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 love this video. See how Emily show her love for Tim??!! 😆

Bumma, when I return home from work, no electricity. Sigh. :sc: Tim keep asking me to switch on the TV for him. Told him no power. He didn’t understand. I told him TV has no battery. 😆

What I dislike about no electricity is that I have no hot water? When you are so used to showering in warm water, the thought of doing it in cold is absolute frightening. Yeah call me pampered. Oh well, the first bucket of water was hard. After that, it was ok. Since there is no electricity, we went to GIANT hypermart to enjoy the air condition there.

In the car, had a meaningful conversation with Tim.

Tim: Mummy see Buzz Lightyear (his toy) is tall.
Mummy: Mummy tall or short?
Tim: Mummy not strong, cannot pow pow us. (as in carry 2 of them together).
Tim: Papa strong, can pow pow.
Mummy: Oh mummy not strong, mummy tall or short?
Tim: Mummy short. Papa tall.

I am not strong and short. :eh: Thank goodness, after we return home, we saw Light.

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.

In my life time, I had 2 unplanned stayed the hospital. Once was 12 years ago and this year. Oh, I couldn’t remember whether I was hospitalise when I was small, I think I did, just couldn’t remember how old I was. However after 5 years old, there wasn’t any until I was 24.

At 24, it was a frightening experience. I was visiting the doc on my problem, next thing he told me that I needed to go under a few test. At the end of the test, the doctor told me I need to be dissected go for a surgery. I almost fainted because I didn’t know what to do. He didn’t give me anytime to think. He asked me to come in tomorrow for the surgery. Anyway, it was not as frightening as I thought it was.

This year, last week, I had to check in because of my eye infection. Fortunately there is no surgery. Doctor just wanted to apply eye drop every hourly for my eye and keep me under supervision. She also didn’t give me time to think, just admitted me in the same day. However she provided me wad leave. Wad leave is where I can return home at the end of the day but still check in. I had to do that because of my children.

Of coz, there are 2 planned hospital stayed where I have my 2 lovely children. I am keeping my finger cross that I do not need to check into the hospital after 12 years. :pray:

Sometimes Monday does bring disaster. I read somewhere that said “A high percentage of folks have heart attack on Monday” Maybe because they enjoy the weekend and the heart cannot take stress when they go back to the hussle, bussle, pressurizing lifestyle on Monday.

Anyway, today my car acted up on me. It didn’t want to start and it probably woke up the whole neighborhood with the noisy alarm. Each time my hubby press the automatic key to unlock the car, the alarm went off. The alarm went bonkus. We thought was the alarm or wiring problem. We had a few incidents with alarm, central locking and wiring problem with this car. Good thing, I am with AAM. I gave them a call. Not bad, they arrived within 30 minutes later.

The mechanic did some testing and found that the battery was flat. Now when was the last time I change the battery? Beats me! He fixed it and I was late for work. Fortunately I could still work from home the first hour.

Well, the day started bad but when I return to work I received a couple of good news, work related. You wouldn’t want to know.

I am not sure whether I have posted this, sorry for my poor memory. Anyway here are two very creative photos. One is done by a designer and the other, my darling hubby. I guess you know which is which, right?? :shifty:

Formula 1

Electrical Robot

Good news!!! :clap:

Due to overwhelming responses, I have set the COOK BLOG up, url: http://cookblog.mybabybay.com

Those who want to contribute, go and register. I will set you as an Author once you have register and you can start to blog your recipe. Make sure you categorize your post so that it is searchable.

Who knows, maybe we can make a book out of it. :dance:

After reading Twinsmom blog, I am sure a lot of moms are facing the problem of “What To Cook For The Family?”

I am sure there are a lot of chef qualities in you. I have an idea that can help everyone solve this problem but do need your contributions. I would like to start a COOK BLOG where you can share your recipe with others. You can login (a user id will be created for you) to this COOK BLOG, using WordPress.

With this, if you have problem on what to cook, just browse the simple recipe in here. Before I start this project, I would love to hear how many of you are interested to be part of it?

By the way, please do not copy recipe from cookbook, later I kena sue for copyright. 😥

Emily is learning to speak in 3-4 word sentences. I think she is a very fast learner. Here are some new discoveries:

#1 pour water here
#2 want some more
#3 nah kor kor take
#4 ice cream nice
#5 kor kor some more here
#6 mummy move move
#7 mummy come here
#8 God good (*from the song God is so Good*)
#9 Bye Bye C’ya
#10 kor kor sleep, papa sleep, shhhh

Later she will be a talkative gal. Oh she just learnt how to scream. :wall: