Free-hold or 99 year?

Last Thursday, I had the rare occasion to enjoy afternoon coffee with an ex-colleague MH. Since we have not met up for quite some time, we started to rattle on the events that have happened. Being unattached, she talked mostly about her work of course and I, of course mostly on 乖乖. Yep! My life has become 乖乖, baking/cooking and work.
Suddenly, MH exclaimed: "You know, spouse is free-hold and your kids are 99 year lease. So, your priority should be your spouse and not your kid lei." eh?! Food for thoughts... And this is coming from a single and unmarried person.

Coughing Season

I have been busy looking after 乖乖over the weekend. His running nose and coughing started last Friday and progressed to a fever on Saturday. Doctor said it was an infection so he was given anti-biotics.

Though his fever has subsided, he still coughs (you know those type of cough that has a lot of phelgm inside) **Heartache to hear it** Really wonder where those phelgm comes from?! 乖乖 hardly drinks cold water and is never allowed to touch sweets or chocolates.

I am very scared of 乖乖 getting fever. This means that I have to wake up every other hour at night to check his temperature, sponging him and feeding him paracetamol when it gets too high. It's strange that fever tends to shoot up in the middle of the night. So, you can imagine how tired and blur I was during the weekend.

Strangly enough, 乖乖 has been asking for cakes even though he was sick. I decided to used up the bottle of yougurt and leftover bananas to make cupcakes (adapted from Anna Chan's healthy yougurt cupcakes). I made 2 sizes - kiddy-sized cupcakes and adult-sized cupcakes. So, for Sunday's tea-break, we had 罗汉果水 and kiddy-sized cupcakes.

Last night, before feeding 乖乖 his night-time milk, he turned to me suddenly and said "Mama, good night" and then gave me a hug and kiss. Usually, I have to prompt him to do so. :-) 让我甜在心里。男孩也一样贴心。

It's Still Chinese New Year!

Chinese New Year is really long - 15 days in total! So, I can still wish all of you 新年快乐！乖乖 wore the traditional CNY kua on the first day. Honestly, I was a bit worried that his eczema will flare up due to the cloth but it did not. PHEW! Looks like his skin is getting 'stronger'.

As usual, 乖乖 got a stack of ang paos from relatives and friends. I have not counted how much money there are in total yet but I don't think it will break last year's record. Times are bad, haha! Ok, part of the truth is, 乖乖's paternal grandpa (爷爷) and paternal grandma (奶奶) decided to spend their CNY in Singapore last year. So, they were the major contributors! 乖乖 was just learning how to talk then and did not know how to pronounce 爷爷 properly. But his 奶奶 is really good in teaching. During her short stay here, she managed to teach 乖乖 how to pronounce 妈妈 and of course, 奶奶.

But his speech (and drama) has since improved by leaps and bounds and I'm sure his 爷爷 and 奶奶 will be extremely pleased.

My son

Can't believe I'm blogging! I guess I better start before I lose track of all the details that has happened esp. with my son. He is already coming 2.5 years old and I had meant to start this before he was born ...

We have been calling him guai guai (乖乖) since the day he was born. This has become his petname (小名) since. When I am not so pleased with him, his name becomes 乖! But mostly, it's 乖乖. :-)