What it means when he turns 6 mths...

FINALLY! Izzul gets to eat biscuits, fine cereals and lot of other baby foods for babies 6 mths and above.

To be or Not to be...

I got THE letter from the Ministry of Education. Didn't expect it to come so fast. I'm still enjoying life as a contract teacher. It's too early to decide now whether I would like to dedicate the next 4 years of my life as a teacher. The senior teachers there believe it is a rewarding career. The younger teachers just felt that the main attraction is the stability. The rewarding part is only on the 12th of each month when the payslips comes in.
SO far what do I think? I think what I think do not matter. Make sense? after all, I have only taught less than 3 months and I'm called in to sign a bond of 4 years.
But then again, what other choices do I have? Back into the industry? Only if I get what I wanted to do - next step after QA engineering, Auditing. After my previous job failed to challenge me to new heights, I quit.
"Takde rezeki." Or Allah has other plans for me.
I have always been a firm believer of fate. Things will have a different take if I am not meant for teaching. We'll wait and see.
In the meantime, I'm just enjoying my working days ends usually by 2pm (Not going to happen often when I become a full pledge teacher)... . How shiok is that?!!!

The mystery of the missing flask, charger and purse.

I'd like to share an article which I stumble upon months back while I was still pregnant with Izzul. So what triggered me to dig back for this article - you're right. To back myself up for my recent series of mysterious loss or misplacement of things. First, it was my charger, then it was Izzul's flask, then the ultimatum, my purse.

Having a baby means losing very vital brain cells. I read, it gets worse after each baby. Luckily, I am not alone. At least 80% of all women say that they become more forgetful during pregnancy, especially during the third trimester and that it continues even after delivery. According to a recent study in Australia expectant mothers probably are more forgetful. Based on their research, pregnancy turns pregnant mothers into 60 year olds, at least when it comes to their memories. They say that women can become impaired for at least a year after giving birth. Researches do not know why this happens.

Here's the link to the article:
http://in.news.yahoo.com/ani/20080207/r_t_ani_hl/thl-pregnancy-does-make-women-more-forge-3b18f0d_1.html

Anyway, even so, I am naturally neglectful. I was praying hard that pregnancy will have an adverse effect on people like me.. but I think not.
I felt so bad that we had to travel all the way back to my in-laws place to get my purse. I have to do something... Should I make myself a checklist? So that each time before I make a way out with the family, I have to make sure everything is in the big duffel bag. Somebody advised me to eat gingko nuts. I don't really fancy the taste. One or two is fine - but a whole bag of it... no way. Previously I took tablet, eat lots of raisins, dates - still, nothing seems to work.
What is worse is that when I start to forget something once - it has a kind of domino effect for the next couple of weeks.

Izzul's First Driving Lesson

Watch out for the red light!

Internation Family Buffet - IFB

How did you spend your labour day holiday? We had a great time shopping as a family. We bought Izzul 2 new toys. It's really adorable. It's really affordable.. I got them for $17.90 at Takashimaya. There were so many toys there that we could not decide what to get for him. Since Izzul will be playing with them, we let him choose. Izzul is very expressive so it is quite easy to tell if he is fascinated with something. We pulled out a toy train - Nothing. He glanced and look at the other toys surrounding him. We pulled out a bouncy penguin and his reaction was adorable - His eyes became large and he started to kick and flap his arms.. like a penguin..heheh.. So we got the penguin and the rabbit.. We got the rabbit because as adults, we were quite amused by it. We are sure Izzul will grow to like it :)
After tired from shopping, we were ready to pounce on the buffet table at International Family BUffet. Have you been there yet? Well, if you ask me, if you have been to Sakura Buffet and Carousel, then this is no different. Sakura has a wider range of food to pick from although IFB has slightly more cold dish to serve. Carousel have a head start from here.Desert? Nothing beats Carousels deserts. Next - service... well, they need to learn A LOT from their competitors. My dad wanted to get tea but he doesn't fancy the flavoured kinds so I was asking the waiter if there were any the original flavoured teas. What did I get? - shake of the head and point at the tea counter. He looks like he is not from around here. SO ok, maybe he didn't understand me. I tried again asking a local looking waitress - even before I could finish my sentence, she said, pointing towards the tea counter," That's all we have." Yeah right. We paid $30 over dollars to get "that's all we have" I was so pissed. It was a simple enquiry and yet it couldn't be addressed well. So Ros, you can strike this one out.

Anyway, my lovely hubby had accidentally deleted all the pics and a video of this day event.. no worries, I will try to get them from my back-up photographer - Mirul! Kiki, when your exams are over, can you send over the pics?