Here's to terrible twos and six!

It sure feels quiet now that the kids have gone to bed. ::breath in-breath out:: I definitely need some quiet time to cool down and call it a night. My little barbie, she really knows how to stretch me to my limits nowadays. OK, girls are usually more whiny, I get that! But I'm sorry sometimes my nerves just cannot take it. Before she goes to bed, she whines for her puppy-nose ( her bolster), her Chloe (her bear) and her soft pillow. Fine, I give in. Then, she wants her milk bottle cover! Then she whined she's not getting the blanky cos korkor pulled it all away! That was the last, because before another word comes out from her mouth, I yelled, "enough!" She turned her back at me and lie down speechless motionless, scared as shit as mommy never yells at her before.

The lights were off, I can hear her breathing heavily, as if she's trying to crank-start a cry. I could care less, I closed my eyes and pretend to be asleep. I think she get it, no more crying for attention cos mommy's asleep. 5 minutes later, both dozed off into their night.

I really feel like I should make it a point to keep blogging for the kids. looking back at Shern's growing up, I actually can't recall half the things Shern did or said when he was little until I read the blog, it's actually quite interesting eh, what dya think? Even my mom asked me, 'why nowadays you hardly blog?" So I guess some people still appreciate and takes time to read my blog. Thank you :)

Well well, Maine is 2y 5 months old now, in her terrible twos now, that explains all the tantrum, whining and attention seeking act! Up to date I think i've only written a few post on her updates. She's a lot more chatty now. Sometimes it takes a while to figure out what she's saying, especially if you are not her mother! LOL! Mom knows best! She still can't pronounce her W>S>F>L.

There was this one time when we were out shopping, she kept saying 'tauway'! We scratched out heads off trying to figure out what she said. She kept saying "tauway!" We can tell she was like super frust that we do not get it. "TAUWAY AH!" Still doesn't ring any bell. And finally my sister said, "Oh, Sunway!" That was because my sister suddenly recalled teaching her how to pronounce Sunway Pyramid! We laughed so hard can!

She can really make words sound so funny. Ipon pie, poh you, pay, teah ver, tea-vid. one-to-tea-for-teven-eight-niey-ten, didida. Go figure.

Here's what she really meant to say: Iphone five, for you, play, clever, seaweed, 1-2-3-4-7-8-9-10, Shichida. That's my girl!

I can't remember if I ever blog about her sleeping habit. But for the record, ever since I stopped breastfeeding her, she has this habit of touching my nipple to sleep! I must say that it's so so annoying sometimes. Don't ask me why but come on let's be honest, after 2 kids, nipple is the last thing that can be sexually arousing to me so don't you even think about that :P

Alright, I'll let you know why Maine, cos eventually one day when you have grown up, you'll be reading this I know. That's because when you want to touch my nipple, you won't let me sleep with my back facing you, you won't let me sleep on my tummy and you won't let me hug your brother to sleep. You cheeky thing, aren't you just a clever little pumpkin. All attention on you, even at bedtime.

I guess that's about it for now. Talk again soon, precious Maine and Shern.

Shern's first trip without us

My babyshern has really grown. He'll be in Standard One next year. Gone were the days I call him baby :( On the happy note, he has grown so much! A big brother and also a big bully to his sister, sometimes loving and caring but sometimes not so. One day at bedtime, his sister asked me for milk and I was so tired I didn't want to get out of bed, Shern went over to the table and made his sister a bottle of 4 ounces warm milk, oh yes he did. These little actions warmth my heart :)

Tonight, Shern is away. He flew to Singapore with my sis and Marcus. I miss my darling Shern. This trip is Shern's first trip without mom and dad and also without his geegee. They will be there for a couple of days, I'm sure they're having a blast with Baby Aidan and Ezra.

Little sister get spoilt at home with all the attention from daddy and mommy. She's so manja with daddy (like she always does). Tonight we went to Shern's daddy's cousin sister farewell party. She and her kids will be migrating to US, they're really nice people, we're going to miss em'. Maine was cool as cucumber and took so so long to warm up to all her older cousins. She's like the youngest cousin ever and everyone adores her but she refuse to let anyone carry. Funny how those big jie jies tried to make her smile, and when she finally did, they were all so excited as if they strike a lottery. That's how cool this lady is.

Christmas is a week away and no, I haven't bought a single present for the kids. The thing with me is that ME and LAST MINUTE we're kinda best friends :P Got what I mean? If you know me well enough, i bet you'll laugh reading this.

It's late and as much as I try to go to bed early, I always feel like I can wait, I'm not that tired or whatever. So in this recent months, I also befriended PANDA and inherited PANDA EYES :p

Enough said, I just kinda miss the boys at home. House is as quiet as a library without them. Hope they're having the time of their life there, with Science centre, Universal Studio and all, I bet they're not missing us at home. Good night everyone. Sweet dreams...

Oh well, last post was published on July 10, 2011. At this rate I'm going, this blog will definitely be dead before Maine starts pre-school. So in my effort to keep this blog, this is it! My first blog post on my iPhone!

Just want to note something interesting the kids said lately.

Shern asked me. "mommy, you still need the palmdrive?" He wanted to unplug my thumbdrive so he can connect the USB mini fan.

Over lunch, he asked his daddy "why yesterday's news is in today's newspaper? Why can't they publish today's news in today's newspaper?"

Maine only started talking in sentence shortly after she turns Two. Ever since then, it's very entertaining to hear her speak.

At the store, Shern asked if he can buy a painting set, she said, cannot buy! Rubbish!"

I tickled her, and she said "geli-la"

As usual, the boys monkeying around the house, climbing, jumping, yelling tearing the house down. With her finger pointing at them, she said,"korkor, stop it!"

On days like that, my life is oh-so- fulfilling. Thank God!

Little Fashionista

This is Maine, at 1 yr and 10 months old and I must say she's oh so vain! I don't know if a girl her age starts picking her own clothes and shoes, but she does it all the time now!

Say for instance, we're going out for a party and I want to dress her in a tiered dress, she'll go rummaged through her chest of drawers and pull out a jeans instead! She even insist of wearing her Mickey Mouse Pj's one hot afternoon.

Today, she wore a tutu skirt paired with her bling bling light Dora shoe! How unglam is that! Sometimes I let her pick, but sometimes mommy insists on wearing what's nice, not what she wants. Who cares if she wails, hell need to break loose once in a while. So then only she'll know Mommy's IN Charge! Yeeee hhaaaaa!

Seen here, wearing her favourite gumboots my sister bought from Vietnam, and her cutie rara skirt with tights, her top from FOX, and bag (originally a pencil box case) from Sasha and Myra. I reckon if I were to keep a journal of her fashion, we'll have an interesting summer collection. She's my cake topper!

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Shern sucks at Mandarin

What a pity! One post for the month of June. Only one! Is that bad or what? Oh well, I've been pretty occupied with making accessories and in fact, very occupied with the kids. Shern will be in Primary One next year and I don't know if he's well prepared for it.

His last term Chinese exam, erm, was errr...quite bad. His Mandarin teacher was very disappointed at him, when she showed me his Chinese exam paper, I had a shock! WHAT!! 67! Like SIXTY SEVEN ONLY! I couldn't believe my eyes! I knew Mandarin hasn't always been his favourite subject, so I wasn't even expecting 100 marks, but I expect nothing lower than 90. Seriously, for the past 2 years in kindergarten, all his exam marks were no lesser than 96. So this is really really super duper bad.

Teacher's comment goes something like this, "Oh well, he kinda score the lowest in Mandarin exam, that is, if you put the Indians aside! Inside my mind, I was like "OMG!" She continued, "I did extra revision with him before the exam, knowing that counting strokes is not his strongest point, but still he didn't do well in the exam".

Oh my oh me, what can I say? I'm speechless.. That kind of like makes me think whether we parents idea of putting him in a Chinese school is the best decision afterall? I know Kebangsaaan school sucks big time, but what if he sucks in school all because he cannot score well for Chinese. And the thing is 80% of all subjects are all in Chinese.

I cannot possibly handle the stress of having a truckload of homework of a 7 years old E-VE-RY SIN-GLE DAAAAY, especially if I have to literally search for every single character in the dictionary myself! Just to let you know, funny how Shern asked me why he needs to study Chinese? He thinks he's English just because we speak English all the time. "I'm not a Chinese, I'm English". Haha boy, very funny! (mommy's just being sarcastic :P)

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Time flies..

In a blink of an eye, the children have grown so much. Shern will be in Primary one next yr! Maine will be 2 yo in 3 months! I feel bad for not updating the blog as often as I intended to, not that I have ditched blogging for facebook, I just haven't got time to go online as often as I used to.

If there's anything I want to say now, it's that Maine has grown more and more like her big brother, everything from her look to her attitude, oh my! how can two different human be so alike! This is seriously scary.

She's learning to speak more now, slow in her speech comparing to her brother (well, not that I'm comparing notes :P) but anyway, she's a bright girl, knows her thing! I don't know if it's a girl thing or what, but this girl is already starting to pick her own clothes and shoes! Sometimes even totally refusing my pick, it has got to be her pick, and I must say she has a Dior side of her, good fashion sense. Are your girls like that too? Come on, please share.

Shern on the other hand, is enjoying every bit of his holiday, wishing the holiday can be forever. Oh well, one can always wish. Another week to go and it's back to reality. I was supposed to collect his exam result on the last weekend before the holiday but I totally forgotten about it. He was anxious to know how well he did in the exam ( secretly wishing for an ipad) if he scores well. Kids nowadays, they do really dream big, don't they?

The day I almost lost my brother

Life is fragile, you might heard it a thousand times but never gave it a serious thought until something happened, someone died or someone you love almost lost their life.

Back in November 2010, on my birthday, I almost lost my brother to an accident, he had multiple fracture on his body, a major fracture on his skull, it was so serious that the doctor at the goverment hospital said there's nothing they could do but to wait for him to die. It was really that bad that the specialist hospital refused to accept him as the doctors said the chances of him surviving the accident is next to impossible.

We asked that he be transferred to a better equipped hospital but the doctors was against it because they said there's no way he can survive the trip!

The other hospital is an hour away. Taking a step of faith, we requested for a transfer,at our own risk. 15 minutes away from the Ipoh GH, my aunt who was in the ambulance with my brother, called me and asked that we pray for my brother, the oxygen tank ran out of gas! For my brother who was in an unconscious state, that was again another bad bad news. He was on a bike when he had a head on crash with an oncoming lorry.

Putting our trust in God, we sent him to Ipoh GH where he undergo 3 surgeries in 10 hours. He had air bubles in his brain and if you know, that's a bad thing. Both his palms were fractured a few fingers were fractured, the surgeons had to amputate his right middle finger.

Half way through the surgery, one of the surgeons rushed out from the Operating Theater asking us to sign a consent form for them to operate him on his abdomen as they suspect he has internal injury, they can't afford to wheel him out of surgery for a CT scan and back into the OT, there's no time to waste. The surgeons just don't get it why after pumping in 4 pints of blood into him, his blood pressure is still very very low and very pale. Our heart dropped when the surgeon told us to be prepared-for the worst.

I believe God hears our prayer and he survived. He regain consciousness after 2 days which was a miracle itself, and after just a week in the intensive care unit, he was transferred to the normal ward where he spent almost a month to recover.

All doctors that attended to him said that if he ever recovers from this accident, he'll either be retarded ( from the impact of the fractured skull) or unable to walk, as for the first few weeks after the accident, his right part of his body, arm and legs included, are not able to move at all, like a paralyzed person.

Thinking back, he wouldn't have survived it not by the prayers. We believed it is God that has healed him, not only that, after the accident, my brother has totally changed. He's so much more humble, obedient and nice to people. Retarded or paralyzed, you ask?? Praise God, he's totally fine and jumping, even fit for a marathon (oh well, not yet but soon I hope!)

My brother's memory is still recovering from the accident, he can't remember exactly how the accident took place, but doctor said that's normal and it takes time for him to regain his memory. I wonder if we should file for compensation from the other party with the help of motorcycle accident attorney Austin, as least get some compensation to pay for my brother's medical bill.

9th day of CNY..

9th day of Chinese New Year but it feels like CNY is so over already. I don't feel that atmosphere anymore, even in the malls, they hardly play the new year songs anymore. I don't know about the rest of you, but to me, it felt like every year is a step further away from those good old days new year celebration. People nowadays make lesser effort, unlike those days where people will religiously bake the kuih kapit (love letter biscuit) under the burning charcoal, decorating their homes with everything ang ang (red), hanging Chinese New cards all over the house, lining them up from wall to wall like fashion garlands! Oh, those were the days.

I remember those days when we were little, mom will bring us to the emporium to buy new clothes. At least 3 sets of new clothes for her 6 children, that makes 18 sets! Not forgetting new shoes! As long as her children are happy, mom didn't mind she was broke, and boy, we were! Can't wait for new year to put on the new clothes. Those new clothes were to last a whole year!

But kids nowadays get new clothes so often we can hardly see the excitement on their face anymore. i wonder if they get excited if people buy gold coins for them instead of giving them any pow (red packet money).

So this is the year of webbit

..I mean..rabbit!

Oh, so I actually didn't wish everyone Gong Xi Fatt Chai and today is already the 6th day of the Chinese New Year. Oh, bad me. We balik kampung on the eve of Chinese New Year, just in time to see the fireworks. Shern kept himself busy playing fireworks with his cousins while Maine just cling on to her daddy like a koala bear. Can't blame her, the fireworks were super loud, like it even got my heart thumping out of my body.

It was great spending time with family back home, feasting and all. I haven't got any photos to share yet, but will do if I get any. Now that we're back home, Maine is down with a fever, I think that because she's teething. Did I mentioned her teeth are sprouting out like mushrooms! Told my aunt about it, and she said that's because Maine didn't want to miss out feasting for CNY, and thus the mushrooming. LOL. Hope she gets well soon.

That aside, she's such a darling. At 1 year 5 months old, she's still not talking much. Words she says are quite limited compared to Shern was he was her age. Bad mom, shouldn't even be comparing them but can't help it la. She calls daddy (Papa), and me (Mama), calls kakak (tatak), call my sis (Meme), calls granny (popo), grandaunty (ma), calls Linda (dada), says (ball, bird, wow-wow as in dog, bowl, peh for please, thow for throw), and she says the cutest Oh-oh.. Love to hear her say that. She fights a lot with Shern, pull his hair, scream, pinch and bite, all because Shern always refuses to give in to her. I don't see Maine fighting with Marcus because Marcus is always the Mr. good guy and always giving in to the princess. At this rate Shern and Maine are going, my guess is there'll be more drama between them once that girl starts talking. Oh, boy! I can't wait!

Shern is now in Six Years old class, and next year he'll be in standard one already. How time flies. He's super chatty, super bossy and super manipulative. He cheats when playing UNO, but makes it all sounds like it's part of the rule! He made my brother 'draw 4 x 4 wild cards', and after my brother did that (16 cards at one go, how is that even possible), he took all the wild cards back so he can throw it on someone else later, and he told my brother "it's like that one". Oh well, my brother who was recovering from a bad accident, in his state of bad memory, actually believed him! Oh my boy..

And I don't even know where to start mentioned the other hundred things he said that sounds so real but not. Should really update this blog more often, so one day he will read it and know how cheeky he once was. Erm, I so need my blogging mojo back.

Tiger year was quite a bad year for us, my prayer is that for this rabbit year, everything will turn out better. But seriously, I'm not a superstitious person, I don't freaking care if it's a rabbit or a tiger year, a cat or a dragon year, can't let an animal decide if my luck will get better or not. I'm putting my trust in my God, for that I know I'm now in good Hands. I've seen how he saved my brother, I'm sure he's keeping an eye on the rest of us too.

Here's wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year 2011!

Little vain pot

Just as I was checking on friends status on FB, wishing people Happy New Year, my little darling girl rummaged through my handbag and found a tub of mini lip gloss, opened the cover and practically wipe clean my lip gloss and applied it on her face and a lot more on her hair! Oh, this vain pot sure knows a thing or two about grooming. I suppose she knows that's something to enhance one's beauty, so she just try her luck applying it on her, where she thinks is necessary.

The moment I looked at her, I freaked out. Grabbed a wet tissue within a split second and wipe her clean! When I told this to my sister and mom, they asked if I took any video of her doing it. What?? That didn't even cross my mind. I was too freaked out with her and her dirty finger, dirty face and hair on my white linen. Are you little girls like that too, A good future candidate for Regency Beauty Institute?

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