We brought Nat for his last jab on Saturday. Now, we were really not quite sure how he was going to react. It has really been a while since the last jab and he has since grown much more talkative and more aware of surroundings.

The night before, I told him that we would be visiting the doctor and she would be giving him a little poke here *jabs at thigh*. Yes, he replied.

The next day, as we chatted with Dr on his developments and she went on with the checks, he was engaged with the toys on Doc’s table. She took the chance to do the jab while he was engrossed trying to figure out the rolling-thingy-toy. And, to my surprise and pride, he didn’t make a wee squeak! In fact, he only turned back to look at his butt where the jab was, and then looked at Doc and back to the toy!

Very cool.

Hahaha, so much for worrying if he would be distracted enough!

When I was settling the payment…

nurse :: Wow, he didn’t cry at all huh! He’s a man!

Wahahaha, my little man!

I knew I was out of touch when I saw a few ladies wearing them fitflops and as I pointed them out to tehpeng, he said ‘oh, this was what lish updated about on her facebook status”.

So I went in search of them with Dada and found that fitflops didn’t quite fit my feet. Or my toes.

I’ve always had a problem looking for chic flipflops. I have no issue with Old Navy or Havianas types, but if only they come with more bling!

So I had some fun poking around, trying on blingy sandals. It must be a sign of age-ing!

Finally settled on a blingy pair and went merrily on the usual round to smell the leather. Was quite taken by the new Miumiu(in blue!), which looks really similar to the PS1. According to the sales lady, the bag is sturdy enough for laptop and document. Hmmm….

Then my toes found comfort in this pair of jellyshoes. As much a cynic as I am about jello-shoes, they are really comfy. And I was looking at the yellow pair. Nothing short of making a statement with a bright colour (other than bling!).

Certainly, it is a sign of age-ing. Or otherwise known as a maturing of taste.

(Finally something non-nat on my blog.)

When Nat went on the motorbike, the movie 烈火战车 came to mind.

Who can forget Andy Lau on the bike scene? And with blood streaming down his face. So iconic. Heehee.

As we sat around the table and told my dad of his grandson bedtime tactics and us having to count to 100 and back (which tehpeng had to do that last night, although we thought Nat was all tired out from an evening of play and fun catching the Chingay floats with silver_crv & family), he recounted that I was good - I was asleep by the time he counted to 20.

WAHAHAHAH! 不亏是Little Snooze!

Actually, when tehpeng took over the countdown to sleep duty last night, I was out by the time he counted past 5. Wahahahaha.

After telling the same ole story of 3 cars racing for the Piston cup for a few nights (and alot more), this mummy has to think of other short stories! It’s hard to stay enthusiastic after repeats.

I realised Nat likes to have someone talking while he tries to doze off, as if to assure him that mummy or daddy is still around (and not sneaked off to the other room to watch tv or work…heehee).

So last few nights, I managed to pull out some tricks off my sleepy sleeve:

1) talk about the North line of the MRT, since trains are his other pet topic. So I rattle off each station from Raffles Place onwards and try to tell him accompanying little stories….“Orchard Station, mummy’s favourite stop. There’s Orchard Ion, Paragon, Takashimaya and we can go for dimsum!” etc etc.

2) count 1 to 100 and then in 2x table…hahaha!!

These are nights when he was good and just dozed off, letting mummy rattle off. There are some nights he simply won’t let go and would be trying his little tricks to stay awake. Claiming he’s thirsty, claiming his insect bite is ‘pain’ etc etc.There are nights when he would ask for another bottle of milk!

Just the other night, he got too much for me and I went in a stern voice “Are you going to sleep? If not, I send you outside and sleep with Kaizer!”

He immediately fell silent and fake-snored!

That made me laugh out loud and tehpeng (who was fake sleeping, in a bid to influence Nat) too! Hiyah.

Really wonder how (and where!) they learn such tricks to amuse us!

One of the rare days I managed to get out for lunch, it was a dept lo-hei lunch and it was just across from the office. We happened to walk past the Samsonite store and was attracted to the current promotion of a $299 luggage with trade-in of any luggage (which will be donated to Salvation Army).

Now, not that we needed a new luggage but the promo was quite good and one of our work-horse luggage was kinda wobbly anyway. So, after consultation with tehpeng (got to love having the iphone - snap a pic and email!), we decided to go for it. It will come in handy for our HK trip next month.

And I realised why I like online shopping much. No need to deal with or face sub-standard service.

As I didn’t want to lug the luggage to office, I asked if I can pick it up later. The sales guy said,ok. The transaction was done and the receipt was given to me.

lilsnooze :: Erm do you need to write down somewhere that I’ve yet to collect the luggage?

Sales guy :: Ah yes.

*does nothing* And lilsnooze gives the “yes???” look. He finally plucks off a piece of post-it and asked for my name and contact details. My receipt number was not even tagged to it.

Sales guy :: you must come early tomorrow cos Im on morning shift and I scared my colleague mix up.

lilsnooze :: But I paid for it. You should have to keep 1 for me and label it as sold or smthing!?

Anyway, I left it as that and left, cos I am not going to tell him how to do his job.

Thankfully, tehpeng came to pick me up so I went after work to collect the luggage.

The same sales guy took one out from the carton box and in doing so, toppled the new luggage against the edge of a cupboard. And.there. was.a.scratch.

lilsnooze :: It’s scratched!

Sales guy :: Luggage use, sure will scratch.

Lilsnooze :: But it’s new and I’ve not used it yet!

Tehpeng said its ok (less I kick up a further fuss, maybe?) and we left with the luggage.

I was honestly cheesed off by the sales guy’s attitude. I am considerably not a demanding person and I would not have insisted for a new luggage to be given to me (I’m really not that fussy) but his reply was “cannot-make-it”! And truly un-acceptable.

Im not in the retail industry but the seemingly right way to answer a customer in such a situation would be an apology and an offer to give me another luggage. No?!

Gimme online shopping anytime. Email queries are answered promptly and nicely!

Pink is the new red.

I find myself more receptive to the idea of wearing colours for the festive period. It must be a sign of age(ing). I remembered resisting colours in yesteryears. Still, I need some sombre colours to mute the dress, for work puposes. I need the dress for work too.

I wasn’t really looking for CNY clothes, but I thought having some colours to my usual black/grey/white work ensemble would be nice.

And it happens to fit the father-son matching outfits which tehpeng bought.

恭贺大家心想事成，健康快乐 ！