Heidi Mama Blog

I've always admired and adored Neil Gaiman. Just his name alone will put a smile to my face. I am so glad for social media because Neil Gaiman is SO active on it. He blogs, he Facebook...and most importantly...he updates them very very regularly!


His quotes and his speeches are so...quote-worthy! So inspiring and selfless. All but 1 ultimate aim...for you to feel better about yourself. And when you felt better about yourself, you will start to feel better for other people and start caring for the world. :)

Ultimately, you will have to make peace with that inner green-eyed monster in you and start looking for the good in other people. People change and so will you. And the world can only get better this way. Starts from you...yourself...

Here's an excerpt of Neil Gaiman's interview with Stephen King, who is another inspiring author.
“I think the most important thing I learned from Stephen King I learned as a teenager, reading King's book of essays on horror and on writing, Danse Macabre. In there he points out that if you just write a page a day, just 300 words, at the end of a year you'd have a novel. It was immensely reassuring - suddenly something huge and impossible became strangely easy. As an adult, it's how I've written books I haven't had the time to write, like my children's novel Coraline.”

Full article here.
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/04/popular-writers-stephen-king-interview.html

Elsa & Anna dolls images from website.

My hub then instructed me to get 1 more Elsa doll for our niece, who's 3 yrs older than Heidi. We bought 2 dolls for Heidi and 1 doll for Tilly (Heidi's cousin, our niece). For some strange, unfathomable reason, I do not get along very well with Tilly's mom. We aren't even speaking to each other at all except out of necessity...even though we probably bump into each other daily.

So before Christmas actually arrive, and not very sure if we will meet Tilly by then, it so happened that they were at our place...so I asked Heidi to pass the wrapped up Elsa to Tilly. (Note that at this point, Heidi do not know that it is a Elsa doll, and she didn't know that we got her Anna & Elsa dolls as well)

I thought Tilly's mom will bring the present home since she usually send the kids to school with my MIL and then she will head  home. I didn't count on the fact that she didn't remember to take the present home and neither did I anticipated that Tilly and family has no regards for boxing day and will tear open the present immediately after school, in front of Heidi.

We didn't reach home in time. Heidi was heart-broken and fought for the doll the only way she know how...cried terribly...

Imagine my shock when she was playing with the Elsa doll when we reached home...she told me a tale...that Tilly didn't like the doll...my FIL passed a snide remark that Heidi lied...

I asked Heidi what happened...she went quiet...but I think I already knew...

I gave her a good dressing down about taking back presents and I made her lead the way to Tilly's house and return the doll. (They stayed only next block).

Heidi was crying all the way...but she gave up the doll willingly...knowing she was in the wrong...

So...we had no choice but to give her her Christmas presents earlier...she was happy again. Moments like this made me wished I was home earlier and she wouldn't have to go through all those heart pains...but I guess I can't be shielding her forever. She has to learn...bit by bit...and it wouldn't do with me helicoptering around all the time...

I am thankful to God for blessing me and Kelvin with such a wonderful and understanding, sweet child...

But meanwhile, preventive measures:
1) To give Heidi her present first before giving Tilly's.
2) Involve Heidi in present selection and present wrapping.

Sharing this amazing article by Lysa Terkeurst.

Heidi didn't want to nap yesterday and the sun was shining so gorgeously after like...forever...(its been light shower and drizzling in Singapore for the past 2 months). I was actually thinking of a quick trip to the zoo but then, it started to shower lightly out of a sudden but only for a short while before it stopped again.

Blessed are we that my cousin was staying around and she happened to be home, so we decided to head over to her place for a quick swim.

As the sky is still rather dark with threatening dark clouds looming over us, I decided not to hit the pool but hang around from the side instead. And with me hawking around Heidi, my hub decided to go for a swim. Sorta on her own...with no nosy, nagging parents right beside her, Heidi tried to make friends with the boys in the kiddy pool and to my utmost amazement...she learnt how to use the float and paddle in the pool!

Proud mommy moment...

Resolution 2014 shall be also known as shopping list 2014...since resolutions are those 'to do' stuffs that you did when you are in the mood or not in the mood and you didn't do...so who cares...

在公司裡，与我比較要好的兩位同事。。。

大萍：
自稱是雙瓶座的她，每次看星座都比別人久。因為..她得看双鱼座和宝瓶座。看漏了，就糟了。所以，两个星座都得看。我和大萍最像的地方就是。。。脾气急燥，做事快刀斩乱麻！有时斩错了就道个歉。。。再斩过！

小萍：
文静，勤快又斯文的小女生。如此的女生又如何与我们合得来呢？其实小萍虽然瘦小，她胃口可好得不得了！急躁的我和大萍常常会有买过多小吃的情况。怕肥，又不敢再塞。。。此时，小萍就会献身替我们解围了！吃不完的好料，都让小萍替我们解决。我们的友谊就是这样开始的。吃不完的，小萍代劳。真是两全其美。。。

Da Ping and Xiao Ping had both since left the company...I started this post back in 2008 but I never completed it...simply because I needed time to concentrate and type in mandarin...or I was distracted when I started the post...I certainly do miss them from time to time...

Hope to get them both out for dinner one day...