Happy 8th Birthday 萱萱

Happy Birthday 萱萱! 

Reading To 欣宇

The beauty of staying together is having people around to help each other out. 萱萱 displayed her 大姐 instinct and entertained Xinyu while Nyama and Siti were busy preparing dinner for the rest of the family. 

It's so rewarding to see her being able to read to others and showing that sense of care and compassion.

Kiddo Talk & Pic Feb 2023

Meimei: "Last night Emily came to the master toilet to pee and found no toilet paper. She went to replace a toilet roll in the dark without waking me up. #laobaksai"

Meimei: "One for the memory lane hehe"

Meimei: Use “dad” in a sentence 

阳阳: "I miss dad because he was in US"

阳阳: "I miss the cutie pie. I miss those cheeks. She’s just so cute"

阳阳: "I miss those cheeks ALOT"

Dressing Up As A Character From A Storybook

This week is Library and New Media Literacy Week at school. So kids can dress up as characters they read in books. 

萱萱 chose to go as Colette from the Thea Stilton storybooks. We didn't prepare for it but Meimei managed to pull off a miracle and scrap together a costume for her. Phew! 

Excursion To The Science Centre

阳阳's learning journey to the Science Centre with his preschool classmates. Pictures are shared by teachers.

Lock Screen Throw Backs

Recently discovered that you can configure your lock screen to change regularly with photos from your library album. So now I would look forward to every turn of the hour to see what new throw back photos of 萱萱 and 阳阳 that will pop up on the lock screen. Oh how we miss the cuteness of both when they were just toddlers.

Graduating From Cycling Class

Brought 阳阳 to cycling lesson to drill him on the take off. He did great today, didn't complain when he fell and really put in the effort to get it right. Meimei and I were happy to see the focus. And Edmund gave him a graduation thumbs up. Now we just need to give him the chance to keep practising on his own.

New Wedding Bands

Woohoo! Finally collected our new wedding bands. Cost close to $3K but so worth it. The old ones had turned yellow and were too tight. We went for the platinum ones since they are touted to not discolour. We'll see. More importantly, Meimei is now able to put the band on together with her diamond ring.

Happy 5th Birthday 阳阳!!

Meimei bought ordered cupcakes for 阳阳's birthday celebration at school. Glad we were able to do this since he already missed 2 years of school celebration due to Covid. 

As usual we did another round of it at home but he was cranky by the time we got to it. Everyone else were all smiles except for the birthday boy haha.

Rubber Slap On Face

萱萱 and 阳阳 will tugging at the squeezy rubbery band we bought from marina square. I didn't see it happen but Meimei narrated the aftermath in chat.

"姐弟俩玩巨型橡皮圈，姐姐放手弹到弟弟的脸"

"眼睛没事，可能有一点红也可能是哭红。右边鼻子一点点鼻血"

Yeeyee: "Confiscate all"

Meimei: "Already did"

Yeeyee: "Already told them not to do that"

Meimei: "Really stupid" 

Yeeyee: "Even confiscating doesn't feel like enough punishment"

Meimei: "I know but Didi got punishment enough I think"

Meimei: "He went mirror then cried harder: now I am not as cute anymore…. I like how I look last time…. Waaaaaaaaaaillllll"

Yeeyee: "Haha, gosh, I can feel him"

Nyama: "真是又好笑 又好气又可怜…"

Thankfully the red patches subsided the next morning and he was chirpy as a bird again. Let's hope they learned their lesson and not do this silly tug of war game again ... well kids be kids right? Hahah they are going to do it again no matter what we say.

Gift Of Hilton Diamond

A colleague of mine is a Hilton Diamond and one of the perks is the ability to gift Diamond status to another account. He generously gifted me Diamond for the year so now I can enjoy the perks of being a Hilton Diamond member. That includes breakfast, free room upgrades, free drinks at the lounge etc. Perfect for business travel.

 

Mouldy Bamboo Shelf

I thought bamboo are water resistant and generally least susceptible to mould and fungi. So I didn't put a coat of  lacquer when we bought this shelving from Ikea. Unfortunately it seems the bamboo wasn't treated so mould started growing on it. We have to clear out the stuff on the shelf, give it a good wash before bringing it out for a good coating. If that doesn't work we'll have to discard it.

Kiddo Talk & Pic Jan 2023

Many Pattern - narrated by Meimei

“Why so many tobots beside my bed?”

阳阳: “They wanna sleep with me!”

“Why you so many pattern pattern one”

阳阳: “Not me! It’s the tobots so many pattern”

Sharing Pillow ... Kinda - narrated by Meimei

why is leon rover on the bed??

萱萱: because yy wants him to sleep on my bed

no leon rover goes on the table

阳阳: (protests) but he is not comfortable! 

then give him your pillow. Not huggy buddy. 

阳阳: ....... ok but I keep ah choo onto my pillow

leon rover is fine he is safe from your virus

阳阳: ........ ok fine //mama is surprised he say ok

(a few moments later)

阳阳: I think leon rover sleep already. he is ok if i take the pillow from him if he sleep already //mama nearly internal injury trying not to laugh

Fever no video - narrated by PokPok

萱萱" “Papa I cannot sleep cos I sleep a lot in the afternoon”

“Haiz ok then give you one more episode”

萱萱: “Eh I don’t want, later watch video my fever will go up”

“Ok then how about you read a book”

萱萱: “Ok!” Runs off to find book to read

Game more important - narrated by Meimei 

At 5+am

阳阳 got up to pee and ask me to accompany him because he is scared to be alone.

I accompany but ignoring 阳阳 .. trying to let him sleep on his own (I just sit beside playing tsum - this information is useful later) 

After 40 mins he got up and whine “bad dream…” I didn’t respond 

(by then 6+)

Oo sat up “he wants you to sayang”

Me: maybe later 

Oo: tsk.. game more important 😡

Me: aiyo no… (went to kiss her) 

Then I go and kiss 阳阳

Dealing with emotions - narrated by Meimei

No aircon last night then didi angry with me blame me for not giving aircon then he is so hot he got fever

After I explain it’s not related and ask him to eat medicine he sulk and hissed “let me calm down first!”

Elixir Haul #11 - New Brands

Still the staple Hardy VSOP but trying out other brands just to see if something else surprises us in a good way.

CNY 2023

Happy CNY everyone! 

As with yesteryear we were only going to visit our parents. Even though Covid restrictions are lifted, no one really feels like visiting others. Well at least not in my family. I mean there are 1st cousins whom I don't know the name, never seen them in years and wouldn't recognise even if I come face to face with them on the street. Such is the conduct of my parent's generation - they get at each other's throat in the name of $$$ - that is filtered down to my generation and we lose that touch of family. I try to keep my kids away from all the drama and hope we correct that for their generation. There are already so few kids that its sad if we continue in that awful trend.

Anyways happy holidays!