FollowIt’s already 9:30pm and the big girl started to work on her school Kemahiran Hidup (Living Skills) project. She whipped out a screwdriver from daddy’s tool box and began to assemble the project item – which is a wooden tool box. Then, she painted the tool box. I wanted to strangle her for doing her…
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Of Exams and Results – IQ or EQ Is More Important?
As the girls grow, I tend to be less uptight in their exam results. I used to have a hangup and obsession with test results, placing emphasis especially on Alycia as I know that she can be groomed to excel. Lately, I have learned to let go. I don’t revise with her anymore. She prefers…
Holding My Mind Ransom
Kids these days are super manipulative. With access to online social media platforms, the internet and the newspapers, my 12-year old knows more than I do sometimes. After all, she has more free time on hand to read during her leisure time whereas my free time is like just ten minutes a day – when…
Mega Lego Holiday Project – Phase 2 Completed
Finally two of the three shophouses are completed after 10 days – tadaaa….. The girls stopped work for 2 days, resumed construction again today and completed the second 3-storey shophouse just a few hours ago. Now, with just 1 day left before their long 3 weeks break, I wonder if they can promise their grandma…
Cakes vs Biscuits
Swiss roll cake vs chocolate chip walnut cookies. Which one is more of the junkie, in your opinion? To my soon-to-be 11-year old, she tells me that cake is not categorized as junk food but cookies and biscuits are. Apparently, her teacher told the class that cakes can be brought to the children’s day party…
Manic Monday – 3 November 2014
My Monday today started off really really bad in the morning. I almost burnt down the kitchen while reheating some pizzas for the drama queen in the toaster, I kid you not!! It was the first time that I saw a mini inferno in the kitchen!! I shall write about this in my other blog…
Holiday Mood
Someone is getting an overload of TV and all the i-gadgets since the Deepavali holiday started on Wednesday. For the weeks of studying hard, she deserves a good break now. After all, she did pretty well this time. If this was her actual UPSR exam, she and I would be the happiest persons on earth. …
Eventful & Frightful Day For Alycia
Today Alycia’s transporter arrived at our condo about half an hour late after school. When I picked her up at the lobby, Alycia who looked dazed said this to me the moment she saw me “mummy, something REALLY BAD happened right in front of my face!” I thought it was those pesky giant ghost moths…
Indoor School Holiday Activity In Ipoh
Alycia who loves reading the newspapers (and just about any reading material, EXCEPT her school books!) found an interesting word search game (Wonderword) from The New Straits Times papers today. In KL I only buy Star newspapers but in Ipoh my parents subscribe to both NST and Star. Alycia then challenged Sherilyn to compete with…
Homework Discussion Via Skype
Carelessness Kills!
Alycia got back almost all her first term test papers this week. If this was her UPSR exam, she would have scored all As and would be a straight A student. BUT…. both the Mandarin tutor and I are very disappointed with her marks. Why? CARELESSNESS! I told Alycia that she must have left her…
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DIY Survival Skills
For the past three days, our part-time maid was unable to come. The past three days had been hectic, with us busy storing water, carrying pails of water, carrying buckets of semi-clean water (we recycle water that we use to bathe) to flush toilets and doing household chores. School shoes were not washed this week…
I Want To Be A Googler Too!
Alycia has a new ambition now. It is an ambition that is not too difficult to achieve, considering that she is addicted to the computer and she likes to loiter at Google during her free time. All she needs to do now is to study hard, ace in school, college and university. That’s what I…
Alycia’s 10th Birthday
Yesterday was my ‘precious baby’s’ 10th birthday. In the morning, I wanted to pen down a short post in each of my blogs to commemorate the happiest day of my life 10 years ago. But too many things cropped up. I had some crappy moments with my supplier, with some customers and with WORK. I…
Friday Evening Fun
Alycia and I had our Friday evening ‘escapade’ again today. While Sherilyn and Cass were attending art class, we quickly sneaked off to the night market to gobble down a few skewers of fish balls and meat balls on the ‘look look’ van. We did that last Friday and Alycia enjoyed it so much that…