I don’t like to take medicine unless I really need it. Most often I don’t. No panadol as I heard panadol residue will be contain in your liver for some time. No antibiotic. I hate swallowing those weird color capsules. No cough medicine unless I been coughing for over a week or 2, which I seldom do. Trick, drink lots of water, eat lots of vege and fruits. I will let my immune system fight the germs. I do take supplements especially when I am week but not all the time.

Yesterday I was having a fever, I used my children’s thermo scan, it was 38.2. In the morning while I was carrying Emily over to my babysitter, I was feeling my heart beating really fast. At that time, I had no fever.

When I reach the office, I felt shivering all over. I took a cup of hot milo to warm me up. I had to attend a couple of morning meetings. I was feeling tired nearing lunch. I went home to take a short nap, it help a little. At 4pm, the fever developed and my head was drifting. I called my hubby who works upstairs to take me home.

When I reached home, I told my hubby that I was not feeling well, please take care of the children. I went to sleep and didn’t take my dinner. I slept until I heard 2 screaming children outside. Sigh. I went over to cool them down and took Emily to sleep in a separate room with me. Both were happy and I am happy.

I woke up still feeling lethargic, muscles aching but fever went away.

I was traveling with mummy on Air Asia flights which she got for 30 sens. Dirt cheap but need to pay fuel and tax. It wasn’t that cheap after all. I had fun on the flight eating mummy mamee. I never imagine I can sit on an airplane and fly across the sea.

After I alight from the plane, I help two men direct the people traffic, you go here and don’t cross the yellow line. No taking pictures here. When I reached the so called LCCT airport, it took a long while for my baggage to appear.

I got on the sky bus to KL Sentral. I was wonder why sky bus, not that it can fly. It took another hour plus to reach my grandmother’s place. Now if my dad were to drive, it takes the same amount of time. Haha…but I get to ride on the airplane.

As I was returning home to Penang, the CEO of AA approached me with camera. He thanked me for helping him direct traffic, i guess or maybe he want to recruit me for good. He asked my brother to become a pilot because there is shortage of Malaysian pilot. Give us a scholarship, maybe we can consider. :giggles:

Lastly, I must say that AA needs to reconsider and allow the priority boarding for parents with children and senior citizen. Pity they take that off.

*a portion of the above story is a figment of my imagination*

Tim & Emily were pretty excited to meet up with the rest of the new friends. Let me tell you some stories about this meet up.

*Spot the parents in the mirror if you can*

Destiny, she is a party gal, dress for the occasion and she gave out party packs for everyone. How cool to have a party gal like her.

Jeriel, I wish my children can eat green vegetables like he does. I saw him from far, eating his green vege. He will grow up to be a strong and healthy boy.

Zara is kind of a cool and would not let me take Zaria home. She is a protective sister.

Zaria can sleep with the amount of noise we are making, hardly see her cry.

Faythe loves to go to the mirror at the Japanese place and look at herself closely.

Vyktore is a charmer, he goes to every table and charm all the gals that we do not know. Imagine, all the gals took out camera to snap a picture of him.

Ivan, he got a very hip hairstyle with a little tail behind.

I had a very exhausted day and I am sure all the children did too. We started having fun at kidsport. Emily went through many rounds of the sliding down the big huge slides. First accompany by me and the rest she was on her own. Timothy, as usual loves to dive down the pool of balls.

Tracy, thanks for the lovely gift, you shouldn’t have. My children loves the bag so much, every where they go, they carried it for that day onwards. I just hope I have more time to chat with you mums, I didn’t catch up with Jazz and Chanel. Next time we lunch at a place where they have bigger tables.

Tim & Em have given me quite a bit of speechless moments. It is amazing to see how they advance in their speech, learning and how fast their little brain works. They have been growing up so fast and I cannot keep up with the memories of all the speechless moments. I will journal some of them here.

SM #1

It is that time of the year when Timothy has to take his class photo. I dress him up smartly. He rarely wears socks but he put it on that day. Emily woken up in her sleepy eyes and came down.

Emily: Wah what a handsome boy. *I didn’t know she learn the word handsome.*

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SM #2

Timothy came back from school and I was clearing the junk mails from the post box. He saw the McD leaflets and was interested in the toys section. He took it from me and flip, flip, flip.

Timothy: Mummy, you haven’t got this toy for me yet. *What a way to ask mummy to get the toy for him. I didn’t know how to answer him*

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SM #3

Emily saw a little bruise on my leg and she can recognize a blue black bruise.

Emily: Mummy what happen to your leg?
Mummy: Mummy knocked my leg on the chair.
Emily: Pain or not?
Mummy: Pain lor *pretending*
Emily: You stay here. I get cream for you to put on your leg. *She went to get mopiko cream that I used to apply on her mosquito bites*

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SM #4

Emily was picking up all her toys in the toy box and I had to help her close the toy box lid. As I was doing that, I knocked down a set of jigsaw puzzles. She looked concern.

Emily: Mummy, you made the puzzles all fall down. Faster pick it up, later papa will scold you. Let me help you to pick it up. *She picked up every single piece and put it back into the box.*

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SM #5

Emily and Timothy were playing Lego together.

Emily: Kor kor, can you help me to open this.
Timothy: You cannot open, let me help you. *He used his macho strength to pull it apart*
Emily: Can a not?
Timothy: Open already.
Emily: Thank you.

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SM #6

Emily was playing her toys and she picked up a little toy boy.

Emily: *kiss the toy boy* Now you go to sleep. Faster close your eyes and sleep. If not, mummy will scold you.

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SM #7

Emily was coloring in the room and I snuggle up to her, wanting to tickle her to make her laugh.

Emily: Mummy, don’t disturb me. *I snuggle back to my bolster*

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I had a name for a gal even before I conceived her. When I found out I am having a gal, it was one of my happiest moments. I was fond of the name Emily and it is a pretty name. Hubby likes the name too. Emily means “To Strive or Excel”. It is also a very popular and common name. By the way, a lot of parents love to name the children beginning with a letter. I know parents who has children begin with “Z”, “I”, “T”, “B” and “J”. If you notice, my children’s first name ends with “Y”.

As for the Chinese name, my hubby and I decided to let my mom name her. This way both grandparents have these special gifts for my children. My mom came up with 4 Chinese names, hoy yi, weng yi, kar yi and mun yi. She wrote them in Chinese names and sent to me. She was teasing me as I didn’t know how to read it. I had to ask my friend for help. I kind of like hoy yi but it doesn’t have any meaning at all. I picked meaning smart little dragon. Mun Yi also sounds like money. :giggles:

Someone tag me on this but I cannot remember who. It is an interesting tag on how my children get their names. By the way, because my family is a Christian, we don’t go to “paid strangers” for names. In the Bible, often names show the character of the person, so better give good names to your children. I just learn last week from Sunday School that Nabal means Fool

Timothy meaning “Honoring God” was selected by my hubby and I. Some how both of us like the name and it is a bible character. At the third month of my gynae checkup, when the doc told us that the child I am bearing is a boy, my hubby told the ultrascan picture and told his father, this is Timothy. Of coz my father in law is very confused as he couldn’t tell what was in the picture. Hehehe.. I am not even sure he knew that was an ultrascan of the baby. My son’s paed told me to name my next baby if it is a boy Titus.

His Chinese name was given by my mother in law. Both my hubby and I are banana, so cannot give good Chinese name to my son. How sad. She gave my son meaning dragon hovering the sky. Both my MIL & PIL came to my house a day before I was admitted to the hospital. All of us decided to go with the name.

I am not sure what this name will bring to his character but I hope that he will honor God in his journey of life.

..to be cont with Emily next…

Finally after 3 years, I have moved my blog from version 1.5.2 to 2.2.1. I was so used to the editor in 1.5.2 that I was reluctant to move. The editor is a simple form of text and code input where I can write code on it without any hassle. The new version restricts or mess up my codes.

However as time goes on a lot of new plugins do not work for legacy versions. I had to do something before my blog turn into antic and cannot be upgraded.

The process of upgrading a legacy blog is tedious. First I need to export the entire blog into xml format. The first extraction was 16MB and my host can only take 2MB. :wall: I learn that I had to delete some spam comments from my database. After deletion, it shrinks to 4MB. Not bad eh, still not good enough. I had to split the files into 2MB each.

Second roadblock, after I imported the post over, my PPP post have to be renumbered to match with what I submitted to PPP. I had to twitch the database to do that. Nothing complicated.

Third step, copy the links over using the database export and import.

Last step, the easiest, that is to copy the template by copying the template folder to the new blog.

All in a days work. Sorry for the technical boring post but it is an achievement for me. It feels good to successfully tackle roadblocks. I hope with this new version, you won’t face TCPIP or network error. If you do, sorry it is my host server fault.

I woke up from my nap and my hubby told me that there is a bunch of rambutan outside my porch. Today wasn’t even my birthday and I got a yummy surprise. My hubby called his dad to ask whether he bought it for us. It wasn’t him. We checked with our neighbors and it wasn’t them. Now who left it there? My hubby and I thought maybe someone left it at the wrong house.

Rambutan is in season and infact most fruits are in season this month. Yesterday, I was thinking of getting a bunch myself but I changed my mind. I guess someone read my mind today. Anyway, thank you to whoever you are, the delicious red fiery rambutan was great. By the way, I love receiving unexpected gifts.Two weeks ago, my US manager came to Penang and he never tasted rambutan before. How unfortunate and so much he is missing on. I had to bring him to Jusco and see what it was. One kind soul, the sale person cut the rambutan and mangosteen for him to try. He likes it. Next I offered him durian but he decline. :giggles: He and his manager were not very adventurous. It took him so long to eat the little red octopus and unagi from the Japaneses Restaurant.

Chinnee tag me on this Vain Tag. I took the quiz and I am happy with what I got. Total reflection of what I am. I am slightly vain, only 24% and I thought I didn’t have vain blood in my body.

You Are 24% Vain

Okay, so you’re slightly vain from time to time, but you’re not superficial at all. You are realistic. You know that looks matter. You just try to make them matter less.

Next I am to announce my 7 Vanity Sense which is going to difficult. Hrmmm….

1. I bought a lot of nail polish from US, it is dirt cheap only 99 cents per bottle. They are all sitting in my cupboard collecting dust. I gave 80% away.

2. *check dictionary for the meaning of vain, just double confirm*

3. I like to take the hotel toiletries home when I am traveling. If I am staying in the hotel for 5 days, I will take 5 sets home. They are kept nicely in a box.

4. *peep at other people vanity tag post and see whether I can leverage to finish this tag*

5. I never dye my hair because I hate the smell and the long wait. I did straighten my hair once and vow never to do it again. I hate the smell.

6. I want to gain weight, at least 2 more kg.

7. I bought a COACH handbag, must have COACH written all over.

I don’t have to buy any coloring books anymore. If you have a printer and a computer with Internet connection, you can print out any pictures your child wants. All you have to do is go to Google -> Images and search for “Coloring” and the choice of pictures. If you want pooh, type coloring pooh, mickey mouse type coloring mickey mouse and etc.. Click the Picture and click the thumbnail on the top to bring the picture onto the browser and print.

Timothy has been asking me to print him airplane, ultraman, cruise ship, bus, disneyland, train and others. He has not stopped asking since. Emily will follow his request. You can find most of the pictures the child wants. Try it.

I have yet to find a nice picture of London Bridge (aka London Tower Bridge), let me know if you can find it.