On This Day - (4th July) #Reminders from FB#

4th July 2024

First I need to fly to Canada....

4th July 2023

Time alone with the big girl.

Aricia Ting asked me "who's going to wash n iron my school uniform?"

😂 that's your problem girl!

Footnote written in 2026 : 2 years ago, our first mother n daughter trip.

Thanks to her training in carrying her sax case, she could handle the luggages. Even when they're heavy, mainly her things anyway, she drags and carry them with no complaints. 🤣

Sadly no chance for our mother daughter trip this year, that makes 2 years in a row no trip with her.

4th July 2023

Kena dragged around when you leave all the itinery planning n booking to her 😂

Can I retire from my holiday planning job? Let's see where she's going to bring me.

"Let's go here first. Later I need to go to MY SHOP that side" (points to somewhere a distant away) *as if I can see where that shop is

Wah...... her mission this trip!! Her cute cute ah boy boy band. Sigh…...

Mummy is hungry ........ think mummy faint behind her

she still dunno. 我肚子很饿！

Footnote written in 2026 : When she was young, I have to hold her hands and she follows me. When she is old, she leaves me alone and I gotta follow by chasing after her (she walks fast). #rolereversal#

4th July 2022

You think she's ready? That I can let her go on solo?

She made me sit behind her (w, I tried to keep quiet unless I need to highlight things to her.

First time she's driving herself to school.

Footnote written in 2026 : "She made me sit behind her" Haha! I nagged too much??

4th July 2021

No SSO concerts, no musicals and I'm feeling bleh..

No amount of watching musicals on YouTube, no amount of listening to albums can replace being in the concert hall.

Gimme back my concerts!!

4th July 2019

First day of school and went flower shopping with che-che. She picked the flowers she wanted, nice choice of flowers n colours.

Felt a little happier after seeing them on my dining table n coffee table.

Tulips are dying (petals thinning) but for some reason they're not that floppy. I put wiring on some tulips n geberas on the first day to try out and did a comparison between the two. Even so, the non-wired ones are doing better than my previous batch of tulips.

4th July 2016

Trip to bazaar

4th July 2013

Saw this at Sakae Sushi. Cute!

かわいい！

4th July 2012

Pray for good weather tomorrow. So that our girls will enjoy their camp.

Self care

Feeling mentally exhausted after some alteration sewing works on che-che’s top and my outer jacket (both took me a long time to do coz I’m not a seamstress expert), I badly needed a rest. 

I needed some self-care. Hit the PAUSE button and craved for matcha. Used the whisk that girlfriend W gave me coz I was hand tired to whisk 🤣. Prepared a cup of matcha latte for che-che. 

For my drink, I used the スジャータめいらくorganic, unsweetened soy milk to try

One sip of matcha, one little reset at a time 

Then as I was super bor-liao, went on to upload THIS into my YouTube account

Interesting

This is quite accurate 😬

My break time

My break time is just a little smoother today. Not drinking plain water just cause I want something chocolatey to boost up my energy. It’s dying 🪫 now. 

Just nice I found Kit Kat in my fridge. Expired or not I’m not sure but surely it can be eaten even if it’s expired 

Have a break. Have a Kit-Kat! 

Change more?

This is good news, lucky I’m a little free now to read newspaper - selective news I mean 🤭. 

The last time I exchanged, the rate was ¥123

Haha! Changing so much JPY but I’m no where close to Japan.

Power of music

What’s playing on this Tuesday, which is just like any ordinary day for me.

Music I played as I did my daily ah-soh work + changing out all the dehumidifier tubs in the house

Started with this. But thing with Spotify is sometimes they will go to other albums which I have no idea what was playing. 

Switched to this as I prepared dinner - rice in Ms Thermie and poured all the dishes out to be heated up in oven. 

Wanted to clean the coffee table and TV console but so tired now. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow together with other additional chores. Now ……. relaxing for 10 mins before I take my shower. For sure after dinner I will be all sweaty again cleaning and tidying up the kitchen & then have shower again 🤣. 

Is my washing machine clean?

Interestingly I came across this on Talking Point just as they loaded this on YouTube two hours ago. 

That made me wonder how clean is my washing machine? I can’t dismantle the whole machine coz I don’t even know how and we’re not advisable to do so. 

Admittedly I would love if he had come to my house to do the swab tests lor. I’d either be happy or be embarrassed with the results. 

I do clean my washing machine once a month (not sure if it’s enough with the loads I run every week. I have to separate che-che’s clothings, towels and bedsheets from us as I use eczema friendly laundry detergent for hers. I wash towels twice a week so that alone means 4 laundry runs.)

How do I clean ? 

1) I throw in this capsule. Leave water in the drum for 1hr or most times I tend to forget about it until 2 hrs or more later when I walk to the yard. Haha!

2) wipe the gasket with chlorox wipes reaching the hard to reach areas with chopsticks, just like what the lady owner of a laundromat in the video does. 

3) wipe the window, wipe every parts I see and can reach on the interior (except the drum) and exterior with chlorox wipes 

4) wash the detergent drawer

5) clean the debris filter and emergency drain tube

I use up lots of chlorox wipes when I clean the machine. I tend to use up lots of disposable gloves when cleaning up my house too! 

After every laundry 

After every usage, I leave the door open and laundry drawer slightly ajar until the next time I use the machine. This will help to dry up the water droplets

Is my heater helping?

I’m not sure if the heater that I do turn on, at least 5x a week, when I need my laundry to dry quickly in the night (but coz they only run for 2hrs each time. Sometimes if I’m still not asleep and I see the heater is off, I’d turn it on again. So it’s 4hrs max of hater on in my yard) helps in sucking up moisture. I really should put another hydrometer in my yard toilet to check. Although sometimes I do turn the heater on in the daytime, but coz my yard windows are open. I close up the louvre in the night thus the yard area is almost like a sauna area. Maybe my yard toilet is dry enuf? 😬

So is my washing machine clean from bacteria and free from mould from the way I maintain my machine ? I have a big question mark. ❓ ❓ Actually our current Panasonic washing machine has a dedicated Tub Clean feature, maybe I should try to use it one day. 

Finally all done

I didn’t stay free and relaxed long after my last post. Tho must admit the music made me doze off on the sofa for half an hour. 

Once energised I began my last bit of cleaning the split ikan bilis, a job it took me 3 days (not consecutive) of butt-pain sitting sessions. 

Music playing in the background 

All 250g cleaned! 

Now I need to lock them up before the lil’ mouse aka lil’ one steals them 😁. Small hands she might have but when she grabs them to snack…. it’s HUGE! 

Power of music

 Today’s agenda : relaxation

Power of music

Music while having my dinner which consists of a subway bread and my corn soup

Corn soup (re-do)

Bought another can of corn and re-do my soup. 

It’s thicker

and tastier 😋. If only I have bread now to make garlic bread

Definitely a recipe to keep. Learning from my mistakes, I will do better than the first attempt. Jiayou! 

LV bag - I hope this works

After my last complaint in this entry, I decided to try something. I wasn’t willing to buy a new LV bag which girlfriend W offered to help me buy as she’s heading to Paris soon. Thanks for her kind offer. While it’s nice to have a new bag, a pochette bag that looks like what I have, is it really worth to buy a new one? And what am I going to do with this bag? I’m one sentimental person who will also make full use of my bags, shoes, home appliances until they spoil. Money don’t just drop down like that. 

My bag only has that problem, which I think the fault lies with me 😬, so I decided to look for something with a loop ring. I wasn’t going to sew on my bag, coz I use a bag organizer I might be able to sew it on that. I finally found what may be my solution. 👌 Placed order on the 10th the narrowest one I can find. 

Original price was ¥35, I had some discount from shopping too much in Taobao (haha! Is it a good thing or bad thing?) and paid only $6.42.

Arrived 16 days later 

I couldn’t use the yellow thread they provided coz my needles’ eyes are not big enough, so just used normal thread. 

After all the pushing the needle without a thimble thru the thick bag organizer aligning the holes on both sides AND 🩸 BLEEDING from those few accidental pricks 🤣 this better be worth it. 

Looks alright. Next step is the testing. 

I hope this works! A $6.42 + donating my precious blood solution.