different ways of sleeping

All my boys are sleeping now. Ian came out of the room and wanted me to baobao him sleep. I was enjoying a cup of coffee with an apple crumble bought from amk. After baobao him a while, i put him down to sleep on sofa. Then he woke up and slept this way.

looking at him, my dear ian, my 1st born. He's 4 years old now. We just celebrated his birthday yesterday. He's very happy. Will post u video when we sang him birthday song. pardon my ugly voice ok. am reluctant to post the clip up because of my voice but i like this clip...it's funny.

art time

Good night. Going to sleep now.

posting entry from my hp now. let me try adding photos ok. oooo....it works. took this photo today

you know the movie 'lightning mcqueen'? it's abt a proud rookie race car got himself lost in an old town, and there he learnt to care for others than being selfish. i watched this countless times after my bro bought the dvd for my boys. they love it so much till they watch it almost everyday back in sengkang days. and we stopped for almost a year when we moved to in laws' place during the selling and buying flat period.

now we started to watch again. yeah...all dvds are out of the boxes. nathan likes it so much that he can watch 2-3 times a day. this is one movie that i never got tired of it. there's certain part of the show still makes me 'wow'....esp guido's (a mini forklift) 'pit stop' scene and the touching scene where lightning mcqueen pushed the badly damaged race car to the finishing line.

i don't mind letting my boys watch this countless time, feel that it's educational...teach people to be selfless....and i like one of the songs in this movie...titled "find yourself". haha, actually i like the music first...then i checked out the lyrics...and find that i can identify with it...which makes me like this song even more....






sigh...it's 12:03am now...my boys slept early tonight coz they didn't nap in the afternoon. i thought i have a lot of time 'me' time finally. jem is doing charity work (playing mj) with family at their home. but after doing all the hanging, folding, sorting clothes and filing, it's 11ish...serve me right...keep procrastinating, didn't do filing for abt a year coz all the files are in storage place, the documents are all over the place. i spent the whole afternoon and night just to sort them out and file them accordingly.

been busy since moved in. washing dishes, laundry seem to be endless. but am thankful that i don't have to cook dinner at this moment, always look forward to ah po's cooking after a long day. i cooked a few times only...i prepare only breakfast and sometimes lunch for the boys. i started to use my oven already. got ian to help out a bit. we made

mini cupcakes - failed, too dry and not sweet, ian said not nice as not sweet, father in law ate one and ended up drink whole cup of water

carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting - this time the cupcake size is bigger, i literally begged ian to eat it but he refused. kept saying he will only eat when he grows up and bake one himself and will add a lot of sugar in it. then when his favourite neighbor eats the cupcake, he asked to eat and said very nice...ngiao! i begged, he refused. but when she ate, he wanted to eat all the sudden. ah po said not bad just not cooked enough...will taste better if bake longer. jem said not bad too.

bread and butter pudding - recipe suggested adding strawberry flavored yogurt, i don't have, i added aloe vera yogurt. ended up....i have to eat most of it...my boys ate tiny bit, my man never touch it.

too adventurous yeah? just moved in and start baking? as though i'm not busy enough? i am. tired and busy. but there was once i thought about this when staying at in laws' place. since 2005, i hardly go out, and there're many things i wanted to do but i couldn't as i have baby/kids to take care. there's always this 'one day'...when my boys are big enough, then i'll get it/do it. i don't want to wait anymore....i told myself, if i can do now, whether my boys is around, if i think it can be achieved, i'll do it. at this moment, please don't think as though i have big dreams to achieve, i'm just saying daily stuff.

taking baking for example: i want to make some desserts. i'll prepare ingredients at night while boys are sleeping and do it when the boys are around rather than waiting for the chance when all 3 sleeping at the same time.

if i want to meet friend for lunch - if i can go alone, that would be the best. if not, i'll bring all 3 along. my in laws worried that i cannot manage 3. yeah...i wondered whether i can too...but i think i'm in a desperate stage already :P. i brought all 3 out to clinic, to buy food, all are short trips. can i manage? i can only say one step at a time.

of course, there's always a price to pay for being 'desperate'...that is lack of rest. whenever my body cannot take it anymore, i'll have bad migraine and that's enough to stop me from doing anything (i couldn't). just had migraine couple nights ago. thankful for my hubby and in laws to help take care of the boys.

so the topic 'want to have maid'? brought up again. my answer is....


still the same....

quick one.

stay in new home day 8. cooked 1st simple meal for the boys. the whole morning was rush rush rush. i decided to cook brunch last min so called ah po no need to cook. and think i didn't cook for too long...underestimated time needed to thaw minced pork, and ended up cooking it while rock hard (no time no time). 2 older ones keep wanting to see how i cook, stood quite close to stove, my mouth busy telling them to back off! then jon kept crying wanted to be carried. one hand carry baby, another hand hold chopstick, mouth kept warning, then trying to flip that frozen minced pork and trying to avoid that dancing oil at the same time. my reward of this adventurous cooking is ian likes it. can't believe it, coz i tried the noodle myself, not nice...sauces i mixed taste weird but he finished the whole bowl of dry noodle with fried minced pork. don't mind cleaning oil splattered stove, top and cabinets...at least my effort paid off.

my next plan is to make cupcake. got recipe from my sis, and wanna try out my new oven. still planning...maybe next week when ian has no school.

can't believe it, we moved in to new home finally. looking back from the day when we started to look for an agent to sell our home last dec, sold our sk home in feb, bought a resale in april, got our key in jul, started reno in aug. i can't help to thank God for His perfect timing.

now the resale cov is back, i thanked God that we don't have to pay any cov during that down time...the low or no cov days were between apr - jun (if i read correctly), that saves us a lot of money. thank God for good agents and....not so good one...let me share with you why.

before we started to get an agent to help us looking for flat, my mom in law and i been visiting other flats with different agents, one of them was quite pushy and i really don't quite like him. the rest of the agents don't really follow up whether you still interested in the unit after the viewing, even if they do, they ask politely and not pushy abt it. but this particular one, after meeting him, i told myself i wouldn't want to deal with this kind of agent again. i actually put the word 'blacklisted' beside his name in my phone contact list.....so if he calls, i can decide whether to pick up his call :P.

then after viewing many flats and made offers on some flats and got rejected...by then am already getting a bit disappointed and desperate, keep asking God when when when. then this blacklisted agent called me one day, he said that he remember my in laws stay in this block and he got one selling unit in the same block. straight away i told him i got my own agent and will get mine to liaise with him (don't want to deal directly with him). so in the end, ironic right...the one i don't like was the one who found us a home. the unit was not even advertised in the newspaper yet.

during reno days, one of my id's sub contractor told us his friend wanted to buy this unit but we got it 1st, and they said it's a very good deal...their parents are staying in the same block. i was like.....hennngggg, if my in laws didn't step in to advise us to buy this unit and the peace we both got after viewing it, we could have miss it. today we view, we made the offer the next day (if i remember correctly).

i like my new home a lot. been busy after moving in...still adjusting taking care of 3 kids alone at home...been going to in laws' place for lunch and dinner. our pantry still quite empty, will slowly fill up more food in pantry and fridge and will try to cook 2-3 days a week (uhmm..jem loves his grandparents cooking, so

need to stop now. very tired...dozed off many times while updating this