Daddy & Mummy's Little Honey

The time has arrived. Without us realising, our little Honey has already grown up with her own set of mind.

Note: She is only a toddler, 2 years 2 months old.

She is firm & decisive. I'd discovered when I was about to dress her and got ready to meet a girlfriend over the weekend for some shopping and dinner stuff. However, my little Honey just pushed my hands.

Honey Celestine: No, I don't want to go.

Mummy Fiona: Are you sure? Don't you want to follow ma ma? We are meeting Auntie Pearlyn.

Honey Celestine just go on and rejected me.

Honey Celestine: I want to follow Po Po, Grandma. I want to stay here.

Well, I just turned around and looked at hubby. At that instance, we just realise our little gal has grown up. She has her own set of mind. Her own desire to do what she wants.

I seriously have no idea if allowing her to make her own decisions at this fragile stage, would she results in any repercussion during her youth and adulthood?

I'm beginning to feel, an endless responsibilities piling on me, as a mother. Every encounter is a challenge and we as a parents must learn to handle and take charge. Of course, very much depending on how a parents want to instil on their child.

Like I say, every encounter is a learning experience and I just have to trial and explore. No one is perfect and I'm just doing what a mother should do.

Bless me.

Bleeding

My back is bleeding profusely!

Why?

Because, I was back-stabbed by someone. Not quite done yet. In fact, the back-stabbing is a daily affair. It may not happen to me this time round, but could be someone else.

I'm puzzle.

Why would someone wanna do that?

Doubts me.

Imagine, you are spending most of your time together, in theory, you should be much closer than your next kin but why is it not?

What's the motives behind?

Well, "You're" already the apple of his eyes and by doing all these means "you" are trying to get rid of us? "Your" words hurt. It takes us lots of effort to counter-reacte. Wasting our energy to protect ourselves which I think it's damn waste of my time. Every encounters with "you" would end up sending ourselves to the grave.

Mind "you", I'm a fighter and ain't a pushover!

I can rataliate anytime and I'm not a bimbo. I know what can be done and not. I take pride in my job and "you" as someone who doesn't know anything about Sales & Marketing, please step back. Don't step on my tail! You are just wasting my time and energy. Remember, I'm not here to take over your role as "someone important" but to deliver my role & responsibilities.

This is frustrating!

Karma ...

KING OF POP DIES

Michael Jackson, 1958 - 2009

This Legendary King of Pop dies at the age of 50 before his London Comeback tour.

The other day, I was on the cab listening to the radio channel and the DJ was just mentioning about MJ. His famous everlasting songs like Billie Jean, MoonWalk that makes me wanna dance again.

His song, Heal The World touch my heart and soul. This song remind ourselves to be nice to the people around us, the animals we care and the little children we love.

I was shocked this morning when I open the laptop to see the news blasting everywhere. I just can't believe. No doubt he wasn't my favourite singer but I must admit some of his albums are enchanting.

It's a pity to see a legendary icon is gone and it's forever.

Let's pay a tribute to him. Just for the last time.

May You Rest in Peace, Jacko

Feed My New Friend

Keiko, my lively cyber pet hamster will keep you company throughout the day. Watch her run on her wheel, drink water, and eat the food you feed her by clicking your mouse. Click the center of the wheel to make her get back on it.

Have Fun!

Just A Conversation

Bed time conversation with this young lady, Honey Celestine.

Honey: Ma Ma, take bus, find Po Po (Grandma).

Before I can answer, she cont'd ...

Honey: Po Po not here, Po Po at Bukit Batok, Po Po at Yi Yi's house (Aunt's house)

Little Honey will go on & on until she cont'd her next topic.

Honey: Good night Ma Ma, Good night Dad Dad, Good night Po Po (Maternal Grandma), Good night Gong Gong (Grandpa), Good night Rocher (Our Doggie Rocher), Good night e, i, e, i, o (Old Mac Donald's Farm), Good night Doll Doll (Her favourite cuddy Dolly), Good night Pink Pink (Her favourite Pinky Dolly), Good night Nai Nai (Paternal Grandma).

Finally she stops ... to cont' her next version ...

Honey: Morning Ma Ma, Morning Dad Dad, Morning Po Po (Maternal Grandma), Morning Gong Gong (Grandpa), Morning Rocher (Our Doggie Rocher), Morning e, i, e, i, o (Old Mac Donald's Farm), Morning Doll Doll (Her favourite cuddy Dolly), Morning Pink Pink (Her favourite Pinky Dolly), Morning Nai Nai (Paternal Grandma).

You can imagine she has been doing these for the whole week. Though I can anticipate what's she going to say but quite frankly, I do enjoy every moments of this. This is so heavenly. Our little honey is communicating with us. Each night, every day. Yet, I'm not tire.

Every moment with her is precious. All I can do is to pay it forward! Hubby planted lotsa of kisses to me & I shall plant all the kisses to our little honey Celestine.

A Quote To Hubby Deon

"The Price of Greatness is Responsibility."

Winston Churchill

Lady Bird

Old-style Ladybird books are word perfect

The Peter and Jane stories of the 1960s taught millions of children including myself to read before more falling victims progress to other methods in schools. Now the Ladybird series may hold a lesson for today's generation after a study found that children need to master only 100 words before they can move on to books.

Academics at Warwick University said that teachers were wasting time getting children to learn more words. Instead, just as in the Peter and Jane books, children should master the 100 most common English words and then learn others by reading a wide range of stories. The Government's literacy strategy requires children to learn 158 words by the age of 7. But the 1 million study by Jonathan Solity and Janet Vousden, of the Warwick University Institute of Education, found that only 100 of the most common words were needed to tackle any book, including adult fiction and non-fiction.

Ladybird's Peter and Jane

Let me try to hunt for the books again. Can anyone tell me where to buy?

May in Random

May was the time to do my proposal, strategize to tackle clients, our newborn newphew, Baby Xavier (26-05-09, Tuesday) was delivered @ Mount Alvernia, Singapore Food Exhibition hosted by Singapore Food Manufacturing Association, networking and meeting old friends from similar trade, training and running for my marathon. These were all enough to kept me busy and away from my Dreamy Bloggie.

Here's 2 shots during our exhibition:

Shelf Price & Team

Top Centre Clockwise:

Aric, Adeline, Carol & Me

Sundown Marathon

Marathon (42KM) - Women's Open
Total Participants in this Category: 955

Rank: 460

Bib No.: 6166

Name: Fiona Tarn Mei Ling

Chip Time: 07:04:30.94
0KM - 10KM: 1:17:10.94
10KM - 20KM: 1:58:30.48
20KM - 30KM: 1:32:08.48
30KM - 42KM: 2.16:41.21

Date: 30 May 09, Saturday

Time: 12:00am

There's a kind of magic that takes place when you run at night.

You See: Lights in the Dark

You Hear: Your footsteps, Your heartbeat

You Smell: The scent of the fresh night breeze

You Touch: The coolness of the air

You Taste: The nearing victory of completing your run

This is my biggest achievement. To complete my 1st full-marathon, though, it was far from my target completion time of 5 hours but for a starter like me would consider good enough. Training only began like 2 months before the actual date. Every session was like 1 to 2 hours, so having to complete the whole race like 7 hours was amazing.

To add more spices to this, I was working at a Food Fair on the same day of the race. Only managed to get some time off from my boss so that I would have ample rest before the run. For all I can remember, the whole day was pouring water to my throat. Kept hydrating! From 100 plus to H2O then to Ice-Milo, Bananas, Chocolate to save more energy.

To end our race, I & Hubby were holding hands and sprung our pace to the victory.

A kiss from hubby to end the race.

I'd accomplished my race! Yes, I did it again.