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Let's see, I have been talking about the Mid-Autumn Festival, the mooncakes and so on...
It might shock you, but after some calculations, my family have actually consumed 2 boxes of snowskin mooncakes, 3 boxes of baked skin mooncakes!! Well, what to do, there are 3 young boys at home whom always seem to be hungry. Like for instances, they could have just finished their dinner, and still continue if you place biscuits / sweets / cakes / ice cream / etc, in front of them. Since mooncake is something sweet and the look is fanciful, definitely they are fancinated by it.

The weather continues to be looking all bright and sunny, no more gloomy and wet weather for now. I finally put my hands on the steering wheels again! The last was when I passed my driving test 2 months ago. Patrick hubby finally found the courage to let me lay my hands on the car for a short drive around. Still, my driving skills definitely need more polishing up. And I don't think I would ever learn how to park the car. I must find time to go back for further refresher course with my instructor.

During lunch yesterday, my colleague Lay Peng and I went to the Popular bookstore. I came across this book that is really wonderful about making mooncakes! There is baked skin / snow skin and even jelly mooncake receipe!!!! Wow! And it's selling for S$9.90, I am still thinking whether I should get it... maybe I can try making mooncakes on next year's mid-autumn? But it's like 12 months away... Or perhaps, I could use the receipe on other moulds such as winnie the pooh or hello kitty shape, to make cute jelly? Let me consider...

At work, things aren't exactly smooth... I have been asking friends and contacts whether they would perhaps be thinking of getting Formula One tickets? But no luck : ( I am wondering how it's possible to find a buyer for the Stamford Grandstand tickets I am holding... I am selling the tickets at the original prices of S$998.00 per piece, but guess it's too costly for just any person to get for the event...

Well, there are never a smooth sailing path, but things will eventually work out someway or another...

Lovely Sunny Week after a week of RAINS...

Sunny!!!!!

Finally, it's sunny, the sun is out after a week of rains and storms... I was thinking it would never end, the wet wet feeling of walking in the rain, your shoes getting wet and perhaps earthworms getting stuck to your legs. The house full of damp clothes that just can't seem to be dry. My clothes are finally getting crisp dry under the sun.



Family

It's life as usual for the kids and my work. The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching [14th September 2008], lovely occassion for people to find excuse of stuffing themselves silly with mooncakes. There are all kinds of mooncakes, jelly mooncakes / snow skin mooncakes / baked skin mooncakes / etc. The list goes on, there's all sorts of fillings too, fruits / bird nests / ginseng / lotus paste / salted egg yolk / durian / ice cream / cheese / chocolate / mango / yam / yogurt / curry / sambal prawn and lots more. I have been buying for my parents, in-laws, my workplace, etc. It's a period of spending money again. But trust me, after a while, you just get sick of the mooncakes, they are forever too sweet from overdose with sugar.

I have been catching up with friends recently, this is rare since I have been keeping to my family life and work life. It just seems that after 3 kids, time for friends just seems hard to find. Imagine that for 5 days a week from Monday to Friday after waking up at 7:00am in the morning, getting ready for work and leaving the house to return only at 6:30pm in the evening. You find 3 kids screaming "Mum" at the door once you step in, there are hardly time for friends and anytime else. Saturday and Sunday are times for the marketing and the kids since you often feel the guilt slipping in after neglecting them for 5 days a week when you are at work.

Anyway, back to my friends Christine, Daphne and Agatha : )
Christine is a long lost buddy whom I haven't been able to meet with for 2 years eversince she followed her husband to France for his work. But now they are back and we managed to meet a few weeks ago just with her screaming my name when she saw me and I as usual just walk blindly around... thank god for the arrangement of us banging into each other with luck! I truly miss this buddy, she's my pal eversince our school days. What follows are a string of sms and lovely dinner that have us catching up.
Daphne is another pal from my ex employer of the past. She's given birth to her 3rd child!!! Finally, I'm not the only one in my friends group with 3 kids :p Haha! I carried her baby girl whom just turn 1 month of age at her celebratory party, a very lovely child.
Agatha, my lovely gal pal, also just gave birth to her 3rd baby!! Haha!!!!! A very lovely baby boy, I just visited them at the hospital too. Now, I have 2 buddy to form a gang of the motherhood with 3 kids. Trust me, having 3 kids is a big deal in this age of time. Everyone is trying to struggle with only 1 kid and are always shock when I told them I have 3.

Okay, that's the current updates for now, I will try my best to be back with more updates from time to time.

Cheers!!!!!!

A Horrible Week

It's been a horrible week as my title said!

I am so sick I can't feel my limbs, can't think straight, no mood for anything.
My nose is so blocked, I have been using like 2 boxes of Kleenex tissue, yet the yucky fluid is still there. From all the sniffing, my nose are sore and red, flanking pieces of dry skin from all the rubbing are just so unsightly.

Medicines doesn't seem to be working one bit, I feel so tired, yet when I had difficulty falling asleep. *sigh* Hope the virus goes away soon, my fingers have been busy at getting the flanky pieces of dry skin away from my nose... I look so so ugly.

Got a medical leave from work yesterday, back in the office today and trying to make myself in forcus. I really don't want to spread the virus to my colleagues, but I can't stay away from work long either... Hope they don't blame me.

Dark Gloomy Day - 19th August 2008

I'm sick, no mood for anything or whatsoever, no appetite and my nose is sore from all the rubbings I am having with tissues.

It's a bad bad flu, serious running nose, signs of a sore throat is appearing too. Oh god, I can see the dryness around my nose that is causing peeling. I am trying loads of water, but it doesn't seems to work. The medicines just doesn't seem to be working too.

Nights of waking up to drink water have been making me look bloated! Argh!!!! Okay, okay, I'm complaining, but I just feel so irritated! And I have always had bad reactions to flu medicines, I feel my heart jumping faster than usual and being so restless when I am just so tired. I feel myself waking up countless amount of times last night when I feel so tiring that I think I will die.

Still got to pull myself to work, I don't want to be seen using up the medical leaves when it is only August now, still 4 months to end of the year. What if I fall even sicker than now, I would have no more medical leave to apply then.

Office have been in a bit state of a chaos as usual. Guess this is unavoidable when there are different business units sharing the same space and getting use to each other takes quite a bit of a time... let's just pray that things would be working out good as everyone tries to get along. *sigh*

Okay, time to sniff out my nose again, think I have used up at least 2 boxes of tissues!!!