Regular visits to the Chiropractor

Posted on November 4, 2007November 14, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

I have been seeing a recommended chiropractor for the last few times at the Heart Centre. I know. She's a Japanese lady hidden in a store room with the latest chiropractic equipment and for that charges RM100 per half an hour session. Ouch! I heard recently that there.......click to learn what next.

Tee has become a wooden block

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

My daughter has been challenging me every single day. Whenever I ask her to do something or ask her any question for that matter, she totally ignores me. Of course, she does this selectively. Sometimes, she answers straight away and we have no problems but sometimes, I feel.......click to learn what next.

How the Hubs and I see loans

Posted on November 4, 2007April 30, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

I am one big fan of loans and the Hubs is the exact opposite. Whilst I would take a mortgage loan with the longest possible pay back time, the Hubs would want to pay back in the shortest time possible. We used to have three mortgages to pay.......click to learn what next.

To market, to market, to sell my Daddy…..

Posted on November 4, 2007November 4, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

The Hubs teases poor Tee every now and then, especially when she drives him bonkers, and tricks her into thinking that he will sell her at the market. Just today in the car, he told her we were on the way to the market when she asked where.......click to learn what next.

Coffee addiction turns into espresso machine fantasy

Posted on November 4, 2007July 28, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

The only time I stayed away from coffee was when I was pregnant. Other than that, I've been consuming coffee since those late nights mugging to pass school exams. I loved coffee so much till I actually joined a coffee company to manage their regional marketing, and let.......click to learn what next.

A feasible business for me

Posted on November 4, 2007November 4, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

One of the things I wanted to do as a business was to design cards, get them printed and sell them to corporates. It is still a very feasible business for me as I believe I can design. Well. Then I have the selling and marketing skills to.......click to learn what next.

Getting a new car

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

My husband, the typical American banana, wants to get a new car. A Dodge Charger to be exact. But two things are stalling his decision right now. Firstly, he wants to wait to see how much the Government is going to charge us for driving in into the.......click to learn what next.

Service charge of apartments and gated communities

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

Have you realised that lately, every new developer is building a gated community so they can charge home owners an additional fee for watching their homes? I'm not sure how much of this fee actually goes into the watching of people's homes but at my apartment, we pay.......click to learn what next.

How much do you love your car?

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

I ask because I'm not much of a car person but know some fanatics who have orgasms over their cars. When I was a young teenager, I remember going to a friend's place one day and saw this big grey blob in his car porch. I asked him.......click to learn what next.

Shit. Tee has a new hobby.

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

Since attending her friend's birthday party yesterday and the arrival of two new fishes in our home, Tee has decided she wants to keep her fish and promises she would care for her fish on a daily basis. Okay.....................We all know what that means, doesn't it? Bugger. So.......click to learn what next.

Flying off to Kota Bharu

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

Tee's grandparents in Kota Bharu miss her and want to pay for us to fly down just so they can see their little precious. The Hubs is too busy to go so the next solution would be to send Tee and myself over without him. What to look.......click to learn what next.

Stressed and tired

Posted on November 3, 2007November 3, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

By tomorrow, I have to make some drawing changes to the new baby retail shop I worked on because the Feng Shui Master finally got to visit the site and needed some energies to be diverted. Bugger! Then I have to do some Christmas books reviews. Bugger! I.......click to learn what next.

My fears of getting pregnant again

Posted on November 3, 2007November 3, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

Unfortunately I had a bad pregnancy with Tee and don't look forward at all to the next pregnancy. I know they say all pregnancies are different but I have nightmares about WHAT IF IT ISN'T???!!!! Imagine nausea and puking for a whole five months and STILL having to.......click to learn what next.

The stuff Tee has for breakfast

Posted on November 3, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

This is what Tee usually has for breakfast. If she has breakfast. Fruit - she goes on and off different fruit depending on her mood Oatmeal porridge cooked with milk and dashed with a bit of honey. French toast with butter and very little honey Jam or peanut.......click to learn what next.

What a start to a Saturday morning – Grrr….

Posted on November 3, 2007November 3, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

This is the plan. I am taking Tee out for the first birthday party whilst the hubs stays home to do the housework. Then I'll bring her home for a nap and shower, after which we'll go out for her second birthday party. And the third. This morning,.......click to learn what next.

My little socialite has THREE birthday parties to attend today

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

I just don't know how to lie and say no. Especially when that person has made the effort to attend Tee's party. Seeing that it's all at different times as well. One after another consecutively. *sigh* I'm just a pushover. A doormat. A pleaser. The Hubs is always.......click to learn what next.

Tee’s fear of the police

Posted on November 2, 2007April 30, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

From a very young age, we've made Tee believe that the police have many duties. Some of which include catching children who don't go to sleep, who don't eat their food, who don't brush their teeth, who don't..........I know, I know. We are the most horrible parents on.......click to learn what next.

Much needed sleep NEEDED

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

Uhuh. I won't be surprised if I passed out standing one day soon. Today, after a bloody long day with Tee out of the house, we finally arrived home at her Nana's exhausted. It was 5pm and I had to sleep. Even if it was for five minutes........click to learn what next.

Tee has been begging to see snow, real snow :-)

Posted on November 2, 2007April 30, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Just so you know, we have fake snow in Malaysia. And it's the only type Tee will be seeing in the near future. She kept insisting, "No! I don't want to see fake snow! I want to see REAL snow. Let's go to Canada!" I have no idea.......click to learn what next.

I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted on November 2, 2007November 2, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

These last few weeks, since Tee turned three, we've been having real trouble putting her to bed. She is adamant that she is NOT tired. The moment she hears anything remotely close to sleep and bed, she starts whining and begging. How ironic that those two words are.......click to learn what next.

What to do when your child hits

Posted on November 1, 2007November 1, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

Today, a mom at school came up to me to tell me that HER daughter told her that Tee had smacked her. Oops. I apologised even without knowing if it was true or not. I mean, these three year olds......they're really into making up stories, aren't they? Later.......click to learn what next.

What I had for breakfast today

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

HealthFreakMommy wants to know what I had for breakfast today. I don't usually have breakfast because I'm usually too busy but coincidentally, I had breakfast today with Tee's boyfriend's mother. We needed to discuss our children's future after yesterday's incident which I will tell you later. If HealthFreakMommy.......click to learn what next.

The aftermath of the haircut

Posted on October 31, 2007December 4, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

When I left the hairdresser the day before yesterday, I looked like this. Or should I qualify.......my HAIR looked like this. I felt refreshed, light and decadent. My maid syndrome had vanished and I was about to start painting my nails, strutting my heels, and wearing clothes other.......click to learn what next.

Dehydration and me

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

In the last two weeks, I've known TWO people whom I see on a regular basis, who've been admitted into hospital for dehydration. Can you believe it? I never took dehydration seriously but now, since I am a non-drinker, I am a little bit worried. It is genetic.......click to learn what next.

How my mother spoils Tee with candy

Posted on October 31, 2007October 31, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

Apart from the fact that my beloved mom gives Tee anything and everything she asks for, the moon included, she also offers Tee stuff that she doesn't ask for!!! Like, do you want this. No? I'm sure you do. C'mon!! I know you want it!! No? Think about.......click to learn what next.

Tee acting up in school

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

This last week, I have been spending a LOT of time in front of my laptop so much so that Tee has begged for my attention. She tells me, "Look at the TV scween with me, Mommy!!" Then she takes her two little hands to twist my head.......click to learn what next.

How I do my daily reading

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

I used to go through your blogs by clicking on my favourites folder these last two years but just recently, I found that the list was growing and growing and growing as I make more friends online. Thus, I finally decided to subscribe to bloglines. I wish I'd.......click to learn what next.

The crap that comes out of my head

Posted on October 30, 2007October 30, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

In my quest to earn enough to pay for all the kiddy presents that we have to buy, a lot of crap shoots out of my head. It is not easy managing a household (although the Hubs manages it a lot more than I do *smile*), managing and.......click to learn what next.

Tee’s interest in my past – pampers and playgrounds

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

These last few days, my daughter has been asking me a lot of questions about my past. She asked me just yesterday if I used to wear pampers to sleep like her. Huh? Did they have pampers in the seventies, people? I told her no, I was so.......click to learn what next.

I hit the jackpot!

Posted on October 28, 2007October 28, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

As I was about to call it a day and logout this evening for good at 3am, or rather this morning, however you look at it, my laptop suddenly went kerching! KERCHING!! KERCHING-CHING-CHING!!!! Old Dell bounced up and down and made such a ruckus synonymous to the jackpot.......click to learn what next.