We ate our Deepavali Away

Yesterday was Deepavali, thus we got a day off. We simply ate our day away! On our off days, we would usually sleep in late. As per all other off days, we woke up around 10+am and by the time we got ready to move out, it's almost lunch time. We brought mil along and thus I chose chinese food so that it suits mil better. We settled for Canton Paradize at Star Vista. Star Vista had since became one of our regular food haunts due to it proximity to where we stay.

 

 

Di Di was as cheeky as ever, he was super happy with his bowl of wanton noodles. 

 

The dad was a happy man too cos the food was good.  The crispy char siew bun is a must try.  Yummy!

 

Even choosy Kor Kor slurp up most of his roast duck noodles.

After our lunch the dad brought the whole brood to bugis to pay respect at the temple before going home.  As I was bogged down by my chronic back pain, I suggested for the boys to go swimming while I rest at home.  Naturally the 2 boys were thrilled, these 2 were simply water babies! They love to immerse themselves in water.  I made use of the time to snooze for nearly 2 hours.

By the time they came home, it's makan time again!!! God.... it's a tough job trying to stay trim!!  We had Ichiban Boshi for dinner! another of my favourite haunts. Love their reasonably priced sets.  While waiting for food the dad started snapping photos to past time, can't even wait for me to get off the phone!

 

 

I wonder why Kor Kor looked kinda angry in these pic.  Probably he hated eating.

 

 

On the contrary, Di DI looked super glad facing his food.  Today he surprised all of us by asking for Cha Soba.  This is the first time he tried Cha Soba and he gave me his verdict after the meal - Mummy I preferred cold noodles more than the hot noodles.  Great! cos I am a Cha Soba fan as well.

 

Kor Kor still looking grouchy but cute hahahhaha

 

In the midst of the meal Di Di robbed me of my cardigan as he said he was cold. Effect of cold noodles??

 

 

 

Di Di has got good appetite, after his cold noodles he asked for an extra servings for tamago maki.

 

 

 

After their food they got restless and started to poke fun at me.......... -_-

 

 

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Step by Step picture of Kor Kor breaking into a sneeze while we try to pose for the last few pics hahahahh. So comical.

That was how we ate our PH away.... nothing really constuctive but we had a blissful day. :)

 

 

 

 

 

Free Style First Born

Ever seen anyone having supper in this manner? Sprawled on kitchen floor book in front, cup of milo in between him and the book with his prized Marks and Spencer cookies at the side...

I have mixed feelings when it comes to my first born. He possessed a special character with a tad of undesirable attitude.. He can be kind of unpredictable... At times making me jump sky high with his lousy attitude (especially towards learning) yet on some occasions he can be soooo sweet that he makes me feels all warm and fuzzy....

Frankly I am at a lost of how I should manage this boy.. He got his exam papers back this week, all his results have slipped and in my opinion he did quite poorly. We spent quite some effort in coaching him before the exams. He did pretty well in most of the past years exam paper that we tested him on... And yet... His results were disappointing....

I felt super exasperated... If his learning attitude has been good... I would have felt better.. Unfortunately he possessed super poor leaning attitude. He simply can't be bothered with anything, despite our various talks with him. To him nothing really matters, he is only keen to have fun fun fun and more fun.... Swear to god, we did not deprive him of any fun even though he has been showing poor results. I seriously wish to find a balance...

We've tried various options to help him with his work... Enrichment centers, coaching, practicing... Etc..nothing works. Most teachers came back with the same old feedback of his simply bo chup attitude in classes... The next thing I'm gonna attempt is to get him a 1 to 1 math tuition teacher... To see whether 1 to 1 learning environment will be better off for him...

I am seeking solution to motivate him to improve his attitude. I am sticking to my words of canceling holiday plans if his results are poor, thus no holidays for us this year end...

What more can I do to correct his Bo chup attitude?

We wanna be back

Ok I am feeling bad... sometime back in September 2011... I happily declared that we are back.. very soon after.. we went into hiatus again... A comment on my FB from YL linking me back to my old wordpress blog brought back flashes of fond memories of me charting down the growth of my kiddos. This is the post that urge me to come back again I do enjoy reading my old post and recollect what happened years back. I guess I should really make effort to restart this effort. I've lost a significant part of Kenji's growth... He is now 5 years old already.. many lost years... sigh...

Exercise!! Exercise!!

I am trying really hard to keep fit nowadays... Realised that I've been eating and eating but not really moving much. Tummy is building up... Though I may look slim overall.. but the tummy is protruding out more than usual and nooo! it is not no.3 on the way!

Hopefully my once a week aerobics class and at least once or twice a week jog will help to prevent the tummy from protruding more if not cut it down. I very much wanted to interest the kid to move with me. Dec is still quite ok, but Kenji is kinda lazy... just a short walk and he'll be asking us to carry him... weak leh...

Saturday morning all of us woke up early so we went for a morning walk and ended up at a fitness corner at sunset way. I must say the fitness corner is kinda cool, with weight lifting and arm tonning stations etc.

I did some sit ups and Kenji upon seeing me do that tried to imitate as well. Of course, his he dun have much strength at the abs so he only manage to lift his neck. The dad then went on to help and teach him how to do sit up hahaha. He looks really cute attempting really hard to achieve a proper sit up. Let's hope soon, my boys will be able to jog with me :)

My Simply Bo Chup First Born

I was waiting for Declan to come home and this was what greeted me when he skipped off the school bus...

He actually survived the whole day with his shoes on the wrong side.... when I pointed that out to him he simply goes :" ohhh no wonder..." probably just realizing how come his feet felt weird the whole day today....

That's my child...

We are Back!

After more than a year hiatus, we are back!! What triggers me to come back to blogging you may ask. I guess a big tpart of it is the fond memories that flooded me when i re-read the old posts that I did. The posts charted Declan's growing process well and I realised, nothing much was on Kenji. I hope he won't grow up and blame me for not charting his growth on the blog. To avoid that from happening and to allow me to continue having a reliable channel to help me remember my kids growing years, I am back! or should I say WE are back!

As of today, Dec is oredi in Pri 1 and Kenji is oredi in Nursery 2. oh boy.. how fast these babies grow... more updates on the way ;)

Urge to come back

After hopping over to wordpress for the past 2+ years, I suddenly have the urge to come back to blogger.

Though wordpress is much more user friendly and seldom give me problems but I just didn't know how to customise it's limited templates....

Blogger, on the other hand got tonnes of free skin to choose from!! and I've got some basic html knowledge for me to customise a wee bit to my liking...

should i come back? hmmmm....

New Year New Home

Dear All, I've finally put my feet down and decided to shift to my new home for the new year. Reasons being :

- This current blog takes donkey years to load,
- Some readers got problem accessing this site,
- The uploaded image and post will flicker every now and then,
- The posts will go blank sometimes,
- I got problems uploading the photos sometimes and it takes really long to upload the photos..
- The worse things was, some mamas cannot leave comments... arghhhhh.....

I was collecting feedback and some people still prefer this current template while some prefer that of my new home Ratio is 50:50. Thus I based my decision on the final vote from a "wise" man - my boss. His opinion is that the layout and theme seems better at wordpress and the best advantage is, it loads so much faster.

So bye bye blogspot, I am shifting to wordpress. Do hop over to our new home ok? See ya!

Traffic Watch

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1st Day of 2007

I put my non existence cooking skill to test on the 1st day of 2007. I attempted to prepare breakfast for the big one and the little one. Poor them to have a woman who can't cook as their wife and mum. Too bad!!! *snigger snigger*



That's what I managed to prepare. Sausages, Sardine sandwiches and eggs. That's the best I could do. :p The eggs were overcooked, the sausages tasted alright though a tad too oily, the sardine sandwhiches tasted so-so.

I've read the baking experiences of a few mums on their blog. Baking intrigues me. It look interesting and the products look lovely and tasty. I'm so tempted to pick up baking so that I can bake something nice for Declan but my determination is not there :p

My 2007 Resolution :

To get my driving license and pick up baking

Will I be able to fulfill my resolution? I've got 1 year to achieve both, having said that I feel the absence of my determination......

Our 2006 New Year Eve

Our little family spent the last few days of 2006 and first few days of 2007 at our own nest. It's a great feeling to be at our own home. I really appreciate the space as well as the peace. We spent the afternoon at my dad's place because it's his birthday.

Me :"Declan, let's go! We going to kong kong's place."
Dec : "Yeah!!! Go kong kong's place see dog dog!!"
Me :" Go kong kong's place not to see Kong kong but to see dog??....." -_-"

What a filial grandkid my dad has....


So off we went to my dad's place. Of course when we were there, his focus was on the dog instead of the grandpa. He has this love hate relationship with ah girl (the dog). He loves to tease her and yet when he got her excited, Ah Girl will jump on him excitedly and he'll get frightened, cry and Ah girl will get a scolding from my dad for jumping on him. I feel sorry for Ah girl as I know she mean no harm. After he calm down, he'll go chase after Ah girl again... and she'll get excited again and when he turns around, she'll in turn be chasing him and he'll cry again and of course she, for no reason will get another scolding from the doting kong kong. It's a dog's life yeah? ha!




My sis was there too. This is a heartless woman whom the whole family hardly sees her. It's been a year since she last visited my dad and I had to nag and curse at her for her to show face today. She, just like me and some members of my family are game craze. I've mellowed down a lot when it comes to gaming. Where got time now?? I got a todd running my life! My sis had a Nintendo DS in her bag, the moment she flashed it out, I conquered the machine, even the presence of my little todd didn't deter me!!



We had an early dinner there and left for some last minute shopping before heading home to join the rest of the Lims in their "neighbourhood" party.

Same like last year, we headed down to Fullerton vicinity to catch the fireworks. We arrived early and even have time to take a snapshot near fullerton. His grandma make use of the waiting time to teach Declan his numbers.




Here's a few snapshots of the fireworks on New Year Eve.




Happy 2007 to all of you, may your new year be a peaceful and cheerful one.

Dr Junior Lim

My boss granted me permission to leave office early as I was ill, down with a flu and fever.... I didn't bother to consult my hospital's doctor as I know they can't do much due to my drug allergy... The only way to cure me is to sleep through my illness.

So home I went and I slept through the afternoon till my Junior Lim came home from Childcare. Whenever he see our room door closed, he'll know that I'm back home. So I heard him calling :" Mummy... Mummy!!!!" and in he came crashing through the door.

He climbed onto the bed, sat beside me and placed his little palm on my forehead.

Dr Junior Lim : Mummy 生病(sick). Got fever..
Me : *cough* *cough* yeah mummy is sick, so you let mummy rest..
Dr Junior Lim : ohh Mummy 咳嗽(coughing). Later I feed you ok?
Me : Feed me? Feed me what?
Dr Junior Lim : Feed you your 药药(medicine). Sayang..

and he stroked me on my arm to soothe me. hmmmm somehow I feel slightly better from his TLC. ha!

Post Christmas Blabber

Ok ok I know Christmas is already history but I have only 1 last christmasy post to blabber about before I move on. So do bear with me!

On X'mas eve, my mum brought a log cake as a pressie for Declan. We didn't cut the cake till boxing day simply because we kept it at mil's fridge and forgotten all about it.

When we took it out, the little boy simply can't keep his hands off the cake. He wasted no time in plucking out the "Merry Christmas" greeting and slurp the cream from it. He also insisted on cutting the cake himself. Thus it's as if we are celebrating his birthday again.

Do you all happen to notice that he is into "layering" his clothes? In the above pic, he's actually wearing 3 pieces of t-shirts one over another.... he insisted he wanted to wear 3...







The cheeky boy enjoyed the cake. He took it as supper for 2 nights continuously. He's alot like me when it comes to food. Both of us love noodles and cakes. Ohh by the time he cut the cake, he dirtied his 2 other layers of clothes and is left with the 1st layer.

Our X'mas Day

I'm too lazy to craft the post. So I'll just post the photos and let the photos do the talking.

We woke up after noon on X'mas Day.

We having "Breakfast"



After breakfast it's pressie opening time!!! We bought him lots of pressies. Those in the yellow wrappings are hand picked by him. He chose Crayola crayon, marker, a train set and a clown fish for himself, while I added on hand paint for him.

Pressie Time!!




Torturing Nemo Time!



Colouring & Scribbling Time!



When the night falls, we shoot off to Orchard with Sil and her family to catch the X'mas lightings. We chanced upon some floats which were parked along Orchard Road. The are all quite nice. Dec took many pics together with his 2 cousins. I'm too lazy to upload the rest of the pics now as I am nursing a back pain. Maybe later when I am feeling better I'll try.