After return home, I have been eating my mom’s delicious home cook meal. Next my aunt is going to cook another scrumptious dinner for my family. I don’t know about you, my mom and aunt like to cook big portion of everything but less rice.

I have been eating and eating when I came home. I dare not stand on the weighing scale, maybe after Chinese New Year. I need to run a couple of laps on my treadmill. Hope I can lose weight from my tummy area. Well when you reach a certain age, things grow sideways and not upwards.

Remember I complained about my gal having tough time waking up in the morning. Today, she woke up and told us that “Mummy, today I woke up the earliest!” These few weeks, she woke up without crying and in happy mood. No more toothbrush fighting and hair pulling.

I am not sure whether this is the changing phase to 6 years old. She cries less now. It is me or the time is passing too fast for me to enjoy.

I wonder are there any next phase alerts I should look out for.

Year after year, I got the drinks, mandarin oranges and CNY cookies but ended up, my family eat most of it. We don’t get many people visiting us, most of the time we visit people. This year, I only got 1 box of mandarin oranges. Now half of it is already eaten. My aunt is giving me some CNY cookies, how nice of her.

This year I will be home for Chinese New Year because in laws are going for vacation. In fact we already had reunion dinner last Saturday in advance.

I have packed all the angpows. Do you gals recycle the money from your children angpow so that you do not have to go to the bank to change new notes? I will do that this year and transfer the amount online to my children bank account. I went to the bank and the bank told me they don’t have any new $10 notes. Fortunately I have some left over from last year.

I am all ready for CNY!!! *anything I left out*

Here is my Jack Lalanne Juicer, all the way from the states. It is US$99 without tax. Yeap I paid no tax for it. My hubby was so eager to try it. He took it out, got my 70watt transformer and started juicing. After one orange, the transformer blew up. Hrmm…so much for reading instruction. The juicer needs at lease 250 watt to work.

Next day, we went to the local hardware store and got a 500watt transformer. It is darn bulky. We went for fruits shopping too. We got oranges, apples, carrots, celeries, tomatoes, cucumbers and some peppermint leaves. I forgot to get ginger.

My Drink: Carrots + Orange + Peppermint

Emily: Apples

Tim: Oranges (I added carrot & peppermint. Actually just pour mine onto his cup.)

Papa: Tomato, cucumber, celeries and peppermint (I think)

We will juice some more tonight. Simply delicious and healthy!

Better blog something here to clear off some cob webs. Yesterday early in the morning, my boy message me using papa’s Google chat account.

Boy: Mummy, Tim here.

Mummy: Yes dear.

Boy: Did you get my 3in1 Bakugan?

Mummy: I got you 7in1 Bakugan.

Boy: Thank you.

Mummy: Sorry, mummy has to run to a meeting. Talk to you later and miss ya.
Now I am home sick, away for ½ week now. I missed my boy, my gal and my hubby. I hope to see them soon. It is always no fun to travel without family.

Every time I look at my son’s exercise books, I am so tempted to correct it. His writing has improved slightly but what I cannot stand is that he cannot draw straight line. His straight line does not follow the exercise book line. Somehow I need to go correct it or ask him to do so. Another complain is when he writes sentences, he didn’t leave any lines. He will squeeze everything in one line. Everything sticks together. Geram or not?

One time, I copied out all the sentences. I asked him to erase everything on the page and re-write it again. He is like me, he likes to press the pencil hard when he writes. With that, it is kind of difficult to erase. He doesn’t erase properly before he write on top.

I cannot stand checking his work, I will want to correct it to make it more tidy. I hope he shows some improvement this year.

My gal always gives me a Silent treatment whenever she is not in the mood to do anything. It makes me geram! She can be a good girl one moment and next moment she changes.

Once I was playing happily with her and it was time to sleep. I asked her to go up to brush her teeth. She kept playing pretending not to hear me. I asked the second time, she still didn’t response. I scolded her but she didn’t move. Of coz, I won’t take a cane for this small matter.

I stopped everything that she is doing, I made her look into my eyes and gave her a 5 minutes lecture. She cried and ended up sleeping without brushing teeth. By the way, I get a lot of those no response treatment. It is like talking, scolding or threatening the wall. Anyone has an effective way to counter this?

Funny thing is sometimes the cycle goes this way, I asked, she doesn’t response, I scold, she cry, she wants mummy to hug her, mummy asked her to do as she is told before hug, she does it and mummy hug her. Hrmm..if she does what she is asked, she probably get the hug without me scolding her. I just don’t understand her, she is like testing the water.

By the way, I do talk about this with her when she is in good mood. She always promises me not to repeat it but somehow she does it over and over again. She even wrote it on the paper to say she will listen to mummy. Funny isn’t it.

I heard that the government insisted all preschool to have at least 4 hours of school time. The government also wants the preschool to have equal amount of BM teaching time vs other language (English/Chinese). Is your child’s preschool doing the same?

That means my gal’s preschool time changes from 9am-12noon to 8am-12noon. My gal is not a morning person and she had a hard time waking up at 8am. Now she has to wake up at 7am and I am not sure how to do so. Well, I need to train her, which means I will need to wake up as early too. There goes my “owl” time at night.

I am not a morning person. During my university days, I will arrange all my lectures and tutorials after 9am except for the first year. First year, everything is prearranged. My final year was the best because no lectures or tutorials until after 12 noon. Talking about university, I really miss those moments.

Just like many who used to rush, run and pick their seats in AA flights, it brings out the Malaysian identity in us. I am glad AA now assign seating arrangement, I believed it is for safety purposes. It is not very safe for people to rush and run on an airport runway.

Back to school, I overheard parents telling their children to choose the best seats in the classroom. I remembered my mom asked me to sit in the front because of a better view. I never like the front seat because teacher always like to pick on students in the front.

Today, parents are asking their children to pick seats near or below the fan. What to do? The weather is really hot here. When Tim returned from school, I asked him where he sits. He said he sat at the back. He also told me that all the seats near or below the fan were taken up very quickly.

By the way, I saw 3 tall students in his class. 2 were same height as him and 1 was taller. I believed it is a class for the tall. :giggles:

Here’s wishing you a GREAT 2010 ahead!

I don’t usually set New Year resolution because I know I can never keep it. For this year, 2010 I am setting one that I will read the Bible from cover to cover in 365 days. I am one person that never had a good discipline when it comes to reading. Let’s hope I will achieve this. I also hoped that my Sunday School children will read the Book of Mark too.

What’s your resolution? Let me share with you one of Penang 2010 fireworks from the back of my gal’s room. A good view too.

Lastly, an update to my painting project since so many of you encourages me to paint Emily’s room. Wah lah…actually not completed yet, still got one wall left and the big cupboard is sitting beside it. I hope to get it done by Saturday.

I was not happy with the colors. The Fire Princess wasn’t as fiery as I expected. It was more orange than red. The candy floss (light pink) is too light. Since I have to paint over a strong blue, I have to do a double layer which is twice the effort. However Emily was pretty happy with it.