The Chrome Story

Song by: Go on: Jonsi

It has been a while...

Today marks my eighth month working in the new company and living in a new country.

Little one is no longer little one as he turned into two in June.

He will be going to preschool in coming December.

As a first-time-mother, I have finished a book borrow from local library in order to have mental preparation on what to expect, prepare, pre-visit...

Book title: Getting ready to start school

By Netmums

Image from internet

Though it is written in compliance of UK rules and regulation, it is quite useful for reader around the world. As the book is divided into 6 parts -

Pre-school days

Finding the right school

Getting ready to start school

What starting school means for you

Starting school

Getting the best out of school life

It not only concern your child being in the school for the first day, observation of your child after school, encouraging your child if he/she does not pick up skill as other peers did, chance of behavioural change (to be clingy, bed wetting..) as well as mother who might have 'empty nest' syndrome once the child is going off to school.

Though it is possibly not the best book I have read, but overall it is a good start to get involve in preparing, planning for a new chapter of life :)

Leaving

Leaving is separation indeed.
To leave or not to leave, it is a decision.
To leave, is a right decision.
To leave, needs to take a lot of gut.
To leave, grow my reluctance.
To leave, meet my goal.
To leave, makes separation in one side, and reunion in other side.

One Fine Afternoon

what comes into your mind when you see this picture?

Picture taken while both of them playing peek-a-boo with the curtain.

Meet the unusual

While you're away.
As usual, I worked late.
I reached home at the usual time.


Unusually, I don't see a small and square grey color car waiting for me patiently outside the building.
I dont get to argue with topics that conversed but
I get to talk over the phone with you sweet and gentle.
I ate dinner alone.
I ate extra heavy dinner - 3 pieces of fillet, apple, fish cracker from Perhentian Island.
I sleep alone tonight and the rest of week.

How are you there? It's the second morning. Everyday a great day for you!

Praying for a second screening for you - Lord, thank you Lord for providing us this opportunity.
we leave this opportunity on your hand.
Allow for second screening if it's a good chance for us to move forward. Amen.

Baking at home

Last week, I was invited to join the cooking class from my previous assignment. Please meet the chef - Alex, who demonstrated the cooking steps to us. We're divided into 4 group which consisted of 4-5 persons. Pizzas and brownies were what we learnt. The steps is simple, ingredients is easy to find, the end result is satisfied - it's probably we're too hungry. It was such a fun to cook with the huge bunch of member.

Over the weekend, I was trying to make my own pizza at home. My pizza that served as our dinner - grandma, parents, Hann and me, and snack for Callum.
I only need a very small amount of dough to make 3 regular pizzas, it's a thin crust pizza. The overall preparation and cooking time took approximately 1.5 hours.
It's quite hard for me to get a variety of topping ingredients. Thus, the topping is very limited to mushroom, pineapple, crabstick, chopped capsicium and onion.
The taste wasn't impress me. It tasted different from the baking class - the taste is dull, less spices, the cheese is a bit different as I bought the cheaper one - it already cost me alot with the huge amount required.

Anyway, I enjoyed cooking different type of food to serve my family. It's such a good feeling - eating pizza rather rice, everyone enjoys the pizza while still able to chit chat rather the dull, dry, restricted round table of chinese cuisine, with a not-so-hot weather. I am imagining myself and family at somewhere out of the country.
But my baba surely can't bear with the late timing to have dinner :)

It's your birthday

We celebrate Callum's birthday on 19th June, earlier a week of the actual birthday. Reason being, it's a weekend and school holidays. We made it a small gathering of great-grandma(both parents side), grandparents (both parents side), parents, autie & uncle (da yee), and some stay-near-aunties and uncles, as well as my nieces.

The overall cost spent on the birthday held less than RM200. Almost everything is homecook/homemade except the side dish that bought by Hann - KFC. We need the drumstick to in place so that Callum can 'pick the future' with variety of KFC, egg, book, pen, calculator, car key, and red packet. My little boy first picked up the pen, later came with drumstick. The most funniest part is, once he picked the drumstick, he played with it, swing it, touched it...and after a while he pinched it and got a pinchful of meat from the drumstick and popped it into his mouth! It amazed me alot where as we never explore him with chicken but he knew it's edible! Everyone enjoyed seeing him picking up every item laid on the floor.

Later it's the cake cutting ceremony. I made him a marble cheese cake with own creative decoration rather a marble motive. Callum enjoyed it as well in both cutting and eating cake. He yet know to blow off the candle light though we practise before the actual day.



On the next day, we celebrated father's day. It's Hann first father's day. I baked a new york cheese cake with strawberries as filling and topping. It turns out very beautiful and it tasted just nice and better than first trial. I wasn't sure if everyone enjoy my cheesecake, but indeed, I am enjoying the process of preparing, baking, it turns out to be an end result and it's edible though it's tired to bake 2 cakes in a row and waiting for it to finish at 2 in the a.m. and go to sleep with worry heart that what if the cake is a failure and I do not have cake for the celebration?

Ah ha. Pratice make perfect.