Can you tell what are the pink stick and the blue stick? Have a guess? I will tell you a funny thing someone did, :giggles: in the next post.

Emily has her moments and sometimes she can be a pain in the neck. I take the family out to shopping and sometimes she will act up. She will say her legs are tired so that either my hubby or I would carry her. She stopped by every other shop to see what she wants to see. If she doesn’t get what she wants, she will be whinny.

Yesterday, I was trying to get a pair of shoes for them. However we could only get a pair for Emily and I was still looking around for Tim’s one. Emily started her round of fuss. We decided to leave the mall. I scolded Emily in the car and of coz she cried.

Later, I asked daddy to stop by another shop so that I can go with Tim to get his pair of shoes. As a punishment for Emily, she stayed in the car with daddy. I managed to do what I wanted with Tim and bought 2 sweaters for them too.

Next morning this was what Emily said:

Emily: Mummy I am 4 years old and going to 5. I am a big gal now. I don’t want to cry, show my tummy and I will not be lazy to walk.

Mummy: Good girl

Let’s hope she remembers that. This is crucial for her to enjoy the next event that is coming up. Hehehe…I will tell you when we come back!

Her new dress and Her new shoes.

Funny kids do funny things. Guess what advertisement they are portraying? Or are they just fooling around like spiders?

Finally my boy Tim has graduated from kindy and moving on to primary school next year. Six years just whoosh pass so fast. I still remembered the day when I delivered him and struggled with lots of sleepless night. Now he is standing tall. Doesn’t he look like a Chinese Scholar like from the Ching Dynasty or something?

Today is his graduation and also my children’s concert. Both of them had a great time. A big thank you to the teachers, who put almost a year effort into this concert. Yeap I heard the children started practicing first half the year.

The tadika had strict rules about photography because some parents can be inconsiderate. They will stand in front of everyone to take pictures of their child. This year, no camera allowed. The tadika hired 1 professional video man and 1 camera man to do the shots, which is fair. Everyone gets to relax and enjoy the show.

I liked the concert because the teachers incorporated two stories telling and the children acted fantastically. They have snow white and the good Samaritan stories. My children did great too. Anyway that’s not what I wanted to write about but the funnies things that the children did at some parts of the concert.

Here are the funnies:
• Emily was yawning during the middle of the singing.

• Someone dig his nose during the singing although the parents signal him not to do that.

• One boy was arguing with his friend about his toys on the stage during the start of his performance.

• There was a prop technical issue. In one of the scene there were 2 robbers attacking a boy where the 2 robbers were suppose to snatch the boy’s belongings. However the 2 robbers couldn’t get the bag away from him. It took them a long while to get it off him.

• Snow White couldn’t bite the apple, she had a few attempts.

• During one of the prize giving ceremony, one of the children forgot that she was suppose to be on stage to receive the prize.

Here are the videos that made me proud of my children.

I heard this from a friend of mine and it is a true funny story.

Sometimes when you buy children cereal like honey stars or coco crunch, you get free toy or free stuff. It is written outside the box. If you get milk powder, you also sometimes get free tumbler, lunch box or free children stuff. I can tell you my children look forward to all these free stuffs to.

This child like any other children always looks for these free stuffs. One day, his mum brought some chips that have the word “FREE” in front of the packet. He was looking and looking inside the pack of chips.

Mum: What are you looking for?
Child: Free stuff.
Mum: What free stuff?
Child: In the front of the chips packet, it is labeled FREE. *He didn’t know how to read the other word.*
Mum: *She read aloud* Cholesterol FREE. :giggles:

The child was a little disappointed when the mum explained to him.

I had the last Häagen Dazs voucher left and I decided to take my children for an ice-cream treat. Boy, were they excited.

They took the menu. They picked a choice together and went for banana split. Timothy wanted raspberry, Emily wanted Mango and mummy go for Belgian chocolate. Yummy!! However both of them, like my choice better, sapu (wipe out) my chocolate and theirs. They told me that I can have the banana. :roll eyes:

Well the pictures paint a thousand words:

Pop over to parkbay to read about the Melamine Products in Malaysia. There are pictures too!

Last Raya Holidays, I was down in KL with my family. We had to get a white pair of shoe for Emily’s concert. We shopped in Mid Valley and she was so excited because we were shopping for her white shoes. There were a few pairs but some were too small and some were too big. Finally found 1 that she like and had the right size.

I also got a pretty orange cloth for Jess to sew a dress for her. I cannot wait for Jess to send that to me.

Papa always complained that Emily has messy hair. We wanted to get her a hair band. We went to this shop called Sinma. I saw a few nice hair bands for Emily. She loved it. She also wanted a necklace and a ring to go with it. Fortunately for my pocket, they have a set with hair band, ring, clips and necklace. Here is what makes a gal pretty…

Hop over to parkbay.net to check out why I am so happy today.

Why oh why, I had my first fever of 2008 and it has to be on a Friday night. Don’t worry I am all recovered now after a day of sleep. You know that I haven’t used any of my 22 days of MC. How sad. In US at least for my company, their leave consist of both MC and day off together. You can even utilize the MC when your child is sick. Here, you cannot really do that but to take your own day off for that. However I have a nice manager who allows me to work from home to take care of them.

Anyway how the fever started? Both my children had high fever during the weekdays. Both of them had higher than 39°C. They had bad throat infection and the antibiotic really works from them. After 2 courses, they are recovered and gave it to me. Both were dancing on the sofa on Friday night. Maybe both of them had drained my energy out.

On Thursday night, Tim had 39.5°C and I inserted a suppository for fever. I put him to sleep, I saw the suppository pill on the door of the bedroom. Sigh, I am not sure if it fell off while I carried him to his bedroom or what. What if it wasn’t the one I inserted in? I hate when this thing happen. I decided to wait for 30 minutes and kept sponging him. I realized that it was the suppository I inserted in that fallen out because his fever didn’t go down. I inserted a fresh one and waited for another 30 minutes. Finally his fever came down and I was relieved.

School Days: 5 Jan 09 to 13 Mar 09
School Break: 14 Mar 09 to 22 Mar 09

School Days: 23 Mar 09 to 31 May 09
School Mid Year Break: 1 Jun 09 to 14 Jun 09

School Days: 15 Jun 09 to 21 Aug 09
School Break: 22 Aug 09 to 30 Aug 09

School Days: 1 Sep 09 to 20 Nov 09
Year End Break: 21 Nov 09 to 3 Jan 09

Penang Public Holidays
1 Jan 09 – New Year’s Day
26-27 Jan 09 – Chinese New Year
8 Feb 09 – Thaipusam
9 Mar 09 – Prophet Mohd Birthday
1 May 09 – Labor Day
9 May 09 – Wesak Day
6 Jun 09 – Agung’s Birthday (aka King’s Birthday)
11 Jul 09 – Governor’s Birthday
31 Aug 09 – Merdeka Day (Malaysia Independent Day)
7 Sep 09 – Quran Day
20-21 Sep 09 – Hari Raya Puasa
17 Oct 09 – Deepavali Day
27 Nov 09 – Hari Raya Haji
18 Dec 09 – Awal Muharram Day
25 Dec 09 – Christmas Day

In total, Penang has 17 public holidays which 2 of it does not apply to me. I do not have Awal Muharram and Quran days as holidays because my company had to restrict the number of holidays. I bet Malaysia has the most public holidays in a year. Maybe it is because we are a multi cultural country. I hope all of us act like one.

Next year Chinese New Year’s days are not in my favor. There are no school holidays surrounding it and I probably have to take my son away from school to go back to home town. Do I have to write a permission to the school to do that? What are the school rules and am I allowed to do that? Any mom cares to share?

From next year onwards, I will have to plan vacations during school holidays and maybe have to rush with other parents. 2009 is not a good year for me as my company decided to cut back a lot of rewards because economy doesn’t look so bright. Most of us said, at least we still have a job or no pay cut. My hubby said, we don’t need so much money and he is right. We shall live as contented souls.

1 Tim 6:6-8
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.

One of my forum members posted a couple of cute chopsticks sold in her online store. It is the Edison Trainer Chopstick from Korea. I was in a dilemma whether to get for my children or not. I was tempted to get. On the hand, I didn’t use those and I grew up learning to use chopsticks.

I ended up getting 2 pairs because they can use it when they are eating noodles. Noodles somehow taste nicer when it is taken with chopsticks, don’t you agree? They had fun with it. Imagine the first few meals, they fed themselves. I hope they keep that going.

With those chopsticks, they can pick up noodles, fish balls and other food except rice. They were pretty good at it too. Now they can join me and my hubby in eating noodles on their own.
It cost RM19 per pair for this design. There are other designs with cheaper price.