CDC + No time no time

Didn’t bother to cook so I can utilise some vouchers on food and totally cleared Jan + some in June. 

Left with $108 in June’s giveout. Well, that’s because the Value Shop I went to don’t have many things I was looking for. 

The brands are not really the ones we use. Bought a few items coz the box trolley couldn’t fit anymore. Dettol! I needed Dettol but …..

Paid $7.90 for this 1L bottle. 

Took pic of front n back so I can compare label in NTUC

But when I transferred this into the bottle, it smells different and the colour looks different . It has no Dettol smell! I bought 2 bottles (heng ah..) 

No time no time 不够不够时间

1) Left the conditioner and blah blah blah in the yard area. I hope I can get everything else by this week (finish up the CDC) or preferably tomorrow (as I do not know what Thursday 21st) may bring) so …. I dunno which day I can remove everything else in the bomb shelter and start doing the stocktaking and pack back. 

2) The thing that came up : - Becoz it’s a last minute thing, I couldn’t find time to read up. I borrowed books beginning last week and on Friday gave us one last minute booking for this week. My books! I need to translate the cheena books! So now, have to just flip thru n see what I need to photocopy first and read later. I hope I have the time to read. I will have to bring it with me tomorrow and hopefully while waiting for the girl in the car to dismiss from school, I can sneak in some teeny weeny chance to flip thru to note down the pages. Reminds me of days when I had to bring plastic bags to the car to fold; bring mock exam papers/assessment books to the car to mark; bring laptop to the car to update my educational blog for the girls.  

3) holiday itinerary. Che-che basically did nothing except to type the header and hotels and dates that’s it! I’m starting everything from the beginning. Asked her to help me with Tokyo and she keeps saying she’s busy. Busy with what?! I see her playing games all the time. 

4) Clean and re-line the shoe cabinet

5) Tidy the master room toilet’s cabinet. I need to check on my Kiehl’s products n stock take which is currently in both toilets. I need to tidy up the cabinet coz it’s messy! No more buying Kiehl’s for the next 2-3years I guess. 

So many things to do, but only one pair of hands and a mentally physically tired body & mind. 

** my apologies if sometimes my post is repetitive. I may have said the same thing before but coz it takes a long time for me to edit my posts and then I date back to days or even months before my post to coincide with the events that had happened **

Impromptu trip to JB

Woke up early at 5.30am to get ready to head across the causeway. Left home at 6.47am and took a bus to AMK MRT station. So I had a blur moment when I saw the bus board indicated “Opp AMK Station” and asked why aren’t we alighting. Only for them to point out to me a police station outside. Haha! Write properly lah! Why can’t you write AMK Police Station? But I had to be the only dumb one to ask the question. 

After alighting from the bus into the train, I don’t understand why everyone is rushing? Even the long leg hubby is walking fast so I had to walk fast holding on to lil’ one. Trained to Kranji MRT and everyone rushed to take a bus. Then jump down from the bus joining the crowds of people walking so damn fast into the checkpoints. Wah …… I don’t usually walk that fast fast k? Then walking fast into the bus and walk fast again into next checkpoint. The only time we could walk a little slower is once we walked out of JB checkpoint and into the nearby mall. When we took the KKKL bus into KL, we did rush in but it isn’t as mad as this less than $2 ride in. Taking public bus in is not for the faint-hearted-pretend-to-be-tai-tai-pampered-🚗-drive-everywhere me. Too many dashes already 🤣. 

Walking to bus stop after alighting from Kranji MRT Station. Hmm…don’t know why but a lot of people queued for the buses on the same side as the MRT station.

@ 9.03am Finally! After clearing JB checkpoint. Some people still walking fast, we just did it slow. Ah-nia needs to catch my breath.

Wait! I’ve been awake for 3.5hrs + and I just made into JB only?!

@ OldTown White Coffee City Square 

Normally don’t eat breakfast but after all the rush here rush there, I was hungry. Ordered a chicken charsiew wanton noodles (RM16.90). Surely I gobbled down my food quickly. 

We barely walk much before deciding to go where che-che wants to go. @ 10.26am I called for Grab. 

Arrived at KIPMall at 10.43am. She wanted to drop by this place. They have 2 outlets in JB, this is not the one she showed me yesterday. Not knowing what to expect here but I was wondering why she came here when we’ll be going next month

Didn’t take me long to know that she came here looking for these. There were quite a lot on display. She found her Kento. Whoever sold it to this secondhand shop must have made a huge huge lost. Jalan Jalan Japan is selling them for RM6 (S$1.80) each. They’re mainly the old fans going back to their debut days and some other cutesy boy band in 2013. I think I saw something that goes back in history to 2009. My goodness! In 2009 this 冬菇头 che-che was only 7yrs-old jumping to Dora songs and the kiddish songs. 

I love these! But really no point getting them unless I’m doing a massive overhaul in my kitchen which is unlikely coz my Italian obiang design plates are so so lasting - for 23-24 years! 

Then I spotted this. So this is the slide to heaven as what some netizens call it 😂

Girls sang from 2.15 to 4.15pm. The old folks practically orh orh inside, waking up occasionally when it was lil’ one’s turn to sing or talk loudly 😂

Buying the bandung cookies from Famous Amos

Che-che had ice-cream at Cold Stone

So cute. Christmas cookies from Lavender 

@ 5.13pm from Paradigm Mall to Rumah Lok Lok

Arrived at 5.45pm

Lil’ one doesn’t really like fried food, preferred soupy and they have this shin ramyeon so had her ingredients cooked inside. But it was too spicy, they threw the whole pack of seasoning inside

The ones that che-che and I bought are sprinkled with a little chilli powder

Hubby’s without chilli powder. “Meant to share” but it wasn’t communicated to us so ended up he took a lot. We had to pack some home after that

Made our way back home at 6.37pm. Took a cab home from Kranji as lil’ one is so tired. She’s another person with a pampered life 🤣. Reached home at close to 9pm or was it 9+pm ? 

She didn’t buy her TamTam coz at the end of the trip, we didn’t get a chance to go to the supermarket again. Bought these cute pasta from the first supermarket

Bought 400g of bandung cookies and 200g of mocha nuts madness 

After carrying all the fans for her, she took out some and only bought these. RM60 (S$18). So cheap! 

That’s how we spent our weekend. Couldn’t stay overnight as lil’ one has tuition the next day. 

Emotions

Emotions riding on a roller coaster. I haven’t been using lavender oil for many weeks but last night I needed that. 

Maybe I should do yoga, go for a swim (I hope I’m able to bend and kick my legs. But it’s ok, I won’t drown in 1.2m pool). Maybe I  go high in the mountains and meditate.

Happy Birthday to my dearest hubby

9th Nov (Sat)

Our usual weekend outing for dinner. Went to NEX. Hubby gets to choose what he wants for dinner, usually the birthday girl/boy will get to choose. He wanted So Pho. Ordered a beef pho.

Photo taken from website. He tucked into his food when it was served. 

10th Nov (Sun)

Brother and mom asked to meet to celebrate all the November babies birthday. So they arrange on this date. Met at Paradise Hotpot @ CompassOne 

They bought the birthday cake as well. We really went out empty handed. Haha! Ok lah…. The girls gave duagu a birthday card. 

November babies

Che-che was rushing us to eat quickly coz she was so bored. Left with one more piece of cake that nobody wanted, so she stuffed it down quickly. 

And there must be some kind of bantering between hubby and her all the time 😂. She asked daddy why he is not eating the cream when he is eating a cake, he needs to eat the cream as well. Only for daddy to ask her why she only eats chicken skin and not the meat? 🤣

11th Nov (Mon)

Seize the day! A phrase that tugs the heart more this birthday, his 57th birthday. 

To my great hubby who deserves much more better things in life than his greedy wife. 

Birthday card from the untalented girls, waste money to send them for Art class and still ….. 画的不像样

Pressie from the girls after he lost his bottle. Lil one gave him the present and card and immediately said “don’t lose this bottle” 😂

“huh! So small!!!” 哎呀！孩子们有心买给你。我都没有收到什么礼物

Coz his birthday falls on a Monday. I don’t have the chance to leave house as lil’ one is on HBL. I decided to pack a few dishes from opposite for dinner and maybe pop by to see what Sweedy Cafe has for cakes.Closed! Thankfully I did buffer some extra time on “what if we can’t get any nice cake opposite”, went to Hougang Mall and bought cake from Four Leaves. Then went over to pick che-che up from work.  

His fruity birthday cake, which the girls won’t eat. He doesn’t like chocolate cake. We’re totally opposite. 

As usual will take picture of him and the girls every year

Daddy 最藤妹妹

❤️ Happy Birthday dear! ❤️

Why why why?

Why? When I thought I wanted to save money, we have to spend money? 

The master bedroom’s aircon for the second time stopped last night (7/11). The 2 老人家 slept with the fan on, it wasn’t that bad in the room as our room was really cooling before the malfunction. 

The first time it happened was just last Friday morning (1/11) around 6+am. Hubby managed to get the aircon guy down to check on it the same day. Just 2 days before this, the compressor was making a lot of noise behind oblivious to the rest of the family who have hearing problem. I can hear it from my room even though the toilet door is closed. Guy told hubby maybe need to change the whole set? How come things spoil so fast? Only 9 years leh! My Punggol house aircon lasted us beyond the tenants tenancy, only at dunno which year of her tenancy we had to change the whole thing for them. 

Guess when he comes by tomorrow, we will have to listen to what he says again and there’s a high chance we will need to change the aircon and compressors. 

Luckily we had 2 fans in the bedroom, so we can blow directly at ourselves without taking turns feeling cool when the fan oscillates. But ….. I feel like ditching hubby and sleep with lil’ one. She has a pull-out bed in her room. Che-che’s room is too cold for me. 

Hello sunbird

Was ironing clothes when I heard a familiar chirping. 

My friend is back!! So I’ve been calling my friend Mr Sunbird just coz I’ve always attached anything to me as Miss / Ms so decided to call this Mr Sunbird. Turns out it’s female 😳. 

Seeing Miss Sunbird put a smile on me lifting up my mood. Can you come by all the time? 

Sunbirds like this Euphorbia geroldii. Perhaps I should have more plants that attract sunbirds to my home. I surely need their regular visits. 

Miss Sunbird has never touched my adeniums at all. 

Please come by more often. Please give us signals for more happiness, hope, heal our hearts and a change for the better for our family. 🧎🏻‍♀️‍➡️🙏📿