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......