Angeline is 9 months old

Angeline supposed to have her 9-month jab today. Poor girl had been having flu since a month ago. The injection needed to be postponed. While her first word was Ba Ba, she uttered Ma Ma over the weekend. She could clapped hands, pulled herself up and stood up while holding to the chair leg and started cruising along the sofa or table.

She had two sets of teeth coming out. A set of two on the upper jaw and another set on the lower jaw.

This cute little girl of mine slept next to me if we did not switch on the air conditioner.

Her angelic face cooled down my everyday's stress.

Grow up well, my dear girl.

Jacob's Story Telling Day

After months and months of preparing Jacob's Greedy Crocodile's costume, the Story Telling Day finally arrived. A simple, supposedly one-hour teeth cutting process took me an entire week to make after much procrastination.

I took one whole week just to cut the lower jaw part.

The other costumes made by the parents were impressive. Their creative juice was shown in the many cuttings, used as props in the story telling session.

The classic story of the Hare and the Tortoise

Geese among the flower beds

We reached at around 8.45 a.m. after buying breakfast at the McDonald's drive thru. The number of parents were much lesser compared to last year's.

We were still early as the competition was yet to start. I took Jacob to his teacher to report his attendance. His classmate were curios of the Crocodile's head.

We walked around in the hall while waiting for the session to start.

Brothers

Students in Wa Wa Class kicked start the first story telling session. There're three sessions: the Mandarin session, Bahasa Melayu session and English session. The children were very talented. I was impressed by their body language and their intonation, while bringing life to their stories' characters.

Jacob was still having his stage fright. Though better than last year's when he was totally stunned standing all by himself on the stage. He managed to finish his story telling but his voice was soft. If he will be selected next year, we should start training him to bring up his confidence.

Darrien brought my girl to bring cheers to Jacob

After every child had finished the story telling, the Principal gave away prizes and medals.

It was an experience to create family bonding time. I enjoyed the morning event and I was sure Jacob was having good time running everywhere, playing with his friends. A good opportunity to gain stage experience for Jacob.

Day 8

Green tea, salad with thousand island and nasi lemak for breakfast

On Day 3, significant weight loss could be seen. I lost 2 freaking kilogramme. Everyday, I did the same routine. Meals filled with broccoli and numerous types of salad. At times when I felt hungry, I ate local oranges, papaya or soursop. It was difficult but seeing weight loss at such a short time spurred me on.

Green tea and salad

Broccoli and lean chicken meat for dinner

Exercise routine only involved 20 seconds plank, 20 push ups, 20 high knees and 15 squats. How much weight I will lose by the end of the week?

Losing weight in Marudi

Day 1

It was the second week of July 2017 and I started my weight loss regime again. Last week, I tried a vegan meal and it tasted not bad.

RM3.80 for few stalks of French bean, cabbages and few slices of carrot

I brought with me two ears of corn for my breakfast. For lunch, I had a plateful of rice, sauteed vegetables and few pieces of chicken cuts cooked in Chinese red rice wine. The taste of rice was very satisfying. So much that I longed for it when dinner time came. I had two slices of papaya and a 300g-floret of broccoli for dinner. I was starving. The bland taste of the broccoli didn't help. I took a spoonful of Lady's Choice mayonnaise to help me to gulp down all the broccoli.

After awhile, I did not feel hungry. In fact, I felt happy for the 300-calories meal.

Day 2

I was all-ready for a broccoli and chicken breakfast. I had a good 9-hour sleep last night. The cool breeze greeted me when I got off from the bed. I brushed my teeth and happily ran down towards the wet market, only to find all the chicken meat was not the freshly-slaughtered ones. I suddenly remembered that I supposed to get my blood taken for the Hospital's health screening programme. I cut and washed the broccoli floret few times. I put in some salt and immersed it in water.

Muscle-building Regime before Work

I managed 10 pushups and 70 seconds plank.

0925 Hour. My stomach was growing. I bought two pieces of 111 calories-laden ang ku kueh to satisfy the hunger and another 333 calories-laden fried dabai rice for lunch. Faint. My good old senior staff bought me another chicken burger, containing 440 calories for dinner. Double Faint.

Muscle-building Regime after Work


I forced myself another 20 pushups and 70 seconds plank.
Another 15 seconds high-knee jumps.
20 seconds of squats.