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

30th July 2024

* with Che-che

This cute おばあさんwaved to us from a corner of the temple premises and I felt so obliged to go to her coz ....rude to ignore her when I waved back to her. Felt like she was beckoning to us in Hansel and Gretal, only thing she isn't a witch 😂.  Think she's in her late

80s or early 90s and still so alert.

She offered us a tea and then I felt paiseh so bought a pack. She asked us where we were from, which we understood her question but answered back in halting Japanese. Then she asked us how do we say Thank You in our language. At least her question sounds more sensible than the American guy in US whom we had conversation prior in english, asked how do we "say thank you in wherever you're from" 😅

I don't mean to be a bitch but I did pause and replied him, "Thank You."

#okithinkiwasbitchyafterall#

30th July 2021

The big 无聊 girl is so free coz school hasn't started for her yet!

#sofreetokeepirritatingherlittlesister#

Said she drew this on lil' one's whiteboard coz copied the one lil' one did long time ago

Took me a long time to find back this post 

30th July 2021 

Athena Ting asked me before how long it'll take to walk from one end to another of Central Park. Gave her an estimate (based on my walking speed last time) coz I never walked all the way to the end, she can find it out herself next time.

Maybe with her longer legs she'll walk much faster than I did and also coz I like to #tHia] take pictures last time K.

I do rmbr well tho I went out with a CSS,Christine, to meet her friend, who has an apartment facing Central Park. Lovely view of the park from his house. Told myself I'd love to own an apartment there one day.

And it was that same flight where she n I fell asleep in the front row while watching The Scarlet Pimpernel (to the Broadway cast, I'm terribly sorry) as we were both jet-lagged.

Footnote written in 2023 : 

And she’s getting ready to go over now

30th July 2017

I saw a building and commented to lil' one. "They couldn't think of any name to name the building." She looked ahead and read out "EFG" and laughed.

30th July 2017

Che-che's $19 wagyu burger (without vegetables), add cheese $1 and add bacon $4. Basically I'm paying $19 for the beef patty; bun and potato chips!!

Total: $24 😮

Chilli crab!! I dunno if this oddly timed meal is going to be our dinner or what....actually already cooked rice at home. I guess will wait for che-che, let her have her dinner here.

Lil' one stealing my food!!

My chilli crab spaghetti

She ate some of my spaghetti and says this is better than the one from Coffee Club

Looks like I’m the one eating kids meal

赚到咯！ just coz she refuses to stay at home alone, I gotta drag her out.

Off to the Asian Civilisation Museum just coz we’re there … 

Waiting for che-che for some band thingy to be over

30th July 2013

Where was I when I was in Sec 1 after school? Home!

I was so guai to bus home everyday even tho' I was a latchkey child.

Now I see Sec 1 boys n girls hanging in Macs.

Nothing to 大惊小怪 if u see the "blue girls" sitting amongst the "termites". But they're Sec 1 leh! In my time, you'd only see girls 'buoh-ing n giggling at boys' in Sec 3.

Oh my oh my! Kids mature really fast now.

Makes me fear if my girl will be like that. I need a ROPE!!! Hahaha!

30th July 2012

Mee hoon kueh

30th July 2011

Aricia's goodie bag for the party she missed last

Sunday. Nice of friend to keep hers and gave it to her on Thursday.

Argh!

Haven’t been able to stargaze for so long, it’s always so cloudy when I happen to walk out into the PES so I kinda gave up. 

Imagine my excitement when I read the article today. But it’s between 2am and 5.30am 😒, lao-niang need my sleep lah! Tomorrow going to fight as much as I can in class coz I’ve already missed two Fight-Do classes 🤭. I wonder if my penthouse neighbour will be able to see it. 

Screenshot taken from : https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/meteor-shower-singapore-2026-july

So I’m thinking… I used to say that I wasn’t able to go to dark spots for all these spottings last time coz I have to do my motherly chauffeuring duties the next day but now I don’t do much so what’s stopping me? Maybe the only fear or worry I will have is whether I’ll bump into any hantu 👻 coz nobody to accompany me. 

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

29th July 2025

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLPRFVFz3ec/igsh=MTNvaThsMHJ4Z2FtZQ==

😭

29th July 2024

Yippee! Bought my tickets. So excited.

29th July 2023

Tried this açai bowl just opposite our house. Ehh..still preter Project Açai.

Still not back on keto yet, maybe in 3wks time? 😂

Che-che suan me the other day when I told her (while still in JPN) "I will go back keto in few days time." Her reply was "you sure or not? Don't forget you bought 6 BOXES of your biscuits. 6 not 1 or 2 but 6!!" This girl nvr show respect to her mother 🫤

29th July 2013

The girls asked me "so what is tchr P going to teach us today? Grade 2 and 4 pieces?"

I don't think so n don't believe in only practicing exam pieces. She'll let them play other books first for sure.

Footnote written in 2023 :

Apparently she only wants to teach them just to pass their exams 😓. So when they were in the higher grades, the girls lost interest in piano. When che-che was in Sec 4, I continued her lessons coz lil’ one was still having her lessons. I didn’t want her to lose the momentum if we had stopped the lessons for more than half year. I asked tchr P to just teach her from other music books we have at home, so it can also be a form of relaxation in her tense O’level year. Her reply was “no, that one she can play herself” 🙄. For that year, they both received scoldings all the time from her coz made mistakes in playing. Of course lah! School was so busy, no time to practice at all. 

29th July 2013

Lil' one would often tell us abt this classmate of hers who would tell her she's doing P3 to P6 work. I don't believe her and said "I don't think so. How can she do P6 work?" Must be a girl boasting right?

I thought I was evil enough to suggest "I photocopy Che-Che's work for her to do." But then my Che-Che said "so hard u sure she can do? I photocopy P5 for …... No! I photocopy my Maths Olympiad for her to do. See she can do or not!"

Hmm…got evil mother sure got evil daughter. Haha!

29th July 2012

My big baby

Lil’ one 

29th July 2011

Today's 7th day, supposedly FIL will be back. Or was it early this morning?

I thought can talk to him. Mom say must keep quiet; cannot turn on light - will be frightened. But my girls super noisy now as we just got back home. Hubby not in SIN, so cant see him for the last time?? Wah lau eh...ask the girls to keep quiet, they more noisy then Aricia kept asking "why? Why? Why?" Father, ur welcome to come back.

Getting reports

It has been a few years since her last psycho-educational evaluation back in 2022 just before her prelims, so now we are updating her learning profile with a fresh educational psychologist report to ensure she has the right school accommodations for her tests/exams. 

Click HERE for the 2022 AA application blog entry 

As time is a constraint (again 😒. with her first exam on Aug 8th) had no choice but to go back to the same private centre. Expensive! Why my girl always make us spend so much money? 

Ms Seah is no longer working in the centre so a new principal has to meet me first to “get to know her”. Met Ms Lock on the 8th July (Wed). Both of them are so gentle, the way they speak is so similar. Ms Lock ran through her countless previous tests which took her two days to complete. Ms Lock didn’t understand and said her results doesn’t tally with how well she’s doing in school. Ok not that well well compared to normal kids but if based on her test results everyone would expect her grades are not at all desirable. “And she’s doing Accounting now which is not easy to get in.” She was surprised, very surprised when I told her she scored distinctions for both POA and Chinese. “What?! She did O levels Chinese?” Haha! Yah right so weird. Infact she usually score distinction for Geography too but because it’s combined with Social Studies so her SS/Geog grade gets pulled down. 

Explained to her that I wasn’t sure if the 2022 test results was inaccurate, if some test that she did badly may be due to her eye problem. Eye problems can cause some learning disability. 

She decided to cut short all the other tests coz she only suspect ADHD. So will do that instead. Of course my concern is whether just the ADHD report can support her AA application. Whether she takes one or many tests, it’s the same price - $2800. Wah! 太贵了, should have made her take all the tests. 😂 But if this girl is really ADHD, she is like her aunty (my sister). Well from what I read, can be genetically linked in such way. Or maybe I’m also ADHD 😂, just that I didn’t go through testings so not aware. 

Meeting the cutie girl

Picked her up from school on 16th (following Thursday) and brought her for the tests. Went into the room at 3.08pm and came out at 4+pm. She looks happier unlike the last time she came out looking like she was run under a bus. 

Online questionaire 

Just as I was wondering if they had forgotten about us, I received an email from Miss Lock on 28th (Tue) for the two of us to fill up questionnaire. 

lil’ one doing her CAARS 2 test 

What is CAARS 2? 

I’ll just have to wait for her report, hopefully soon as I need to submit to the school asap. 

Power of music

Started the day, cleaning the house as usual. Not sure how jazz can motivate me to work but I just gotta grind through it. Everyday sucks coz …. How I wish I’m a good for nothing, don’t work don’t do housework don’t meddle with kids don’t care the family. 😂 #physical&mentalexhaustion#

Last minute change and I didn’t have to bring mom for her check up. So decided to clear the laundry today. Towels day! Ironing day! 

Music while ironing. I haven’t been watching Nami vlogs lately, somehow it always depends on what I feel like doing while ironing. Sometimes just watch a drama or movie on Netflix. 

Ironing in lil’ one’s room coz she’s out while che-che is WFH today. Ideally I hide in che-che’s room to iron with the aircon on. If the timing happens when hubby is taking his afternoon nap then I’ll bring the ironing board to our room and turn on the aircon. Just installed new aircons in the girls’ rooms so it’s nice cold. 

On This Day - (28th July) #Reminders from FB#

28th July 2025

Simple dinner for the girls.

Curry without anything inside. Yup! That fussy.

Lil' one's will be served later without curry coz she don't like curry and she don't like pork but I don't care, I need

to finish the pork loin. 一个要鸡肉、一个要猪肉=真麻烦

Which means I had to portion out their curry and continue cooking my eggplant in the pot.

My curry is more than my rice 🤣, I'm full from eating the onion, carrot, potato and eggplant.

My meal served from pot coz I didn't want to wash any more crockeries.

#vegetariancurry#

28th July 2025

Tomorrow's meal done for the girls 🤭 with all the unhealthy stuffs.

Now I need to climb and reach in the cabinet for the rice cooker to keep the rice constantly warm. #whenthekitchenissmall#

28th July 2025

Slaving in the kitchen. Getting ready for girls' dinner when I haven't even had my breakfast or lunch yet!

And since kitchen will be dirty, I might as well prepare some fried rice for tomorrow - lunch or dinner I dunno coz I'm often informed last minute "I'm WFH" 🫤

Yippee! Finished all the green apples and starfruits

Music while I slave

Yes! Will finish the last carrot for the curry tonight. But now l'a be left with 2 potatoes after this!! Sigh....

28th July 2025

I begin the start of the week, although every day of the week is the same to me, with music amplified in house. I like to have music when I'm cleaning the house but a lot of times inhibited with the family either needing to WFH or HBL.

My work is at home 😩 so I need to AWFH (always work from home)

Scrolling through my saved albums and artists. How and when did I have HSJ? Haha!

28th July 2023

So fast! All kalang kabok.

1st pic - I do what I do best. Be the scary intimidating mom 🤣

3rd pic - my giraffe horn didn't stand up and I was adjusting it, before I know it 📸

28th July 2021

A friend posted this up in her FB, we were either in Sec 1 or 2.

che-che 长得像我吗？

#mygoodnessilooksonerdy# #familyoftrueblueijgirls# #proud2Bkcians#

28th July 2021

All over and done with. Yay!

Except for fever that lil' one and I had for the last 💉, and tiredness we all experienced the next day, we are all well. No arm sore except only on the day of jab itself.

Other than that, we're all awaiting for vaccine to "take effect" 😬

#neversleptforlonghoursindaytime# #thankstohubbywhohelpedtopickliloneupfromschool soicanrest#

#anotherpanadollaternsleepearlytonight# #ndtorechargeforanotherbusydaychauffeuringtmrw#

Nofightdoforoneweek#

28th July 2016

Some time back, che che said a classmate brought melted marshmallow with Pebbles and shared with the class. That it's nice and asked me to do it one day.

I misinterpreted the whole thing n mine looked like this. She saw, slapped her forehead n smiled. It's nothing like what her friend did.

Hee! It's ok, I'm only going to do 6. And she gotta eat it for breakfast whether she likes it or not!

Hopefully next round can do better.

28th July 2016

Must sneak a pic. Then she spotted me.

#pianoonsilent#

28th July 2016

Champion for Division 2B : Good Hope School

Symphonic Band.

KC Band 3rd place. Ehh...to console myself, 1st in local schools for Division 2B.

Girls worked hard. Parents have to do extra chauffeuring on weekends. Tiring month!

28th July 2016

Looks delicious. Can look but cannot bake this coz nobody fancies green tea except me.

28th July 2016

Haven't done this for the longest time.

Reading & listening to classical music and a drink from Mcs.

If only I can prop my feet up on the chair across me.

28th July 2009

feels like baking but ... the kids are keeping me so occupied.