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I find this song very soothing and pleasant to the ears. It is dedicated to all mothers! Just listen even though you may not understand or have to translate, do so!

Blessed 2011 & a Happy Lunar New Year!

January passed by so fast that it was impossible for me to write in the blog on time and now it is February! I'll better pen in something before the next month catches up on me! We had a quiet New Year this year at home watching the TV to see the countdown for both New Years!! What does 2011 bring or what do we have to do? For Joerg, it will be a busy year as he tries to shuffle his many projects in Johor Bahru, Singapore and Germany! Well, at least he will have one less (he will be finished with the KL project by end of February) and try to concentrate on the rest! So far Mersing is progressing slowly with the fencing and no further improvement on the Singapore flat! It is actually a horror to see the flat at Sherwood Towers thinking how much one pays for this 'rubbish' when compared to a lovely bungalow with the same price in Johor Bahru! Ouch!
Below some pictures of Mersing!


And some pictures of Singapore apartment!

The bathroom The living room and masterbedroom!

I have upload my CNY cookies in the facebook and so you all have seen it by now. Tomorrow I'll have to bake a birthday cake for Joerg as his birthday is coming up soon. Hmmmph .....How 'young' will that be?

December News!

Now we are into the last month of the year and what a fast pace it had been! I realized that I am slower with getting things done and tire more easily due to not enough sleep and menopause? Well I am looking forward to the holidays when I don't need to get up at 5am and have enough rest! Today we just have an apple crumble with raisins for our tea break to celebrate our 3rd Advent! Wait a minute, I didn't post any thing for our 1st and 2nd advent.... What did we have? For the 1st Advent we had Mandeln Stollen and Lemon Pie, 2nd advent we had Mandeln Stollen, Apple Strudel & ice cream with Soo Hwa, Wei Wei, Stephanie, Lina, Kevin and Kimberley. We saw how our tortoise climbed up the stairs! (pictures taken by Wei Wei) Throughout the weeks was my constant struggle with Niki over his online games, talk with Herr Volker at school and going in and out of Singapore to make sure that we have enough money to cover our postdated cheque due on the 20/12/2010 for the payment of our apartment at Sherwood Towers! Until this moment we still do not have enough S$! Anyway, let me post some pictures to make this blog more interesting.......
See how I can manage?

What's new?

On the 9/11/2010 Joerg was involved in an accident at Enstek, Sepang, near his working place. Fortunately nothing happened to him or the driver of the other car! Our poor 4wheel Toyota has lost one of its 'eyes' and the bumper and side were badly dented! Look at the other driver pointing his fingers at Joerg and look at his proton!



Now we still have to claim his insurance but the bad news is that they will replace with 2nd hand parts as the 4wheel is considered 'old'! The car is at the workshop and we don't know how long it will be 'hospitalised'!




Then we went to collect the BMW which was also costing us a lot of RM since we bought it! Every weekend it is also landing at the workshop! The last complain was the brake pump which was rather dangerous said Mr Chin the mechanic! Let's keep our fingers crossed that there will be no more surprises!
So, we will take a look at the weekly progress of our fence in Mersing....

Our life in Johor Bahru and Mersing........

The 1st week of November is gone and we have another time of teenage rebellion with Dominik. On Thursday, his friend Till was supposed to come home with him but he was not given permission by his parents. So Niki decided to go to his friend, Jannis' place without any prearrangement with me. At 6pm he was still not home but sent me an sms to say that he wanted to stay overnight at Jannis. If I don't like it then he can stay overnight at Till! Then he sms me to say that he was on his way to Till's home. (After Vati's call with Till's mum we realised that he had lied where he was!) Well, I didn't agree as it was not discussed before and would like him to come home. After rejecting our phone calls, we decided to contact the parents of Till after many tries. When we finally got through, the mother of Till called his son and managed to convey our message that Niki should call us back to say that he is on his way home! He only came home at 11pm! What a theatre! Vati has a serious tell off with Niki and warn him that we will sent him to the boarding school if he continues on misbehaving! After much thought I am thinking it might not be a bad idea to prevent further friction between us and they will also teach/guide him and help him to do his homework! The costs is also not so far off from the schooling in Singapore! This may be one alternative....
Our Mersing project proceeds with the fence......
First week....

Second week.....

Third week....

And who is visiting my garden?

Our garden tortoise was getting adventurous and heading for the water pond!

November 2010!

Whoa, the last post was in August and now we are in November! Heh, what happened in September and October?? Both months were not a healthy time for me as I was down with migraine, menopausal symptoms, cough and influenza and finally stomach aches and cramps! Fortunately we have Sabine & Stefan to distract me of my misery! Sabine also brought along Remifermin to help me with my menopause discomfort! Dominik has 1 week Autumn holidays and so we could join them in KL and Ipoh! In Ipoh, we stayed at the railway station hotel which was old and not well maintained. We went to 'makan' at the famous chicken taugeh kwayteow restaurant but the famous dim sum restaurant was under renovation. We ended up in a neighbouring restaurant with dim sum too. I bought lots of biscuits and pomelos, things which Ipoh is famous for!






We had a reunion dinner with my family members in Puchong with two full tables of 10 course dinner!




Boo.... that's what I want to say!
Meanwhile after school started for Niki on the 18/10, we have only complaints from the teachers that Niki has been failing all his tests and undone homework for the first quarter of the new school year! Well, I have anticipated it since he was only on the laptop most of the time right till midnight although the next day was test! Anyway we had a lot of discussions and talks and Niki finally decided that he wants to do better for his studies and he's going to try harder for the 2nd quarter to avoid going to the 'hauptschule' standard - but he really has to work extra hard like in a marathon race...... Must finish the race even if it is gruelling!
The next thing we did was we finally purchase our apartment in Singapore at Sherwood Towers, Jalan Anak Bukit! We have been a few times to look at several apartments and hesitate to buy as it was so expensive. But we did an impromptu purchase last month (10.10.2010!) for a 1388sq ft. apartment. Did we do the correct thing? Well, time will tell..... So, beginning next year we have to start on the renovation works for this place and Joerg will be busy also with our Mersing project. Well, are we prepared for a busy 2011??? Not forgetting, Sabine and Stefan will be shifting to Singapore too.... 2011 - It will be a year of many changes......