Mummy is Frustrated.....

I have been trying to upload some HK trip photos since yesterday. It takes such a long time to upload those photos. After upload I have problems putting them at the correct order. The whole morning I tried to put it at the correct position but I got really frustrated doing it. Took me so long to do one post. I just can't do it at the proper alignment. I decided to take a break before I continue.

The Culprit

The mosquito was the culprit! Samuel was being abused by mosquitos. Since young, he has very sensative skin. Any mosquito bites will cause swollen. But there are few occassions the bites got infected. One of the worst cases was on the one on his face. One bite on his cheek causes the swollen to the eye.

Because of his sensative skin, daddy is over protective of him being biten by mosquitos. Daddy will apply mosquito repellent on his shirt when necessary.

Keep or Cut ?

The Front

The Side

The Back

Jesse was born with thick and curly hair. We brought her once to barber, few days before she turns 10 months old, to trim her fringe and layer her hair when Samuel went for his hair cut.

Her hair is now very long. Daddy loves her hair and could like to keep her hair long. As she sweat alot, I think she feels better in short hair. What do you think? To keep or to cut?

Our Maids - Part III

It was Sunday evening when the maid left. I tried to contact a few agents to check out part time maids but couldn't find any. One of the friends that I contacted offer me her maid for part time since her maid is usually free at home during daytime.

So, in the morning, Alvin picks the maid from her house and sends her back in the evening. Her house is not very far, takes about 30m to and fro each time. This went on for 2 months, every Monday to Friday.

Although she is an Indonesian, she is very good. Shes good at cleaning, cooking as well as looking after Samuel. They get along very well. Since shes good and we had enough of those excuses from Fillipino maids, we decided to take an Indonesian maid. I asked her if she has any relatives who is as capable and as good as her who is seeking for a job. She then introduced her sister in law, 39 years old, who claimed that she used to work in Kuala Lumpur as a domestic worker before.

We thought about it and decided to take her. Our reasons were:

1. Introduced by someone - know where to find her if the maid runaway
2. Has experienced in working as domestic helper
3. No need to wait for bio data from agents

I thought since we found someone it will not take long to process the documentations but I was wrong. It actually took about 1 month for her agent to send her over. Never knew the process was so long.

When she arrived, we went and pick her from the airport. Gosh... we can still remember the first thing we did when she entered our car. Both of us wind down the car window immediately!! Never expected her smell to be so powerful. Well, I guess we can't blame her too. She has travelled almost 24 hours without a shower.

She doesn't seem like she has any experience in working as domestic helper when she first arrived. She doesn't know alot of things. She can't even speak proper malay. She doesn't understand what we say. She speaks very loudly too. In short, she was not what we expected and her passport states that she was 45. She couldn't explain the reason for the age difference. She is not a good domestic helper and yet still we kept her for so long. Infact, trying our best to be patient with her, we still scolded her almost everyday. The main reason we kept her for so long is because she still treated Samuel good even after we scolded her.

Her contract was suppose to end in December 2007 but 3 months before it ended, she told me that she wanted to continue for another 1 year without going back to Indonesia. But the labour law here doesn't allowed a year extension. The maximum is 6 months. So, I decided to send her back in May 2008 and asked her to come back for another year.

Since she is willing to extend her contract for another year, I decided to bring her to Hong Kong. After coming back from HK, I told her to go back in May then come back for another year. She told me she would rather go back in January then to come back to work for another year. The following day, she told me she wants to go home in February for good.

I don't understand in the first place, why we actually requested her to continue to work for us since she is really a blur maid. We brought her to Hong Kong because we thought she was staying for another year. If we knew she was going back for good we will not have wasted our money. The money we paid for her flight, meals and additional bed can actually be used for the maid agency fee for a new maid, which is lesser than what we have spent on her!

I would consider her being the luckiest maid among all. We brought her to Kuala Lumpur 3 times and to Hong Kong once.

We sent her back 01/03/2008. I am actually prepared to be a full time mother for 2 weeks since I thought the new maid will not be here on time. We really thank GOD that the new maid arrived the day our old maid left.

Abused !!

Photos taken when he was recovering. It loooks worst the 1st day. What do you think happened to him?

Samuel's Report

Yesterday was last day of 1st term and we have scheduled for a parents teacher interview this morning. His results is not very good but we are very happy with his progress. His motor skills has improved alot as compared to last year. But he is still very shy and dependant.

He writes very well when tracing the alphabelts and numbers. He also knows his phonics well but still not good at encoding. We are not good at phonics, so we only teach him words, the Glenn Doman method.

He loves to read, write, draw and colour. He is willing to do his homework by himself. I hope he still enjoy reading and writing when he grows older.

Daddy Is Not Sad...

Daddy told me earlier in msn after reading the "Daddy Is Sad" posting, that he is not sad....... but he is VERY sad.... gosh.. I think Jesse must have hurt him deeply....

The Power Of My Breast

I never know I can produce so much breastmilk. When Jesse was younger, I used to pump 6times a day with every 4hours interval in 24hours. I pump at 9am, 12pm, 5pm, 9pm, 1am and 5am. I am not good at latching, so I have to keep pumping. I have been doing this until Jesse was about 9months. Each day I can pump about 50 oz. Since I have more than enough milk for her, I will put it in the bottles in the freezer or let Samuel drink.

After 9 months, I slowly reduce from 6 times a day to 5 then slowly to 4. Although I have reduced the numbers of pumping, the volume did not reduce much. Because I have good milk production, I got breast infected 3 times.

She was fully on breastmilk until she has diarrhea recently. And because of that, I have reduce my pumping to twice a day which also causes a reduction the in milk flow. But since I have been producing more than enough for Jesse, I have stock in the freezer.

Daddy Is Sad....

Jesse has been daddy's girl for sometime until recently. After Jesse recovered from diahrrea and fever, daddy was down with flu. Since daddy is sick, I tried to look after her at night. After a few nights, she started to be very attached to me. She prefer mummy over daddy now. This makes daddy very upset.

Since daddy has recovered, he decided to look after her again at night. Hope very soon Jesse will attach to daddy again.

This morning, when Jesse saw our new maid, she ran to daddy for help... hehehe...

The Cheeky Smile

This is how Jesse looks like when we ask her for a smile. She will show us her cheeky smile...