I’m not sure when actually I started to like crossstitching as my hobby. I think when I was actually 13 years old when I was introduced to this craft from one of my school mate whose mom was so into crosstitch craft. If I’m not wrong, the first pattern that I do was from precious moment. Since then, I was into this craft and due to that time, I was still schooling, I only managed to do crosstitch during school term holiday.

Later, when I started to work and with my own money, I continued with my hobbies. This time, I was so into crossstitching and was on the net to find the project that I like most to do. Then I came to know about photo crosstitching ie to convert you photo into crossstitching craft. The first project that I do was to crosstitch my own photo. A photo that I taken when I was 21 years old.

This project took me about 1 year to complete and was just in time for my wedding. Then later, on and off I was trying to crossstitch my wedding photo and still a WIP in my collection now. later, when both Zoey and Chloe was borned, I did their photo…

Then I stopped and concentrate to knitting craft for 2 year where i learnt to create my own shirt. Since then no turning back for me to do my own shirt and now, after 3 years, I got tired with knitting craft. Now I’m back to crosstitching… No more photo stitching but some design that I found in HAED and it is called “Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater” a project choose by Zoey…

Somehow, I feel crossstiching able to help me to released my tension after a day of work and taking care of the girls. It is “mine” time when I doing the stitching. This help alot when I’m feel down and it help me to cool myself down and to re-think what should I do and so on… I dont think I would able to let go my hobbies in crossstiching….

This girl of mine are full of energy and was very agreesive in personelity compared to Jie Jie. Everything that she does was not so-feminine compared to jie jie. She can be very agressive at a time and also soft other time – she wipe jie jie tears when jie jie was crying – a scene that i would one to remember in my life. 2 sister building up the love together to go through the journey of their life together…

Although Chloe was borned prematurely as jie jie, her development are much faster as compared to jie jie at the same age. She can speak quite well by joining 2 words together and she expressed herself very well…

PoPo : Mei Mei, you have flu,. You take ice-cream ?

Chloe : yes…

PoPo : Popo angry…

Chloe : a-bit..

She knew what the word ” a-bit ” meant and normally she used it at the correct sentences. She can speak some of malay words like :

“tata, habis”

” tak mau”

” ada”

Some new word that she know :

” finish”

“abit”

” scared”

” re” – for sorry

” ni “- for barney

” na “- for ribena

“jump”

there are other words  that I have forgotten here. She grown so fast and sometimes I cannot keep track on her development at all.

As for her diet she loves food, no problem when it come to her diet. she took whatever we ate and she just love food. We does not need to worry of her food when we go out, we just need to look for donut which she refer to ” nut nut” when we asked what she want to eat. She will satisfied and we can continued with our shopping.

However, she cannot sit long in a car. We need to rest awhile before we can continue our journey. since young, she refused to sit still if we are in the car longer than 1 hours. What we need to do was to stop, and to bring this girl down for a while before we continue our journey. We got our horrible experience when we bring her along for our Ipoh trip. If there is another round of trip like ipoh trip, We need to rethink whether we should take her along.

To get Zoey and Chloe to post for one photo would be a struggle for me. Normally, when I want to take both of them together, I only managed to take candid picture. I will never let go a chance to get them post for me…

All this photo taken inthe morning after they woke up….

Whenever I went to do my shopping, I will never miss out to buy some work book for Zoey since she was like 2 yrs old. at that time, she was a lil bit small to know how to hold a colour pencil or how to write. What she knew at that time was to scribble every page of the book with the pencil that i brought for her. However, since she went to school ( although for a very short period ), she started to love colour pencil. Now she will asked me to buy a colour book instead of toy everytime we go out.

She will sit and colour while watching tele. As for chloe, she will not miss out to have her share. We will buy her share too when it come to book. She like jie jie her age, scribble only with colour pencil. With this, their time eventually fill up with the good activities instead of only watching tele the whole day.

This was coloured by Zoey…..

 Now it is Chloe’s artwork…. Although it is scribbles, for a toddler less than 2 years old, this consider good whereby she can sit still to scribble although not for long…

in 2 months time zoey will celebrate her 4th birthday…

she still as cheeky as ever. Quite demanding when it came to her meal and toy now.

Very protective over her sister although both of them always fighting. They have the love-hate relationship between them.Even when we took the life to our home, she will asked me to carry Mei Mei “Mommy carry mei mei, jie jie scared mei mei lost” as she saw one boy got trapped in the lift. We always told her to follow us not running around if not you will be like the boy-boy..cannot see daddy and mommy. The same thing she said to mei mei when she sees mei mei cannot stand still while waiting for the lift. ” Mei Mei, no running, if not mei mei like boy-boy. cannot see daddy and mommy” with her hand on mei mei shoulder trying to stop her mei mei from running.

Sometime knew how to do against you when you asked her to do something. she will said ” later” …. or sometimes when we asked her to clean up and want to going out she said “ later okay, jie jie do thing now. “

She speak very well and able to expressed very well of her emotion to us…. When she sad/angry, she will walk towards the staircase ( inmy mom house) or face the wall with her pity face and waiting for us to call her back and sayang her. within one-2 minutes, she sees no respond from us, her big drop of tear will drop then later, you will her crying loudly. She want the person that scold her to sayang her back. … with kakak, different story, she will scold her kakak if she angry with her like :” Dont want kakak, go away” or “ kakak naughty , throw you (tong) sampah ” or ” kakak, go amah house, angry kakak ” and so on. She never to this to us except she will face the wall…

….at the age of 26 is something that I never thought I would be when I’m in my teenage age. That time, what was in my mind was how my career life would be, would I be able to achieve I dreamt of, where would I go for holiday and so on…

When I was pregnant with Zoey, I’m at the stage of building up my career. I’m all out to climb the corporate ladder and at the age of 27, I’m the accountant of MNC branch in Malaysia later, Finance Manager @ 28 and the same year, I become the Vice President of the MNC branch in Malaysia. all this happened within 3 years.

Despite having a good progress in my career life, I have to sacrifice alot of thing which now I regret. .. the growing up of Zoey life which I never be there for her when she was small. My parent took over my responsibility to bring up Zoey and till now I regret it very much. I depend alot on my mom to take care of my girl.

My presence in Zoey’s infant life was almost nil. What always in my mind at that time was the reporting deadline,how to manage the finance function and a few trip out of the country a year  to work/meeting/training. I can work till 8-9pm not stop from 7am and continue again at home when there is a conference call with my US counterpart.

When Zoey reached the age of 1 year old, I started to feel the distance feeling between zoey and myself. She prefer to stayed with my mom rather than to come back home with me every friday. Then, I realised I need to do something to gain back my girl. By then, I was pregnant with Chloe. I started to think what I want in my life, Will I gain happiness if I successful in my career life?  and so on.. many question start to cope up in my mind and by then I knew that I want the most are my family…….

Well, hubby also like me, are career life driven. He can work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 52 weeks a year non stop. His leave have been forfieted every year , so how can I depend on him to take care of the kids. Men still men, I never angry with him for this ( although sometimes I think shouldn’t  this be a 2 person responsibility to bring up the kids,)… I knew I cannot change hubby’s mindset but I can change mind if I want my family back.

When I think of to move on with my career to a lesser pressure job ( at the same time, I having some problem in my ex-office), I was lucky to joined this company also as the Finance Manager of an MNC based in France, as they offerred flexi working hour to their staff in HQ. My working hour start from 8 am to 4.45pm which meant I can go home earlier. normally, I reached home around 630pm and able to played with the kids awhile before they slept around 83opm. yup… my kid slept quite early as they normally woke up around 6 am as i need to bring them to my mom place…

With the change of work area which are more operation section rather than reporting section, mentally I  become less stress up now. Workload are almost the same as my previous company, but the flexibility to bring back the work to do at home is there. normally I work when the kids slept.With this, I gain the time to be with my kids everyday and I still able to produce effectively for my company. 

Regret to let go a high prospect job? This a question was asked by one  of my friend when I met him few weeks ago… well The answer is no as I always knew that what I want - my family and my kids. I want a happy family with hubby and my kids. I enjoyed and happy with where I am now.

No matter I depressed/stress I am with my work, when I reached home , I was greeted with my kids calling me mommy and a hug and kiss from them… The happiness show at their face when I brought them to the park/shopping complex/trip …. I can said that I happy with my life now…

Today mark the day for my father’s birthday. We celebrated his birthday @ Latest Recipe, Le Meridien Hotel on Saturday.

For both Zoey and Chloe, they are so happy having a chance to eat or tather to play with the Chocolote fondue. They like it very much when we let them dip the masmallow into the chocolate fondue. With the free flow of ice cream and chocolote fondue they are so happy and mommy and daddy have a chance to eat as compared to previous time when they’re still small.

The food offerred by Latest Recipe are quite different from other hotel. There are more quality proven whereby many food are cooked upon request which make the freshness of the food are maintained. They also offerred abalon beside the normal oyster, and prawn in their appetiser section.

Last but not least , Happy 56th Birthday to you, Pa !

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