Today is my baby girl’s first double digit birthday! Her 10th birthday! We’ve already had a first round of celebration with her on Saturday night and tonight will be another round of celebration. As tomorrow is a school-going day, we’re going to have dinner at our neighborhood Chinese restaurant. Someone is a tad reluctant to attend the dinner as she’s sitting for 3 test papers tomorrow. I told her to sacrifice her daily one hour regimen in the gym and another half an hour time spent on the phone and she will have time to study and attend her sister’s birthday dinner. There’s absolutely no excuse not to attend a family member’s birthday dinner. Priorities girl, priorities!
My slap-happy 10-year old girl left me speechless just a moment ago during Mandarin tuition at home. She only got a score of 43/100 for a past-year Chinese Paper 1. OH. MY. GIRL!! Her exam is in 2 weeks and this is the score that she got. And she’s so blasé about the borderline pass score by just laughing it off! This girl’s got her dad’s slap-happy DNA. This is her very first exam for this year and she’s only putting in 50% effort. The other 50% effort comes from me, the super kiasu and anxious mum. My mum has always been telling me to chillax and let my daughters be responsible over their own exam scores. I shouldn’t be stressing out myself. My doctor has told me not to stress myself out. I know I know. But I just can’t let go. How many more years do I have to stress myself out over them? I’ve seen SPM 3rd graders who went to university, graduated and got themselves jobs with high salaries. So, what am I still stressing out and can’t let go? Kiasu-nism I guess.
Maybe this is the year that I should let go and throw this kiasu-nism out of the window. Who knows, when Cass is not in the best class next year, I will be much more relaxed. God, I need you to help me let go!  😅
Lunch with hubs and Cass on our Sunday yesterday, just the 3 of us at Kokoro, a newly opened Japanese eatery at our neighborhood. Alycia and Drama Queen were at a bible study class in church and the mil stayed home to bake bread.
Dinner was fresh wholemeal bread with black pepper chicken chop (from the hubby’s kitchen), avocado, cheese and an assortment of raw salad. The girls prepped their own sandwiches. Sunday is my rest day and they have to prep their own meals ☺
Everything organic ~ capsicum, kyuri, yacon and tomatoes. Even the bread is 95% organic. Chicken chop is non-organic.
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