New house

water feature

our room

still unpacking

We've been calling our new home, 'new house' for years, waiting for building completion. When we brought Amber home, she said a couple of times, she wanted to 'go home'. lol..... For her sake, she needed a closure, we brought her back to our old condo and showed her the empty apartment. She was confused for a while but I think now, she has accepted the 'new house' as her 'go home' place. She likes the swing and water feature the most.

It's really a chore keeping an eye on her in the 'new house'. Previously, everything was just an arms reach at our old condo. I could even hear the maid singing in her bath or bedroom. Whereas, now, I have to rely on the cctv to see what's going on the in the house.

When Amber needs a handkerchief, I need to run upstairs and burn like 10 calories just to fetch her something. Looks like this is a good exercise for me and I can kiss goodbye to

We have a 'water feature' at our home. Hubby have big plans to rear koi fish but I manage to psycho him to scale down to 'bandaraya' fish. The idea of caring for the high maintenance fish like 'babies' does not appeal to me very much. I can foresee who's got to worry abt the feeding the fish, apart from cooking for the family (me lah, who else??). I'd rather have some nice water plants and a bandaraya sucking up dirt in the pond .. lazy me, clever me.

It's a lovely home, but we have to get used to the sudden ample space, like my sis said "mei mou sook' !!!

Moving Day

We moved on 27th November 08. The movers, came, packed, loaded and transferred everything to our new home. It took 2 load of 26cubic meter lorry to load ALL our stuff from a 2 room condo to our new house. I really do not know how we could have amassed to many things over the years.

It was a chaotic day, many trips in and out and coupled by the evening rain (which made traffic worst) but all ended well at the end of the day. We were glad to be in , FINALLY !!!!! We left Amber at Alice's , knowing with her around, demanding our attention 24/7, we cannot get anything done. We missed her and am looking forward to pick her up tomorrow.

Lunch with a schoolmate

How frequent do we make an effort to catch up with a schoolmate? All of us are so busy with our lifes, daily chores that do we make an effort to catch up with our friends ?

Thank you Jo, for taking the trouble to check on me for lunch (you know what I mean).....

Moving, FINALLY !!!

The big move is tomorrow, 27 November 08. This time, we've engaged professional movers , Felix Relo, to pack, seal , wrap our furnitures from our old rented condo to the new house.

The last few days, Danny, maid and me was really knackered out from moving the small (but heavy) items. We had to lug everything from the car park, up to the living room and up to the bedrooms. I've moved all the clothing (except enough for a couple of days) and kitchen stuff to the new house. The movers will charge a lot more to pack for us, so for the small stuff, we'll do it ourselves. Hopefully, tomorrow's move will not take too long. I just cannot wait for another couple of weeks to properly settle down.

Amber has been really demanding lately. She asks for our attention the moment she wakes up. She wants me to feed her milk, change her pyjamas and 'scratch' her. She's been having mild eczema attack recently and I must admit, I've been slack in applying mosturizer on her lately.
I'd better be more diligent in keeping her moist and healthy before I send her to new babysitter next month.

Guest Dancer at Westin

Last weekend, we attended Alan & Ai Lee's wedding. Amber had the most fun. As usual, she'll be restless after a couple of minutes and we were at the foyer for cocktail reception for an hour. She was getting very very restless and I was even more restless having to chase her around and get her to behave.

Well, dinner started and I kept her busy with crayons and chocolates. The chocolates were most yummy and delicious. I let her down and dance during the toasting session. They popped the champagne and the cork hit me ,,, how lucky can I be ? Amber took the cork and danced around with it, as if it was her mike. She went on stage and danced and danced, the emcee gave her a round of applause. ... lol... When dinner was almost ending and desert came, I wanted to bring her down, I had to threaten her by leaving her behind... she said,, "FINISH THE SONG FIRST! FINISH THE SONG FIRST !!".. she clearly wanted to dance all night long..

I was very amused and yet shocked with her antics.. she's so daring or like they say, children knows no fear .. wait till they grow up...

Amber's attempt with my Powershot A550

This is Amber, taking a snapshot of her pink Croc shoes. She loves gadgets, papa's phone, mama's make up tools, mama's handbags, etc. One day, when I upgrade my camera, I'll pass her the Powershot A550 to toy with. At the moment, it's mine , too handy to upgrade and too lazy to learn more on better photography.

Our new kitchen-in-progress

This is our new kitchen in the making. Like the color ? Not exactly conventional and hubs chose it. I left the coloring schemes to him. The kitchen equipments were my choice and I am very excited over the new Bosch oven. There was some problem with the aluminium shutter though. I told Alice, my contractor, I wanted to place a toaster oven inside and she made sure there was electrical supply, in fact there was to power outlets inside... but.. but... but... it's too narrow to fit in the toaster oven. Dang !!!!!

I gave her 2 options, to change (uninstall, remove, cut, spray paint and install again) or FIND ME A NEW SMALLER TOASTER OVEN TO FIT IN !!!!!!! And so, the hunt it on for mini and narrow toaster ovens.

A word of advise to all of you fixing up your homes, be very very specific on what you want, go to the measurements in detail, the cm, mm and H x W x D.

We have chosen a black galaxy granite top for the kitchen. It's a starking contrast to the kitchen cabinets...