July 31st, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
I bumped into two ex-colleagues of mine yesterday at a restaurant during lunch time. One of them is a marketing manager and the other is a very successful sales executive in the developer firm we worked for.
We had a good 30 minute chat to catch up on things and apparently they left the developer firm a couple of months ago. Due to various management issues which I was not spared the details, not that I’m interested anyway. They are now working as realtors in a commercial real estate company I’ve never even heard of but it sounds like they’re really happy and doing quite well. Not surprising considering the two of them were the best sales person in our former company.
July 31st, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
My husband favourite coffee haunt is a shabby old kopitiam in town. We were there yesterday afternoon to kill some time. Then we saw a couple of computer technician arrive and went about setting up modem, routers and wifi access point. The owner’s son told us that they’ll be setting up WiFi internet access for the customers.
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July 25th, 2008 | Breast Feeding, Personal | 1 Comment
For the past one over month, I’ve used this blog as a ranting ground to write about my struggle with baby Clarisse’s weaning. She used to wake up at around 3 to 4am in the morning hungry demanding to be fed. But the frustration is not that I have to drag my tired self out of bed. It’s feeding her milk and cereals that drives me and my husband bonkers. She would refuse, struggle and put up a fight whenever being fed milk and cereals despite her hunger. The situation is slowly improving and she seems to give in to her milk and cereals lately though not without some toys or distraction.
I noticed she’s sleeping longer during the past two weeks. Most of the time, she would sleep right through the night, from 8-9pm to 6-7am without feeding. Whenever she does cry during the night, I just give her some water and she would doze off again. She is bound to wake up before 8am in the morning due to hunger.
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July 17th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
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July 16th, 2008 | Parenting | 1 Comment
It’s your right to be picky. Your baby or toddler may spend up to half a day in it so as responsible and caring parents, you have to make sure you’re leaving them in a safe, caring and fun environment.
Choosing a day-care centre, like many things in life involving your baby or toddler, is never easy. Heck, I’ve been through numerous paeditricians for several months before settling for the best one I could find. Which brings about the question, what makes a childcare centre good? What sort of criteria must it possess to quality as the childcare centre of choice? Of course, there’s no such thing as perfect. What appears to be the perfect childcare centre to you may not suit another parent. So word-of-mouth should be taken with a grain of salt. Try your best, be patient and draw up a list of criterias on what you look for in a childcare centre. Think about what is important and your expectations in a childcare centre. As a start, here’s a few things to consider:
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July 16th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
Its a safe bet that my baby Clarisse will grow pestering me for a pet dog. Or pet cat for that matter. Whenever we passes by our neighbour, she would urge his dad to stop the car so that she could stare at the neighbour’s doggy for a while. Whenever we’re at the groceries and happen to pass by the pet food section, baby Clarisse would lean her head or kiss packets of pet food because there’s either a dog or cat picture on it. When we are in the car driving along the streets, she could spot and point at a dog or cat a mile away and jump about in excitement. We are left trying to find out what she’s pointing at.
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July 16th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No comments
How’s that for a laptop bag? I saw this Swiss Army laptop bag at the stores today. It looks simple with clean lines. The finishing is really neat and feels very durable. Just nice to house my laptop whenever I need it on the move. While I’ve heard plenty about their knifes and tools, I never knew Swiss Army has a line of bags ranging from luggage to laptop bags.
July 11th, 2008 | Diet | 1 Comment
It’s been nearly 2 months now since the day I stopped breastfeeding my baby Clarisse. I think its now safe to say she has been successfully weaned.
We’ve made some changes to her diet. She’s eating a lot more solids these days. There’s three servings of a variety of porridge - lunchtime at 12pm, dinner at 6pm and finally a very small portion at 8pm just before bedtime. You might say she’s eating a lot of porridge but do bear in mind she is very reluctant to drink milk.
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July 11th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Have you tried Windows Vista? Out of curiosity, my husband installed Vista on my laptop this morning to find out how it fares. My Celeron-based IBM ThinkPad was nearly choked to death running Vista in all its eye-candy glory. Since day one Windows Vista has received mixed reviews from the public. I think I can relate to the fuss because while my laptop runs Windows XP smoothly, Vista slowed it down to a crawl. My laptop memory usage went up by more than 50% compared to XP. Well, I grant you Vista does look slick and fancy but apart from that, I see no reason why I would migrate from XP even if I buy a top-of-the-range laptop today.
July 11th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
Baby Clarisse received a stash of hand-me-down children's clothes today from her aunt. More than two dozen pieces of children t-shirts, shorts, pants, skirts and dresses. And the best thing is all of them look like new. There’s this one dress so new the price tag has yet to be removed.
Baby Clarisse’s rather tiny wardrobe is filled to the brim so the cloths has to be put in a plastic container for now. I’m going to sort them out later and see which ones could fit. I think they look rather large for a one year old. Baby Clarisse is rather small built for her age so I guess half of those clothes won’t fit yet.
