Post-Xmas, Pre-New Year

Yep, here it is.. that in-between time of year, when we are trying to recover from over-indulgence during Xmas, just in time to over-indulge again for the New Year! Anyway, that aside, Mr Teddy, and his little friend Bluey, want to wish everyone:

A VERY BLESSED AND JOYOUS (though somewhat belated) MERRY XMAS, and a PROSPEROUS AND WONDERFUL 2009!



So, to all our friends out there, have a great holiday season, and get yourselves all ready to charge headfirst into 2009. It may be a difficult year, given the global recession/meltdown, but hard work and perseverance, an indomitable spirit, and faith in God, will see us all through.

Till next time.. have a good life!

Mid December ALREADY????

It just boggles my mind (yet again) how fast time zips past. My last post was almost 3 weeks ago and I have to keep reminding myself to update it - and I keep forgetting! Hmmmm, must be a symptom of encroaching age I guess - I don't FEEL old. Well, let me rephrase that - my mind doesn't feel like it is getting old, but my body is finding it harder to keep up with my mind. The aches and pains that never used to happen in my younger years, are now here to stay. Sigh... getting older is a bummer!

So, what's been happening in the last three weeks? Well, my Mum is slowly, slowly, slowly getting better. Eating better. Getting through her physio sessions better, without feeling like collapsing after the session. Better able to handle visitors. Surprisingly - when my Dad had his bypass (November 2007!), he took longer to recover while he was IN the hospital, but once he came out, he just improved in leaps and bounds. With my Mum, she recovered faster in the hospital - came out of ICU in record time! - but once home, she is taking far longer to recover.

I have now been exactly 4 weeks at this new job. Getting more new things thrown my way every couple of days. Definitely cannot say it has been boring - but, to answer one friends question - it hasn't been stressful either. I guess that is also because it is the year end. The end-client is a financial institution, and like all such organisations, year-end is PEAK period for them for all kinds of financial transactions by their customers.... soooooo, ALL system changes, and code changes are frozen till we are past that peak. This is, of course, good news for me, as that means there is little likelihood of midnight calls. Not completely impossible, but at least not likely to happen every week.

Next weekend (20/21 Dec) Husband and I will have the pleasure of having my bro (A) and my lovely sis-in-law (P) and the younger 2 of their three kids (R & A) down from Melaka for a break. (Kid #1 is in Moscow - she is in 2nd year medicine. I still cant believe I have a niece who is old enough to be in Uni!!!!). Then on 23 Dec, Husband and I will be driving up to KL, on 24th, we drive back down to Melaka, with my parents, to spend Xmas with my bro and sis-in-law. Then back to KL on 25th, just to relax for a few days, and then back again to SG on 28th. I will still be on call to the client - so am keeping fingers crossed that nothing untoward happens during that time frame.

So, everyone, since my next post is most likely gonna be either after Xmas OR after the New Year I just want to take this opportunity to wish all of you, near and far, family and friends, and all YOUR family and friends too, A VERY BLESSED and JOYOUS CHRISTMAS - and a TRULY WONDERFUL NEW YEAR. I hope 2009 will be a year full of blessings for all. Till next time....

Birthday over, and one week into my new job....

Celebrated birthday - on 13th... another year gone by so fast! Scary lah! Since it also happened to be my last day of being a tai-tai I decided to sleep late - so Husband got himself up and off to work. Heard the front door closing behind him, then 5 minutes later heard it open again. Wondered what he had forgotten this time, and the next thing I knew he charged into the room with this gorgeous BIG teddy bear, telling me "Teddy forgot to wish you Happy Birthday". All I can say is, I totally cracked up. Teddy now sits beside me on the sofa every day, and keeps me company when Husband is not around. What can I say? He is almost as gorgeous as Husband!!

Yep, have been at my new job since 17th Nov, and so far, so good. People are pretty nice, a lot to learn in terms of the WHO (the people I have to work with), the WHAT (what systems they support), the HOW (the processes to follow, and to make sure other people follow!). Only negative is the WHEN, as I am on call 24x7, and my first experience of that was on Saturday 22nd Nov, when I got pulled into a conf call, to oversee and track an issue, and that lasted from 2.50am to 7am. Kinda messed up the plans we had for that Sat, as I had to catch up on some sleep after that. Well, too bad, that is part of the job, and I will just have to get used to it.

On the home front in KL - Mum has made a few trips to the emergency ward at IJN, not for her chest or her bypass(!!!) but because the leg wound (where they took the blood vessel from) is not healing as well as it should. I think that is primarily because whoever sewed up the leg wound after extracting the blood vessel did not do a particularly neat job, and the way the flesh is just pulled together, there are too many folds where water can be trapped (say after having a shower) where the wound can fester. Anyway, after the third trip everything was pronounced safe and healthy.

Husband and I are back to KL this weekend - drive out of SG around 2pm, getting to KL around 6pm. Coming back on the Sunday.

No other exciting news to share, so, till next time.. have a good life.

Mum is home!!!

Yep, she is home. Got discharged from the hospital yesterday afternoon, and was home by early evening - after settling the (tiny) bill, getting the medications, etc. Both my parents now need HIS and HERS medicine cabinets - talk about having enough meds to start your own pharmacy.

Anyway, she is supposed to take it easy, but I don't know how easy that is going to be for her as she just is not the type to 'take it easy'!! Let's see how it goes.

To everyone who has been praying for her, who has been calling up to check on her, who has kept her in their thoughts... thank you!! I know that the thoughts, the prayers and the love, have made all the difference.

Till next time, have a goooooood life.

My Sera, again

It surprised me that I still get comments and emails from my very long ago post about my little Toyota Sera, and the latest one asked for pictures, both interior and exterior. I'm afraid I havent taken any interior pictures, but I do have exterior pictures!




Paint job is new, as are the tyres and rims. Pretty neat little car, isn't she?

I have had one serious offer to buy her, but I have decided that I will keep my little Sera until such time as my bones get to old and creaky to let me get into, and out of, the car easily!

So, till such time as I get too old to enjoy my little Sera, I shall continue to driver her everytime I am back in KL!