LaundryAmah

Since he started primary school, my schedules have been screwed up. I hardly have time to visit my clients…and getting him to school on time is also very challenging. For Wednesdays, he has piano lesson, so I send him to class and then go about my errands while he has the one hour lesson. Then I pick him up and we go for lunch.

That is the time we talk and chat….

Time with him can be fun and frustrating at the same time, fun is hearing him talk nonsense and the frustrating part is getting him to finish his lunch! I was trying to capture him wearing a bib in the first photo but he was kinda embarassed..kakaka…

Wow what a good break we had. By the way, wish that everyone had a wonderful Chinese New Year Celebration and reunion with family members and friends!

Was so lazy and didn’t want to go out and besides it was raining everyday! Spent most of our time digging the garden and weeding of course…ayo..but but the lalang (wild grass) still a lot leh! I may post the pictures of my posts in my blogspot site so no need to headache headache where and how to put my pics la! Good idea or not?? kakakakka…

The whole week with the kids have been quite taxing and I cannot imagine the coming one week school holiday again!! But there’s Kieran’s first exam which is coming soon…ayo yo yo…God help me!!

Since I still don’t know how to put up the pictures, there will not be any pictures for the time being..

Anyway, yesterday, while playing around with this new home, time flew by without me realising and I was running late going home to cook. I called Apah to check if he’s on the way back, then can ta pau (buy packed food). But he was also stuck in a jam. So I said when he reaches our place just give me a call.

I reached home first, so I decided to cook anyway.  As we were about finished with our cooking, Apah came back with black face. Then I heard Kieran wailing away.

Me- Why is he crying?

Apah-Fell asleep in the car (journey that long that he fell asleep…)

Me-Then leave him inside the car la! (so bad hor..)

Apah-I bring him up to shower la…(he was lying on the floor in front of the front door, crying non stop and rubbing his eyes..)

Me-Kieran, pls stop crying and rubbing your eyes, look your fingers are so dirty! (tears became black colour leow like he had mascara!! )

Kieran-continues crying & sobbing non-stop

Apah then lifted him up and showered him anyway. His screams were so bad like as we were abusing him! Then Apah came down..

Apah-He said I am a liar..(because buying food project cancelled)

Me-Well, if he’s not too happy then he better not eat dinner.

Apah-I promised him to cook Mee Goreng..

Me-WHAT! NO WAY! How can you do this? If you do this to please him, he will end up with a pen knife threatening you when he’s bigger!

Apah-Ok, Kieran, mummy said cannot, you like you eat, if not do your homework

Kieran-CRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

Me-(talked in very stern manner) At this point of time, you do not have the right to decide what and when you eat. I still decide. Should you not like the menu we have for you, you just don’t eat, fine by me. As long as you still want to live in this house, you live by MY rules. UNDERSTAND??

Kieran-(looking at me blankly and nodded his head)

Apah-So? You want to eat or just do homework?

Kieran-eat..(in a very miserable shaky voice..)

After he had his first mouthful, he started attacking the food, chomping chomping away non-stop and before you know it he was asking for seconds!

Kieran-emmm the fish and beans are soooo nice…I want summore…(he went for3rd helping too!)

Moral of the story, mummy knows best! Weyo? I knew he was dead hungry by that time as it was past 8 pm leow!

During the time of Kieran’s drama, Kylie quietly ate her dinner, and then went to pick up the scraps from Kieran’s plate! *Fainted*

Boy it was sure sexiting exciting to move to a new home, as in my webhome! What good timing, I just moved to new house and now a new web home! Thanks to Shannon I made the transfer very smooth and fast. Muaks!

But I still have a lot to learn about how to insert photos, beautify the site and put in my links etc…anyone can help me????

This came in from LovelyMummy. It’s supposed to boost our incoming link counts. So, if you need more traffic and wanna increase your page rank, try this out!

Actually I’ve no idea what the tag is about and cannot see how it can boost traffic but do anyway la..hahahaha..

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Went to Sg Buloh with LaundryApOh to buy potted plants & flowers for CNY and also for my house. ApOh likes to go there to buy plants, in fact her house can be a nursery leow but she still wants to buy somemore! *fainted*

I told her, she has to lead the way as I absolutely do not know the way around that area. ApOh is a person who can get agitated very easily, so must prewarn her that I REALLY don’t know the way. She said ya ya it’s near the Sg Buloh Hospital one, very easy.

Then as we were approaching that place, she was like quite blur leh! Then suddenly I saw the sighboard indicating turn left to Sg Buloh Hospital so I double checked with her, and she was like not too sure but asked me to turn anyway! Good thing there were many signboards indicating the way to the hospital so we found the hospital. She kept saying it’s right after the hospital and when we saw the hospital leow, she blur again! Warao, so stressful to drive her around!

Anyway, we found a place to park the car on the side of the road and started shopping for our plants. Wah really “people mountain people sea” (so many people) at that place choosing the many varieties of flowers. I managed to buy some but not as much as ApOh of course. I bought more practical plants, like more greens…something easy to plant la! Notice the red plants in one row? They cost only RM10 for 4! Nice hor???

Then after that I started decorating my pussy willow cos I don’t think the buds will open up on time for CNY. So I twisted the cherry blossoms and tied red ribbons on them. Wah took me a few hours to do that! Laundry easier to do la!

Two days ago Kylie was having high fever, in fact she was having fever for a few days ledi. But me busy ma, so LaundryApOh was helping out. Then Kieran started his cough again so we had to go back to new home as my maid left his puff medicine there!

So, dinner was simple, homemade pizza. As I was getting ready the pizza, had the maid to shower Kieran and he was screaming like as if he was being slaughtered due to leg pain. He was telling me his leg was very painful in the car but I didn’t pay much attention.

I went about with my cooking, not realising that Kylie was sitting quietly by herself! (this is not normal, as she is not able to sit quietly by herself!) After putting the pizza in the oven, I walked out and finally noticed Kylie sitting down looking so miserable. Touched her forehead and it was burning!! Panic like mad and didn’t think, checked her temperature which was 38deg + and quickly fed her paracetamol and then sponged her. After a while, I tested her temperature again and it went up to 40deg +!!! OMG! I was terrified as my place is far away from our usual paed! So I gave her a call to check if it’s ok to give her the suppository since I’ve given her the paracetamol like just 15 minutes ago but she was busy with other patients. I never felt so desperate in my life (besides the time I was giving birth to Kieran). Finally I managed to talk to the doc and she advised me to get a stronger fever med from the pharmacy but I was like huh? Pharmacy in my area may not have a pharmacist on duty leh, it was like 9.15pm leow wor! So she told me there are 2 paeds clinics in my area and I immediately packed the kids in the car and sped off.

As I was driving I quickly called the a friend living in this area to ask him the exact location of the paed to avoid having to circle around looking for it but he didn’t pick up. Called a second person (my customer) and she didn’t pick up either! Grrrr..bet she was thinking I was calling to chase her for payment. So, no choice la, circled around and found one but it was like closed! *SCREAM!!!!!* Then went to look for the other and found the shutter down halfway! Ran in and almost begged on my knees for them to not close and see my girl first! The receptionist was not happy but she said ok after seeing the desperation in my face! They gave her the suppository and it was like magic, within a few minutes she was the same ol’hyper Kylie! Thank God! She had white spots in her throat pulak! So that explains the high fever.

Anyway, her fever subisded very fast after the medication the doc administered and she was her normal active self playing again. Then only I noticed Kieran was sobbing quietly. I then decided to let him see the doc too. All these while I didn’t realise his pain was so serious until the doc showed me the wound and explained what could have happened. I felt so terrible, so I decided not to take the photo of his wound….so bad la me..sorry my darling…

And throughout this drama…where was Apah?? OverF^$&&g seas!

Been very busy lately, but still must take time to read my fave blogs and do this post, if not friends lari kuat kuat lor! (run away fast fast). Had visitors from overseas since Saturday so have been out like morning to night, day work nite entertaining la! It was not bad and I did enjoy myself but then another visitor came from another country on Monday pulak! So got to entertain. Hubby has been away overseas at this time and will only be back this Wednesday, so kids have been with LaundryApOh.

Then Kylie was down with fever yesterday, and Kieran left his homework in my office and this really stressed ApOh out but I can’t do anything cos I was stuck at the seminar ma. Then I promised to pick Kieran up from school at least so I can see him and Kylie before I go out again.

Me-Mummy got to go out again tonight..

K-Huh..againnnnn????

Me-Yes darling, mummy got to go dinner with uncle who makes the washing machines for mummy to sell

K-Who is he? Why?

Me-You got to be good boy ok, please do your homework yourself

K-hmmph….(sulking behind)

Upon reaching home, I rushed in to freshen up a bit and got the maids to remove the stuff from my car and upon going back to the car, I heard a sobbing sound…

K-(crouched in the front seat floor & holding on to my mobile) Daddy!!!….wail… Daddy!!! wail…….Daddy!! Come backkk…..wail…..sob…sob…

Me-Kieran! Why you use my phone again?? (very angry cos he used my phone to call his friend’s father’s phone last week!) Give it back to me!

Ok sorry la, he was like wailing like so “chi leong” (pathetic) liddat but I still scolded him. After I got in the car, I felt sorry for him cos both parents were not around for the past few days and he was under lots of pressure in school….

Sigh….Anyway, here’s a Mandarin song he learned in school, not bad for a blur blur boy!

The past few days the maid actually made me scream, as in scream at the top of my lungs and all hell break loose type. As it is, her work load is not that heavy, I do a lot of my own laundry, and she has been ironing for a year with a steam iron which is the dobi type, better than any steam irons anyone can get from electrical shops in the market, and yet “bergaris-garis” (with lines & folds)and looks worse than before it’s been ironed!

She’s disobedient and likes to challenge and test my patience when I instruct her to do something, she will like to determine at her own pace and time despite me telling her that I want it done immediately. Her classic answer is “nanti la” (wait la). I said no, now but she is stubborn enough to do something else even if it’s a short thing, she will still do it first before doing what I tell her to do. Terrer leh! Eh liddat you think I can swallow and keep quiet ah? OF COURSE NOT LEH! I shout at her la! Ask nicely don’t do wor…doesn’t that annoy you? Don’t give me bull story that she’s just a maid and her pay is so low, cannot expect miracles from her..eh who is asking for a miracle? I just ask her to do a simple task like any other normal maid should do leh, CANNOT AH? WTF!

I know she’s been very cincai with even Kylie nowadays, I used to think, aiya other work lauya (no good) nevermind, but Kylie’s things must be good. But then now I noticed Kylie is always dirty and her diaper gets so heavy until almost reaching the floor. Eh liddat can tahan (acceptable)ah?

The only thing I can depend on her is the cooking also with supervision and instructions, and still occasionally make me scream. How la???

Psst..I oso can’t get in my comments wor..dunno what happened leh