Chan Legacy

memories to cherish and to pass on for generations

Chan Legacy random header image

Our Beautiful Elizabeth Turns 1!

December 13th, 2009 · Just Family

Our princess, Lizzie-lee-ya is turning 1!  Yee Yee bought this ballerina dress for her when she went to Paris in October 2009.  We decided to let her wear it for her advance celebration today. (Her actual birthday is on the 15th Dec)

She looked absolutely gorgeous!  And just so happened, Mummy bought a Tiara for Victoria in September, and it matched the outfit so beautifully!  Normally, my kids will pull off whatever I put on their hair, but Elizabeth seemed to know that without a tiara, it would not be complete, so she was very cooperative, and never attempted to take off the hairband tiara!

We took many many individual pix of her… her outfit and the sunlight, resulted in so many dreamy…fairy tale like pictures…

We had a little family gathering to celebrate her birthday.

Since it was held at 230-3pm, which is the time when Liz wakes from her nap, so no lunch, just a light snack.  We bought Kong Bah Pow from Westlake Eating House… it was YUMMY!  And for cake, we didn’t get the usual creamy, “everyone cannot finish eating so throw away” type of cake.  We got a simple cheese cake instead.

We bought a set of unique “happy birthday” candles from NTUC.  It was so nice that we wanted to keep it for the next birthday, but little did we realised that when it was lited, the candles melted faster than you could sing happy birthday!  At the end of the song, the wax was totally melted and was ALL OVER the cake!  Gross! LOL!  But it was easy to just pluck it off, and eat the cake.

→ 1 CommentTags: ····

Toria’s Swim Class

December 7th, 2009 · Just Family

For past 1 month or so, Toria had been taking swimming classes with Uncle Penguin, right after Donald had his turn.  Donald’s class is from 4-445pm, and Toria’s is from 445-530pm. 

Toria has a classmate, Hayley, who lives in the same condo estate as us, and they are very close in age, about 1 week apart, so decided to let them have a “group” class, so that it is more fun.

I must say that Toria is very good in water, she is more daring and does alot of the “stunts” even without us asking her to.

Whenever the kids have swim class, I will try to bring everyone down for a water playtime.  Little Liz loves it too!  She gets all excited when we change her into her swimming costume!

→ No CommentsTags: ·

大伯的生日庆祝会

December 6th, 2009 · Just Family

大伯 is Ah Gong’s elder brother.  The eldest in a family of 10 siblings.  He is 80 this year, but had never had a birthday celebration before.  He is not married, but he has a few adopted sons, which didn’t do their part either…

So his siblings decided to have a celebration for him this year.

We all gathered at the Pontian house, then adjourned to Kukup Fishing Village for lunch.  At the restaurant, we had a few nice group pictures taken.. of the entire group, as well as the 10 siblings.

After lunch, we adjourned back to the house, bought a cake, and sang him a birthday song.  He was visibly happy!  Took some nice pix for him too!

→ 1 CommentTags: ··

A Day in Penang

December 5th, 2009 · Trips

We drove up at night, and stayed a night so that we could start the day early.

→ No CommentsTags: ·

Protected: 20091204 Making of a Legacy

December 4th, 2009 · Legacy

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:


Enter your password to view commentsTags:

Nose Bleed

November 29th, 2009 · Just Family

Out of the blue today, Donald had a nose bleed.

We were in the car, on the way home, when suddenly, blood just spurted out from his nose.  It splattered all over the place… on the seat, on the seatbelt, on his clothes… gave us a fright!  I thought nose bleeding is just drips of blood slowing coming out of the nose, not splutter splatter like this?

Then I remembered I read in “What to expect during the Toddler Years” Book that you shouldnt ask them to put their head up, instead, get them to pinch their nose with a tissue, and bow their head, so that the blood don’t flow back into their throat, to prevent choking on their own blood.

He had to hold his nose for a quite a long while before the bleeding stop.  But we read that nose bleeding in children is quite common, so if there isn’t frequent recurrence, it should be alright, so we were not that worried.  If I didn’t know that, I might had brought Donald to the A & E!!  Oma was worried though…

→ No CommentsTags:

Winter Clothes in Use

November 24th, 2009 · Just Family

For the 1st week of school holidays, Nanyang Kindergarten organised Holiday camp for them over a period of 4 days.  Today, they are going to snow city.  So just nice, the winter clothes I bought for them from China, came into good use.  Well, I just wanted them to have a chance to wear those clothes… just in case we are not bringing them to China. :P

They wore the boots, the wollen pants and the external winter jacket + gloves.  It kept them nice and warm.  Many kids were not dressed properly, kept complaining that it was cold inside the snow city.  Donald and Toria did not feel cold at all, BUT they didn’t get to play much either… because their classmates complained that it was cold so nobody loiter around inside for long…. :(

→ No CommentsTags:

Yee Yee

November 22nd, 2009 · Just Family

→ No CommentsTags:

Deborah’s Party

November 22nd, 2009 · Just Family

Donald’s classmate, Deborah, had her birthday party at YMCA Stevens Road.  It was just for her class, so a small simple gathering. 

Oh, here you can see some pix of our new helper, Angelita.  Very down to earth and simple lady.  Abit like my confinement nanny. Good.

→ No CommentsTags: ·

Goodbye to Siskha

November 20th, 2009 · Just Family

After Del left, we had a hard time looking for a good helper.

We chose Marissa, she sounded ok with my family situation over the phone, so we engaged her.  She came from PHI, worked for us for 4 days, and told me that she can’t work for me, that she can’t handle a household with 3 kids.

We had already paid for the agency fee, so had no choice but to take a replacement from them.  But this agency only has transfer maids, all with local experience.  So they were quite picky.  Not many wanted to work with a family with 3 kids, what more, my room for the helper is small because it is the bomb shelter, which I had also made racking till the ceiling for storage, and they are picky about that…

Anyway, the agency sent Siskha to me, and said to let her help out at my place for 3 days.  To see if she can handle as well as whether we liked her.

After 1-2 days, we were fine with her, and she with us, so we engaged her. 

Initially was fine…

Oma starting to find fault with her.  Saying that she swept the broom over Oma’s feet, not once, but twice.  And being an old lady, she was fuming mad.

Then we went to Genting.  During the car trip,  Oma kept scolding her, I was wondering why?  Oma said she kept stepping on her feet, or dropping things on her feet.  I was thinking, maybe because of seating arrangements (Siskha and Oma sat facing each other), and also everyone was tired from long car trip.  Anyway, that trip, major quarrel in the hotel room. Oma angry… Siskha crying… I’m frustrated cos if we change maid, I will be black mark again (cos we can only change 4 maids within 1 year or something right?)

Anyway, all settled again, and Siskha continued to work for us.  She has 2 offs a month.  When she went for her 1st off, her dressing shocked me!  Her skirt was so short that I could almost see her panty!  But hubby said that how she dressed on her off day is up to her.  But I told her anyway, not to control her, but to tell her to be careful as men outside will think otherwise when they see her dressing like that.

Then she started to dress very prudently on her off day.  But I noticed that she was always wearing the same clothes!  So I asked to see her bag when she came back, and sure enough, she brought the usual sexy clothes out to change.  I didn’t like that deception.  I told her that I just need her to be careful, she didn’t need to deceive me like that.  So she went back to her sexy dressing with thick eye liner.

Then she brought up to me that our family’s workload is a lot and she wants every week off.  We negotiated and settled at alternate week off.  Her reach home time was 10pm.

But she started to test our limits.  She was late almost every time.  Each time, she would sms me, nearly at 10pm, that she couldn’t get a cab, will be late etc.  Final straw, one time, she came back so late, that it was almost midnight, and she was DRUNK!  Reeking of liquor.  She said that our work load is too much.. blar blar blar, want to transfer… Hubby was fuming mad, because we were both sick that day, but were forced to stay up till midnight to wait for her to come home!

Wanted to send her back… next few days, she came to us, crying for us to keep her.. say that it costs her too much to transfer… blah blah blah..

So ok, we brought forward her come home time to 8pm, told her that she needed to earn our trust again to shift back the come home time.  For 1 time, she did, came back at 730pm and hid in the room the entire time, so scared that we will ask her to do anything!

The next time, she thought she was allowed to come back late again, gave me all the sms bull shit and came back past 10pm again. Then we decided that we had enough.  She is going home.

Even that… she was ding-donging.  Want to go home? Want to go agency? Want to go batam? As I had already given her an extra month salary to send home to her mother, so I had no choice but to keep her till that 1 month is paid up, and we bought a tix to jakarta and sent her home.

The day that she was to leave, she was still trying.. she was hinting and hinting, telling the kids, within our hearing distance, that whether she can come back and work for us or not? etc?  We just plain ignored her.

I must say, not good bye, more like good riddance.  If you are sincerely here to work for your family, then work!  To be sent home, for what reason?  Not being able to be punctual for come home time, stupid right? 

Anyway, before we sent her home, I went to another agency (even though I was still covered under her agency to get a replacement maid, but I didn’t wnat another transfer maid) and engaged another one.  This one, Angelita, had 9 years experience in HKG, and would be ready for me to bring her home this afternoon.  Let’s hope that one will work out…

Apparently after she left, I heard many “applause”, for one, Donald’s tuition teacher heard her conversation with Oma and didn’t like her attitude.  My parents see her as a two-faced person, goody two shoes in front of me, and another face behind me.  Well, old people have a way of looking and judging people right? 

→ No CommentsTags: ·