This week mark my last week of maternity leave. I will be back to the workforce on 1st Sept! Just miss the effective date by 2months+ or I will be able to get another 4 weeks of maternity leave! Life will be back to the days of night conference calls and writing solutions designs. But now there will be additional routine of milk pumping, feeding and pacifying.
My workstation in office had shifted as the office had expanded. I have no idea where my new desk is and I heard all my personal stuffs were still inside the carton box. Day 1 of work will be unpacking and chit chatting with my colleagues on new updates of individual as well as gossips circulating around.
Today my boss gave an sms asking when I will be back in action. How I wish I could have given a reply like this:
"Not intending to go back anymore" OR "I still have another month to go!"...Instead, I had given:
"Coming back on 1st Sept Monday" :(
I still have 14 days of annual leave and 4 days of family leave. Haa, havent start work and I am thinking to go on leave again! Overseas trip is out of question for the time being. Hui doesnt have much leave left because he had taken quite alot when I was in hospital and during my confinement.
Anyone care to take some leaves and accompany me to go shopping for CNY clothes and also catch a lower cost movie on wkdays???
Friday, August 15, 2008
I think I have a good maid
The maid we employed came on Wed(13/08). I've chosen this maid because she gave me quite a good first impression. She was in the agency centre as she was a transferred maid. The agent told me the previous employer did not want to have a maid anymore that's why she was sent back. She had worked with that employer for 7months. I hope the agent did not bluff me because to me, a transferred maid meaning the maid might not be a good one that's why the employer sent them back to the agency.
Anyway, as Hui and I needed a maid urgently (I'm going back to work on 1st sept), we decided to pick her. A new maid would required at least 6weeks before they can come over to Singapore due to those work permit and other processing issues.
We decided to get a maid mainly to help my MIL on the household chores so that my MIL is more free up to take good care of my 2 darlings. Ofcourse the maid need to help out in handling the babies too incase both started to cry at the same time or my MIL is tied up with something. Therefore my first criteria when chosing maid is she has to know the basic of handling infants.
According to this maid profile, she stated she like children alot and can speak english. Indeed her english is understandable to an extent without much guessing of what she is trying to say. Although she doesnt have much experience in looking after baby, but she does has some basic experience through helping to take care of her cousin's baby. At the agency when we interviewed her, she said she can cook chinese food. I shall make that as a bonus if the food she cook is really edible as knowing how to cook is not one of my top priority. She is from myanmar and is a buddhist (which Hui like as we are also buddhist). She can eat pork which is another bonus for us because it means we do not need to specially cook separately for her.
It's been 3 days since she arrived. So far so good. Very hardworking and automatic. When we do not have much things for her to do already, she will initiate to use a cloth to wipe whichever corner she find is dirty. She dare not eat or rest until we keep asking her to do so. To my surprise, her cooking is really not bad! She can many chinese food and they taste good too. She said she learn the chinese cooking from her mum and her mum belongs to the chinese sector group in myanmar. But compared to my MIL's cooking, ginger still the older the better. :)
Since she work so hard in the day, we decided to have the babies in our room at night so she can sleep better and not be disturb by the cryings. But she volunteered to look after them at night knowing that she might have to wake up every minute whenever the babies cry. But because we do not allow her to feed the baby yet, therefore whenever they started crying non-stop, she will have to wake us up for us to handle. I have a baby monitoring device in the baby's room and my room so I know what is happening in the baby's room. Although I cannot see but at least whenever the baby cry loudly or I hear any weird noise, I can dash into the room.
As of today, I am pretty satisfied with this maid and have no intention to change her away. But I will reserve my opinion of her until she pass my 3months probabtion. Till then if everything is as good as now, I will have an entry with the title
"Ithink I have a good maid"!
Anyway, as Hui and I needed a maid urgently (I'm going back to work on 1st sept), we decided to pick her. A new maid would required at least 6weeks before they can come over to Singapore due to those work permit and other processing issues.
We decided to get a maid mainly to help my MIL on the household chores so that my MIL is more free up to take good care of my 2 darlings. Ofcourse the maid need to help out in handling the babies too incase both started to cry at the same time or my MIL is tied up with something. Therefore my first criteria when chosing maid is she has to know the basic of handling infants.
According to this maid profile, she stated she like children alot and can speak english. Indeed her english is understandable to an extent without much guessing of what she is trying to say. Although she doesnt have much experience in looking after baby, but she does has some basic experience through helping to take care of her cousin's baby. At the agency when we interviewed her, she said she can cook chinese food. I shall make that as a bonus if the food she cook is really edible as knowing how to cook is not one of my top priority. She is from myanmar and is a buddhist (which Hui like as we are also buddhist). She can eat pork which is another bonus for us because it means we do not need to specially cook separately for her.
It's been 3 days since she arrived. So far so good. Very hardworking and automatic. When we do not have much things for her to do already, she will initiate to use a cloth to wipe whichever corner she find is dirty. She dare not eat or rest until we keep asking her to do so. To my surprise, her cooking is really not bad! She can many chinese food and they taste good too. She said she learn the chinese cooking from her mum and her mum belongs to the chinese sector group in myanmar. But compared to my MIL's cooking, ginger still the older the better. :)
Since she work so hard in the day, we decided to have the babies in our room at night so she can sleep better and not be disturb by the cryings. But she volunteered to look after them at night knowing that she might have to wake up every minute whenever the babies cry. But because we do not allow her to feed the baby yet, therefore whenever they started crying non-stop, she will have to wake us up for us to handle. I have a baby monitoring device in the baby's room and my room so I know what is happening in the baby's room. Although I cannot see but at least whenever the baby cry loudly or I hear any weird noise, I can dash into the room.
As of today, I am pretty satisfied with this maid and have no intention to change her away. But I will reserve my opinion of her until she pass my 3months probabtion. Till then if everything is as good as now, I will have an entry with the title
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
A little surprise means so much
We finally brought the 2 terrors out for their first shopping at Taka Baby Fair. On Sun(10/8), Hui, SIL, BIL and I brought the 2 to visit the PD for their injections. After that, we went to Taka baby fair to meet up with Gek Eng and her hubby.
Things were quite cheap at the fair. Bought some clothing and baby neccessities there. Bringing 2 babies out are indeed tiring. We need to find nursery room for me to pump my milk, to change their diapers and also hot water to warm the milk we brought out and feed them. If they manage to sleep, we manage to shop. If they cry, all the time were spent pacifying them before we attracted a big crowd looking at us!
They need to drink milk every 3hours so we couldnt be too far away from the nursery room area. Shopping is not as enjoyable compared to last time when there were only Hui and I.
After the 2nd feed of the day, I was attracted to this booth at Taka 3rd floor where they were selling the foot and hand imprints protrait from Best Imprezzione. After a long discussion with the sales lady, Hui and I decided to do one for our babies. It's quite expensive but it will be a good piece of memorable item to keep.
After spending quite some time at Best Imprezzione, we headed for lunch around 3pm at Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao together with Gek Eng, her hubby and their 3months+ old son, Raphael.
Didnt manage to take any photos for this outing because our hands were full with the 2 little ones. Although I havent shop enough,Hui decided to call it a day at 5pm as he was too tired to continue with the shopping. In addition, SIL & BIL had something on at night which they could not stay out with us for too long as well. Therefore after the 3rd feed for the babies, we headed to the carpark.
On the way to the Wisma carpark, we passed the Agnes B shop in Isetan. I was hold up by the 30% sale which attracted me to walk in and take a look. Few months ago when I was still carrying Elsie & Chloe in my tummy, I chanced upon this nice blue and white Agnes B bag which I like so much. But thinking the bag cost $300+ and we need to save up for the babies, I did not get the bag in the end. Now the bag is having 30% off for the one I aimed!! As we were rushing for time, I asked the salesman when the offer will end and see if I could come back another day for it. He said while stock last but the bag I wanted still have quite alot of stock. So we left the place with my heart itchy itchy.
Yesterday (11/8) night while I was going to lie in bed for a short rest, I saw something behind my pillow. To my surprise, it was the Agnes B bag which I wanted! Ask Hui when he bought it as his office is at Alexandra and if it was purchase during lunch hours, he might have skip his lunch just to get the bag for me. It couldnt be after work because he came back home quite early yesterday, unless he had secretly taken 1/2 day leave. Anyway, Hui just refused to let me know!
It's been a long time since we had some romantic time together ever since I had given birth. It was hard to plan any surprises anymore ever since we live together after our wedding. Therefore this little surprise really means so much to me. It shows he still havent "forgotten" he had this wife which sometimes needed some pamper too as now 80% of his time were spent on Elsie & Chloe, 15% on work and probably only just 5% left for me :(. But I hope the thought of getting this bag is not due to some pressurised substance from someone who cares for me. :p
Here's my first Agnes B bag!
Things were quite cheap at the fair. Bought some clothing and baby neccessities there. Bringing 2 babies out are indeed tiring. We need to find nursery room for me to pump my milk, to change their diapers and also hot water to warm the milk we brought out and feed them. If they manage to sleep, we manage to shop. If they cry, all the time were spent pacifying them before we attracted a big crowd looking at us!
They need to drink milk every 3hours so we couldnt be too far away from the nursery room area. Shopping is not as enjoyable compared to last time when there were only Hui and I.
After the 2nd feed of the day, I was attracted to this booth at Taka 3rd floor where they were selling the foot and hand imprints protrait from Best Imprezzione. After a long discussion with the sales lady, Hui and I decided to do one for our babies. It's quite expensive but it will be a good piece of memorable item to keep.
After spending quite some time at Best Imprezzione, we headed for lunch around 3pm at Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao together with Gek Eng, her hubby and their 3months+ old son, Raphael.
Didnt manage to take any photos for this outing because our hands were full with the 2 little ones. Although I havent shop enough,Hui decided to call it a day at 5pm as he was too tired to continue with the shopping. In addition, SIL & BIL had something on at night which they could not stay out with us for too long as well. Therefore after the 3rd feed for the babies, we headed to the carpark.
On the way to the Wisma carpark, we passed the Agnes B shop in Isetan. I was hold up by the 30% sale which attracted me to walk in and take a look. Few months ago when I was still carrying Elsie & Chloe in my tummy, I chanced upon this nice blue and white Agnes B bag which I like so much. But thinking the bag cost $300+ and we need to save up for the babies, I did not get the bag in the end. Now the bag is having 30% off for the one I aimed!! As we were rushing for time, I asked the salesman when the offer will end and see if I could come back another day for it. He said while stock last but the bag I wanted still have quite alot of stock. So we left the place with my heart itchy itchy.
Yesterday (11/8) night while I was going to lie in bed for a short rest, I saw something behind my pillow. To my surprise, it was the Agnes B bag which I wanted! Ask Hui when he bought it as his office is at Alexandra and if it was purchase during lunch hours, he might have skip his lunch just to get the bag for me. It couldnt be after work because he came back home quite early yesterday, unless he had secretly taken 1/2 day leave. Anyway, Hui just refused to let me know!
It's been a long time since we had some romantic time together ever since I had given birth. It was hard to plan any surprises anymore ever since we live together after our wedding. Therefore this little surprise really means so much to me. It shows he still havent "forgotten" he had this wife which sometimes needed some pamper too as now 80% of his time were spent on Elsie & Chloe, 15% on work and probably only just 5% left for me :(. But I hope the thought of getting this bag is not due to some pressurised substance from someone who cares for me. :p
Here's my first Agnes B bag!
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Daddy's Precious, Mummy's Gems
My 2 precious are already 2.5 months old! Many people had been asking me for photos of my 2 darlings. I finally had some time last week to sort them out and uploaded the nicer ones.
"Elsie's poster hanging on a tall building in New York!"
"Chloe's photo hanging outside a baby shop in New York!"
Click on the following picture to view more photos. Revisit Flickr website to look out for more new updates of my darlings! Enjoy!
Click on the following picture to view more photos. Revisit Flickr website to look out for more new updates of my darlings! Enjoy!
