Last day of the month..

Today is the last day of the month and I'm just so happy about it.

Because tomorrow is 1st Dec and it's the month of Christmas! and I love rainy days, though my laundry cannot be dried and we have to stay indoor, but hey, it just makes me feel like the rain is like the snow. Wish it will snow or we can all just head to somewhere that snows, to have a white christmas....

And I cant wait for my own christmas present that I have bought in advance..hoo hoo hoo. I guess it is all just fate.

I was the highest bidder for the beige colour and then I started to browse during the last 5 mins and spotted a new listing for the pink colour that I was eyeing originally! And wah liao, my heart nearly dropped. The price I was bidding was at US$38 and I was hoping someone will bid me to it.

On the other hand, I thought, nevermind, get the beige one too and then scarly the last 20second, I was being outbid and before I can even lay my bid, the bid ended....I was like WTH lor. Then thought, maybe is just my luck.

The seller for the pink waverly didnt ship internationally and I was kind of worried if she will be willing to ship or not and yes, she is agreeable to it.She is such a nice and friendly and accomodating seller, even supplied me with more close up pix of the mini skinny and I bought it at US$30 without bidding. I cannot go through the process and I dont think my heart can take it if I lose this twice man.

And my item is on the way to being shipped out...I cant wait to see it...

Goodbye Bibi

Dear Bibi left us yesterday night around 818pm. I was at work and hb tried to call me, but my hp was on silent mode and I only saw his message : Bibi die after class and I called home immediately.

Too sudden for me to take it. WHy did it happen? She was very active and alert all the while, just that I feel she was a little too skinny for a 2 month old ND and wasnt putting on much weight. I feel so sad, because I saved a life out from the farm and already accepted her into the family and she just had to leave us just after turning 2 months on 21st Sept.

One of her sibling also passed on at the farm. At least now she has her sibling to accompany her at the rainbow bridge.

I didnt have much time with her. But I'm thankful she had hb, rie and reyes and starlet around her when she passed on and hb told her to just go in peace, dont wait for me to come home and she uttered twice, shivered and left us. I was disturbed and upset.

I didnt have much time spare to talk to her, as we had to hurry down to bury her. Thankful that there was a heavy shower in the afternoon, so the soil was soft for us to dig a burial place.

This morning, hb said, he miss her presence and made a purpose to walk past her grave with starlet to say hi to her. At least I know she is near to us. But I cant pinpoint the exact location anymore.

I made frosty to pat pat bibi to let him know that he is now alone and bibi is gone. I think he feels depressed too, didnt seem to want eat much of his hay and pellets. Hey come on, animals have feelings too one leh.

Oh, so sad.

Coach Waverly Hearts

If anyone of you manage or is able to help me get this, please let me know k.

Just gena outbid in the ebay for the beige, darn.

Never knew I could still bake

Nagged at hb to bring back the oven from mum's place just now. He's more than happy to head out of the house with rie, dad was delighted to have rie over too, mum said he's bored to death staying at home. hoo hooo.

And so, I started baking at 10pm, despite hb's disapproval and finished it off at 1am..yawn..Rie KO at 1130pm, since she skip her nap and Reyes stayed up with me. I cant shake him off, everything also I have to do for him. But then it makes my heart melt knowing I'm the only woman in his life for now lor. The way he looks into my eyes, is so different.

Darn, I gotta type faster, coz there is this beetle in the living room and I dont know where it is hiding. Shit.

So here's some pix..

Rie took this blur shot of me putting in the mixture. She's a really good helper I must say, for doing all the sprinkles and toppings and mixing the mixture and laying out the paper mini cups.

Ready to bake...

Tah-dah! I ran out of choco chips, so I substitute it with rie's coco crunch! hahaha, it taste not bad too leh, and this time, all were 100% delicious, no more burnt ones.

And now....I'm stuck with just knowing how to make these. I need to find new receipe and hopefully one day learn how to bake a delicious cheesecake.

Tiring tiring....

The school has ended and the holidays have started. I do look forward to having a break from waking up so early, walking under the hot sun, sweating like hell and still not losing any weight, but I certainly do not look forward to having 2 noisy kids at home, driving me up the wall.

Gotta start thinking of activities to keep them occupied man!

Some of you may have received notifications from me, with regards to our little business venture.

I've been dragging for a proper intro, so just provide you the link here to take a look.
http://thump-thefarm.blogspot.com

We are also on facebook and if you add us as a fan(please do so by supporting me k) and suggesting to your other friends, you will receive 10% off APD products. So help me spread the news k!

I did receive some feedback from friends, who think the fanpage is just a page filled with MY rabbit photos for display. It's actually up for viewing, for booking and for you to purchase home as your new pet. Quality is assured and I'm counting down the days when our US imported show quality rabbits are done with their quarantine over at the AVA.

Yes, we specially had our partner flew over to the US, handpicked the show quality rabbits (with pedigree), some of which are Champions and Grand champions and we also brought in 2 new breeds that are rare in Singapore. Pictures to be updated soon when I can see the bunnies.

Almost every alternate days when I'm not working in the evening and weekends, we are at the farm. Because I spend very little time there, I try to make full use of whatever time I have to wash the bottles, wash the bunnies food dish, treat the injured bunnies, groom for them, shower them with love, feed them, fill their bottles.....

On the ugly side, I am starting to face dead baby bunnies and also adult ones, half eaten newborns, cold stiff newborns and many more which I may just scare you off. It's sad when we see the newborns being so healthy one night and the next night, I receive an sms that the baby is gone. And I had actually just pat that baby the night before I left. It's so sad.

So I try my best to make their life happier, and when I see the bunnies whom I treat getting well again, it makes my heart feel better that they are now happier and are able to regain their vision again.

Starlet has been following us to the farm too, otherwise I think she feels bored staying at home, since we dont let her wander downstairs other than her usual timing to pee and poo. I am thankful we got a dog that is soooo well behaved, I couldnt ask for more and plus, she understands instructions. I just found out only today after weeks of asking her to "down", that the hand gesture might just probably be tapping on the floor with your finger infront of her and saying the command "DOWN".

Previously I was trying to hold my thumb towards her nose and guiding her down to the floor. Sometimes it work, sometimes it doesnt. Nightly, we try to train her by having her walk by our side, then shouting " Sit, Stay, Come". But with the kids distractions, tsk tsk, it's hard to enforce.

It's heartwarming when I now understand the meaning that dogs are man's best friend and they are really loyal to their owners. Starlet shows her affection for our presence by sleeping outside our main door floor mat. Like right now, she is there sleeping. Normally we put her back in the playpen after I discovered 2 puddle of pee at 4am one night.

Yesterday afternoon, I woke up from my nap to see Starlet sleeping on the floormat too. She was sleeping under the table before we went for our nap. In the afternoon, I leave the door open and she will be able to see us from where she is sleeping. It shows that she understands the room is out of bound for her and she stayed at the mat to sleep, to be near us. Awwww.......

I dont know if they feel cold. Do they? Riesia loves to imagine she is Penny, from the show "Bolt" and in the introduction, Bolt chases his tail, which Starlet does that too! Hoo hoo and Rie would take her Barbie Doll toy camera, hug starlet and say " Mission Accomplished". I'm glad R & R love Starlet and so does Starlet loves the kid.

An impromptu baking session....

Rie came home on Monday, with a small packet of mini cupcakes, given by her sch-bus friend. It was a chocolate chip cupcake and she finished all 4. She didnt bear to finish all at one go, so she ate 2 and kept 2 in the fridge, saying she will have them after her afternoon nap.

And so, I decided to attempt to bake some mini cupcakes for her. It's been years since I had my hands baking. The last time I tried baking something was during my courtship with hb, when I baked an oreo cheesecake that was slightly overburnt. It was quite a disappointment though. If only I knew how to bake one, I would definitely stop buying from shops.

So anyway, to get myself moving, I searched online for a recipe, copied it down and zoom to Phoon Huat this morning to get all the ingredients. I was glad hb was supportive and rie was really excited and anxious to help me.

The mixing part was easy, it was done within like 20 mins with a little mess here and there. And it took us close to 5 trays before we finally knew how to adjust the temperature, the timing to suit the best outcome of the cupcakes.

My first tray, was bad, the bottom stucked to the paper cups and was slightly burnt. We then shorten the timing, same temp at 200 degree. It was much better, but the paper was still burnt.

So the 3rd tray, I adjusted the heat to only upper tray. It was much better, but still hard outside and not cook inside.

The 4th tray, we adjusted the temp to 180 degree, timing remains, not so bad, paper no longer burnt, the bottom no longer got stuck to the paper cup, but inside was still not very cook though.

So the 5th tray, we adjusted the temp to 160 degree, timing remains and then voila....here's the outcome... This is the choco chip cupcake, with choco as topping.

And rie wanted to sprinkle some colourful beads. The appearance isnt very nice. I put on the sprinkle before I put it into the oven to bake. Should I have sprinkle only halfway through baking? Can someone advice...How to get those nice sprinkles on top in their original shape.

And then this, everyone thinks it has the nicest appearance. Sunflower seeds with sprinkles. Some of the sprinkles remain their original state and so it was really nice.

All in all, it's really fun, I did the measurement, rie did the mixing, rie arranged the paper cups, I filled the cups and hb watched over the oven. Reyes did chip in too, by stirring a little, but made quite a mess with the flour. Tsk Tsk...

I will try out another cupcake receipe this weekend if I have the time again....hoo hoo...

P/S: mum said she is gonna impart her pineapple-tarts receipe to me prior to next CNY. Dont know if I have the skills to do it as delicious as hers....

And to end off, here's a pic of rie with Starlet. Starlet loves her alot...

The terrible two stage

Reyes is going through a terrible horrible two stage that nobody can tahan him.
It's been close to 2 weeks. Each time he is awake, he starts crying and wailing and yelling and throws his tantrums until no one cannot tahan him.

Thinking back, I dont recall rie being that naughty to such an extend during her terrible two stage.

Last night, I broke down in the room, while trying to carry reyes and calming him down from crying and wailing and screaming. I thought to myself, why is he behaving this way? Why am I not able to calm him down? And end up I lost my temper and smack him. He wants NO ONE except me and instead of me coaxing him, I end up pushing him away at times when i cannot tahan him. It is just attention grabbing or is there really a problem?

I dont know. He finally slept while I carried him swaying to sleep. He hardly slept this way since he was a baby. He self learnt to sleep on his own on the mattress and I never had to craddle him to sleep, unlike rie.

I need to be more patient with him.

Starlet...

This is a not so nice pix of her. She looks like a mini version of a fox.

We brought her to the vet whom hb is so "infatuated" with, coz she is like a chio ah lian, but is a dr okay. And a very cute and generous lady who waived off the consultation charges, health check and deworm tablet for us upon knowing we adopted Starlet.

We are glad she is in good health, but she hasnt been vaccine for the past 2 years, eyes were full of very dirty wax which was so disgusting, teeth were filled with plague. The vet encouraged us to sterilise her and at the same time do some teeth cleaning for her. Total costs would be $300, which was like "WHAT?" to me.

She had her 9 in 1 jab, ticks application, and heartworm jab which came up to total of $220. Gasp. It's so not cheap to upkeep a dog. And we made a discovery that she is actually 3 years old instead of 2 as per what the owner told us. Tsk tsk.

But she has brought some joy to our family. This morning, she made my day by coming out to greet me from the kitchen to the living room. And each time R&R is up from the room, she runs to them, wagging her tail and chasing after them for a play.

Last night, I took a pillow and placed it at where she slept. She loves it and I'm happy she knows how to treasure and enjoy the fluffy pillow. Today, she stood behind the door when we left the house and was right behind the door waiting for us when we return. I'm happy she is at her normal self now as compared to the first night where she was so terrified of us and kept on hiding at one spot.

I hope she is happy joining our family, although we cant give her a proper doggy bed or any luxury dog food. But at least she is under a shelter and doted by us.

Surprise...

Over a night, we have become dog owners unexpectedly. The notice is so short, probably less than 2 hours only. All I was given is just a 10mins YES or NO answer.

No, we didnt buy a dog. Couldnt afford one, since it's so expensive.
We adopted a dog, by chance.

So, we were at the farm and this big petshop boss who owns many many branches of petshops dropped by the farm with his petdog - Chihuahua. He had mentioned he was giving his dog up for a Persian cat! And because the cat is very very territorial, he had to fence the poor dog up and he felt that she would live a better life with another family.

He was hoping Pat would be able to help him find a good dog owner. I was at the backyard washing the bottles and then the kids came running to me, asking me to go to the front to check out this chihuahua and that Uncle wanna adopt it!

I was thinking in my heart, chey, he is probably saying just for fun or whatever, but I'm so wrong! He said one look and he fell in love with it. Although she is not the most beautiful breed of dog, not our favourite breed of dog, which is the Golden Retriever, he nonetheless like her.

He said his heart broke when the boss left and gave her a hardrub before saying goodbye and closed the door. At that point, I wanted to cry too, putting myself in her shoes, not knowing that she would never be able to head back the same home anymore and that would probably be the last chance to see her owner again. She must be thinking, what wrong did I do? She wanted to follow him out, but when the door closed, she was left with no choice, no return.

The most amazing thing is, she doesnt bark! I hardly come across dogs who dont bark. The only dog I know is the 14th floor neighbour who owns 2 dogs. One is able to roam without leash, whereas the other has to be leashed up and barks like hell. That's also the dog that followed me home when I was preg the last time. I think I mentioned in my blog somewhere.

And Starlet is just like that dog! Yeah, thats her name. So many pros about her, I cant think of a con as yet.
>>She doesnt bark. *add points*
>>She is very tame
>>R&R likes her
>>She is small in size, almost the size of Junior
>>She doesnt smell of the dog smell (If she does, I will definitely say NO to keeping her)
>>She pees and poo downstairs! (which we just discovered today!)
>>She responds to her name when called, understands sit and stop
>>She doesnt need to be leash at all!!!!

So, these 2 blur first time dog owner, brought her home last night and got so stressed about her not drinking water, not eating her food. The owner has been feeding cat food to her! God knows hw long has he been feeding her with that.

She peed twice in the living room and we tried to paper train her. She didnt pee the WHOLE of this morning and until evening, I brought the kids downstairs for a cycle and hb brought her down.

He said, the moment the lift doors opened, she dashed out and peed a puddle, cannot tahan liao. Hoo hoo and then, at the park, she finally poop! So our guess is that she probably wants to do her business downstairs. So now comes the problem - Weekdays I probably have to be the one to bring her downstairs to pee, then after that, have to wipe her feet before she can enter the house right? Evening it will be hb's turn.

It's a little troublesome, especially when we dont feel like going out. I'm still hoping we can paper train her at home lah. Cross fingers.

Will upload some pix of her when I've got the time. Been so so busy.

It's a new month

Time come and go so fast that it's just less than 2 months before xmas is here once again! My favourite celebration of the year....so heart warming, wet days, windy days are here...

And reyes is going to attend school very very soon. Riesia keep asking me everyday when we bring her to school when reyes is going to attend school together with her? And I told her to must keep a watch over her brother at school and on the school bus and that I will be waiting for the 2 of them at the busstop.

And come next year, I will therefore have my own precious 3-4 hours alone when they are in school! Hoo hoo, hurray! And if hb takes half day, we can have O-U-R time as well after all these years. We never got to enjoy couplehood for long. In a way, I think God was nice to let us enjoy that few months together before riesia came along. But I would love to have a longer time together if time could turn back the clock.

I'm missing my own precious time with hb once again.

Dream place...

Last afternoon, hb and myself were made happy, just to house shop.
There were two 3 room landed HDB properties nearby our place up for sale and we popped by to take a look.

In fact, hb had already made a round this morning to source which was the exact one since we received the flyer from the agent. The night before, we also drove round to check the place out.


We first went to the other unit which has only a front yard and back yard, very simple house and spacious. It definitely doesnt look like a 3 room flat lor, at 94sqm, but if you include the front and back, voila, it is very big. Can BBQ too.

The valuation is $630 and the owner is asking for $710.

Here's our dream place - http://www.kit.myweb.sg/51
Then we popped by the corner unit, wah liao, we were all sold man! If we have the $$$ now, I'm very sure we will just close the deal. I tried to beyday my mum, but she said it's so expensive and not worth. They are not someone who like living on landed property, saying no view, so hot, no wind blah blah. hahaha.

The kids LOVE LOVE LOVE the huge place! And they kept climbing up and down the stairs and with the big yard, they can cycle and run. And the plus plus thing is, the owners actually build an extra bedroom behind on the first ground and a toilet on the 2nd floor. Otherwise, there is only 1 toilet on the ground floor originally. Many have bought over the properties there, renovated until damn nice damn nice leh.

The valuation is $705 and they are asking for $780 NEGOTIABLE. We really really love that huge house alot. Rie love that place too. Though it can be a little warm as compared to when we are at our own home, but I'm totally sold.

Busy weekend again...

It's a busy weekend yet again. I think ever since we embarked on the joint venture, we have been busy every weekend! Might as well too, otherwise we often end up sitting at home idling, no where to go.

This week is exceptionally exciting and fun. Because it marks Rie's first concert at school.
Coincidentally, the concert is held on the same day as hb's company family day outing at Sentosa.

So early in the morning, we were being sunburnt at Sentosa then rushed home after lunch for a quick shower and then rushed out again to rie's school for the concert.

The concert was a blast I feel and everyone in the audience enjoyed watching their own child performing on stage and so did I! It was very very comical and cute lor to see 3-6 year old kids performing and wah, some K1 kids performed a stylo performance. All these were of course the hard work of the teachers and my SIL for coming up with the production and practice after practice. Like what my SIL said, the kids knows when to stop and when to move and turn at each segment of the music.

It was very funny to see and hear a leader among the kids of each class shouting instructions to co-ordinate. There was this girl, so cute, she gave commands - OPEN. CLOSE. UP. TURN. And of course everyone laughed lor.

Then there was this boy, who shouts "One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight"

And then some funny incidents included 2 young chaps fighting on stage, and one pulled a long face, but still continued to perform. hoo hoo.

And when rie appeared, wah!!! All of us were excited of course! We waved for her and I'm amazed that she can spot us so easily out of so many faces! And she so happy to see us too and performed for us till she forgot it was time to head off stage. haha. Will upload the video when I have the time to do so.

For now, I'm just glad tomorrow is a day off for the kids, so they can rest at home and me too. yawn.