H1N1

I am suspected of H1N1 despite no travel has been made. I was given 1 week of MC as home quarantine order to rest by the doctor. Adel is having high fever, cough and running nose as well. Hopefully she is cleared.

If it really is H1N1, i might have gotten it at site.
But I would attribute it to the lack of rest and water over the last 2 weeks over the Ion project that my company is handling. We were all working pretty hard over it that most of us were sick.

Anyway just 30 minutes ago, babysitter called me and told me that Kennzo also has fever, running nose and cough.

Sam is going to bing him to the doctor later.

Dating Day Out for Adel and Reyes

It's Meet-The-Parents day at Appleland.

We signed up for the parenting talk (Correcting in Love - Effective Discipline Strategies That Work) at Adel's school in the morning. This talk touched on how to encourage positive behaviour and manage misbehaviour through using Love by Madam Jessie Toh. We had previously attended one talk by her and we found it good. Moreover we wanted to remind ourselves to use effective discipline strategies through Love.

Right after the talk we met up with her teachers to talk about her progress in school.

Reyes's mum attended the talk as well but she needed to go back for work. Reyes was entrusted to my care for the rest of the day and we brought 3 kids out.

At the end of the day, the kids were all tired. They slept all the way home in the car.

It's always so sweet to see the siblings doing things together




Kennzo lying in a lazy position by the edge of the bed


And he is so comfortable in that position for more than 5 minutes

Our House Is Sold!

Actually not really since we are in the stage of exercising the option from the prospective buyer.

Through this sale of flat, I am pretty unhappy with the agent who is serving us. No doubt he has a wide contact and brings us direct buyers, I disapprove the kind of hard sell method he uses.
Because of this, it is causing a lot of arguments for Sam and myself.

Anyway, I got him to absorb the GST of the agent commission. He relented but added on that even in GSS, we need to pay GST. From my point of view, as a friend of Sam and the high commission that he has pocketed, shouldn't he absorb it out of goodwill. He even managed to convince Sam and got himself the exclusivity of selling our house.

A lot of people has been telling me not to go into exclusivity and I did not want to do so as well.

I just want to close and move on quickly now.


Yesterday went to view some houses at Yishun.
I took a liking to 2 of them however one of them is a 3 room flat. We are looking for 4 rooms so that the kids can have their own room as they get older.
It is highly possible that we will confirm the other 4 room unit which is a high floor as well. It requires only very minimum renovation work to be done and we can move in already.

Kennzo is 14 Months old

My dear son turns 14 months old on 23 June 09.

He can finally walk on his own and he loves walking up and down the staircase.
He calls me mummy or mama more frequently now (only when he wants to find me) but it still depends very much on his mood.

He will gets very excited when it is time to go out and he will walk to the hall, sits and wears his shoes (with assistance of course).

I Rejected The Offer

I felt bad but at least relieved of the dilemma which I got myself into.

Now I can happily go for other job search to get that paycheck and benefits that I can compromise for.

In For A Big Disappointment

I was waiting happily for them to contact me and confirmed my employment. This job possessed a great deal of challenges and it provided me with an opportunity to venture into the advertising industry.

But I were in for a BIG disapointment when the HR came back to me and told me that it would be a 3 months renewable contract. There will be no benefits and my pay would be affected be more than 50%.

Right now, I am helping my friend in his company and he wanted me to stay on and help him. I am getting the hang out of it but I wanted to try on something that poses more challenges to me. I can only leave when I have handover to his new administrative girl but that would means that I am not able to start next Monday with this advrtising firm.

I am in a dilemma.

Should I take it up and help my friend, going around job searching and take on more temp jobs?

Kennzo and His Powerful Teeth

Kennzo has a liking of biting his bolster. Can you see the little holes on the bolster?

I am more worried that his teeth will drop when he forcefully bite and let go.

And this little monster can climb up our bed and the sofa in the entertainment room by himself.
Clever boy.

Kennzo's 1st Birthday (Part 2)

This naughty boy received his first present from Brenda's daughter.

See how helpful Adel is in heping him to open up his present.

Kennzo's 1st present

Not knowing what to do with this present

With the help of Adel, he 'opened' his present

Kennzo's First MacDonald

One sunny weekend morning just after Kennzo's 1st birthday, we decided to bring him for his first taste of MacDonald breakfast.

Father and Son

Father and Kids

Adel has her usual kid's hotcake meal for breakfast

Kennzo spoilt for choice

my ah beng son and see how cheeky he is