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Mummy must be feeling VERY guilty about not spending enough time with me the last few weeks coz I got to do so many things with her over the weekend.Yihao and Xiaoyu came over on Friday so mummy and 小姨姨 took us to the playground. We then went for dinner with the whole extended family from mummy's side. Mummy bought a really huge coral trout (七星斑) when she went to Kota Kinabalu for work the

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I have been quite busy lately, coupled with travelling for the past two weekends and so have not been spending much time with the girls despite it being the school holidays for Yiu Yiu. For the last week or so, each morning when she wakes up, she'd say that she didn't want to go to Aunty Yoke Ling's house, but stay at home with me instead. When I reflected on it, I realized that it's been ages

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Favourite sleeping positionShe ain't heavy, she's my sisterLook ma, I can lift mei-mei upWhat did you just say, che che?

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Yiu Yiu got this set of numbers snap cards from a classmate's party pack when he celebrated his birthday at the kindy few weeks back.This set of cards has become one of her favourite game. Whenever she asked me to play with her, I would purposely win two sets, and let her win the other three, so she would end up having more cards than me at the end of the game. However she didn't like losing at

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I stayed at this hotel when I was in Bangkok the last couple of days. From the outset, things were not going right:1. Check-in was a pain – the reception took forever to sort out the room. I was checking in with a guest who brought along his wife. And after waiting for 15-20 minutes at the counter, they issued my guest with two rooms – one for him and one for his wife, despite us booking the room

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It's been a loooong time since I had a post on bento. I had almost cease making bento for Yiu Yiu, as my mornings are now occupied with nursing Yan Yan, pumping, washing and sterilizing the bottle and pump, getting myself ready and sending Yan Yan to the babysitter, before rushing off to work. So the poor dear had been surviving only on boxed cereals, bread and cakes from the neighbourhood bakery

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Last Saturday was the 2nd Parents – Teachers Day at Yiu Yiu's kindy, where we met up with her class teacher for her progress report as well as her second term exam results. The first thing her teacher told us was that she was awarded the "Best Conduct" award for her class.She said they had a simple ceremony last Thursday and Yiu Yiu was so proud when she was called to the front to receive the

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Yiu Yiu's kindy had their year-end school party last Friday, the last day of school. This time, the theme is Garden, and the children were asked to dress as a flower, fruit, vegetable or bug, things commonly found in a garden.Yiu Yiu wanted to become a butterfly and I bought these from a party supplies shop near my office.I needed to get her a pair of leotard/bodysuit to go with the wings and

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Yan Yan is four months old today. I missed updating her 3rd month progress, as I was away in Montreal then and was really busy throughout that trip. I was caught up with work upon my return and when I finally was able to afford some time to jot things down, Yan Yan was already 3.5 months so I decided to just wait it out till her 4th month.We took her to the paediatrician for her vaccinations two

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When I was on maternity leave, I received an email from HR asking me to choose a gift from the e-catalogue for my long service award. I flipped through the e-catalogue to find a vast selection of women's jewelry, men's jewelry, watches, as well as home decoration items such as crystal vases. As I'm not a jewelry person, I chose an elegant watch with stainless steel case and black leather

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Yiu Yiu was keeping her toys, books, stickers away while I was working on my computer. She asked me to help keep a big piece of magnetic board with multiple small magnets into a book and even though I told her I'd do it in a minute, she kept whining and nagging me. Patience is really in short supply with this girl. When I eventually helped her to keep it, she made a fuss again, coz she wanted to

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When we were lying down together during bedtime…Yiu Yiu: Mummy, what is this sharp sharp thing on your breast?Mummy: It's my nipple, darling.Yiu Yiu: Mei-mei suck on your nipple and nen-nen will come out is it?Mummy: Yes.Yiu Yiu: Can I squeeze the nen-nen out?She proceeded to squeeze my nipple before I had the chance to answer her, and giggled with delight when she saw milk actually coming out! :

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We were at Daiso last weekend when Yiu Yiu spotted an orange juicer. She asked me to buy one coz she said she wanted to make orange juice for me – and so I did. The moment we got home, she pestered me to get her an orange from the fridge, coz she can't wait to use the juicer. I helped to halve the orange, and let her squeeze the juice out. Of course I had to finish it off for her coz she didn

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Yiu Yiu has always liked to keep her hair long, and each time we teased her about cutting off her hair, she'd protest with an emphatic NO!!! She still allowed us to cut her fringe though, and so we've been taking her to her姨婆(hubby's aunt) salon to have her fringe cut ever since she started growing her hair long. And oh by the way, only her 姨婆can cut her hair. We tried taking her to other salons,

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On the Montreal – Amsterdam flight, there were only 12 seats at the section that I was sitting and all the seats were full. I didn't inform the crew that I would be occupying the toilet for a long time so when I made a disappearing act to express in the toilet, my absence of conspicuous. One of them came knocking at the door when I was half-way expressing to make sure that I was OK, and not

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How did my breastmilk mission go? Well, I managed to cart home 203oz of frozen breastmilk from halfway round the world, though not in optimal condition.I thought I had it all figured out – I'd freeze my breastmilk at the hotel's freezer for the first part of my trip, and for the second part where I extended my stay for two days, I had booked a hotel which has a full refrigerator. The hotel

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Yiu Yiu turned four on Sunday, November 1. We celebrated her birthday with a small luncheon party at home with family members, babysitter's family and several friends, including two of her classmates.This time around, she asked for a Snow White cake instead of Barney, which she had for two years in a row. I contacted the baker who baked her beautiful Barney cake last year, and Yan Yan's fullmoon

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I touched down at KLIA early on Tuesday morning , and less than 60 hours later, I was on the plane again. Luckily it was only a short trip to Singapore for a meeting on Friday. I had initially planned to make a day trip, but since the meeting was scheduled to start at 8.30am, the only flight that could take me there that early is an Air Asia flight departing LCCT at 6am, and I would have had to

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The days afterOn the second and third day, my blood pressure was still elevated so I couldn't be discharged. On the fourth day when I was fit to go home, Yiu Yiu developed jaundice and had to undergo phototherapy. I decided to stay on at the hospital as I was breastfeeding, and we only finally went home on the sixth day.The few days at the hospital were really tough. I was a naïve new mother who

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Another birth story? Yeah, but this one is almost 4 years too late. I started this blog when Yiu Yiu was eight months old, so I don't have any entries on details of her birth and early months. It just struck me that perhaps I should also pen down Yiu Yiu's birth, whatever little that I still remember, to mark her upcoming 4th birthday.So here goes…October 24, 2005Hubby and I went to see my

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The obstetrician who delivered Yan Yan was the second obstetrician we consulted during my pregnancy. What happened to the first? Well, we ditched him after he gave us a nasty scare about carrying a Down Syndrome (DS) baby.At my 12th week check-up with the first obstetrician, Dr. T, he performed the nuchal translucency scan, and mine measured about 1mm, which is within the normal range of up to

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A quick hello from Hilton Montreal Bonaventure. I'm in Montreal to attend a conference, with several guests whom my company is hosting. We arrived on Sunday evening local time (that's Monday morning Malaysian time – Montreal is exactly 12 hours behind Malaysia) after travelling for 30 hours, inclusive of a 9-hour transit in Amsterdam. And I survived the first day of the conference without major

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We were talking about going back to Kuantan during the Mooncake Festival.Hubby: When you go back to Kuantan, you play lantern with yeh-yeh OK.Yiu Yiu: But yeh-yeh always go out one.Hubby: Yeah lor, yeh-yeh busybody one rite. Always go out.Yiu Yiu (with her index finger pointing at hubby): Eh, you know or not you are your papa's son? Can you say your papa busybody?Haha! I've been telling her that

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One night, I was changing Yan Yan into her pyjamas, she regurgitated onto the bed.Mummy: Aiya Yan Yan, why you dirty the mattress?Yiu Yiu: Not mattress la, bedsheet only.Yiu Yiu has recently started watching Little Einstein, after my colleague bought her a set of three DVDs. In every episode, the four friends will normally go round saving the world, etc in their red rocket. While watching the DVD

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Ever since I knew hubby, he has been telling me about how festive Teluk Chempedak is during the Lantern Festival, when hordes of people camp out and light up lanterns and candles at the beach. Somehow, I've never had a chance to experience it. Since Lantern Festival fell on a Saturday this year, we made a trip back with the intention to let Yiu Yiu experience the festivities at the beach.We

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