I really love these photo booth styled pictures taken from the IncrediBooth phone app, so much fun and so gorgeous! Vera is staying home this week because she got a Croup cough attack on the weekend. Her cough sounded like “barking”! So hoarse and scary. We quickly called the pediatrician at 10pm and luckily we had the medicine we needed to treat Vera. Even though she is better now and only has “normal” cough, we decided she should just stay home and rest. Therefore my week this week is a little bit different, I have to think of many activities for both girls. I always wonder, how did my grandmother manage 10 children?
January 24, 2012 – 7:43 pm / Love it
After reading Anne‘s latest post about canvas tote bags, I remember I was very tempted to buy a canvas bag by Shinzi Katoh when I was in Kuala Lumpur recently. I forgot what the print was on that tote bag I saw in the shop but now when I googled Shinzi Katoh, the red riding hood series is very appealing to me. Cute!
January 23, 2012 – 7:19 pm / General
image: gettyimages
恭喜发财！Gong Hei Fatt Choy! Wishing my family, friends and to those who celebrate this special occasion a very happy, healthy and prosperous year in the year of Dragon!
January 22, 2012 – 8:51 pm / General
Aah, I have been trying to update my blog this past week but it turned out to be quite impossible. The girls were very cranky and difficult, it was Terrible Two and Terrible Four phase combined! The going-to-bed routine didn’t go so smoothly as before and by the time they fell asleep we both were just too exhausted. We sat in front of the tv and watched The Big Bang Theory to cheer ourselves up! Sad but true.
Anyway, we went to the German Technique Museum on last Sunday. It was a very fun day, especially for the girls who were very excited to see ships, aeroplanes, trains and other big objects! I was very glad that the children were allowed to touch anything, what a relief not to always have to look after my shoulders so that my girls won’t break anything. That made the museum visit more fun and relaxing for their mommy, me!
I hope you had a good weekend and I hope my coming week would not be as difficult as last week. Have a good start to the week!
p/s: Strange! The categories just vanished!
It is going to be colder than the last few days in the coming days but the weather forecast says this weekend is going to be sunny! Yes, that’s what I want. I dislike the wet cold we have had last week. I would like to go to our neighbourhood’s farmers market tomorrow and maybe visit our garden. We were there last weekend but we forgot to bring the keys so we had to climb over the fence but we couldn’t get into our hut. To our shock, our flower beds had some choy-sum vegetables and a few roses. It showed how unusually warm this winter is. Ah, something happened yesterday. My new phone slid out from my bag and dropped on the ground when I took my bag out from the basket under the stroller. I haven’t gotten a case for the phone yet, shit. At first I discovered tiny scratches on the top edges which upset me very much but then later at home I discovered a crack the size of the tip of my index finger on the front glass panel. My heart sank. It is probably stupid to feel like that because it is just a gadget but… sigh. I’m feeling better now, just have to try not looking at the crack. I hope your week went well this week. Have a beautiful weekend!
January 10, 2012 – 1:37 pm / Home
PaPa and I have decided we need a better and bigger working area this year. We put in the thought that the children can also use this area for writing, drawing or to do their crafts. We decided to put a long table top which goes from wall to wall and this wall has a window facing the backyard. One end of the table top joined PaPa’s existing working table and my corner is at the other end of the table top. So now we have a L-shaped desk, so much space and leg room, fantastic! I like my corner very much. It gives me a cozy feeling when I sit there and I also enjoy looking out of the window.
January 4, 2012 – 8:32 pm / General
Hello there, a very happy new year to you and I hope the year of the Dragon will be a prosperous and fortunate year to you!
I know I have been slacking with blogging. The last few months I have gotten lazy and was carried away by discovering, browsing and reading way too many fun and fabulous blogs, which sometimes I have to tell myself to take a break. But I guess I have taken a break from updating my own blog instead. OK, I have to change that, starting today.
I bought that old fashioned calendar above from a bookstore in Kuala Lumpur. I remember my grandmother used to have it in her apartment when I was very young. Each paper is very thin and each page contains a lot of information besides the date. It also shows the date from the Chinese lunar calendar, what to do and not to do (like good to get married or not good for moving) on that day, which hours of the day are considered lucky and unlucky and many other information. Of course I am not that superstitious but I found the calendar is quite fun and funny. I also remember my grandmother kept and recycled the pages after she tore them off from the calendar day after day. We used them for wrapping the orange peels while eating the oranges in front of the tv, wrapping the shaves after sharpening the pencils, using them as origami papers, etc. I will definitely keep the pages for the girls to do crafts with them.
I just looked back at the first post last year titled Happy 2011! and there was a picture of a very happy cheeky Nora. So I thought I will post a picture of her one year later, she is now 2 years and 4 months old. Peace Yo!
By the way, currently I am a big fan of the comedy The Big Bang Theory, so super hilarious!
December 21, 2011 – 10:53 pm / Travel
These are just a very few pictures of our two months vacation in Malaysia and can you tell we had such a wonderful time there? 
