Lift ride

Last sunday(5th Dec) was a memorable day for me cos it was the day that Adelle and Danelle went on a lift ride on their own without us!!!

The incident goes like this. Adelle and Danelle took an early nap on sunday cos they knew we are going to the Hi5 show at 4pm. So at 3pm, we were suppose to leave the house and head for the Hi5 shows @ Marina SQ. I was locking the door while the maid was opening up the stroller and Danelle was around the stroller area. But after i lock the door, i didn't see Danelle anymore. So i called "Mei Mei?" but no response. Then i called "Adelle?" but also no response and the next i knew, they must have took the lift on their own!!! :(

I told my maid to stay at our floor level while i go down to level 1 to look for them. When i reached ground floor, i didn't see both of them so i went to the playground to look for them but also didn't see them there. Then i asked those uncles sitting at the void deck if they have seen 2 small kids but nope too.... I was frantically trying to think where they could have landed themselves on which floor. So i decided to climb up each floor to try my luck. When i reached level 4, i run out of breadth and decided to take lift. I noticed that one of the lift stop at level 13 so i head to level 13 but no luck! Then I continue to go up to my floor to try and bingo, the gals are with the maid! :)

My maid told me that after i went down, she pressed the lift and the lift came up from level 13. When the lift door open, Adelle was holding Danelle hand and Danelle ran out of the lift when she saw the maid. I was told that the gals didn't cry and when i saw them, i felt so relieved and proud of Adelle who took care of her mei mei in the lift. :) But of cos, i scolded Adelle for not waiting for us and left on her own. Have reminded her that she cannot take lift on her own next time and she nodded her head.

The next day, i told my colleagues about this incident and they told me that the lift will usually hang around on level 13 if no one is taking the lift and of cos that only applies for flats that are 25 storey high. Hmm... i went back home and tried. It really went to level 13. Now i know the trick! :)

New school for Adelle

Adelle is turning 3 years old next year (2011) and I have been thinking whether to put her in a normal kindergarten or continue in the childcare centre. After much consideration, we've decided to go with the normal kindergarten. Simple reasons as follows :

1. Cut cost! The CC fees is $600 monthly while the kindergarten that i have enquired cost me $200 only. I can use the remainding amt to put Adelle for other enrichment classes while Danelle can also use the $ to go for her playgroup class when she turn 20mths old.

2. High turnover of teachers in Adelle class! I told Adelle chinese teacher about my intention of withdrawing and she was very sad. She keep telling me that Adelle is an intelligent child and 3 hrs of school is not enough for her?!?!? Erm... sounds funny rite? Anyway i told her my main issue is becos within 1 yr, they have changed 3 english teachers already. I don't like a school where the teachers keep changing and the child has to re-adapt all over again. Thank God Adelle is not sticky to any teacher but i felt the bonding between the teacher and child that has to start all over again whenever a new teacher comes in.

3. The new english teacher! Honestly, i find her young and inexperience. Yesterday I was on afternoon leave and went to pick up Adelle. Saw the teacher just sat at the small chair "stoning away" while the children just entertain themselves by run around inside the room. This is the first time that i saw a teacher sitting there, doing nothing where other teachers will open laptop to show the kiddos some barney show or do some stuff with the kids after 5pm.

4. Cirriculum. The kindergarten that i have chosen provide a comprehensive learning experience for the children. There is gym, music lesson(they will get to learn music notes and instrument), outdoor waterplay, sandplay, outdoor painting, computer class, mini garden where they get to do planting, indoor playarea (tricycle, etc), outdoor playground and a mini library to get the kids to bring a book back home each week to read which i like! :)

For the past 1 week, i have been "pyscho-ing" Adelle abt "new school". Every day, i will tell her that mummy will bring her go new school , ask her if she want to go new school, new friends and no more friends bullying Adelle, etc. But she will tell me that she doesn't want new school, new frens. Haiz... :( So i was wondering when then she will agree to it?!?! Thank God, few days later(this week), she finally agreed to the new school suggestion! Without any delay, we brought her to the Foochow methodist church kindergarten today to take a look. It was quite near to my parents place and it is a kindergarten within a church premise. Adelle seemed to like the place and we signed up immediately as they only left 2 vancancy for the 11.30am-2.30pm session. The morning session 8.15am was fully taken up and there are students on waitlist. I didn't know it was so "hot"....

Anyway, tomorrow will be the school orientation so Adelle will be going to see her new friends! :) Pray that this will be a school where she will learn and grow spiritually, intellectually, physically and socially.

Conversation between Adelle & Hubby

Last nite i was packing stuff in another room while Adelle and hubby were in the bedroom. Then I overheard this funny conversation and it goes like this :

Hubby : "Adelle, stay inside the room and daddy let you play telephone game. Don't go and disturb mummy ok."

Adelle : "Daddy, YOU stay inside the room and play telephone game. I go outside to find mummy. "

Then Adelle appeared infront of me. It was so hilarious as my gal is now telling the dad to stay in the room instead. Even hubby also don't know what to say to her after hearing this.... It just showed that my gal is very vocal in her speech now. Cos there was another occassion and the conversation goes like this :

Adelle was in the midst of telling me what happen in school, who bully who, etc etc...

Hubby interrupt: "Adelle, you very talkative and lor-so leh. "

Adelle : "Daddy, you keep quiet ok. I am talking to mummy."

What else can i say except laughing behind and hubby was speechless... :P

Our relationship through God

A lot of people held their weddings and ROM on this day - 10.10.10 and an ex-mediacorp celebrity Jacelyn Tay held her wedding on that day too. I happened to chance onto this video clip about how God brought them together. It brought me sweet memories of how hubby and I got together. We have some similiarities (but not that dramatic) as depicted in the clip as it all started with GOD. :)


I was looking through my archive and realised that it was not documented how we really got together and our journey with God. So i tot of writing it down in case i lost my memory in 20-30yrs time... :P

YR 2000 - My long distance relationship ended but I found God that year. I was heartbroken at Brisbane with suicidal thoughts but the song "Amazing Grace" just came into my mind. I can never forget that moment. God woke me up that second and I flew back to Singapore, leaving behind the old me in Brisbane. Thereafter i dedicated my time in church activities to know and serve God for a few years as i went through a time of healing with God too.

YR 2004 - My mum demand me to threw away all the flowers and stuffs that i have received from my ex and it took me some time to come to term that it's pointless to keep the stuff since it's OVER. While during my quiet time, God spoke to me and assured me that i will not be single and he will give me a lifetime partner. So i took the courage and dump all the things into the bin eventually. The nxt minute, i received sms from my christian friend. It was an encouraging sms that also assured me of what i heard from God. I know God is with me and he is giving me double assuranced.

July 2004 - Out of the blue, Ifah who met me once during CITPM exam, asked me if I am keen to know friend so i replied ok. Thereafter, Ifah told Airrence that she want to introduce him a nice gal and pass him the email address.

Aug 2004 - Airrence finally emailed me and asked me out for a meal on 7th Aug. Airrence came to pick me up somewhere near my church. It was a casual dinner and both of us ain't have that love at first sight feeling. So we remained as friends.

Sep 2004 - We din contact each other as Airrence dad passed away that month while I am busy helping my fren wedding preparation.

Nov-Dec 2004 - We started chatting via YM during office hours and occassionally i will send Airrence emails about God. Those who know me well, know that i don't go around preach about God. I only shared abt what God has done in my life or some articles about God. Whether my friends choose to accept God is not what i can do but i can pray that God will show them that HE is real and HE is faithful loving God. So during that period, we became good friend online. Meanwhile, i was introduced to a guy in church who is keen to know me as i appeared in the church bulletin coverpage few mths back. However, no sparks between this guy and me despite we met up once after the arranged meet up.

Dec 2004 - Xmas time and Airrence asked if i am free on xmas eve for a meal. I rejected him cos i gotta attend church service but i invited him to join me for a xmas service/performance instead. To be honest, this is my first attempt to ask a non-christian guy friend to attend church xmas service. I was very worried that he will tell me off and there goes our friendship. But to my surprise, he say Ok! I was happy and we met up for dinner before going to my church. I introduced him to my church friends and they tot he is my secret bf.. hahaha.. but nope, he is not! ;) Cos I am still uncertain and praying if he is the ONE that God told me previously. Anyway, we started to hang out more often after xmas and occassionally he will attend church with me too.

Feb 2005 - Our first official date was on valentine day. We decided to give each other a chance to know one another better to see if our relationship will work out.

May 2005 - 8th May was a memorable day for us cos it was my baptism day and Airrence accepted Christ that day. I am glad that he supported my decision to be baptised though he was still a pre-believer that time. Also GOD is amazing as i have been praying for Airrence salvation and it was the best gift that i ever received from God that day. I have never lead someone to Christ but only introducing them to church and abt GOD. And the first person that came to Christ is my husband. :) It was God who brought us together and we want to thank God for his amazing love and grace.

This is a song that i love to sing. I told hubby that if God calls me to go heaven one day, i would like to hear this song sang in my funeral, in remembrance of how God saves me.

Amazing Grace

How sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me

I once was lost, but now i'm found

Was blind, but now i see

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear

And grace my fears relieved

How precious did that grace appear

The hour i first believed

* My chains are gone

I've been set free

My God, My Saviour has ransomed me

And like a flood His mercy rains

Unending love, Amazing grace

The lord has promised good to me

His word my hope secures

He will my shield and portion be

As long as life endures

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow

The sun forbear to shine

But God, who called me here below

Will be forever mine

Will be forever mine

You are forever mine

Diaperless

Adelle have started toilet training since Mar 10 and now she is totally diaperless the whole day even for her afternoon nap. Though i still put her on diaper when she sleep at nite, she doesn't pee at all. So i haven't been buying diaper for her since May and that save me lotsa $$. :)

The whole toilet training process was a breeze and thanks to the CC that Adelle attend too. Before that, she used to run away from toilet. But one day (after 1 month in CC) in March, she agreed to go on the toilet bowl. I also bought training pants for her and diligently bring her to toilet every hour or so. In CC, the teacher also took my suggestions to bring her to toilet hourly thus the progress was good. After a few leakage, she finally know she has to tell us that she want to pee/poo or do the "biz" whenever we bring her to the toilet.

Finally last month, we (at home and in CC) didn't put her on diaper the whole day including nap time, she didn't pee too. So i am glad to say that Adelle is finally toilet trained. Good girl! Mummy is proud of your little achievement! :) Now is Danelle turn to be on toilet training next....ha....

Primary School

Am i going to be one of the kiasu parents in Singapore? Well, the answer is i think so cos i have started to look out for primary schools that i would like my gals to attend. :P

Previously i have thots of moving to somewhere closer to some good schools but yesterday, i decided not to move. Simply becos the place where i am staying now have some reasonable good schools and even SAP school. I happened to chance upon this website - elite.com.sg and they showed me what are the schools within 1 and 2km from where i stayed.

What is SAP? In short, the school has rich chinese culture and they offer chinese as First Language. The two SAP schools within 2km to us were Kong Hwa and Hong Wen. Looking at the school profile and feedback from parents(online), Kong Hwa is a better school than Hong Wen.

These are the schools near me and my prefered list goes :

1. Kong Hwa (SAP) (Got direct bus from our house)

2. Geylang Methodist (1 MRT stop from us and affliated to Geylang Methodist Sec)

3. Hong Wen (SAP) (No direct bus)

4. Canossa Convent (Got direct bus from our house)

5. Bendemeer Primary (Not keen)

6. Macpherson Primary (Not keen)

7. St Andrew Junior(Not applicable since it's a boys school though we sure can get in cos affliated)

To get higher chances into the prefered school, the next thing to do is to be parents volunteer or get affliated either by religion or clan. Anyway now is still early to do volunter work and lets see which school we decide to apply in the end.. :P

Also saw there's a website that rank top school in geylang for 2009 - http://unofficial-sg-primary-school-guide.blogspot.com/2009/07/top-primary-school-in-geylang.html

Adelle vs Danelle

I was organising my photos in my harddisk and found some interesting pics that i took for both of my darlings. I put them side by side to compare and Danelle is a skinny version of Adelle. :D

Annual D&D

This year is an interesting year cos i won tickets again and this time is my company annual D&D. :) There are 20 prizes and I think i got the 18th or 19th prize which is a pair of ticket to the YOG celebration @ Marina Bay. It is a pair of VIP passes to watch the concert on 13th performance by BEAST and 4MINUTE and 22nd performance by ALARICE. Honestly, i don't know who are they but i know there are a lot of fans who want to buy the tickets.

I collected the tickets yesterday afternoon and within few hours, i sold the tickets away for $120. Yeah Yeah Yeah! Interestingly, the buyer are student and to be specific secondary school students. She met me and pass me stacks of $2! I nearly fainted counting the $2 dollar at MRT. I told hubby abt the buyer and he looked at Adelle that she better don't be like them when she grow up and spend all the pocket $ just for a stupid concert. :P

Anyway this year D&D theme was Back to School and it was held at NUS Guild House. Damn far so they chartered buses to send us there and send us back to Clementi and Somerset MRT. Overall it was quite entertaining cos the emcee did a good job and seeing the guys doing the Wonder Girls song - Nobody Nobody but YOU was real funny. But the most stupid thing was my dept was forced to do cheers among the various teams and i am not spared from doing the cheers (clown act) too. Reminded me of my NUS orientation days.... Haiz... :(

My baby app

Usually i will blog about my family and occasionally I will also put up some useful links that i happened to chance upon. Today i am blogging about an app call I Love Deals!!

Why this app and not other app? Well, simple reason - i put in a lot of efforts for this app. :) I work out the product specifications, do up the contract, SLA and engaged developer to develop the app, did testing around the clock (8pm, 2am, 5am, 8am) to ensure that it is functioning as it should be. Finally it was born on 17th July! My first baby app is the Android app and follow up shortly is the iPhone app which was made available a day after iPhone 4 was launched in Singapore.

It was challenging to race against a tight timeline but i've made it! An achievement that i can be proud of and put into my resume. Yes, i am diligently updating my resume cos i am looking for a job. Lately a few recruitment agents calling me to do consultancy work on document management system but I am half hearted cos I know I love mobile phones more than papers.. hahahaa... I love mobile applications and I like to play with the latest handsets. But i REALLY dislike the person that i am working with now cos the person doesn't give me the respect and treat me as his subordinate ordering me to do this and that. Really pissed me off. Seeing his emails every day just made my blood pressure went up. :(

Ok enough of complaining and let's talk abt happy thing. So what so good abt the app? It is easy to use and best thing is i dont have to bring out booklets of different banks offers nor ask the waiter whether they have any credit cards offers. I know everything within the app as I can convenient access the restaurants offers and know which credit cards offer the best discounts! Also there is an AR(Augmented Reality) function and driving direction from current location to the restaurants. Cool rite? :) So remember to download the app if you are reading my blog. haha...

Aquaduck Trial for Danelle & friends

I managed to secure a date on 3rd August for our June babies group to go for Aquaducks trial! Some of them dropped out so only myself, Katty, Carine, Regina and Shannon went!

It was a fun session and the kids have fun swimming in the sheltered pool @ Dempsey Hill! :)

After the class, i waited for hubby to fetch us. While waiting for them, Danelle was saying "cheche" and "dare-dy". Hmm.. when will she call mummy?? ;) After 1 hr of waiting, finally we saw the car and we went to Dempsey Dome cafe for dinner cos it was already 8pm.... so hungry. :(