Excited for 2010 - More to Come

Wahhh...

It has been so long since I last blogged about myself... It has always been updates about Keira & Keira & Keira!

She is super cute nowadays... oh wait... I'm supposed to write something else...

Ya you can read from the title.. I'm excited for what's coming...

First of all, Jilly is coming back to Malaysia for a month!!! YAY.... :) Can't wait to see you Jill .. and Thea of course! LOL I'm gonna bribe her with food, i hope it will work...oh I mean I'm gonna bribe Thea, not Jilly.

Keith has graduated from his course and he is gonna get his Master of Theology! and guess what, the ceremony will be in London!!! Soooooooooo London here I come!!!!

UK is my dream country. The Big Ben is in my top list of places to visit! Of course we will take a train to drop by Paris. Heny told me it' s a place every woman lovessss... so I wanna go and see if she's right LOL! >.<

Oh man, my heart is beating fast even when I'm typing this. I'm sooo excited.

Other than that, one of my best friends is getting married in October. She got attached like 9 or 10 years ago with the same guy, and the day they got attached was on my birthday. And this year, they are getting married on Oct 7, which is the date where I got attached with Keith. Wuahhhh..... Hahaha... see... we are so best friends :P

Another good friend of mine is going to give birth to her first baby! oh man... am I excited or what?

I told you before, i love weddings, preggers and newborn babies... oh now I wanna add.. I love travelling too :P

Another thing that i'm so happy about... I made new friends last week.. 4 of them - Audrey, Angeline, Lawrence & CP! They are fun people! Can't wait to know them more... also, I met up with June, my ex-classmate in CIMP. We hadn't met each other for 5 years! I really cherish the friendship!

Hmmm... OK, I can't remember what else I wanna write. I continue my work first, I'll come back to this later. *he he he*

Life is good!

Keira - 15 Months

Keira learned alot of new things in indonesia...

She can do the actions for the songs Xiao Zhu Xiao Zhu (Little Piggy), Cicak Cicak Di Dinding (Lizard on the wall), and Yang Wa Wa (Little Doll). Whenever she saw my mom, she would sing and asked my mom to sing along with her, cos it was my mom who taught her all these songs.

She can say few more words like "Come..." while waving her hand, "Pai Pai Shou" and clap her hands, "Take" to pick something up from the floor, "Pain pain" when she falls down or knocks herself, oh she can say "knock knock" too....

Another word that we use in Indonesia to say "fall down" is "pak pom" hahaha... she said that too... and "Pha Pha" means she is scared, while patting her chest.

Hmm have i missed out anything?

at this age, she communicates quite a lot to me... She can respond to me with yes - nod her head, and no - with word and shake her head. Sometimes she stares at me in a very close distance and mumbles... as if she is talking something I can understand =.=" but I really enjoy it..

She copies what we say also... like "how?" "aiyoooooo" or any word that we drag ... ie. see first loorrr... she will say "@)#)@#* loorrrrr...."

She can differentiate my phone and Keith's one even though they look quite similar... Blackberry Bold and Blackberry Javelin. She passes us our phone and spectacles whenever we leave them unattended...

I'm giving her vitamins now, and it's very good... it increases her appetite. I hope she will fall sick much lesser after consuming this vitamins...

She likes to take our phone, turn it another way and say "one two.. three" as if she is taking her own pic... how cute is that?

Random Pics - Chinese New Year 2010

Some random pics we took during the holiday:

Hellooooo

Hello...

I just came back from my hometown, Siantar 2 days ago... It's such a long holiday, went back to Johor for a week and then to Indonesia another week... I can imagine how busy I will be next Tues when I go back to work...

Keira enjoyed herself so much during the holiday, esp when we went back to Siantar. You know, it's my parent's first grandchild so you know how much they spoiled her :P

She sticked to my dad, mom and bro like a glue! Every night we would all gathered in my dad's room and they would play with her. It was so much fun! The only thing that wasn't fun was the mosquitos that sucked my child's blood like none's business. GGrrrr.....!!

I miss those moments d... >.<

The 4 of us (me, my bro and my 2 sis) bought our parents Blackberry Bold. Now our whole family can communicate thru BBM :) I'm glad that we finally can buy something practical and kinda expensive for them. Hehehehe... How i wish we can buy them a house in Msia!

Anyway, now that I'm back in KL, i think it's time to focus more on work! It's time to be busy and grow the church and Attributes HAHA...

Ciaoooooo~

Chinese New Year

Finally chinese new year is around the corner.

still remember last year we brought Keira back to JB and Medan. The journey was quite tiring cos she was still very young that time and she got tired after a long journey. This time round, i dont know what to expect since she can walk already, she might not want to sit for 3.5 hours.

We are going back to JB in a while, stayed that for 6 days and then go to Medan for another 4 days. I can't wait to bring her back to play with all the cousins and with grandma & grandpa. :)

Usually, during CNY i'm excited to buy new clothes for myself. but this time round, i'm busy buying for Keira... the joy of motherhood! Oh btw, most of her new clothes are in pink =.="

Well... have a great CNY break everyone!

Gong xi fa chai!!!

My 14 Months Daughter

at 14 months:

1. keira walks around the house happily...

2. she can say a few new words like "one two three", when i say "i love..." she says "youuuuu"

3. she imitates eitan to do astroboy by raising one of her hand and say "booyyyy"

4. she can show you an angry face when you ask her to... very cute!

5. she refuses to eat a proper meal, all she wants is her cheese biscuit!!! yeah welcome to "real" parenthood!

6. oh she loves cucumber too... :D

7. she has a magic blanket that can cause her to be sleepy haha.. in other words, she falls asleep easily when she is holding her blanket

8. last time, whenever she wants to drink milk, the following happens:

keira: nenen aaah....

mom: you want to drink nenen?

keira: *nod her head eagerly*

mom: ok, you wait wait ah...

my baby is quite impatient, so she wants to cut everything short... so nowadays, this is what happens:

keira: nenen ahhhh... *nod head*, *point finger* wait wait!

mom: errr.. ok!

ahahahha it's much faster isnt it? :P

9. whenever she sees my phone, she will say "poh poh" means... call grandma :) such a sweet girl...

10. she has her own words for water, biscuit, blanket, handphone...

11. she can sing one line of elmo song "lalala... lalalala...."

12. she sing the last word of every line of "twinkle twinkle little star"

13. she likes eitan... she calls him taytay...

14. she hits people when she is unhappy... Cindy is the no.1 victim!!!! poor Cindy...

thats all for now :)

here's the video of keira walking, talking and singing!

That One Particular Ambition...

If I honestly ask myself, what have ever crossed my mind when it comes to dreams and ambitions?Well, I have been changing my "dreams" for so many times. Sometimes, I thought I wanted to be a homemaker, sometimes... I thought maybe I liked to sing, the other time, I thought I wanted to own a business, some other times, I thought I just wanted to support my hubby in whatever he wanted to do...

But yesterday before I slept, something came across my mind, something that had consistently excited me. I was imagining myself looking after babies and talking to pregnant mommies and I dont know why, out of the blue... I checked my friendster account (I think i have never heard of friendster for almost a year) and in my profile I wrote I wanted to have a day care centre.

And that was exactly what I wanted to do when I finished my pre-U. But because my parents didn't allow me to study in Montessori, I forgot about it.

When it comes to helping pregnant mommies or mommies with babies, I am full of passion!

Aiks OK, Keira is bugging me now... got to go....

[to be continued]

Hanoi Trip

I just came back from the staff retreat in Hanoi... At first, I imagined about the beach or at least a place like Taiwan... but surprisingly it's almost like Medan T.T just that the weather was cold...

The traffic was crazy, there was no one way street i guess. the motorbikes and cars came from all directions. People were walking on the street in the midsts of the bikes, it was scarier than Medan.

This is the furthest trip Keira had ever been so far. She enjoyed the weather, she loved cold weather. I loved bringing her around too... she was such an angel when we were on the plane to Hanoi, but when we travelled back, she was so restless and she wanted to play with Eitan all the time!

In the whole trip, she refused to sleep. She wanted to go out. She loved to play with Tan Tan.. She called him Tay Tay... and Tan Tan will say "No.. it's Tan Tan! not Tay Tay!" LOL... I took the opportunity to let Keira wear the bee and ladybug costumes that I bought in Taiwan last Dec.

It would be the last time Keira wore the bee costume, cos it was a lil bit too small d...

It's a good year to start with :) Now it's time to work hard before Chinese New Year comes.

2nd trip without Keira - KOREA

this is my last day in korea...

it's a great experience. first time in korea. first time in a snowy country. first time being defeated by weather. first time waking up at 3.30am to attend morning prayer meeting.

... the snow that covered the branches of the trees..... snow on the xmas tree.... snow on the streets... and on the rooftop... snow falling from the sky... oh i so love the view... and btw it was snowing so heavily when we landed. it has never snowed like this in korea in at least 100 years.

the main purpose of this trip is to visit yoido full gospel church. we attended their morning prayer meeting, mid-week service, and we are supposed to visit few places like their tv station, the hansei university etc... but i only managed to visit the prayer mountain. the reason is... sigh... i'm sick throughout the trip! i had terrible flu one day before flying to korea. and it got worse here cos of the weather.

it's so amazing how the members of the church love to pray. they can spend hours to just pray! personally, i know i have to buck up! it's a wonderful thing that i've seen with my own eyes. the weather is about -10 to -16 degree in the morning, but the hall is packed with people. oh btw, the hall has the capacity of thousands of ppl.

i got nosebleed the night after i came back from the prayer mountain, it was so bad, there was blood all over the bed sheet. scary. so... i stayed in the room most of the time during 2nd and 3rd day.

i still wanna come back here, probably during autumn or spring? do you know that my dream is to go to UK and see the Big Ben! anyway, i wish i can say next week i'm going to UK but... next week we'll be flying to Hanoi for staff retreat (hanoi is also a good place la hor?). this time round i'll bring keira along, hopefully she wont be fussy during the flight...

alright! i think it's time to say good night, we'll leave to airport at 8am tomorrow. bye bye Korea!!

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!