I will go back to my hometown with my family tomorrow. Hooray!! Eat & shop. It funny, people usually return to from the city to the kampung, not so congested place. I am the other way around. I am going back to the City. Yeah let por por and koong koong (grandma & grandpa) have fun with my children.

Will tell you more when I return….

HAPPY NATIONAL DAY TO ALL MALAYSIANS!!! Please don’t misuse our national flag.

My hubby and I had food poisoning yesterday. I had chicken rice and he had chow kuew tiew. I threw up after 3 hours of eating. Heart burn and fever. My hubby felt the same but he didn’t throw up. He had fever and nausea.

Both of us sick, who is going to take care of my 2 children. They started fighting with each other. This is normal. Lately my son has been very cheeky, he always like to snatch toys from the mei mei. My head was dizzy and my hubby was knocked out. I asked him to go to bed, as he was feeling feverish. It was difficult to take care of children when you are sick. Energy level drop!

After playing for 2 hours. I sent them to sleep at 8:30pm. Fortunately, my children slept early. Both of them slept on their own. They sleep so early that my son woke up at 4am and came in to my room. I send him back and he continued his sleep.

Both my hubby and I got MC and the same medicine. I can hardly get MC from panel clinic. They are very strict because no fever, no MC. Throughout my pregnancy, I think I only have 1 MC for each pregnancy. Although I heard that, doctors are not so strict with pregnant lady.

The black one is charcoal pill to absorb gas, the white one is panadol for fever, the orange one is similar to ENO and I don’t know what is the blue one for. I don’t really like medicine. Everytime I go see doctor, I never take the medicine especially the antibiotic. Rest is all I need.

Chinese believe that if you look at cute baby pictures during pregnancy, your baby will look like what you see. Pregnant women must look for cute baby pictures. If you want your baby to have big eyes, look for a baby picture with big eyes. Pregnant lady should avoid looking at ugly pictures. Not allow to go to the zoo. I am sure you seen the movie Elephant Man right. Come to think of it, it may be a ASIAN myth.

I don’t believe in myths, but I have this lovely baby picture staring at me all the time. It is a Guardian Pharmacy table calendar and it is place in my office table. During my pregnancy, I did look at it often, not that I believe the myth.

Here is the picture of the calendar.

My gal:

Anyway, do you see any resemblance with my gal and the picture? Spot the similarities & differences

Similarities:
1. Fair (anyway both my children is fair – follow hubby’s genes).
2. Chubby & Rounded Face.
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Differences:
1. She doesn’t have the big round eyes though.
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A month ago, I received a rumor about my company, selling its business unit. Obviously the management will denied any rumor unless it is an official announcement. Funny thing is that the War Street Journal published it, so it may be pretty reliable. Yesterday, the official announcement was out to confirm that the rumor was true.

I have been with the company for 7 years. I have seen my company going through many waves and many barriers. We started with a 5 billion company. 5 years ago, we were spun off to a new company. Now they are spinning of another NewCo to make the current company more profitable and hopefully to push up the stock price. I just notice that the stock price shot up.

Oh well, now I just have to wait for further reorganization to see whether I am with the current company or the NewCo. There is transitional bonus for those who move over. It’s a very attractive package. As Jasmine put it to me, don’t let the devil tempt me. Yeap I totally agree with her. Money is not everything. My colleagues will faced with dilemma: Money or Career. There is maybe a slight possibility of getting the best of both worlds. Nothing is guarantee with this world.

The next few months would be very interesting or challenging for my work… Boy! I never attended so many talks in one day, started last night at 6:30pm.

When I was young, my parents could not afford any Barbie dolls. I never played one before. Now at the toy store, it is selling like hot cakes. I mean it is so expensive but yet parents do buy for their kids to play. One set of Barbie clothes can sell for RM40-100. Wow, I can buy actual clothes for myself. Anyway, I have Ken & Barbie which is priceless. Ken is my Tim and Barbie is my Emily. Hahaha… I can buy them real clothes to dress them up.

Gals have more choices of accessories, dress, shoes and pretty things to buy. I bought 2 pairs of clips for my gal. She didn’t like it, keep pulling it away from her hair. Soon she will get used to it.

I just cannot resist buying pretty things for her. Wow I am going to dress her up as a Princess. Fortunately I have only one gal, else I go bankrupt.

Haze! Haze! Haze! Rain please come!!! Yes, haze has been blown to Penang. It is smoky outside and blurs the beautiful creation of God. Someone took away our fresh air. I must say it is pretty windy outside, and weather is gloomy. Not sure whether it is gloomy because of the haze. I am praying for rain.

There goes my weekend with the children. I thought of bringing them to the Spice Garden. Now all of us have to stay at home. Maybe we can go shopping later, hang around the mall. Let’s hope the haze down get blown in there.

API: 104 (11am 13th Aug 2005) at USM Penang.

Two days ago, my son was hysterical, he was in a real bad mood. He messed up my folded laundry. I scolded him and he went hysterical. Daddy came in and comforted him.

He followed me downstairs and started coloring his books. I was there surfing. Daddy was putting my gal to sleep. After about 30 minutes, it was already 9:30pm, time to go to bed. He insisted that he wants to continue coloring. I told him nicely that he is late, he can continue tomorrow. Sometimes he gives all kind of excuses to avoid going to bed early. He wants to watch Barney, he wants his milk, he wants to do this and that. My hubby and I usually send our children to bed before 9:30pm.

I was really tired that day. I switched off all the lights, pack his coloring books and colors. He started crying and whining. I carried him to his bed. Then he threw a hysterical fits, yelling that he want to color. After about 5 minutes, he reduce his volume, I brush his teeth. Of course, I ignore his request. He was still crying and continue saying “Color, I want coloring, coloring, coloring…..coloring. His volume was going up and down. Lights were off, he is on his bed but he is still going on.

At the end, volume reduced and stopped. I think he cried “coloring” more than 200 times before he stopped. He can be very long winded. The night suddenly turned peaceful.

Last Sunday, I came across a TV program, it is a local talk show, and it was in mandarin. I was reading the subtitle because I am a banana. I wished I learned Chinese while I was in school.

Anyway, the show is so degrading. The topic for that day was about a hyperactive child. First the host showed the story or history of the child. How his behavior at home is like. How he is very different from other children. How naughty he is. There were interviews from his grandparents, uncles, friends of the mother and the mother. The host brought in the mother to talk about the child. It got everyone emotional and lots of crying from the audience.

The host bought in the expert who I think major in psychology. I was hoping that she could give us some resolution to help the child but it didn’t happen. All she said were what the definition of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), what characteristic of ADHD and what the causes are. She gave the mother some books.

The host bought in the child and the child was so afraid. She interviews him but he was reluctant to answer at first. From then on, I didn’t continue to watch, switch channel, watched 3R instead.

FOCUS On The SOLUTION!

The show would have been better if they show ways of how to help the child and not focus so much on the problem. In turn it will be benefit to other viewers if they are faced with the same situation. I believe ADHD and autism existed long ago. There are special centers with skilled teachers who can help these children. Once the children are trained in the special way of learning, they can live a normal life and control themselves. I am not the expert here but I know that the child can be helped if they go to these special schools. Parents have to accept the fact and move on to help the child. It is tough, easy for me to say but focus on the solution rather than the problem.

I read an article on Woman’s Weekly last week on how a parent help her child who had Down. She succeeded. The child grew up to be a writer, writing books to help other children/parents who face with Down issues. It was so touching. Don’t give up and draw strength from God.

I love Penang you can go to the beach anytime and enjoy the fresh air. Last Saturday, I took my children to the beach to play some sand. They love it and didn’t want to go home. Great whether, not too hot.

Funny thing is that my hubby wanted to visit the Spice Garden. His friend told the direction, it is near the hotel, if you drive along, you won’t miss it. Hello, there are so many hotels in Batu Ferringhi and Teluk Bahang. Anyway, we couldn’t find it because it is like hitting an ant in the desert. Today I came back to office and did a Google search. Here is the URL with a map: http://www.tropicalspicegarden.com/ . Trust the man to ask for directions.

Oh well, will attempt to visit it next week and hopefully can bring back some great pictures for you. As for now, enjoy our beach weekend….

I love Photoshop as it helps me to edit photos or any images. It can help to do a digital makeup on the photo. It can beautify a picture. It is not hard to learn the basic of this tool but if you want to advance to the next level, do get books. My hubby just got a few books on it, mostly tips & tricks. He is into photography. Hey look at what he did to a photo.

Now you see it, now you don’t. All the slime from the nose is gone.

Before:

After:

By the way, the top logo is done using Photoshop too. I just don’t have time to play around else I can create more fun things. Like this one that I did years ago: