Children Art: Little Squids

A Hooligan At School

阳阳's teachers sent this picture to Meimei .... asking if he sits like that at home too and ask that we also sound out to him not to do so. Haha I wonder where he picks this habit up from? *wink wink

阳阳's First Time At Sunday Church Class

阳阳's first time to Sunday church class. Covid has rob him of a lot of what 萱萱 was able to experience at the same age. Thankfully he is still young so there is lots of opportunities to catch up. We'll try to bring the children out more on the weekends so they are exposed to the 'outside' world.

Kindergarten Graduation

Today is 萱萱's kindergarten graduation 'ceremony and dance'. In yesteryears parents of the graduating class would all be gathered at an auditorium to watch kids perform and see the presentation of the 'graduation papers' to the K2 class. But Covid has changed all that. Thankfully they let us into the school to take pictures with 萱萱.

After School Student Care

Meimei brought 萱萱 to visit the after school student care today. I encourage putting 萱萱 in student care because I believe she'll get better guidance and learning than being left to her own devices at home. Although we are working from home, we don't have the time to watch over her homework nor setup activities for her afternoons. That said, we need her to be 'ok' with it so this was a great chance to introduce her to it and let her see other children in the same environment.

Well it turns out she was more interested in the koi pond than the student care. That's ok, in time she will be used to the rigours of student care. It gives her a chance to make friends outside of her own classroom too.

Kiddo Talk & Pic Nov 2021

阳阳 is a good boy

萱萱: mama u know what’s one thing I am not good at?

Meimei: don’t know. What is it?

萱萱: is getting 阳阳 to listen to me! 

Meimei: hahaha that sounds like something 阳阳 is not good at! He doesn’t only not listen to you, he doesn’t listen to adults too sometimes

萱萱: no! He very very good in school you know? Only 1 time I heard teacher shout his name but it is because another boy jealous he hold ariel hand so beat him. He always listen in school! Don’t know why at home like this 🤷‍♀️ next year I am not in school already I cannot tell you about how he is in school ! 

Meimei: *melt and mixed feelings…

LATER…

Meimei: 阳阳 in school you always very good boy but at home you are not, why?

阳阳: *big big eyes but ignore me

Meimei: can you also be good good boy at home ? For me?

阳阳: tomorrow I try

Needing company

Meimei: you want mama to lock the door or leave it open?

阳阳: leave it open

Meimei: then you promise you will not come in when i'm working?

阳阳: i promise

LATER.......

Meimei: Why you come in?!?

阳阳: er.... 👀 just to get a kiss...

Meimei: *MUACH! ok go..

LATER......

Meimei: why are you here?!?!?!

阳阳: .. and a HUG!

LATER .......

Meimei: now?

阳阳: Just accompany you here quietly

What are your favourite things?

萱萱: Having my family, dancing, singing, swimming, drawing, house rules, play, Tv

阳阳: I love to hug my pillow and hug my family. The books that I like and also the pillow that I like, my favourite pillow. And my favourite sister.

First Visit To Hillview In 2 Months

Its been 2 months since we last visited Hillview. First there was the covid restrictions on group sizes and visits. Then 阳阳 and 萱萱 were sick. Even though they didn't had covid we still played it safe and not go Hillview.

So today's the day and it started with both lift breaking down. We had to walk with the kids down the stairs. 阳阳 got tired halfway down so I carried him the rest of the way.

The group photo of the kiddos are the highlight of each trip. They grow bigger with each picture.

Elixir Haul #5

 

New Silestone Top Dining Table!

Finally our new table has arrived. 

We took about an hour to move the old dining out to the lobby and cleanup the area. The rectangle area under the old table has not seen the light of day since we moved in. There are all sorts of stains (removable thankfully) which accumulated over the years from spills.

The new table is whiter than I expected so it takes getting used to. It's a lot heavier than the old one and we were warned not to move the table by sliding. The wooden legs will wrap and break if we don't do the "lift and move" way due to the weight. Well whatever, this is one of the dream items we wanted to get back when we moved into this place but we couldn't get due to budget constraints. It's now a reality. Woot!!

Lazy Rascals Before Swimming

I get lots of angry daggers from Meimei's eyes when they did this. I though it was just funny. But they've been warned never to do it again.

"Mummy ... This Is The Best Thing Ever!!"

 阳阳 loving the ready-made chicken satay stick that Meimei bought.

Its so happy watching him enjoy the food.

阳阳's First Chinese Massage

阳阳 has been sick the past week. He is still nasal after finishing the course of antibiotics so we brought him for a Chinese massage to 'push out' the phlegm. As usual he is on his best behaviour with strangers which works perfectly great hehe

Another Standing Desk For Master Bedroom

Meimei and I were having challenges working in the study when we have conflicting calls. We would have to talk over each other and its very disruptive, especially for Meimei since she is softer. So we bit the bullet and bought another standing table from Ergoworks. It is smaller table which we fit into the master bedroom.

Dressing Up For Deepavali

This is the first year Meimei found a set of ethnic Indian apparel for 萱萱 and 阳阳 to wear to school for Deepavali. The childcare center likes to promote racial diversity and encourages children to come dressed for each festive celebration. The kiddos look very cute in them :-)

Being Violated

I just woke up from a dream. It’s 2.40am and I’m lying on my own bed feeling angry and violated. 

The dream was fuzzy, at one point was in the toilet washing my hands and an asshole started grabbing my balls from behind. I struggle to get free and attempt to elbow my assailant but he continued to grope me. I managed to turn around and see it was the bastard from the flat above ours.

I thought I'm passed it but it looks like subconsciously I'm still holding a grudge against the degenerate from entering our house without permission. I suppose it will never go away, just blocked in some corner of our consciousness till one day it decides it wants to come up for a spin.

This also explains why I will always remember another incident where my decency was violated. I was maybe 13-14 years old at the time. I was at what is now branded as JCube to catch a movie. As I stand in the moving crowd someone suddenly grope my crouch out of nowhere. I frantically looked around to see if I could find who did that but there was too many people moving past me. Then a couple minutes later I happened again and then a few minutes later again. I was dumbfounded and in shock ... thinking back I should have moved away from the crowd and park myself against a wall to stop this from repeating. But I guess I was young and naive and probably not sure what to do at the time. So a bloody gay faggot (or it could be a group of them) was molesting me multiple times.

There is very little I remember of my youth but this incident is forever inched in my memory.