Month: May 2012

Homemade Goodies With TLC

Whilst I was busy doing revision with Alycia and Sherilyn on Sunday, my mil kept herself busy in the kitchen the whole day.  She cooked a pot of red bean-lotus seeds-pandan leaves tong sui, baked 2 trays of green tea red bean buns and also baked a tray of Spanish Magdalenas!  She also whipped up some fabulous dishes for dinner that night. The next day, she baked some wholemeal buns and a loaf of wholemeal bread so that the kids can bring fresh bread to school.  All these she made with TLC.  After all,  one of the best ways to lift a person’s mood is through good food, agree? We’re blessed 😀   And not to mention all these good food lift a person’s weight too, definitely!!

Red bean tong sui boiled using my mil’s Le Creuset pot…

Comfort food for little tummies… green tea red bean buns and sumptuous Magdalenas…

Green tea buns oozing with goodness…

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‘Straying’ Kids

Alycia and Sherilyn will be sitting for their mid-term examination in a week’s time. So this weekend is spent doing revision with them. Each time I leave my work area to go to the bathroom or have a drink, these 2 monkeys will take the opportunity to have a jolly good time! They will dart away to where their baby sister is at the laptop or to the living room where the TV is. Once, I caught rascal #2 watching TV with the volume completely turned off! They will also furtively do something else like drawing, coloring, reading story books, reading the newspapers or stare into space the moment I turn my back on them. I tell you, getting them to seriously complete their work needs a ton of effort and very, very close ‘surveillance’, else they will stray. Sometimes in the midst of my busyness, I get fooled and it is only when my baby girl rats her che ches out and tattletales to me that I am aware that the 2 monkeys are doing everything else but their homework or revision.

Today I did Science revision with Alycia on magnetic objects, non-magnetic objects and conductor of electricity. I was explaining to Alycia that magnetic objects will be attracted to a magnet easily. Just a moment ago I went to the bathroom for a short while. The moment I stepped back to the dining table where Alycia and Sherilyn were seated to do revision, they were no where in sight. They were all at the kid’s desk with their baby sister, happily watching Barbie on You Tube and very oblivious that I was stare daggering at them! I hollered at them and they darted back to their respectively seats without batting an eyelid! I told Alycia that she and Sherilyn are like ‘magnetic objects’ that are easily attracted to magnet, which in the case is the laptop! And they burst out laughing.

Are your kids disciplined in doing their homework and revision for an exam? Or do they need you to be seated next to them throughout the revision? Oh by the way, I have a long cane at the revision table too!


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It’s The Most Dreaded Time Of The Year Again…

…because my girls will be sitting for their mid-term exams. 1 more week to be exact. This year, I have to do revision with 2 girls simultaneously – Alycia who is in P3 and Sherilyn P1. This is uber stress and taxing on me!  Each time I am attending to Alycia, Sherilyn will come tugging at my sleeves and rubbing her body on mine, like a cat! And not forgetting my littlest one – the most challenging one who is also trying with all her might to get my attention.  So my neglected baby girl has to be babysat by the lappie, iPad and TV most of the time while I teach #1 and #2.  I have even taught  her to go to the loo by herself and wash herself up as my hands are just too tied up. Work from my online store is gradually piling up too and oh yes I now remember that I have not even checked the US advertiser’s site to see if the Sheriff has given me any assignments. I better run now. There may be a long list of online assignments waiting for me there! Better work on them before they expire and I have to watch my USD evaporate into thin air.

Have a great weekend everyone. Our Sunday will be home-bound. No outing. No park. No eating out even. Coz if we have our lunch outside, half our precious day will be wasted! Can’t wait for the school holidays to start so that I can catch up on my sleep and work out in the gym again.


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Sherilyn’s Grade 1 Ballet Exam – 3 May 2012

The big day finally arrived yesterday, after 2 mock examinations, twice weekly classes for the past 1 year and lots of practices at home, not to mention a big hole on daddy’s pocket.  After a week long drought and extremely sweltering weather for the past 1 week, it poured like it never before yesterday, during our drive to the examination centre.  And shiats, we were caught in a mini flood and could not get down the car when we reached the place.  After waiting for 15 minutes in the car and no sign that the darn ferocious rain was going to ease  a bit, hubs got down the car with a teeny weeny half faulty brolly that was in his car, carried Sherilyn down… and next carried me down.  I had to laugh all the way when hubs carried me like a baby down the car. It’s been ages since he last swept me off my feet like a white knight, literally…  LOL!

Pix taken yesterday…

Sherilyn with M, who is the same age as her. They attended the same pre-school together, learn swimming together and her mum and I are childhood friends from the same school in Ipoh.

Budding ballerinas from the same class. M and Sher had a tough time doing a balancing act in that pose for the photographers 😀

Moments before going into the exam room.  That pretty lady on the right is one of their ballet teachers.

There are no pix of the ballerinas in action as no one else but the students are allowed into the room.

After the exam, we stopped by our favourite bak kut teh place to take-away.  Sherilyn had to get down the car to ease herself and daddy had to carry his princess so that she would not get wet. She was grinning from ear to ear I tell you, whilst her white knight was huffing away!


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Learning Sukukata from You Tube

I have found a fantastic website for my 4-YO baby girl to learn sukukata and it is no other than from You Tube – the place where kids can learn their ABCs, 123s, nursery rhymes, how to draw, how to make origami and I even learned how to make sushi from You Tube! Oh yea, my hubs went to You Tube for tutorial on how to stuff and roast a turkey for X’mas last year.

This site teaches sukukata and how to read simple words in BM to pre-schoolers up to early primary school kids in a very fun and animated manner.

My baby girl is enjoying her online BM lessons from You Tube and it’s a great babysitter for me too tee hee hee!!

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