of dinner what hor? Btw, dinner today was at 'BBQ King' - another of my favourite eating place here. It's at 18 Goulburn Street. Ate charsiew & roast duck dry noodles. Yummy! Like how they'll serve a very large bowl of complimentary piping hot watercress pork rib soup the moment you sit down. Perfect in this blustery weather. Feeling very contented.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Sydney
Am here again. Just landed about an hour ago. There's something about this place that keeps wanting me back.
This is the first time I wasn't questioned and also the first time that my belongings weren't examined by the airport authorities here - which is a good thing. But routines, good or bad, work their way into one's expectations of how things should be and even when it's a change for the better, you'd still get a tat suspicious. Or maybe that's just me. Hahhahaa!!
It's 18 degrees and the sky is clear. Lovely. Will walk out to buy myself some dinner later. Won't leave this place without having some of what I consider, the best black sesame gelato on earth! I know where is it, how to get there but don't know the address. Will go find out later and record it here.
The next few days will be meetings, meetings and more meetings! Hopefully will get an hour off to go to Target - my favourite shopping place for the boy's clothes and maybe something from the Stella McCartney range for myself?
Also picked up this book "The Art of Happiness at Work" by His Holiness The Dalai Lama & Howard C.Cutler, M.D. at the airport. Here's an excerpt which I find interesting...
"...there will always be problems in life. It is just not possible to go through life without encountering problems... the better we are able to accept that fact, the better we will be able to cope with life's disappointments...take the example of a person who likes to eat sweet things, but doesn't like sour things. Then, there is a certain kind of fruit that this person enjoys. That fruit may be mostly sweet, but it may also have a little bit of sourness in it. That person continues to enjoy the fruit, they don't stop eating it because it has a little sour taste. If they want to continue to enjoy eating that fruit, then they have to accept the little bit of sourness in it. You can't separate the sweet form the sour in that piece of fruit; it is always going to be mixed. Life is just like that. As long as you are living, life will have good things but also some problems that you don't like. That's life."
Fruit for thought eh?
This is the first time I wasn't questioned and also the first time that my belongings weren't examined by the airport authorities here - which is a good thing. But routines, good or bad, work their way into one's expectations of how things should be and even when it's a change for the better, you'd still get a tat suspicious. Or maybe that's just me. Hahhahaa!!
It's 18 degrees and the sky is clear. Lovely. Will walk out to buy myself some dinner later. Won't leave this place without having some of what I consider, the best black sesame gelato on earth! I know where is it, how to get there but don't know the address. Will go find out later and record it here.
The next few days will be meetings, meetings and more meetings! Hopefully will get an hour off to go to Target - my favourite shopping place for the boy's clothes and maybe something from the Stella McCartney range for myself?
Also picked up this book "The Art of Happiness at Work" by His Holiness The Dalai Lama & Howard C.Cutler, M.D. at the airport. Here's an excerpt which I find interesting...
"...there will always be problems in life. It is just not possible to go through life without encountering problems... the better we are able to accept that fact, the better we will be able to cope with life's disappointments...take the example of a person who likes to eat sweet things, but doesn't like sour things. Then, there is a certain kind of fruit that this person enjoys. That fruit may be mostly sweet, but it may also have a little bit of sourness in it. That person continues to enjoy the fruit, they don't stop eating it because it has a little sour taste. If they want to continue to enjoy eating that fruit, then they have to accept the little bit of sourness in it. You can't separate the sweet form the sour in that piece of fruit; it is always going to be mixed. Life is just like that. As long as you are living, life will have good things but also some problems that you don't like. That's life."
Fruit for thought eh?
Sunday, July 01, 2007
First & Last...
...soccer game at our dear old Singapore National Stadium, before it gets torn down and replaced with a new. I have never watched a soccer game live before and neither has the boy but he absorb the spirit of the Singapore Lions fans like a sponge. Before the half time was over, he had eaten an entire hot dog, participated in 3 Kallang waves and was adeptly cheering and moaning and swearing like a hard-core fan.
Result of yesterday's last match >>> Singapore 0 - Australia 3.
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