Not much to blog about this month. 萱萱 had a mysterious fever and flu like illness that morph into pneumonia. Then 阳阳 had bouts of headache which we also couldn't figure out what is wrong. Brought both to doctor several times and 萱萱 had to be warded for a week. Just the outpatient treatments alone totalled close to $2K .... Haiz hopefully this horrible bout of illness is just a phase.
Sometimes it just takes a simple thing to make the kids happy and excited. We chanced upon several Pokemon themed "Find XXX" type of books in full colour. The kids were elated to work through the pages to find their favourite Pokemons. Meimei was complaining that the books are expensive at $10 each but it has proven to be a very worthy investment for wholesome entertainment.
They grow up too fast. So true and yet I wish it wasn't.
Today I received a message from 萱萱 over iMessage. Somehow she had figured out how to use the message app on her iPad. My goodness .... they grow up so fast!!
Spent the past week in India. This time I was alone at the Sheraton as the rest of the team couldn't travel so shortly after the last trip. Had meals entirely at the hotel to avoid any complications.
Meimei must have told the kids I was jealous about the letter she got. Today I got one from each kiddo ... *LOVE
Awwww .... 萱萱 wrote a letter to Meimei! Meimei was very excited to show me. I feel a little jealous haha.
Adorable Episode
Meimei: 萱萱 is so adorable!
阳阳: *cryyyyyyyyy
Meimei: omg what happen!? Didi what’s wrong
阳阳: you use to call me adorable
Meimei: but you are still adorable! All my babies are adorable!
阳阳: but last time you say I’m your most adorable baby…(continue to cry 一把鼻涕 一包眼泪)
Meimei: because you are smallest mah that time but I love you right and it’s not only shown by the words I say it’s also the actions I do. how I care for you two how I love you two …
After a lot of saliva he finally calm down..
(20 mins later finally jiejie slept, didi haven’t.. and roll onto my bed, i tell him to move to and face inside fry to sleep.. he whine a bit then say but I need you to…) before he can say “pat Pat” I say no, you have to learn to sleep on ur own
阳阳: see? This is not caring….
Trying not to wake Mama
At 5.30am
(Whispering)
萱萱: 阳阳 your pillow dropped on mama
Slowly waking up 阳阳: thank you jiejie
阳阳: mama took my holster!
萱萱: because drop on her bed . Here I blanket for you. I kiss you *kiss
阳阳: thank you jiejie
After a lot of whispering 阳阳 jump onto jiejie bed with jiejie constantly hissing “sssshhhh”
Over the few short years I've occasionally tried to help 阳阳 dig his ear. It's always been unsuccessful and I can see the ear wax blocking his ear drum. I've always wondered how he is able to hear. Maybe it's just a thin layer covering so he picks up on its vibration? Anyhow, I've tried to dig it out and each time 阳阳 will scream "pain!". My guess was that the ear wax and lodged itself against the ear drum so any movement of the top is causing a vibration or tearing feeling that triggers the pain.
I've been talking about it for quite some time now and finally in the recent episodes of illnesses we obtain a referral letter from Dr Ang for an ear specialist at Novena. So Meimei and I took leave to bring him there to check out the wax. I wasn't in the doc's room as 萱萱 was skirmish about it and I had to bring her out to the waiting area.
When it was done, Meimei had took some pictures and it was amazing .... How does he even hear with these stuffed in his ear??! And this was not all of it. These was what the doc could pick out using his twisters. There were more that came out through the micro vacuum. Look at the size of the wax ... I'm guessing these are the top layers covering both ears. Gosh ....
Hopefully now that the wax are out he can 'hear' us better and follow instructions haha So glad we got this done before it becomes a bigger problem.
I have to make another trip to Bangalore this weekend and decided to upgrade my gear for the trip. Make sense since I would be traveling quite a bit this year.
The first item is the new Macbook Air which is on the new M1 chip. Feels much better weight distribution than the old Air.
To help with the noise on the flight I got a pair of AirPods Pro which has noise cancellation so I can rest my weary eardrums from the loud blast of the aircraft engine the entire journey. Another plus is that they fit tightly in my ear and doesn't drop when I jump. Very important feature as I had to constantly push the old AirPods in when I went jogging at the gym at the hotel.
USD250 for 6 pieces (minimum order to ship) of Nike's Dri-FIT Micro Pique Polo Shirt in Navy Blue imprinted with the company's name and logo. This would probably be the last thing anyone buys but I kinda like the idea that there is a company endorsed polo shirt I can wear to work everyday without any negative recourse nor critique.
It took the vendor close to a month to deliver them to Singapore. You can't tell how nice they were on the website but holding it I can tell they would be very comfortable even in Singapore's weather. Plus luckily I ordered the large size which turned out to the American size and fits nicely on my shoulders. Overall a great buy in my mind even if USD250 for a company uniform is still way steep for most.
Flying home this morning. The below sums up my take of spending these 2 weeks in Bangalore.
Ate at the hotel everyday except last Thursday night when we had a Finance team get-together. I made the mistake of having ice with my drink and proceeded to hug the toilet bowl when I got back to the room. Was gagging on Friday morning in the shower and tried to have breakfast. But I had to dash back to the room after just a few bites of bread. Thankfully Meimei bought me Modium and charcoal pills so I popped those and slept through the day.
Here are some of the hotel meals ... I miss home cook food so much!
Besides dull meals, the whole place is like an industrial town with many foreign company campus peppered around the area. And around the campuses are just makeshift stalls selling tidbits and drinks. *Yawn ...
