31 July 2010
White Aussie Singing in Chinese
I came across this video of a white australian girl singing a song in CHINESE! Not bad I tell ya. Check her out!
29 July 2010
New Home + Hospitalization
Thursday. 6 days of staying in my new home...how does it feel? Oh btw, I'm actually blogging in my old Cheras house as my Pantai home has no internet facility yet (let alone a phone line!).
Staying with Tim for the past 1 week has been superb. Despite the fact that I became an overnight perfectionist in wanting everything to be nice, proper and clean in this new house! I'd clean the kitchen whenever I'm back from work, washing the napkins and towels a zillion times, washing and drying our clothes every alternate days, cleaning the floor whenever I see a strand of hair on it, cleaning and wiping the tv console and coffee table everytime I lay my eyes in that living room direction. I just wouldn't sit still until my hubby had to come over and asked me to relax! No one would believe Cindy Wong would do such drastic housework with her bare hands! But believe it... I do now. Maybe because this time, as it is my own home, my brain has implanted this domestic cleaning-freak syndrome within me.
Oh apart from this moving-in news, some of you probably know by now that my beloved brother was hospitalized (3 days after I've moved out of the house!). Bad omen? Nah. I'd call it too-much-coca-cola-and-junk-food factor that caused him to land right into the hospital! On Sunday, when we returned from our family outting in Genting, my brother claimed to have a sudden "cramp" pain at his right abdomen. He thought was just the usual once-in-a-while stomach cramps so he brushed it off. Monday came, and I received a call from my mother to inform me that my brother was hospitalized due to appendicitis!
It was pretty dramatic then as for few hours in HUKM, no one really came to treat my brother despite him being in terrible pain. As I am in the medical assistance industry, my dad called me and asked me for help. Any help. As he was in the government hospital there wasn't much that I could do. My sis-in-law then asked if its possible to transfer him to a private hospital (Gleneagles). However, to transfer him to a private hospital, there must be a doctor at that private hospital who is willing to accept him. I made a quick call to my VP, my company nurse and finally to my company medical director to rope them in for help on my brother's situation and in just less than 5 minutes, my medical director managed to arrange a surgeon and a private ambulance for my brother. What a relief! It certainly helped knowing the right people!
You must be wondering why getting a private ambulance for the transfer when my brother was actually already in the hospital right? Can you believe that HUKM informed my family that they do not have any ambulance facility to transfer my brother out of the hospital??!! To do so, we have to arrange our own ambulance!! So terrible I tell ya! Anyway, that's government hospital for you. Within 15minutes, the paramedics contacted my mobile and I directed them to where my brother was. Thank God my brother was immediately transferred to Gleneagles and a surgery was scheduled the very next morning.
The surgery was successful last Tuesday and my brother was discharged this afternoon. Good news for him: He gets to loose weight this time round! ^_^
Thank you to all who wished him a speedy recovery. He'll recover real soon (I'm sure!).
Staying with Tim for the past 1 week has been superb. Despite the fact that I became an overnight perfectionist in wanting everything to be nice, proper and clean in this new house! I'd clean the kitchen whenever I'm back from work, washing the napkins and towels a zillion times, washing and drying our clothes every alternate days, cleaning the floor whenever I see a strand of hair on it, cleaning and wiping the tv console and coffee table everytime I lay my eyes in that living room direction. I just wouldn't sit still until my hubby had to come over and asked me to relax! No one would believe Cindy Wong would do such drastic housework with her bare hands! But believe it... I do now. Maybe because this time, as it is my own home, my brain has implanted this domestic cleaning-freak syndrome within me.
Oh apart from this moving-in news, some of you probably know by now that my beloved brother was hospitalized (3 days after I've moved out of the house!). Bad omen? Nah. I'd call it too-much-coca-cola-and-junk-food factor that caused him to land right into the hospital! On Sunday, when we returned from our family outting in Genting, my brother claimed to have a sudden "cramp" pain at his right abdomen. He thought was just the usual once-in-a-while stomach cramps so he brushed it off. Monday came, and I received a call from my mother to inform me that my brother was hospitalized due to appendicitis!
It was pretty dramatic then as for few hours in HUKM, no one really came to treat my brother despite him being in terrible pain. As I am in the medical assistance industry, my dad called me and asked me for help. Any help. As he was in the government hospital there wasn't much that I could do. My sis-in-law then asked if its possible to transfer him to a private hospital (Gleneagles). However, to transfer him to a private hospital, there must be a doctor at that private hospital who is willing to accept him. I made a quick call to my VP, my company nurse and finally to my company medical director to rope them in for help on my brother's situation and in just less than 5 minutes, my medical director managed to arrange a surgeon and a private ambulance for my brother. What a relief! It certainly helped knowing the right people!
You must be wondering why getting a private ambulance for the transfer when my brother was actually already in the hospital right? Can you believe that HUKM informed my family that they do not have any ambulance facility to transfer my brother out of the hospital??!! To do so, we have to arrange our own ambulance!! So terrible I tell ya! Anyway, that's government hospital for you. Within 15minutes, the paramedics contacted my mobile and I directed them to where my brother was. Thank God my brother was immediately transferred to Gleneagles and a surgery was scheduled the very next morning.
The surgery was successful last Tuesday and my brother was discharged this afternoon. Good news for him: He gets to loose weight this time round! ^_^
Thank you to all who wished him a speedy recovery. He'll recover real soon (I'm sure!).
22 July 2010
2 more days....to 24th July 2010
Reality is starting to sink in. 2 more days to go and I will have a new place to call home.
My hubby and I are rather fortunate to have both side of our parents assisting us. From overseeing the renovation and moving in of furnitures, to cooking essentials and last minute household repairs. The Bruneians and the Cherasians met up again today at our new home and had a pre-openning moving in party with a basket of durians! It is supposed to be our (my hubby and I) joy of moving-in, but it turned out that our parents are more excited than we are! How cool is that?! Its good to see the four of them together this afternoon again as the last time they had a get-together with a basket of durian was at my parents house discussing about Tim and my wedding and that was in...wait....end of 2008!
There are still alot more to be done to beautify the new place but I guess all these can wait after I deliver. No more mama's little girl from this Saturday onwards. I will be the queen of the house!
Note: "Queen" is an overstatement. I think I'll be more of a domestic slave ... cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing... thank goodness I only need to do all these for 3 months before our maid arrives!
Did I mention we applied for Astro? Can you believe that Astro's installation can only be done in 4 - 5 weeks time from the day we applied for it??! How ridiculous! But that was what I was told by the customer service rep over the phone yesterday. We've heard so many complaints about them, especially on the Astro Byond's installation recently, I hope I won't suffer the same fate! If I do, I'll make sure everyone hears of it!
Lets see how everything goes. I hope Astro would give me a pleasant experience as a NEW subscriber...
P/S - Happy birthday to my mummy! Remembered it this morning, forgotten it this afternoon, remembered it again this evening. Sorry mummy! But I'm glad to be the first to sing you early this morning! =D
My hubby and I are rather fortunate to have both side of our parents assisting us. From overseeing the renovation and moving in of furnitures, to cooking essentials and last minute household repairs. The Bruneians and the Cherasians met up again today at our new home and had a pre-openning moving in party with a basket of durians! It is supposed to be our (my hubby and I) joy of moving-in, but it turned out that our parents are more excited than we are! How cool is that?! Its good to see the four of them together this afternoon again as the last time they had a get-together with a basket of durian was at my parents house discussing about Tim and my wedding and that was in...wait....end of 2008!
There are still alot more to be done to beautify the new place but I guess all these can wait after I deliver. No more mama's little girl from this Saturday onwards. I will be the queen of the house!
Note: "Queen" is an overstatement. I think I'll be more of a domestic slave ... cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing... thank goodness I only need to do all these for 3 months before our maid arrives!
Did I mention we applied for Astro? Can you believe that Astro's installation can only be done in 4 - 5 weeks time from the day we applied for it??! How ridiculous! But that was what I was told by the customer service rep over the phone yesterday. We've heard so many complaints about them, especially on the Astro Byond's installation recently, I hope I won't suffer the same fate! If I do, I'll make sure everyone hears of it!
Lets see how everything goes. I hope Astro would give me a pleasant experience as a NEW subscriber...
P/S - Happy birthday to my mummy! Remembered it this morning, forgotten it this afternoon, remembered it again this evening. Sorry mummy! But I'm glad to be the first to sing you early this morning! =D
18 July 2010
One More Week Before the Big Move In
In a week's time, my hubby and I will be moving in to our new HOME. For the past weeks, we have been busy - hubby busy building his "empire" at work whilst I, being the organized, creative freako, took the responsibility of making sure our home looks perfect to us. Thank goodness for my hubby's flexibility, he could hop over to our house to make sure things are ok as and when I need him to, whenever I cannot get off work in between the working hours.
This afternoon, we arranged cleaners to clean the entire house today. The house was a mess initially but when we came back to pick them up 5 hours later, the whole house turned sparkling clean! Like magic! We can't wait to move in - our favourite spot in the house: The big cozy balcony that faces the reserved forest and most importantly we get to escape the massive peak hour Cheras traffic!
Furnitures will be delivered on Tuesday and Wednesday and there are still a few more small tiny items yet to be completed and we all hope it could be done before next Saturday! (If it doesn't, I'm going to give the contractor another round of lecture! You wouldn't want to mess with pregger ladies I tell ya. We have short fuse you know).
My MIL will be flying down with her maid tomorrow to do another round of cleaning for the next few days for us before they both return to Brunei, whilst my parents are preparing all the cookery stuff for the big moving-in ceremony next Saturday. They are doing this for the love of their children - US! We absolutely love our parents very much. What would we do without them??!
This post is specially dedicated to our Mom, Dad (The Ngs and the Wongs): Tim and I love you very very much. Thank you for doing this for us. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
This afternoon, we arranged cleaners to clean the entire house today. The house was a mess initially but when we came back to pick them up 5 hours later, the whole house turned sparkling clean! Like magic! We can't wait to move in - our favourite spot in the house: The big cozy balcony that faces the reserved forest and most importantly we get to escape the massive peak hour Cheras traffic!
Furnitures will be delivered on Tuesday and Wednesday and there are still a few more small tiny items yet to be completed and we all hope it could be done before next Saturday! (If it doesn't, I'm going to give the contractor another round of lecture! You wouldn't want to mess with pregger ladies I tell ya. We have short fuse you know).
My MIL will be flying down with her maid tomorrow to do another round of cleaning for the next few days for us before they both return to Brunei, whilst my parents are preparing all the cookery stuff for the big moving-in ceremony next Saturday. They are doing this for the love of their children - US! We absolutely love our parents very much. What would we do without them??!
This post is specially dedicated to our Mom, Dad (The Ngs and the Wongs): Tim and I love you very very much. Thank you for doing this for us. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
13 July 2010
Weekend Chores
I missed going to work. You must be thinking , "ARE YOU SERIOUS???!" Guess its true. Had it not been my head spinning around when I woke up at 6 this morning with the little baby taking constant free kicks in my tummy at the same time and my legs somehow felt numb from the night-cramps (both legs this time!), I would have been in the office right about this time. I'll just take this day-off (or what we normally term it as MC) to relax and chill at home after a long tiresome-but-fruitful weekend. This is the time where I really wish I could go for a nice Thai massage where I would ask them to go straight to my legs, massage it like the hamburger-way, and pour hot stinging oil on it to burn the cramps away!
Last weekend with my MIL was awesome. We began our day at 9.30am after breakfast by heading straight to the new crib. We were dissappointed as there were few things the contractor has yet to complete. By the current state of it, we are now worried if the contractor would ever be able to finish his job on time and if we would be able to move in on July 24th as scheduled. We gave the contractor an ultimatum and he promised all will be completed by then (fingers' crossed!!).
We then drove to Harvey Norman at Ikano P.C. to arrange the delivery of our new washing machine, dryer and fridge. All to be delivered by 20th of this month. We then walked over to MACY to shop for new beds for the guest room and the maid's room. We found what we liked and with the sales lady throwing in some good discounts for us, the sales of the 2 items were completed in less than an hour!
After lunch, we soldiered on with our to-do-shopping list. We drove out of Ikano and head over to LC Lighting Centre which is situated at Jalan Semangat, PJ. As we have specific taste on the lightings design, we found what we wanted and the sales person Mr Adwin frantically piling up the boxes of lights according to our demand. Yes, we were pretty demanding then...especially when comes to asking for free gifts (we are Chinese afterall) and we managed to squeeze FIVE (5) energy-saving light bulbs from them for FREE! Whoo hoo!
Our Philips Lighting. After a long search, I finally found it!
After a good 2 hours of "hanging out" at the lighting store, our next shopping list was on bed linens. We drove back to the Gardens and went straight to Robinsons. They were having pretty good sales right up to 70%!! So we purchased 2 sets of quilts (one for queen and one for king), 2 sets of quilt-cover and sheets (450 thread count each - I just learnt this haha. The higher thread count, the softer it is), 2 sets of single bed-sheets, 2 soft woolly-cotton blankets and 6 pieces of "best buy" towels! By the way, did you know, Robinsons have porter service? I asked our sales lady if they could deliver what we purchased to our hotel in Boulevard (just like in those Hollywood movies) and to my surprise she said yes! This little Bangladeshi man was called up and he packed our newly purchased items into 6 humongous plastic bags and sent it straight to our hotel room at the Boulevard Hotel. So like Beverly Hills!
Time checked: 7.00pm. A good 10 hours of completing our chores in just one day. Not bad I must say. =)
Till my next post....hopefully our long-awaited crib will be completed on time!
Last weekend with my MIL was awesome. We began our day at 9.30am after breakfast by heading straight to the new crib. We were dissappointed as there were few things the contractor has yet to complete. By the current state of it, we are now worried if the contractor would ever be able to finish his job on time and if we would be able to move in on July 24th as scheduled. We gave the contractor an ultimatum and he promised all will be completed by then (fingers' crossed!!).
We then drove to Harvey Norman at Ikano P.C. to arrange the delivery of our new washing machine, dryer and fridge. All to be delivered by 20th of this month. We then walked over to MACY to shop for new beds for the guest room and the maid's room. We found what we liked and with the sales lady throwing in some good discounts for us, the sales of the 2 items were completed in less than an hour!
After lunch, we soldiered on with our to-do-shopping list. We drove out of Ikano and head over to LC Lighting Centre which is situated at Jalan Semangat, PJ. As we have specific taste on the lightings design, we found what we wanted and the sales person Mr Adwin frantically piling up the boxes of lights according to our demand. Yes, we were pretty demanding then...especially when comes to asking for free gifts (we are Chinese afterall) and we managed to squeeze FIVE (5) energy-saving light bulbs from them for FREE! Whoo hoo!
After a good 2 hours of "hanging out" at the lighting store, our next shopping list was on bed linens. We drove back to the Gardens and went straight to Robinsons. They were having pretty good sales right up to 70%!! So we purchased 2 sets of quilts (one for queen and one for king), 2 sets of quilt-cover and sheets (450 thread count each - I just learnt this haha. The higher thread count, the softer it is), 2 sets of single bed-sheets, 2 soft woolly-cotton blankets and 6 pieces of "best buy" towels! By the way, did you know, Robinsons have porter service? I asked our sales lady if they could deliver what we purchased to our hotel in Boulevard (just like in those Hollywood movies) and to my surprise she said yes! This little Bangladeshi man was called up and he packed our newly purchased items into 6 humongous plastic bags and sent it straight to our hotel room at the Boulevard Hotel. So like Beverly Hills!
Time checked: 7.00pm. A good 10 hours of completing our chores in just one day. Not bad I must say. =)
Till my next post....hopefully our long-awaited crib will be completed on time!
03 July 2010
Pregnancy Cramps - Horrible!
2 days ago I experienced my first terrible leg cramp in the wee hours of the morning...halfway through my wonderful sleep... That pain was excruciating! It started out by giving you a warning, it will jerk you up, then as the pain grew you'd start to do everything you can to make it go away..hysterically! I tried to straightened up my left leg (no it got worse), then push down my feet (it got even worse), pull it up (it got terribly horribly excruciatingly painful), pulling it (like how footballers do it when they have cramps) but it just didnt work! I screamed in darkness holding up my calf wishing it to be cut off! In the middle of my scream, I yanked my husband but all I could hear was...his snoring.
Just like an economic scale, once the pain reached its peak, it sored down to rest. I relaxed. But I could not sleep anymore. It was 6am then and 10 more minutes for me to wake up to get ready for work. The pain was so great that I had a hard time walking as I could still feel the soreness on my left calf. It didnt go off only until after breakfast (which was like 3 hours later)!
I heard about pregnancy cramps and such, and this type of cramps would be one that I do not wish to encounter again. Last night, it almost occured again. The warning came. But thankfully this time, I had a pillow stuffed under my legs as I sleep, so I managed to avoid the full cramp pain from happening again.
(Thanks Mary for giving me this tip! It really helps!) :D
Gosh...will the cramp happen again tonight? I really dont want it to!! Do I have to go through this for the next 4 months? =(
Just like an economic scale, once the pain reached its peak, it sored down to rest. I relaxed. But I could not sleep anymore. It was 6am then and 10 more minutes for me to wake up to get ready for work. The pain was so great that I had a hard time walking as I could still feel the soreness on my left calf. It didnt go off only until after breakfast (which was like 3 hours later)!
I heard about pregnancy cramps and such, and this type of cramps would be one that I do not wish to encounter again. Last night, it almost occured again. The warning came. But thankfully this time, I had a pillow stuffed under my legs as I sleep, so I managed to avoid the full cramp pain from happening again.
(Thanks Mary for giving me this tip! It really helps!) :D
Gosh...will the cramp happen again tonight? I really dont want it to!! Do I have to go through this for the next 4 months? =(
01 July 2010
Furnitures Dilemma?!
1st July 2010. This is going to be a very very very important month for both Tim and I. Why? Its because we will be moving out and staying on our own at Bangsar South City. I reckon this month will pass by real fast and my anxieties are building up due to few matters:-
a) I cannot be involved in the moving of furnitures.
New furnitures are scheduled to move in on 21st July. I won't be there to witness it. Or rather, I CAN'T be there to witness it. Not that I'm being superstitious or being traditionally hindered by pregnancy myths and what not. Its because practically everyone especially my mother and grandmother specifically forbid me to be involved. Good for me? Not entirely... cuz I am one that has the eye of creativity (or I think I do) and I think I have the in-born talent in knowing perfectly well how and where the furniture would be best placed in a house =) and on 21st July, I wont be there to direct the process!
b) Dining Table & Chairs from Brunomenzi
Apart from the rest of the furnitures that comes from Cellini, our mahogany dining table & chairs are ordered directly from Brunomenzi's magazine. Yes! From the magazine! As there wasn't one in the showroom, our dear capable saleslady Ms Emily showed us the picture of this dining table and chairs that best suit our taste. And by the look of the picture, in less than a minute, we placed the order! It is beautiful. But.... now that I think of it, will a 1500mm diameter table (5 feet) fit our 1400 sq.ft home? What if the place that we planned to place our dining table can't fit this table? What if the 6 pieces of dining chair makes the whole house seems smaller than it is? What if its too chunky? There's so many what ifs!
c) Baby crib, Baby pram, Baby stuffs
We haven't bought any of these essential items yet. I'm now in my 5 months pregnancy, what if my stomach gets too big for me to shop later on? Oh dear!
Ok... I think I sounded too pessimistic or rather overly-worried-for-nothing. By the way, did I mentioned that I had a weird dream last night about me picking my dog's eye out? Eww...
a) I cannot be involved in the moving of furnitures.
New furnitures are scheduled to move in on 21st July. I won't be there to witness it. Or rather, I CAN'T be there to witness it. Not that I'm being superstitious or being traditionally hindered by pregnancy myths and what not. Its because practically everyone especially my mother and grandmother specifically forbid me to be involved. Good for me? Not entirely... cuz I am one that has the eye of creativity (or I think I do) and I think I have the in-born talent in knowing perfectly well how and where the furniture would be best placed in a house =) and on 21st July, I wont be there to direct the process!
b) Dining Table & Chairs from Brunomenzi
Apart from the rest of the furnitures that comes from Cellini, our mahogany dining table & chairs are ordered directly from Brunomenzi's magazine. Yes! From the magazine! As there wasn't one in the showroom, our dear capable saleslady Ms Emily showed us the picture of this dining table and chairs that best suit our taste. And by the look of the picture, in less than a minute, we placed the order! It is beautiful. But.... now that I think of it, will a 1500mm diameter table (5 feet) fit our 1400 sq.ft home? What if the place that we planned to place our dining table can't fit this table? What if the 6 pieces of dining chair makes the whole house seems smaller than it is? What if its too chunky? There's so many what ifs!
c) Baby crib, Baby pram, Baby stuffs
We haven't bought any of these essential items yet. I'm now in my 5 months pregnancy, what if my stomach gets too big for me to shop later on? Oh dear!
Ok... I think I sounded too pessimistic or rather overly-worried-for-nothing. By the way, did I mentioned that I had a weird dream last night about me picking my dog's eye out? Eww...
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