Anger Management

i feel unhappy. angry. dissatisfied.

almost exploded.

but then, i thought of a line i wrote from a book yday.

before you do or say anything, think "what is your intention?"

if you explode, can it fulfill your intention?

is it gonna benefit you and others?

if no, probably you should calm down and think about it again.

anyway...

i'm glad i didn't explode, cos it would be way too silly, too irresponsible, too childish...

*breathe in..........*

*breathe out........*

life moves on!!

My baby - almost 13 months

keira took her first 3-4 steps yesterday. Well... she tried to walk few days ago but didn't succeed.

i think she will soon start walking on her own.. woohoo.... hopefully i can lose some weights then!

cheers...

Back in Malaysia

It was my first time going to Taiwan and Hong Kong. At first, i thought Taiwan was much nicer than HK, but after I'm back in Msia, somehow I felt I like both countries, mainly because of the weather.

We ate a lot, well... not true... "I" ate a lot :P Pst Garrick brought us to many places, a shopping place called wu fen pu, taipei 101, dam sui, xi men ding and few other places. (pardon me if the spelling is wrong). Food was great but the chou dou fu was a "no no", the smell was yucky... lol...

Jerry (the guy at the right next to Pst Garrick) was driving us around in Taiwan, he is like our Colin Ong in Malaysia, a very funny guy. There's another girl called Anna, she was the one who took the pic, so she isn't in the photo. She is a nice and pretty lady :) A person that is full of courage and passion for God. Wonderful people.

Of course we weren't there for a vacation only. Keith was preaching in Grace Church on the weekend. The church was fun. The people were very energetic and enthusiastic. They are having a BIG month - iMac (everyone got a free McD burger), iStyle (design competition), iChristmas and iVIP. I believe with such willing and teachable congregations, the church will grow and do great things in their community.

I spent my 25th birthday in Hong Kong, nothing much... had a great and yummy lunch & dinner with my relatives. They brought us to few tourist places, but it was raining, so didn't manage to see the whole HK from the mountain peak. But it was still fun :)

We didn't bring Keira with us during the trip. I really missed her a lot. Thanks to all the friends that have visited her in auntie Linda's house.

Well, overall... it was a great trip.

After leaving Keira with Auntie Linda for 1 week, i think she has grown a lot. She learns quite a lot of new stuff, and she is learning very fast now :) she is so adorable and manja.... She has become more and more lovely and sweet... love her so much!

Oh btw, few of the CGs bought me a DKNY watch for my bday. It's very very nice. Love it to the max. ^^

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the heart is willing but the flesh is weak...

i want to blog abt my taiwan and hk trip, but kinda tired and sleepy now....

and you know... it takes time to upload those pics...

so tomorrow night la... i still have a wedding rehearsal to conduct tmrw morning...

i better write something before the 2 powerful girls complain abt me not updating my blog :P LOL... right right?? whoever they are......... :D

so.. hushhh... good night.. sleep tight... dont let the bed bugs bite!

Separation Anxiety

No.. not Keira. but me.

I couldn't sleep well, I kept thinking about my Taiwan & HK trip this Thursday. I'm gonna leave Keira with auntie Linda. Suddenly I dont feel like going anymore. :(

I'm gonna miss her so much...

Keira's 1st Birthday

Nov 23, 2009

I woke up feeling a bit emo.. cos it was my bb's first bday :)
well we had a small party at night...

check out the photos :)

Wooohhooooo and Phheewwww

Yo!

Emerge Rising is coming... Our youth event in KL.

(www.emergekl.my)

Everyone is very busy in the office. *pheewwwww*

For a moment, I felt so lost, I didn't know what to do... cos there were so many things on the plate...

But it's all good! *woohoooooooo*

After the busy weekend, we'll have Keira's 1st birthday party on Monday.

And Tues and Wed will be our OFF days... *woohooo*

It's great! I can't wait to bring my mom out...

she will help me look after Keira during the weekend..

I hope Keira will be a good girl,

well... i shouldn't expect too much from her... afterall, she is just a toddler now... right? *phewww*

Indonesian Food

i'm not sure how many you like indonesian food.

i personally luuuuurrveeeee indon food... duhhh... i'm from indo...

but really the food is so tasty and spicy.

i found a new restaurant in Subang Parade, it's called Sari Ratu...

the food.... yummmy... cannot be described....

simply delicious...

2 thumbs up!!

(this pic is not taken in the restaurant, i took it from google :P)

the price is a lil bit expensive. around RM20/person.

i felt like i'm back in indonesia when eating there...........

*yumm yumm*

future ahead

2010 is coming... i'm excited.

both keith and i are thinking and planning. we aim to move to our 2nd house next year. with God's grace, we pray that both of us can save enough money to move out. our current house is definitely too small.

saving money is a big issue for me. LOL. unlike many mothers, i'm not good in saving. it's time to BUCK UP!

i really need wisdom to live a better life.

i'm not sure how many ppl know that i'm actually dreaming to be a housewife ;) yeah not many ppl knew that... but to really think abt it, what am i gonna do when keira starts school? i wish i'm like jilly, who knows what she really likes to do, just look at the cards she makes. i really dont mind staying at home doing what i like to do.

i have been asking myself for VERY LONG, what do i like to do?

and i do not know.

i like doing many things i.e. singing, cooking, reading parenting books, looking after keira *lol* but i'm not up to the standard where i can teach singing or opening a restaurant or babysit others' kids.

so...

in other words, i just want to write to remember.. that working is good for me. pastor kevin just taught the church, in order to discover our destiny, we need to WORK!

God i surrender my future into your mighty hands...

Keira - 11 Months and 1 Week

Height: 74cm
Weight: 8.1kg
Head Circ: 45cm

Had got flu for like 4 times in 11 months =.= !!
Just fell down frm the bed yday morning and from the sofa this morning. *haih*
Love food (esp the ones mommy n daddy are eating).
Very manja, esp to her daddy and grandpa.
Fly kiss to everyone before leaving.
Stand in front of TV and feel contented.

I have no new pic to show cos I can't transfer the photos from my new phone =.=

Finally... After 1 Year

I still remember, a year ago, during my confinement, I was craving for Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, but I never bought it... You know.. when you keep postponing, at the end of the day, you wont feel like buying already.

So this time round, I refused to wait and postpone cos I knew what would happen if I waited and reconsidered :P

So this is what i've bought for myself:

Blackberry Curve 8900, known as Blackberry Javelin

I know i know.. some of you might ask, why not BB bold?

This is the only BB that is kinda feminine :P

I asked Adam if there's any other color... white? red? pink also can la... LOL but sadly, there's no colorful blackberry around yet! I heard BB bold white color is coming out soon though, but still the size is too big for me. :)

So far i'm enjoying the phone. esp the blackberry messenger. love it to the max!

TV Time

I let Keira watch TV every morning (and afternoon and night sometimes :P). Her favourite show is Veggietales, in particular: "Lyle the Kindly Viking", a musical cartoon show!

And this time round... she is being super relax and lazy... look how she sat!

Attention to all mommies and daddies! Letting our children watch too much TV is not good, no matter how educational the show is. The reason is our kids will be too used to fast movement, they are more inclined to watching than listening. in the future, when they attend classes,they might be slower in catching up because not many schools teach thru TV program I guess (at least not in Msia), but instead the teachers will be writing on the board or reading or talking out loud, so... the kids get bored easily and they wont be able to focus after awhile. So... try to limit the TV time okay?!

Flash cards are GOOD!

The bottom line is parents must set aside time to teach their babies or tods or children.

I have to discipline myself in teaching Keira too. So to all parents, let's JIA YOU together!

4-5 Oct '09

Looking forward for the next trip!

keira was singing along with the 3 bears...

Toddler Soon.....

Time fliesssss.... Can someone stop the time plssss??? I know noone can :( It's not that I dont want Keira to grow up, but it's just too fast... if time can move a lil slower...

At 10 months and 20 days, my lil girl likes to climb here and there. She understands 'no', and just yesterday she made a sound that sounded like "no no no no no", but she said it "nay nay nay nay nay", I'm still finding out if that's what she meant. She said that when we put her on the sofa instead of letting her crawl and climb around the living room, she said that too when I put her on the baby car seat.

She ate all kinds of food already :P Doesn't sound like a good parent ey? But I just can't help!! I let her try quite a lot of stuff like buns (normal gardenia bun, banana bun from Bread Story, the bun from Mc.D set meal, sponge cake etc), siakap fish @ a Thai restaurant (it was a lil bit spicy), kuewtiao, noodles, beehun, rice, fried egg, coffee (AHAHAHHAHAHA juuuusssttttt a bit) and a bit of bubble tea (jjuuuuuuussstttt a bit of the tea). Sometimes I just want to see her reaction. But really, it was just a lil bit, not more than a drop!!!!

But of course, that's not what I gave her regularly. On normal day, I would cook porridge with either beef or chicken or fish with pumpkin or sweet potato or carrot or some other vege and potato. No salt no sugar nothing... So usually I let her eat healthy food la :P

I love to give her hard boiled egg yolk too (esp when i dont cook and i let her eat rice cereal). Somehow I feel she is smarter after she eats that. LOL.

Have I ever told you that she loved to throw things on the floor, and oh actually she liked to look at them drop to the floor. Sometimes she looked cute when doing that. Well basically she looked cute all the time. HAHA...

She waves bye bye, she gives us her fly kiss, she lifts up her hands when we say "Hooraaayyy", she claps her hands, she dances when we ask her to do so, she has some funny expression which never fails to make me laugh, and she loves it when i laugh, and she will pout and come to me when I pretend to cry. Even when I just bow my head and be quiet, she will be worried and come to me and pat me.

She sat down quietly and looked at how I trimmed her nails. I so like this moment.

She called PAPA very loudly everytime papa not in the room. And of course, papa never failed to show up each time she called. She only called mama in the time of crisis =.=

She is very bubbly and talkative. She talks a lottttttt..... A typical girl la basically.

Sometimes I wish to have another baby soon, but.... in order to give Keira the best, I think I should keep to my initial plan, to have the 2nd one when Keira is 3 yrs old. HAHA....

She is turning into a toddler in less than 2 months!!!!!!! Oh gosh....... It's time to think about the birthday celebration. Where and whom to invite.

Anyway, again it's a long blog, but I have to assure you that raising Keira is such a fun, beautiful, and fulfilling thing. I can't stop thanking God for her in my life, of course my hubby plays a big part in making it easy and exciting!!!

After So Long...

Hmm.. let me count, the last time I went to somewhere out of town for vacation was....... i mean really just went to do nothing...... was.... during my honeymoon???

After Keira arrived, I had never arranged any trip to anywhere unless it was necessary, ie chinese new year or family related events. but this time round, we went to Genting highland (and Keith just planned it 3-4 days before) just to do NOTHING and to relax and to refresh ourselves. It was not as tough and complicated as we thought. Keira was very easy to be taken care. She was so obedient throughout the journey. We really almost did nothing but to play and relax (of course there was still a lil bit of works here and there) but I can say I enjoyed it :)

Keira loved the weather there, she slept for almost... hmmm.. 10 hours!

Oh in case you haven't known, she has been sleeping thru the nights for almost 2-3 weeks now. I know I know some of you envied me... LOL... I didn't do anything actually, she JUST slept thru! Thank God!!! :P

Well... photos will be uploaded soon yeah! but for now, I just write down whatever i remember, if i wait til i have the pics, probably i've forgotten most of the things i'm gonna write now.

Btw we went there with Sam and Eunice :) a wonderful couple that just got married for almost 1 month. And we met up with Ooi, Yen Fen and cheeky Dylan there. On Sunday afternoon, after the check-in, we head off for dinner (yeah we reached quite late), then we took those trains (whatever they were called) that toured around the mall. Keira loved it! Didn't do much after that, just walked around the mall, enjoying the windy and cooling night. The next day, I woke up before 8am expecting Keira to wake up soon, but because the weather was pretty cold, she slept til 9:30am.

We spent about an hour or two and played ... hmm.. we called it "time-zone" game back in Indo. what do you call here? Basically you put in some coins and you start to play the games. Honestly, it was quite fun but tiring as well, cos we forgot to bring Keira's stroller, so we took turn to carry her. At the end, we exchanged all the tickets we won with one towel for Keira and one children book for teacher Eunice ;)

when we reached KL, we went to Segambut and ate the tomyam. It was usually very very very delicious (hot spicy sour and sweaty... oops I mean the food was spicy and sour but the one who's eating would be sweaty), but probably because we went right before they closed, the soup wasn't as fresh anymore. So it was quite disappointing. In case you don't know, inside the soup, they put lots of big prawns, scallops, oysters, fish, squids and clams. *yummy* I used to crave for the tomyam btw. but this time round... *sigh*

Anyway, we had a GREAT weekend ^^ something that we should do every now and then I guess.

I know it's a long blog, so probably I should write another separate blog to update you about Keira. Cos she has grown so much, and there are just so many things I have to tell you HAHA...

Photos coming up soon yeah :)

Erin, wonder if you're reading this blog? ahaha... see i've updated my blog!

Bunnie...

I "printscreen" to show you my favourite bunny...

*swt*

Long Time No Blog

Jilly: Hi, I know your eye is swollen. But can I ask you a request?
Juli: brb... BS :D

(few mins after)

Juli: Jill wassup?

Jilly: oh ya about the fav... I have a request...

Juli: Sure

Jilly: UPDATE YOUR BLOG!!!

Juli: =.= (you cant see the emoticon here, basically it's my favourite bunny :P)

Jilly: I knew you would give me this bunny!

Hmmm.. Jill.. is it considered that i have updated my blog? AHAHAHAHA

uMist

Yo....

To those people that have breathing problem... or dry throat.... or sinus.... Let me recommend this product to you... uMist by OSIM.

After using uMist, my hubby didn't have dry throat... my baby didn't have blocked nose and basically the room is not as dry even if we turned on the air conditioner the whole night. It's worth buying...

Working @ Attributes Marketing Sdn Bhd

Sounds like working in some marketing company ey? Actually it's not. Attributes Marketing is the bookstore owned by my church. I was transfered from Culture to Attributes in Sept. Just 1 word to describe my current job... BUSY!

For the first time in my life, I didn't have time to check facebook, or chit chat in MSN, or twitter... I just didn't have time to even think about it...

I still have a lot of things to learn... Well, so far so good.

I'm also the wedding coordinator for the church. There are many weddings coming up from Sept all the way til January next year. Many more to come, I believe. :) Marriage is a beautiful thing... One of the best things that can ever happen in some people's lives (like mine).

Will update about Keira soon....... (btw she is getting cheekier... and today she hit me!!!!!!!)

Keira Does Love The Car Seat

She was inside the car seat throughout the journey to JB! and back to KL too :)

Hoorayyy to "The First Years" Car Seat!!!

(look at her left leg =.=")

Keira's Car Seat

Keira is considered quite tall for a 9 month chinese baby girl :D, she could hardly fit into her infant car seat which is supposed to last til she is 1 year old.

We went to so many places to find a nice affordable and good car seat for her. After searching for weeks, we finally decided on buying "The First Years".

It's a very comfortable car seat I think. I read many good reviews about this product. The original price is RM999, but we bought at discounted price RM799.90. :) One outstanding feature about the car seat is it is easy to take off for washing. And the only thing that I dont quite like is the color. We wanted a pure black one, but they didn't have one.

We bought the car seat at the right timing... cos we are driving back to JB tomorrow!!! I'm so excited to meet up with the other children and my mother in law. Not many people miss their mother in law one ler? Hahaha... Even though she doesn't have much expression and she didn't talk a lot... but she is a very nice person. And whenever there's anything I'm not sure about babycare, I will give her a call.

And end of next month, Keira's auntie, poh-poh, gong-gong, jiu-jiu... all wil come and see her :) and the following week (end of Nov) Keira will turn 1 year old!!!!!!!!! TIME FLIESSSSSSS............

I love love love love to be Keira's mommy...

More Like a Mommie Now...

I woke up at 7am to go to the wet market with Rina this morning. The last time I went was when I was 9 months pregnant. And now Keira is already 9 months. :P

I have a weekly meal planner now, guess why? Because I'll start working in Subang, a place where I'm very familiar with, therefore... I know where to find all kinds of food. So, I make a decision to stick to what I've planned (or at least something close to what I planned :P). Furthermore, I really think as a good wife, I should try cook healthier food for my hubby (at least on the weekend). And I'm gonna try more variety in cooking Keira's food too.

So far, Keira loves to eat porridge. Usually I add chicken or beef + carrot or sweet potato or pumpkin + spinach or brocolli. The smell of beef porridge is the best!!! it smells so yummy. This weekend I'll try fish + carrot or pumpkin. Oh ya, she likes egg yolks too! One of her fav food! Probably I'll try to cook her barley in few weeks time, or oatmeals should be good too! =D

Life of a mom is fun and exciting! Love it to the max!

Shower Time is Fun

When I Have to Bring Her to Work

Sometimes I have no other option but to bring Keira to work with me! Out of 8 hours in the store, I think I could really work for only 2 hrs. Few things that I did:

Bribe her with food... I know this is not recommended by the experts. But but... how?

When she was bored with her own toys, I would give her whatever I had to distract her... (would keep an eye to supervise her though)

more food would give me few more mins of silence...

hush.... sleep my baby... so that mommie could focus on work...

i forgot to take the pics while other staff were playing with her...

When closing the store, I had to carry her together with the walker/stroller/car-seat to the car... then carried her back to the store to get the rest of the stuff... and then locked the door and "shutter" while carrying her. For one moment, I thought I was quite a supermom!

Love, Hug, Kiss...