Today I sent Emily to her babysitter. I was thinking of doing in 1st of next month, easy to manage my payments. However after Emily recover from her wheezing problem last week, she attended school on Monday and caught flu, sneezing for 2 days with runny nose with fever. Sigh, I had to work from home yesterday to monitor her. At her age, she is easy to manage, she can play on her own and watch TV by herself.

The babysitter used to take care of Emily, since she had some medical problems, she had to stop. That was the reason I had to send Emily to school. Now she is willing to take care of her again, with one condition 10% extra pay. She justified by saying she will add more fish to Emily’s diet. Sigh, everything seems to go up, petrol, food, electricity bills, water bills, etc…

Let’s pray and hope my Emily will develop a stronger immune system with the 10% increase of fish in her diet.

I had a very exhausted day today. My church Sunday School held a picnic day for the children. We had a big crowd with the parents joining in to have the fun. It is great to see the whole families having fun together. We had 2 big buses going up to Batu Ferringhi Christian Convention Center by the beach.

We had a fun packed program with telematches, water balloon tossing, sand castle competition, short movie with popcorn and pizza making. My children enjoy the sand castle, as they can play sand. Everyone enjoys themselves. When we got back, the children were tired and snoozing.

Friday is my official tag day, I mean 3 weeks in a row that I have been tag. I wonder who keeps generating these tags. A to Z? There were one I saw, please please please don’t tag me on this one, 50 questions…wah lau wehhh…. I even saw someone did a tag that I did last year. The circulation is a bit slow, it goes around the world and come back here.

Thanks to Jess and Angeleyes, I have a filler post for PPP.

A-Z, I shall keep it short and sweet.

[A is for age]: Math Time – Log 10000 * Log (10 power 9) + Cos 360°
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[Z for Zodiac Sign]: Let me be upfront and tell you my birthday 4th June. You can decide which sign you want it to be because I don’t believe in horoscope.

10 Reasons why I marry my Hubby from/in Penang

I am a little confused with this tag, not sure whether I should say good things about my hubby or about Penang. I will do 5 each.

1. He is a believer of God and Jesus.
2. He is very tall, block all my views of other leng jais.
3. He is a man with a gentle spirit and a kind heart.
4. He seldom argues.
5. He is thrifty but not stingy. He is a family man, help out with house chores and fixes most of the things at home.
6. I want to get away from the terrible jams in KL. Once I got stuck in traffic jam for 3 hours in KL. 😡
7. Everything in Penang is within reach, no need to travel far.
8. Lots of delicious food here: asam laksa, cendol, ambra-sumbui, gekla-sumbui, curry fish head…
9. Everyday can look at the sea. My office has a very nice view too.
10. Easy to save money here, not as many temptations here as compare to KL and standard of living is moderately low.

My hubby had put together a birthday video for Timothy. He is good at it as he wants to build a story from start to finish. Hey if you have any birthday event, you want a photographer, you can engage him with a small fees. Photography is his interest and a sideline business. In fact he has lots of potential customer but just no time to do. You want to see more of his creation, visit http://www.100smiles.com.

Every time Emily comes back from school, she will have a different hair do. Some teachers in the school love to tie Emily’s hair. It is not just one style but every day different styles. They even put ribbons on her. I get to learn new styles too. Her hair can be very messy if it is not tie up properly. At least she sit down and let me braids her hair.

Next month onwards, she will be looked after by her previous babysitter. My hubby and I decided to let her stay with the babysitter instead of school/nursery. The reason is that she gets sick very often when in school, every other month she gets runny nose. Germ is passed around very easily from one child to another. I hope she will not missed school. I know she will miss her favorite teacher Miss Jenny. I am sure all the teachers will miss her or miss braiding her hair.

Timothy is 5 years old today, officially tonight since he was an evening baby. He requested for a “Swimming Pool” cake for a very long time, a year I think. Every time someone’s birthday comes, he will ask me to get him a “swimming pool” cake. It is not exactly a swimming pool but a cake with have a pond.

We celebrated his birthday at his school. I have to prepare party packs for the children. In fact, my children have been receiving party packs all year round. Most party packs are food stuff which is not very healthy (lots of coloring). I decided to get some party toys, whistles, hats, balloons and fun stuff for the children. I also included raisins packs and small Mentos. Emily helps me to pack some of them. She does real cute things with them too.

I took ½ day leave to join in the celebration today while my hubby took photograph of the birthday event. He will do up a story slides later for my blog. It was really funny, when we enter the school compound, the children saw me carrying the cake and started singing “Happy Birthday To Timothy”. They were so eager to see the cake. Teachers were having difficulty controlling them. As it was school holidays, some teachers took leave.

After the song, candle blowing, cake cutting and eating, Timothy distributed the party packs. He looked blur at school but tonight I am sure he will tell me stories.

Happy Birthday Timothy!!

Party Packs:

Through my working life in my current company, I never had a comfortable cubicle, don’t talk about privacy. My company is known for its open concept to a certain extend. Opps, I cannot reveal too much, just did a data privacy internal training. Anyway, I have seen many other companies cubicles that are more comfy but I never seen one my son Timothy did.

I was surfing the internet with my notebook while my children play by themselves. I took 2 pillows and stack it up high so that the screen is at my eye level. My son took his computer and followed what I did but he improved on my design. He is growing to be a very creative boy. Isn’t his cubicle comfy? Some more got arm rest. :giggles:

Somehow my weekend passes very fast. Usually my children will make me exhausted. Sometimes early in the morning I will cool lunch or we visit the parks. In Penang, there are many great parks like Youth Park or Metropolitan Park where there is a big huge playground for children. If it is a hot day, there are indoor park at the hyper mart such as GIANT or TESCO. By the way, the rides in Giant are free.

After that, the children will take a nap after lunch. We all sleep together as a family. They will have 1-2 hours nap. Sometimes Emily can sleep up to 3 hours with mummy. Towards the evening, we either do some shopping or hang out in Borders for the children to read some books. We cannot do much as hubby wants us to sleep early to wake up early for Church on Sunday.

Sunday are mostly reserved for Church activities, such as morning service, Sunday School for the children and Family Cell Group in the evening. Family Cell Group is where the family of an area gathers together for a short bible studies, prayer time and makan time. That’s it for the weekend.

It is getting a trend now, that I get a TAG every Friday night. *shivers*. If it is a reasonable tag like this one, I am happy to do it. Yes and Zara’s mama tag me on this. I never really thought about it but there are a few on top of my mind.

1. That they will honor God and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior. So that I will be able to meet them in heaven. I think after they have done this one, God will take care of the following wishes.
2. That they will be healthy.
3. That they will at least get themselves into University.
4. That they will NOT put me in some old folks’ home when I grow old. *hint*
5. That they will be happy & contended in whatever they decide or choose to do. Always come to us, the parents for advice and willing to share everything with us.

While I was away in my previous business trip, my hubby had fun with the children. He worked with the children and taught them to do housework. They find it fun and all excited with it. Someone asked me how I can manage 2 without a maid. Oh well, just get the 2 of them to share the load. :giggles: Thank God for giving both lovely children to me.

Video/Slides done by my hubby from www.100smiles.com. If you need any wedding photographer who wants something similar, you can contact him.