Happy Chinese New Year 恭贺新禧

Last minute shopping

Last week, I found that both my flat shoe and my sports shoe need replacement. So I need to get a new pair of shoe before the Chinese New Year. If not I have to wait until CNY is over before I can shop for the shoe. I try not to buy any shoe during the 15 days of CNY. Some Chinese pantang buying shoes during CNY, as they believe it will bring you bad luck. Me and my mom don’t know how true it is. But she always avoid buying shoes during these 15 days. One year, not sure why, my mom bought a pair of shoe during these 15 days of CNY. And that year my mom was really bad luck. So since then, she would not buy shoe anymore during CNY. So I guess, it will be best for me not buying any shoe during CNY too. Don’t know how true it is but I don’t want to take any risk! I don’t want to have bad luck!

I also need to get a new purse. Existing one the strap is almost coming off long time ago. I could not find any that I liked during my last shopping trip many months back. My mom told me that there is sales at Parkson. And she saw there are quite a lot of the shoe designs that she think I will like it. So yesterday after work, me and hubby went to the nearby Parkson at Bandar Park Old Klang Road to do our last minute shopping, without the kids. :D

We first passed through the handbag and purse section. So I stopped by and found a purse that I liked. Ooh got 50% discount – Great. :) Next we went to the ladies shoe section. Wow lots of selections available. Shopping become so easy without the 2 kids around. I can browse around slowly, trying out the shoe to see if it looks nice on my feet (if Lynn is around, she will also take some shoe from the shelves and put on herself. As if she’s the one buying! LOL! ) Hubby also was looking around, trying to spot any pair of shoe that he thinks might look good on me. If kids are around, he will have to help keep an eye on the kids, or take them for a walk (so the kids won’t disturb me). He won’t be able to pay attention shopping together with me. And he will also getting tired taking care the 2 active kids, thus he will be more likely looking forward to go home than shopping. So I was really glad that no kids were with us! :D

Surprisingly I managed to get myself 2 pairs of shoes from there. Normally I don’t manage to buy shoe easily. Either don’t look good on my feet, no size for me (especially during sales), or not comfortable to wear. In the past, I had to run few places before I managed to buy a pair for shoe. My last purchase of the shoe was 2 years ago while I was pregnant with Hao. :S

Next we went to shop a belt for hubby. He also needs a replacement for his old belt. That was purchased probably 2 years ago too. Hahaha! Both of us are not the shopping type. We also don’t bother to get CNY clothes. We went to pick up the kids from my parents house after we were done with the shopping. Oh yeah, I managed to get myself a short knitted jacket too on the way to our car. :D

These are the things that we have bought

Got a free gift from buying the shoe. A small notebook.

Bolster

Last week, one night I was putting Hao to sleep. I put him down on my bed, and want to nurse him before he sleeps. Suddenly, he looked at me, hand pointing at his bed and told me “bow….. bow….. “. Bow? What’s that? Oh he wants bolster! So I picked up the baby bolster from his bed and passed it to him. He hugged it tightly. For fun, I tried taking away the bolster from him. And he protested! Hahaha! When Hao was a baby, I offered him bolster and each time he would throw it away. So after a while I did not offer anymore. And yet now, he asked it from me! Although I don’t understand why he wants bolster now, but I’m glad that he still can sleepy without the bolster. :)

The little Sleeping anger. :)

What so good about having a daughter

Usually I wear quite casual to work, jeans most of the time. Since I'm work in IT company, and I don't have to go out to meet client, so our dress code is smart casual. But this year, the HR & Admin lady encourages us to wear more formal to work. So for a change, I started to dig back those pants and shirts, that I used to wear more than 10 years ago in my previous jobs. Surprisingly I still can fit in most of them! Hahaha! I am so happy. Most are long sleeves shirt and black pant, which will never outdated as office wear. Even though they are getting a bit tighter to wear now, but I'm happy able to fit in those clothes and wear them to work. Many thanks to breastfeeding. :)

Early of the week, my mom gave me some of the clothes that she cannot fit into them now despite she just bought them last year. So they are still pretty new as she hardly wear them. Few are even still the new one! (She just found out that she cannot fit into them when she wants to wear them.) My mom is still working. And she works inside a shopping center. So you can imagine that she get lots of chance to shop and buy clothes. And she got pretty good taste too. These clothes are not the aunty look type! (Else I won't take them. Hahaha!) I got 5 pair of jeans, 2 halter tops, 3 one piece dress and 1 very good quality cheong sum that she bought from her China trip. There were few others that are not so suitable to me so I did not take. The timing is just good. As I was thinking of getting some new jeans as those that I am wearing now are getting very old. :)

Yeah, I and my mom are about same size. She probably just 1-2 sizes bigger than me. And we are about same height. So it is very easy for us to share the clothes. Whatever she cannot fit, most of the time I can just fit to them nicely. :) I still can remember in the past, whenever I need to go for any dinner or function, since I don't have lots of nice dresses, I will borrow them from my mom. So the same group of people will not see me always wearing that same dress. We can even share the shoes! Yes, we have same shoe size. Very good for me, isn't it? Hahaha! You see, I got a mom who likes to shop, and she got a daughter (me) who seldom shops! We are just complementing each other. LOL! Since after giving birth to kids, whenever we go out do shopping, most of the time we shop for the kids. It has been very long time ago since me and hubby shop for ourselves. And if I go shop alone, most of the time I will come home with empty hand. But if I go shopping with my mom, I will come home with lots of bags! Hehehe! Luckily this happens only once in a while. Seldom get a chance to shop with mom anymore since we both have different timing now. And also I still have lots of clothes inside my wardrobe as I did not change much after giving birth. :)

It's fun to be able to share so much with my own mom. Also because she keeps herself up-to-date. Or even better than me since I don't really go shopping that much. Hehehe! I hope, next time when Lynn grows up, I will be able to do the same with her. It will bring us closer, more like friend or sister rather than mom and daughter. :)

Milk, Cheese and Butter

Since I was young, as far as I remember when I was in primary school, I don't like to drink milk. However every morning before going to school, my mom will make a cup of milk for us. During that time, I was like drink half cup and pour the other half cup away while mom was not looking (Shhhh!!!!! :P ). I just simply don't like the smell and taste of the milk. I still can remember that time I only choose to drink Nespray only, because the milk of this brand smell and taste least strong as compared to other brand like Dutch Lady. So my mom will only buy this brand. It continues even when I entered Secondary School. Until now, I still don't like to drink milk. Even during pregnancy, I did not drink milk at all. Cheese and butter too. I just cannot stand the strong smell and the taste. I don't eat this food since I was very young. And I'm the only one in my family who don't eat this food. While other family members love them so much. Hahaha don't ask me why. I think it's just like why some people don't eat durian. :)

Hubby on the other hand, love milk, cheese and butter very much too. The cheese and butter in the fridge are for him only. :D When the kids are born, I was thinking will the kids same like me, don't like these food or they will be like hubby, love them very much? Since both kids are fully breastfed when they were still a baby, so they should be following my diet right? As I never eat this food while I was pregnant and breastfeed them, so will they accept or reject them too? It actually turns out that Lynn loves cheese a lot. And she must have a cup of milk before going to sleep. Else she will wake up in the middle of the night crying for milk. Whenever she has bread, she will ask for either cheese slice or butter spread. We don't have margarine at home. Hubby does not fancy margarine. We buy butter spread instead. As for Hao, he eats everything the sister eats. So I believe he's also another cheese and butter lover. Three of them (hubby, Lynn and Hao) can finish one packet of the cheese slice very fast. They eat it as snack. Do the kids know that I don't eat this food? No they don't. :) Whenever Lynn offers me, I just tell her I don't want to eat. Hehehe! So I'm still the only one in the family who does not take milk, cheese and butter. :)