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iPad. make yours today :’D

January 30th, 2010

the iPad is a rather half-here-half-there (in other words, neither here nor there) toy and its name reminds me of female sanitary products. maybe apple’s next product will be a cylindrical-shaped device called the iTampon.

anyways, the name tickled me so much that i decided to make something very relevant and name it –> TADA!!! –> iPad.

very simple design, the whole thing was cut and sewn in less than an hour.

simplicity at its best

expandable storage

the additional folds at the base of each pocket means you get additional storage when you need it!

: slim design

it’s hard to believe we could fit so many pads into something so thin!

so, go on! make yours today :’D

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baby shoes are too tight now XD

January 27th, 2010

omgz omgz omgz!! the baby shoes lovingly sewn by jolene san are too tight for mini old men! i had better take some photos before they completely outgrow the shoes!

baba

here’s baba looking very happy to see the camera

blue shoes

close-up of the shoes that are now too tight!

bubu

here’s bubu who was transferred from another room, thus the blank look on his face..

green shoes

close-up of his green shoes!

thank you auntie jolene!!! hope you get connected soonish!! <3

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of expanding waistline, sagging boobies, and mini old men..

January 4th, 2010

if you ask someone who had just become a mum in the past year what was the most significant thing that happened to her in the past year, the answer will probably be “being a mother!”. she will then gush enthusiastically about how “motherhood is so awesome! it really changes me in a way i never expected! my princess/prince was the best thing that ever happened to me. like EVER. i have the smartest/biggest/cutest/prettiest/fattest/tallest baby in the whole universe but my pregnancy was definitely the worst known to mankind. blah blah.. but i will totally do it all over again! it was totally worth it!” etc etc..

if you ask me, my answer would be the same (the “being a mother” part only, not the other crap that follows). sad to say, the whole 2009 for me was about pregnancy and babies. from discovering my pregnancy on 4 jan to discovering that i could be having twins on 19 jan to finding out that i was really having twins for realz on 2 feb, the whole pregnancy was sort of roller-coaster ride in the first trimester. but other than permanent nausea (which i tackled with lots of anti-nausea drugs) , sore eyes, mysterious flu (like, 4days of MC for flu), and random lao-sai sessions, everything was quite smooth-sailing.

then came the gender-guessing game towards the end of first trimester, the one where mini dicks play hide-and-seek with the adults. the babies’ genders were only confirmed on week 20, during the detailed scan by an indian sonographer who kept saying “boy-parts” because she was too shy to say “penis”, unlike my gynae who openly mentioned labia and penis in front of everyone. tsk tsk tsk, doctors *shakes head*.

march was definitely the “honeymoon” period of my pregnancy. the nausea was gone without any warning, and my tummy was small enough for me to go on a short trip to taipei! however, things changed a great deal in april. the tummy suddenly ballooned and on 7 april, i realized that i could no longer see my beloved “girl-parts” :’(

alright, from then on, it was the usual things you read about, such as backaches, pelvic pain, swollen ankles (yes, my ankles started swelling when i was like 4-5 months pregnant. knn.), puffy face, stretchmarks, itchy tummy, rashes, stiff fingers etc etc.. in fact, there were only two good things about being pregnant — i ate everything i wanted without caring a hoot and my skin was actually clear despite all the fried and oily and fatty things i was eating everyday! lalala, in a sense it was worth getting fat..

and then suddenly i had difficulty getting up from the examination bed in the gynae’s office on 13 July (at 33wks) and that was when he decided to be nice for a change and give me hospitalization leave. god knows how happy i was to be able to get break from work at last. i hated going to work, i hated going to the various data centers regularly, knowing well the radiation was bad for the babies. but money has to be made so work must be done. if the boys turn out to be stupid kids, we know what to blame

then it was weeks and weeks of waiting at home. i stayed at home instead of going par-par-zao because it was getting very painful for me to move around. looking back, i wish i had travelled to waraku at iluma everyday instead of every fortnight because god knows when i can ever eat there again!

blah blah blah.. on 18 august i suddenly became a mother of two ugliest babies in the universe and sad to say, i still could not see my beloved “girl-parts” then because even after delivering, i looked like i was 6 months pregnant, with twins. also, i finally understood what people meant by “a face only the mother could love” because i was blessed with two babies with that face X’D but i still love my mini men, they may be ugly but they’re mine! MINE!

There, i summarized the whole 9 months in a few paragraphs! if only the real thing was that easy in real life X’D

the hardship did not end there, other issues immediately surfaced! such as painful wound (i never imagined getting out of bed to be so damned painful!), itchy and fugly rashes that resulted from not bathing for 3 days etc.. or fretting over the amount of sleep you’re gonna get every night. or living with the fear that your baby might pee on you while you’re changing his diaper in the dark. or living with the greater fear of baby pooping while you’re bathing him. or living with the greatest fear of two babies who refuse to sleep and want your undivided attention (how to give undivided attention when there are two of them vying for your eye contact and smile?)

i started acting like a pervert and dressed the mini men in matching dresses. as they were protesting, i snapped away happily on my camera X’D i guess i am not at the stage where i start to fear them turning into ah-guas yet. or maybe deep inside my heart, i know that i will accept them for whatever shitty persona they turn out to be :’D

yes, it was a very very tiring year for me (did i mention tat my sleepless nights started when i was pregnant?), but it had been lots of fun as well. but no, i am not going to do it again. it’s hard work that should be reserved for greater women

but then again, life is so unpredictable. so maybe i might have to do this thing again after all but the next time this happens, i will remember to go par-par-zao till the day i deliver.

to end this entry, i shall… (seriously i cannot remember what i was going to write) … this post shall end abruptly because i can’t remember what i was gonna write and i cannot be bothered to think.

anyways, 物以稀为贵。since everybody’s child is a princess/prince, my children shall remain commoners. after all, 平凡也是一种幸福.

Happy New Year, babes! I hope you have lots of fun and excitement this year and enjoy 365 days of lame jokes and non-stop laughter!

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christmas presents

December 27th, 2009

guess who’s addicted to LV lately?

it’s none other than 孩子的爹 ~ teabiscuit

cj’s christmas presents (soon to be exchanged for something else..)

nicely-wrapped

two little pouches

pendant with matching earrings

the jewellery looks pretty enough but i’m gonna exchange the earrings for something else because 1) they are so heavy that i think my piercings will be elongated if i wear them for more than an hour! and 2) i cannot remember when was the last time i wore anything on my ears.. haha!

the pink candy looks very pretty irl though, it’s a pity the candy on the pendant is fugly blue instead of pink with bling bling crystals TuT

tb’s christmas presents

tb's growing gifts

看什么看！

haha! i am not so cheapo lah.. tb’s presents are still on the way to our letterbox.. :’D

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P&J ~ redemption gifts and other fugly things!

December 19th, 2009

fugly clutch

this is like the most fugly GWP ever! i didn’t want it when it was first released.. but it turns out that i have to own one eventually -_-;

small pouch

small pouch in not-so-pretty print. everytime i get a gwp, i’ll secretly decide if it’s a useful or useless thing. this may be ugly but i think it’ll be useful for running errands because it fits my long wallet and phone nicely. neat! :’D

makeup organizer

also very ugly. *speechless*

inside view

two zippered pouches that are sewed on to the exterior panel. maybe i can hang it in my bathroom door and use it to store my sanitary products!

2010 notebook

this is a B5-sized notebook, much bigger than the ones i always use

other freebies

i think the lip liner, eye shadow, body lotion are redemption gifts while the lipstick is just a random gift from the SA!! nice, i have so many nude lipsticks now i think i need thicker lips or something X’D

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new pants for the old men

December 17th, 2009

i bet i won’t be touching my sewing machine at all in the next few months so i better make something useful with the fabric which chun bought for me!

baby pants!

this time, i made them really big so that someone will not say that my pants can only be worn by teddy bears!

we're loving it!

my consumers totally love their new nuah sai pants because it allows them to nuah sai nuah sai ~

totally comfy!

these pants are so comfy that both of them fell asleep soon after this.. lalala ~

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i miss you guys already ;__;

December 17th, 2009

dear mini old men,

the happiest period in my life was when i was still bumming around waiting for a job to land before my eyes. i was basically slacking at home the whole day, living off monies which my brother kindly lent to me. i ate my meals at home. and because i was young, i could afford to binge on cookies and biscuits after my main meals :’D

i would wake at 11am every morning for my brunch. i would vacuum the whole flat (the only housework i did was vacuum the floor) after my parents leave for work. when my parents come back from work we would exchange some nonsense before i go for my afternoon nap. at 4.30pm sharp i would wake up because my papa would be watching some taiwanese drama on channel 8. he was a little deaf and me, a light sleeper, so there’s no way i could sleep while he was watching the tv :’)

life was simple but i was happy. no public transport. no deadlines (my papa told me to take my time in looking for a job). no office politics. no bosses. and the best thing was i get to spend the whole day with my parents, day after day.

but but but.. the last four months with you guys have taken over as the happiest period in my life :’)

yes, there were moments when i felt so down i wanted to die, but there were way more ups than downs. i am thankful that i still get to stay in the same house with my mama after i am married. 有妈妈在身边真好！without her around, i would have sunk into deep depression and never recovered.

and my little old men. you were so ugly when i first saw you. i felt really upset and disappointed when i first saw you, and as the doctors were stitching me up i thought “wtf? why are my babies so ugly de?”. i guess that was a real test for me, to love something that is not pretty to look at. i think i have passed the test. so yeah, mama loves you. happy ?? :’D

my memory has deteriorated much. i wish i could remember all the little things about you guys. i want to remember the smell of your freshly shampoo-ed hair. the stench of your sweaty feet. the ugly face you make when you cry before sleeping (and i secretly pray that you guys break this bad habit because our neighbours are gonna report us for child abuse if you keep on crying like this everyday). i wanna remember how you try to talk to me when you’re happy. and i wanna remember your smile when you wake up every morning.

most of all, i love it when you exhibit that shy yet anticipative smile whenever you poop, as if you want me to wipe your butt quickly but is too shy to ask me to do it. and i always leave you alone after you poop because you guys are too shy to cry for immediate attention, so that is the only time when i get to do my own stuff like say, shitting, or drinking kopi.

since i stayed at home like 24/7 in the last four months after you guys arrived, tv has become my main source of entertainment. you know what? my mama loves to leave the tv on like all the time. i have never watched so much tv in my entire life. but but.. 不管多随便的人都有要求, taiwanese dramas and anything with Jeanette Aw are not allowed on my tv.

it is sad that i have to give up all the time i could have spent with you guys in exchange for money. it is sad that just when you have started to like me and learn how to play with me, i have to be away from you for so long. but then the longer i extend my leave, the less leave i have to spend my time with you guys next year. life is such a bitch.

alright alright i just burst your life is beautiful bubble, didn’t i? to make up for it, i will not be posting photos of you guys wearing baby dresses (scroll down for picture). yes, you were only three months old when i first put dresses on you. if you dare to misbehave in future, photos of you guys in sissy dresses will be circulated on the Internet

anyways i gotta end this because i am very sleepy now. my mum says “(往事)只能回味不能回去“.. 不管多不舍，也只能向前走。i guess i can only move on and have fun! i hope you guys have fun too. life is too short to be unhappy

Love,
mama

P/S: i would like you to pay special attention to words in bold.

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memories ♥♥

December 13th, 2009

another trip down memory lane..

my box of memories..

there’s nothing special about this box. i used it to bring home my stuff because the original one was more than ten years old and rusty so i threw it away

BEHOLD THE POWER OF HOLLYWOOD!

PDL, driving timetable and booklet

my driving booklet, provisional driving license, and my driving schedule! i really miss that holiday (nov-dec 2000). mummy went for an operation and stayed at xiaoyi’s house for a month (maciam like do confinement hor) so chun and i would take a bus there everyday and go-go-tir the whole day.. holidays are like the only good thing about college.. haha!

actually i also kept my original test slip and also my mock test slip (i failed my mock test with flying colours too!) but decided to throw them away because i couldn’t slip them neatly into the booklet.. lalala ~

old old passport

my first passport!

notebook

i have about 3-4 notebooks which are filled with pictures i drew. i only kept this one because it’s from my secondary school days

dragonball fanart

loved dragonball when i was a kid!

slamdunk fanart

got addicted to slamdunk when i was in sec 4!

my first voting slip

the only time i participated in General Elections! w00t! i even considered laminating this X’D

high school thingies

LEFT: my bus pass from secondary 1 to JC 2.

RIGHT: my library cards from RVHS.

CENTRE: student pass from Hwa Chong.

university and postgrad thingies

Bus pass and student matriculation cards

special mechanical pencils

i bought many mechanical pencils over the years but have been keeping these two with me forever. the red one was my first mechanical pencil which i bought from the school bookshop when i was in primary one. the black one was the original Shaker by Pilot which i bought in primary school and i used it for more than ten years. refused to throw it away because i used it for all my cartoon drawings so it’s like my little magical pencil. i think i can’t that well when i’m using other pencils

stamps

some stamps which i used quite frequently. the keychain stamp was a gift from joanna when she went to taiwan. i remember she told me to bring it with me all the time so that whenever i met someone i like, i could stamp it (my name and contact number plus a retarded cartoon) on his hand. what a great gift! but i never got the chance to use it this way

the white stamp was customized in Tokyo Disneyland. i made four, one for each neo sibling

schedule books

不知不觉 i have been using pocket schedule books for more than ten years! really can’t bear to throw these away as too many fond memories are captured inside no choice but to be a karang guni and bring them back to my house for safekeeping :’)

2000

i LOVED to take neoprints in the late 90s and continued to do so in the new millennium! i also fell in love with metallic pens and used to buy whole sets to colour my lecture notes, and to draw senseless things in my notebook

2000

portrait of lovely bevlyn in the yellow post-it. the 姐姐 was my portrait done by jaclyn when she was 11! chun says it totally looks like me (small slitty eyes, big mouth, 翘翘 hair and 乔乔 flower) so i kept it in my notebook to remind myself how ravishing i was :’D

2001

2001, i was still taking neoprints (maybe due to the lack of a real camera )

2002

chun bought me this sticker because the girl reminded her of me!

2003

2003, i started my japanese classes and got to know jolene. i think she was slacking in class when she made this doggie :’D

2004

2004, i was going for acupuncture treatments, pilates, japanese lessons, and piano lessons. check out my packed schedule. and jolene’s namecard!

2005

i started working in this imaginary small local startup company and because i was single at that time, chun sent me a note of encouragement on Valentines Day! it reads: 恋人はいないは大丈夫よ！かわいい妹があるから！and she even signed off as “sweetest sister in the world” ! haha..

2006

2006, joanna and i started to be known as the two girls who hogged the imacs at the apple store. we used to go there like ALL THE TIME to take amazing photos on the new imacs and bluetooth the photos to our phones before deleting everything away. i love the customers who left the terminals without deleting away their photos, maybe they wanted me to have something to laugh at X’D

2007

tb bought me a compact photo printer and i printed out photos taken in 2006 and pasted them in my notebook X’D

this concludes my trip down memory lane (for now) as i’ll be returning to work in my imaginary office next week and tb is unlikely to bring me home with the boys as often as i like.

anyways, i found the photo album with all the photos i took with joji! what a great weekend ~

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memories ♥

December 5th, 2009

erm.. a very random post with 36 pictures of things which i collected from my mum’s place yesterday. i threw away a lot of stuff but kept the following antiques because they bring back sweet memories

ah hong bag

this bag was a gift from hayder and ah hong. they went to the extent of embroidering ah hong onto a piece of pink swede and had it made into a big tote bag. the workmanship is excellent because it could hold about 3kg of things for my japanese lessons every saturday! in case you’re interested in the contents of my 3kg weekend bag –> water bottle, textbooks, notebook (the kind you write in, not the type with a keyboard and monitor), pencil case with more than ten pens inside, wallet, tissue, house keys, mobile phone and umbrella (yes, i was very auntie).

my first pair of sunglasses

this was a gift from No. 2 when he went on one of his trips (to australia i think). it was is my first and only pair of branded eyewear.

my first stapler

received this from 二姨 when i was in primary school. i believe she got it from tokyo disneyland. despite the fading colours and its age, this is the best stapler i have owned so far. 果然是一分钱一分货！

mirror from JT

this mirror is in my favourite colour and looks too princessy to be thrown away. plus, i don’t have a mirror in my room! haha!

hello kitty scissors

hello kitty scissors which i don’t really remember buying.. probably from tb when we were still in loves :’D

mini box from mummy

mummy bought me a couple of boxes from japan to keep my random treasures rubbish..

friendship bracelets

i used to make lots and lots of these!!! it’s easy to tell that back in those days, pink was already my favourite colour… lalala ~

handmade gift from JT

a very sweet handmade gift from JT, still in very good condition now :’D

key to bedroom

this is the key to chun and my bedroom. we don’t have a use for it anymore as we shifted out more than ten years ago. the three guys were my idol when i was in primary school and the dragonfly was either something i made or something i received as a gift.

souvenir for PROM 96/97

we received this pendant as a souvenir when we graduated from junior college..

souvenir

yes, it has been 12 years!

exam results in Hwa Chong

i tabulated my results back then.. very wuliao..

class list

this is totally useless now since most of my classmates have probably changed their addresses. i am keeping it purely for sentimental reasons..

SAT slip and results

i took the SAT because it was sponsored. yes, i was already a cheapo when i was seventeen!

block test results

before the exams we were made to submit self-addressed envelopes to the school. our exam results would then be mailed to our parents using these envelopes. good tactic to cut costs!

my favourite earrings

these were my favourite earrings in 2005~2007-ish i think! i kept these separately from my 100 other pairs of earrings! haha!

my first digital camera!

pink sony U20 which i loved to death in those days!

decorated with retarded stickers

the camera had no viewfinder and its screen was a complete joke! but i liked this camera so much that when it died on me i actually paid $80 to have it fixed instead of getting a newer model!

sticker book from joanna

filled with happy memories!

happy times ~

when we were young and carefree ~

mizuho and jaclyn's secret wish

kiddy notepad with instructions. the person who writes her wish inside the star will have the wish granted. mizuho and jaclyn wrote theirs and i kept it for them. i hope their wishes have come true

drawings from cousins when they were little

coloured drawings by mizuho, pencil drawing by janice when she was like 4yrs old?

kuromi things from tb

tb bought me so many random things!

letter from joanna

letter from joanna before she left me.. sobs.. i shed a starfish-shaped tear which later solidified into a swarvoski crystal!

JLPT examination slips

slips for JLPT4, 3, and 2. i am not too keen on JLPT 1 right now because i do not like to fail my exams X’D

nice album

bought this album in hong kong. i went to print out random photos so that this would not be a wasted buy!

best friends

sisters

family

speaking of photos, i used to have one album filled with photos of joji and myself but i can’t seem to find it nowadays. it was probably discovered by tb and burned! haha..

first gift from tb

tb bought this from a temple in hokkaido

kitsune keychain

my name was engraved at the back :’)

travel wallet with ringgit

this fugly brown wallet was my favourite companion whenever i crossed the border into JB! i still have a wad of ringgit leftover from my last trip there (2006)..

random tamagotchi thingy

i can’t remember when i got this and i can’t remember if i bought it myself or someone bought it for me as a gift. it looks like something happy so i wanna keep it :’D

daiso box with apple sticker

good for storing miscellaneous things like cables, chargers, CDs and stuff. heh.

bells

a pack of bells which have been with me for more than 10years. maybe i can use these to make toys for mini old men? X’D

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cool! our kids are gonna attend chinese lessons that are conducted in english!

November 22nd, 2009

i can’t describe how exciting this is gonna be! you know, during my time, english was used to teach third languages like japanese, french, and german, never the student’s mother tongue!

so, i am going to teach my kids to speak mandarin and see how the ministry is going to handle children who come from mandarin-speaking families because if chinese is gonna be taught in english, i think students who do not come from english-speaking families are gonna have some problems with their chinese lessons.

twenty years from now, some famous person is going to say “i failed my chinese exams every year because everything was taught in english and i didn’t understand what the teacher was trying to explain because i grew up in a mandarin-speaking environment.”

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✿ cJ ✿

iPad. make yours today :’D

baby shoes are too tight now XD

of expanding waistline, sagging boobies, and mini old men..

christmas presents

P&J ~ redemption gifts and other fugly things!

new pants for the old men

i miss you guys already ;__;

memories ♥♥

memories ♥

cool! our kids are gonna attend chinese lessons that are conducted in english!

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