Maybe we should change the routine

Weird Saturday routine today but .. hey! Actually it’s a good change. Usually we would stay in for lunch and go out in the late afternoon for dinner. Lil’ one asked to go Mookata since last week. 

And I was commenting “who goes for Mookata in the afternoon?” 

At least I finally get to see WWWet after so many years in its busy state. Usually we would only see it when it’s dark and closed 😂. 

When the girls were younger and with no school stress, it was outings every weekends. I thought it’ll be better when my girls are older and easier to go outings without lugging diapers and be a coolie to carry their heavy stuffs, but NO….. when they got older the weekends are filled with their tuitions and enrichment classes. 

When they are much much much older now at 22 and 18 - we are super lazy who don’t like to do much under-the-sun outings, who gets bored in shopping malls. We just want to stay in with wifi and do whatever each of us likes after a family meal out. 

Such a hot hot day today

Came back and took a nice shower 🚿. Then lazed on the bed with the aircon on and SSO on Spotify. It’ll be nice to be present in the concert hall butt just lazy to go out, come back need to shower again etc..

I have to do the itinery planning and some printing but I think I’ll do that later at night 🤣. I tend to be more productive in the night. 

Now it’s just so nice to be clean and stay-in the rest of the day. I think we should do this every Saturdays now. It’s not that crowded at Mookata during lunch (or maybe there’s lesser crowd now as it’s the start of the one week school holiday?) 

As for Sundays, I usually prefer to stay in the whole day. Ah-soh needs to do her housework you know! 

The girl

When she comes by to yak yak yak while I need to change the bedsheets.

She was trying to get my attention, not that she wasn’t getting any, so laid on the bed infront of me while I pull out the pillow cases. Still continue yakking, so wrap her up 

WASH BOTH!

Really heavy. I carried her to the kitchen and couldn’t carry anymore. 

On This Day - 31st Aug #Reminders from FB#

31st Aug 2023

Aricia Ting, daddy brought Cheesecake Factory home for us 🤣🤣

31st Aug 2022

So funny 

31st Aug 2018

Flower for the week : 26th Aug

Double petal lily with the usual single petal lily. Smell of double petal lily is not as strong.

31st Aug 2018

* added 16 new photos to the album 31st Aug - 向日葵 Sunflowers*

"I've got sunshine on a cloudy day"

朝阳而生的向日葵

Disc florets

Peek-a-boo!

'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' - The Wizard of Oz

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." — The Wizard of Oz

"You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz.

"All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty."

— The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Follow the yellow brick road

Just for fun. I wanted to photoshop lil' one in, thought she was "Dorothy" for Halloween before but not sure.

Lazy to check also.

See my kah-tek girl

31st Aug 2016

Very depressing to see the leftover skin. Can u guess who ate this?

31st Aug 2015

Does any mummies here have contact number for Mrs Chan jelly? Or is there anyone else who does jellycake? Thanks!

August 31, 2015

Che-che burst out laughing when she saw this on lil' one's studytable. 

"Do not see"...

August 31, 2011 at 10:46 PM 

Taking P3 girls tmrw. Yay! no more crybabies (I hope) but a class of slightly mature kids. I think I'm going to have a good time.

31st Aug 2011

Miracle! I need miracle! Main parcel not in sight! Want to cry alr...

31st Aug 2010

* message from S Li *

Hi Lily, thanks for including Trixi into your party pack... She is really excited about e cookies that u had bake But, i am not meeting my sis today.... will bring Lia to ur cookies tmr.. Thanks once again!!!!

31st Aug 2010

* message from YLi *

Hi Lily, thank you for the delicious pandan cupcakes, cookies n goodies.....Maxine loves it v much ESP the cupcakes......she asked me where did Aunty Lily buy the cakes, v nice..... haha, I told her not bought but baked....she gave a disappointed haiz cos she know mommy can't bake..... haha

August 31, 2009 at 5:20 PM 

I survived! I didn't make the children cry........ I didn't make the children pee in their panties. Will blog about my experience soon!

Comments in 2018 : The first time I volunteered in che-che's school for Teachers Day. In total, throughout both girls' time in primary school, I volunteered a total of 7 times. This year, TD was yesterday - 30th Aug and I didn't make my appearance for the second year running. 

This was my cutie pie che-che who would smile beautifully for me. Now? I can't even steal a snapshot of her!

August 31, 2009 at 9:35 PM

Appreciating all the hard work by the teachers world around.

It's celebrated on 1st September in Singapore.

HAPPY TEACHER'S DAY!

幸せな教師の日  

31st Aug 2009

* added some photos to TD 2009 album. These are selected few pics taken out *

(a) Card for her FT. Made some time back in June

(b) Card for her Chinese teacher. Made some time back in June. And we didn't have time to make more after that for the rests of her teachers. Mummy is exhausted!

(c) Pom pom crafts for the teachers - mainly Athena's teachers in school, from Berries, Yamaha. Aricia's teachers only includes a few in school (can't do for all - too exhausted + got my fingers burnt with the hot glue. OUCH!!), her 2 教師 in Shichida.

(d) The dragonfly for Athena's Chinese teacher, Chick for Yamaha teacher. The only 2 that stands out from the rests. After that I got so exhausted and asked Athena to simply help cut the black chennille sticks and paste the 2 pom poms together to do ladybirds - the simplest!

(e) Gifts for Athena's teachers in school which consists of Lindt chocolate, pom pom craft + card. No time to bake cookies this year. Give myself some breathing space.

(f) I ran out of the "eyes" for the ladybirds for Athena's teachers in LCCC, so decided not to do anymore crafts. 

Instead opted for the easy way out - buy. 

Cards were made and it's the quickest method. Colour; paste and write. Heehee! 

Gifts varies between the koala magnets, A+ magnets and a memo clip

Even the bags had to be purchased, I ran out of my white bags and didn't want to travel all the way to Bencoolen to buy. 

Hmm.........I've just realised, I'm getting lazier each year

31st Aug - Athena standing outside her class in school.

She's really excited that her mummy is in school.

教師 ML in Springleaf Shichida is not forgotten (by the mummy) - apparently Aricia seem to have forgotten her.... We made a trip down on Friday to pass her the small gift.

Teacher A - from MMI

Eclairs that I made for MMI teachers 

Comments in 2018 : The gifts to their teachers are getting lesser and lesser each year. We've stopped giving che-che's LCCC teachers for a very long time. The only teacher that has been receiving gifts all these years is Teacher Peggy. Maybe next year I don't have to prepare any more gifts? 

I miss baking eclairs. I shall do this next year.

Comments in 2024 : I had to re-post this blog entry. It was initially posted in 2018, therefore I had those comments on the future years. 6 years later from 2018, the gifts I left her to choose who to gift. We used to count the tutors too but ehh… no need now. She couldn’t go back to the Primary and Secondary school as she had to be back in office for her presentation. She sent her greetings to her favourite teachers via WhatsApp tho! As for her ITE teachers, she chose to gift only who she likes. Aiyah! I give up doing all these, I’m so tired. 老了! Tho I still like to do crafts, I always don’t have enough time to do my stuffs let alone starting to prep TD gifts. So what am I going to do with the cellophane bags? What am I going to do with the laminator in 3 years time? 6 years later and I haven’t baked the eclairs 🤣. 

On This Day - (30th Aug) #Reminders from FB#

30th Aug 2023

Don't ever bring me there unless you want to hear my high pitch and loud scream, pepper with some 🤬 words. I think I'd be so tired less than 20mins into the game.

30th Aug 2023

TB to July.

The day my daughter made me a fishy lady 😂

たこ焼き was piping hot, she took a piece and was trying to cool 💨 n blew it towards my hand n arm. I was feeling sticky (hot) and wet (rain), iykyk suddenly started 🌧️ flakes on me 🤣

30th Aug 2019

"This young lady would love a glass of wine"

30th Aug 2019

Going to be spell-bound by the aurora borealis and SSO.

30th Aug 2019

Spent 6hrs for a かわいい class, a treasured time with a long time 老朋友 catching up as well.

30th Aug 2012

* tagged along on one of hubby’s business trip to SHA in 2009. While he was working, I arranged for a photo session in the studio on one day. 

At that time, she was still crazy over Hi-5. She was doing the letter 'O'

When will her Prince come to rescue her from the evil mother?

Footnote written in 2020 : Forever my precious #1

Some of you might remember I took this picture as her printout of her birthday invitation card that year.

Pretty mermaid

Was taken like 3 years back?? She was dropping her tooth. She looks so 可爱。

我的小明星！

Very playful during photo shoot. Mummy was real tired, coz this girl eat potato kind, didn't understand what she was suppose to do. I had to translate

Footnote written in 2020 : Yah to think that last time her golden mouth refuses to speak mandarin and she was really ?? (or maybe she was acting. Coz when she did open that mouth and blurt out in chinese, the Berries teacher were shocked. Not that she didn't know the words, but she just pretend.)

And now her chinese is her forte. Total opposite!

Footnote written in 2024 : Coz she don’t make life difficult for her parents and carers, she’s not Aricia. So young already such a cunning and difficult child. 😂

Ask her to point to the strawberries, instinctively she started counting the strawberries. See her pouting lips, can you guess which number was she at?

This was a candid shot

Footnote written in 2020 : I kinda like this coz it was just that moment when they were fooling around and then I heard a click.

Looking back at my kids photos.

Studio shots taken in Shanghai

30th Aug 2011

KZ related to me abt what happened this morning.

Lil' girl's eyes barely open, haven’t brushed teeth, she walked out of bedroom n went to studyroom, did her mountaineering job (chair to highchair) n looked at her time-table for Tuesdays. Stare for quite awhile, think was trying to digest what she's reading in her blurry state. Did her big biz, washup, eat n did her work straightaway.

30th Aug 2011

Guess who wrote this? Lil' girl in her confuse state of mind. "She is both sad and happy"??? And her spelling!!!- hoilday?