http://mums.xblogger.net Stories of Daughters, Wives and Mothers Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:10:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I never celebrated Christmas when I was young. I am not a christian and I was brought up in a typical traditional chinese family. We only celebrated the traditional chinese festivals like chinese new year, moon-cake festival, dumpling festival and so on. What we received were the red packets on ... http://mums.xblogger.net/index.php/2006/12/23/merry-xmas-everyone/ It has been raining non-stop for the past 4 days. It spoilt our weekends as we had to stay at home on last saturday and sunday. We are having a hard time trying to get our laundry done. You could not imagine how we hung our clothings everywhere in the ... http://mums.xblogger.net/index.php/2006/12/19/the-worst-traffic-jam-ever/ Sometimes, we might be too busy with our work that we could hardly have some quality time with our kids. Recently I had 2 weeks of medical leave. So I stayed at home looking them. The kids were excited, especially my daugther. Instead of letting them playing on their own and ... http://mums.xblogger.net/index.php/2006/12/15/some-quality-time-with-the-children-at-home/ Dreams dreams dreams.. What I meant is not "aspiration" but the "dreams" that we had when we were sleeping. Some people do not like dreams for it may turn out as nightmares! In the ancient times, people treated "dreams" seriously. They even had some "professionals" to translate the dreams ... http://mums.xblogger.net/index.php/2006/12/12/dreams-dreams-dreams/ When I gain my consciousness, the procedure was over and I was transfered to the ward. The wound was painful and I couldn't move as the aneasthetic effect was subsided. I stayed in the hospital for 2 days for observation before I can be discharged. This incident has made me change some ... http://mums.xblogger.net/index.php/2006/12/08/my-appendicectomy-experience-3/ When we reached the hospital, we took the referral letter to the A&E department, only to know that we should go to a different building where the specialists were. After the specialist examined me, I was admitted straight away. However, we faced another dilemma. There were no bed. The nurse took ... http://mums.xblogger.net/index.php/2006/12/06/my-appendicectomy-experience-2/ Everything was normal last sunday. We brought the kids out, came back late, watched my late night series before I went to bed, thinking that I had to start work as usual the next day. When I woke up on Monday, I felt pain at my tummy. Not a serious one ... http://mums.xblogger.net/index.php/2006/12/06/my-appendicectomy-experience-1/ My mother in-law is actively engaged in the charity program organised by the local organization. Since we did not have any program last weekend, we decided to bring the kids along. We think it was an educational trip for them to let them see the "less fortunate" children which in ... http://mums.xblogger.net/index.php/2006/12/03/a-trip-to-the-charity-home/ We went to attend my cousin's wedding last Saturday. We brought Joe along since he's already on school holidays. As usual, I had to do all sorts of preparation work before we left the house and by the time we were ready to go, we realised that we would be ... http://mums.xblogger.net/index.php/2006/11/22/a-wedding/ Yanti is an almost perfect maid.  Polite, can speak simple mandarin, good in housework.  Mum casually told me few days ago Yanti seemed to have lack of chemistry with my children.  I did not take her words too seriously, afterall, she is new.  Today, I stayed home all day with ... http://mums.xblogger.net/index.php/2006/11/21/back-to-square-one/