Leaving on a Jet Plane

I am heading to Jakarta for a 4-day business trip and I think I am taking the trip harder than anyone else in the family. For reasons beyond me, I hadn't been feeling good emotionally in recent days and I presume that it is bcos of the trip since this is the only out of the norm thing that is happening to my life recently. The feeling was a little mixture of anxiety and depression. Why? I don't know! Sob... feel like crying already.

Things are good otherwise. Daddy Lim is ok about my trip. I have already told the kids and they are heading to RWS for 2 nights stay with Popo and my bro's family in celebration of F's 9th birthday on Wednesday. I would be back on Friday after their tiny adventure without mummy. Lil Shauna didn't at all care that mummy wouldn't be around.  She had her eyes only on the staycation and couldn't wait to sleep over with Felicia. Lil Isaac was a little more sticky but jiejie's enthusiasm rubbed on him and he too had been talking about Sentosa. So, it is just me. Pout.

So I need lots of prayer to get out of whatever you call this thing. I should too enjoy my little "break" without the kids. Daddy Lim, download skype! Breathe, breathe..

Mummy Lim

Meeting up with a Dear Friend

One day, S, one of my dear uni pal WhatsApp me out of the blue. I do see her updates on fb but hasn't chat with her for a long time. The last I met her and another uni mate was when I was still preggy with Lil Shauna and that was years ago. Since then, we are all busy with life and haven't the opportunity to meet up.

She suggested meeting up and we eventually decided on a play date for the kids - she has a 8yo girl and a 4yo boy. We finally met this afternoon at vivo city after so many years.

The kids hit it off the moment they met and ran off to the indoor playground within seconds. We were more than glad to be left alone and to catch up on old times.  Six years is a long time and we spent a long time updating each other. We talked about our family, kids, other uni mates, generally about life. Two hours flew by and we still had more to talk.

If you are wondering what happened to the boys, her boy refused to take picture and Lil Isaac insisted on hiding behind me. Lol.

We promised to meet again soon and would do some outdoor fun the next time. I am already looking forward to the next meet up.

Mummy Lim

Interesting App

Daddy Lim has this interesting picture app in his new phone.

So interesting.

Mummy Lim

Gardens by the Bay

We heard about the water playground @ Gardens by the Bay for a long time but never finding the opportunity to visit it. We finally went on the hot, hot Saturday.

There was a big water playground.

And some very interesting climbing structure and playground.

There was plenty of sand too. Too bad that we didn't bring sand kit along.

We went scooting on the tracks after the water play and spent about 2 hours at the garden. Other than it was way too hot, it was pretty fun and would be a good place to spend half a day, especially if the kids had companion.

Mummy Lim

Happened but Did Not Happen

During the D&D, I happened to find out that some colleagues were ex-chongsters and it was agreed that we would cheong together one day. Surprisingly, action plans were put in place very quickly and the party did take place.  Hohoho.

There were 4 of us but I was the only one with kids. The rest were out to paint the town red and I was out to dance as usual. They even got a hotel room where they had rounds 1, 2, 3, 4... before I met them. We met up at about 11pm at Clarke Quay. They had wanted to visit this club call Dreams. To my horror, young kids so young that I think I could be their mother were in the Q. I don't do well with kids' club. Fortunately, the club was so empty that it was agreed that we would hop to Aqua Nova 1st before we head back to Dreams. By then, Aqua was crowded with people dancing the night away, people my age. Ah, i felt so at ease. And I can conclude that old people need to start party early bcos we need to end early and go home to sleep. Lol.

Aqua was great. Though I don't fancy band, I don't hate them as well and had my fair share of dancing fun when the DJ took over. It was a solid 2 hours of dancing for me. Woohoo! We had quite some drinks (in my opinion) too since the ladies do have the spending power. I drank more and faster than I usually would and feared my survival on Saturday. Haha.

We headed back to Dreams at 2am and the club was very crowded by then. I continued to be amazed at how young the crowd was. My colleague told me that to reserve one of the tables near the dance floor required min $1k spending in a night and all the tables around the dance floor were full. Unlike Mink, where the older people tend to  be sitting at the expensive tables, I see only young people in Dreams. Gosh, where do their $$ comes from? Do their parents know that they are burning their $$ away? I also couldn't help wondering if my Lil Shauna will be like one of the girls in the future, with dresses so tight and short.  Haiz.

The best part, I can safely conclude that the young people now don't really dance. I see like 80 to 90% of them either standing still and raising their hand pointing here and there every now and then or simply bobbed up and down. I also realised now how come young people can last whole night - it isn't very tiring simply to raise hands, especially if they start only after midnight. And it is also no wonder how come the DJ can mixed fast and slow music intermittently without having anybody throw bottles and glasses at them.  Nobody really dances anyway.

After merely 30 mins, one of the colleagues concluded that Dream cannot make it and we headed back to Aqua. We had fun for the last 30 mins before Aqua closed for the night.

We all agreed that we had an image to uphold in the office and so this event never took place. Hohoho.  I have such interesting colleagues. So no pictures. Hoho. By the way, I did survive today. The kids woke up at 8am this morning but I stole 2 cat naps along the day. Hehe.


Mummy Lim

One More Coming Our Way

Finally, the Taiwan flight tickets has been booked! You know how I strive on holidays, how I wait earnestly for the next holiday, and the next one and the next one. And this time, we have companion! We do fine traveling on our own but nothing beats good companion. 

Just this morning, I happened to look at my colleague's flats and I was reminded of Taipei and the shoe shopping. I want to buy bags too. The quality of the 2 that I bought the last trip was really quite good. Hehe.

November is still many months away but I will wait as patiently as possible for my Taiwan trip. I like Taiwan.. I like holiday. Lalalala. 

Mummy Lim 

Nice Time with the Little Man

Daddy Lim met up with his secondary classmates last evening, Lil Shauna was in art class and I spent some really nice time with the tiger. He was in a pretty mood yday and was really nice to be with. Most days when we are outside with him, he would be running and jumping and squirming and climbing and not listening. We could be calling his name for like 5x and he doesn't even move an eyelid. I had resort to calling him “Ben 10, Spiderman, Superman, Batman” at times just to get his attention. Adding on, he would constantly asked to be carried and then squirm and fidget and touching here, grabbing there. All his movements seem to add on extra kgs – my poor arms.

Maybe bcos he had my sole attention or he has decided to take pity on his poor-trying-to-recover-from-cold mother, he was extra nice. We had dinner at a fairly empty restaurant and had fun playing a not too violently tickling game. There was no violent kicking or smacking like he would usually play.

We decided to head home first while Popo waited for jiejie to finish her class. I bribed him with chocolates, which do not usually guaranteed good behavior. I don't think it is the chocolates doing magic but yday, he didn't ask to be carried and walked and behaved nicely when we took the MRT home. He also agreed nicely when I say no to the temptation that he faced at the capsule machine beside the cake shop that we stopped by to buy bread. He also obliged when I say no to ice cream when we went 7-11 to buy a drink. No whining, no pleading, no tantrum. I had to take multiple looks to make sure that I was holding on to my tiger and not some other boy. His behavior was heavenly and I wonder if he has suddenly grown up? I hope!

At the void deck, mummy suddenly remembered that she didn't have the house key and we waited for Popo and jiejie to come home at the exercise corner. Again, the tiger played nicely on his own. He even agreed so readily and posed when I asked to take his pictures. Is it too much to ask for him to stay this way? Hehe.

Mummy Lim

The Detangler

Lil Shauna has very thin and fine hair, which is very unusual bcos Daddy Lim and I have very thick hair.

She has thin and fine hair since she was a baby. If you think that it is bcos we didn't shave her while she was a baby, we cannot explain what happened to Lil Isaac. He wasn't shave too but inherited our thick hair. The only fortunate thing is that they both inherited my straight hair and they can save loads from having to rebond in the future.

To make matters worse, the princess is deeply influenced by Rapunzel and believes that her hair cannot be cut. Then the kids do plenty of swimming, so much so that her hair became dry and brittle and entangled. And popo loves to give them showers complete with shampoo. All the chemical isn't making things better. Strangely, Lil Isaac's hair is very much better, maybe bcos of the frequent hairdresser trips.

We gave Lil Shauna tons of conditioner. I even conditioned her hair 2x (even and after shampoo) if I shower her after a swim. Still it is a nightmare trying to fight with her crown of glory every morning. We lost so much hair each morning from breakages that I sometimes believe that she would go bald at 10.

I saw this at Sasa one day. According to the advertisement, it is supposed to ease out the entanglement and thus reduce breakages. It isn't cheap, $13 for a comb - I have never bought such an expensive comb.

Though skeptical, it was a ray of hope. I bought it and it works! It really makes combing her hair so much easier. Even the princess could comb her hair now. Hohoho.

Mummy Lim

I Win Already

The flu virus has made its round. Feline is the latest victim and Popo has already came down. I was hit a few days back and it started with a sore throat but nothing bad enough to warrant bed rest. The sore throat lingered and consistently played peek-a-boo with me. Then it brought along cough and running nose.

Yday was bad. Full blown flu hit me by nightfall. Something bad enough for the doctor to hand me a MC BUT it is the weekend! Win already. Who needs an MC on a weekend unless the kids accept that. Boo. I even woke up in the middle of the night bcos my nose was totally blocked and I couldn't breathe. But it wasn't all that bad bcos I ended up watching K drama instead until I felt better (read: finished the last 2 episodes that I had been chasing). Haha.

My nose has ran away this morning. I can only take comfort that there is no fever. Nobody seems to take pity on me. It is a normal Saturday with kids constantly asking me to play and do things for them. So why am I so free to blog now? I hired the ipad as the babysitter. Oops.

Mummy Lim

New Ez Link Card

Earlier this afternoon, a colleague said that she was going to a movie and I lamented how expensive the movie tickets are. Then she told me about some perks that come with some new Ez Link card and the new Ez Link card can be exchanged with any old ones without extra cost. I said that I have no time to do such stuff. Moreover, we only go to the movies like once in many months.

I went to JE after work as Lil Isaac has his phonics class today. When I walked past the interchange, there was this booth exactly for the exchanging of that free Ez Link card and there was nobody in the q. The exchange didn't take more than 3 mins and I got this.

Let's hit the theatre!

Mummy Lim