Appreciate everything you have!

Summary (March - July 2009)

2009-08-15T08:04:00.000-07:00

It's been a long long time I did not update my blog, feel very very sorry...

My summaries for the past few months: -

March 10 to 18 - Visited Guang Zhou, attended a Beauty Fair, visited my dear uncle and cousins there, enjoyed free and leisure holidays there.

Places we visited: 陈家祠，上下九街，北京路，珠江夜游，长隆野生动物园，长隆大马戏，肇庆古城墙，肇庆七星岩，番禺宝墨园，大富山森林公园，樱花展，。。。

April - Could not recall what was busy about...?

May - Boe Yin's nanny asked for 2 weeks off, I decided to send Boe Yin to Taska for one month.

Since then, Boe Yin has been going to Taska until now. I hope the teachers treat him well, and he enjoys the life over there. Pity him, have to go to nursery at this very young age, he was only 21 months old.

May 16, we are able to group 13 ex-schllomates together to have our very first reunion gathering. Leong Kok Wah was selected as the chairman, to organise the next gathering.

May 19, my birthday. I have got my dream phone as my birthday present. Just a simple candle blowing session with the kids at home, no candle lights dinner but very warm feeling.

June 3, we went to a luxuries spa retreat. Four pretty women (Swee Wan, Wai Yun, Hung Mun and me) spend a whole day there, really relax and lazy day, it's nice to have such a pampering day once a year or twice. :-))) Wai Yun recommended a very nice book to me, "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne, I bought it and start reading it, it really give me a lot of hints to make my jobs done successfully.

June 20, report card collection day. Both of them were not doing well in their exam, so they have got a very bad ranking in their class and form. I felt very sorry for them, because I have been let go on their study for the past 2 smesters. This made me have no chance to be lazy anymore, so from that day onwards, I tried my very best to guide them on their homework and encourage them a lot. I also suggested Shu Yin to stop going to tuition class, encourage her to study on her own and try to put on more effort. She agreed and stop going to the 3 sessions a week tuition class.

July 13, I hosted my very first Beauty Seminar in hotel, attendees about 30 pax. Compare to our target of 50 pax, it sounds not so good, but it was a good experience to me and hopefully we could have more than 50 pax in our next seminar.

July 18, we went back to hometown. To attend my cousin sister's daughter's wedding party, she was the eldest kid amongst all the cousins and siblings. So, we felt very happy for that and try not to miss the joyfull moments. Along the trip, we took the chance to visit the old aunties at hometown, one in Malim Nawar, one in Kampar and one in Chui Chak. They were very happy to see us. I hope one day when I'm old, still got friends to come to visit me too.

July 25, 2nd reunion gathering - Karaoke at IOI Mall. This time only 10 peoples turned up. Proposed next gathering in October, bowling session and Seafood dinner was suggested.

我响应328关灯一小时

2009-03-28T07:59:00.000-07:00

大概一个星期以前，各大报章及媒体都在呼吁大众响应328关灯一小时的运动。我觉得关灯一小时不是很难，应该可以做得到。

今天早上，妈妈看了报纸也瞒紧张的，叫我要预备一些手电筒或蜡烛之类的东西以免万一。我忍不住笑了出来，跟老妈说，今晚不是停电，只是关灯运动。如果发生什么事情我们是可以开灯的。

到了公司，大姐及同事们也问起我这个问题，原来他们的时事常识也不比妈妈好。经过我的一番解释，大姐终于明白那是环保的一环，他也觉得应该要响应一下。为了我们的未来，我们的下一代。。。

晚上八点，吃过晚餐之后，老公在看电视，正播放的是晚间华语新闻，新闻播毕之前，广播员也呼吁大家响应这运动。我乘机会跟老公说我们待会儿也要关灯。他起初不赞成，后来我提议到楼上的露台去剥花生喝酒，他就很愿意的配合了。

我把家里及屋外多数的电灯都关上，只留下一两盏小灯，以照明过路。然后把准备好的两个玻璃杯，一包花生，一瓶我们爱喝的咖啡美酒，一大杯冰块拿到露台上，开始我们的环保关灯运动。

当时两个女儿没有在，只有弟弟倍我俩在露台上。弟弟也倍我们喝酒剥花生，当我们拿起酒杯敲击，他也要学我们的动作，也学喊"饮胜“，非常逗趣。

今天天气很凉快，在不是很多星星的夜空下，我们闲话家谈，品着那买了很久的美酒，相当悠闲写意。我很珍惜！

Gathering 聚会

2009-03-06T23:07:00.000-08:00

I have 2 fantastic dates in these 2 days, on Thursday night, I talked less but laughed a lot, until my tears dropped several times. Last night, we chatted alot and do a lot of sharing...

I really appreciate that I have time to go out with friends. Thank you very much my dear mother and my dear husband. They helped me to take care of my kids when I was not around. This make me has no worries when I go out, many mothers do not have this allowance.

Taken on Thursday night - met friends that never see each other for 20 years.

Annual Dinner of Pei Yuan old students

2009-02-22T14:02:00.000-08:00

This is the 4th year I attended this dinner, still remember the moment we attended the dinner 4 years ago. Lai Fung, Wai Kheng and me, 3 of us was given the wrong letter which stated the venue of the dinner. Gosh! Somebody faxed us the old copy - previous year letter where the dinner was took place at Sungei Way Primary School. When we reach the place, it was not as what it suppose to be... The hall was full with crowd, but no one is familiar to us at all. How come? Kheng called the person in charged and found that we went to the wrong place, without delay we left that place without looking back. So embarassing...

When we reached the approprite venue, the dinner was served, if not mistaken the 3rd dish was on the table, the embarrass condition was more and less the same as we were at the wrong venue. More than 90% of them were older (10 years older) than us and no one seemed familiar to us. We found that we are the youngest group amongst the crowd.

Luckily, we were served like VIP, they all so appreciate our present. I'm sure these 3 young pretty faces make their dinner more lively. :P

Surprisingly, I met my cousin sister and brother there, and my elder sister's friend too. This is another joke, we used to call my sister's friend - 'fei choo' because he was fat when he was young. Out of a sudden I could not recall what his real name was, so I called him Mr. Choo. He seemed like not feeling nice, but I still do not know it until I told my sister about this. Instead, he is not Mr. Choo. Both my sister and I burst into laughter, couldn't held it till my stomach pain.

It is so nice that we can apply 奖励金for our kids if they score good result in the government exams. I have 3 nephews got this reward. All of them were doing very well in the exam, really proud of them.
This year, not many of our gang were turned up, this photo is not complete, beside this there were few more, who are not in the photo are Yin Yoong, Wai Kheng, Leong Shiun Yun and Tang Sow Fun.
The lady in white (she was not Pei Yuan's student but her husband was) and the man in black are my cousins. Who I met 4 years ago. The old man is my father, oh yes, he was Pei Yuan's student too. He said there were no classroom during his schooling time. There was an announcement on that nite, saying that 3 years later we are going to celebrate 100 years old for Pei Yuan school. The organisation urge everybody to contribute their photos or anything related to make this a very memorable one. I think may be father can write something about this.
The pretty girl is Miss Malaysia, her mother was Pei Yuan students too. This prooved that Kampar has many pretty girls. Anybody dare to say the ladies in the pictures are not pretty?

Chikungunya Fever... Scary!

2009-02-18T17:04:00.000-08:00

大姐患上了可怕的基孔肯雅症，上星期天入院，至今还未能出院，真令人担忧。

更可怕的是大姐夫也在昨晚因此病症入院。

大姐天生心脏有孔，医生也蛮担心病菌会感染他的心脏。

Chikungunya Fever 基孔肯雅症 - 一个多漂亮的名字，却是一种令你无法招架的骨痛病，类似骨痛热症，还好它不至于骨痛热症般有生命的危险。

今天到医院去探访姐姐，进入第四天，情况看来颇乐观，发冷发热的症状减轻了。热情的他还与同房的几位病友做了朋友，大家有说有笑。

大姐夫更不用说了，嚷着要出院，说他没事了，晚上还要去摆档。

我则劝他最好不要到外头去害人，谁晓得你体内的病菌清了没？一个不小心让PJ的蚊子叮中你，又去叮别人，把你身上的病毒传给别人，那可不成了害人精吗？

牛脾气的他，当然坚持自己的立场，出院摆档去！
不懂应该欣赏他的坚持己见，还是可怜他的命苦，生病还顾着干活！

不懂能帮上什么忙，但愿他们夫妻俩吉人天相，早日康复！

Happy Chinese New Year!

2009-01-20T08:47:00.000-08:00

恭喜发财！新年快乐！万事如意！福星高照！财运亨通！身体健康！心想事成！。。。

新的一年又到了，年轻时会在新年里许下许许多多的心愿，现在的我只期望一家人能够平平安安，快快乐乐的聚在一起过新年！

舒尹升上了四年级，每星期二需要留在学校参加课外活动，而我也为她安排了每星期三天的补习班。补习班赠送功课斑，为我解决了舒尹功课越来越繁重的烦恼。捷尹非常自立，他已学会自己收拾书包。今年没有为她安排补习班，不想让他那么辛苦。在学校为她安排了搭伙食，下课后到食堂特定的位子坐下就可享用预先准备好的点心了。两姐妹分开一个上午班，一个下午斑; 都由同一个安娣载送上学。但我却坚持自己载舒尹去上学，主要是因为如要麻烦安娣载的话，舒尹需要早上5点多就起床，因为安娣大概6点就到家门口接送了。所以我情愿早点起来自己载孩子去上学，一方面能让舒尹多睡一会儿，另一方面我也能逼自己早起做运动。其实最重要的是我很珍惜那段载孩子去上学的路程，只有我俩，能够履行最有效的亲子对话。所以当安娣要求我帮忙载其他孩子时，我迟迟未能决定，还好安娣后来知难而退。

那天Alice跟我说他很享受与孩子在一起的时间，因为孩子很快就会长大，我们不晓得他们会粘我们多久，所以当他们还需要我们的时候，会尽量抽多一点时间陪他们。谢谢Alice提醒我，我也会尽量安排时间到学校去载捷尹放学，希望每星期能有一天亲自载他回家的路程，好给他一个惊喜！

博皓快要一岁半了，咿咿呀呀学讲话了，叫‘妈咪’时让我听了甜到心坎里。那天看着他自己吃粥的模样，一口接一口的，做得非常好，非常认真，。。。很欣慰！

新年最大的心愿就是希望他们全年健康快乐！

Beijing 2008

2008-12-29T01:39:00.000-08:00

The whole world are watching at Beijing in year 2008, I am glad that I got a chance to step on this piece of land in this meaningfull year. From 19/12 to 26/12/2008, we celebrate Dong Jie and Christmas there.

Away from the city

2008-08-25T08:48:00.000-07:00

It's nice to have chance to take a break, to put aside all the hazzle jobs and go to the world of nature. Especially it's a family trip, where the whole family could have chance to get together with tension free body and mind. Less quarrels, but more laughters and joys...

In last school holiday, we manage to take a short break, 2D1N Lumut & Teluk Intan trip, there were 9 adults and 6 kids (including a baby).

Most of the kids like to play with sand, even Boe Yin.

I enjoyed a lot with the scenery by the road side on our way to our destination, this is one of the nature view I took when we were on our way to Damai Laut Resort.

I enjoyed to take photoes of laughters too...

For more photoes: http://suzannechong.blogspot.com

I really have no courage to show my spare tyre and big buttock like this lady. This is the reason that I did not put on my swimming suit for few years. So I always remind myself not over eat, ...but not on diet, because the food are so delicious to be rejected. Especially in this trip, we have a lot of seafood, in Lumut and Stiawan. It was so yummy, especially the Hoe Jin and Fried Lai Liu Ha. Then we have the famous Teluk Intan fruit Rojak at the hawker stall and Chee Cheung Fun from the manufacturer. It was so fresh and so yummy!

我家种的有机菜

2008-08-08T03:15:00.000-07:00

生命力赵强的番薯叶，产量多时还可分给邻居吃。幕后功臣是我的老妈子！

家有一老如有一宝，真的很庆幸能够留妈妈住在我家。妈妈除了帮忙我看顾孩子，也帮我看管家中的佣人。现在他老人家还是我家的菜农呢！谢谢您，阿妈！

我的最爱 - 指天椒。

番茄树 - 长得这么大，还是第一回看番茄树呢！

好大的番茄，真担心会被小鸟偷吃！

人人都爱吃的小白菜。

Fantastic performance, must see!

2008-06-30T23:03:00.000-07:00

The following video is forwarded by a friend of mine in USA, Amanda. Amanda Fan is one of my school mate in secondary school, we were in the same class when we were in Remove Class. The first year in my secondary school life, where all the textbooks suddenly change to Malay. Then, many Malay teachers and a lot of new friends from other school. I don't really like that changes... besides I got chance to make more friends. Where I met Amanda Fan, Hung Mun, Wai Kheng, Lai Yeen, Yoke Choo.... and we become very good friends.

There are 2 performances in this video, both are good, the 2nd one is fantastic! It's really amazing, pls download and enjoy!
http://www.sonnyradio.com/swanlake_0001.swf

Old friends' gathering

2008-06-27T08:39:00.000-07:00

15/6/2008, it's father's day, at my home. A lot of friends, old and little friends... My husband with 3 kids, Amanda's hubby with 3 kids, Samantha's hubby with 2 kids and 2 more kids belong to Wai Yun, because Mr.Lim was not with us on that day.

10 kids & 3 men, 够热闹吧！

Coincident that it was Zi Feng's birthday, so Amanda broght a birthday cake for him to blow, but her 2nd son, Zi Yen wanted to own the birthday cake and blow the candles. Of course, this time the birthday boy could not tolerate with him. Look at Zi Yen's sour face, he was not happy that time.

Boys and girls: Our mothers are good friend!

(Where are the mothers?)

Haha... Those mothers are too old to take picture.

The truth is - mothers always think of children first, children are their everthing, all priorities are given to the kids, but nothing for themselves.

Oops, it's not the right time to praise mothers, it's falther's day, haha.... Happy daddy's day to all fathers!

鬼遮眼

2008-06-26T08:48:00.000-07:00

前两天，为了赴约我把车子停在利双广场的底层。时间刚刚好是下午五点，准时赴约。当我进入电梯时，才发觉我把停车卡留在车子里。于是，我立刻又从电梯走出来，到回车子去取停车卡。但是，停车卡缺离奇的失踪了。不甘心的我几乎把整辆车子倒转来翻，就连车底及车后箱也不放过，足足找了半个小时，也寻不着。为了不让林先生等太久，我只好放弃。关好车门步行到公司去赴约。

热心的同事（共3位〕也自告奋勇的帮我到车子去重找一遍，仍然没有头绪。我心想这实在太不可思议了。同事们也不放弃要帮我搜手提袋，我也任由他们搜。但是还是没有。卡子又没有脚，怎会自己跑了呢？

没办法了，约会完毕。晚上八点，我唯有到保安柜台报失，付费RM20罚款，才可离开。一路上，我带着一个大大的问号回家。

第二天，我把这事件告诉珊霓，她笑着说，“应该是鬼遮眼，多两天你就会找回的。” 我就说，“怎么可能遮那么多个人啊！” 谁知道今天早上，在我从健身中心回家的路途中，被我发现它就在司机座位旁的隙缝，不须搜也不须翻，正在驾驶的我只要往左下方看，就看见了！！！

？？？？？有谁能解释这事件吗？

Cultural Show by SGM

2008-06-24T19:09:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday night, we went for a FREE Cultural Show at SGM cultural centre at Cheras. (http://www.sgm.org.my/activities/2008/SGM615.html) I wondered why don't they charge entrance fee, the collected money can be used for charity if they want. But my father said it is some kind of Muhibah activities. Sincerely speaking it worth to pay RM10 to view that show, I will pay RM30 if the show is being held in covered stadium. Ooops, how can I use money to value this show. But I really impressed with the show. I am not the first time to view such type of cultural show, because my dearest father is the member of SGM, so I always have chance to view this kind of show for free.

For my daughters, they were first time. They found it very exciting and entertaining. It was a non-stop performance from starting to ending. Even when we leave that time the 900 performers (no kidding, 900 performers in this show) are still singing, waving and dancing to the audiances.

At first, Ja Yin told me that the 2nd performance is better and the 1st one, then when the show going on till about the end, she told me that the show seemed like better and better, every shows were so interesting. She likes it very much.

Unluckily, the weather of that night was not very good. It was light rains on and off during the show. At the beginning, the performance stage was equiped with microphone and sound system, it was ready for the musical performance. But when it started rains, they need to cover those equipments with plastic beg, and the 1st performance (Musical performance) had to be cancelled. It made the show a kind of not complete.

We saw the performers are dressed up nicely with make up, all ready to give their best performance, they have to go back to the back stage when the rains was getting heavier. I guessed the musical instrument are not afford to get wet, so they have to cancell the performance. I believed the performers were much more disappointed than the audieance.

We are lucky enough to get the 1st row of seats, since we are 2nd batch of early birds. (2nd batch is because we are not facing the main stage but we are at the right side of the stage.) So we have no worries of being blocked by giant umbrella in front of us. But I always blocking peoples' view, since my umbrella is a big one, where I can protect 3 chairs. I really feel sorry for those sitting behind me.
Since it started to rain again, father and a lot of the members started chanting, praying very hard to have a no rain night. Mom is getting his umberlla ready and Jayin is showing her ugly eating post, em... Shu Yin is a bit shy to the camera.

One of the interesting show that Jayin said "hen hao kan!"

A very energetic gymnastic performance which was presented by a group of guys, which was formed by about 200 persons, from very young age like 7 years old to ..., no idea. May be 40 plus.

This post is like a ship sailing in the ocean. It was moving slowing from left to right. It really very impressed. My 2 girls was amazed by this performance.

The show took about an hour plus, the ending was Rasa Sayang Song, where all the performers came out to swing, sing and wave. Surprisingly, JaYin saw her Teacher Leow, the kindergarden teacher of Tadika Seri Soka.

On our way home, Shu Yin said, "Mommy, I like those kind of dancing, can I join them?" Oh, my dear, you were giving me a tough question. But I will check it out for you. Because I know that the stage is belong to you. I can remember that everytime I saw you in the stage, you were so cheerful, lively and charming. I like to see that again and again!

It's fun to blog!

2008-06-20T08:00:00.000-07:00

I admit that I am an idiot in IT world. But I would like to explore and explore...

Few months ago, I found a section in newpaper was introducing some blogger, I wonder I would like to be a blogger one day, but no friend around me blog at that time...

I tried to search on line for how to creating a blog, ... I found some funny symbols there, I wasted sometime to study that code, but finally I gave up. (I think it must be the professional programmer's secret code to create this game.)

I tried to click here and there... Finally, I got it right!

I was very happy. :)))

Thanks god! My dear old friend Lee Mun Yee send me a message in my Face Book, and I found that she blog too. Now I'm not lonely anymore. And I really impressed with her blog, please visit http://www.jessymylee.blogspot.com/.

She was so kind to add my blog to hers and encourage me to keep on posting.

My dear Mun Yee,

Thank you for your encouragement. I will follow you, I would like to take you as my example, try my best to do better.

You are excellent, you have a great blog, I was admired by those flowery contents, and you made for your sons too. I really proud of you too!

I managed to create the link with you. I am very happy on this. It's a good start to me. I would like to create one for my company and one for my kids in future.

我们一起成长

2008-06-06T00:23:00.000-07:00

5D4N 苏州、上海、杭州逍遥游

2008-06-05T23:42:00.000-07:00

五月十二日, 我们到达苏州, 先游乌镇古城, 晚上逛观前街. 同样的一天中国的另一端发生了大地震. 家人非常关心我们, 当晚接到多则短讯, 问候我们当地的情况. 幸好我们所去的地方离开四川很远, 并无影响. 但是, 每一天回到酒店就会很紧张的打开电视追看灾情. 激动时, 还跟着一起流泪.

天然的装饰 - 铺满植物的墙壁
小姑娘在河边洗衣裳
苏州乌镇 - 仍有人居住的老屋

苏州藕园

杭州西湖

上海黄埔江

四大美女@城隍庙

一个很难忘的旅程，四个离开丈夫、孩子的女人，一起住，一起吃、喝、玩、乐，所产生的化学作用是什么？－－很多的笑声，以及很多的笑话！！！最经典的该是EDA嗅到猫屎的那一幕。哈哈哈。。。当然还有温馨的一幕，司机先生到处找药给感冒的EDA吃，晚上还请我们吃夜宵。最后还认了EDA做干女儿呢！

我的写真集

2008-04-26T01:44:00.000-07:00

My 3 kids

2008-04-10T03:57:00.000-07:00

珍惜你所拥有的。。。