On This Day - (23rd July) #Reminders from FB#

23rd July 2023

Were invited to YL's housewarming and birthday gathering. It's been a long time since we last met.

Our girls haven't met since they went different JCs, so were awkward 😂

They used to play together with 3 other girls and M's cousins. 孩子大了 all have their own plans so didn't see the other 3 girls 🤣

Can we turn back the clock?

Missing one other mummy. We gotta meet up for kopi soon.

23rd July 2021

Feeling a little better today.

Thank you flowers for lifting up my mood.

My view as I do stuffs on the laptop.

23rd July 2016

Since suture was relatively fresh yesterday, just left the antibiotic on. This morning applied antibiotic, second application in the afternoon will try this eo on top of antibiotic. Hopes scar reduces and make look

美美

23rd July 2013

Their reward for getting all the scoldings from me.

23rd July 2013

Hmm…... Don't forget 6 years ago was the 金豬年 more babies besides the usual 龍年. So I guess should have anticipated this balloting of a schools.

23rd July 2013

No need to faint or fall on drool. It's lady!!

Footnote written in 2026 :

🤔 what did I mean? 

23rd July 2011

I'm amazed. Told girls that l'I let them nap for an hr, they get up at 5pm n start doing work. Mei-mei got up b4 5pm herself n came to bug a tired me. I told her "sleep till 5.30pm." she woke up and then she automatically sat down n did her work. Che-Che? Still snoring.. N difficult to wake her up.

23rd July 2011 

Cheap thrill for the girls. Like that also so fun?!

23rd July 2011 

Swimming lessons 

23rd July 2010

Buay tahan my lil' girl. Still harping over that "Cow" which her friends had except her. Explained to her Tchr Stella would do with her on Monday, she ok awhile then start crying again. Asked me to do with her first…. sigh.....

Footnote written in 2023 :

Aricia Ting What was that cow or horse thing anyway? I can't rmbr now

23rd July 2008

The elder Princess Athena is 5 this year. A rather easy going girl who has no direction in life "I dunno" is her favourite phrase.

The younger Princess Aricia is 1 this year. A rather fiesty girl who knows what she wants, and she bites to get it.

*added these photos to the album - The Two Princesses 2007

Footnote written in 2016 :

Last time she would let me doll her up.

Now? It's "you better don't TOUCH ME AT ALL!!"

Power of music

Amplified music while I work around the house. Played this for only 2 hours tho

While ironing clothes

Packing sauce

The other time (when I made pasta sauce) I just sealed up the bag and I spent another day cutting up the bag, rebag and re-vacumn seal. Somehow I didn’t take note the number of bags I initially sealed, months later I found one pack dropped in between the meats there’s freeze burn on it 🤣. So yah still struggling to find ways to vacumn seal or I can simple just use ziploc bags and …maybe another struggle somehow …coz I’m quite dumb doing all these 😬. 

But I love how neat the blocks look when I did the soupe a l'oignon gratinée so used the molds. Just giving myself additional work only 😬. I couldn’t wait to see how the packing will turn out, will it be as messy as before? 

I can only pack one mold, the pasta sauce in the bottom mold (in the freezer) wasn’t frozen at all. 

Didn’t melt as fast as before coz the weather is cooling today 🌧️ + only one mistake made as I put in the smaller bag. It was dirty at the top of the bag. Once I knew which bag to use, the bigger 25cm x 20cm bag, packing was easy and fast. A teeny weeny bit of water was sucked into the machine 🤭. Double vacuumed them. 

So now knowing how forgetful I am with items in the fridge and freezer, I need to figure out how to bag all into one bag/box to organize in the freezer. Need to do a stock-take on the fridge door also. 

Doing myself, the forgetful person, a favour by labelling on the bags 

Aw…. tomato stain !! Tried with sodium percarbonate and didn’t manage to clean off. The second attempt (this pic) with baking soda + liquid detergent did remove a little. 

Soaked these 3x in total. The last with baking soda and vinegar. 

Still have one more tray in the fridge. Sigh…. the cleaning.  

“I told ya”

I told ya that I’m not giving you anymore breaks. Boiled x2 chrysanthemum drinks

Using the fan to cool the drink, before transferring into the container. So troublesome but no choice when I always need to finish work faster.

@ 2pm - finally after washing Ms Thermie it’s time to cook lil’ one’s pasta sauce

Smells good. She’s been looking forward to her pasta

Each cube is 100g, I put in 824g of tomatoes so I get exactly 8 cubes. As for the tomato juice it’s 80g each. In the bowl is 161g of juice which I will freeze them next time when I empty out this mold. 

Thinking if I should get one more similar mold? Honestly I prefer to seal up with the vacumn sealer but it’s so difficult to suck the air out with liquids inside. 

On This Day - (21st July) #Reminders from FB#

21st July 2025

I'm not qualified. I'll send my two girls application in. 😂

21st July 2024

One of the reason why I always loved sitting by the window.

And I love to film every takeoffs and landings #cloudspotting#

Footnote written in 2025 : 

I feel stuck now, I can only look up to my laundry.I want to go holiday 🤣🤣

21st July 2024

 😥 Hands numb for 3 days liao, not much strength. Been drinking too much cold drinks to cool myself down in the heat. Sigh….... the thing about drinking warm water is good for you; constant nagging from mom and then advice from TCM sinseh n tuinal is true lor. Need to go back to tuina again. #cannotfalldownwhenold# #daijiliaoliao#

21st July 2023

She saw this in the Japanese mart and wanted to try and cook.

Presenting.....

Che-che's okonomiyaki with no cabbage. Suddenly wanted to eat so couldn't thaw pork belly in time, she replaced it with luncheon meat 😂. Can lah! Luncheon meat is also meat 🤣

Note to her : please clean the showroom kitchen well after use 👍

21st July 2023

 @ NTUC. Suddenly the people around me have their recycling bags with them.

Depending on the bag I carry out, I didn't have my recycling bag with me today. anyway I need the plastic bags for trash so l'm not environmentally friendly and 5c won't stop me 🤭 from rejecting a bag

21st July 2023

Spent backbreaking 3hrs just cleaning n packing these 5 packs of peanuts roots.

Lil' one Aricia Ting miss drinking this, requested to brew this for her. Haiyah! Backache also must do it lor....

Can only last her for 5 weeks before I do the next round of bulk cleaning.

#ineedkoyoknow#

Footnote written in 2026 : 

Haven't been able to find fresh peanut roots online now. And I'm lazy to go to market in the morning.

Lil' one refuses to drink without peanut roots, says just the herbs alone taste different. Sigh...

21st July 2022

Oh my! I didn't know that i have to go down to Service Ctr to replace Casio G-shock battery.

Needed to change her broken strap (dunno how this girl use her watch), and then the moment the guy opened the watch (assumingly to take out the strap)

1. my battery died when I only changed it a month or so ago before her SA1
2. rubber thing is a little crooked. Apparently the guy at the watch shop didn't do a good job in capping back the backing

So it's an important lesson learnt.

Next time just make her bring an alarm clock with her, only need AAA battery . Anyway, she'll be happy if her watch spoil lah, she wants to buy another colour BUT coz mummy says why need so many watches just use until spoil then change #stingymom#

21st July 2016

The joke is on the lil' one.

She wet her bed at 3-4am this morning. And so I asked her in the afternoon why did she wet her bed.

Her reply was "I heard the thunder and I ...

"And it rained on your bed before it rained outside?'

🌧️ 💧 💧 💧 

Must remind her not to rain on her bed again tonight.

21st July 2014

Only the ill' one wore costume to school. The older one wore a blue n white costume. Hee!

21st July 2012

Yay! Another unsupervised class with mei-mei. First was Shichida on Thursday then it's Yamaha today.

But it means bad news for che-che. Eyes on her doing her work; cannot slack.

21st July 2011

Goodies - kueh lapis, kueh salat, mini rice dumpling

Packed up for kids instead of eating it there coz I reckon they'll hv 24 other food. In a little bucket style container.

Little nonya with nonya goodies for her friends

Racial Harmony Day - My little nonya