Appreciation Session

Johnson attended the “Motivational & Skill Improvement Camp” organised by Adam Khoo's team for the past 2 days & today is the last session whereby parents are invited to attend the “Appreciation session”.

Most of the parents or I would say all (including some teachers) cried during the session, it was so touching. Kids were asked to go up to stage to show their appreciation to their parents or apologized to their parents for their misbehaviors & some were not even able to speak up as they were crying.

I really hate that moment... ...

Nasty act

I do wonder why Johnson's classmate/schoolmate would do such a thing!!!

There were needle holes found on Johnson's water bottle which caused leakage.

100/100 for Chinese Spelling

“Mummy, I got 100 points for my Chinese spelling, who to sign, you or daddy?” asked Randson.

“Of cos, Daddy sign lah.”

98/100 for Chinese Spelling

Nickson called to inform that he has 98/100 for his Chinese Spelling & teacher gave him 2 Coca-Cola sweets as reward. I’m glad to hear that, jiayou jiayou!!!

Lion Dance at Carpe Diem

This is really something different, the childcare invited the Lion Troupe to perform for the kids :

Allyson with Teacher Nellie & friends :



Allyson cried after the Lion Dance performance, perhaps she is afraid.

Randson looking for help

Wendy (my 9th floor neighbour) has offered to coach Randson this year, I really appreciated it. But she was away to teach the students to make flowers in school so Randson escaped the coaching yesterday.

I was surprised to receive a call from Randson today, telling me that he would like to go upstairs to Wendy’s house as he needed help for his homework & he knew that I have to work late today. What a relief, after all my son is still a keen learner, keep it up!!!

P.S. Wendy whom is a parent volunteer & she offered to coach Randson since last year. Thank you very much Wendy!!! She’s a rare GEM!

Mummy & baby

Allyson loves to take photos with Mummy.

No more bed

The kids has requested for a 3-tier bed as they felt uncomfortable squeezing on the King size bed but after a trip to the haunted house in Downtown East, no one dare to sleep on the upper deck.

LG decided to remove the bed & changed to tatami.

Everyone is a winner

The school kicked off the year with lots of activities & every student was given a gold medal as an appreciation of their participation & it also acted as a form of encouragement that everyone is a winner.

Don’t think my kids got this in their mind, the first thing they told me was “teacher say this is made of gold, let’s sell it off & get some money”. Hiaz L

Happy Birthday to Johnson

We celebrated Johnson's birthday today with his favourite Mango cake. May all your wishes come true & pass your PSLE with flying colours!!!

First Day of school

It is not easy to wake up at 5.30am to prepare breakfast for the kids & send them to school by 7am. Nevertheless, this will be the routine for Year 2008 & it is great to see them have a good breakfast & bring on a smile to the school.

Beautiful Girl

Keep hearing my kids singing, "... ... beautiful girl, beautiful girl", anyway I couldn't get hold of the lyrics but I knew I have 1 at home - she is my beautiful girl!!!

(Of course my boys are my handsome boys!!! - otherwise they will be jealous.)

Balloon painting

Saw this balloon last week when Allyson brought it back from the childcare & was surprised that she painted it with multiply colours today.

When I asked her why 1 section of it was not coloured, she looked at Nickson & asked, "Er-ge, when you want to colour for me?"

(So it was not her painting job...)

Funtasia@Fort Canning Green

Another outing – family day organized by the company I’m working with. Johnson started to “nag” when I told him we were to leave home at 2pm to attend Funtasia cos he would rather stayed home & played computer games. It was kind of sad, why can’t we leave home happily for all outings???

We arrived at City Hall MRT station to take the shuttle bus to Fort Canning & upon arriving, the kids were saying “huh, this place again?”, this is where we watched “Charlotte’s Web” previously.

We started off by collecting our door gift & we saw a long queue at the Wax Hand store, so we decided to join the queue, aren’t our hands colourful???

The Early Bird draw started at 4pm & I heard my number being called when I was making my left wax hand. I wasn’t paying attention, till the host say “8034, 1st call, 8034 2nd call…”, then I realized it was my number, I ran all the way out to the middle of the field & with my hand being wax & shouted, “it’s me, it’s me, wait wait.” pointing at my waxed hand. The host laughed & said, “oh, you are making wax hand, ok, we will hold on to your gift & you can come back later.” I must have embarrassed myself cos I really don’t know what to do, the wax has dried up on my hand & I felt it was hard. Luckily after soaking in the wax mixture, they are able to removed my “Wax hand” & I went up the stage to collect my gift (a $100 World of Sport Voucher) & took a photo with our Country Manager.

After that, we went to the snack stores & helped ourselves with popcorns, home made ice cream, bbq chicken stay, jumbo otah otah, cheesy hotdogs, honey baked drumlets, fish nuggets, baby coconut drink, tutu kuteh & cup corn. Though it was raining, the kids enjoyed the snacks without any complaints.

The whole afternoon/evening, we were entertained by magical show, belly dance, drumatics, band & fireflys performances. My kids were not interested in the performance so we went to queue for our dinner & luckily the rain stopped at this time. After having our dinner, we started to explore the Games store & won some compasses, glue, liquid paper, etc.

Then Cynthia suggested that we go for face painting but the queue was too long, so I decided to go for airbrush tattoo with Allyson & he chose the butterfly design while I took the rose design. Heehee, once we got our tattoo done, Cynthia is still queuing for the face painting.

So Allyson & myself went over to the Kids’ corner with Oi Lin, Nicole & Natasha to do some crafts while the boys were still at the game store.

As usual no luck for the Grand Draw & the program ended at 8pm sharp.

Allyson is selling her house

Allyson has been reciting these recently, thanks to the advertisement on TV :

Giant Tampines

I planned to bring the kids to Snow City today but it was raining the whole morning, so I decided to bring them (including mum) to Giant Tampines cos I knew mum has never been there.

Johnson was unhappy with the arrangement & he kept complaining about how long we have to wait for the bus, wasting his time, etc. I knew this is the 2nd time I brought them there & he felt that it was boring & it was no difference from going to Shop n Save except taking the shuttle bus. I asked him to put himself in Mum’s shoe, if his son wanted to bring him to a place where he never been to & his grandchildren were unhappy with the arrangement, how would he feel? He told me, it is ok. No, I knew it will not be, if he is at that age now.

Anyway, the kids bought lots of their favourite tidbits & they have a good time munching them after that.

Enchanted

"Enchanted”- is the 2nd movie I watched with my kids & mum. Everyone were excited prior to the screening. It started with cartoon then into real life & the “Princess” was beautiful… I believed every girl would dream of being a Princess including my little girl. Have I ever dreamed of being a Princess??? I really can’t remember, I knew I’m Cinderella without a fairy godmother.

After the movie, we went Pizza Hut for early dinner cos mum & my kids loved pizza. No matter what they love or like, I’ll try to fulfill their wish.

Hope all of you have a good time though it was raining non-stop today!!!

I knew Allyson enjoyed herself!!!

Busy & sleepy day

See I'm awake at 7am cos Randson has class at 9am.

We went to Giant Tampines for some shopping (actually just to get a phone) then we were back home about 3pm (sleeping time again)!!!

Woke up at 5pm to get ready for the wedding dinner, LG was back at this time. We left home at about 6.15pm & I was puzzled why so early??? Dinner only started at 7.30pm. True enough, highways were jammed, including Orchard Road. We reached Orchard Parade Hotel at about 7.45pm & were glad to see all my aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces & nephews (some of them was the first time I see them). There are too many of us around, don't think our kids will get to know each other as my mum has 1 eldest brother & 10 sisters. My uncle has 2 sons while the rest of aunts on average each has 3 kids & each of these cousins might have 2 - 4 kids. OMG, I'm not good in Maths...furthermore, some of my nieces or nephews were about my age & some were already married & have kids. We are such a big family
I drank quite alot of red wine & feel tipsy but I'm alright (blaming the waitress for refilling my glass too frequently)!!! And the dinner ended at about 11pm, the roads were jammed again, but we have a good look at the Christmas decorations along Orchard Road (how come this year's decoration is the same throughout the long stretch of road???).

Trip to Terminal 3

We went to the Food Fair after Randson's class & while waiting for the train at Expo, we met Joyce (about 50 years old). She told me that she is a travel agent manager & she is on the way to Changi Airport T3 cos it is opened for the public before their official opening & she suggested that I should bring my kids there. While in the train, she told me that she is a professor (Business & Law) with NUS & she is from Canada & stayed in the hostel on her own. She read about the T3 Open House & parked her car nearby to Expo & wanted to catch the train to T3...(I'm blurred???). Anyway, we have nothing much to do so we took the train to Changi Airport with her.

Upon reaching T2, we took the skytrain to T3 & it is really a big big place!!! She told me that the new T3 is run by solar energy (read fm papers) & we walked around the place. It is not fully completed & there isn't any airplane seen from the Viewing Mall. The kids didn't really like the trip as there was too much walking. Randson was quite rude when he answered Joyce's question & I stopped him from being rude but Joyce said that "it is ok cos nowadays kids have their own thinking & we have to agree to what they said & tell them what should be the right way to answer instead". We spent about an hour plus at the airport & took a bus back home. The kids must be too tired after the long walk & they slept in the bus.
Didn't have a chance to take photo as there was too much walking & talking. Managed to capture these 2 pics while Joyce is away to see the souvenirs.

Allyson on Barney ride

Nickson offered $1 to Allyson for her to take a ride on Barney's car.