1. My blog
If you have noticed, I have made some changes to my blog recently. Giving it a new face-lift, like doing make-over like that...haha. Yeah, new look for the new year!
2. Photos
I had taken quite alot of pics this month but all's in my camera still and I didnt bring along my cable so cant do any transferring of images now. I had also some nice family shoots taken from all the birthday celebrations, all thanks to the new tripod set we got couple of weeks ago. It has proven to be very useful indeed. And guess how much I got it? Less than 25bucks! Okay okay, wont keep you waiting, I promise I will do the uploading as quickly as I can when I get back to Spore yah :)
3. Break from Work
Oh yeah, I had my litte break from work from 20th Dec onwards. Yes, it was my last working day for Year 2006 :) How nice if this moment can be eternal....well, you know what I mean. Its like when you are working, you hope you wont but when you are not, you hope you will. The grass on the other end is always greener. That's the problem with human beings. Never gets contend easily with what they have....sigh!
4. Mothering
I had my own taste of motherhood "full-time" during my little break. It is a usual practice I adopted since having Trenyce around. I will normally clear my annual leaves during year-end for PILs to return their hometown to rest. As I told my colleagues: "I clear leave for my PILs to clear leave". :p I appreciate their help to babysit my gal when we are working. I have to admit taking care of this 2year old is no easy job. As what people always say "Terrible Two", I blew my top a few times while trying to discipline her. It is really getting on my nerves but with some experience the last time PILs went to China, I am better at handling her. I just let her cried when she cried to get the things she wanted which I forbidded her to. Though there is alot of cryings and scoldings, our relationship grows. Yes, amazing, isnt it? I can feel she is more attached to me nowadays.
Two recent incidents really warmed my heart. I feel really consolated when one of the nights MIL asked Trenyce whether she wanted to sleep with her or mummy. She chose mummy! I thought she probably would chose her beloved ah ma since she had not slept with her for a while already and probably would miss her but she didnt. Its a little childish, I admit :p But wouldnt all mothers feel the same when their kids whom they spent lesser time with as compared to their full-time care-takers, preferred them or their companion? Another ocassion is when Trenyce was lying on the sofa taking her last feed before her sleep, she wouldnt let anyone to occupy the sofa. When I return from the kitchen and asked her if I could sit down, she actually agreed! Hehe :p
5. Milk Bottle Problem
I have been hoping to get rid of Trenyce's habit of drinking from milk bottle. She has been biting the teats until the hole gets so big that I need to change it about once every 2 months and she hasnt known how to drink from a cup even! Yeah, sometimes we will have this little problem when you are not the one taking of your child full-time. You cant follow your "grooming schedule" for your child. It usually will take longer for your initiatives to be implemented. I probably will not be able to do within this year (that is like 3days away to Year2007). I hope I can achieve this by 1st Qtr next year (sounds like some big company doing some financial projections eh?). From my observations, Trenyce doesnt really like to drink from bottle nowdays, in fact, she drank faster with the water bottles (those with straw). I am not sure if there's a sign...hmmm
6. Others
Well, with Year 2006 leaving soon. Time for me to set my resolutions for Year 2007. I will leave this for 31st Dec 2006 entry. That will be more interesting, right? What do you have for the new year? Anything you have been contemplating to achieve but yet achieve? Needless to say, I have quite abundant of those. Not again...
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Reaching Labis finally...
Hooray!!! I am finally able to access the blogger!
Yeah, at the time I am writing this entry, I am writing from Labis, Johore. Its a small town stranded between Cheah and Segamat. Does Segamat sounds familar to you? If you have been following the news, yes this is one of the towns in Johore having very severe floods. Even my PILs who wanted to come back here on 21st Dec have problems coming back as the rail service had been terminated and the buses simply couldnt cross over due to the floods. So you can imagine how bad the situation is. They had to make their way back to Singapore and only able to come back the next day after they called up the bus company confirming that there are buses. We also almost couldnt make it here as well as some areas of Yong Peng were still having floods then. It was only passable recently. Plus Spore was also pouring heavily at the time we are setting off. We were quite hestitated at first but knowing our character, we wouldnt give up something we have already planned for, so we decided to set off anyway..
So yes, we are here finally. But it has been pouring on-off that we have to cancel our trip back to Sitiawan which is meant to celebrate hubby's maternal grandmother 80th birthday! ;'( FIL is worried that we will get stuck in the floods and couldnt get back to Singapore on time to return work so for safety reasons, we better stay put. I hope grandma wouldnt be too upset about it...
Anywayz, thanks to the flood. We cant go anywhere. Malacca was affected by the flood so we cant go there for the famous chicken rice or shopping at the Jusco. Tungkat was affected too so we cant go there for the famous beef noodles. Segamat, which was our main source of entertainment was also out...
If you wonder what we have been doing here on this small town for the past 3 days....
Day 1:
Driving around the small town. Part of Labis was also caught in the flood. So we drove around and kaypoh-ing to see how bad the flood was and whether they have cleared up the debris.
Day 2:
This is the only adventure we had so far. We drove to Segamat and visit PIL's friend. Her house was flooded (heard its about 5ft tall)so now she's busy clearing the debris. We also drove around Segamat to witness the "after-flood" situation. It was like a war-torn area.
We bought a mini-pool for Trenyce sometime back at Jusco, so we had some nice time playing water with her.
Day 3:
We stayed at home the whole day. I suppose Trenyce enjoyed the most today. She had some painting time with hubby in the morning then after lunch, we played water with her again at the mini-pool. This time round more exciting as MIL bought her a water gun hehe. Then in the mid-afternoon, Trenyce seems to get a bit bored cos she cant go out and play (It was drizzling outside) so Hubby brought her to a nearby aquarium shop to entertain her.
I suppose Trenyce enjoyed the most from this trip with the "exciting programs" in line for her: doing painting, swimming/playing with water, chasing the birds and getting lotsa of RM$1.00, RM$1.70 or RM$1.90 toys kekeke :p
Yeah, at the time I am writing this entry, I am writing from Labis, Johore. Its a small town stranded between Cheah and Segamat. Does Segamat sounds familar to you? If you have been following the news, yes this is one of the towns in Johore having very severe floods. Even my PILs who wanted to come back here on 21st Dec have problems coming back as the rail service had been terminated and the buses simply couldnt cross over due to the floods. So you can imagine how bad the situation is. They had to make their way back to Singapore and only able to come back the next day after they called up the bus company confirming that there are buses. We also almost couldnt make it here as well as some areas of Yong Peng were still having floods then. It was only passable recently. Plus Spore was also pouring heavily at the time we are setting off. We were quite hestitated at first but knowing our character, we wouldnt give up something we have already planned for, so we decided to set off anyway..
So yes, we are here finally. But it has been pouring on-off that we have to cancel our trip back to Sitiawan which is meant to celebrate hubby's maternal grandmother 80th birthday! ;'( FIL is worried that we will get stuck in the floods and couldnt get back to Singapore on time to return work so for safety reasons, we better stay put. I hope grandma wouldnt be too upset about it...
Anywayz, thanks to the flood. We cant go anywhere. Malacca was affected by the flood so we cant go there for the famous chicken rice or shopping at the Jusco. Tungkat was affected too so we cant go there for the famous beef noodles. Segamat, which was our main source of entertainment was also out...
If you wonder what we have been doing here on this small town for the past 3 days....
Day 1:
Driving around the small town. Part of Labis was also caught in the flood. So we drove around and kaypoh-ing to see how bad the flood was and whether they have cleared up the debris.
Day 2:
This is the only adventure we had so far. We drove to Segamat and visit PIL's friend. Her house was flooded (heard its about 5ft tall)so now she's busy clearing the debris. We also drove around Segamat to witness the "after-flood" situation. It was like a war-torn area.
We bought a mini-pool for Trenyce sometime back at Jusco, so we had some nice time playing water with her.
Day 3:
We stayed at home the whole day. I suppose Trenyce enjoyed the most today. She had some painting time with hubby in the morning then after lunch, we played water with her again at the mini-pool. This time round more exciting as MIL bought her a water gun hehe. Then in the mid-afternoon, Trenyce seems to get a bit bored cos she cant go out and play (It was drizzling outside) so Hubby brought her to a nearby aquarium shop to entertain her.
I suppose Trenyce enjoyed the most from this trip with the "exciting programs" in line for her: doing painting, swimming/playing with water, chasing the birds and getting lotsa of RM$1.00, RM$1.70 or RM$1.90 toys kekeke :p
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Busy December
December is a busy month for me. I have 4 brithdays in the family starting from my mother, hubby, MIL and hubby's maternal grandmother. We will be going Sitiwan to attend her 80th birthday end of the month. Its always a hush-hush trip whenever we go back, hope that I will be able to drop by Pangkor Island this time at least ;p
Then it is also the auspicious wedding periods, receiving red bombs one after another. I just came back from one. It was a polymate's wedding. He had 60 tables! We were thinking that he probably couldnt make it to all tables for the photo-taking but he managed to do so for all tables! :D The funny thing is, I have attended weddings at this same hotel for the 3rd time this year. I think I have almost 'visited' all their banquet halls already..hehehe Its nice to see some old frens, some of whom I probably didnt see them like after graduation? So its like 7-8years already? Quite coincidentally, we are all seated according to our marital status - one half of the table are the married ones and the half the singles :p
And finally its my favourite of all - CHRISTMAS! For this, I will be busy shopping presents for my family and some good friends. I enjoyed doing that most =) It is always a challenge for me to decide on the 'best' gift for the person I am going to give the present to. Well, I suppose this is also the time to see how much you really understand the person to know what the person really needs or likes. And if you dont, maybe its time for you to do some reflection....
Then it is also the auspicious wedding periods, receiving red bombs one after another. I just came back from one. It was a polymate's wedding. He had 60 tables! We were thinking that he probably couldnt make it to all tables for the photo-taking but he managed to do so for all tables! :D The funny thing is, I have attended weddings at this same hotel for the 3rd time this year. I think I have almost 'visited' all their banquet halls already..hehehe Its nice to see some old frens, some of whom I probably didnt see them like after graduation? So its like 7-8years already? Quite coincidentally, we are all seated according to our marital status - one half of the table are the married ones and the half the singles :p
And finally its my favourite of all - CHRISTMAS! For this, I will be busy shopping presents for my family and some good friends. I enjoyed doing that most =) It is always a challenge for me to decide on the 'best' gift for the person I am going to give the present to. Well, I suppose this is also the time to see how much you really understand the person to know what the person really needs or likes. And if you dont, maybe its time for you to do some reflection....
Kiddy Post-Sickness Week
I am most scared of what I called the Kiddy post-sickness period. It is always difficult to take care of Trenyce after she recovered from her illiness. As per past experience, she will become incredibly grouchy and fussy. Generally, I believe all parents will be more tolerating when the kids are unwell and gave in to all their demands irregardless. Therefore, its easy for them to pick up some bad habits along the way and thats what I dread most. It will usually take a while for them to revert to old self again. So its not surprise I lose my cool with her over the weekend.
Firstly, she refused to take her usual napnap and became very grouchy whenever she couldnt do what she wants to do and cried at the slightest thing that she is unhappy about. That was an incident that were rather amusing. Not between me and her but her with hubby. Both of them were seated nicely at the daybed watching Playhouse Disney then hubby suddenly remembered that Channel U was airing Golden Horse Award and switched over to that channel. Well, this is a bad habit of hubby's, always switching betw channels when he is watching TV. I suppose he overlooked the fact that its his little princess watching with him and its not gona be easy for him to get his way loh. So the moment her favourite cartoon characters disappeared from the screen, she started crying and making noises. A somewhat similar incident happened the next day. As Trenyce watched mostly Playhouse disney, I supposed she wasnt awared of this thing called advertisement. This time both Trenyce and hubby were watching some cartoons on Channel 5 and then some advertisements came. She started crying, with some experience watching tv with hubby she had misunderstood hubby thinking that he had switched the channels again, and so was mad with him and slapped hubby's laps as she cried! haha....
2ndly, she refused to cooperate with me to take her meals. When I was feeding her noodles or rice (either for lunch/dinner), she would take a mouthful or two and puked the following feeds out causing a mess everywhere.
3rdly, she woke up crying from her nap (at times I managed to make her sleep), making a big fuss. She will ly on the floor and cry. I also realise that she now knows how to throw temper. She will ly on the floor, with her head hid betw her crossed arms. I wonder where she picked this from????
Anyways, thank goodness the week is over. Sososo stressed!!! I dun like to beat her (her hands only) and I dun like to scold her as I believe this will deteriorate our relationship. I dun want to create fear in her otherwise, she will keep herself from me in future. In fact, most of the times I tried not to and used reasoning with her as I believe she picked up beating people from us - from the misleading interpretations "I will hit you when you are naughty".
Firstly, she refused to take her usual napnap and became very grouchy whenever she couldnt do what she wants to do and cried at the slightest thing that she is unhappy about. That was an incident that were rather amusing. Not between me and her but her with hubby. Both of them were seated nicely at the daybed watching Playhouse Disney then hubby suddenly remembered that Channel U was airing Golden Horse Award and switched over to that channel. Well, this is a bad habit of hubby's, always switching betw channels when he is watching TV. I suppose he overlooked the fact that its his little princess watching with him and its not gona be easy for him to get his way loh. So the moment her favourite cartoon characters disappeared from the screen, she started crying and making noises. A somewhat similar incident happened the next day. As Trenyce watched mostly Playhouse disney, I supposed she wasnt awared of this thing called advertisement. This time both Trenyce and hubby were watching some cartoons on Channel 5 and then some advertisements came. She started crying, with some experience watching tv with hubby she had misunderstood hubby thinking that he had switched the channels again, and so was mad with him and slapped hubby's laps as she cried! haha....
2ndly, she refused to cooperate with me to take her meals. When I was feeding her noodles or rice (either for lunch/dinner), she would take a mouthful or two and puked the following feeds out causing a mess everywhere.
3rdly, she woke up crying from her nap (at times I managed to make her sleep), making a big fuss. She will ly on the floor and cry. I also realise that she now knows how to throw temper. She will ly on the floor, with her head hid betw her crossed arms. I wonder where she picked this from????
Anyways, thank goodness the week is over. Sososo stressed!!! I dun like to beat her (her hands only) and I dun like to scold her as I believe this will deteriorate our relationship. I dun want to create fear in her otherwise, she will keep herself from me in future. In fact, most of the times I tried not to and used reasoning with her as I believe she picked up beating people from us - from the misleading interpretations "I will hit you when you are naughty".
Friday, December 08, 2006
Vote for my gal, pls!
Hi earthies, pls vote for my gal at Mumcentre if you see this post. Pleasssssssssssssseee. Thank you very much! :D
I was surfing the internet on one of my sleepless nights and chanced upon this website – Mumcentre They have this photo competition which you could win a $20 gift voucher AND possibly a family trip to Hong Kong Disneyland! Wow, this is attempting man! It is always my dream to bring Trencye there one day. Just hope Lady Lucky would favor me this time round hehe :p
I was surfing the internet on one of my sleepless nights and chanced upon this website – Mumcentre They have this photo competition which you could win a $20 gift voucher AND possibly a family trip to Hong Kong Disneyland! Wow, this is attempting man! It is always my dream to bring Trencye there one day. Just hope Lady Lucky would favor me this time round hehe :p
Satay Yes? Satay No?
We made a blunder.
FIL saw some ulcers at the back of Trenyce’s tongue while cleaning her yesterday and quickly brought her to a doctor. The doctor confirmed that she has tonsillitis. Quoted from Babycentre: It means that the bumpy tissue on either side of his throat at the back of his tongue is infected; a virus or bacteria can be responsible.
Seems like Satay is the culprit afterall. Sigh!
FIL saw some ulcers at the back of Trenyce’s tongue while cleaning her yesterday and quickly brought her to a doctor. The doctor confirmed that she has tonsillitis. Quoted from Babycentre: It means that the bumpy tissue on either side of his throat at the back of his tongue is infected; a virus or bacteria can be responsible.
Seems like Satay is the culprit afterall. Sigh!
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Satay, Fever and Teething
Poor little girl is suffering from teething! The molar has finally invaded her once calm and peacful gum-land!
She started by having a mild fever on sunday afternoon....quite an odd timing cos usually when she is having fever right, it will come around the evening time about 6 plus onwards. Thats why I couldnt quite believe hubby when he told me about it. He was the one who discovered her forehead was feverish.
Well, we didnt expect that her fever was due to teething at first as she has had a "heaty base" as what MIL always say due to DNA from FIL's side, so we hought she could be heaty again. Satay then was the most obvious culprit as that was the only heaty food she had consumed recently, in fact it was just about 2 days ago at my mother's place. I dont quite agree with hubby that satay was the culprit loh becos its quite unlikely that the little satay could be so mighty and result in heatiness wihtin 2 days? I really doubt so. But then there was no other evidence to prove that she had consumed other heaty food. Well, never mind...I know the satay is innocent....
The fever persisted for 3 days. During these 3 days, I was on standby mode. I would wake up about 3 times in the middle of the night to monitor her fever so as to sponge her if necessary. (I really worried whenever she has a fever and couldnt sleep well.) The nights passed by peacfully, no fever spotted. Thank goodness! (but quite unusual loh.)
PIL monitored her condition during the daytme but no fever came until late evening about the time when hubby and myself returned from work (the usual 6plus timing). We gave her the panadol drop before she sleep and gave her short sleeve tees to wear so that she will be more "cooling". It was only until the 3rd day, which was yesterday, then FIL announced that he suspected Trenyce was teething. We pondered for a while and realised that he could be right! The few pointers:
- She keeps on pointing a specific area of her gum and complains to us "pain pain"
- She refuses to take any "hard" food including her favourite drumstick
- She doesnt want to join us at the dinning table during dinnertime and seems to lose interest in eating
- She doesnt even want to finish her milk by herself (using milk bottle) and we have to spoon feed her
- She is more fussy and grouchy
- She cries at the slightest things that irritate her
- She loves the cool jelly I made for her
- She doesnt complain pain pain anymore when we apply the cool teething gel
- She has really BAD bad breathe (this I cant really confirm its due to teething, I am going to brew more herbal tea for her. Hopefully it helps. cross my fingers!)
See, I told you the satay is innocent :)
She started by having a mild fever on sunday afternoon....quite an odd timing cos usually when she is having fever right, it will come around the evening time about 6 plus onwards. Thats why I couldnt quite believe hubby when he told me about it. He was the one who discovered her forehead was feverish.
Well, we didnt expect that her fever was due to teething at first as she has had a "heaty base" as what MIL always say due to DNA from FIL's side, so we hought she could be heaty again. Satay then was the most obvious culprit as that was the only heaty food she had consumed recently, in fact it was just about 2 days ago at my mother's place. I dont quite agree with hubby that satay was the culprit loh becos its quite unlikely that the little satay could be so mighty and result in heatiness wihtin 2 days? I really doubt so. But then there was no other evidence to prove that she had consumed other heaty food. Well, never mind...I know the satay is innocent....
The fever persisted for 3 days. During these 3 days, I was on standby mode. I would wake up about 3 times in the middle of the night to monitor her fever so as to sponge her if necessary. (I really worried whenever she has a fever and couldnt sleep well.) The nights passed by peacfully, no fever spotted. Thank goodness! (but quite unusual loh.)
PIL monitored her condition during the daytme but no fever came until late evening about the time when hubby and myself returned from work (the usual 6plus timing). We gave her the panadol drop before she sleep and gave her short sleeve tees to wear so that she will be more "cooling". It was only until the 3rd day, which was yesterday, then FIL announced that he suspected Trenyce was teething. We pondered for a while and realised that he could be right! The few pointers:
- She keeps on pointing a specific area of her gum and complains to us "pain pain"
- She refuses to take any "hard" food including her favourite drumstick
- She doesnt want to join us at the dinning table during dinnertime and seems to lose interest in eating
- She doesnt even want to finish her milk by herself (using milk bottle) and we have to spoon feed her
- She is more fussy and grouchy
- She cries at the slightest things that irritate her
- She loves the cool jelly I made for her
- She doesnt complain pain pain anymore when we apply the cool teething gel
- She has really BAD bad breathe (this I cant really confirm its due to teething, I am going to brew more herbal tea for her. Hopefully it helps. cross my fingers!)
See, I told you the satay is innocent :)
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Post-dated Post 2: 29th Nov 2006
Monetising my blog?
Recently, I have been to several mothering blogs talking about monetized their blogs. In fact, some of them had started doing that and earning US$ already. To be honest, I am really tempted to do that for my blog too. I have been thinking of ways to earn some small bucks so that when I eventually exit the working society in a couple of years time to be a full time SAHM, I still have some income. Just to earn some pocket money for myself lah. However, I am contemplating whether to monetized my blog as
Reason#1: I am not a frequent blogger. I probably blog thrice a week the most. Part of the excuse is becos my job requires me to face the computer for the entire day so I don’t really switch on my pc at home unless… I have insomnia that night.
Reason#2: I only blog when I have something interesting happening in my life which I like to share about (I suppose most bloggers started for the same reason but I am still at this infant stage loh) otherwise I could be missing for a couple of weeks. Did you watch “I do I do” by Jack Neo, if you do right – they were talking about “feeeeling” for love, whereas I am talking about “feeeeling” for blogging. Sometimes, you just need to have that feeling to be able to sit down and pen down your thoughts and that’s me.
Reason#3: For health reasons. My blogging time is usually past midnight as that’s when my girl and hubby are asleep. I tried to spend as much time with them when I came back from work and only have my personal time after they have slept. The problem is the moment I am hooked to the pc, I could be at the pc for hours and ended sleeping less than 5 hours when I have to work the next day. This is bad as I will be a walking zombie for the rest of the day and needs to rely on coffee to perk me up.
Reason#4: I am not a fantastic writer. I preferred to use singlish as my writing style. That way, I feel more “natural” as I poured my feelings and thoughts on my blog. Well, I only get a B3 for English for my ‘O’ levels :p
But then again, Reason#1 and #2 could be resolved by monetized my blog. It would ‘force’ me to blog more often and gave me ideas on what to write. As for #4, well, practice makes perfect as I will be ‘forced’ to write more frequent. The only headache is #3, surely get scolded by hubby for always staying late….hmmm…am considering to get a new handphone cos the current one is not working well (used for 4yrs already leh), if I get a smart phone or pda phone, that would solve my problem right? :p
Papa (aka hubby), may I have one for my Christmas present, pls? hehe:p
Recently, I have been to several mothering blogs talking about monetized their blogs. In fact, some of them had started doing that and earning US$ already. To be honest, I am really tempted to do that for my blog too. I have been thinking of ways to earn some small bucks so that when I eventually exit the working society in a couple of years time to be a full time SAHM, I still have some income. Just to earn some pocket money for myself lah. However, I am contemplating whether to monetized my blog as
Reason#1: I am not a frequent blogger. I probably blog thrice a week the most. Part of the excuse is becos my job requires me to face the computer for the entire day so I don’t really switch on my pc at home unless… I have insomnia that night.
Reason#2: I only blog when I have something interesting happening in my life which I like to share about (I suppose most bloggers started for the same reason but I am still at this infant stage loh) otherwise I could be missing for a couple of weeks. Did you watch “I do I do” by Jack Neo, if you do right – they were talking about “feeeeling” for love, whereas I am talking about “feeeeling” for blogging. Sometimes, you just need to have that feeling to be able to sit down and pen down your thoughts and that’s me.
Reason#3: For health reasons. My blogging time is usually past midnight as that’s when my girl and hubby are asleep. I tried to spend as much time with them when I came back from work and only have my personal time after they have slept. The problem is the moment I am hooked to the pc, I could be at the pc for hours and ended sleeping less than 5 hours when I have to work the next day. This is bad as I will be a walking zombie for the rest of the day and needs to rely on coffee to perk me up.
Reason#4: I am not a fantastic writer. I preferred to use singlish as my writing style. That way, I feel more “natural” as I poured my feelings and thoughts on my blog. Well, I only get a B3 for English for my ‘O’ levels :p
But then again, Reason#1 and #2 could be resolved by monetized my blog. It would ‘force’ me to blog more often and gave me ideas on what to write. As for #4, well, practice makes perfect as I will be ‘forced’ to write more frequent. The only headache is #3, surely get scolded by hubby for always staying late….hmmm…am considering to get a new handphone cos the current one is not working well (used for 4yrs already leh), if I get a smart phone or pda phone, that would solve my problem right? :p
Papa (aka hubby), may I have one for my Christmas present, pls? hehe:p
Post-dated Post 1: 29th Nov 2006
2005 Wedding Anniversary
Was chatting with hubby in the car this morning while on the way to the nearest MRT stn near my place. We were on the topic of our anniversary night dashing around to send my friend to catch her train. Then I recalled we had another exciting celebration last year too when my brother met an accident with sister’s 6months old Toyota Altis. Thank goodness he was alright but I cant say much for the car.
I vividly remembered I was on leave on that fateful day, again not purposely on leave to celebrate my anniversary but to bring Trenyce to KK hospital for her routine medical appointment. While I was about to enter the CTE, my phone rang. As I didn’t have my earpiece with me, I didn’t answer the call but just scanned the phone quickly to see whose calling. I saw my brother’s number appearing on the screen, which was quite a rare sight (he don’t normally call me on weekdays). Wondering what it could be (as my mother and sister are away on holiday at that time, I am the only sibling he could contact if anything happens), I asked my FIL to answer the call for me. What came out from the conversation was alarming - he had an accident somewhere near his office! Not wanting to worry my mother and sister, we decided to solve the problem ourselves. I went to fetch hubby from his office (he wasn’t on leave) before going down to see how extensive the damage was. There I saw the brand new Altis, quite badly in shape. It cant even move at all. According to bro, there were smoke coming out from the front. Odear. We followed the tow truck to the workshop to do all the necessary paperwork and left the place.
The toughest part of all was to break the news to my sister. We (me and bro) were hesitating on how to go about it. Initially, we wanted to wait for them to return from their trip as we were afraid that we will spoil their holidays but hubby said if we waited so long then inform them, they were surely get very mad. Afterall, sister is the car owner and she has every right to know what’s happening to her car. Of course, we understand hubby’s intention. In the end, we decided to call my auntie, who was with them for the holiday for her advice, to check on the situation. You know lah, bringing kids along for holiday may sometimes result in some small squabbles. We just want to make sure everything is in order before we release the news. of course, auntie advised us to tell them, so....Well, the rest as it says are history....
Was chatting with hubby in the car this morning while on the way to the nearest MRT stn near my place. We were on the topic of our anniversary night dashing around to send my friend to catch her train. Then I recalled we had another exciting celebration last year too when my brother met an accident with sister’s 6months old Toyota Altis. Thank goodness he was alright but I cant say much for the car.
I vividly remembered I was on leave on that fateful day, again not purposely on leave to celebrate my anniversary but to bring Trenyce to KK hospital for her routine medical appointment. While I was about to enter the CTE, my phone rang. As I didn’t have my earpiece with me, I didn’t answer the call but just scanned the phone quickly to see whose calling. I saw my brother’s number appearing on the screen, which was quite a rare sight (he don’t normally call me on weekdays). Wondering what it could be (as my mother and sister are away on holiday at that time, I am the only sibling he could contact if anything happens), I asked my FIL to answer the call for me. What came out from the conversation was alarming - he had an accident somewhere near his office! Not wanting to worry my mother and sister, we decided to solve the problem ourselves. I went to fetch hubby from his office (he wasn’t on leave) before going down to see how extensive the damage was. There I saw the brand new Altis, quite badly in shape. It cant even move at all. According to bro, there were smoke coming out from the front. Odear. We followed the tow truck to the workshop to do all the necessary paperwork and left the place.
The toughest part of all was to break the news to my sister. We (me and bro) were hesitating on how to go about it. Initially, we wanted to wait for them to return from their trip as we were afraid that we will spoil their holidays but hubby said if we waited so long then inform them, they were surely get very mad. Afterall, sister is the car owner and she has every right to know what’s happening to her car. Of course, we understand hubby’s intention. In the end, we decided to call my auntie, who was with them for the holiday for her advice, to check on the situation. You know lah, bringing kids along for holiday may sometimes result in some small squabbles. We just want to make sure everything is in order before we release the news. of course, auntie advised us to tell them, so....Well, the rest as it says are history....
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