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1.Andrea is able to say
(a) Apple
(b) Fall Down
(c) dadadadi, gong-gong, mama, mi
(d) mic mic (mickey mouse)
(e) Blue Whale
(f) bob (name of the dog)
(g) Cow
2.Do puzzle - match the animals to their home
3.Likes to read more books
4.Walk & run around aimlessly - in class/ shopping complex

Little Walkers

We attended today for the 10am class. The teacher is a malay and has been teaching there for 9 years. She is a freelancer. That's all i know from her. I have also signed up for this month's class, have decided to bring andrea to mix around.

1st andrea was OK, we were the 1st to arrive. Later when mummy happily chatting with teacher, andrea gets annoyed & started to cry. Everyone arrive 15 min late and class started 15 min late. We had singing session 1st, then was allow to play around the room with all the equipments. Andrea enjoy sausage roll and spent 70% of her time there, she doesn't like BIG log (to push & walk), trampoline and playing with kids with parents beside them. I can see she likes to play with other kids but just do not like adults looking at her. Well, That's Andrea.. can't help

Hope that she enjoys the class next time!

Excited yet disappointed

Well, that is two different stories. I was very excited and can't wait till my Project Management Fundamental ends. I had a full 3 days of PM fundamental class, i had great teammates, i learn losts from them and the best part is i did the least presentation! I was all green when you asked me to do presentation, so yeah... was feeling alright through out the class. Yesterday was my last day of class & the instructor said there is ANOTHER exam in order to get our certificate. Anyway, i passed! Thank God!!

I was all excited and happy by the end of the class because hubby bringing me to Lot 10 to collect my shu uemura essence set. When i was there, i was 10x disappointed and angry. The promoter told me that he has given the set to another customer! I was so angry, no words could describe, i did not speak very well when i was angry cos my mind is blocked!

I went back to the car feeling really pissed. I called Istean to complain about Shu Uemura & told the promoter if he doesn't get back to me by tomorrow 12pm, i will complaint to Shu Uemura headquarters. Anyway, i collected my set at 1 utama branch today. So i'm feeling OK now.

When back at home. I was feeling extremely tired and exhausted. I do not know why, it might be the stressed i had yesterday and the past 3 days of PM fundamental class. I had terrible stomachache just now, but after sitting in the toilet, feel much better now. I must take good rest right now. ciao!

I spent too much

Lately i have spent too much on facial.

Last Isetan sale i have bought myself Lamer moisturizing lotion, shu uemura deepsea active water, moisture eye zone mask & UV under base. I have miniature deepsea moisture set for free!

This Isetan Sale i have bought shu uemura deepsea mask & deepsea essence. Besides i also bought mum Lamer moisturising lotion & Lamer eye concentrate for myself. I have Shu Uemura miniature ACE set for free! These two months i do not have any savings at all. I have to promise myself not to over spend again next month!

I have also bought facial package at origin last month :( This will be shared with mum and kim, however i had paid a big lump sum! sigh...

All in all, i am happy to see the results. It brings moisture to my face, radiant and also confident! I have finally found the right products for myself, I have wasted ALOT of money just to find the right product for my skin & I'm happy that i have found! Lamer & Shu Uemura!

Teacher House on Fire!

I do not know how true this is, but when the staff called me this morning, i felt that it's a make up story. However, i sounded frustrated during the call & the staff was kind enough to ask me to go up now and she'll give me free entry to the Play Land! wee ... FREE! I Like it!

I've booked for the free trial again next saturday & hope the teacher won't burn anything anymore! Was eager to find out about the franchise, but today lacking luck. The malay lady attended to me was super blur, i asked about franchise she gave me a leaflet. Then one of her chinese colleague came by and stood beside her, i do not know why i shy away and walked off! I don't get what i want ... sigh...

Back to the Play Land. Andrea was enjoying herself towards her last 5 min. She spent 30min staring and watching/ Stare at the play ground and watching other children play. There is one boy keep giving her balls & she keep receiving it! ha.. then i bring her to the baby area where they have smaller pool of balls & slide. Andrea likes the pool of balls, slides and walk around. I've plan to bring her there every saturday. Hope i can develop her social skills!

Pronunciation

There is alot of improvement lately.
(1) Andrea can say - Shoe, Balloon, No
(2) Andrea can walk steadily and loves to walk.
(3) Andrea loves itsy-bitsy spider song. She will sign when we sing this song
(4) She likes us to read her story books. (i have bought the whole set of Level 1, read it yourself. Lady bird for her)

Andrea bottom incisor coming out, hence these few weeks she doesn't eat much. Cannot finish her milk and any food we feed her.

Underweight

Past 2 weeks, andrea went to doc Wong for MMR jap, however after a few discussion, doc suggest to give her chicken pox instead and MMR can be postponed to next month. Well, i was quite pissed of her suggestion because doc wong was afraid that andrea would be allergic to MMR hence asked my mum to give her some eggs to test it out before having the MMR jap. I sneak out of the office at 11am, hoping to get the MMR jap done but in the end i had chicken pox jap! Not only that, we went to our usual doc koe, it was CLOSED! and we drive to this new clinic & felt that the dr had con me to get something that is not what i wanted. We have always wanted to go to dr. MUSA, but he has always been superly busy (clinic super full) and on leave so frequently, we have gave up hope on him. Docs now have a very relaxing life! Patient always can't get them on the right time!

Dr. Wong was concern about andrea's weight and have suggested us to give her oats/ toast/ cereal in the morning. Mum had tried that and she dislike oats. we scratch our head and finally i've decided to buy an expensive supplement - Pediasure. Andrea drank it for 2 days now, once a day. So far she doesn't seem to like it very much, she still can't finish the milk! I don't know if her bottom teeth is coming out, she seems to drool alot and have no appetite lately. 4 days now, hope she will be fine soon!

Andrea loves to put coins into her piggy. It's an achievement for her! It's not that easy you know... hehe. Andrea is able to walk steadily now.

Hubby and I will be bringing andrea to Shangrila for 2 nights. Hopefully she behave herself and also hope we can enter the horizon lounge together with andrea! T&C stated cannot bring children below 12 & when we have called 2 staff & asked, they said can... so we keep out finger crossed!

Walking

Andrea practices her walking skills everyday. She took the initiative to walk around the house. I am very happy that she started walking without us telling her to walk. [we usually tell her to do things we want and cheer for it if she follows]

I think soon she will be able to walk steadily, Hooray! i don't have to carry her when we go for dinner or shopping! I think i need to buy her more shoes, right now she only has addidas sandals that grandparents bought for her and a white shoe that i bought it from zara. Clarks seems to be very heavy, anyway i will go and look for osh kosh walking shoes!

Musikhaus

I have bought andrea to Musikhaus's trial class on last last Sunday. The class seems ok because it gave andrea a chance to play with other kids. The purpose is not so much on the music because the method that they use, we can do it at home too! Unfortunately the Saturday classes are all taken up, hence i would need to wait for their next intake and hopefully there are ppl dropout.

I am also interested in Shichida, however i am not so fortunate for this either, all classes are full. hence i would also need to wait till next intake and pray that someone will stop going. The babies classes now are very popular and money cannot buy everything! hmph...

Working from home

This week i am working from home again. Mum went back to ipoh yesterday and will only be coming back tomorrow. It was my grandma's birthday! Feel bad because we never celebrate for her, but i can't do much about it :p

Life have been hectic and was emotionally attacked by my colleague. My 2Q08 compliance testing just over & now i have to chase for Client Sat survey Root Cause and analysis. My colleague is 4 years older than me but behave like a kid. Exactly like me and pei last time, but we have outgrown it. Thank God! How disgusting and irritating to have someone like that around + she is Superbly FAKE!! I don't know how much i can tolerate... Hope that i can live thru it!

Andrea has no improvement lately. Her potty training failed. She even poo on her diapers where she doesn't do it last time. Andrea did not have flash card lesson anymore as my mum is busy with her own things & emelyn doesn't seem interested in teaching her flash cards. I have stop reading her story book every night, due to the 8pm show that i watch every weekdays, emelyn put her to sleep now. Thus, u can see the deterioration happening to Andrea, no wonder doctor said that her head did not grow! I don't know what to do...

Birthday Preparation

Prior to Andrea's birthday. We had ordered birthday cake from Just Heavenly. The cake will be design by ET. During our discussion, i felt that ET was not very keen to have our cake made. He even told us that this is his last order and was hesitant to accept our order at first. He said that the design will be VERY simple as he has no time for complicated designs. He charged us RM183 for a 1kg cake. I hate those supplier always treat us as if we are not their important client! Sigh.. i always ended up not feeling very happy with these ppl doing things for me. Hopefully the cake will turn out pretty.

Hubby had bought andrea a very big present yesterday from robinson. I have bought andrea a present today too at parkson. I went to baby zara today, there are no nice tops or dresses now. Hence, i do not have any clothes for her except for toys.

Tomorrow we will be collecting the birthday cake at around 1pm. We have also planned to get some party hats and balloon from the party shop nearby Just heavenly. We will be having the cake cutting session at around 2pm, where everyone should be back from work.

Andrea's flu have not fully recover yet. She still has running nose but seems alright to me. She is super adorable & she is able to walk with one hand support now. I brought her to walk around at the car porch today! I enjoyed it... hehe

I'm Sick

Sorethroat strikes when i was in KK on the 2nd day. After i have taken many vitamin C, sorethroat clears and flu came in. The worst thing is that i have passed it to Andrea. Poor Girl has running nose and nose stuck! She is now getting better, at least no running nose anymore. I'm also recovering, having cough now. Hopefully it will stop by today.

Never been so BIG

My current weight is at 53KG. Beside being pregnant, I never been so heavy before. My body start to inflate ever since i stop breast feeding. Human hormones gave a very high impact of our appearance, either on our body, face or skin.

I was at 48KG during my breastfeeding time, it felt good and my appearance was very attractive too. I can feel people around me envious of my body and i think i have encourage some of my friend to give birth as they say they want to slim down this fast too!

After 9-10 months, i have started to gain weight. It might be the reason below that cause this:
(1) Sleep too early, around 8-9pm after dinner
(2) Metabolism rate slowed down, usually after taken small portion i felt full. However i still finish up my lunch/ dinner. Do not want to waste food.
(3) Hormones. After stop breastfeeding, I've became a giant

Currently, i can only exercise & do stretching. I don't know what else i can do :(

Recession

It's coming. I have some money in the share market and i can't withdraw it now. Im regret that i did not sell my Maybank when it was RM13. Dad bought it for me at RM8 and i have top up just recently at RM11. Now it only left with RM7. I have a few other more and they are not doing very well either, but at least not as bad as Maybank!

Beside this, our daily use items are rising too. Petrol, food, clothes, utilities .. everything! How this world gonna be in 3 months time? would there be more crime? Gosh... i really dunno what to do with such situation.
1.Migrating is not an option because we have not done any preparation nor having any plans yet.
2.Earning more money is not an option becuase my business plan never seems perfect & current employment does not have any initiave of increasing our salary nor having any inflation adjustment. Future employment? Don't think about it, I'm sure there are no other company who gave me this much freedom & flexibility.
3.Saving money is not an option too because we have been calculating our monthly expenses and it's within our control, we don't waste uncessary money thus far.
What else? Personal use for clothes and skin care? wow! if i cut that i think i will be very miserable. I don't think life is worth living without that! Well, conclusion.. nothing changed, life goes on with increasing price. hehe...

I hope we still can live comfortably during recession time & hope this world would be a better place to live for everyone. I'm feeling like a saint

Get Started!

I need to start planning & packing for our trip to KK next Wednesday. Gosh i have exactly 1 week to prepare. I need to have a checklist of what to bring for Andrea & also plan for our itinerary. I hope this would be a Fun Trip!

On the other hand, i would also need to decide of whether to have a birthday party for Andrea. Is this party for me or for her? haha.. i love planning for happy events and i have initially thought that we should save our money for other things, i.e buy some nice things for andrea instead. However, recently i have heard thomas sister and khai fong will be having party for their kid, i feel left out! I must calm down and think twice before making any decision. Is this for me or for andrea? Who will be happier!!

Cookings

I work from home this week, hence i have chosen three recipe from the cook book.
(1) Vegetable Soup (5 types of vege cook together)
(2) Sweet Potato & leek pasta
(3) Broccoli & Cheddar cheese

(1) is successful. Andrea loves it. I mixed with pasta for her.
(2) will only try cooking tomorrow. I guess it would be nice too as she loves pasta.
(3) It's abit oily, hence i don't feed andrea alot. She seems to like it.

Being a stay at home mum can be very boring. I do not have the stamina to stay with my kid 24 hours. I'm glad that i have a maid to help when i needed to get my things done or im exhausted to do anything. Andrea has been behaving herself & i have almost 80% of concentration at work.

Backache

I had a terrible backache yesterday. It may not be as terrible as i have described because i never had a backache before. Whole day i was in pain and it relieves a little after i did the signature exercise.

I am working from home this week, only require going back to office when there is a telecon. I was on half day yesterday and when i was back home, andrea glued to me and i think i only have 25% of my concentration at work. I am going to office at 10.30am later for another telecon at 11.30am, then i will be back. Hopefully today andrea is more independent. She will cry whenever no one accompany her. A Spoil Kid!

I've used coconut oil for cooking yesterday's dinner, the chicken + potato was okay, didn't had any hint of coconut taste in the dish. However the spinach had a very strong smell. Maybe i have put too much. Honestly Coconut oil is not very favourable, it tasted like nasi lemak. Imagine nasi lemak taste on all your dishes for that night! Horrible... Anyway, Look at the bright side, It is the world's best cooking oil!

11 Months Old

Andrea is a big girl now. She knows
1. when she wants to urine. She will crawl to her potty (Only day time)
2. how to sign "flower", "more", "pretty" & "sleep"
3. going to her drawer to get dressed when she see grandma going out (she wants to follow)
4. how to "kiss" when we asked her to do so, but somehow she doesn't want to kiss me
5. the name of her book "Three Little Pigs", "Thumper Shapes", "Goldilocks and the three bears"

Andrea's Favourite snacks or shall i say, the regular snacks i bought for her is the biscuit by WAKODO from Isetan. There are 11 different flavour with different stages i.e 6 months, 7 months and 9 months.
6 months - comes in 2 flavours: Tried 1 (Rice cracker)
7 motnhs - comes in 5 flavours: Tried 1 (Potato stick)
9 months - comes in 4 flavours: Tried all 4 (sweet potato, pumpkin, potato & aeroplane shape biscuit)

Andrea also drinks Heinz fruit juice everyday. 1 Bottle last for 2 days
1. Apple & Blackcurrant
2. Strained Apple Prune Drink
3. Strained Pear Juice
4. Strained Apple Juice
5. Strained Apple Prune Drink

Andrea meals are mostly Organic. We bought most of the vegetable from JustLife. I am now a Justlife member too.

Andrea wakes up in the middle of the night

Andrea seldom wakes up in the middle of the night. I have no idea what happened to her, she wakes up at 2am and only get back to sleep at 3.30am. I have made her milk & she can't fall back to sleep after the milk, she started to cry after that. I was very very sleepy and tired, luckly hubby is there to help to put her back to sleep.

early this morning, she grin at me when i got up from the bed. I gave her a hug and kiss then i go brush my teeth. Andrea seems okay and hopefully she won't be so cranky tonight.

Andrea had rashes on her neck since sunday, it had not got better. Mum said wait for a few more days before we bring her to see doctor. I have gotten a medication gel for bathing from chen chen. But it doesn't seems to help alot.

Andrea s able to say two vocals now but still couldn't made them up as words yet. She tried to take her 1st step on saturday, but wouldn't want to try another time till now.

work is Stressful

Back to IBm about 3 weeks now. I have not grasp everything as fast that i could imagine and anticipated. everything is new to me, including my Business Controls role. The name could be the same but the process is totally different and i have to start from zero again!! Everyone has high expectation of me, because they know that i am a re-hire and i can start my engine on day 1! They're wrong, im a slow learner and i needed more time.

I have had nightmare almost everynight and feel so depress before going to work. when i am at work, i work like a dog and hoping 5pm will come very soon! i go home sharp everyday at 5pm unless there are classes or telecon. I don't know when this sadness and stress will go away, i hope it will go away soon, because i can feel that i am collapsing soon. There is no one in this world would understand me, including my husband. I felt so alone and lonely at work and at home.