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

30th Sep 2022

Ok, I'm more like the guy...tho I pack lesser clothes than him coz I tend to recycle clothes by handwashing clothes n undergarments. Haha!

Though I can never beat my sister, who always pack her stuffs into a haversack. I'm talking abt her long

trips to winter Norway for ⛷️ . 我的天啊‼️ 

30th Sep 2022

So loving the SUN

Shine down your light!!

So many babies 🥰

*video is too large for upload here so just did a screenshot*

30th Sep 2020

Turn Left or right?

#ionlyhave80mins#

When u can't decide where to go, just go for both. A bit of goodness in both direction.

feel like going for a dip too. Feeling hot - 27° C. Sun glaring (forgot sunglasses n cap 🤦🏻‍♀️)

At least on this side the condo is blocking the sun rays.

Feeling like a 🧛🏻‍♀️ 

30th Sep 2015

I just shouted at one fucking China lady in guardian pharmacy. She was directed to queue at the cash payment counter by the vitamins sales lady when nobody's at the counter. When there's a snaking one queue you know one queue then you see which counter is available. Of course the discretion of the payer to see which counter he/she has to go, then the person behind can go??)

So many ppl told her to join the queue. You know the damn China ppl always want to argue "becoz I'm directed here." We said queue behind. She argue with everyone like a innocent woman, which they are always good in acting. I told her join the queue behind coz everyone is queuing, she is jumping queue. Until I got so mad that I raised my voice in public "just shut up and join the queue." Best part is when she said I shouted at her, the man behind me

"no she wasn't." He plus some others were not pleased with her.

30th Sep 2014

It's over! This is a precious picture.

With her good friend here.

First thing she did after her paper.

Ear candling. Time to relax girl....you've done your best.

2nd relaxation

Footnote written in 2023 : 

I wasn’t joking when I said that my monthly cycle halted the whole year. And on her last day, relief overcame and my cycle resumed on the day! I was really under tremendous stress as I was on solo with 2 kids with no helper and no help. I was usually so tired. Then, I was only 39. I don’t even think my 48yr old body today would be able to take this kind of stress. 

And for this pampering after her paper, I truly deserve one too! 

30th Sep 2013

I decided to consolidate theirs together (initially it was written seperately until i got a little confused)

Scary! 2 school- going kids! Teni Poon-Atmadja how do u handle your 4!! Must call you Wonder Woman

30th Sep 2013

Is the haze back? I'm sure feeling uncomfortable. or mavbe not enough sleep??

30th Sep 2012

Happy mid-autumn festival!!

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

29th Sep 2016

My goodness! What to do when u see so many armed police n unarmed police in a mall? Grab my kid n get out of the mall?

#unusualsight#

29th Sep 2015

Titus Ting, the girls have "elected" the country to go.

29th Sep 2015

This is what I need to get for the lil' one. Won't risk losing anything n will impede her movement, won't be able to run around school like a gila girl.

29th Sep 2015

Ok! I'm so damn pissed!

Don't antagonize me further!

One lost her mask; the other - I deliberately walked to PARKWAY bus stop to catch if she's using her mask. She's NOT!! And she had bronchitis before!!

Why am I so worked up today you may ask. Coz even with the purifier n windows closed at home today, I had been sneezing. And the purifier keeps showing red. My throat hurts. So ...my kids still think I'm joking with them to put on their mask?

29th Sep 2015

Mad! Angry! Abt to kill someone!

Use her mask only once and she dunno where she left it? Bloody hell! The ventilator cost $30!!!

29th Sep 2014

Feeling shiok. Cleared some before (sold to garang guni), next stack (as shown) n still hv some more in studyroom cupboard. I think the girls will be richer this time round.

29th Sep 2013

Mel, my girl's bloopers.

Suddenly had hiccups and then ....... wanna pee....

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

28th Sep 2021

I need some energy. Rose pls give me some 🔥 

28th Sep 2021

Found a (I think) smarter but still backaching way to clean the whole big bunch of peanut roots.

Day 1: Chopped off the stems and discard the bulky parts. Portioned out and vacumn seal so can put in fridge

Day 2 or whatever: unpack few packs at a time to do massive cleaning. These small 4 packs took me an hour plus of scrubbing. Dry them out and then vacumn seal and put them back into fridge.

Still have another 5 or 4 packs? I will do them slowly... just like cleaning ikan bilis, do it bit by bit when I have that short timeframe in between.

28th Sep 2018

Our heads are lighter, her shelf is half cleared.

28th Sep 2013

Read that this year's PSLE papers so far are easy.

Was talking to tutor n she said she heard the same thing. "I did say that this year's would be easy, so next year would be hard." So suay! Then she started counting for Aricia's turn. "Wah! So suay!"

We understand abt the bell curve but ...morale of kids would be low if papers are hard.

28th Sep 2011

-读书郎-

Can't seem to get the song off my head. Her mumbling words and her funny pronunciation for some.

This is the part that got me laughing :

啷里格啷里格隆咚锵

She reads as "lang little la little la dong giang" then repeats it coz she knows she made some mistake, then makes more mistakes.

Footnote written in 2023 : Who is this? I think it’s lil’ one? 😆 

28th Sep 2010

I screamed at my helper, very pissed with her today.

Really seeing red. For the record, this is the first time I screamed at her since she started working with us since 2006.

On This Day - (27th Sep) #Reminders from FB#

27th Sep 2022 

Blog dated 24th Oct 2007.

A cute going to be 5yr-old Athena telling me:

"mummy, I have fever also. It's O-L-E, I have fever." I turned the thermometer the right side up! It reads 37.0 not O-L-E!!"

27th Sep 2015

Thanks a lot for Youli Song's mooncakes.

Doors closed, not looking at moon with psi140+

After setting up, hubby was watching tv while I was washing dishes. Lil' one was helping herself to the tea.

"Don't drink so much you're so skinny," he says. After some time realised that she drank from every cup. Haha!

For humour, I put her milk there

Yum seng…..

27th Sep 2015

Soaked the tea leaves for a day, prepared by hubby getting ready for moongazing 赏月 tonight. Lantern?

My girls seem to outgrow it.

We got this tea set from Wuxi this June, representing family.

Wishing you and your family a roundful 🌝 happiness and family reunion.

圆圆满满一家团圆

27th Sep 2015

*tagged in YL photo*

26-09-2015

Aricia's birthday party!

27th Sep 2014

PSLE is halfway done and I am thankful I have an independant lil' one.

It has been a tiring journey for me, what makes it more tiring is hubby left to work in another country since end July, so l've been running the house on solo. My mood is bad coz all burden on me. I've to shoulder home ah-soh duties; girls; schoolwork;

tuition work; ah-mat duties; exams!

With the weary mummy ignoring her, Lil' one has been independant to bring out stuffs to study on her own (not to mention she left the study table a mess thereafter for me to tidy) for exams as well as her weekly EL spelling and iT S. And when she studies, she has the habit of reading out aloud which is irritating n... I really want to kick her out of the studyroom. (wait! I did kick her out once)

There are days when she has no idea what to do, I assign her work n mark the next day. But I haven't had the time recently to go through work with her, that file just gets thicker n thicker.

So today, I spent 20 mins packing her 'filled with goldbar' schoolbag. I go through work that was done in class, her homeworks that I didn't even bother to check weeks or months ago till now. I found unfiled †7IN_ s, math worksheets etc...well I had to help her with filing. Poor girl have been carrying those papers with her for a long time.

She has compo exams next Mon, Tue (same day as PSLE) and the rests follow thereafter.

Thank goodness didn't get any phonecalls (complaints) fr teachers so far with regards to her. So she's surviving well under our intense "Athena taking her PHD" conditions at home. My Survivor! Wait!

Make that two young Survivors for enduring the tyrant-evil queen style discipline.

I feel myself aging more years in these few months

Footnote written in 2020 : 

That was a real stressful first-timer PSLE-er parent year for me. Everything just ran on my schedule; on the clock.

27th Sep 2011

Lil' girl was practising her concert song -i*##B- and she's driving me crazy with her xxxx singing.

Mumbling in her words and I have no idea what's the lyrics until now. Printed and will show her tomorrow.

Dunno why suddenly thought of Jap songs and asked her to sing for me グーチョキパーでなにつくろう

35. And she sang well for me, though haven't been playing/exposing them to the language much now.

So the thing about kids' brain is a sponge ... makes me 200% happy that early years input helped her so much.

27th Sep 2011

Now she's been protected by Three Musketeers.

Huh? How come she ended up with the boys?

27th Sep 2011

Last week she played with a Turkish (older or same age) girl. Today, she targeted a cute に才 boy. The boy’s お母さん had to crawl alongside, trying hard to catch up with lil' girl. Hee!

27th Sep 2011

HRH Aricia

27th Sep 2010

A group of schoolgirls were laughing @ mei-mei. I went to order food in Macs, she sat there n did her writing work for me. She was reciting out the letters

"G-R-E-E-N Green." n repeated a few times. They found her amusing