still more on the spotty news alert!

Well, there you have it. Danial has joined our spotty group since thursday and his 14 mth old cousin Niklas too has join in since friday night. It's spreading like the australian wildfire and there's no containment needed now. Let it spread!
My children's cousins has never got it before despite coming into contact with varicella virus infected children in the daycare which they went. So they have been quizzing all the time how come they get away with it when their mom want them to "get it over and done with!". So now she can just "get it over and done with!"

Jana Maria managed to not scratch her pox, I tried my best, Hadi Johan can't keep his hands away from his crotch and head but Danial.........he scratch everywhere and there's no stopping him. Wonder what he will look like when it is over.

ugliest people

Man!!! Am I UGLY!
Yes, that's right! I am all spotty and hideous. Sad to say this but so is my once such a cute boy Hadi Johan. We both look terrible. I got chicken pox!! Trying very very very hard not to scratch but always forget so I ask my husband permission first if I can be allowed to be ugly should the marks stay. You never know, just in case. Not really ask permission but you know what I mean. Sort of like, if I'm ugly, will you still have me?? That sort of thing.

sick

My mil birthday was on monday but I have been sick since sunday night. I got mastitis just because I forgot to put on my scarf when I go to sunday school with Jana Maria. Anyway, I've got high fever and still is sick now so hope I get better real soon because it is really pissing me off (excuse the foul language). Not only that, now Hadi Johan has contracted chicken pox and who knows, Danial might be next month. So all Hadi Johan does now is cry and be cranky. Poor him!

it's tea time

here's a site that I just read today, found it by mistake but glad I did because she can really write lots of stuff on her berbalas pantun site. I can never "pantun" but I like to read it or hear it. Really miss the "pantun" session on radio channels in Singapore. Cannot remember what it is called now though.

EEG

Danial went for EEG today at 1300hrs. Lucky for me, the "stuðul" were there. Joan and Una were waiting for me and Danial was so happy to see me. I left him at 1330hrs however as Hadi Johan was at home alone. I just had to go to the hospital and speak to the EEG technician myself to make sure she will not administer any barbiturates or sedation to Danial without my consent.
Hanus had to go to work thus he cannot look after Hadi Johan. I cannot bring Hadi Johan along as to avoid interruption in the EEG procedure room.
Lucky for me, Danial has kind and competent "stuðul" (support worker) so they assured me that they can stay with Danial and I can go home to be with Hadi Johan as it is not safe to leave a 10 month old baby sleeping alone at home. Joan drove me home and Una will bring Danial home with her this weekend. It is Danial's "umlætting" weekend. I think umlætting is like respite care. I am lucky to get it for Danial twice a month. Wish it is 3 nights instead of 2 nights but still it is better than nothing or once a month like before.

he knows how to have fun

Guess what Hadi Johan has been doing? Well let us see.....
hmmm. While I was busy typing my replies to Elaine and Maggie's comment on my blog to post, he press the off button! It happened so many times already. I always ended up not updating my blog because of things like this. Ano today while I am here typing this, complaining to you all, there he goes emptying all the drawers that was filled with his face towels, socks, and underwears. He sure knows how to have fun!

I think I remember what I type yesterday. Here goes:-

I said, Well Elaine and Maggie, you girls have to wait for the pictures of Jana Maria's room as it is not finished yet. I am still painting it off and on when I can squeeze time in between an actively crawling baby who don't sleep in the daytime (neither at night for that matters actually)and the piles of housework everyday. By the way, the mosquito net is still not in Faroe Island yet so I'll have to wait for it to actually reach here and buy it before I can sew roses on it. As for the border with princess and frog prince motifs, it wasn't here yesterday but they just call me half hour ago that it has arrived from Denmark so I can go and pay for it.

As for Begum, I type this yesterday.
You were supposed to go and tell Fatah and Helmi that I wish them a Happy Birthday as their birthday falls on the same day of the month which is 19th october except they are 2 years apart. Maybe my elder sis and youngest sis actually plan on this?? You never know. So Begum (my third sis) do that! Thanks. Tell adik I couldn't call because my cellphone couldn't work so cannot SMS her first to ask if I can call her before I call her.

You see, there's this thing about her husband. Because I married an Ang Moh who is not Muslim, her husband don't allow her to keep in contact with me. My own sister, can you believe it?? So if I call her and he happened to pick up the phone, I have to hang up. Or if he's around when I call, she will just say yes or no and then said she's busy so that they don't end up arguing over me after we finished conversation. Terrible ya?

By the way, I did most of the painting yesterday and now is just left with one side of the wall only. and another thing, we tried out the "fimmleik" class that Danial was enrolled in and turn out........I have to forget about it with Danial as he is not like other special needs children either who can actually listen to instructions and do what they are being told. So I am cancelling his 2fimmleik" (gymnastics) class and will inquire if I can enrolled Jana Maria instead. She is driving me nuts every morning with this plea. She begs us to allow her to go to "fimmleik" every day and night. I think one of the reason why she readily give up using the diapers was that I told her only big girls who do not use diapers can enrolled in fimmleik.

Today I sign up for Hadi Johan to go for swimming classes. It will begin 5th November though. I think he is going to like it.

Now I am going to get ready as we (Danial's parent) must attend a meeting at the new special daycare that will open up on 1st December and hopefully Danial will be admitted to this daycare for children with special needs and disabillities.

feel handicapped

What a scare it was !!
I was cut off from my computer for more than a week.........can you imagine that?

Worse, I can't even do what I want to do. Which is finish Jana Maria's room downstairs.
I've finally bought pale lavender paint mixed with sparkling pink glitter to add some magical touch to it. Just need to finish painting the rest of the room in light purple and pink border then hand paint some flowers inbetween cutout figures of disney princesses. She's crazy about her room now. Bought a rocking chair for her today. I've spent some money on new curtains and matching bedspread for her. Now I am just waiting for the shop to call me as soon as they receive shipment of "mosquito net" drapery to hang over her bead. I am going to sew some roses on it too.

By the way, she got the chicken pox virus since last wednesday. So you can just imagine how spotty her face is.

shocked

I just read on Sunita's blog about the Singaporean bloggers that got caught for racial remarks about malays muslims. What a terrible thing to hear. In a way I feel safe where I am right now. I know that I can write discriminating remarks about the faroese or myself and it will not be discriminating or considered libel because of the freedom of speech here or the rights to opinions. what is wrong with having opinions of others? Maybe what they wrote is bad and wrong, yes I agree but if there is no freedom of speech..........then everybody is a liar right?? Religion teaches us to say good things and the truth. Thus if it is not the truth, then it is a lie. Thats bad.

I edit this on 18th october. when I got back my computer after servicing last week. so a bit backdated now.

food and movie

Well, last night Sharon came over for a visit. She had been spending her time sleeping at home since Ivan has been mostly out for church activities or watching football matches at friends houses. She would have liked to go for the church activites however as all of them are conducted in Faroese languages, it is not feasible for her. Just like me, I am not able to attend most meetings or bring my children for sunday schools as it is conducted in faroese. Now that I can understand, I simply cannot go due to responsibilities at home. ie-Danial, breastfeeding Hadi Johan and cooking for family. I know Jana Maria will be able to understand and enjoy being there but who can take her and be with her?

Back to the topic......Sharon and I decide to make fried rice last night. At first we couldn't decide on whether to make chilli prawn sambal flavour or hot curry flavour but when I open my last pack of dried anchovies, the choice was made clear. We decided on chilli Prawn Sambal and added more chilli powder to make it extra spicy. So at 10pm at night, we cook rice, fried it with the chilli paste and anchovies and added 2 eggs.......Voila! We ended up with a fantastically spicy yummy food to accompany our chosen DVD film for the night.

We watch "in the cut" starring Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo. Not a bad movie. It is actually and erotic thriller. I didn't know it until after Sharon left, I switch on my Sky digital box and there on the sky movie channel was the same movie. I read the info and it was categorised as erotic thriller with Kevin Bacon.

I was so frightened while watching the movie itself because I keep on trying to guess who's the killer. I keep on changing my minds many times. Ofcourse on some scenes I have to close my eyes and keep on asking Sharon to tell me what's going on, who's in the room, is the killer there. what does he look like, who is dead, what happened now, stuff like that.
I tell you I am terrible at horror movie or thriller. I get so scared that I have nightmares for weeks after movies like that. I still have nightmares now from watching "Skeleton Key" last month!

Anyway, Sharon left just after 12mn. We are not sure when to make the next date. Maybe when both of us are better. We were coughing a lot last night, mine is wet and hers is dry. It's like a competition. Me and my throaty voice, and we still ate spicy food!

She make a remark yesterday which left me thinking. She said, it is funny that we never think about what we eat before when we are in Singapore. It's until we are in another country then we realise how difficult it is to get hold of our favourite food. Singapore is a food paradise. We are food lovers. Here, I think its the food suicide. No further comment can be added to this.

I am thinking of inviting Putri, Kristina and Sharon again maybe this friday night for lamb briyani since we cannot get hold of mutton here you see.
Mutton would be "shiok" (as Sunita explain what shiok mean).


hmmm.........wish I'm like Elaine, can eat and eat and eat and never put on weight. She sure explained to us what she eat when she's out or at work. Lucky girl she is!!

sick

I was sick for the last 4 days :-((. Too sick to even sit and type something comprehensible to understand. I can tell you though that despite all that fever, chills and coughs, I still managed to bring myself to attend dinner at Sharon&Ivan’s place on Saturday night, attend formal lunch at Conny’s place (Tonni’s confirmation day) and dinner at Eyrith&Niels’ place. By Monday morning, I couldn’t get up, talk or think! Sharon called me yesterday to say she’s coming over for a visit. Lucky for her she called first......or else she would have to walk home as I was too sick to sit up. I did tell her that I will see her today so she said she will come visit me today or maybe tonight? I am not sure. I think I will sleep early tonight. I can’t entertain that’s for sure now that Hadi Johan is also sick :-((
Jana Maria was at home yesterday as she too had been sick since Monday. She was throwing up and having runny stool. I had to put her back on diapers as it was too runny. Why, it even run down her thigh in a puddle through the diapers.........poor her. She keep on saying, “mummy, I am not baby. I am a big girl now. I just use pampers because I am sick”.
So I gave her my “secret” remedy for diarrhoea. I make a cup of very strong and sweet tea with no milk. I gave it to her and said this is a medicine made for this type of sickness.....hey presto! It work. No more diarrhoea. Or vomiting. My mom knows many things and this is one of the thing she taught me when I was a young girl.
She is daycare today :-))