My school's 85th Founders' Day

Today is my school's Founders' Day celebration. As a chief usher, I have to be there early.. Sian.. Missed my son for almost the whole day... The whole dinner started at 6pm with guests coming in and ended at 10.30pm to make sure all my students boarded the bus to send them back to school. By the time I reached home, it's almost 11.30pm... I was so exhausted...

Managed to take some pic of my colleagues and me after a long day work.

Looking at the photos, I feel that everyone is so well dressed besides me... Like my students said, I dressed like as if I am back to work... But indeed I am... Sigh... Work work work... I must also clarify, I really have no time to shop... esp with Caden Teo falling sick recently and my tonnes of work... How to shop? So wear back old clothes lor... Anyway, not pretty wear what also not pretty lah... Haha..

Mild Bronchitis

Just brought Caden to see Doc Ong again though he is coughing lesser as the phlegm are still in his throat and can clearly hear them when he cough, sleep and breathe at times.. As any kiasi mother, I insisted to bring him for check with Doc Ong again.

Doc Ong mentioned that there is no phlegm in his lungs but seems like there is phlegm in his throat and is going down the airway.. He suspected its mild bronchitis.

"Bronchitis
Bronchitis is a lung condition that affects the upper bronchial passages. The mucous membrane in the lungs becomes inflamed. The inflamed membrane increases the production of mucous and starts to swell, resulting in the narrowing of the airways."

Though its mild, its still worrying.. As a result, he is put to go through the nebalizer again. However, this time, he seems to like it and breathing in more of the medicine. And Doc Ong has change a new set of medicine for him too. Lets hope that he will get well soon and not to go to Doc Ong again. If over the weekend his symptoms of "phlegmy" airway is still persisting, we will have to bring him to see Doc Ong again and rent home the nebalizer machine... Lets pray hard he will get better.

Caden's 14th Month birthday

Today is Caden's 14th month birthday. However, deardear and I did not really bring him out to celebrate as he is grounded for the weekend due to his illness. Moreover, he did not become better after 2 days of cough medication. His flu seems to come back again.. Sigh.. I am really worried.. Though he did not look sick, he has lots of phlegm in his throat.. can hear it when he talk and cough.. Poor boy...

However, I still bring him to LNT as the person in charge said that as long as he is not down with fever, he can still go for the lesson. Moreover, he was better in the afternoon... I must say that he was really well-behaved during lesson. Even there is more toddlers joining the class, he was not distracted by them. He was listening to the teacher attentively. I am really proud of him. Even deardear who was peeking through the door hole throughout the whole session agreed that he is very well behaved.

After school, we brought him home immediately. He pooed twice just now and started to sneeze more often. Sigh.. I am beginning to be more worried.. How to go to work tomolo? What a way to celebrate his 14th month birthday? Sigh...

But deardear and I still did a small and simple celebration for him by buying a small cake to celebrate his birthday.

Have a happy birthday and get well soon Caden baby...

Caden down with flu and cough

My poor boy is down with flu and cough again. He was down with flu last week. Has been giving him medicine for a week.. However, his flu turned to cough... So I left school immediately after lesson to bring him to see Doc Ong again. He is down with cough as there is redness in throat and his flu virus is still around.. Sigh.. Poor baby.. Has been coughing throughout the day and even at night when he is sleeping..

Hope he will get well soon...

Caden is very well behaved...

Today, Caden is feeling slightly better.. no more sneezing and mucus... Thus deardear and I decided to bring him for his lesson at LNT.

There is one more kid in the class, in total there are 4 toddlers. However, according to deardear who was inside with Caden, mentioned that Caden is very attentive and well behaved today. Maybe he is more used to listen in English and understand the language better. On top of it, the teacher is good at getting his attention... Moreover, deardear said that Caden is very good at attracting the teacher's attention too.. Smiling at the teacher and making funny action... The teacher seems to pay more attention at him.. haha...

So we have concluded that Caden can be very well behaved too if he likes it. Keep it up Caden...

Caden down with Flu

Caden has been down with flu since Thurs... However, Doc Ong was not open on thurs afternoon, thus I was planning to bring him to see Doc Ong on fri afternoon. My mum took leave on fri afternoon as I was not able to leave school early. But, Caden was better on fri so we decided to carry on feeding him with his old medication.

However, on sat morning, he started sneezing and there is mucus... Therefore, deardear and I decided to rush him down to Doc Ong. As we were early, there wasn't many babies... According to Doc Ong, Caden is down with flu and will need to be grounded at home for this weekend.

At 10 am, we are done with Doc Ong so we went to the restaurant next door, tang dian wang, to try the food. At the restaurant, I fed Caden his milk and medicine. However, maybe he choked on his medicine that he vomited all his milk out on deardear... I immediately bring Caden to change and deardear went to buy new clothes to change.

The waitresses was very nice. They were not unhappy that we dirtied the place and even make hot our food when we were away. We came back to our table with piping hot food again. With such good service, deardear and I decided to bring my dad there for his birthday celebration.

After our food, we went for a very short shopping spree as there is a kid's bazaar at basement. Then we rushed a cab back home.

In the evening, my best friends came over to my house for a gathering.. Been almost 3 months since I last saw them.. Had a great time catching up with each other.. Lucky I have deardear to help me take care of Caden while I catch up with them. They left at around 11 pm.. And deardear brought Caden into our room to sleep.

Mama Yen is sick again...

Indeed its an unlucky year for me... I am down again... Seems like I am suffering from anemia. Been having giddy spells and blackout epsiode recently... Dunno what is wrong...

Was on my way to school today and felt very giddy on the bus... So took the bus to Bishan and visited a clinic near my school. The doc asked if I was very stressed... He mentioned that its symptoms of new working mother who is very stress. However, I do not feel that stress that the doc was mentioning. He said maybe its because my body can't take it anymore yet I do not feel it.

Sigh... Another 2 days MC... Should I stay at home to rest or go to school tomolo?

Last Jab for Pneumococcal

Today, I brought Caden for his booster jab for Pneumococcal, as I am able to leave school early.

Made an appt with Doc Ong and rushed down immediately after Caden has woke up from his afternoon nap.

When Caden saw the needle, he started to make noise. I had to hold him tight. Once Doc Ong has injected the needle into Caden's left thigh, he started to burst into tears.. Was crying so terribly... Feel so sad... I immediately tried to divert his attention to other things.. After a short while, he stopped crying but refused to let me touch his thigh. Mayb its still hurting.. However, he still smile and laugh and kept calling me while I am paying for his jab... Think he just trying to make me happy cause he knows I am sad that he is in pain... My precious silly boy...

After that, we took a cab home so that he can rest after his jab.

First formal Term for LNT

Today, Caden has formally started out at LNT for his first term lesson. Deardear and I have decided to sign him up for a year's lesson with LNT as we can save more as we sign on longer. In today's lesson, there are 2 more students in the class. This time, I can really see how easily distracted Caden can be.. He kept looking at his classmate during activities time and even want to take their tools to play instead of his own. But I can see that he is more focus than them as he has attended 3 more sessions as compared to them. He is able to pick up things more easily than the other 2. Just hope that he will get used to having classmates in his class so that he will not be too easily distracted again. On the whole, I feel that we have chosen the right kind of training for him and that LNT is good... :)

Visit to Tampines1

Decided to have a look at the new shopping centre at Tampines - Tampines 1. Deardear told me about this a few weeks ago and said wanna bring us there. So today, we took the opportunity to go with my mum.

It was super crowded over there.. Wanted to look for the Taiwan stall opened by Jeff Wang but it was not opened. We ended up buying about $300 of honey at Yummi House.. one for my parents, two for Caden and three for deardear and me. Needs lots of honey to soothen my throat for teaching...

Then we went to try out the new Kopitiam known as "Kapitans". It was super crowded and I feel that the food there was not at all fantastics.. After dinner, we walked around some baby shops to look for clothes and shoes for Caden but all seems ex and not that nice...

Finally, we went back to Tampines Mall and Century Sq.. Its less crowded there and more shops that we are familiar with.. Bought some pacifiers to replace Caden's current ones. Then we proceeded back home..

You are my Super Husband

I am dedicating this blog to my husband Adrian Teo.. Thanks for being the super husband of my life...

I know I am not easy to be with as I am the only child with a lot of demand and bad temper and also with anxious nature.. Used to be pampered by my mum... Now that you are taking over the job of my mum to look after me, to pamper me, to give in to my unreasonable demands & tantrums and to give everything to me..

No only that, I know you also promise to take care of my mum.. You know she is the most impt person to me other than baby Caden and you... You know that she is taking her time to accept you yet you always try to give in to her and even do whatever you can for her.. Like tonight.. You rushed back to her house to get her medicine at 10.30pm knowing she need them tomolo and refused to allow her to go back on her own as its late..

Thank you deardear... Always putting me as the most impt.. Thank you deardear for being my super husband.. Love you.. And thank my Kwan Yin goddess for giving me a super baby - Caden Teo...


Hope we will be happy forever as a little family of three... plus my mum and dad... hehe...

Visit to Marina Barrage

Deardear and I woke up at 6 plus this morning.. All prepared to go for our Marina Barrage trip. This time, we are not just going out in our small family.. But with my aunties, uncles, cousins and niece.

In the train on the way to Marina Bay

We arrive at the Marina Bay MRT at 9 am and took the free shuttle bus to Marina Barrage. When we arrived at the Marina Barrage, we started walking around and snapping some pic.. Then we stopped by at the cafe to feed Caden his morning porridge.

At the entrance of Marina Barrage

At the cafe, I saw Mr Low, who is my principal, with his family too. After Caden has finished his meal, we proceeded to walk through the Sustainable Singapore Gallery. Took some silly pic of the naughty boy. Only then I realised that my Nokia 5800 is not as good as my Nokia N82 due to the camera.. Its not as good in taking night pic or pic in places that are darker. But never mind, I still love my phone.. Cause its bought by deardear...

Baos... (typical of my mum for buying so many food for an outing)

Si Yi Po & Caden outside Sustainable Singapore Gallery (but dunno why got a ray of light)

Inside Sustainable Singapore Gallery

After walking through the gallery, we went up to the open field to see people flying kite, having picnic, taking wedding pic etc...

At the open field

At around 12.30, it started to pour and we decided to go back. We took a train back to Marina Sq for our lunch. After lunch, baby was a little cranky as I think he is tired so we took a cab back to Eunos...

On the train to Marina Sq

At the restaurant (Caden is getting tired...)

Back at home, I decided to change baby's diaper while he is sleeping.. However, he peed on my bed twice when changing.. Haha.. The naughty boy is really cheeky even when he is sleeping.

Mama's new phone case

As mentioned yesterday, my mum took leave today also... She brought Caden back to Eunos early in the afternoon. Then meet up with us at Bugis for dinner, together with Xiao Yi too.. We ate at the jap ramen shop at BHG Basement. After dinner, deardear and I went to get my phone a new case and also a screen protector at Sim Lim Sq. After which, we proceeded back home.


Have to sleep early tonight as we are planning for our Marina Barrage trip tomorrow.

Visit to Second Grandaunt house

My mum took half day leave for both today and tomorrow as my dad has gone overseas. She do not feel so comfortable leaving Caden at home all alone the whole day with Tita...

Moreover, she intend to bring baby Caden to my second aunt's place to visit my grandmother who is temporary staying there.

On the other hand, I was on course and reached home quite early today but did not join them to my second aunt's place. However, I heard from my mum that initially he did not dare to go into the house. But, after a while, he went in and gone crazy... Kept walking here and there and pointing the things around the house.. Maybe new place and he is curious about everything. According to my mum, he even pointed at the poster of Liverpool as he is well trained by his papa to recognized Liverpool crest. And I heard that he even tried playing the piano of Huimin Ah Yee's. Seems like he has the potential - use his fingers and play instead of just hitting the piano. He even produces some "music"... Haha..

Preparing to go to Second Grandaunt's place

At around 4 plus, my mum brought him home to take a nap. He slept for an hour and we went to the Mad Jack Cafe for our dinner with Xiao Yi.

At Mad Jack Cafe

Pose with Mama

Making monkey face



Making handsome face

After dinner, dear dear and I proceeded to Bugis to get my new hp.. Nokia 5800 while my mum brought baby back home with the intention of letting him sleep early for the night.

My new Nokia 5800 but with black base and silver lining

However, when we reached home at around 9 plus, baby Caden is still awake. I took over and tried to pat him to sleep.. he fell asleep within a few min.. Guess he is waiting for me to be home to pat him to sleep.

Pai sei baby in diaper only

Asking papa for help...

Silly boy.. Nowadays very clingy towards me.. Whenever I carry him and I am tired, he still refused to be carried by deardear or even my mum.. He will make noise and cry when they carried him away by force... Though its tiring to carry a 11kg boy all around but i do feel good that he is so clingy towards me. And he enjoyed calling me nowadays.. whenever I ask him "who am i", he will say "mama". Hehe...