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

21st June 2025

So funny.

Lil' one showing off her snack - ¥129 kamaboko. So cheap, I won't nag at her for sure. 😂

21st June 2023

起床咯！太阳晒到屁股上了！

Saw this teeny weeny spot here so moved the rack over, just coz the big one said "I have nothing to hug tonight".

that white one is the important one I need to dry quickly

#todaysshowerdayforchechetoys#

21st June 2021

You hardly see this done locally so it was a surprise when a gentleman knocked on my door. Such a sweet gesture from a new neighbour, as an apology for inconveniencing us with noise as they will commence renovation tomorrow.

I think I should also give something to my neighbours for enduring the girls' noise level all these years.🤣

还也还不够咯！😂

21st June 2019

Somebody (lil' one) can't sleep at all. She came into the room at 11+ eyes wide open . I can still hear her moving around in the room now. Hubby laughed at her and commented "this girl drank a venti coffee and refused to share with me. Good lah! Cannot sleep"

Should make her security guard n walk in compound.

#nightduty#

21st June 2018

Girls looked forward to this for a very long time.

Had to prepare the buttercream a day in advance, while they were sleeping I was perspiring in the kitchen. Goodness! I can't even remember when was the last time I baked!

One wants cake; the other cut cookies. Can you guess who wants what?

Footnote written in 2021 : 

To think that I had so many ideas on what I want to bake during this period where I hv no tutors coming into the house (which makes it difficult). Nothing is done so far and unlikely I will do it for this last week. I can't eat, man don't like bakes, the girls cut down on bakes for quite some time already. Since I have no guinea pigs then I shall not bake.

21st June 2018

One hour plus later.....

che-che crumb coating her cake 

First batch

And she is doing her second batch coz it isn't enough for one batch

Che-che’s first attempt in …..

Drip cake. She meant drip front and back. Haha! She didn't hold the bag properly and the rests fell from the top backwards

Yah yah got drip down technically. See! Drip down so much!!

Whole time she was laughing at her failed attempt. I thought it looked more like pandan cake. But she used the blue colouring!! Then she commented hers is like a failed mirror glaze cake.

End product. She didn't use all the toblerone. But now it looks like a dinosaur's head (Oreos are eyes )

Not bad for a first attempt.

Ahem...there's a huge chunk of white chocolate in the middle.

21st June 2014

Arrived a big box, containing our favourite ramen.

The last time I gave a pack to Mr Teo, our postman, to try. He said it's really very nice. The Singapore ones don't taste as good as these.

21st June 2011

Lil' girl was so comical yesterday (as ever). She took one Malay storybook at the library and proudly told her sister "I can read this." We laughed at her n her remarks was "oh yah hor! I'm so stubborn."

21st June 2010

KZ's not home 2day.Apparently some problem with her departure card, the immigration linked problem 2

her income tax. Said not paid prior 2 returning 2

Myanmar. Explained tt she tried but the Embassy in SIN was closed 4 an undisclosed time prior 2 her home leave (and it's like very sudden - no notice. Not stated in their website also)

Should be back tomorrow. Pray hard! Aricia cried when we left the airport just now.

My ideal kind of day

With no agenda, chilling at home after our lunch out. The girls gave daddy a Father’s Day treat. Did the laundry and then it was time for me to nuah from mid afternoon. It’s the 21st today and I just realised today marks the summer solstice. No wonder I refuse to do anything (heck boiling chrysanthemum drink, do it tomorrow) now and just wanted to stop, recharge myself. 

This is my ideal kind of day, with music and a nice cold drink relaxing to the rhythm of life. To the last day of the weekend. If only I have this kind of relaxing lifestyle more days in a week. If only I had tulips with me to complete the mood. 

My last cup of roselle hawthorn drink. Need to boil more 凉水 tomorrow

Relax, try to edit some blog entries (hopefully I get to post something/s out today) and then back to ah-soh life tomorrow onwards. 

On this day - 20th June #Reminders from FB#

20th June 2024

Went out with my old LV bag, going home with this cheap cheap eco bag 😆. Walked past LV then remembered I needed to repair a part. Dumped all my bag's content into my eco bag.🤣

I can't rmbr how much I paid for the pochette more than 24yrs (?) ago but it's selling for $1800 now according to the staff and always hard to find. 

Appreciation of ?% ?

Wah..I really got all the classic old old design bags. Cabin bag somemore! Sometimes so tempted to buy new bags but own too many bags for what? Then each bag also got sentimental value, all purchased in different countries which I went thru jetlagged and served coffee tea fish and chicken to earn them. I didn't practice the throw/get rid of 2-3 items to buy 1 new item then. So even if now I want to buy a new bag, I'm adding more stuffs into my small house coz l can't bear to give up my bags to change to a new one. Maybe I should just switch to owning eco bags

😁 #poorcustomerinexercisegearsteppedintoLV#

#myhairwasinamess#

#gottasendmywalletforrepairtoo#

For the time being while waiting for the repair, I'll use this. Anyway aunty never go to atas expensive places so this Kiki bag can do, won't get turned away at the supermarkets and nearby malls.

Lucky just now aunty never walk into LV in slippers and shorts.

20th June 2023

Omg! Tidying and cleaning the top cabinet and realised I actually had a bag of clothes to pass to lil' one from che-che. There were a couple of new clothes too! Hilfiger, Oshkosh all new ones! 🤦🏻‍♀️ How did I miss this bag?!

Most of the pass-me-downs were really sweet dresses, purchased from US. 

I love these 2 dresses. Should I keep for momento?

And the relatively new Guess set, che-che didn’t wear them long coz she outgrew too fast 😂

30th June 2023

Time to peng satay 😂

Brush every 20mins.

20th June 2021

Nottie girl so sleepy …. and she’s finally wide awake now at 3! 

No fever nothing at all. So far only she and daddy took their first  💉(on different days tho). It’s a good decision that the man n I did not take 💉 together, only one man down at a time 🤣. 

Now thinking abt her second jab. should I send her to school. Somemore I chose a nice nice timing at 8.30am. This mummy is so bad.

20th June 2021

I think the plant flies 🪰   love 🎶

If I just sit in the couch, there's nothing flying about (not that I know of). BUT the moment I start playing the electone or piano, the bloody 🪰 keep flying around me.

#maybecozitisattractedtoTRASHmusic# #rhythmicflies##feelingbleh# #notplayinganymore#

20th June 2020

My grocery app never had so many sub-lists before.

20th June 2017

Nottie girl with her fav noodle. We haven't had this for ..2mths? 3mths?

20th June 2013

I'm just wondering how the opposite block residents can leave their windows so wide open. Don't they feel uncomfortable? My windows have been closed for many days, last evening after I got back home to a 190PSI reading, I closed up even that tiniest gap in the toilets.

20th June 2012

* added some photos to the Sydney & GC album

20th June 2012

I didn't get to go on those rides in Dreamworld and Movieworld. Pretty sad! No one to accompany me, and not nice to have MIL and hubby waiting.

Che-che asked me why do I like to take roller coaster rides. I like the thrill and should do it when I'm still young (though I'm not getting any younger too.). At least when I'm older and look back, I can say l've done it before.

Footnote written in 2021 : 

And I'm still waiting for one trip with daring che-che to Six Flags. I hope I don't hv to wait until I cannot take rides 🤮 anymore. But hor....now I dare not take front seat anymore. Heartbeat faster also 😂.

Go away covid, we want our lost US trip back.

20th June 2011

I had been wondering for weeks what stupid song my girls made up ＂我不会走看见的是..."

Now as I turn to look at the Chinese flashcards for Aricia, then I realized 8 characters r from there.

20th June 2010

Wah…...hubby told me that coming Tuesday is Bring Your Kids to Office day. Duh! And I've already planned a playdate for that day.

Cello #3

Che-che seems to be able to find more time practicing her cello now (and playing the piano too!). Perhaps coz all she does now is work, unlike years ago when she’s a student struggling with school + tuitions + piano, thus more pockets of time. Perhaps too coz she’s the one paying for her own cello lessons, she feels the pain if she doesn’t practice properly and progression is slow. 

That eureka moment ! 

I was in the dining area when she was practicing in her room. 

The scale and songs (especially for Lightly Row has so much more dynamics, feelings to it now). Definitely 10x so much better sounding now, no wrong angle causing funny squeaky sound. At one point I had to go into her room to pass her the laundered clothes I saw she had her eyes closed. She had a shock few seconds later as she probably sense a movement in the room “哎哟！吓死我！” So she’s been bowing with her eyes closed! This is a good method coz there’s no visual distractions relying just the auditory senses. Listening to herself, adjusting the bowing angle if she hears a slight squeak and getting the dynamics and correct emotions. Her bowing is stronger firmer sounded more confident now. And to hear it only after 4 lessons is amazing. I must 不要脸的夸自己的孩子. 🤨 She was still squeaking after more than 8 lessons playing the violin (因为不是她还钱🤣) 

Was surprised when I heard her playing a short classical piece which I believe is not from the tutor coz she played it for the first time today. And it was not bad, no squeaks. When she had that eureka 开窍 moment, this song “You Did It” from My Fair Lady came into my mind. We all know that as long as someone has music background it’ll be easy to pick up any instruments. They just need to practice and improve on the technicalities. I’m just surprised that she was able to improve that fast. 

Next mission

Maybe it’s time I pick and practice a piano cello duet piece and we can try to play together one day. Wishful thinking on my part? What happens if my old 玩不动 fingers and brain slow connection/thinking cause me a very s.l.o.w progression? May take months to play properly on the piano. Or I practice in secret first, then give her some time to practice while I continue practicing, after which we can come together and do the duet. Hmmm…💭…. Canon in D? Or my favourite Air on the G String? 😁

On This Day - (19th June) #Reminders from FB#

19th June 2025

I was telling girlfriend that I thought I would be able to buy more cleaning stuffs since I'm travelling alone.

(Usually with family it's difficult as we don't travel 1 bag each.) But .... it turns out their snacks and ramen still took up space.

Go to frequented city, I get a list. Go to new places, I buy to let them try specialities. This solo trip was mainly new places and flight into a city we went before. So guess that's where their items amounted to so much. My luggage was filled up at last stop 🤣. And drumroll ..... I only bought 4 ah-soh items!!! How can like that 😢? I wanted to buy more leh! I needed more refills.

Does that mean I can go another trip solely just for shopping in ah-soh aisle?

Ps: I'm such a good girl. I didn't buy umbrella this trip.🤣

19th June 2024

After a long break I resumed brewing lil' one's soup.

BUT without the last pack of peanut root coz it smells tho it's vacumned pack. Guess should have checked it before I flew off.

Need to buy n start cleaning new batch. Sigh.....what to do? She likes to drink this.

19th June 2023

Just feel like drinking matcha latte, so this is my unsweetened version 😄

The treats are just for 📸 only, I'II only steal abit of warabi mochi. Already resisting temptation leh...but like my super encouraging girls tell me with a sheepish smile "mummy you can forget about going keto lah!", "you can slowly introduce sugar to your food now ...." My girls 'bor tua bor suay' 😅

19th June 2023

I haven't seen this for quite a while. The girls used to like this.

Will be che-che's breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper for the next few days 🤭

#彼女はただラーメンが大好きです#

妹妹 I will try to keep some for you 😜

19th June 2023

Beginning to miss that nottie lil' one. House is quiet without her. Few more sleeps before she gets back home, back to reality.

She doesn't want to come back 🤣🤣, don't miss

home at all. Of course lah！做工又好像没做工。有的吃喝玩乐。最重要不用读书。

19th June 2023

Mylene Fagaly thank goodness we weren't stuck in this position during our ride 😬

Footnote written in 2026 : We made wonderful memories with Mylene in Disneyland. Getting stuck in one ride was really funny. It was also the last year (up till to date) we stepped into US for our family hols.

19th June 2022

Still beautiful but lost its colour 😢

19th June 2020

Did my errands at PP before picking lil' one up from school and boy! It's more crowded as usual. To think that Spaceout stated <50%, I wonder how reliant this is.

I didn't run out of the house just coz it's Phase 2 today. It just so happened that I needed to get stuffs and I can only do so when someone is in school, if not I'd be happy staying in at home. You won't see my shadow out of my house when it's HBL next week. (Oops! apart from 2 days where che-che is required to be in school, I'll just do my ah-mat job.) Eateries busy today, everyone's happy to be eating out. Well, personally I'll rather hold on first. No need to rush out to eat. People happy to be meeting their fellow humans after some time, I'll hold on first. I'd rather pack n go. Pls don't be mistaken my friends, I'm not telling u u should follow what I do/feel/think.

Do so if you really can't wait to meet your friends. We all need the human contact. Maybe I've become an

• alien 👽 after 2+mths.

Phase 2 doesn't mean it's still safe. It's done so that some can go back to work, the economy needs a little vroom 🏎️ vroom.

It just irritates me when I try to practice safe distancing coz I feel responsible towards my family members at home, but some people just stand too close to me or walk right infront of me n stand infront of me when I'm reaching out to the shelf. And some 20something ppl, can still feign ignorance and ask "oh must check-in here also?" Come on! Even if you are blind today cannot see the big square right infront of you as you step into the shop, you should be aware of this when PSAs have been playing at home for the past weeks. Unless u were busy watching Netflix lah! That same lady, happened to be at same place twice. Can geh-siao until like that? And she was the one who stood infront of me at CS!!

And so.. I'll just be out of the house when I need to be.

Far East Flora can wait, I can't wait to step inside after so long but it's not urgent.

Spotlight can wait, I need to get item but it's not urgent.

I can't wait for the day when I can dine out with my family n do our usual routine. But will wait.

I need my life back to normalcy soon. I need to be able to find things that I want, to be not so inconvenienced when I need to run multiple places just to find that item. (Now I'II do it only when I'm out.

Won't die if don't have it but ...y y y who's hoarding the Peanut Butter Chips 🤨 To be able to do a drop cheque at PP, without leaving the mall and then queuing to re-enter again. When will that be? I hope I won't have to wait that long.

19th June 2013

Shellie May is preparing for ha t days

19th June 2013

What!! 290?!

19th June 2013

Although the haze has been a recurring problem for many many years, l've never felt so uncomfortable with the smell until now.

Can I inhale the lemon air freshener instead?

Which one will cause more harm to body? Haze or air freshener?

19th June 2013

Usually, the girls will be wasting time; scolding each other for not taking whatever from their seat etc..

Getting home is a noisy affair.

Earlier on, the girls cooperated and put on mask and I had to wet a tissue before we all open the car door at same time. No talking n no running. All walked into the lift; into the house and closed the door behind us with no fuss.

Masked ! 

19th June 2012

Signed the kiddos up for ice-cream making workshop and this is their end product. Hahaha! Turned out all the kids ice-cream turned watery, so nobody brings anything back. To console them n myself...bought a B&J ice-cream.

Footnote written in 2023 : Haha! When cannot make one, you buy one

19th June 2011

Finally hv the time to do this, before mould grows on ribbons.

Their first hairclip made by moi.

19th June 2011

Lil' girl told daddy "On Children's Day, u n mummy must make card for us." LOL!