how right i was,

that the lack of blog updates had seen us thru the various events that i last mentioned in my previous post… march had been another not so easy month for us, especially when melody was admitted to the hospital due to UTI…

poor melody was having high fever for a few days before we decided that its not those ordinary teething kind of fever, and sent her to the KKH and once again, she was admitted…

and this stay, landed us 4 days, with melody being ‘poked’ all over her limbs for the blood test and administer of antibiotics… that poking part, took more than 45 minutes in the treatment room, with us outside, hearing her screams and cries… helplessly…

nevertheless, she recovered, and no more fever… but was given tubes of antibiotic to last her till may before her follow up… and i really meant tubes of antibiotics…

 

that event, totally brought me downright depressed for being a parent… and i had to share to all of the fact that, behind every smiling happy child, there’re the tired and exhausted parents… so, love and treasure your parents, it not easy being one…

 

 

anyway, i think all who visited my facebook, should already seen the photos that i took of megan’s first homework… but hey, i rarely got a chance to take out my dslr to ‘fire’ away, and so got to bear with my trigger happy fingers eh? and here it goes again…

 

 

 

 

as for melody, she is growing well, and had more teeth and starting to stand with support…

this photo here is a little outdated, cuz now she got 4 teeth!

 

despite the tiredness and exhaustion, i really love these kids of mine cuz they type of joy they had given me is something that i never had before… 

but then again, it will be better if parenting can be easier… haiz… :P

(P/S: wonder when’s my next post…)

time & space

time and space, essential elements that’s affecting me greatly in recent…

 

time is something that i don’t seem to get enuff… and seemingly reducing recently, almost like i’m getting less than 24 hours a day… my life starts at 7 every morning, and after rushing Megan to school and off to work, my next 9 hours got spent in my pathetic work… and when all others (mainly singles or childless) get to have a breather after 5:30, i’m making an ‘amazing race’ kind of rush back home, in our sardine packed style train, only to arrive at Megan’s school to saw her being the last few or sometimes, the last one to be fetched…

there after, its another trip on our sardine packed bus ride home while Joelle packs the dinner home. and when others usually get to kick off their shoes and laid back to relax when they got home, we get to continue ‘working’ the moment we got home… meaning, me to shower Megan while Joelle prepares the packed dinner for Megan. then its me eat first while Joelle feeds Megan… and most of the time, i think i’m swallowing my dinner, to take over feeding Megan relieving Joelle to have her dinner…

end of the story after Megan is settled? not quite, next up, doing the laundry else Megan don’t get to have uniform the day after… and when Megan finally sleeps at 10-11pm, we get to shower and then its dragging our wasted body to bed and rest, cuz within 7 hours, its time to wake up…

oh, weekends? things just get ‘better’ cuz Melody returns home from my parents’ place… woohoo!

so, i really don’t understand why some singles and childless couples complaint about having no time and no energy… not to mention, no money…

 

the above story about time, is only to make my lack of blog updates seem reasonable enuff… anyway, this is only our 3rd year of parenthood, it will be quite some time before things get easier for us… :P

 

space is the next big thing we’ll be changing in 2011. yes, we’re moving out of yew tee this year. besides making cash from the sales, the primary decision to move out, is to move in to somewhere nearer to our parents. its not doing us any good by having packed the meals, and living in a remote island where the nearest call for help is a whopping 20 minutes away…

we made a superb choice when we first got our flat, nowhere near either of our parents, to start a live of our own, and to break away from the ‘watchful’ eyes of our parents. its was heaven back then, partying after work, returning late and waking up sinfully late for work… without worrying about disturbing our sleeping parents…

now, things changed when we had Megan and changed drastically when Melody arrived 2 years after Megan. everything gets increasingly difficult, we need help! hence moving nearer to parents seems to be the best decision for us now… and in a few years time, we’ll be in trouble when Megan starts her elementary school. how are we to settle her half day before/after her school?

hence, this will be the right time for us to move…

 

our time and space is greatly affected by Megan and Melody, and we’re making changes to balance the equation, with a lot of effort… but sometimes, it just seem so difficult to rationale the effort with the results yielded… especially when the results are these:

 

 

 

 

suddenly i’m full of energy… everything’s so effortlessly now…

 

to every reader, merry christmas, happy new year, happy chinese new year, and just in case my next post come late, happy valentine’s day too! :P

in a desperate move to save my cobwebbed blog…

i dug up the photos in my iphone…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nuffnang moola #6

my 6th cheque from nuffnang!

and yes, it had been quite some time since i last ‘heard’ from nuffnang… and of course, due to the fact that i didn’t blog regularly… :P

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Had a jumpy good time at Bambini

it was megan’s school closure last friday and we took a day off to bring her out to chill out… but the problem is, where? zoo? joelle almost fainted at that suggestion…

nevertheless, we did our research and decided on, Go-Go Bambini A Dempsey Hill (check them out)

 

before the bambini thingy, we settled our bfast at the Ranch Home, also the home to Ben & Jerry…

oh ya, this does show clearly its home to Ben & Jerry…

while waiting…

 

and this alone is like 3 mcd bfast meal… :P

and its huge…

 

and of course, the highlight of the day, the indoor playground at Bambini…

 

i just love the smiles she had that day…

i did mentioned JUMPY good time right?

 

now this is one slam dunk move…

finally, after 3 hours… we get to rest… phew…

and she returned right after lunch… i wonder where she got these unlimited energy from?

 

at the end of the day, while on cab home, i asked megan if she is happy today, and she replied…

“Yes, I’m happy today, its my birthday…”

 

i guess she enjoyed herself so much that she thot its her b’day… :)