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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Happy Retirement Daddy

My dad officially retired today! After working for more than 40 years!
Life was tough when I was small. My dad had to work 2 jobs to support us, that is up till both of my sis and I started working and is financially independent. We didn’t have any luxuries when we young. We never [...]

Tag:Why I married my husband

Got tagged by Angeleyes. I’ll do the twisted version la, coz he’s from Penang, i am from Penang. Nothing special about the geography.
So here’s the 10 reasons why i married my husband.
1. He’s from Penang, I am from Penang. So we never need to argue whose hometown to go back to during the holidays.
2. He got 2 [...]

We finally bought our house

The title says it all! We signed the S&P for our house today. Took the afternoon off to go to the bank to get the bankers’ cheque and then went to the lawyers’ office to sign the S&P agreement.
It is completed unit, and is owner occupied. But the owner will only be moving out in [...]

Tra lalala…It’s Friday again

I love Fridays!!! Coz tomorrow will be Saturday - the best day of the week!
And I am on half day leave later as well, so i will be logging off & going to cabut soon. Hubb oso took half the day off. So we are going to go paktor .. kekeke.
No la, the main [...]

Mommy & Bryan Photo

Was at Queensbay last Sunday. Actually I went there to stock up on the organic groceries for Bryan, but we spotted the Abott fair at the lobby.
Since I am now supplementing Bryan with the EyeQ Gain Plus formula from Abott, I tot I will purchase some if they are having a promotion.
Turned out that they [...]

YAY! I have Askimet activated

Finally, I took the effort to get my Askimet plugin activated. Learnt this from the tip that msaufong dropped in my comment section.
This morning, when i logged into my WP dashboard. I had 159 comments - out of which only 2 are genuine. Darn, i had to skim through them twice to make sure i [...]

Tips for successful breastfeeding

A lot of people in my office know that I am a breastfeeding mother. So today I got a call from a new mother from my office. There are more than 200 people in my office, so I barely know most of them, including this new mother.
She was having problems breastfeeding. She had [...]

Reviving My Blogspot Blog

Finally this blog is 90 days old,…old enough to be submitted to PPP. But I was not able to find the submit blog button in PPP when I logged in. I searched the PPP FAQ and found that I can only submit a 2nd blog after the first one has at least 10 PPP approved [...]

House vs apartment

For most Penang people (like me), our first property purchase is usually an apartment, because houses are so expensive.
But after a while, especially after we have children, we will start planning for a house. Our reasons for wanting a house:-

It is easier to load/ unload things from our car when we go shopping or traveling.
No [...]

Weekend/ Visiting/ Holiday parent

Whenever I hear people talk about sending their babies to babysitter full time (24 hours a day), I always feel very sad for the baby. Yes, it is tough to care for a baby at night after a long day at work, but it is OUR baby – our flesh and blood. Is it not [...]