Category Archives: Parenting & Motherhood

Bringing up kids

Kickin’, movin’, squirmin’

  Once we got Ethan settled into daycare, it was time for me to go for a long overdue checkup for my “bun in the oven”.  My last checkup back in Penang was at the end of September, and I … Continue reading

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Got the pregnancy blues..

In the cafeteria after lunch just the other day, I met someone I used to work with, and her first words when she saw me were, “You put on weight huh?” Not “How are you?”, “How have you been?” or … Continue reading

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Get dressed … for success

Over the weekend, I had not one, not two, but THREE opportunities to doll myself up and look pretty. Now, this would not seem like a daunting task for some people, but for me, this task now requires some thinking … Continue reading

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Snap, crop, arrange..voila!

Three days before the Chinese New Year, I received the finished product of the personal project which I had been working on for months on end. Forty pages of photos of Ethan all captured in a 30cm x 30cm black … Continue reading

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Pretty memories of a bun

Last Tuesday evening, we had dinner at Queensbay Mall. As we were walking in the lower ground level, right next to where the New Zealand Natural Ice Cream booth is, what should greet our eyes but this: Penang was finally … Continue reading

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