Experience @ Carlton Hotel

Sat supposed to meet up my poly classmates... I arranged for this outing one month ago... even reserved the seats at M hotel, but in the end the gathering was cancelled. I was disappointed, haiz... Zhenyu consoled me, asked me next time ask them to organise, heehee... But since i'm free, i don't mind organising, its not diffcult anyway:)

We decided to go for high tea since no program with others.... choosen Carlton hotel. Reached there at about 3pm, i had some coffee and cakes. Princeton boy ate alot, he loves banana n biscuits. hee.... Hubby said the varieties were quite limited. Well, i don't find it nice at all, simply no appetite. Told myself don't waste money again, i rather go for teochew porridge, my fav!

After eating, we walked around the hotel lobby, as the place looked comfortable n spacious. Princeton ran around happily too.. We sat on the sofa, relaxing. Suddenly, tian tian came to me, i realized he was pooping! Oh dear, gona find a nursery room to change his diaper asap. If not the whole lobby would smell his poop!

We looked around, couldn't find any nursery room. Only common toliets.... I asked zhenyu to ask the receptionist. If really don't have, we gota change in the car le. Surprisingly, the hotel doesn't have a changing room for bb.. But what amazed me was, the hotel staff offered us a guest room! I was really impressed by his service. He brought us to the 7th storey, opened a room for us! He waited outside, while both of us started to clear up tian tian's mess. My boy indeed poop alot!! Really alot. Luckily we could wash him in the toliet, and dry him with the towel provided. If not my whole packet of wet tissue is not going to clean him thoroughly.

We thanked the staff, and afterwhich, i wrote him a feedback form, compliment his excellent service. He could had just said sorry we do not have any nursery changing room. But he went to the extra miles, very impressive! A very gd "experience" at Carlton hotel.

We went to bugis junction for shopping. Bought a pair of sandals, and toy dog for Princeton. Shopped till my legs ached... anyway i got no stamina for shopping. I bought wat i want, then leave le. Dislike window shopping also:p

We went over my sister's place, it was at about 8pm... i'm getting hungry. And sis said she da bao porridge!! yay man, great! Tian tian was very happy to see ah yee and ah tio. Dashed to the electronic organ whenever he came to their place. Ah tio played with him, while i enjoyed my late dinner. We stayed till 10.30plus, tian tian 有的玩，忘记累了要睡觉咯... in the end, dozed off in the car.

Sunday we meet my ex navy friends at Jurong Point. We came late... in the end only joined them for dinner at Crystal Jade. Didn't really spend a good time chatting with them. Hope to meet up again soon.

Haiz... today is a bad day. I had a fall in the toliet. Damn... Clumsy.. Tmr zy going to buy the anti slip mat. My best friend is going to order online for me aso... thank God, bb is ok. I fell infront, both knees now super blueblack. I could hardly bend my legs now. I cried lol.... Couldn't rem when was the last time i cried. Sob.. I thought i'm gg to lose my Paris, phew..

Princeton new words

Finally Princeton boy is willing to open his golden mouth. He is learning and aborbing everything very quickly now. Be it good or bad, he sees and do it.

啊嬷(ah ma) is the clearest he could say. Upon hearing, my mum was sooooo delighted! Yesterday, when tian came back from school, he saw grandma then started to call non stop. haha!!! 爷爷 is the next word he could say when he saw my father inlaw. To be frank, tian tian need some motivation for him to start talking. Whatever things he asked for, we would ask him to call somebody first, heehee... Yesterday we taught him how to call 奶奶. Surprising, he could say nei nei... not very accurate, but he was trying hard. "daddy" as usual, tian call it as dada... Then wat about the most important person, Mommy??????? sad... but is ok, i will asked him to call mimi first. 阿姨 is the next word Princeton is going say it successfully.. 阿tio more difficult to pronounce, need a longer time i guessed.

Princeton loves to see photo album and start asking alot of questions. He loves to read books, see pictures and ask what colours are they. Hubby always said 我很神lol... know wat is our boy asking by watching his body language. I replied "Of course! I must make sure i know what he is thinking just like i know wat u r thinking!" hubby sweat ()...

This weekend will be a gathering time with our friends. Saturday, we will be meeting my poly friends for dinner at M hotel. Sunday will catch up with my Navy ex colleagues cum zhenyu's wedding brothers. Venue yet to be confirmed, coz all of them are driving, so anywhere is ok for them. Hee... come JP better hor, nearer to me:p

If the weather is good on sat morning, we will bring 添添 for a swim. Everytime i asked him, do u want to go swimming, he would nod his head non stop. Lets hope we all enjoy the weekend:)

Sat visit @ Gladys house/ SUnday Dim Sum lunch with Uncle William

Very glad i had a fruitful weekend. Although sometimes its good to rest and relaz at home with hubby n Princeton. But most of the time, we prefer to spend it with relatives or friends.

Me and my best friend May had planned to go over gladys house yesterday. But jasline was not free. We brought along our boys, so that they can have some playtime together. Princeton was rather tired, dozed off in the car before we reached gladys house. As usual, he was shy, quiet when he stepped into a new environment. Need some time to adapt... he was ok after awhile, and start playing toys with delroy. Mama chin's Jaden was engrossed in his fav dvd :p I wanna carry him to take a photo, but he only want mama. Next time when i go to his homeground then snap with jaden:)

We left about 5pm, went to KIA showroom... tian took his nap in the car, i sat in the car for 2hours lol. Zhenyu happily go see his car with my jie fu who came over and joined us.

Sunday, zhenyu had duty... i promised to accompany him for breakfast at 7am. In the end, i was too tired, couldn't wake up..... so sorry. Sister came over and fetch us to Raffles Town Club. We meet uncle william n aunt sharon for dim sum lunch. Princeton boy enjoyed alot, eat non stop... saw different type of dim sum made him go haywire again. Demanding boy...

We took a walk around the club. Imagine being a member there cost about 20k!! dot dot.... So work hard now, next time can enjoy like my uncle n aunt.

Sunday without zhenyu is kind of bored. But more or less i gota used to it.... Rather than he go for one week/one month sailing. Hubby told me i got to be prepared, next year he will be posted back to ship:(

Two more days, i can get to see my Paris again. Zhenyu will took leave to accompany me. Hope my girl is growing well. We will choose the ward on tuesday... i'm 31 weeks preggy now, will be due anytime in 5 weeks time. Excited, and nervous. God be with me!

Princeton's progress @ 25months 16days

Princeton is turning 26months soon. Today i received the Activity File from the school. Every 2weeks, the school will update us the progress of the child, and the varies activities that they had been doing.

The form teacher would also update me verbally on how Princeton behaved n how he coped in school. What new things have he learnt... Today, the other class teacher told me, "Your boy is our school Prince ah, 我们的小王子！" I felt abit embarrassed, thought tian did something wrong. After that, the form teacher said, 他是个人见人爱的小王子。。。I smiled and said thank you for taking care of Princeton. This is something that brightened up my day, whenever i heard teacher praised him.

I realized that tian behaved well in school, and badly at home :( Although i hoped teachers will take good care of him, but at the same time, i hoped the teachers would not pampered him. Coz there were a few times, i saw the rest of the children were sitting on the floor, but my boy was sitting on the teacher's lap!!! Everytime when i peeped at them during lesson, Princeton would be sitting very near to his favourite teacher. hmm.....

Everytime when i picked him up from school, i would try to ask the teacher, what did he learn today (if i can rem). Yesterday, teacher told me they were learning colours. Once i got home, i tried to recall his memory and taught him again. I did tat this evening again, although tian was rather tired, he tired to entertain me abit:p

Princeton could identified/point out several objects n ppl. He loves looking at photo album, and i found that its a good way of teaching him. Beside us, he could point out 爷爷，奶奶，阿姨，阿 tio,老chek (uncle William),老sim (aunt sharon), Candice 阿姨，and even my cousins, 舅舅！Princeton could identified 2 of his friend's name as well. Oh ya... and one more, Aunty MAY! He is still learning uncle bong, as he don't see him that often. Tian was mixed up between didi jaden and didi delroy:( He thought too many didi lol.)

I brought different types of dvd cartoons for him, so as to let him know the different cartoon characters. He loves Barney, and of course he could point who is baby bop n BJ too. He likes Saseme Streets, and besides Elmo, he knows big bird, cookie monster and even Oscar! I enhanced the above by buying their sticker books, and toys. Now i am introducing Winnie The Pooh. But i couldn't find any of the dvds yet...

As for Princeton speech learning... he could call "yeh yeh" , my father inlaw was soooooooo happy!! Princeton could call daddy as dada, he could say bird and goat. Hmm.... tats all. He couldnt call mummy :( sob sob....

I tried to improve on his attention span too. Like asking him to switch on/off the fan, to throw his dirty clothes/towels on the bathtub, to bring my handphone from the bedroom to the living room. I kept telling him to do things, so that he could follow, and this can makes his attention span longer.

But Princeton is getting out of hand during meal times. If there is only one dish, eg fried rice, he will quietly finished his rice. But if there are afew dishes like, fish, tofu, vege, egg, chicken etc. He would choose wat he wants to eat. Then in the end, make a mess out of the table. He no longer needs to be fed. He wanna eat by himself. We could assist him, but we are not allowed to touch his spoon.

He became very choosy towards his clothing too. In the past, whatever i wore for him, he would just 静静得穿。Now, he no longer will 笨笨地let me wear any clothes on him already. I need to shortlist afew, then he choose :( Same goes to dvd, he opened the drawer, and took out the dvd that he wants to see. Then put into the dvd player himself. Sometimes he likes to skip chapters, coz he only likes to see 主角，don't like to see 配角...

We are planning another Zoo trip. Princeton is an animal lover, i guessed. But too bad i am not, hehe.... The last time we brought him to the Zoo, he could hardly enjoyed the animal show. Now that he knows the different types of animals, i would really love to bring him there once again!

Saturday, PAYDAY!

Waited sooo long for today, haha!! Yeah, finally its hubby payday! I'm "jobless" now, so alot of things need zhenyu to settle for me lol. Hubby said, Payday is Pay Everything Day, keke....

Yesterday, zhenyu brought us to Science Centre, Sakura for dinner, took a walk there as well. Initially he was quite reluntant to bring Princeton out. If he told me, let tian rest at home, better... he is going to recover faster. Maybe i will just stay at home. In the end, his reason was, "better dont bring him out, later he very noisy n grouchy, then we very 麻烦." . I was very disappointed when i heard this. Angry as well. I told him, explained to him, as parents, we cannot allow ourselves to be afraid of such situation. We must learn how to cope, how to handle. NOT to avoid. Bcoz, Whatever you Resist, WILL persist. And its forever. It applies to every part of your life. Told him this long time ago, he forgotten again! hmmp.

My helper did not came along with us, as last few nites she didn't get enough rest, so we decided to let her rest at home. My theory is very simple, we cannot rely on maid forever. I don't want to make her feel indispensable. We should be able to handle our own child. That is why usually weekends we will spend 三人世界.

Anyway, Princeton was well behaved yesterday. We had a good dinner, and both daddy n son ate alot. Princeton ate more than me i thought. My appetite was quite bad these few days, the food i saw really makes me felt more nausea:( My girl preferred homemade food.

I really hope that Zhenyu can be more positive towards Princeton's behaviour, and spend more effort in it. If we want our child to be patient, we gona be patient first. People see that i am very impatient towards my hubby.... wah liew....pls... u all don't understand why is it so.. Alot of things he needs me to remind n remind him again. ALot of things, he needs me to repeat n repeat again. I am like a recorder, replay n replay. At times, i will get fed up lol. Some more, his hearing got abit problem, i talk to him in normal tone, he cannot hear. He needs me to talk louder. So please don't be mistaken that i am shouting at him, i am not :p

Everyday, hubby will ask me do i love him? haha... he is like a little kid. Need ppl to tell him, and assure him. Of course I love him! But i must love my children more now, hee... So at times will neglect him abit. He needs me to remind him to drink plently of water/vit C, to make sure he eats on time,to force him to have an early nite. Is my responsiblity to keep my hubby healthy :)

I told him for his coming birthday, we will go to his dream place, Intergrated Resort Casino! He was so delighted... Little things can make him happy, little things can make his day. This is what i like about him. Simple n easy to understand :)

My childhood

I almost forgot about it... till my cousin mentioned it to me. Though is a casual chat in msn, as i'm too emotion, my tears dropped.

I came from a rich family, as in my dad's family were rich. Yup, we are in jewellery sectors. But somehow things happened, grandparents passed away early, and somehow we didn't get our share, and somehow its fated we got nothing. Alot of things i could not assumed, and people had too many sides of their story. Anyway, these are history, and belonged to adult thingy. Too confusing for me :(

My close relatives would have known, my parents had been super biased. My cousin chatted with me, he said i'm being ill treated since young, and my sister was the well pampered and protected one. Housechores was only done by me, maybe sometimes my late brother would felt pitiful and helped me out. i remembered during secondary school days, our washing machine was down. I had to wash the family clothes for many months. I worked during holidays to earn pocket money, but i never failed to get good results for my studies. At least i had 4As in my O level. Mop/sweep the floor are easy tasks for me. Wash the toliets, hang the clothes are piece of cake. Now that i had my own family, i realised it was never easy to maintain a family. I understand why my mum often nagged at me when i forgotten to switch off the air con, lights or fan. I understand y mum is so particular about cleaniness of the house. Too many memories, i remembered once, when i was studying, my dad could asked me to buy lunch for his mahjong friends. When I bought the wrong food, i was being scolded very harshly infront of many ppl. The more i think, the more i appreciate my life now. haha.. GOd is still mercy, gave me a good hubby, a tolerant one for me, hehe.

So ever since i'm married, i told myself i had enough of housechores. My bitter life is over, and my life will only gets better :) My inlaws treat me like a queen, hee... and i'm thankful for that. My mum loves me alot now, so who cares about the past.
I only understand, my mum worked hard for the family. My brother died, my dad passed away. I will take care of her till the end of time. My sis n i will love her more than anything. What makes me happier is, my hubby loves my mum as much as i do :)