Glad to be here

It was a jiff last night for Mer to take his medicine!! He even going around to my sis and mom telling them how he had just swallow the first shot of the bitter medicine, reporting to them how a sweety good boy he is. I’m glad for that and this prompt me on another truth about my boy, ie. when he doesn’t want to do certain things, he’ll insists and grumpy and being resilient. so it is better to talk him into doing it rather than pressurising him.

Another problem that I’m facing almost every night is bed time. It is dreadful for me to get them into bed early, the earliest that I have was at 9:30 pm. If they are not sleeping by then, then they’ll drag on till 10:30 or even later than that! I just don’t want to face two grumpy-not-enough-sleep boys in the morning. During those time, they’ll talk, sing, play, fight if I’m not in the room and also demanding me to prepare more milk for them which I think it is way too much already.

I’ve been trying to put them into this routine before bed: brush their teeth, wash their feet, let them pee first, get them to change to pyjamas, read to them, let them have their milk, then lay beside them and hoping they’ll fall asleep fast. The hardest part is the last bit which could drag on and on for an hour! Sometimes the more I push them to sleep, the more resilient they became, but it is getting late, I need them to have their rest, else I’ll be rushing in the morning.

Would really love to have the secret recipe for them to get to bed early from any expert out there.

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It was dreadful to press Mer to take his medicine last night. It was a war!

After much persuation, he still refused to take it and that is awful lot of take, 15ml in one go! So I had to use the 5ml syringe 3 times! He cried, scream, kick and what not. It took 3 of us to get him to swallow that medicine and the last shot was mix with honey. So the remedy of having honey on his mouth before taking the medicine doesn’t really work. After he had the taste of honey, he ran off!

So, after the medicine war, I had to get him change his clothes, wipe his face, tears and mucus. It turns out that Cal is a better medicine taker, brave boy! I know that his is even bitter than Mer’s medicine, but as a big brother, he gulp it down with water and before that was some honey for him, then raisin after that.
Little Mer was totally fine when getting home, running, jumping and like usual fighting for toys with his brother! This morning he woke up with high spirit and chase me to go faster in getting to school! Buoy, am I glad that he is back to his normal self now, the noisy whining Mer *LOL*

Last night , Cal welcome me home with his “communication booklet”. It is all with “excellent” and “good” remarks except with word underline: 牙刷 (tooth-brush) and 衣 (cloth). Those are the words that he can’t recognised. Other than that, he is fine.

Next week, they are going to have a sport day and I presume I’m going to take some time off to attend it. Mer also keep on reminding me to bring him along to watch his big brother in action. Cal keep on showing me what he is going to play during the sport day and keep on explaining to me how does the game works. We’ll see for real.

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We always nick name Cal as lawyer buruk as he always has lots of reasoning to do whenever we question him on what is he doing or what was he trying to do with his little brother. He is one curious little kid that have hight observation power and fine motor skill. He is always in the look out for new things, new adventure and some times do things that we don’t allow such as playing with the bail of water outside that my parents use to wash the vegetable for sell. Other time he play Ultraman mimic game with the little brother with his side-kick and punches!
When we get down to ask him what is he doing, he’ll goes like “We are just playing.” or “I’m Ultraman, Ultraman can do …” Other time when there are things that he is not allow to touch, he’ll goes like “Mommy, can you please open this and let me see? I just want to see.”
Well, will all his reasoning skill, some times it is funny to look at how he react on certain thing and certain people especially my dad, as Cal is afraid of my dad more than anyone else in the house. Maybe one day he is really going to be a lawyer, who knows he can get involve and get a job as truck accident lawyer. We’ll never know what could happen.

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Give me one sick kid and my life will be shorten for at least a year. Give me one that is grumpy with fever, I will definitely woke up with panda eyes. Yes, little Mer is sick with fever and he prefer to have sweet syrup rather than the tablet or Chinese medicine, give him those and he’ll surely spit them out no matter how hard we press him to swallow them.

This morning I brought him to see Chinese doctor in Luyang, as expected the doctor warned about bitter medicine. However she gave me one remedy so that little kid can take the medicine in more ease. “Just rub on some honey on their mouth before giving them the medicine and they’ll be ok.” I bet Mer will remember that remedy and ask for it even when he doesn’t need to take any medicine.

The doctor also warned that I don’t give him any seasonal local fruits like rambutan, longan, mango and especially durian. Lychee is another one since it is the season now which daddy brought back days ago. Little kids stomach cannot diguest them properly and they are consider “heaty” for the body. She also said that not to let him take egg, poultry, crackers and any spicy or fried food. She kept on reminding little Mer to “Drink lots of water!”

He is one sweet little boy when the doctor told him to drink more water and take his medicine, he just nod with pitiful eyes. With the Coxsackie cases in West Malaysia, it is dreadful to know if Mer has got it, fortunately the doctor confirm that he is free of that and we’ll just have to be careful and take this seriously, making sure that he washes his hands frequently and drinks lots of water.

Seeing here is little Mer laying there quietly last night on the sofa (so kesian huh). It was a quiet night last night and I can even watch “Desperate housewife” in a roll for the first time! How nice if I can have a home theater seating that I can relax on. After that, I have to read two stories for sweet little Cal for waiting for mommy the whole night without attending to him. While I was watching TV and checking little Mer, he flip through the story book to look for one short story with interesting picture. We are now going through the “365 bed time stories” which he always insisted in reading every night before bed. A very good practice, but there are times that I was too tired and now I realise that no matter how I say no to him, he’ll keep on bugging me and whine and refuse to sleep. So I’ve given up for not reading to him.

As for hubby, he has responded in the comment area of the previous post telling the whole story of what had happened in Singapore lately. Am glad that he is fine and got himself a new handphone.

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I’ve always been thinking that Singapore is a very safe place, it is like believing that the crime rate is zero over there. To me it is clean, not so hot to walk down Orchard Road, city full of greens and it is basically safe to go anywhere. But it got a shock out of me when hubby called from Singapore just now telling me he got muck last night, hit on the face and was unconscious for don’t know how long till 4am awaken by cleaner. Found himself on a foreign bus stop far away from his hotel and the last place that he visited.

After launching a police report and since he has scare on his face, the police had to put him on medical check with drip, so he has been laying in the hospital bed for an hour. The wost is he can’t remember what happened when he passed out. He has lost his cash, fortunately his credit card and ATM are still intack except one foreign bank card.

I’m not sure where he stay, even if he tells me I’ll still not sure where about is that. Just thank God that he is safe and not badly injured.

On another account, my beautician just called up reminding me about my monthly facial appointment, which by the way for this month I’ll be getting some major discount as it is my birthday month, yay! So far I don’t have any pimple on my face, but she does have some recommended acne cream for my just in case situation *wink*

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I’ve been down with a cold, it is completed with slight fever, blocked nose, and a sore throat! I felt so lame on Monday morning that I had to get myself MC from the local clinic. Hubby sent me off after sending little Cal to school, but had to leave to send little Mer to school. So I was being left alone in the clinic waiting in line for my turn. It wasn’t a long wait since I get to notice so many different kind of people there with kids, old folks, local, foreign, young and old. There were so much happening around me, but I was too tired and lame to be cheerful.

After seeing the medical assistance, getting my medication and my MC, I’ve requested to refer to specialist on my cynus. In order to do so, I need to see the doctor first. Which he was kindly enough to examine my nose telling me that they are swollen and maybe due to allergy reaction but I need to get back some other day to get the appointment letter referring me to a specialist in QE. Ok, great, at least I’ve go the letter even on the next day but the date crush with my trip to China, bummer! So will need to arrange for a new appointment later.

Alright, enough of that, at least now I’m feeling much better thought I’m still in my anti-biotic medication.
Today is little Mer’s birthday, he is 3 today! Ha, how time flies, he was still a little baby yesterday. Since hubby is leaving early today, so we’ve celebrated his birthday with steamboat and a little cake from Consfood, blueberry sponge cake, he loves it! He loves blueberry anyway, so I suppose anything with blueberry on, he’ll ask for more. So hubby got a 1/2 kg blueberry sponge cake for RM28, not bad huh!?

We adult had our steamboat while the kids were enjoying their new train set with tracks and TV, i.e Thomas & friends and Ultraman. They only get to enjoy some of the final product of the steamboat of course. However, little Mer prefer plain rice with ketchup!

As for little Cal, he reserve his stomach for the cake and kept on coming into the kitchen to ask for the cake when we were not even done with our dinner.

Happy little boy he was during the candle blowing and cake cutting part. He took 2 slices! But this morning wake up grumpy ‘cos he sleeps late, 11pm! Last I heard from him was singing “Negaraku” in his own relics.

As for hubby, he has gone over to Singapore for meetings, then will be back to China after two days trip there. Starting to miss him already. *sob sob*

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We went to The Hut in City Mall to have our lunch after church this morning. It was like 11:30am. Have order spaghetti carbonara, potato wedges, T-bone steak, set lunch and two more pieces of garlic bread after Little Cal finished the garlic bread from the set lunch, dunking into the mushroom soup. He loves that!

As for ice-cream, it was his treat for being a good boy finishing up his little plate of spaghetti.

Half way eating, Little Mer push aside all his plates, utensils and food, then just started to sleep. Then we get to enjoyed some quiet time and hubby tried to make some silly move while I took their photo.

After that was a stroll in City Mall trying to check out the kids shop over there and process these photos for my scrapbook. That’s about it.. a quite not unusual morning of Sunday spent with family. I hope we have more of this sort of time. Oh ya.. one more thing, some sales girl chase after hubby wanting to give him a slimming leaflet about their machine.. *LOL*

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Just the other day, I met up with a friend who had just gone through laser surgery to rid her thousand over short -sightedness. She is simply stunning now without her heavy glasses and feel more convenient without them. I had gone through LASIK too and I just love how I feel now without having to grab for my glasses whenever I got up. I can see clear greens and blue in the morning if I go outside. Isn’t it great?

Just the other day also my neace had her glasses broken by the classmate, fortunately hers doesn’t need a long time to mend. However she has been complaining that the glasses look too small on her face, maybe she should she can go for Zenni Optical $ 8 Rx Eyeglasses , some more Zenni Optical was on FOX news! She could always get the frame online and get it fix with suitable lenses in the local optical shop here, I can see lots of incredible Stylish New Frames From Zenni.

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Just want to share some photos that I’ve taken today.

View from the top of car park in Lintas Square.

The bowl or “Kalas” that I’ve bought from Living Concept store in 1Borneo. Yes, we went there all the way from Lintas, fortunately the parking if free and surprisingly the car park is full of cars. Lots of cars were parked outside too. It really is the place now huh!

Aren’t they cute with all those colors? I figure my boys can have a good use of them and their cousins too. Living concept is like a mini IKEA, I love so many things inside but then budget is limited and will save them all for my new house *grin*

There, the boys enjoying the cup of ice-lemon tea and ice-cream.

The boys love it when I wanted to take photos of them and pose for the camera!

That’s the nice thing about hubby coming home, that we can go here and there, further more I don’t need to drive *grin*

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It was a shock for me on Friday afternoon after receiving one hundred notice of virus outbreak from my personal computer at work and my PC has been blocked! It never happened before. First thing I did was to quickly disconnect myself from our network. The only way that I can do it fastest is to unplug the cat5 cable. Then called up our IT department and inform them about the problem. I thought I were the only one as the lady in IT department didn’t receive any notice from the virus scanner, but it turns out that all our PC in our section are infected and bombarded with the virus alert notice.

The next thing was some PC on the level 3 also got it! But it was getting late and everyone is preparing to leave the office thus they are shutting down their PC. So with that, the IT department won’t be able to trace which PC is really the culprit. I got confirmation from the IT department and plug back the cat5 cable, just click “ok” on those notices and resume surfing. I don’t know if it has anything to do with Cat5e patch cable or there simply is someone downloading things from the Net and got infected with virus. Only Monday then the IT department can do their hunt. Finger cross that my PC is not the culprit.

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