Saturday, May 30, 2009

this afternoon, went to warren country club to meet mum for lunch. oh my, max sure can eat chicken wings.

after that, we went for a game of bowling, actually two games. max is so funny. mabel is.. well, she is learning and honestly, the bowling ball is too heavy for her to throw properly. i look at her arm, so thin.

after that, max wanted to go to the playground to play.

today's weather is so hot. even after the rain, it is very humid and hot. just feel so sticky. later must shower before bed.

Friday, May 29, 2009

today, i was listening to a damn old song. brings back the memory of when i was in secondary school, jc... omg

actually this song was introduced to me when i was in the car. that time i was jc 2, i think. how did i know the guy? hmmm, we went for a camp, then during the camp, i had an outburst of 'hong mo', then went to the nearby NUH. this guy went and his friend went over to the nurse station, and took down my number. that time, there was no such thing as handphone.

so one find day, this person called me at home. well, then of course, we did come out for an outing. actually i went out with him to spite my ex. that time during jc, if can hook up with someone with a car, is shiok. you got chauffered around. actually, i did went to his house once. luckily, nothing happened.

anyway, during my prelims, i asked for time out, because i need to study. then after prelims, i never contact him liao. so is this considered my boyfriend? hmmm, honestly, sincerely, not really.

anyway, today when i heard this song, it brought back memories of this particular friend. so it's like omg.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

i'm very unhappy at work. you know, we all go through a period, where you hate to wake up to go to work.

it does not help that you have a crying child who refuse to let you go to work. it makes you feel bad as a parent.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

this morning, max didn't want me to go to work. he was crying so loudly and in between sobs, 'mummy, come back.' it is so heart breaking.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

finally, after one week overdue, the period is finally here. last night, i dreamt that i am expecting twins! give me quite a shock. so worried, thought the condom spoil.

anyway, finally, it's also going to rain, after one and half day of bright sun. i welcome the rain.
It irks me when the internet connection is slow. i wonder what is wrong with the internet today? or was it facebook? just couldn't load.

mabel is running a fever. will bring her to see doc later. the happiest is of course, max. like this, jie jie is at home, mummy no need go work, so he is very happy.

Monday, May 25, 2009

every night is the same. Max will go like, 'tomorrow, papa mummy working?' 'yes, tomorrow papa mummy working.' 'uh? wait i cry, how? tomorrrow mummy don't go work, can? i want to go school.' then he looks at you with those teary eyes.

so heart pain. so today, i'll go back early after i settle my LTA thing. i forgot to renew my road tax!!! and i lost the paper, so i have to go all the way down to LTA.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

today, went to giant to buy grocery. so you know they give those stamps for every $30 spent. after we paid and pushed our trolley out from the cashier, immediately 2 women came to approach me and asked if i want the stamps. i was quite taken aback at first, because they were rather aggressive. as i only have 4 stamps, i asked both of them to share it equally.

wah, and one of the lady actually asked her daughter to approach all those people for their stamps.

hmmm, i'm speechless.
today we went to juju hokkaido hotpot for lunch. set lunch for adult was 19.90, and children, 9.90. total bill was $70. almost the same if we go to din tai fung, but we were all so full.

It's a minipot thing, each of us have our own pot. so we ordered our main dish, beef and seafood, for children's pork and fish. so we could share around the food. the starter was an egg. i think it's duck egg, very delicious.

then the food came. but the food was put on such nice, elaborate dishes, with vege and the plate is in a shape of a boat, so it really took up a lot of space. both the kids ate a lot and needless to say, the adults had to finish all the food. Max had a good time cooking.

after that, the children got ice cream, but because we only ordered 2 children's sets, there were only 2 ice creams. so max cried very loudly because he didn't have one. the waitress came over and asked what happened. she gave max a free cup of ice cream.

overall, it was a nice experience. but if i could go without max, that would be even better.
Air supply is coming to Singapore on 19 June!!!!ok, i'm back on 18 june, hmmm, should i go and buy tickets???

Friday, May 22, 2009

the crocs sale at expo is so crazy. went over to check out with colleagues, but when we see the queue to go in, we gave up.

the sale is at 4B, the queue to go in started in hall 4A, which is like, snaking inside the hall. how many hours do we have to queue?

singaporeans really love to queue.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

finally finish my marking. what a sigh of relief.

max is already sleeping, he must be quite tired from the badminton game in the evening.
Marcus is very forgetful/blur. yesterday, his form teacher advised him to pack his bag. so arranged all his worksheets (all dogs' ears, tattered) into subjects, one subject one file. asked him to put the papers into the respective files.

as usual, he take such a long time to do his homework. scolded him because the previous night, he forgot about his homework and did it in the room at night, without my knowing. so i confiscated his psp yesterday. i gave him a stern warning, the next time i have to confiscate his psp, it will be for a week.

this morning, after reaching the pick up point, he told me that he forgot to pack his CCM book into his bag. actually, i knew that he forgot this book for weeks already. the first 4 weeks of the term, i was putting in the books for him every tuesday. On the 5th week, when i didn't do it, he also did not. so i know for at least 4 weeks, he didn't have his ccm book on wed.

i told him, until we come out, then he realised his ccm book is not in his bag. what can i do now that we are out of the house already? when he alighted the car, he looked so sad and disappointed. so heart pain, went back home to take for him. but when i reached the pick up point again, the school bus had left. so i drove to his school, went to the office. the office called for him to come to the general office, but i think his school bus has not arrived yet.

the form teacher, on hearing the announcement, came down to take the book from me. we had a short conversation on marcus. thanked her for bringing the stuff to him and told her that he is that forgetful. told her also that he packed his bag yesterday. the form teacher feels that he is a smart boy, but he is so not 'there'. sometimes, in school, we need students to be present mentally. what we always say 'daydream'.

but i think it's also marcus' fortune that he always meets friends and teachers who will 'mother' him.

random thoughts

was suppose to be reading emails, but the attachment took so long to open up, then in the end, tell me, cannot find server. what a fish!

as said, this is random thoughts, plus my mood is a little piss, so here goes:

1) there were 50 unread emails, i trashed 30 of them and only 20 are important for me to read.

2) black honda cars drive like it's their grandfather's road. 2 piss me off this morning. at tampines safra right turn, one didn't queue up and cut queue. i tailgate him and he drove in the middle of 2 lanes, not sure to let me overtake him or not. i choose not to horn, i just tailgate.

finally, after getting rid of him, another honda car came into my lane, knowing that i was just behind. i also choose not to horn, i just tailgate. red light, i stopped close behind him.

3) someone changed my chair!!!! i wouldn't be so piss if the chair is a good chair, but this chair is a rocking one, obviously it's spoilt!!!!! even if you were to borrow my chair, can't you at least put it back in the original place after using????? and this chair, the height cannot be adjusted.
(ok, problem solved. so funny)

4) menses is late, PMS is at the highest point. maybe it's stress.

5) met a NIE classmate of mine when i went to marcus' school today to bring him his things.

6) sometimes i wonder if i'm a good parent. but i guess, your own children, if you do not scold them, who will?

Monday, May 18, 2009

aiyah, i so silly. buy hubby's license plate front and reverse, only buy my license plate front. sunday's 4D, my license plate came out the reverse way. wt...??? but luckily got buy ibet. so win very little.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

woke up this morning and went for breakfast. we decided to head to vivocity toys r us to buy the telescope set and science experiment set for marcus and mabel. so we left the house at 10 something.

after buying the toys, went to the fountain there, all 3 children had fun playing. after they change into dry clothes, they went to the playground to play. soon, it was lunch time. the children must be very hungry, marcus ate a whole plate of fried rice, mabel, 3/4 bowl of noodle and max the other 1/4. i didn't order anything, thought the children cannot finish their portion but who knows, all of them were so hungry.

later, we went to the library as promised to borrow some more books. tampines central is so crowded. even the carpark behind the library was filled with waiting cars. as we alighted the car to go to the library first, there was this man in his white nissan latio. He was waiting for his wife to return the books and they have a young daughter in the car. when the wife hurriedly came back, he wind down the window and shouted (scolded) at his wife,'f888, so slow, hurry up lah' The fact was that he used vulgarity on his wife. that is verbal abuse. and he wasn't at all sorry about it. what a rotten man! if i'm the wife, i'll just carry the daughter from the baby seat and just leave.

so now we are back at home, all coop up in the bedroom, because i switched on the air con. marcus is reading his books, while i try to mark and mabel just being a busy body watching her dad set up the electric circuit. max too, as busybody as the sister.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

today, what we carried out our plans. went to lta, went to library, then brewerkz. then as usual, sister in law and family came, so went out for dinner. all 13 of us (8A5C) squeezed into a toyota wish. hmmm, short distance, ok lah.

tomorrow need to go library again, mabel forgot to bring her ez link card! so we could only borrow 12 books. actually, in the beginning, the children chose 17 books. my god, the books were piled up so high. anyway, they had finish about 4 books today.

I realise that marcus like to read non-fiction books, about animals. he finish 2 and half books today.

Friday, May 15, 2009

yeah, today is marcus' last day of exam, i think he'll so glad.

mil complained that i scold marcus too much. wth?!? if i don't scold him, how can he settle down for his exams? he'll be thinking of his psp games. i keep scolding marcus better than keep scolding the maid, right? one is your child, you don't scold your child, discipline your child, who will?

anyway, already told of plans to children that tonight, we will all go out for a sumptous dinner, like cafe cartel or manipuku (i wonder if i said or spell the word correctly) at Tampines 1.

Tomorrow, we are going to LTA first, we want to apply for a taxi driving license to stand by first. Then we are bringing the children to the library and yes, after that lunch at tampines central and then yes, back to brewerkz again. The children can do their reading there.

great plans for friday evening and saturday. The childrne are excited.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

too multi tasking. that is so typical of me, then in the end, i did nothing well. so i should concentrate. finish this blog first, then check 4D, then read yahoo mails, then facebook.
I should repeat again that mabel is the sweetest among my 3 children. She knows that she has to study for her exams, she learns to control herself from watching tv until she has finished the homework.

marcus, i resorted to confiscating his psp last night. after dinner, i was waiting for him so that i can revise with him his Chinese. He went to play psp. have to keep reminding him not to day dream during exams, tries his best for chinese, don't give up.

max, drama king. he has a lot of funny actions. he talks well too.

I love all of them in a different way. love mabel for her sensibility, love marcus for his quirkiness and love max for his funniness (is there such a word?)
On Monday, brought the maid to Singpost. She wanted to send a hp over to Indonesia which her brother requested her to buy. Went there too early, so dropped by Mac to have breakfast.
Talked to her and told her that her contract will end by end of this year, so i asked her to give it a serious thought if she wants to continue. I know that it has been hard on her recently as my mil getting more and more gila. She keeps thinking about committing suicide. kept asking the maid for the key to the window grilles. that day, the children all chided her for entertaining such thoughts and suddenly, my bil (in a humourous tone) said that even if she can open the window grille, she would be too heavy to stand up. then, he laughed. of course, my mil gave him the cold hard stare.

anyway, at the back of my mind, i'm just worried that if she decides to leave after her contract ends, i may not be able to get a maid that can tolerate her.

i know she is frustrated inside, but really, the maid is also someone else's daughter too.
yes, go by this van. It's part of the package. So you book the tour with this tour agent, combi van package, so the van comes to your designated place (which is AMK since most of the senior citizens are at AMK) to pick you up, drive you up to malacca. The best thing is, we get to use the van 8 hours on the second day for sightseeing and shopping. then it will bring you back to your designated place as well. so it's a good deal, there is no worry of driving a car or for 9 of us, either we drive two cars, which is a hassle. or we have to hire a MPV to drive up which is even more of a hassle.

this arrangement is good and go holiday, should relax mah, still have to bother yourself with driving, such a bothersome.

And the driver, mr yong, he's very good. nice person and dealing with 3 old ladies, he really have the patience.

Monday, May 11, 2009

1st day of malacca trip

we woke up very early and mum came to fetch us to amk. we were all very excited and doing different things on the van.





Then we stop by this place for breakfast.





After breakfast, it's a long drive to malacca. After checking into the hotel, mabel took some pics of the hotel room. then we proceeded to a nyonya restaurant for lunch and then it's back to the hotel where it's free time for all. the children swam.





In the evening, we went to this place for dinner. It's a nice dinner and the funny thing was, they forgot to serve us the soup and they were so honest. after we had the dessert, then the soup came. We were all surprised, they said that they forgot to serve it just now. I mean they could just keep quiet about it but they were honest.




After dinner, we went to jonker's street for some shopping. but the weather is hot,the place is crowded, so it was really tiring and sweaty to walk among the crowd. The children were so tired. max fell asleep on the way back to the hotel. (oh yah, we walked there) didn't buy much things there because it's so crowded. there is hardly place to stand and browse at the stall

2nd day of malacca trip

woke up and we went down for breakfast. wow, a large crowd, couldn't handle. there were not enough bowls, plates, cutleries and stuff. luckily mum came down early and got us all a table.

After breakfast, we came down to the lobby to wait for our transport. Today is shopping day and sight seeing day.



We went to 'eye of malaysia' first. it's like a ferris wheel, just that it's air con.





Then after that we went shopping and have lunch at jonker's dessert. the queue is really long at this place. It is supposed to be a musuem cafe. so it's really crowded. luckily we have many of us, some look for tables, some queue up for the laksa and chendol. the tables were quite small, so we had to separate our seating arrangement.





and of course, shopping. needless to say, mum and aunties bought a lot of stuff.


When we came back from shopping, of course, the children went for a swim before dinner. after swimming, they even had fun in the bathtub.



The restaurant that we wanted to have dinner at was so fully booked and fully packed. we had to settle for a less than desirable place for dinner. the food is ok, not that bad. we even packet the chicken back to the hotel room as we are going to have a 'party' later in the room in aunt sal's room.

3rd day Malacca trip

Last day of the tour:
after breakfast, we basically packed our luggage and auntie sally and mum managed to 'sneak out' to buy some more things. We basically just laze around until 11 plus before we check out.

On our way back, we stop by Yong Peng to buy some stuff and finally JB for a late lunch before heading home. We all liked the restaurant in JB and have plans to come back in the future to eat. At Yong Peng, we finally pose for our only group photo.


and the stuff that we bought just at Yong Peng


Some photos i took on the way back home



Friday, May 08, 2009

The weather is as erratic as woman's mood. It just poured so suddenly.

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Just for my students 5N1

Howard - keep your room nice and clean. Your cupboard still looks very empty.

Bing Hong - who is ms sunshine?

Andy - see you in restaurant city and farm town

Eric - yes, eric, it's the O level year! well, at least i'm glad that you are conscious that you have to snap out of your gaming. You even dream about it?!?

Jater - though i do not understand what you did to the pictures, i should say they are artistically nice

Qi Sheng - yes, i know which country you will go to work or study next time. most probably Japan. all of you are so anime!

Jessica - my entrepreneur.

Sabrina - the most creative girl in class

Aishah - very good photography skills

Juliani - always balancing her time between family, friends, studies

Sue - uptown girl. always spraying your perfume during the last period.

Athirah - never judge a book by its cover. looked very different from npcc and when not wearing school uniform

Nora - most enjoy reading your blog. full of humor.

hope i didn't left out anyone who blog

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Anger management

what do i do when i get angry? i realise that if i keep thinking about the issue, i get angrier. so 1st, i try to stop thinking and keep my mind on other things.

i find the best way for me to cool down is to drive around. provided the weather is cool. like this morning. i wind down the window, blast jay chou's music. It should do the trick. but it has to be a longer journey... otherwise not enough kick.

Monday, May 04, 2009

what a busy day at school today with the exams going on and the temperature taking.

must be on my toes to ensure that i do the right thing and not miss out anything. must be alert.

Sunday, May 03, 2009

back from Malacca. When i have the time, i'll upload the pictures.

anyway, lots of things on my mind now with the orange alert. and with max just at my side asking me so many questions, not in the mood to blog