Tag: My 7 Vanity Sense Facts

Tagged by Mommibee. It's funny that us as mums tagging other mums on this topic since we merely have time for many other things let alone our beauty. It might not be the last on my long list but it certainly is not the first, or second, or third... Took the Vanity Quiz and rated

You Are 23% Vain

Okay, so you're slightly vain from time to time, but you're not superficial at all. You are realistic. You know that looks matter. You just try to make them matter less.

How Vain Are You?

Yeah, it's true. So don't expect much from these:

1. I don't have sensitive skin, I have the opposite. So any kind of skincare works for me. I use those where you can buy from the supermarket shelf. I can never feel the difference.
2. I do the basic facial care everyday; cleanse, tone, and moisturise, plus the weekly exfoliate and mask. THAT'S IT!
3. Up to this day, I only went for facial twice.
4. The last time someone put make up on me was last year when I took my wedding photos. The last time I put make up on myself was...can't remember. It would probably take me an hour plus to apply a full make up. I do have the cosmetics but I think they're long past their expiry, most still untouched.
5. Eyebrow plucking - once a week, just to clear off the excess.
6. I wash my hair once every two days because the hair is too much and it takes a while for me to blow-dry them. No I don't do it like they do in hair salons. What I do is tilt my head down, and blow-dry from the back of my head, using my fingers as comb.
7. When I get a haircut, I'd say to the stylist, "Just cut whatever you like as long as it fits my face." Normally it won't be very short because I have a round face. When I was younger I used to bring photos of the haircut I wanted, but it never turn out that way so why bother?

I can honestly say that I was very vain in my school years, needed more attention then. In college still slightly vain, then moved on to uni, not so vain, and now I'm 23% vain. hehehe... Eddie doesn't like heavy make up but I think that he would like it if I use some make up. Ahhh...the advantages of being a full time mother, I can be excused most of the time.

I'd like to tag:

Shirley of Binky, blogging & such

Harimau of moments in a day

Mrs. Wallace of Mrs. Wallace Notes

Angeleyes of RamblingMoo

Rainqueen21 of Mommy's Make Money

7 Random things about me

Tagged by Mommibee.

1. I'd eat my breakfast, which normally would be a mixture of chocolate cereal and non-chocolate cereal with milk, before I brush my teeth. Unless we're going out for breakfast then of course I'd brush my teeth first.
2. When my room is messy, it is VERY messy. When my room is tidy, my drawers and wardrobe gets even messier.
3. I wish we would be able to move into our own home here in Adelaide with at least 3 bedrooms (so we'll always have a room for guests) and 2 bathrooms (so we'll always have one to use if the other is occupied).
4. I'm a pretty boring person. I hardly go out with friends, whom I hardly keep in touch. I bring Ethan to playgroup but I only keep the 'mums' relationship there. Eddie said something to me the other day that is very true, "Everyday you have the same routine, and every week you are just waiting for my day off to go out." :(
5. I wish I'd cook more for Ethan instead of feeding him baby food all the time. Both of us are getting bored. They just seem so convenient. I'd feed him our food but we normally eat after he sleeps. It's very hard for me to eat if I had to feed him at the same time. He's already 15 months old and I hope we can get out of the baby food habit before we go back to KL.
6. I'm a super duper major procrastinator.
7. I have a slight obsessive-compulsive-behaviour, where I'd prefer things in a certain way, or I do things in a certain number of times to get it perfect. For example, when I eat rice, let say there are two dishes, I will always alternate between the dishes when I eat them. If there are four dishes, I'd eat them in the same order I started. Another example is when I brush my teeth, it has to be in multiples of 5 strokes on each surface. Weird huh? I used to have more of these freakish habits before but I slowly got rid of them.

I would like to tag:

Mrs. Wallace of Mrs. Wallace Notes

JY of all the little things in life (my bro)

eiko of Dancing out! (couz)

yeloh-powah of yeloh-powah (BIL)

I don't know many mums, those I know have been tagged already. So I'm tagging my family!!!

Mini Hawke

Haha, got tagged by someone other than sis, this time by sweetpea. And since it's still quite new, I want to do this fast so I can tag others. I never get to tag anyone before because by the time the tag reaches me everyone I know has done it already.

The origin of Ethan is Hebrew. We're not Jewish, we have our religion but we're not religious. I don't know the history of the name but it means firm and strong. I didn't think of the name as what I wanted my child to be but when he arrived prematurely I thought this name really suits him. Got his name from the actor, Ethan Hawke. He's cute (but recently I find his teeth not very attractive) and the only Ethan I know. Turns out Ethan is one of the most popular baby names.

Another name considered was Justin. E for Eddie/Ethan and J for JoAnn/Justin. Didn't think of girls names at first because I've always wanted my first to be a boy. I was the one who thought of the names. But right after his birth the midwife asked us what's his name and Eddie's the one who said it. I was lying on the bed thinking, actually I wanted to have a few more choices but okay.

No Chinese name for him since we're Chinese illiterate. I wanted an 'invisible' Chinese name for him (cause mine is, my mum was pretty cool). I asked MIL for ideas. Then she said what for give Chinese name if you just want to call him Ethan? So what she did was just translate Ethan to Chinese, I also didn't learn to write. Then later I saw this TVB series and heard one that I really like, 'Tin Long' (in Cantonese). MIL told me it means fine weather. But we didn't use it anyway.

Instructions :

**Start Copy**

Proposition: What is the meaning of your kid’s name?

Requirements: write about what or how or why you giving the name to your kids.

Quantity: FIVE PEOPLE.

Tag Mode:
1st - You leave their blog and post link and add to the list below.
2nd - Let the blogger you want to tag know they been tagged by comment in their blog or etc.

1) Msaufong - Meaning Of SQ & Kiki’s name
2) Miche - My ACB
3) Sweetpea - My Little Fire
4) LiL'deviL - Mini Hawke

I would like to tag (my first time tagging others, this is fun!)

binky
Mrs. Wallace
RamblingMoo

My sis had already been tagged so I only have three to tag, sorry! Don't even know if Mrs. Wallace wants to be tagged, I don't see any tags on her blog.

5 ways my husband annoys me

Second tag also from sis, a few days ago actually. It's kinda difficult to do this tag not because I'm afraid that Eddie might read it but it's hard to find flaws in him. He's a good husband + good papa. I've been thinking for a few days and might be able to come up with some. Maybe as I write I'll be able to fill all up 10. Here goes...

1. He must wake up as late as he can, even on his day off. So I'd be the one to get up to feed breakfast to Ethan. He always say that I can wake him up earlier if I want him to do stuffs, but I'd prefer that he wake up earlier by himself voluntarily and offer help.

2. He doesn't take breakfast. If he does, it's instant noodle. He just loves instant noodles a lot and will use every opportunity to eat them. This really annoys me because everytime he cooks that as breakfast I'll be nagging him as if I'm his mother. The worse thing is that he'll just keep quiet and ignores me (like I'm his mother).

3. He's quite picky in what he eats and he doesn't like western food. He's a typical 'Cinapek' and worships rice. He's not the adventurous type, hard to get him to try new food. Once he found something he likes, that's the only thing he will order from that place. Everytime when we go out for lunch he would ask me what to have for lunch, then I would say this place (that I know he would prefer not to go) and he would give me the shocking "Har?!" sound, like "Must we?". With him it's always laksa or beef noodle for lunch, rice for dinner.

4. He's impatient. He doesn't like it when I take my time to shop. With him, he can just go into a shop, sees what he wants and grab it, no need to try. With me, go into many shops, pick many things, try on, choose colour, maybe buy one. Most of the time I ended up buying nothing because he started to get impatient and I don't like to be pressured. But I hardly shop for myself these days, only for Ethan. Another example is he can't wait for the computer to finish loading after it's turned on to start opening programs. Of course then it will take longer time to load and then he'll say to me, "Baby, hang jor" (hang already).

5. He must sleep late, like after midnight, and he must watch a show before he sleeps, it's like his sleeping pill. He's saying that he loses a lot of time if he sleeps early. The thing is, he doesn't want to wake up early.

Okay, that's it. Can't think of anymore. There are other little things but they don't annoy me as much for me to put them up here. I would put smoking up there but he quits already finally. That is also because he wanted Foxtel (satellite tv) and since our expenses are quite high I asked him to choose between that and cigarettes. Our expenses are still high, but at least he's healthier by a lot now. He pretty much is a great guy and I don't really have much complain about him. I'm so lucky to have found him. If he's reading this, "Baby, I love you!"

First tag: All about Ethan

My first tag, well actually Ethan's first, but I get to write it. Got tagged from sis, the first time. Actually I think she tagged me once before I started this blog, wonder if that counts? So anyway now it's all about Ethan, here goes...

On the outside
Name: Ethan
Date of birth: 04 March 2006
Current status: Just started walking
Eye colour: Dark brown
Hair colour: Black
Righty or Lefty: I feed with both hands but I sign on my right (both hand and foot)
Zodiac: If Brandon's a Pieces then I'm a Pieces

On the inside
Heritage: Aussie-born-Chinese, of Cantonese and Hokkien
Fear: Nothing...yet!
Weakness: Mum-mum (food), I always go near whoever's eating
Your perfect pizza: ???

Yesterday, today & tomorrow
Your first thought waking up: Must use all measures to wake either mummy or papa up
Your bedtime: 7-8pm but I cry often when I'm too warm or when I want mummy or papa to pick me up and rock me back to sleep
Your most missed memory: ???

Your pick
Pepsi or Coke: Got milk?
Mackers or Hungry Jacks (aka McD's or Burger King): Any food is good but I've never tried these two
Single or Group Dates: ???
Adidas or Nike: Papa would prefer to buy Adidas for me
Lipton Tea or Nestea: Lipton Tea, never tried Nestea before
Chocolate or Vanilla: Either
Cappucino or Coffee: Haven't tried. Sounds like something my friend had, babycino...have yet to try

Do you...
Smoke: Mummy hopes not
Curse: Not yet

In the past month
Drank alcohol: I drink water everyday
Gone to the mall: This is my every week activity
Been on stage: Nope, never
Eaten sushi: Nope, never. Funny because papa is a Japanese cuisine chef
Dyed your hair: Nope, never

Have you ever
Played a stripping game: Love it!
Changed who you were to fit in: Fit in what?

Marriage
Are you hoping to be married: I'm wanted for two of papa's friend's daughters

In a guy/girl
Best eye colour: ???
Hair colour: ???
Short or long hair: ???

What were you doing
1 minute ago: ZZZzzz....
1 hour ago: Giving mummy a hard time
4 1/2 hour ago: Just gone zzzZZZ...
1 month ago: Should be ZzzZZ...
1 year ago: Definitely zZZZZzZzzzzzzZZ...

Finish the sentence
I love: to hear mummy makes funny animal sounds when she reads to me
I feel: excited to see papa walk in the door when he comes home from work
I hate: being confined, being strapped onto a seat (except car seat because car rides are fun and sleepy at the same time)
I hide: my eyes and mummy will say "BOO!"
I miss: going to prems playgroup on Thursdays
I need: attention most of the time because I knock my head too much

I didn't wanna be tagged because I've got no one to tag. But this was fun.