spending time with cubie...

cubie is going away to US in a month's time and i've taken two days off to help her pack her house... read about her version here....

while the both of us are sweaty from carrying stuff, packing them and sealing them up, it was a nice time to spend with cubie... i hardly have the time to spend time with her since she had her second little girl... she's been mostly stuck at home while i've been working so usually, we can only sms each other and for the past one month, our sms bills have rocketed sky high!

well, back to the packing... cubie has accumulated a lot and a LOT of stuff from the last trip to US and what seems to be happening is that we are transferring the stuff from her old boxes to the new boxes to be shipped to US again.. heheh... * time to throw more stuff cubie* while cubie sat there rummaging through the unopened boxes and going "oh my god!" & "what is this?!", I've been entertaining myself with her baby girl... big round eyes and laughs often.. although yes, she cries a lot too and her attention span seems short and u gotta keep finding new things to entertain her.. this is the first time i've spent time with a baby so young... not even my cousin's kids... well, at least her girl is responsive to me.... =)

so spending time with cubie's family and her made me think about what is impt in life.. although cubie always complains that she wanna go and work and earn money, but when u see her and her kids, she seems so contented... maybe she would have been a world class japanese translator or have married to some other guy in japan and lived a different life altogether, i guess she would still wanna marry this man, have his kids and live life as it is now...

yesterday as cubie was rummaging through her stuff, she found lots of stuff from her school days, her courtship days and she was sharing with me all the things she found... it seems as if i knew a little bit more about her and her past... her memories, her past relationships and her friends...

i think i'll miss cubie when she's away in US... although we've planned to go celebrate xmas with her and her family in dec 07, she's still gonna be so far away.... and with two babies on hand, she's gonna have limited time on the net as well...

some of the fond memories that I have of cubie:

1. pei yun po(pre delivery nanny)

when cubie got pregnant, i was the one who finished up her leftover foods and went on eating sprees with her... esp for teochew porridge buffet.. all sorts of breakfast... juice, chee cheong fun, peanuts, cookies.. all sorts...

2. shih lin chicken

somehow, eating shih lin chicken with cubie makes the chicken taste better... and it's got to be the one from harbourfront..

3. shi ne

this phrase was what i learnt from jap speaking cubie... simply means die in jap.. she would always go: " kate, you wanna shi ne is it?"

4. books buying (or rather magazines buying)

this cubie of mine loves little boys.. recently she fell in love with two boys from the famous jap group ka-tun and has been franctically buying any jap magazines with their news... this will eventually be my habit cos i have to buy them and carry them to US for her...

5. pregnancy lessons

when cubie got pregnant.. i learnt a lot of stuff about pregnancy and kids... if u need any help, please kindly refer to this website: http://www.babycenter.com/ heheh...