Showing posts with label On This Day (Oct). Show all posts
Showing posts with label On This Day (Oct). Show all posts

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

On This Day - (29th Oct) #Reminders from FB#

29th Oct 2023

Girlfriend sent this over. Their last concert. She was so so lucky to get tickets to their concert coz in Japan it's by lottery system, one can try all the dates but get none at all. She only chose one location and she got it! Extremely lucky!

Che-che was superbly envious of Aunty Mio. I told Mio she can adopt my child and let her go with her to the concert .

#なにわ男子#




29th Oct 2022

* added a photo into the Vietnam 🇻🇳 photo album *


With permission from my talented bro Pauline Patrick

Teo to post this.

requested that he drew a window view for me coz I was so 😤 for not having one.

And this is what my humorous brother came up with

🤣. Nothing can stop Tom and Jerry at their witty fights even at 35,000ft.




29th Oct 2021

In the meantime, I shall continue to leave this in the car. I hope I rmbr to get it fixed, I hope I will wake up from the wrong side of the bed one day and decide to go out of the 🏡 





29th Oct 2021

3rd day of eating snake. I took 3 days annual leave leaving the man to help vacumn the house n then start his busy work. I barely did anything more in the house. There r times when you just want to give up and relax and ...then I start to worry / feel guilty abt the houseworks piled up. Like so crazy right? This is the feeling when one has no domestic helper? Or is it just me?

Went to wi W again, I thought it would be the last chance. I must have mistakenly read that it ends on 4th Nov, now I realised it's 14th. I thought since school term ends this week for lil' one n next week when che-che resumes f2f lectures my route would be different n I'll not come by this area at all. Then late at night we received news that all lectures will be on zoom for the remaining semester. This is good news, meaning no need to chauffeur anyone. is

After , went down to Funan to get my filter lens replaced. It's jammed, so the guy directed me to someone who has the equipment to remove the lens.

Sigh….. And was disappointed when I found out he only opens at 1pm. I didn't have time to go down today as lil' one ended school at 12pm and I had already packed their lunch for them. I needed to be home asap too coz lil' one has online CCA, che-che has her lectures. A wasted trip for me.

Which means I have to make a trip down deliberately one day to get this removed n changed. I know it's easy for me since I have the car, but I'm just so lazy to leave the house.

#lazyme#




29th Oct 2021


It's never enough.

The flowers are just so lovely






















29th Oct 2020

Signed up one other girl for Thursdays' fun / torture.

Whoever follows me into the class will get to choose lunch of her choice + bubble tea.

The other girl will get to eat in foodcourt + teh-o / ice milo.

Lil' one will follow me for the time being.

#therealtorturestartsnextweek# #akandatang#





29th Oct 2016

For the first time che-che said that the one in Shanghai tastes better than here. She's always complaining about food not nice there etc..


Footnote written in 2024 : They don't have this dish here in the restaurant anymore, so the girls haven't stepped or asked to go there to eat.

29th Oct 2016

Though I have no idea how often is she going to use it.



29th Oct 2014

Dinner is served.

Bon appetit




29th Oct 2014

* added new photos to Bangkok 2014 album*

Elephants fellowship


Wat Ket

As Wat Ket was situated near the jail, convicts visited this temple for a final chance to pray before execution.


Thanks for the bumpy ride!!



29th Oct 2013

Clear! Clear! Clear!

Woah! Love 💗 this moment.



29th Oct 2013


Today my lil' one told us she went to the school chapel to say Hail Mary 10x. (We had a good laugh...y was she there?) So I asked her did she hold on to rosary. Her answer "no mummy. But u must buy me the card!!"

The funniest incident that happened quite some time back during school mass. Priest said "u can sit or kneel". My lil' one went to kneel. (4) Hahahaha! We burst out laughing (y and then she said "but he said we can sit or kneel. I can choose what!"

I've reminded her time n time n again to pls remain seated during communion. I hope she did.


Footnote written in 2023 : My lil' one always never fail to make us laugh . @Aricia Ting

Really hoped she didn't think it was food and she went up during communion 🤭 #wernotcatholics#


Footnote written in 2024 : Aricia Ting so cute this girl. So innocent and blur.


29th Oct 2013


Not forgetting the boo-boos too.

Footnote written in 2023 : Aricia Ting fell and then 变傻 😂


She likes to be carried ALL the time but there are days when she's Little Miss Touch-Me-Not.

This video shows her pushing her sister away (n she almost fell)

Footnote written in 2021 : "Mummy why THIS meimei so nottie?"

Athena you never knew your sister is this naughty?

And you only have ONE sister, don't have to mention the word 'this'

Athena is a good big sister. Aricia is a little terror being the younger one.

I do miss them being young. Che-che was chubby cute cute then.



29th Oct 2012


The girls asked me "aunty, when is Aricia celebrating her birthday? On which day?" I said "not yet".

During school time, they told Chayanne from another class that she wasn't invited. I feel like I'm being played out by my girl.

She forgot to bring her "cards" and she told me today she asked her classmates "who wants to come to my birthday party"? The kids obediently put up their hands. ROFL!!

Oh my! If she continues this, the lil kids will tell their mummies/daddies abt the invitation for 2 years later.

Wah seh! Ah lao says like that no choice must give her birthday party right? Thing is... It's Che-Che's

crucial year. Moreover 七岁都还没过、讲到八岁






Footnote written in 2023 : Muahaha! That incident when I was busy with che-che and she Aricia Ting kept herself busy by writing her own birthday party invite for 2yrs later ⅛ k).

Kids all believed her coz in her own make-belief

-world she sounded so convincing. As usual, her mom has to clear up the mess she left behind.

#被她气死咯#


Footnote written in 2024 : Aricia Ting 妹妹啊..

Charmaine Yeo "chayanne you are not invited." And all the kids play happily together in the playground after kindy, as if nothing has happened while the mom has to do the PR recovery.


Tuesday, October 31, 2023

On This Day - (31st Oct) #Reminders from FB#

31st Oct 2022

The mind is just tuned to certain music as I work on the laptop.

Classical or jazz doesn't help me now, only Christmas 🎄 music. For many days I've had my jazz n classical but i kept getting so distracted and kept changing music. Today I decided to change my music and I'm so proud of myself. I don't get distracted easily and feel so productive planning itinery with Christmas songs.

I guess it's what I've been doing for many years as I plan our itineraries. It's amazing how the mind works!



31st Oct 2021


That was fast! Second round of sweets. Lucky we have lots of sweets at home + willing girls to share 😅



Just as I was pouring out the sweets, two little boys came by.

I gave up lighting the pumpkins. Kept extinguishing



The minimal deco 🎃 👻 



Ready for my kids. love to~eat~ kids.

Pumpkins litted up but still too bright.



That same deco from 2015? Haha!



Treats in bags coz my unit is exposed to all weather elements. And also I down to keep unlocking gate for neighbours (I'll be so busy) for them to get treats from main door. Anyway, they'll walk past my unit so might as well put them outside.




31st Oct 2020


Halloween 2 👻 2 👻 

With no decoration tho! Lazy to bring out pumpkins.

But cannot forget my two fav boys.

Then I realised some neighbours actually left some treats outside their unit. I wanted to follow suit but lazy to re-pack the sweets in cellophane bags as my unit is exposed to the weather elements and then it means I had to really bring out my pumpkins etc..to make that small small Halloween feel.

Hope I won't be lazy next year.



Prepared goodies for my only Trick Treaters Bros.

Suppose to be in a bigger pack but was worried about chocolates melting so packed them separately n left in fridge first.


The Mario Bros and mummy

My cuties who will drop by every year without fail.


And thanks for your kind gesture, not forgetting my 2 big girls.

My girls' treats from Aunty Sandra Tan HS 😀


31st Oct 2020


Someone is kopi ☕️ overload. Sure cannot sleep

tonight 🤣



31st Oct 2019


After my workout, went to pick che-che who ended school early. Yay!

It's makan time. Didn't burn any calories today, I topped it up instead. Sigh....




Weather like so shiok, so cloudy at this time. Ate my sinful pasta…..now I feel like doing a gai-gai since the girls are half-attired and I'm still in my smelly gym wear.




Girls out for walk with me. Starting the other way







31st Oct 2017


  1. No dip in the pool, I had to help with her slime!
  2. No bake coz I had to help her with her slime!
  3. Forget about the pathetic plants, one more day won't make any difference, the rain helped me take care of them today.
  4. Housekeeping laptop ...more likely have to finish some typing tonight.
  5. Fridge -? One more day won't kill right? Or maybe it's two days or three weeks?

All I managed to do was to get rid of some P5 stuffs, brought out che-che's 4 boxes of P6 "worldly intangible treasures". And then realised maybe lil' one won't have time to read also. Got rid of them. 4 years diff, even the oral books cannot be used. Still struggling to fit whatever I can from P4 onwards in that small bookshelf. Sigh...

.. This is only part 1, coz I haven't slot back her current P5 science notes back into the magazine box.

Still have some P5 school stuffs to clear. That one wait till last week of school?

Need to tidy her table!!! I left some binded stacks of EL stuffs for her to read on her table before I clear.

Why are the houses so small now?!?!

I need a bigger bookshelf! Currently, only the packed ones are stacked vertically. The rests is still work in progress. Some stuffs for tutor to check if she needs before I junk. When will I see a neater bookshelf?

All I know is I really need an extra pair of hands to help me out.

#evenahelpergetstorest# #mylifesucks#at 



31st Oct 2017


Told ya I'm forced to make slime instead of doing what I want to do.



31st Oct 2017 - feeling dumb

I bake once in a while, I can cook food fit for my kids (force it down their throat kind) but I can't make slime. ?!?!?!

1st recipe : Lil' one got one that uses glue and washing detergent. She happily took Downy (I told her yesterday that is not detergent she refused to listen to me). Then I decided to view the video she was watching n told her the girl used PVA glue while she used clear glue. I tried to rescue it by using dish detergent n baking soda. It got thicker progressively.

And when I dip my finger in it, cooling sensation.

FAIL! But if you want to learn to make fake snow, this failed recipe of mine will help you. 😉

2nd recipe : I saw one that asks for hand soap + cornstarch. I used castile soap. Quite nice but .... messy. FAIL!

3rd recipe : Lil' one kept saying she'll get the easiest recipe. One ingredient - washing detergent n then freeze it. It looks so easy... I can't be that dumb right?

But I thought of our heat and maybe might not work?

So 55mins later, I helped her stir. I did the same, theirs turn out nice. Mine turn out like muah chee.

OMG! 😲 somebody shoot me!! Anyway I told her to chuck it back to the freezer. It's been some time, and she's totally forgotten about it? She's gone out to pack dinner with daddy. Then how? Detergent ice-cream?



31st Oct 2015

My girl watching herself on YouTube.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SkTqRVnQlbg

Watch out for my mushroom-head Athena Ting




31st Oct 2015

Footnote written in 2020 : It's been 5 years. The year when I decided to organise one trick-treating at my place for some kids here. That took me some time to plan, it was tiring but fun.

Now 老了, no energy to plan.


Footnote written in 2021 : That was fun. Getting to know some neighbours as we had moved in that year.

Organised for the kids, but I didn't follow them or any groups around so didn't have many pics except the ones that bro helped me take.

Wasn't easy planning on how the kids should move in groups but I'm glad managed to pull everything off.



31st Oct 2014



CCA for little one ..

.. still thinking....

Dance (SYF) - not selected

Choir - not selected?? Hmm... she said her br was called up but she didn't even go for second audition but now letters out??

Bowling - selected (I wonder how?? She's so small size, I'm worried she rolls herself into the longkang)

But she wants Dance. So it has to be Dance (Recreational) if she wants... Sigh...




31st Oct 2014



A trip back to the school.

Lil' one eyeing on stationeries at bookshop.

Bought a badge. Mrs Lim gifted a collar pin to Aricia.

Will my girls continue to wear the blue uniform throughout their first 10 years of their education years? I dunno.

The school holds many wonderful memories (tho I must say I was a goody nerdy girl). I'm proud to be an IJ girl and no doubt be part of that "havoc girls in the east". Hey! I turned out alright!!!

Realized I should have tried my luck getting back year books, I'm sure they'll have it somewhere. If I wasn't in a rush, I would have waited longer and hopefully find n talk to our beloved FT. (She was somewhere packing. Called her line to her table..no way to leave message.)



31st Oct 2013
*took this photo from 2012 Halloween*

Can't believe this huh?

Still hv school homework to do before trick treating.




31st Oct 2013


No more tears this time round. They were so willing to pack the sweets for their friends tmrw. Woah! And they're left with very little for themselves. Phew!





31st Oct 2012


This year, thankfully, Halloween is a day after che-che's last exam paper. So we need not rush through trick-treating.



At home, preparing to go out.

My Mad Hatter and Alice in Wonderland. Wanted to print a playingcard and hang it around my neck. Didn't have time to do that so took Athena's devil cape from 2-3yrs ago. In the end, didn't use it also.



A reunion with Queen Of Hearts.

Spideyman, what are you doing there? You lost your way?



Trick-treating


Aricia in Fed-up land


The friendly residents


And then there were more. Not many pictures this year


The props. (oh! the man is a real person)


The people in the streets


Nice thing about Halloween is that you might bump into the same family (of same character) in the streets. And then they will whip out their cameras to take pictures.

This is formed by 2 different families. I didn't manage to spot any Alice In Wonderland characters


Look! Who did we bump into?? Athena's classmate!


*tagged in L’s photo*


Clara with friends.



31st Oct 2011

Ready to go trick treating with the condition that we'd leave 2 hours later as che-che's in her midst of her exams. She worked hard and time to reward her (final decision to bring them out was at the last hour)


With the treats I bought for them


Mei-mei's drinking blood. And guess what? That's their blood group.


Che-che's icky moments


Queen of Hearts and Little Red Riding Hood


Collecting candies is thrilling and makes them happy with what they received.

Next step is ... the heartbreak of parting with them.


Some snapshots. More pictures which will be uploaded in my blog



I finally found a wolf who very obliging took a picture with my Little Red Riding Hood. In the second picture (below) he was going to bite her - reanacting the story. (but he was too fast for my camera)


Bumped into our friends there


My dear girl loves this tattoo



31st Oct 2011

Prepares this cupcake for the two girls today. Start of Halloween fun!