Good Bye 2011 & Hello 2012

2011 is coming to an end in less than 2 hours time. I've rated 2011 as a bad year for me. Many things had happened to me this year.

Started 2011 with scolding from hus when Janelle refused to sleep on 1/1/2011. Welcome a new member (SIL) to our family happily at my mom place in Jan 2011, but hus gave me a hard time on the arrangement of Janelle caretaker during the big day. These's water leaking thru the wall. At work, a changes of mgmt in singapore, 新官上任三把火, tried my best to adjusted myself to new bosses at work. Brothers facing financing problem when their investing not working well, we took out almost all our saving to help. Pop's company HR overheal and i need to step in for hiring, taking care of all HR big big small small matters over many weekends. And with this, hus went to question pop and causes a big hoha in btw both of us. In order not to let my hus knows that i'm helping pop, i went up to company during weekdays when he is around and weekends when he is not around. After a few months of rushing up and down, i'm involved in a motor accident. I'm fine but not the motorcyclist who broke his hand and leg and need to be more than 3 months of medicial leave. It's a nightmare for me, I had been very gulity of what had happened, if i in my usual self going into the rooms to says byes to the employees, maybe this accident wouldnt happened. Till now, the images will still comes to my mind when i saw Malaysia's motorbike bypass me very close which they always does, or when i feel insercure and sence the dangerous in my hus driving. I have cut down the driving myself unless is necessary. Some when this year, at a point i suspected myself went into depression... Keep reminding myself i need to work up as Janelle needs me. Janelle had a fall and hurt herself on her head which required stitches. She fall and lost half of her front tooth. My grandma pass away. Words from family members that really hurts and I learned 人言可畏。maid left us after 2 years, and I found out that our room had becomes corkroaches territory, within 2 days I have killed 15 corkroaches. We have been sleeping in the living room till I killed all the crokroaches. New maid because she had infection causing her neck to swell, i have no choice but to dropped her before she can come in Singapore spreading the virus. Agent says it need 2 weeks to get the application done for a brand new maid. So I need to apply 2 weeks leave to take care of housework and janelle. Nightmare!!!

Goodbye 2011. I'm going to leave all unhappiness in 2011 and welcoming 2012 with happiness.

Of cos, there are good things happened in 2011 too.. Like Janelle started to stand up without support. Went to US for Biz trip, BKK for Birthday Trip, Korea for Bro Marriage Trip. Won an 1 yr supply of detergent and hus won 1st price in 4D on our car plate number after my accident. After many rejection from mainstream Childcare application, finally found a school who willing to takes janelle in nov. and welcoming my new love Chanel. :)

Wishes for 2012:
- I wish janelle has a greater improvement on her development, her seizure can be in control, stop drooling, start conversing. Please Please no more seizures.
- I wish my brothers can be more 董事, stop all nonesences that need us worries.
- I wish good health and happiness to all my family and friends and you.. My reader who had been showering me with ur care and letting me knows I'm not alone thru msg via comments, emails, sms. You are always with me.

明年会更好!!!

Ho.. Ho.. Ho..

Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday!!! Yes, we are celebrating Christmas and my mom birthday together on the Christmas day.

With our new member's korean secret recipe on the marinate meat + Singapore top master chefs handling the BBQ.. This dinner was supreme. Within 2 hrs we cleared the food.

Ops, only when these monsters are BBQing, the chicken on fire.

All members checked in except dasao.. If she can join us, the day will be perfect. This is Oh family first even multi shots togethers.

Guess our neighbors can hear our laugher from far.. See, everyone are so happy. How I wish the time can just slow down a little.

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Boxing day outing

Brought janelle to ikea after her nap. Met my sis and mom there to check out the high stools too.

Having our tea break at Ikea cafe. See, the happy her waiting for snack. She had one pancake, one meatball, one potato, a few mouth of pasta, few mouth of chicken wing and few slips of ice lemon tea. Yes, my girl seems to eat a lot but still skinny. :(



But not our day, The POS was down, the queue was super long and slow. We gave up and decided to come back some other days as some other stocks will comes in this weekend.

The weather was very good, so we popped over to the waterway for a walk. Janelle dash to the water play immediately after she spotted it. Mommy was too slow to stop her..












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Merry Christmas 2011

We wish you a blessed and merry Christmas!!!







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Team Building 2011 - Pottery Workshop

This year, i'm part of the committee for company's team building. I brought them to Pottery Workshop (Hand-Bulding) @ JALAN BAHAR CLAY STUDIOS.

This workshop consist of 10 - 15 mins tour of Pottery workshop ( the dragon kiln, what it's used for, how it's fired, Q & A etc)

30 - 45mins Pottery on the Wheel Demonstration. None of my colleague had a successful result from the Wheel.







1 hr 30mins Basic Hand-building workshop & Hands-on session. We are all beginner, so our hands on is not on the Wheel. :) The instructor conducted a hand-building session (pinching / coiling) where participants learn how to make their own little decorative objects (bowls, cups, etc) Works made by participants here will be glazed and fired.

The clay works made by the participants need to go through a tedious process of 4-5days of drying, 2-3 days of firing, 1-2 days of glazing by instructors, 2-3 days of high-firing so that pieces can be functional & food safe, 1-2 days of packing works into boxes. It's takes about 1 month before we end products are sent to us. Just in time as a little Christmas gift for each of everyone. All works are good, except for one which was explored when fired.

Since i was part of the committee, doesnt have much time to think and work on mine... so a quick one and here's mine:

Janelle Christmas party at discovery garden

Today janelle is having Christmas celebration in school with teachers and classmates. They had a baking session where they bake and design a log cake. :)

Bought some chocolate for the children. Nowsaday Children are very smart. Usually the kids are very quiet or don't even want to talk to me. But today they saw me with Christmas gifts, they surrounded me and janelle, checking what gifts we have for them, hugging us.. Holding janelle's hand and walk her into the hall. :)




And here's the gift Janelle had received from school:




School organized a "Little Mr & Miss best dress" contest. So mommy woke up early to prepare her.. Changed her in at least 5 sets of dresses and realized she had outgrown those little pretty dresses or she is too skinny for SJ pass down. No choice, mummy mix and match from her normal wear. We didn't won the contest, but to me she looks pretty and cute no matter what she wear.


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Giveaway - Full Classic Manicure+10 Creative Customized 3D Nail Art with Unlimited Crystals

*update on 23Dec*

Thought it was a deal, so I bought a total of 4 coupons of SGD 30 instead of SGD 103 for Full Classic Manicure+10 Creative Customized 3D Nail Art with Unlimited Crystals by Celebrity Nail Artist Deniz Lee from shiokdeal for my sis-in-law to do manicure for my brother soleminisation. But they are not avaliable, so now i have extra coupons to giveaway.

Details are avaliable on: http://www.shiokdeal.com/team.php?id=198

Special Remind
-Valid till 31 December 2011.
-Blackout period on 24 December 2011 & 25 December 2011.
-Strictly by appointment. Please call 62224841 or 92406631 and quote “Shiokdeal” for appointment. Subject to availability.

I have reserved slot just in case all slots were taken up, you can amend the appointment date and time. Subject to their avaliability. 29Dec - 1pm and 2.30pm.

To win this coupon, all you need to do is Leave a comment or drop me an email at ahevon@yahoo.com with your name, the time slot you are interested and email address. Good Luck !!!

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The winner goes to:

29Dec 1.30pm - evon
29Dec 3pm - Angie (sby 78)

Cash Out Nuffnang Earnings

*updated*

Being in IT line for many years, i've never believe that internet can help to generate income. Not till i read mommy e-ling's blog who actually received the cheque from an online blog advertising community - Nuffnang and that's when i joined nuffnang.com and put ads on my blog thinking that no harm trying.

If you are a blogger or a blog reader, Nuffnang.com is not a strange name for you. Bloggers from Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Philippines, China and Hong Kong earn money through this company. I do see bloggers mentioning in their blog that they are earning 4 digits. Everybody loves to get rewards through blogging, don't you? I am not a famous blogger who earn a thousand a day. In fact, I am a low profile blogger. Sometimes I do wonder if there is anyone who loves to read my blog.

Start earning with Nuffnang is very easy. Sign up to Nuffnang, add your blog to the blog manager, fill up a Blogger Survey form which determine what kind of ads to be publish on your blog. Once you submit the form, your blog will automatically be added. Next, place the ads icon on your blog. As soon as you have earned S$ 50, you will be given an option on your earnings page to cash out! The more traffic you have the faster and more you will earn from nuffnang. Good Luck!!

This is the nuffnang ads i'm having now on my blog

This is the nuffnang page. One thing i likes about the functions that they have is the statitics of visitors to my blog by time, by countries. And if the reader is a nuffnang member, it will shows me who had visited under the community.

This is my first cash out from earnings on nuffnang. Going to deposit into janelle account as her edu fund. Thank You Nuffnang. This "spark" may encourage me to blog more often to bring in more traffic. :) Looking forward for more.



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Updates on Give.sg

Yesterday, kogan called me excitedly to tell me that there's donations made to our fundraiser for rainbow center. Yes!!! kogan asked me to provide some updates of his run to the page to thanks the donors.

I wrote this message this morning with a emotional after sending Janelle to school:

Thank you all for the support. Here's the update of Kogan's first 42.195km marathon:
He had under estimated the 42.195km and was under trained. by 30km he started to have leg cramp and by 35km he was having backache. The last 7 km is an experience that's difficult to put into words, it's the physical and mental challenges and this is what the special needs children is facing. Kogan managed to bite on the challenges and completed the run after 7 hrs and 10 min.

Many of us had under estimated the needs that required by special needs children. To us a normal person, to walk and run is nothing, but to them every step they are facing is as the challenges that kogan had faced at the last 7 km. i have witnessed that in rainbow center, it's really a mental and physical challenges to them. Many of our special needs come from communities that cannot afford the one on one specialized care and expensive equipment necessary for them to thrive.

Funding through your donations that make it possible for rainbow to provide special needs programs that's opening new vista for educationally, emotionally and physically challenged.

Together, we create a special world - a world with love, kinder. Many thanks for all donations. God bless you.

https://www.give.sg/TeamGIVE/e_von/kogan_marathon2011

Christmas is a season of gift.. come on, give a gift to Rainbow Center for the special needs children by donation.

Fish Spa can cause HIV/AIDS

After reading this, Fish Spa is definately a "nay" for me.

[Source: http://sg.theasianparent.com/articles/foot-massage-by-fish-can-cause-hiv/]
Well, now there are reports that fish spas could cause the spread of diseases. According to Dr. Amin Al Amiri, from the Ministry of Health of the Arab Emirates,”The use of this fish threatens the health, because it can spread many serious diseases and the virus causes inflammation liver, even HIV / AIDS. ”

“Some people are carrying the disease can be dangerous in the open wounds, and passed to others through the intermediary of the fish and water,” said Al Amiri.

Shopping kaki

Thinking to take a day off and ask some friends out for shopping. But now then I realized that I don't have a shopping kaki.

For so many years, only hus has the same free time as me to shop. And the rest of the time is shop by myself. My last outdoor shopping was with my mom and sis. hmmm... Most of friends are with their family or working now. Guess is another day to do self shopping again. :)

Xmas and CNY is coming, going to get things for my house, janelle and myself. Shopping time.


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Daddy is away again

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*ah chew*, everyone is catching a flu thesedays

SJ was coughing since last week and she had spreaded her virus to Janelle, my poor little Janelle was down with fever and cough last friday. Mummy stayed with her day and night to make sure her temperature is well controlled. She woke up in the middle of night, wanted to wakes me up but instead she coughed onto my face a couple of times.. and there goes mummy.. down with flu.

Very strong virus. I believe janelle is having a stronger immunity then me, she recovered after 3 days. We had gave it a missed for the class photoshoot on monday as she was still very weak and coughing. Dont wish her to spread the virus to other kids too. Mummy had been looking forward for the class photo taking, every normal children should has a class photo isnt it? I did imaging that the moment i see the photo, my tears will flow... In rainbow, they dont have such practice, but discovery garden they do. But she missed it this year. :(

4th day already, im still habing bad flu. For the past 3 days, i have been sleeping + eating, feeling so weak to do anything. Lucky hus is in town, he takes care of everything. He brought me to see doc, fetch janelle for school, fetch dinner for us.... when i says feel like eating porridge, he drove out to get me porridge :) feeling *sweet*

Yesterday, i see myself still having very bad flu, i decided to take the flu medicine peggy bought from thailand previous. She told me "it's very strong and good, take only when you have bad flu." and it's true. I took 2 pills yesterday and it completely knock me off for the whole day and this morning, i'm 80% recovered and back to work. But after one day at work, my flu bug is back bugging me. Hopefully will by tmr to meet my taiwan colleague. :)

Dear readers, Please do take care... there are many flu virus out there... those who has children at home, should get the children to wash their hands more often, whenever return home, wash hands and leg is a must to prevent any virus to bring back. Take more vitamin C fruits and take care. Good Luck!!!

iHerb coupon code

Was given a personal iHerb coupon code is AHE443. Any new customer will get $5 off on the 1st order when using it. Though of sharing it, just in case you need it. Enjoy Shopping!!!

http://www.iherb.com/

Just placed my orders for Janelle's toothpaste - Earth's Best Organic, fluride Free and safe if sallowed Toothpaste for children and some organic lolipop for the Janelle's classmate for xmas's present. :)

Why do mosquito bites itch?

Only the female mosquito feeds on blood. Though we commonly call them mosquito bites, she's not really biting you at all. The mouth of the female mosquito is designed much like a needle in a syringe. When she bites you she buries the syringe into your skin and begins to suck blood. While she is doing this however, some of her saliva flows into the wound. The mosquito saliva causes an allergic reaction.

Best Remedies for Itchy Mosquito Bites - Hand Sanitizer. Since i have Janelle, i will put a bottle of hand sanitizer in my bag. Once i was bitten by a stupid mosqitoe, the itchy is unbearable, tried to wash my hand under the soap, it doesnt works. Search my bag and found this hand sanitizer. Thinking that it will helps to kill any beatrica that the mosquito saliva may contains and protect us from infection. So i applied and it's works very well for me. I have introduced to my family, and now we are using hand sanitizer as out remedies for itchy mosquitoe bites, no more hu pi gao.

He did it!!! 42.195km

After 3 months of training, obviously not enough, he still managed to complete his 42km run at standard chartered 2011 run after his targeted hrs. I had been very worried for him when i heard that there was a young man 21 yrs old fainted at the finishing line after 21km run. Was sent to hospital and passed away an hpur later. Hus no longer young, he is not a runner and his training was very minimum especially towards nov, as the weather wasnt good, he wasn't able to complete his 30km training as planned. Up till last night, he only complete 20km training. We still proud of him, he managed to run + walk back to the finishing line. 老公, it's ok you didn't finish within 5 hrs, try again next year. :)

Planned to cheer for him together with janelle at Padang, unfortunately janelle was down with fever + cough + flu last night. So we had gave it a missed. But we woke up at 3am to cheer and sent daddy off to MRT station.

Very kind bob had went over to Padang and fetch him home after the run. Bob even brought him for massage before sending him home. :) thanks bob.










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Janelle Childcare update

Another week ended, and it's also an end of term 4. She is better, but still no good. She still gets very cracky after 11am. Guess she is just too tired. Giving her some more time to adapt.









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