Thankful

Bible says, be thankful for everything in life.

I believe, when we become thankful persons, our life becomes happier.

Even though every day, it does seem that we are going through battles and s***, but as we look around and take a step back, there are definitely things everyday that we can give thanks to God for.

If you really can't think of anything, thank God that you are still alive today!!!

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In the twinkle of an eye, another quarter is going to finish in less than 2 days time and we are already stepping into the second quarter of 2012. So far, it has been a busy and frantic quarter, with presentations and lots of problems to solve due to the corporate integration exercise.

Work wise, I can foresee it will just get more, as my manager and director are preparing for the end of their assignement and they be going back in May and July respectively. How time has passed so fast that they are already finishing their 2 years expat assignment in Singapore.

Justin also started school in March since 2 weeks ago. And I am really proud of this little boy. I had expected him to react to the change, but he has somehow adapted to the change quite well and most importantly, he is enjoying school!! Everyday after work, when I ask him about school, he is always excited and happy and he can even tell me that he wants to go school!!!

Thank God and Praise his Goodness!!

So many things are happening and lots more are going to happen in the months ahead.

I also started a secret diary that I started to write down at least 1 thing that I thank God for everyday. I personally think that's a good way for myself to really keep track of the fast paced life and changes happening around me which sometimes, I may overlooked easily due to busy-ness.

One year later, i am going to read again what I have went through this one year and I believe that there are going to be WOWs.

Justin’s milestone

Last Monday was Justin’s another milestone as he started his pre nursery school at Trueway Presb Church. Honestly speaking, I think my son is much braver than me. I think this is what we call, Child like faith. Not being aware of what’s ahead probably is much better than knowing what is ahead and the anxiety of preparing for the worst is not such a good feeling after all.
Back to Justin’s first day of school. This is actually a 3-hour class every day five day a week. We thought this is a good way to start to train and prepare him for the child care center next year and more importantly, the school will allow him more interaction activities with other children and getting down to routine and discipline (which i still praying that the latter reason will work for his restlessness.. ). :p

The daily lesson will start with assembly time comprise of praise and worship songs. After that, they proceed to their classroom where they will have various lessons like maths, chinese, art & craft and indoor and outdoor playtime.

But I think the happiest sessions for him is none other than…

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The playground!! Love his cheeky grin!

 

That’s the first week of school for Justin… really proud of him that he is doing fine so far. Looking forward to him coming back to tell me more of the things that he learn in school in days to come!

A girlie’s outing

 

We have been planning this for some time and finally, we finally materialise our outing!!!

We originally wanted to go and do our nails before heading down for a good hi-tea. However, due to the unforeseen circumstances (my nails broke a couple of days before and my girl friend bit off almost all her nails…… kekekeke), we decided to do some mama shopping before heading down to our hi-tea.

Did a little bit of research and decided to settle down at The Marmalade Pantry @ Ion Orchard.

My first time to Marmalade Pantry was actually to try their dinner with a few friends and I kind of like their exquisite pasta menu. Only thing is that their prices are slightly higher than usual but I guess the ambience kind of compensated it.

This is one place that i really feel in love with and been telling myself i want to go back for the cakes. :-)

  We ordered the afternoon set which comes with a choice of tea, cupcake and the platter.

Look at our gorgeous platter!! Yummy, isn’t it? Haha

My Elvis on the right and Her William on the left.  

This is my good buddy and friend and half boss and role model mummy of 2!!!

 

We had a good time chatting everytime we get together, probably because we have quote a lot of things in common, like both of us are mothers, we came from the same sec sch and JC, hence have some common friends, now both working in the same company and both are finance persons….. so we kind of never run out of topics to chat..mOst importantly, she is one friend that I feel very comfortable sharing things with, be it work or personal.

It is God’s blessing, that I met her again in the current company. Makes the stressful working life happier to a certain extent. :-)

Bosses and Friends and colleague make important influence to one’s happiness index in a company. Agree? :)

Looking forward to our next outing. Time to start planning. :-)

we are on the papers!

After waiting for 3 decades, we finally have a chance to appear on paper.

And the star was none other than…. our precious son, Justin Tay!

Because of his hospitalization policy and the kawasaki that he suffered last year, we were selected by AIA for this project.

Many people ask me: Wow, so now do you get free premium for the next 20 years, since you are advertising for AIA?

My answer: Haha.. that’s my wish, but AIA has not fulfill that wish.

I guess the main takeaway of this project: FUN and more FUN!!!

Last December, on one of the saturday, the whole crew team came down to our place on a saturday morning.

Had 2 hours of professional make up and hair styling (Haha.. ya.. nothing fanciful done to hair cos they wanted natural look).

Thankful for the good makeup that covered up our eye bags and wrinkles!!!!   YAY!

And then, we had 80 shots taken at the playground underneath our house, and 80 shots taken indoors…….

It was tough job. Because basically Justin always get distracted by the playground!!!
So it was super tough to get him to focus on the camera and smile, at the right timing and right angle! :p

By the time we went upstairs for the indoor shots, he was already tired and grouchy.. so you can imagine another round of coaxing and bluffing and tricking before we finally finish the task!!!!!!

And so, after 2 months or so of editing and all the newspaper artwork (which did not bother us at all…)

We finally saw the final product on the Today Paper on 6 March 2012.

This was the best photo taken out of the 80 outdoor shots.

 

Thank God for the great experience and all the fun that we had.

Looking forward to the next publishing in the Mother and Baby magazine in May. =))