Jacqie's Crazy Little World...

Swallowed a Basketball???

2011-07-22T06:26:00.000-07:00

that's how big i am now!!! and ppl keep telling me i look like i swallowed a basketball. hahaha... well, am waiting for the time till the little basketball pops out :p. i look so fat already, sigh... but doc says i need to put on weight cause apparently to him, i have yet to put on enough... but i think i have. worried i can't lose it le... but nowadays can't really help it cause i crave for a lot of chocolates and cakes!!! oh well. like i said in my previous post, 3 more weeks to go... woohoo... can't wait to get back into my jeans again :)

ok, that's it from me, sorry about all the small caps, this is the first time i'm blogging using my bb and th caps doesn't seem to work...or more like i don't know how to use it... haha.. sad sad ;p.

goodnight for now!

Almost 37 Weeks of being Pregnant...

2011-07-21T09:07:00.001-07:00

At this stage:

I can't sleep on one side for two long, my ass gets cramped on the right if I sleep on the right for too long, then when I flip to my left (which is a pretty tough task) and sleep too long on my left, ass gets cramp on the left. And when I finally wake up in the morning after tossing and turning to the right and to the left, both sides of my ass hurts from the cramps throughout the night. It only goes away by noon.....hahaha......and when I walk into my office, I try to pretend as if nothing hurts.....:P
Surprisingly my feet has yet to swell and neither has any other part of my body from water retention.....I guess when that happens, it probably means I'm so much closer to labor!!! Well, hopefully that doesn't happen anytime soon.....since I'm planning for a C-section.... :D
I keep craving for sweet stuff....and i drink lots of ribena these days....hopefully my baby doesn't come out purple...hahaha...like barney :P
I can't sit down properly cause no matter how I sit, its just super uncomfortable....
I can't lie down flat cause I can't breathe if I do so.
I walk at such a slow pace these days, that it's just sad!!! And after I finish walking up the steps, I'm seriously breathless.....that I'm not use too.....I don't recall being that way when I was carrying Sera...I guess age is catching up!!!

I could go on and on and on....but you get the drift.....the only consolation to everything that I'm going through now is that I only have to tolerate this for another 3 more weeks!!! WOOHOO!!!!

And at the end of it all, when my little miracle baby comes out......IT WILL BE ALL WORTH IT!!!

3 more weeks!!!! That's all 3 more weeks!!!

That's it from me....GOODNIGHT!!!

P/S. If you never see a tummy move with a baby inside, check out my previous post....I videoed my tummy....very cool I must say!!! Something I can show my baby when he grows up ;)

My Active Little Miracle Baby in My Tummy @ 36 Weeks!!! :D

2011-07-19T06:04:00.000-07:00

I'm 36 weeks pregnant and my little miracle baby doesn't really have much space left in there. So for those of you who have never seen how a tummy looks like when the baby moves at this age....then, here it is!!! Happy watching!!! He is one active little sweetheart....I introduce to you, my little boy!!! TA-DA!!!

That's it from me.....over and out :D

Voting is TOMORROW!!! Jeng Jeng Jeng!!!

2011-04-14T23:35:00.000-07:00

The day that everybody is waiting for is just around the corner!!! So Mirians, vote wisely!!!

Whether it be,

DAP

Let's all try to be as civilised as we possibly can tomorrow :) After all, we are all Mirians wanting the best for our dearest Miri. Right??? :D

Note: The logo's in there are put randomly. I didn't choose one over the other. So please don't criticise me....

All the best Mr.DAP and Mr.BN for tomorrow!!!

In my area its either Mr. Fong Pau Teck or Mr.Andy Chia...and MY CHOICE IS....(drum roll)....trtrtrtrrtttrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtrrrrrtrtrtr........ takkan lah I tell you, haiz...nanti percuma saja I kena sumpah.....hahaha...:P

I must say despite all the growing tension, this is going to be one hell of an election in Miri, never like before. It will indeed be very exciting to find out who WINS!!! Feels like the WORLD CUP all over again...hahaha...

Happy Voting Peeps!!!

Ta for now!!! And sleep well tonight everyone, if you can :D

Over and out!!!

To Vote or Not to Vote....that is the QUESTION....

2011-04-11T17:06:00.000-07:00

So I have been contemplating this pass week on whether I should vote or not. Haha...I know as a Sarawakian, it's my duties to do so....but have you seen how aggresive it is this year??? It makes me so tempted to just stay away from my duties to do so....

All I hear is people saying bad things about one party or the other...if you check out miricommunity.net, people are getting aggressive!!! I mean seriously, just because one person say something about another party that you don't like, you don't have to push your opinion on them as well. I mean everybody has a right to their own opinion, so lets no push it till we start getting to aggressive. I know everybody means well, but I feel this is getting out of hand and Miri people are losing their "BEING NICE" ways. Come on Mirians....lets try to be civilised...can we???

I'm sure in everybody's minds, everybody has basically decided who they intend to vote for. I know for me, I have...but I ain't gonna tell no one...cause if I do, someone will probably try to enforce their opinions on me....which I really don't like and I think a lot of people don't either. And I'm guessing you would feel the same way.

I know there are a lot of questions out there, like, should we vote for the young or the old, should we vote for the more experience or the inexperience??? Should we vote for change or should we just remain the same??? If we vote for change will Miri develop faster??? Do we want Miri to develop any faster than it already is??? If we vote for no change, will Miri continue to grow as it is now??? And do we want it too???

Questions, questions and more question.

At the end of it all, we just have to wait and see the outcome at the end of this week.

I wish all parties GOOD LUCK!!! And may the best win!!! (without any aggression and chaos, that is).

That's it from me. Cheers! and have a Blessed Day ahead!!!

Miri, Miri, Miri...hahaha....sorry, I just couldn't help it, I so needed to post this here..:P

2011-04-05T18:33:00.000-07:00

Please don't get me wrong...I love Miri to bits and pieces!!! I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world, but this article is just so funny!!!

Miri now a modern riverside city with high-class hotels and malls

Source: http://www.starproperty.my/PropertyScene/TheStarOnlineHighlightBox/11169/0/0

MIRI: Just like Rome, Miri was not built in a day, but the pace of development of this oil town in Sarawak over the past 20 years has been nothing but phenomenal. Ok, this I have to agree with, Miri has definitely change a lot in the last 20 years, from having cows and goats at the side of the road feeding on grass to having none of that any more :). I even recall one particular calf, which me and my mom use to pass by every morning on my way to school, the calf was always places next to the one-way sign, and hence we name him 'One-Way'. Not sure what happen to him, hopefully he wasn't part of my meal....:( Can't even recall when he disappeared from that sight. Btw, why compare to Rome leh??? Curious.....

The once-sleepy fishing village with soggy black soil that emitted smelly gas is now a modern riverside city dotted with high-class hotels and huge shopping malls. Hmmmm...oklah...we have maybe one high class hotel name Marriot Resort and Spa, but I think that's about it. The others are pretty good but not so high class le. Maybe Imperial Hotel also not bad cause it has service apartments (so definitely good for people travelling with family). Grand Palace also not too bad especially for those people who likes the night life. Overall, better than 20 years ago lah...definitely!!!

Things have certainly changed from 20 years ago when a visit to a tamu or a big shop in a row of five lots was described as shopping. Yeah, I remember getting all excited when my mom said we are going to 'Sin Liang'..haha...best shopping place ever, when I was 8 years old!!! ;)

Multi-storey complexes such as the Bintang Megamall, Boulevard, Merdeka Mall and Imperial Mall, which offer international brands – which some locals cannot even pronounce – has brought a new meaning to shopping in this northern hub of Sarawak. Bintang Megamall with international brands, maybe lah. But how international is international le??? Let me think, we have Levis and.....and.....and....oh yah...maybe cosmetic products got a lot of international brands lah...but clothes wise...hmmm....not much le. Boulevard got international brands meh (besides cosmetics)??? Even G2000 also hilang from boulevard...what international brands got again le??? Can't say much about Merdeka Mall cause I haven't been there just yet. As for Imperial Mall, I think it's pretty much the same as Boulevard only bigger :P. Ahhhh...I just realise, we do have KFC and Mc Donalds as INTERNATIONAL BRANDS!!! ;) Btw, when is the hotel at Bintang Megamall going to be completed???

What you mean we locals cannot pronounce??? I can eh....hahaha...sounds as if we are so uneducated...oh well, life goes on :P Maybe some cannot pronounce lah...so oklah....that can be correct... :P

This has rendered the tamu, including the famous Tamu Muhibbah in the city’s centre, as a place for senior Miri folk and outsiders. I have to admit, I can't even recall the last time I went there :P. But I know for sure my MIL goes there some times....I usually get my groceries from Boulevard....muahahaha.....got air-con bah...I admit I super spoil already!!!

For the older locals and outsiders, especially those from neighbouring Brunei, Tamu Muhibbah is among the few places in Miri where they can get a supply of the precious Bario rice. Mmmmm....Bario rice....good stuff I must say!!! I married a Kelabit...soooo....Bario rice is a must in the house...:P Lucky me!!!

This rice is regarded by the Orang Ulu and natives as the finest from the highlands of Sarawak.It is grown in the cool and unpolluted environment at 1,200m above sea level.According to natives, this rice is eaten only by longhouse chiefs on special occasions.It has long been regarded as one of the finest rice in the world. It is famous for its soft texture, fine elongated grain, mild aroma and splendid taste.

The rice is a laboriously planted and harvested by hand with age-old methods and zero use of pesticides and chemical fertiliser and is thus perfect for health-conscious people.Bario rice is air-flown from Bario and the Ba’kelalan highlands.This coupled with its limited production, results in a kilo of the lowest grade costing RM13.The price is lowest in Miri compared to other parts of Sarawak as it is the closest city to Bario. Wah! Bario rice must be a hit with the person who wrote this, cause he/she sure did write a lot about it. Hahaha....can't blame him/her cause there is nothing much to write about Miri anyway :P Plus the fact that Bario Rice is defintiely one of the bestest (I know there is no such word as bestest but I just like using it, cannot kah??? :P) rice in the world :D

A trader at Tamu Muhibbah was unperturbed by the declining popularity of the market, saying there would always be regular customers as the young would eventually get old.Their turn would come once they grew older and start looking for jungle fruits and vegetables not found in the megamalls. Also, various seafood not sold at the megamalls was available only at places like the tamu, said the trader. Haha....yah, probably when I am the only one left to buy this things in my household, then I probably won't have a choice :P. Usually the jungle fruits (as the call it) can be found all over Miri at the side of the road...even next to Boulevard, so maybe I won't head to Tamu either for the frutis, since it is so accessible elsewhere :D. As for seafood..hmmm...maybe lah terpaksa go there :D. Btw, we only have one Megamall...and its not even Mega enough to be called Megamall...so there is NO MegamallSSSSSS...only A Megamall....just in case people keep thinking we have so many megamalls...just trying to keep things as truthful as possible, so as to make sure that people don't get over-excited to come to Miri, only to get disappointed....true or not???

Businessman Rebi Lampas, who specialises in rice, said business was not bad despite the mushrooming of big shopping complexes. Mushrooming of big shopping complexes??? Hmmm....fair enough since we are having the MYY Mall and the Permy Mall coming up....but not to sure when it will be completed.

“We don’t expect youngsters because they have better places to lepak" Like the malls....

“We have regular customers and a constant stream of outsiders who keep the tamu breathing,” she said. Good to know our Tamu is still alive and kicking :D

Revenue from the petroleum industry, which has been fuelling the development of Miri since the discovery of oil in the town in 1910, also saw the improvement of infrastructure such as roads. True kah??? I thought most of the revenue from our petroleum industry goes back to West Malaysia to develop KL??? Have you seen KL??? Its a never ending of mushrooming malls there compared to Miri!!! If we had more revenue come our way, then maybe we would have a much more improved infrastructure!!!

Super-smooth roads now snake around the city of 320,000 people.Four-lane roads connect the city to almost all outskirts such as Bandar Baru Permyjaya and Senadin.With almost zero potholes, the owners of old cars have no reason to upgrade. Super smooth??? Aiyo!!!! If you want to know what super smooth is, go to Brunei!!! Their roads are fantastic!!! And why??? Cause all the revenue they get from their petroleum industry goes directly to them!!! And four lane roads??? Where??? Am I missing some part of Miri that I have yet to come upon??? Zero potholes??? I got to take some pictures of potholes at Pujut area....later ah....

The large number of Brunei-registered Porsche, BMW, Ferrari and Skyline sports cars that zoom past is another indication of how smooth the roads are. Zoom past??? I think the Bruneians drive safer then us cause they are worried their cars would get damage on our roads. I think Kelisa's and Kancil's fly by faster...haha...:P Yes, am being sarcastic here....muahahaha....I once read somewhere where someone ask a Bruneian on how he will know when he has reached Miri (this was when they were on their way down to Miri). The reply was, "when you start feeling as if you are on a boat!!" And it is so TRUE!!! If you use the road to Brunei, it goes up and down and up and down, just like when the waves hits the boat!!! Try driving faster!!! Then it feels like you are on some kind of fun fair ride!!!! hahaha....and it's FREE some more :P Just don't blame if you can road sick and start puking at the side of the road :P

Despite the physical changes the town has seen since the discovery of the Grand Old Lady on Canada Hill 101 years ago, the politeness of the Miri folk remains unscatched. Ahhhh....finally something I TOTALLY AGREE ON!!! I think Miri people are such nice people, including me :P. Of course there are some out there who are not lah....can't expect everybody to be nice can you!!! If everybody was nice...scary leh....it could mean that we were probably brainwashed by some aliens or something like that. But nevertherless, in general, I have to say people in Miri are definitely nice!!! On occassion you will find super super nice people like my mom who smiles at everybody she meets and talks to anyone in general!!! ;)

Being the city that gave birth to Malaysia’s petroleum industry and hometown of international singer Zee Avi, Miri is still the best example of Sarawak’s dynamic, multi-racial and harmonious communities. Ok, agree!!! Btw, I wonder when was the last time Zee Avi came back to Miri??? Even in her 'Mee Kolok Sigek' song, she was talking about Kuching...no Miri mention leh??? Well, can't blame it if the Mee Kolok in Kuching is better :P Zee Avi, if you are reading this, how about writing a song on Miri??? What say you??? :P

Oklah...enough crap from me today!!! Ta for now!!! Over and Out!!!

Gloomy Blog??? No lah!!! :P

2011-04-03T18:29:00.000-07:00

If you are wondering why my blog looks so gloomy....its not!!! Hahaha...it's just that since I'm not good at designing blogs or trying to figure out how to use one that can be found when you google..I've decided to just use the template that blogspot already has... :P Can't blame me for not being web designing/web copying (or whatever you call it, hahaha, I hope you get what I'm trying to say :P) literate!!!

It's either I blame it on NO TIME to LEARN...or I blame it on NOBODY WANTS TO TEACH ME!!!

But in plain fact, I'm just TOO LAZY TO LEARN and TOO LAZY TO ASK SOMEBODY TO TEACH ME... :P

So welcome to my new looking blog which probably will look like a lot of other ppl's one out there :D. Nevertheless, I'm happy with it. And it ain't gloomy!!! It's just that I like rain and I like the darker colours to it... :P

Seriously, If you knew me, I'm one HAPPY HAPPY person!!! So whatever you do, don't judge the person by its blog... ;) Then again, the picture of my daughter smilling, should be a good contrast to the colours in there :P.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know, just in case you thought that I have gone into some weird form of depression :P. Trust me, I'm still the same old me.

That's it from me, over and out!!!

What is the World becoming these Days? Children are Murdered & Children are Raped :( What has become of our Society????

2011-04-01T22:08:00.000-07:00

Though I have yet to mention anything about Tifanny Wong's murder case, it was indeed a shocking news for all of us here in Miri. She was only 17 years old. Then there was the murder of a 20 year old girl a few days later, in Miri as well. Then in the news there was the case of a 4 year old who was raped by a kindy owner....I mean seriously....what are these ppl thinking???

It freaks me out as a young mom (as I like to think I am still young...:)) to think about bringing up my daughter in this world or my son (in my tummy) for that matter.

The truth of the matter is that, no matter what you do and how much you try to protect your children, sometimes there is just nothing you can do to keep them safe. If we are over protective, I'll children will probably grow up rebelling against us, but if we give them too much freedom, then they might get influence by the wrong group of friends and then rebel against us as well....so either way, nothing seems right.

So how do we give the right amount of love without being over protective and without giving too much freedom???

That is still a mystery to me. What am I going to do? I'm still clueless...but for one thing I'm sure of at this point of time is to make sure that my children grows up knowing who God is....and I think in some cases I just need to put my faith and trust in the Lord to take care of them. Honestly, I think religion plays a very important role in our children's life. I don't think I need to elaborate further on this....as I'm sure you all would understand where I am coming from.

If everybody was brought up with religion as their foundation, I have a feeling this world would be a much safer and better place to live in.

Don't you think so???

Anyway, to close this blog out, here's a beautiful Christian Prayer I found, which we could use pray in our daily lives for our children. It is titled:

"Protection for My Children"

Father God, I lift up my children before You.
I ask You to watch over them.
Hide them under the shadow of your wings.
Protect them from the evil in this world.
Let no harm come to their spirit, souls, or bodies.

Lord I thank You that Your angels go with and before my children.
Thank You for protecting them and keeping them safe from danger,
disease, and harm of every kind.
Let no evil befall them, let no plague come near them.
I thank You, Lord, that my children are safe in the shelter of Your arms.

Protect my children from injury of any kind.
I pray that they would be sensitive to Your Spirit
and that you would direct their steps.
Give my children courage to say no to friends
and activities that would put them in danger.

I thank You, Lord, that You protect them from spiritual,
mental, physical, and emotional abuse from others.
You protect them from the enemy's evil plans to bring them harm
because Your word says that the evil one touches them not
and that no weapon formed against them shall prosper.

I thank You, Lord that water shall not overtake them
and fire shall not consume them.
Wherever they go and whatever they do, You protect them, Lord.
In Jesus' name I proclaim it.

Amen.

I told you!!! NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE for GOD!!! ;)

2011-01-31T22:27:00.000-08:00

Sorry for MIA-ing....(if that is ever a word) :P Well, a lot of things have happen in my life since the last time I wrote (noted it was April last year :P). After the surgery to fix my tube, I was extremely busy with work hence I didn't have time to blog. Was way to tired to do anything by the time I got back from work.

Anyway, to update you on what happen after the surgery in April last year, I somehow manage to get pregnant in June, but I miscarried at 5 weeks...was very sadden by the experience and cried my eyes out (which by now you should know I always do when I'm sad...haha...but its a once off thing, where I cry and cry and cry for that time, and then I get over it and move on with my life again ;) Honestly, its good for the soul to cry!!! :D). And due to that, I had to go in for another minor laparoscopic surgery, cause Dr.Mattu couldn't see the baby anywhere, so he was worried that it could be another ectopic pregnancy. By this time, it was the 5th time, I was going into the operating theater and going under general anesthetic.....nothing new I must say.

The only problem is that I seem to be getting more and more forgetful these days...hahaha....I swear its not old age!!! After the surgery (which was two hours) he said the tube was fine and it wasn't an ectopic pregnancy, therefore it was a miscarriage...so that was Good News in a way cause that meant I could get pregnant after fixing my one and only tube!!! And that means that my surgery in April was a success!!! WOOHOO!!!

So, after that I decided not to think about getting pregnant anymore, and buried myself in work and church activities to forget the whole ordeal (did however get a priest to offer a mass for my little unborn angel). Kept myself pretty busy all the way till November. And by December, was pretty much glad that work and church activities had slowed down tremendously, cause I was seriously worked out. Took a whole 2 week break for Christmas which was nice!!! And somewhere in between the 2 weeks of my break, I found out I was PREGNANT!!!! WOOOOHOOO!!! and another WOOHOOOOO!!! Who would have guessed I would be so blessed so fast!!! The best part was that when I went to see the doctor, I was already 7 weeks into my pregnancy and I could here the little angels heartbeat!!! That was way too cool!!!! I didn't know whether I wanted to cry or to jump for joy or to smile like kambing!!! My hubby and my daughter were also smiling from ear to ear....hahaha....that was like the happiest moment of my life!!! From being in the saddest moment of my life when the doctor told me I could never get pregnant again after my ectopic pregnancy in 2008, and now to the happiest moment of my life that I could actually get pregnant....is such an unbelievable feeling!!!! BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER I must say!!!

Now I sure am glad that I decided to spend so much money (a lot I tell you!!! for me a lot lah, maybe to some of you that is just peanuts....but for me, it sure did burn a hole in my pocket...hahaha....but it was worth every penny!!!!) to go for that surgery!!! No regrets whatsoever!!! Dr. Mattu is definitely an Angel sent from heaven!!! Anyway, after listening to my little angel's Heartbeat, Dr.Mattu said that this is indeed a miracle baby!!! And I sure do believe this baby is!!! He even prayed with me after the scanning, which was wonderful :D.

So as you can see....I'm still the happiest person alive!!! I'm 5 months preggy now and wish time would fly by faster so I get to smell the little sweetheart in my arms ;) Of course I think I have somehow manage to forget what it is like to have a new born baby around hence my excitement. Lets see how I feel when the baby finally comes out....hahaha.

And before I end, my advice to all mom's who can't seem to get pregnant after years and years of trying is, please go see a gynaecologist, or even better still, if you are in Miri, please go see Dr.Mattu!!! If you're tubes are block, there is always a chance that you could unblock it, even in MIRI!!! It maybe a bit costly (well that could be an understatement) or pretty costly I might say, but it was sure worth my money!!! Having a baby in your arms or in your tummy like mine for now is seriously PRICELESS!!!

And like I said before, "NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD!!!" ;)

And that's it from me!!!

TA for now!!!

Why does this always happen??? Why ah???

2010-04-27T02:41:00.000-07:00

Hey peeps....sorry haven't written for awhile. Been very busy with work and I think after the my surgery, I seem to get tired very easily. Plus the fact that my period went bonkers this month after the surgery. I thought I was bleeding to death...hahaha...yes yes I'm over exaggerating ...but it was a lot!!!

Sorry for being so informative....hahaha....anyway, I had to change my pad every two to tree hours for the first 3 days. I got so worried that by the 3rd day I called my Doc's office but he wasn't in. So I got the lady nurse working there to get him to call me back the next morning. However, the next morning when I got the call from his office, my bleeding had subsided. WHY AH? Why always like that ah??? When you finally call the doc and get through to him, it always so happen that everything is ok already.

Another example of this that happen the same week as the above was when I called the Astro installation person because I could only see the blank screen for all my astro channel the morning after the thunder storm. I looked high and low for an astro installation guy's number, which I finally found. So I told him to drop by during lunch to check what's wrong with my astro. He did drop by and guess what??? MY ASTRO WAS WORKING PERFECTLY FINE!!! And the worst part was, I still had to pay him for just switching off and on my astro.....AHHHHHH!!! Why does that always happen??? It so "MURPHY'S LAW"!!!

Anyway, besides that nothing else happen. Am trying to get pregnant now and hopefully I get lucky this first time round ;) I will be the happiest person in this planet earth if that really did happen....:D Wish me all the best!!!

By the way, have I ever introduced to you my 3 beautiful dogs??? Well, here they are....TA-DA!!!

This is Princess Pink Paw...the climbing puppy I mentioned about a few blogs ago. She's a bit bigger now so she can't climb anymore... :P We adopted her from my mom's friend who travels a lot so couldn't take care of her....

And here is Fluffy with her head out of the gate, my mom picked her up from the shoplot behind out house. The one next to her is Lulu our white albino dog :D, whose mom was our dog but died off mouse poisoning when we were trying to kill of the mouse in our house...so sad kan??? That's why we don't use that anymore....:( They are all local dogs but they are very much loved by us. Cute or not???

Alright...that's it for now. TA!!!

Resting at home is so BORING!!!

2010-04-10T00:49:00.000-07:00

Still resting at home and getting bored cause I'm unable to do anything. All I do is watch tv and sleep...and can you imagine that the doctor gave me two weeks medical leave!!! What am I going to do peram at home!!!

Ahhhhhhhh...I'll go crazy!!! Hahaha...anyway, I don't care, I'm going back to work on Monday. I work in an office and I sit all day anyway so there is no harm I can do to myself...true or not? At least then I'll be productive finishing up my work then staying at home :D

Last night hubby was so funny, I was sleeping on my right side and he said "Can sleep like that kah?" and I said "Can, why? You think my insides will all fall to the right is it?" and he said "Yah!" and I started laughing and he started laughing too....hahaha...so funny him. I can't blame him if he thinks the inside of me is so fragile after the operation. I was worried too at first but then I couldn't sleep straight all the time. My bum keeps getting numb...so screw it, hahaha...I slept which ever direction I wanted to. I'm still ok today so that means nothing fell apart inside...phew... :D

Oklah..that's it from me...back to trying to rest....or facebooking...haha....

Ta for now!!!

Surgery a success, I may say...and I'm Still ALIVE!!!

2010-04-08T23:45:00.000-07:00

First of all, Thank You Lord for keeping me alive!!! :D You're the best!!!

Ok, now to my actually topic, I'm finally out of Columbia Asia and recovering at home...so much for wanting to be discharge on the same day...unfortunately Dr.Mattu didn't agree with that....hahhaha...and I suppose he knows best :D.

Anyway, the good news is that he has manage to unblock one of my tubes, the left one that was clubbed. But he also did say that due to it being clubbed, the tube had some damages and he did what he could. He did also mention that if I do miss my period, to make sure to check with him immediately just in case it might be another ectopic pregnancy again and he can try and save my tube again. So its good to go for now!!! My factory is now open again for production :P. Let's pray that a little angel comes along in the next few months and I'll be the happiest person alive and I think my daughter would be very excited as well....cause she has been asking for a brother and sister for so long already :D.

So fingers cross and lots and lots of prayers from now on :). Even though the percentage of getting pregnant is still low...but its still a way higher percentage than it previously was....so am happy nevertheless. And like I said previously, if nothing happens then at least I can say I tried rather then regretting for not doing it :D

Thanks again for all the prayers...and stay tune...

"Nothing is impossible for God!!!"

Going for Laparoscopic Surgery in 2 Days Time...and Hoping for the BEST!!!

2010-04-05T22:16:00.000-07:00

Last week I decided that I might as well get my fallopian tubes fixed, so I met up with Dr.Mattu last Monday to arrange a schedule to do so.

So my laparoscopic surgery to fix my tubes will be done this Thursday. Please do pray for me so that it would be a success and I will be able to conceive again and get the miracle baby that I have been longing for :D. Well, if it isn't successful and I don't get pregnant, well at least I can said I tried, rather than not doing anything about it and regretting in the future...true kan??? So whatever it is, I'm all go for the surgery and will be optimistic about it!!! After that, I'll leave it up all to God and his plans for me :D.

For those of you who have not followed me previously, I'll give you a quick update on the reason for the surgery. In Dec 2008 I had an ectopic pregnancy. Lost the baby (obviously) and my right tube burst. Therefore it had to be stitched up. So one tube down. Then apparently the doctor found out that my left tube was clubbed....and that meant, I have two tubes down....doctor said chances of getting pregnant is very very low (my translation for that is, its close to nothing...probably like 0.1% chance). Despite what she said, I've been trying to get pregnant for the last year....and obviously not successful. Therefore my decision for the surgery :D. Can't do IVF cause its against the Catholic church...so fingers cross!!! Woohoo!!! So that's the story!

Anyway, I'm hoping to check-into Columbia Asia in the afternoon and Check-out in the evening on the same day :). That way I get to go home and sleep on my 'ever so comfortable bed' instead of the 'ever so hard bed' in Columbia...:P.

I can't wait for it to be over!!! Will let you know how it turns out on Friday and what the doctor says :D.

That's it from me for today.....over and out!!!

Safety Belts...A BEAUTIFUL explanation on why we should wear it...

2010-04-05T00:31:00.000-07:00

Safety belts, safety belts...that's all I can say in my blog today...

Happy watching!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2o1oJ1zk_w

Can't put the video onto my blog...I can't seem to play it...so I've put the link in here from youtube instead.

P/S. Sigh...I just heard that one of my colleague lost his daughter last week, and she was only coming two years old :(. I'm so sadden....

Who would have guessed a 3 week old Puppy could CLIMB!!!

2010-04-04T02:39:00.001-07:00

Blessed Happy Easter everyone!!! Jesus has risen, WOOHOO!!! :D

Now to introduce you to my CLIMBING PUPPY!!! AKA Princess Panda Pink Paw!!! Who would have guessed that a 3 week old puppy could climb a door netting...a kitten wouldn't have been so surprising, but a PUPPY???

Determination on her part is all I can say to her abilities to do what she did....

TA-DA!!!

"I can do this!!! I know I can!!! I got to get in!!! I got to get in!!!"

"Woohoo!!! I'm getting there!!!"

"No!!! Don't take me down!!! Have you any idea how long it took me to get up to here!!!"

Hahaha...cute le!!! And that's the story of the little Princess Pink Paw :D That's it from me now!!! TA!!!

TA-DA!!! The Tinkerbell Costume I MADE (out of Recycled Materials)!!!

2010-04-03T00:21:00.000-07:00

Finally it was the Fancy Dress day and I finally manage to modify her recycle tinkerbell costume to stay on her and make her look all cute ;). But trust me it wasn't easy!!! She didn't win anything though as some parents were way more creative than I was!!! I am however very very very proud of her as she was so brave to go up the stage without even being nervous. She was more excited than anything else...good for her :D. Much as I may hate to admit it, my daughter has grown up way too fast for my liking :(.

Anyway, pictures are as below....

This is the picture of the stage that they were to parade on...

This is my little girl in her tinkerbell outfit that I made!!! Not bad le...at least she looked really cute!!! ;) I even made her shoes!!! She was the first participant to go up, hence the number 1 tag on her...this was taken in the room where they changed into their costumes...

That's Sera and the mermaid!!! More creative le the other mom :P I should have thought of making yellow hair for Sera as well...hahaha...

Here we have Tinkerbell, Batman, and Wall-E!!! They all look so cute don't they!!!

That's my girl! All smiley with her straw wand, which was pretty useful as a fan to fan her self when she was up there as it was pretty hot that morning...

Picture taken when she was coming down the stage....kesian her, sweating already....I bet Batman and Wall-E must have been drenched wet under their costume :P

Tinkerbell and the Mermaid with their prizes...the mermaid was 4th and my daughter got no number...kesian....hahaha....but nevertheless everyone got something to take home and she was more than happy with it....the mom AKA me however was not very happy...hahaha...cause my costume didn't win anything!!! After all the work I put into it!!! Hahaha....sigh....can't win everything can we :P

And here is a picture of one of the Level 3 girls....she won 1st place. If you look closer you will see that the mermaid skirt she is wearing is made out of the can opener thingy...I have no idea where the mom manage to get so many of those neither can I imagine how long it took for her to sew it on. But kudos to the mom....all the effort was worth it!!! Unlike mine...hahaha :P

And that's it from me for now. Tune in tomorrow to see a picture of my little climbing Princess!!! She's a one month old puppy who can climb!!! Go figure!!! I'm not kidding!!! Her full name is Princess Panda Pink Paw....hahaha...the name was given to her by her first owner who couldn't keep her cause she travelled a lot....it was initially Princess Pink Paw....then when my daughter saw it, she added the Panda into it. So, stay tune!!! Till tomorrow!!!

Tinker Bell Costume & Earth Hour....hmmmm

2010-03-27T06:37:00.001-07:00

So much for trying to update this blog on a daily basis...hahaha....was too busy yesterday to get this updated so I'm doing it today :D.

I've been trying to complete my daughters costume and I was right in my expectation that even though I thought it would be easy to make, it wasn't as easy as I thought it was :(. However her tinker bell costume is almost complete. I have her skirt, top and wings done but I have yet to get her shoes done. Sigh...that I got to do tomorrow. Won't do it today cause if I were to continue, I'll probably start screaming at my daughter and my husband if they even utter a word to me....hahaha...yes, I was getting pretty irritated with trying to make the costume stay on my daughter and to not tear at the same time. Anyway, that part is over and I've decided to use sticky tape on that day to keep her costume on and double tape to keep the wings on. I hope it stays on!!!...It would be so embarrassing for her if it fell apart when she was in the middle of the stage. Aiyo! if that happened, I don't think she would live it down and I don't think she would forgive me le. I better make sure the tape is super super sticky!!!

You know, I seriously hope that all the other parents are having as much difficulty as I am....hahaha...so mean lah me :P. I wonder who came up with the idea in the school for the costume to be made by recyclables???

Anyway, I'm pretty exhausted already and am going to go to bed in a bit. I also did my part in Earth Hour just now and got all the lights in my house off...woohoo! You know, I think in the future Miri should have an event to countdown to the Earth Hour at the Miri City Fan or something like that. Then we could all gather there and do the countdown and see the lights off in Miri town. Then we could just sit there and enjoy ourselves by looking at the stars!!! How cool would that be??? Of course we would probably be feeding the mosquitoes...hahaha....but we could bring our own mosquito repellent, so that is not an issue...true or not???

So anybody up for organizing it for 2011???

Oklah...that's it from me...going to go check my facebook first before I go to sleep....haha...who doesn't :P

Goodnight people!!! And remember!!! Tomorrow is Palm Sunday in church....so don't forget to bring your PALMS!!!

Bye bye for now!!!

P/S. I'm hoping I didn't miss out on any Earth Hour event in Miri today....sigh....if I did that would be pretty sad cause Miri is so small already...and for me not to know what is going on here would be pretty sad le! Nothing happen right???

WOOHOO!!!! I'm Back!!! After 7 Months of Disappearing!!!

2010-03-25T00:57:00.000-07:00

Like the title says "WOOHOO!!! I'm back!!!"

You have no idea what I have gone through the last 7 months!!! I thought I was going to lose my job but by some miraculous intervention I got to keep my job!!! How cool is that!!! Isn't God good!!! You know how long I had to wait, before they finally told me I got my job back??? 2 whole months!!! And the worst part was, I even got an email that told me that I didn't get the job!!! It's a good thing I didn't get a heart attack from that....hahaha...and its a good thing I had the right mind to check with my boss first!!! So in actual fact, that email was wrongly sent by HR...go figure!!!

Well, I have nothing to complain about now. I still have my job and I'm perfectly happy where I am now!!! :D I have a fantastic boss....I mean seriously he is...and I must say I'm very blessed :D.

So, that was all the HOOHAA that has been going on in my life.

The next HOOHAA in my life is my daughters fancy dress DISNEY competition in school. The worst part to this is that, the costume has to be made by recycled material!!!

Anyway, she first wanted to go as tinker bell, and I thought to myself 'Hey, I can do that, easy peasey!', then a few weeks later she said she wanted to go as Snow White...and I thought 'Great! how in the world am I going to make that'. So, I searched the internet for some interesting ideas, and guess what!!! THERE WAS NONE!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Then I started thinking of what other cartoons that disney has produced and thought of BUGS LIFE!!! And I thought to myself, 'Hey! she could be the lady bird!!! That's easy to make!'. So I converted my thoughts into words to my daughter and it was a NO-GO for her....hahaha....so I had to persuade her to go as Tinker Bell rather than Snow White cause I think Tinker Bell is so much easier to make!!!

So I said, 'Lets stick to being Tinker Bell' and she said, 'I want Snow White cause my friend is going as Snow White!', and I said 'But if your friend is going as Snow White you should go as something else so you get a chance to win! if you go as Snow White like her, then you might not win cause there would be too many Snow White!', and then she said 'Ok!!!'

YEAY!!! VICTORY FOR ME!!! So it's tinker bell I would do!!! Let's just hope she will be the only tinker bell....hahaha....*fingers cross*

Now I have 4 days to do it!!! Apparently most of the parents have completed theirs already!!! Well I know for sure that my Cousin has got her son's costume done already!!! Good on you babe!!! But not so good for me.....hahahaha...that's what happens when you procrastinate!!! I'm going to start doing it today!!! Wish me luck!!! Lets hope it is as easy to do as I think it would be...haha. I have a feeling that it just ain't going to be the way I expect it to be :P I'll have a picture of it posted here once it is done... :D.

That's it from me!!! I promise you'll hear more from me this year. My next update...hmmm...tomorrow!!! WOOHOO!!! Hahaha....aku pulak excited for starting up my blog...hahaha...muacks!!!

I'm bored!!! I'm tired!!!

2009-08-26T00:53:00.000-07:00

Hello peeps!!!

I'm so tempted to write about the canning sentence of Kartika...but there is so much talk about it that I just couldn't be bothered anymore. It's strange how they manage to catch this lady when there are so many other muslim guys out there drinking too....I'm actually surprise that they didn't catch any guys and they only caught her. Or could I be missing out on some other news??? Oh well.....wouldn't make much difference if I agree to it cause somebody said it Tun Mahathir's blog that non-Muslims shouldn's have a say in it...so I'm keeping quiet...haha...though I think its hilarious that they are canning someone for driking beer.....oh well....life goes on....and I will shut up about this for now :D

Now to something that you probably won't read...haha..I got tagged...

1.If you married the person you last texted, what would your last name be?
**Hmmm...first of all, I'll be a lesbian if I was married to her and my name would probably be Jacqueline Giom :P

2.What did you do today?
**Work, and hopefully I'll be able to go for a jog later :D

3.Do you know a secret about your last featured friend that would embarrass them
**I must be super dense today cause I don't even understand this question....sigh...

4.What is one fact about the last person who called you?
**She loves to sing :)

5.Last time you were on the phone?
**About an hour ago....

6.What’s for dinner?
**Who knows...my MIL is cooking ;) Lucky me!!!

7.Ever fought with someone older or younger?
**Yup!!! my 4 year old daughter....its pretty useless fighting with her...she always has such logical answers...kids these days are so much wiser than we were when we were their age!!!

8.How many e-mail addresses do you have?
**3 I think....or is that 4....but I only check 2 :P

9.Last time you washed your hair?
**The day before yesterday....the weather nice bah...no need to wash so many times :P

10.Do you like Oreo’s?
**Depends on the time of the month :P

11.Can you ice skate?
**Definitely!!! Easy Peasey!!!

12.Do you have a brother?
**Nope....abang angkat ada...not sure how many.....hahaha...my mom says she has many sons from church....:P

13.Do you know how to change a diaper?
**Mestilah! I have one anak already bah...if not me change who leh???

14.Do you keep a planner?
**Yup, which I hardly use :P

15.What kind of mood are you in?
**I'm in a tired mood.....

16.Do you take out the trash?
**Once in a blue moon....

17.What’s the best part about being single?
**You have all the time in the world for yourself :P But wouldn't trade my daughter for singlehood....love her to bits!!!

18.Do you watch “The Hills”?
**What's that??? Manjalara adalah....but the hills??? Sigh...its so obvious I'm a Malaysian :D

19.Who are you thinking of right now?
**Wah! you think I so multitasking wan kah??? I'm typing and thinking of how to answer the questions in here and you think I have the time to think about someone at the moment....APU!!!

20.Wearing any bracelet?**Hahaha....I just realized I don't even have my watch on....:P Apa lagik wear bracelet :P

21.What are you doing now?**Duh!!! obviously typing and answering these questions here....this is not a very smart question to ask....

22.Who was the last person that helped you stop crying?
**My daughter...:D She always tells me "It's ok mummy, it's ok..."

23.Who do you trust with your life?
**My mom and my daughter :D....I love my hubby....but not so sure whether I could trust him with my life....hahaha...:P

24.If you could change your name to anything what would it be?
**I like my name despite it being quite common :D

25.Would you move to another state or country to be with the one you love?
**Ya...definitely!!!

26.Have you ever talked on the phone while in the shower?
**Is that possible??? Sik rosak kah the phone???

28.What are your parents middle names?
**Mom is Jean and Dad is Christopher

29.Righty or Lefty?
**Righty like the majority....

30.Favorite juice?
**Carrot and Orange

31.Have you had the chicken pox?
**Yup!

32.Have you had a sore throat?
**Yah! Like once a year....

33.Who knows you the best?**My mom and my sis! :)

34.Do you wear contact lenses or glasses?
**Glasses...

35.Last person to see you cry?
**Personal question leh....

36. People u tag!**Ernyza!!!

THE STAR: Wife splashes acid on cheating hubby. NEW STRAIT TIMES: Wife splashes acid on hubby, girlfriend ... SAME STORY KAH???

2009-08-17T19:03:00.000-07:00

I was reading the papers online and found this. It was hilarious...well...I thought it was. Not because of the cheating hubby and the wife throwing the acid on him... BUT that BOTH NEWS WERE TOTALLY DIFFERENT!!!

It's either one of the newspapers got it wrong, or its towo different stories altogether!!! I doubt it though...you have a read and let me know what you think :P At least they got the place and hospital name correct :P

Have fun reading!!! And on a serious note, aren't newspapers suppose to be credible???

THE STAR
Wife splashes acid on cheating hubby
2009/08/18

JOHOR BARU: A policeman was badly injured when his estranged wife splashed him with acid after she found him with his girlfriend at his home in Nusajaya.
It is believed the wife, who is in the process of filing for a divorce, found her husband and the girlfriend in a compromising position when she entered the house at 4.30pm yesterday.
The policeman, a constable in his 20s attached to the Nusajaya district headquarters, and the girlfriend were warded at the Sultanah Aminah Hospital.
He suffered burns on the chest and body while the girlfriend sustained minor injuries.
The wife, in her 20s, has been detained.
Nusajaya OCPD Supt Abd Aziz Ahmad confirmed the incident.

NEW STRAIT TIMES
Wife splashes acid on hubby, girlfriend
2009/08/18

JOHOR BARU: A police constable suffered severe burns after he was splashed with acid by his wife while he was with his girlfriend at a house in Taman Timur in Skudai, near here, yesterday.
In the 4.30am incident, the constable and his girlfriend, both in their 30s, were caught by surprise when his wife suddenly appeared and splashed them with acid.The constable was rushed to Sultanah Aminah Hospital and was admitted to the intensive care unit due to the severity of his injuries.His girlfriend was also warded at the hospital as she was also badly injured.
Nusajaya police chief Superintendent Aziz Ahmad said a suspect, in her 20s, was arrested a few hours after the incident at her home, near here, for investigation.

Finally something about the 10km Dynasty Charity Run!!!

2009-08-05T22:27:00.000-07:00

Ok...it's about time I write something about the Dynasty 10km Charity Run which was held like 2 weeks ago :P. I totally blame it on my sister for not giving me the pics...and mind you, she has yet to give it to me....but I still love you Jess :P

Despite my sisters lateness I do still have some pictures here which is mostly from Farah's Camera. Thanks babe!!! The first few are from my camera which apparently did not have enough memory space to take more pictures!!! That is my major downfall....I always forget that cameras are important....I always take camera's for granted and due to that I don't even bother to check whether it has any memory left the day before the run!!! I think I was more worried in completing the race within the one hour mark...hahaha....sad or not???

Anyway, here are the pictures and the story of that day follows each picture. Have fun reading!!!

That's me and my sister walking out of the Dynasty Hotel after a quick pee (which is literally caused by nervousness!!!). In here I'm probably still wondering to myself, "Whylah I go and join this Run, mata pun belum buka lagi!" That's how I felt when I had to wake up 5am.....I felt miserable!!! Plus the fact that my daughter wasn't really helping cause she was so excited that my sister was around and had such a hard time falling asleep. We all finally got to bed at 11.30pm the day before...so not enough sleep!

Honestly, I have no idea how I agreed to taking this picture!!! I bet you my brain hasn't even start-up yet :P Then again, its probably being around my sister that makes me do silly things!!! We always did have great fun with each other. She's a bit the gila-gila one :P But Gila in a good way lah...she always makes life a bit more interesting!!! ;)

That's where we start and where we end....still very early....am surprise there are cars on the road already.....

Ahhhh (said it a nice soft sweet tone).....me and my colleagues!!! Jannie, Farah and Me!!!

Me and my sis again. Guess which is me??? The smaller one lah!!! :P There had aerobics before the run to warm up our muscles....but somehow I don't seem to be able to coordinate moving from side to side and kicking into thin air with music....:P It does seem as if me and my sis are doing our own stretching :D. If you look at my sister's shoulder blades, you can see muscle! If you look at mine....well, no need to look lah...there is nothing much to look at also...hahaha...sigh...*envy envy sister* ;)

Us at the starting line, me and sis in front, Jannie and Farah behind. We are all ready to go with our MP3's!!! I love mine!!! No wires attached!!! ;)

Me and my sis on the go....this is when we are on the way back to Dynasty Hotel from the inner route....5km more to go!!! We can do it!!! We can do it!!! The only thing that was running through my head at the time was "Where the hell are the super fit/super fast ladies??? What number am I??? 3rd? Hmmm.....3rd still got RM500...hmmm...but I don't think I'm 3rd.....aiyo!!! I hope I get something out of this run!!!" And every lady that I pass are girls!!! I keep hoping that I'll pass a lady in the woman category but every time I get close, they are in the Girls category!!! I mean seriously, what do these girls eat??? They are all bigger than me!!! Then again, I keep on forgetting I am small after all...haha...sad sad.

That's us after the race...happy that its all finally over!!! My daughter came late since she woke up late and the hubby sent her over....with her nice dress and all....

That's our pink rubber band that we collected on the run. I think they didn't have enough of it cause at the turning point of the 10km, they didn't have another pink rubber band which cause some havoc at the end cause some ladies follow the girls route and completed the race before us. However, it was all settled and we got our numbers correctly....thank God!!! cause I was number 9 and number 9 didn't have any money!!! I was then moved to number ____, hahaha...spoil the fun if I tell you now...read on people read on!!! :P

That's the bean/onion/sky fruit??? Who knows what that is...hahaha...it looked like an onion to me. My daughter was terrified of it. We wanted to take picture with it but we kept on saying "Later lah, Later lah" sampai the later also never came...hahaha. In this picture the Onion seems to be given a pep talk....probably scared some child into tears :P. I'm just assuming ah....don't you all go and scold the onion men in the suit...afterwards I pulak kena sue....:P

Here's a picture of one of the PDK girls...they are special children :) Cute or not she...she was so happy dancing to the music and trying to get our attention to take her picture. The PDK actually took part in the event and sent a big group to the run :D. It was a very lively event with them around :D.

The VIP's. See if you can identify them....

The hampers for the top 10 winners :)

My sister won 10th place, and she is one multi-tasking person!!! She could carry the hamper and the Milo and her certificate!!!

Jannie at 8th place...also very multi-tasking!!! See how she balances the tin of Milo!!!

And that's me at 7th place....hahaha...not 1st, neither 2nd nor 3rd....WAAAAA!!! Hahaha...but 7th placing!!! Can lah!!! Still got RM100 from it bah. Suspend le you all :P Well, compared to those ladies who won...they have like serious leg muscles!!! When me, Jannie and my sis first so them at the starting line, we were like, "WAH! No need to get 1st anymore lah"...actually, I think I was the one who said that :P...or was I thinking it???

Anyway, this ladies are like veteran runners and one of them who got 6th placing was probably their daughter...also very fit le...jealous nya aku!!! They are from Sibu....that's what I heard lah..hopefully when I reach 40 years old...I can run as fast as them....:P (I'm just guessing that they are around that age cause they sure don't look young to me neither that old lah:P). And if you look at me receiving the prize....I am not a multi-tasker....I mean seriously, how can you carry a hamper and a BIG (note the BIG) Tin of Milo at the same time??? I actually ask my sister that question....she said "Can!". My justification to me being no able to carry it is that:

1) I'm small

2) I have no hand muscles

3) The hamper was heavy lah!!!

Anyway, I got someone to help me carry the Tin of Milo down :P

That's me and my sis with our medals....look like sisters or not???

That's Farah, she took most of the pictures....thank you babe!!! And don't underestimate this girl...she is one super fit lady as well....compared to many of you all out there lah...she completed the 10km in 1hour and 17minutes!!! Correct kah Farah??? hehehe...I hope I got that right :D. And she has done a 21km run too!!! I seriously think she is someone to look up too!!! Respect babe! Respect!!! (Me saluting to you :))

That's all of us with the VIPs!!! Sorry for the small picture :P. If you see closely, you can see my sis, me and Jannie at the left side on top of the stage :D

And this is the final picture....of Farah, Jannie, Me, My Sis and My little Girl (Hopefully a future runner in the making :P). Overall, it was one of the best days I have had for a very long time. Thanks to the ladies in the picture :D. Great fun!!! Lets do it again next year!!! Hehe...What say you all???

As for our timing for the 10km run:

Farah - 1 hour 17 Minutes

Sis - 57 Minutes (I think, am I right kah??? or was it 56 minutes??? or 55 minutes??? :P)

Jannie - 53 Minutes

Me - 51 Minutes (YES! I broke my 1 hour mark...hehehe...after all the stressing out over nothing :P)

Ohhh...I just had to add in one more last minute picture...so this is officially the last one...that's my sis and Tina our supporter during our run :D Thanks dear!!!

(I might as well continue writing about all that I did for that day, since I've written so much already...haha..you can stop here if you don't want to read anymore :P and thanks for dropping by!!!)

After the event, we went home, I had a good shower and went to church with my mom at 11am. After church, we had lunch at Muria and my mom went home while me, my sister, tina and my daughter went to Parkson. We shopped and had drinks at Star Bucks till 4pm.

On the way home, my daughter said that her Milk has finished. I obviously said to her "Why you didn't tell mommy when we were inside Parkson" and she said "I just remembered"....so when we got home, I got her ready to go to a little boys birthday party. Showered her and changed her into a nice dress. As for me, screw the showering lah...I was mentally and physically exhausted already. So after I got her ready, we said bye to my sis and her friend Tina as they were going back to Brunei.

After that we went to Pottery (that's what we call it in English)/Ng Sian Hup (that's what we call it in Chinese)/Kenyalang (and that's what we call it in BM) and got her Milk. By the time we got to the party, it was almost 6pm. There were so many cars!!! I wanted to turn back but my daughter wanted to go in....haha. We went in for awhile, ate Laksa (very nice I may say so myself). My daughter had her slice of birthday cake and we went home at 7pm. She was just as exhausted as I was cause she hadn't slept the whole day either. Got home, changed her into her PJ's and she fell asleep at 8pm.

I on the other hand...probably soooooooooo exhausted, just couldn't sleep....so I did my 1000 pieces jigsaw puzzle till 10pm then decided to call it a day. Closed my eyes and that's it, I was out. What a day that was!!!

Looking forward to a 7km run on the 15th August :D. Fingers cross I might win something again this time :P Ta for now!!!

5 Years Ago Today My Dad Died of a Heart Attack...4th August 2004

2009-08-04T00:05:00.000-07:00

5 years ago today my dad died of a heart attack

Dad, you're still missed!!! A lot!!!

I know you're looking down at us all the time, but it just isn't the same as you being around

I wish I could hug you and give you a peck on the cheeck

But I guess the only thing I can do is look into the sky and send a kiss your way

Unfortunately today is pretty hazy, so my kiss might very likely get loss in the haze :P

But then again, I'm sure being in heaven has given you special powers to look through all the haze and find that kiss of mine :D

So here it is "MWAHS!!!"...and hoping you catch it!!!

One more thing Dad, can you please talk to God and get him to send us some rain here in Miri? You can see for yourself how hot it is :P

THANKS DADDY!!! And am so glad I have special connections in heaven ;) Love you Daddy!!!

I love you sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!

Mwahs mwahs mwahs!!!

X-Ray of my Broken Nose :)

2009-08-03T18:23:00.000-07:00

Sigh....I don't even know how to look at X-rays....how do we actually see that my nose is broken??? The only thing that came to my mind when I saw this X-Ray was, 'Wah! I have such a small head and it looks like a monkeys head!!!' Its a wonder that I'm not that smart...hahaha...my skull so kecik!!! :P

That's me on the wheelchair with an Ice pack!!! Can you seem me smilling??? :P And behind me from left to right is Sylvia and Farah :D. The one taking the picture is En! Thanks babe...without you I'll be pictureless :(

And sadly....those are the only pictures I have....cannot even see my broken nose :(

Oh well....life goes on!!!

I BROKE MY NOSE!!! WOOHOO!!! :P

2009-08-02T19:08:00.000-07:00

This is how my nose should look like....do't have a picture with my new nose now cause the camera's battery is flat....will put it up tomorrow....I think my nose still looks the same but my hubby says it looks bigger now...'That's just great!!!"...hahaha...

This is how I looked like after the surgery and my nose back in place. I have pictures when I was at Columbia in the emergency room but I have yet to get it from my friend En. Will post it up once I get it :P Sayang I forgot to take a picture of my nose when it was still broken...wanted to but forgot....hiyah! Signs of old age :P

I BROKE MY NOSE!!! WOOHOO!!! Isn't my life just so exciting!!! Hahahaha....sad case lah.....so much for having a sharp nose....not that sharp lah...but sharp enough :P. And that's the reason why I've been MIA for awhile :D. Wanted to blog about my 10km run but was waiting for my sister to upload her pictures in facebook, which she has yet to do!!! Jess!!! What's taking so long!!! :P

Anyway, in the process of waiting from Monday to Tuesday, I broke my nose on TUESDAY during the netball practice!!! In actual fact...at work on that Tuesday, i told my colleague that I felt like taking leave on Wednesday, just to relax at home. Who would have guessed that I would have broken my nose that evening and would be given 4 days medical leave!!! Hahaha...bahaya also to say you want to take leave :P

But then again, who would expect netball to be such a rough game...go figure!!! I guess I was just jumping at the wrong place at the wrong time...plus the fact that I'm short and have a sharp nose, like I said, not that sharp lah...but sharp enough for it to get in the way of an elbow!!!

Well, it all happen when we were practicing with the SKO ladies....it was a pretty relaxing game, and somehow during the game I went jumping for the ball...and this other lady who is much taller than me, went for the ball at the same time...unfortunately for me, I was behind her so as I landed, she landed as well and her elbow when smack straight into my nose...and all I heard at that time was 'KREECCKK'. And I was like, 'Oh SHIT' (in my head lah) and I immediately pressed my nose with my fingers....not exactly knowing what to expect. It didn't hurt...surprisingly!!! Anyway, after pressing my nose and looking down at my hands, I was BLEEDING!!! LIKE A LOT!!! But again, surprisingly I was quite calm. All my lovely netballer friends were all so worried....and thank goodness there were some first aiders there :D. They asked me whether I broke my nose or not...so after a bit of a feel with my fingers, it was confirm that it was broken....the bridge of my nose had moved to the left side of my nose and my right side of my nose went in.....how COOL WAS THAT!!! It sure as hell FREAKED ME OUT!!! Hahahaha...but somehow I still manage to keep my cool....I was positive the doctors in Columbia would fix it.

Anyway, after awhile of pressing my nose and facing down I started to feel dizzy and my ears were buzzing and all I wanted to do was to lie down....hehehe....but of course they wouldn't let me lie down. Instead they happily carried me to the car....of course after that some nice guy decided to help them out and took over to carry me. Thanks to whoever you are!!! I seriously got to get your name...and I doubt you'll be reading this too....but thanks anyway :D.

After that my dear Farah (accompanied by En) drove me to Columbia Asia. Farah did a good job in getting me safely there and we all had out seat belts on despite the emergency :P. So we were very HSE compliant :P. Thanks Farah and En!!!

When we reached there I was wheeled into the emergency room. And while I was there, I realise my bib was still on...hahaha....malu eh!!! We manage to take it out somewhere during the time when I got an ice block from the nurse to put on my nose. We then waited for the X-ray guy to come, and despite me telling Farah and En to go home then insisted to stick around..SEE!!! I have such beautiful friends...LUCKY ME!!! :P And after waiting for quite awhile the X-ray guy finally arrived....so I got my nose X-rayed and it was then officially declared BROKEN!!! Hahaha....how exciting!!! (Oh yah, did I mention that Syl came by to see whether I'm ok too...thanks babe!!!) By then the bleeding had already stopped. So, I just had to wait for the doctor to say whether I needed to go into surgery or not. Took awhile before the doctor finally came back cause she went for dinner.....and she called the ENT specialist. I was then told that my nose wasn't an emergency case cause it had stopped bleeding. My next reaction to the doctor was 'What??? it's not an emergency case??? My nose is broken and its not an emergency case???' and she said 'No, cause its a soft bone'...and in my head I was like 'Ohhhh......maybe soft bone isn't all that serious....no wonder not so painful also'...well, what she said made sense to me anyway....and she said whether I wanted to be admitted and I said 'No' since it wasn't an emergency case. So I went home lah....and YES!!! WITH A BROKEN NOSE!!!

When I got home I continued to put ice on my nose and finally I had a chance to look at my nose....and it didn't look all that bad lah....despite my nose being senget and I look a bit weird...it didn't look all that bad. But of course I wanted it back in its original position lah...:P I don't want to look cacat for the rest of my life....haha..I still want to be a bit pretty bah....with my senget nose I look a bit like the 'Beast' in Beauty and the Beast :P

Oh yah....my daughter and my hubby did come by Columbia to see how I was and my daughter was so scared to come close to me....she was so traumatise by the fact that I couldn't give her our usual night "Eskimo Kiss", where we rub noses together :). Poor girl.... Anyway, when I got home, my daughter just couldn't stop asking me questions about my nose...she went on and on and on and then repeated the question again as if I didn't give her an answer the first time round....wah!!! can be very irritating when you are in that situation!!!

The next day...I went in to the clinic at 8.30am without having any breakfast whatsoever as I knew I would most probably need to go for surgery and that means I need to not eat for more than 8 hours I think or is that 6??? Admitted myself into Columbia and I went in for surgery at 11am. The people in the Operating Theater was like "You again??? macam regular customer saja you"...and I was like "Hahaha....I don't see you all in town bah...and I miss you all, so I come back in here to see you all again lah..hahaha". Well, that was supposely suppose to be funny lah...and they did laugh as well. Even the anaesthetion knew who I was....sad case lah....I should get some kind of special discount for using the place so often :P. If you follow my blog you would have recalled me going for a surgery in Dec for my ectopic pregnancy. Anyway, the anaesthetision said "You know what to expect hoh" and I said "Yups"....what's new in my life these days anyway :P. In a short span of time, I have already been through 4 surgery under General Anesthetic....sad or not??? This round was my 5th time :P

I even have a friend who works in the Operating theater and he even sempat show me a picture of his wife and his two beautiful children...hahaha...while I was waiting for the doctor to come....:P That's the wonders of being in Miri.....almost everybody also you know :D.

I came out of the Operating Theater around 12.30noon. Doctor told me that it only took him like 5 minutes to push the bone back in place....but I think I was under Anaesthetic for a longer period of time. I checked out of Columbia at 4pm...and during that time a few of my friends came to visit...again I have to say I'm so blessed to have such beautiful friends :D

Today when he took out the bandage he told me that my nose looks good and straight and that he didn't do any damage to it. And then he explain to me that he basically used a tool (which I'm assuming would look something like a plyer) and use brute force to push the bone back into place....eeeeeeewwwwwww...............sounds disgusting....well, I'm glad its all over now and my nose looks like it was before....and like I said before it surprisingly didn't hurt!!!

Hey! I just realised....I didn't get back the X-ray of my nose!!! The doc said he will get it for me...but I think he must have forgotten about it too....sigh...maybe I should check with Columbia later on whether they still have my X-ray....would be a great souvenir for me to keep...hahaha....its not everyday that someone breaks a nose....kan???

And while I had the bandage on my nose....I so had the urge to where a sign that says "I broke my nose!!! I didn't go through plastic surgery!!!" cause everywhere I go people just stared!!! Only people I know would ask and I would have to explain myself...haha....over and over again :P. And my daughter was very cute as well, this is what she said to me "Mummy cannot send me to class...hehehe....cause afterwards my teacher laugh at you....hahahaha...mummy nose broken, hahaha". Well, at least she thought it was funny :P

This was given to me by the SKO ladies....you ladies are so sweet. You all didn't have too but thank you so much!!! My daughter loves it!!!

That's my daughter with the pink bear and with my dear friend Mas!

Oh well, am so glad its over.....that's my story!!!! Interesting or not??? Will write about my 10km run tomorrow and I hope by then my sister would have put up her picture already!!!! :P Jess, if your reading this....hurry up already!!! ;)

Ta for now!!!

2 More Days to the Run!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!

2009-07-24T00:07:00.000-07:00

2 More Days to the Run!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!! (Hmmmm...I seem to be doing a lot oh 'Ahhhhhhh's' lately...hahaha...I don't even know why I put myself through all this unnecessary stress, and mind you, it's a self added on stress....so unnecessary I tell you...hahaha...and yet I can't help it...I'm competitive what! And competitive people just can't help it.....kan??? kan??? :P) BUT there is good news for me!!! Our netball tournament schedule is out and we are only playing on Saturday!!! THANK GOD!!!

I only realise how desperately I wanted the netball tournament to be a one day event when I woke up at 3am this morning to go to the toilet. My whole body was exhausted after I did my 10.4km run yesterday evening. You must be wondering why so alang-alang 10.4km...well apparently one round of taman bulatan equals to 800 meters...meaning that by doing 13 rounds (and almost dying I might say) I ran 10.4km.

And at 3am in the morning I was wondering to myself, how on earth am I going to continue playing netball after the 10km run on that Sunday morning. Was so relief when I found out that it has change to a one day event. Phew!!! God sure did answer my prayer once again!!! Thank you Lord!!!

Well, after yesterdays jog, at least now I know I'm able to complete the run without stopping...I'm just hoping that I'll be able to do it below the 1 hour mark. Yesterday I timed myself and I did 10.4km in 1 hour. Meaning that after doing some calculations....I should be able to do 10km in 57minutes. Well, lets see how it goes....as long as I finish it below 1 hour I'll be happy :D.

The sad part to this whole jogging and netballing (if there is such a word) is that my tapak of my asics shoes looks like its going to come off!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! So not the right timing!!! Well, I could be over exaggerating here as its just a small part of the tapak that doesn't stick to the shoe....but who knows right??? What if during the run my tapak come out!!! That will be a serious nightmare lah!!! I better go buy super glue later and stick that small part that is not sticking to the tapak. And that super glue better be super!!!!

Oklah...that's it from me!!! My next blog will be about my run and my netball tournament!!! Can't wait for the run to be over.....hopefully my hubby will come along to take some pictures :D. Btw, tapak means sole of the shoes...:) I sometimes get carried away mixing Malay with English ;)

Ta for now!!!

I'm in DENIAL!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

2009-07-21T20:21:00.000-07:00

AHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! I'm in DENIAL!!!!!

Sighhhh.....I like to think I'm not competitive when it comes to running or jogging or whatever you call it. I like to think that the runs I join are just for fun and for the name of charity. But I also like to think that I'm one of the fittest ladies in Miri which therefore overrides the first two sentences that I've written.

Do you get what I mean??? Am I making sense??? Well, what I'm trying to say is that, even though I like to think I'm not competitive, I AM!!! When it comes to the amount of stamina I have, I seriously don't like to lose.....unfortunately...physically, me and my stamina don't really go hand in hand. Sigh....so what next??? Well, I'm going to convince myself that this Sunday's Run for Charity will be a run that I will be running for fun!!! I'll just have to repeat this to myself....

"Jacq! You are running for the sake of charity, run at your own pace!!! If you don't win it's ok!!! SERIOUSLY ITS OK!!!!"

Probably need to repeat it like a 10,000 times for it to sink in....sigh...but then again I'll be in denial pulak!!!

Hahahaha....oh well nothing is perfect...never really was the fastest runner around and I'm sure I'll have loads of competitors who would be aiming for the money too. AND I'm POSITIVE this people are in denial just as I am....hahahaha....they are probably saying, 'It's no big deal if I lose..." but when they actually lose, they'll probably be upset and would probably be wondering why in the hell did they wake up so early in the morning for a run and get nothing out of it.....hahaha....that would be exactly how I would be feeling if I didn't win anything at all....:P Well, I am being honest :P

I was talking to my sister yesterday about the run and she said 'If it's God's will that we win, then we will, if not we just run for fun lah..." If that's the case, maybe I should start praying more and jogging less....hahaha...:P Well, I think my sister is in denial as well....knowing her she is way more competitive than me...hoh Jess??? ;) You always were!!! Just like DAD! So you can stop being in denial already...hahaha :P

So the conclusion is that, I'll just keep my pace and not stop running and hope for the best. I hope it won't be so hot and I hope my MP3 player does not die on me. But honestly speaking I'm not hoping to win the first place....I just want to win something....hahaha...8th placing pun jadi...at least got RM100...I think...haha...better than nothing kan???

Oklah....being upset now doesn't really help anyway, since its still like 4 days away...hahaha....don't even know why I'm stressing about it now....I have to blame it on some of my colleagues who are running too.....they sure are competitive and super fit and have so much stamina....adalah I jealous juga.......and though they say or think that they are running for the fun of it, I'm sure they are in it to win too :P

I wish I could be one of those ladies who seriously just do it for fun...where they jog and walk and chit chat with their friend all the way to the finish line...so nice kan??? :P

Well, that's life!!! And that's it from me.....TA for now!!!

We WON the first Netball Tournament!!! TWO MORE TO GO!!! :P

2009-07-20T18:05:00.000-07:00

WE WON!!!! WOOHOOO!!!! Hahahaha.....its so unbelievable and I'm still in shock that we won :P It's been over 2 years since we formed this team with some people leaving and some new comers coming in. And throughout those years we have never been champions....never ever!!! So it came as a shock to me when we won!!! (All photographs in here are courtesy of FARAH!!! The beautiful lady with the big smile in dark blue shirt below...thanks babe!!!! What will we all do without you!!! We will probably be photoless!!! ;))

That's us!!!

It was a super close match and the Brunei Shell team were one hell of a competitor!!! My salute goes to them!!! When we first played with them we tied 13 - 13!!! We were leading very closely in the first 2 quarter but the last 2 quarter they kick ass!!! :P

That's the score when we first tied with Brunei Shell Team...

Then by some miracle, we made it to the Finals!!! It could be our new name as 'KRP Lutongs' (Lutong is a kind monkey, and that is where Lutong (which is in Miri) got its name from) or it could be our Blue bibs that we wore :P. We call it our lucky bibs!!! Hahaha...never knew we were all so superstitious....hahaha....am thinking that the reason why we won is because we put our whole heart and soul into the Final game!!! Don't you think Ladies??? Not even sure if you girls are reading this. But anyway, I think we all did a good job. The Final game was with the Brunei Shell Team again and we won by a mere 2 points!!! Again we were leading the first 2 quarters but kinda fell back on the 3rd Quarter and somehow manage to pull through on the 4th quarter :D. We won by 15 - 13. Well, another reason why we could have won is because we had supporters....thank God for them...:D.

That's the score when we won!!!

Our lucky Blue 'Bibs'...don't ask me why there is a red one in this picture....hahaha...so kesian and so alone...:P

Oh well, enough of me babbling on about this particular netball tournament. We still have two more tournaments to go and one 10km run ahead of me which will be this Sunday...and after last Saturdays tournament my bum hurts (not so bad now) and my ankle seem to be giving me some trouble. I'll have to take good care of it this week and hope I will somehow manage to win some money from the run so I can buy myself a pair of shoes....hehe...girls can never have enough of shoes.....hmmmm....actually ah....I don't have that many shoes le.....I have like one working shoes, one sports shoes, one snickers, two clogs.....and yup...that's it....compared to many other ladies out there....I'm short on shoes...sniff sniff.....so fingers cross on the run!!! Plus, my car needs to be fixed too with its terrible dent in the front....sigh...don't ask how it happen...sigh....now come to think about it, if I don't win enough money, I'll only be able to fix the car and not get shoes....Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Oh well, and life goes on :D. Oh yah and before I forget, here are some pictures during the game....

Me passing the ball from the center....probably to the GA (Syl)....I'm hoping I'm passing it right cause I can't seem to see anyone else in this picture....:P

That's our beautiful Enn the GS shooting....phheeewwiiitttt...nampak perut mem!!! :P And our beautiful Sylvia the GA looking on....

Hahaha....in normal circumstance with my face like that, I wouldn't put it up in my blog...but this is one weird picture where everybody seem to have missed the ball and I'm running like mad too grab it....:P The yellow C is from the Brunei Team...a very pretty lady I must say and so full of energy....

That's super jumping lady AKA Spiderwoman AKA GD AKA Jan Nie!!! "I believe I can fly!!! I believe I can touch the sky!!!" Then on the right we have Martina our super defence GK, guarding the GS!!! Good on you Mar!!!

Another Flyer!!! Our WA Andrea!!!

Me trying to fly...but not very effective...

Not a very interesting pose to be in...but was probably fouled cause I happily bang into her :P Sorry lady :) And Martina our super defence GK looking on....

I think I can get it...I think I can!!!! Hahaha...not sure whether I did...this just proves I'm not a very good jumper neither am I a flyer :P Syl is probably saying "Jacq, you can do it!!! GET THE BALL!!!" hahaha...:P

And finally everybody who joined in the tournament and made it a success!!! We have the Immigration team in RED, we have the Prison staff in WHITE, We have the PBC Crocs in BLUE sleevless, we have one Gustolads in Black Tudung, we have the Brunei Shell Team in BLCK, and us KRP Lutongs in PURPLE.... Thank you all for making it a success!!!

Oklah...that's it from me.....and wish me all the best!!!

TA for now!!! Hugs and kisses till tomorrow!!!!

Trying to Cope with the WORLD!!!

2009-07-08T18:50:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I only manage to do an 8km run and I was already feeling very exhausted. I think I'm over working myself with exercise. Well what else can I do??? I have the netball tournament and our practice is on Tuesday and Thursday, then I have the 10km race coming up and the end of the month and I really need to build stamina. Sigh...we seriously don't have enough days in a week.

My week goes something like this:

Monday: Jog - 5km
Tuesday: Netball
Wednesday: Jog 10km which I couldn't yesterday :(
Thursday: Netball
Friday: Day Off
Saturday: Jog 10km
Sunday: Day Off

For the Saturday and Sunday Off, it will only be for this week. If you've been following my blog, you'll know that next weekend onwards (for 3 consecutive weeks) it will be pack with netball. So I think next week I need to reschedule my whole week so that I have some rest days. If I continue doing what I'm doing, I'll probably get some kind of leg injury. Sigh...fingers cross that that doesn't happen. So maybe my schedule should be something like this:

13th -19th July
Monday: Jog 10km
Tuesday: Netball
Wednesday: Jog 12km
Thursday: Netball
Friday: Day Off
Saturday: Netball Tournament
Sunday: Netball Tournament

20th - 26th July
Monday: Jog 12km
Tuesday: Netball
Wednesday: Jog 12km
Thursday: Netball
Friday: Day Off
Saturday: Run at 6am then Netball Tournament
Sunday: Netball Tournament

27th July - 02nd August
Monday: Day Off
Tuesday: Netball
Wednesday: Day Off
Thursday: Netball
Friday: Day Off
Saturday: Netball Tournament
Sunday: Netball Tournament

The last weekend will be the most relaxing one.

And lately I've been eating a lot cause I seem to be hungry all the time. My body is probably telling me to slow down...don't you think? In the days I exercise, I'm usually drench wet with sweat....and after I take a shower, I'm still sweating that I need to change my baju again....like yesterday, I changed my baju twice!!!

Will probably be pretty FIT when it is all over. But for now, I'm sniffling....that's not a good sign and its raining outside. Can't get sick now...not a good time to be sick. Sigh....need to consume more Vitamin C!!! Plus I have cravings to eat Nasi lelapan...hahaha....dunno why :P

I guess that's it from me!!! Ta for now!!! Oh wait! I just found out that our netball practice is off today!!! WOOHOO!!! At least I can have my day off today and try for a longer jog tomorrow. See you guys!!! Off to our new team welcoming drinking session ;) TA again!!!

NETBALL CRAZE HERE I COME!!! WOOHOO!!!

2009-07-07T22:05:00.001-07:00

I think this was taken last year when I still had my long hair. Can't even recall when was the last time I had long hair. Due to my genetic background, I'm a very short person (this would definitely be an understatement if I was born in the Western world, if I was born there, I would be considered very very the short lah!!! BOOHOOO!!!) the only position I can play would be Center and WA...boohoo again!!! But nevertheless, I love being in the Center position or being WA, it fits me pretty well I must say :D

I just found out today that we are going to have 3 netball tournaments for 3 weekends in a row!!! WOOHOO!!! It's like a netball craze!!! hahaha....sure by the end of the last game our team will all kaput and super FIT and probably not want to play netball for a couple of months....:P TIRING BAH!!! I think for those of you who are not from Miri or never have been here before, would probably say "Wah! this people in Miri sure got nothing else better to do" :P but I could be wrong :P

The tournament dates goes something like this:

KRP Pre-Merdeka Netball Tournament

18th - 19th July 2009

KSK Tournament

26th - 27th July 2009

Nameless Tournament (we just got the invite, so no name yet :))

01st - 02nd August 2009

And its usually two full days!!! That is if we are good lah :P From my point of view, I think we are quite ok eh. I mean from the very first time we were together until now, we have improve a lot!!! You should have seen us the first time!!! Half the time we were laughing in the game, cause half the time we were losing the ball and the ball keeps rolling away from us!!! At that point of time I was beginning to think that the ball had a mind of its own!!! :P. But now, we have much better control of the ball :)

Anyway, the worst part to this is that for the KSK tournament, I have my 10km run at 6am on the 2nd day of the game!!! AIYOYOYOYO!!! I'm just hoping I'll be able to build up enough energy and stamina to be able to keep up with both the 10km and the tournament. Well its probably not as bad as it seems since we have back-up players as well....so I could probably skip the first game of that morning :D. Plus, did I mention my sister is doing the 10km run as well??? I think I did in one of my email. I really can't wait for the run. It would be nice to run with my sister after so long....won't be surprise if I get left behind :P.

Oklah...that's it from me....Ta for now!!! NETBALL CRAZE HERE I COME!!! WOOHOO!!!

This was during the Highlanders Games Carnival this year (June)....look at all the pretty girls ;)

P/S. You probably have no idea how much I love this game. My life priority goes something like this, GOD first, FAMILY second & NETBALL!!! ;)

Heartbroken on Sunday :(

2009-07-07T00:37:00.000-07:00

That Sunday morning I woke up to my 3.5 year old daughter kissing me on my cheek and saying 'I love you mummy'. That was like 7am in the morning. It was a beautiful way to wake up to, but I was still tired and wanted to sleep. So I told my daughter I love her too and told her that mummy still wanted to sleep. So she decided she would do some colouring with my MIL. In the process of colouring she came to me and kiss me again and told me that she wanted me to colour in her book after I woke up. I said 'ok!' and close my eyes again.

Then at 9am I decided that its time to wake up, so I got up and went straight to the toilet. She forgot that she wanted me to colour and so did I. So after showering and in the process of getting ready to go to church, she came into the room and said to me or more like scream at me. The conversation went like this:

Daughter: 'MOMMY!!!! YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO COLOUR FIRST BEFORE YOU DIUK!!!' (Diuk in Kelabit is Bath)

Me: Sorry dear, but mummy already mandi, let mummy get ready first to go to church then I will colour with you

Daughter (Screaming and crying): NO!!! YOU HAVE TO COLOUR FIRST BEFORE YOU DIUK!!!

Me: But I already mandi, there is nothing I can do already...

Daughter(Crying hysterically and screaming at the same time saying): NO!!! YOU HAVE TO COLOUR FIRST BEFORE YOU DIUK!!!

Me (Shouting): WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!!! IF YOU CONTINUE LIKE THIS, MOMMY LEAVE YOU AT HOME AH!!!!

Daughter (Crying and shouting): YOU SAID YOU WILL COLOUR FIRST!!!!

Me: AIYO!!!! SORRY LAH!!!! I COLOUR LATER!!! LET MUMMY GET READY FIRST!!!

Daughter: I WANT YOU TO COLOUR FIRST!!!

Me: SERA!!! YOU STOP THAT AH!!! MUMMY BEAT YOU AFTERWARDS AH!!!!

Daughter: I WANT YOU TO COLOUR FIRST BAHHHH!!!

So I surrendered and was super annoyed, so I went out to colour that paper that she wanted me to colour. While doing that I didn't even say a word to her. After I finished I went back into the room to get ready again. Of course my daughter came in as well with me. And the conversation continues:

Daughter: Mummy I want you to colour the other picture also...

Me (being very irritated with her): WAIT BAH!!! AFTERWARDS WE ALL WON'T BE ABLE TO GET TO CHURCH BECAUSE OF YOU!!!

Daughter obviously started crying...

ME (getting more irritated by that time): STOP IT SERA!!!

Daughter (Crying): Mummy I kiss you this morning bah and say I love you, why you Bu'uh-bu'uh me... (Bu-uh in Kelabit means scold)

Wah! At that moment I felt like I was the most terrible mom in the history of moms!!! I immediately put down what I was doing and carried her and gave her a big hug and said I was sorry. My heart broke into tiny pieces!!! It was so heartbreaking!!! I couldn't believe I could have been so mean to her. I apologies to her and told her that I was in a bad mood that morning, and you know what she said:

Daughter: It's ok mummy, you bad mood...

And we both hug and said 'I love YOUs' and she gave me the hugest of smiles....and I gave her many many kisses...

Sigh....I sure as hell will never forget that day....the day my heart broke into small pieces...but with her smile and ok she glued it all back again....

The worst part to it was "It was a Sunday, a day where I shouldn't even have gotten angry with her' I had to ask God for his forgiveness for losing my temper that morning. But (yes, I'm trying to justify myself a little bit here :P) sometimes kids can be so unreasonable with their demands. Don't you think so???

Well, for one thing I'm sure of is that I can't live without her. She's my little angel and on that day, she made me realise that sometimes all you need is more patience and love. Both of which I'm struggling to have more of.

That's it from me aka the terrible mom :( ....ta!

Mir Star Cineplex, AIYO!!! PARTY tonight, WOOHOO!!! PTI, AIYO!!!

2009-07-02T22:13:00.000-07:00

My feedback on the movie, well, it was pretty good!!! Would definitely watch it a second time :D. If you don't follow my blog and have no clue what movie I'm talking about, look at my previous blog. Oh yah, and THANKS FOR DROPPING BY!!!! Really appreciate it!!! ;)

My feedback on the Star Cineplex in Miri, AIYO!!!! Hahaha...that's overstating it lah. Its not that bad....only problem was that during the movie, there are some parts where the sound system was just horrible!!! You couldn't really hear them talking, they were more like mumbling!!! You know how when people get drunk and they can't talk properly....like that LAH! And there are some parts when the sound just disappeared. I know that I should have watched it the first few days when it first came out so that everything would be close to perfect.

But still!!! That's not a good excuse for us who goes a week after and pay the same amount RM10 and get worse quality!!! Shouldn't they have more than one movie roll??? Takkan they play the same one over and over again. It's no wonder some movie rolls burn up!!! At least charge us RM8 kah..so we won't complain so much!!! True or not??? And you know how much they charge for kids!!! RM8!!! and my daughter it only 3.5 years old!!! Cannot charge RM5 kah??? Well, I guess they want to make profit...can't really blame them either!!! If only we had another Cineplex in Miri, then there will probably be some kind of price competition. Like AirAsia and MAS lah....always have price competition!!! Kan bagus if that happens to our Cineplex as well. Then Star Cineplex would pay more attention to the quality of their Cineplex and give the kids a cheaper price!!!

Anyway, despite all that, I'm going to go catch 'Ice Age 3'...Woohoo!!! Hahaha, I know you must be thinking, 'What lah this girl, never learn!!!'....hahaha....in this case...'yups!!! I never learn one!!!' Plus the fact that I'm very forgiving one!!! :P Hehehe...and its fun bah....despite all the downside to the star cineplex :P I'm just hoping I get luckier this time around and the movie roll will be close to perfect!!! Fingers cross again!!!

And if you are the owner of the Star Cineplex and you are reading my blog by some miracle, could you please fix chair H7. Its slowing falling down...thanks!!!

Talking about chairs falling down in the Cineplex...there was a time when me and my friend went to watch a movie (which I can't recall) and we were given the new Cineplex on top (compared to the ones below, it was definitely new!). We were excited lah!!! Cause it was the first time we were going up there. I was impress with the layout and all and I told my friend about it. We both agreed.

So in we when to find our seats. I sat first and let my friend in to sit next to me. And as she sat, she disappeared with a THUD!!! And I couldn't help it but start laughing, cause her seat just fell apart!!! Of course in the process of laughing, I somehow manage to say "Aiyo! kesian you!!!" The good thing to it all was, she was laughing too!!! And she didn't get hurt :D Of course we immediately call the workers there and told them we are taking the other seats. The workers there couldn't believe it too!!! Thank goodness it wasn't full house on that day!!! So much for expecting the new part of the Cineplex to be better than the old one!!! Moral of the story...never judge a book by its covers :P.

Anyway, tonight I'm going out to P-A-R-T-Y!!! It's my friend's birthday and I haven't been out for ages so I think I'm going to have a blast!!! Skali see, boring skali me and wishing I was in bed pulak! I think when that happens, that will be the day I will officially declare that I'm OLD!!! AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh TIDAK!!!! I'm FOREVER YOUNG!!! Geeezzz...now I have this song in my head, "Forever Young, I want to be forever young....."

Ohhhhh...I almost forgot that I have a Parents-Teachers-Interview (PTI) tomorrow at 9.10am!!! I hope the teacher says nice things about my daughter....:P. Well, that's the least of my worries for now, I'm more worried that I won't be able to wake up!!! Better set my phone alarm now just in case...wait ah....ok done!!! I put it at 8.30am....ohhh....let me check whether I got the am and the pm right...if not tonight at 8.30pm I'll be hearing my alarm go off and wondering what that alarm is for...knowing me, I can be very the Short Term Memory....ok, I go check first...matilah me if salah....wait again ah....ok...got it right...it's at 8.30am :D. Enough time for me to jump out of bed, get ready, and take panadol if my head is pounding due to hang over!!! Ada nanti instead of going to my daughters school, I drive all the way to work....Kuang Kuang Kuang!!! Hahaha....:P

Ok...I'm talking nonsense now.....will stop! :P

So for those who are going clubbing tonight...happy partying!!! And happy weekend to everyone else!!!

Ta!!!

Transformers! Here we Come!!!

2009-07-01T22:06:00.000-07:00

Balqiz! sorry I stole your blog style format...this was funny so I had to add it into my blog...sorry yah...jangan marah!

Tonight I'm going to bring my daughter to watch transformers (I've heard good reviews about it..hopefully its as good as what everyone says it to be :))....she has yet to go into a Cineplex so this will be a very first experience :D. I can't wait to see her reaction!!! I have a feeling she will probably say something like this "Wah! So big!".

I actually wanted to bring her watch "Ice Age 3" since it is out already and I told her about it, but she said to me that she wants to watch 'Transformers" instead....so what to do...listen only lah to the queen of the house :P. Well, I also want to see...so its a win-win situation...WOOHOO!!! Hopefully she likes it and don't decide that she wants to leave the cineplex half way through. I probably will be very upset with her....haha...fingers cross!!!

Note that I have a very strange daughter...she prefers to watch Transformers, Ultraman (she has two of this toys at home and she even got me to buy her dinasours cause she said ultraman didn't have anybody to fight with :P...so pelik my daughter, she even knows whch one is Ultraman Cosmos and which one is Ultraman Gaia :O) and stuff like that rather than girly girly ones....THANKS GOODNESS she likes pink and we manage to persuade her to buy a barbie doll school bag instead of the Ben 10 one that she first wanted!!! :)

Besides that, I'm hoping that there wouldn't be many people today going to the cineplex....so I can have a choice of seats to chose from. I'm just hoping that the movie roll (not sure what you call that) doesn't burn or something like that....I heard it has happen many times already. I'm also hoping that they have solve the mouse issues too!!!

How I wish Miri had another Cineplex to go to. That way at least there is competition and both cineplex would at least try to keep their standards up!!! It is so sad that we are only stuck with one cineplex. So if there is any RICH PPL reading this, please lah....open one more cineplex in Miri....can or not??? Plllleeeaaaaaaaassssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...... (doubt that will work, and doubt that rich ppl would take the time to read blogs...sigh).

If only I had a passport, I would probably go down to brunei to watch it, since I've heard Brunei Cineplex is so many times better....true kah??? Anybody been there before???

Anyway, I'm not expecting too much from our cineplex in Miri and mind you I'm pretty accommodating. So, if you see my blog tomorrow and I'm complaining about our Cineplex...that means it is really super duperly crap!!! I hope I won't complain. Don't want my daughter's first experience to be a crappy one.

Ta for now!!! Transformers, here we come!!!

God Answers Prayers!!!

2009-06-30T20:23:00.000-07:00

Todays blog is all about how Great my God is :D. First of all, I want you to know that he is my number one priority in my life and he will always be my number one priority. You know, despite all I've gone through....he has always been there for me and he has answered so many of my prayers. He doesn't do it immediately, but he does it according to his time. He is really a good God. Let me give you a couple of examples of the prayers he has answered for me:

1) I was on the verge of losing my job a few months back as my team was suppose to move to KL, it was pretty much set that way. My boss told me that I probably won't be needed any more as there is another person in KL who is already doing what I am doing and she will take on my part of the job. You can imagine how stressed I was. I was depress and worried, and because of that I turned to God. I prayed and prayed and prayed. And after waiting for a few months, the result was out, and it was decided that we were to stay in Miri!!! You could not have even imagine how relief I was with the decision. I was senyum-ing lika a kambing!!! After that I was given an extension on my job instead of the termination that I dreaded. SEE! isn't God just wonderfully marvelous!!! The best part is, yesterday I was told that I will most probably be given permanent status next year!!! Apa lagik....my senyum was super besar!!! Kalah the kambing in the picture below :P Anyway, that was the best news I've had in ages. Thank you so much LORD!!! I couldn't ask for more.

2) I was suppose to get my graituity pay in my June salary but due to some unforseen circumstances I was told that it would only be in my July salary. I was a bit upset cause I kinda budgetted the June's salary with the graituity pay. But despite that, I prayed and told God to help me out in my time of need. I then re-budgetted and decided that I could cut some expenses from here and there and be able to pull through the month of June. A few days later, I got an email from HR saying that my graituity pay will be in my June salary!!! I was so surprise cause I thought that they had close my case already. So, you see again!!! Isn't the Lord just amazing!!! :D

Those are just a couple of which I wanted to share with you all. I know at times that you may feel as if HE is so far away from you but HE isn't. HE has an unconditional love which passes all understanding. And despite what you've done, HE'll forgive you and always be there for you. Do keep in mind that HE loves us sinners, HE just doesn't love our sins. So pray, have faith and believe, and your prayers will be answered!!! Let HIM answer your prayers in HIS Time cause HE knows when it is best!

God is good all the time!!!

Ta for now!!!

Children's Reward Charts??? Does it Work???

2009-06-30T00:53:00.000-07:00

My daughter is a little monster in disguise. She's a super drama queen and has a pretty bad temper. Especially when she's over tired. Example of things that she will do:

Scream very loud....as if the world is going to end cause she can't get what she wants...
Starts crying and saying "I NEED IT BAH!!!" "I WANT IT BAH!!!"
Starts throwing things at the person she's angry with...very bad behaviour...
Starts running around like a headless chicken!!!! As if by doing so she will get what she wants..
Opens her eyes really big and starts hitting the person she is angry with....

And she finally stops when she has over cried and starts vommiting....

Then, I ask the mom would go, "See!!! I already say don't cry, but you never listen!!! You know you always cannot get what you want!!! You are so spoil!!!"

And daughter continues crying.....sounds terrible doesn't it???

Usually after all the commotion we will hug each other in bed and I'll explain to her nicely on why I was angry with her and why she cannot always get what she wants. Then I'll say sorry and she'll say sorry to me too. Its really nice at that moment, but then the explanation doesn't really sink through and eventually a few days later the tantrum begins again.

Sometimes I give her the silent treatment when I'm upset with her for being naughty...but she just pretends that I'm not giving her the silent treatment and continues chatting a way as if nothing has happen....which annoys me even more....by the end of that day when we are both in bed....I'll again give her the same talk and explain to her why I was angry with her..and again we both will say our sorry's and give each other hugs and kisses.

And the cycle goes on and on and on....(of course there are days when she just a little sweetheart lah....but I've got to stop her from throwing things and hitting ppl, which is a reallybad habit, noting that she's only 3.5 years old!!!)

So, since what I do just doesn't work, I've decided to try using the "Children's Rewards Chart". It looks something like this:

On the left side of it is where I should put the behaviour that I would liker her to have. And each day that she keeps to that behaviour, she gets a big star on the flower pot....and by the end of the week if she successfully gets more than 6 stars (I know there is only 6 pots there, I'm going to have to make my own rewards chart so I have 7 days in it), she'll be rewarded. I've yet to really figure out the reward system but I'll get to it in a few days while I design my own chart. Once that is done, I'll put it up here for you all to see. Will it work??? Who knows??? I guess I just got to give it a go....

Wish me all the best in my success to modifying my daughter's behaviour!!! I hope this works, if not I have to start reading all those parental books....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....as much as I like reading...I don't really have the time for it.

Ok, that's it from me.....will keep you all updated!!!

The Joggerthon Day!!!

2009-06-28T18:05:00.000-07:00

So the joggerthon day finally arrived last Saturday and my daughter was very excited about it. That Friday night we got our singlets ready and our numbers nicely pin onto it. My number was L011 and hers was G06. Told her that she had to sleep early as we need to wake up at 5am the next morning.

Next morning came and I woke up at 5.10am....an additional 10 minutes of sleep cause I sure did not want to wake up at all....haha....it was a Saturday!!! Anyway, I manage to drag myself out of bed...showered and got ready then woke my daughter up. She woke up and look out the window which was right under her and said 'Mommy! It's still dark!!!' and I told her that she better get up or she will miss the joggerthon. So she did. I think due to all the excitement, being tired wasn't on her mind at all :D. So I got her ready, woke the dad up and he got ready, and we all got into the car at 5.55am. So much for trying to be at Pusat Belia by 6am.

Then we had to stop by the Petronas petrol station to get myself the AAA battery for my MP3. If not I don't think I couldn't have finished the race. I so depend on my beloved MP3. Its really fantastic for jogging cause it has no wires attached. Its the kind that you just hook to your ears and the MP3 is build into the headphones.

Anyway, by the time we reach Pusat belia it was 6.10am....well, everything in Miri is pretty close...thank goodness for that. If I was in KL, I'll probably have to wake up at 4.30am or something like that. That's why I love Miri so much :P. When we got to the field...Robin, Larry and Karen were already there (they are like family :)).

My mom, me, my daughter and Karen taking a picture before the sun has fully woken up. Gelap le!

That's Robin in red and Larry in black with his hairband waiting to start the race.

The joggerthon started at 6.50am...somewhere around there and sadly there were not so many participants. My mom was suppose to run with my daughter but I got worried cause my daughter has more energy than my mom so my hubby ran with my daughter instead. It was a good thing though cause that meant that he could take pictures of my daughters first run! She came in number 6 as there were only 6 people. And that was very fitting cause her number was G06 :). She's only 3.5 years old and I was very proud that she finished it all by herself without her dad carrying her. I'm sure she is going to be a future runner ;). Of course my hubby had to keep on telling her that she's almost reaching lah....hehe...cause she wanted to give up a few times :P. I was very proud of both of them :D.

My daughter and my mom at the starting line. Malu-malu my daughter. Bishop Anthony Lee holding the Sarawak flag for the flag off.

My daughter walking in between her jog :D. Still so happy and smiling :P After the race she kept telling me how fast she ran that she was able to win a trophy and a hamper....hahaha...cute girl. Don't think she realised that she came in last :P

That's her after the race...resting....and waiting for me to come back :)

That's my mom and Sera having pisang goreng after the jog.

As for my run, well I got first!!! Haha...I guess all my jogging paid off...but than again there wasn't much of a challenge. The best part to it, was that Human Life Service manage to collect RM135,000 ++ (I'm not so sure whether that is the right figure but I know it was somewhere around that number). Thank you everybody for your support!!!

That's me near Taman Selera after coming down the hill. Thanks Karen for the Pic!!! :D

That's me finishing the run.

Here's a very nice picture of Karen, Robin, Larry and Peston (I hope I got your name right, Someone correct me if I'm wrong :P).

Bishop giving my daughter her trophy :) Still malu-malu :D

Here at least dapat senyum already...

Here lagilah BIG the smile!!!

That's her getting the hamper for being the youngest runner :D

And that's me with YB Lee Kim Shin and Bishop and the other HLS joggerthon committee. After I got my trophy, my daughter ask me "How about daddy???"... so cute that she was so concern for her daddy not getting anything. Then I told her that she had to share her hamper with daddy cause daddy ran with her... and she said "OK!" :D

Now, I need to practice even harder for the Dynasty Charity Run (don't be surprise if I come asking you all for money again, its for the Kidney Dialysis Center, so be generous, ok???:P) which will be on the 26th July 2009 cause I think there will be a lot of good runners there. Probably won't be able to get first but I'm hoping to complete the run without stopping. It looks pretty far. It's going to start at Dynasty Hotel all the way to Boulevard and from Boulevard all the way back to Dynasty from the inner route. Dielah me....haha...oh well..I still have one more month to practice. The prizes are great though...1st prize being RM1000, 2nd prize being RM750 and 3rd Prize being RM500. And if I'm not mistaken there are still cash prize all the way till the 5th placing. So, who knows right??? In my dreams!!! :P

My sister will be joining in this run so it should be fun. My sister is a really good runner....so if I don't win anything, I hope she does!!! Right Jess??? :P You know how I look up to you bah!!! :P And if you win, don't forget to buy me something ah!!! :P

Oklah, that's it from me....I still have to look forward to my netball tournament on the 17th -19th July!!! Hope I get selected and hopefully I don't happily injured my ankle :P. Knowing me, I can get clumsy sometimes :)

Ta for now!!! and God Bless!!!

AirAsia RM55 to KL and RM15 to KK???

2009-06-24T22:08:00.000-07:00

I'm speechless...taking the bus is even more expensive these days!!! I mean seriously, RM 55 for a return ticket from Miri to KL!!! And RM 15 for a return ticket from Miri to KK!!! - AirAsia

Go holiday lah!!! Tak rugi!!!

Flying date is from Oct to April 2010 and booking period is from today till the 28th June 2009. Apalah you tunggu lagi! Stop reading and go and book your tickets and have a good family vacation!!!

Ta for now!!!

I'm Going to Run for a GOOD CAUSE!!!

2009-06-23T23:43:00.000-07:00

Well, sorry about yesterday. Was pretty emotional about the whole Father's Day thingy. It really sucks big time to have such a wonderful dad and too lose him at such a young age. I guess God knows what's best :)

Anyway, am in much better mood today and not so down :D.

And just to let you all know, I am training for a joggerthon this Saturday which will start at 6.30am. My very first concern is whether I'll be able to wake up. Then I'll worry about whether I'll be able to win it or not :P. Hopefully my jogging pays off and I get to win some kind of prize....that will nice. If not I'll just jog in support of HLS (Human Life Service). For your info, they are a non-profitable organization that gives temporary shelter for unwedded mothers, single mothers in pregnancy crises, battered women, abused children, abandoned babies and children. HLS handle cases referred by Government and non- Government organizations, churches and care centres. HLS also helps in adoption of babies.

So, why not right? Its for a good cause :D

Then in July I'll be joining a netball tournament which is organized by KRP. That would be fun!!! Can't wait!!!

And at the end of July, I'll probably join a charity run which is organized by Dynasty Hotel in Miri. Not sure how far the distance is cause I've yet to ask them about it. Hopefully it ranges from 5km to 10km cause for now I think that's as far as I can go without stopping. Maybe next year I'll try and join a half marathon again, like I did in 2003. At that time it wasn't the best idea cause I hardly had much practice and after the run (which consist of not so much running but mostly walking) as I got home, I collapsed on my bed and slept!!! Not sure for how long but when I woke up my legs had a life of its own...hahaha...those were the days when I had nothing better to do with my life. This time round, I'm going to train for it months before the actual day. Who knows one day I'll do a full marathon. That's a goal I intend to achieve. Even Kenny Sia has done is before...tak patut I cannot....I wonder how his legs were the next day....

Anyway, going to go for a jog again in a few minutes time. Ta for now!

Father's Day...a sad one...

2009-06-23T00:39:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday was Father's Day and it was the day I so wish my dad was alive. Now sitting here typing this I have tears in my eyes and wishing my dad was still around. He was a man who had so much love to give to everyone around him. So today's blog, is in remebrance of him, the best dad anyone in the whole wide world could ever have....

And here's a beautiful write-up on my dad by the HLS ppl....it brought tears to my eyes....and made me miss him even more....thanks for keeping my dad alive in our hearts. Everything that is written in here is exactly what my dad is.....I LOVE YOU DAD!!! and I MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY!!!

In Memory Of HLS 1st Director, Mr. Joseph Yee Nin Kah

Uncle Joe (Mr. Joseph Yee Nin Kah) , the first Director of Human Life Service Centre, had in his office which was located on the second floor, the following prayer pasted on the wall.It was somehow a reflection of his life:

Seek to be Generous

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous ,
Teach me to serve you as you deserve;
to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil and not to seek for rest;
to labour and not to ask for a reward;
save that of knowing that I am doing your will.
Amen.

Uncle Joe was called to rest on August 4th (2004). While he was alive, he was known to be an active, cheerful and warm person to everyone. His sudden passing has left everyone stunned and feelings of heaviness began to fill everyone’s heart. The whole experience felt like a dream, a dream which everyone wanted to wake up from, but was inevitable.

Days after the funeral, we resumed our work at the centre. The day-to-day activities in the office were also back to normal. However, it was only then that we started to realize that Uncle Joe’s desk was empty, and suddenly it hit us, that Uncle Joe would never return to work with us anymore…

In 1994, Uncle Joe, aged 48 then, resigned from his comfortable and highly paid job to accept the challenge given by the bishop (Bishop Anthony Lee) of the Catholic Church, Miri Diocese, to establish a centre that would focus on “pro-life”. As one could imagine, to start such an organization with zero resources in hand requires one to put in a great deal of time, dedication and effort. However, under the leadership and guidance of Uncle Joe, and with the help offered by many volunteers, all the hard work finally paid off. The result was the birth of “Human Life Service Centre” on 15th October 1995 Subsequently, on 19th March 1996, “Human Life Service Centre” set up a shelter home called the “St. Jospeh’s Home”.

Uncle Joe’s favorite phrases were, “Don’t worry, just trust in the Lord” and “Nothing is impossible for the Lord”. It is this belief that has kept Human Life Service Centre in existence till today. Now, even without Uncle Joe’s presence, his spirit will continue to live in our hearts. When the centre encountered numerous difficulties and challenges, Uncle Joe would always hold strongly onto his belief. His compelling determination and spirit has given the rest of us the courage to continue to strive and fight against the culture of death, so that the joy of life can be celebrated by all corners of society.

Uncle Joe has undoubtedly shown us his genuine love for life. He always gave his best into everything that he did, whether big or small. He humbled himself by offering to educate us on the use of personal computers, designing newsletters and magazines. He even hung banners, carried tables, chairs and tools for exhibitions. Occasionally, he would go to the St. Joseph’s Home to mow the lawn, repair what needed to be fixed, etc. He always said, “Do not complain. Do what you need to do.” No matter how exhausted he was, he never showed it. Instead there was always a smile on his face and he was always cheerful with everyone at work. When we faced problems, difficulties and pressures at work, he would always come in to light up the atmosphere in order to calm us down. When we needed someone to talk to, he was always there to lend us his ears. There was never an ‘employer-employee’ kind of relationship between Uncle Joe and the rest of us who have worked with him. Often, we shared with each other our lives’ experiences and knowledge. We also gave support and encouragement to each other.

The job of a “pro-life” follower is not as glamorous as it seems to be. We have to fight a continuous battle against the culture of death. Abortion, contraception, euthanasia, pre-marital sex, domestic violence, pornography, etc., are all examples of the culture of death which depletes the meaning and value of life. Sadly, this “culture” has already penetrated tenaciously into our homes and society at large. In his quest to fight against the strong grasp and influence of the culture of death which destroys precious lives, Uncle Joe had always been cleared and committed to his mission and direction. This resulted in a variety of pro-life activities being organized to aim at alerting the society of the meaning and understanding of life – “Life begins from the moment of conception, whereby respect should be given from that moment on. Most importantly, this innocent life should be granted the right to live”. Thus, the Human Life Service Centre started to make its journey into the rural areas in 1997, spreading the good news of life to all.

Batu Niah was the first destination that the Human Life Service Centre had arrived for such a mission. Following after that, each year from July to October, Uncle Joe and all staff involved would be busy planning and preparing for the journey to other rural areas to give talks. We would often invite along volunteers for the travel. The areas which we have covered throughout the years include Baram, Limbang, Lawas, Lapok, Belaga & Brunei Darussalam.

In March that year, during an interview with a news reporter, Uncle Joe remarked, “The value of life is not measured by how much we own, but by the way we live it. The life of a cleaner is not worth any lesser than yours or mine. His contribution to the society has also been assured. We cannot judge a person’s life by looking at how big or small at the things he does, or how much he has contributed. Instead, as a member of society, we should carry the responsibility of showing love and care to the people around us as well as to see and appreciate the value of life in others. Only then will we be able to build a loving and respectable society.”

For one to protect life, one needs to understand the fundamental meaning of life. “Human life is a gift received in order then to be given as a gift.” Therefore, we should take the responsibility to protect life, and to offer ourselves “as a gift ” to others through our love. Uncle Joe had indeed lived a life which ‘he was giving himself as a gift to others’. That spirit was so strong that even during the last moments of his life, he was still working hard, serving others. During the nine years of toil, Uncle Joe has planted the seeds of love and care in the hearts of the people. We believe that his hard work will not be wasted. The seeds will continue to grow and bear fruit one day.

Taken from: http://www.hlsmiri.org/history.htm

Again, I love you dad, I love you so much...

If only OUR AIRLINES were like this!!! :P

2009-05-11T22:52:00.001-07:00

I would really like to be on this kind of flight. AirAsia or MAS should consider something like this..hahaha....but can you imagine our Air Steward or stewardess rapping??? That will be so hilarious! But nevertheless...at least its entertaining and you won't know what to expect :P. Very very cool!!! You should check it out :) Enjoy!!!

Hope this video make you day!!! Ta for now!!!

A Great Weekend!!!

2009-05-06T00:33:00.000-07:00

Hey all, Haha....so much for my every two days. Well, I don't usually write over the weekends, so it's not that bad lah :P. Anyway, today's blog will be a picture blog of what I did over the weekend with the little one and the hubby :D. It was great fun! Wouldn't have trade all those moments with anything in the world.

That's little Seraphina sitting by the playground bridge at PBC. Obviously she had a blast since we were there from 11am to 5.30pm!!! It was a good labour day...that's what you call a relaxing and enjoyable day!!!

That's Sera with Ashley!!! So cute the both of them....dapat posing lagik you!

That's the wonderful babysitter that we had during the whole day at PBC. She was a great help, I didn't even know my daughter was there...haha...just kidding :P Well, that just meant that she was a big help!!! Very very big help!!! Thanks dear if you are reading this! :D

Hahaha...this is like one of the best shots....taken by the 'Babysitter' (sorry, am not giving names here) :D

That's a few of us just hanging out....nice place leh??? :P

That's most of the gang...doesn't it look like we are in Bali or something like that??? :P

This was the baby of the day!!! I so wanted to bring her home!!! Isn't she the cutess!!! She fell asleep in my arms.....sigh.....how I wish I had another baby!!! Lord, when will you answer my prayer??? :D I have faith in you and I'll wait. You know when is best :).

Now this picture was taken on Saturday at Island. Apparently they were having a full on Heineken promotion at al fresco and since we were Tiger drinkers we had to move :P. The Heineken promotion seem to have been a blast since I heard that they had 2 black outs during that night!!! What I liked about it is that, if you sign up as a member, you get a very cool bottle coaster thingy (you know the kind that keeps your beer bottle cold when your drinking it) ...hmmm...not really sure what it is actually called....have to check with Len. Len if you are reading this, what is it ah??? There were two colours, one blue and the other white. The blue one was a picture of a turn table and the white one was a picture of headphones....which I like :D. Thanks Percival for changing it for me!!! Ummm...sorry no photos of the bottle coaster thingy :P

That's me and Ally. She's a babe! Don't we look happy :P

Me and the hubby....

Me and the hubby again....its nice to be out with him once in awhile :D

Me Time!!!

2009-04-29T18:37:00.000-07:00

Today I'm on leave and I'm going to have some ME-TIME!!! I've planned so many things in my head yesterday but I doubt I'm going to do them all today. Here's my list of what I'm going to do:

8.00am : Go jogging at Taman Bulatan but not possible due to haze...might die inhaling all that smoke! So second option, go to the Gym instead.

9.30am : Go for a hair wash

10.30am : Go for a body massage

11.30am : Go for lunch with Mom and Robin

1.00pm : Go home and nap

2.00pm : Go shopping for sunglasses and go windown shopping

4.00pm : Relax and watch TV

5.00pm : Go play Netball

6.30pm : Pick my daughter up from the babysitter

END of ME-TIME....

So as you can see I basically have the whole day plan! But since it's 9.45am now and I have yet to go to the gym....I think quite a number of the things on the list will not be done. Now my ME-TIME goes like this:

9.30am : Write something on my blog cause I promise to do it once every two days :P

10.00am : Get myself to the gym

11.30am : Come home and shower and wash my hair myself

12.00noon : Lunch with Mom and Robin

1.30pm : Go home and rest a bit

2.00pm : Go sunglasses shopping and window shopping

4.00pm : Come home and rest a bit

5.00pm : Go play netball

(I'm beggining to wonder whether I need all this exercise...hmmm...got to go check my weight....hold on ah......ok back...I'm 45.5kg. Not too bad lah for my height :P)

6.30pm : Go pick my daughter

END of ME-TIME :D By the way, for married ladies out there, it's good to have Me-Time and love yourself. It pretty difficult to love the people around you if you don't love yourself first. So, give yourself time to be pampered and to do whatever you like to do before you burn yourself out! Alright???

Tomorrow is a public holiday and my daughter will be around so it'll be HER-TIME this while weekend :P. Though tomorrow will be me and my hubby's 5 years of being married!!! Who would have guessed that we've managed to pull through!!! Very tough but we did it nevertheless! Now another 5 years more to aim at :P.

Alright, that's it from me.....got to keep to my schedule before I have to change it again. Have a good day ahead everyone and don't forget to exercise to stay healthy ;)

TA for now!!!

OMG!!! It's been a month!!!

2009-04-27T18:24:00.001-07:00

OMG!!! it's been a month since I wrote anything in my blog. You have no idea how busy I have been with my work picking up speed at this time of the year and my daughter getting HFMD!!! Haha....but all is good and I've decided to spend a few minutes updating you all on what has been going on in my life and what I intend to do with it....

What has happen:

1) My daughters HFMD is getting better and I think she has the mild one cause she's still as active as ever. The health ministry came over to the house to spray the toilet with what smells like Clorox, which I think is a really really good thing cause it shows that they care :D

A picture of my little sweetheart, taken by Atoy & Rozie..thanks guys...its a beautiful picture of her.

Here she hasn't gotten her ears pierced yet :D

2) My daughter got her ears pierced a few week back!!! WOOHOO!!! I think it was on the 1st April. Hahaha....well she wanted to get it pierced and insisted on it, so we went to the gold smith and got both ears pierced at the same time. That had to be done, if not, she'll just have one of hers ears pierce. Obviously she had no clue that piercing her ears would hurt that much, so after they pierced it (at that time she had her eyes close) she cried very very loud!!! :P So, I had to get her a pair of socks to make her happy. Well, she did stop crying after that to ask me why they kepit her ears....haha...poor girl. But now she's blissfully happy with ther heart shape earrings :P.

3) I'm now addicted to watching "The biggest loser" on Hallmark at 7pm everyday. Even "American Idol" is not interesting anymore. It's so cool to see all the fat people lose all those fat that they have accumulated for so many years. And just look at them during the finale!!! They look healthy, fit, muscular, handsome/pretty/sexy, and they even have their self confidence back! It's amazing!!! This just proves that anyone can lose weight if they put their mind to it. Agree??? Don't ever tell yourself that it is impossible...cause if this people can do it, I'm sure you can too!!!

What I intend to do:

1) Start writing my blog once every two days....hahaha....I know I keep saying something along this line, but serisouly I'm going to do it! Just check back in two days time!!!

2) I'm going to work on having a closer relationship with God/Our Heavenly Father.

3) I'm going to start building muscles, but not to get big but just to tone up. Need to start getting fit again cause I seem to have been neglecting it for two weeks now. First week cause I was MS-ing and second week cause my daughter had HFMD. Very valid excuses to not exercise but nevertheless....I have to find away to fit exercise into my schedule. Started yesterday and got my daughter to do some exercise with me too....haha...its never to early to start eh??? :P Plus the fact that watching "The biggest loser" and seeing those super fit trainers, make me one to be as fit as them....hahaha...my motivation at the moment :P.

4) Pray very hard that I will have a miracle baby :D You all pray for me also ok?

5) Get my mom to exercise!!! Sometimes I feel like I take my mom for granted. I guess its about time I spend more time with her by bringing her to taman bulatan for her walk. She should, to keep herself healthy so that she can be around for my second miracle child ;).

6) Get my sister a pair of Asic shoes since they are having the 50% shoe sale at Lea. Did you know that asics shoes are fantastic for exercising!!! They are really good quality. You can trust me on that :D.

And I guess that's it! So stay tune and see you in two days!!! Don't forget, stay healthy and start exercising today!!! :D

TA for now!!!

If you KEEP YOUR LIGHTS ON, your VOTING for GLOBAL WARMING, that's just plain EVIL!!!

2009-03-26T18:52:00.000-07:00

So its the first time in Malaysian History that we will be participating in this Earth Day - Earth Hour thing. I seriously wonder how many of us are going to take this seriously.

I mean Malaysians are not exactly very fantastic in helping out with the Environment in general. Don't get me wrong....I'm a Malaysian too....but let me give you a few examples:

We still use plastic bags despite having seen so many posters around that say "Say 'NO' to Plastic Bags".
I still see people throwing rubbish out of their cars!!! Please lah, if you are going to throw it out of your car, at least take note of the car behind you!!! BUT, please lah, stay clean, can or not! Put your rubbish in a proper dustbin!!! If not, what's the whole point of having a dustbin!!!You might as well just throw away your dustbin as well!!! yes, I'm being sarcastic here...sorry...emotions getting in my way...haha...but seriously, throw the rubbish in the dustbin please!
And what's with Burning things behind your back yard??? Not only are you polluting the environment, your also killing yourself and your neighbours with the smoke!!! Of course, it works for getting rid of the mosquitoes but its seriously terrible for the environment.

This are just a few...I don't think I need to elaborate more...

So you see, it would be nice for once that we as Malaysian take our environment seriously. Why not start with EARTH HOUR and VOTE EARTH by switching off your lights from 8.30pm to 9.30pm. It's only an hour...I seriously don't think you will die by not having the lights on for one hour!!! There are a few things you could do in that hour, for example:

You could have candle light dinner and invite your friends over like my dear friend Corriena is doing. Good on you dear!!!
You could sit outside and look at the stars!!! But don't forget the mosquito coil thingy, if not you'll be eaten alive by them.
You could meditate and have your quite time with the Lord :). Perfect time to let him know how thankful you are for all that he has done for you!
You could walk up and down your lane to get some well deserve exercise...haha...good bah, you get to save the environment by switching off the lights and keep yourself healthy at the same time!

And I guess that there are many more things you could think up and do, so why not join in? I'm hoping you all will.

And don't just off the lights lah...don't take it so literal when they say 'Switch Off the Lights'. Please also switch off the air-con and the tv, because they sure as hell take up a lot of electricity as well!!!

So what say you all??? Vote lah!!! :D

Maybe we should the government should get those people who usually drives around in a truck or van collecting newspaper, who says "Old Newspaper!!!!, Old Newspaper!!!" and make them they go around at 8.20pm to 8.30pm saying "Support Earth Hour!!! Switch OFF your LIGHTS NOW!!!" instead!!! And also say it in Malay "Sokong Sejam Bumi, TUTUP LAMPU SEKARANG!!!"....hahahaha...that's just seriously bad translation!!!

Oklah that's it from me!!! And to sign off:

"VOTE EARTH!!!" If you keep on your lights, that's just saying that you're VOTING for GLOBAL WARMING!!! And that's EVIL!!! :P

Ta for now!!!

So sorry for not writing like FOREVER!!! :P

2009-03-26T18:14:00.001-07:00

Sorry guys, I know its been like forever since I wrote on my blog. Its not easy being a working mom...:P Yes, that's just very bad excuse. Its just that I've been very very busy with work that its ridiculous. I finally settled most of the stuff so I'm now here writing in my blog.

A lot of things have happen since the last time I wrote. For example, I've turned 30, and I'm not even sure how to feel about it.....hahaha....I suppose its just a number...don't you think. I swear I still look like I'm 25...haha....that's just me trying to make myself happy :D.

Besides that, I've dressed up as Tinker Bell during my anual dinner, cause the theme was Disney!!! I think I look very cute in the outfit...hahaha... I mintak puji!!! Well, judge for yourself, picture is as below :D. It was a pretty enjoyable night and our team did a singing performance where we sang and dance to 'Bare Neccesities' by Jungle Book and 'Mercy' by Duffy. I think after about 5 practices, we somehow manage to pull through and did pretty well. We even won for Best Performace!!! For our winnings, we won RM500, which we have decided to use it for a BBQ at PBC. A big thanks to the musicians, who are my colleagues and my hubby ;). I always got to give my hubby credit cause I think he's a really good guitarist!!! Overall it was a good night since I got to bring her a RM10 Parkson voucher which I used to buy my daughter a Barbie Doll Colouring Set kit :). She loves it and I do to...and we both get to colour, which I enjoy as well since I'm a child at heart ;). Hubby enjoys it too :P. So it's pretty much a win-win situation!!! :D I also brought back a Body Shop gift for winning 3rd in best dress and a manual massage thingy with a towel from Aussino from a game. Didn't win the 32 inch Flat Screen LCD TV...*sniff**sniff*...but that's oklah....at least I brought back something than nothing....true or not??? :P

That's me and my hubby...:D

That's us performing....see I sing, so semangat some more...haha...see! my mouth open so big!!! :P

The musicians....my hubby with the guitar, my colleague with the banjo....another collegue at the far end playing the bongos (small version of it) and another colleague which can't be seen in here playing the basso (I think that is what you call it, its the really really huge Guitar that plays very deep chords).

That's me with the winners of the best dress. The one on the right is Pocahontas, she won the 1st prize!!! And the one on the left is the Mermaid, and she won 2nd prize!!! Not sure why I'm in the middle, since I won 3rd prize :P

As for the complaints about being married in my few previous blogs....well, its improving :). I still love the hubby and he's definitely working hard at this marriage...and that makes me happy....I love you sweetheart, if you are reading this :D.

Either than that, its EARTH DAY tomorrow!!! And don't forget the EARTH HOUR from 8.30pm to 9.30 pm!!! Hmmm...I think I should write this in another blog. This particular one deserves its own blog.

Ok than, that's it from me!!! Sorry for keeping you all waiting. Will promise to try my very very very very very very very very very very very very very very best to update my blog on a daily basis!!! :D

Cheers, Jacqie!

The History of "F*** You" - Very Interesting Indeed!

2009-02-25T17:23:00.000-08:00

(Got this from an email a friend send me, so I'm quite positive some of you may have already read it :) Thought it was worth passing this history on :P)

Well, now......here's something I never knew before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends in the hope that they, too, will feel edified.

Isn't history more fun when you know something about it?

Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be incapable of fighting in the future.

This famous English longbow was made of the native English 'Yew' tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew").

Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, See, we can still pluck yew!

Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute! It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird."

It is still an appropriate salute to the french Today. And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing.

So Heart Wrenching :(

2009-02-24T22:08:00.000-08:00

Warning....Christian related material....but feel free to watch/listen if you feel like it.

I almost cried after listening to the boys story...but he does have a point, and that is, "God Understands". This is the kind of story that makes me realise how much God Loves Us!

Introducing to you...."Logan's Story"

God Bless!

Marriage, Love? Hate??...Hmmm...Why Do We Get Married Again???

2009-02-18T20:51:00.000-08:00

Why do people get married again???

One moment you love your other half and the next moment you hate your other half...and than out of nowhere he does something nice and you fall in love all over again....

On the 13th of November I went hunting for a nice card for my hubby, and the only place to get that in Miri would be at 'Moments' which is part of 'Toysworld'. There were so many cards but none of them suited what I wanted. There were cards that said:

1) I love you more and more each year

2) You're my best friend

3) You understand me so well

4) We have a love that will last forever

But seriously, at that point of time I couldn't even get myself to get a card with those words on it. I do love him but I don't think its more and more each year. Its more like the opposite...less and less.

He's my hubby and therefore pretty much impossible to be my best friend cause every time we talk about something serious, he has his own opinion and I have mine and we start arguing. Best friends always back each other up...don't you think? I know my best friend would :)

I know he doesn't understand me so well....if he did we wouldn't be getting on each others nerves right?

As for having a love that will last forever...hell "no!!!"...we don't have a love that will last forever...we work extremely hard at staying together with lots and lots of 'sorrys' and we try very hard to keep the love alive. Don't you think?

I guess they are some couples who are superly happy being together and I do envy them...but I think most of us out there feels the same way like I do, one time or another....

So you can guess how hard it was for me to get a card for the hubby....I looked and looked and looked and I even went to the sales lady and ask her "Is that all the cards you have???" and she gave me a puzzled look and said "yes". So obviously I went back to the V-Day card section to find something that was less lovey-dovey as the above.

By some luck I found a card that says something like this (its not the exact words but you get the idea), on the front cover is says, "I got this card cause it reminds me of you", than you have to open the card from the left and not from the normal right, than you actually have to turn the card upside down to read it, and it says inside "see! it even has a mind of its own, just like you", then it also says "Happy Valentines Day". It was a cute card with a dog in the front. When i found that card, I was so happy...at least I could give him a card that would be honest. I did also write "Despite all that we have gone through, I still love you" inside the card to complete the card.

Well, after buying that card, it just made me realise even more how I feel towards my husband. I love him but it seems to be slowly fading away. We seem to be living two lives separately, he in his world and me in mine, and once in awhile we do sit together to talk, like for 5 minutes and that's it. Its only been 5 years and the marriage seems to be fading into thin air. Its really sad when I think about it. We seem to be taking each other for granted...big time!!!

Anyway, last night we had a short talk with each other and we both admit that our marriage doesn't seem to be turning out the way we expected it to, when we first got married. I guess most people wouldn't...haha..if we knew, we probably wouldn't be married and most people probably won't be too. Of course 3% would probably be married cause they are superly happily married!!! I know a few!!! Lucky them!!! :P

After last night, we both decided to put more effort into our marriage and into loving each other again. We do still love each other after all and we both believe that its worth fighting for and that going our separates ways is never an option. Don't get me wrong, I do at times think of leaving him but the better side of me gets the better of me and I come to my senses. I did after all say in my wedding vows "to love him, for better or for worst". Its so damn hard, but I've got to try and he has to too. So now we are both back to basics and giving each other kisses and hugs before I go to work and when I come back. Wish us all the best!!! I know we can do it and we've got to stick to what God says "What God has united, Man must not divide!"

That's it from me...TA for now!!!

My legs have a Life of ITS OWN!!! + Randoms!!!

2009-02-16T17:45:00.000-08:00

Sigh..why do I bother jogging??? Now my leg has a life of its own!!! Everywhere hurts cause I did push ups and sit ups as well....hiya...not very smart of me....of course now I'm complaining lah...haha...cause it hurts bah...and its human nature to complain about it.

I guess that's what we have to do to stay healthy....suffer in the beginning and eventually your legs get use to it and your back to normal again!!! Once I'm back to normal again, I'll start bugging everybody else around me to go jogging as well :P

My daughter has improve on her cycling and have managed to paddle and control the handle at the same time...but doesn't really paddle very far. When she stops, I have to push again so she can start paddling again :P. But that's ok cause she's only 3 :)

As for the 4 months old puppies that I have...I have taken some pictures of them but have yet to download it into my computer. Their fat and over fed I may say...but cute lah...my mom says they can't stop eating. My mom feeds that boiled chicken with rice, everyday...so pampered I tell you! Tried training them yesterday as well but they just can't stop moving!!! They can so excited when they see me...that they can't stay still!!! I think the puppies are food crazy....I think one of them can at least understand what sit is but the other one is a bit dense (Lulu) and keeps biting the leg of the one who knows how to sit (Panda). Which gets Panda excited and therefore the continuous movement. I think I need to train them separately.....

Besides the above...nothing much about me lah...oh yah! I did get the new hair cut!!! People around me are being nice and saying that it looks nice...haha...probably looks like crap...thanks peeps!!!

As for Valentines Day, nothing much happen....hubby didn't get me flowers despite me requesting for one...:( was very very upset and he did apologise for not being able to get them cause he was busy Being busy is just a very very bad excuse of not getting flowers...right ladies??? There are so many ways he could have been able to get it for me...sigh... but I was still upset...haha...so bad hoh me...I really was hoping for a rose. We did go out for dinner and he did pay for it...so I guess that made it a bit better, a bit only lah...not much at all, but because I love him I eventually forgave him. Now I'm hoping he remembers my birthday and get me something....fingers cross...maybe I have to give him hints much earlier :P. Sayang he doesn't read my blog :D. But despite all that I still do love him... :)

So yah...that's all the things that are in my head for now...besides work...oh yah...and besides American Idol which is on tonight....WOOHOO!!! Excited, excited!!!

Oklah...ta for now...

Jogging, Dog Training & Bike Riding - All in an Evening's Work!!! Question is, Will it Happen???

2009-02-15T23:04:00.000-08:00

Things I got to do today!!!

I got to start jogging again!!! It's been months now since I last went to Taman Bulatan. Reason for that is because I had a major operation and I had to rest. Besides that, it has been raining none stop like forever. Thank goodness it has finally ended!!! I was lucky to be able to eat and eat and eat when I was recovering from the operation without gaining any weight at all, which was good and not so good at the same time cause I was like 42 kg and apparently I look seriously thin. The good part was that I could eat till my hearts content during Christmas and Chinese New Year. Unfortunately my time has ran out with the not gaining weight cause as of yesterday..I've somehow manage to gain 2kg...woohooo...and that's good I suppose but I need to maintain it and therefore the reason for me to start jogging again....plus I need to change the fat to muscles like how it was before...now only have fat...it even looks scary!!!

I got to train my two puppies to sit and shake hand. Bought them dog biscuits yesterday so will give it a go later. I will most probably be itching like crazy again later since I'm allergic to dogs. So sad but who cares!!! hahaha..I have the Red Tin powder which helps with the itch. I have yet to take any pictures of my puppies but one is called Panda cause he has black patches on his eyes and the other one is called Lulu AKA Piggy cause his tail looks like a pigs tail, and he is white with a tint of brown. I'm clueless to what breed they are but they are so cute and fat!!! I think my mom over feeds them....haha...will try and take some picture later and put it in here!

I got to get my daughter on her bike and give her a 20 minute lesson. I hope I have enough time after I do the two things above.

Let see, if I get out of work at 4.15pm, rush to Taman Bulatan, start jogging at 4.30pm, do 3 rounds to start off with, unlike my 8 rounds that I use to do :( but than again its better than nothing :D. Should finish jogging by 4.45pm...do some stretching and after that will probably leave Taman Bulatan at 4.55pm.

Rush to pick my daughter up at the babysitters at Pink fook (don't ask me why my daughter's babysitter stays so far away, its really a long but very logical story). Should reach her by 5.10pm. Rush home or rather drive more slowly cause daughter is in the car....and should reach home by 5.30pm.

Get my daughter's bicycle out and without changing, get her on the bike and try and teach her how to ride it by saying "Clever Girl" as many times as possible to keep her happy and motivate her at the same time. This will include lots of hugs and kisses. Should finish by 5.50pm by telling her that "its late already and the bugs will start coming out already". That will seriously freak her out and she will then proceed to enter the house...woohooo!!! That's two things down already.

Move towards my mom's house which is connected with mine, since the puppies are there most of the time (there is a door in between our house on the inside, again this is a long story of how my house came to be - lets just say that it makes it so much easier to take care of my mom and have yet have a separate house which was in the beggining a single house...hmmm...ur probably confuse...ok, forget the house) and go teach the puppies to sit and shake hand (while my daughter will be standing on a chair inside the house looking out at me cause she's also scared of dogs, I also don't know why)...the only two things that I know how to do with dogs...haha...I got to try the 'roll-over' trick but let me just start with sit and shake hand first..:D.

And that will end my day!!! Very productive I may say!!! :D. Now lets just see whether all this will really happen or not...haha....

That's it from me!!! Hmmm....I feel like going to shabu-shabu for dinner tonight....yum yum...ahhh....something to think about...mmmm.... ;)

Ta for now!!!

Hmmmm....Valentines Day is tomorrow...hmmm

2009-02-12T17:27:00.001-08:00

Woohoo!!! tomorrow is Valentines Day!!! That means today is Friday the 13th!!! Was actually thinking of going to get a hair cut during lunch later but since it's Friday the 13th, I'm worried that my new hair cut will look horrendous!!! But I still want to get a hair cut!!! Well, I don't believe in the Friday the 13th thingy...but who knows right? Maybe I should wait till tomorrow to get a hair cut....hmmm....something to ponder during my working hours....

As for Valentines Day tomorrow...I also don't know where to makan. Was thinking of going to Ming Chai restaurant to makan....to have their ever so delicious drunkard prawns...but then now I feel like eating Japanese food...so I'm thinking of either Nikko or Shiki...hmmm...I hope I don't change my mind again tomorrow. But than again, you know me, I'm so fickle minded. One moment I want this, and the next moment I want something else...I can now understand why my hubby has decided to stay out of making any decision whatsoever with where we eat :P..haha...smart guy!!!

Well, after being married for 4 years, coming 5 this year, and dating for 4 years before that Valentines Day is just a dinner thingy. Actually if I didn't mention going for dinner tomorrow, he probably wouldn't even remember!!! I wonder what happen to all the sparks??? Probably 'REALITY' hit and padam the sparks out...haha...so sad but so true...right??? I'm probably not the only one is this situation. I guess if I think on the positive side, I could even be better off than some, who's husbands don't even believe in celebrating Valentines Day...kan??? But than again there are some husbands who are so super romantic...buy flowers lah, buy present lah...hmmm....I wonder whether my hubby will even get me flowers...I seriously doubt it but who knows kan??? Maybe I should leave hints here and there...like pictures of flowers on his work table..and stick one on the tv and one on the fridge and one on the door to our bedroom...you think??? Haha...I think he will probably think I'm redecorating the house rather than leaving hints...haha...

If you're a married man and you're reading my blog...please do get flowers for your wife. She may say no need...but what she actually means is that she would love to have flowers!!! True! I don't bluff you wan! Unless she's been hinting that she wants something else lah...than get her that!!! But if its waaayyy to expensive, no need lah, cause its the recession period bah and she should understand that you cannot afford to spend so much. She should be happy with flowers already!!! I know I would...hehehe...but than again I'm very easy to please....:D

Anyway, tomorrow I'll probably keep my daughter up the whole day so she sleeps before 8pm That means I would have to prepare a schedule of what to do with her tomorrow that will make her very very tired by the end of the day...hmmm....maybe bring her window shopping with me tomorrow to all the malls...I'm positive by the end of the day, she'll be extremely tired...yes, yes, very good idea...that way I get to go and buy something for my hubby too..and at the same time maybe get a pair or two of shoes.. ;). That way the restaurants will still be open when we go for dinner...if not....there goes our Valentines dinner :P. But like I said, after this long of being together, it probably wouldn't even matter :D. Of course I say only lah!!! I'm very the romantic kind and will probably feel very very sad!!! See, that's what happens when you're a 'Pieces'! :P

Oklah...I'm pretty much talking crap...if you're reading this particular blog....I also cannot understand why your reading it...but thanks though...hehe :D

And to end it, a pic of me and my hubby...don't we look so good together??? :P How I wish he could be more romantic!!! Why ah some guys not romantic wan ah??? Why ah??? WHYYYYY???

And Happy early Valentines Day!!! Ta for now!!! Hmmm...I think I need to get a bigger Christmas tree next year...this tree is too small...you can't even see it when you take picture in front of it....

The New Bicycle and me Craving for UFO aka Mexican Hat....

2009-02-02T21:28:00.000-08:00

Sigh...its still raining....I guess not many people remembered to sing the song that I said we should sing....then again, why in the world would people want to listen to me...hahaha....

Anyway, yesterday I went to the bicycle shop to buy a nice little bicycle for my darling daughter...I saw one that I like with the criteria that she mentioned (the criteria was: PINK and have basket infront) I thought it was a really nice bicycle :D. I send it home to my hubby forst so he could clean it up a bit and make it look presentable then I went to pick her up. When we got back home, she didn't notice it but when she saw it, her whole face lit up!!! :D I of course happy lah! Cause I was the one who chose it mah!!! And I was thankful that she liked what I chose :P. She came down from the car and straight away went onto the bike....hehe...what child wouldn't do that....right?

Anyway, as usual being a 3 year old girl she couldn't really keep her feet on the pedal and instead of pedaling it to the front, she pedals it backwards, probably cause it was easier to move that way. And since I'm still PMS-ing....hahaha...I almost got upset cause she kept on pedaling it the wrong way and she kept on saying that the bicycle won't move. I even got down to my knees to help her pedal by putting my hand on her feet...it was a bit successful but not really...hahaha...so I think I took a few deep breathes and said to myself "for goodness sake JACQ!, it's her first time on the bike! Give her some time!!!". After a few rounds I got fed-up and went to look for the camera so I could take pictures of her...haha...everytime I see her smile, it melts my heart and I'm not angry anymore...:D. See that smile below...how can you stay angry at that cheecky little face :P

My extremely happy little sunshine :D

She's obviously trying her best to cycle but she has yet to coordinate herself. She'll concentrate so much on her pedalling that she forgets to turn the handles and goes right into the wall.. :)

Posing with her new wheels!

Talking about her smiling, just now when I picked her up from school, I was like 2 minutes late and she was crying (like really hard)....sigh...that just broke my heart...so I had to carry her and give her many many kisses. I ask her why she cried and whether it was because I was late, and she said Yes!. So kesian!!! Usually I'm one of those mom's who are eager to break down the fence to be the first to get to her class and since she first started class, I was always the first or the secong :P, so I guess she thought I wasn't coming since I wasn't the first neither the second. I had to reassure her pver and over again just now, that I will always pick her up even when I'm late....but I did also promise her that from now on I'll be early. And I'm sure I'll be early cause I don't want her to cry like that again...I really felt so bad that I made her cry just now....yes..I'm pretty emotional when I'm PMS-ing too!!!

Talking about PMS-ing again, I feel like eating the UFO looking kuih....or some people may call it the Mexican Hat....but I call it the UFO kuih cause that's what my dad use to call it :D. That kuih always reminds me of him cause when i was young, every time after he comes back from work, he will bring it back for us to eat before dinner...but I remembered at that time I use to like to eat the crispy part only and I usually left the middle part to anyone else who wanted to eat it...hmmm....I wonder who ate them up anyway...I could never sit still to find out. Oh well..gone are those days when there were no responsibilities and when I had my dad around. Sigh....I miss him so much...I wonder what he's up to in heaven. Alrighty, better not talk about him anymore before I get all emotional...:P

Oklah...enough about me...I can be so self-centered sometimes :P

TA for now!!! And after work I'll teach my daughter how to use her bike again :D TA!

The Bad, The Good and the PMS-ing...:P

2009-02-01T20:49:00.001-08:00

Hmmm...obviously "trying to update my blog" that particular night wasn't successful :P. Oh well, I guess there is nothing much that can be done now but to update it today :). Well, it's still lunch time now so I have like 10 minutes to type as fast as i can before I'm back to doing work.

Nothing fantastic has happen recently, accept for the fact that the rain has destroyed our beautiful Canada Hill...of course it's not totally destroyed lah but destroyed enough. It use to be nice and green hill...but now its muddy at the bottom in most parts. Miri oh Miri, what have become of you....sigh....well at least today is a bright sunny day but there is black clouds still hovering in the sky...wonder whether it will rain later???

Maybe we should all sing this song together in unison than the rain will go away. Ok? Alright, everybody, together now!

Rain rain, go away,
Come again another day,
Rain rain, go away,
Little Me, wants to play :D

Good Job you all!!! Even if you were just reading it, I'm sure the song was actually playing in your head :D

Besides all the catastrophe that has happen to Miri, good things have happen too to me...a few days back I saw a perfect semi-circle rainbow and I could even see where it ended....of course the ends always move if you try to move any nearer to the rainbow...but from far I could see it end. That happen when I was on my way to the hospital when I followed my mom for her medical check-up. I guess that just means that from now on my mom is going to be all strong and healthy :P. Don't you think so??? Hahaha....I have to be positive about that :D. At least something good is happening in my life :D.

And again yesterday when I was cooking maggie mee for my daughter for breakfast after church (reason why we had maggie mee is because the shop behind my house is still close for Chinese new year), I discovered 3 packets of 'perencah' in one packet of maggie mee! 3 you know! Not 2, Not 1 but 3!!!! What in the world did they expect me to do with it??? Hahaha...of course i didn't use all of it lah I thought that was a good sign :D. What kind of sign you may ask...well who knows...I have to just wait and see :D

Today my daughter went back to school and I'm amaze that she didn't cry. She gave me this sad look at the door of her class but only waved and went back into the class.....sigh...she's all grown up already...:(. Hmmm...I am way to emotional today...I swear its the PMS-ing...

Talking about PMS-ing...its really ridiculous when its PMS-ing time. One thing for sure is that when I PMS, I have like the shortest patience of all...and I can just snap at my husband at anytime...haha...kesian him. Besides that, I crave to eat everything sour, salty and sweet! And all of it at the same time!!! Like just now I wanted to eat chips so I went to GK to buy chips, than I saw some chocolates and I bought that too and than I wanted to have something a bit sweet and sour to drink and I bought Ice Lemon Tea!!! And since I have to blog now, I'm only having my Ice Lemon Tea and am going out of my mind thinking of the huge LAYS Chips that I smuggled into the office!!!

Ok, I better stop blogging now and have the super delicious chips that I bought....yum yum!!!

Ta for now people!!! And have a wonderful day!!! And when it starts raining, start singing the song ok!!! :D TA!

Update....

2009-01-21T17:36:00.000-08:00

Yes, I've been really busy this pass few days that I don't seem to have the time to blog. At work its peak season....and at night I seem to fall asleep to fast.

Will try and blog tonight and put some pictures in.

Some update on me:

1) Daughter has a cold, cough and fever.
2) Re-decorated my room so it looks bigger.
3) Car went for servicing, and air-con servicing as well.
4) Happily knock into another persons car...sigh....
5) Car's right break light glass broken a bit, and car brake pad is worn out (last change was August 08', so fast rosak..so angry with Perodua)
6) So much work!!!

Yah...that's it! Will try and write tonight! Ta for now!

This is Hilarious!!!

2009-01-12T17:13:00.000-08:00

I thought this was hilarious and wanted to share this video with you guys. I hope this makes your day a brighter one, like it did for me :D. I'm guessing that some of you may have seen it before but nothing like seeing it again to make you smile.

God Bless!!!

Love, ME!

Her First Day of SCHOOL!!! :D

2009-01-11T21:04:00.000-08:00

So yah! Last week was my daughter's first day of school....she was so excited to go and we thought everything would be just fine!

And you know being a mother, I was also as excited as her and worried at the same time cause I takut she would start crying. I took a day off that Monday to see how she was coping....and when we first reach there she was so excited...she went into the classroom and started taking some toys to play with and she could say bye and she even gave me a kiss.... anyway, here's some picture of her when she first entered the class and still smiling....

See, she still look so happy :D

...And, still happy :)...if only that two little boys didn't start crying...:P

Than more and more kids came and then one boy started crying and then another boy started crying then we could see she was getting scared. Then she would let my hand go and she kept on telling me to stay. I told her to make friends but I think she was terrified cause the teacher was trying to comfort the two boys who were struggling to break free...it was not a very interesting sight for a girl her age...hahaha....so obviously it freaked her out...poor girl....bear in mine she just turn 3 in December so all this kids are probably older than her....

We somehow manage to say bye to her with her very sad face and she thought we were standing outside looking through the window...we however decided to walk one round around the school and than come back and see how she was doing. When we came she was crying and asking for me.....so kesian....but we decided to just leave her and hope the teacher would be able to comfort her. Good thing is that the class ended at 10am that day and when we left her there, it was 8.30pm. When we came back to pick her up, she was still crying....so kesian her....apparently she didn't stop crying from the time we left...but she of course stopped when she saw us.

That afternoon I had to talk to her and tell her that she has to go to school and that she shouldn't cry cause she's a big girl already....and she said "Ok!", that was a relief for me...however, at night when we were about to sleep she told me she didn't want to go to school. So there was quite a commotion as I was trying to persuade her to go to school the next day and she was crying cause she didn't want to. At the end of it all, I had to tell her that if she doesn't go, the police will come and take her away....so she was of course terrified and said she will go to school. I know that's mean but that was the only way. At first I told her that the police will take me and my hubby away and that she would have to stay with her babysitter...and she said "ok" and that she was ready to go to the babysitter...and when she said that, it was 9pm at night already. So, that obviously didn't work as she was willing to sacrifice her parents to not go to school...haha...sad lah. The next day when she went to school....the teacher had to pull her away from me but she stop crying awhile later (that's what the teacher said lah) and when we picked her up she looked pretty happy...so that was a relief. She told us that she sang and dance :D.

Anyway, on the third day she didn't cry, on the fourth day, she gave me a very sad face that look like she was about to cry, and on the fifth day it was the same as the fourth day. Finally today, we left her with no problem at all. I guess she has already accepted the fact that even though she cries, it wouldn't make a difference. But there was one boy who was still crying...poor him...when the mom sends him, he will cry and when the mom picks him up he will cry...kesian....

Today when we picked her up, she was very happy cause she was going to stay home with her grandmother. Almost the whole of last week, she went to the babysitter (her aunty) and most of the time when we left her, she was crying.....I guess I was on leave for so long (almost 1 month) with her at home that she didn't want to go back to the babysitter again. But the babysitter said that after we were out of sight she immediately stopped crying. I guess she just wanted to be at home and not at the babysitters house...:D. Well, my mom has decided to take care of her in the afternoon's now cause my mom feels so sorry for her. You know how grandmothers are...cannot see the grandchild cry wan...:P

So, that's my story for today! :D

Ta for now!!!

A New Year, A New Beginning!!! :D

2009-01-07T16:12:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!!!

I know its been like forever since I wrote on my blog....it was the Holidays and my daughter was with me so it was pretty difficult to get onto the computer at home. When she was asleep, I was asleep too....haha....therefore no blogging. Got back to work on Tuesday but was busy catching up with work as I was basically away from the office for almost 3 weeks. As for today, a bit more freer to start writing something here :D.

So, its the new year for a new beginning. I've come to terms that I might never have another child and if God gives me one....I'll definitely be the happiest person alive. With this said, I'm not going to try and try and try and be depress every month when my period comes cause that will definitely not work....true? It's like Murphy's Law, the more you want a baby, the harder it is to get pregnant. The more you don't want one, the likelier you are to get one. Does that make sense??? I mean seriously, if you really think about it, couples who are not married seem to be getting pregnant here and there and than getting married. But those who are married seem to have a hard time getting pregnant....for quite a number of cases lah....:P. Strange isn't it...:). Of course I still think its wrong to have sex before marriage....but that's what I think lah....I hope no one gets offended here :D

Anyway, I've name my little girl who is in heaven....I've named her Sabella Solomon. Sabella means "Consecrated to God" and she is consecrated to God so I thought that name really fits her :D. Its actually spelled "Sabela" but I added another "l" to make it look nicer...haha...you know how we humans are...never satisfied with anything :P.

As for my little Seraphina....she has started school already!!! I'll talk about that and put a picture of her with her uniform in tomorrow's blog :D

That's it from me for today. like I said, a new year with a new beginning and lots and lots of BABY DUST to those who have been trying and will be trying for a little bundle of joy this year. God Bless You All!!!

Love, ME!!!! Ta for now!!!

I Lost My Pregnancy :(

2008-12-15T18:17:00.000-08:00

Sorry for the MIA. Its been a long month since I wrote the last post. My last post was about wanting to get pregnant......and guess what, I was actually pregnant then...note the word "WAS".

Let me tell you the story. It's really strange. As I was writing that particular post, I didn't know that I had a baby growing in me. It was probably about 2 to 3 weeks old. Of course I was clueless cause I'm the kind who usually does not suffer from morning sickness and I was having my period at that time (I thought it was my period) cause it pretty much came within the 30 days frame. So who would have guessed right?

Anyway, I wasn't feeling all that well and decided to see the doctor on the 20th Nov. At that time I thought I was having really bad period cramps. Went to the doctor and he said the same. I went home with one day sick leave and pain killers. Then on Sunday morning, 23rd Nov, I was in so much pain that I couldn't even walk. Every time I tried, I kept wanting to faint so I had to immediately sit down. I was having cold sweat and my ears were buzzing. I had to consume pain killers and I rested for a bit before my hubby took me to Columbia Asia. When I reached there, they immediately put me into the emergency area, apparently I was so pale. The doctor again tried to figure out what was wrong with me and they diagnose me with Urinary Tract Infection. After a few hours, I was sent home with more medicines to take.

After taking the medicines, I was fine but my stomach was still bloated and it just didn't feel right. I went back to the doctor on Thursday, 27th Nov, and I told him I was still bleeding and it has been almost two weeks. He noted that I was still pale looking and decided to take my blood, urine and stool sample this time. I again went home with some more medicine. That afternoon I got a call from the doctors place saying that my blood results were back and to come in the next day.

So, in I went again to Columbia Asia on the 28th Nov, and this time he told me my haemoglobin was very low. He then wanted to send me to a specialist called Dr.Yeo but I requested that he should send me to a Gynaecologist instead cause I was still having my period. He agreed and I was immediately referred to Dr.Aida. That morning as well, I went to see her, and she did and sonogram and she saw something in my womb. She then took my urine test and told me I was pregnant. I was of course in shock. Told me that it could be a molar pregnancy which isn't a baby or it could be a missed abortion or more like a miscarriage but the sac is still left in my womb. She said she had to do a D & C (if you are not sure what it is you can look it up) to clean my womb. So I was admitted and got the D & C done. Was feeling fine in the evening so I was discharge. I was actually sad that I lost a baby but happy that finally they figured out what was wrong with me. I was given 2 weeks medical leave. After resting for 6 days , I went back to work on the 5th Dec.

However, on Saturday, 6th Dec, during my daughter's birthday party at the boat club, I had a sudden attack of pain which pain me feel faint. I thought it was the fruits I ate that was too cooling that made me feel like that. Hubby ask me whether I wanted to go and see a doctor but I said its ok, and I told him it could be the fruits. Was in pain that night but somehow it was bearable. The next day I was still able to go to church and all. Went back to work on Monday feeling absolutely fine. On Tuesday, 9th Dec, I received a call saying that my results were back from the lab and I needed to come in and see the Doctor the next day.

So the next day, 10th Dec, I met with Dr.Aida again and she told me that there were no signs of any pregnancy tissue when they did the D & C. So she did another sonogram on me and told me that there was something behind my womb. I was devastated cause this just meant that I have an ectopic pregnancy and it means that I would have to be admitted again. She checked my urine and I was still pregnant.

In I went again to be admitted for a small surgery to take out the baby that was in my fallopian tube. Well, it was suppose to be a small surgery, instead that I had to cut open my cesarean scar again to solve the problem.

The operation lasted for 3 hours due to complications. Apparently the fallopian tube had ruptured already and I was bleeding. She tried as best as she could to save that fallopian tube but it wouldn't stop bleeding and I was just way to pale. After 20 minutes of trying, she had to tie it up to stop the bleeding. And that meant, I lost one tube to conceive a baby.

I was given 2 pints of blood transfusion as I lost too much blood. She let me rest that night and only came in to see me the next morning, 11th Dec. She told me one of the saddest things that I've ever heard in my life. She told me that I lost my right fallopian tube and that my left Fallopian tube did not have those nice fingers at the end. Instead it was well rounded. She told me that this meant that I have a very low chance of ever getting pregnant again. She said scientifically it looks as if its not possible but she also did say in her own words that God works in mysterious ways.

I of course cried my eyeballs out that day but I believe that nothing is impossible to God. I believe in miracles and who knows one of these days you'll read a blog about me being pregnant again. But for now, I'm grateful that I have one beautiful daughter. Worst comes to worst, there is always the option of adoption.

And that's my story. I'm recovering at home, which means my Christmas has started early :D. I have no clue why this has happen to me, but I believe God has a reason for everything. I'm also grateful that I'm still alive...:)

And that's it from me. Have a blessed day ahead everyone. Will write again in a couple of days. Ta for now!!!

P/S. I have yet to name my baby that is now in heaven. Any suggestions for a nice name. I'm thinking its a girl. So her name has to start with the letter 'S' :). Sigh...how I wish I was still pregnant and it was a normal pregnancy....

Thinking of having another Baby...what say you all???

2008-11-19T19:05:00.000-08:00

I don't know lah....this past few days I've been seriously thinking of getting pregnant again and moving on to my second child. I think my daughter is at a stage where I'm sure she will be able to cope with a little brother or sister.

Hmmm...than again, I think it could be my hormones being all upside down because I'm PMS-ing that I feel like I want another child...OR it could be that I've been a round my friend Kath all the time that makes me feel like I want to get pregnant...hahaha...Kath if you're reading this, I'm not blaming you for anything...haha...I always love hanging out with you :D

So, how now brown cow??? (If only I had a brown cow, it probably would have some kind of answer for me...haha:P) Sigh....I'm in total conflict with myself...haha...Maybe I should just go ahead and get pregnant since I'm still young and only going to turn 30 next year. But I know wanting to have a baby, and having to go through the whole process of having sleepless nights are two very opposite things. I guess the question I have to ask myself is, 'Am I ready for sleepless nights or not???'

Sigh....I'M NOT SURE!!!! Hahaha...My wanting-to-have-a-baby-at-the-moment seems to be stronger than whether I'm ready for sleepless nights or not...hahaha...I guess I'll have to ask myself this question again in a few days time...when my hormones are settled!

Haha...damn! it's not easy being a woman!!!

This is what I miss...a small little bundle to carry around and to love :P This is Sera when she was a few hours old, almost 3 years ago....sigh...time sure flies!!!

Ta for now!!!

I SAW DOLPHINS in MIRI WATERS!!! Woohoo!!!

2008-11-19T17:33:00.001-08:00

So I'm back!!! Hahaha...sorry lah....sometimes have to be busy also bah....not every time free as a bird....kan?

Anyway, am really looking forward to THE AMAZING RACE ASIA 3 tonight...I seriously do hope Ida and Tania wins....fingers cross!!! :D

Ok, so I'm suppose to actually blog about Dolphins since last week...but suddenly out of the blue I became busy....so today I'll write about it lah :P

Well you see, a few weeks back, Gianna, the person-in-charge of the dolphin research programme in Sarawak gave me a buzz and ask me whether I was free to go to Sea and see whether we get to spot any dolphins. It was pretty last minute but I was as free as a bird at that time so I said, sure thing.

So the next day I woke up earlier than usual, got my daughter ready and sent her to the babysitter and rushed to the Piasau Jetty. Since it was pretty last minute I didn't get any motion sickness pills...so I prayed really hard that the sea would be calm. Good thing it was!!! So no vomiting on my part...phew :).

Gianna said it would be our lucky day today cause its just the two of us (of course plus the boatman and his assistant)...so I said "YAH! it should be our lucky day!!!" Obviously I was very excited about the whole idea of spotting a dolphin that day.

We left the Jetty at around 7.30am and headed out to sea towards the Baram side. We headed out towards where the fishermen were so we could talk to them first and ask them whether they've seen Dolphins. Apparently they do, and they see it on a very regular basis. That particular fishermen said he even saw a couple of them just a few minutes ago...and that was pretty depressing for us cause that meant that we just missed them. He said that if we stayed a bit longer we might have a chance to see them. Unfortunately, if we did so, it we affect the research route...so instead of staying we decided to move from them but and continue on our route.

The fisherman who gave us the information about the Dolphins....he was catching small prawns :D

So there I was again, staring into the open blue/brown sea. It was ok, the first couple of hours, but than the hot sun and the cold wind kind of made it hard for me to keep my eyes open. Thank goodness I had my ever so trustable (I know that there is not such word but I like that word, so I'm using it...:P) somboi!!! Hahaha...that did the trick in keeping me awake.

At around 10am (if I'm not mistaken), Gianna spotted a Finless Porpoise, she first thought it was a log, but than she saw it came up and went back down. Than we all turned towards the area she was pointing but sadly it didn't come back up again, so she couldn't take any picture of it. I was of course disappointed cause I would have loved to see a finless porpoise...I mean in all my life, I've only seen a bottlenose dolphin which are the normal dolphins which we see on tv that does tricks. Oh well, so much for my luck.

This is what a finless porpoise looks like...see...no fin! :D. (Picture taken from http://dolphins-world.net/image/guide/sunameri/finless_porpoise.jpg)

BUT!!! Another two hours later around 12.20pm, Gianna spotted a family of bottlenose dolphins....woohoo!!! Even though I've seen them before, it was the first time I've seen them in our Miri waters and I was ecstatic!!! Hahaha...yes, small things like this makes me happy. Note that Gianna was the one who spotted the dolphins again.....haha...this just proves that I'm pretty useless in spotting for them....hmmm...I wonder whether they'll consider bringing me out again to spot Dolphins in March...hahaha. Anyway, we all turn towards where she was pointing and I was happy to see them come up and go back in the water again. According to Gianna, they were probably feeding, as in chasing after fishes for them to eat :D. There were like 15 to 20 of them...very hard to count as they all came up and different times. It was a whole family, which probably consist of grandparents, parents, and children.....soooooo ADORABLE!!!! That just made my day!!!! We stood there looking at them for quite awhile and Gianna manage to take a few pictures.

Obviously, when things like this happen, I usually somehow always manage not to bring my camera....sigh....WHY!!! I also don't know why....but Gianna did send me some pictures. Pictures as below:

Sorry that the dolphins were a bit far....it was not easy to catch this pictures as we didn't know when they would come up to the surface....well, better than nothing right?

Another picture....

After that we went on looking for some more Dolphins but than it started to rain so we headed back to the Piasau Jetty. I was wet...but I couldn't care less about it cause I SAW DOLPHINS!!! Hahaha....and our day ended at 2pm, and it was a good day and we were indeed lucky!!! Did I mention that when I was out in the sea, all I could think of was to eat Tom Yam and Midin Belacan??? Hahaha...so mengidam at that time....and NO I'm not pregnant...not yet...maybe next year lah...see how :P

Ok than, that's it from me for today! TA!!!

WELCOME TO MY WORLD: BBQ, Beach and Hiking...in the following order...:D

2008-11-05T18:23:00.000-08:00

My story continues.......:D

Saturday - 01st November 2008

Woke up really early in the morning to send my daughter to the babysitter and rushed off to church cause it was All Saints Day. After church, me and my mom went to the Cemetery in Lambir to visit my dad's grave. You know, I think they seriously need to tar the road to that place....its so terrible!!! Anyway, it was good to go there cause we haven't been there for a very long time. Its also nice to know that the place is very well kept. :D

In the afternoon, had a thanksgiving BBQ at a friend's place which my husband was the BBQ Chef. Did I ever mention to you all that my husband is one fantastic BBQ-er!!! So far in my whole existence, he is the bestest of the best....he does it with such ease and it never turns black!!! That's why I love him sooooo much...hahaha....I guess that's the reason why I married him :P Don't tell him that :D

After the BBQ and the sitting around and lepaking, we left our friend's house at around 6.30pm. Then I got my very exhausted little girl to shower, got her into her PJ's, fed her and got her to sleep. At 9pm went over to Len's and Alison's house to play scrabble....haha...I guess we all just wanted a quiet day in instead of the usual clubbing scene :P. We are not getting any younger I suppose :P. We played till 1 am.

Sunday - 02nd November 2008

Went to church as usual, than had breakfast at the usual place....sigh, I'm beginning to think that we are so predictable...hahaha....after that, got home and lepak and put the little girl to sleep for her afternoon nap. When she woke up at around 3.30pm, we all got ready to go to PBC for a day out at the beach with Len's family....it was a fun-filled-under-the-sun-sunday. The kids played in the water and tried to build a sandcastle and made sand balls :D. Than we had dinner and the kids attacked the playground. Seriously, I have no clue where they get all their energy from. Anyway, we left at 7.15pm. We got the cue to leave when Len's daughter started crying cause she fell down. And on the way to the car my daughter fell down cause she wanted to follow her dad to the toilet and ran....and she started crying as well....haha....so we had two crying kids on our hand. Plus the fact that they had used up all their energy and were extremely tired....and when that happens, you tend to get kids who will not stop crying...hahaha....because they become super manja already :P.

Sera and Christian at beach making balls out of sand....:) I'm trying to sound as un-obscene as possible...haha...if there is such a word.

Merdeka!!! Well, who knows what she's thinking...

The beautiful young moms!!! Adeeehhh....hahaha.....I seriously mintak puji this one :P

The sun has set and the sky looks beautiful :) Doesn't it??? The wonders of God!

So we got home, I showered the little Sera and she was in no mood to shower so she basically cried throughout the bath....poor girl. Somehow I manage to brush her teeth and get her into her PJ's. Finally we were all settled down and she fell asleep in the living room cause that's where we are sleeping at the moment :(....yes, the air-con is not back yet cause they are waiting for the spare part to come from KL :(. This is taking forever!!!

Anyway, after putting her to sleep....I also KAPUTED :D. Yeslah...I showered also when I showered her....I very multi-tasking one....well you have to be when you have kids.... :D

And that's what happens on Saturday and Sunday :D Now on to Monday :)

Monday - 03rd November 2008

The very first problem I had that morning was my daughter didn't want to go to the babysitter...so after so much persuasion she finally gave in. So got her to the babysitter and I got myself to work. After work, me and Syl went Hiking at Canada Hill....YES! my 5 day plan to lose 1kg...hahaha.

I tell you ah, I was so semangat and I told Syl, lets do the 5 hills and lets do it jogging!!! Wiseh man!!! Me ingatlah me macam superwoman lah...hahaha...and after completing the two hills and going up the second hill, I was like "WHY NEVER END WAN????", "WHERE IS THE LIGHT???", "AHHHHH! I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!" ....and when we finally completed the 2nd Hill I had enough!!! hahaha....I told Syl to go on and I will take the short cut out (Thank goodness for the short cut!!!). And that's just what I did....hahaha...seelah...talk only banyak but when do...almost die!!! Kononlah I thought I was FIT...apparently I am SO NOT FIT!!! :P My muscle in my thighs were super aching and my when I slept that night...my bum pun pandai cram!!! hahaha...such a weird feeling....

Anyway, my muscles were still aching yesterday but I did go again yesterday...this time it was much better. Wanted to continue on with the other hills but Syl had to rush somewhere so we didn't have enough time. We are going again this Friday and I'm going to complete all 5 hills....screw the muscle pain...I know I can do it :P....jangan-jangan I say now and tomorrow I tidak habis lagik....hahaha...oh well...nothing like mentally preparing myself :D. As for today....I'm going jogging later....got to be more fit for the hills :P. Apalah lagi if I want to go climb Mount Kinabalu??? Probably need to get those runners who run up and down the mountain to carry me up....hahaha.....sedih-sedih :P

So that's my 5 day plan to lose 1kg...will let you know on Saturday whether it was a success. Btw, I have yet to talk about Tuesday (04th November 2008), cause that's another topic altogether...and that will be what I'll blog about tomorrow :D.

Till tomorrow....TA!

Halloween & Cute Kids in Costume!!! :D

2008-11-04T17:02:00.001-08:00

It has been a very exciting few days!!! Despite someone saying that I'm fat, either than that, it's been exciting :D I guess my life isn't so boring after all :P.

FRIDAY - 31st Oct 2008

Rush back from work to pick my daughter up from the babysitter, than got her ready by 5.30pm for her trick-or-treat session. She was so excited cause she got to wear her so called princess costume which turn into a fairy costume cause I just realise that princess does not have a wand...haha...go figure...I'm so DUH! sometimes :P. But than I didn't have wings so decided she go as a wingless fairy....FORTUNATELY, Alison had a pair of wings in her house :D Here's a few picture of the kids and their Halloween trick-or treat-ing :D.

Sera the fairy :D

Lets see...we had woman in black, spiderman, superman, batman, a pirate which hasn't been dressed up yet (the boy with the stripe baju), we had a persecutionist (I don't think there is such a word, but I'm sure you get what I mean, and I think that was what he was...haha...correct me if I'm wrong), a princess and a fairy!

Hmmm...not sure why they are closing their ears...Sera did it first than Ethan followed :P...so cute!

All of them including Jasmine the momok outside Len and Alison's house (the organizers of the event and the very first house)

The fairy walking to the next house....

She stops to take a picture cause her mom says so....haha ;) Cannot resist bah...so cute!

The kids at Drew's house.....

The fairy collecting sweets from the her dad...notice her crown has fallen down to her face...haha...it was too big for her...kesian her, she had to keep on pushing it up. Notice the wings were also slanting...haha...that didn't even bother her at all :D

Solomon giving sweets to the rest of the kids!!! :D

Everyone getting back into the car...see the fairy's wings...:P

And that's how squash we were in the car and little Jasmine who was the momok, has turn into a 70's chick!!! So cute!!!

I'll continue with the Saturday, Sunday and Monday tomorrow and Tuesday's very interesting event the day after tomorrow. Can't fit in everything today if not it will be the longest blog I have ever had :P Hope you enjoyed looking at all the cute kids in their costume...sorry that there was more of my daughter's picture than anthing else...hahaha...I just can't help it :D

That's it from me for today! TA!

I'm FAT!!!

2008-10-30T23:30:00.000-07:00

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Somebody just told me that I'm fat!!! Well, it was said like this "Wah! Why you mengembang already???".

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! How come? How can??? Cannot be!!!

Hmmmm...but come to think about it, I've been eating way much more these days and having less exercise...........ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....TIDAK!!! I think I only gain 1kg bah!!! And its not suppose to show!!! Maybe its the jeans I wearing today? Well, if it is, I'm not wearing this jeans anymore!!! Anybody wants a size 25 levis jeans??? Must be my height if not it'll be hanging...:P

Sigh....you know, I so pantang when people tell me I put on weight...now I'll be working out 5 days a week...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....by next Friday I should be back to normal I hope!!! And that is 1 kg lighter....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...I'm still in denial....sigh...and life goes on...

That's it from me! TA!

Halloween vs Ghost Festival...hmmmm....

2008-10-29T18:53:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow is Halloween!!! WOOHOO!!! Not that I've ever celebrated it in my entire life but hey..I would definitely want my daughter to have a go at it :P. I'm not into all the evilness of Halloween but I'm in for the sweets!!! The more my daughter gets the more we all get to eat...haha... Unfortunately we people in Malaysia do not celebrate such an occasion, instead we have what we call "Ghost Festival/Ghost Month"...and they don't even have sweets :( they do however have food which they give to their deceased ancestors at their burial place Hmmm...I seriously hope I got this right...I'm a Christian so I'm not sure how this Ghost Festival really goes...anybody knows??? Hahaha....so sorry if I'm wrong :) so for the ghost festival there is definitely no sweets for the living.

Well, the Ghost Festival is basically a day which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm. It is also known as the Chingming Festival, where the living descendants pay homage to their ancestors and on Ghost Day, the deceased visit the living. (Taken from the Wikipedia)

Halloween on the other hand is when the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, pretty much the same as ghost festival...don't you think? and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops, bonfires would hence be lit to ward off evil spirits. (Taken from the Wikipedia) I guess the only difference is one is to pay homage and the other is to scare of the evil spirits. Plus the fact that Halloween involve sweets for the kids.

So anyway, back to my story of Halloween tomorrow.....I'm positively sure that there will be a lot of trick or treating going on at Piasau Camp tomorrow I could be wrong, cause I'm just guessing...hehehe and there will also be a Halloween party for the kids on Saturday at Piasau Boat Club at 4pm...I'm sure the kids would have a blast there.

By the way, do you have any clue why during Halloween they always say "trick or treat?" Well, just in case you didn't know, the "trick" part of "trick or treat" is an idle threat to play a trick on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. (Again facts taken from Wikipedia:)) So that's why in the western countries everyone have treats to give :P...but than again the kids are probably way to young to think of what trick to come up with if the house owners doesn't give them anything, or they could be too occupied about moving on to the next house to get more sweets than to think of a trick to play....don't you think so? Then again, never underestimate kids...:P Its best just to prepare sweets :D

Oh yah...back to my actual reason why I'm blogging about Halloween today. I know, I always seem to get carried away....:) So, tomorrow...my dear friend Alison has decided to have some trick or treating for the kids...I think it was very nice of her to organize it...at least that would keep the kids entertain. We are going to go to her house, her Mom's house which is next to her house, and two of her neighbours house. We will also be going over to another good friends house which is in Pujut 7 and than the final house would be my house. Don't think I'll be getting any pumpkin or even bother decorating my house...cause if I did, my mom would make a whole lot of HU-HA...she would definitely not be happy....so this is going to be a very low-profile-sweet -collecting-event :D Hope my daughter doesn't get all excited and start blabbering about it to my mom...if not...*kuang-kuang-kuang!*.

After tomorrow, the next thing to look forward to is CHRISTMAS!!! WOOHOO!!! I so love Christmas!!! Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way!!!...haha...ok..ok...will stop singing...

Anyway, will take pictures of the kids in their costumes tomorrow and post it up here!!! Happy Halloween you all!!!

That's it from me! TA!

Beautifying Products???

2008-10-28T19:34:00.000-07:00

So yah...what beautifying products should we use? What's best??? There are millions of product out there, so how do we choose??? Who knows? I'm clueless too...but in today's blog I'll give you an insight to what I use...not sure whether its working...hahaha...so read on if you want to know....:P

Beautifying products that I use on a daily basis....unfortunately beautifying products can only do so much and the rest really depends on how you really look like in the first place....haha...unless of course you go for plastic surgery lah than you can probably alter your look according to how you would like to look like. Sadly to say, I'm not into plastic surgery...so I'm stuck with what I have. Which I like of course, cause I'm so using to seeing myself everyday in that way.

Well, don't really want to go to heaven one day and hear God say "Who are you? You're not Jacqueline? I made Jacqueline, so I would definitely know who she is, and you are NOT Jacqueline!!!" Scary leh....ok...ok...my imagination is running away. I'm not even sure whether I'll be able to get to heaven....sigh...that reminds me, I need to start doing more good things these days...life is short.

So yah...back to my daily beautifying products...here's my list!!! TA-DA!!! Don't ask me why I'm telling you all this...this is my indirect way of cheering myself up....at least I'm trying to stay young...kan? Hahaha..if only that is possible...

Dermalogica - Special Cleansing Gel, Multi-Active Toner, Skin Smoothing Cream To keep my skin looking young I suppose....
Dermalogica - Extreme C for any small pigmentation that I'm starting to have...sigh...the older you get the more skin problems you tend to have...:(
Neways - Ultrashine Radiance for my teeth...suppose to be really good as its all natural...or something like that. Tried going back to using the normal toothpaste a few days back only to find that the normal toothpaste is so sweet! So strange...and that was Darlie. Now I even converted my daughter's toothpaste to Neways Radiance which is not so minty...instead of giving her the normal kids colgate. Apparently its suppose to be cancer-free....no chemicals in it...
Oral-B - Mint Floss So I can avoid going to a dentist as much as possible.
E Prim - Evening Primrose Softgel I guess that's to keep me having nice skin? Which I obviously don't :(
Amway - Double X That's a complete set of supplements to keep me in good health throughout the day....so far its working pretty good....I don't have sinus anymore these days.

And that's it....not doing a whole lot to beautify myself...but I guess this is enough to keep my skin healthy....I think....anything else I should use???

Oklah...that's it from me...not that what I wrote today would even interest you :P BUT...do let me know what other products that are really good out there that I should try.... Cheers!!!

TA for now!!!

Sigh...Marriage....

2008-10-27T16:34:00.000-07:00

Marriage needs a lot of love, patience and forgiveness if not you would very likely just decide to pack up your bags and your kids and move to another country altogether without the knowledge of the other half...

Sigh....Something to ponder on....

That's it from me today. TA!

My AIR-CON has KAPUTED!!!

2008-10-27T00:35:00.000-07:00

WWHHHYYYYYY??? Wwwwhhhhyyy??? Whyyyy is this happening to me???? Breathe Jacqie!!! BREATHE!!!

Sigh...my bedroom air-con is not working and has not been working since last Saturday. It all started when it tripped like 4 times on Friday night and finally it decided to die on us. Got a good fireman friend who use to be an electrician to come look at the air-con and miraculously it turned on when he was there, but that night when we tried to switch in on again, it just didn't want to. I swear that this kind of things are alive. Thy always switch on when a professional comes in to look at them but dies again when they are gone. Macam making fun of us only.

Anyway, since I'm seriously spoil yes I admit I am, after all I am the youngest in the family but mind you, I'm only spoil in a sense that I must have air-con when I sleep at night. Either than that, I don't think I'm that spoil lah...:P and cannot live without air-con....I have moved our bedroom into the living room. So, we have been sleeping there for the last two days. My daughter thinks its really fun and she told me this morning not to move the bed out of the living room :D. She said it like this "Don't move the bed, ok? We sleep there again, ok?"

And since the actual air-con man came today to have a look at it, he said its probably the CPU...well, at least now I know that a computer and an air-con have something in common, and they both have CPU's!!! I learn something new everyday. After saying that, he took the CPU and told my hubby that he'll send back the CPU in a couple of days....sooooo.....that's just great!!! Two more days of sleeping in the living room....I sooooo miss my room already but its just too hot to be in there at night....well actually, I think if we switch on two fans I could survive but since we have an air-con in the living room, we might as well just make use of it....kan???

So, living room, here I come again tonight!!! My daughter will be so happy to find out that we will be sleeping there for another 2 nights. At least someone is happy :D

Ok, that's it from me...hopefully the air-con repair doesn't cost a bomb....sigh...I'm so worried now. TA for now!!!

The Tomb of Dato Permaisuri....I Didn't Know!!! Did you???

2008-10-21T18:39:00.000-07:00

So, last Friday for our WHPH we went on a boat trip down our beautiful very much polluted river :D. We didn't get to see any crocodiles at all and I'm begining to think its because the river is serisouly polluted!!! They have either died in it or they just can't see a damn thing from under the water....you want to see how polluted our river is? Well, here's a picture of our sad sad river...

Here is a picture of people collecting Pineapple, probably from their own farm...

I guess we being on the boat added more pollution to it as well....

Despite the pollution, the trees were nice and green and the sun was shinning very brightly...it was a beautiful day nevertheless!!! Look at us looking all happy!!! :D

And during out Boat Trip, we stopped at this particular place....(picture below). Have you ever been here before? It the "Dato Permaisuri's Tomb". Well, in all my life, I never knew this place even existed!!! And I'm from Miri!!! The guy in brown whom everyone is facing is the one who told us the story of that place...and he is an ANG-MO!!!! How can that be!!! So memalukan you know!!! Hiyah...that time I don't even want to admit I'm from Miri...hahaha. But at least I know now lah....better than not know at all until I'm like 60 years old....kan?

Well, this is the story. This is taken from http://www.miricity.com.my/. Located at Pujut Tanjung Batu, the tomb of Dato Permaisuri is related to a legend much talked about by the elders of the local Malay community Maybe that's the reason why I have never heard of the story before, maybe if I was Malay I would have known...you think??? Any Malay's or Muslim out there who hasn't heard of this story yet and am just as clueless as I am???. The story is about a beautiful princess who was ship wrecked whilst sailing in Miri coastal waters.

By the blessing of Allah (Muslim's word for God) she landed on the beach where the locals took care of her Wait till you here the other part of the story...I'll tell you later. She settled down, adapted herself well in the local village life and did not want to return to Johore. Thereafter she set up a school and spread the teaching of Islam thereby becoming very much respected here for the love and unselfish service to the community.

In recognition of her service to the local Muslim community, her tomb was gazette by the Sarawak Government to be a part of Miri Heritage. In addition two road and secondary school so that's where SMK Dato Permaisuri got its name from...hiyah...now only I know!!! in Miri were named after her. Many who know of the legend continue to visit her tomb to show respect for the great princess.

That's one part of the story...the one that is written near the tombstone goes something like this. This is my version of what I read.

Apparently, in those days the Royal family from Johore had very close ties with the Royal family in Brunei. And they would often travel by sea to visit each other. In this particular story, the Permaisuri and her husband and her husband's family were on a ship on the way to Brunei when it got ship wrecked. The husband had to decide on who to save...his mom or his wife. In the end he decided to save his mom with the idea that you could get another wife and not another mom. Well, he did have a point!!! Don't you think?

Anyway, he saved his mom and they all manage to get to Brunei safely. As for the wife...since he didn't save her, she was left to die in the sea...by God's blessing, she survived the ship wrecked and ended up in Miri. The people were good to her, so she decided to stay in Miri. Her husband however heard that she survived and came to Miri to persuade her to go back with him. But she obviously was pretty pissed-off with him for leaving her to die that she decided to stay in Miri. I mean if I were her, I would be pretty pissed-off too...wouldn't you? But than again, I have a soft spot for MOMS in general and if my hubby was to safe me and left his mom to die, I would feel really reallty guilty and would never live it down....so...in my case...if it was me, I would be very very very confuse, thank goodness she wasn't me...haha. And that's the story!!!

And I only know about it after living in Miri for almost 30 years....WOOHOO!!! Sadlah me...haha...I wonder whether there are anything else about Miri's history that I'm still clueless about...sigh...I've got too google it and find out more before some other ang-mo tells me about my own City....haha...oh well....I'm beginning to think that being in Miri too long has made me an ignorant Mirian....haha...and life goes on!!! :P

That's it from me!!! TA!

Why doens't anything interesting happen to me???

2008-10-20T22:11:00.000-07:00

My life is not very exciting....that's why I haven't written much...I beginning to think I'm running out of ideas....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! This is not good for my blogging career!!! Anyway, here's something that happen to me this week...no so interesting lah...but can lah....

Number 1:

My daughter had her first durian. How did that happen, her grandfather wanted to give her to try and my hubby said no need cause durian panas bah...and I agreed but my daughter being as she is, would always try something if we say cannot...haha...biasalah kids. So I say oklah...give her a bit too try...so she tried and she I ask her "Nice or not?" and first she say "Nice" than in a split second she shake her head to the left ad the right, meaning not nice...than we ask whether she want some more and she said...No...haha...than we ask her to drink water...funny girl.

Number 2:

Yesterday while sending my daughter to the babysitter....I had to stop to let 6 chicks and their mother cross the road. Thank goodness I wasn't driving so fast, if not I would have rolled over a few of the chicks....they were so cute!!! Once they saw me stop, they quickly quickly cross the road...I guess chickens are pretty smart too...sayang I didn't have a camera at that time to stop and take picture of them walking across the street :P

Ok..that's it from me, boring kan! Only two things have happen to me...oh yah...and I started jogging again...had too cause I gain a bit of weight...seriously freaked me out when i went on the scale..yah...and that's it....welcome to my boring life....becoming even worst...day by day BUT I love it nevertheless :P TA!!!

So Strange....

2008-10-14T21:55:00.000-07:00

Last night I went to sleep pretty early. Had every intentions of watching Ugly Betty and CSI NY and wanted to exfoliate my face but I was physically exhausted...no idea why....so as usual, while putting my daughter to sleep, I fell asleep as well!!! :D.

Then around 1am I woke up and went outside to see whether my hubby was sleeping on the sofa outside....and yes he was...so I woke him up and told him to go into the room and he did just that. Somewhere around 3am my daughter wanted a bottle of milk and I told her that I'm not giving her one cause she should stop that habit of asking for it and sleep through the night instead. But she wanted her way and made a big fuss about while she scream and the top of her lungs and started kicking me. WAH! at that time I got so angry with her you know....dahlah I so tired. So I raised my voice and told her off. I know, I know its not that hard to make a bottle of milk but her bottle seems to have a problem and I need to lock the cap at a right angle so it doesn't leak and that can take forever...so I was so damn irritated that I had to do just that at 3am in the morning. After I pepot-pepot (meaning that I was giving her a lecture on how it will feel if she was the one who had to wake up in the middle of the night to get something for me) her, I finally manage to lock the bottle at a right angle and went to back to bed. At that point, she came face to face with me and pull me close to hug me....and then I also become lembut lah...and told her that she shouldn't do that again the next time. She should stop that habit. Then she gave me a smile..so obviously I couldn't stay mad at her...sigh...sometimes I'm just too soft hearted.

Anyway, after that she drank her milk and we both fell back to sleep. Somewhere in my deep sleep, I heard my hubby get out of bed angrily and walked out of the room and bang the door. I was a bit confuse but decided not to think about it and went back to sleep. The next morning after I was all ready for work I woke up my daughter and woke my hubby up. He was of course sleeping on the sofa again. He woke up in a pretty bad mood and he changed and all and got into the car to send my daughter to the babysitter and he didn't even look at me once. At that time, I was not ready to start my day with a fight so I just let it go.

Then around 10am just now, I called him and ask him whether he was ok. He said he was, then I said why did you seem like you were in a bad mood this morning. Then he said, "its because you were lecturing and nagging at me". And I said, "When?" and he said "Last night!" and I was like "Huh?". And then I said "How come I cannot remember lecturing or nagging you leh?", then I said again "You dreaming eh?" and then he suddenly started laughing and he said "Yakah!". I also laugh also lah at that time....kesian him, sampai can mimpi-mimpi I lecture him. Hahaha...maybe its because I haven't done it for quite awhile and have been very quiet this pass few days. This is the first time this has ever happen....and it was probably super real to him for him to act that way. Glad that's settled :D. Phew...thank goodness no fights :D. I know I have had bad dreams of us fighting too before but when I wake up I always know that it was a dream...strange that his wasn't like that...:P. I'm sure he misses my lecturing...hahaha...NOT!

Oklah that's it from me....strange how dreams can be so real sometimes...scary! TA for now!!!

Clips of my Life....BORING??? 50/50 Probably!

2008-10-10T17:23:00.001-07:00

Clips of my life in the last few weeks and days....

1. 1st thing that happen to me a couple of weeks back. We were from Parkcity Everly Hotel going for dinner....and my hubby drove the car up to the lobby to pick us up. I carried my daughter and put her into her baby chair at the front seat and my hubby help buckle her up. While he was doing that he must have pressed the break cause that would automatically lock the doors. Anyway, I walked to the back of the car and tried to open the door but obviously it didn't budge...haha....so I knock on the window and he still didn't look back. Than the car started moving and of course lah I knock on the window again. I even tried opening the door even though it was lock so he could hear me. But NO, he didn't hear me at all...and mine you there were quite a few people outside looking at me....so memalukan you know!!!...and the best part is, after trying to get his attention by waving my hands and hoping that he would look back though the mirror, he drove off! but only a few meters lah...but still...AIYO!!! At that time I also don't know where to put my face already...haha...somehow he realised that I was not in the car and stopped...than I walk to the car lah...and he was laughing cause he couldn't believe he didn't realise I was not in the car. He said the music was loud. Can you imagine if I actually when ahead to chase the car....that would have been super embarassing, instead I just decided to let him drive away till he realise I was not in it :P. I won't be surprise if one day when we go shopping, he would just get into the car and drive off and probably say to himself "Hmmm...I feel like I forgot something, but what is it ah???"

Me and Sera and the big green turtle at the Parkcity Everly Pool :D

2. Last week while I was sleeping already, my daughter decided to climb over from her bed to mine....I obviously woke up cause she was climbing on top of me. Anyway, I arranged the bolster in such away that she wouldn't fall off the bed cause my hubby was still outside watching tv and he was not on that side of the bed to protect her from falling. So me and my daughter finally fel into a deep sleep. The next thing I heard was a loud THUD sound and very loud crying....I of course got a shock of my life and jump out of my bed to look for my daughter! And to my surprse she was on the floor so i picked her up immediately and hugged her, than i looked at her teeth cause I was so worried that she might have broken some, thank goodness she didn't. Poor girl!!! Her dad came running and both of us had to sooth her. I was so worried that she might have broken something, so I kept asking whether her hand painful kah or her leg painful kah or her head painful....and mine you my heart was beating so fast. We manage to get her back to sleep and the next morning we ask her how she fell of the bed, and she said "i turn and turn and turn"...haha, well we were surprise that she could still give us and answer....:P. So I told her that she should sleep on her bed in the future so there is no chances of falling down. That night...she did just that...haha...so cute....but now, she's back to sleeping on my bed again and this time I make sure I have the bolster and a pillow to keep her from falling...haha...scary lah when that happens....

3. Just this week my dog gave birth to puppies!!! We now have 3 puppies, 2 white and 1 black. One white has wo black patch on its eyes and the other white puppy has a brown patch on its head. So cute!!!!

4. Sera went for her very first hair cut at the saloon and she handled it pretty well!!! :D She actually requested for me to go back there again in the afternoon to go cut her hair again...haha.

Her first haircut at the Saloon...so cute she looks with the clips in her hair....:P. Yes, I am a typical mom who thinks her daughter is super adorable!!! :)

5. We registered my daughter for School for next year and after we showed her the school, she's pretty excited! She'll only be turning 3 in two months time but next year she will be considered as 4. Hope she can catch up with the rest of her class. Sigh...my daughter is growing up so fast. I won't be surprise if the next thing I know, she's taller than me (which shouldn't take that long...haha...sine I'm so short) and she has graduated from Uni!!!! Hmm....I wonder how many kids will have by then....haha....time will tell...

6. I got an award from Balqiz!!! My very first award and it says Mrs. Jacqie for being such a fun, loving mom/wife! ...its nice to know someone appreciates me for being just that...:D....So sweet of her...thank you so much dear....would like to continue on with that tag but have been busy lately :(

7. I was feeling pretty down yesterday....not sure why but am guessing that my hormones are all over the place cause its the time of the month...sigh...I got back from work yesterday and was seriously down in the pits! I felt as if I didn't have a life :( I actually told my husband that my life is sooooooooooo boring and our marriage is soooooooooooooo boring...so kesian my hubby. But I seriously felt really down...I just wanted to sit there and stare into whatever I was staring at, at that moment. It felt like I'm just doing things that I have to on a daily basis and there doesn't seem to be much time spent with my husband. I felt like he didn't want to spent time with me and I felt like I was the boring one. I think that it was all just in my head due to the hormones being all crazy. After sitting and staring for quite awhile...I took quite a long hot shower and I almost wanted to burst into tears...at that time I felt as if I was not appreciated at home, said a short prayer to God to ask him to get me out of the feeling I was having...I even went around my house telling myself that I should be happy cause I have almost everything that I need. I guess I just felt that I was taken granted for. Seriously, I think its the hormones. Everything I did yesterday evening was done because I had too and not because I wanted too...it was very sad lah. Anyway, my hubby obviously knew I was down...so he sayang me and hugged me when we were watching tv...and that made me feel better. I think he should do it more often especially when its the time of the month. As for today! I'm back to normal again!!! So glad I am!!! I hate being in that state I was yesterday...THANK YOU, LORD!!! Today, it's a beautiful day all over again!

So, that's it from me. TA!