远亲不如进邻

Coral Spring, my new home.

Rapidly under development and we suspect collection of key by early 2011. The contractor who is building this development is also the one who did the pinnicle@ duxton. So I'm hoping progress since that project is done deal already.

Technology aids mankind.

Internet is an amazing place. From www.sengkang.com, to Facebook and MSN - I managed to know my future neighbours.

How nice!

In the age of cyber technology, we actually managed to plan (not me) a meet up. Mum could not believe this. Kept asking how would we know who those people are when we never ever met. Obviously, she's missing out on Facebook with very telling pictures.(Sometimes, 500 over photos to show different angel of that person so you will never not know how to spot them)

Meet the neighbours exercise.

It's really a dinner and I caught up with 3couples, all of which are fun loving and young. Either just married or us expecting babies. So technology did bring us closer to the human being.

I wonder if its my talkative nature, but there was no ice breaking sessions, sat down and started blabbling as if we known each others for years.(Must be MSN)

I was telling Mum and Mrs Neo, that CSpring will be such a bustling place with 70% being new couples and family.

Too bad though I did not meet my direct neighbours. I wonder how they will be like.

Friendly I hope.

Inspired

When people say "you'll know when you grow up."

It's hard to accept or even understand why they say that. But as we grow, we slowly understand what those people meant to say.

Life is amazing. It's like a preset program that runs in a unique way. Making you look at things differently at different stages.

Now as I cross the 30, I felt that life is actually based on very simple things, its just how we love to complicate it.

I was looking at Everett learn to stand and take small steps. No one taught him what to do, he just simply did it.

Wobbly of course. Balancing himself.

So as i watch, I relate it to the basics of what life wants us to do.

To be able to successfully walk, or walk to success. First, you must strike a balance.

Balance between work and play. Balance between love and reality. Balance between commitment and responsibility.

Balance between family add friends.

Balance between right and wrong.

Bank balance also sebei important.

11 Things they did not and you will not, learn in school

I read this off Google and I thought its really interesting.

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Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping burgers - they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t boring as they are now They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winner and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. That doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life peo actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end working for one.

Sleepy head

I thought I was pregnant.

Must be a dream... but the extreme pain from my left leg cramp sure felt like an episode during when Mrs Neo was pregnant.

I know leg cramps are painful (I get them from running and soccer before), but I never had it during my sleep. Needless to say, my virgin experience was one (horrible) to remember, made worst by the fact that I have the boys sleeping between Mrs Neo & I.

I could not do any big actions nor could I shout for help. Tried to stretch, but the pull was so tight that I fell right back. I finally found a pillow and threw it at Mrs Neo.

*throw*

*lands on Mrs Neo*

*no reaction*

Dammit! Right about then, my veins and muscle was about to snap. With my other non cramping leg, I managed to do 3 kick to somewhere on Mrs Neo. And she finally woke up. I tried not to scream, but still was talking very loudly due to the pain.

Mr Neo: My left leg cramp. Stretch it, help me push.

Mrs Neo: *starts massaging my toes*

Mr Neo: Push!! Don't massage.

Mrs Neo: *pushes the sole*...*starts massaging toes again*

Mr Neo: Just push! Don't touch my toes.

Mrs Neo: *still massaging toes*

Mr Neo: Darling stretch my leg, its going to break!

Mrs Neo: *finally does it right for 10 secs*

-finally eased the cramp-

Mr Neo: Okay liao.

Mrs Neo: *falls back to bed and deep breathing in 5 seconds*

I bet she don't recall what happen.

My leg now still feels a little ache because of the cramp.

Checking my hotmail

Was clearing my email off hotmail and saw 2 emails to Mrs Neo on this year Mother's Day.

From:
Enzo Neo (xxx.xxx@hotmail.com)
Sent:
13 May 2010 09: 09AM
To:
xxx.xxx@yahoo.com.sg

Mummy,

sorry tat i send th email So late.

It's korkor, he try to stop me from using the computer and want to snatch it from me.
but i managed to send this email off first because he fell asleep after a while.:D

mummy, happy mother's day to you.
thank you for taki kare of mi, please be patient towart me as i don't know how to express myself so i ask for u.

i love you.
enZo

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From:
Everett Neo (xxx.xxx@hotmail.com)
Sent:
13 May 2010 09: 13AM
To:
xxx.xxx@yahoo.com
Cc:
xxx.xxx@hotmail.com

Maaa,

I want to win and send u mail fest, but ah-mah give me milk and i sleep.-_-"
di di don;t noe how to type password i want to help himm but he scream at me.

he make me sweat so i was hungry again. i love mama.
hapee mama dey.

ever ett lub yeew

Domestic Helper - 传说中的 Lisa

I have 5 sisters, out of which 4 employs domestic helper. Co-incidentally, all from Indonesia.

Because of Ev.En., we too have Lisa. Also from Indonesia.

She helps with the everyday household chore and primary her task is to help my Mum look after the boys.

As all helpers, she makes a fair bit of mistakes, does some smart stuffs, misplace a few things, but sometimes play with the boys as if they are her own (which is good).

She have basic English education, but when she arrived, its a chicken and duck situation, we taught her and she's really so much better already.

but far from perfect....

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Mr Neo: Lisa did you write down the time KorKor took porridge?

Lisa: Sorry Sir, Lisa forget.

Mr Neo: Okay you write now, 2O'clock. Two Zero Zero.

Lisa: Huh? Lisa don't know

Mr Neo: Two Jiro Jiro la.

Lisa: Ohh Two Jiro Jiro ah?

Mr Neo: Yes, write down now.

Rumble...

Mr Neo: Darling, yesterday you snore leh.

Mrs Neo: Tired mah, as if you never snore before.

Mr Neo: But its really loud, I was wondering if it will wake the boys up.

Mummy: Nowadays, I snore too.. Must be very tired. Just the other day, I snored so loud, I gave myself a shock and woke up!

Mr Neo: 哇。一定很大声。

我回来了!

I actually had people asking me if I am giving up my blog!

Well, I'm not.

But its just that I'm too overwhelmed by the responsibility if being a Daddy. The boys are now a year old.

Hmm... how time flies.

Parenthood have surely exposed the other side of marriage. When two person comes together and starts living together till they are ready to start a family.

Children like they all say, are great binding "tools", they make you love each other more (at times, because of different views, hate each other more) and totally a reason to be home.

I actually run home every time I come back from an overseas trip! Just so I can quickly see them. My body seems to produce this excitement that makes me wanna hug them almost immediately when I touch down.

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Inevitably, we have our first time mistakes as parents and bumped around a lot.

From what to buy to what to do.

Patents actually make a lot of decisions for the baby.
* what time to sleep
* when to give them water
* what brand of milk powder to give

The list just goes on.

Children are and will continue to be an expensive affair. But having them is priceless. Their little actions proves so much to us. Recently, I have been home more and they start sticking to me, crawling over and asking me to carry.

This feeling is AWESOME!

Waking up at night seems a almost normal routine to me. In fact its 2.38am now as I punch away one my mobile.

What happened to those last night clubbing, internet gaming, or just hanging out watching Tv?

Well..... they don't exist. I'm a Daddy now you know. I can forgo almost anything for them.

If you don't understand how u feel, chances are, you're not the father of someone yet. Words itself cannot describe the simple term of Parents.

We are so lucky to be blessed with twins. I actually cannot answer when people ask me if its a very busy affair - I never had a single baby birth to compare with! Haha.

Also, I'm pretty sure if you ask parents of single baby. They will tell you they are busy too (they don't have twins to compare to!), so I summarized that all parents are happily busy people.

And have I been neglecting Mrs Neo because of the boys? How would I?!?! I love her tons you know!

*this evening before the boys slept*

Mr Neo: Darling, do you love me?
Mrs Neo: Yes.
Mr Neo: What do you love me about?
Mrs Neo: Everything about you.
Mr Neo: Just tell me one thing.
Mrs Neo: Ehhhhh...
Mrs Neo: I don't know
Mr Neo: Haha. 妈的。。

So I conclude. Love is not what you say, but is that smile that you put on your spouses face. Everyday.