ENJO

heard of this term? ENJO?

i've never heard before till my sis, diana mentioned it...she likes it so so much till she kept telling me it's very very very good whenever we talk on the phone. i'm skeptical of course, coz it's some sort of direct sales, and normally expensive, and then gotta come to our home to do demo...and then my only dread is how to send the person out just in case we're not interested but the person spends another 1-2 hour trying to psycho us to buy.

it's a cleaning product made of microfiber...amazing products i would say...can clean almost anything in my house with just water without intervention of any chemicals like dish detergent, window screen cleaner, grease removal, floor cleaner...etc

oh yeah...my parents and myself bought a full set in the end...we had hands on experience and my response to it is "wow"

anyway, i just started using them 2 days ago...i'm using it to clean my oily dirty stove, oily kitchen cabinet and fridge....with just the kitchen glove and damp with bit of water, and then wipe clean with another piece of clothe...it's clean!!! feel smooth too...i didn't add any chemical in it...it's really clean and not sticky. can't believe it right? i don't - initially.

the first question jem asked me is "how much you spent on it?" :P (i feel it's reasonable if i break the cost down to daily use and without having to buy all the chemicals and this product can last for 2-3 years, i think). anyway, to clean something oily with just water is hard to imagine, but such things exist.

i'm trying to convince jem that the products is good. i just did a 'demo' in the bathroom...i cleaned the shower screen. you know...those stubborn water stain? i wiped it with the bathroom glove and wipe dry with another piece of cloth...it's clean and all stains removed. jem didn't see it immediately, only see it AFTER half a day.... he told me he's impressed :P hahah...this word does not come out easily from my hubby okie.

i feel this product is good for me coz my skin is no longer the same ever since i'm pregnant with nathan...some people called it 'hormonal change'...i can't touch dish washing liquid, washing powder/liquid, or even wet wipes and some dust...basically any chemical things to clean the house nowadays...my fingers will go swollen, super itchy, skin crack after that. what's more, i have 2 kids at home, i can't clean when they're awake, coz their hands are like octopus, suka suka touch everywhere....with just water, i can clean and they can touch at the same time.

sounds like i'm advertising yeah...yes and no. i just feel it's very good and that's why i share with all of you. anyway, i just started using only...i haven't try the mop, and washing toilet...and if jem uses all these products one day, then better trust him more than me.
if you want a demo, we can arrange, include me in too...i want some free stuff from them :P

that's all folks...if you want to take a look at the products...see this link
http://www.enjo.net/data_set1/window_klein.asp?n_id=29&s_id=2

have a good week ahead.

just want to keep everybody updated on ah bo's condition...

oh oh, think some of you might be confused about ah bo, ah po.....below are brief explanation of who is who in my blog okie.

ah bo - my father in law's sister/ah po's daughter
ah po - jem's grandmother
ah gong - jem's grandfather
daddy - my father in law
mommy - my mother in law

she's discharged 1-2 days after that day. she's fine now...when i talk to her, really can't tell something happened to her the other day, things back to normal now. i really want to thank God for that...i really believe we stayed that day is not a coincident.

this coming tuesday will be my father in law's scan report out. jem takes whole day leave to go with him. please pray that he's fine.

more and more health problems occur among our loved ones and close friend's family, i can't help to feel sad though...it's so scary, today someone's healthy, tomorrow may not, today appears fine, tomorrow may not. it's been tough for jem, coz he's taking charge of all his family affairs. a toot toot wife like me don't know how to help him...haha...maybe the best thing i can do is don't add any burden to him from my side. yeah, bernie you're right...life is precious and must cherish family.

sorry mates, my updates will be less frequent.....will update about my family, probably not myself...

uhmm...who knows...if i feel good one day, i'll just back to blogging more frequent :D feel free to drop msg in the chat box...

oh...part of the reason why i blog lesser now is because i'm very tired. day time no nap, night time wakes up a lot of times because of nathan and ian, and then both boys wakes up as early as 6am or earlier sometimes...

feeling tired...but don't want to sleep...

feeling down though...it was my 1st time experiencing it...


friday
good friday, everything is normal at liang household...the boys are having fun with grandparents...at night, jem asked me...can we stay over.

of course...why not...it's weekend, am sure ian would love it. we're camping at the living room.

saturday
1am ++, ian woke up, kena mossie bite and want to have milk. he slept at 5pm and feeling hungry then. nathan woke up too...saw kor kor woke up, he 'ge bo' want to join in the fun and refuse to sleep after that. both boys stirred each other up till 3am plus...i'm dying to sleep, but can't.

then i heard someone's coughing...ah bo was coughing.

early morning, think about 6ish, bebe (the maid) suddenly came and woke jem up...jem jumped up and disappeared...i still don't know what's going on.

the next moment, bebe told me ah bo is breathless...jem called the ambulance and back to sit beside ah bo, talking to her calmly, to keep her conscious, to calm her...ian was awake by then, i carried him to see ah bo, standing outside her room, all i see is only the white side of her eyes, rolling...i've never seen this before...all of sudden, it shocked me..no no no...ah bo...please don't go...God, please sustain her...help her. she was alright yesterday, why the sudden? i don't know what to pray, all i said is please Lord.

we woke the entire family up...jem continued to talk to her till the paramedics came, and he followed ah bo to tan tock seng hospital. joyce and mother in law joined him after that. the rest stayed at home and wait for news.

ah bo's condition is stable after that, hospitalised in sgh now. while waiting for jem's update from hospital, ah po was crying...again, my 1st time seeing her cry and i felt so helpless, don't know how to comfort her. all i could say is ah bo is stable, ask her not to worry so much. but as parents, to see own child in this state, how not to worry? ah bo eats very very very little (she can't eat too much, else will puke)...now we see is a bony body. it's heartbreaking.

my father in law has been losing weight too...he's been sick very often, feeling tired and weak...and now breathless too. recent checkup show there's shadow in his lung. he will go for scan this monday and result will be out on 1 april. i don't know...all i want is my family be healthy...

life is so unpredictable. just saw an album when i'm pregnant with ian 3 years ago...ah bo and father in law are healthy, both a lot of 'flesh'...fleshy and cute...it has changed so much...

jem been losing weight too...he felt tired easily as well. need to rest whole day in order to recuperate....as wife, i'm concerned too. i simply hope it's due to travelling and nothing else...

ah po also lose weight...worried for ah bo day and night.

really thanked God jem was around that day. He was very calm and handled the situation well...
thanked God for the ian and nathan...at least can keep their great-grandparents mind occupied.

thank God.

i don't know what i can do...i just want everybody healthy.

have some life adjustment recently...this time...even if i can go cell group, i don't think so now. ian refuses to take nap recently...gave up trying to make him sleep and i don't think i can leave nathan outside the room just to wait for ian to sleep. so....by 4 plus, i gotta bathe ian and feed him by 5pm....he'll knock out and sleep through till next day. good...as in can spend time alone with nathan and do some housework, not so good...can't go out at night.

many things happened recently...seriously, i'm not quite in a mood to write my blog now...ian is getting more challenging, always out to make nathan cry, not so gentle towards his brother anymore, always asking to go grandparents' place, can't go out a lot as both boys are sick (coughing and runny nose but recovering now). uhm....have no idea how to make ian treats his bro better...jem and i feel that he seeks attention coz he's back to his 'normal' self when nathan is sleeping, i'm already trying my best to give him my best attention. haha, just that sometimes the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak. found myself dozing off again while eating his ice cream (fake ice cream, it's made of one of his building block with a fork) recently.

viennese cookie (very buttery and melt in your mouth)

did i mention you that i started baking recently? 2 times only. 1st one before chinese new year, the cookies were a success, taste ok, ian loves it but the look cannot make it. of all the 40 mini cookies, only 2 looks presentable, the rest look like 'sai', the kitchen....looked like just kena robbed . 2nd time, pumpkin scones...my dear boy is moulding my character, so i want to bake something to destress. the result? more stress, kitchen....don't talk about it, pumpkin scones taste like rubber scones, threw all away. now i'm thinking to make japanese cheesecake, muffins and butter cake...waiting for opportunity to do it. the picture above is the best looking cookie i can find, ian showed thumbs up you know...i made him do it :P. nice or not nice, is a consolation prize.

speaking of food in town...the following best food in town can only be found in liang family. the chef and the baker

butter cake - ah gong
scones - ah gong
apple pie - ah gong
quiche - ah gong and ah po
chicken rice - ah po
cheesebaked spaghetti bolognese - ah gong and ah po
pig stomach soup - ah po
nasi lemak - ah gong and ah po
chicken curry - ah po
steak - ah gong

all their food...even home cook food...all i can tell you is 赞!

jem and joyce love them a lot, they took care of them both when they were little...i'm very blessed (not just the food part lahh) to be part of this family, but to see their love towards the family. today is their 60th wedding anniversary.

my parents and my 2nd sis and family will be in singapore...can't wait to spend time with them.

am having iphone withdrawal syndromes now...thinking, visiting hardwarezone forum, spotting people carrying it in town and i want to snatch it, dreaming of smuggling it...etc.

alright...today is sunday...went out with jem alone this afternoon...yes ALONE! without the boys...! left them to in laws' care and off we go to IT show at suntec city. very happy, coz it's been very very very long time since we last go out together...i can't even remember when was the last time we are out alone. anyway, the crowd is....massive! reminds of the locust plague in moses' day...mannnnn, looking at the crowd, almost pengsan! all i'm thinking that moment is food again (yeah, after walking for so long and crammed with the crowd, i used up a lot of energy). that's my 2nd time going to this kind of IT show, 1st time signed up broadband for joyce, now is signing up broadband for our home...and it will be my 2nd last visit. the last visit i reserved to queue up for iphone when it releases in singapore......one day.
read the forum, somebody said he heard from a 'reliable' source that iphone won't come in this year. so i have 1-year to overcome my withdrawal syndrome.

this is the first time i left nathan for so long....4 hours? i expressed out some breastmilk for them to try bottle feed nathan....and obviously failed coz nathan has not been bottle fed since he's 2 months old. my mother in law ended up spoon fed him (uhmm, maybe try syringe next time), ah po is the only one who can make nathan sleep...though cry a bit..but he slept eventually. so......after today, i'm more daring to go out alone with jem liao!

it's monday tomorrow, dear Lord Jesus, please give me wisdom on how to spend quality time with my boys, what to do, what interesting activity to give them to go through the day without them asking to go grandparents' place. thank You in Jesus name. Amen.

ian's playgroup

i didn't get to go in to see ian's first day in playgroup. nathan is sick...runny nose and coughing, so i gotta stay out. that's ian's apple tree playgroup uniform (picture above). he was pretty excited to go into the 'classroom' initially, till he found out i'm not going in with him...he started crying and shortly after that, the door is closed....cry cry cry.

i can only peep certain angle from outside...saw him crying, the teacher talked to him and hold his hand...he stopped and followed her into the room...can't hear any noise after that...the room seems to be sound proof..:P

me and nathan went to buy some raisin bread and biscuits...intended to give ian (as a reward or encouragement) when the playgroup ends. 1.5 hours...neither long nor short to me...i didn't go home coz doubt i can do much work for that short window of time. then it was raining that day, i ended up sitting outside the rc center for the remaining 1 hour, nathan wasn't too well that time, so he was sleeping in the pram...so for that whole one hour, i walked in and out, trying to peep but cannot ....the room door is closed!!! ngiaoooo!

2nd day in playgroup
ian refused to go in. when teacher carried him away, he started kicking, struggling to come down...saw him crying till all the mucus come out...heart pain heart pain. i have to walk away...

3rd day in playgroup (today)
refused to even come out from the pram, he kept 'bao bao' me and crying very badly today. kept saying 'ng oi' (means 'don't want' in cantonese)...teacher carried him away and asked me to let go of him...saw him crying and reaching his hands out to me, begging...this time i really almost cried. i walked to another side of the class, can't peep in...but still can hear him crying...crying 'ng oi ng oi' (don't want) very loud and....fierce! till...teacher played 'good morning' song, the cry stopped...i don't know what happened next...i have to walk away...looking for something to eat to destress...

all the mothers there kept telling me 'it's like that, all kids have to go through this phase, he'll get used to it one day', 'you better walk away, he will cry even more if he sees you again'. all the people has dispersed liao...left me there still....trying to peep in...(of course cannot lah, but still thinking how to achieve mission impossible), i was thinking to hide one corner, use my hp camera...to take one shot. so if the kids see me, only see the hand, and then i can see what happen...but i didn't do it.

like ian...he's the last one to go in, first one to come out when the session ends. me too...i'm the last one to leave the place, the earliest one to come back, waiting for him. this is just my 3rd day sending him to playgroup, already i feel 'dread'...:p

the funny thing is each time he'll tell me what he did in the class...he said 'bowling', 'color color barney', 'cooking', 'kor kor jie jie', 'abc' (they sing 'abc' song), 'good morning chong' (actually is 'good morning to you'), 'guitar', 'train'. he seems to enjoy it.

connie: "ian, you like playgroup?"
ian: "likeeeee"
connie: "is playgroup good?"
ian: "no good"

tell me...which one is true?
i hope ian can get used to it SOON.

having headache for whole day now....suspected due to lack of sleep and too many interrupted sleeps at night, even panadol can't help.

yeah...what on earth am i doing now? still blogging??!!! am at in law's place now...both boys are sleeping, jem is installing something or surfing net in joyce's room. so....i have a lot of free time now :D...tahan a bit more of headache (oh well, is already whole day, might as well) and do some updating.

was reading this 'building up moms' from the mother of 6's blog again. she mentioned about 'discontentment'...the first thing i thought is the iphone. i'm still reading the hardwarezone forum about how people got their iphone from usa to singapore..i'm to a point when i'm about to do it...i told jem i'm struggling to want it :P, even told my mom to get it when they're going to usa for holiday. but of course, i always have this question at the back of my mind. so what if i got it finally? will i be very very happy and contented? (nah!!! maybe for a while???) or the reason why i wanted it so badly is because i just want something! uhmm...yes...though my current nokia serves me well, i simply just want something. coz most people say iphone nice nice nice, i also want :). if the 2nd, 3rd generation iphone comes out and everybody swears that it's definitely much better...would i want it? oh SURE!!!! maybe i'll try to sell it online and buy new one again :P technology! really a love and hate thing. love coz the performance gets better, hate it coz the one we own get outdated and its value drop very fast. so what happen now? having read and convicted by the word of God...

the blog i read gave this verse...Phillipians 4:12b, “I have learnt the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.”

having read that, i must admit i still want it...but i guess i should stop reading from hardwarezone now.
but how about my mom side? told her to get for me right? well...honestly??? if she can find one, i'll be happy, but if she can't, i'm happy too.

if you think by being a SAHM, you tend to be more prudent because we're living in a single income family...then that's probably doesn't apply to me :P most of the time, when i buy things, i don't look at the price tag (*depending on which shop i go to, e.g. iora, pepperplus, if those obviously very ex shop like mango, then of course i won't buy lah). that's simply because i give myself many reasons...i have my boys who has very short attention span shopping with me, i have limited time, limited chance to go out, i don't have the time in the world to search for good deals, i can't go shop to shop just to find out which is cheaper. so whenever i find something i like, i'll just pay and go! i visit the singapore motherhood forum bulk purchase thread....though buy in bulk, but certain things ain't cheap. i ordered many things there....which jem feels is useless, unnecessary and probably won't pay that much money for that items. and you know what, he's right :D. so those things i bought, i actually try to use it everyday, just to make myself feel better :P hehe...

ok...the end...i don't know how to end this entry....so the end.

***oh oh...anyway....after i posted this entry...went to ask jem about whether can get iphone even my mom can find it in usa...his answer is no.
so everybodaaaai....am glad to tell you that i'm not getting iphone liao...suddenly not feeling that miserable :D. **