Here's Sam and mommy sharing a private moment. 

Sam was not feeling well on one of the days he was in HK, so the trip to the park tired him out easily. Here he's taking a short rest, all pooped out, poor fella. 

Taken outside Cheung Kong Centre on our way to the park, the flowers were so beautiful I couldn't resist asking Kelvin to take a shot of Sam here. 

This was taken at Victoria Peak when we were in Hong Kong last month. We were there for about 5 days visiting Kelv's sis. The trip was too short! It would have been fine if we didn't have Sam to hold us up... this was our first overseas trip with Sam and we found out the hard way that he's way too young to travel. Wanting to be carried all the way was way too much for me as the streets of HK was riddled with lots of steps and slopes everywhere we turned! Gosh, I think I may have actually lost some weight during my trip!
 

That's us on the beach outside our hotel in Penang. Sam really enjoys the sand and it was really hard getting him to quit playing and return to the hotel room that day. 

The view from below, the majestic Kek Lok Si Temple. If you can, try climbing right to the top of the highest tower, the view from there is wonderful! 

This taken at the Kek Lok Si Temple, the temple on the hill. This shot could have been better framed but the model was not very cooperative, he was ready to jump off the platform anytime so we just had to shoot whatever we had. 

This was taken in Penang, it's supposed to be one of the oldest temple there, don't remember the name though, pity. 

Found this while I was clearing my photos folder. Taken on Langkawi beach in September last year. This is what Grandmas do for love! 

I'm back!

I've been gone for quite awhile! Well, work's been pretty tough and I haven't been able to catch up on a LOT of things, blogging being one of them. I've decided to take it easy with the work since I noticed that what I put in is not being appreciated much anyway. The boss takes most of what we do for granted, even going that extra mile is 'part of our job'' to her.... pretty irritating.

That's enoug of boring people, now for more interesting stuff, well interesting to me anyway :) Sam's development is going fantastically well and now it's up to Kelv and me to keep up. He's talking in full sentences and asking so many 'deep' questions, not the kiddy 'why'! It's really wonderful to watch him grow and progress and what's more wonderful, knowing that in some way, we have contributed to this wonderful little person that is growing up so quickly and developing his own personality and character!

I like being a mom!

That's me receiving the cert... or rather already received it, my photographer was a little slow.. 

Class of 2004. 

Here's Cecilia and Lewis, two of my best mates! 

Kelv, my pillar of support. 

Finally, a pic of us all together, ... after all the photo-taking :) 

My graduation

It's finally over, another chapter of my life. It's like a dream, I received my degree on 25 October 04!!
Kelv took some pics of me and my mom and my fellow classmates. Will put up the pics later tonight if I have time. Just wanted to let everyone out there know that I've finally got it :)

Long time no blog..

In case you've missed me... I have been super busy adjusting to work.. gone on a short holiday to Penang and Langkawi and then back to work again. It's been tough for both me and Sam as he had to attend playschool and took about 3 weeks to adjust. I, on the other hand, had to adjust on how to be apart from him for about 9 hours everyday.

Work... Work is pretty stressful especially when I've had to take over and clean up someone else's mess. Months of cleaning up to do! No proper hand-over of work as the lady I took over from left on 1 day's notice. Sigh.. very hard. I hope that things will get better once I straightened everything out, giving myself a couple of months more to get everything to tip top shape.

My graduation is on 25 October 04 at 7 pm at Raffles City Convention Centre. I just cannot wait.. hope it will be fun, after all it is my special day :) More blog more on this later.

Here's Sam with his 'EE' Ama. 'EE' is what kids call their aunties as a sign of respect. My sis came for a short visit and Sam really bonded with her. He was so sad that she had to go back and kept asking for her long after she had left Singapore. He'll ask 'mommy, where's EE?' every other day and I'd have to remind him that she's gone back home and will visit us soon... I hope. Ama is always so busy. 

Here's the local mint plant, if you have a cough and want to get rid of it in a jiff, just boil the leaves in water and drink it up. Works like a charm.

This beautiful plant is the curry plant. The leaves are used in curry dishes where they lend their wonderful curry aroma to the whatever dish is being cooked, and they are really high in iron too!