Tagged - 12 layers of me

Aiyoh yoh, don’t know what’s tag means…so auntie, right? Well kena tag by Celine, she just instructed copy and fill up the blanks… ok so “cheong hei”…

Layer 1: On The Outside
Name: Wai Wai - my family and kampong friends’ term, Elaine - my office and Penang folks’ term, “loh poh” – my hubby’s term, “mummy” – my princesses’ term… talking about “cheong hei”….
DOB: 6th Jan.
Current Status: Married.
Eye Colour: Dark Brown
Hair Colour: Brownish
Righty or Lefty: Righty

Layer 2: On The Inside
Your Heritage: The proud Cantonese, “sei ngoi min”
Your Fears: Cockcroaches, reptiles…
Your Weaknesses: Impatience, when my kids and loh kung “teh” me…
Your Perfect Pizza: crispy with healthy tops….

Layer 3: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Your Thoughts First Waking Up: Thank God for another new day
Your Bedtime: By 11.00 pm
Your Most Missed Memory: Speaking my wedding vows….

Layer 4: Your Pick
Pepsi or Coke: Neither
McDonald’s or Burger King: McDonald, 90% for the sundae cone only..
Single or Group Dates: whatever!
Adidas or Nike: Nike
Tea or Nestea: Tea
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Coffee, just a little

Layer 5: Do you…
Smoke: No way…
Curse: Yes, parking attendants (the one who writes your parking bill on Penang streets)…
Have a crush: Yes…many..crushes….
Think you’ve been in love: Yes and still is
Go to school: Just break myself from it, no way at least 5 years down the road…
Want to get married: No chance alreadylah…. Married liao
Believe in yourself: God first…
Think you’re in health freak: Yes, cholesterol very high…. No choice

Layer 6: In The Past Month Have You…
Drank Alcohol: Yes, sometimes I DOME
Gone to the mall: Definitely….
Been on the stage: Yes, being emcee at my company’s annual dinner and kid’s annual concert..
Eaten Sushi: Yes
Dyed your hair: Quarterly…to cover the grey hairs

Layer 7: Have You Ever…
Played a stripping game: Got, can’t remember when…
Changed who you were to fit in: Can’t recall….

Layer 8: You’re Hoping
To be Married: No married liao!
For a: big space to work on my dream garden
2. big kitchen with an island in the center

Layer 9: In a Gal (for guys in a boy)
Best Eye + Best Hair Colour Combination: You are perfect, no need to mix…
Short Hair or Long Hair: As long got hair!

Layer 10: What Were You Doing
1 Min Ago: Answering all the questions abovelah
1 Hour Ago: typing
4.5 Hour Ago: lunch time
1 Month Ago: Can’t remember already
1 Year Ago: What?? Drop this question….

Layer 11: Finish The Sentence
I Love: my loves……..
I Feel: like taking a lot a lot of pictures with my new Nikon S200
I Hate: Hypocrites….
I Hide: Expensive stuff that I bought from my hubby…. Don’t want nagging…
I Miss: Care free time during my teenage years…….
I Need: To exercise……..

Layer 12: Tag 5 People
1. Shaggy
2. Dorene (no blog yet woh..)
3. Debbie (my faithful reader)
4. Must have blog one right?... (Aunties normally don’t have blog woh..)
5. Figured out later…

My Lollipops

See my two lovely lollipops! They are so cute in the same T-shirts and hair style, last time mei mei used to wear the handovers from jeh jeh but not anymore since mei mei turned two, she wants exactly like jeh jeh and vice versa. So mummy have to buy two sets for almost everything.. if not jealousy and sibling rivals will begin. Girls... they like pink, pink and pink from top to toes, clips, hair bands, dresses, pants, t-shirts, skirts, shoes, rings...............etc. Last weekend we went for a charity dinner in town, the couple sitting at the next table was blessed with 4 girls, they look alike and maintenance cost is sure high...everything x4....not sure whether they have the same policy like my girls (no handovers!)he he he.

I got it.. snap snap

Finally.....my loh kung came back with my new toy.... Nikon 200s...charged it right away, took some shots last night and this morning can't wait for the day to be bright but it was raining, tried some shots...

Cinderella

My daughters simply love to watch Cinderella (the Walt Disney cartoon version), I lost count how many times they have played the VCD, memorized each scene and songs even the step daughters vocal practice section…. Both of them will act out the scene, singing “… Nightingale… ah ah ah ah……”, then beat each other on the head….

Last weekend we borrowed some DVDs from my neighbor, Boon, one of them is Cinderella story (the Walt Disney version starring Hilary Duff etc…), my elder daughter was glued to the TV, enjoying each scene, the story has been adopted from the cartoon series but translated into modern Cinderella version…. Quite nice, instead of leaving the glass slipper behind, Sam (modern Cinderella) left her cell phone at the school pomp dance event….ha ha, now Prince Charming is searching for Cinderella in the school, 10.30 pm, daddy said it’s bed time, so being very obedient and reluctant we have to switch off the TV and to be continued tonight…….

Mei mei don’t know how to enjoy the show yet but jeh jeh certainly enjoying every moment of it…….. one of the wonderful moments I spent with my daughters, we went to bed hoping for some sweet dreams, dancing with our Prince Charming perhaps…….. woke up by the alarm this morning, no dancing with any prince, not sure about jeh jeh and mei mei……….. jeh jeh reminded me, “tonight we will continue the movie ah………” yes provided you finished your homework, I answered.

Opposite attracts........and attacks

Opposite attracts, hmm…..normally people refers this phrase to relationships….if you don’t believe try to survey couples around you, most likely you will find that couples who are together have different characters, attitude, behavior and likings. That’s what makes the couple clicks and last Sunday that’s what makes my hubby and I “attack” each other, not physically of course but verbally and phycologically……very “chim leh”.

Before that let me share how we are different, he is a slow and steady guy, I’m the rushy type, everything want fast fast and want it now, he loves vegetables, I like meat, he’s quite an old fashioned guy with his “ah pek” thoughts and philosophy, I’m more open and fashionable, he is gentle, I am more aggressive, he is introvert, I’m more extrovert, he likes to read, I like to be sociable, he likes action movie, I like dramas…….. the list goes on, wonder how we get along for more than 10 years huh (courtship = 4 years, married > 8 years), I wonder how too?? He he he….. by God’s grace.

Anyway let’s move on to what I actually wanted to say… last Sun we went out to shop for my digital camera, normally he’s the one who did all the background studies, surveyed all the available shops in Penang and obviously knew the best deal in town already, being pushy, I said I wanted my camera now, so we went to this shop, which deal is quite good and acceptable (to me!) and lastly we have the sales guy teaching me how to maneuver around the features of the camera, (at this point of time, my saliva is…… and was so happy that finally I can own a digital camera)…. But good hubby said “No”, negotiated with the sales guy, he claimed another model of camera is better (all the technical stuff), cash and carry, credit card………(all the technical buy and sell terms and conditions…..) and finally we walked out from the shop empty handed and you knowlah……I showed my black faceloh….

Went into the car, the discussion continued….on the technicalities…….blah blah blah, I attacked he defended, he reasoned, I counter reasoned……….lastly I said “OK I understand all your technical points but you have to understand my heart”, hubby went quiet and apologized and I still “black face”! Back home, the kids asked if I had got my camera, I said “No, daddy won’t buy”, daddy said we quarreled and my princesses stood by my side and three of us “attacked” daddy again, daddy no choice and promised he will get one home tomorrow! So I’m waiting…………. Patiently….

Child beggar

Saturday morning, went to Lipsin market to buy my weekly supply for the family with my hubby. I saw this woman maybe in her 50s and a child about the age of my younger daughter on the floor and begging from the public, not the first time I saw them for they moved around. Every time I saw them, anger filled me… on the woman and my heart breaks…. for the innocent child. I asked my hubby, is there anything we can do? Shall we report to the welfare department, is she the grandmother? Where are her parents? I observed one of the woman’s hands seems to have a little defect, other than that everything looked normal, so is the child. A lot of thought playing in my mind, if I were to report to the welfare department, will they really take care of the child? What happen if the lady is really the grandmother and they will be separated? What happen if the police detained the woman and it’s the grandmother? Is this the job of a syndicate? How can I help? Oh…. I can just pray for the child, pray that God will have mercy and deliver her from the need to beg in the public…… what will you do if you are in my situation?

Serious child talk

My girls are extremely clingy to me which turn their daddy into a very “sour” and greenish being. When we have nothing to do, I will just start any conversation with them or we will simply roll over onto my bed or L-shape sofa and we will start our “keng kai” session, “keng kai” means “lepak” or, care free chit-chatting, below are some funny dialogues with them:

In the car, Jeh Jeh was not around:

Mummy: Mei Mei, what do you say if we just leave jeh jeh at ah kung’s house and three of us just flee?
Mei Mei: (Without thinking) “YES!”
Mummy: (Laughing)
Mei Mei: I did not say that, you did!
Mummy: But you agreed with it
Mei Mei: How can we not want Jeh Jeh, she will cry when cannot find three of us?
Mummy: So clever, how come you know there are three of us?
Mei Mei: (Pointing), nah one, two, three, three of us lah….


On a mattress in their bedroom

Mummy: Mei Mei, can you sleep on the small mattress, mummy sleeps in the center and I’m side by side with you and Jeh Jeh.
Mei Mei: Ngg…. Don’t want….
Mummy: It’s quite tight here with both of us sleeping on a single person mattress, please mei mei
Mei Mei: (In a dissatisfying tone) You are the one who give birth to me, can’t sleep with me meh?
Mummy: Startled…. Ok ok ok sleep with mummy lah….


Yesterday, I fetched Jeh Jeh from school, she needed badly to ease herself, once out from the lift she charged to our unit, I panicly searched for the house keys, can’t find, asked her to shout for Ah Mah to open the door, she shouted “ah mah, ah mah, Ah Mah, Ah Mah, AH MAH, AH MAH….. Mummy can’t hold it anymore, it’s coming out!!!”……… sshhee…………………… everything was wet inclusive the socks and her pinky sport shoes…
In the evening on the L-shape sofa:
Mummy: Girl, if tomorrow Chloe (her best friend) asked why you are not wearing your pink shoes, what will you say?
Jeh Jeh: Giggling and laughing……… say Ah Mah washed it loh…
Mummy: Why Ah Mah wash it leh?
Jeh Jeh: Ngg……… cannot tell….. very shameful…
Mummy: Just say it was dirtylah…..
Jeh Jeh: Giggling and laughing….. ok because it was dirtylah….
Mummy: Clever girl!

Today, in the car, back from school, I fried some maggi mee for her classmates (celebrating Children’s day)

Jeh Jeh: Celine (her friend) ate your maggi mee and spit it out….. she said it taste “yaks” (with her action….)
Mummy: Really, that bad??
Jeh Jeh: Ngg….
Mummy: (Not happy with the whole thing, interrogate her further) Is it true or you made it up?
Jeh Jeh: Don’t tell Ms. Wong hoh (her class teacher).
Mummy: Why because you made it up right?
Jeh Jeh: Yes…..
Mummy: (Lecture her all the way home………………….)