To be Fair: August 2006

Enchanted Fabric

Photograph courtesy of Uncle Hasan

An explosion of colours from the enchanged fabric display at Jakel Trading, apparently the largest fabric store in Segamat. The shop is certainly all ready for the Raya shoppers.

The Attack of the towel monster

Help...help....towel monster in the hosue

The Royal Celebration

Dear Wao Gong, Wao Po, all my aunties, and friends of all my aunties, let me present you with two red eggs, lo-mai-fun and sui-yuk for my one month old celebration. I shall come visit all of you when I grow up. For now, since I am terribly busy running my napathon, I have instructed my secretary Aunty Wendy to deliver the goodies through cyber delivery. I trust that she will do her job well.

From your Royal Highness
Princess Chloe

P/s If you want to buy me clothes, the new summer colours according to David Johns are lacy pink and candy blue.

The eve of the Celebration

Tomorrow is Chloe's full month. Red eggs are ready while glutinous rice are still dancing in cohesion with the lup-cheong, mushroom and pork on the stove.

Guess who

Quality Time

Baby fell asleep blissfully. The women in the house treated themselves to delicious nasi goreng and fresh oven backed butter cookies.

A Day in the life of a Nanny

7:00am Jayden gatecrashed into Aunty Wendy's room to say "hello". It was not just any hello.It was a hello with gusto, so loud that you had to get up.

7:30am Mommy dressed Jayden and fed Chloe. No sign of Aunty Wendy in the living room. Little Jayden came in again and insisted that Aunty Wendy sit up to listen to his stories about his birthday present. Tornado hit South Perth last night and the temperature dropped to 9C. Aunty Wendy woke up a few times in the night but the plan to sleep in was shattered when you have a sociable 3 year-old nephew in the house.

7:50am Mommy packed two kids into the car. Jayden will be dropped off at the daycare. She was going to send in Chloe's birth certificate.

8:03am I was switching channel while drying my hair. The news in Perth were kinda interesting. Prime Minister Johnny Howard apologized for the increase in oil price. Some jerks placed rat poisons in a school compound and a squad had to come in to clean it up. In the health news section, apparently eating canned food is as nutritous as fresh food. I also learnt that Winston Churchill suffered from Bipolar disorder and he nicknamed his depression "Black Dog"

8:40am Australian fresh bread and cheese are simply yummy. I likethe coffee bags here and decided to treat myself with the vanilla flavoured one. Feeling a bit goggy due to lack of good sleep.

9:20am Checked my inbox. One mail was from my client, two from my community service group and a couple of junk mail. I will reward anyone who can tell me how to stop those spam mail on penis elongation. They are such pests.

9:30am Mommy was back early. I was impressed with Australian government's efficiency but it turned out that she has forgotten one signature so she had to go back again tomorrow. We made tea and chatted about the games we played as children. Apparently we used to play this silly game imitating owl when we were still staying in our old house. Then she told me once that I lectured Sister S when she was small. I said if she continued to be naughty, she would grow up to become only a movie star. We laughed so hard. It was so silly but was good memory.

11:50am Mommy fed Chloe again and after which decided to fry some meehoon for lunch. I was trying to do some work but utterly lack inspiration. TV 9 was showing this Dr.Phil ( something like Ophra ) trying to mend broken bridges between a mother and her daughter. There are just far too many commercials on the Australian TV about weight loss and vitamins.

4:00pm Mommy finished cooking dinner and went off to pick Jayden from day school. Jayden did some painting today. I think his painting is quite good considered he is not even 3 year old. In the painting Mommy is protrayed as the long thin one of the left side, and Daddy is the bigger blob on the right. Daddy occupies more space in the picture and according to his teacher, it showed also the importance of daddy in this little boy's heart. He drew everyone with two tiny round eyes. His mommy told him his self-protrait looked a bit like alien and I think he got a bit upset.

6:00pm. Children were bathed, dinner was cooked, and baby Chloe was sound asleep. Aunty Wendy was not very productive with her client's work today though she did a fair bit as Chloe's nanny. Must be the cold weather.

7:30pm. The whole family was fed, dishes were done and kids were sent to bed. How efficient. Aunty Wendy is thinking hard of what to blog. She hoped weather tomorrow would be better so that she can jog. Otherwise she could not fit into her tight tops and hit the pub anymore. She is starting to miss her barley at the mamak and the kopi kao kao at the kopitiam.

Life is Good

Presenting Chloe Lee Yum

Power Tussle - Round 1

Mommy needed to get her hair trimmed at the neighbourhood hairdresser. Aunty Wendy gamely agreed to watch the house with one sleeping toddler and one snoozing infant. Five minutes into blissful blogging , the toddler awoke and yelled for attention. Just before Aunty Wendy could comfort the young toddler that surviving the waking up ordeal is the journey to manhood, the young infant started her protest.

Young toddler got totally upset just as Aunty Wendy got up to hold the baby. Insisting to squeeze himself between Aunty Wendy's arm and the baby, the young toddler was clearly making a stand demanding for her undivided attention. It is an either me or the baby situation. Threatened by two turbo-charged crying objects, Aunty Wendy had to make a choice. She looked up and aimed a merciless death ray at the winching toddler with all her might. Almost immediately silence ensued. It was long before one could hear the soft and breadthless sobbing of the toddler.

At the speed of light, Aunty Wendy, with one arm rocking the now quiet baby, served up swiftly a bottle of Ribena and 5 pink stawberries cream sticks. She breadthed a sigh of relief seeing him all contended seeping his "red wine" . Just at this moment, the door open and in came Mommy with a nicely trimmed bang.

More episodes of power tussle between the young prince and baby princess are sure to come. For this round : Jayden 0 Chloe 1

Friday Lunchbreak

Workers chilling out by the river at lunchbreak. Had they been Chinese they most probably would be thinking of making these birds into delicious stew

A day out at South Perth

Jayden was naughty and wanted to go near the water to say hello to the seagulls. Mommy said "Jayden, if you are naughty again, you will sit on the naughty chair"