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Mastering Caramel popcorn

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Finally found a recipe that i like, not sure if others like it. A very much Garrett style popcorn but only 10% of the price. Yum yum Before this recipe, I explopred a few and realise that corn syrup is actually not a very good sugar for our body which I just bot a big bottle for a korean store. Who will be my tester? Law's collick, never feel obligate to help me. hahaha..

My belated bday present

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Finally I decided to get this for my Bday pressie after so many months. It was belated but better than never. Xmas gift collecting today.

Bye my philip TV

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Before the Xmas we had got ourselves another new gadget to our home. Before I announced some background story. My Philip CRT TV served us well for 10 yrs. To me, this TV was great cos it able to bring out the best on the DVD, HD and even to the extend of Blue Ray quality. Imagine we pay near 3K for that 10 yrs ago. Furthermore, it able to portriat extremely good quality for my live feed TV programme like the Channel 5, 8 and U which I watched more of the time before I have a starhub HD box at home. However, with the change of technology the poor TV soon need to be replaced. As much as Law wanted it to but I refused as I think the TV still a very good server to us. I have totally no complain at all. For a CRT to break down after 10yrs that is not very lightly as I am expecting it to be more long life, or may be another 5 tyo 10 more years to go? Unfortunately, the TV broke down last month when MIL could not power it on after the sleep mode. I thot that was the end of it and Law happily ...

Bento for hubby

Using the left over food from last night n make it lunch for hubby. No wastage, good habits fir the kids to learn. Left over maw gourd, stew meatball with mushroom. I added an sunshine egg for hubby.

Love Story by Taylor Swift

I was never a fan of Taylor cos I dun really like the way she sings but Janelle suddenly turned into a big fan of it. Understand from her that this song was introduced by Celeste. So happened that Law got this song in his thumbdrive that he downloaded under top 40 singles hits. I wondered was this a good or bad idea but Janelle sung it so many times during our Msia trips that even Julian can sing the song now. As for me, i started to like this song too. Next crazy ideas was to download all the Tayler songs for Janelle. Songwriters: SWIFT, TAYLOR http://www.taylorswift.com/media/videos/15853/23113 We were both young when I first saw you I close my eyes And the flashback starts I'm standing there On a balcony in summer air See the lights See the party, the ball gowns I see you make your way through the crowd And say hello, little did I know That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles And my daddy said stay away from Juliet And I was crying on the staircase Begging you please don...

Msia Trip

Coming soon.

I have a toothache

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This is a problem i have being facing for a few years. My 1st check was done at Q&M, the dentist told me I need to have a root canal done. Sucks! I done that before that it was painful and expansive and happen that the so call problematic tooth was infront of my root canal tooth. So i endured and only asking the dentist for a filling and there my life continued.... that was 2 yrs ago. Now, I know the pain is going to come back and so unforunately it happened during my msia trip and the pain started to come in when we were at Gentings. Still I am grateful else my whole trip will be spoilt for sure. At least my makan trip at Sitiwan and Ipoh were still great! There the pain came in so badly that I have to pop painkiller to stop it and the painkiller can only let me have painless for 4 hrs and for that few days I finished all the painkiller Law brought for the trip. Thanks that he actually packed that in. My impression was that tooth I ignored and not fixing it 2 yrs ago and I was dra...

Tattoo

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We have such a craze in genting n each of us got ourselves tattooed. The kids requested two while I did one on myself. Julian started 1st n he thot it was really cool to have a nice logo on his body. Janelle got a butterfly tattoo on her back of her palm. Since Julian pain tolerance is very high, I am not surprise he will get one when he is older. Intact I have this crazy idea to get a permanent one myself. Not sure if I can than the pain.

Our stay at grand millennium hotel

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Entrance of the 5 stars hotel. Super super convinence location as it was just walking distance to the pavilion but the traffic is chaotic. We got the room via friend and family promotion which cost us Rm240 each night. Consider cheap for a 5 stars hotel in Bukit Bintang. We love the room and I doze off immediately after I hit the bed. Mum said the bed was very comfortable, but to hubby, sleeping with a naughty boy inbetween us was never a tiny bit comfortable at all.

A Good Start for the kids

It is hard not to be influence by pple ard me, especially there is anything to do with the kids. So our Ms Worry started to get BT getting her ger to redo all the P1 assessment work again to strengthen her foundation. As for me I think Janelle should start something on P2. Yes, I joint the BT clan, self enrolled and greatly influence by our BT Chairwoman - Ms Worry (as the name implies). Not only me, my MIL is the "佬佬" of BT cos she has long started Janelle to clear her P2 好朋友 way before I could take any action. Janelle's Chinese will not progress this much - I mean written Chinese. On top of that. Janelle surprised me with her HYPY ability. She is so strong in it that she can immediate form the HYPY of the chinese character faster and accurate than me. I hope her 1 week crash lesson at the enrichment center will bring lots of benefit in her future chinese learning journey. For English I let her do her reading, she has finally and willingly dug into the stack of Shakespea...

Achievement

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We are already proud of her achievement n it is never too much to be further recognised by our own MP again. We are the fortunate one that is unfortunately cannot apply for the bursery.

Changes on our holiday

I should have expected this but I didnt. The original road trip to Cameron Highlands will have to be shelved to a more sunny season. The landslides alert from the Malaysia authority which released two days ago made us rethink about the driving trip up. We did not want to take the risk, and BIL was right. What activities can we do during raining season? We may not be able to go to the farms visit at all. Finally, I have cancelled my hotel booking and we now switching our aim to have a stopover at KL then going up to Sitiawan. We will try to find where to go from there. Law will be getting the Grand Millenium Hotel from his ex-collick at a very good price. However there is no breakfast provided. Janelle will most likely complained about it. The hotel is at the heart of Bukit Bintang and lots of makan. Mum will be happy to be able to meet Ah yee for a day before we proceed back to Sitiwan. Wonder if Ah Yee be going back with us too.

Happy Days

Janelle called to tell me she was awarded with $15 popular book voucher for her good performance this year. *applause* She was very happy with it. I guessed the joy of be able to be one of the many good performancer in the all levels to go up the stage to recieve an token of encouragement from the principal was great. She even got a little "gift" to mark her performance this year, which I think the school did great to the students. I really appreciate their thoughts in many ways. The next day, Janelle came back happily telling me she didnt look at the script and still delivered her speeches well on the P1 Orientation day. Yes, I am very proud of her. We could see how well she spoke when practising with her at home. Even surprised me that she doesnt seem to have stage fright at all. Hope the school will have better knowledge to be imparted to the kids next year.

Award presentation that we missed

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Parents were not invited to the award presentation so Janelle brot this home on the last day of school. Hard work was paid off. It was a great encouragement n motivation factor for the child n parents . Hope to fill up the display cabinet with the children achievement over the years.

Well done Janelle = Bonus to parents

We were out sending Julian for his class when Janelle called and told us to make a trip back MIL place cos she needed both parents signature on her report book. Report Book - Yes, I wanted to know how well she fare this year. A wrap up of her 2011 academy performance. We dropped by MIL place, and before I could even "analyse" her result, she told me she was placed 3rd in her class. 3rd, still room for improvement, that is what I have in my mind. MIL asked if she scored well? I told her using her words. It is all "A" for her subject. In another words, Janelle scored Band 1 for all the subjects. On Thursday, there will be a prize giving ceremony to award the top 3 students from each class. Unfortunately, parents are not inviting to view the ceremony. Overall well done Janelle!

学以致用

I didnt know Friday is the start of the school holiday for Janelle till she inform me. However, my dear girl is not starting her holiday soon yet. She was appointed as the MC on Friday, to help out in the P1 orientation. She was excited, I was told that post was supposed to be held by her classmate. Unfortunately, she was down with HFMD so Janelle was the backup. I told her it was a great honour to be able to make use of what she learnt in her Orator training.

Janelle doing sewing

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Here training janelle to handle needle n thread. Simple cross stitch for a start.

M hotel staycation

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Check into M studio hotel for a weekend staycation organized by hubby who managed to get a great discount from his ex collick who is working with the hotel. Our room is so small n get it is so smart. It is like a mini penthouse with the bedroom upstairs n the living room downstairs. Kids love the concept so much that they keeps running up n down. Breakfast at nearby Epicurious is great but not cheap. I have a smoked salmon bagel which is filling n nice. After that I continue to nap till noon. Feel depress to know tmr is a working days. 4 days of breaks passes just too fast.

Vacation planning

It is exactly 1 month away from our year end vacation trip. We are excited, and the kids are excited. Finally, the kids have completed all their papers. We will have one more staycation this weekend + a wedding lunch. Just when we all getting excited abt the trip up to Cameron Highland, mum called to check if we could cancel the trip there as aunty called her to change to another location due to the raining season. She just scared that there will be a land slide along the way. So where shld we go then? For me, some work to be done in office before I leave office.
While giving Julian his morning hug, I asked if he love daddy and mummy. Mummy: Who do you love? Julian: I love daddy. Mummy: How about me? Julian: I love you too but u always scold me! Mummy feeling bad. Mummy: As long as you are not naughty and do your work. I would scold u. "Kiss"

What books did your kids read?

Janelle loves reading but not newspaper yet. From picture books with little words to less picture and more wording. I am glad the transition is fast for her. I got her books like Geromino, Ronald Dahl, etc. She started with girly books like princess and fairies to a little bit humour and horror. I am trying to get her stories on detective to expand her scope of reading. She particular enjoys History like the Lost City or Mummy. That are the few sessions that she will visit in the library. Besides that, she is a fast reader and could finish up a few in a days if she is free. If there is a library camp, I will signed her up for that so she can read all she wanted. The next stage of reading - fairy tales, a section that she has not venture into. Not about normal fairy tales, I am looking into fables, greek fairy tales for her. One other things I face difficulty is to get her to read her Chinese story books. The progress is slow and they are not as interesting as English book. Haizzz.. try...

Hairy gourd

Finally I manage to get the taste n texture right for the hairy gourd and the most satisfying n encouraging moment when Julian told me it was delicious n he love it so much that he ate the most. Most vegetable he ever consumed in a meal. He wanted me to cook the same dishes for him again. Without HC I dun think I can make this dishes came out so fast n to the right texture.

My Julian boy

Saying hello to all reader. By Julian.

Sunny mood

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I can't help it but to take a picture of julian's handwriting. He is in extremely good mood learning his spelling for Monday. Why? Cos he has complete all his homework n he is feeling relax. That show on everything he did for me and the good handwriting display.

Sinful food?

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U bot a big bag of potatoes the other days. Just today I am ready to prepare them. I mashed it up, add in spinish, crabmeat stick n sweated onion. Season with salt n pepper. Roll it dip it in biscuit crumb n we have yummy potatoes crouches. Them we have some left over filling. I found a big sheet of beancurd sheet, cut it out into smaller sheet n wrap the left over potatoes filling it. Pan fried in my HC. viola another simple finger food that can be part of our dinner.

Facial sunblock

A facial sunblock after I signed up a facial package with my beautician. I tried her the other product and like it very much. Thot she is still carry kose. I decided to used the other product which has a more lighter scene. So far so good. I love the light texture n lightly scented. Only that it is only spf30.

Smelling banana cake

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Feel like baking after I got some recipe books from national library. Here I am 10pm at night smelling my banana cake. Julian n Law said they wanted the cake for breakfast. Unfortunately, the cake did not turn out to be what I imagine even to the taste. Could it be that I use oil instead of butter thus it was not flavourable? Possible but corn oil is definate healthier. Thus I can try throwing this recipe and no point blogging it down.

Block out - Exam period

Exam, Test. Just name it. It is in the air now. Janelle has being handing me the dates of the tests that are coming out. As the KS mother, I ensure all the dates are in my calender as well. KS mother? I was force to be one althot I hope I will not but I am quite a mild version. I hope so. P1 not really having EXAM but tests to ensure the child understands the concept she has learned so far. That mean the school will not rate them. Is it true? Unfortunately not cos after mid year meeting with the form teacher I saw her with a sheet of paper with the performance of the children in %. MOE trying to bluff who? Teachers or parents or the children? If not because of the paper, how would they rate whether Janelle should attend higher chinese or the normal stream chinese. Now will the dates out, I have to prepare Janelle for the upcoming papers. There are a series of topical tests for her Maths. I believe she understood the concepts well, she only need some practises and be careful while doing...

Birthday Staycation

Hubby arranged a staycation at Parkroyal Hotel on my birthday. It took him a while to decide which one to go. I didnt want him to spend too much on just a day stay so we chose one near our place. The room wasnt big but they gave us a bed for Janelle for free which is quite a good offer. Seriously, i was quite daze even on my own bday and not particularly in a good mood. Things doesnt get any better when Julian was a bit feverish suddenly and Law had to travel back to fetch his medication from home, luckily we are not too far from home. Unfortunately, he did not book our dining restuarant with the buffet in the hotel so they end up giving us either a table outside which was warm or a table near their cleaning area. I did not want to have my birthday dinner in such environment so I walked out of the restaurant after siting there for 5 mins. We head down to City Hall to find a decent restaurant with much cheaper food to full our tummy. Nothing is more satifying by looking at the kids eati...

Not Just a Piece of cake or a cup of Mocha

Just before my bday, I rx a cup of starbuk mocha from Ms Bad. Thanks so much cos my stomach was really empty. The mocha was aromantic and it has the chocolate taste I like. However, i also knew I may have problem with my stomach after having the drink but I dun like to decline good buddies offer so I drank all - not even a drop. A day before my bday, I rx slice of cake and my favourite flavour - chocolate cake from Worry n Lazzie. They even sang bday song and candle for me to make my wish. So sweet of them, knowing I am rushing for an incident report and trying to create something to relax me up a little. My wish, hope I will be heng heng and passed my bday peacefully. Now it is a very suan thing for me on my bday where accident always happens. May be I shouldnt celebrate it. haha or do it another day. But the kindness from friends, thank u so much... Love u all.

Project Blue

I have collected all the Smurf figuring offered by McDonald. I had never being so crazy about collecting something before and this is the 1st time and I hope the last time. The flowers will visit West Coast branch to have Happy meal every Thursday cos it was the day where McD will launched the new figuring. Finally, I collected my last smurfs this Thursday and that mark the end of McD meal every week. Yes, I am quite sick of it but luckily I can change my fried to corns and apple.

Smsing

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Janelle has being smsing me when she to find out things from me n yet not disturbing me. It does pull us further apart but closer. She could write to me anything she likes. So happen to have prepaid sim Card from a phone I got from my mum. I forgotten abt the card n one day it just strike me to pass it on to janelle I'm case she need to call me if she got lose. My condition is that she cannot bring the hand phone to school. I did not want to cultivate hp at this young age in school. Not to influence n create envy among her classmates. Now she will update me her result via SMS. She just SMS me to tell me she was the only person in the class that score full mark for her topic test on "Nos to 100". Happy that she did her check this round. When I interview her what was the most likely possible qns she may make mistake. She pointed out one qns that most if her classmates had problem with and she was alert enough to reread and realized her error n correct it in time. Yes, I hav...

Happy flower day to me

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At about 10 plus in the morning I got a call from my office reception saying there was something for me to rx. It was my bouquet of flower from hubby. No wonder he kept asking if I will be in office. It was so lovely. Julian said he had a share too. 宝贝好有心,说到做到呢。 Thank you for making me so important.

Eat n shop for couple time

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It is not too hard to find an excuse to have a break from children once a while when I really have to run an errand at orchard. I need to change a jean I got for Janelle at H&M, praying hard there were still size for her. We never realized there are such an interesting food court at level 5 of orchard313. We had this Go Go Curry, a Japanese curry stall. The amount was huge n filling however I dun think I will try again as I dun really fancy the taste of their curry. I managed to change janelle Jean to another size n Law got himself a shirt n a pack of boxer. Sometime our shopping always end up he getting more clothes than me. I did spot a few pieces but the q to try the clothes really put me off. Well at least Law find this shopping fulfilling. Ha

狂风暴雨

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作晚的狂风暴雨把我家前的树给摧成这摸样。可家家户户都睡得很香吧!

My Star Student

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It was a normal routine for me to ask Janelle if she had any homework that she needed me to go through with her. She was playing happily running ard with Julian teasing each other when MIL excitedly told Janelle to show me what she got from school. I could sensed MIL excitment and the proudness in her voice. Janelle dug out a "medal" from her schoolbag showing it to me hanging down from her neck. She was awarded as the Star Student or may be one of the Star Student in the class. It was a cute rubber medal with STAR STUDENT on it. She did well in term of character to earn this award. I can finally understand why we need to put character on top of acedemy. With good character, it is not to hard to strive in acedemy.

学习之神

While surfing a good show to download and watch over iphone, I chance upon this Korean show and decided to give it a try. It is a very inspiring show althot there are not big casts that I am familiar with. Now I am in 2 epi and cant wait to have more of it. Only 16 epi so not a draggy show.

We smurfed on Sunday

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It must be a black Saturday for us. Nothing seem right afternoon. 1stly, we couldnt get a cab to the swimming lesson. We waited 45 min for a cab and I decided it is no cost effective to be late and yet paying for the cab. So i decided we skipped the lesson that day. 2ndly, GV change the show from Smurf to Johnny English and we make a wasted trip there just to know it was not screening at that timing. So we decided to try out luck at Orchard Leisurepark. Orchard was packed with humans, only did I realise I make a big mistake to enter Orchard on weekend. When we finally reached the Leisurepark, the tickets was sold out! Janelle was upset, I have to cool her down and we made out way to Bugis to meet daddy for dinner. Daddy suggested we try Iluma again, there wasnt any queue but the seat was just a row away from the screen. We find it not worth paying so much for a lousy seat. However to a kid who has such a strong desire to watch the show, it doesnt make sense to her and break down once a...

I am curious to find out

to find out why Janelle was referred for further checkup at HPB after her P1 jab and checkup in school. I will understand a follow up is necessary if my child is overweight and is out of the healthy BMI rating but Janelle isnt. However, we were still given a letter to send her for assessment at HPB in Oct. The reason given on the letter is "She is too tall for her age." "HUH" was my reaction to the prelimary diagnosis given by the ROAMING doctor. Let see what the doctor gonna say in Oct.

Gift from Thailand

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BIL just came back from an oversea mission from Thailand. During his R&R he got Julian his favourite character tee. I only noticed the tee after his lesson and was queried Law who got this for him. He said WE but I had never got him this print. After checking the tee tag we realised it was MADE in THAILAND. The design was cute, it was called Transformer Bear.

Mid Autumn Festival

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I was informed of the Mid Autumn celebration in our neighbour months before and I was even given coupons to sell. Unfortunately I didnt manage to sell much. We are a bit late so the kids did not manage to join the colouring competition but we are in time to walk ard the estate with the lantern. This was probably the 1st time Jan and Julian actually lantern walk with a big crowd. With the crowd they wun feel so awakend, doing it. Infact they were very excited and find it interesting. Janelle probably wondered why she had never experienced such activities earlier. The kids were good, the lanterns were not burnt after the walk and we got to keep it for next year. (I didnt buy new lantern for the kids this year). There are stall setting up at the fair, this uncle making figuring and he was good with it but I forgotten to bring my wallet that night. The kids went queuing for balloons and it was not too hard to understand why. We went for free Henna tattoo session, but was quite disappointme...

Term 4 for Janelle

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Holiday ended and last school term for Janelle. We brot the kids for a haircut. It is going to be a fast term for janelle. Hope she does well for the term.

Two babies

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Sister in law sent me a photos of the two Wong princesses claiming that they look alike. Well do they? May be the chubbiness but not the eyes.

Family Dinner at Nex

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Last week was great, term break for the kids so no classes on Sat morning. After the swimming lesson we made our way to NEX for dinner. Please do not chose the food which you think the kids will eat. That was what I told Law. My reason was simple. I was so sick of the food we used to have with the kids. Japanese, Noodles only. Those food that we think kids will eat more for meals but that also hinder the chance of them try out different flavours and food. So we go for western food for dinner, while Julian and Janelle will have their favourite mushroom and ham pizza with free upgrade to a bigger size with my MOF card. I have cabonara while Law have a mussel set dinner. The cabonara was delicious and not expansive too. When it came, we thot the portion was small but it was just nice for me unless Janelle is sharing and yes, she was asking for more from time to time. Mussel meal for Law, portion is ok for him. He commented that the salad sauce is very unique, with a tangy taste and he lik...

Sandwich Sunday

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After the Empire State Dinner, Law wanted another round of sandwiches at Foccacia bread. Here. I called it Sandwich Sunday!

Cute Gadget

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We are supposed to chiong Border Sale to see if we could find any cheap and good books. I wanted a bread recipe book but unfortunately luck was not at my side. So dropby John Little sale since it was just next door. OMG, I spent $170++ there grabbing clothes for Janelle and Julian as both of them like a same design jacket and we have no idea if it was meant for gers or boy. OK it look quite unisex. Before I headed toward the cashier counter, I spotted this cute little gadget and was wondering what was the purpose of it. Unable to kill my curiosity I decided to bring it back to explore further. Well, this was quite an interesting gadget. It can be a little game or an alarm clock for the kids. Just insert a finger into the box and u can play with the animals, u can swing, bounced, push them. Pretty cool! Japanese really innovative.

My poor sick child

We were all talking and chatting happily the previous night after attending a colleague housewarming. We even brought the kids for 2nd round of dinner at Fish and Co as Julian didnt touch any food during the house visit. We ordered kid's meal - fish and rice for him while Janelle shared the seafood platter with us. In the mid of the night, Julian climbed up our bed and as usual requested to sleep between us. The next moment he gave a small cough and followed up with vomit, pouring out all his dinner at 2am in the morning. We scrabbled. Picking him up to the bathroom to wash up while Law changed the bed sheet. The sourish smell filled the room, I thot I even taste it in the air. I brot him over to his room to sleep, praying no fever the next moment. Taking his temperature a few round just to make sure. Thanks god he slept through with temperature below 37. Wake up him with a bottle of milk, he told me he couldnt finish it, leaving half a bottle and complained tummy di...

我的儿子

和儿子的对话。 Mum: Julian you have to sleep on the mattress tonight. Julian: I dun want. I want to sleep with you. Mum: The bed is for daddy n mummy. Julian: I scare. Mum: what are you scare of? Julian: I scare of monster. Mum: there is no monster and monster scare of mummy. No monster dare to touch you. I will beat the monster away. Julian: but mummy you scare of cockroach leh. 真想找个洞穴给钻进去. Dad: Julian, can you go over to 奶奶 house tonight. Julian: no I dun want. I want to sleep daddy house. Dad: why. 奶奶 will miss you. Julian: but I think mummy will scare.  Dad: mummy will scare? Mummy: he means he scare I will miss him. Is it Julian. Julian: yes. Mummy will miss me.  On early morning, Law realized his blanket could not be moved and saw Julian sleeping on the bed just next to his legs. He moved him to sleep between us. Next moment I heard Law complaint that Julian kicked him. I decided to shift over to the kids room next door n let Julian have my place. While trying to move him away from ...

Happy Pan.

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After 3 weeks of waiting, my HappyCall pan was finally here. Eversince I mentioned it to my mum she was very excited abt it. She wanted to have one, I told her I ordered one for her but only realised later that I only ordered 2 which I have no idea why I have missed out hers. So now she has to wait for a month for a new batch to come. I tested the pan. I filled it up with water and try flipping it to see if the water will leak. OMG, 1st test fail and i thot I was conned! Never mind, I have already got the pan so in order to use the pan I have to heat it up with water to cleanser it thoroughly before I really started cooking on it. Surprisingly, once the pan was heated up the water in the double pan no longer leak out. I guessed it was due to the lock in after expansion, so happily I knew this pan was going to work. I bought two Kampung fish especially to test out the pan. I placed the fish in and cover them up waiting for it to cook. Yes, the fish cooked really fish, more ...

Watch how kids grow

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I did some shots for the kids. Love it. Watch how the little ones grow all these while. I took the pictures while waiting for the RC advisor during a block party at my area. Love the nature look for the kids. See how amazing Janelle grows to this height in just a short 7 years. Dun think there was anyone in my or Law family history who has anyone grew up so tall so fast. Yes, she is chubby but not fat if measuring her height and weight she is still in the range. Janelle has more muscle than fats as she exercises well. God bless us with a sensible and healthy ger. Julian is a player and a day dreamer. He has amazing creativity when he plays on his own, imaginary robots flying ard him. He always thinks he is another robotic fighting to save the earth. He likes create his own toys with paper and tapes. A very likable and sticky one when he turns to be. Love him endless smooches..

Fruitful week

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This week is consider a fruitful week. We not only having chalet at Aloha with family, a short week for the working group and alot of good food week too. There is a promotion lunch treat from those colleagues who got promoted at Peony Jade. The food is delicious and a good place to bring my mum and the older folks for a treat there. As there is a Security review on Thursday in the noon and I get to go home early. We even leave early right after the lunch on Friday. It is a short week. The kids managed to complete most of their homework during the week and Friday. We decided to stay at home on Saturday after a long day of enrichment classes and swimming. I managed to get Law to swim on Saturday while the kids are having their lesson. I did a few round too, which make me feel great. I made Italian Focaccia and pasta for dinner. The Italian focaccia turn out aromatically as I added alot of spices on top of it. I like the coarse salt on top of the Italia...

Majulah Singapura

Family has been wanted to have a chalet for a family gathering. We made use of mum's MOE working status to book Aloha Chalet during the National Day period. My dear blur sister mistaken 1 nite as day and booked 4d 3N instead of 3D 4N. Luckily the kids do not need to attend school on 10 Aug so we just extended our stayed to help my mum to check out on 10 Aug. I managed to book the corporate pass for Wild Wild Wet, althot we have more pple the pass could get us in, we decided to get all the pple in to enjoy the park and paid for the outstanding. with NTUC member card, we only need to pay $6.90 for two more kids tickets. Mum as the senior citizen went to the park for free. The park was not that big, there are a few pools which the kids like very much, further more the float and life jackets are FOC for visitor to use. Unless Sunway where I need to rent the float. We enjoyed the tsumani pool where the wave will swept us up and down in the water. Janelle enjoyed the exciting...

Nails

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After enduring for more than a month, I finally make my way to give my foot a good clean up and a new color. Cos if the orange light, it looks like brown. I wanted something brown this time but once I step out onto a white light area I realized it was lilac. Nevertheless, my foot feel great.

High Blood Pressure

There are so many pple ard me that having this common issue - High blood pressure. My mom, my parents in law and now Law. Doctors believe it was inherited from the earlier generation which we say a BAD GENES if I wanna be nasty. More like a nasty issue, high blood pressure can be caused by many reasons, like stress, diet etc. Unfortunately Law has migraine problem that may be caused by his blood pressure too and it did not help when he didnt get to sleep well. Just this morning, I was shaken to wake up by Law telling me that he started to get bleeding nose again. I woke up, trying to get tissues and thinking thru what I could help to stop the flow. The flow was really bad, it just kept dripping down from his nose. The tissues were soaked with his blood, there are stains on his sleeping tees. I prepared a pack of ice so he could place on his forehead hoping it will stop the flow. Not sure whether it help eventually, althot the flow stopped but it took quite a while. He went to consult D...

Too much Works

After the mid year holidays, I realised the kids's homework came streaming in like waterfall. Janelle has started her English Writing which she seem to have some difficult trying to pin the puzzle sentense and pictures together. I wondered what went wrong where she read so much and yet she couldnt even complete a simple homework. Does she has the same problem as me? Where reading is just pure reading but that doesnt translate that one that read alot able to write well. I hope not cos I really hope the kids will be better than daddy n mummy. Maths - careless mistakes. Something most kids will commit, they really need to be told ultimate time to check and stime I wondered if they knew what they need to check so careless could be avoided. Chinese - so far she is doing well but same thing commited - carelessness... Look like only my Magic Whip will wake her up. Julian started his spelling and that could put a toll on us especially when he refused to co-0perate and learn them. I felt li...

Gourmet Cheese

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Oh my oh my... I was lucky to be in Tampines Cold Storage when there was a lady doing promotion on cheese. I wasnt a big fan but trying to be one if I could come across. She introduced me this Spring Cheese from Beemsters Dutch. Janelle and I sampled it and we fallen in love immediately. Springy and not too strong, we could just munched on it like that. It's made using the first milking from cows that graze on fresh spring pastures. We chosen a slices to sample. One to note not to place the cheese near the fruit cos it will make the cheese mouldy. Oh I learn something new. Information of the cheese: The cows graze 20 feet below sea level in the Beemster polder, which has been named a UNESCO heritage site. The blue sea clay from the reclaimed land provides rich minerals and fertile land for lush pastures. The Spring Cheese is reputed to be extra buttery, creamy and full of intense flavours. Good with fruits or wine, or as a melting cheese in sandwiches, burgers, pizzas or casseroles...

Yummy westernize "lapis"

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My FIL 1st reaction was it a kueh lapis? I told him it was just a cake. Janelle liked it but Julian the fussy eater refused to have 2nd helping. Law said it taste great and he never fuss abt the price that I paid. Ok cos I was the one paying for it. Waiting for a chance to try the one at AMK to compare the different.

Dishes for the kids

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Whats for tea break? I picked up banana, a bunch of broccoli and a loaf of bread. Yes, I have something in mind. While Janelle was still clearing her homework. I scald the broccoli and a pack of mushroom and dump them into my new blender. brrrrrrrr..................... Less than a min and it was done, plus a can of campbell instant soup. I mixed everything together to dish up a mushroom broccoli soup for the kids. This is a sandwich that I want to do for a very long time and finally making it for the kids. Janelle likes the sweet filling and the fragrant butter on the crust. Julian enjoyed my soup more, he even had 2nd helping. Pork fries and egg bean curd as part of the dinner. The sauce made the kids enjoyed the dinner even more. Kids are into good sauce for their rice, Julian likes it with porridge and Janelle prefer rice. For me? I am into brown rice, cooked and standby so I can always have it for my meal.

ORATOR Actual Training

Janelle has being attending Orator training for quite sometime. I was thinking if she really put to use. While we sent her to school yesterday noon, she mentioned to me that she gave a speech about the short incident she wrote the other day. I prompt on, asking if she really presented it in class or to her fellow Orator classmates. She said she presented infront of all the students during her assembly day. She must be really cool that day. Unfortunately, I did not have the chance to see it myself. Well done girl! You make your 1st step!

亲爱的老公,伟大的爸爸。生日快乐

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No matter how late. Law still insist to celebrate his bday with the kids. Nothing fanciful, smallest Bakerzin chocolate cake ( which janelle love) to blow candle with the kids

Girls outing

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The 1st time I saw this name was from AFC (Asia Food Channel) where the programme feature how a famous chef was engaged to setup a new restaurant on top of one of Singapore Iconic Hotel Marina Bay Sand Hotel. I have never thot I will be going to the restaurant one day cos I knew Law will never want to step into the restaurant and "I" will not want to entertain his prudent expression which can be quite embarrassing in a high class restaurant. However, I made it to the top together with my flowers sisters. We flew and float with the summer breeze of Singapore River (the fact is there is no breeze but dust and dirt generated by the vehicles travelling along the highway) to reach ourselves to the TOP notch of MBS. Dress most appropriately after our Harry Potter show, we shop a little and proceed to MBS. Our dinner reservation was 6pm. It took us a little while to decide what to order for dinner. The restaurant attendants are extremely helpful, giving us alot of suggestion. They ...