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I always tell people, “I will xxxxxx, if I strike lottery.” For example:
“I will quite my job and be a SAHM if I strike lottery.”
“I will bring my mum and MIL to spa if I strike lottery.”
“I will get a maid if I strike lottery.”
Etc

For people who don’t know me well, may think that I always buy lottery. Well, I only buy 1 ticket during Chinese New Year. My friend always tells me, “If ChoySanYe (god of prosperity) wants to give you fortune, if you don’t even open your door how can he give you har?” So, I took her advice and buy once a year. I have never striked one.

Last week, DH told me that TOTO has accumulated the prize to 15 million. So, I have decided to try my luck. So embarrassing, I did not know how to buy! I went to the shop and gave the lady my 6 numbers. DH told me is from 1 to 49. So, one of the number I have chosen was 45.

I didn’t know what is that thing called, so I thought if the prize can be accumulated, must be called something like a ‘Jackpot’, so I told the lady I wanted RM1 of the Jackpot.

She said, “45 cannot. Maximum is 42, I change that to 42 ok?”
I blurred, blurred and said OK.

But then, before I walked out, I thought DH couldn’t be wrong. So I turned back:
“Miss ah, I thought the numbers are from 1 to 49 why 45 cannot?”
She then became defensive, “You told me you wanted to buy Jackpot. Jackpot is 1 to 42. If you want the one 1 to 49 it is called ‘Super’”.

Oops, so embarrassing. So I spent another 1 dollar bought the ‘Super’ ticket… well, of course I didn’t strike the lottery, but the most stupid thing I did was…

ACTUALLY THE CUMULATED POT HAS ALREADY BEEN WON IN PREVIOUS ROUND. So stupid of me! :p

There is this old man around my in-law’s house, who likes to bring his dog to shit and pee at neighbours’ house. He is really irritating.

My MIL saw him doing it again the other day, ON our staircase, she asked him to go elsewhere. Guess what he said?

Old man: “Pee only mah, why are you so concrned about it?” (小便而已, 这么紧张做什么?)

MIL: “Wah, pee ONLY? Since you are ok with it why don’t you let your dog do it in your house? What about letting my dog pee at your house? Are you ok with that?”

This old man then walked over to the other neighbour and let his dog pee and shit there. MIL also asked him not to do, but he just ignored.

And then… this fella, he keeps coming back to our house, trying to challenge us. Whenever MIL can’t see him, we will have the shit/pee. I intend to snap his photo, catching him doing this in action. Not sure our law is the same as HK? The other day Dodo Cheng hosted a program said we can sue this dog owner… Wonder if I can use his photo to sue him and teach him a lesson?! Terrible old man.

Ian is slowly picking up new words everyday. He is particularly good at any words that starts with ‘sh‘. One day, I showed him Shell oil company’s logo, and told him that is ‘Shell’. Immediately he responded by saying ‘Shell’ - very accurately.

He can’t pronounce ‘mummy’, ‘daddy’, ‘poh poh’, ‘nen nen’ etc well, but ‘Shell’ is definitely very accurately pronouned. Now, whenever he sees Shell’s logo on paper or sees the fuel stations, he would shout out happily ‘Shell’! Very cute. DH says we should let the company knows about it. Hehehe!

And one day, when DH was alone with Ian, DH accidentally dropped something and said ‘Oh, Shit!’… immediately Ian picked that up ‘oh shit’, ‘oh shit’, ‘oh shit’… And he thought it was funny, everytime when he finished saying it he laughed out loudly and clapped his hands waiting for applause! :p

Now, he follows what we said - anything that starts with ’sh’ or close to that…

‘Aiseh!’, ‘Aiseh!’
‘See…’
‘Star!’ (follow by his hands gesture - for twinkle effect, very cute)

Well, I was supposed to be in Manila on Wed-Fri, but have to ask my boss to go on behalf of me (I’m sure she is not very happy, but very understanding lah). Why? I just can’t leave behind Ian with high fever and work so remotely from him!

Sunday afternoon, he started to have fever. Last Thursday we gave him MMR vaccination, so we expected him to have mild fever anyway. We just gave him Paracetamol as instructed by the pediatrician. But this time it didn’t work. His temperature consistently high, above 38 degree.

Monday morning, we brought him to see doc, worried of other causes (apart from MMR jab). Doc said nothing wrong with him, and added Brufen to Ian’s medicine, to be alternated with Paracetamol, every 6 hours. But then it didn’t improve, temperature still above 38.

At around 6pm, his temperature went up to 39.5 degree. I remembered the doc said, “It is only considered HIGH if it is above 39.” So, we were very worried. At 7pm, it went up to 39.7 degree.

We didn’t know what to do. We have been sponging him as taught by one paed earlier, but it had no effect to bring down his temperature this time. With our hands, we felt the body cooled down, but when measured with thermometer, it was still high at 39+.

So, we brought him to hospital emergency. At that point his temperature reached 40 degree. The nurses there also sponged him like what we did, but they also inserted another fever medicine to Ian’s butt. Not sure which worked, Ian’s temperature dropped to 39. So, we were asked to go home and continue sponging him every 20 minutes.

At home, probably due to the strong medicine inserted, the temperature dropped to 36. But after 3-4 hours, it went up to 39+ again!

Tuesday morning, I had to ask my boss to go to Manila on behalf of me (sorry boss). How to work with a sick child back at home?

I brought Ian to see his regular paed on Tuesday, and he suspected it is the MMR jab – the measles vaccine may cause this. So, we waited until yesterday (Thu) – red spots came out, and it really marked the end of Ian’s fever. Whew!

Strange that Ian didn’t show any discomfort. He was as active as usual.

I went to DH’s relatives wedding dinner. On the same table, there was this woman who really like to show off. She is DH’s auntie whom I have never met. The first thing she said when she sat down was:
“PL (my SIL), you are so fat already!”

SIL: “Is it? So I look prettier now.” (SIL Smile, and I think she was smart.)

Mdm S/O: “Now a lot of people go to gym. My daughter is already so thin, and she still goes to gym.”

Mdm S/O: “My daughter just came back from Canada. Tar College wanted her to teach there so badly. She is very good and popular, and everyone wanted to employ her. But she still wants to go back to Canada, so she only taught for 2 months and already flew back loh.”

That was still fine. Later, she kept showing off how wealthy she is, she doesn’t have to work, she goes high up (Genting) everyday to play (gamble), etc.

And then, suddenly the arrow pointed at me.

“My DIL is now conceiving her 3rd baby. She is having one child a year, a very good DIL. You should behave like her lah…”

I really hate people pushing others to have children. Before I had Ian I already hated it. How do you know the person you speak to doesn’t want any children? I have a friend, who wanted so badly, tried so hard, but still have no child. Whenever she is asked this question, she is so sad! Another friend has to spend over 10k for test-tube baby, but still no results. How can these people be so cruel?

Anyway, back to this woman… I kept quiet when she said that. I just chit chat with my FIL. Actually we discussed about this woman lah, both of us cannot tolerate her. Suddenly she called me again.

“Nowadays DIL and FIL or MIL are like friends…”
(FIL and I laughed; we thought that was a compliment, but then…)

“… I am a very good MIL, I treat m DIL very well, even beyond friends… I let her sleep until 12 noon, unlike some of the other MILs. My DIL just needs to give birth to my grandchildren (you think she is a pig ah?). We hire a maid for her. Maid takes care of her children and she doesn’t need to do house work as well. When I am outside, I will sure rush home to cook for her. She doesn’t even need to cook…”

I wanted to speak for my MIL, so I said, “My MIL is also very good to me. Whenever I worked from home, she would go out to buy lunch for me, worried I might get hungry…”

Mdm S/O: “My DIL doesn’t have to work, she is very ‘hor-miah’ (unlike me??). Only my daughter works, THAT IS BECAUSE SHE IS JUST TOO GOOD AND TOO SMART NOT TO WORK!”

I almost vomit blood on the spot.

Note:
- SIL = Sister-in-law
- MIL = Mother-in-law
- FIL = Father-in-law
- DIL = Daughter-in-law
- Mdm S/O = Madam Show-off
- ‘hor-miah’ = good life/ fortunate