~* Happy Father's Day *~

The reply from my dad after my text message wishing him - 謝谢, 女兒块楽，父亲就快楽。

So touch :)

~* Screaming *~

As I am writing this post, myhouse is so peaceful :p because YJ is sleeping :p Normally he will take 2-hr afternoon nap. Sometimes I will be rushing to do a few things but today surfing the net is my only work :p My mom is playing Scrabble on her iPhone while my maid is reading the newspaper (she has finished her task of the day).

YJ likes to scream now. Anything not right, he will scream and scream. Really don't like to bring him to the supermarket now. He can't be long in the trolley and wanted to touch everything. If we carry him or scolded him, he will scream :( Sometimes I really don't care. I will just let him scream and carry him out of the supermarket. When can he start to behave? Hm ...

~* Yearly Affair *~

It's 'ching ming' period again. Tomorrow will be going to pay respect to my late grandma. Each year, I will make effort to go either myself only or with my family members. This time, the whole bunch of us are going :)

~* Gate *~

Finally we will have a gate. The guys are doing the tiling now and the gate will be fixed tomorrow. YJ can now run around the car porch.

~* Again ... *~

Back in BP again after 1-week in KL. This is an unplan trip. One week ago, we drove back to KL using my mom's car with the thought that my dad or brother will be going to KL so they can drive back together. But they are too busy to come and my mom wanted to go back BP driving alone. I disagree with the idea so have discussion with hubby on Monday night so here we are now :) Hubby will be picking us up this weekend :)

~* The Maid Drama (Update) *~

It is really "sien" to deal with the maid agency. They are so slow when there is a problem. My maid confirmed hypertension and suspected of some bone syndromes. I faxed the letter to them last Wednesday. The person in charged said will give me a reply today but when I called her, she said her manager cannot make decision and need her boss approval. The problem is, her boss does not go to the office everyday. Need to wait for another day. Fingers crossed they will give me an answer tomoro. Really cannot "tahan" the black face :(

~* The Maid Drama *~

It seems like I don't have luck on the maid. 2-day ago, my maid told me she wanted to go home because her whole body was in pain. Mostly, when in an aircon room. After discussion with my hubby, we decided to call the agency. But we can't bring her to the agency immediately because we need to make an appointment. So, I can only bring her today. At the agency, the personnel told her that if she wanted to go home, she needs to pay a lot of money and she can only go home if a medical report shows that she is not fit to work. After the agency, we went to see the doctor. The doctor can't diagnose anything and need to monitor for few days if the pain still there after some medication. IF yes, will need to go for an x-ray. However, the doctor found another major health problem with her. Her blood pressure is extremely high and it could be hypertension :( Need to go back after 1-week to check on the blood pressure again to confirm. IF confirm hypertension, she definitely not fit to work. I will have to go through the tedious process of maid application again :( Hope the higher blood pressure is because of her not enough sleep these few nights and everything will back to normal again next week.

~* CNY 2011 *~

 

3 more weeks to CNY. This is the first mall that I saw with CNY decorations. Usually didn't do much for my house. Just basic cleaning and simple deco. The most headache part would be buying gifts for the relatives. I tried to do it simple as well to make sure not to buy the unnecessary. And this year with my sis-in-law health condition, I must volunteer early to help my MIL :p  

~* My Late Grandma *~

I read one of the post of this blogger about her grandma and made me think of my late beloved grandma (my mom's mom). She passed away the same year when I got married (actually it is less than a month after I got married). Each time when I think of her, I still feel pain in my heart and really miss her so much. 

My late grandma took care of me since I was born. I can say I spend more time with her than my mom. Even when I move to BP, she followed us there and took care of me and my brother until I am 15yo. When I was in college, I stayed with her again. She was such a loving grandma and her sudden death is really a big blow to us. Really wish she is still here where I can hold her and "sa jiao" with her :)

~* 小宝贝 's Little Aunt Bday *~

小宝贝 's little aunt (which was one day older than him) celebrated her bday last Sunday @ A&W. Love her soft pink bday cake :)

The highlight of the evening was the appearance of the big bear.

小宝贝 happily play with the bear but I think he dreamt of it in the middle of the night and cried out so loud for about 10mins. And the next morning, we showed him the pic of the bear and he quickly brushed it away :D

~* Ching Ming *~

It is now the "qing ming" period. I am being excused from the "qing ming" outing this year because I need to take care of 小宝贝. However, I made an effort to pay respect to my grandmother at Nirvana Memorial Park. My mother and I went yesterday. We just brought a bouque of flower as we are not allowed to burn any joss sticks because my uncle already went earlier.

Sigh ... sometime it is really sad to have politics within the family.

~* Crisis Again :( *~

My small organization is in crisis again. I sacked my nanny last 2-week as she and my maid are almost exploding. I think my maid got a shock of my decision as part of the reason is because of her. After 2-day the nanny left, she told me she don't want to work anymore. Sigh ... One after another. I am really stress and mad also.
Had a discussion with my boss and he agreed to let me have unpaid leave until I settled my problem. I don't want to quit in such a rush also.
My mom came to rescue on the weekend itself :) It is always a relieve to see my mom when I am so down. With my maid decided to leave, we went to ask for the procedure for new maid. The agency told us it needs 4-month for new maid application!! :( Stress again. How can I on such long unpaid leave?
However, after 3-day and much consideration, my maid decided to stay as it will be difficult to find job in her country. We decided to let her stay until the new maid came. We don't like this decision but this is the best we can have now. My mom will be staying with us then. After discussion with my hubby and mom, I will be on unpaid leave till end Feb after everyone settling down on CNY.
My mom has gone home yesterday night and I am the fulltime babysitter for my 小宝贝 today. So tired after only half day as he refused to sleep :( Hope tomorrow will be better :)

~* 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 & 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

~* "Non-Professional" Private Investigator *~

With the advice of my hubby's friend, we have installed CCTV at a few points in the house to monitor the maid. At the beginning I feel quite funny with these equipments at home. Feel like I am being monitor also :p
Is the CCTV helpful? I think to some point kua. If I wanted to go out or take a nap, my hubby will just sit in front of the computer surfing and monitor from upstairs. Yesterday, I was home late and my hubby had an emergency at his factory. He left the baby with the maid for about an hour. Guess what we do before we go to bed? Both of us watched back the video of that 1hour. Really funny though. Like private investigator trying to find out something :D The maid was ok except she trying to do something which was not suppose to - switching on the TV. But she did not manage to watch as our TV remote has spoilt and she did not know how to manage the TV manually :D

~* 小宝贝 & His Little Aunt *~

This is my 小宝贝 and his little aunt. They are born only 1 day apart :)
She is my youngest uncle's (who is younger than me) daughter. She call me "jie jie". Feel so young again when here this :D

~* My "ka chong" *~

When my dad bought this piano for me, he always said that this is suppose to be my "ka chong" :D After going to college, I didn't touch it at all. We are suppose to transfer this piano to my house when my parents moved into the new house. But it still ended up at my parents house as I was pregnant during that time. I tried to play some of the songs the other day. My fingers are so hard and I can't even play the simple scale :( There goes the 10-year of learning and expensive learning fees :p

~* My Mom's Little Princess *~

This is my favourite childhood picture :)

~* Maid ~*

Although my maid is a bit blur, but with her presence, it really help a lot.

- She helps to look after my baby while I wash up or pumping milk
- I don't have to worry about the laundry
- After each feed, I just leave the bottle at the sink and she will clean it
- She helps my mum in the kitchen (My maid and my mum seem to get along very well. She even watch Korean drama with my mum almost every night :D)
- She will clean the table/plates after each meal
- She will bring the bottles and hot water to my room every night

Do we really can't live without a maid now?