Pieces of me

When you're bored out of your mind on a Saturday in the office this is what I do.

 

Pediasure is a No Go

Well we discovered that Niki's body doesn't like pediasure and is reacting to the formula,

not so serious, just that we noticed that there's some rash and constipation.

So Vicky decided that pediasure is a no-go for our baby and we shall stick to bebelac ec.

Today is officially the weekend and I'm in the office for half day, shheeessshh!

Breakfast on the go!

hot crossed bun

bunny

baby bunny

Today had breakfast in the jeep.
Buns and strawberry milk
Niki had some of the bun too.
And today marks the day where
we start her on vanilla pediasure
I noticed that the milk has special
care esp. for kids with lactose intolerent condition
keeping our fingers crossed that Niki will find the
milk suitable

She's currently on Bebelac EC, but I think the milk
may not be able to cater for her growing needs since
she has officially entered toddlerhood. Will have to

see then folks keep y'all updated.

What is it with Girls & Handbags

I love handbags, I absolutely love them.
Yeah I'm shallow that way, my ultimate weakness is handbags.
One of the reasons whay we agreed to get a built in cabinets is due to my burgeoning handbags collection.
And I added another 2 new ones during our trip to Phuket, and one of them is the cult fave tho' slightly last season.. Balenciaga Le Dix Motorcycle in Metallic red, tho' faux *points finger up!!* but it did cost an arm and a leg too y'know. So I'm still on a high.
I had to give away a few and threw a few out coz I can't afford the space for all of it.
And so I hope Niki one day takes after me, pretty shallow but what the heck.

Perhaps me & Niki can go window shopping for shoes and bags,
and after that we can go for afternoon tea .. soon I hope.
And I think blogs should also come with a spell check coz my spelling can be atrocious most times!

Our Phuket trip

One word, actually two words..super fun!

We had so so much fun as a family & it's the first family deal we've done in a while,

Vicky is really happy that he took his mom, dad & sister to phuket.

I was happy coz I get to hang with Niki & Vicky and of course my one and only beloved sister Daphne,

We flew Air Asia but we get to enjoy their new fleet of A380 so it wasn't so bad..everything was digital and electronic as compared to the old 737-400.

We stayed at the royal paradise, the newly built royal wing deluxe rooms

they gave us VIP treatment, with fruit baskets and flowers in our rooms when we arrived. The hotel was beautiful, nice pool area, the pictures doesn't do it justice I recommend staying there if you were in phuket, one small thing tho' it's located very near the popular gay district. Loads of boy bars etc, we were amused actually. Lots of kwai los hooking up with young thai boys but if you can look past that then by all means stay at the royal paradise. The room had minimalistic contemporary thai deco, beds elevated by platforms. Wonderfully terracota bath, with a separate glass shower cubicle. Grohe accessories, nice Cotto tub and wash basins .. Tub able to fit 2 people nicely (hehehee .. *tongue in cheek*)

Niki loved the pool area, she was in the pool 3 days in a row. Got a nice tan to show for it. Vicky dranked only beer through our stay coz it was dirt cheap..RM5 for bottle of Heineken. Munched only on Lays no Cottage Fries for us man!

Shopped at Soi Bangla and the O-Top Bazaar in Patong beach..several rounds..but stuffs are basicly more expensive here as compared to BKK so didn't buy much .. just got myself 2 handbags, 2 tees, accessories, a pair of flip flops which came to a whopping RM300! Told you it was expensive top shop there I could have easily doubled the quantity of my puchase in BKK, but then that's BKK.

On Sunday night went to this place called the Port which served seafood, wonderful ambience albeit a bit packed, most happening evening dining area it seems, but food was yum, had lobster, lobster and more lobster. Red snapper steamed ala Thai, crabs, loads of beer all around. 2 live bands and a waiter performed a fire eating, fire blowing show. Impressive yeah. Vicky belanja.. :-)

Managed to my all time fave Pad Thai, we ordered room service one night coz we just wanted to stay in..for RM11 per serving it was ample and delicious! Couldn't ask for more. But if I go back to Phuket next time I think I'll stay at the Grand Tropicana or maybe return to Holiday Inn.

Wonderful trip, excellent company and a whole lot of fun! Couldn't ask for more!

Phuket Pix

Procrastinate! Procrastinate!

We're back from Phuket..and Phuket was FUN, more that later tho, till then you get to learn more about me via this personality test ..

Your Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion: You have high extroversion. You are outgoing and engaging, with both strangers and friends. You truly enjoy being with people and bring energy into any situation. Enthusiastic and fun, you're the first to say "let's go!" Conscientiousness: You have low conscientiousness. Impulsive and off the wall, you don't take life too seriously. Unfortunately, you sometimes end up regretting your snap decisions. Overall, you tend to lack focus, and it's difficult for you to get important things done. Agreeableness: You have high agreeableness. You are easy to get along with, and you value harmony highly. Helpful and generous, you are willing to compromise with almost anyone. You give people the benefit of the doubt and don't mind giving someone a second chance. Neuroticism: You have low neuroticism. You are very emotionally stable and mentally together. Only the greatest setbacks upset you, and you bounce back quickly. Overall, you are typically calm and relaxed - making others feel secure. Openness to experience: Your openness to new experiences is medium. You are generally broad minded when it come to new things. But if something crosses a moral line, there's no way you'll approve of it. You are suspicious of anything too wacky, though you do still consider creativity a virtue.

The Five Factor Personality Test

Holiday Mood = Holiday Song = Paris Hilton's "Stars Are Blind"

Yeah, yeah I'll admit it I'm a Paris fan..

STARS ARE BLIND (Paris Hilton)

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Niki & Family Heads for Phuket

Yup, we're all going for the weekend to Phuket. Along for the trip will be Vicky's mom & dad, Vicky's sister Ammu and my sister Daphne. It will be Niki's first trip ever to Phuket..!!

Gonna go holiday!! Will be flying off tomorrow and be back here on Monday. Tra-la-la..Will take loads of pictures!! Promise!

Can't wait..so excited, can't contain it in..the last time we were in Phuket was 4 years ago, and that was for our honeymoon :-)

Phuket..here we come!!

Niki Converses Part Deux

 

Niki Converses

Teeheehee .. oh happy day,

Niki at 20 months now on her bed,

remember my bed post, well here's a pic of her on the bed..

Niki can now sorta talk,

She can say her name when you ask her..

"What is your name" you ask

"Neekeetaa.." she will reply

"How old are you"

"Twoooo" well more or less right, I can't teach her twentymonths that will take a long, long time..

"What do you like to eat?"

"Kichen" that chicken..

or she'll say

"Pok" .. well you know what that is ..

She knows her fruits too.. like "apple" orange"

and of course she know "chupee" that's a nick for her pacifier

and "blanky" for her much loved blanket.

I know .. cuteness overload lar she!

After Lunch...

What do you do,

in my case,

I'll usually be having dessert..

and today's dessert is chocolate walnut brownie from secret recipe.. :-)

I was telling Vicky yesterday that when I was younger and in school I loved to read..

not that I don't now, it's just that I really can't find the time to..

The last book I read was Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, I'm currently reading Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series..and enjoying it.. coz I can relate..

Apart from reading I also loved to compose short poems, long poems, emo poems, u get the drift..now I can't even write in a grammatically correct manner..

I also loved to doodle, sketch etc...lots of old school stuff..

But now, I don't even come close to doing any of these..

When you grow up and get into the rat race, does it mean that with a job, less time for yourself & piling responsibilities equals character degradation? I think so.

So what do you do about it..

You eat your cake, in my case my brownie and get on with work.

I need to focus on getting quality back into my life..

Of beds and rolling off it

Once upon a time, Niki slept in her baby cot, she slept in it since she was the littlest baby. Her baby cot is the absolute cutest, we bought it ready for her about 2 months before she arrived. And we use to look at it, talked and really looked forward to the time when we can see our baby girl sleep in it. When she finally arrive, it was perfect for her..

Soon as petite as she was she outgrew her cot and it was giving her claustrophobia and she began to drop hints that she wanted to sleep in our bed. Hints like waking up at night with hands outstretched and pointing to our bed, which was really not a hint right..

Of course for a few nights we ignored it lar but at last we relented and let her sleep with us but it got to be so crowded (afterall 3 of us in a queen sized bed, that's stretching it) so much so that I really had problems sleeping coz I didn't have enough space to even turn, and of course we were really worried that we might suffocate the little chipmunk.

So we realized that we really have to settle this problem before;

i) I myself roll off and fall out of the bed

2) We both start looking like pandas due to lack of sleep (that's Vicky & me, Niki usually just occupies most of the bed)

3) Vicky sleeping position was so permanent the whole night with his legs hanging out on the side (poor thing!)..

4) Nki got to comfortable sleeping with us!!!!

And so we trotted out and bought her a single roll out bed all for herself, bedding stuffs from Ikea and the duvet set from Aussino, we wanted it to be super comfortable & of course attractively multi-colored so that she would actually love sleeping on her own bed..and guess what.......

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She absolutely loves her bed!! Mommy likes it too!

Mission accomplished, Mommy & Daddy has finally got enough shut eye, and Niki has been sleeping in her own bed for nearly 2 months now! Yesterday night we tucked her in as usual but in the middle of the night we heard a small cry, followed by a few sniffs..Niki accidentally rolled of her bed onto the carpeted floor, and we thank God that hers is a roll out bed so there's really no impact of rolling of at all but because she's a little princess of course she complained, well I just lifted her off and tucked her in again and slept off in seconds.

Hopefully by this time next year after we finish decorating her room she'll be ready to move out from ours heehehehehehe and get her own private room. Till then we're still roomies. Three's company!

Couldn't resist temptation..

..to buy a The Curse of the Black Pearl dvd, Johnny Depp is simply delish, so we watched it on Saturday, Vicky said that the next time we're going to see a sequel we should see the original film first so that we have "continuation"!..so now I have continuation!!

.. and one thing yeah, Geoffrey Rush has a lot of blemish, shiver me timbers!

Bureaucracy Sucks

The state of our govt's affairs and ruling truly sucks!

I just have to rant abit to cool my system.

Vicky just told me something, and it's totally unfair,

and so our govt won another battle to crap on us citizens

"protect the innocent" konon *ppfftt* bite me!

My Favorite Things

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,

bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,

brown paper packages tied up with strings,

these are a few of my favorite things.

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels,

door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles.

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.

these are a few of my favorite things.

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes,

snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,

silver white winters that melt into springs,

these are a few of my favorite things.

When the dog bites, when the bee stings,

when I'm feeling sad,

I simply remember my favorite things,

and then I don't feel so bad.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,

bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens,

brown paper packages tied up with strings,

these are a few of my favorite things.

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels,

door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles.

Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.

these are a few of my favorite things.

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes,

snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,

silver white winters that melt into springs,

these are a few of my favorite things.

When the dog bites, when the bee stings,

when I'm feeling sad,

I simply remember my favorite things,

and then I don't feel so bad.

simply love that song, and since it was raining this morning and we're heading out this song was just ringing in my head, ahhh yes I'm sappy and sentimental, sue me!

twentyfivethousandpoints

A Pop-Up tent for Niki

..I started using my current credit card since 2002. I have only one credit card believe me or not (since most ppl think I'm a shopaholic with absolutely no willpower nor self-control). But I have only 1, and since 2002 I've only accumulated twentyfivethousandpoints. That's reasonable right? I have acquaintances that can actually redeem an Osim massage chair using their credit card points alone! So I have these points and I was itching to redeem something, the current promo ends on 31st July, so I chose what I wanted from the pamphlet and faxed in my redemption form,

And so, I got ..

1) A Pop-Up Children's tent for Niki

2) A Alarm Clock Radio thingy for our nightstand (no more using my handphone as alarm, no more radioactive killer frequency waves flowing into my head!! Yippeee)

Can't wait to see Niki's face when I open it for her, I hope they have stock tho first, *fingers crossed*

TGIF!

Good grief! Whaadaweek! I'm bushed & damn tired ..

Everyone grows up,

Why do we have to?

We really don't have any choice, do we, in this issue..

Work is piling up, tenders are closing & it's time to stop procrastinating!

O_o

Blog more when I wake up!

Have you ever..

Seen Niki in a traditional costume better known as a "pavade", well Vicky finally, finally downloaded the photos from his phone, at long last, this was taken sometime in June, I think, my memory fails me, old already lar, what to do.. ta da *points finger up* really a cutie right, on her left is cousin yanu and right cousin lei.

At The Cabana!

 

Images of Pirates of The Carribean : Dead Man's Chest ... Aye

 

Image of Doing Nothing & Plain Hangin' with Niki

 

What goes on, on a Wednesday!

Nothing

What do I have to do today, hang with Niki that's what, so took a few random shots of us in bed, doing nothing, absolutely nothing, it was fab! Here's Niki lounging around, she does it perfectly coz it's genetically in-built, passed on to her from her dad, who's brushing his teeth and talking thru the foam!! eekkk!

Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest (literally!!)

Caught POTC, like finally! Johnny Depp omg! he's really born for the role of Capt Jack Sparrow, a joy to watch, we bought the lurrrvvee seats coz it's the only decent ones in the house and we didn't mind forking out an extra RM4 for it, nothing is gonna stop me from getting an awesome view of Johnny Depp from every angle! And yeah, the seats were cosy & made for love, had a fun time cuddling up with Vicky and acted like 16-year olds, teeheehee..

The Cabana

After watching the movie headed to The Cabana for a night cap, had rum.. well the pirates were guzzling it thru the movie and so I had to have it too, talk about easily swayed by ads and product placements, Vicky had Heineken, there was a cool ad on Heineken too before the movie, guess the subliminal message got to him too..

After 1, and officially Thursday

Finally got home and passed out from exhaustion!

But it was a super fun day.

On top of that *inside joke* tra-la-la it's finally ours baby!!!! Baby, u r absolutely wonderful!

I love you so, so much!

I need a cam!

..every cam-whore need a cam.. and therefore I need one too..desperately..,

I'm sure you've noticed how crappy & low-res is , all the photos that I post,

all my photos are currently taken on my ezio's handphone cam.. & I've already

photoshopped the photos, can u imagine if I did not?!!?

Until a colleague of mine e-mailed this to me.. so woop dee doo!! And the best

thing is Vicky's gonna be paying for it!! Tra-la-la..*hums happily w/ anticipation*

But if anyone wants to buy me one, you're so welcome!!

Miss Universe 2006 Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza from Puerto Rico

 

Niki & McD's chocolate cone

Like most parents I have come to believe that McDonald's has one of the strongest ad campaign ever! Coz as little as Niki is she instantly recognizes McD's and gets really excited. She loves the fries and the chocolate cone (actually we both like the latter), coz both of us have such warm affection for the cone and despite the fact theat both of us has the sniffles I bought her a cone yesterday evening & we shared it!!

And so my baby really dirtied herself in the process of consuming the yummy dessert, but had a wonderful time at it.

So all of us plodded home and watched tv while eating McD's - caught a movie "The Benchwarmers" it was hilarious like all Rob Schneider movies and settled down to watch Ms Puerto Rico Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza win the Miss Universe 2006 title, we were rooting for her but I noticed how her hair was slicked back like she was ready for the crown during the evening wear, whatev, but she wore a gorgeous dress made out of metal chains, outstanding .. Wow!

Tea time at Kheng's on Saturday

Niki & Her Daddy are born to pose

More cam-whoring

Our drama queen

Vicky's kopi-o