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This month we had two major incidents with fire, and I feel that we should spread the word.

We never ever had such issues but it seems that our old cable extensions are aging? The first incident was pretty stupid. As I was cleaning Mojojo second tank, I turned off the socket with an extension which I thought, (and it should be) where all his aquarium devices were hooked up. Another socket was for our cctv, which for some dumb reason Mojojo decided to unplug it and hook his tank heater on.

I took the heater out, placed it on the floor, not knowing it was slowly heating the flooring.

We woke up at night to our smoke alarm blaring and the aquarium hall filled with smoke! It took the heater nearly 12hour to start actually burning the floor. How insidious!!

Thank god for smoke alarm guys. Please, make sure your alarm is working after you read this!!

Continue reading “Nearly died in a fire.” →

It’s only been a week since I started my new job. Working 2 days a week has been a life changer.

Everyone agrees being a housewife is hard. But no one ever mention how being a working mom is even harder. Not because going to work is hard, no of course. Infact going to work is a much easier time. The problem is when you’re expected to do everything a housewife does, right after you get home from work. How does any working mom manage to complete all the housework in 3 hours before bedtime is beyond me.

But hey that was how I was living. Mojuju constantly get on my nerves by not offering me any help, or even help me when I actually asked. But this year, everything suddenly shifted.

He’s working less days, and is helping me out so much. He even noticed that I wasn’t eating dinner today and made me oatmeal: it’s his magic oatmeal. Everytime I’m ill or just depressed, his oatmeal somehow would cheer me up. He’s been treating me like a damn queen since I went back to visit my parents for a month. In all honesty, I think he’s making me fall in love with him again everyday. Don’t tell him that though, because he’d get too proud. 🤣

Now, the laundry are slowly being demolished, all nicely folded by noon. Family time in the park. He even planned out a picnic with sushi and everything. He fed me with his impressive chopstick skills while we watched our kids cycling and screaming happily chasing each other. The house has never been so tidy before.

I even repotted my plants and managed to finish not ONE but TWO books!

If time could stop, I wish it does right now. I don’t think our home has been filled with this much laughter and love, or me enjoying my time instead of just surviving. The journey has been tough and difficult, but I guess we made it.

I need to repaint our home and replace all the wallpapers, and maybe revive our tiny vegetable farm; but I’m just taking my time. For now, my nose is stuck in my books. I have completely forgotten how fond I am towards books and mysteries, and how much my fingers missed the soil.

How are you guys doing? You know while I was in Malaysia for 3 weeks I was fairly impressed with my immune system the entire time. I mean I wasn’t ill… no colds… just some allergies; nothing anti histamine can’t fix.

I came back to the U.K. and in less than 2 weeks I fall ill again. (Thanks useless WCC). You may think that maybe my neurophils are a little useless because of autoimmune neutropaenia. But actually I am more sus about my lymphocytes… I have been literally bounded to my bed all day yesterday with my baby sister Qyuni looking after Mr. Monday and Lil’Tuesday. I genuinely was struggling until she came home from uni. Lil’Tuesday was LITERALLY pulling my eyelids open every minute or so telling me not to fall asleep (˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )

A lot of you have been asking me did I enjoy my time back home / how was my holiday. So I think I should expand a little on it.

Continue reading “Holy Moly it’s already almost the end of January!” →
A congratulatory card from one of my bff that I opened today ❤️

OMG OMG OMG IT’S A HOLLY HOLLY SEASON AGAIN! HOW READY ARE YOU GUYS?! 🤣

I spent so much money on recent black Friday sale in preparation for Christmas because we’re not going to be home for Christmas. Becauseeeeeeeeeee WE’RE FLYING FINALLY!!

Lil’Tuesday finally got her passport settled so it will be the first time for us to fly home after 5 long hard years. My mom is so excited to meet her for the first time!!!!  💃 (pstttt I knows she secretly likes Mr. Monday more – – – but it’s alright because Lil’Tuesday likes my dad and my father in law more anyway 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂). I guess this is what the call the laws of opposite attraction… Wait or is it opposite of law attraction?… Doesn’t sound right 😕 ANYWAY U GET THE IDEA!

I bought Mr. Monday a Switch and Lil ‘Tuesday lots of Princess dresses. 🤣 The I shopped for A LOT OF BOOKS to encourage them to read (it actually worked. This is mad! I’ll blog about this another day). Mojuju the large spender 😒 then influenced me to go and shop for even more stuff under some cashback programme 🤣 and I ended up buying a pokemon Charizard waffle maker for the kids however…….

Continue reading “Ready for Christmas?” →

I got a really good news to share ❤️❤️❤️ after months of hardwork, Mojuju finally got lots of job offers 🎊. He got his first shift last night which really worried me 😓.

Nevermind that it’s a bit of a drive, it was a full day shift which I thought was pretty harsh of the client. I stayed up late last night to wait for him to come home. He was so tired that he didn’t want me to reheat dinner for him. I left him to unwind in the living room. But at least I could tell that he had a good shift.

Now all is left is for me to start hunting for a job. 😭 I’m torn between doing a salaried permanent job vs locum. If course locum is better paid, but I love being able to settle somewhere and develop the service together as a team. My CV is done and checked by a few senior partners and managers who reassured me that it looked fine. 👌 The only think I’m thinking about is whether I should have a short career break and Mojuju since he is now employed as locum…. I’ll see how I feel after new year I guess.

Continue reading “One step forward.” →

May be an image of 2 people, people standing, christmas tree and indoor

We accidentally killed our 6ft Christmas tree summer this year. Perhaps the word ‘accident’ is a weeeeee bit misleading… We actually cold-blooded left it in the hot sun in extreme thirst to die. ( ಠ ͜ʖಠ)

Erm, don’t look at me…. look at him *points at Mojuju* ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

So this year I ordered a 80-100cm tree for Christmas which was cheap (for a reason)………. and we ended up with a dwarf Christmas tree (๑♡⌓♡๑). Sigh… Christmas trees…  can never get it right……. Well at least with this tree we can slowly grow it every year (PLEASE MOJUJU STOP TORTURING THE POOR PLANTS) with the children! By the time they are 20 years old we would probably have to plant the tree down in the ground for it’s size….. ♡ ～(‘▽^人) Yes but first, we need to keep it alive……. ༼ ಢ_ಢ ༽

Another thing we can never seem to ‘get it right’ is parenting.

Ever wished that being a new parent comes with an IKEA instruction book? I did, I still do. Sometimes being a parent (I’m not even a new parent anymore) really is challenging. We never know if the next thing we do will turn our kids into a psychopathic serial killer. Did Jeffry Dahmer’s parents knew??? Where did they even go wrong?

A lot of us take the parent role as an educator. We are to educate and to teach our innocent young spawns the right and wrong; the good and bad; actions and consequences. Afterall, if not us, who would teach them all these right?

But have you ever looked at your child as a teacher?

Instead of taking the role as an educator and teacher, step back and look at your children; what can you learn from them? I can tell you in my personal experiences, my children has taught me more valuable lessons than any self-improvement or self-help book can ever provide.

I remember the joy in Lil’Tuesday’s face when she was self aware in the bath, splashing the water in the tub. Oh that simple joy of discovering water! When was the last time I splashed some water and simply appreciate the sensation of water? I remember the look on Mr.Monday’s face when I dared him to run under the pouring rain. He was so ‘frighten’ of the rain, and he was avoiding it like a plague. The confused look he had when I stood in the rain and got myself wet, with him joining and screaming in delight later.

But one major lesson I’ve learnt from Mr. Monday these past few weeks was forgiveness.

Continue reading “Parenting is more about learning than teaching.” →

I’m meaning to blog 2 days ago after seeing a massive rainbow on the way home from work. But I didn’t. Because I was too busy trying to bake mooncakes for Mr. Monday.

Yesterday I saw a small rainbow as the radio was reporting about deterioration of the Queen’s health. Sadly, a great loss to the country, she rested in peace yesterday.

Continue reading “God save the Queen” →
Drew this on my new s22 ultra 😀

I can’t believe it’s been a year since Lil’Tuesday join our unit of odd-family. She’s still such a baby in my eyes…. And I still remember how she was helplessly a newborn.

We didn’t make a massive first birthday party for her, because my in law isn’t with us, and neither are my parents. I somehow do feel quite guilty towards Tuesday because while Mr. Monday got a MASSIVE birthday celebration and endless birthday gifts. Mojuju also was working on night-shift which ended on Tuesday’s birthday so I was really worried we were going to do NOTHING.

Thank god Mojuju agreed to go out to celebrate it.

Continue reading “Little Tuesday turns 1!!!” →

The first time I ever heard of serotonin syndrome was in my very first job as a doctor— in psychiatry. WOOPS– no I defo did not read that as a medical student (tsk tsk bad student). In my defense I was the top 20 graduate in my batch and was awarded pass with honours xD! (See how flawed the education system is? If a clown like me could graduate with honours?!?!).

After being discharged from the mother and baby unit (basically a psych unit),  I recovered well! I attended the Women’s inspiration class every week with my new friend (Let’s call her Eve; not her real name but close enough xD). I was getting VERY motivated and inspired from that class, and started decluttering the house. I FILLED A 4TON SKIP (You know the thingy that garbage truck load your trash into???) on my own! I definitely don’t miss ANYTHING I threw away. And even those that I was hesitating, now gone, did NOT make me feel like my life is missing anything.

Continue reading “I have serotonin syndrome and it’s not as rare as you might think!” →

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