Piggyback is FUN!!!!

Piggyback is fun, not for the piggy though

Don't you just love cuddles and kisses? I do!

I WON!!!!

I entered the competition on Leonny's website (http://www.oureverydaythings.com/) not expecting anything. The prize was this cute sandwich cutter.... Luck was on my side apparently. This was the 2nd time I won prize from Leonny's website. Few years ago, I won the polliwalk shoes that JL is still wearing until now. And now I won this. Thank you, Leonny! Your blog has been an inspiration to many parents out there. The godly examples that you've set has helped many, myself included. Keep shining for HIM!!!!

New fashion

This was what happened when JL dressed JH up. pink everywhere...

Reading time

JH doesn't really like reading books yet. But one of the few books that he would sit through is this one... Wake up JEFF!!!!

Reading 'Wake up Jeff' book

JL - loves Dora the explorer

JL watching Dora

Playing in the park

We were bored at home (this was during school holiday), so we decided to go for a walk and stop by a park. I tried to find JH's shoes. But somehow I couldn't find a matching ones. I searched everywhere. So I've got no choice but to put different shoes on him. Poor thing! But he would be even poorer if we were at the park and he wasn't allowed to go down cos he hasn't got any shoes on. So I chose the lesser of 2 evils.

When we got to the park, JH fell asleep in his pram. JL played by herself. She got bored. When we were about to walk home, JH woke up and saw the park. Now we couldn't go home. So we stayed on until he was ready to go home




JH was asleep when we got there

On the seesaw

On the slide

On the swing








JL and JH

JL and JH were having Tim Tam

JH - asleep (about to sleep)

Stereg boy

JL - learning how to read

My friend told me about this very useful website (http://www.readingeggs.com.au/) that teaches children how to read in a fun way. I didn't have to force JL to sit down and do. She would ask me to load the page up and she could sit all day doing it, while learning how to read of course. But too bad, it only came with 14 days free trial. After that you have to pay for the software. $99. I'm not willing to pay for it. And we just maximised those 14 days free trial. I heard from my friend whose kid is in prep, the school is using this software too and each student gets his/her own account. I thought, I'll just wait until JL goes to Prep next year and see what the school uses. If the school uses something similar, then why waste my $99, right? *tightass*

Eric and Fen Fen's wedding

It was held at Monash Religious Centre (in Monash uni, Clayton Campus). It brought back memories as I walked there from the carpark. I told JL that I used to study here. But she didn't seem very interested.

The ceremony was held in English then translated in mandarin. So it went a bit longer than usual. And JH couldn't sit still. He was walking up and down the aisle during the ceremony. I tried to sit him next to me, but he would scream really loud and disrupt the ceremony, so I let him walking up and down the aisle instead. I could've taken him outside, but I didn't want to miss the ceremony.

Anyway, beautiful couple, beautiful wedding. Wish you both a happy marriage!!!!

My facebook statuses in Sept 2010

Siska Harrison screamed at Damien, "Can u kill d spider in d toilet?" JL screamed back, "NOOOO, don't kill it!!!! It's my pet!!!" *sigh*... (30/09/10)


Siska Harrison is watching JL patiently feeds JH her peanut butter sandwich. Then she asked him to drink water then she commented, "mana ada jie2 yg spt JL? Ga ada jie2 yg bs sayang JH spt JL. Ma, skg kamu bs bobok. Biar JL yg jaga JH"... (27/09/10)

Siska Harrison screamed "You are driving me nuts, JH!!!!" JL heard that & in her wisdom, letting me know, "Mum, you don't have nuts. Only boys have nuts, mum"... (23/09/10)

Siska Harrison standard questions frm JL everytime I pick her up frm kinder, without fail... 1)What did u & JH do when I was at school? if i give her short answer, she'll ask "What else?" 2) did JH miss me? was he looking for me?... I thought I'm d 1 who's supposed to ask what she was doing at school... (10/09/10)

Siska Harrison Upon hearing me saying, "I haven't got money!" JL went to look for her small purse and opened it and gave me $2 coin "This is all I have, mum. But you can have it because you haven't got any money" I gave it back to her and asked her to keep it. She said, "How about this? On Sunday, you don't have to give me money for the offering cos you haven’t got any money. I’ll give this $2 to God.” Ah, JL..... may God bless you.... (03/09/10)

Siska Harrison ‎'s babysitter has gone to kinder. Now I'm ready to look after d baby cos I had a good sleep this morning after work, thanks to my reliable babysitter... (02/09/10)

Siska Harrison bhs gado2: JL bikin ini rumah all by JL punya self loh, Ma... (01/09/10)

Making onde-onde

Melbourne Museum

We also went to Melbourne Museum. We didn't actually browse through most of the things. Again, I would prefer some 'adults' time so that I can browse slowly, exhibit by exhibit. With kids in tow, we spent most of the time at the children's section

Scienceworks

We went to Scienceworks during school holiday. We spent most of our time upstairs, which is more fun for the kids. I (as an adult) would prefer to go downstairs, but I didn't have a chance to do that. Ah well... as long as the kids were happy.

Ncek and Ncim

Hello Kitty tissue holder

Yes, online shopping IS addictive. Bought another hello kitty stuff... tissue holder =)

Wiwi came and visited us

My highschool friend, Wiwi, came here from Jakarta for a holiday. Her younger sister lives in Boxhill. She came and visited us. Her sister and her niece (Talia) and nephew (Tobi) were coming with her. We went to Werribee Mansion, then later on went to visit another highschool friend, Anyuk, who lives in Bentleigh East. I took photos of the kids, but forgot to take the adults' picture *sigh*

Lunch

Tiramisu

My first attempt at making Tiramisu

JH - 18 months old

JH had his 18 months check up with the maternal child health nurse. Nurse was concerned about his speech. She was expecting him to be able to say at least 6 words. But he can only say 3 words (mama, dada, nana). Nurse wanted to see him again in 2 months time, hoping that there are some improvement, otherwise, she'll send him for a hearing test. I personally don't think he's got any hearing problems because he responded okay when I asked him to do something. I also am not too stressed about his speech. I reckon he's just slow in speech, just like his jie and his dad.

MCH nurse also asked if he could recognise animals. Nope! Everytime I tried to read book with him, he would just ignore me, refusing to look at the book.

MCH nurse asked if he can do animal sounds (eg. sheep - baa baa, dog - woof woof, etc). Nope! The only things come out from his mouth were those 3 words. nothing else! The rest is just baby talk.

He also had his 18 months old immunisation (ie. chicken pox). Cried for a short while but was okay afterwards.

I don't deserve JL

I heard a soft crying noise.... coming from JL's room. So I went to her room and sure enough, there she was, crying quietly.

I asked her, "What's wrong?"

She was still sobbing and shaking and trying to answer my question, "I made something for you at school, but you called it rubbish. Everything that I made, you said it's rubbish"

I felt 100 knives stabbed me at that point.

Yes, everytime I picked her up from kinder, she always had her bag full of her art and craft thingy that she made at school, then her both hands are always full of the stuff she made. Sometimes because she hasn't got any more hand to hold her stuff, she used her teeth to bite and carry the painting or whatever. And I would always say, Why do you always bring so much rubbish home??? because once we get home, those stuff go into my recycle bin and half of my recycle bin was her stuff *sigh*

But I don't know she took it to heart. To me, it is rubbish. But to her, it's something that she devoted her time and concentration and heart into.

I apologised to her. I said I'm so sorry and I started crying

Seeing me crying made her crying even louder.... so loud that Damien came to the room and asked, "What happened?"

I said, "Nothing"

Then he asked JL, "What happened?"

JL said, "I made mummy cry... it's not mummy who made me cry, it's me who made mummy cry"

Hearing that made me sobbing even more.

Anyway, we hugged and let out our cries for at least half an hour or so.

....

I hope she forgives me. she said she did. but how wounded her heart is... I have no way of telling.

Oh, God, You've got to help me to control this mouth of mine... especially when I'm sleepy or tired, I tend to lose control of what's coming out of this foul mouth. You gave me such a good daughter. Help me to be a good mother to her too. Her heart is too kind and too soft. What did she do to deserve such a harsh and bad mother? Poor JL... I love you, JL... always do and always will.

One of the smiley moments

Catching up with Maria

Maria was my room mate when I was still living in South Melbourne. Man... that would be probably in 1997. So I haven't seen her for a while. Saw her briefly when I went home last November. And she came here to attend her sister's wedding. And she managed to squeeze her tight schedule to meet me up. But we couldn't catch up for long because JL wanted to go home (she wasn't feeling well) and JH was driving me crazy by running on the road. He must have thought that the road belongs to his grandpa or something.

We had lunch at Mekhong. Then we went to Target on Bourke St. And while Maria was shopping, JH was pulling books off the shelf. We then just sat down on the bench outside Target. Until I couldn't stand JH anymore then we went home.

I Love Spring

This is what I see everytime I go somewhere or coming home. Canola field. A huge canola field. I stopped on the freeway to take this picture =) It only looks like this in Spring.

Catching up with DC & Anyuk

My highschool friend, Denny Chandra (aka DC) was coming to Melb from Syd, bringing his gf, Pandora with him. It was the first time that we get to see Pandora who previously resided in Singapore. They are getting married next year. Pandora is very pretty, lucky DC!!! hahaha. She's a good cook too.

So we met up in the city with Anyuk (another highschool friend). We had lunch at Spicy Fish Restaurant. Nice food. I couldn't enjoy myself because JH was being a pain in my butt. Crying and screaming THE WHOLE TIME!!!! Damien tried to calm him down, but he's a mummy's boy. He wanted mummy but mummy needed to catch up with all the latest gossips hehehe. So yeah, my catching up was interrupted a lot of times. Not happy with JH!!!!

Anyway... here are a few photos I took that day.

Two pretty gals =)

Watching Rugby League 2010 Final

Damien got the tickets to watch Rugby League 2010 Final from Ticketek for only $1 each. So eventhough we both are not Rugby League fan, we just went. The final was a match between Melbourne Storm vs Newcastle Knights, held at AAMI Park. It was my first time going to any sporting event. I didn't expect it to be THAT noisy. Everytime people cheered, JL and I were just exchanging looks that could be interpreted as this bunch of people are crazy. The fact that I don't know the rules of the games didn't help either. The weather was as crazy as these people. One minute it was sunny and bright and hot, the next minute it was raining and very windy and cloudy. The weather kept switching itself between sunny and bright to cloudy and windy and raining for the whole entire game.

We drove to Ika's place in South Melbourne and parked the car there, then we took a tram from Domain Interchange to Flinders St Station, then changed tram to go to AAMI Park.

After the game finished, we went home... What a day!!! Happy Father's Day!!!!



Happy Father's Day

I would like to wish all dads out there HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!! Special wishes for my dad, also for Damien =)

This was what JL made in kinder for Damien