留恋-宝墨园

最近看到报章报道宝墨园，又让我回想起那里漂亮的情景。只可惜我不是诗家，文笔又不好， 不然就能用富有思情化意的笔墨来形容她的美景！ 看回上一次写得部落格， 发觉我并没有放清明上河图的相片。 <清明上河图>已被列入“大世界基尼斯之最”, 在宝墨园可看到她的巨型瓷塑。可在这里看回我上一次写的旅游情景。 宝墨园，一个让我去了还想再去的地方！

爱撒娇的小瓜

最近小不点很会撒娇， 有时真得受不了她！ Lyon very manja nowadays, partly due to our fault too. When Wien snatch her toys or whatever in her hands, she’ll scream or yell, then we will tend to scold Wien for her bad behavior towards Mei Mei. After few times, she knows we side for her and she took advantage on this. She will complaint for small tiny thing using her good sentences! Yup, she can speak well now, sometimes we surprise on her speech development too! ** When both of them playing together, if Wien suddenly snatch her belonging, she will go to Ma Ma and complaint: - 阿姐欺负阿妹！阿姐打阿妹！( Ah Jie bully Ah Mei! Ah Jie beat Ah Mei!) But poor Ah Jie never beat her wor!….*sigh* ** When she draws on the floor or table…. Wien : 阿妹，不可以画地上。(Ah Mei, cannot draw on the floor…) Lyon : …start crying and run to me or Ma ma …阿姐骂我！阿姐骂我！(Ah Jie scold me, Ah Jie scold me!) ** After drinking water, she split out some water on the mattress… Papa : 阿妹，不可以酱哈！(Ah Mei, cannot do that har!)…slightly raise up his voice… Lyon : …start crying and run to me or Ma ma …爸爸骂我！爸爸骂我！(Papa scold me, Papa scold me!) ** Feeding time, she keep walking here and there… Mummy : 妹，快点过来吃饭！(Mei, faster come over, finish your meal)…slightly raise up my voice.. Lyon : …start crying too…妈咪骂阿妹! (Mummy scold Ah Mei!) ** Terrible part is sometimes she will complain someone (either Ah Jie or papa) beat her when they talk to her with slightly high tone, though no one beat her. Lyon : ...she cry and come to me... Mummy : 为什麽哭？(why cry ah?) Lyon : 阿姐打我! (Ah Jie beat me!) Mummy : 是么？打你哪里呢？(Really? where she beat you?) Lyon : 这里。(Here)...point to her stomach... Mummy : ....pretend urut her and tell her Jie Jie never beat her, cannot tell lie ya.... Lyon : ..nodded her head... ....see, how manja she is...*sigh*

The Four...finally!

Been tagged by dear Sabrina and Vivien...here it goes...

Four jobs I would stink at: * Doctor – I think I will fainted when see blood. * Writer – poor writing skill and grammar, you can sense it from my humble blog too! * Model – no nice body figure, not tall enough (very short indeed) and no pretty face! * Boss – no leadership skill. Still prefer as a 打工仔！

Four pretend nicknames I make up for myself: * Tembam – (Malay: chubby face), according to my mum, this name was given by my Malay babysister. Surprise I have Malay as my babysister? * No other nick name so far….

Four movies I have watched over and over: * The Sound of Music – love the songs! * Winnie the Pooh – I like Pooh too! * NIL * NIL – not a movie fans

Four places I have lived: * My mum’s womb – agreed? * Durian Tunngal – before marriage * Tangkak – after marriage. Guess will be permanent resident here, unless buy new house in Melaka. * NIL

Four things I love to do on my weekends: ** Cooking – only weekend free to cook. ** Sleeping – nap with the girls! One of my favorite hobby too! ** Sewing – if no nap then I will do my sewing. ** Shopping – yes, I love shopping, I can shop from 10am -10pm before marriage!

Four TV shows I geek out to, or used to geek out to: * NIL * NIL * NIL * NIL – told you I am not a TV or movie fans lor..

Four alcoholic beverages I’ve enjoyed on offshore vacations: ** Beer ** Red wine ** …2 type only…not dare to try others…

Four things I could NOT live without (besides oxygen, H20, and miscellaneous life-sustaining substances, included our kids and hubby and family member): * My dear hubby * My 2 precious girls * My car * Computer

Four of my favorite foods, partnered with people with whom I enjoy eating said foods: * 芋头圈 * McDonald’s McChicken * Bak kut teh * My own fried chicken

Four places I would rather be right now: * Mount Titlis, Switzerland – been there during winter, so nice scenery! * Paris - wish to go again with hubby. * Japan - love the culture and cleanliness there. * Australia - wish to enjoy farm life there.

No tag anyone here, as most of you have been tagged.

滚啊！

Naughty Lyon know how to use 滚啊 (stay away from me) to chase us off nowadays. When she is happily playing alone or watching TV, if someone ( either Gong Gong, Wien or papa) approach her and want to disturb her, if she feel piss off, she will say 滚啊, at the same time, her hand will try to push them away. No need to guess, she pick up this from Wien; Wien will say that to Gong Gong when both of them fighting over the TV. One day I was bathing her, when finish bathing; want to bring her out from bathroom, she say 滚啊 to me! Meaning that she still want to play with water; so I just walk out, then she start yelling….now she still will say 滚啊 to me but with a very manja voice and sly smile…...but to other family member still with her stern voice…foresee she will be a fierce girl in future! (just like her mummy..kekeke)

Leave me alone lar....

I am OK now!

Haloooooo......I am ok now...thank you for all the well wishes!!! Now I can play, eat and sleep as usual....past few days I just sit on my potty, no appetite to eat and drink too! I must give my mummy a big hug and kiss, becos she does not sleep well for the past few days too! Muak muak muak...

Fever

Wien having fever now, today is the 4th day. Other than fever, she also having diarrhoea, stomach ache and vomiting. With fever alone, already make me worry sick, further now she is vomiting too! Her sickness exactly same as Twinsmom's Belles. Both Belles got the sickness since 16/06/06, but my girl got it since 20/06/06, looks like the germ had been spread down to my place...LOL 20/06/06 Wake up in the morning, found she is having fever. Thought is normal fever, so just feed her paracethamol before I left to work. Tell MIL to monitor her fever, if still not down, continue to feed her the medicine after 4 hour. She still can play and running here and there the whole day. At night, she start vomiting and having diarrhoea. Vomit and diarrhoea few times during midnight. 21/06/06 Morning brought her to see dr. After medicine, she seem ok; no loost stool, no fever, so MIL did not continue feeding her. Been telling her many times the medicine must continue to consume at least for 2-3 days, cannot stop. But she not follow my word, as she thought taking those medicine will cause her sleepy the whole day!!! I always wish I could be SAHM whenever my girls are sick, so that I can monitor closely by myself. *sigh* I quickly feed her medicine after knowing she did not take it for afternoon session. Sleepless night for papa and mummy. She sleep with MIL before this, but if she is sick, I will get her to sleep with me. Other wise I dont think I can sleep well too! 22/06/06 Still having fever, stomach ache, loose stool vomitting and no appetite to eat. Keep reminding MIL to feed her medicine on time, cannot skip. At night high fever again, another sleepless night for papa and mummy. 23/06/06 This morning fever at 38.6 c. See doctor again. He gave suppository to bring down the fever. Monitor closely and feed her medicine on time too. Pray hard she will getting better by today! Still don't know what cause her sickness....*sigh*...but at least we know it is not dengue!

大瓜+小瓜+三姑六婆

人物 维维：大瓜 甲乙丙丁：三姑六婆或姨妈姑姐 甲：维维吃饭还要妈咪喂哈？某某人自己吃饭啰！ 乙：某某人和维维同月生，可是人家高她一个头了。维维好像很矮咧！ 丙：维维还穿纸尿片？某某人两岁就没穿了！ 丁：维维还没上学哈？你不怕她跟不上？ 甲 : 四岁还吸拇指？没有叫她戒？ 很很很。。。。讨厌人家拿别人或自己的孩子来跟我的孩子比较！！！！有什麽好比呢？有时真的是很生气，但又不能当众骂回她。**@@##**^-^ ***************************************************************

人物 - 小瓜 - 陌生人 = 三姑六婆或姨妈姑姐 陌生人：为什麽看到我就哭？ 陌生人：哎呀！哭倒酱可怜，你一定是很少带她出门！ 陌生人：酱没有用，Auntie 要抱你也不可以。 陌生人：哎呀，看到我就偏嘴巴，不可爱了啰！ 怕陌生人也有错？求求你们这些三姑六婆，姨妈姑姐远离我的小瓜，你们都知道她是怕你们的，还要过来弄她哭。这不是小瓜的错，也不是我们的错，是天生的！

Soft Mushroom cooking type

Wonder how you guys cook this type of mushroom. Usually I will either cook it with mix vege, such as carrot, broccoli, japanese taufu, celery, some meat, etc etc...you can just add whatever you like, then seasoning with some oyster sauce. This will be a simple dish as well. p/s : no photo taken...

....or just fried like that with a little bit of oyster sauce; But I don't like to eat this way(dont know the reason too), although is simple! hehehe....FIL like this way, proof that he is not a fussy eater like me!

This is plain fried (清炒）style.

Later one of my friend taught me deep fried it with KFC powder (or any other brand that suit your taste); and the taste very nice! YUmmy yUmmy!

This is deep fried style.

If you never try before, perhaps u can give this a try. Just coated with the powder and deep fried! You can also coated with egg first before coated with the powder; just like the way we deep friend chicken. Happy trying!

p/s: anyone can share with me, is there any other cooking style for this mushroom?

Uniform

June 01, 2006. Our office staffs start wearing T-shirt as uniform, including the bosses; to show the uniformity. The tee can match with either pants or skirt, no jean is allow. Lucky the tee's color is white and blue, which can easily match. All of us can get 3 white and 2 blue, so no need to worry have to wash it daily! I only did the washing for my work wear during weekend. The production workers been wearing uniform since this factory start their operation, guess is 15 years back. Why now only implementing to us? The idea comes from the boss himself. After his business trip to oversea, visited many customer’s workplace, he noticed all of them were wearing uniform, including top management. So he brought back the idea and implement enforce it to us. Many staff welcomes the idea as they claim no need to headache what to wear the next day. But myself not really like it, everyday wear the same, very bored man! Further how am I going to settle my wardrobe‘s clothing? Ermmm…I have a lot of them hanging in the wardrobe. Frankly I can wear them for more than 1 month without worry what to wear the next day! : P….don’t forget we women like to shop for dress during sale ya! …and my hubby likes to nag me too if he saw me grab one or two cloth during our window shopping! …hahaha, who can resist sale thingy?? Look like it’s time for me to clear the clothing in my room! sob sob....

This is Mine!!!

Lyon becomes selfish nowadays. Things belong to her; hardly share with her jie jie. Naughty Wien sometimes like to play a fool with her pulak! #1 Lyon has a sippy cup, usually will fill up water for her. Sometimes jie jie lazy to take her cup and pour water, she just takes the sippy cup and drink. Lyon saw it, she will keep yelling to us… Lyon : 阿妹的！阿妹的! (It's mine! It's mine ) ....her hand keep pointing to jie jie... Wien : ignore her yelling, keep sipping the water…...until we stop her! When she stop drinking only Lyon stop yelling! *sigh* #2 Told by MIL… One day during nap time, after give them a wipe; change them to a new set of cloth. Naughty Wien wear Lyon’s pant, don’t why she act like that, although the pants look so small for her! Again spotted by Lyon, she keep yelling to Ma Ma… Lyon : 阿妹的！阿妹的! (her hand keep pointing to jie jie) Wien : pretend nothing, just lie down on mattress.... Lyon : 阿妹的！阿妹的! (keep repeating the same and go nearer to jie jie) Wien : still ignore her…. Lyon : …cannot tahan anymore, she walk further to jie jie, both hands try to pull down the pant!! Wien : wei wei…now jie jie's turn to yell…. No choice, jie jie just let mei mei pull the pant, later she go and look for her own pant. After that only Lyon lie down on mattress and sleep! *sigh* Not only these, she also not allow jie jie to use her spoon, plate, potty etc etc....whatever belong to her is hers, no one can use! But funny thing is she allow mummy or Ma Ma to use her stuff! (sometimes we pretend want to use, surprisingly she allow us! Another naughty girl!!)

Blogsphere's Newborn!

There are 2 newborn babies in blogsphere now, both are boys too! First is Jazzmint’s Vyktore, second is Michelle’s Barnabas, both are unique name too. Congratulations again to Jazzmint & Michelle! What inspire me to write on them is, I really salute them can blog on their newborn baby immediately after giving birth. I have to write a big 服 (salute) to both of them. I will never able to do that! Read below then you will know the reason.

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I told hubby this 2 good news during dinner time. Told him they very keng, can blog so fast.

He : You also can do that mah!

Me : Hey, how I can make it wor! The next day after give birth I still lying on the bed, cannot even walk down (b’cos I am c-sect)! If I natural birth, maybe can lar!

He : keep quiet….eh, hospital now also got broadband kah?

Me : hahaha….no la….for NB, they can discharge the next day lar! *shake head* (he thot all mummies will be like me, have to stay hospital for few days)

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When I gave birth to Wien, I admitted to hospital at 7.00am (as I noticed some sign early in the morning), but wait till 11pm still not much contraction or dilation, although dr already broke my water bag. At 11.30pm, he said cannot wait further, got to do emergency c-sect. No choice, we have to listen to him since he is the expert to us at that time. I was having fully unconscious for the first c-sect. After everything was done, they send me to wad to rest. I could only see my baby the next day! I stay in hospital for 3 days; upon returning home, already busy with the newborn, how can I find time to hook on pc? Although I have MIL to take care during confinement, but myself have to take care baby too! Some more I still feel the pain after few days give birht. So when baby sleep, I also sleep or rest lor! I only can on my pc after 2 weeks later, as I want to send baby photos to my friends and colleagues. That’s it! After that I will only play with pc upon returning to office. Since Gynae confirmed I couldn’t have NB due to narrow pelvic, so for my second pregnancy he already told me to do the c-sect 2 weeks before due date. Lyon comes to this world via planned c-sect and I was having half concious and half unconcious, so I can see her immediately she is out from my tummy. Now with newborn baby Lyon and Wien, me busier than first confinement. Lyon is ok, she sleeps most of the time but I have headache with Wien, she keep lau kai and cry for my attention. Frankly I dislike maternity leave, I rather it finished soonest possible, so that I can return to office to have my peace there. Terrible mummy!!

I felt myself only settle down with both of them when they are nearly 4 months! At that time I only can find myself and do my own thing....

又种菜啰！

Our little farmers plant another batch of vegetable, this time is 菜心 ( sawi in Malay ). The leaf so greenish and big, credit must goes to their virgin urine again....hahaha… Next, what to plant ? Cherry tomato maybe. Last time we use to plant cherry tomato, I still remember Wien like to pick from the tree and just eat like that. Although no pesticide, but still have to make sure she wash it before eating it. Now with addition of Lyon, I am sure both of them will fight to pick from the tree and eat!

Lucky she scare of stranger....

One day, TNB man (the one who take meter reading for eletricity usage) come to our house. He was standing outside the door taking meter reading. Our outside gate was not locked at that time, usually just closed like that, although there is a padlock there. Wien saw him, she wants to get the slip from him, so she quickly look for door key and want to go out and take from him. The guy saw she open the door, so he come forward to her, want to pass the slip to her. Lyon saw him come near to door, seem want to enter the house, she start crying! She quickly run to kitchen to look for Ma Ma, yelling : Uncle, uncle!...that's her reaction when see any stranger come to our house! Of couse Ma Ma heard Lyon is crying since she yell so loud, so she come to front to check on her. Then only she realised the TNB man was standing outside the door, and Wien was trying to open the padlock. She stopped Wien from opening the door and just get the slip from him. When the man left, Ma Ma lecture and scold Wien, for opening gate to stranger. But she claimed that : he is not stranger, he come to give us the slip!...hai, she just thought he is same as postman and rubbish man! *shake head* Lucky Lyon is the type who scare of stranger, she'll either cry or yell loudly when see someone she don't know. So that we can get first alert that someone is coming to our house. Otherwise, one day both of them might be kidnapped by the stranger without our knowledge! Who know?

Funny Moment

One working morning, while I was preparing myself to work; 2 girls wake up and ask for milk. So I prepare for them, then tell them mummy going to take a shower, ask them "kwai kwai" stay in the room. Before I step out from room, Wien request me to give her 2 milk bottles for her to play with mei mei. I have few new bottles in the room. So just take out for them, then add 2 milk powder scoop for them as I know what are they going to play later. Yeah, Wien want to play making milk for her mei mei, although they just had it just now. After I took my shower, back to room to check on them. Before reach there, overheard they conversation, so I just stand outside the door, want to peek on what are they doing. Wien : 小妹，喝完了吗？(xiao mei, have you finish your milk?) Lyon : 喝完啰 (Finish lor!) ….hand over the bottle to Wien… Wien : 完了哈！可以睡觉了。( Finish already har. Ok, you can sleep now!) Lyon : …immediately she lie down and pretend to sleep, and she make pig sleeping sound! Very loud too! LOL (but I don’t how to describe the sound in wording) I could not hold on my laugh when see Lyon act like that. I was laughing outside the room. They noticed me and also laugh with me! Hahaha…I wish I can tape down those cute moments! *********************************************************

At night I told my SIL and MIL on above short story. They also laugh it out. Then later SIL told me she knew why Lyon will act like that. One afternoon, when Lyon refuse to nap, Wien also don’t want to sleep. Both of them keep playing and making noise. So SIL told Wien to pretend sleeping, so that hopefully Lyon will sleep too. Wien : 是不是假假睡？(is it pretend to sleep only? ). SIL : 真真的！(Nope, really sleep wan!) Wien : 假假睡哈？(Pretend to sleep only har?)….immediately after she said that, she lie down and pretend sleeping, and make very big pig sound!

LOL, now I know why Lyon act like that that morning! Sometimes her silly act really never fail to make us laugh!

My Quilt

When I am in good mood, I will think of something to sew. Yeah, I'll only sew during good mood! Then only the end product will look more nicer and prettier as I sew with love and my heart. Since Lyon doesn't has any blanket, so decided to make one small quilt for her. She only has security blanket （被被）but that cannot cover her body; another reason why I did not get her one blanket is, she use to kick off any blanket during sleep time, even I had wake up few times and cover for her but her sensitive hands and legs will just kick it off from her body! *sigh* But I still decide to make one for her! When the quilt is done, I show to her. She told me : 被被，被被 (It's blanket) but later she said : 不要！不要！(don't want, don't want! ) . Immediately when Wien heard her mei mei said don't want the blanket, she quickly come and tell me to give her that quilt. But I told her this is for Lyon, later when mummy is free, mummy surely will sew for her too! Lucky she said she can wait. Ok, few nights I try to cover this quilt on Lyon during bed time but she just kick it off as usual! Wien knew Lyon doesn't use it so she grab it from her, now the quilt belong to Wien... Wien also will kick off blanket during sleep, same as Lyon! Opps, I should say Lyon just alike her jie jie, like to kick blanket! Wonder other kids are the same too! In blogsphere I found a blogger very good in sewing quilt, she even took up a class just to learn sewing! I wish I could be like her too! You can find her good artwork of quilt from here and here.

Tambun Tau Sa Piah

This morning I had Tambun tau sa piah as breakfast, from Him Heang some more! I bet many of you know where is the origin! It was from my GM who just back from his hometown (Penang) after whole week there. When he gone back for holiday, he will bought us this biscuit as 手信 (souvenirs).

I ever went to this Him Heang shop many years back, guess is 2001 ( I was pregnant with Wien @ 7 weeks then). But this shop doesn't give me a very good impression, I can say very dissappointed over their attitute towards customers. Funny thing is, according to my Penang's friends, still many customers flooded the shop during weekend. Some even dun mind to line up sooooooo long just to wait for the biscuit! *shake head*

Ok, let's tell my story now.....

Year 2001, hubby and I plan to drive to Penang for holiday during National Day. Everything was well planned, then only I realised I was pregnant. At once, I plan to cancel this trip as I worry this and that. But end up still go ahead with the plan. Hubby make few stops during the journey, so that I can feel more relax instead of just sitting in the car. Before we go, we already informed our Penang friends that we want buy few boxes of Tambun biscuit, so he booked advance for us, then we can just collect from the shop on our way back.

When come to our last day in Penang, our friend very kind, he drove us to the shop to collect biscuit. Reached there, we already saw there is a long queue there. Many had queue up till outside the shop's gate! Can u imagine that? My friend told us if no make any booking then we have to queue like them. But my hubby said if have to queue so long, he rather go to other shop and buy, although other shop's biscuit may not as good as this shop.

We proceed to counter to check our booking but the counter couldn't find the booking under my friend's name, and tell us come again 3 days later!!! At first we thought we heard wrongly! I said if 3 days, then better cancel it lor, who want to come 3 days later?? But my kind friend keep asking begging them to check properly, tell them who he make the booking from, but the counter just couldn't find it. Then the counter people told us unfriendly : or you just queue up lor, I cannot help u! My hubby was not happy with the way they talked. He told our friend, let's forget about it and we not keen on the biscuit anymore. But our friend being kind enough, still keep asking them check once again, tell them XXX had taken his order. The counter must be cannot stand our friend's long winded skill, they called up XXX ( he was on leave that day), lucky that XXX can recall the booking, then only the counter allow us to take away our 6 boxes of tau sa piah! We spent 45 min there just to take our biscuit that had been booked 2 weeks in advance! Frankly, when we make the payment, we pay with very unwillingly, so "heart pain" towards their attitute.

Now the shop still famous with their tau sa piah, still many tourist "pong chan" them, sad case! Come on lar, i can see many place in Penang selling tau sa piah too, with different brand. I ever tried one of them, found the taste not bad too!

So whenever I ate Him Heong tau sa piah, I will think of this case and I still can recall very well that day incidents!

@ Tanjung Bidara

Some times ago Papa agreed to bring Wien go to beach to "catch" crabs. Finally we went on last Saturday. Wien very excited when mummy confirmed to bring her there as most of the time it was mummy who delay her plan!! Reached there, Wien very excited to look for crap, keep chasing papa faster faster bring her to search for them. Lyon very wai sek, keep asking mummy to give her lollypop, as she saw mummy grab 2 stick of lollypop while papa pump petrol at petrol station. Other than lollypop, mummy also bought some bread and junk food. So, after she got her lollypop, she keep eating and licking it, refuse to play sand or water too! Mummy just let her be, as long as she did not making noise.

When she finish the lollypop, then only she come and join mummy to play sand. But she refuse to take off her shoe, she said : 肮脏, 肮脏 (Dirty, dirty)...hai, this silly girl! I was thinking she always at home run here and there with bare foot, till the foot so black, but never say herself dirty! *shake head*.....so most of the time she was wearing her shoes on the beach, until her shoes really wet, then only she ask me to take it off, she said : 湿湿, 湿湿 ( wet wet!) Mummy playing sand with Lyon while papa bring Wien to look for shell and crab; she brought along a pail with her too!

I think Wien is the one who enjoy the most! She doesn't want to wet herself but still keep chasing, running and jumping when the waves come towards her!

At last, she still wet herself. Lyon did not enjoy the waves, she said : 怕怕 (sked sked!). She also said Wien : 肮脏, 肮脏 (Dirty, dirty)....when she saw sand all over Wien's hands & legs! haha...this silly girl just refuse to touch the waves!! This is Wien's second time to beach, Lyon's first time! Hope in future can bring them to more further's beach.