I AM BACK!

I suddenly remembered....

I have a blog!

As soon as I got home, I turned on my laptop and uhhh... I couldn't remember what the website is >.< I googled for my own blog. How terrible is that?!

Oh my, I didn't post anything in the year 2023?! Was I that busy until I did not have time to update my blog? Or I simply had nothing interesting to share in my life anymore? 

I remembered, urging LY to start her own blog. She said she has nothing to write about. I remembered telling her to just make small matters into big matters, then a blog post is born. And look where I have been? LY loyally updates her blogspot like a diary, whereas my blog is dead quiet. 

ok ok, my 2024 resolution is, to update my blog as much as possible. I need to revive it. I need to make my brain work hard again (although I think it's overworked as I can see my growing numbers of grey hair. I think my brain is sucking out all the nutrients from my hair 😰)

Let me summarize my 2023 here so I know I did not skip one year haha

We started to travel in September 2022 when borders started to open. We flew mum to Brisbane. I must say, after not being on any long flight for 3 years, 7 hours of flight is a torture. Then we travelled to Singapore, KL, Taiwan, Vietnam, China in 2023, reunited with siblings and nephews and nieces, relatives.  They also came back to spend time with us. 

Then to end 2023, I had really bad pain in my lower abdominal when we were on the high-speed train from Teochew to Guangzhou and it lasted for 2 damn days. fortunately, I managed to become better and made it home safely. Luckily, I had my mum's trolley to use, it helped me walk further and was able to continue to buy buy buy and eat eat eat. After all, Guangzhou is food and shopping haven. No matter how sick one is, eating and buying have to continue! haha

Thanks to Jane and My mum for taking good care of me. My mum enjoyed the trip the most. Why? She bought so much that she has TWO full luggage home. Yes, she took my luggage weight too~  

Happy 2024! 

Our way to end 2023

Halloween by the parents

It's Halloween today.

To me, it's same as every other day. 

To some, it's a big big day.

My sister sent a picture of my nephew's halloween party to us. I couldn't stop laughing when i saw "Casper".

Boo!

I must say, the mother of Casper was creative! She used minimal materials and turned her child into a ghost, just the right theme for the occasion. Or was she running out of time that she quickly came out with this? Or she forgot about this party and put something together quickly just so her child could attend the party? whatever it is, i think she was smart! ha! Not only do Kids grow up fast and there is really no point spending too much on costumes, she also successfully stole the thunder for her work of Art was the first thing i looked at! haha...

It was nice to see everyone putting the effort to turn themselves into their favourite characters, scary ghosts, beautiful princesses etc. I couldn't tell if my nephew enjoyed his halloween party though haha

Happy Halloween!  

Blackout

One evening, i was half-way through my dinner, suddenly there was a black out. I thought it applied to our area but when I looked outside, eh, my neighbours had electricity.  Their lights were bright. 

I quickly ran to the main switchboard and found that my home was the only one experiencing blackout T___T  I quickly called our electrician hoping he could come over to give lights to our home. I told him I kept turning the switch to "ON" but it just kept dropping to "OFF". He said " this is very complicated. We don't know if it is due to your electrical appliances or due to broken wires........" on and on he went about the complications. Then he said "maybe you need to get ready to move into a hotel room tonight if there is no electricity because it is going to be dark very soon, you won't have lights at home blah blah blah..." Actually, i wasn't listening. I was just hoping that he would come over to have a look~ 

Then finally he said something useful haha..  "Go and unplug all your appliances. then try to turn it on again, see whether it works".   I followed his instructions obediently. Then went back to the switchboard and was hopeful that it would have electricity. 

Nope. Darn.

So I called him again. He said "oh, if this doesn't work, then it is more complicated than I thought blah blah blah..." I wasn't listening again because he was repeating what he said earlier. Seriously, if I were dying and I called him, I would be dead by now 😂

When he paused for a breath, I quickly interrupted him and asked if he would mind to quickly come over before it's too dark to see anything. He took a moment to think. Oh, I understand it's after work hour. Maybe we really need to stay at hotel tonight then. He then said OK he would come over right now. THANK YOU! 

He arrived and it was dark. He asked if I did unplug EVERYTHING. He went around the house to double confirm. Then he repeated the same things again 😂 I asked if the switchboard was faulty. He then took out a screwdriver and opened it. 

When he took down the cover, we were shocked by the sight and jumped backward. Yes, we really jumped backwards 

Somebody went in and got "fried" T__T

It was disgusting but I was so happy that we didn't have to stay at hotel that night. Happy ending for me but poor little lizard wasn't so lucky. 

Unlucky but considered Lucky

 This is my one-year old phone

Nope, it is not new style phone casing

Nope, it's not for non-slip purpose

The rubber bands are there to hold the LCD screen intact because it's been replaced T__T

I thought I damaged it by having my heavy water bottle fell on it. It instantly became crazy. The torch light would turn on and off without me pressing it. It would call random people in my contact list (if you received my calls, it wasn't me... ), apps opening and closing like crazy. It was out of control! As if a crazy ghost was living in my phone! 

I was then without phone for 3 days. 

Peace and quiet

BUT also a lot of inconveniences because I could not make important calls, send reminders, read reports. I bet people thought i was arrogant because I didn't read and reply messages haha...

Finally, i got the LCD screen replaced today. Guess what, the repair guy told me that my phone's LCD screen was not responding to my instructions because he found oil inside my phone. 

OIL

Darn! 

I didn't close the cap of the coconut oil properly the other night and it spilt.  When i found out, my phone was practically soak in the coconut oil. I quickly saved it and i thought i did a pretty good job wiping it dry. it didn't show any malfunctioning until my bottle fell on it 3 days later. 

And he said, You are really lucky that it wasn't water. Otherwise you would need to get a new phone.

OH 

So I guess I should say, I am LUCKY?!

Well well, what's done cannot be undone. At least I only needed to spend money on replacing the LCD screen instead of getting a new phone. I bet the repair guy must be scratching his head hard and probably posted somewhere in the social media that he found 'weird" substance in the phone 😅

My Childish Joke

That day we passed by ST roundabout and suddenly remembered a shop we heard from Millionaire Chong, that he always buys pork from. He said the pork there is very fresh and "organic". My mum asked what's the name of the shop. I pointed at the direction where the shop is and said in direct translation -"Black Pig" as its Chinese name is 黑猪 (a specie of pig. it's black in colour). My mum said she knows about the shop..... 

Then no longer listening to her, i laughed at my own joke which i had inside my head. 

"Hi Black Pig

What Black Pig? Who are you calling?

You! You are Black Pig right?

How rude!

But but but.... you are black pig. I am a fan of yours for many years. I love all your movies! 

-__- 

Oh, u meant, Brad Pitt"

End of my joke. 

Funny? 

Are you laughing?

Ahahaha... i laughed when i thought of it and now am still laughing as i am writing this XD

Hahaha.. looks like am still childish even though am already a grand aunt.

Tam Jiak Boy

When it comes to WW, it's love and hate.

Love him when he wags his tail so vigorously that his whole body and butt shake from left to right, right to left

Love him when he sits still, waiting for me to feed him or pat him

Hate him when he tears everything down - torn mats, missing shoes, broken pots, u name it! Grrrrr....

Hate him when he runs like crazy to avoid me from catching him. Hey, i'm not playing with you!

The other day i bought him a big packet of dog food.

It was like he could smell the food. Before i opened the car boot, he was already waiting at the car. 

Only food can tame him.....

Indeed a tam jiak boy hehe

What it is like in Kids World

My nephew drew this when he was 6. 

Yep, he drew France. can see one of the icons of Paris - Arc of Triumph.

The other day, we were chatting via video chat. He said, yiyi, you can choose any paintings you want. 

Then he started showing us one by one. When he got to this panting, i said, Nah, yiyi don't want this because Covid 19 situation is really bad in France (姨姨不要法国，那里这么多疫情）.

Then he said, yiyi, i didn't draw the pandemic (姨姨，我没有画疫情~）

Awwww, it's so cute. Such an innocent remark