weekend with grandparents

Kong kong came to KL on Thursday. We went to 1-Utama for dinner at Zuup (yes, again!!!).

It's quite a kid-friendly place. The waiters brought out children's books to keep my kids entertained while waiting for the food.

There was also a Barney car just outside Zuup that helped keep them entertained.
We tried some new soups. They were pretty good. Unfortunately, they ran out of the bread bowl.

Only 5 choices of pastas (buy1free1).

This is the Beef Ragu with roasted vege and cheese. Not bad.

After dinner we walked around. Joseph was so fascinated with the touch screen information 'counter'.

And then they climbed around the mini coopers on display.

This mini cooper cabrio is really cool. I asked Joe, "Where's the roof?" and he pointed to the folded canopy at the back. Surprising to me since this is his first experience with a convertible upclose.

On Saturday, we went to Opulent Court at Pearl International Hotel for dim sum buffet. There's a Buy4Free1 promotion till the end of this month.

So Joanne was supposed to join us to make a total of 5 adults but she forgot about it at the last moment. Joe enjoyed eating this fried prawn wanton. He ate only the crispy part outside dipped in mayonaise. Joy-Anne ate 2 bowls of yummy porridge.

The food was not bad considering the price. But their service was quite crap. They were really short-handed and the food took quite a while to be served.

In the end they charged us RM23.80nett per pax for the 2 senior citizens, RM16.80nett for Joseph and RM27.80 for one adult. So they still gave us 1free.

Joe with his new 'toy parking' - collection of Bob The Builder toys in moon cake box

Yesterday, we went out to church in the morning, and then to a friend's baby's 1st birthday party.

Joy-Anne wore her very pretty dress which YeeYee and YeeTeow bought.

These videos were taken when we got home. Peace and quiet because kor kor knocked out in the car and continued sleeping on the sofa.

At night, Ah Mah and Ah Kong came for dinner. Lots of yummy food, keropok for the kids and a toy for Joe to share with his sister. Unfortunately the photos are in Ah Mah's camera.

It pays to fly with Emirates

Sometime ago, I wrote about our broken luggage after Daalin came back from UK.

So we wrote to Emirates asking for compensation. Daalin actually had a very pleasant experience flying with Emirates. He found it far superior to MAS and SIA. The broken baggage was an anti-climax to the whole trip.

After a series of e-mails between Emirates and us, this came by Fedex yesterday.

I'm satisfied with their customer service and will certainly consider Emirates for future travels.

I know full well that it could have been KLIA's fault. But I doubt I would even get a response from Malaysia Airports Bhd.

So anyway, my bag is paid for. Case closed.

family time at ikea

Joseph has been saying that it's been a long time since he went to Ikea. He loves that place and I used to take him there on my non-working days. Until he went to school this year.

So we made a trip there yesterday evening. Instead of father-and-son-time, we brought Joy along so it was family time.

On the way home from school, I asked Joe if he wanted to go to Ikea that evening. He was so excited! Once we got home, he undressed, dumped his clothes in the washing machine and zoomed to the bathroom for his bath.

He ate his lunch very fast and was ready for his nap by 12.40pm. I put Joy to sleep and then Joe said he wanted to pang sai. So I quickly put Joy down in the cot and took Joe to the toilet.
We arrived in Ikea at about 5pm. What a life....when people are still in the office, we are with the kids in Ikea.

I always tell Joe that he is so blessed to have mummy who doesn't work full-time and a fantastic grandmother at other times.

I think....in actual fact, I'm the one who is blessed to be able to spend more time with them.

They loved pushing the child-sized trolleys around.

Joy was just so happy. Joe was too happy. I had to warn him countless times to watch where he was going because we were surrounded by breakable stuff!

After a spin around Ikea, we went hopped over to The Curve.

And then to Pizza Hut for dinner.

The set dinners are the most value-for-money ones around. For only RM9.15nett, we get a very cheesy 6"pizza, a bowl of soup, 2 pieces of cheese bread and a glass of pepsi.
I'm so glad to report that Joy finished the entire bowl of soup and even had some of kor kor's soup.

forgot to bring bib...so make do with lampin

It was a good evening out. Joy was singing this on the way home....


She learnt it just by listening to the cassette tape that Ah Mah gave. We played it in the car a few times and she just caught it.

...a sweet end to a lovely day.

long tiring weekend

What a weekend! It flew by in a blink of an eye.

I had set my alarm for 5.30am on Saturday morning. But Joy woke up on her own at 5am! I left her on the bed while I got a drink, fixed some breakfast (for the journey) and then went back to feed her milk.

Joseph woke up at about 6am. I love how his bowels work! I tell him to poo at 6am, he poos at 6am. If I tell him to poo at 7am, he poos at 7am!

We left the house at about 6.40am.

Neither kid wanted to sleep even though I expected them to.
We arrived at Kuantan Wesley Methodist Church at about 9.50am. Just enough time to freshen up, change the kids, put on shoes and find a seat.

Dr Kuan is a long time friend since my teenage days. I'm so glad he has found a lovely lady to grow old with.

After the lunch reception and some chit-chatting with other friends, we drove back to KL and went straight to church.

Joe napped for over an hour and Joy slept for 2 hours on the way back. I'm so thankful for such easy-going kids. And of course for a wonderful husband who did all the driving and still had energy to sweep and mop the floor at night.

Joe says this is how he mix angry and funny face together

This morning, they got up, and we went straight to church...again. I had my Little Lamb duty so while I went to get the place ready, Edwin and my mum fed them breakfast in the concourse.

I think Joe was quite tired. After the afternoon nap, he declined our offer to take him out to the park prefering instead to sit on the sofa and watch tv. So I took Joy and went to pasar malam with my mum while Joe sat at home dishing out homework to his father.

Got to hit the sack now....good night!

round3 with Grace

Just got these pictures from my cousin who got married in August. All photos taken by Grace.


I love how she always makes us look so good.


Joseph was not very cooperative. But look...he can roll his tongue, and I can't.

I was actually very upset because I left the headwreath (that I had so painstakingly made for Joy) at home on the table. I only realized it when we arrived at Cyberview Lodge.

It was a good thing I had the other hairclip (meant for later when she yanks the headwreath off) in my bag.

Thanks Grace for the photos!

when Joy doesn't want to eat...

toy from trash

I was home with the kids on Monday and managed to have some art time with Joe while Joy was still napping.

We made an airplane!

Joe drew the windows on a paper towel roll...

Then I helped him make slits in the roll and inserted wings cut out from hard cardboard.

We cut out an egg carton for the cockpit...

...taped it to the fuselage...

Added more slits and cardboard for the tail and then Joe decorated it with stars that he punched out using the craft punch.

I made another smaller plane (using toilet paper roll) for Joy-Anne so they wouldn't fight.

Joe said, "Mama is very clever."

my non-eating cutie pie sings...

mid-autumn festival

I have too busy to make updates - the kids have been sick.

Joe had fever for 5 days from 23rd - 27th September. After that Joy had fever for 4 days from 28th September to 1st October. Since last Friday, there has been no more fever but Joy-Anne has still been vomitting due to phlegm.

Her appetite is pathetic. I've tried everything. She won't even open her mouth at times. On Sunday night, she wore ONE diaper from 9pm till 1pm on Monday. It wasn't even full.

Anyway....I'm so glad Joy was well enough to go to Children's Church last Saturday. Children's Church was celebrating Children's Day and having a lantern party. So we were there from 11.30am.


Joseph happily helped with the decorations in Hall 1. He felt very happy to be useful.


Joy-Anne took a nap in my very-useful-sarong-sling.


The kids dressed according to the theme - traditional outfit.

Joy wanted to wear the hat which actually goes with Joseph's outfit. It no longer fits Joe and he graciously let his sister have it.

Pastor Nancy sportingly dressed in a saree.
The kids had a treat....a show by Uncle Allan, and then followed by a couple of clowns (Uncle Allan's sidekicks).

After Children's Church finished at about 4.45pm, we went downstairs for the weekly celebration. Joy-Anne fell asleep again in my sarong.

She looks like a baby here. I took this picture myself. It was so cute to see her peeking thru the sarong and looking at me as she dozed off.

Joy slept thru almost the entire celebration, and then woke up at the end of the sermon....coughed and threw up all the milk she drank before sleeping. I am so glad we caught it in a plastic bag. Otherwise, the entire auditorium would stink of vomit and I wouldn't know where to hide my face. A tiny blob landed on the carpet, streaks of it ran down Edwin's pants and we had to change Joy's clothes.


Leaving church at about 7.30pm, we came home and went straight up to the garden at Block 4/5 for a lantern party hosted by Sook Vui & Chin Hong - our neighbour-doctor-friends.

The kids had a blast. They hardly ate. But who needs to eat when you're having so much fun!