Kiddos Sep 2025

Still too thin

“I was 25.5kg few weeks ago. Now i’m 25.8kg, hurray i gain 0.3kg” 萱萱 said with utter glee

Self Censorship

Meimei: 萱萱 self censorship so cute lol 😂

Makings of a Hacker

萱萱: do you know I wanted to record the songs and music video on my ipad so even when time limit is up, I can play it from my PHOTOS app??

Me: *无语…..

萱萱: and do you know I have another way!! GUESS!

Meimei: 深呼吸…. What app?

萱萱: You know ALARMS, I can set my alarm to play my favorite song!

萱萱: AND because it is not sure what songs you like, it will let me play any song and play a long time

#matteroffactly

Yeeyee: Making of a hacker

Meimei: I REALLY did not think of it leh

阳阳 Swimsafer 2.0

We are at Yio Chu Kang Swimming Complex for YY's Swimsafer 2.0 test. The place looks like something out of the 80s and is very quiet. There were only a handful of people here swimming. The rest are all here for the various grades of Swimsafer tests.

You can tell 阳阳 is stressed as he keeps peeling his fingernails without even knowing it. 萱萱 is sick so Meimei has to stay home to look after her. But he is a brave boy. He man-ed up and went for the test without any fuss. I'm so proud of him ... he has grown up.

I rewarded him with lunch at the nearby MacDonald's. He seems very relieved that he passed the test. Good Job 阳阳!

M4 MacBook

Just bought a new M4 MacBook.

No pictures to show because I was silly and forgot to take still photos of the new MacBook. And Blogger is being a total ass application for not allowing me to upload frames from the video. It just keeps saying error without telling me exactly what the nature of the error is.

But I still wanted to document this because I'm writing this blog post now on it. Blah.

Fun @SkyHop By Yooland

萱萱 and 阳阳 have been bugging us about coming to this new playground since it opened recently at the same building as the Berries tuition. We have been resisting it but happenstance just made it that we had to come here haha. We were at Kidztopia Marina Square this morning and Meimei had bought tickets online only for us to find out that there is private event when we reach there. What a scam. So anyways we came down to Tampines instead to see if we can get into this new playground.

What we discovered was that it has a special fixture .... an obstacle course that is 3 storeys up. You have to be strapped to a safety line to get around. The kids were extremely excited to try it, even though it took us a good 45 minutes to reach the front of the queue to get up.

We only purchased a ticket for an hour so this was really the only thing we played. Next time we'll buy a 2-3 hour ticket.

New Bookshelf From ScanTeak

The old Ikea bookshelf was giving way on the shelving planks. For something that cost SGD500 new, it's a totally crappy make of a bookshelf. Thankfully we got it from the as-is section but it still cost a good SGD350. So when it comes to find a replacement, we totally excluded Ikea. We need something more sturdy. Why pay top price and still get crap right?

So a little more than a week ago I went down to ScanTeak showroom at Ubi and they had these 4 bookshelves. I picked the one 2nd from the right as the panels are better made. It cost SGD600 but its made with teak so I expect it to hold better than the flimsy Ikea one.

The bookshelf arrived today and fit right into the spot. Once we fill up the shelves it'll like before.

Putting Towels On Drying Rack

Meimei had reminded me before to take my bath towel out of the bathroom and dry them on the racks. However it's hard to remember sometimes. I suspect she got the kids in on the request ... and they came up with creative ways to entice me to do their bidding hahaha. These are so precious!

From 萱萱

From 阳阳

Visiting The National Gallery Singapore

It was kinda of an impromptu trip. They had some activity setup for children to participate but it wasn't anything really immersive. Well at least it was cool enough in the building and the kids had something to do with Yeeyee and XY. 

Our Caddy Immortalised On Google

I wasn't aware of it till 阳阳 point it out to me on his iPad. He had gone on Google Earth and somehow navigated to our block and gone into street mode. And when he saw our old Caddy he took a screenshot for reference to share with us.

Oh how we miss the old Caddy .... both kids are always talking about it too. I think they like the sturdiness of the ride. It definitely feels more commanding on the road versus our current Serena.