Haven't been updating. Everytime I try to log into the computer, I get so sleepy. What's happening to me? And then my blogs are all backdated; the childrens' blogs are un-touched. Hmm... I had better update their blogs more diligently.
Tuesday - 21st
I took my "snowballed for many years annual leave" on this day to do facial. I haven't been to my beautician for ??? okay I shan't think about it, it should be some time last year. Athena did seem happy for a moment coz' mummy is not 'drilling' her grammar on this day. You think I was kind?? I never let my children off. She was given more pages of assessment books to do, Aricia was given homeworks as well.
Brought them home, then I left. It's freedom!!! Feels good to be pampered. Today's treatment is one of my 2 FOC treatments for buying the facial products - the $800++ products. Expensive! I'm using this range SkinScience now.
I have these skin tags and milia and dunno what nots (if only it's so easy for me to strike lottery) and was thinking of using Dr Secrets which I heard costs $500+ then my beautician introduced me to this and that it doesn't contains hydroquinone which she says Dr Secrets does. When it comes to face, I'm the easily ke-tok kind. Anyway I tried and yes - there's slight improvement although I may need to do some 'dian liao'. Not like my face is made of gold or I'm banking on my looks (what looks??) for my job, I may reconsider the 'dian liao' - which costs $300 per treatment and says I need 2. $$$ flyyyyyyyy
Found the SSC children table (finally!) and immediately bought one set. They had a display set which looks a little 'destroyed' and kept telling me no more left until someone took one set from the office. Apparently someone had ordered it but didn't come to collect after all the phonecalls so they sold it to me. Yay! There's a matching chair too! It's cushioned and I have to pay separately. In total : less than $50 for 2 items. Happy! I placed an order for another full set which they said they'd try to see if other outlets have it. Ehh........have space in the house or not? Buy first; think later.
Children were elated and started fighting for the table.
In these pics, che-che is sitting on the SSC chair
Which is why I thought it'll be good to have 2 sets. I know there's giving wrong information afterall they're suppose to learn to share. But then the lil' one always fights; screams; cries and che-che gives in to her too often already. I always see that disappointment in che-che's face. Anyway, I thought 2 sets will be nice if I can put them in the spare room and make it their study table and I have a big whiteboard behind me; I put on glasses and act like SuperNanny. Presto! I'm a teacher. Ahem... I'm still dreaming to convert that room. So why the hesistance? Coz' I need space to put all the study materials which obviously I don't unless I rip off the wardrobe and change it into cabinets. (and then where to put the yet to pass-on to mei-mei's clothes?)
No wonder one of my friend ever said, it's no use designing your house to your dream house until the children are older. I thought I could save the money by having a study table in the children's room so next time we don't have to do the build-in. Then mei-mei came along. Luckily she's still small enough to sleep in the baby cot.
Wednesday - 22nd
OMG! I was so tired that I overslept in the car!! Normally during the 1-hr campout, I'd be trying to do a portion of my preparation of stuffs for children. Today, I did and I was so sleepy. I set the alarm clock and thought I'd close my eyes for 15 mins.
I woke up startled and stared at the clock in the car. It says 2.00. I heaved a sigh of relief and told myself I still have some time before I pick Athena. Then I jumped, OMG! I'm usually home at 2pm. Maybe I was getting a little carbon monoxide poisoning already?? I quickly drove off and I kept thinking "cham lah, cham lah must go into General Office to pick her up liao. She must be crying.. she must be ...."
When I drove to the gate, I saw that Dora-looking girl staring at me and picking up her schoolbag from the floor. Heng ah... she didn't cry but she did ask me "mummy, you're very late today." in a calm manner. She surprised me, I thought she'd cry. But then like I said, she always surprises me. Once I had to bring the two of them to the clinic. I did the registration and then told them to stay in the clinic to wait for me coz' I need to find a proper parking lot as I had parked illegally on the roadside. I went back about less than 10 mins and just as I was about to go in, she came out holding her mei-mei's hands and started crying. Huh? That was the time I didn't expect her to cry.
Anyway, I did apologize to her and told myself it should never happen again. Since I've lost some time I didn't let Athena do her Maths at home. I brought the two of them to the room with the table/chair, minus the whiteboard (coz' haven't bought whiteboard) and tried to do Aricia's home session. Just didn't have the feel of a study room - yah! with a bed there; a sofabed; toys in the stacked drawers. You think it looks/feels like a study room?
They fought over the chair; they fought over who's going to sit in the middle; they fought over 'my legs hitting the side legs of the table.' They fought over >> almost everything. Then somehow during the session, Aricia kept asking che-che to help push her seat in. Honestly, I don't know what's wrong with my girl. In MMI, Ros', Shichida she keeps asking teacher/me to push her in. And there's no way we could push her in further she still keeps telling us to help us, makes noise. I was angry............ so you think it's a good idea to have a study room? Supposedly they have a table each, they'd start fighting over "I'm not in the middle, I cannot see etc..." Endless fights! Better solution, no tables at all. And so the next few days I resumed back my usual good fengshui spot where they can't fight over anything, they sit on the floor; I sit on the floor. So what to do with the table?
This time, che-che again asked me to teach in her class. And then asked me to give her the answers first before asking the class so that she knows how to answer if I ask her. Oh no, no way am I going to make it easy for her if I do teach (which is very unlikely too)
Thursday - 23rd
Been practising hard. All the memory stuffs are getting me confused coz' we gotta practise both Shichida's and Ros's. There's a Brain Olympics in Shichida some time in June for the 3 year-olds. Suppose to put 40 cards in sequence in 3 mins. Eh... I don't know if she's able to do it. She's good in messing the cards up in less than 3 mins. And she simply refuses to touch the cards, only reciting out the key words for me. All the memorising for 2 schools, + my work for her is leaving me totally drained.
I wait for Athena in Berries now (tired from shuttling around), I bring some work for Aricia to do. After that P and Aunty S comes back from their shopping and we chat. It's really nice talking to P and Aunty S (Berries). F once told me that all the time she meets unfriendly mothers when she brings her children for any class. I think I'm really lucky, I meet alot of nice friendly mothers. Hmm.. I wonder whatever happened to me swearing to be a mega-bitch and not talk to anyone. Hee!
Athena hasn't hugged my legs or cried - thank God! Now she has a good friend there, A, who's from IJ Counsel. They play in the playground after class.
This day, one of their classmate's sister (P2) asked them for their help to find her younger sister, who's in her class. Aunty S and myself put a stop to it coz' we wouldn't want to end up finding them instead. Instead, the 2 of them tried to find their friend in their own ways. They climbed to the top of the slide, Athena told A "okay, you look this side; I look that side." Hands on their forehead trying to look far "Elizabeth... cannot find her. Can you see her?" I found it funny. Then they whispered amongst themselves "you sit behind me, we go down slide together." As they were sliding down, the both of them shouted "ELIZABETH......." Yah, they "were" looking for her. Haha!
Today, che-che told me that she has to bring newspaper to school the next day to sell. She can get $250, $1 and dunno what she was mumbling about for that small little 2 stacks of papers. I explained that it wouldn't cost that much coz' the garung guni woman only pay us a few cents for our huge stack of papers. And that girl kept insisting that she will get that huge amount of money. And in her innocence, she quipped "I bring alot of newspapers to school to sell. Then papa don't have to work so hard." Aww.........so sweet...
Friday - 24th
I didn't want to bake, I'm so tired I just want to rot in one corner and stare into empty space. But my girl was so happy and kept telling me "25th, my birthday" I can't do fanciful cakes like Mel did for her girl & boy. So inspired by her and I wonder how she managed all even without a helper. I have helper and can't find the time to really sit down for a long time to decorate my cakes. My block of cheese will expire next week so decided to try Japanese Cheesecake. Athena do eat cheesecakes but she don't eat cheese. ??!!??!!
I'm lazy to decorate, okay truth is I don't have much patience like Mel. I have 2 kids who will keep interrupting me; the helper will be busy to bring them away from me. Finding excuses? Yah, maybe I should just lock myself up in one room next time and totally ignore their studies. (very hard leh!)
I like the browning part, has that chao-tar taste. Then I die faster from cancer.
Saturday - 25th
Was thinking probably chocolate ganache is a very lazy style of decorating. Chocolate + cheese taste ?? Then she reminded me about Ariel. Sigh.........there goes my hope of relaxing
I then remembered the leftover buttercream I have in the freezer from the Easter Cuppies batch. Not much left to cover the whole cake and I wouldn't want to re-whip another batch only to have leftovers again.
Guess what? It's only sufficient for me to do this. I tried to cover the backing but can't even cover half of her hair. The only thing I can do is to pray - pray that it won't break when I transfer over to the cake
My prayers didn't work. Ariel was broken to pieces even without Ursula's spell. Argh! Anyway considering this is a lazy job.. I don't have high expectation. But I must admit I like the blue eyes which I managed to colour in nicely.
Itchy hand, bor-liao me (dunno what I was thinking) tried to put macaroons on it. In the end, the cake looked really funny. Heck lah! When you're only an amateur, no patience and not that highly creative all you can do is a 'dump rubbish' job
Afternoon we headed to Tampines 1. Interesting shops but can't really shop with the man and the kids around. Plus the crowds gave me headache. Must wait for at least another month for the crowds to tone down, by then it'll be school holidays.
My lil' one posing for me. I like this shot - notice the way she stands. Macam like model like that. Kekeke!
This girl is getting the idea that her mad mother loves to snap photos. Smiles for me. Must treasure this moment coz' few years down the road she wouldn't even bother to smile for me.
In Manpuku
Portion is really small, quite pricey. Not worth it! Neither of them is full. Anyway, it was like a snack for them at 4+pm
We then proceeded to mom's place for dinner. We had the cake thereafter.
Tuesday - 21st
I took my "snowballed for many years annual leave" on this day to do facial. I haven't been to my beautician for ??? okay I shan't think about it, it should be some time last year. Athena did seem happy for a moment coz' mummy is not 'drilling' her grammar on this day. You think I was kind?? I never let my children off. She was given more pages of assessment books to do, Aricia was given homeworks as well.
Brought them home, then I left. It's freedom!!! Feels good to be pampered. Today's treatment is one of my 2 FOC treatments for buying the facial products - the $800++ products. Expensive! I'm using this range SkinScience now.
I have these skin tags and milia and dunno what nots (if only it's so easy for me to strike lottery) and was thinking of using Dr Secrets which I heard costs $500+ then my beautician introduced me to this and that it doesn't contains hydroquinone which she says Dr Secrets does. When it comes to face, I'm the easily ke-tok kind. Anyway I tried and yes - there's slight improvement although I may need to do some 'dian liao'. Not like my face is made of gold or I'm banking on my looks (what looks??) for my job, I may reconsider the 'dian liao' - which costs $300 per treatment and says I need 2. $$$ flyyyyyyyyFound the SSC children table (finally!) and immediately bought one set. They had a display set which looks a little 'destroyed' and kept telling me no more left until someone took one set from the office. Apparently someone had ordered it but didn't come to collect after all the phonecalls so they sold it to me. Yay! There's a matching chair too! It's cushioned and I have to pay separately. In total : less than $50 for 2 items. Happy! I placed an order for another full set which they said they'd try to see if other outlets have it. Ehh........have space in the house or not? Buy first; think later.
Children were elated and started fighting for the table.
In these pics, che-che is sitting on the SSC chair
Which is why I thought it'll be good to have 2 sets. I know there's giving wrong information afterall they're suppose to learn to share. But then the lil' one always fights; screams; cries and che-che gives in to her too often already. I always see that disappointment in che-che's face. Anyway, I thought 2 sets will be nice if I can put them in the spare room and make it their study table and I have a big whiteboard behind me; I put on glasses and act like SuperNanny. Presto! I'm a teacher. Ahem... I'm still dreaming to convert that room. So why the hesistance? Coz' I need space to put all the study materials which obviously I don't unless I rip off the wardrobe and change it into cabinets. (and then where to put the yet to pass-on to mei-mei's clothes?)No wonder one of my friend ever said, it's no use designing your house to your dream house until the children are older. I thought I could save the money by having a study table in the children's room so next time we don't have to do the build-in. Then mei-mei came along. Luckily she's still small enough to sleep in the baby cot.
Wednesday - 22nd
OMG! I was so tired that I overslept in the car!! Normally during the 1-hr campout, I'd be trying to do a portion of my preparation of stuffs for children. Today, I did and I was so sleepy. I set the alarm clock and thought I'd close my eyes for 15 mins.
I woke up startled and stared at the clock in the car. It says 2.00. I heaved a sigh of relief and told myself I still have some time before I pick Athena. Then I jumped, OMG! I'm usually home at 2pm. Maybe I was getting a little carbon monoxide poisoning already?? I quickly drove off and I kept thinking "cham lah, cham lah must go into General Office to pick her up liao. She must be crying.. she must be ...."
When I drove to the gate, I saw that Dora-looking girl staring at me and picking up her schoolbag from the floor. Heng ah... she didn't cry but she did ask me "mummy, you're very late today." in a calm manner. She surprised me, I thought she'd cry. But then like I said, she always surprises me. Once I had to bring the two of them to the clinic. I did the registration and then told them to stay in the clinic to wait for me coz' I need to find a proper parking lot as I had parked illegally on the roadside. I went back about less than 10 mins and just as I was about to go in, she came out holding her mei-mei's hands and started crying. Huh? That was the time I didn't expect her to cry.
Anyway, I did apologize to her and told myself it should never happen again. Since I've lost some time I didn't let Athena do her Maths at home. I brought the two of them to the room with the table/chair, minus the whiteboard (coz' haven't bought whiteboard) and tried to do Aricia's home session. Just didn't have the feel of a study room - yah! with a bed there; a sofabed; toys in the stacked drawers. You think it looks/feels like a study room?
They fought over the chair; they fought over who's going to sit in the middle; they fought over 'my legs hitting the side legs of the table.' They fought over >> almost everything. Then somehow during the session, Aricia kept asking che-che to help push her seat in. Honestly, I don't know what's wrong with my girl. In MMI, Ros', Shichida she keeps asking teacher/me to push her in. And there's no way we could push her in further she still keeps telling us to help us, makes noise. I was angry............ so you think it's a good idea to have a study room? Supposedly they have a table each, they'd start fighting over "I'm not in the middle, I cannot see etc..." Endless fights! Better solution, no tables at all. And so the next few days I resumed back my usual good fengshui spot where they can't fight over anything, they sit on the floor; I sit on the floor. So what to do with the table?
This time, che-che again asked me to teach in her class. And then asked me to give her the answers first before asking the class so that she knows how to answer if I ask her. Oh no, no way am I going to make it easy for her if I do teach (which is very unlikely too)
Thursday - 23rd
Been practising hard. All the memory stuffs are getting me confused coz' we gotta practise both Shichida's and Ros's. There's a Brain Olympics in Shichida some time in June for the 3 year-olds. Suppose to put 40 cards in sequence in 3 mins. Eh... I don't know if she's able to do it. She's good in messing the cards up in less than 3 mins. And she simply refuses to touch the cards, only reciting out the key words for me. All the memorising for 2 schools, + my work for her is leaving me totally drained.
I wait for Athena in Berries now (tired from shuttling around), I bring some work for Aricia to do. After that P and Aunty S comes back from their shopping and we chat. It's really nice talking to P and Aunty S (Berries). F once told me that all the time she meets unfriendly mothers when she brings her children for any class. I think I'm really lucky, I meet alot of nice friendly mothers. Hmm.. I wonder whatever happened to me swearing to be a mega-bitch and not talk to anyone. Hee!
Athena hasn't hugged my legs or cried - thank God! Now she has a good friend there, A, who's from IJ Counsel. They play in the playground after class.
This day, one of their classmate's sister (P2) asked them for their help to find her younger sister, who's in her class. Aunty S and myself put a stop to it coz' we wouldn't want to end up finding them instead. Instead, the 2 of them tried to find their friend in their own ways. They climbed to the top of the slide, Athena told A "okay, you look this side; I look that side." Hands on their forehead trying to look far "Elizabeth... cannot find her. Can you see her?" I found it funny. Then they whispered amongst themselves "you sit behind me, we go down slide together." As they were sliding down, the both of them shouted "ELIZABETH......." Yah, they "were" looking for her. Haha!
Today, che-che told me that she has to bring newspaper to school the next day to sell. She can get $250, $1 and dunno what she was mumbling about for that small little 2 stacks of papers. I explained that it wouldn't cost that much coz' the garung guni woman only pay us a few cents for our huge stack of papers. And that girl kept insisting that she will get that huge amount of money. And in her innocence, she quipped "I bring alot of newspapers to school to sell. Then papa don't have to work so hard." Aww.........so sweet...
Friday - 24th
I didn't want to bake, I'm so tired I just want to rot in one corner and stare into empty space. But my girl was so happy and kept telling me "25th, my birthday" I can't do fanciful cakes like Mel did for her girl & boy. So inspired by her and I wonder how she managed all even without a helper. I have helper and can't find the time to really sit down for a long time to decorate my cakes. My block of cheese will expire next week so decided to try Japanese Cheesecake. Athena do eat cheesecakes but she don't eat cheese. ??!!??!!
I'm lazy to decorate, okay truth is I don't have much patience like Mel. I have 2 kids who will keep interrupting me; the helper will be busy to bring them away from me. Finding excuses? Yah, maybe I should just lock myself up in one room next time and totally ignore their studies. (very hard leh!)
I like the browning part, has that chao-tar taste. Then I die faster from cancer.
Saturday - 25th
Was thinking probably chocolate ganache is a very lazy style of decorating. Chocolate + cheese taste ?? Then she reminded me about Ariel. Sigh.........there goes my hope of relaxing
I then remembered the leftover buttercream I have in the freezer from the Easter Cuppies batch. Not much left to cover the whole cake and I wouldn't want to re-whip another batch only to have leftovers again.
Guess what? It's only sufficient for me to do this. I tried to cover the backing but can't even cover half of her hair. The only thing I can do is to pray - pray that it won't break when I transfer over to the cake
My prayers didn't work. Ariel was broken to pieces even without Ursula's spell. Argh! Anyway considering this is a lazy job.. I don't have high expectation. But I must admit I like the blue eyes which I managed to colour in nicely.
Itchy hand, bor-liao me (dunno what I was thinking) tried to put macaroons on it. In the end, the cake looked really funny. Heck lah! When you're only an amateur, no patience and not that highly creative all you can do is a 'dump rubbish' job
Afternoon we headed to Tampines 1. Interesting shops but can't really shop with the man and the kids around. Plus the crowds gave me headache. Must wait for at least another month for the crowds to tone down, by then it'll be school holidays.My lil' one posing for me. I like this shot - notice the way she stands. Macam like model like that. Kekeke!
This girl is getting the idea that her mad mother loves to snap photos. Smiles for me. Must treasure this moment coz' few years down the road she wouldn't even bother to smile for me.
In Manpuku
Portion is really small, quite pricey. Not worth it! Neither of them is full. Anyway, it was like a snack for them at 4+pm
We then proceeded to mom's place for dinner. We had the cake thereafter.
