mum & her tumour

Mum found out she had a tumour in her braind in 2009, when i was just few months pregnant with lil Jared.. we were devastated.. how could such thing happen, and to my mum..The tumour was diagnosed aftr a MRI was done. the eye doctor was so good, that, the initial suspect from us that mum got cataract, but after the doc examine mum's eye, they found something not right, which to us, nothing is wrong with mum's eye movement.. so it was that, how mum found out she had a tumour on her brain which presses on her left eye nerve.

We went to the neurologist, and my aunt recommend doctor (Assoc Professor) Ivan as her friend's mum had brain tumour and was successfully operater by him. he is the doctor who attend to Lee KY's wife. So, we went to him, he managed to remove mum's tumour, mum was given a all clear and her vision resume after the operation in August 2009.

But, the good news did not last long.. ever since last year, mum started to find her lft eye vision is deteriorating.. i have been asking her to go for check up for her eyes, but she is the typ who do not want to accept reality, as in she rather don't want to know than to know what is going on.. she said, what's there to chck, im already old kinda thing.

well, after discussions with sis, we finally get her to go back to eeye centre, which we were right, we were too ate actually, mum was diagnosed with glaucoma, but the eye pressure was too high, that her vision was affected, it was not reversable, so we did a laser for her to reduce and control her eye pressure, it was done in March. her left eye vision was blurred since. even after the laser procedure, it did not help.

in June, as follow up for her glaucoma, her vision was detected to be detriorating too fast, he eye nerve was weak. so, the panel doctors had a discussions on my mum's case and Dr, Ivan again into the picture, we did anothr round of MRI. they saw a very small tumour (left over) but active, it started to grow around the eye nerve. it's in mm, which to some, it may not pose any problem. but to mum, as the way the tumour grow, it pressed on mum's left eye nerve.

Thus, mum was suggested to do radiosurgery to stop the growth. We wll be doing it end of this month. Mum already went for her consultation for this procedure, did her mask, and will be doing anothe round of pre-procedure MRI & CT scan.

Mum is quite demoalising, but when thing happen, we just have to find cure/solution, yes, it's ok to feel sad about the situation, but we still have to move on..i told her. at least, there is a cure for it, and we are here with her.

Life sometimes is so unpredictable, mum is very healthy, exercises and hardworking, she eats simple and never hve unhealthy habits, and why tumour. it's just unexplainable.

Finger cross, mum will be ok after this radiosurgery.

I wish her nothing but pink of health.

May 11: Mother's Day Dinner

Late Post.

we celebratd mother's day. not myself as mother but my mother in law one weekend beforre actual mother's day. Well, i guess i can only wait till my kids grow up, then i can have this status to celebrate mother's day..We hd our dinner at "Pu Tien" very nice food. will revisit.

some photos for memory

i like to see missy and her grandpa's talking time. the grandpa is teaching her to use chopstick, she is more on playing and not paying attention mode. she is enjoying the dinner tt night as she ate on her own and ate most of it on her plate. Very good girl !



lil boy is asking for food all the tim, we eat, he also wants to eat, eventhough he already had his milk. and he is busy pulling plates, tear tissues..touch this and that..i ask him "didi, look here, smile smile" and this is how he looks like



After dinner, missy is busy squeezing with the brother




Family photos.. but never able to get one with the two kids looking up at camera the same time.



Happy Mother's day. As for my mum, i bought her hush puppies shoes, which she like very much. she said no need dinner la, everyday eat together already. well, ok la. dun force her.

Vegetarian lunch @ Mandarin Hotel

We went to the yearly sakadita lunch, it's donated by LGG's aunt. we just help her fill up the table.

missy and her pose..




didi like little tauke sitting with his feet up some more !


some snaps with the kiddos..

COmpany Xmas Party- Universal Studio

This year my company Xmas party was at Universal Studio Singapore !..somehow it was expected as this seemed like trend for most company to have their family day at USS.

so, off we went today, missy,LGG & I. I told missy we are going to see puss in the boots. which she has been reading this story with her daddy. as i cant tell her shrek or mascagascar these are not so familiar to her. so she is very excited cos she said "mummy,where is puss in the boots ? we go and see now?" all the way.

It was a Free & Easy trip, we got the tickets before hand and just go on our own into the park. We started off with Merry go round in Madagascar, missy is very curious. but quite unexpected, she cried when we were half way through the merry-go-round, she said she is frightened as the animals we were sitting on will move up and down with the misic while going around. aiyaaa.. so, after the musical round, we jst be cautious with things we play, as missy is not as "adventurous" as we thought she is. she refuse to play most of the things..



Even when we are taking pictures with the cartoon character like panda. hippo.. she is excited when we are in the queue, she said she want to take photos, but when it was out turn, she is chicken out, and refuse to take with the cartoon character, she is scared .. alamak.. so we got to carry her to take the photos..

We ended up, shopping in the shops instead, which she is ok. and we onlywent for 4D show after our lunch. the rest of the games all no no to missy..

well, make me think twice abt my next year plan to go HK disneyland, we may ended up just walking around without playing any of the games..

Some photos before we went USS.. missy is all excited.We took the monorail into the aterfront station where USS is located.


Some photos with the globe.









i bought my betty boops comb this round, last time i didn 't buy it as i feel it was quite x. but this round, i bought it, cos i need a new comb, and it'll be just fun the have betty. hee.. and we got missy a better boops notebook, which she chose herself.




We bought some T-Rex shirts one for didi, one for missy at Jurrasic park gift shop, one for LGG. then, we got some magnets, including betty boops magnet. we got a Universal studios Singapore shirt for mum too. and we bought the woody woodpecker kid's lunch box($8.80), i bought two, one for missy and one for myself, as i want to keep the lunch box for didi next time. and we bought the woody woodpecker pop corn but really so much pop corn inside, eat till we feel sore throat.but the container is darn cute, $14.90 one really slash tourist.





Missy seems happy only when we took photos with woody woodpecker. maybe the character appeared friendly. The 4D show was really good. Thumbs up ! When the character in the show sneezes we have water splashes on our face.. and we can feel the wind when there are wind in the show.. really fantastic.

Overall, it was quite ok. a very outdoor xmas party ever we had.

After the USS, we came back home, missy slept on the way home. and we went to missy's ebglish teacher's wedding, malay wedding, the first we ever attended. really nothing special, the food are cold, not much to eat. and nothing to see. very very plain. maybe it's how malay have their wedding at void deck. not like chinese with fantastic food, fantastic photos, music and all. their is karaeok. so weird.




very tiring day. but we have fun. great experience.

LGG Birthday

We had a small celebration at home for LGG's bday. I bought a mango cake, yes for a change instead of the usual chocolate cake/ice cream cake.

Not bad, quite refreshing. Happy Birthday, my dear hubby ! May you stay healthy and happy always! Muack !

My 33th Birthday @ Home

I've been toying with the thoughts of baking my own birthday cake, using the steam moist chocolate cake recipe, this time with the chocolate fudge, feling qite lazy actually.

Today morning, LGG ask whether want to celebrate at Jack's place or Swensen.. mm.. well.. im also lazy to go out..so i decided to celebrate at home instead.

so, i started preparing the ingredients and all..steam the cake. then make the chocolate fudge (first time i make this) and hey, it turned out sooo well.. really after stirring for 10 minutes, it turned into fudge..in short, the cake, +the choclate fudge,, makes into my birthday cake..i deco it with some m&m choclates.which suppose to have more, but most ended up into Missy's mouth..*eyes rolling*



Missy is suppose to help mummy putting the m&m chocolate onto mummy's chocolate birthday cake, but she refuses to put them on, she "steal" the chocolate away instead. Lucky im fast to "protect" the rest of the m&m.. else my cholate cake will be real plain..




AFtr the chocolate cake is ready, i put them into fridge as we have to get ready like bath and all..and i askmaid to fry some french fries + seaweed nuggets + sotong ball (yeah, all fried )

Then i thought.. mm.. i have a bunch of bananas that;s riping.. why not make some banana chocolate chips muffins ( this is one of my want-to-do list) so ok lah.. go ahead ! since i still have lots of chocolate fudge left, i might as well put the fudge on top of my muffin after it's ready ? *good idea*. so i ditch the chocolate chips and replace it with left over chocolate fudge,, today will be all chocolate & fried food.. *sinful*

So tt's how we have banana muffin with fudge and missy's one candle muffin "birthday" cake.. she just love birthday. by the way, the banana muffin simply good...



Missy cant wait to help mummy to put the candles on the cakes, we make our birthday wishes and sing LGG sings birthday song for us.. and oh. only 3 candles on my cake.. cos we run out of birthday candles..nvm la..and the cake from fridge seem to crack a bit, so, next time better serve it warm.. else, not so presentable.. hee



my chocolate fudge cake +muffin



some photos, well, i may say some last few photos with JUST ther three of us, before our new member joins along soon.



HAppy Birthday to myself ! one year older and one year wiser..so my next wish is my bb boy comes to us healthily and safely !

Missy & Daddy @ McD

Sunday, again we drop by McD before SM class startd. i like the two together, they have great smiles..

that day, missy helps LGG to bring one pack of sugar + 1 pack of condense milk + 1 stirrer.. not bad, she seems to observe wat her daddy needs to drink coffee eventhough LGG already get those in place..

missy enjoys her hashbrown.

Missy's outing

Been lazy to write in blog.. seems like facebook is easier.. cos photos say it all.. haa.. but i still think with words, it explain more and few years down the road i can still recall what happen and how much fun we had.. etc..

Last week we finally went to Marina Barrage , a place SAHM always bring their kiddos to. So we decided to pay a visit to this "wonderful" invention and new outing..

I guess all Singaporean will feel proud of Marina Barrage, tt's how i felt from my DH & his family..i just feel wow.. nice place for kiddo to run about and for odler kids to learn abt the invention of the reservoir and how they use so much technology to complete it. SImple great effort and amazing !




We will visit again !