A Memoir of Chloe's Artworks ~ Nur-Canary

Chloe's wish comes true

Next week is the last week of school, and the school will be closed for holidays on her actual birthday. Chloe has been asking me for Princess Birthday Cake on her Birthday to bring to school to show-off, opps! No!, to SHARE with her friends. LOL. So, today we have an early celebration @ school with her classmates and teacher. Chloe and her Classmate enjoyed the Pandan Jelly Cake so much and this makes the cake is worth every penny. 

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Dear Chloe Darling, 

MaMa has fulfilled your 4th birthday's wish and I hope you had a good time with your classmates and teacher. 

Now, pay back time! Your repayment is to make yourself to stay HEALTHY and HAPPY always.

Love you always

MaMa

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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