Well, just to spruce the blog up with some recent snapshots of the girls. Can’t believe how time is flying by so quickly…come see what I mean!

KR is already 7 months and is quite comfortable sitting up on her on for longer periods of time.

Sheer concerntration - do not disturb, baby at play.

Arianna is now 2yrs 4mths and has gone hatty recently. She never used to like wearing hats or have anything on her head. Things have now changed…see, she put Daddy’s hat on herself! Siow cha boh…. lol

Whhheeee….!!!! Catching her in motion, running like a headless chook [chicken in Aussie] in the drive way. LOL

Practising for Colgate advertisement. LOL My uncle used call us or any small niece or nephew ‘comotting’ as in comot [messy/dirty in Malay] when we were kids. I think this is it.

Gotta love it when kids smile.

As summer slowly creeps in, I am reminded of a conversation that took place between me and an ex-colleague a long time ago. This was when I first came out here and it was my first summer. I was complaining to D about how hot it was as it was summer then and she was saying, ‘O no, I love summer! I’ve been waiting for it.’

And I said, ‘How can anyone love summer??? It’s bloody stinking hot and unless you have the air con on full blast, you’re literally melting away. And you should know what hot is, you’re from Indonesia!’. She goes on to say, ‘When you’ve been here a few years, you’ll know what I mean. After all the cold and wet weather, you’ll be looking forward to the sun.’

Well, D….I’ve been here 3 years now and you know what, I’m still not loving it. And I don’t think I ever will. I may be from Malaysia and I certainly know what hot is and if I was home, I probably would still be complaining but heck, Aussie summers are BLEK. Gimme cold anytime!

At least, if I’m cold I can wear 10 layers and wrap myself in an electric blanket. But if I’m stinking hot, even if I walked around nakkid, it would still be stinking hot! Other than getting the air con installed which is not going to happen anytime now, the only possible thing for us to do to get out of the heat is to put up camp in MILs. And that ain’t happening. So until we find a solution for this, I shall keep on complaining and bitching about it, every summer if I have to. And if you have not experienced 4 season, please don’t bother commenting.

It’s not that I don’t have enough on my plate at the moment with kids to look after full-time, and then going back to work for a couple of weeks full time and all BUT since I joined my sewing forum, I have really been inspired and encouraged by some of the mums there.

I dare say that many of them can be considered supermums! At least to me they are. Why I consider them that? Simply because #1. They work full-time. #2. Run their own online business. #3. Can find the time to still sew for their own use. #4. And some are even studying part-time while other are comtempleting the idea! Don’t you think that’s just a job for a superperson?? I could take up some short course and pick from a list of courses from LSAT prep courses list and then truly sit down and think hard before I decide. Still iffy about the whole idea but at least I now know that it isn’t impossible. Just needs a heck of a lot of disipline and perseverence to pull it off!

Translated that mean, going back to my hometown. I’m so excited!!!! We managed to get some rather cheap Air Asia flights back to KL from Gold Coast. It will be a bugger having to lug 2 kids around but with sis to help out, we should be fine. I can’t believe we managed to get those tix. The last day to puchase was 15/11/2009 and believe it or not, Mum told me about it the day before and we were merely tossing around the idea. But when taking into account how cheap it was, we decided that arvo that we’d fly down and praise God, purchased the tix 1 minute before midnight!!! Talk about walking on thin ice eh?

So it is official, we will grace Kulim with our presence from 13/5/2010 to 13/8/2010. Wished I could stay longer but the kids visas only last 3 months so it’ll have to do. I gotta say that we would not have gotten these tix if AA insisted that the passport numbers were keyed in on the spot. KR has not yet got her passport so that is our priority now to get that on the way. I too have to check with immigration about my visa as I want to have a sticker in my passport rather than a piece of A4 paper that could easier get mistaken for rough paper. A fair bit to do but should be more than enough time.

O, with sis coming out to help me, it is planned that we will be spending a few days in Gold Coast prior to the trip back to KL. Haven’t really decided where to go since #1. I dont have my license and no way am I going to drive by myself in some new place. #2. Can’t go to all those Worlds with the kids and no Ted to keep them in line. So we will most likely be going to the zoo or something. According to sis, ‘ As long as I touch Gold Coast soil, I’m happy’. So I’m just playing along. However, on the way back to Sydney, we are planning a short holiday there too. Might as well make the most of it since we not only arrive at some ungodly hour in the morning, seeing that we are already there and it would be sometime in winter, the room rates will be cheaper than normal and would be nice to have a tiny Aussie family getaway.

But we’ll see how that bit goes. For now, Kulim….wait for me!!

I never dreamt that one day I’d be eating cereal with soy milk. If you asked me this say a month ago, I’d tell you that I’d rather not eat cereal at all, than have it with soy milk. Today, I have to take those words back. :/

It all happened when KR was suspected to have some sort of allergic reaction to cow’s milk. I blogged about it here. In short, doc has asked me to go off dairy products for a month and to monitor KR. And so far, it must be a good thing coz KR is doing great. So great that she now is not pooping often enough! lol Anyhow, since this dairy-free diet so to speak, I have not been adding any dairy milk to my drinks. This means no milk in my morning milo cham nescafe and no teh susu in the evenings. Do you know how hard it is to NOT have my teh susu??? It’s torture I tell you BUT on the flip side, my sugar intake has definitely reduced as well. I dare not tell you the amount of sugar I take for fear that you might have a heart attack! Suffice to say, that the amount is a scary one.

Now, with this dairy free diet, I have been off my oats which is a bugger since it was helping me with my diet as well as I enjoy having it and all my cereal eating is now with soy milk. It’s not the same as the soy milk back home. At home, soy milk is tau chui but here its more like sugarless creamy tau chui and not as watery. Ted only drinks this so to him, it was no big deal but I tell, it taste really weird to me but beggars can’t be choosers what. Now after at least 2 weeks, I’m slowly getting used to this whole cereal with soy milk.

I can’t wait till I can get back on to my normal dairy filled diet. I miss my teh susu!!!

Congratulations to Xi!!! Here’s welcoming your brand new baby boy into the world. Hope the delivery went well, dear. Rest now, while you still can! Welcome to the club. ((hugs))

Yes, I’m very happy for my friend, Xi, who just had her baby boy a few days ago. She and hubby have been trying for sometime now after putting off trying after they got married due to personal and financial reasons. Many times she was upset when she found out that she hadn;t conceived and I guess, over time, she just sort of gave up. I think it was the stress of wanting a baby so much that was making it tougher to conceive as well. Stress really does play a major role so I guess once she ‘gave up’ and didn’t bother trying so hard anymore, she got preggers!

So Dan, go have a cigar and celebrate, mate!