Che-che came back with another award this year. Award ceremony was last Tuesday
Haiz, if only she contributes more to her schoolwork than her music
#achievementunlocked#
Monday, September 24, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
On This Day - 12th Sep #Reminders from FB#
September 12, 2016 at 9:54 AM ·
She likes rides now. Pity we hv to scrap plans this year end to the US due to interruptions for some band thingy smacked with in between timing.
Can't go for long trips. Who says having kids in secondary school is easy?
In 2011
Ride. Che-che was so brave to go for second round. Yay! Next time I have kaki liao. Dunno if she dares to go on Magic Mountain rides, first row with me.
September 12, 2011 at 11:12 PM ·
Fever fever go away. Lil' fever came back in afternoon. For the first time she didn't complain y she didn't hv music lesson (tho teacher was in the house) n Che-Che took the whole 1 1/2hrs. 5pm all clear, 7pm complain tired n fell asleep.
Looks like she needs to skip school tmrw. Argh! I need to bring her to collect her passport leh! Alr postpone since Friday.
Mr Moon
Catching the moon over a period of time leading up to 八月初十五 - 24th Sep, which is also the Mid-Autumn Festival.
However the time I caught hold of the moon are different, some taken at 7+, some at 10+. By then with the angle I'm taking, the shadow cast is different. No choice, I'll be a little free once the exams are over.
After a few days of cloudy nights, the rain brought a respite to moon-gazing. On 19th, finally I was granted a 56% gazing clarity. Woah! A big jump from the usual 6 - 9% clarity.
Monday, September 17, 2018
On This Day - 17th Sep #Reminders from FB#
September 17, 2016
Nice box. Will keep for dunno what use after this.
Nice box. Will keep for dunno what use after this.
A nice gift from the bank. I'm using this box.
We've cut down on eating mooncakes. I had this long list of things to bake, mooncake is one of them and no action from me for over 10 years.
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September 17, 2012 at 8:08 AM
Trip to Gardens by the Bay, which opened not too long ago
Oh boy! I was so slim then..... time to do something after my PSLE
Che-che is so cute here. She's all grown up
Lil' one kept complaining cold ..... then she still continued playing with the water mist. She ended up rather wet. ?!?!?
This is still her favourite place. Che-che and myself prefers to go Flower Dome. This girl likes to get herself ridiculously wet (apparently she finds it funnr lor!)
Our navigator
Now that we needed navigation around in the Cloud Forest. There's only one way in and one way out. *winks*
But this has always been her habit. Taking the map and read the map. Lil' one will run amok coz she knows someone is around to bring her out, che-che prefers to read and she'll tell us where to go. Anyway, her sense of orientation is good! Helps that she always observes what's outside the car when we're driving so she recognises places. I remember once I needed her to go to a certain bus stop (very new to her) from her holding area, I was able to briefly tell her where though we didn't really pass by that bus stop before.
Something about our earth being +5 deg celcius by the year 2100
Hyperactive kid kept running around this while the old folks - us sat down to rest
Finally a place for hyperactive to sit still - for a short while only
Gardens By the Bay is now our favourite place to go, our as in the girls and me. I'd usually bring them in the day time / school hols / when the man is slogging hard to let us spend $. Free aircon and super relaxing. I joined as a member in April, I signed the girls up in May/June when there was a 50% price cut. Joining as a member, I was able to have a nice 2 hour FOC parking, timing just nice for a solo trip on my own when I do not want anyone to disturb me when I'm taking pictures. With all the different flower displays and a membership card, gives us better excuse to go. After O's! After O's we shall have a meal at Satay Club instead of Bakerzin.
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September 17, 2011 at 2:50 PM ·
Feel the magic in the air? It was a terrific pixie fun party！more photos will be uploaded later.
Ahhhh........ then I had the energy to plan for birthday parties and struggling to find venues to hold a party. Now that we have the function room here, the girls are all grown up. Still thinking if I should hold a Sweet 16th Birthday for che-che or not?
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September 17, 2011 at 12:56 AM ·
This morning in car, che-che asked mei-mei.
"Mei-mei, what is 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10 = to?"
"Dunno?"
"55!"
She found it funny and came up with her question
"che-che, what is car+lorry+truck+motorcycle+bus = to?"
" Huh? I dunno. Mummy do you know what's the answer?"
"Traffic jam!"
Kids burst out laughing. Mei-mei continued her ridiculous questions
"che-che, what is Aricia + Aricia + Aricia + Aricia + Aricia + Aricia = to?"
"I dunno... Mummy what's the answer?"
"OMG! 6 monkeys!!"
Saturday, September 15, 2018
Friday, September 14, 2018
Mr Moon - 13th Sept
Have been so busy lately, haven't been paying attention to the planetary stuffs. Today, decided to take a look. And at 7.36pm the moon was already heading towards the horizon. The block blocked my view as it was just at the edge of the building about to leap off.
This is what I managed to get. Hmm..... still gotta figure how to take nice photos using the Canon.
These are taken on iphone so pardon the quality
Out of topic : I wish I can do this one day
Infinity ² from Uncage the Soul Productions on Vimeo.
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Busy with what
So I'm not going to care about that 42 drafts for the time being. I shall post what I need to post right now.
So what have I been busy with? Apart from the daily never-ending household chores and being an unpaid chauffeur, and sitting through with lil' one. There are times where I can leave her alone as I can't help her with those revision, I scan stuffs.
Scan stuffs
It was easy to pack che-che's primary stuffs in 2014, as we packed almost everything for lil' one. However for lil' one's case, everything just ends here. Thank goodness! There were some really good materials either from tuition or from friends, or I typed out for them which will be a waste to discard them away leaving no trace. So I decided to scan them into the computer. If she needs them for reference next time, at least we can look for it in the hard disk. I'm trying hard to declutter the house. 辛苦的 decluttering. I had been doing this for the past few months but it was only 2 months ago that I can fully concentrate on this as prior to that, I had to type in notes for her which were on the top of the priority list of To-Dos. What notes? I think I have this somewhere in my draft folder so I shall not re-type the whole lot.
I wish I had an auto-feed scanner where I can leave it in the tray and it starts scanning while I busy with other things.Can kill two birds in one stone.
I scan them early into the mornings too, until 2+am. My sleeping time is really haywire now.
New things to do
1) Plan holiday itinery x2. PSLE Marking Days and the year-end trip
HKG in October : Though we've been there many times. Wondering if there's a need for me to plan or should we just anyhow walk here and walk there?
Year-end trip : apart from the air ticket, nothing is done so far. The man is leaving everything to che-che. Which is ridiculous coz it'll be too late to book hotels or in some case, Anne Frank Haus needs advance booking. I mean, leave it to them then nothing is done properly. Then again, leave everything to me is chiong all the sights. Will he follow the itinery? Should I get Youth Eurail pass for them to save on the rail fares? All these need early planning. You mean they don't know?
Year-end trip : apart from the air ticket, nothing is done so far. The man is leaving everything to che-che. Which is ridiculous coz it'll be too late to book hotels or in some case, Anne Frank Haus needs advance booking. I mean, leave it to them then nothing is done properly. Then again, leave everything to me is chiong all the sights. Will he follow the itinery? Should I get Youth Eurail pass for them to save on the rail fares? All these need early planning. You mean they don't know?
2) Need to burn the JVC videos to get some space for our year-end holiday.
You're right. I'm one super old-fashioned person who still carries a video camera around for our holidays.
Asked dad to pass me his recorder so that I can do it at home but he refused to lend me, as if I will spoil his stuff or refuse to return to him. Then I also worry if he'll do what he did last year. He recorded from the playback on TV. ?!?!?! Clarity is not there but as usual he always return my stuffs late. Rather he likes to procrastinate and then suddenly say he only have 2 days to finish everything. I usually give it to him with a month or two grace period and tell him much earlier I need the camera back. And guess what? He procrastinate so my earlier date became the few days before trip. And I still gotta chase chase chase. In the end, last year instructions on how to get the videos out in segments. I put individual holidays into one individual project. And he jumbled up the CDs, in one CD I can have Spain holiday and suddenly I have something else inside. When I got back the CDs last year, I had to accept it coz there simply wasn't anymore time left and he didn't want to lend me his recorder. I can do it while I'm doing housework and I know when the videos will end coz' I know the contents.
I have a recorder at home which nobody wants to help me install. Ask hubbby, he shrugs his shoulder and walks away. Ask my father, he forever busy busy. Also I wasn't sure if the remote control works anymore. Or whether this recorder even works with this new TV!! We have our first recorder back in Punggol but it doesn't work with new TVs so I have no idea why I still keep that DVD recorder. Even this current one, I'm hoping that a miracle will happen and it works so that I can reformat 2-3 CDs which I didn't get the chance to do so last time. You must be asking me why did I even bring this over now. Coz' I was hoping for the time to do it but apparently not so coz I have my hands filled with so many stuffs.
Digital
Ideally I wanted everything in the house to be stored into one hard disk. Like my 亲家, he has no CDs in his house. He tells me in every room is like a karaoke room, the kids wants to watch what channel, they key in they get it. The only setback is that you need one gigantic memory CPU, like FBI/CIA keeping datas. Told hubby about this, and he tells me to find out more myself - like I'm one smart IT person like that?! In the end, my idea of hiding whatever wiring before renovation went down the drain coz' nobody to help me and I was on solo, I needed to pace myself what is more important to do - then it was che-che's PSLE.
Before moving, I did burn some DVDs into digital format and got rid of the DVDs but after that I found I didn't have enough time to finish up the rests so moved them into this house. 3 years later, I still haven't found the time to do so. If i can remember how to do it also.
So technically I should digitalized these videos right? Then again, nobody to help me. The only way I thought I can do so is to use Pinnacle Studios or Adobe Premiere but it may take up more space per disk than ordinary burn via DVD recorder. Never mind, put into CD first to confirm I have the video recordings out before I delete the cam-corder to get some space. When I'm free (like when?) then maybe burn into hard disk? Double work? I think so...... but currrently now as I'm typing this, I'm also scanning at the same time and copying some holiday files over to computer. But the files all jumbled up, they can't sort it according to the "time taken". ARGH!!!! It will take me some longer time to edit them by myself. If only I can have that DVD recorder - nobody sells it now. It's almost as good as being an antique item just like DVD portable players with screen. Who uses that anyway? I used to own one, bringing them with me on holidays to keep the young girls entertained. Now, with one handy dandy handphone everything is all inside.
Anyway, right after the PSLE I'll still be kept busy. Photobooks, tidy house, clear stuffs, mend the wall cracks and re-paint the PES, clean the grouts in the whole house. I scrub the grouts every half a year but I haven't been able to do so this year. I really wish hubby can help especially for those jobs around the house, I really can't manage on my own.
3) Late birthday celebration?
Had this thought of giving lil' one (and maybe che-che - though her idea of a celebration would be one without her family) one celebration before she graduates. I find it's so silly that now we have the use of the function room, we hardly use it. Although I've proven over the years that I can get something impressive out within a week (meaning late nights and slogging through)..... hmm...... forget it. Save my own life.
You're right. I'm one super old-fashioned person who still carries a video camera around for our holidays.
Asked dad to pass me his recorder so that I can do it at home but he refused to lend me, as if I will spoil his stuff or refuse to return to him. Then I also worry if he'll do what he did last year. He recorded from the playback on TV. ?!?!?! Clarity is not there but as usual he always return my stuffs late. Rather he likes to procrastinate and then suddenly say he only have 2 days to finish everything. I usually give it to him with a month or two grace period and tell him much earlier I need the camera back. And guess what? He procrastinate so my earlier date became the few days before trip. And I still gotta chase chase chase. In the end, last year instructions on how to get the videos out in segments. I put individual holidays into one individual project. And he jumbled up the CDs, in one CD I can have Spain holiday and suddenly I have something else inside. When I got back the CDs last year, I had to accept it coz there simply wasn't anymore time left and he didn't want to lend me his recorder. I can do it while I'm doing housework and I know when the videos will end coz' I know the contents.
I have a recorder at home which nobody wants to help me install. Ask hubbby, he shrugs his shoulder and walks away. Ask my father, he forever busy busy. Also I wasn't sure if the remote control works anymore. Or whether this recorder even works with this new TV!! We have our first recorder back in Punggol but it doesn't work with new TVs so I have no idea why I still keep that DVD recorder. Even this current one, I'm hoping that a miracle will happen and it works so that I can reformat 2-3 CDs which I didn't get the chance to do so last time. You must be asking me why did I even bring this over now. Coz' I was hoping for the time to do it but apparently not so coz I have my hands filled with so many stuffs.
Digital
Ideally I wanted everything in the house to be stored into one hard disk. Like my 亲家, he has no CDs in his house. He tells me in every room is like a karaoke room, the kids wants to watch what channel, they key in they get it. The only setback is that you need one gigantic memory CPU, like FBI/CIA keeping datas. Told hubby about this, and he tells me to find out more myself - like I'm one smart IT person like that?! In the end, my idea of hiding whatever wiring before renovation went down the drain coz' nobody to help me and I was on solo, I needed to pace myself what is more important to do - then it was che-che's PSLE.
Before moving, I did burn some DVDs into digital format and got rid of the DVDs but after that I found I didn't have enough time to finish up the rests so moved them into this house. 3 years later, I still haven't found the time to do so. If i can remember how to do it also.
So technically I should digitalized these videos right? Then again, nobody to help me. The only way I thought I can do so is to use Pinnacle Studios or Adobe Premiere but it may take up more space per disk than ordinary burn via DVD recorder. Never mind, put into CD first to confirm I have the video recordings out before I delete the cam-corder to get some space. When I'm free (like when?) then maybe burn into hard disk? Double work? I think so...... but currrently now as I'm typing this, I'm also scanning at the same time and copying some holiday files over to computer. But the files all jumbled up, they can't sort it according to the "time taken". ARGH!!!! It will take me some longer time to edit them by myself. If only I can have that DVD recorder - nobody sells it now. It's almost as good as being an antique item just like DVD portable players with screen. Who uses that anyway? I used to own one, bringing them with me on holidays to keep the young girls entertained. Now, with one handy dandy handphone everything is all inside.
Anyway, right after the PSLE I'll still be kept busy. Photobooks, tidy house, clear stuffs, mend the wall cracks and re-paint the PES, clean the grouts in the whole house. I scrub the grouts every half a year but I haven't been able to do so this year. I really wish hubby can help especially for those jobs around the house, I really can't manage on my own.
3) Late birthday celebration?
Had this thought of giving lil' one (and maybe che-che - though her idea of a celebration would be one without her family) one celebration before she graduates. I find it's so silly that now we have the use of the function room, we hardly use it. Although I've proven over the years that I can get something impressive out within a week (meaning late nights and slogging through)..... hmm...... forget it. Save my own life.
Saturday, September 8, 2018
42 drafts
So I've got 42 drafts in here. Wow! That's alot! What the heck have I been complaining about? I'll go through them another day, for all you know 我的气都消了，不需要 post the blog entry. Heehee!
Last 3
Yippee! Last 3 lessons then no more trips to Parkway Parade on a crowded weekend. I’ve also made the withdrawal from the centre today. Lil’ one wanted to continue with their Science Sec 1, she’s attached to the centre as she’s joined them since 2014 year end. 有点感情。But I think it’s time to say goodbye for now, I can’t stand the thoughts of getting stuck in there again.
But last 3 lessons also means that the dreaded PSLE shit is looming so close.
I'm so tired, I've decided to leave things as they are. Whether she gets to the school of her choice ultimately all lies in her performance. I'm so sick and tired of nagging and scolding her. She deal with it on her own. 谁叫她不听我的劝告 Yup! I've met with ups and downs while journeying the shitty P#$% with both girls. Each have their strengths and weaknesses. I've got the grouchy post drafted somewhere here but never got the chance to complete it. I'm so glad that I've only got 2 two girls to go through this shit. My grandchildren? Better tell them to leave the country..... it'll never get better but my grandkids will be even more stressed.
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Small bitchiness - entry drafted on 11th Apr 2018 #lateposting#
I can't believe that children as young as 11 or 12 now are not as polite and demure as before. Perhaps this is all thanks to the parents who brought up the new strawberry generation? Giving the kids the chance of empowerment without guiding them properly? Worst! The parents are 'of the same kind'. No please and thank yous. Oh my! I certainly didn't raise my kids to be strawberries or the 没家教的孩子.
Lil' one (since last year) told me she didn't like her new classmates. They change class every 2 years. So in Primary 5 she was stuck in this class where she says she didn't like most of them. A few of them are still nice to her. I don't expect my daughter to be Miss Congeniality where everybody loves her but she says when she tries to be nice to people; people are mean to her.
And there is this particular group of 3 girls whose 八字 and hers clash. She tried to be nice to them but when they talk to her, they kinda speak to her in harsh tone. And mind you, one of them, C, is a prefect. Bad example!
2017 came and went. 2018 came and she wasn't that enthusiastic with school starting knowing that she'd be stuck with them since she didn't have a pleasant year with them. Apart from the few friends she has, she didn't like to idea of being stuck in a classroom with people who didn't treat her nice. Most times she comes back confused as to why she has to treat people nice but others can treat her badly. (WELL... THAT'S BECAUSE MY GIRLS HAVE GOOD UPBRINGING!!) It's almost like I tell her to share things with her friends but her friends refused to share things with her, and I'll tell her to 算了吧, since they are brought up this way. Many times wanted to tell her to be selfish towards her friends coz 以牙还牙 but nope that's the wrong thing to teach. I'd rather be the bitch than she be one.
The gang of 3, as what she puts it, only one of them still seem more friendlier than the other 2. When she was sick, the friendlier one asked about her. However, this also raised my thoughts with the "what if" - what if she was only trying to act nice so that she can be the one to 打小报告 to the other 2 and gossip. (HA! As what che-che told me "all girls school..... the girls can be super bitchy.") I advised her to "not to talk bad about other people esp her 2 good friends infront of her.
But still, I don't have good impression on the other 2. They have that "mighty empress" look. Hmm.... makes me wonder if their parents have that same “stuck up” look. I want to slap them!
Dang dang dang dang..... 7th Feb. Lil' one came home really frustrated. Said that no one is co-operative over their Social Study project work. And that she had asked them for upteenth time in class when they were going to discuss the work, they either kept pushing back or cite they are lazy etc.. She did start some work informing the prefect, C, if she can go ahead and do something first as she was a little free. So, truth is, my girl did her part and she was waiting for them for suggestions or discussions to add on or delete work. The prefect raised her voice at her in class, in return she raised her already loud shrill voice at her. Their argument caught their teacher's attention. Then the girl started crying. What the F#%^! She cried so the classmates came over and thought she was bullied by my small-size girl, she didn't explain why she was crying... so the immature classmates thought it was my girl's fault. If a mature girl will listen to both sides and then know the whole story instead of listening to one. Of course that girl, C, dare not say anything. Did she dare to tell them in actual fact it was my girl who did some work on her part? Did she dare to tell them she was the one who kept procrastinating and didn't want to do her part? Did she dare to tell that her cry was a fake cry for sympathies? She's an asshole. Worst is when another kapo-chi prefect who only heard her one side of the story. Oh! That girl C, said my girl started work without them. Huh? Isn't it good she started some work? Better than the 3 of you who didn't do any work at all? So that kapo-chi prefect, TT, came and scold lil' one for no reason. Another 没家教. Honestly, this girl..... I know her mother. Got some kind of personality also.. No wonder 生出来的孩子像妈妈. Character is shit! These people need to meet someone more nasty than them and get bashed up.
So when will they get their karma? I know it's bad for me to say this to want to curse and swear at these girls but I just can't stand them.
The gang of 3, as what she puts it, only one of them still seem more friendlier than the other 2. When she was sick, the friendlier one asked about her. However, this also raised my thoughts with the "what if" - what if she was only trying to act nice so that she can be the one to 打小报告 to the other 2 and gossip. (HA! As what che-che told me "all girls school..... the girls can be super bitchy.") I advised her to "not to talk bad about other people esp her 2 good friends infront of her.
But still, I don't have good impression on the other 2. They have that "mighty empress" look. Hmm.... makes me wonder if their parents have that same “stuck up” look. I want to slap them!
Dang dang dang dang..... 7th Feb. Lil' one came home really frustrated. Said that no one is co-operative over their Social Study project work. And that she had asked them for upteenth time in class when they were going to discuss the work, they either kept pushing back or cite they are lazy etc.. She did start some work informing the prefect, C, if she can go ahead and do something first as she was a little free. So, truth is, my girl did her part and she was waiting for them for suggestions or discussions to add on or delete work. The prefect raised her voice at her in class, in return she raised her already loud shrill voice at her. Their argument caught their teacher's attention. Then the girl started crying. What the F#%^! She cried so the classmates came over and thought she was bullied by my small-size girl, she didn't explain why she was crying... so the immature classmates thought it was my girl's fault. If a mature girl will listen to both sides and then know the whole story instead of listening to one. Of course that girl, C, dare not say anything. Did she dare to tell them in actual fact it was my girl who did some work on her part? Did she dare to tell them she was the one who kept procrastinating and didn't want to do her part? Did she dare to tell that her cry was a fake cry for sympathies? She's an asshole. Worst is when another kapo-chi prefect who only heard her one side of the story. Oh! That girl C, said my girl started work without them. Huh? Isn't it good she started some work? Better than the 3 of you who didn't do any work at all? So that kapo-chi prefect, TT, came and scold lil' one for no reason. Another 没家教. Honestly, this girl..... I know her mother. Got some kind of personality also.. No wonder 生出来的孩子像妈妈. Character is shit! These people need to meet someone more nasty than them and get bashed up.
So when will they get their karma? I know it's bad for me to say this to want to curse and swear at these girls but I just can't stand them.
When she was absent from class, she sent a message to the class chatgroup if there was any homework. And these particular 3 would be so bitchy. They would asked tons of stupid messages asking her why ask ? Obviously she wasn't around right mini bitches. Tons of shit useless messages and they are not helping her.
For her science workbook, I hate to think but wonder if lil' one was being sabotaged. Everyone has their book except her? She explained to her FT, also her Science teacher, and she was alright with her. Coz i believer she knows that my girl is not the type to evade homework, told her to get another workbook and do the necessary first and can do the rests later. Week later, her friend found her book in her (friend) locker. She was surprised that it's there and they are not even seated together to have their books mixed up on their table. Teacher was surprised that it was in another person's locker. So I began to wonder if the mini bitches did something. Afterall they are bitches, they have done unkind things to her before. So I still want to curse at them.
And when I saw their parents then I knew. They act like they're entitled karens. Big bitches will have mini bitches lor! Makes me wonder why the parents are like that. Most the parents in lil' one's class have their eldest in P6, which means they are the 1980s kids , all younger than me. Brought up in a different era? I don't really like majority of the younger PVs. Proud like anything. One mummy, not the friendly kind. They way she looks at people is like 狗眼看人低. During LJ, she can be standing in one corner talking and talking instead of helping. I wonder if the LJ is also for her? For her to sightsee? Or for her to catch up with the other PVs? So irritating!
And when I saw their parents then I knew. They act like they're entitled karens. Big bitches will have mini bitches lor! Makes me wonder why the parents are like that. Most the parents in lil' one's class have their eldest in P6, which means they are the 1980s kids , all younger than me. Brought up in a different era? I don't really like majority of the younger PVs. Proud like anything. One mummy, not the friendly kind. They way she looks at people is like 狗眼看人低. During LJ, she can be standing in one corner talking and talking instead of helping. I wonder if the LJ is also for her? For her to sightsee? Or for her to catch up with the other PVs? So irritating!
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