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

30th Oct 2020

House is so so quiet without lil' one who is out with her friends.

Tho I may complain she's too noisy, it's just not the same without her. No background noise.

30th Oct 2020

Che-che said "Wah…..come back already so noisy.....' 😂 haha!

mummy still love you no matter how noisy you are

30th Oct 2018

$50 from che-che Athena Ting to her maid, Aricia Ting to help pack school stuffs into boxes.

#bossingheraround#

30th Oct 2017

Just thinking if I have the time to jump into the pool, bake something, throw away study materials & tidying up lil' one's room, housekeeping laptop, tending to the pathetic plants, housekeeping fridge - all these tomorrow.

Footnote written in 2020 : Just as I was thinking if I should jump into the pool tmrw. My right knee is giving me problem again so maybe the swim might help me? I'll drag lil' one with me tmrw, she needs the swim for her scoliosis, hopefully I can drag her.

Haven't been baking, I can't eat my bakes now (no bread/no floury stuffs) n girls take a looonnnnng time to finish. No mood to bake at this time also.

Forever doing housekeeping in laptop n hard disk.

Forever tempted to simply throw away study materials but ...next year I cannot throw lil' one's Sec

3 stuffs.

Forever looking at my pathetic plants.

Forever looking at the PES saying that I need to scrub, mend cracks n paint the walls n scrub the hard to remove floor stains but it's just too much work, can anyone recommend me a worker?

Forever asking them if they hv anything to clear to Salvation Army, forgetting that I just put two small bags in the boot wanting to drop them but just never drive past.

30th Oct 2016

Che-Che is out, to watch some performance (required by the school Band). Nice to relax back at home as she's old enough to train down on her own.

Will just pick her up from train station later. Soon, my girls will be big enough to leave me alone at home.

30th Oct 2016

Bringing her pet for its swim

And now she's doing her civic part. She's helping to pick up the leaves in the pool and throwing them into the planters by the side. 😅

30th Oct 2015

Feel like starting Bodycombat all over again. I had a long break.

30th Oct 2014

A classmate must have given this to my girl.

So funny to give blutack!!

30th Oct 2012

Ehhh...

..that was my mom cheering on for her. The

only one that someone cheered on that day, that makes her vy special huh?

Mom said she cheered for Che-Che; so she must cheer on for lil' one. Next year she'll cheer again for Iggy.

My lil' gan-cheong spider speech

30th Oct 2012

How smart can I be? Wanted to decorate Halloween cuppies for girls to bring tomorrow for their recess/ break. Bought marshmallow ready to do fondant. I forgot to buy flour to bake my cuppies. ?!?!?!?!?

30th Oct 2012

In the mood for Horror-ween!!

Yay! This mummy was scary enough. Turned into a werewolf past 2 weeks.

Are you ready, Athena?

We're going to have loads of fun tomorrow!

30th Oct 2012

Ok, now that Exams is finally over. I hv a bigger headache. What books to keep?? I'm so ready to junk everything in the studyroom before I stack in P1s n PSs books but ... Pls tell me what is necessary for me to keep.

30th Oct 2010

Alot of children here in Macs now. I overheard so many parents tell their children "chi bao bao jiu qu kao shi". LOL

1st experience for Athena n myself - Music Theory

Exam. Only Grade 1 but there's a beginning somewhere. N it's all last minute work so fingers cross.

Halloween 2023

Halloween trick treating in the compound, not organised by me. I missed out last year's event coz I was still reeling in joy over my new freedom and I must have missed the post in the FB page. 

Got these night glow tattoos from Taobao but had to cut them into half coz I don’t think it’ll be sufficient to go around. Bought stickers from Daiso and cut them too. 

Packed a sticker, one tattoo, one Fruit plus candy and one mini lollipop into a ziploc bag. I didn’t get those Halloween ziploc bags, I simply used whatever bags I have at home. I run a favor shop rmbr 😂? 

As my treats will be left under the mercy of weather elements, I had to bag them up. I didn’t want to do any face-to-face distribution coz I just don’t want to open and close my door. Thankfully it wasn’t raining. 

Can't put too much in the bowl so went out to top up the bowl a few times.

At 6.47pm - This is the last top up of the 69 pieces I've prepared. Used up all the lollipops except for the colas which lil' one wanted. It was at this time too I saw a message left behind by a kid in my empty bowl. 

Prepared more with the the remaining tattoos and stickers, I could only make another 15 more without the lollipops so I added extra sticker in each pack and topped up the bowl.

 

Always going out and see an empty bowl. So fast! Last top up at 7.21pm with these sweets. Nothing to pack anymore. 

What's left at 8.30pm. Lil' one was still eyeing on the strawberry candies. Too bad! 

That's all! Till the next Halloween!

Ready for Halloween

All ready for the kids 

#halloweenatPV#

So while I got ready in the late afternoon for this, check-che would just be waking up on the other side of the earth across the vast ocean. 

 

It's autumn and the time for....

Lovely olange yallow foliage. So lovely. So lucky someone, it was all green when she went over and she'll see the change of weather

It's full moon. Be careful a werewolf is prowling around the campus. Who can ever forget that movie! 

#athenakeepyourwindowsclosed# #lockyourdoors#

So eerily dark around campus. Wonder if they'll do anything there on All Hallows' Eve.

I still fondly rmbr the time I saw the 🇺🇸 houses decorated for Halloween. I want to be a young kid again.

All in the name of FUN!

She was crazy over Jessie once. Yah...l go to great extreme to get it from US online for their costumes coz they're only young once.

And you'll spot sporting ppl who will play along with you.

This Mr Wolf is too friendly tho!

2023 : If only l'm that enthusiastic to decorate the house for CNY 😂😂

Later just put abit of  🕷️around and can liao lah! I want to decorate more also later kids scared. (Anyway I

always forget | put 🕷️🕷️ there that / 自己吓自己。used

to hang the ghost at wall that I got frightened when I was watering the plants 🤣 I'm so dumb..)

Flowers in the house

Candy eye spots in the house.

Really need to have flowers in the house, mood feels different...or maybe coz today's Friday 🤣?

ps: Mon to Sun no difference to me lah! It's really the magical flowers.

Once I did a flower subscription for a month. I was so happy yet sad when flowers wilt. And when 💸 even more heartpain. Sigh…...I should find work in Flower Dome.

One year later, not as much white as before but still a beauty.

Tho it may be lights (LED) out 🤭 but it's everlasting

This can't last long for sure, so maybe the next change would be to my fav tulips. ??

I chopped the stalks shorter, tho the arrangement still looks ugly at least it looks better than ystd. 自己讲自己开心。

Dehumidifier Moisture Absorber

A follow up on my first post in Jun - No more plastic wastage 

I’m a convert. I like that it’s working and I’ve since poured the water out and changed the beads twice. It feels horrible these days that the humidity level at home reads 77% , I checked on the containers at home and all containers had liquid in the container faster than the previous time. Oh my! 

At the same time my order from Taobao finally arrived after so long. 

Basically this works the same as the one I got from Agiontex. 

Just that it’s reusable and I can discard the liquid away by opening the cap. I’m not sure if it’s a better solution as I have to make sure to remove the liquid asap before they crystalize in the bag which might make it harder to clean the bag eventually.

I bought a total of 12 bags and only used up 4 bags in total for the wardrobes. 

Printed this label to remind this forgetful me not to discard it. Sometimes I can suddenly go gila and start throwing away stuffs 😂. 

Came with 12 bags. I filled up 2 bags with one packet. 

Hopefully I’ll remember to do my follow up review on this in months to come.

Y1 T4 : Home -cooked lunch

Skinny girl kept complaining she has to usually join the long queue and rush through her food that she's been asking me to pack food for her on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Actually it's a good training ground for her to finish her food quickly, right? *evil laughter* 

Her friends always bring bread to school.    Anyway, being the doting mom I just had to make some sacrifices (wake up early) and effort to prepare her a proper meal. 

Week 2 : 10th Oct (Tue) - Mee Hoon Kueh

Since she had mee hoon kueh the day before, I kept some for her lunch the next day. Very troublesome, I had to pack in two thermos containers to separate the kueh from the soup. 

Verdict : bad choice. Kueh was a little hard by afternoon. 

Obviously it was so troublesome in cooking and packing this that I didn't have time to take any photo. Had to get it out before she leaves the house  

12th Oct (Thu) - Soba

Her all time favourite! Was just a day before when I realised I wouldn't have time to pack food for her the next day coz I'd have to go back home after exercise for a shower, then leave home again for my LR in Tampines's Browhaus. Suggested that I'll cook soba for her, all I need to do the next day is to pack the soba container with ice pack and pour the prepared soy dashi sauce into another thermos flask.    

Week 3 : 17th Oct (Tue) - Fish Porridge

Easy peasy coz I had the rice soaked in water the night before with the seasoning in it. Just cook in the morning, it'll be much faster. Slice fish was thawed the day before, and since I slept late (or early), I brought the fish out on the kitchen top to thaw further.  

Aricia Ting In memory of the spoon (. (Photo taken this morning)

After school > "Mummy the spoon is missing. I dunno where…... and did you use the expensive spoon?"

"My WMF spoon!"

"Next time you just pack for me the disposable spoon." ( me thinking next time don't pack any cutlery for her. 🤦🏻‍♀️)

Week 4 : 19th Oct (Thu)

Wasn't feeling well to go for FightDo class, woke up feeling dizzy and asked hubby to help send her to school and I plonked back into bed. Heartless girl - she wasn't concerned about how her mom felt but simply asked "what about my lunch?!" Almost want to smack that girl for being so selfish, she's lucky her mother didn't have much strength this morning to raise that hand across her face.  

24th Oct (Tue)

ToriQ chicken and egg. Boiled egg the night before, peeled and soaked in ToriQ sauce. All I had to do in the morning is to cook rice in Ms Thermie and popped the marinated chicken and egg in the oven. 

She wanted food in her "cat cat container". Did explain that food might not be hot at 1pm, 5hrs later. 

Disposable cutleries

Cooking needs planning. It isn't as bad as during CB when I had to sit down one day and do the menu planning and then gather all the ingredients that I need. So when she asked for rice, it means I'll have rice for their dinner too. As I was lazy to bring down the huge rice cooker for that mere bowl of rice to keep it warm till evening, I decided to explore using the slow cooker. THAT was a MISTAKE! The rice was crispy. Haha! I'll have to try to use the thermos container the next time.  

26th Oct (Thu)

2 people are waiting for me to pack their lunch for them. Mom and her! Packed Mee Rebus from Qiji for them. But it's not exactly a luxury waiting for her. I have no idea what time she finishes her class, so always need to wait outside her school at least half an hour before class ends. Yah, waiting under the hot sun as I can't leave the car engine running. Suffer just coz of her. When I pack lunch for them, usually I can only drop by mom's after I passed the food to lil' one.