My hubby took Tim and Emily to visit the Pisa stadium swimming pool. He captured their pictures and updated it with captions. Tim and Emily sent this to me through email.

Tim: My hobby is swimming.

Emily: I love to go to swimming pool. I want to use my arm float.

Where was I? I was in KL shopping and spending time with my parents. I have lots of annual leaves to kill. I even bumped into a blogger, guess who?

Mummy, I will miss you. Guess who said that?

You probably think it is Emily but it came out of Tim’s mouth. I was surprised but at the same time felt touched or in Cantonese “gum thong”. How often will you hear a boy or a man say that? Probability is very low. I will enjoy this while I can.

Emily has a different way of showing affection. She will hug me or kiss me on my cheeks. Tim will do less of that on his own. Only when I asked him to do, he will do it. That is why I am surprised he told me that he miss me. I believed boys and girls have different ways of showing affection. One does it by words and the other does it by actions.

Just as I was complaining about fogging and I received news that my nanny and her son were admitted due to dengue. Oh well, thanks to my FIL and MIL who helped us to take care of things.

Emily got her glasses and she was willing to wear it. I tried to help her feel unconscious of it. She is excited over it as she kept asking me when it is ready.
I received a lot of comments like “She is so young, why she is wearing glasses?” when people saw her wearing glasses. One funny question I had was “How come she is long sighted and not short sighted?” I wished I knew the answer. Anyway I like what one of the parents said, let her watch TV, maybe it can help improve her long sighted.

If you see a child wearing glasses, please do not make any funny remarks in front of her or ask her, why she is wearing glasses. It can be real sensitive to the child. Today, she told me that she didn’t want to wear her glasses to school. I guess she didn’t want her friends to say funny things to her. Anyway I told her that she looks pretty in it and asked her not to worry about it. She does look good it in. Maybe I will get another pair with the sunnies. It will be real cool.

As for Tim, he had sports day today but he didn’t tell me that. He was in uniform until another mom told me while I was asking her about something else on the phone. I had to bring his track pants and sport shirt for him to change. His school has a real bad communication system. The teacher will instruct the children. When the message is passed, it is either lost or half of the info.

I suggested to the school head that it is better to ask the child to copy down the instruction in a message book for us parents to see. He seems to agree and told me he will let the school teachers know. I am not the only parent who is facing this problem. I believed I need to teach Timothy to improve his Bahasa Malaysia so that he can carry back the full message back. He can read BM but most of the time, he doesn’t understand the words. Any ideas how I can improve his BM?

*second time I am writing this post, a little geram with my itchy finger which deleted the post before Google can cache it* 🙁

Yesterday we returned home from church prayer meeting. Tim and papa were washing their feet at the garden because Tim stepped on dirty water. I took the keys to open the front door. Emily likes to open the door after it is unlocked by me. She stepped inside while I switched on the lights. I carried some stuff in the kitchen and later Emily ran into the kitchen followed by Tim. I turned back and saw a centipede running in the opposite direction.

It is funny and I wished I have a camera to capture that. I believed the centipede and my children were as afraid of each other, running in opposite direction.

Papa was quick, got a broom and whacked it into pieces. Centipede can sting people if we are not careful. Sorry centipede, just to protect the children, we have to let you go.

After that, I saw my children with pillows cover over themselves, hiding on the sofa. Of cause, we parents never give up the golden opportunity to tell them, not to dirty the floor when eating or playing else bugs will come in to live with them. :giggles:

I guess the centipede came to our house for shelter because it rained the whole day yesterday.

Ever since my son started school, I decided to cook dinner more frequently. Previously it was only my hubby and I eating, so we eat out more often. Now since Tim is joining us, I cooked for the family. Emily eats at the nanny’s place.

I will cook the soup in a crook pot during my lunch time. By the time, I come home the soup will be ready. Yeah, we Cantonese must have soup for our meal. I will just make a meat dish and a vege dish. It is just enough for the three of us. Home cook meal is always the best. By the way, I have ample supply of long green bean because of what my FIL started outside the house. We have so much until we give our neighbor’s some. They love it and asked us for the seed to plant even more. Hehehe…who knows, later the entire stretch of the road is long green bean plants. :giggles:

I was a little frustrated because yesterday and the day before, the fogging guys came while I was cooking dinner. They were fogging our area because I heard there is a dengue case in our taman. Of all time, they have to pick the time while I am cooking. Ooh, there is no warning about the fogging.

Imagine this, I was cooking at my back yard (wet kitchen) and stir frying my chicken. Suddenly I heard a sound from far. I had to quickly move my pan to my stove inside, my kicap-kiacap, plates and etc, close the door within 1 minute. I have to close both sides because they fog back and front. I had to cover any exposed food. If I knew they were fogging, I could have just taken my family out for dinner.

They fogged until my whole house was cover with smoke, literary cannot see my gate at all. Only the kitchen is visible and not smoky because I close the door. Thank goodness, it was also rainy yesterday so that after the fogging, I can open all my doors for fresh air. I really hate it when they do that, coming at the wrong time!

Now a days I get easily frustrated, maybe too much work in the office. Sigh with economy downturn, people get chopped and the left over work is passed to the people left behind. Looking at Vegas vacations, I do need one now!

I have learnt that in Psychology class during my University days that we humans can be program into doing things. One good example is driving. Most of us driver would drive automatically from A to B without conscious effort. Somehow our daily routine of driving has programmed our brain and body to do it effortlessly.

In taking this theory to action, I am trying to program my children. Timothy and Emily fight all the time. Last week, in church they went overboard. Emily scratched Tim and Tim hit Emily because of an airplane toy. After we went home, papa caned both of them.

I thought of a better punishment and ask them to do this:

I told them, every time they fight, they have to do this. I kind of like the positive statement compare to the negative. Usually if you ask a child not to do something, they will do otherwise. By writing this, I am hoping it will be program into them. Let’s hope it works.

Side humor that happens today that I want to record for myself:
Hubby: Dear, I can go home now. Network down and I cannot do anything.
Me: Sorry dear, I have a meeting and I will call you when I can go.

After my meeting, I saw my hubby online and I msg him…
Me: Dear, your network still down.
Hubby: Yeah.
Me: How come got Internet? :giggles:
Hubby: Now it is up already.

Today marks the day where my boy has grown a year wiser. Yeap it is his birthday and ever since he saw his presents, he been asking me when he open it. He woke up early today and he tore open one of his presents before the cake cutting ceremony. :rolleyes: I guess he cannot wait.

Emily got him a Ben 10 present too. I brought her to the toy shop to pick a present for his brother. It is Mr. Swampfire, another alien to his collection. Swampfile can fire a green stick and shoot water out. It is pretty cool for a toy. Of coz, Emily wants to play with it too.

It was a tiring week for me, running around organizing ladies retreat (2D/1N) for my church. On top of that, I had a busy work schedule. To make matter worst, Emily had fever in the middle of the week. Oh, not forgetting I had to prepare my son’s little celebration. However God has been good to me and everything went as planned. Emily recovered in time for the retreat too.

Since I was having a church retreat at a camp site near the beach, I took the opportunity to celebrate Tim’s birthday there too. There will be children at the retreat where he will have a good time at the beach too. He did and so did Emily. Thanks to hubby for making sure Tim and Emily is well entertained while I had my retreat.

Phew…it is all over now. I need to snooze zzzZZZZ

One more week to school holiday and my children are already asking me what to do next week. I guess they cannot wait to have a fun filled holiday. Since I have 2 days off every month, I have to plan something exciting for them.

I am not sure why my children love water play so much. They cannot get enough of the swimming pool or anything to do with water. Yeap I have plan for them to have some fun in a water park. Please help to pray that it will not rain on that day.

Timothy’s birthday is also around the corner. We will not have any big party but I will definitely get a cake for him with Ben 10 face in it. Both my children’s birthday fall on a school holiday every year. No opportunity to celebrate in the school. I wonder anyone has successfully celebrated their child’s birthday in primary school. Tell me about it. I don’t think the school will allow that.

Mummy got a gift for him from Ebay and I bet when he sees it, he will grin from ear to ear. Oh well, since he doesn’t know how to find my blog, I will show it to you. I will also take Emily to choose a gift for his big brother. I am sure she will ask for a small gift herself.

Phew Tim’s first school examination is over. He has his examination on 3rd and 4th. I have been tutoring him every day when he started school. Basically helping him with his homework and using repetition to make him remember words or spelling.

One of the major reasons why I sent him to National school is that I can tutor him. He will not have to go to tuition at this young age. One way of saving some money there. I can also track his progress. It is fun because there is a mother and son relationships being build in the academic world. It is another opportunity for a child to communicate to his/her parents.

Communication is always important in a family. My goal is to have my children tell me things that happen to them. We need to do this when their young. If not, when they are old, they will not tell you anything.

To cut the story short, here is one of the papers he got back from his examinations. How not to be proud of him? Even mummy didn’t score that high when I was in standard 1. :giggles: I am looking forward to see the results of the rest of his papers.

If I lose my job, I know where I can get side income.

Today I went to register a school for Emily. She was thrilled yesterday when I told her that she will go to a new school when she is 7.

Registration is different this year. I am required to provide.
1. A copy of the birth cert with the actual birth cert to chop and verify.
2. A copy of the utility bill. I don’t remember submitting this for my son.
3. A 4×9 envelope with 50 sen stamp and house address. I believed it is use to send back the confirmation letter.

It took me only 5 minutes to register for her. The officer told me that it is not automatic that siblings will get a place in the school even though the bro or sister is in the school. I remembered I was automatically put in BBGS because my sister was there. Oh well, different system in Penang.

Here are the questions Emily would ask me about her schools.

Emily: What school will I go to when I am 7 years old?
Mummy: Kor kor school.
Emily: What school will I go to when I am 6 years old?
Mummy: Tadika Bla Bla
Emily: What school will I go to when I am 15 years old?
Mummy: Che Che Zian’s school (Zian, a Sunday school friend)
Emily: What school will I go to when I am 20 years old?
Mummy: Mummy’s school. *hoping she will end up in my university*

Ooh by the way she is very happy when she hears all the answers, not really knowing what she is getting herself into. She is such an innocent little gal.