Happy New Year!

The first post of 2012... I suppose most people would write about new year resolutions. Since I don't subscribe to resolutions, I thought I would write about my wishes instead.

I have small hopes, mostly for my boys:

1. Junxi to enjoy toddler class/day care and that he will learn to sleep through the night. If it's not too much to ask, I also wish that he doesn't suffer sibling rejection when his little brother is born and will learn to love his Didi as much as he is loved.

2. Didi to be healthy, happy and sleeps well (second time parents know what to pray for!).

3. G to be happy and smooth progression for his career.

4. For me to learn to cope with motherhood with 2 boys and to improve as a coach.

Here's to a great 2012 :)

There, I made you smile!

J spending time with his ailing great-grandfather. I am still of the mind that life live in ill-health is painful living... When my time is up, I want to go asap!

What next??

It is a danger to have the library come to the office and make it easy to access a range of books. In particular, my company recently had a travel theme range of books by NLB and I managed to borrow 2 books - Twitchiker and Tuk Tuk to the Road. The former is about a journalist who travelled around the world via the goodwill of the community on Twitter. The latter is about 2 Brits who travelled from Bangkok to Brighton on a Tuk Tuk!

Reading these books put me in a melachonic mood and I crave being able to travel on a whim. So I am dreaming of a gap year... a stretch of time when I can spend super high quality time to bond with J and not be bogged down by work concerns. It will be icing on the cake if we can travel together during the year out too. Hm... I shall dream more to turn this into reality :P

To be a better Mummy

This makes me want to be a better Mummy. Just for sharing since I am not religious...

A baby asked God, “They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?”

“Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you.”

The child further inquired, “But tell me, here in heaven I don’t have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy.”

God said, “Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you. And you will feel your angel’s love and be very happy.”

Again the child asked, “And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don’t know the language?”

God said, “Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak.”

“And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?”

God said, “Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray.”

“Who will protect me?”

God said, “Your angel will defend you even if it means risking it’s life.”

“But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore.”

God said, “Your angel will always talk to you about Me and will teach you the way to come back to Me, even though I will always be next to you.”

At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, “God, if I am to leave now, please tell me my angel’s name.”

“You will simply call her, ‘Mom.’”

- Unknown

Farewell 20s, Hello 30s

As I turn 30 today, I reflected that I have had a blessed life so far. I have a loving hubby, a good network of friends and am in a job that I like. I feel that I have lived my life so far with few regrets and am now looking forward to motherhood. This should be an exciting next phase of my life and I hope to enjoy a new life with my little one (and G), whenever he choose to arrive...

Good tidings

ML's wedding over the weekend kept me busy over but it was a happy event cos she finally tied the knot with LJ after more than 10 years of courtship =) Also a good time to catch up with the jc gals since most of them are now based overseas...

Another piece of good news is E's upcoming wedding... he shared the exclusive news just tonight and this morning I heard of an ex-colleague's wedding plans too =)

Glad my friends are (going to be) happily married and am most thankful for lovely G. He has been watering our new plants and taking on chores like throwing rubbish now that we are not keeping a domestic help anymore.

The past and present

Went to the Kangxi exhibition at the Asian Civilisation Museum. Was most amazed by a set of tea cups that were crafted so exquisitely such that the words on them could be seen from the inside!

Somehow, I feel that modern man is not as creative and resourceful...

Long and short term memory

How do we remember what we remember? Do you remember loved ones differently? I hope I do.

I recall a module on cognitive psychology that was on memory and the functions of various parts of our brain (prefrontal cortex, Wernicke's area etc). Essentially, science tells us that different parts of our brain are responsible for different aspects of memory. In particular, if you are keen to learn more about long and short term memory, I would highly recommend Mr Brain episode 3 =)

Little Miss Daydream is born!

I was sharing with a friend (PS) today over lunch about my thoughts of starting a blog and she was full of encouragement. Guess I have left this for a while and when's a better time to start than now? Was it the yummy lunch we had at Michaelangelos or the tee shirt that I came across over the weekend at Heeren that read "Save the environment - Start a blog and bitch!"? Maybe not so much to bitch and any reason is as good... In any case, I chose the name of the blog to be Little Miss Daydream mostly because - you guessed it - I daydream a lot =)