Day 4 and 5

17/06 (Wed)
Today, Marcus and Mabel didn’t want to go to the Mini Club, so after breakfast, we went to the clubhouse first. Met Alex at the clubhouse. His parents were playing golf and he was resting at the clubhouse. We played basketball and soccer and Alex joined us in this game. Our stamina were very poor, we got tired easily. We rested and have drinks. Then Marcus and Alex played golf (practice putting) and the rest of us played tennis. I think we picked up tennis balls more than hitting the tennis balls. As we walked to the swimming pool, we stopped by the circus and the children played flying trapeze and jumping trapeze.
After this, we went to the beach and then to swim. After lunch, we went to play table tennis. I shall not comment on the children’s table tennis skills. Of course, they didn’t get any proper training and playing table tennis on Nintendo wii is very different from the real one. After a while, we went back to swimming. At 3pm, Marcus wanted to try archery, so hubby brought him there. Mabel continued swimming while Max was a little tired.






In the evening, hubby tried out the flying trapeze and jumping trapeze. Think that is how he sprained his left wrist.


The show at 9.30pm was a circus show. Marcus and Mabel went to watch the show first and we joined them later. After the show, we went back to the room to rest.

18/06 (Thurs)
Finally, we had to go back to Singapore. After breakfast, we packed our luggage and the children wanted to have the last try at flying trapeze and jumping trapeze. It was a nice trip where everybody enjoyed themselves. It was also certainly a great time for bonding and you get to see another side of your children that you may not have noticed.

max woke up today and complain that he stomach pain and has fever. think i pass my stomach flu to him. so we went to see the doc.

went brewerkz to celebrate father's day and then in the night, had dinner with mil, fil and bil. finally, mil is sitting up today and at least there is some interaction.

oh yes, got someone to get rid of the rooftop over the balcony today. it was so windy and so bright now. just now, brought the kids to the balcony and we looked at the stars from the balcony. nice view.

my LS is very jia lat. i can only eat breakfast. after breakfast, anything that goes into my mouth will be out in 30 mins time. and i'm feeling quite giddy for not having solid food. been just drinking soup.

finally, after lying in bed for one whole week, my mil is ready to go to church tomorrow. that is good news. i hope she can control and hope her vomitting is controlled now.

back from phuket, but advised to stay at home for 7 days.

so i'll get plenty of time to upload the pics and videos next week.

things i learnt about my kids:

1) Marcus: he is such a brave boy, always raising his hands up for to try new things. he loves pasta. he is an adventurous boy. he is not shy.

2) Mabel: she is shy. if there is no marcus, i dun think she would dare to try. she is always pushing marcus to try the things first, then she tries. She is not as innocent or as sweet as i thought. she is sensible, no doubt. but when i see her play games with her brothers, i see the other side of her. how to say? it's not that she is violent, but she sounded very demanding. 'give me, i say give me' very loud voice. and when she didn't get it, she would say 'ugh' in a loud tone.

3) Max: cheekiest of them all. very sticky to mummy and daddy. he refused to join the petite club. so in the end, he follows us whereever we go. we can't go snorkelling and can't go scuba diving. but we had a great time together, swimming, playing sports and going to the beach. he's well-liked by the GOs there. even the this couple from south africa also likes him alot.
but he can really act. so must be careful of this little boy. it's like out of nowhere, he can come and hug you and said 'mummy darling' then after a while, 'mummy, mummy, i want to drink coca cola.'

and hubby sprained his left wrist on the 2nd last day. brough him to ma guang today. all bandaged up.

as for me, actually i had a slight fever on the day i came back to singapore. back aching so badly and chest pain too. left arm felt numb. thought i had a burst a blood vessel. but i tell myself, if i want to die also must die in sg, so drag myself back to sg. though the flight is only 1 and half hour, it felt so long. once i reach home, i immediately took 2 panadols and went to sleep. then my cough came back, luckily i had some left over medicine, took it and had a good sleep. even this morning when i wake up, i also felt the whole body is aching. actually at ma guang, i felt like having a massage but shelf off as it cost money. so bear with the ache.

i think i ate too much, indigestion. on the last nite, i think the chicken wasn't really cooked. food poisoining or stomach flu. today, i felt so full and so bloated the whole day. didn't eat lunch and almost didn't want to eat dinner. but straight after dinner, i LS. this is the second time i LS already.

It's a sunday morning, and we are all in the airport. We have checked in, had breakfast at burger king. It's really cool, there are lots of shops, free gadget charge, free internet access and free xbox 360 games to play. The children are really having a good time.

last night, max mentioned that he was afraid of taking the plane becos it's very loud. I was a little worried, but after talking to him, i guess, he slowly accept it. even this morning, when we called him up, he was a little cranky and was like reluctant to go. But i guess after checking in, he saw that there are shops that sell chocolate, sweets, he was warming up to the idea.

so now, i guess we'll be slowing making our way to the boarding gate after this. if i can find wifi at club med, in my free time, i'll update. the pictures will be uploaded next week.

have fun, everybody!

today is a hectic day. after brewerkz, we came back to quickly pack our luggage, then we are off to warren to meet aunties and uncles for dinner.

We all had a good time at warrens, eating dinner, catching up. then after that, we went to the bowling alley, some bowled and some sat down to talk.

7212 came out as starter and i didn't buy!!!!! argh

Today is my birthday. Happy birthday to me! Let me see, my wish for myself? Happy, healthy, see things positively, happy children, happy family. A more bimbo wish, slim down.
So today as promised, birthday treat at brewerkz. Still have 2 slices of pizza in front of me.

today is max birthday! happy birthday Max!!!! my wish for you: wish that you will grow up in a warm family with love, don't be so crybaby, don't be so cheeky. continue to be spontaneous, continue to be that happy boy. continue to be that cute cute boy. be a good boy and don't always quarrel with your gor gor. your gor gor and jie jie has given in a lot, it's time you learn to give in to them too.

Max is so funny. we brought him to order his birthday cake. it was such a difficult task. He wanted the car cake but it has to be ore ordered 3 days in advance. After much crying, he decided on the mickey mouse one. But we'll only collect it tomorrow. Again he made a fuss.in the end, we bought him a small barney one as rehearsal tonight. So just now,we just had a rehearsal with him. He's so happy!

I think that max is learning from bad example. He always see mil shouting to the maid, so he's thinking that it is the norm, so he's also shouting at the maid when he talks. I'm very upset. I've put a stop to max talking like that. I can only teach and change the kid, but I can't change the adult

tomorrow night will be celebrating max birthday at home with a simple steamboat dinner and cake cutting. already bought his toys. have to keep it in the car so that he doesn't know. only invited mum, sis and aunties.

speaking of car, my new car has arrived!! but i'll be busy these two weeks, so didn't have a chance to go down to settle the payment. think i'll wait until i come back from phuket. excited and not so excited. ok, this is very bimbo. i want to wait for SJS number plate. now it's still SJR. somehow, R is not as round as S.

yesterday, mil went to hospital for her psychatrist appointment. heard the doctor 'scolded' her. the doctor asked her why she is so unhappy, she said her children didn't treat her well, didn't bring her out. the doctor 'scolded' her as he pointed out that if the son does not treat her well, whose house is she staying at now? which son brought her for her medical check up? (my brother in law is always the one to bring her for medical check up) and every night, my brother in law is the one who push her down to the coffee shop for dinner.

from this, i reflected on something. true, sometimes, it's really up to the individual how one wants to see oneself. if you keep comparing with others, you'll never be satisfied and happy with yourself. sometimes, must be contented with whatever you have. so having much said, maybe i should forfeit the new car.

ha, that's not possible. my picanto is really too small to bring my mil and the children out. the wheelchair, though fits into the back, but it keeps knocking onto the glass as the car is moving.

it's a tiring week. probably it's the weather that makes people irritable, makes people more tired.

really looking forward to the vacation next week. mabel too, because every day she has been telling me, another 4 days, another 3 days etc. for max, well, only on saturday night, then i'll tell him, 'tomorrow, we will sit aeroplane.'

so i'll be out of action for a few days while on vacation. and i'll definitely upload the pictures when i'm back.

right, it's tuesday already.

just find that the weather is so hot. So when the children suggested to play badminton last evening, i was like .... but i told them, we will have a game of badminton this holiday, most probably not this week as we are usually quite tired after work. most probably after we come back from Phuket.

marcus is saving up money to buy some pokemon. well, he counted his savings from Semester 1, he had $55 over. at first, he asked me to buy 12 pokemons for him, but i told him that he has to think of his own ways in order to buy more. so he came out with two suggestions, sell his PSP in order to have more money. number two, save his pocket money. so in the end, he choose to save more pocket money. so yesterday, i made him empty his piggy bank and lo and behold, $55 over. so i think now he is planning how many more pokemons to buy.

hmmm, today is the first day of study camp. well, went smoothly, at least i managed to wake up early.

last night, i couldn't sleep. think i only slept at 3am. and i need to get up by 6am. so i'm pleasantly surprised that i could still wake up despite sleeping for only 3 hours.

a few more things to complete before club med trip. so will be motivated to complete it. same as mabel and marcus, i want them to finish their holiday homework before the trip so that we can all really relax and enjoy ourselves.

today is a tiring day. in the morning, brought the boys for their hair cut. after that, went to toa payoh sizzler for lunch, then shop for a backpack.
after we came home, rush over to my friend's house, JC friends' gathering. later from her place, went to fetch my sister in law.

when we reach tampines, after a short rest, we went out for seafood dinner. It's to celebrate Max and my birthday and also father's day. all in one.

great food, horrible parking, when we came home, it's almost 10pm. still haven't go for a shower and then it's sleeping time.

so fast, the first week of holiday just flew by. feel so unproductive.
but i guess, the children are the happiest, i think especially Max. He must be wondering why this week, every morning he wakes up, he sees mummy beside him.

well, i'm enjoying the break as much as i can, enjoy spending time with my children as much as i can

it's thursday already. time flies. literally, flies.

hmmm, dunno what else to blog.

last night, we went swensen for dinner. I'm like, made a decision not to go swensen for the next 3 months.

oh, did i mention marcus broke his spectacles during PE, then he lost his spectacles on the shuttle bus? so had to make a new pair for him.

mabel did well for her MYE, class position: 5/24, level position 20/194
marcus, class position: 41/41, level position 91/191. his chinese pulled his total score down a lot. have gotten him a chinese tuition teacher. first lesson starts today.

today, brought the children to tampines mall to buy them a new school bag. When it's the GSS, it's time to buy a new school bag. after much choosing, the children decided on Fila. After discount, it's $30, within my budget.

while in the shop, i also bought 2 pairs of slippers, a bag for myself and then another backpack at $10.

after that, we went swensen for ice cream. after that, marcus wanted to buy a pokemon story book. max went to toys r us to buy a car. actually, he wanted something bigger and more expensive.

then mabel wanted to buy a small bag. have to be fair, one item each. so all in all, we had a fruitful time.

today is the first day of the school holiday. in the morning, went back to school for meeting, then farewell lunch. as usual, max cried so in the end, i brought him along. mabel and marcus had e-learning, so they couldn't join us.

we went swensens for the farewell lunch. after swensens, max doesn't want to come home. he made such a big fuss when we reached home. i wonder why he doesn''t like to go home after 'kai kai'.

this afternoon, went to warren country club to meet mum for lunch. oh my, max sure can eat chicken wings.

after that, we went for a game of bowling, actually two games. max is so funny. mabel is.. well, she is learning and honestly, the bowling ball is too heavy for her to throw properly. i look at her arm, so thin.

after that, max wanted to go to the playground to play.

today's weather is so hot. even after the rain, it is very humid and hot. just feel so sticky. later must shower before bed.

today, i was listening to a damn old song. brings back the memory of when i was in secondary school, jc... omg

actually this song was introduced to me when i was in the car. that time i was jc 2, i think. how did i know the guy? hmmm, we went for a camp, then during the camp, i had an outburst of 'hong mo', then went to the nearby NUH. this guy went and his friend went over to the nurse station, and took down my number. that time, there was no such thing as handphone.

so one find day, this person called me at home. well, then of course, we did come out for an outing. actually i went out with him to spite my ex. that time during jc, if can hook up with someone with a car, is shiok. you got chauffered around. actually, i did went to his house once. luckily, nothing happened.

anyway, during my prelims, i asked for time out, because i need to study. then after prelims, i never contact him liao. so is this considered my boyfriend? hmmm, honestly, sincerely, not really.

anyway, today when i heard this song, it brought back memories of this particular friend. so it's like omg.

i'm very unhappy at work. you know, we all go through a period, where you hate to wake up to go to work.

it does not help that you have a crying child who refuse to let you go to work. it makes you feel bad as a parent.

this morning, max didn't want me to go to work. he was crying so loudly and in between sobs, 'mummy, come back.' it is so heart breaking.

finally, after one week overdue, the period is finally here. last night, i dreamt that i am expecting twins! give me quite a shock. so worried, thought the condom spoil.

anyway, finally, it's also going to rain, after one and half day of bright sun. i welcome the rain.

It irks me when the internet connection is slow. i wonder what is wrong with the internet today? or was it facebook? just couldn't load.

mabel is running a fever. will bring her to see doc later. the happiest is of course, max. like this, jie jie is at home, mummy no need go work, so he is very happy.

every night is the same. Max will go like, 'tomorrow, papa mummy working?' 'yes, tomorrow papa mummy working.' 'uh? wait i cry, how? tomorrrow mummy don't go work, can? i want to go school.' then he looks at you with those teary eyes.

so heart pain. so today, i'll go back early after i settle my LTA thing. i forgot to renew my road tax!!! and i lost the paper, so i have to go all the way down to LTA.

today, went to giant to buy grocery. so you know they give those stamps for every $30 spent. after we paid and pushed our trolley out from the cashier, immediately 2 women came to approach me and asked if i want the stamps. i was quite taken aback at first, because they were rather aggressive. as i only have 4 stamps, i asked both of them to share it equally.

wah, and one of the lady actually asked her daughter to approach all those people for their stamps.

hmmm, i'm speechless.

today we went to juju hokkaido hotpot for lunch. set lunch for adult was 19.90, and children, 9.90. total bill was $70. almost the same if we go to din tai fung, but we were all so full.

It's a minipot thing, each of us have our own pot. so we ordered our main dish, beef and seafood, for children's pork and fish. so we could share around the food. the starter was an egg. i think it's duck egg, very delicious.

then the food came. but the food was put on such nice, elaborate dishes, with vege and the plate is in a shape of a boat, so it really took up a lot of space. both the kids ate a lot and needless to say, the adults had to finish all the food. Max had a good time cooking.

after that, the children got ice cream, but because we only ordered 2 children's sets, there were only 2 ice creams. so max cried very loudly because he didn't have one. the waitress came over and asked what happened. she gave max a free cup of ice cream.

overall, it was a nice experience. but if i could go without max, that would be even better.

Air supply is coming to Singapore on 19 June!!!!ok, i'm back on 18 june, hmmm, should i go and buy tickets???

the crocs sale at expo is so crazy. went over to check out with colleagues, but when we see the queue to go in, we gave up.

the sale is at 4B, the queue to go in started in hall 4A, which is like, snaking inside the hall. how many hours do we have to queue?

singaporeans really love to queue.

finally finish my marking. what a sigh of relief.

max is already sleeping, he must be quite tired from the badminton game in the evening.

Marcus is very forgetful/blur. yesterday, his form teacher advised him to pack his bag. so arranged all his worksheets (all dogs' ears, tattered) into subjects, one subject one file. asked him to put the papers into the respective files.

as usual, he take such a long time to do his homework. scolded him because the previous night, he forgot about his homework and did it in the room at night, without my knowing. so i confiscated his psp yesterday. i gave him a stern warning, the next time i have to confiscate his psp, it will be for a week.

this morning, after reaching the pick up point, he told me that he forgot to pack his CCM book into his bag. actually, i knew that he forgot this book for weeks already. the first 4 weeks of the term, i was putting in the books for him every tuesday. On the 5th week, when i didn't do it, he also did not. so i know for at least 4 weeks, he didn't have his ccm book on wed.

i told him, until we come out, then he realised his ccm book is not in his bag. what can i do now that we are out of the house already? when he alighted the car, he looked so sad and disappointed. so heart pain, went back home to take for him. but when i reached the pick up point again, the school bus had left. so i drove to his school, went to the office. the office called for him to come to the general office, but i think his school bus has not arrived yet.

the form teacher, on hearing the announcement, came down to take the book from me. we had a short conversation on marcus. thanked her for bringing the stuff to him and told her that he is that forgetful. told her also that he packed his bag yesterday. the form teacher feels that he is a smart boy, but he is so not 'there'. sometimes, in school, we need students to be present mentally. what we always say 'daydream'.

but i think it's also marcus' fortune that he always meets friends and teachers who will 'mother' him.

random thoughts

was suppose to be reading emails, but the attachment took so long to open up, then in the end, tell me, cannot find server. what a fish!

as said, this is random thoughts, plus my mood is a little piss, so here goes:

1) there were 50 unread emails, i trashed 30 of them and only 20 are important for me to read.

2) black honda cars drive like it's their grandfather's road. 2 piss me off this morning. at tampines safra right turn, one didn't queue up and cut queue. i tailgate him and he drove in the middle of 2 lanes, not sure to let me overtake him or not. i choose not to horn, i just tailgate.

finally, after getting rid of him, another honda car came into my lane, knowing that i was just behind. i also choose not to horn, i just tailgate. red light, i stopped close behind him.

3) someone changed my chair!!!! i wouldn't be so piss if the chair is a good chair, but this chair is a rocking one, obviously it's spoilt!!!!! even if you were to borrow my chair, can't you at least put it back in the original place after using????? and this chair, the height cannot be adjusted.
(ok, problem solved. so funny)

4) menses is late, PMS is at the highest point. maybe it's stress.

5) met a NIE classmate of mine when i went to marcus' school today to bring him his things.

6) sometimes i wonder if i'm a good parent. but i guess, your own children, if you do not scold them, who will?

aiyah, i so silly. buy hubby's license plate front and reverse, only buy my license plate front. sunday's 4D, my license plate came out the reverse way. wt...??? but luckily got buy ibet. so win very little.

woke up this morning and went for breakfast. we decided to head to vivocity toys r us to buy the telescope set and science experiment set for marcus and mabel. so we left the house at 10 something.

after buying the toys, went to the fountain there, all 3 children had fun playing. after they change into dry clothes, they went to the playground to play. soon, it was lunch time. the children must be very hungry, marcus ate a whole plate of fried rice, mabel, 3/4 bowl of noodle and max the other 1/4. i didn't order anything, thought the children cannot finish their portion but who knows, all of them were so hungry.

later, we went to the library as promised to borrow some more books. tampines central is so crowded. even the carpark behind the library was filled with waiting cars. as we alighted the car to go to the library first, there was this man in his white nissan latio. He was waiting for his wife to return the books and they have a young daughter in the car. when the wife hurriedly came back, he wind down the window and shouted (scolded) at his wife,'f888, so slow, hurry up lah' The fact was that he used vulgarity on his wife. that is verbal abuse. and he wasn't at all sorry about it. what a rotten man! if i'm the wife, i'll just carry the daughter from the baby seat and just leave.

so now we are back at home, all coop up in the bedroom, because i switched on the air con. marcus is reading his books, while i try to mark and mabel just being a busy body watching her dad set up the electric circuit. max too, as busybody as the sister.

today, what we carried out our plans. went to lta, went to library, then brewerkz. then as usual, sister in law and family came, so went out for dinner. all 13 of us (8A5C) squeezed into a toyota wish. hmmm, short distance, ok lah.

tomorrow need to go library again, mabel forgot to bring her ez link card! so we could only borrow 12 books. actually, in the beginning, the children chose 17 books. my god, the books were piled up so high. anyway, they had finish about 4 books today.

I realise that marcus like to read non-fiction books, about animals. he finish 2 and half books today.

yeah, today is marcus' last day of exam, i think he'll so glad.

mil complained that i scold marcus too much. wth?!? if i don't scold him, how can he settle down for his exams? he'll be thinking of his psp games. i keep scolding marcus better than keep scolding the maid, right? one is your child, you don't scold your child, discipline your child, who will?

anyway, already told of plans to children that tonight, we will all go out for a sumptous dinner, like cafe cartel or manipuku (i wonder if i said or spell the word correctly) at Tampines 1.

Tomorrow, we are going to LTA first, we want to apply for a taxi driving license to stand by first. Then we are bringing the children to the library and yes, after that lunch at tampines central and then yes, back to brewerkz again. The children can do their reading there.

great plans for friday evening and saturday. The childrne are excited.

too multi tasking. that is so typical of me, then in the end, i did nothing well. so i should concentrate. finish this blog first, then check 4D, then read yahoo mails, then facebook.

I should repeat again that mabel is the sweetest among my 3 children. She knows that she has to study for her exams, she learns to control herself from watching tv until she has finished the homework.

marcus, i resorted to confiscating his psp last night. after dinner, i was waiting for him so that i can revise with him his Chinese. He went to play psp. have to keep reminding him not to day dream during exams, tries his best for chinese, don't give up.

max, drama king. he has a lot of funny actions. he talks well too.

I love all of them in a different way. love mabel for her sensibility, love marcus for his quirkiness and love max for his funniness (is there such a word?)

On Monday, brought the maid to Singpost. She wanted to send a hp over to Indonesia which her brother requested her to buy. Went there too early, so dropped by Mac to have breakfast.
Talked to her and told her that her contract will end by end of this year, so i asked her to give it a serious thought if she wants to continue. I know that it has been hard on her recently as my mil getting more and more gila. She keeps thinking about committing suicide. kept asking the maid for the key to the window grilles. that day, the children all chided her for entertaining such thoughts and suddenly, my bil (in a humourous tone) said that even if she can open the window grille, she would be too heavy to stand up. then, he laughed. of course, my mil gave him the cold hard stare.

anyway, at the back of my mind, i'm just worried that if she decides to leave after her contract ends, i may not be able to get a maid that can tolerate her.

i know she is frustrated inside, but really, the maid is also someone else's daughter too.

yes, go by this van. It's part of the package. So you book the tour with this tour agent, combi van package, so the van comes to your designated place (which is AMK since most of the senior citizens are at AMK) to pick you up, drive you up to malacca. The best thing is, we get to use the van 8 hours on the second day for sightseeing and shopping. then it will bring you back to your designated place as well. so it's a good deal, there is no worry of driving a car or for 9 of us, either we drive two cars, which is a hassle. or we have to hire a MPV to drive up which is even more of a hassle.

this arrangement is good and go holiday, should relax mah, still have to bother yourself with driving, such a bothersome.

And the driver, mr yong, he's very good. nice person and dealing with 3 old ladies, he really have the patience.

1st day of malacca trip

we woke up very early and mum came to fetch us to amk. we were all very excited and doing different things on the van.





Then we stop by this place for breakfast.





After breakfast, it's a long drive to malacca. After checking into the hotel, mabel took some pics of the hotel room. then we proceeded to a nyonya restaurant for lunch and then it's back to the hotel where it's free time for all. the children swam.





In the evening, we went to this place for dinner. It's a nice dinner and the funny thing was, they forgot to serve us the soup and they were so honest. after we had the dessert, then the soup came. We were all surprised, they said that they forgot to serve it just now. I mean they could just keep quiet about it but they were honest.




After dinner, we went to jonker's street for some shopping. but the weather is hot,the place is crowded, so it was really tiring and sweaty to walk among the crowd. The children were so tired. max fell asleep on the way back to the hotel. (oh yah, we walked there) didn't buy much things there because it's so crowded. there is hardly place to stand and browse at the stall

2nd day of malacca trip

woke up and we went down for breakfast. wow, a large crowd, couldn't handle. there were not enough bowls, plates, cutleries and stuff. luckily mum came down early and got us all a table.

After breakfast, we came down to the lobby to wait for our transport. Today is shopping day and sight seeing day.



We went to 'eye of malaysia' first. it's like a ferris wheel, just that it's air con.





Then after that we went shopping and have lunch at jonker's dessert. the queue is really long at this place. It is supposed to be a musuem cafe. so it's really crowded. luckily we have many of us, some look for tables, some queue up for the laksa and chendol. the tables were quite small, so we had to separate our seating arrangement.





and of course, shopping. needless to say, mum and aunties bought a lot of stuff.


When we came back from shopping, of course, the children went for a swim before dinner. after swimming, they even had fun in the bathtub.



The restaurant that we wanted to have dinner at was so fully booked and fully packed. we had to settle for a less than desirable place for dinner. the food is ok, not that bad. we even packet the chicken back to the hotel room as we are going to have a 'party' later in the room in aunt sal's room.

3rd day Malacca trip

Last day of the tour:
after breakfast, we basically packed our luggage and auntie sally and mum managed to 'sneak out' to buy some more things. We basically just laze around until 11 plus before we check out.

On our way back, we stop by Yong Peng to buy some stuff and finally JB for a late lunch before heading home. We all liked the restaurant in JB and have plans to come back in the future to eat. At Yong Peng, we finally pose for our only group photo.


and the stuff that we bought just at Yong Peng


Some photos i took on the way back home

The weather is as erratic as woman's mood. It just poured so suddenly.

Just for my students 5N1

Howard - keep your room nice and clean. Your cupboard still looks very empty.

Bing Hong - who is ms sunshine?

Andy - see you in restaurant city and farm town

Eric - yes, eric, it's the O level year! well, at least i'm glad that you are conscious that you have to snap out of your gaming. You even dream about it?!?

Jater - though i do not understand what you did to the pictures, i should say they are artistically nice

Qi Sheng - yes, i know which country you will go to work or study next time. most probably Japan. all of you are so anime!

Jessica - my entrepreneur.

Sabrina - the most creative girl in class

Aishah - very good photography skills

Juliani - always balancing her time between family, friends, studies

Sue - uptown girl. always spraying your perfume during the last period.

Athirah - never judge a book by its cover. looked very different from npcc and when not wearing school uniform

Nora - most enjoy reading your blog. full of humor.

hope i didn't left out anyone who blog

Anger management

what do i do when i get angry? i realise that if i keep thinking about the issue, i get angrier. so 1st, i try to stop thinking and keep my mind on other things.

i find the best way for me to cool down is to drive around. provided the weather is cool. like this morning. i wind down the window, blast jay chou's music. It should do the trick. but it has to be a longer journey... otherwise not enough kick.

what a busy day at school today with the exams going on and the temperature taking.

must be on my toes to ensure that i do the right thing and not miss out anything. must be alert.

back from Malacca. When i have the time, i'll upload the pictures.

anyway, lots of things on my mind now with the orange alert. and with max just at my side asking me so many questions, not in the mood to blog

on sunday night, don't know why dear dear suddenly want to eat buffet. actually wanted to have high tea, but realise we are too late for the timing. so instead we all went for an early buffet dinner.

we went to vienna at united square. marcus ate 2 bowls of spaghetti. mabel and max drank the test tube juice the most. max loved the jap cold noodle. the children also ate cakes and ice cream.

It was an expensive dinner but once in a blue moon. but looking at how the children enjoyed the food and having fun choosing the food, i think it's worth it.

sorry, no photos. i don't know. i'm not that kind that take photos. realise i should have taken a photo of us in the library, should have taken a photo of us at vienna, should have taken a photo of my grossly looking tooth, correction, teeth. thinking about it also grosses me out. should have taken pictures of my bloodied gauze.

oh yah, on sunday, after library, brought the kids to Tampines 1. hmmm, the air con is really inviting for such a warm day especially after you just came from the mrt station. seriously, i think mrt stations' structure is flawed. there was absolutely no ventilation, absolutely no fans in the mrt station! no wonder most mrt staff would hide in their 'cave'.

walked around tampines 1. went to that japan shop, what is that name? seriously again, i do not understand what the hype was all about. the things are not exactly cheap. i mean i would not pay $29.90 for a top.

later we went bakerzin for a light lunch. the children ordered cakes and we ordered dessert. omg, the dessert is so delicious.

max looked surprised to see me when he woke up this morning.
day 1 after extraction: cannot open my jaws big. had difficulty brushing my teeth this morning, almost couldn't put my toothbrush in. also had to be careful not to brush too hard especially around the wound. then rinse my mouth with this greenish stuff that the dentist gave.

sip my coffee, pain. darn, i forgot, doc say no hot water. so had to wait for coffee to cool down before drinking.

my colleague said that i have to eat porridge for one whole week! omg.

at least mabel is worried for me and asked me about it. marcus didn't even know i went to the dentist!

today, the pain from my toothache was unbearable. in the afternoon, went to the dentist. extracted 2 wisdom tooth. i knew i had to extract my wisdom tooth, it's just that i've been putting it off. if not for the pain today, i would still put off extracting it.

as for the other side of wisdom tooth, due to it growing horizontally, i would have to make appointment for surgery to take it out.

my gums are still feeling numb right now and i could still taste the blood. doc gave me antibiotics and pain killer. i'm sure when the numbness wears off, the pain will come. why must wisdom tooth give us so much pain?

this morning brought the kids to the library. They borrowed books with their ez link card. before going into the library, we told max to keep quiet, cannot talk so loud in the library. he was a good boy, he really whispered.

think we will make more trips to the library in the future

不爱那么多，只爱一点点，别人的爱情像海深，我的爱情浅。
不爱那么多，只爱一点点，别人的爱情像天长，我的爱情短。
不爱哪么多，只爱一点点，别人眉来眼去我只偷看你一眼。

suddenly heard this song. such an old song and nice. bring back memories of being a student and in npcc and we used to sing 童谣 and songs together.

她恨下雨天，她酷爱古典乐，她沉默寡言，她时常逛书店，那一天她讲了邱比特常失手，爱情太危险，她跟我约好了，让比此自由一点，我开始相信，和她的每一天，聊了一整夜，说自己的从前，忽然在心里面，我隐约有一种痛的感觉，也许是我被她命中了，我心中的缺。

我猜是我中了箭，在遇上她的第七天，那一瞬间，我有些晕眩，像全世界，从此被偷走时间，我中了爱情的箭，很痛但是心很甜，我躲不开也不想避免，她没发现，却在我身上应验，我中了一箭。

中箭

i can still remember the first 4D. 0169. consolation prize. won onlhy $75 but was so happy. went to have candlelight dinner for celebration.

very little money won, but memory very sweet

this morning went to the x ray, then the lady told me the doctor didn't tick what x ray is to be done. so i have to go back to the doc again to ask him. what the hell? waste my time to wake up so early and horrible breakfast i had.

anyway, jump to other topic. i just can't stand myself. after so many years of having menses, sometimes, i still can't able to place my pad properly in the centre, in the right place. sometimes, it's either too front or too back. wt... stupid me. no wonder most women dread that time of the month. so troublesome lor. when sleeping, also must try not to sleep too much at the side becos it will flow sideway and if too much, will flow onto the bed.

let me see. before 1997, when i know my husband,

1) honda civic 1.5GL (black, 5404) i think he had a e200 merc before this.
then from 1997,
2) subaru viki m80 (gold, 4168)1997
3) honda civic SiR (red, 8332)1998
4) mitsubishi pajero mini (pink, 8451)1999
4) mitsubishi lancer (white, 1596)2000
5) toyota picnic (maroon red, 6592)2001
6) honda civic 1.5GL (black, 9730)cannot remember
7) hyundai accent (gold, 5698)cannot remember
8) kia picanto (red, 4208)2006

hmmm, 7 cars in a span of 12 years. which is my best? SiR! for its power
picnic because it's one of the 2 auto cars, most comfortable to drive.
pajero, i had a damn good sound system.

worse accident car? accent.
car with most cars banging into and still no 'injury'? SiR

most chio car? first honda civic. I remember the black was so shiny, when u drive past orchard road, it could reflect the lights.
and SiR. self polish until shiny. every day, go multi storey car park to wash the car.

realise cough is bad after i exert pressure on my throat. Like after finishing a whole day of lessons, my throat is very bade. cannot stop coughing.

now want to finish up some work first before going home

hmmm, the doc referred me to go and get an x ray done.

yesterday, managed to cook spaghetti for lunch for the children. They complained that they are tired of porridge, so cooked spaghetti for them. marcus and mabel finished the whole bowl and marcus even asked for extra. only max didn't really eat. he only ate the hot dogs.

for dinner, bought pizza for marcus and mabel. italian food for them yesterday.

marcus and mabel can be quite gullible. i told them that i'm happy to see them finish up their lunch as i put in a lot of effort to cook the lunch. i told them that i got to wake up early and go to the market and told them i want to buy milk. then i had to milk the cow to get the milk, then stand in the hot sun and wait for the milk to turn into cheese before i can use the cheese to cook the cheesy sauce for the spaghetti.

mabel was half believing what i say. but marcus was like, 'yah, when u milk the cow, it's really tough, you have to pull like this.'

hmm, anyway, the medication is giving me headaches. i think i'm drowsy. and both my hands are subtly shaking involuntarily. i don't like the feeling.

coughing badly last night. couldn't sleep. hmm, is there any strong cough mixture for my irritating cough?

today, not feeling quite well. been coughing again. tired and mentally pushing myself to go on. now i can feel i'm so exhausted.

marcus and mabel have been good lately, doing homework in the afternoon. last night, marcus did a maths exam paper practice. for a paper whose duration is 1hour 45 mins, he actually took 3 hours 30 mins to do it! omg, like that how to pass?

friday was a very tiring day. i think i slept quite early after i reached home at about 9 plus.

on sat morning, we went for breakfast. for lunch, we went marina square and then we went to brewerkz to spend the afternoon away.

in the evening, we went to the nearby coffeeshop to have dinner. the weather was so hot, all of us felt so hot after the dinner. we came back, we stayed in the room and switched on the air con. i slept at 3 plus as i was glued to the tv programme.

on sunday, as mil was not feeling well, she didn't go to church. so we had breakfast, then sister said that she is cooking arabic dinner. so we again went to brewerkz to have some light lunch and spend the afternoon there. we watched the F1 race live from shanghai at 3pm. it was good fun when everyone watches the race together.

then we went to amk early. mabel helped her yi yi with the dinner. It was a nice meal. filling and it was an eye opener for me, arabic food.

it was a good talk after dinner with sis and auntie gor yee.

so now all ready for another week of work.

mandane, but fulfilling. spending quality time together with family, it just makes all the hard work worth it

today, i'm so tired. physically and probably mentally

though i'm very piss about an incident that happen, i'm not going to blog about it, because as a capacity of a teacher, i don't think it's fair and right to make comment in my blog.

today's weather is erratic, first it was very humid, then it started to pour heavily. the strong gust of wind before the rain is most welcomed.

let me see, the difference between an animal and a human. a human has self discipline, a human knows when to exercise his self discipline. we do not go around hitting people because we are depress or distress or agitated.

sigh, i'm just so disappointed. sometimes i wonder, when a child does something wrong, is it the parents who did not teach properly or is it the school that did not teach properly?

清明时节雨纷纷，
路上行人欲断魂。
借问酒家何处有？
牧童遥指杏花村。

i always remember this tang shi as it always reminds me that it is usually raining during qing ming festival.

so have u been on qing ming? what is the real meaning of qing ming for you?

i always believe that when the person is alive, we should already be filial, shouldn't wait until the person die, then start showing more filial. what's the point? is the dead person aware?

but qing ming is also a time for family gathering. u see young and old coming together. sometimes u wonder if the children know the meaning of qing ming?

today i was very kpo. i went to facebook and i read the profiles of my friends' spouses or girlfriends.

What good does it do me? nothing, i was just being kpo.

today at work, i try to be very focus. just focus to get past the day and focus to complete what i wanted to do. feels good, focus.

am tired today. probably been watching the red cliff dvd and red cliff 2 dvd, so am tired today. think i'm going to bed early tonight, cos tml is monday. busy day ahead.

yup, right after i've finished blogging, checking email, reading the news, facebook and twitter, yup, i reckon by the time i finish all these things, i'm going to bed the same time as i usually do, not earlier as i've planned.

How many times do you log in to the internet everyday? i think i spend more time doing all these things. sometimes, hubby says that i spend too much time on the laptop.

well, with so many applications on facebook, blogging is a must every day, checking emails is a must every day, reading news is a must everyday, so i do spend quite a lot of time on the net. actually i've cut down logging into msn and yahoo chat.

didn't bring children to the places as planned. instead this morning, need to go qingming.

so that was about half the day gone. then went down to the tour agency to pay the malacca money. so by the time we ate lunch and came back, i was dead tired and i was sleeping like a dead log!

then sil's family came in the evening, went out for dinner.

tomorrow, need to bring mil to church, she is getting baptised. and tomorrow will most probably plan to go down to test drive the mit lancer ex.

today went to eat roti prata at jalan kayu. It was so crowded. lucky we went there early. for us, as there wasn't much people yet, we could still order our food. but those that come later, i would say that the service was lousy. When people want to order food, they just said wait. one couple even walked off after waiting for 5-10 mins for someone to take their order.

then after that, we came back. then we went down to cycle and carriage again. this time, we asked the salesperson to do a rough calculation again. now we are still discussing.

today is a very hot day and today is a very tiring day.

maybe i took the cough mixture in the morning, hence was a little drowsy.

maybe i'm feeling the blues again, maybe morale has been low recently, that's why get tired easily.

whatever it is, i'm looking forward to the long weekend this week. at least i can spend quality time with my family.

am planning to go marina barrage or labrador park, then dinner at warren. maybe can bring them go swimming too.

just finished redeeming starhub rewards points, so tedious.

today has been a busy day...

max thought that we are not working tomorrow, he was so sad to hear that we are working. he is so cute.

today has been a groggy day. The cough mixture makes one groggy. dun like that feeling.

Max is so cute. He imitates people so funnily. he has this toy car which he can sit inside and push. so he pretends that he goes to work, fetches mil to church, go giant, go petrol station to pump petrol, even pump air in the tyres. then he washes his car.

nowadays, when he sees cars, sometimes he would say sports car. and he usually looks at the behind of the car to see if it's a sports car. i think he is looking at the exhaust pipe. if it's a big exhaust pipe, it's a sports car. i wonder where he get this idea.

I'm filling the ipod touch with lots of applications. Blogging using iPod touch. Feels good. Today brought max to giant after breakfast . In the afternoon brought them to brewerkz. After that brought them to liang court to shop and also borders at wheelock place. The children bought some books. At night went over to mum's place for dinner and kind of finalize malacca trip

went to settle a lot of things in the morning. went to collect max passport. He's so happy to receive his passport.

then went to settle inome tax, then went to the bank.

in the afternoon, went to epicentre at wheelock place to check out the imac or macbook. after calculation, they didn't want to take our trade in, so had to give up the idea. not worth it.

went to big o for lunch. it's been a long time since we went there to eat. the cakes are so nice. mouth drooling. so full, even until dinner time, i'm still very full.

just came back from dinner at east coast. We went there in the early evening. After eating, the children had a good time playing with sand.

so tired today. the weather is so hot.

yes, don't have to wait for june to go holiday.

planned a trip to go malacca this coming labour day. and we have a huge group going. all 9 of us.

well deserved holiday... counting down

i was stuck in the lift yesterday evening!

went into the lift, then this lady walked in. while the door was about to be fully close, she suddenly remembered something and she pressed door open as she wanted to go out. that is when the lift got stuck.

we tried so many things, the door could neither open nor close. and this is the new lift after lift upgrading, with those little windows which we can look out. so we tried pushing the door towards each other to close it tight.

great, the lift moved but only a little then it got stuck. then the alarm was so loud. so we called the hotline.

but it was quite embarrassing as it was evening time and many people were coming home at that time. so they see these 2 ladies stuck inside. but they were very helpful. they asked if we called, we said yes. actually we didn't say, the alarm was so loud, we couldn't hear them anyway. so it was a lot of actions. i had to cover my ears because the alarm was so loud!

come to think of it, i should have taken a picture or taken a video. anyway, that is so not our generation.

luckily, it was only for 15 mins that i was stuck.

later on during dinner, i find out that 3M were very spontaneous in their reactions. i sms dear dear to tell him that i'm stuck, so i would be late. so he came down to take a look. 3M also came out of the house, but didn't follow to the 1st storey. but they were worried.

later when the technician came, dear dear told them that the technician has arrived to rescue mummy, they were on the 10th storey, they stood at the lift lobby, waiting for the lift door to open (there is this other lift that was working) they clasped their hands as if praying like that, waiting anxiously for the lift door to open to see me. when they finally saw me, they ran to hug me.

i asked marcus and mabel why they were so worried. marcus said that he was afraid that i would die. because he was afraid that there was no air in the lift and mabel said that plus, i'm still coughing.

then i asked them what happened if i die like ah zhor. mabel's answer is very pragmatic, coffin, funeral, then burial. marcus' answer was more humane. he said that after the burial, of course, he would think of me every night.

so anyway, i gave them all three a big hug. it was not a big ordeal, but at least i know they cared for me.