Thoughts

Random thoughts, reflections and dreams

June 19, 2013

Writer’s Workshop: Even Back Then

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts mama kat's writers workshop, thursday two questions

Tiger girl now at 2.5yrs old

Being 2.5yrs old is certainly a nice age to be at. It’s an age where you gain your independence and the world and am not afraid to meet up to challenges that you may face. Everyday is a fun learning experience and you get to play the whole day. You are older now but still able to be regarded as a baby.

Help is readily rendered to you whenever you need help dressing up, being fed or face any obstacles. Little things in life either fascinate or annoy you. You do not hide your emotions but display them clearly on your face. You can be bubbly and happy one moment and change into a screaming terror the next when you feel that the world is caving onto you as you didn’t get the last sweet from the box. Lucky the trying moments with Tiger girl do not last that long and she is able to compose herself after the outburst and back to her happy and sweet self.

Tiger girl is at the stage where she is very keen to do everything her own self and questions your reasoning/explanations. It is good that she is learning how to analyze the different situations which she is in and also weigh in on the options that are presented to her.

I guess that it is a rite of passage that all toddlers go through. I once was like how Tiger girl is behaving at the moment. I don’t really have any recollection of how it was being 2.5 years old. All that I have with me are the photographs which my mom took of me and my sister when we were on vacations back then.

Tiger girl and me

I would certainly been friends with myself back then. I think it would have been great fun to have an interactive living doll to accompany me.

How were you like at your youngest child’s age?

Would you have been friends with yourself?

June 16, 2013

Celebrating our 12th Wedding Anniversary

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts

Our Studio Picture

12 years ago on this date we took our vows to be man and wife. In the presence of GOD , family and friends at Sacred Heart Church we dedicated our lives to the sanctify this union.

It was a match made overseas as we got to know each other while we were both studying in Melbourne. I was 18 and he was 25 when we got to know each other. We were studying in the same faculty and he was my senior. He was from Hong Kong and was staying on campus in a different dormitory from me.

You can say that it was fate that brought us together. We were are the correct place at the correct time to be able to meet and have sparks flying. It wasn’t love at first sight but certainly one that has been enduring the trials and tribulations which have come our way. Even back then I knew that R was the one for me and that he is the person who I want to spend the rest of my life with.

At that time some of my friends felt that I was being naive by allowing myself to be tied down at the age of 21. However I choose to believe otherwise. I believe in seizing the chance when it comes and not let it slip away. If the person feels right to be with why should I give up the chance?

I don’t believe in having to build up a career before I can think about settling down. Nobody says we can’t do everything together and what may have worked for other couples may not work for us so why must we follow suit? The rebel in me made me all the more determined to make sure that I have a game plan so that I’ll be able to have both career and family at the same time.

Through these 12 years we have experienced our fair share of joy, sorrow and pain as we moved from a couple to parents of three kids. It’s only fitting that we will be celebrating our wedding anniversary overseas this year in one of the most romantic places in Asia.

Happy 12th Anniversary R

Our studio shot