Tuesday, February 23, 2021

On This Day - 23rd Feb #Reminders from FB#

 23rd Feb 2011

Tension headache!  I mark Che-che's work, want to vomit blood. Few days ago, 7 marks/questions due to : 4 marks/questions workings do nice nice for me, MCQ can choose wrongly. ?!?! 3 marks/questions workings correct, transcript final answer wrong! If not perfect score. 2 days ago, blind girl nvr read question properly. Challenging ones can answer, giveaway ones can make mistake. lost 6 marks scored 90%.


Today, science questions, she did cross out the correct answers but when she answer the MCQ she answer wrongly. she scored 98%.   

How?how?how? She's extremely careless. Going to start penalizing her alr- take away her water stickers n cute papers. 

I AM GOING TO BE A ROARING TIGERESS MOM ALREADY!!

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

On This Day - 16th Feb #Reminders from FB#

16th Feb 2011

I wanna cry.......my lil girl shoo-ed me away. Saying "u dun follow me mummy. I can walk in to school myself. I'm a big girl alr?" keeps turning to check if ive moved one step.

Footnote : She was on her way to kindy. (K1 then) 

16th Feb 2011

FASHION OF 2011

Hat fits all sizes and season. Don't hesitate. Buy now!


Pomelo Hat by Lilyann, clothes models own, Model Aricia


16th Feb 2014

10th Mar - Piano exam 

18th Mar - SYF

19th Mar - Ballet exam

        忍 忍 忍

Can't wait for all to be over. Our Term 1 is extremely busy. Ballet 3x a week for this month n next month. OMG!! 😱 I'm already so exhausted just rushing through work to put in time for more piano practices. Especially rushing home for only 1hr plus just to sneak in time for Aricia to practice, then rush back to school.

And Athena was suppose to hv her swim test sometime in March too. But I gave up, cannot cope. I'm way too exhausted coz I only drive a car, I don't fly a rocket. And I'm a human, not a robot.


16th Feb 2017

Lil' one was relating to us how slow the P3s are during the fire drill that even Ms R had to ask them to walk faster. Then next sentence made me tickle "aiyoh! If there's real fire 🔥, we P5s sure die one."

Monday, February 15, 2021

On This Day - 15th Feb #Reminders from FB#

15th Feb 2011

Kids are REALLY honest. Girl came back saying that she had to bring the Catholic Welfare ticket back to school tmrw. The due date is 20 something Feb, so surprised it's early submission. (she's suppose to bring to mom's place to try to sell to my family) When I went back to room and gave her $10, she looked at me "oh! so you buying everything?" 

She then told me the real reason for bringing back tix.

"Becoz' I told Ms R tt my mummy only bought $2. N I cannot sell anymore. She asked me can u buy any more. I told her my mother's not working n she has no more money (haha! tt's what I always say when she bugs me 2 buy rubbish 4 her).

She asked where's daddy, I said my daddy is outstation. So she said I can bring the remaining tickets tmrw."

Wah.... I sound very poor. No money 2 survive in Singapore without hubby. But think abt it, really innocent remark


15th Feb 2012

HW! HW! HW! When will there be a day she comes back with no HW?? 

I'm not being paradoxical, yes I love when teachers give HW. But.... To the extent that I hv no time for her to do my work? To the extent that on her MC day, she had to do my work??

15th Feb 2012

Asked lil' girl "a millennium is a 1000 years. What is a 100 years?" *shrugs shoulder n smile ever sweetly* "it's a cen..." "century!" "how about 10 years?" " a de-ker-deh" "a what?" "a de-ker-deh. It's d-e-c-a-d-e what. So it's de-ker-deh." 

Funny moments to tickle me pink.

15th Feb 2012

My lil' girl 昨天读书一半又在白板偷画画。This time I caught her in action.

*she's guilt stricken*





15th Feb 2015

THESE!! Gotta go in for wash too!







Friday, February 12, 2021

🐮 HAPPY 牛 YEAR! 🐮

Can you guess who's bowl are these for?


With peanuts as how che-che likes it, and lil' one all plain.


 

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Getting house ready for CNY 2021

Still in the covid days, but the house needs some livening up. Need some RED to sweep the bad luck away. Go away covid! I want to travel again. 

Very very simple.

Two wall decos, mirror sticker (cannot be seen in this pic) + this pathetic patch of red.

This year didn't put anything in balcony coz for the previous year and the year before, the wind always blow down my hanging red

Then realised I forgot abt the living area and the walkway to rooms. 🤦🏻‍♀️



When I chanced upon leek yesterday.

After that I realised I'm so cheapskate buy so little, should have a bigger bunch for main door and forgot about the balcony.




Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Busy busy in the beginning of the year

The trend is that I'll always be so busy at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, just like accountants rushing to do the year-end financial reports. 

End of the year
Usually will be clearing the year's academic stuffs. Will throw if no need to keep for future reference. Well, I'd scan in some stuffs before throwing them away. For what? I have no idea. It's either for them to retrieve when they need it or for keepsake, where they have their schoolworks to show their kids/grandkids?
For che-che's stuffs, I'd usually keep for lil' one. Take them out from bomb shelter when lil' one reaches that level. But I'm slowly getting rid of stuffs that we have nothing to pass to lil' one. Lil' one doesn't want to go JC, so there's no need to keep for her. Will slowly scan and throw JC materials this year.
End of the year is also the time I'll be finalising the holiday itinery. Preparing a travel journal for lil' one as well. Oh well, I didn't have to do that last year. No drafts at all so if we decide (and if possible to travel in 2021) to go for a trip, I'd have to start from the beginning. A little research was done though so 1/10 of the work is done. 

Beginning of the year
Beginning of the year will be the time I try to clear backlog work. No joke lah! One person how to manage so many things?   
This year, I've already started scanning JC materials. So 辛苦一点 scanning in all J1 and J2 stuffs. Damn! It's alot! And I'm amazed she's able to keep in her side cabinet.   
My feelings
I'm happy the storeroom is cleared of academic stuffs coz it's all in AR's bookshelves now in prep for her major exam next year
Although my girls won't have anything physical left behind to show their kids except their uniforms (I will be keeping their school's face mask as well). Though I can be a sentimental person but I want tidiness too. At least I left some scanned stuffs behind, I took some pictures for them before I junked them away.

#tryingminimalistliving#



Friday, February 5, 2021

What 2020 and 2021 would have been if without covid

The year 2020 began slow, there was no sign no clue what is to happen in a few weeks time when we ushered the new year . And then the whole world were thrown into a rut - covid19 apocalypse. When weeks turn to months, before we knew it 2020 came to an end. What a year it was! 

That got me thinking what 2020 and 2021 would have been for me if without this ass virus. 

2020
Trip to London
Terry dropped me an email on 18th Jan, after I emailed to thank him for the christmas card he sent in 2019. I haven't heard from my dear friend Velda for some time and was really happy to hear from them. Well, it was through him that I knew she was diagnosed with Alzheimers and he had been her carer since. I believed that must be reason why I haven't heard from her. 

It wasn't good news to hear definitely, I had the intention to fly up and visit her maybe in few  months' time and at the same time do a tour. I miss the theatres and museums. I want to revisit London, I want to walk down the shopping streets again. I miss walking and cursing the countless turns and flight of stairs in the tube stations. Not so for the chinese food there coz they're really expensive  - if I remember correctly it costs £5 (S$9+) for a bowl of hot and sour soup the last time I was there. 

Trip to Fukuoka
Was envious when my my Japanese girlfriend made solo trips to Singapore, so I thought I should make one on my own next time when the girls are older. I've talked about wanting to go on solo trips for so long but never got down to even plan for one. So perhaps I can switch and visit my girlfriend instead and train to another big city after that or before that. I want to taste all over again Fukuoka's Hakata ramen, which is actually just tonkotsu. However I must reiterate that the tonkotsu do tastes differently in differnt parts of Japan, and I love the superbly rich porky broth in Fukuoka      

友人と休日に行く
A trip with friend,  S? We said we can plan for a short trip to BKK, just eat, drink and be merry kind of trip with NO SIGHTSEEING. I told her coz' she'll not friend me anymore if we include sightseeing. #coziamthechiongallthewaytourist#

Of course then we didn't say when we'll make a trip together but perhaps we would have a chance in or start planning for one in 2020 or ?   

Our year-end holiday
We would have gone for our US trip. Revisit Grand Canyon and put in a few new stops. I think I'm more prepared with astrophotography (provided no stupid clouds covering the sky) so was looking forward to looking up into the sky. And this might be our last family trip with the girls having same school vacation? 

Start researching n putting things down to detail
I would have started to plan in finer details travel itinery for 2021. But as the months went by with so many cases local and worldwide, I didn't even want to mention this to anyone. I didn't want to mention too coz' I didn't want somebody to start daydreaming and neglect her studies in the process  

2021
Holiday with che-che
Had plans to bring che-che to Switzerland n maybe to Germany and Austria. I really wanted to do a mother-daughter trip with her alone before Uni starts. Although it means I won't be able to rest as much n really be on holiday mood (as I'd be scrubbing clothes and underwears n socks while she's lazing around). I will have to cook instant noodle for her when she's hungry. BUT regardless I think it'll be nice with just us. She makes a good travel companion. We have the same interests, we can walk (tho I think me getting older now means I'm not as fit as before)

As usual I'd be the tour guide , just like when I had mother-daughter trips with mom many times. the only difference is mom boiled water and cooked when I/we were hungry. 

I'd love to do the adventurous hostel stay with her. We don't need expensive hotel, we just need one with a bed and place to shower. We can take trains around and explore the towns / cities. 

Solo wellness trip to Thailand
Been wanting to go on a wellness trip, for detoxifying, for fitness, for sanity check. And maybe for astrophotography out of hotel window/balcony?

Planning for our year end holiday

We would have discussed where to go next while on holiday. And if things went according to plan, we would have gotten our tickets in Jan or Feb latest. And then I'll start reading up bit by bit. Plan a little each time. It's not that easy to plan an itinery, really!


  

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Our US 2020 brief draft

Found this in my NOTES phone as I wanted to do some cleaning up in there

Where

2020 USA BRIEF

LAX - SAN DIEGO 

120.3miles 1hr 54mins 


SAN DIEGO - DESERT HOT SPRINGS 

141miles 2hrs 11mins 


DESERT HOT SPRINGS - middle of GRAND CANYON. King man? Winslow? 



 - GRAND CANYON


GC - monument valley

157.9 miles 2hrs 42mins



GC - Page

111.5 miles 2hrs 9mins



Page - antelope canyon

7.4 miles 13mins


or GC - antelope canyon

116.6 miles 2hrs 15mins


Antelope canyon- horseshoe bend 

9.7miles 16 mins


GC - Bryce national park

144.6 miles 2hrs 47mins


Bryce National - Zion 

72.3 miles - 1h 20mins 


Zion National Park - Las Vegas

160.6 miles 2hrs 35mins


Las Vegas - Los Angeles 

270.4 miles  4hrs 13mins 



The link/s that I typed in my phone, waiting for me to do more research. Anyway, I copied and paste this down into the blog, coz only things that I type in the blog remains as a memory. Years down the road when I reread my blog when I'm in my 70s, I'd be reminded on a trip that never materialised in the year 2020. 


https://capturetheatlas.com/visit-bryce-canyon-in-one-day/





Managed to photoshop (tho not perfect) but you get a n idea of how crazy I had planned for the itinery 


Putting this in here, so that I can refer it next time if we're planning to do this route