~* My Lunch Break Today *~

Went to have my nails done during lunch break :) My nails finally look neat now :p Love the colour of my toe nails - PINK :D

~* Re-Open of My 2-Employee Organization *~

With the arrival of my 小宝贝 nanny on 2-Jan, my 2-employee organization has re-opened. After one week, how is the progress?

I think this arrangement is good as my 小宝贝 still small and my hubby will be busy with his new factory this year. But, my 小宝贝 nanny and maid cannot get along. I just don't understand what is so difficult to being good to each other. Both have their good and bad. I will just have to accept it. But ... they cannot accept it. Sigh ...

One thing that I cannot "tahan" my 小宝贝 nanny is - she complaint about my maid to who ever came to my house ie my mom, aunt, MIL. Why can't she just complaint to me.

My maid - she is slow on everything but I cannot deny she has been helping me a lot with my 小宝贝. But over the weekend, she has been saying things that irritate me like "so many things to do" and "why do I have to cook everyday". I just ignore her comment. Too pampered already I think. My 小宝贝 nanny has been saying to me that my maid like to lock herself in the ironing room. I told my hubby about it and said wanted to spot check one day. My hubby said better not as I might get heart attack as my maid could be locking in the room trying on my clothes (all my clothes are in the ironing room). Upon hearing this, I decided not to spot check. It is always good to not knowing the truth :p

One funny thing is - both trying to impress my 小宝贝 ie trying to make him happy :D Why? My 小宝贝 has been closer to my maid and when the nanny came, my 小宝贝 still adjusting to her. Whenever my maid walked pass my 小宝贝, he recognized my maid and will smile at her if she called out his name. I think the nanny cannot "tahan" and trying to make him smile as well :D "shake head" There are already a few incidents.

I have no conclusion on how to settle this yet. My mum is trying to talk to both of them now to smoothen their relationship. I hope it will work. I am glad that my 小宝贝nanny is off this weekend and I have a break from all this. I will worry again next week :p (The worse scenerio - I will get a taxi to fetch my aunt daily to help me temporary. I have calculated the expense of this. It will be almost the same rate that I am paying my nanny)

~* 小宝贝 @ 4-mth with New Hair Style *~

Brought 小宝贝 to trim his hair at an Indian barber shop near my house. Decided to cut his hair short :) I am still adjusting to his new look :D
Know what. 小宝贝started to cry when the razor touched his head. So me and the nanny had to sing to keep him occupied. Feel so embarassing as there are other customers in the shop :D

~* 小宝贝 & His Cousins *~

~* My "Market-ing" Experience *~

I feel so "cacat" yesterday when I went to the pasar pagi to buy fresh foods for cooking for this week. My 小宝贝 nanny is here so I will need the maid to cook for her in the afternoon and at night for us. I have never been to a market by myself. If I need to cook, I will just buy some fresh ingredients from the supermarket. But to buy food for 4 people a week from the supermarket, it will cost so much especially fish and meat.

I went to the pasar pagi with my maid and when I'm standing in front of the fish stall, I really stunt because I don't know the name for most of the fish. I will have to depend on my maid to buy the fish. The most funny part was, I wanted to buy "ma yao" fish. I aksed the seller if they hv "ma yao". But in fact, I already asked him to weighed "ma yao" fish. I can't recognise because the fish was being cut into pieces already :D Total spending for fish is RM62.

Luckily, I am still ok with the name of vegetables :D Total spending for vegetables is around RM30. Then, at the chicken stall, I stood there for quite some time before deciding to get 2 kampung chicken which cost RM36. It took me longer to decide because the chicken is not as clean as what I normally buy from the supermarket (because the stall is so wet and the chicken head still attached). At one point, I wanted to turn off not buying. But when the thought of spending almost half my salary on a maid and a nanny, I will have to be careful on my spending.

For pork, I went to the An Sin pork shop at SS15 to get my supply. This is the most expensive item. I paid RM104 for meat to make soup and 2 spare ribs. I prefer An Sin because the pork is cleaner and taste better. TOTAL spending for the trip to the market is around RM232.

The most significant savings if I buy from the wet market would be the fish. If I buy fish from supermarket, I would buy from the sashimi section as I don't have to worry about the freshness. I would normally spend about RM30-40 for fish for one meal :p