Tim lost his music text book so he needs to get another 1 from the bookshop. His daddy asked him to check the price from the book store. With his timid character, he failed to do it or he forgot. Two days ago, I fetched him to school, gave him RM4 and asked him to get the book. I told him the book may be RM5 but I only have RM4 in my wallet. He has some money in his to top it up if it cost more than RM4.

At the end of the day, did he get the book? Here is the story.

His Story
Tim: You gave me RM4 and while you were driving me to school, I took RM1 from my wallet and add it to the RM4. I bought the book.

Me: How do you know the book was RM5?

Tim: Yeah it is RM5! *so confident*

Emily Story
Emily: First I parked my bag, then I followed him to the bookstore. There were noisy kids buying stuff. He asked for “buku muzik tahun 3” (music book for primary 3). The book shop guy gave him the book and took his money.

I was still not convinced that the book was RM5. I asked Tim to bring it out for me to check. Yeap, RM5 it is. I have so little confident in him, lesson for me to increase my confident in him. However I teach him to always ask how much before giving the money.

My girl and I have a problem with dirty toilet. Emily got my gene as she would refuse to enter a smelly and dirty toilet. She rather holds her pee or she will not drink water. When she first enters into primary 1, she would not go to the school toilet. Yeah, the toilet is very smelly. I can smell it a mile away.

However, her brother knowing that she didn’t like it, told her there is a better toilet in the new block. I am glad the school built a new block with better toilet. Tim brought her to new toilet. It is nice to have a brother to take good care of his sister. Kudos to him!

By the way, I am glad now Tim has overcome her anxiety in school. He is able to talk to some teacher and all his friends. He is able to have fun and last I heard, he even go to the book store to get some books. It is great to see his progress in school.

Last Monday, my girl came back with 2 silver medals. She told me that she won 2 competitions, one for coloring and the other for origami. I didn’t know she was participating in any competitions. I knew she did some origami in school.

Apparently during assembly, she was called to receive the medals. I am so proud of her. I am so glad she has my origami gene. I will passed my origami skills to her one of these days.

My kids received angpows that come in many shape and sizes, some even have eyes and ears. Somehow this year, they are excited or motivated to collect angpows. They finally understood the money collected can be used for vacation. However, I don’t do that but keeps all their money in their own bank accounts. To date, all their angpows and birthday money gifts go to their bank account.

Emily was very keen on helping to take the money out and count how much she has collected. By the way, those that were given to my hubby and I by our parents will also go to their collection, divide equally within the 2 of them.

I also recycle the new notes so that I don’t have to go to the bank every year to change new notes. Yeap, I already packed for next year Chinese New Year. For both their shares, I transfer money from my account to theirs which is easier.

I read plenty of maid drama and I am sure you do too. I believed many maids are not trained properly, not taught the culture or some of them are plain lazy. Anyway that’s not what I want to blog about. I want to talk about some good maids’ story.

Every year my mother will get a part time maid to stay in for a few days to help her cook, wash and do chores. I went home this Chinese New Year and stayed in my parents place.

I must that tell that this maid is an angel. First thing in the morning, she greets me Good Morning with a big smile. She is very young from her look but very pleasant looking. A couple of days later, she asked me if there are clothes to wash or iron. She cleans well too. I would recommend her to anyone. She is all smiles.

Even when she didn’t understand my dad, she tried to help him. My dad speaks no bahasa. On the last day, when the driver came and fetch her, she told me to search her things. I decline and told her it is alright, she can go. However she insisted and poured everything on the floor. I had to stuff everything back into her bag.

I hope to meet her again someday and pray that she will have a good life moving forward. Good maids are hard to get. If you are having one, treasure it!

It has been a long time since I had buffet in Shogun. Whenever we go back to KL, I always bring my family to Ikea, Curve, MidValley or 1Utama. We rarely go to Sunway side. I decided to make a trip there. By the way, that is the first mall I date my hubby.

I didn’t know there was Shogun there until I saw the signage. We were there about 5:15pm but dinner only start at 6pm. I decided to make a booking on the spot. It was also on 30% discount, only had to pay RM40++ per adult with oyster, isn’t it a great deal or what? We got a nice spot with a view to Sunway Lagoon too.

My Plate

Emily’s Plate

Tim’s Plate

The View Where We Sit

Later after dinner, we took a stroll to the Sunway Resort Hotel. There is a joining walkway from the mall to the hotel, how convenient! I must say the hotel put up a very nice Chinese New Year lighting in the surrounding. My kids want to visit the swimming pool which is underground. Later they were dipping their hands into it. It was a great stroll after dinner. Before we head off to home, I took my kids to visit the bowling alley. They wanted to bowl and I told them, they can bowl if they can carry the ball. The lightest was an 8 pound ball. Tim could carry with 2 hands and Emily could hardly lift it up. Oh well, I guess when they are older, they can learn to bowl.

The King & Queen

Upon hearing my cousins who are able to do manicure, my little vain port kept persuading me to ask them to paint her nails. She was showing me her little puppy face. She dare not ask them but secretly whisper to me.

Of coz, my cousins would be delighted to paint her nail and stick those lovely prints for her. She was grinning from ear to ear when everyone praised her pretty nails. However I have to remove it the day before she start school. I kept her toes nails color since it will be covered by her socks.

Do you know those nail prints are selling for RM5 in Daiso? My cousins told me in pasar malam (aka night market), the prints are only selling for RM2.50. I guess I have to get some for her.

One morning, I woke up and saw this little note on my working desk. I guess she left it for me because the day before I slept early and she could not tell me about it. It is kind of cute reading her notes, hope she writes more.

By the way, my hubby and I do write little notes to each other if we want to pass a message when we are not available. We are getting old and sometimes we cannot remember, so better note it down.

Someone commented that she had perfect spelling in FB. Now here is the little story. The story begun with this picture on the white board, so my hubby told me.
Emily asked daddy, what if she cannot spell certain word. Daddy was also tired that night, she asked her to consult Tim, her big brother.

She had difficulty spelling “could”. She asked her brother. Tim’s funny bone drew 2 pictures on the white board. If you spell “cold”, he drew a man shivering in the fridge. If you spell “could”, he drew a picture of a hand giving something to another. He asked Emily to pick the right one. Ha! Isn’t he an excellent teacher? “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”

Of coz, I bought her a nice Rapunzel pencil case.

I received this today for my children. I was wondering why Immigration send letter direct to my children. Well, I read it and it was a reminder to state their passports had expired. I guess now they cannot go overseas until I renew it.

By the way, I have another opportunity to travel to US but I am still thinking whether to bring them there. The dates of my travel fall on their exams period. Now I am in a dilemma. Should I or should I not? I wonder can I ask permission from the school to have them sit for it after the vacation. I am sure my children would love that!

My kids loved to go to Hard Rock swimming pool. I guess with the Stage Pass, they can go there as often as they liked for free. I am making full use of it and take them there whenever there is a holiday. My gal love to go down the slides in the pool, there are 3.

On top of that, the Stage Pass comes with 1 free night stay. I am still having difficulty of choosing a date for that. With the kids in school, I need to pick a school holiday. Most of the time, we will go back to KL during the school holidays.

Anyway, my kids will have a whole year of fun in the Hard Rock Pool. If you are here on vacation with kids, let me know.