Result

It's Negative!! which is a good news for NOW.

I don't know how to start and I am still contemplating if I should blog about this matter. I do not wish to include some heart-rending matters in my blog because it is suppose to preserve our good and happy moments of my children and myself. I'll need more times to consider .... 

Wendy's right. This is a test to me, a test of endurance.....a test of strength..... a test of determination.... 

"I am happy for you" I am hearing .... 

Renew Passport for Novi

This is my third visit to the Indonesian Embassy, and it's still as crowded as always. 

We woke up 6am this morning. We means Novi & Myself.

I woke up early so that I can help out to prepare my girls' lunch. I prepared Cauliflower Chicken Porridge in the mini slow cooker, it's easy, just dump all the ingredient into the slow cooker, and ta da...by noon it is ready to serve. In fact, I love the texture of the Porridge cooked using slow cooker. It is smoother and tastier, somehow.

By the time we finished our morning task, that's it, get my girls ready for school, it was already 8am. My plan was to leave home by 7.30am. *sigh* We ended up leaving home at 8.15am. 

The Indonesian Embassy is not too far away from home, with a little traffic, we managed to arrived there by 8.30am.

Documents needed for Indonesian Passport Renewal :

1. Foreign Maid Protector Insurance - 3 copies.

- which you can obtain it from the Post Office or the Parking Lot next to the Indonesian Embassy. There are people waiting to "assist" you. Once you get the Insurance which cost RM75, proceed straight to the Embassy. Unless you don't mind paying for the Photocopy cost of RM1 per copy. The Photocopy service inside the Embassy is FOC. But, my suggestion is to avoid the rowdy queue, just try to get all these done before you go to the Embassy. 

2. 3 copies of Employer's I/C

3. Since Novi is not under my name, I got to prepare 3 copies of my I/C and 3 copies of my Marriage Cert.

4. 3 copies of Contract of Employments - which you will be collected from the Embassy

5. 1 Blue Form - oppsie.... I don't know what form is it - it is like Bio-Data Form for the applicant. 

Once you got all these documents ready, the applicant should proceed to the take a photo for the passport which is also free. Don't try to bring your own photo to escape the queue, they don't accept it. So, no choice, QUEUE!

If you need the photocopy service, it is available for free. Just the queue and the crowd...hmm...try to avoid them if you can.

Then? Wait for your number to be called lor.

Those counters start operation at 9am sharp. Our Number was 2031, and two counters were serving this particular category, Domestic Maid. We got our turn at about 10.30am. The procedure was easy and swift, no conversation exchanged. We handed those documents, and the operator stapled here stapled there to ensure all 3 sets of documents are in accordance. Then, RM18 is collected for the Passport Renewal. 

Then, we were told to keep the queue number and wait for our number to be called again. Today is our lucky day, it was not a long wait for the next calling. By 11am, we got everything done, except for the collection of Passport, which we were told to wait for another half an hour or so. 

The distribution of Passport will starts at 11am officially for ALL parties. We waited for about 45 mins, and Novi collected her Passport.

Ta Da...RM 18 for a Renewal & 4 Hours from the initial procedure until the collection passport - PLUS - while Novi was waiting for her Passport, I went to buy Lunch for Novi & my Grandma. 

:P WHAT A GOOD DAY!

I hope the rest of the day remain as GOOD or EVEN BETTER. I shall share with you after a visit to the specialist later. I AM NOT PREGNANT! Stay tuned!

2nd Day @ Home

Everyone must be thinking "Hey, are you confused, it should be closed to three since Novi left." 

Yeah, I was lucky, I had a free helper and her name is "MOMMY". My mom had taken over the nanny job for the past weeks. She is handling moderately WELL. Hahaha....I am just fussy. Anyway, I decided to take over the job and let her rest. Honestly, I think staying at home to take care of these monkeys is way more energy-consuming than work in the office, where I get to ask someone to even pass me ANYTHING I want, Tea lady to serve tea and food. At home? I have to be the "Ah 4 (sei)" a.k.a. servant to my children. 

I am not screaming as much comparing to the 1st week Novi left us. Yes, Is either I am adapting it or my children are behaving BETTER, it's easier for me to get them to clean up their mess with a little of bait.... the so called "HEALTHY and NOT SO HEALTHY" Scott's Vitamin Pastels in Orange or Berries flavour. 

Briefly...

6.45am - Wake Up Alarm

7.00am - Wake Up Reluctantly, go prepare the snack boxes for the girls, water tumblers

7.20am - Wake the girls up, let them have their Nen Nen (Milk).

7.35am - Get the girls to brush their teeth and a simple face wash, of course pass urine.... Get them Changed....Brush their hairs and tie their hair up.

7.50am - Baby Cereal Time

8.05am - Left home to school

I am a workaholics, I can't stop working. I did a lot of different cleaning job for the past two days. I clean the air-cond filter, I clean the fan, I wash the curtain, I use the steam mop to mop the floor, I clean the sofa, I wash my girls' shoes, 

11.30am - Preparing what to cook.

12.30noon - Finish cooking

Whenever there is time slot, I start looking for something to clean....GOSH...

1.00pm - The girls arrived home. One asleep, one still filled with energy. It really makes me happy to see Chloe home because she always scream "MAMA!" LOUDLY.

1.05pm - Bath them, change them, dry their hair... I usually have a little problem with Clarisse at this time slot. Somehow she doesn't want to bath at this TIME. Maybe she's tired, so I have to play tricks to get her into the mood to join Jie Jie for a bath. 

1.35pm - ALL DONE including drying their hair and a little fight with Clarisse.

1.35pm - TIME for Lunch. Lunch is never easier. They will try all sorts of funny act to annoy you. arrgghhhh....Which also means my "roaring" session usually starts at this time. I am getting better. I scream lesser compared to yesterday. They will give you a lot of excuses like "I want to drink water", "I want to go shh shh", "I want to do Ban Sai"...Ya..No joke. My girls can pass urine or pass motion half way their mealtime, is either their digestive system is too good, or they are trying to annoy me. 

2.00pm - Phew...finished the Meal War. I let them rest and play whatever they want for 15-30 minutes, depends on my MOOD. :P

2.30pm - Shoo Shoo Shoo.....Nap Time. I am lucky for this session of the day because it is never so difficult to get them to have a nap. I usually drop them into the room, and get them lie down properly. USUALLY but NOT ALL THE TIMES, they will be dozed off in 15 mins on their own. 

In between, I bath myself, I start to clean something again but easier job like cleaning the mess on the table etc...

4.00pm - Wake them up IF there's Bao Bei (Bao Bei is where Chloe learns her chinese @ 6pm)

4.00pm - Free and Easy time for the girls while I have to prepare a simple meal for my girls.

5.00pm - Another round of Meal Battle......Ding Dong Ding Dong...... 

5.30pm - All done, get changed and off we go to Bao Bei.

7.30pm - Pick up Chloe from Bao Bei

8.00pm - Arrived Home

8.30pm - Have some simple interaction...or games...or do some coloring or worksheets from shichida.

9.15pm - Up Up to the TV area to watch TV while I can get myself a quick shower.

9.30pm - Get the girls changed and Nen Nen Time again

10.00pm - Into the room, some reading time, most of the times are MESSING Up times. They are not really interested in my books, they are just having their fun on their own with my books...I don't have how, but somehow they manage to have fun "playing" the books not reading the books. But Chloe would usually ask me to read to her, especially those fairy tales stories...related to PRETTY AND GLAMOUROUS PRINCESSES.

*sigh*....Yes...every night...I don't understand why, Chloe and Clarisse like to have their BIG Business done in the night. Geezz... The most frustrating thing is that they like to take turns!!!!!!! Gosh, when I really wanted to them to learn hot to TAKE TURN and they never did, but when it comes to the toilets, YES, they like to take their turn. 

11.30pm - SHOULD BE ALL SOUNDLY ASLEEP. Including me. Why should be? It's too dark to check the time and it's too tiring to switch on the light to check the time too..... 

The End

A Quickie on Chloe

I want to start with a "BIG APPLAUD" to my Darling Chloe. She has been behaving just like a princess she should be, and I am so proud of her.

As you know, KaKak has returned to her hometown for holiday, and MaMa has been acting like a crazy woman, cleaning, cleaning and cleaning. I have been screaming at the top of my lung, ordering my girls to clean up their own MESS. No More Miss Nice Mommy who used to sing "Picking up the toys and put them in the box". Poor darling. Well, luckily, Chloe has been such a good help. She sang the song for me instead, and tried to help up her little sister cleaning up her sister's mess too.

She doesn't mind the extra work, just occasionally complaining about her sister not cleaning up her own mess and she has to do it for her. Now, I am back to my normal self, no more screaming, but insisted them to clean up their own mess everytime. So, while Kakak is away, they actually learned how to park their bicycle at the designted spot, putting their toys back to the box, slotting in their books into the shelve, pencils and crayon into their pencil box. Especially Chloe!

In the afternoon, they will have their nap. I peeped from the side of the room, I saw Chloe patted on her sister's lap and tried to make her sleep. *So Sweet*

About Bao Bei, she has completed her Level 1 which requires her to recognize about 80 chinese words. According to her teacher, she is progressing well. Of course, I have heard some children completing Level 1 in 3 months and some in more than 6 months. I am fine with her progress, she is doing perfectly well. WELL DONE!

She has to proceed to Level 2 first, then she will only learn how to form sentences from story books using these words that she have learned. Again, I thought Bao Bei has a good concept in teaching Mandarin, step by step.

I heard Chloe sang a song, if I am not wrong, it was "三字经 San Zi Jin"... I wasn't sure because at this point, her pronounciation is not perfect and I am not VERY familiar with "三字经 San Zi Jin". But I was sure she has recited 李白 Li Bai's poem "静夜思 Jing Ye Si" which I learned in my Primary One Syllabus.

床前明月光
疑是地上孀
举头望明月
低头思故乡

My child is not super talent, she is just flowing with the current education trend. Do you know that for a 3 year old to recite simple poem like this is the fundamental skill. The academic standard has escalated so much that I thought is kind of unbelievable. Did I tell you that K1 and K2 children in 坤成 are able to recite "弟子规 Di Zi Gui" efortlessly. 

Stress Stress Stress....Not Chloe, I am!

It must be Mrs Zul who had repeatedly informed her that she is going to join K1 and she is turning 5 next year. To be precised, my girl is only turning 4 Next month END, and she will still be 4 next year. Sob Sob Sob, unfortunately, this is not the case. She has to work "extra hard" to compete the 5 year olds. Hahaha...Yes, I know. My girl is not the only Year end baby in the world, everyone else has to do the same too. Ok LOR! I am bias. So what! LOL.

AGAIN, I think my girl is progressing at the good pace and most importantly, I always hear her says "MaMa, I am Happy today." No joke, I hear this every day, and this simple words make me the happiest MaMa ever. :P

A Quickie on Clarisse

Clarisse has attended Vital Years for 1 - 1/2 months, *phew* so quick, it seems like just yesterday.

 

Anyway, for someone who is still learning her alphabets, I am not expecting her to read to me. She is gradually picking up some letters - A B C F G H M O P S T W X Y Z. Yes, you can see I skipped quite a bit of letters, that's because she still can't recognised them all YET.

 

But....Yes, there is always a BUT... BUT she learned a few new songs and she loves singing them with lots of hand gestures like clapping hands, rolling hands etc.. . I always hear her sing to Jie Jie Chlow, Grandma, Tai Ma, even when she was alone, she was mesmerized in her self-entertainment.

 

My Darling Clarisse likes to come to me and uses her magical pointer and write a C on my forehead, then say " C for MaMa". I think she must have learned it from the centre where her teacher did the same to her but saying "C for CLARISSE" Hahaha..I corrected her that  " C is for Clarisse and M is for MaMa "

 

Nowadays, I always hear her "teaching" my grandma English. How? Hahaha...

 

"Tai Ma, Say Mommy" Clarisse demanded

 

"Mommy" My Grandma followed

 

"Say Daddy" Clarrise continued

 

"Daddy" My Grandma followed

 

and it goes on and on...Mommy, Daddy, FiFi, Kim.... These are the words that I heard her "teaching" my grandma. Again, it must be from the centre.

 

I can see she enjoys learning in Vital Years, and I am considering to postpone her entry to P&J next year. She is only 3 next year, and she will have 4 years in the same school if she joined in year 2013. Hmm... Besides, Vital Years is cheaper :P I shall think about it. Many other factors to consider. A proper school with good environment is also critical for learning..Aarrrghhh...I shall decide later.