Learning to Write Chinese

Having come from a Kebangsaan School background, I do not read or write chinese. Not that I am complaining, but since my pre-school kids are having chinese (or Mandarin to be exact) as a subject, I decide I should also learn some too. Luckily, I can speak and understand chinese, mainly due to using it at home (Hokkien), watching the Singapore TV dramas when growing up in Johor (Mandarin) and being forced to speak Cantonese while living in KL/PJ. Now I can even understand Hakka, cuase my hubby's family is Hakka, though I can't speak it yet.

So here I am writing basic chinese in my big square excercise book. I figure if I learn 5 new words a day during the weekdays, I will be reading and writing chinese like a pro soon. NOT.... I don't seem to remember them after I wrote them down. Signs of getting old I guess.

But I will persevere. I have to know more than my pre-schools kids. I am their mother!

Cooking & Baking Time

I have always enjoyed cooking, and now with 3 kids, I enjoy it even more. The thought of my little ones eating the wholesome meals I prepare for them is really enough to drive me to cook more often.

On and off, I will try something new that I think my kids will enjoy like the vegetable dahl recipe which I got from the web. Here's a picture of how it turned out. We all liked it that I have cooked this recipe twice. The roti is the frozen ones you get from the supermarket.

I also enjoy baking since I became pregnant with my baby girl in 2007. Some kind of instinct, I guess. And once again, Chinese New Year is near and cookies baking time is here again. Am planning my weekends to enable me to bake a few types of cookies. At the same time, I am planning to bake and decorate my baby girl's 1st birthday cake which is in the end of Feb. So I will be trying my hands at making fondant this weekend. Looks like my weekends will be really busy....

Happy New Year, 2009

It's the new year once again. The year really flew by, we had one precious addition to our family this year. My work is smooth and everyone in the family is well. Many thanks to the great Lord, with His mercy and love we had all the blessings for 2008.

This new year, we do have some reservations on the economics of the world but with God's grace, we hope that the effect will be mild to us.

As usual, new year's resolutions are sometime pointless as they usually gets forgotten until the end of the year approaches but will make them anyways. Some resolutions I am making for 2009:

- Spend more time in prayer and learning about our Faith
- Lose weight (5kg)
- Keep the house clean, at least once a week cleaning
- Better finance management for our household

Oh well, happy new year to all and see you in 2009!!

Did it, was not that hard...

Yes, I finally did it. Went for confession last Saturday morning and it went well and fast. My parish priest is ever so kind. Didn't really reprimanded me after my confession and gave me and my family many blessings for Christmas.

This experience is really positive. Sometimes, things may seem hard but if you really set your mind to do it and just do it, it could turn out to be a breeze...

Thanks be to God.

Confession

I have been having this nagging thought to go for confession, which is long overdue. I have been researching online and found many helpful links on this but am still very apprehensive. I have so many things to confess about and some more serious than others, some very personal. As I have never been to a proper one after my baptism (2007), I really don't know how the preist will react. I must do this before Christmas, so I pray that I will have the courage to take the bull by the horns and get rid of my fear of Confession.

A Break too long

Well, I knew I was going to take a break from entering a post on the new blog I setup but I never knew that it would be so many months! 4 months plus has come and gone.... My little darling baby girl was borned on 26th Feb 2008, the girl we always wanted to add to our 2 boys!

Also got the Nikon D40 DSLR that I mentioned earlier, hurray... However, haven't really been taking much creative pictures with it yet, only pics of my kids at home mostly.

See my boyz and their little sis. Precious cargo there, be careful handling mei mei...

I will post more entries and pics next time, chao...

Happy 2008!

It's the last day of 2007. Time really passes by quickly, a year has come and gone. No great plans for tonite as hubby needs to work late. Me and the 2 boys will be at home, watching tv. I am thinking of baking a cake tonite, which I haven't done for ages. I need to go get myself a small oven and all the ingredients. We can even bake some cookies tomorrow as we are all off work tomorrow :). Think it'll be great fun, and I can practise baking cookies for the coming Chinese New Year too!