Who wants to buy Tim’s creation? Don’t you think he has some entrepreneurship in him? I was surprised when I saw this display in his book shelf. He priced is just right too with description of the material.

Now I would think he will catch up to Ebay in no time. He just never cease to amaze me. By the way, I was his first customer. How can I resist right?

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.

Do you know that your toes can reveal your characteristic? My mom told me that if your second toe is longer than your big toe, you are a big spender. If your second toe is shorter, you are very thrifty and you can definitely save money. Hahaha…don’t start staring at your feet.

Here are my family feet. Guess who can safe and who can spend?

By the way, my sister is a big spender that no medicine can help her. Her third toe is longer that the big toe. Just imagine that. I remembered when we were young, she promised my mom that she will start saving some money. I gave her a snoopy coin box for her birthday present. She was very happy because she can use it to save money.

However she discovered that the coin box has no opening as it was made out of tin and she cannot get her money out. She may need a can opener to do that. She gave it back to me. :rolleyes:

Don’t start pulling your big toes, it does help. :giggles: A better way would be marry one who is more thrifty than you. Thrifty not stingy!

P/S Show me your family feet in your blog. 😉

My children love to eat sorbet type ice-cream. They called them ice ice-cream. I got a mini ice cream tray from Daiso in KL. I thought Emily and Timothy how to make ice-cream. You can practically choose any juice for the ice-cream. I bought a big pack of Vitagen for them to make ice-cream. They like it very much.

Now I can turn juice into ice-cream for them to eat. However they know that too much ice-cream is not good for them. I only allowed them to have it once a week or every other week. Try it, it is fun especially they make it on their own.

I am trying to upgrade Tim’s BM Vocabulary. I got him a Oxford BM-English dictionary. I need to teach him how to search for words in the dictionary. Besides that, I do a lot of reading with him in BM. However he is not very good at remembering BM words. I won’t say he has a poor memory because he can remember every alien in Ben 10. I wished I can turn BM words into alien.

I am happy that Maths and Science is in English because he definitely has no problem in it. The funny thing is he has problem in spelling English words but not BM words. He can spell the BM words without knowing the meaning. I believed BM words are easier to spell.

I am trying to find more BM books for him to read. How I wished there are Peter and Jane in BM. If you know any interactive BM CD/VCD ROM, let me know. I got the Unik Interactive VCD-ROM on Science, Math and English for primary school. It is very good and even now Emily is also learning from it.

Tim will be having is first exam in March 3rd and 4th, aiks that is next week. I guess this weekend, I need to help him with his revision.

Alicia just reminded me from her post to blog about this. It is about teaching children how to tell the time. Yeap it is difficult to teach children to tell time. You must teach them 1 hour has 60 minutes. They will look very strangely at you because they always learn that 10 is the complete number. Next, you have to teach them, when the long hand move from 1 number to another, it will be a multiple of 5 minutes like 5,10,15,20…etc. Too complex for any child. Worst you have half past, quarter past, quarter to…etc.

However my children mastered the way to tell time ever since they know how to read numbers. I have a clock in my room but not my children’s room. Sometimes if I sleep in the children’s room, I will ask either Emily or Tim to go to my room to tell me the time.

They love to run over and tell me. Mummy it is 8:15. Cool eh? How do they do it? Here is the secret.

Isn’t it great to have digital clock, make things so simple. Anyway, if you really want to teach a child time, start with the short hand moving and the long hand at 12.