Durian is in season and my hubby bought a few back. Tim loves durian and he can wallops a lot. Emily, it depends on her mood. If she likes it, she will take 1 biji. To sums it all up, all of us have the durian gens.

When I was young, I try to avoid taking because I couldn’t stand the smell of my hands after eating. However I love eating it especially when it is from the fridge. There was a point in time when I use plastic gloves to eat. My parents are a great fan of durian and they are sure to get a bunch when it is in season. We will have a durian party. My hubby side his mom and brother dislike durian.

As you know Penang is a place to get good durians and even expensive ones too. Imagine now durian have different grade and types. I prefer the sweet ones than the bitter ones. There are a couple of places here where they have “eat all you can durian buffet”. I am serious. It cost between $15-$20 per person. When my children grow up, we will sure go for the durian buffet. Yum Yum…

Finally my hubby and I have moved our children to their own room. It is 80% successful and going to 100% soon. Moving them to another room is not tough at this age. Most often, during bedtime, they can sleep on their own after I tugged them in.

What did we do? We told them that they are old enough to sleep in their own room. Secondly, we placed some toy box with toys in that room. Third, we went to the Disney Shop to get their cartoon characters bed sheets. There weren’t many to choose from. Emily wanted Mermaid but got Tweety Bird. Timothy wanted Ultraman but got Batman. Mummy and Daddy wanted our own private room back. :giggles:

First few nights, I was sleeping with both of them in their new room. Emily was pretty excited as she calls her room, “Special room”. Tim was a little afraid because previously we put some “glow in the dark” stars on the wall. He didn’t like it. We took it down and replace with a Ultraman poster.

Now they can sleep on their own in their own room. I am just a little worried for Emily. Occasionally but rare, she will wake me up to go to the bathroom. Keeping my finger’s cross. I still want to put a book shelf and a little aquarium in their room.

1. Acting like cartoon characters, giving you cartoon expressions.
2. Talk like a cartoon character.
3. Start asking parents to get Barney, Ultraman and Disney toys, clothes and stationeries.
4. First thing when you meet them after work, they asked you to switch on their favorite cartoon show.
5. They want to sleep on their favorite cartoon bed or next to a cartoon bolster.
6. They can act out certain scenes of the cartoon movie.
7. They learn to spell all their favorite cartoon names better than one, two, three.
8. Dream and talk in their sleep on cartoon conversations.
9. When your cupboard is filled with VCDs and DVDs belonging to your children.
10. When they asked you to sing “I love you, you love me” before bedtime.

The above is written by me not that my children have any symptoms, maybe a few. Let’s see which are the ones you think my children have? Maybe share will me some that your child has.

I ran out of Emily’s milk. Usually I will stock up when there are promotions in the supermarket. Recently there are none. She is taking Isomil Plus and didn’t like any other. I tried once to change her milk and was not successful. She still likes her bear milk. I have some Pediasure samples and thought she will drink it.

Emily: This is not my milk. I want the bear milk.
Mummy: Bear milk finish, today you drink big girl’s milk.
Emily: I don’t like this milk.
Mummy: But bear milk finished, tomorrow mummy buy. You good gal, drink the big girl’s milk.
Emily: *shake head and give me the disgusting “yi yea” look*

Sigh, fortunately my babysitter is just next door to get the milk powder for her.

Guess what expired? I took out my driving license and saw it ended at Mar 2007. Now you know that I never take out my license for a long long time, like a few years. Anyway I told my hubby, I need to renew it on Monday. It was on Saturday I discovered. Guess what? He took out his, his one also expired May 2007. Now both of us need to renew ours. So who drives? :giggles:

Anyway, got my license renew today and pretty impressed, waited only 15 minutes. I didn’t know that now, 1 year cost RM30. I think the last time I renew was only RM20. Of coz we went to renew maximum 5 years, afraid another hike. We didn’t have enough cash. Hubby went out to withdraw from the ATM. The officer told us that if we renew road tax, can pay by credit card but not for renewing license. :wall:

Next I asked about my road tax claim as last year, government reduce the tax. She told me to go main land. I think the claim is about RM10 or less. I have to spend RM8 for bridge toll and someone petrol money to cross the bridge. Forget it.

The Bon Odori Fest was held last Sat at Esplanade Penang. In the fest, there will be a large group of Japanese performing traditional dance. Around the field there will be stores selling Japanese food and goods. It is a pretty interesting experience if you have not been to one before. However, it is only held in KL and Penang. I have blog about it a few years back and the link is here.

The Bon Odori Fest organizer said that the fireworks this year will be long and nicer. My children love to see the fireworks. I took the opportunity to take them to see. It is happening at the Esplanade Penang. It is going to be crowded and parking will be a problem. It is not wise to bring the children there because afraid of them getting lost.

The fireworks start at 9:30pm. We went down to town and 8pm and saw there was already bad traffic. Anyway we just want to see the fireworks, so we thought double park at a good spot and view it in the car. However we were there too early. We detour to a pet shop and let the children visit the pet shop, looking at dogs, birds, fish and some nice aquarium. Tim & Em asked me to buy one to put in their room.

Anyway, when it was 9:15pm, we drove to a good spot and park there. It was a great spot as the fireworks was just in front of us. The children enjoyed it. However the fireworks for this year were not very impressive and messy. It was only 10 minutes of fun and I wonder how much was spent.

Agnes awarded me a cool badge. Thank you for this, you don’t have to. I believe all mothers’ blogger should have one of these. As we share our children’s journal, we are building a community of information sharing. It is very helpful to any new mothers on board.

I kind of like the animation that Agnes put on that post. I have more that show my feelings for receiving this reward. The animation noseless bunny is called Tzuki created by Wang Momo.

Lastly with this, I have the power to award a few more bloggers. Hehehehe. I award it to:

Jess – Admire her because she can sew pretty dresses and one day, like to take remote classes from her.
Hui Sia – Delivered a baby boy Elijah all by herself in the hospital, of coz.
Sharine – She can make very nice scrapbooking by hand.

Yesterday, I wanted to try out Chilis Penang and went to Gurney mall, plus want to make use of the MPH vouchers to get some books. Happily we went there. I told my hubby that if we want to have a peaceful and quiet dinner, we better get some corn in a cup for the children to eat.

Let’s start with the good points. The food was good, I had the Mushroom Jack Fajitas and it was very filling. We ordered 2 main meals. The children get their meals free with drinks.

Now for my unhappy moments and rant, we were taken to our table. However the table (for 6) was very cramp, in between 2 parties. I saw another smaller empty table for 4 which no one is occupying at the corner. I ask the waitress, could my family take that. She told me she has to ask the manager and took us back to the waiting area. It was fine with us to wait.

She came back, only to take another parties to the very same table which we didn’t take. I was a bit annoyed because I thought she comes back to take us to the corner table. She gave me some lame excuses that before she can direct us to the corner table, the drinks for another table needs to be served. I gave her a point blank look. Never mind we waited.

She came back and told me that no outside food is allowed, looking at Emily holding the corn in the cup. I told her that it is for my children. Not that I am going to have a feast with that small corn in the cup in Chilis. Sigh.

Later as we were seated, another manager came and told us that no outside food is allowed. That really spoils my mood. I told him off as the food is for my children and give him a fierce look saying you do not have to tell us that repeatedly. He went off. I will really think twice going back there. Service all the way thumbs down and down and down. 😡 Ooh I submitted a comment card.

I could not remember when I start making choices in life. Maybe it was before kindy when I told my mom, I don’t want to go to school. I believed it was my grandma who influenced me because she wanted to take care of me. Sad to say, it didn’t go my way.

Emily started making choices now. Every time, I take out her clothes, she will tell me I don’t want to wear this. She will go to her cupboard to choose her own. Believe me, it is difficult to force her to wear things she doesn’t want. She will yell and cry until the house come tumbling down.

Jess who is great in sewing, gave her a dress for her birthday. It was a lovely dress. Buzy mummy didn’t take it out for her to wear because Emily chooses her clothes and she didn’t see that dress. Last week, as I was packing to go to KL, I asked her which dress she wants to bring to KL. She pointed at Jess’s lovely dress. Cool, now I can take a picture for Jess to see.

If any of you have daughters, go to her for dresses. She sews and sells pretty dresses. I am waiting for her collection to do a e-biz website for her.

My next 2 months office is a great place to work. It has a fully equip tea break area like a kitchen with a fridge, a microwave to heat up food and a stove to cook if you want. I have lots of beverages to choose from, milo, tea, coffee and ribena. Snacks available all time.

A fully air condition room and temperature is adjustable to my likings. No more freezing days. A room that is peaceful with no neighboring noise. I am able to put any music of my choice and play it to the volume I want.

It has clean and dry toilet, bathroom if I want to shower. A sofa for me to relax and read my emails. Too good to be true? It is an office called HOME.