FollowIt’s been two weeks since my littlest one woke up and got disconnected from me and angry with me with no particular reason on the first day of school after the third term school holidays. Thank God she’s almost back to her usual self, though I wouldn’t say that her usual self was how she…
All posts in August 2019
Retail Therapy Hump Day
Wednesday is the only day in a school-going week that Sherilyn is free to go to the mall with me in the morning. There’s no tuition in the morning and no librarian duty in school that requires her to be in school in the morning. We normally have our one-on-one mother daughter shopping trip and…
Test To Determine Eye Disease
Get The Beat World Tour 2019
Our dancing queen’s haul in the Get The Beat (GTB) Asia dance competition held on Sunday, 25 August 2019 was champion, 2nd and 5th placing in the student’s choreography, jazz and solo contemporary (under 14 category). With this, she’s now qualified for the world finals to be held in Bangkok from 18 – 22 December…
Dealing With A Difficult Tween
I’ve been feeling a tad melancholic since the start of school on Monday. On the first day of school, my 11-year old found it extremely hard to wake up for school. And when she woke up after much resistance and kicking, she morphed into a totally different person… like someone has just cast a spell…
Academic Excellence Reward
Each time we go shopping, Cass would ask to window shop at the Lego shop. Lego is something that Cass likes since she was 3 years old, besides jigsaw puzzles. She could spend hours on end absorbed in these two toys and be completely oblivious to her surroundings. The other day I threw a challenge…
Faith In Humanity Restored
When Alycia got home from a day’s outing with her friends yesterday, I was surprised to see her donning on a pair of bright yellow Adidas shorts the moment she stepped into the house. That’s now hers and I queried her. And there’s a story behind this super expensive pair of shorts, which I initially…
Papa’s 76th Birthday Celebration
Last Friday, my parents took the morning ETS from Ipoh to KL Sentral. We picked them up from the train station and then adjourned to Brickfields to have lunch of South Indian cuisine at Vishal Food & Catering Restaurant. Exactly a year ago, we went to this Indian restaurant to have lunch with my parents too…
Mr Nice Guy
Fai used to be the handyman engaged by our condo management. But when the condo committee changed management company, Fai was replaced by staff brought in by the new management company. Nonetheless we still call Fai to do repair and renovation works. He’s one of the nicest and most non-calculative man we have known. He…
Down Memory Lane
Alycia has been assigned by her high school Drama Club teacher-in-charge to organize an end-of- year school trip for Drama Club members. The destination of choice is Ipoh but she’s open to other places as long as the trip is within the budget of RM200 per student. So Alycia called my parents to ask them…
Sunday, 4 August 2019
The mil left for New Zealand last night, for a 2-month stay with her third daughter and family；which means that I’ll be slogging in the hot kitchen for the next 2 months dishing out lunch and dinner. No fun for someone who finds cooking a chore! But what choice does a health freak mommy have…
Simple Secrets To A Svelte Figure – Portion Control
How Often Do You Service Your House Air-Conditioner?
An air-conditioner has to be serviced regularly so that it can perform optimally. Regular servicing also improves the efficiency of our air conditioner. Experts warn that for every year of operation in which you do not service your aircon, it loses 5% of its efficiency. After 3 years therefore, the efficiency of your air conditioner will…