A friend called up for help last night. He asked whether do I know anyone that can help to do a custom made hockey trophies within a day. Gosh, at this hour I really couldn’t help him to find any supplier that is willing to help to do for him within tomorrow. Most of them are off for the CNY break. I wonder why he needed it so rush and why can’t he plan ahead?

Son came back from school and telling me he wanted to get one YOYO. I asked him, ” You know how to play YOYO?” and he said “YES” and has been playing together with his classmate in the school. I told hubby about it and asked him to get him one of the yomega YOYO from the website. With this YOYO game on his mind, he started to stop crying when going to school. Gosh… it is really a nightmare when my son called me everyday without missed at 1pm and crying over the phone.

A short blog post to wish everyone HAPPY NEW YEAR. Lets usher the year 2012 with a big blast. We had a fabulous new year eve party at E’s place in Kota Damansara. Also its her birthday on the last day of the year.  We had BBQ by the pool side and I brought Spaghetti with Bolognaise sauce.With a group of few close friends, we drink, laugh and talk nonsense off course while the kids enjoying their swim at the pool. The clock strike 12 am and the blast of fireworks is just awesome. The kids were enjoying so much.

Here you go, photos courtesy from VV’s Facebook.

 Good friends are forever!

The foods and drinks and not forgetting that bottle of LEMONCINO BOTTEGA from Milan…… and it tasted like Lemon Dishwasher. LOL

Fireworks! Happy New Year 2012.

A short trip with the kids to Singapore during the Raya break months back. Oh that was really long for me to upload the pictures from my camera.  The kids are so looking forward for holiday trip in December but too bad I got no leave to take. As some of you who knows me well, yup I’ve changed job 6 months ago. Changing to a smaller organization, with lesser human problem and politics, more flexibility and most of all it is closer to home and I’ve more time to spend with my two precious babies. I am back to cooking at home again and happy to see the kids are eating well.

With no annual leave to take, I took the opportunities to plan for a short break to Singapore during the Raya holidays. It is only a 3 days 2 nights trip to Singapore and the entire trip is just for the kids. We took the earliest flight to Singapore and after touching down at Changi Airport, we took a taxi to the hotel. We try our luck whether we can check in earlier and YES, we checked in at 11 am. After the kids settled down, we wander around at Bugis Junction for lunch before we start our day 1 activities.

Me and hubby planned :

Day 1 : Jurong Bird Park & Night Zoo ( but to bad, the kids are too tired and Night Zoo outing got to cancel off  and met up with one of my blog’s silent reader. You know who you are and nice meeting up with you. Buzz me when you are in KL.
Day 2 : Universal Studio Singapore.
Day 3 : Hanging around Orchard Road before we took the evening flight back to KL.

 Both happy kids at Jurong Bird Park and Universal Studio

The beautiful parrots.

It was a tiring day. For the entire day 1 programme, we took the train and shuttle to Jurong bird park and back to our hotel. The kids got pretty excited when they can experienced sitting in the public transports. Well, they never have the chance to do that in KL because our public transport is SUCKS. I would rather drive!

Day 2…. Universal Studio here we come. Woke as early as 7.00 am and get prepared and leave the hotel at 8.00 am. We had our breakfast at the nearby food court and there are many choices of food to choose. We ate a lot indeed on that morning. Food portion is huge and lets forget about the ex-change rate. Hubby told the kids, just choose what you want to eat and order. LOL

We took the train to ViVo City and reached Universal Studio just one the dot before it open to public. OMG, the queue is crazy. Super crazy and my kids really have the patience to queue for an hour just for one ride! “Faint”!

We spend the whole day in Universal Studio, emmm…. about 13 hours. The queue is crazy, even at the food court in Vivo City. We give up and ended up having McDonalds nearby out hotel. Kids are super hungry and tired but they enjoyed it the most.

Day 3 is free and easy. We headed to Orchard Road, and hang around till late evening before we depart from Changi Airport. Well, we might come back again in July’2012 with Sis and family during their summer break. Let’s see how my schedule goes.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

It has been a month after a I did the eye treatment on both my eyes. I finally can see clear vision without any contact lenses or spectacles. Another month to go and if both eyes are 100% fully recovered, I am going to the salon for eyelash growth treatment. I wonder why Asian like me has such a short eyelashes? Thank GOD both my kids have thick and long eyelashes like their Dad.

to be jolly… Fa la la la la, la la la la……

Today is the 1st day of the December month. Another 24 days we will be celebrating Christmas. We are not Christian but the in-laws are. Well as usual, it is nothing big celebration at the in-laws place, just go back for dinner on the Christmas day. Time flies and I remembered last year during this period of time, me and the kids are holidaying in Sis’s place in Hanoi together with Aunty SH. Its cold in Hanoi and the kids enjoyed it so much. Kids are growing up real fast and in just a blink of eyes, my youngest boy will be in Primary 1 next year. I missed those baby smells from both of them. I missed those cuddles and hugs from both of them. Can I wind back the time? I just wish they are still babies. Sob, sob, sob……No overseas holiday were planned for this year end because during the Raya break, we brought the kids to Universal Studio in Singapore. And I know, the kids kept asking me, why we are not going to Hanoi? Gosh… still want to go Hanoi ah? I knew them, both wanted to play with Kor Kor and Cheh Cheh!  Anyway time flies fast and another 7 months, Sis and kids will be back for summer break.

The X’Mas tree was deck up by my kids 2 days back and this year I let them decorate the tree. Its awesome but hubby commented it is overly decorated. Last year when I was in Hanoi, I bought a lot a lot of new X’Mas ornaments back. Well I could say, I sapu half the shop back cos it is super cheap and per piece only cost about USD0.50! You couldn’t resist of not buying it back. Also for those kids who loves food erasers, those cute little food erasers, well I bought the whole shop back. Hahahaha…sorry no photo to show cos my little girl has been playing with it. Some already kaputed!

 The two growing up kids. No matter what, they are still babies in my eyes. My cheeky boy, he sure does have a lot of “pattern“.

The Daddy’s girl!

The new X’Mas ornamets from Hanoi.Well actually 80% of it are from Hanoi and those from IKEA got to hang at the back of the tree. LOL

Here you go…. brove kids! The next things to do is to get them a surprise Christmas present .Can anyone guess what they want? Hahaha

An early Christmas wish from all of us at home…… Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !

The festive season is around the corner and its time of the year, we are shopping for our X’mas gift. We had deck… errrr actually its the kids that had deck the tree up and it is beautifully decorated by both of them last weekend. As usual we will send Christmas to friends living in overseas. This year I discovered invitationbox.com christmas photo cards that you can get your family photo printed on it. It is just so awesome and I am going to do it this year.

The Astro bill came today and for the past 6 months, I have not on the TV and watch any programme in Astro channels. Also for the past 6 months I have been paying RM100 plus for no reason. When you calculated per annum it will cost about RM1.2K. Gosh… I can buy 4 air tickets to Bangkok for holiday. Discussed with Dearie Suki, should we just cut it off and get a omnidirectional antennas in order to search for our national channels? Understand from Mom, NTV7 and TV8 aired a lot of Taiwanese drama and Korean drama and even Hong Kong drama!

I wanted to enroll small boy for piano class but Aunty SH said , maybe he is too young. I must admit my son is a bit hyper he couldn’t sit still. I asked him the other day, does he has any interest in piano. He told me nope. Then I asked again, what about violin? Nope! But one thing for sure he like drums and he loves playing with cymbals too. I wonder again, will it be too young for him to start a drum lesson?

Yay, school holiday started! But despite its a school holiday, I am still as busy as before especially with my kids. Preparing them breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sending them off for tuition and piano classes. Teaching them reading and writing at night, thought its a holiday season. My son got a long way more to catch up on his Bahasa language that makes me worried more about him. Well, I am giving him any pressure at the moment and I tried to incorporate fun learning to him and also motivate him.

As for the little girl, she got no problem with her studies except that she is getting lazier and lazier to practice her piano pieces. During the school holiday, I got her to help me in cooking. She is looking forward for some baking session with me in the coming weeks. I am planning to bake sugar cookies and get little girl to frost it with icing. I think that should be fun for her.

Few days back, she helped me in making Gyoza. This is the second time I made Gyoza at home. Dearie Suki said its nice and asked for it again last 2 days. As for the Gyoza pastry skin, I get the ready one from the shelf by the brand LO SAM and it is not too bad though. I got mine from TESCO and Jusco near my place. I teach little girl to wrap it and though they way she wrap it is not as perfect as mine ( well actually not perfect at all ) but its fun for her to do it.

LOL. She is paying full attention to it !

My MIL went for a day trip in Kuantan and gave us a pack of the famous Mee Sg. Lembing. For our lunch, I blanched the noodles and mix it with some black soy sauce, soy sauce and oyster sauce. Also some cooked minced pork to top it up. Thought is a bit plain but they love the dry black sauce noodle to eat it with the pan fried gyoza.

Our simple lunch at home!