souperma

2006-09-02T22:21:00.000-07:00

Sammie almost lost her little finger yesterday! Imagine if her finger had come off completely-I, poor momsie, would be dashing round with a bleeding daughter and a portion of her finger wrapped up looking for the nearest hospital so as to get her finger reattached! Urggh, thankfully that didn't have to happen. All because she was being helpful. If not for the piece of sponge.....

I feel much better today. Yesterday I thought I was going to die! Then what was going to happen to my 3 kids!!! Looks like the antibiotics did the job(of saving me). I am looking forward to the school holidays. It means 1) not having to wake up early 2)not having to worry abt what to pack for their lunches and recesses 3) not having to run around like a mad woman 4) not having to spend 30min at monash library daily AND 5)not having to get that fellow to do his homework.

I like Sam's room-it is sooo sun-lit and warm. My room is soooo cold! Sammie was supposed to take her shower 1 hour ago - she seems to have forgotten about that! I am going to make her stop msning now.

2006-08-09T02:13:00.000-07:00

Sammie finally wrote! Yay, and she's fine and feeding medicine to one of the calvies. Well, she'll be back soon anyway. Mom is going back this Sat. After that I'll be ALL ALONE since coming over in Jan. This is going to be the real test and I pray to God for guidance and strength and wisdom and everything else.

Today it rained, just after I did the weeding spray yesterday. Sigh, life's like that isn't it? How many times have we been in one queue only to find the other one's moving faster and so on and so forth....Well, this is life!!

This whole week is action-packed as mom is going home and everyone wants to meet up with her. My duty-ferry her around and distribute her achar to her friends. Talk about friends-people here ahve been very nice to us actually. In no particular order, people like Lee WS&family, Jim & Esther, Steven & Amy, John & Pat and so many others. I am really grateful to them for all their help and advice during these months.

I dread the end of day when dusk sets in. The whole world seems to be drawing to an end and it's like I've reached the end of something undescribable. I feel so lost and miserable during this short period. Then when night comes, I'm alright again. Then tomorrow will be fine until the end of day comes again. Worse still if one of the girls were to be playing a sad piece at that time.
Okay, I look forward to tomorrow.

2006-08-08T01:14:00.000-07:00

Ok I haven't been around for quite a while now. What must I get off my head-oh yes I finally got roung to weeding the lawn today. It was very sunny and the forecast is good weather for the next 4-5days, so let's see. I wasn't too sure about the diluting part though, I hope I don't end up wiping out the grass as well. Actually what is weed and what is part of the lawn grass is rather subjective. Personally I find the clovers and dandelions very pretty-unfortunately they are seen as weeds because people think that that should not be in the lawn. So I have to think the same right? Herd mentality I suppose. Also when they start to spread the pollen over to the neighbouring gardens, I will have very angry people and the council knocking on my door!

Waited for Sammie's letter but never came. Wonder why she has not been writing. Hope she is fine. It was heartbreaking leaving her behind in that remote place but I guess it is for the better. She has really grown up a lot. Glad we sent her to MLC. Anyway looking forward to her coming back on 25 Aug.

Stephie is hooked on K-dramas and I am most displeased with that. I have made up my mind she is not going to start another one until the hols set in. Just gave Ben a piece of my mind for messing up the place. At the rate I'm going I will soon end up mindless.

2006-07-13T17:40:00.000-07:00

Hey people, here I am on a freezing winter morning. We have settled in quite nicely now. The neighbourhood is quiet and nice. There are only 10 families in this court and we have gotten round to making some friends now.
Heather and Chris on our left are ardent gardeners. She has kindly volunteered to give free gardening lessons for me. They have 2 grown-up children and she loves everything oriental. Her house is filled with oriental decor.
Lynn on the right has 2 kids too, her son Brad is Ben's new-found friend. Then there is Nick and Daisy opposite and John and the rest I have not gotten round to talking yet.
Oh, Teong and I went to buy some weed killers for the lawn but when the guy asked what grass we have on the lawn, we gingerly put back the bottle and said we will go home to check it out. Till now we are still checking-got to ask Heather again!! So much for gardening!
Sammie wrote back the other day-looks like she is really having a good time! Reading her letters makes my day-she is so visual, her sketches helped us to understand her living environment so much better. It's kind of funny how just one person can make such a difference to the home-without her around the place is less noisy and messy. I especially miss the maaameeing and the piano. Can't wait to visit her end of the month.

2006-06-16T00:28:00.000-07:00

It's all nice and quiet now-everyone has gone out for tennis. Finally I have some time to myself to do something that I like - please do not get me wrong; it's not that I love blogging and that is why that's the first thing I am doing now.

Honestly I would rather be doing something else but there are reasons why I choose not to. First I would love to do some reading but that would take a while and right now I don't have a stretch long enough to do that. Moreover the whole battalion will be back for dinner so.......

Then I would have liked to watch some k-drama but it won't be the same without Stephanie around so I'll just have to wait for her to come back from her WEP. Then also that silly Sammie isn't around to imitate the mushy kissing scenes hah her insanity increases by the day. What am I going to do with her!

It takes quite an effort for me to publish these posts because the girls say I type single-fingeredly. Still, I feel that I am doing well despite my unique typing style. Tomorrow we will all be busy packing and cleaning up Tobias so maybe there will be another period of silence but 4ever-young will be back, don't you fret!

2006-06-12T17:02:00.000-07:00

It was a long weekend with trips to and fro Tobias and Alocasia. The smaller items are being moved so that when the big move comes there will be fewer things to move (hopefully). Last evening was clear and from where we were standing, we could see the amazing sea of lights from the kitchen. It was simply beautiful! Sigh! But there is still so much to be done before I can sit down and truly admire the view.

A few very urgent items to look at: Study tables and lights, frosted paper for my shower screen otherwise I cannot shower! Sofa set, side tables, lamps and dryer. These are the necessities for the time being. That means I will be going shopping again, yay!! This rented place is getting messier by the day-I have never lived in such disorder before and I am amazed at myself for being able to tolerate such mess. Perhaps my tolerance level has been raised with age....anyway soon all this will pass and I will have a place of my own!! Happy thoughts to keep my sanity in place.

2006-05-28T03:22:00.000-07:00

I am back! After one year of absence. Well, what brought about this revival? Perhaps it is because I did not fancy my ex-pinky blog and also never really had much time last year in view of the big move to Melbourne. Now that I am more settled I am eager to start again. I guess I owe it all to my Sammie who has been prodding me to revive my blog. She even went to the extent to help me change my blog skin and create all the super duper high-techy stuff for my blog. How could I let her down then! So I strictly make the blog entries!! Not a bad idea for mom-bloggers-wannabes who have this misconception that blogging is not your cup of tea. All you need is to have a loyal and eager blogger-daughter who loves the touch of the computer keyboard and wah-lah you start blogging.

Unfortunately not everything in life is that simple. It has been a hectic 5 months since we came to Melbourne, with all its ups and downs. We arrived to a sweltering summer of Jan 16 2006 and this rented place was like a sauna. Days seemed extremely long with the sun setting at 9 plus. Then it was the chaotic rushing around buying textbooks and uniforms and setting up home in this box-like house (because the ceiling is so low!).

Now the children are happily adjusted to their new environment; of course with the occasional "I wish I was in Spore now" whenever they think of the friends and food that they left behind. They have their own circle of friends here now though not as close as those in Spore. Well, given time.......

Recommendations

2005-02-28T11:15:00.000-08:00

Hi there, some must reads for all who can read.
Eats, Shoots and Leaves-simply hilarious
Sam's blog-if you want to hear rumours
Mrs Lee's cookbook - for wives and mothers who need to cook something different

Stress

2005-02-27T18:55:00.000-08:00

People who say that non-working mothers are women of leisure must be out of their minds. Here I am toiling from morn till night, that's why I have no time to update my bloggy. With 3 kids ma-maing here and there, the place is like the zoo. Anyway I preserve my sanity by gossiping, reading and of course watching tv. Just sat down the other day to watch Justice League which I thought wasn't doing justice to my dinner and to my horror I realised that it was a crappy 30minutes of masked heroes and heroines flying everywhere obliterating villains. Then I asked myself why the whole family other than myself of course was gliued to the box and let dinner sit cold on the table. There are few possibilities:
1) I haven't seen the actual value of the show
2) They need to destress
3) They prefer cold dinners
4) They love my naggings
5) They are training to be superheroes who will eventually take over from this lot
Whatever it is I think cartoons shd be banned from 630-730pm. Okay people don't curse me-I was just airing my views. Steffie's quote of the week-Think globally Fart locally.

2005-01-20T18:21:00.000-08:00

Today is a publis holiday and I simply love holidays-lazing around and not having to beat the clock in everything that I do.My favourite activity is reading a real nice book which I seldom get the chance to do.Another one is a real time waster-watching movies. However I am not the only one in the family; the rest are worse! Of course shopping and travelling are wonderful hobbies too!

Hi I'm back!

2005-01-15T01:27:00.000-08:00

To all who have missed me especially Sammie Teong! Sorry if i have been keeping you on tenterhooks but no worry, I am revisiting my blog again!

School's started again and the mad rush in the morning is on! Amidst all these I am doing taichi to keep meself calm and on the ground. Also lately I met up with some people who have been sharing their children's antics with me. Looks like all teenagers are alike. I'm still trying to understand how they can be fascinated by noisy music and funny looking singers. Worse still, listen to such loud music as they work on the comp. Guess it is just the trend. Hopefully it's a passing fad! All you young people out there, I know you are going to throw rotten eggs at me!

Catch up another time, ciao!!

souperma's first entree

2004-12-23T17:55:00.000-08:00

Hi there to all who read this, this is my VERY FIRST attempt at starting a blog-thanks to an avid blogger called Sammie. I have decided that if I do not agree to her incessant pestering, she will just continue to harrass me for the rest of my life-you must know how frighteningly persistent these teenage bloggers can be!!

Anyway, what have I to lose so come on man, here I am.