Friday, May 28, 2010

Yeah today is public holiday.
Went junction 8 with kids, (minus Marcus) to have lunch and change currency.

Friday prayers so money changer close. Went to have lunch first at cafe cartel, bought some socks, long queue at money exchange, saw the rate so low, decided to go amkhub. On way to carpark, saw crocs sale, got my size, bought a pair.

Went amkhub, long queue to go car park. Went money exchange, even lower. Decided to go back junction 8 to change.

Juz now before dinner, went bicycle shop to buy a bicycle for Fil as bday present. Went for dinner with the new bike. After dinner, Hubby ride the bike, I sat behind, sideway and held on to his waist. So funny, I was so scared. Whenever Hubby turn the bike, I would scream.

Juz now, we watched underdog, a show that I recoreded on Sunday, I think. Nice show, Marcus and max were watching too, Marcus was laughing so much. Glad they enjoyed the show.




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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

today went to marcus and mabel's school to meet their teachers.

mabel: no problem, all subjects band 2. She just have to write bigger and more legibly. She is very caring and helpful. in terms of level position, mabel has improved.

marcus: hmmmm, two subjects band 4, two subjects band 3. his most disappointing subject is maths. and his teacher is expecting him to get band 1 for science as he is always answering science questions in class with sensible answers. his maths is a failure because he flop at the problem sums. His MT needless to say.
He is not scoring for his English because of his composition. HIs content is too unrealistic, so his content scored low even though his grammar and vocabulary is interesting. His teacher commented that she likes to read his stories as he always have good vocabulary words to describe his story. And he does not know how to link his stories well.

however, his teacher found that he is more cheerful, more able to control his temper and more focus in his work this year. in terms of level position, he has improved also.

so the total report card: i don't know myself. honestly, i'm kind of immune to results and KPIs. I look at their final results, yeah, the final results is like that, but the process of getting to the result. is the process a happy one, is the process a sad one? in the process, what other skills have they pick up? more reliable, responsibility, focus, determination? these are the qualities that cannot be measured by a report card.

Just like working. in the end, this is the result of my job scope. I can give you the results if you want to.... but the process of getting the results. am i happy? what did i learn in the end?

i really miss being a child. at that time, exams seems to be the hardest thing, but when you come out to work, you realise there are harder challenges for you to overcome. Be it family, work or love life or even personal life.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Oh I must show this pic, I like this plant! It's so... Unique.




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Went to waterfall area, lazy to climb up.


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Actually the swan were together




Flamingo




Fellow colleagues on this excursion
















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Reporting from jurong bird park. Changed a lot, well, the last time I'm here, actually I dun have much memory.

Juz watched the show, cool, I learnt that owls are actually not nocturnal.




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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Did some researching and finally book accommodation for holiday.

Counting down...


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Friday, May 21, 2010

see, told myself to have complete bed rest tonight. end up working on the laptop again.

been more fruitful, work out a little more details on Sydney. Then realise didn't plan for Perth. so made a rough plan, but because it's 1am, actually mind is willing to go further, but body cries out for a break!

Ser, which place in Perth would you like to go? i only plan 3 places, Busselton, Margaret River, Pemberton and not sure if you like to see coastal formation at Albany. Then last stop, drive back to somewhere near Perth, Scarborough Beach, accommodation face the sea.

Again, i'm just addicted to computer, internet. aiya, just can't pull myself away.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

tired, was telling myself that i will not use the computer tonight. but i still had to:

1) need to prepare some work for tomorrow
2) bought some stuff online. pre GSS sale!
3) check some emails.

mmm, if my brain is connected to some device which plots out a graph of my brain activity, it's either one straight line or one with little fluctuation. so sis, i'll reply your emails tomorrow.

been a tiring day, told myself to have total bed rest tonight, but then, still, one word to sum up, jian4.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

mmmm, mil cooked dinner last night again... i admit, she is a good cook. i was very full as well as guilty after eating dinner. so every night, if she is going to cook, i'm going to have this internal turmoil of feeling guilty after eating. Will i develop eating disorder? last night after dinner, i felt like going to the toilet to vomit out my food..... chill, chill..... tonight, i hope to finish my last two classes of marking by day time, so that at night, if i have this guilty feeling again, i'll do some stretches.

ok, the other thing.... i didn't realise the seriousness of the impact until this morning i was in the toilet pee-ing. You know how your brain works when you are seated on the toilet seat... i think 60% if not 70% of my thinking is done, sitting on the toilet seat.
so i was thinking... mmm, in laws have been buying can drinks every day for dunno how many days, maybe a week or two... 4 cans. 1 each for 3M and 1 for mil herself. mmmm, i know mil has been drinking our H20 drink in the refrigerator... mmmm, i dun mind if it's real fruit juice, but QOO and carrot juice (Pokka can) is not very healthy if consume every day. i know their good intentions to buy drinks for the grandchildren, but not every day, once a while. Maybe their generation, they do not know how to buy fresh fruit juice. I dun mind if they buy fresh fruit juice from prime supermarket for the grandchildren.

today, i will try to hint and subtly asked them to stop buying can drinks for them. conflict conflict. In school, i often teach about conflicts between racial groups, between nations, where in fact, conflict among people is the most common, in your own house, with your own family member. Then how? must be diplomatic, (diplomacy) and if need to, deterrence. haha, diplomacy and deterrence (Social Studies!!! ARGH) conflict with in laws usually occur because of different methods of raising children. in fact, spouse can also have conflict over the same issue. but i always remind myself, all the adults' intention is for the good of the children, just that our intentions are different.
Let me see, i had an eventful morning.

5am: air con dripping water. di da di da, cannot sleep. adjusted the pail and tried to go back to sleep.

530am: decided to wake up since can't get back to sleep. did some stretches, swing

545am: alarm clock rang. went to wash up and bathe

6.10am: after changing clothes, went down for my cup of coffee. mabel told me, 'mummy, all channels cannot receive signal.'

6.15am: wanted to call starhub, but as i waiting and pressing '1 for english, 2 for starhub mobile, 3 for change of address and technical assistance...etc etc' i switched off the main switch to reboot the set up box. switched it off, and ta da, there is image. at this time, i heard on the phone, 'good morning, this is starhub...' i hang up the phone.

on way to school, there are slow cars, there are fast cars, there are cars who obviously have to give way but did not.

wa, as i was typing this, male colleague walked past, cologne is strong, hugo boss? melted....

ok, back to my post, what a distraction...

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Yeah, today I managed to carry Issac for the first time. I burped him after his milk, and he slept while I carried him and I patted him. So cute, dun feel like pitting him down. A little clumpsy at first, have not handled baby for a long time, and also this is other people's baby. But it was so sweet that he slept in my arms.

In the morning, brought the kids for cycling. Will upload pictures asap.


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Saturday, May 15, 2010

借酒消愁,愁更愁。更容易醉, 同意吗?


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wa, today went to giant, buy this and that, total bill was $300.

u know pain? how should i put it? it's like u have an ulcer, it's painful. someone told u to put salt, and it would heal faster. u know it's very painful.... but in the end, you will still do it even though it's painful.

so when u first put the salt on your wound, the pain is excruciating, u curse and swear at yourself, why did you put yourself through this pain? u promise yourself not to put yourself through this pain again.

But the next time you have an ulcer, you do the same again, repeat the same words and repeat the same promise.

Friday, May 14, 2010

i'm so inefficient. today, whole day, from morning 8 plus to 6, i only managed 2 small classes of essays. ARGH! like that how to finish marking.... luckily, my sec 3s one, i've finished. but then again, once i set target for myself, i'm ultra stressed if i dun meet my target.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

aiya, past 2 days, thought that the soup that was cooked for the children, still got a lot, asked sopia to cook some simple dishes, cook more rice and we just go down to buy 1 or 2 dish to add to dinner, simple dinner will do.

mil today went market and bought food to cook. that is not the point. go market to specially cook dinner, 1) waste money 2) waste energy to think what to buy what to cook 3) interferes with the evening routine

i speechless, i dunno how to say. i know that mil is not happy that i bought food and instructed sopia to cook lunch and dinner for the children. she said that sopia only cook the food i buy, the food she bought, sopia never cook. so i asked her, dun buy, i'll buy. i know the children are tired of eating porridge all the time for lunch, so bought some food so that sopia can cook a variety of food for them to eat. and it's not very good to have them keep eating outside food for dinner, no sense of nutrition. at least home cooked food for them is better in terms of nutrition.

anyway, after a long break, of about a month, (been busy for the month of April), today i finally pushed myself to workout at the gym. Tend to get lazy after a long break, i had wanted to go last week, beginning of May, but i keep pushing it away. today, finally, set my mind to go.... maybe i'm meeting my 3 chio best friends for a game of mahjong on the eve of public holiday, so cannot be fat fat, must at least keep up with them. so vain, hor?

anyway, i thought i would die working out today after a long break or at least i have to start from zero again. pleasantly surprising, i know my stamina is not there, but could still do the sets without dying. if not for a half naked man who joined in, i would have continued with more sets. but he was polite enough to put on his shirt after he saw me around the vicinity of the equipment.

i was still feeling quite fresh after the workout, but now, i'm damn tired, my leg muscle is starting to ache. feel like sleeping, but i planned to finish some marking tonight before i start on the killer, 7 classes of essays!!!!!! i can't imagine how i'm going to survive that.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

on sunday, went down to starhub because apparently the digital set up box had something wrong. so after much asking, decided to change to hubstation HD.... also added a basic group.

cool, hubstation can record shows... recorded desperate housewives and tomb raider. watched desperate housewives but didn't have time to watch tomb raider. then again, if i didn't have time to watch tomb raider, so i record it, what makes me think that i've time to watch the recorded show?

anyway, been watching some shows in HD, hmmm, so cool. i'm thinking now if i should change the other set up box.
marking marking marking!!!!!!

focus.... get things done.

last night, impromptu, asked sopia to whip up dinner, since there is so much soup left from afternoon. Anyway, she is cooking for the children (broccoli and fish cake), so asked her to cook up the vegetables that was left from the previous day steamboat, then we went to buy half a chicken from the chicken rice stall, wa la, dinner is served.

not bad, sopia can cook well, well trained by my mil. mil also joined in for the dinner. mmmm, looks like i'm going to get fat again....

Sunday, May 09, 2010

This is the other video they did to wish all mothers a happy mother's day.
My children are so cute, they made a small video to wish me happy mother's day. I must upload it here....

Our wine




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We having simple steamboat at home. Chilling red wine and there are two bottles heniken.







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Saturday, May 08, 2010

Mother's day dinner

Today, we had an early dinner to celebrate mother's day. Some photos:





Some of the food that we ate:






Then we adjourned to T3 for some gathering, we went to TCC as Swensen is too crowded.

Isaac is so cute.....









Father and their son:



Some of the drinks we ordered:




Marcus and Mabel tried this:





some photos of family outing:








This is one of my favourite and this is the photo which was developed and at my work station:


More photos: