Change person...

Today, was catching up on friends' blogs and I happened to read LH's where she commented about how I (referring to Helena) have changed from a career-minded person to a domesticated person who's priority is family and kids. Frankly, I never expected the change myself. Till today, even my own mum asked me when am I going to return to the working society. I am not sure if I can fit back into the working society actually. Will I be able to take the stress? Will I be able to work late? Will I be able to concentrate on work and not think about my kids?

These days, my small talk with parents, grandparents of kids in Kyrene's school, my friends, my relatives are always about kids. I share with them about how I fear if my kids can make it in school, how I don't wish for riches but wish for my kids to be healthy, how I fear if my kids misbehaves, etc etc etc. I got no more aim for myself in life, only aim to bring up the kids well. Is this the real me???

I am not the only one that has changed. Those who knows Johnny for a long long long long time ago, would have noticed the change in him as well. I shan't elaborate more. Johnny is also more domesticated now, putting family first as well. In fact, I think he is more worried about his kids than me.

Both of us are busy planning the future right now. It is going to be yet another big change for us. Will keep our friends post once our plans are finalised. Stay tune...

Updates updates updates

Terrible, terrible, terrible... fighting against time again. No time to blog here.

Ok, shall keep it short and sweet. Here are some photos of our Bintan trip on 27-29Jul.

Mid Year

How time flies... Its half a year gone. What have we achieved?

Kyrene brought back her kindergarten graduation photo the other day. So fast, she has been in Glory Kindergarten for 3 years - from N2 to K2. In another half a year, she would have completed her kindergarten. Next year, she will be going to Primary 1. The registration is end of this month. Still a big headache which school to apply for. Default is Pei Hwa but guess we want to try for a girls' school. MGS got limited seats and more than 1km, RGS more than 2km. These days, enrolling kids into school is soooooooooo stressful and worrying for the parents. During our times, our parents just simply enrolled us in school that is nearest. Where got consider whether that school produced scholars. Or least my parents did not think of that. Life is so competitive, even at such young age.

Kaylen is 7 months old now. She is able to sit up, crawl backwards, and now struggling to crawl forward. She loves to reach out for things now, and would happily put everything she can grab hold of into her mouth. 2 of bottom teeth has sprout out. So started giving her baby biscuits, baby bites and bread to snack. She is still eating mainly cereal, though slowly starting on porridge too. With Kyrene, she started on porridge much earlier, whereas Kaylen still eating puree at thsi stage.

July is birthdays month. Justina, Brother-in-law Joven, Elliot, Fanny, Angela, Kathryn, Keith, Priscilla, ...

Kuala Lumpur and Malacca Trip

Really difficult to find time to update blog these days...

Here's some pictures taken during our trip to KL and Malacca during the school holidays. We stayed in The Westin in KL and Hotel Equatorial in Malacca. Did a bit of sight seeing this time round. But no much to see.

Whole lot of December babies

Online forum thread discussions are so common these days, so I got to know a whole bunch of mummies who gave birth in late Nov n in Dec 2007. We would discuss anything under the sky, from pregnancy to delivery, to post delivery to baby care, and lots of shopping sprees. Once in a while, the group would meet face-to-face too.

We missed the earlier gatherings. We turned up at the recent one, 7Jun at Hard Rock Cafe. Here's a pic of all those who turned up. Look at how many Dec babies there were. It was quite fun.

We are already planning the next gathering. Hopefully, more mummies and babies can come.

Kaylen starts on solids

Been busy lately thus no time to update again...

Sigh, planning the future is tough. Been procrastinating for the longest time ever. Time is running out, got to get something going. So many things to think about. Got to weigh the pros n cons for everything. In such dilemma right now on...

Started Kaylen on solids last week. She is sooooooo happy. A tablespoonful of cereal was not enough, she cried for more. Now, she is feeding almost half a small bowl.

Back at Port Dickson for Johnny's Bday

Same time last year, we were at The Legends Water Chalets in Port Dickson to celebrate Johnny's birthday. This year, we decided to go back there for his birthday again. This time, we stayed in the Premium chalet as it comes with a king size bed and a queen size bed, which then 4 of us can sleep comfortably in.

Last year, we managed to catch some small fish, this year, nothing at all. Johnny was very disappointed. But he managed to sight a turtle. Its very rare to see sea turtle in this part of Malaysia, so he is very lucky. Told him that its a good luck sign, probably means long life for him (especially since he was there to celebrate his birthday).

After 2 nights in Port Dickson, we decided last minute to go Malacca to stay for 1 night. We stayed at Renaissance Hotel. We did not do much in Malacca, just laze around in the hotel, went swimming in the hotel pool and went to Carrefour at Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall. The Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall is quite new, not all the shops are open. Quite a happening place.

Overall, the trip is good except the part when Kaylen would cry very badly in the car. Sigh... she really does not like car rides.