Last Saturday I attended my church friend’s wedding. I observed that the only time a dad will wear a tuxedo is at his own wedding day and when he is walking his gal down the wedding aisle. Probably I will see my hubby wearing a tuxedo when Emily gets married sometime in the future.

I saw a dad who dressed very casually in church, not much effort spent in clothes selection. Don’t all guys do that? He comes week in and out with the same design of shirt and pants. However on the day when his son got married, he was in smart and elegant tuxedo. He seems like a different man.

Anyway, it was Emily’s first experience in a wedding ceremony. She also tried her photography skills with her father’s guidance. When she came home, she took a pearl necklace, placed it on her head like a wedding band, holding her kor kor’s hand and pretended to be a bride. :rolleyes: That’s my gal.

It is time to teach Timothy how to pay for things and get the correct change back. Next year he will be in primary school. Wow this is too fast for me. Anyway, the other day my family was eating in an old kopitiam. There were some sweets on the counter, 20 sens for three. My hubby gave Timothy 20 sens and Emily also wanted 20 sens.

They set out on a mission to get 3 sweets. Timothy gave the aunt 20 sens and pointed at the sweets that he wanted. Aunty gave him the sweets and he was happy. The thing with Timothy is after he gets what he wanted he walked away. He never looked back to check whether he got the change back, if any. He did that many times.

Emily is surprisingly very smart, not sure whether good or bad. She pointed to aunty her selection. Aunty gave her the sweets, she smiled and walked away. Guess what??!! She still has the 20 sens in her hands.

Okay, more training to do….

Last Saturday, I decided to go check out what’s in Penang MATA fair. I was hoping to get some good deals. I was planning to go Bali with my family, end of the year using my frequent flyer points. I was quite disappointed really because I was swamp with credit card promoters. I am not kidding, every few feet I walked I bumped into credit card promoters. Either that or those vacation club promoters.

Worst is those promoters like to stand in the middle of the way. For me it is like playing those driving arcade games, walking from one end to the other trying to avoid them.
Sad to say, I only found one booth offering a so so deal for Bali hotels. Anyway, at one of the booth, a nice guy allured Timothy and gave him a free VCD. I tell you, it is not free. It was a VCD that promotes Hong Kong Disneyland. Now guess where are we going now?

Anyway, I didn’t book any tour but will be planning to go Hong Kong Disneyland. I have been to Hong Kong many times so no problem for me to get around. I hope to meet up with some university friends there too. Anyone wanna join me?

Opps, let’s get to the topic, I got my children a huge map. It is kind of cool because it has all the countries flag and landmarks around the countries. Now I can teach my children all the countries around the world. They know where is Malaysia, US, Hong Kong and North Pole. They can recognize Malaysia flag too.

Don’t ask me why Malaysia Landmark is a tree and not the Petronas Twin Tower.

Cost: RM30

After hearing comments from all of you, I am so glad that I am not an alien here. I soaked my school shoes on Friday and washed it on Saturday morning. I let it dry and apply the shoe white on Sunday.

When I was in school, I love playing netball on the muddy field. In fact I was the school netball player. After a good game, my shoe will covered with mud stain. If I do not soak my shoes, it will be difficult to get the dirty stain out. Anyway, it became a habit.

By the way, if you are from BBGS and batch of 1987, there is a reunion on 25th July 2008 in Concorde Hotel. However I will not be able to make it due to busy July schedule. 🙁

My School Then:

My School Now:

I have never been so left out and it is all my children’s fault. Here’s the story: One day while they were both playing in the living hall and I was inside the study room, I heard whispering. They usually talk very loud. Imagine most of the time, I have to remind them to talk softly. Children get excited easily.

I love hearing their conversation too. However this time, I heard both of them whispering. Hrmm, I thought they were up to something not good.

The last bit I heard was Emily saying:

Emily: Don’t tell mummy bla bla bla..

Mummy: Don’t tell me what… *I went out to check on them*

Emily: No no no…you faster go to work. *giving her cheeky smile*

Don’t you think there are a little too young to keep secret from their mummy, me? Oh they know what “secret” means too. So I felt a little left out.

However, I hope when they are older, they will share everything with me. Now I must learn the art of making them tell me everything.

I thought my days of washing school shoes are over and I am so dead wrong. Yes, since my children started schooling, the washing of school shoes begun. At least until they can do it on their own.

My hubby and I have different ways of washing school shoes. Let me hear it from you how do you do it?

1. Do you soak the school shoes overnight before you wash it?
a. Yes
b. No, I washed it immediately

2. Do you immediately apply shoe white on the school shoe when it is wet?
a. Yes
b. No, I wait for it to dry

School shoes have brought back lots of school days memory. My school is known for the strict rules and our shoes have to be white every day. Here are some of the things I do to keep it white.

I would take the black board duster and dust it on my shoe to keep it white. One silly friend of mine forgot to check the duster and her shoes were multi color when she dusted it on her shoe. :wall:

I would take a white chalk and start working on the dirty area.

If I am at home, I will paint the white shoe polish on top of it. When it comes to washing, the pail of water is all white.

The last trick is to hang around the toilet or library until the prefect finished checking.

Today is my marriage anniversary. Wow, time really flies. I must thank God for the lovely years that He has given to my hubby and I. I prayed that many more will come.

“What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” Mark 10:9

I am not a morning person and I love to stay up late. My hubby is the opposite so I gave him the honored to prepare Tim & Em to school in the morning. I will squeeze out every minute of sleep I can get in the morning.

Last week, my hubby was away to Singapore for training. There goes my morning and here is what it is like.

9:30pm Lights out for the children.

10:30pm Lights out for me. I don’t usually sleep so early, sometimes I can sleep @ 3am.

7:15am Alarm Rings

7:20am Washed Up & boiled water

7:30am Children wake up. Hype them up a bit so that they start off the morning with laughter. They washed up & changed. They do not give me much problem.

7:40am Go downstairs for milk and breakfast.

8:00am Ready for school.

That is pretty much my mornings and I am glad that I can return back to “sleep in”. Guess what I asked my hubby to buy for me in Singapore. Nothing is cheap in Singapore except for electronic stuff. Here is what he got for me. What an irony, I do need batteries to charge up for holding the fort alone…hehehehe.

By the way, these Sanyo Eneloop batteries are very good rechargeable batteries and can last very long. Most of the rechargeable batteries will lose its power if it is not in use for a while. The rate of Eneloop rechargeable batteries losing power is very low so you do not need to charge them all the time. It will save a lot of energy. It is the number 1 selling batteries in Japan. If you want to save the environment switched to use this. This is not a paid post.

Wen posted The Day Has Come with regards to her children asking her how they were made.

My children asked me the same thing. Mummy, how was I made? They asked that when we talked about things before they were born. How did I tackle this question? I told them they were swimming inside my body. Swimming until it was time for them to become a baby. They were excited because they like swimming (or playing with water)

Tim: I come out of your body and I do what?

Mummy: Doc whacked your buttock and you cry.

Tim: Why doctor whacked me?

Mummy: When you cry, you can breathe.

Emily: Mummy, when I was in your body, I eat ice-cream when you eat ice-cream?

Mummy: Yes, when I eat, you eat.

Emily trying to be cute: Mummy, when you eat chips, I swim in your body and catch the chips. Then I go munch munch munch…

Mummy: :rolleyes: & :giggles:

Anyway a good way to explain to them is to show them pictures. Pictures paint a thousand words. I wonder what I will say when they start to ask about the birds and the bees. :think:

My mother relayed this incident about my children to me. I was in the living hall watching TV while my children were upstairs playing with por por. I told my mother not to feed them with too much junk food. I was afraid they may get sick and would not be able to enjoy the vacation.

My mother took out a box of chocolate and asked them to take one. That’s what por por do behind my back.

Tim: Mummy said cannot have chocolate.

Emily took the chocolate and took a bite quickly.

Tim: Emily, you better tell mummy you ate the choc.

Emily ignored him and finished the choc. She felt satisfied. Tim didn’t have any but insisted Emily to tell me that she had the chocolate.

Emily came to me but didn’t tell me about the chocolate. Later Tim came down.

Tim: Did Emily tell you anything?

Mummy: What is Emily suppose to tell me?

I can see Timothy wanted to protect her sister and at the same time wanted the sister to be honest. However Emily pretended nothing happen.