First Attempt At A Birthday Cake

Last weekend mommy decided to bake a cake and it will be the birthday cake for Auntie Boon Yu.
(Auntie Boon Yu's birthday was on Monday)

Certainly, I'm mommy's helper.

See the photo below, this is the Longan Cake baked by us.
This is mommy first attempt at a birthday cake and it turned out not very successful. Why?
Because:
1) The cake is slanted after mommy cut into half horizontally.
2) The chocolate rice is not evenly spread on the side wall.
3) The cream is not evenly apply on the surface as well.
4) The longan decoration also unbalanced.

Due to the above reason, mommy snapped a photo of the cake and send to Auntie Boon Yu as mommy decided not to give the cake to her.
However, Auntie Boon Yu doesn't mind and she still wants the cake : )

What to do next?

[Posted by mommy]
I received my boss's phone call on Monday afternoon (He station in Singapore)

Boss :"I have a news to you but I think it's a bad one."
Me :"em...."
Boss:"I would like to inform you that you are affected by the
.........restructuring management program.
.........You have been selected not because of your performance,
.........this is company direction, our department...."

I don't really listen to what he said as after his first sentence, I started to open all my drawers & cabinets and see whether I got any personel belongings there. Yes, I start to house keeping my stuff.

Luckily during my maternity leave, I've told that our department still one more to go and I suspected is me. So, I'm not surprise when I got the news.

My official last day is end of July but my last working day will be 23-Jul as I don't want to stay till the last day. What's the purpose, right?

So after 23-Jul, I'm a full time housewife for the time being till I find a new job.
I'm allow to earn low salary but I'm not allow to have zero income.
Therefore, I still need to find an income.

What to do next?
Should I continue to work in a factory?
Should I change my field?
Should I take a rest after 10 years of working?
Should I start a small business?
Should I......

So many questions come to my mind...I think I need some times to figure out the answer.

Weekend Breakfast

Last Saturday, mommy prepared the breakfast using the new tool -- bread cutter that she bought few months ago.

Bread cutter -- Rabbit, flower & bear

I have rabbit & flower for bread+cheese, little crab sausage & egg as my breakfast.
Mommy knows that I won't take sausage, that's why she made it as little crab.

If compare to previous breakfast that mommy prepared, this one is more attrative & presentable : )

This is pap's breakfast. Mommy also have the same.

Enjoying the breakfast

Done...as expected I didn't touch the sausage at all. I finished all the eggs but there still 2 flowers left :p
Initially I only took 1 rabbit bread, but mommy threaten me that if I don't take the bread, 舅舅will not buy me the computer. So, I took another piece of rabbit bread.

2 ~ 3 years old

Mommy suppose to upload my photo album early of this year when I turned 3 years old.
Some how she didn't and drag until now which is half a year already : (
Finally now my photo album for 2~3 years old is ready!

Confinement Food

If you are looking for confinement food catering, mommy recommend this one.
Mommy took 2 catering during her confinement, one from the center another one from this -- MUM Postnatal Dietary Meal.

The food from confinement center was not that good, therefore mommy is not recommend.

The MUM Postnatal Dietary Meal catering as below:
-- Deliver once per day, during lunch time.
-- 2 meals per day (1 rice + 1 vege + 1 meat + 1 herbal soup)
-- black date + ginger tea
-- dessert (for tea time)

You can choose the option per your requirement. Mommy took 2 meals only, no dessert, no black date tea.

The food varieties from MUM Postnatal Dietary Meal for the 10 days that mommy ordered :

Sibling Jealousy?

[Posted by mommy]

All this started on a day before I resume my work on 1-Jul after 2 months maternity off.

On 30-Jun, Thung cried when hubby wanted to leave after dropped her to nursery.
This is strange as she has been going to nursery for half a year and we only faced this problem during the first few weeks of her nursery. All the while she is ok and will said "bye-bye" to us when we want to go.

I was stay at home taking care of JH. Hubby called me and told me about this incident. After half an hour, hubby called again and said teacher called him because Thung vomited in school. I knew Thung was fine on that day, no sick, no fever. I believed she vomit was due to crying too hard. However, I still let hubby bring her back.

Start from that day onwards Thung used to cry every morning when we want to leave. Teacher also doesn't understand why she suddenly behave like that. Teacher told me she will just cried for a while, before teacher start the class she is back to normal.

We try to figure out what went wrong with her or is there anything happen in school that make her scared? But there is no answer till today. I tried to ask her the reason of crying but she refused to tell me. She just said "I want mommy".

There are few possibilities:
1) She is jealous of her brother as nowadays we all put more attention on JH.
2) She do this in purpose to get our attention, to let me stay longer with her.
3) Something happened in school (ex: teacher scold her, beat her?...etc)

Meanwhile, I've tried so many ways to persuade her not to cry when I'm about to leave. But all failed!
1) Give her favorite sweets when she wants to start crying --> Failed (after eat the sweets, cry also)
2) Prepare some snack and let her share with her friend (try to distract her) --> Failed.
3) Ask Ah Mah to bring her to school as she will listen to Ah Mah --> Failed (even worst)
4) Bring her back at night so that she will get more times to spend with me --> Failed (at night told me won't cry, the next morning do the same thing again)

Now I've no idea what happen to her and how to settle (any suggestion?). Hopefully this is really due to sibling jealousy(nothing bad happened in school) and it will over soon. May be she just need more times.

My First Performance

My music school had an event called "The wonderful musical evening with Jammin Sensation" at Gurney Plaza on 5-Jul in collabration with popular 85th anniversary. Teachers and students are participated in this event and my Kinder Beat 2 class has a performance as well.

Teaher helped us to choose 2 songs for the show: Jungle Band & Take It High.

In the Jungle Band, there are 3 instruments that we can play with: cymbals, bass drum & triangle.
I've chosen cymbals as my instument.

As it is for Jungle Band, we'll make up like an animal.

Teacher is drawing the nose & whiskers for me, the ears are on the cap.

Photo with the classmates before the show start.



Hi Everybody: This is a very last minute arrangement. We joined with Kinder Beat 1 students and sing together.

Jungle Band-- I'm playing cymbals.

Take It High: We play with the colorful rope.

Teacher said must bow after the performance.

Jungle Band:

Take It High: