Lantern festival came and went. Whenever I carry the lantern, it just reminds me that soon, we will be celebrating CNY…

But this year, with an additional Max to carry the lantern, so funny lor…. Marcus and Mabel took the ones with candles, and Max of course carry the same kind but without candles. He was like dragging the lantern on the floor, and he keeps dropping the lantern on the floor. The walking was so slow. And when I want to carry him, he didn’t want to be carried. then he squeezed the lantern so hard… but he enjoyed. Then we eventually walked to the playground, god, he was so energetic on seeing the playground. I had to follow him up and down… me backache after that. He would climbed the slide… gosh… and as usual, he doesn’t know when to stop, had to sort of like forcefully carry him away.

Saw this somewhere. thought it was meaningful:

There would come a time when we have to stop loving someone because we found out that they'd be happier if we let them go.

You will know when you really love someone is when you want him to be happy even if their happiness means you are not a part of it.

You know what they say about those wooden bamboo chopsticks? How from manufacturing it was bleached, but not disinfect? Then how it was packaged into the little plastic bag (still not disinfected)? Then now, worse still, some recycle the chopsticks…

Hmmm, this is a very complicated thing. Remember the Styrofoam box..? some manufacturers manufactured it, sold it and it was widely adopted. Then came the scare about all the stuff on Styrofoam box.

Now all the hype about wooden chopstick…. Well, probably it will take a concerted effort to boycott using the wooden chopstick. Then again, if we dun use wooden chopstick, what can we use? We can use plastic fork and spoon, but worse still, wooden chopstick can be broken down when thrown away, plastic cannot.

On a lighter note, about marcus…

Hmmm, he quite poor thing, think his skin is sensitive, ever since about a month ago, his face has a lot of rashes. His friend teased him about him having a chicken pox. Then during the sept holidays, after much cream application, his face was much better. When sch reopens again, the rashes came back again. His lips have also been cracking up, it was quite bad in term 3, now it is much better again.

Since wed nite, he complained that his left eye was painful. Then on thurs morning, his eye was very swollen. So in the evening, brought him to see a doc. Doc gave some eye drops and also some cream for his face. Doc says that apparently a sand got into his eye. Anyway, doc also said that he may have sensitive skin and his skin is quite dry. So after he feels better, may think of changing his soap.

And also the doc says that having a sensitive skin may hamper his growth. No wonder he’s so short. Hence, after he is better, I may also buy the medicine for him to eat to spur his growth.

Hong Kong toy makers defend products
Hong Kong toy makers defend products
but the responsibility falls greater on the manufacturer. If the source is the paint used in making the toys, then go after the person who supply the paint.
oh, so now, manufacturers are excusable because they want to maximise their profit??? they want to maximise their profit, so they can ignore health standards? so we should compromise our children's health for them to maximise their profit? get a life, you can earn money, but dun earn your money in this kind of unethical way.
buyers want the lowest price? who started this thing of price slashing? china!

Britney Spears dumped by manager
Britney Spears dumped by manager
this girl is a sad story. that's the problem of giving birth too young, having stardom too young. can't cope with fame

Just enjoyed spending time with Max every day. He’s smarter and he’s getting cuter and cuter by the day.

1) he is smart. He knows how to hold 2 small rubber hands with just one hand. He will grab the first one in his hand and then he will use his thumb and second finger to hold the other ball. No one taught him that.
2) He now realized that he has new found freedom ever since he learnt to walk independently. He enjoys walking round and round the house and climbing up and down the stairs. He also enjoys going out… he is very excited when he knows that he is going out. He also now wants his own set of bowl and spoon, juz to play with when he’s having dinner. Slowly I think he will learn to push the spoon into his mouth to feed himself. He bites his spoon and refuse to let go.
3) I will slowly teach him to say some words. He now knows how to show the number 2 and says 2. he is very talkative. He seems to be engaged in a conversation with you when you teach him things. Of course, he knows how to quarrel with people too, esp with his siblings. When he loses out, he will take their hands and want to bite.
4) He is very mischievous. When marcus and mabel is sleeping, he would go and disturb them. He would shake their head, ruffle their hair, put his mouth on their face, like kissing them like that.
5) he is very good at crying first. That day when he toppled the photo frame, I juz said a little more stern, ‘ah boy!’ suddenly he turned around and cry so loud. Then he walked towards me and buried his head on my laps, then ask me to carry him. When I did, he buried his head on my shoulder and cried somemore. All this while, I didn’t even scold him. Then when I pat him, saying him, he looked up and smiled.
6) Sometimes, when he doesn’t want the maid, he will raise up and his hand and shake his hand, like asking the maid to go away. He also knows that by raising out both his hands, he’s asking people to carry him.
7) He is very cute. So cute….. and last nite, he was playing with a plastic cup. He actually wanted to drink the cold water from the cup, but since marcus has finish the water, the cup is empty, I let him play with it. He was experimenting with the cup, then he placed the cup over his mouth and talked into the cup. When the siblings laughed, he knows it’s funny and he kept on doing it to make us laugh.
8) It was nice to watch him sleep. When he sleep, he looks so serene, like so angelic. What a contrast from when he’s awake. When he sleeps, I think he really looks like me.

On Sunday, brought the children to pasir ris to cycle. He enjoys sitting on the chair and letting the wind blow against him. Pasir ris has upgraded the playground. The children enjoyed playing. Will bring marcus and mabel there more often to play as it’s good to climb and move around. In this way, marcus can then grow taller. Do you know that he is actually being referred because he’s too short for his age? Slightly below the percentile. So got to monitor him.

Anyway, there is swing there, max enjoys the swing. You can see from his face that it is very ticklish… when I have time, I will post the pictures here.

All in all, we had a good time. Will bring them there more often. Picnic. We have a tent, so we can all go there and just enjoy the sand, sea and sun.

Darn, blogger again…. Luckily, didn’t blog much. this was what i wanted to blog yesterday.

Ok, let me recall what to blog….

There were many things to blog
1) stress! So many important and urgent things to do and so little time to do. The symptoms are showing, loss of hair and hormonal changes

2) Max is so cute. He can now walk independently, even if you want to hold his hands, he would not allow you to hold his hands. He shows you he can walk on his own. (sound just like my character) now has to look after him even more carefully. He enjoys the staircase and the curbs, (all the dangerous things, again sound so like me) so he enjoys walking up and down the steps, this one of course with help.

Last nite, brought them to pasar malam. Let them take a ride. I was surprised that he enjoyed it so much! He was smiling and laughing most of the time…. Too bad, my hp was on low batt, otherwise I could have captured it. His smile was so innocent. And when the ride stopped, he actually screamed and cried so loud. He is very notti, he cries so loudly until everyone looked at us.

3) of course, recent news, earthquake in Indonesia, resignation of Jap PM.

i hope blogger is working today because yesterday my one whole posting about local sg men & china girl was all gone!!!!

anyway, had a long weird dream last nite. dreamt about my ex bf... dreamt about a blind gal.... dreamt abt punggol. it was weird and it was a long dream. i will not post the details here.... not suitable. but it has been a long time since i had a long dream.

ok, stress level high again, i haven't set exam paper, i haven't finish my marking!!!!

been a along time

ok, been a long time since i update.

let me see, how is life for me? great... busy with work in the day time, fetch kids back home, then busy with kids in the night time. got to balance work and children and family. not only kids need our attention, sometimes, your the other half also needs your attention too. takes two to maintain, if not, improve relationship. When all the kids are sleeping, that's the best time to catch up with your the other half. that's why children must go to sleep early.

last time when staying in punggol, a mistake to let the children sleep in the same room together with us.

good to be busy... when i'm free, i'll look to do some other things for my children, like posting video on them. i owe max a compilation of his photos. i've quite a few photos of him since young till now. i need to put them together.

and then keeping myself updated on the jolie-pitt family. check out these two photos i saved. shiloh is so cute!! i actually RSS feed the website, so that i can always have updated news on them.

ok, i've downloaded the game audtion, but it just won't start. that is something i have to solve. once i can play, or more of Marcus and Mabel can play, i'll let you all know my profile. we shall 'chiet' online.

ok, i'm testing this out. this icon must be there for a long time for me to upload my pictures, now good, dun need to go to photobucket. i can upload directly here and then blog.

been trying to post video, but cannot. some problem occur

ok, i've linked my class' blog. next, i've upload 2 videos of my children on youtube. those were pictures taken in 2005. feel so good putting it together and uploading it. in time to come, i'll upload max's videos

tiring weekend, will be a tiring week this week too with so many things going on and so many things to do.

arghhhhhh, everyone is sleeping so soundly. actually wanted to blog about issues with maid, but tired already, dun waste my energy here. better spent going to sleep

that day when i went to a full day workshop at suntec, attended a workshop session in the afternoon. It is like this, there were many sessions going on, we just had to sign up for whichever workshop that interest you. Well, needless to say, the Hossan Leong's workshop was full, so i went to another one. 'Seeing little red dot through the lens'

yes, it's about photography. but of course, the speaker had to integrate NE into the workshop which he did. He is a photographer with mypaper. funny guy. of course he showed us many of his photos. i enjoyed the workshop.

After the workshop, hands itchy, feel like snapping pictures again. i have snapped quite a few photos during the recce trips which i brought students to. just that, i dun have the time to really download it here.

can't help but must blog this.

am wearing those heel shoes which are pointed at the front. then just think of a few things related to the shoes.

some people may have a fetish with such shoes.

great, i can now poke students in the butt with the shoes if they are not doing their silent reading!!! hahaha!!!!

argh, hate it when i hit rock bottom with work. totally demotivated. then this is the time again when i start questioning myself, for wat i work so hard?

feel bad about not spending enough time with my children or to supervise marcus' schoolwork. go and supervise other people's children's schoolwork for wat.

i know i will feel better as days goes by and i'll pick myself up again. but as of now, i'm juz disheartened.

hmmm, should update about son son. let's see.... now that he is almost 14 months old... well, he is of course learning how to walk. he can stand up, he can walk if you hold his hands. if alone, he hesitates to take the first step. but if you hold him, he walks fast, though still a bit unsteady. and he loves to climb up and down the staircase. oh yah, he skip the crawling stage.

now that he knows how to walk, he knows that he can go places. his personality is shaping up. he knows where he wants to go, what he wants, then he'll raise up his hand and 'eh'. he is very naughty. and he is very playful. he doesn't want to sleep, only wants to play. next time when he grows up, he is also one who doesn't stays at home, becos he loves going out. sometimes bring him out to buy dinner, when we are approaching the house, he will turn his back and just refuse to walk back to the house. and when you wear shoes for him, he knows he's going out and he will be very happy and excited.

He is also very smart. he loves to play with toy cars. his brother's toy cars. i only need to teach him once, to push the car and say 'vroom vroom', now when he plays with the cars, he'll do exactly the same, just that he didn't really sound it 'vroom'. then sometimes, he will throw things just to see them fall.

one thing good is he will give you his toys and he wants you to play with him. at least he knows how to share. the only person he doesn't share his toys with is marcus, becos marcus doesn't share his toys with his brother. so what goes round comes round.

now, training him to sleep beside me at night. will slowly wean him off from the cradle. i love hugging him and sleep.

just realise that i have a passion for conducting workshop. It's different from teaching students. somehow adults can understand instructions better and when they participate, the whole event is actually successful and fruitful.

at least i know that hard work is paid off.