Christmas is coming

Amber posing with the Christmas tree

Amber loves Christmas. She just loves it. If she can grab a towel or bag, she'll pull it over her shoulders and pretends to be Santa Claus bringing a bag of goodies. "Mama, you see ... Santa Claus!!"

We went to Pavilion to check out the Christmas decorations. It was really nice to hear Christmas songs and everybody in the festive and cheery mood. This year, they placed a big white Christmas tree with gold baubles at the main entrance, across from Bintang Walk. I realised it was the same Singing Christmas Tree last year. Nevertheless, it was awesome and

Amber was delighted and she even obliged for a few photo pose.

We remembered Christmas at Pavilion last year, it was beautiful, they had the singing Christmas tree, Santa Claus and the shopping complex was still sparkling new (parking was also cheaper then).

We had our dinner at the Food Republic, our favourite hangout and Amber was having lots fun playing with the black bubble tea bulbs.

Power's up at Bukit Utama

The residents living beyond the landslide area already had power restored.
Boon texted me at 5.30pm and told me the good news. However, the alternative access road is not ready for use yet and currently only available for 4WD. Looks like it will be a couple more days before residents there can resume their daily activities.

I'm praying for less rain and more sunshine to speed up the repair and restoration works. Strangely, I'm a person who loves rainy days, the smell and sound of rain but now, I just wish the rain will just go away, I now, prefer the bright sunny sunshine more.

Landslide Tragedy

As of today, Boon (Amber's babysitter) and family are still stuck at Bukit Utama, the access road is not ready yet and there's still no power supply. I have been in contact with him on the developments on that area and the family is hanging in there.
He has enough food to last for a couple of days. He's been 'hiking' to Giant to get his supply of food. I have volunteered our place for him to stay but he's decided to stay put.

The other kids they babysit also live around the area and all trapped in. I really don't know how soon we can see a silver lining. Meanwhile I've to make some adjustments to send Amber back to Alice's and she's in turn has to reschedule her mahjong sessions to accomodate Amber.

It's been raining day and night here, albeit, light rain but it's non stop, adding to the depressive mood. Today, I hear less of police sirens and helicopters and I pray they find the missing Sri Lankan woman soon.

It's been days since we saw the big bright sun, I hope tomorrow the sun will be up and shining, bringing some cheer to the residents here. Raining all day is hampering the efforts to build an alternative route and that will affect TNB's work to bring in a generator set via the alternative route.

Tragedy at Bukit Antarabangsa

I remembered clearly, the air cond. was not working and I woke up from my sleep. It was darkness all around. The usual alarm panel was not lighted up too. I woke hubs up. One of the switch must have tripped (has been happening many times, part of teething issues in our new home). We checked but no switch tripped. I looked out to the neighbours. It was all darkness, only then I realised it was power failure.

Ok... back to sleep.

Looking back at the clock, it was 4am.

Then, I heard police sirens...

It went on and on... I feared and sensed something bad happened

Got out of bed at 7am, called the neighbours, and received sms that a huge landslide had occured at Bukit Antarabangsa.

No electricity, no hot water,, it's best to eat out. We made a detour to Bukit Antarabangsa, Jln Wangsa Ukay, it was filled with cars but we could still enter... we decided to leave as there were many cars parked along the road and we had to walk in and we did not want to do that with Amber.

An hour later, the road to Wangsa Ukay was blocked as well. Police was checking all cars entering that area.

Received news from Mr Lau that a friends of his brother living in that area has lost 2 family members. May their soulsrest in peace.

Smiling moon

We caught the 'Smiling Moon' on Monday night. We were busy shopping for retractable clothes hanger and most shops were closed around 8pm and then my maid asked Amber to look at the moon. Look... so cute.... Then I started receiving sms asking me to look at the moon. I also spread the word around and I hope most of you had a chance to catch the moon smiling at you !

My colleagues son was so cute, he asked Mama , where is the nose ?? lol !!!

I was looking for it again around 9.30pm but the smiling moon is no longer there. According to the papers, this is a 5 year phenomenon but how many of us actually know or paid attention to the moon or crescents ?

In the midst of darkness, there is still Mr Smiling Moon smiling at us :)

New house

water feature

our room

still unpacking

We've been calling our new home, 'new house' for years, waiting for building completion. When we brought Amber home, she said a couple of times, she wanted to 'go home'. lol..... For her sake, she needed a closure, we brought her back to our old condo and showed her the empty apartment. She was confused for a while but I think now, she has accepted the 'new house' as her 'go home' place. She likes the swing and water feature the most.

It's really a chore keeping an eye on her in the 'new house'. Previously, everything was just an arms reach at our old condo. I could even hear the maid singing in her bath or bedroom. Whereas, now, I have to rely on the cctv to see what's going on the in the house.

When Amber needs a handkerchief, I need to run upstairs and burn like 10 calories just to fetch her something. Looks like this is a good exercise for me and I can kiss goodbye to

We have a 'water feature' at our home. Hubby have big plans to rear koi fish but I manage to psycho him to scale down to 'bandaraya' fish. The idea of caring for the high maintenance fish like 'babies' does not appeal to me very much. I can foresee who's got to worry abt the feeding the fish, apart from cooking for the family (me lah, who else??). I'd rather have some nice water plants and a bandaraya sucking up dirt in the pond .. lazy me, clever me.

It's a lovely home, but we have to get used to the sudden ample space, like my sis said "mei mou sook' !!!

Moving Day

We moved on 27th November 08. The movers, came, packed, loaded and transferred everything to our new home. It took 2 load of 26cubic meter lorry to load ALL our stuff from a 2 room condo to our new house. I really do not know how we could have amassed to many things over the years.

It was a chaotic day, many trips in and out and coupled by the evening rain (which made traffic worst) but all ended well at the end of the day. We were glad to be in , FINALLY !!!!! We left Amber at Alice's , knowing with her around, demanding our attention 24/7, we cannot get anything done. We missed her and am looking forward to pick her up tomorrow.