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

A day out with lil' one

Started the day early by reaching River Wonders at close to 10am.

I went there just to see Lele, the last time I went there was 23rd June 2021 and Lele wasn't even born yet. 

I think this is Kaikai, the lazy father who only knew to eat and sleep. 

Jia Jia was in a enclosure inside

26th Sep 2023 - Jia Jia and Le Le. We only made a trip to River Safari and kindda whizzed through the whole place and headed straight to the Panda enclosure 

After River Safari, we headed to Cat Cafe at Rail Mall. A car wash after that as the irritating birds left souvenirs on my car. Damn shitty! It looks like a white spotty car with a little grey wallpaper. So much poo! 

For the ..

For the people who kept saying cabin crew are just waitress in the air. 

Cute Ghibli stuffs

I’ve always liked the Ghibli merchandise in どんぐり共和国, every turn to the next shelf of merchandise makes me squeal with excitement かわいいかわいいかわいい!!!!!!!! . In the unplanned plan in our last trip in July was definitely どんぐり共和国 😂 , but now that we’re in home country we can only make do with the one side of the shelf in Kinokuniya and NBC. 

These are some items which I’ve been wanting to get but trying hard, really hard, not to buy. 

1) The puzzles in the middle shelf (Kiki Delivery that shelf) costs S$29.70

2) These artcrystal puzzles are small and cute. Probably need a tweezer to pick up the pieces and it costs S$14.85

They are definitely more expensive than what one will pay in Japan. 忍忍忍不能浪费钱。 In Japan, I would simply stare at it and keep reminding myself I have no place to put the completed puzzles. In Singapore, I would look at it and tell myself it’s cheaper in Japan 😉.

3) Paper theatres. I didn’t bother to check the price….why should I when I don’t have the intention to buy? But they’re really so cute. 

I finally bought today at Kinokuniya. 

Been looking at this cute game set for the longest since I saw it in Dec and then again in July. So many times resisted the temptation to get it. Ultimately I gave in today because I want to teach lil’ one the game of Reversi. 

comes with a small sticker sheet. 

They do have two other designs 

Honestly I don't mind getting this Totoro coz I like the soot sprites but I don't like this white Totoro. What's its name anyway? I know reversi has black and white piece, and they are trying to keep to the black and white theme. But why can't they change it to Kiki and Jiji, Totoro and Soot Sprite, No face and Chihiro/Haku?? The idea is to have as many of your chosen piece on the checkerboard right? So as long as I have 2 different characters.   

Hai..... talk so much but I'm not the one who designed this. 

On This Day - (20th Sep) #Reminders from FB#

 20th Sep 2022

* added photos into “19th Sep 2022 - Sweet 16th!” album

Taken on 19th Sep :

On 18th she declared that the next day is her OFF DAY, she's not doing any studying . She wants to go out and asked me where would I bring her.

My reply - I also demand an OFF DAY away from her coz I gave birth to her 16 yrs ago S.

She followed me when I sent che-che to school, I thought she wanted some nice food so asked her to choose any place in Orchard, she narrowed down to lon.

She asked for Mos Burger and her Koi with golden pearl and rattled off that not all Koi has golden pearl so she chose lon. I recalled that Hougang Mall's Koi has golden pearl also what?! Hougang Mall also have Mos Burger what?! 

#ifeelcheated# #allthatexcitementshehadoverherbirthday#

At the same time we went to buy her cake. She wants

Oreo cheesecake so we tried Starbucks.

Walked around Ion for a short while and we left for home 2+hrs later (Orchard is getting so boring now).

After that …... No choice lah! She's prepping for her finals already so she guai guai went to study.

Before the day ends, asked her but she was too full to eat her cake. So as at now we haven't sung her her birthday song Jjd yet.

Haha!

20th Sep 2021

While looking for photos to do the recent abrupt job collage, I came across these 2 short videos when doe-eyed lil' one sat quietly (rarely) waiting for her dinner. I did an audio over as it was very noisy (hubby ordering food, che-che mimicking some noise behind, KZ making noise dishing out lil' one's food into a bowl, me scolding che-che).

Then che -che lifted the table and smacked her sister's chin. If I had the time I'd love to do a video of her bullying her lil' sister over the years now and vv. Hee!

Just another abrupt video

*ps. These are screenshots as video is too large to be uploaded

20th Sep 2020

*added photos into “Mini Bossy Queen is turning 14.” album

20th Sep - Aunty May Ling n Uncle Ben came by to

give her angpow in the night 让您跑了一趟. And |

forgot to take pic of her with them 🤦🏻‍♀️. Thank you!

19th Sep - At their fav restaurant before birthday girl's orthodontist appt. The adults separated by this panel...but it's ok, we managed to skip the queue into the restaurant this way. (the family before us only came in as we're more than halfway thru our lunch)

She's exactly 14yrs 14 seconds old!

After some shopping for her pressie, we stopped at food court. She's hungry after 2+hrs?!?! Her fav tchr saw her, she didn't see her but che-che saw tchr looking and found her familiar. Couldn't recall who is it until few seconds later.

"Aricia, Ms Daisy Ng."

I told lil' one it's her best birthday present to bump into her one of her fav tchr. (Not sure if she allows this so I covered her eyes)

Before heading home, dropped by NEX to collect her cake. She was so excited and made sure I ordered her cake at least 2 weeks ago.

A quick song coz the cream seems to be melting away.

All her pressies from us, duagu duakim, mama. Oh! And the cutest present is an e-angpow from Aunty Youli Song. Thanks for your kind gesture.

Her 3 tops from TEM from che-che and gummies. With that she ended celebrating her special day, not after telling us what she wanted to do for her birthday next year. 😂

20th Sep 2019

From 6000+ pics on phone to half. Definitely feel "lighter". More to clear - target less than 500 in phone. If only losing weight is going to be as easy as this.

20th Sep 2019

The fattening cake.

Realised the girls also scooped the buttercream aside like me.

I can try making a unicorn next time..... that is when I really do get it down to action and…...who knows it's either I never get it done or lil' one is out of the

"unicorn" phase. Maybe bake for my grandkids?

Haha!

These fondant designs the girls said they wanted it when they were very young (che-che was only 7 or 8) I never got a chance to do it and now.. we've all cut down on eating cakes.

I think this calls for a second major "kitchen-related" decluttering? I have some bakebooks which I wasn't willing to let go the last round, I doubt I have the chance to do this anymore right? The books are cellophane-wrapped and in pristine condition. 😄

20th Sep 2018

" The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance. "  - Arthur Smith

20th Sep 2018

Celebration Part 2 : (thank goodness only 2!) And so the day went by so quickly as half a day was spent in school. (For many years she was at home cos it was either some holiday from MOE or school. P6 7, she had to be in school even it's P5's oral and they were the only 2 levels in school today.)

十二岁了。时间过得太快了、记得好像不久这个小瓜

是个可爱的小宝宝。

我的不要脸的小宝贝 can tell me what she wants for her

balloons this year. It was rushing and I didn't have chance to make Pooh's ears.Pooh is a re-used balloon from last year.

Her pressies from aunties, family and friends. Che-che's friend was so sweet to gift her something.

Checking out what's written on the cards.

Then she decided to go to the fridge and check if I lied about not buying her a cake

Her small cake today

20th Sep 2014

*added more photos into her “Aricia's 8th Birthday” album

Celebrated for her in school on 17th Sep.

Goodie packs preparation.

Kept things simple as it was packed by early August.

Plus didn't want too bulky for che-che (who helped carry up to class for mei-mei) Thank you Athena Ting!!

Setup.

This time round I was there more than half hour before, so could set the table up without rushing. The P5s who were in the canteen, getting ready to go for excursion.

Came up to me and asked if I was selling them. Huh?

Even when the lower primary came down for recess, they asked me the same question.

Took at the other two celebrations in the canteen.

Hmm.…... okay my setup is kua-zhang. Haha!

Eating and opening up their goodie bag

Birthday girl 

18th Sep - Seeked permission from ballet teacher

Kathleen Cui.

Once approved by teacher, preparation for goodie bags commenced.

Rather fast as only prepared 5 bags.

Improvised version. Hahaha!

Have cupcake wrapper too but it's too tall already, covering the cuppie so dropped the idea

19th September

Big thanks to Teacher who granted permission. (Sorry it took time from your class) for a quick "singing birthday song".

This was a total surprise for the birthday girl.

Giving out goodie packs

Alyoh! girl told me only 5 other kids. Imagine my surprise when I was told it's 7 other kids. Didn't pack enough goodie bags, so will owe 2 kids next week.

20th Sep 2012

*added more photos into “My Little Monster turned 6 - 19th

Sep 12” album

Preparation: The goodie bags tags

Scoring the cards

Factory work start. let me organise them in boxes first then factory worker starts her shift

Cupcake holders

Paper bags were prepared for kids who were packing back the cuppies. Turned out most kids ate in class, now what am I going to do with those paperbags?

Some bagged items for the vegetarians kids in her class.

They don't eat the cupcake so this is the other alternative for them

Few weeks prior, I edited pictures and sent over to my friend

The night before.

The exciting moment. 48 cuppies

The girls couldn't help but keep looking at the cake.

They had a hard time choosing which cuppie to keep at home

Nice

Please bear with me. I know I keep snapping pics.. but they're really cute.

My friend baked the cuppies for me, I made my own cake too! I dummy cake so that her cuppie stands up high.

Funny thing is the chinese teacher was helping me to pack the items. She told me "I'll put this cake for you in the box so it won't be spoilt". FT told her "It's fake!!" 😂

20th Sep 2011

Lil' girl woke up this morning and said "Che-Che I'm taller than you alreadv."

LOL

20th Sep 2009

*added photos to “Aricia's 3rd BD @ home” album

Happy Birthday, mei-mei!

Footnote written in 2023 : Wah! If only I had kept that "3" candle and her "1" candle 🤣

Early this year che-che commented that it's so wasted to buy the "1" "2" candle for her cousin "blow already then cannot use."

Someone did mention to keep and re-use, was it her?

Me? or Pauline Patrick Teo? She then said can use it for 21st birthday, I passed a remark "keep it for you then. Since you'll be the first to turn 21." 🤪