Posted in Daily musings on July 30, 2008 | Comments Off
Vern texted me today.
Him : Almost had an accident. Phew! Now at Mac recovering from shock. Haha
Me: What happened
Him : Was changing lanes when a lorry dashed out. I swerved to the right and a taxi dashed pass me.
Me : Wow. Heng you ok.
Him : Ya. Big trouble don’t die confirm got fortune. Buy toto [...]
My father passed away 4 years ago on 27 April 2004. He was riding a bicycle, on the way back from work and was hit by a cab. He was less than 10 minutes from home when the accident happened.
If dad was still around, he would be 60 years old.
When my father died, I did [...]
We live and learn, albiet through the hard way sometimes.
Yesterday I had my usual cuppa at home. The cup of tea was stronger than usual because I forgot to remove the tea bag on time. In the afternoon, I had another few sips of lemon tea and boy. did it set XY off on a [...]
Posted in Couplehood, Me stuff on July 24, 2008 | Comments Off
Tomorrow, KJ will be off to his 1 week reservist training. I jokingly asked if he needs an assistant so that I could go with him. I offer to clean his gear, wipe his perspiration, bring his food.
During his reservist training last year, I moved home for a week to stay with my mother. I [...]
Posted in Me stuff, Out and about on July 21, 2008 | Comments Off
At the request of my colleagues (and because this shameless mum just wants to hawk her offspring for compliments), KJ left work early on Friday and brought the baby to my office. Despite being really sleepy, she behaved well for the aunties in the office, and in true XY fashion, she started to fuss only [...]
Posted in Couplehood, Out and about on July 18, 2008 | Comments Off
As a last minute thing, KJ and I decided to leave the baby at home and have a few hours to ourselves last night. He picked me up after work, we had dinner at a HK Cafe (and were wowed by this waitress with an amazing memory for the menu , went for a quick [...]
Posted in Me stuff, Parenting on July 18, 2008 | Comments Off
Ever since Xinyue came, I have had very little time to myself. After I returned to work, that small window of personal time that I had during my maternity leave shrank even more. Now, I am happy if I get to sleep for 3 hours without interruption.
One night while tending to Xinyue, I just suddenly [...]
Meet Xinyue, my daughter. She is about 3 months old now. Her feeding and sleeping habits are totally inconsistent, but generally she drinks 4 ozs of milk every 3-4 hours, naps for 30 mins to 1 hour every 2 hours or so.
She usually falls asleep before midnight, has a feed at around 3am and wakes up at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2008 | Comments Off
I started a blog a little over a year ago. Recently, I gave birth to my daughter, and am inspired to start afresh, and be a better and happier person. My new blog will be more colourful and more diligently updated. Most importantly, it will be the happy place where I can go whenever I need [...]
Posted in Work, Xinyue on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today marks my first day back at work. I arrived at the office with 3 big bags – laptop, pump and miscellaneous stuff. Lots to do, little time.
I have yet to get back into the work mindframe yet, although there are alot of things to attend to. Mostly I am just trying to get used [...]
