Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

Monday, 24 August 2020

Gratitude 2020- Blog pakai Bahasa Indonesia ajah.

Post kali ini, pakai Bahasa Indonesia aja. 

Udah lama gak nge-blog pakai Bahasa Indonesia.

Jadi yang baca, harus orang Indo atau Melayu, yang bisa bahasa Indonesia. Slang. 

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Intinya post ini hanya untukku saja. 

Buat me-memori-kan milestone kehidupanku. Biar inget sampai hari tua. 

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Sudah hampir setaon, saya dan doi tinggal bersama, ada yang nyinyir kumpul kebo, ada yang nyinyir beda agama tapi so far kami ok tuh hidup bersama. We get along very well. 

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Setaon ini, selalu suka, gak ada duka. 

Setaon ini, selalu ketawa, gak ada susah.

Setaon ini, selalu bahagia, gak ada kecewa.

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Setaon ini, bahagia aku dibuatnya. Doi memang mengutamakan aku seorang saja. Lebih dari dirinya sendiri. 

Terimakasih telah mencintaiku apa adanya.

Doi kan umurnya cukup jauh. Jadi lebih sayang dan "cincai" sama saya. Banyak banget kekurangan saya, udah bekas cerai, punya past baggage 1, masih mau lagi doi sama saya. 

Padahal saya orangnya keras kepala, susah dikasih tau atau dinasehati, suka naik pitam dan marah2 gak jelas (aka PMS). 

Tapi Doi tuh tau banget, kalau saya lagi marah yah di-diemin, entaran juga reda sendiri. 

Kalau saya lagi bete, yah diajak jalan2 biar seneng. 

Kalau saya lagi bimbang, diajak tukar pikiran, biar pikiranku lebih terbuka dan engak overthinking. 

Terimakasih yah, telah menerimaku apa adanya.

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Dulu, saya ini yang gak pernah masak dan baking, kerjain housechores aja malas2an. Tetapi saya ingin menjadi pasangan yang baik. Jadi saya paksakan untuk mau belajar masak, bake untuk doi. 

Dulu saya ini malas orangnya, berantakan banget. Sukanya lihat bersih2 tapi males kalau disuruh do housechores. Tapi untuk doi, saya mau berbenah rumah, do laundry, sapu dan pel (kan pakai Robot, hahaha), dan rumah bersih dan kinclong saat doi sampai rumah.

Home dan House kan artinya kan rumah tapi ada bedanya sedikit yah. Kalau house itu adalah rumah bangunannya, home itu orangnya. Jadi sudah menjadi tugas saya, sebagai pasangan yang baik untuk menyediakan home untuk kami berdua. 

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Nah gara2 saya lagi sakit maag akut dan harus kerja dari rumah, banyak waktu luang deh. Habis di endoscopy dan colonoscopy dan diberi banyak obat maag sampai minggu depan. Semoga gak ada hal serius ya tolong didoakan semoga saya cepat sembuh. I miss curry and sambal balado :-( 

Nah karena sekarang banyak waktu luang, saya jadi senang banget hobi membanding2kan keadaan dulu sewaktu masih sama mantan yang hantu judi itu sama keadaan saya yang sekarang ini yang bahagia. Jahat sih sebenarnya membanding2kan, tetapi gimana lagi kan saya hanya manusia biasa, udah kristen KTP pula, gak pernah gereja lagi. Gak apa deh hanya untuk count my blessing aja. hahaha. 


Mari dimulai. Mantan bilangnya M yah. Dan pacar baru bilangnya Doi.


1. PAST: Dulu saya pusing soal M 's wellbeing, harus jadi babu gitu bangunin M tiap pagi supaya gak telat ke kantor, kalau dibangunin kena omel, gak dibangunin juga kena omel, kalau M telat ke kantor juga saya yang kena katanya kok telat banguninnya, padahal sama2 kerja kita orang. Beban saya. 

Terus belum lagi pusing juga harus ngurusin baju, handuk, bersihin lantai karena skinnya si M itu shedding, kayak serbuk2 gitu dilantai, belum lagi headscalpnya. Jijik. Yah bukan salah dia sih eczema akut dari kecil, tapi kadang2 tuh pagi udah ribet urusan sendiri (mandi, siap2, make up, etc) mesti harus rempong ngurusin M juga, berasanya tuh saya jadi babysitter. Beban banget saya. 

NOW: Saya dan pacar baru saya (doi) orangnya morning person, jadi gak ada kesulitan bangun pagi. Malah doi yang bangun duluan, siap2. Dan saya bangun 10-15mins setelahnya untuk nyiapin sarapan. Sarapan-pun simple, cuman toast bread, omelette, kopi (or ovaltine maklum saya lagi sakit maag) paling cuman 20mins siapin sarapan. Terus beres2 langsung ke kantor bareng. Kalau lagi bosan sarapan dirumah yah kami sarapan diluar. Commute juga cuman max 30mins dari rumah ke kantor. No beban. 


2. PAST: Dulu saya pusing si M judi. Kalau sudah uncontactable nights berhari2, udah tau deh kemana si M. Setelah akhirnya bisa dicontact lagi, eh, baru pengakuan dia habis dari casino dan kalah $xxx. Bisa sampai berpuluh2 k lho itungannya. Serem banget sampai terkuras habis uang tabungannya, dan ngutang lagi sama bank or temannya. Bukannya tabungan itu makin bertambah untuk masa depan kita (goal: ROM dan beli HDB) malahan negatif terus. Ngutang orang/ bank lagi hadeuh. Bener2 useless banget. 

Sampai waktu2 saya yang harus tanggung semua dating expenses. Dipikir2 lagi bodoh banget saya. Buta cinta kali yah pas waktu itu. Paling bodohnya sewaktu saya secara sukarela swipe credit card of $3k untuk membiayai M judi, sewaktu kami liburan ke Genting. Terus ditahun kedua kami jalan bareng, saya rela pinjam cash advance credit ke UOB sebesar $10k hanya untuk membantu meringankan monthly bank payout-nya si M. Terakhir itu saya ditodong $1k buat dia modal casino, katanya M janji yang terakhir kalinya gamble, setelah itu next month dan seterusnya saya boleh ambil 100% kontrol gajinya. HAHAHAHA buat apa ya, saya tanya? Kalau dia pikir saya mau sama dia karena mau take control gajinya 100% or eyeing his PR status just to get HDB. Salah besar dia. Narcisstic banget kan pola pikirnya. Dikira situ siapa? Prince Kedah yah. LOL 

Tapi yah semuanya udah berlalu dan udah lunas sih. Sudah recover juga financially. Ya weis. Jadi pembelajaran saja. Ikhlas saya. 


NOW: Gak usah pusing deh masalah financial. Wong kami berdua kerja dan mapan kok. Malah saya salute sama doi yang bisa berhemat selama 3tahun demi membeli private property sendiri. Hebat. Jadi sekarang saya punya banyak waktu untuk diri saya sendiri, bisa kasih waktu dan kasih sayang buat Giselle, bisa full perawatan sebulan sekali, dsb. Seneng banget. 


3. PAST: Dulu saya pusing si M main KTV. Kalau engak main sama temannya yang di SG, main sama temennya yang di Malaysia. Dan KTVnya yang hanky panky aka ada cewek escortnya gitu yah. Udah gak bisa minum alkohol gara2 operasi jantung bypass kemarin itu, terus ke KTV ngapain coba? masa nyanyi doang? gak percaya saya. 

Terus saya kasih tau, eh saya gak nyaman lho kan kamu pacar saya dan kita komitmen mau nikah tapi kamunya masih sering ke KTV gitu. Serius kamu cuman nyanyi2 aja? kan diruangan KTV-nya pasti banyak cewek2 escort yang pakaiannya skimpy. Serius kamu bisa tahan engak grepe2 mereka? Masa kamu lebih nyaman melihat cewek escort sexy itu daripada pacarmu sendiri. Sampai stress lho saya kalau ada teman Malaysianya main ke SG, karena awal2nya saya pasti disuruh nemenin mereka makan dan habis itu mereka second round lanjut ke KTV dan of course saya disuruh pulang. Terus kalau saya voice out, langsung di Gas Lighting bilangnya percaya dong sama pacar sendiri, saya-nya yang halusinasi kali atau langsung marah dan uncontactable for few days. Pikir2 lagi manipulatif banget yah si M

Sampai trauma saya kalau sudah gak balas text or angkat telpon, pasti pikiran saya jadi gundah, apalagi kalau cicinya cariin M ada di tempat saya atau tidak. Soalnya kalau tidak ke casino,  pasti ke KTV. Sampai saya posesif banget akhirnya sampai telpon/ text berulang kali, video call cuma untuk tahu dia lagi dimana. Suka cek2 hapenya sampe akhirnya passwordnya diganti. Yah salah saya juga sih mengecek2 kayak detektif gitu, tetapi kalau awalnya saya gak dibohongi dan dibohongi berulang kali, gak mungkin saya jadi se-posesif gitu kan? Gimana caranya build trust tapi selalu dibohongi? Selalu si M bilang harus percaya 100% sama dia tapi dia dan perilakunya yang selalu buat saya gak percaya.

Kebohongan demi kebohongan selalu keluar dari mulutnya kalau lagi kumat judi atau KTV. Dan berulang kali saya termakan rayuannya akhirnya baikan.  Janji untuk tidak judi lagi juga hanya semata kebohongan belaka. Eh beberapa bulan lagi, begitu lagi. Sifat dan kebiasaan jelek memang susah diubah. Selama 3 tahun perjalanan kami, every problem will be hidden under the rug. Kalau saya voice out, langsung di Gas Lighting. Super manipulative nih anak. 


NOW: Sekarang saya dan pacar baru saya adalah pasangan tua yang boring. Jangankan ke KTV, telat pulang malam aja udah panik. Masih diluar diatas jam 10 malam udah ngantuk. Ngantuknya bukan main. Kami habis kerja, dinner bareng, terus langsung pulang. Itupun gak sampai jam 930pm keatas. Mata udah 5watt bok. Belum lagi ritual skincare bisa 1 jam lebih. Makanya no drama deh. 

Wong kami orangnya serius dengan relationship kami. 

Doi orangnya, gak suka main cewek, gak suka mabok2an, gak suka KTV, gak suka judi, gak suka makan manis2, dan gak suka diluar gawe2 gitu.

Doi orangnya, anak rumahan, sukanya wine (classy!), hobinya nabung, dan jangankan judi, masuk ke casino aja gak pernah. Dan bagusnya lagi hobinya gowes, olahraga.

Jadi saya gak suka yang namanya posesif , ini juga semenjak saya kerja dari rumah dan doi ngantor, kami jarang texting selama jam kerja, semua fokus kerja dengan benar selama jam kerja. Terus selesai kerja, langsung pulang.  Repeat. Ini aja saya ada access ke hp doi tapi jarang tuh buka dan cek2, lha ngapain si doi orangnya lurus kok. Vice versa, doi tahu password hp saya dan saya juga gak keberatan dia cek or buka sebab saya bersih kok, saya gak ada hal yang harus disembunyikan juga. Cek yah cek aja. Saya gak takut. 


4. PAST: Terus saya juga kurang sreg sama keluarga M. Beda culture beda bahasa.

Masa Cicinya udah tau adiknya salah (judi, ktv, utang bank) tapi masih membela adiknya daripada saya. Saya yang orang benar, gak judi, gak ktv, bersih financially, tapi kalau saya nasehati adiknya malah gak terima. Terus banyak ikut campur persoalan saya dan si M jadi saya pikir kok berasanya saya pacaran dengan cicinya yah daripada pacaran sama si M. hahaha. Kocak juga sekarang kalau dipikir2 kembali. 

Terus menurut saya, salah cicinya sih sebab si M itu enak banget, semenjak cicinya kawin dan punya HDB sendiri, diberilah satu common room untuk si M . Jadi keenakan dia, gak usah bayar uang listrik dan sewa rumah. Toiletries, groceries, dan dinner pun gratis. Gak ada tanggung jawab sama sekali. Malahan pernah pas kapan si M pengangguran dan cuma depend on Uber's salary, dikasih uang jajan daily/ weekly gitu sama cicinya, udah lupa saya detailnya pokoknya begitu deh. Kayak gitu mah anaknya gak bakalan mandiri deh, jadi useless gitu. Makanya selama pacaran, saya selalu "maaf" menganggap remeh si M karena emang financially dan physically gak mandiri. Saya aja dulu masih seminggu sekali kerumahnya do his laundry. Jadi babu. Sampai sering berantem lho kami, sebab saya gak tahan liat dia sering bangun telat, malas, gak pikir panjang dan berencana jangka panjang, bisanya ngomong aja terus ngiri kalau ada temannya sukses atau lebih daripada dia. Tukang sirik orangnya. Jadi pikir2 lagi kok mau yah saya sama dia!? *roll eyes*

Nah soal bahasa, saya fasih bahasa Inggris, tapi kalau lagi marah bahasa Inggrisnya langsung jago. Saking jagonya gak memilah2 lagi kosakatanya. Yah udah asal buka mulut langsung kata2 vulgar keluar. Terus salahnya saya dan si M dulu kami suka texting, salah banget, harusnya kalau pacaran langsung ngomong face to face dan jangan texting melulu 24/7 apalagi pas lagi jam kerja. Dan jangan coba menyelesaikan masalah via texting or calling. Pasti kan gak keliatan body language and facial expressionnya, jadinya salah paham. Terus emang si M sukanya Manipulatif dan Gas Lighting juga, jadi ada masalah yah ngeles dia, terus saya konfrontasi bukannya solve masalah bersama2 eh malah berantem. Di dia-nya bilang lagi adem ayem kenapa cari masalah, padahal saya gak mau cari masalah, cuma mau ngobrol untuk menyelesaikan masalah. Terus sering banget dia bilang, saya halusinasi, kebanyakan nonton film/ news gak benar. Terus akhirnya last blast, uncontactable lagi. Bukannya menyelesaikan masalah, malah menghilang. Sampai goyah lho iman saya digituin, gila kan...

Terakhir, sehabis konfrontasi pasti ujung2nya dihukum saya, plan for weekend gagal, dia gak bisa dihubungi entah kemana, terus saya akan disalahkan atas apa yang terjadi selama dia menghilang (aka pergi gamble lagi, bilangnya karena berantem terus galau terus masuk casino lagi untuk relieve stress atau mau cepat selesai bayar hutang makanya gamble). 

Dan paling sebelnya, saya suka banget diajak makan siang atau makan malam sama keluarga mereka diluar. Makan malam mulainya jam 830pm keatas. Terus setelah makan, ditodong suruh bayar. Ditodong sama si M sih bukan sama keluarganya. Gila aja mereka keluarga besar bertujuh : Si M , father, cici, suaminya cici, toddler 2, mom in law VS saya sendiri. Sekali makan di Dian Xiao Er atau PuTien bisa habis $200-$300 karena pesennya banyak banget dan saya gak kebagian mesen, cuman makan saja, itupun makan dikit karena sudah terlalu malam dan saya lagi diet, tiba2 bill datang saya langsung disuruh mengeluarkan kartu kredit untuk bayar. Yah pertamanya saya syok, terus menolak, Kedua-tiga kali, berantem besar, sampai2 saya trauma udah gak mau lagi kalau diajak makan. Terus begitu saya voice out gak nyaman diajak makan keluarga besar dan ditodong bayar setelahnya, M bilangnya justru saya harus bayar supaya bisa memberi good impression kepada keluarga mereka kalau saya mampu dan mandiri, it's like wtf? kenapa gak lu aja bayar semua untuk membuktikan kalau lu mampu dan mandiri, saya gak butuh tuh keluar uang banyak hanya untuk mencari muka dan untuk membuktikan sesuatu. Ini mah namanya Robbery in the broad day light. Tingkat tinggi. 

Terus satu lagi, kan kalau kadang cewek stress itu kan suka ngedumel sendiri yah, atau curhat ke pasangan gitu. Yah sebagai pasangan, gak usah kasih pendapat or solusi sih sebenarnya, tinggal pasang kuping aja, nanti setelah selesai ngedumel juga baik sendiri kok, namanya juga cewek. Nah kalau saya sama si M , gak boleh lho curhat sama dia,pasti kena omel. Jadi misal saya curhat uneq2 masalah kantor or apa, terus dia langsung bilang eh gak boleh gitu, kita sebagai orang kristen harus holy dan taat, misalnya. Padahal sendirinya udah ceramah soal kekristenan tetep saja perilakunya tidak mencerminkan kekristenan. Terus akhirnya, yang awalnya saya mau curhat, akhirnya berantem, jadi sepertinya memang dia tidak perduli sama saya dan perasaan saya. Saya harus senantiasa holy dan sempurna didepan dia. Dan di dunia ini cuman dia dan dia saja (narcissistic-red flag). Sampai lama2 saya belajar dari pengalaman saya sendiri dan akhirnya tidak mau curhat lagi sama dia. Ngapain. Ujung2nya bertengkar. 

Yang paling saya takutkan adalah kami bertengkar, jantungnya dia kambuh lagi. Terus saya lagi yang disalahkan. 

Pokoknya sengsara deh.

Serba salah. 

Hidup penuh ketakutan. 

Hidup penuh kekhawatiran. 


NOW: Sekarang saya walaupun sesama Indonesian, tapi beda agama. Tapi so far kami saling memahami dan mengerti satu sama lain. Tenggang rasa. Emang sih kadang2 kangen sama lagu rohani yah sudah saya dengernya pas doi lagi gak ada. Suka nyanyi2 lagunya Maria Shandi juga di kamar mandi tapi gak apa tuh gak pernah marah or tersinggung si doi. Malah hobi kami sekarang nonton Indonesian movie di Netflix. Sama hunting makanan Indonesia dan durian. Terus hobi kami adalah Olahraga di taman sekitar rumah. 

Happiness is not coming from money but it's simply state of mind.

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Yah udahlah sekian dulu, capek ngetiknya. 


Terimakasih udah baca this wordy post ini, uneg2 saya udah selesai, sudah mendingan sekarang.


Tolong didoakan semoga saya cepat move on dari pengalaman buruk saya dan bisa langgeng sama yang baru ini. 


Amin. 



-Debbie- 




Tuesday, 11 August 2020

Post Circuit Breaker thoughts

It's been few months since the last post.

This year 2020, it has been 8 months since Covid -19 pandemic here in the world, many people impacted by this pandemic, either physically and mentally, some financially. Paycut, unemployment is on the high rise.

Not only that, new normal, lockdown, tele-commuting, second wave of Covid-19, paper toilet fighting in the supermarket, Presidential election, Beirut blast, China-US tension, Whitehouse shooting.  So many bad happening in this world.

However, we have some good news, too. Vaccine is coming out soon, NDP virtual celebration instead of gathering in Marina, people are stronger and closer (virtually/ not physically) in this difficult situation.

The country that hit hard by Covid -19 surprisingly is the first world country such as America.

My heart goes to everyone out there.

It's not the disease that kill us, it's the idiocy that kill us. And we call them, Covidiot.

Still many people protest about mask regulation and social distancing rules, they said wearing mask is like taking their freedom away to breathe freely, whereas the facts is, wearing mask is to prevent you from Covid-19, which can cause difficulty in breathing.

Many Covid un-symptomatic people still attend to big gathering and party, unknowingly pass the virus to larger crowd and more and more people get infected. Really angry with people selfishly celebrate party and gather crowd in this Covid situation. Then shamelessly post it in their social media.

The myths about Covid only affected to elder generation is bullshit. Even young and healthy 25 year old man also knock down by Covid -19. Yes, he can recover but he suffered from breathing difficulty, cough, lost of smell and tastebud, depending on ventilator 24/7 until he got recovered. After recovery, his lung will never be the same again as Covid has damaged the lungs and it will not fully 100% recover.

And elderly people who got hit by Covid-19, 99% will be linked to their past health condition. So either they will suffer from the virus itself, or they will suffer from their past condition such as diabetes, high blood, heart problems, cholesterol, you name it.

So guys, don't underestimate Covid-19, please. Stay distancing. Wearing your mask outside. Sanitize your hand. Eat healthily and regular exercise.

Be responsible citizen of the world.

Let's fight this Covid together :-)

-Debbie-









Monday, 23 November 2015

Updates: November Birthday month

Hello!


It’s been a month since my last post. 
Recently it has been a crazy weeks for me but overall it's still good.
In fact, November and December are my favourite month of the year!

The reason is simple.

November is my birthday.

December is Jesus’s birthday (aka Christmas).

Since 2007, December became even better; coz Giselle’s birthday falls on December too

Since last year, December is even the best, my niece was just born on Boxing day! A day after Christmas!

I miss you already, Chloe :-) 

So back to topic again, these few weeks have been crazy and at the same time, excited week for me. 

I just finished my final exam on Jap advance class last week, celebrated my birthday, and soon prepare for the N3 test again! 
Since I failed N3 on last July, I will retake on this coming Dec so pls pls pls God, lemme pass my N3 this time round with flying rainbow mark!

Prior to exam day, I was so stressed out, studying till 2 am every night, as expected, right after exam’s over I crashed and burnt. 
In fact, now I’m still down with flu and sore throat and still in recovering stage that’s why I have not even have time to study for N3! Ok ok must start studying tonight.

How I’d wish I can study in the morning (coz I’m a morning person) but I’ve spent my day working in the office, labouring and stuff, and by the time it reaches night, my energy level down to hill and what I want to do the least is to touch my Jap textbook... Ok dilemma aside, I really need to drag my lazy bum and start to revising asap!

Aside from Jap stuff, recently I have interest to explore my Macbook. So far since I own this Macbook, I only use safari and mailbox application...

What is page? Ah don’t bother, LOL. Keynote? Issit power point? LOL

Imovie? To create movie (obviously by judging the name) but still I don’t know how to use it, LOL.

Yep, I’m shameful to myself coz I own Macbook but still don’t know how to use its basic function.

What trigger me was actually, I just bought staff purchase, the latest version of Win2016 for Mac, which only launches a couple months ago! The price is $15 freaking cheap. Retail price maybe $199??  (correct me if I'm mistaken)

So after downloading all these shits into my Macbook, it triggered me to explore more applications in this powerful tool and decided to borrow tons of guidebook in the library and even to the extent of joining the class, too! Ok, next year resolution is to explore iWork!

So overall, these 2 things (Jap final exam and Mac’s class training) were occupying my first 2 weeks of November.

Then come my birthday, Friday the thirteen....
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I was so sadden by Paris Attack, why of all days, they choose that day to launch the terror attack!? 

Many victim died by the shooting and bombing, many people mourning about the loss of their loved ones, the whole world mourning. What we can do now is to support Paris and pray for the lost souls and the same time, realizing that terrorist are REAL problems now that the WORLD is facing right now, and plan for anticipation. Pray for better world, for a better place to live for everybody with no regards of skin colour, race, and ethnicity.

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Anyway, my birthday this year, I have a total of 6th time celebration. Let's go thru one by one quickly, shall we?

1st: my colleagues celebrated my birthday in advance because they thought that I’ll be on leave on the actual day! Turns out on the actual day, it was so quiet and awkward coz I'm still working on my birthday but its ok I really appreciate for the cake and the presents. Really love the Craftholics I can hug it while sitting in the office. 



2nd celebration is on the actual day, we went to Miz Japanese restaurant for a dinner and I got the nicest purple flower bouquet of all! I don’t know why LG thought that I love flowers actually I’m not really into flowers but don’t mind to receive one. LOL. Thanks for the Adidas gym bag and Starbucks card now I can coffee-binge till Christmas. LOL. 





3rd: Celebration at home. It was pretty simple by singing song and blow candles but appreciate the effort. Oh ya I supposed to celebrate with usher’s team on Sunday but I swapped duty with Anee coz I got Jap oral speaking test on that day, sadness....

Thanks, Sephora for the birthday gift! 

And also, I'm buying a proper American Tourister luggage for the very first time! 





4th: Thanks guys at GXFit class for celebrating my birthday after work-out session.  Lots of photobomb here and there seriously but I really appreciate the prayers and we had lots of fun putting calories back.  LOL.



5th: Met Carol for sushi-binge at Sushi Ryoshisushi in Liang Court. Love the Japanese sponge cake OMG so moist and I’m drooling now by thinking about it. 


6th: Met Anee in another Japanese restaurant, Kojitsuru Nabe at Bugis Junction. Love her company and catching up with each other. Next time my treat, ok ! hehe...


After that we celebrated one of the sister birthday at Stuttgart Cafe on last weekend. Took lots of photos such as these...




 That's all!



Ok I better go back to study again...

December is going to be an exciting month. 

Basically, DnD, N3 test, stock-take, Christmas celebration, services, dinner, till end of the year. All fully booked!
Oh ya, I’m going back to my hometown for Christmas and new year, to celebrate my niece 1st birthday celebration. 

But I’ll need to bring back my work too so will be working and holidaying at the same time. 

Till next year!? *ok will try to post again next week month*

Thanks for reading this wordy post.

Ciao

-Deb-







Sunday, 13 September 2015

Parenting skills: Pick up your battles.

Dear Diary,

I've been thinking a lot lately. I don't know why but my brain keep on thinking and thinking until I can't sleep. In facts, due to the haze (thanks ah my country) I feel so lethargic and my throat dry all the time despite having 2 litre of water a day. Plus insomnia. Falling sick is indeed inevitably. 

I know I have to write it down my thoughts here otherwise these thoughts kept on rewind (like a broken records) in my mind so! Do you ever heard, good writing is clear thinking made visible.  How to write if your thinking still full of muddle? 

How many times I've been using writing as a form of therapy to sort up some of my thoughts and voices out opinions and stuffs. 

Enough for the long winded intro! 

So!

I was stumbled with this subject, parenting skills. 

I've been a mother for a 8 year girl and still counting. Indeed, the parenting skill of having a baby, the parenting skill of having a toddler, and the parenting skill of having teenagers, are completely different. 

Baby only needs milk and solid food to survive. Seriously, maybe a couple of Fisher Price toys and flash cards will be sufficient enough to entertain them. The little brain inside is like white canvas which will absorb tons of vocabulary, emotions, and behaviour which leads to habit so watch out your tongue in front of your kids, parents! 

Having a toddler, well, Ever heard about Terrible Two before? Luckily mine was not that bad, Giselle still throw fits occasionally. One minute she's happy, now she's crying, and another minute she's upset, and those vicious cycle repeats by its nature. For me, "Time Out" is the best way to calm those tantrums scenario. And another method is to teach them tons of vocabulary and the skill of how to communicate nicely. The reason why Terrible Two is terrible is because they are feeling something but don't know how to express their feeling to the lack of words. So they're feeling frustrated, helpless, and restless. 

Ok, when my girl goes to school, she has to learn the skill of socialising. How to make friends and teachers happy, how to fit in the community so that she won't be in other's people way, and stuff like that. That's where the bullying coming from. Bullying is a form of insecurity. Do you realise that the bully is someone who don't have self-esteem so they picked someone who is weaker than them?

I don't really have life example here coz my girl still P2 and I believe she inherits Ah Lian's spirit from me. I think I'm the only mother who teach, if someone punch you, just punch back LOL what a bad example. Ok joking aside, to counter to this bullying at school, I believe parents and teachers have to work hand in hand, to treat all students equally, fairly as much as possible. 

For me, no matter how old my baby, it's still important to engage her in the deep communication and try to listen to her story. I always ask a lot of questions, like really a lot, just to understand her feeling. Ok, I confess that sometime I didn't have patience to listen to her, always tend to giving solutions quickly prior to her sharing. God, please mold me on this area. 

Let's side track a bit, shall we?  

Doing parenting, it's about when to pick up your battles with your kid. 

For example, I think it's not worth it to pick up battles with Giselle in choices of:

- Choosing clothes. Weekends, she can choose to wear dress/ shirt that she likes.
- Choosing activity during weekend. She can play arcade, watch movie, or even...
- Snacking, of course after meal time la
- Buying books ( I believe the love of reading starts from young)

The things that worth the battles:

- Asking her to finish vegetables during meal time. Every single time.
- To persuade (sometime force) to go Sunday school
- Do homework
- Read bible

So if you can see, since our kids is still under our authority. As parents, we have the rights to make decisions on the important things (religion, school, etc)
And we can leave the not so important things or not so urgent thing's decision to them.
In fact, by giving them a freedom to choose, it will exercise them to make little decision so next time, they know how to handle the bigger one.

Like this then life's will be easier. hahaha.


Ok last one, I've been reading books to prep myself to parents a teenager. Indeed it ain't easy since puberty will come around during that period of time. Even in Inside out movie (good movie! you should watch it!) there is this puberty button LOL it was so funny! 

I think the parenting skills of teenager will be totally new for me. Be friends with your kids and your kid's friends, giving freedom and control occasionally. Listen to them. Understand them. Support them. Well, the list goes on and on and I'm scared but I believe with God's strength, nothing is impossible. 

Phew I didn't know parenting such a tedious job! But seeing her grow day by day is indeed such a joy!


So all is good...Ahh I feel much better now. 


-Deb-



Wednesday, 9 September 2015

My Pet Peeves

I found this draft in my blog since 2013.

When I read it, I found myself an immature bitch who thinks that the world only revolves around me. 

Shameful!

OMG and my writing skills were sucks too.

Double shameful!


It never occurred to me that some of these pet peeves were and are still haunting me till these days.  

Of course I LOL-ed and redo this post before publishing it… But first put disclaimer yo!

Disclaimer: These pet peeves are entirely my own and genuine opinion. There’s never been my intention to offend certain group of people regardless of race, nationality, and gender.
You don’t have to read it if you don’t want to, but well, this is my blog so I can write whatever I want!

Read it or leave it. J


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Ok for those who stay? Let’s start, shall we?


  1. I hate smokers. Cigarettes scent magically triggers migraine in my brain and of course, ruin my makeup/ dress/ mood for the whole entire day. I won’t let them (and their Cigarettes butt) ruins my day
  2. I hate two-face people. I had once a friend, who always cannot make up her mind and keep on changing minds or opinion.  Oh dear! Not only I feel pressure in front of her but I also feel so little and cautious to voice out my opinion when she’s around. Just in case, one minute she agrees with me, another minute, she against me.
  3. I hate laid back people
Dearest spoon-fed and laid back people in the world.
God must have His reasons when He created Larry Page and Sergey Brin
If you don’t know them, please use their creation, Google.
Ok. Thank you.

  1. I hate people who judges.
Sorry to write a little bit of personal here, the reason why I left my previous Indo group due to many reasons. One of the reasons is because, too many politics and dramas…My life’s so much drama already and I don’t wish to get involved, please. So I stopped going there and start to join Adult service instead.Which turned out to be the best decision in my life. I can attend adult service, Giselle can attend Sunday school, No more drama. LOL. Win Win situation.

  1. I hate people who don’t listen.
Do you know that God gives us 2 ears and 1 mouth so that we can listen more and talk less!?

Ok, now you know.

Sorry, too much of negativity on my post here, I need to balance out by listening to worship songs.

Next post will be how to tackle negative thoughts (by using bible verses ya!)

Thanks for reading.  

Bye!


-Deb-