guess what was I doing on 1st of July!? while everybody is out enjoying their day off on a hot sunny day!
of coz...im all pumped up at work in the store thinking -mmmm today is gonna be a good day!
turned out---not so much! there were alot of ppls in their red and white outfits and painted face (in canada flag), but they were not shoppers, just browsers....T_T
just like every year, there were fireworks by the inner harbor, and because of the baby this year, we didnt make it down there coz there were too many roudy drunks.....
we were going to rent a hotel suite by the harbor with balcony and chill there with friends and family but it will cost us $250 for..not even a night!
so after all the debates of what to do...we ended up throwing a small drinking party at my place....we could still hear the firework though when it went off at 10.30pm!
but there were ALOT of booze that night!!
this is the consequences after too much booze, note to self, should ve cook b4 start drinking.. just like any other days, there were bon fire in the middle of summer!! i wonder if one of our neighbours will call the fire department and had all of us busted one day for having illegal open fire in our small tiny backyard!!
and Oh! i signed up an twitter account, i find it abit mou liu unless u got alot going on, like followers and responds, otherwise is just like ur talking to urself the whole time!!
.......................i am lame sometime.....................
Last night I visited one of the popular so call "celebrity blogger" in sg - xiaxue. And I usually dont read the details of her bitching about something coz is usually super long and is probably just about how much she hates bugs.
But last night, she went on and on to defend herself for bleaching her hair blonde coz some dude secretly took her photo and then criticized her for wanting to be ang moh blah blah blah, seriously if ur interested u can go read urself. u know the url.
and then she went and dig up his history, his parents, his wife, esp his wife!! post ugly pictures of her! well..pictures of her! coz his wife put a comment "im prettier than her without all the plastic she did"
FWAHHHH the war was ooooonnnn....honestly i think alot ppls out there will speak worse things about xiaxue than them...but why they kena? i guess they are unlucky....
lesson - dont offend xiaxue! she will make ur life miserable with her fame and the power of writing and 40k hits a day on her blog! in a way she will make u famous, in a bad way!
but i found it entertaining as alot of them out there did. if i were that dude, i will take this opportunity to fame himself up! instead of deleting his blog......DAMN!
but honestly she's right even thought she provided all the hits for him, he has to be an interesting writer to maintain the hits....if macam me, die loh...update the blog once a week, or sometime not even then...well i guess we all have different priorities, my current priority is of coz my little princess, very closely comes to the business, it seriously depress me when i sit down in the shop all day only have $100 in the till. tough time ppl...tough time.....
but the good news is , im thinking of going back to Malaysia for the whole month of September instead of couple of weeks in January.
dont hv to take any unessecerily leaves - as im starting work in October.
how good will i look after 10 months of maternity leaves and i come back to work for two months and wanting to take another 2 weeks off!? bosses not gonna like me very much
when i go back to work in october, i wanna fully concentrate on my job and my new role...thats right! ill be returning as QA team lead thank you very much. Actually im pretty nervous about that, as a new grad , i feel like i havent learn quite enough in technical field and is almost too soon to be moving up to the management...i dont know but at the same time i find, if i miss this chance right now, it be a longggg time before the next one come. oh well i guess i ll learn as i go...not very excited about leaving Alyssa and go back to work though.
oh well it ll still be 3 months and 1 holiday away!! but it sucks, coz i hv to ffk my friends, we had planned to all meet up back in Malaysia and take a trip to Bali together... i guess i have to dissapoint them...EVERY single time we planned something like that , sure tak jadi, and i thought about that ...WHAT will this time be!? never thought it'd be me....
Its been a while sinced we make a trip to tofino, i think the last time was 2006, when pooky was just a puppy!!
I been complaining about needing a break, on facebook status, MSN status etc....so my lovely darling get the hint!! big HINT....and arranged this beautiful surprise trip! it was short....but alot of fun!!
Last Sunday I was just at the store surfing the internet, he came in and took my computer and then went to our cottages webpage and show me the pictures, and he said " i dont feel like working tomorrow, and i gotto wake up at 6am in the morning " ...all i saw was a nice deck, and i knew he been talking about building a deck, i was like " what u gonna wake up to go to home depot and start building the deck? i mean is nice...."
I dunno why was i so slow and dissapointed him abit, i was suppose to go in to office on Monday but he called my boss and arranged everything perfectly!! I jumped in joy for the longest time and then i was in this greatest mood and sold alot of bags!! hahaha
I hardly slept that night coz i was so excited - let me tell u something about Tofino, is always been our thing...the beautiful drive up there listening to oldies and bob marley, joking and playing on the way....but this time! there are 5 of us!! both Alyssa and Lex had never been to Tofino!
anyway we ll let the pictures do the talking....
Alyssa and Daddy wearing pink on father's day
We stopped by a grocer in Port Alberni to get food for the trip...
Stopped by beautiful Sprout lake for picture time!! EVERY TRIP! same background!
Finally we arrived in the cottage we are supposed to stay in Alyssa being a good sport and gave me half a smile even though she just got up from the long trip...
Helloooo private HOT TUB
Helloooo MR SEPTEMBER!
so sad that i had to wait for another 3 years for another trip like that :(
I been trying to go to the gym once a week, and not just going to the gym joining the fitness classes or to use their cardio machine...
I have my very own personal trainer leh!! lol
dont be ridiculous, do you know how much that will cost me!? is my love husband who is training me...well he's helping me and let me know what to do , lift weights etc...soon enough i would have to be doing it all by myself which will be boring!
I did alot of abs yesterday and i felt the pain in my abs, but thats not the worst!! my abs is bulging out! is like i put on at least 1 inch!!! i hope that will go away otherwise whats the point of working out!
Anyway, after gym and dinner I came home super exhausted and passed out not too long after.
in the middle of the night, i heard this loud "THUP" noise and followed by Alyssa screaming!
I jumped out of bed and quickly realised that she fell off the bed!!! onto the hardwood floor!!! (not carpet)...I felt so horrible and quickily lift her up b4 even turning on the light. once i turned on the light and i realised i was holding her upside down, her head is at the bottom and all i can see are her two legs hanging and kicking infront of my face!
quickily i turned her around hold her in my chest and try to comfort her keep apologising to her....I felt sooooo terrible!! up to now! thank god she didnt hurt herself and stopped crying after a minute. sam tong sam tong, i went back to bed with my eyes open thinking what can i do to avoid this from happening again!
Should I put comforter on the floor as cushion in case if she falls again, or should i get a bed rail to clip on my side to prevent her from falling...but those rails r for toddler, can baby still slip through it? is even more dangerous! why if she got stuck there?
you are growing everyday, mommy and daddy see you everyday and watch you grow, is amazing!! because 5 months ago you were just this 5 lbs of meat loaf, sorry mommy called you a meat loaf , but im sure we ll share the same sense of humor when ur old enough to read this :)
yesterday, mommy tried to put you to nap when we got home, and while you were making all that funny noises on the bed besides mommy, mommy was working on her computer, and i know you have been trying to learn to turn on your own the past couple of weeks. You started to grunt and when i looked over, you were on your tummy and pushed your chest up with both of your arms!!! Mommy is amazed and happy!! and you also started to crawl and move a little bit, I know the next step you gonna be able to sit all by yourself like a big girl!
I cant even begin to tell you how amazing it is to watch you grow and develop everyday! you are a little chat box now, talking, screaming and giggling - all those noises you made are soooo cute to mommy!!
I love you to bits!! and notice your collection of toys is growing bigger too..... mann i think we gonna spoil you my little angel...
Now thats an Idea! a couple walked in earlier, the man had his man purse around his wrist, and they were commenting how cute Alyssa was and how nice I could bring her to work!
well bla blah blah if i could a quarter everytime a customer say that ill be pretty darn rich!
but anyway....
"Its nice that you can bring your baby to work, that makes you the store owner then"
" Yea I amm.."
"We own a restaurant on XX and YY st"
"oh yea?? thats a nice place but i ve never been there.."
"Just wondering if you would be interested to trade your products for gift certificates....thats how we shop around here, we usually ask to trade..."
then he opened up his man purse and pulled out a big stack of gift certificates!!
I thought about it, why not! is a nice restaurant and is nice to get everybody out to dine at a fancy restaurant.
so his wife picked a bag worth 129$ and he paid with GC!!
WHAT A BRILLIANT IDEA!!
I gotto start printing out gift certificates and maybe I can shop with that too!!
been extremely busy with being a mother and the new store...
seriously 7 days a week, but Darling was so sweet and gave me a day off yesterday. It was a surprise, i was wondering why hasnt he woke me up and my instinct told me that we are kinda late for work.
But then he came to me and said, you sleep ok? this is your partial anniversary present, u get a day off with Alyssa...I ve arranged for someone to take care of the store..
I was sooo happy and kinda woke up from the joy...but me and Alyssa had such a great afternoon on the couch watching FRIENDS..and we walked to the mall in the afternoon and bought presents for daddy. Thats right, my only day off , i got to get those presents sorted out!
Today is our 11th anniversary, is amazing!! I been with the same man for 11 years and loving it! Only this year we have a little cutie pie which we are sooo deeply in love with :D
I am content...Who cares i have to work 7 days a week? who cares if i have to eat porridge everyday? I have peoples i love around me, to cheer me up, to lick me every morning (the dogs) ,and to love me back!
