Week 3 2010: FB's going to camp alone

In about a few days' time, FB is going to a camp with his class for 2 nights. I can't say I'm not worried, but my worries seem kinda silly.

e.g. I don't have enough uniforms for him to wear - turns out he can wear ordinary clothes; he doesn't know how to take care of himself - well.. he can do a lot at his age... so I should trust him to be able to groom while away from home??

I'll need to see if I can get him some non-cartoonie PJs tomorrow... He's grown so big that I can't get him anything from the children's department anymore... but adult men is still too big for him... can't buy him women's clothes, can I?

The 3 of them are lining up to get sick this past week. First to go down was FB, and I don't think he's fully recovered yet; next is SB; even SSB got a slight fever just now. Daddy's working night shift today, so SB so want to join us. Cruel me had to prevent him from sharing SSB's bed though, coz it really is the last thing I want SSB to get sick too... I think his vaccine shot must be acting up that's why he's got that slight fever now... Please don't get sick... mommy has some big event to work on next week and I really can't afford to stay at home to take care of you all...

Speaking of next week's event.. (sigh) I don't know what to say... seems like everyone on the project is stretching so hard, yet the one who makes the call is providing very silly input which no one dares to speak up and say: dear, your ideas suck. Well well well... not worth it to get him mad, I guess? Fingers crossed that we'll survive with flying colours!

Where's that weekly post?

Well, well, well... I have all the good (or bad) excuses.

It was exam time for SB!

FB got ill these couple of days.

SSB has been very busy celebrating his 1 year old bday... btw, he weighs 9.33 on the MCHC scale the other day. A medium boy.

I've been doing silly footage editing.

And seriously... I got no energy left.

Of course, the honest and not lame excuse is: I'm simply lazy.

Guess what, I actually have a few good topics to write, but since I don't carry anything with me, all these thoughts are gone and no where to be found by the time I can actually sit down and get typing.

Ah... there was this word in news that was used so wrongly and politically incorrect that I can post.... let me start it on a new one then. This is too gibberish even to myself.

Week 1, 2010

I'm writing gibberish again just to keep my own promise to myself, so here it is my "weekly" entry.

Mr. SSB just learnt how to shake his head to music. (HURRRRRRAAAAAY!)

Mr. SB is going to have his English exam and Chinese writing exam tomorrow. I believe he does not have a clue of what past tense / simple present tense is. I did try to study with him, but... (I can now only keep my fingers crossed that he can pass eventually.... all I ask for is pass, really.)

Mr. FB is growing a lot more mature, aka also becoming rebellious as he enters pre-teenage. (Geeee... he's such a big boy!) So, I need to take note on his behaviour and thoughts. I really don't want to see him going the not-so-right-way...

Year end appraisal time is near. I need to dig out what I've done well - now that's a real challenge.

Who have I missed? Oh... the one who has always slept too much... nothing worth to put down!

Dusting

OK, I know there's been so much dust collected here. What can I say... my last post was about 3 months ago... so this is obviously become a quarterly thing?

Looking back into these 3 months, I have:

- sold 2 big things;
- bought 1 big thing;
- moved;
- taking kids to school on taxi every morning as I still can't get hold of a school bus vacancy!
- helped FB to get better exam results;
- planned to boost SB's exam results too;
- went to 2 weddings;
- plurked a lot;
- worked a lot;
- let my domestic helper resign;
- hired part time help;
- and left here intact.

I so much want to record something interesting / thought-provoking in my life, but having about 4 hours of sleep (not a straight 4 hours, as SSB wakes up about 10 times each night) every day is not leaving me much energy to do a lot of things that I want to do.

Say... I would love to read more, listen to more music, watch more films, bake more (OK, I did make 100+ cookies for the boys' holiday gathering)... but no, 3 boys and 1 bigger apartment is really really really eating me out.

So, here's my (I know might not be able to accomplish) new year resolution: let's see if I can keep a post a week so that I have something to look back to when I grow old...

It's bad enough I still haven't tidied up my new place after more than 1 month that I've moved in... It's also bad enough I haven't done any hand / foot prints for SSB - all his brothers got all these lovely coloured prints that they can refer to... I haven't even recorded the teeth progress of the baby, nor his weight... (what kind of mother am I now?)

So, here's a few lines for that. I think last time I checked (should be about 2 weeks ago... ) the baby is 9kgs (the smallest of them 3!) and his 6th teeth is coming out. The first to came out were the bottom front teeth; then the upper ones, then the upper lateral incisors (left first, right coming out... it's my left, not his)... and he's can stand on his own for about 1 minute now... could be walking any time... he's also said "mamamama" (1 1 1 3 in Mandarin tones to be precise) and "mamama" (3 1 1) and "babababa" (1 1 1 1) and "goh" (1) for quite a while now... so we're expecting him to be "talking" soon as well.

What else... that's really much about it to be honest... life's been pretty routinous, and can't say not enjoying every moment. Keeping fingers crossed that baby is going to sleep better soon so that I can get more things done.

Signs of aging

Copied from AC:

(bold = checked... the more the older?)

1. Become hesitated to work overnight, and tend to leave office on time in some idle periods. Never stay in office for a ‘mere presence’;
2. On desk or in side cabinet there are always cereal bars, herbal teabags and vitamin tabs available, instead of softdrinks and chips;
3. Have meals regularly and say ‘no’ to midnight treats;
4. Find more and more friends showing up in reunions, and most accompanied by children;
5. The most frequent feedbacks heard from friends when ordering dishes is “I need to have something light recently”;
6. The most popular topics among friends are Chinese medicines, gyms and spas;
7. Start staying away from western meds and prefer Chinese meds;
8. Go to bed normally before 12am;
9. Start worrying about white hair, big bellies and wrinkles;
10. On and off there are news about friends getting seriously ill/ divorced/ separated/ kick the bucket;
11. Start buying CD reprints and video collection boxes;
12. Start addicted to trivias;
13. “It was better” becomes the favourite word;
14. You can’t wait to share them with everyone on Facebook once you found some stuff of your highschool life;
15. See someone on TV news who are your junior/ secondary school, or university classmates, at least once or twice a year;
16. Start to try clothings with colours/ patterns/ fabrics that never tried before;
17. Wear highschool or uni sport shirts as pajyamas (if they aren’t worn out yet);
18. Look for all those songs in 70’s/80’s/90’s when singing karaoke;

(OK, I just bought Rock Band Beatles too... but that doesn't mean I know the songs!!)

19. Start collecting some old stuffs, while throwing away more and more unfit clothings;
20. Discover that the contribution period of life insurance almost comes to an end; (Only because I bought real early!!)
21. Pay more attention to various ratings (instead of price) when booking a hotel, and stay away from backpackers’ hostels.

It's been a month

... since I blogged about anything!

So what have I been up to? Why is there nothing worthy enough to put up here?

I don't know. Not the faintest idea. Perhaps I just don't have time... perhaps I can't make my words say what I want to anymore...

But, for someone who writes for a living... I should probably find time, energy and perhaps motivation to write more often.

Little feet

Little feet, oh little feet,

Why are you always so sweet?

Solid foods you have begun to eat.

You really are growing like weeds!