Tokyo Trip

The preparation was a brief one, we manage to bring the minimum and only brought one big & one small luggage bag. It was quite tough because we need to bring stroller too, in tokyo we need to do alot of walking and going up and down for the underground. Thankfully we survived! and we enjoy the trip too!

(1) 60 years old man gave up his seat for me when we were going to Shinjuku West! I think he needs the seat more than i do, really mm hou yi si. Having a baby with me get these privilege

(2) Andrea enjoy the most - Puroland, she would say "Hello Kitty" over and over again or "Hello Kitty come out". Hubby bought a plush toy for her and she's still hugging it every min now. Sadly she does not enjoy Mickey Mouse as much... but she still look amazed when Mickey and friends dancing

(3) I enjoy the stay very much as we tried new food, as in restaurant food. Previous trip we bought alot of food from the department store (basement), alot of variety but did not get to enjoy the eating environment. This trip is very relaxing, we have our time for resting, shopping, eating without rushed. Everything goes smoothly according to our plan.

(4) Andrea was having abit of flu and fever on our 2nd last day in tokyo. Fed her paracetamol, luckily it does helped. Right now she is almost recover.

We have not regretted to bring andrea & would definitely to have another family trip!

Another fulfilling day

Early in the morning, hubby and I send andrea to mum's house as usual. We then set off to do our things, Never ending task, list can go on and on.....
(1) Open Maybank Share trading account. They are having promotion, only 0.1% handling charge
(2) Watched 2 movies at mid valley, have not watch any movies since 6 months ago
(3) Buy glass water container for home
(4) Buy Andrea's sleep wear & house wear
(5) Go to shins, buy my shampoo and curl leave in conditional

Wanted to do facial but was all fully booked. I still have another 2 sessions of origin, but didn't want to go there as the beautician there did not clean my pimples thoroughly. Will try 1 utama Dermalogica tomorrow.

Year of Ox

Happy Chinese New Year & Gong Xi Fa Cai!

We have just touched down yesterday night at 8pm. I took the whole week off and today was very fruitful, Me & hubby has done the following in 1 day!
(1) Change our 10 year old touch and go card. The new card is much slimmer than the old one
(2) Repair my Omega, cost me a bomb to get it fixed! Have to wait 6-8 weeks for collection
(3) Collect Isetan Voucher, renew Istan card & get Locitane new membership card
(4) Bring andrea to Dr. Soh (she was not very well - flu, fever & vomit)
(5) Collect rental

It's a tiring day, but was happy that i did not sleep away my day. Andrea slim down alot after the trip, it's because she never had proper food, only snack on what we were eating & i think the weather is too cold for her. Today she did not finish her rice during lunch and dinner, hope tomorrow she will get used to it and finish it. Need more time for her to tune back to her old routine.

Holiday!

When i told my friend i'm going to Tokyo, Most of them replied "AGAIN?"

Well, in life there are many types of person. Majority would like to explore countries that they have never been, even they have been there for less than an hour/ half a day, they would proudly tell people that i have been there! How proud right? They may have visited more than half of the countries on this globe! They have their foot imprint there.... Question, what they have gain from there? A picture of their famous sculpture? or whatever that makes them happy & satisfied.

Minority of the people, like me... would go to the same country over and over again. We like familiarity & each visit we will enjoy different type of things. 1st visit usually are rushed and feeling confused & hope to see more things than in our planned itinerary (because we do not know what is the best there, we tried more bad stuff than the good stuff on 1st visit - yes homework from Internet helped but u do really need to try it yourself to judge). 2nd visit we will only go to good places for food and shopping & explore some other things we have missed last visit. With the familiarity of that place, i would feel more satisfied/ happy & get to really enjoy that place with a peaceful heart.

5 min suggestion

I have been worried about andrea's health & her sleep pattern. Hence, I've tried 5 min suggestion again the night before, she actually slept thru the night. Then hubby was saying because the temperature of the room is right, hence she can sleep thru the night. I want to prove him wrong, thus was abit lazy yesterday night and watched TVB series all night. Andrea wakes up 2-3 times crying, 1 time for milk, 2 times just cry for her dad.

I do not feel much support from hubby all these while & sometimes i felt that he took me for granted (never appreciate whatever i have done & thought it's my job to do it). It might because my Direct Officer is weak (but 2009 DO is clashed out, hope it will be better). I do not have much emotional/ spiritual support from him as he has different view in religion or i should say spiritual believe. I may be too dependant since im young, hence without this support i do not think i can go very far with someone that suppose to live with me till i die. The only dependant now is Andrea... hope she could grow up healthily & have the same believe as me.

Shichida - 18 Jan 2009

Class as usual, ESP - sometimes correct sometimes incorrect. I think she needs more concentration for this, however at 18 going to be 19 months, she can't really concentrate for long. I think she does more guessing than really 'feel' the correct answer!

I've gotten the lyrics, however i need more time to memorize! I hope andrea is able to sing like the other kid in class. Andrea now has homework from shichida where she suppose to complete one sheet per day. I've bought crayola magic colour pen for her to do dots, i have no idea how a 2 year old kid can draw small circle, hence i bought that to ask her to just dot on the paper.

While i was at kinokuniya, I was very surprise that they sell Kumon work book for age 2 and up. How different are these from the kumon centre we have in KL? I have bought all 8 books, very kiasu i know, but they were actually having 20% off! Hence i took it all! The quality is really good, i have started off with 'folding' book, andrea likes it! It's actually similar to shichida work sheets, here are the difference: shichida - black & white (free), Kumon - very colourful & printed on quality paper (RM20+ per book).

Joey Yap Talk

It was fun as usual, when he talks about face reading it can actually makes me laugh out loud! I enjoy all of his talk, remember my previous post on my face reading class with him, he regulate my period, muahhaha, actually he relieved the stress inside me and my menstrual went back to normal!

I went there with mum & kim joined us later. What i've got out of the talk? Flying Star feng shui matter & improve luck for general ppl. As i have some knowledge in bazi, it may not be applicable for ALL, as some animal sign may clashed in your chart hence general feng shui is quite dangerous. However, joey went abit deeper to say that, this is good for all except for certain animal sign. My advise is that you really need a bazi foundation to see the big picture. Feng Shui, Bazi or any Chinese metaphysics they are linked to form a big picture.

What am i going to do with what i've learnt during the talk? Nothing.... absolutely nothing, as i've roughly know about my house direction, although it's not the best but thank god that it's not the worst, hence i'll just leave it for Year 2009.

One Day Luck

I feel energy today (in the morning when i opened my eye), i don't know why. I'm very lucky today, i don't know why (but i know now!). I have Fu Yin (heaven & Earth Repeat) today with my Year Pillar. Well, a happy day for me dispite the whole awful month i have awaiting me.

I have planned to go for Mamypoko warehouse sale today which is near my office (on the G floor), but was afraid that i may not be getting anything because of the crowd. Well, i tell myself because of savings, i need to try. I leave my desk at 10.45am (it start at 11am), to my surprise there are many ppl standing infront of the door, waiting for it to open. i think about 30-40 ppl! Really crazy!! I Squeeze to the side, wanting to see the price list sticking on the glass, after that 10.55am the door is open, i was lucky because i was quite near to the door, i was pushed inside and there... i dunno where to go, the table is very long, so once again i squeeze myself to the side, i manage to stand on the second row. wow! i dunno how i did that, the auntie infront of me bought RM800 of Mamypoko! after her, it's my turn. In total i only spent 30 min from the time i left my desk, to G, to my car, back to my desk! That was really fast and smooth!

Today i had 3 person talking to me, friendly talk ... it seems that i'm more approachable too. Wow!

Shichida - 11 Jan 09

Andrea enjoy all the activities they have & i'm eager to have their songs, as in MP3 or CD. It feels great to sing along with sensei and can be able to sing it at home for andrea. 2 year old milestone is to sing simple song, hope andrea can sing some songs when she reach 2. Sensei said songs were not sold on CD, she suggested that i get the lyrics from the front desk. I've gotten it, but it's not complete, cos i dind't know there are lyrics available. I've missed my term 1 songs, will get it this week.

It amaze me that she can count the abacus, 1 to 10, well not whole 1 to 10, she misses some numbers in between but still surprise me! didn't know she can count, at home at most she say 1, 2, 3... didn't know she can say 4,6,9,10! wow! She help her classmates to count too.. my eye open so wide when i hear her in class!

What Happen

Things has been very bad lately. 2009 - Ji Chou, January - Yi Chou. There are too many Chou clashing my poor goat & these are also bullying punishment (with my 10 years luck cycle makes it complete, xu, wei, chou - shite!). I have been bullied in the office and the worst thing is im not facing my favourable direction! My oh my, what am i going to do?

I thought the clashing is good, cos my direct officer released, but somehow i am still stranded in the same position/ department, my Boss changed! double shite! This suppose to be indicating a job change not boss change!! well, it means the same thing, but i was hoping for a job change!

This month yi also combine away myself and form metal, i have too much metal in my chart and it's no good. Off balance man. Strong self lead to strong opinion & very self centred.. this is why im feeling shite!

Destiny please don't control me... Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo....

Feb 4 onwards should be good. Keep my finger crossed!

Ipoh Trip

Early in the morning, andrea was very excited to go to Kizsport. She behaved very well and we set off at 9.15 to Kizsport. Andrea refuse to sleep on our way there, luckly she was not all cranky in class. Today she is able to enjoy herself more, maybe daddy is there and she feels more comfortable or could it be she already adapt to the place once more very quickly.

After the class we went straight home for lunch & headed to Ipoh at 1pm. We went to mum's place 1st, andrea was initially very shy and wanted to cry when uncle & auntie wanted to hold her. After the magic pink doughnut given to her, she is very friendly to everyone. Amazing! She had great fun with her cousin Jane, who's 1 month younger than her. Later we went to dad's place, and she was fine, no crying and had her dinner there. Good girl.

It was Grandma's birthday, uncle from Singapore and Auntie from KL all came for the birthday dinner. We left at 10pm that night and arrived around 12am. It was a tiring day but i'm happy to see Andrea's social skills improved & is more vocal than both of her cousin.

Sleep Pattern

Andrea & Hubby has moved to study room, i'm sleeping all alone in my room. These are the reason:
(a) Andrea was sick - Coughing & Phlegm
(b) hence, Cannot sleep in Air con
(c) Too tired of andrea's night feed

Although my bedroom and study room is connected, i do not feel the warmth that we used to have when we 3 of us sleep in the room. Due to the room shape and size, the aircon is located to be directly blowing at andrea's bed, i think this is why she got cold at 1st then move on to cough and phlegm. When can i get a decent room that i'll feel comfortable in?

Beside this, stressed from work makes me feel depress too. I hope tomorrow trip to ipoh would cheer me up alittle.

LW - 3 Jan 09

I think Kizsport is not doing very well, in terms of keeping their old customers. Well, i think they have enough new customers this is why they never reply or act on my suggestion. I say this because surprisingly, there is NONE of andrea's classmate were in the class, all cabut (2 promoted to LR class). Don't be so mean, i think 4 cabut... we have around 6-7 in a class last year.

3 Jan was Andrea's 1st class for 2009, it was not so fun because andrea starts starring at those kids (again). I hope she could enjoy herself next week. We only have 4 babies, including andrea in the class. Small class but all the parents attended with the kid, we have 7 adults and 4 babies! Honestly i dun like this situation. too many adults!! dads are sitting everywhere, pls sit somewhere else. those equipments are not sofas!

Shichida - 4 Jan 09

Our new sensei named Eiza, she is very pleasant looking (i think she has peach blossom star in her bazi chart) & Patient. Overall I'm satisfied with her on our 1st day.

BU Branch has more classes & the air con is really cold. BU Branch classrooms are not as high tech as KL branch. KL branch has LCD screen & apple notebook but BU branch only has a radio. I wonder why they can't have apple notebook & LCD screen for all their branches. I do enjoy looking at the LCD screen.

The mother beside me is very irritating, she allow her sick baby to come to class & was coughing through out the class. Very inconsiderate. Andrea have just recovered from coughing, if she started to cough again, I'm gonna curse that mother! It's sad to see ppl with money but lack of water in their natal chart. Really Id**t.

Charlie & Lola

Andrea's favourite movie's now Charlie & Lola, hence we have bought her 2 Charlie & Lola books from kinokuniya. It was expensive, but well, she could actually hug them to sleep, so i guess it's all worth it! She'll bring her book every night (3 nights in a row now) to ask me to read for her (that's really even more amazing, usually i need to drag her & sit on my lap to read & she would run away half way reading).

I have brought high 5 for her, but she doesn't like it. Maybe later.

She is able to say 5 words in a sentence again in my car just now - Mummy car got McDonald's sticker. It really suprise me! Well Done!

Happy New Year!!

New Year Resolution:
(1) Yearly budget burst again for 2008. Be more careful in 2009 spending - must not burst forecast expense again.
(2) Shall not produce more negative metal emotion i.e non-sociable, controlling, opinionated, complaining, defensive, merciless, stormy, nervous, insecure, complicated.
(3) Look out for wealth generation opportunity