Gathering

It has been more than 10 days since in-law traveling. Life has been good so far. Apparently Mr. and I can cope with each other with things around. Yeah... we are growing and getting better in marriage life each day.

I am going to have my Master class in this coming Saturday and Sunday. International Marketing. Gosh what is that all about? I am totally stuck and I still think that programming is a lot easier. Lets hope that I can get the assignments done. We have been given the tutorial to prepare before the class starts. I have totally no idea how to start or where to start...

Sunday is going to be a busy day. We have to wake up early as we need to pray (Chinese lunar calendar is 15th). The class starts at 9. Besides that I need to drop Dave to my aunt place. We agree that Mr. alone cannot handle Dave. Just pray that things will go smoothly... ^^

Home Cooked Meals

I have been hard working enough to prepare Mr's meals for these couple of days. The results are as seen in the pics. ^^

I love the steam Prawn the best... ^^

Steam Fish Head with gingers


Steam Prawns with Wine and Chili (My Fav)


Stir Fry Prawn with Oyster Sauce


Stir Fry Yellow Tofu (Tau Kua) with Garlic

In-Law Holiday

I just don't know what to write for the title. Well in-law is going for a trip to Tibet. It means that it's only us Mr, Dave, and me at home. We are going to experience the life of us as a family, just three of us and no one else is involved.

Don't get me wrong. I didn't say that living with in-law is not a great thing. I am just saying that it's a chance for Mr. and me to take care of ourselves and Dave, without any dependency of others. I kinda think that it's not easy just to live by ourselves. I have to take care of every little single things starts from food, maid, etc...

The things that I worried the most is to leave Dave at home with Mr. when I have classes in the evening. It's not that Mr. cannot handle Dave, but it's just too tiring to handle Dave alone. So, it's better to have more than 1 person to do it.

I couldn't ask the maid to stay longer, the maid usually go home at around 7 in the evening; and I reach home at about 7.30 pm and at 9 pm on Tuesday. More things to worry is the Master classes. It's on 6 and 7 June, from 9-5. It's either to skip the class or trust Mr. to take care of Dave.

Intel Community

What would you like to collect when you are in overseas? What would you love to buy as a souvenir for yourselves? For me, I used to collect key chains, but then I kinda think that pins are more interesting.

So, here are my pins collections form each of the countries or places that I have visited before. I usually pins them on shirt, and this time I have chosen Intel Community's T (it's one of the class in IT&B).

However, I couldn't find Singapore's pin.

Still have plenty of spaces...

Why Some People Didn't End Up with Caucasion....??

Being a person that is so fond with developed overseas lifestyle and experienced a couple of years in Canada. I wondered why I didn't end up with Caucasian or people who have stayed there for ages.

For this, maybe I can use an example from me. Before that, I have to go back to my family history a bit. I were brought up in a Buddhist family who hold this belief. No sex before marriage. I've been input with the effect and how it will affect us in the future life; if we had sex before the marriage and such and such... Thus, it sticks in mind forever... I believe that it's not happened to me. It happens in most of the family.

Back to the belief again, in developed country, if u didn't get laid when you are 17 or 21, then you must be some geek or similar to that. In another words, they believe in this free sex thing. Well, I didn't say that all of them believe and apply this free sex. However, most of them are.

Well, what am trying to share here is. I don't think that it's bad to have free sex as long as u have a safe play. I tend to agree that people move in together before they get married. What is the point of getting married if it ends up to divorce?

Experience in the Swimming Pool

Mr. decided to bring Dave to play water in the swimming pool. It's inside the complex of our resident @ Cemara Asri. So, at 3.30 after Dave's nap and a lil meal, we drove to the swimming pool. It's extremely hot and I suggested to go in a little while. However, Mr. reluctant as he said that I'll complain it's too cold at 5 plus and Dave's will get cold, and bla..bla..bla..
It's not like I love to nag, but as usual, men don't really care if the children get sick. It's only mothers who are worried all night long...

As usual, in the beginning, Dave scared to go inside the pool. We had to pursuade him for about 5 minutes. Later on, he was enjoying himself so much. I didn't get into the pool as am so lazy to get change.

Dave's and daddy... still trying to persuade him slowly....


Afterwhile, Dave is enjoying himself....

Simple Life in Overseas with No Maid

Maybe we who live in Asia, especially in Indonesia have been spoiled by having maids around. For people in Medan, North-Sumatra, Indonesia, it's very common to have at least a maid in every household. We talk about people who are working or maybe those people with middle to higher income.

I imagine those working married-couple who have baby or infant or toddler. They still need to work and do household work and need to wake up in the middle of the night just to make formula milk. It's very tiring.

Dave nanny's quit due to her moving to another island at the end of the month; and it's time to look for a new nanny. She quit without notice on Monday. Very irresponsible, but then she's just a maid. What do you expect? Even professionals can be irresponsible also. Well, back to the topic. So, Monday and Tuesday with no maid. Have to do Dave's laundry by myself. Chasing him around for a couple hours, cooking his meal; it's just like working for couple of days.

I have to teach in the afternoon, so I have to leave Dave at home with his granny. Even his granny cannot handle him for a long time. But then, who can?

I imagine myself stay in overseas (developed countries). Life is nice for the long term, starts from the system that they have, health care, retirement plan, and such and such... But then there are a few things that am going to miss also, such as the transports, flexibility to have helper, and the best thing is no need to queue when we want to extend our license, passport... There's always a solution for a cheap agent.