home sweet home

so glad to be home....you really appreciate malaysia especially for its weather! we are a land flowing with milk and honey...we are sooooo priviledge, taking for granted clean water & electricity...manila is still strugling in the dark when i left...

anyway...soo happiiieee to be home..will post pictures later...got tones to clear at the office...

my girls missed me soooo much...they were hugging me for so long...it's a real touchy moment...almost cried...was my sis bird-day yesterday...so went to her house straight from the airport...if there were not so many people around...sure cry already. erika kept saying...'mommy i forgot how you look like...i miss you soooo much, don't go away'...like she was so afraid to lose me.

ellisa put on so much weight but po po lost some! po po says she drank milk 2 hourly...and of cos...poo poo a lot! po po was so glad mommy is back...hahahha...she can get back her beauty sleep.

typhoon!!!

got a call this morning at 7a.m. telling me my big meeting was cancelled today due to the typhoon...this only happened like 2 times in 15 years (lucky or what???)...since most of the delegates are staying in the hotel, we still can have the meeting without all the "canggih" equipment la (like barcode scanners)...but nevermind loh...gotta make-do how??...now frantically arranging for the meeting to be held in my hotel instead of the important office we were suppose to hold it...when entering the important office...gotta be frisk and scan...and ID check (must remember to bring passport!!)...actually everywhere in manila... i get frisked and my bags get checked that it has almost become second nature to unzip bag...and lift up both hands! not just at the airport.

anyway...they say all this will blow over by today....fingers crossed!!

miss u girls...hopefully it will not drag on...i wanna go home on time...

away from my angels

see how addicted i am to this blogging...so far away and got so many meetings but still sneak in some time to blog...am i crazy "sot jor" or what?

anyway...1st day here in manila...nothing special la...not bad for our national carrier...was on time...in fact was 15 min early...woohoo! good or what...but i miss my angels from the time i left my home...hopefully the flight home would be early too! see la...just arrive thinking of going home.

when i was packing for manila...erika suddenly asked me..."mommy why are you bringing diapers?"...that was quite funny and the truth is i was so relief to bring those "diapers"...no there were no accidents of any sorts...i made sure of that...the reason was i didn't need those adult diapers as my body didn't ovulate for exactly 1 year and 2 months after ellisa was born...it's not that i am looking forward to it...it was great not having it (you know la...how messy it can get) all i can say is i am now an ovulating woman...so gotta be more cautious than ever!! daddy if you are reading...get the message!

chit chat

ellisa & erika has an "illegitimate" god-mama and for some reason i can't chat with her online due to her office no-online chatting policy...of cos there are other options available...they can't really stop us from chatting...can they?

her company has blocked all access to social web networks and online chat rooms, armed with heavy-duty office policies, manuals, hardware and software programs to cut out from this "interactive" activity...or stern disciplinary action will be taken ??...you scared or not???? msn, yahoo, icq, etc...all xxx-listed or x-ted!

however, due to some strange circumstances, she is allowed to continue chatting on the phone...and mind you...they are well informed that all conversation is recorded...i wonder who is sooo free this days to sit down & shake legs and just listen to our yakity-yak...of cos illegitimate god-mama will take the opportunity to happily obliged and entertain the eavesdropper with all the juicy gossips and profanities...just to make their day!

i guess the moral of the story is ~ use your mouth not your fingers to do the talking. in fact fingering is considered obscene and rude! hahahaha!

wonder what they say about sign language then?

playing school

pretend play is one of erika's most favourite game...she will pretend to be a mommy, a teacher, a princess and even as a daddy on somedays...so i will play along with her and when i do, she always wants to be teacher...coz she love the power of "telling" or "commanding" me to do her will!

some of the conversation in the play goes like this:

scene 1
e: good morning children
me: good morning aunty xx
e: children..(louder) children...listen to me...today we are doing spelling test (evil laugh)...hahahah
me: ok
e: open your book....spell "spin"
me: s...p...i...n (pretend writing onto book)
and erika continue drilling and bombarding me with words!

scene 2
e: ok children story time...today i have a nice story book...look at the cover...very nice and colourful pictures right?
me: (looking at the tv show and half-heartedly answer) yes teacher
e: (shout at me) look here (point finger to her book)...(then she point her finger at the door) did i ask you to look there?
me: no
e: (point her finger at the tv and stern voice) did i ask you to look there?
me: (meekly answer) no (OMG!!...this is sooo teruk la...is her teachers like this or am i getting a teacher from hell??)
e: look here...hands on your lap...be quiet...are you ready children? i won't start if you are not ready
me: (sit crossed leg, hands on lap)
e: (look at me...happy...then she start) i will read the whole story and when i finish then only you can ask me questions...understand? put up your hands when you have any questions. (looking at you in the eye) only after i finish
me: okaaay (got the message!)
e: (starts telling the story...and pointing to pictures like a professional...)

scene 3 ~ imaginery play with imaginery students (mommy tired of being harrased by a power-crazy screaming teacher)
e: (both hands on the waist) children...i am so dissapointed with you...didn't i tell you that u cannot blah blah ...i am soooo dissapointed...

scene 4
e: give me the pen...my one got no ink...cannot write.
me: no erika...i need to use it
e: i am the teacher...you are supposed to be scared of me..mumm...
me: are you scared of your teacher?
e: yes la
me: no la...i see you talk to them a lot and you speak so loudly some more (hahah)
e: NOOOO.....nautiiiiiii mommy....don't laugh at me...you promised
me: i promised what?
e: not to laugh at people (sulked)
me: ok...sorry darling

payday

well it's not actually payday yet...but since i am the one-leg-kick here...only 2 staff in my office...me and the other person i report to...so i get to do everything (lucky me or wat??) even licking the stamps, ordering water to more glamourous work like events manager (the good part is get to travel a bit la...and to countries that are not in my-to-go list! sad~so you can imagine the "exotic" places i visit!), project work (research? more like search the net like crazzzy, copy, paste and edit ...hahhaha), public relations (chit-chatting and rub shoulders with the partners of big firms, too bad when they are in this position, already old lioa...not much oogling work here!) to the mundane - editorial (copy and paste work again la) and accounting (1+1 = 3 synergy mah!).

the good part is i get to write my own cheques every month...unfortunately...i can't add more numbers...or else kena gantung kerja...or worse...so today is the day i wrote my cheques...this month i have to do the cheques early (not complaining at all) as the office will be close for the whole of next week....all the staff (wah like so terror-menearor- actually just 2 only) will be in having meetings in manila...so no blogging until october 2nd.

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squeezed out!

when we first got married, we had a king size bed...even then mommy managed to snuggle into daddy's space and squeeze him out of the bed! so when erika came along, we said she will sleep in the cot...but somehow...it was too tiring moving her from the cot...feeding her...putting her back...that she end up sleeping in the middle of our bed and she spread out like a STAR...so we were left to our tiny little side and clucthing onto the bed for our dear lives. (we were also afraid that we squashed her while she happily kicked and pushed for more space!)

so when ellisa came along, daddy said...we are gonna sleep better...we took out our king size bed, moved it to erika's room, bought a queen and super single and another single bed...that makes out to be about 11 and 1/2 feet of mattress space (wall to wall) for all 4 of us...good idea right?

erika turn out to be just like mommy...insisting that daddy hugs her to sleep...so when she's asleep...daddy moved to the single bed to have a peaceful sleep...then erika feel, feel, feel...no warm body...wakes up in search of daddy..found him...squeeze into his single bed...daddy suddenly feels cramped...then quietly move back to the queen...that's when he realised mommy has taken half the queen and baby ellisa is occupying the super single all by herself (also like a star)...nevermind, still got half the queen...happy to go back to dreamland...opps...something heavy just dropped on him again...aiyoo this erika is back on him! now he has only half a queen for him & erika...he gives up...this cat and mouse game!

no wonder daddy says he wakes up so refreshed in hotels when on trips!