August Genting Trip

Ha ha ha... Another Genting trip for us. It seems like Genting is our second home.. Going there once every 2 - 3 months.. :) Even Rachel knows the way to the Arcade and the Indoor Theme Park Rides.

This trip there, we went via Grassland's Coach. The seats are not comfortable at all. On our trip back, worst! The 2 Indian drivers, were like in a hurry to reach Singapore. We were given only 25 mins for our toilet break, dinner and shopping. The drivers were always hurrying us to get back to the bus so that they could drive off. There was a lady seated behind me. When I board the bus, I tried to lower the seat so that we can seat more comfortably. While I was adjusting my seat, she made some "tsk" sound. Was so fed up with her and so I told my mum who was seated behind us loudly, "Everyone on the bus can lower their seat, except me, B****y H**l!" While talking to my mum, I even turned my head to look at the woman. She stared at me for a while, and as usual, I will also stare back! Thank God that I do have big eyes! :)

After a while, I was really uncomfortable and I adjusted the seat and ignored that woman. As usual, she made the "tsk" sound. After I adjusted the seat, I turned back and the "golden words" flowed out of my mouth (for those who know me long enough will understand the type of "golden words" that I will say ;P) and I went back to continued my sleep. Can't be bothered with her also.

When we reached the Malaysia Custom, the driver told us to get back to the bus immediately after we got our passport stamped. One of the children, ran and hit the post. Blood immediately flowed down from her forehead. Her mum was frantically trying to stop the blood from flowing. Guess what? The driver went over to them, told them to board the bus now as the whole bus was waiting for them! Cannot imagine the driver to say such things! Upon reaching Singapore Custom, worst! The driver just opened the luggage door and walked off to clear the Customs without helping us to carry down the luggages. The drivers were just too lazy to bother with the passengers!

This trip up to Genting, I didn't bring any of Rachel's medication along as she was so energetic and seems unlikely to fall sick. Who knows? On our way up, she was having fever! When we reached Genting, she was feeling very restless and a bit of breathing difficulty. Initially, I thought of just going down to Watson to buy the Panadol for Children to give it to her first. After that I had second thoughts of it as once Rachel has fever, it will dragged on for days and I was scared that she may have the Ferbile Seizure again. So I brought her to the Clinic at First World Hotel. The doctor said that she was having a fever at 38 Degree Celsius and also was having throat inflammation. She prescribed Antibiotics and Ibuprofen for Rachel. Luckily by the second day, Rachel was up and running about. Everyone said that she has recovered as she was completely different from the first day. :) I told my mum, next time must bring her medication. I got a shocked when the nurse told me that the cost of the consultation was RM$100! After that I went to Watson to buy a Forehead Thermometer which cost me RM$8.50. Small and handy for travelling. :) My cousin said that when I reached there, I already lost RM$108! Must made back the money. ;P

Luckily, I did win back the money plus extra. :) Normally, I will played Roulette. After observing the game a while, I changed cash for chips and bet on the Rachel's numbers as usual. Luckily it came out and won a little. :) It was her birth date as well as her consultation queue number. Sigh.. regretting not betting more chips on that number. :( After a few games, I started losing and told my auntie that I'm not playing already. Going to play Jackpot. We both went for supper at the Casino first and went to play Jackpot and I won RM$500. I struck their mini Jackpot once. Only RM$70+. Told my aunt, enough already. Time to sleep as it was already 4am! Went to play again before we checked out. Initially won another RM$500 and continued to play on. At the end, only won RM$200 and quickly went off. But then did struck their mini Jackpot twice that day. :) Well, for this trip, I was quite lucky to be able to win from Jackpot. Last time, I don't like or believe that people can win from Jackpot. Now I do.. ha ha ha! Bought a pair of Jeans, 3 T-shirts from Soda and also a ring for myself with the winnings and gave some to my mum to cover up for her loses..

This trip to Genting, Rachel learned how to take pictures and she took some pictures for me. Turned out to be quite okay. :) She has got such fun being the photographer. Kept telling me that she wanted to go to the Suite Lobby as there were different types of settings and we are able to take pictures there. Normally, when we took pictures, we will count 1,2.3, for Rachel, she has her own style, which is: Are you ready? The moment you said yes, she clicked! Sigh.. so fast....

This coming Christmas, we may be going up again. I told Rachel that and she was so happy and excited. She said she love Genting so much! I told her that if I do get BIG FAT BONUS in December, I will bring her to HK Disney instead of Genting. Her eyes sparkled when she heard that... as she will be able to see her favourite Princesses..... Cinderella, Snow White and now Belle. :) Praying very hard for the BIG FAT BONUS.. Must work harder from now till December.. hee hee hee

Now, getting prepare to go Beijing on 17 - 21 September. Praying hard that will strike another first prize for the expenses for this trip. Ha ha ha!

Recently, I did some shifting in my office. Sigh.. It seems that everywhere I join, sure got shifting of office to do.

Have with effect form 30 July 07, so-called upgraded to sit inside the room. Of cos, my boss is the one paying the rental for the room. I am currently sharing the room with his ex-room mate (a lady) and also an adviser. Plus point is I get a room to work in, more privacy and most importantly is this room is very far away from my boss room. :) But then, if my room mate has any appointment in the office, I will have to move out of the room to work for that few hours. Well, don't think that's quite often cos this room mate of min, first of all, seldom comes in to the office. Secondly, according to her, her appointments are mostly in the evenings. :)

I had another new admin girl and driver under my wings wef today. That will keep me very very busy again. Not that I'm very free for the past 2 weeks. I will have to co-ordinate and monitor my 'hands and legs' while working, find for things for them to do. Sigh.. More work for me, Well, for today, I find that my admin girl is quite good. On her first day of work, she actually stayed till 9pm in the office to finish up her work for today. Keeping my fingers crossed that such these 2 new staffs will stay much longer with the company. And of cos, the room will be very cramp with so many of us sitting inside. Maybe much later, we will have to do some adjustments to the seating arrangements again.

Here's a preview of my new office. It's still quite messy as we are currently still trying to sort out the things.

Our new toys

Today, Rachel got to meet her father as he said he has got a gift for Rachel. It's a Barbie Princess Castle. I met him at the coffeeshop instead as I do not wish to let him know where exactly I'm currently staying. When Rachel saw him, she stared blankly at him and held on to my hands so tightly. I asked if she likes the Castle that "Ga-Ga Uncle" bought for her, she said yes. Told her to say thank you and she did, after which, she stared at him again. Less than 5 mins, he went off already. During that 5 mins, he didn't talk much to Rachel also. I think, he doesn't know what to say to her also.

After he went off, Rachel began to relax herself. I asked if she remembered him. She shook her head. She even asked if she has met him before! She really got no impression of him at all. Well, cant blame her as she only met him 2 times since she was 1 year old.

When we reached home, she was very excited about the new toy. Both of us started to assemble the toy. Actually, not much to assemble also as he has already done so for us. We just got to put up the little decorations.



Last week, my aunt bought a PDA for me. It's my birthday present from her for this year. We bought it before the GST went up to 7%. It's mainly for my work purposes as now my job is mainly client servicing and I got to know the clients details well. She has been very supportive of whatever I do in my life, be it my studies, getting married and later divorce, purchase of flat and my even current job. Thank you very much, Aunt Priscilla.



For the past week, I have been busy with my new toy and now Rachel is busy with hers. It will keep us both busy for this weekends though. :)

Rachel's Growing Up..

Last week, I was feeling extremely tired, and a bit of depressed. I guessed it was mainly due to work stress. I think it was sometime last Tues / Wed, I was feeling extremely lousy. Came back home, had dinner downstairs and as usual, I went back home first, leaving Rachel and Jon with my mum, to play with their friends downstairs.

Went Rachel came back home around 10+pm, after she had her bath, she went about to do her own writings and drawings. I called her but she just replied 'yes?' I told her, "Today Mummy feel very sad." Immediately, she dropped what she was doing, gave me her full attention, came over and sit on my lap and started asking why I was feeling sad. Is it because of my boss? Or what?

I told her, don't know leh. Maybe no one love me? Maybe it's my work lor. So many things to do and I'm so tired. So I was feeling sad lor. She immediately hugged and patted me and told me: "Mummy, I love you a lot. You don't be sad okay?" I was touched by her small gestures and wow.. of course, my heart felt so warm and happy. After a while, I told her to get ready to sleep as she has got school the next day. In our room, after I switched off the lights, she came over to me again, gave me a big kiss and hug and told me to sleep early. I felt like a small kid!

The next day after work, I went to the coffeeshop to join them and also to have my dinner. Rachel saw me, ran towards me with her sticky hands. I asked her what she wanted to do? Her hands were so sticky and she better don't touch me. She replied : "I want to hug you mah. Yesterday you feel sad, so today I want to give you a big hug again." I was so touched and yet ashamed as I told her not to touch me with her sticky hands earlier. I told her it's okay, later she go home, after she bathe then give me her big hug. Luckily she was okay with it.

Even when I went out partying with my friends last Friday, she called me around 11+pm saying that she wanted me to go home earlier. Told her will go back soon. She said okay and hang up. After she hang up, she told my mum that she's going to sleep in the living room and wait for me. So when I came back home at almost 1am, I saw her sleeping alone in the living room, I knew she was waiting for me. Felt a bit guilty for staying out late.

I realised that Rachel has indeed matured a lot. Learning to love and care. What more can I complain about her?? Well.. maybe still her single eyelid eyes.. :P

Getting very tired and stressful at work... :(

Recently I have been feeling very very tired especially after work.. almost like brain dead by 5.30pm. After work, at times I still got to meet the clients to get some forms signed and by the time I reached home it's almost 9-ish pm. Tired man!


Met one of my friends after work yesterday for dinner. She was actually so stressed up with her work that she had got mild depression. Luckily, she has already resigned from that job. My God! I think I better start to think of ways to de-stress myself before I get myself in the same situation as her. Those who knows me long enough will know that I used to go partying, drinking almost like 3-4 days a week, to de-stress myself. But at the current situation.. with a kid and working so late, I don't seems to have that privilege again. Sigh!


Sometimes, my boss will call or sms me at night or weekends to leave instructions for things to be done etc. Calling me once he think of something, and not accumulating a list of things before calling me. Sigh! Sometimes, I will get as many as 10 calls from him within 2 hrs. In the office, already got piles and piles of work to be done. Sigh..


How I envy my dear friend, Eve... SAHM, playing with baby, relaxing herself.. Oh! How I miss my confinement days... sob..sob.. Well, if I can find a good man, I don't mind being a SAHM!! :P But then again, I bet I won't be able to be one that stay at home for long..

So, what do I really want???? I myself at this moment also don't know. Maybe time to plan another break... to get away from my stressful work.

Meaning of Rachel

Rachel (Hebrew) : female sheep. Bible : the wife of Jacob.

I like this name as Rachel was born in the year of Goat.. suits her (female sheep) ;P As for her Chinese name, 黄静儿, it means quiet. It was chosen based on her Ba-zi. Quite a few names were given by the Master, but I have always like the character 儿 and according to the Master, Rachel has a quick temper, she's straightforward and she will tends to offend people in future by her words when she works. So it's better to have a name that tame and quieten her down.


Now at the age of 3 yrs 7 mths, she's already talking non-stop at times and kept asking why this and that? How come? etc... At times, I wondered if her name doesn't works for her??


Now that she's learning to write her Chinese name, I sort of regretted choosing a character with so many strokes for her. Too tedious for me to teach her :( So far, she has managed to write her surname. Phew! It's really not easy teaching kids to write.. still got 2 more characters to go...

Another Genting Trip...

Another Genting holidays for my family.. sigh.. cause at this moment, that's the only place I can afford to pay for all of us. No choice. :)

This trip we had got 7 of us - big group. my aunt, mum, sister, Jonathan, Rachel, one of my mum's friend and me. First day all of us squeezed into a Superior Deluxe Rm. Not that difficult cos we brought down 1 mattress and did some shifting in the room.. and hor.. for us adults, whenever we went up, not much time is spent on sleeping. :) Especially my mum's friend. We arrived at Genting around 3.30pm and by 4+pm she was off to the Casino. Didnt went back to the room till 9+Ppm, took a nap, bath and off to the Casino again till the next night. When we went back to the hotel at 5am, she was not in the room liao.. off to the Casino again. She didnt went back to the room till the next afternoon for a shower only.

Luckily my sister went with us because her son, Jonathan, wanted to go. I guessed, this will be the one and only time I'm bringing him. He was so naughty and sad to say, unbearable behaviour! Only wanted to play at the Arcade, whatever things he wanted to buy must buy on the spot, refused to eat the whole day (and his mum also cant be bothered). When we told him that we will go shopping for a while, he will start throwing his tantrums, screaming, shouting, pinching or pulling Rachel's hands or legs. Sigh.. even at times, Rachel got frustrated and pissed off with him. Once, he started to kick me in one of the shops we were shopping at. I got pissed off and was very angry that I kicked him back twice with force. The salesman was stunned and watched with his mouth opened. Few minutes later, Jonathan started to cry.

Now that Rachel knew how to play one of their games.. Love and Berry. It was a dress up and dance games and she got to collect a card for every game. As for Jon, he played the King of Beetles game, which is a Scissor, paper stone game.

For our 2nd Day, my cousin, who happened to be at Genting also, managed to get a suite at Genting Highland Hotel. He asked us to move over, so all of us except my mum's friend, moved over. Nice and spacious room. The 2 kids were excited about the new room and there was a Jacuzzi in the bathroom.

This time round, I dont have much luck with Roulette lei.. :( so didnt play much also. First time went up to Genting, I spent my time playing Jackpot. First day won a bit, second day, lost a bit, last day won a little big. Overall still lost a bit. :(

The last day... happy for us because can stop Jon's nonsenses.. sad for Rachel and Jon cos they wanted to play more of the Arcade games.
Five Stars Holidays upgraded up our return coach to Executive Class. It was a 16 seater coach with massage seats, personal entertainment TV with games. Very spacious and initially my mum was still grumbling that got to climb up the stairs etc. Once up the coach, she was so happy and speechless. Luckily with the games features, we managed to keep Jonathan happy and quiet throughout the way back to Sin.