Yesterday, I am not feeling too well, have been loosing a lot of blood. Everytime I stand up, I feel dizzy. Hands shaking and body aching. I got ½ day MC from my company’s doctor.

I went back home to snooze. When I woke up, it was time to pick Tim and Emily back. I took a shower and pick both of them. I told them, they have to be good boy and good gal as mummy is not feeling well. Pretending to be crying and asked “You sayang mummy or not?”

Emily came with a cheekiest smile, the sweetest smile I ever seen. If I had a camera in my hand, I would have captured that. She came very close to me and I don’t have a clue what she was about to do. That’s the moment that make me felt good, better than any medicine in the world. She planted a kiss on my cheek. :giggles: When Tim saw that, he did the same on the other cheek.

Later, I send them all to bed by 8:30pm. No joke. I had to miss the finale of Americal Idol. 😥 Fortunately I can download it today.

I love the sound of moving water. I love it especially when it rain at night. It gives me a peaceful feeling. The other day, I saw a colleague of mine with a new small aquarium. It looks so lovely. It has 2 lovely green plants with a wood like stone and the based is filled with little stones. She placed it on her office desk.

I told my hubby about it and we decided to go shop for an aquarium. My hubby wanted to have an aquarium for a long time. I put it off until my children grew up. I guess now is the right time. We went to Air Hitam Aquarium store. It was fairly big with all kinds of accessories, tanks, fish stuff and fish.

We got a medium size tank with filter and pump, green plants, small stones for the base, wood like stone, a mickey mouse diver, sunken ship and a small oxygen pump. We also bought 10 guppy fish.

After a few days, all the fish died and I thought guppy fish was the easiest to take care. :sc: It must be the water with too much chlorine. My hubby put another cap of anti chlorine. He bought a new batch of fish. So far it has no problem. I can sit and stare at the aquarium and be mesmerized.

Jess wrote the whole meme in Chinese which I cannot read but she tagged me in English. How nice of her? I thought I have bore you all with my childhood story, now Jess wants more. So here goes.

How many schools did I go to?
1. Kindergarten at MBS Kindy
Sorry I forgot what was the name of the kindergarten. Why MBS? Because my parents can pick me and my brother together.

2. Primary schools in BBGS (I)
The most memorable moment of my primary school days was in Std 1. My teacher was one fierce lady. When she scolds, you can hear her a mile away. She loves asking students to recite the times table. She caused one of my classmates to pee in front of the class because she was frightened by her. I was afraid of her, so very afraid that my face and neck was RED. She came to me, saw me and I thought she will pick me to recite the timetable. She asked me whether I was having measles. I told her I don’t know. She asked me to go and rest in the sick bed area. 😎

The primary school is divided into 2, School I and School II. One will be held in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Towards mid of the year, we will switched. I am from School I. Both schools are general enemies. We do things to annoy each other. Somehow when we go to secondary school, when both combine, we became friends.

3. Secondary school in BBGS
I didn’t do well in Form 1 & 2 but I did fantastic after that. The funny thing is I did so poorly in Form 2 that the class teacher always picks on me. Most of the time, I wasn’t paying attention in class. She said no medicine can help me. Anyway she became my class teacher in Form 3. Oh no! Somehow I got interested in studies, don’t ask me why. I was the top of the class for all terms. She just couldn’t believe it.

I was a school librarian. Not that I like books but just like the air conditioning. I am a sporty person, took up a few sports like netball, volley ball and hockey. I was also the president of Chess Club and a school player for Chess, won a couple of Gold Medals there. I love going to other schools for competitions.

One crazy thing happens to my history teacher. She slept in the School Library at a corner couch. The couch is almost hidden by the tall shelf. The librarians locked up the library without knowing she was still sleeping there. I was returning home late that day. I had to get the guard to open the door for her to get out. 😆

I love my school because it has so many activities. Every year we have food sale, make food to sell, to raise money to maintain the school, extend the library and got a school buys for excursion. One year, we bought paint and painted a few class rooms.
However my school is famous for being strict. We have a book full of rules. We have to speak English on Tuesday and BM on Monday and Wednesday. Any other language beside English and BM is not allowed. We also have to take turns to clean the toilet and classrooms. We cannot rock the chair when we sit. We must greet the teacher when we see them.

I was so sad when I heard the government was going to demolish the school. Our school history, name, spirit and physical place totally gone, demolished. 🙁

4. High School in Randwick Girls School in NSW Australia
I didn’t know which, why, what or how I end up in a Public School in Australia. I applied for it through the Australia Embassy and they accepted me. I had to pay AUD100 for school fees for entire year. School text books were loan from the school with no charged. I did pretty well especially in Maths. I scored 97 in Maths.

5. University of New South Wales Australia
I got accepted into the University of New South Wales Australia with a scholarship to do Bachelor of Science, Computer Science. Of coz I still have to foot out my accommodation and food expenses. I found work in the University in the computer lab. It was good money. AUD10 per hour. I did 20 hours worth of work, per month. In my final year, I did tutoring in the University. In this job, I tutor, mark assignments and exam papers. I was tutoring some of the students who were in the same year as me. Pretty cool. It taught me public speaking. I earned a fair bit from there. Imagine for every 1 hour, I get AUD20.

I love the Uni days. Most of my subjects are Maths. First time in my life, there were boys in my school. 😯 I knew alot of people from many countries. Most of the time, I selected afternoon and evening lectures so that I can sleep in. I pick up cooking while I was there. I have to cook my own meals. The most I love is the beaches, you can see macho guys surfing.

Was I the studious nerd, or the last minute hero?
I was a last min hero, I would say. I will try to study smart. I have poor memory too, so I practically do not do well in the subject called history. A tip I learned from studying is to do lots of past years exams paper.

Was I the class ‘taiko’ (big bully) or the teachers’ pet?
Neither. I was generally a friendly person. :angel:

What was the biggest rule I broke in school?
I practically hate prefects and dislike them. Some of them have double standards. I must say I outsmart them in lots of ways. In my school, if you come late to school, the prefect will stand at the gate to catch the late comers. If I am late, I will be very late. By that time, the prefects will return to class. When I turned up, I will walk to class without my bag. The bag will be parked somewhere outside. If the teacher or prefect asked me, I told them that I was in the toilet or held up by another teacher. Later after the first lesson ends, I will go pick up my bag. It works all the time.

Three subjects I enjoyed
Maths & Add Maths – I just love solving problems. My maths exercise books are very popular. It travels around the class.

Chemistry – I love doing the experiments, especially solving what chemical components are in the solution.

Three teachers that I remembered
Miss Moey – She was not my teacher but she inspires me a lot. She remembered my name even though I am not her student. She always has very encouraging words of wisdom. She is full of zealousness for the Lord. She always asks me how I was whenever she sees me.

Mrs Chew – She was my Modern Maths & class teacher. I will not say she inspires me but she is one funny teacher. Once she came into the class and say “Selamat Hari Raya” instead of “Selamat Pagi”. We burst out with laughter. Another time she taught us half way, she rushed out. We thought what happen to her. She told us that she had a tummy upset when she returned.

Mrs Wales Tan – She was my Add Maths & Physics teacher. She promoted me to the top class and gave me encouraging words to succeed.

How come no questions on those teachers who annoyed me? I have a long long list. :sc:

The list of the next victims are:
1. Tracy – I bet you have lots to tell us.
2. Allyfeel – I want to know more about you.
3. Jazzmint – Since we go to the same school, want to hear your side of the story.

Yes, I lived in Chow Kit, Lorong Haji Taib 4. Isn’t that an happening place?

My mother rented 2 rooms out to some sales ladies. All of them are singles and very nice to us. They love to jog to Lake Titiwangsa. I love to follow them. Lake Titiwangsa becomes my hang out place. My sister, bro and I go there for fishing or walk around the park. We dig out life worms from the ground to use as bait. All this was thought to us by my sister. We did catch a few fishes.

When I was Standard Six, I was thought to take public transport, bus to school for Saturday activity. I used to play netball in school. It is easier to take bus from my house, because the bus station is there. Almost all the mini busses stop there. Once I was returning home, I hope on to a mini bus but I took it on the wrong side of the road. Slept through the whole journey and end up donno where. I couldn’t recognize the place. If you are my parent, you probably will freak out. Last time there was no handphone to call home. I have only 20 sens in my pocket. A bus ticket cost 50 sens. I ask the driver whether he is heading back to Chow Kit, he said yes. I told him I didn’t have enough money. Phew, he told me it is ok. I got back safe and sound. Thank God for watching over me.

By the way, I started going to Sunday School when I was Standard Six. My school have Sunday School as it was a missionary school. I learn a lot of bible stories from there. It was very helpful as I could take Bible Knowledge as one of the subject. I also joined the girls’ cadet in MBS. Funny I didn’t join the girls’ cadet in my own school. Coming from an all girls’ school, it hard to admire any boys because there aren’t any. It was a very good opportunity with the girls cadet because you can see macho guys playing soccer on Saturday. We played captain ball there with the guys. Yes, I was a very sporty person.

Oh I miss those days.

I have a very fun childhood. I stayed in a very happening place in KL. Have a guess where I stayed? I stay in a 3 storeys flat. Below the flat, there is the famous “pan mee” (flour noodle). I believe Pan Mee originated from there. They started selling 26 years ago.

Up in the flat, there is an open rooftop where I can go up to play. I played hopscotch and high jump up there. It is like a playground, of coz there is no grass, slides or sea saw. My sister and brother will go up there to play badminton. Once the shuttlecock felt over and went on top of someone’s soup. We ran and hide ourselves. Fortunately no one came up to scold us.

By the way, we are so creative that we played football in the house, where the doors were the goal post and living hall was the open field. We were careful and never broke anything. Sometimes, we used the window that has grill as our goal post. Whoever managed to shoot the ball at the grill, scores.

5-10 mins away, there is also a “wai sek kai” (Food Street). It has been relocated now. Not sure where. My family used to have supper there or ask my godfather to pack us supper. My favourite was half boil “see hum” (shellfish). Fortunately I didn’t get any hep. It is eaten with the garlic chilli and simply delicious. Other than that it has chow kuey tiew, hokkien mee, sotong kankung, ice kacang, toong sui, lok lok and etc…

However that area becomes a place for crime, there are drug addicts, aqua, lots of foreigners and robbery. My house was robbed twice. Once the robber was tailgating my dad. He held a gun at my dad and robbed our place. I was asleep, so is my sister and brother. Fortunately they wanted money and didn’t harm any of us. After that, my family decided to move away from that area.

I shop, choose and buy. It is cheap and practical. Hubby acknowledged. I told my hubby not to get me anything because he will probably get something I don’t like. Why waste the money?

It has been a long long long time since I wore a watch. I think 5 years since my last one ran out of battery. A few months back, I got a swatch but I lost it. 😥 I decided to get another simple one.

For my hubby’s gift, I just gave him permission blessings to get a camera lens.

We have an early celebration on Monday as it was an off day for us. Tim had school and babysitter agreed to take care of Emily. We went paktor (dating) and had brunch.

Valentine’s Day is around the corner. Let me share a Love Story with you, not mine but a good friend of mine. I started chatting on the Internet during my University’s days. During, that time Jaring did not existed yet, I know I am OLD. There weren’t any chat software like MIRC, ICQ, Yahoo chat, MSN chat or Skype. It is pure Unix command chat. Chatting in a group will give you a real headache, you will see lines and lines of messages scrolling up your screen. No windows, pretty emoticons nor buttons to control. I used to chat in my campus research lab all through the night. I have to say that I knew lots of people through the Internet.

Anyway, when I returned to Malaysia, I wasn’t into Internet because I had to spend my time making money for a living. A few years later, MIRC was in trend and I started again. I knew a couple of crazy friends there. One of them, let me call him Mike. Most of the people I talked to are Malaysians. Mike is a friendly person and in his mid 20s at that time. He started chatting and he will chat almost 25 hours a day. I knew him because he wanted to know about IT but he graduated in Accounting.

One day, he told me that he knew this girl from the net. He was practically telling me that he really want to meet her. I am not sure what he and this gal chat about but something certainly sparkled from their conversation. Is there such a thing called cyber love? The problem is that this gal was staying in Sungai Petani, Kedah. I had to dig it out from Mike, who the gal is. From the moment I heard her nick, my jaw dropped. In Internet Chat, we all use nick instead of our real name. Let me called her Sammy. By the way, I met Sammy, she came to KL a few times, I had lunch with her and her friends.

Mike planned out how to meet her, since she stayed so far away. He had to drive more than 5 hours to get there. He asked me to accompany him. It was fun, never been up North for a long time, I agreed. Man, they need support when it comes to meeting someone special they never meet before. A few friends with me accompanied him up there. We went right after work on Friday. He drove straight, so excited he forgot to fill his tank on his way there. Fortunately we made it there before the tank dried up. By the he drove a pretty cool car too, Honda Prelude.

When we reached there, the place where they suppose to meet were dark. Nope, there weren’t any fireworks but a great burst of laughter. Love turns into a big joke. I was practically laughing non stop. Sammy turned out to be Simon. It wasn’t a gal that he chatted with but a guy. Mike was very sporting, he took it pretty well. Now I have lost touch with him since my move to Penang. Last I heard, he has gotten married to a pretty gal. Properly, have a handful of kids by now.

Happy Valentine’s to everyone, you may get the unexpected.

*Names used in this story are made up.

Jess tagged me. I am not a tag person but will do this because of Jess. However instead of 4, I will do 3.

Cantonese: “Sun Lien Lau Lau, 4 4 mm ho tien, 3, 3 ho tit”
English: 4 meaning die is a taboo for CNY, 3 meaning alive is better.

3 jobs you’ve had in your life:
1. Waitress in McDonald while waiting for SRP results. It was a good experience.
2. Tutoring in University of NSW. Pays very good money too.
3. Motherhood to Tim & Emily, Wife to my hubby, Daughter to my ma & pa.

3 movies you could watch over and over:
1. Mermaid.
2. He’s a Woman, She’s a Man (Jing Zi Yu Ye)
3. Kindergarten Cop.

3 TV shows you love(d) to watch:
1. The Apprentice & any reality show.
2. CSI.
3. TVB Drama Series.

3 places you’ve lived:
1. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2. Sydney, Australia.
3. San Jose, US.

3 places you’ve been on vacation to:
1. Japan Toyko Disneyland.
2. US LA Disneyland & Las Vegas.
3. US Grand Canyon.

3 places you would rather be:
1. Home Sleeping.
2. IKEA Shopping Mall. (I love looking at home deco).
3. Seafood Buffet with Oyster, Salmon, Lobster.

3 of your favourite foods:
1. Baskin Robin’s World Class Choc Ice Cream.
2. Asam Laksa with lots of vege.
3. Mom’s Homecook meal (Can’t wait for CNY reunion dinner).

3 of your favourite beverages:
1. Green Tea.
2. Teh Tarik from my company’s vending machine.
3. Coffee Bean Ice Blended Choc.

3 (or more) websites you visit daily:
1. Google & Google Mail
2. US Stock Exchange Website
3. CNN

3 blogs I wish to tag:
1. BabySmooches
2. Rachel’s Blog – Precious Moment
3. Anyone who feels like doing this.

Yesterday, I had my company annual dinner. We had to wear traditional costume to the dinner. As usual, many will complain. I have noted some funny remarks.

Guy1: Aiyoh, why so “mar farn” (troublesome), go to company dinner also need to get new attire. Where to get traditional costume?
Guy2: Don’t care I just come in jeans & t-shirt. Not going to spend so much money just for the dinner.
Guy1: I probably will not go.

Gal1: Hey what are you going to wear? Got best dress competition.
Gal2: Cheong Sam is the only thing I have.
Gal1: Are you going to do up your hair?
Gal2: 2 hours enough time to go saloon to do hair? (We can go off at 3pm to get ready, dinner starts at 6pm 7pm)
…

Guy: What are you going to dress as?
Gal: As human, you? 😆

As usual, most of the gals go all out to dress up, there were Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Indian & Vietnamese costumes. The gal in the Korean costume won. Some sporting guys wore Arabian, Malay, Chinese (one look like “keong si”), Indian and Kung Fu costumes. The Indian guy (look like Bollywood actor’s costume) won.

I have to say, it was an enjoyable dinner. Our table got prizes for table draw.

I wanted to do this for a long time to dig out all the old pictures and put it all together. However my hubby’s album was at my MIL place. When he had taken it back, I was too busy to touch it. Yesterday, I read Jasmine’s blog and I remembered what I wanted to do. I revived the old pictures project.

Tada….

Now tell me, do Tim and Emily look more like daddy or mummy?

For those who have seen me, now you have a different perspective of me right? A lot of my friends said Tim looks like me and Emily looks like dad. Very few say otherwise.

By the way, that is the only 1 year old photo I have. The rest is above 6 years old. Probably my parents were too poor to take any photos when I was a baby. I only got to see that photo when Emily was born. My aunt kept the picture and as she was clearing her house, she found it. I only got to see what I looked like after Emily was born.