lazy weekend came and gone

deepavali came and went. this is the last long lazy weekend for mama and papa before we have to get serious with our respective consultation papers to submit in dec.

this has also been a weekend of newsies. we both enjoyed our usual night movies at gurney on fri (this time watched pandorum starring mama's fav actor - dennis quaid), sweated out in a little plant farm in greenlane to bring back 3 pots of money plants and 1 pretty thi-chang on sat morning, spent the night in BM stuffed with delicious jackfruits from tukun foothill, seafood at the tambun floating restaurant with almost everyone that mama cared to spend time with, and a supper of nonya kuih and pek-kong-cheng's famous midnight wan-than-mee, then went back to pek-kong-cheng with the same gang + seku-kong and family the next morning for breakfast with garfield eyes but working stomachs (and so memorable times at the old quaint square), came back to the island before lunch and crashed on the couch until time to chill out at ferringhi's sunset bistro for dinner (supposedly keh-mak and fam to join but she'd to continue chewing her excel macros haha!) and late night grocery shopping at QMall JJ where papa actually bought a discounted roasted whole chicken (rm4! vs mama think rm13 if coming from ayamas) for supper (again!), then back up and out again before 7.30am today for a hike up to no 5 from youth park with keh mak and keh pa AND liz and helen (!!). very pretty trail, somewhere mama and papa will surely go back. much nearer and definitely so much less effort to go get a stunning view of tj tokong. needless to say after a heavy gurney white bah-kut-teh brunch with them, papa and mama came back and crashed on the couch again until dinner time hahah!! went to jetty's hai nan for dinner with nai-nai and kong-kong... and now... chilling out with hitz fm on the home theater, clearing emails for tomorrow work and pretending to clean up the past 3 trips' photos (but ended up mumbling here again) :)

Stokke gone!

aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAHHHH!

ok ok so mama is being melodramatic. this evening while taking an after-dinner stroll on Gurney family floor (just me naming it that way but i think it's the 4th floor where MPH, Laura Ashley, MJ Home, Kim Gary and all the baby shops are) and didnt see the red Stokke at Mother's Care anymore! the shop attendant - who is also waiting impatiently for me to be preggie - told me that they've returned Stokke prods to their KL HQ. we can order to Pg... but mama suppose then they'll charge for transportation fee maybe haizzz.... same goes for Quiny Buzz... aiyo! it is mama's hobby to window shop these stuffs when in gurney... so WAS now :(

nvm, we shall order!

all in a day's Work!

these past couple of weeks have been really hectic at work. mama's been easily pulling 16-18 hours a day and some more hours during the weekends.

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Jee Nin-Yee Yee is going away for her honeymoon real soon. Cambodia.. to visit all the ancient rock temples. mama and papa been there and was a memorable trip. we'll go again with you :) easy trip as not too far away. then Yee Yee and hubby Peter will drop in Penang for a week or so in a couple more weeks. Can't wait to see her again! and Peter too, for the first time :)

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hmm just finished work for the day... feeling a little hungry. But it's almost 40mins past midnight, it's a good way to keep on losing weight haha. ok, mama will go brush teeth and go to sleep now. Got a 7.30am meeting later.

happy Birthday to Papa!

Sat 3Oct at Stallion with buddies, ribbons & balloons!

Sun 4Oct at Double Good with family, noodles & chocolate-bananas!

eve of 5Oct with surprises, presents & lotsa luv!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY darling, I love You!!!

back to workouts... cont (10/4)

so we didn't end up in Pg Hill yesterday as planned. it was raining cats and dogs ever since the night before until almost 8.30am so mama text to the friend and cancelled it, and went promptly back to a delicious sleep (always so when you hear the pit-pattering of rain outside). but then mama and papa started feeling guilty towards the afternoon as the overnight rain had left the day clear with a lovely blue sky. lots of cloud tufts still. but at least there were shadows outdoors.

so at a whim, papa suggested to do something different. we went to ckerok tukun this time for a workout. cherok tukun is in Bukit Mertajam, or thereabouts (sorry as am never clear on boundaries.. of any kind). wanted keh pa and keh mak to join but they had left Kulim for the island with little keh-chi Liz (which resulted promptly in mama touting them as "super boring" and keh pa immediately retorted back a suggestion to go up Bkt Jambul instead haha... next time buddy!).

Cherok Tukun turned out to be surprisingly fun. we got there at 5mins past 4pm. there were a lot of ppl hiking and cycling plus about 10m long of fruits vendors at the foothill which made up a quirky quaint festive mood to all. And the hike was accompanied by a breathy soothing wind which was quite new for us as we seldom enjoyed a windy hike in this tropic... for obvious reason. we credited the airiness of the trek to the foothill waterfall, whether true or not is another matter which we didn't bother to confirm.

mama and papa decided to turn back after reaching the first stop. don't know if that was the midpoint but it was getting to 5pm and we wanted to get back down and buy some fruits and be at ah ma and kong-kong's for a shower before dinner. and lo and behold, another wonderful surprise. the fruits were so much cheaper than the ones at gurney cold storage, or even from QMall JJ. and my... does the mango smell delicious!! mama got us cut juicy papaya and half a dozen of whole papayas at the furthest stall and moved down to grab half kg of fresh nangka and half a dozen or so mangoes before bundling into the car to our well-earned showers :) great workout in all!!

new letter toys for Us :)

finally mama couldnt resist it and bought US a BANANAGRAMS! it's Scrabble in a new packaging, which mama has to say is funkier and in mama's favourite bright banana yellow :) says here for 7-79yo. oh well nvm, we'll love the yellow itself and will end up manhandling it in your newborn babycot before too soon haha! told papa he's not to play with it, and have stored this away in your cupboard (which is getting to overflowing baby!).

back to workouts

mama & papa have gone back to our weekly hikings :) it's a good way to keep in shape, and it's one of our few fav weekend activities anyway. we are joining a friend tomorrow morning to hike up Pg Hill, mama's most fav hiking place yahoo!!

goodbye Cavite

mama said goodbye to the last of mama's colleagues in CV yesterday...

how to be the Best parent

no doubt this is an every-second question for every parent. and even though i am not yet, i have been wondering how would i know which feeding bottle is the best, what milk formula to use, what first solid food to try, which diaper brand is the best... and even now... what food should both of us take to prep for the best conceiving environment for our precious baby?

how would we know what we are doing is really the best for our little one?

i feel somehow assured when reading this blog from mumzzy and the comments... but I still can't help feeling helpless. i think everyone has their own beliefs and values. and i suppose ultimately giving psychological and emotional support is the best course when baby grows up into an independent person.

i pray that i will know what to do when the time comes.

booooooooored

mama's in a rut now. last wk at work was very hectic and had to attend to many adhoc matters until no time to close mama's regular benchmarks. Now mama's trying to catch up, and not too happy about doing it over the weekend as mama'd prefer to clean up a few new photo albums from last few wks of travels. argh... you know if you were here, mama'd not think twice and chuck the work aside. haizzzzzzzzzz!

Consultation sem Oct 2009

here goes... mama and papa have decided to forge ahead with the next phase of our DBA studies. We got till end of this year to write up a 50-minimum-pager report on a Business area from our line of work. writing such kind of report is nothing new, but this is the first time where we will not be guided in class.

It feels like a free-fall and at the same time exhilirating to know we are allowed to manage our own time :) wish us luck baby!