Poor little bird

I was watering plants in the garden. Heard wings flattering and suddenly a tiny bird dropped on floor in front of me! 3 crows who were chasing after it eyeing nearby, waiting for their chances. Poor tiny bird couldn't fly.

I put it in a bucket and went out to fetch the kids. Both girls were so excited!

Hopefully it will recover soon.

[Xiang,12y] 5 July 2018 国语笔试比赛

来扫一扫灰。好久不见!

儿子很荣幸的被选中代表学校参加国语笔试比赛。今天随老师去 Pulau Ketam, 一团6人，2位演讲4位笔试。原本老师想带女儿去观摩，但路途遥远唯有放弃。(4年纪女儿也很荣幸的被选为下一届演讲比赛栽培对象。)

天气报告今天多云，希望别下雨太阳也别太大。一路顺风顺水。儿子加油!

Necessity of Enrichment Class .. ?

Xiang who is considered as 5 years old (counted by year of birth) went for a trial English Class, but he refused to attend and kept on crying to go back home. We finally gave up and decided to wait until he's ready. I was wondering whether it's too early for him to join such classes?

Qi loves to color, I wanted to send her to art class, but couldn't find one centre which will accept 3 years old kid. My husband too said it's too early for her to join such classes.

I'm just wondering, any moms here send their kids for enrichment / tuition classes? At what age did you kids join those classes? Or do you engage 1 to 1 tuition for your kids? Do you think it's effective and good for the kids?

Haiz .... his elbow ....

This happened on last Wednesday, 5th Jan 2011.

I brought Xiang to a trial English class in the evening, but I think he's really not ready for it. He was clinging to me and crying non-stop. I called my husband and due to the weak phone signal, he decided to come and look at Xiang to try pursuading him.

After waiting for awhile, from the corner of my eye, I saw my husband coming from over the street, then he slipped and fell on the steps of the shoplots. At first I thought that it was a minor fall, but then I realised that he couldn't stand up at all.

His elbow was dislocated!!! His left hand was in a strange twist and he couldn't lift his hand at all. Gosh, until now I couldn't imagine such a simple fall and do such a nasty injury! With the help of a helpful and kind mom (whom daughter was in the English class), we rushed him to nearest emergency.

The nurse was already calling the operation room for emergency operation, but prior to that, they took my husband for X-ray. My husband was lucky in a way that the dislocated bone actually goes back to the joint, and so finally no operation was needed and he was put in an arm sling.

Luckily, no broken bones, only the tissues, muscles and ligamens were torned and injured. He was on the arm sling so that the ligamens can heal better, and the Orthopeadic finally approved him of removing the arm sling today. However, there's a series of physiotheraphy to go through since now he can't fully bend and can't straighten his left hand.

Oh a minor heart-warm moment for record, when Xiang first saw his daddy back from hospital, he was really sweet. He told his daddy to rest, and instructed that if his daddy needs anything, just tell Kakak to get it. I guess that my husband's pain immediately decreased 50% after hearing it.

[Xiang 4y1m; Qi 2y10m] 2011 First Day in School

As we moved to a new area, we had to find another new kindergarten for my son Xiang and my daughter Qi. Actually we had a hard time deciding on this kindergarten, but finally we decided to give it a try.

Xiang started his 5 year old on 3rd Jan (Monday). On the first day, he didn't want us to accompany him to school, insisted on just dropping him in front of the door and let the teachers brought him in. How relief and happy we were when we sneaked in to have a peak on him, found out that he's not crying at all. A picture of him on the first day, he's very gan-cheong at that time actually, not wanting to speak to us and just nodding or shaking his head answering us. I guess that I was very gan-cheong too, didn't notice his slanting t-shirt until I post this up ^_^:

But at night, he was crying loud and throwing tantrums that he didn't want to go to school. He told us that he's scared. Luckily, the 2nd day he went to school without fuss or crying. *phew!!!*

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Qi started her 3 year old class on 7 Jan (Friday), she told me that she wanted me to accompany her. Therefore, I accompanied her on that day, standing at the side of her class. She's doing great, no crying. She let the teacher brought her to toilet, playing toys with other kids, lining up to wash hand during snack time, eating on her own, cooperating with teh teacher and enjoying the singing time.

Then like a virus infected by her brother, she too cried on the night before her 2nd day to school *sigh...*, I knew that she's scared and tried comforting her by reminding her how she enjoyed her first day in school. I guess that this little girl is too scared to think or to be reminded, even asking me to stop talking and SLEEP!

This morning (her second day in school) she's doing great again, I let her down in front of the gate and she waved bye-bye to me. Again, sneaky-fox-mommy went sneaking on her and was really relieved that she was sitting on her place, no crying. When picking her up, she smiled and proudly told me that she didn't cry, therefore she got 2 stickers from the teacher (good treats from teacher!)

Some photos of QiQi first day to school, wearing a simple yellow t-shirt and pants:

[Xiang 4y1m; Qi 2y10m] 2011 First Day in School

As we moved to a new area, we had to find another new kindergarten for my son Xiang and my daughter Qi. Actually we had a hard time deciding on this kindergarten, but finally we decided to give it a try.

Xiang started his 5 year old on 3rd Jan (Monday). On the first day, he didn't want us to accompany him to school, insisted on just dropping him in front of the door and let the teachers brought him in. How relief and happy we were when we sneaked in to have a peak on him, found out that he's not crying at all. A picture of him on the first day, he's very gan-cheong at that time actually, not wanting to speak to us and just nodding or shaking his head answering us. I guess that I was very gan-cheong too, didn't notice his slanting t-shirt until I post this up ^_^:

But at night, he was crying loud and throwing tantrums that he didn't want to go to school. He told us that he's scared. Luckily, the 2nd day he went to school without fuss or crying. *phew!!!*

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Qi started her 3 year old class on 7 Jan (Friday), she told me that she wanted me to accompany her. Therefore, I accompanied her on that day, standing at the side of her class. She's doing great, no crying. She let the teacher brought her to toilet, playing toys with other kids, lining up to wash hand during snack time, eating on her own, cooperating with teh teacher and enjoying the singing time.

Then like a virus infected by her brother, she too cried on the night before her 2nd day to school *sigh...*, I knew that she's scared and tried comforting her by reminding her how she enjoyed her first day in school. I guess that this little girl is too scared to think or to be reminded, even asking me to stop talking and SLEEP!

This morning (her second day in school) she's doing great again, I let her down in front of the gate and she waved bye-bye to me. Again, sneaky-fox-mommy went sneaking on her and was really relieved that she was sitting on her place, no crying. When picking her up, she smiled and proudly told me that she didn't cry, therefore she got 2 stickers from the teacher (good treats from teacher!)

Some photos of QiQi first day to school, wearing a simple yellow t-shirt and pants:

[Xiang 3y11m; Qi 2y9m] Playing with Wii

It's time to change our old generation 1 Playstation. So, we have finally bought Wii. Hehe, paiseh, this Wii has been in market for so long and we were so outdated right? But all of us are still so excited about it and enjoy the games a lot.

Xiang playing bowling, he's good in this game

Trying to adapt

For those who know me well, I have moved in to my new house. New house, new environment, not only my kids, but we adults are also trying to adapt ourselves.

There's a lot of plus points about the new environment here, greatest one will be good security and prettier environment. My kids can cycle around the housing area with ease, large playgrounds for them and lots of place for them to play ball or fly kite.

The down points will be there aren't as many shops as in my previous house, no Jusco within 5 min drive (but there's a new Giant within 5 min drive), and not many food to our liking until now.

I'm not sure whether it's because of the hassle and tiredness of moving house, or because the back of my house is doing major renovation, all of us keep falling sick. Never before my kids have ulcers and sore-throat, this is the first time.

Tomorrow, we are going to plant grass and trees, hopefully it will 'clean' up the air a bit. This is my current muddy land, going to have to lay some piping under to 'drain' away the water.

Machines Boycott Me :(

Oh gosh, what a day I've been through!

Today's afternoon, I was shocked to find out that my 2 little kids have successfully spoiled my sister laptop! The screen keeps jumping up and down, up and down with all the blurry words which I can't even read the error message. To make it worse, this laptop isn't mine, it's my sister un-used laptop which I "borrow" all this while.

I have no choice but used my husband's ancient atuk laptop. Atuk laptop atuk speed

Then, the printer aka scanner also decided to take a break together with the laptop. OK, nvm, I have a backup printer. Then I realised that the atuk laptop didn't have the backup printer software and it's DVD-ROM already retired long long ago. Haiz~~~

So I went to computer shop, spent RM6.00 just to print 3 sheets of A4 size papers to signed and scanned them back in pdf file. The guy told me print 1 sheet RM1 and scan 1 sheet RM1 *sweating*

Then when I came back home at night, checking my fax machine. I couldn't believe my eyes that it's also stuck! Luckily, this one I managed to kao-tim, but have to asked the sender to re-fax the documents tomorrow.

I hope my sister laptop can be fixed, or else my plan of getting a new camera will be changed to getting a new laptop. What a day struggling with the machines.

I've got at least 10 sheets of paper to be printed tomorrow, and here goes another RM10 again!

Help! Semi-pro Camera

There's lots of experts here, therefore, I wanted to ask for your opinion.

I just know how to operate those digital camera, but I always wanted to get a better camera for snapping my kids' photos.

The lady at the electrical fair introduce me 2 semi-pro camera:

Canon model G12 RM1799, 10MP, 5X zoom, HS system, hybrid IS

Canon model SX30IS RM1599, 14.1MP, 35X zoom, 24mm wide angle

Lense & flash can be added to G12 while SX30IS couldn't. G12 is also much lighter and compact than SX30IS. Personally, I like SX30IS, cause it's all in 1 (I don't think I'll buy extra lense or flash) and it's cheaper.

Help help, do you think it's ok for a newbie like me to get a semi-pro camera and 'play' with it? If you know other models of semi-pro camera which you think it's better, can you recommend it to me?

Thank you so much!

[Xiang 3y7m] My "golden" teeth

Xiang: Look at my upper incisors! Nice?

Xiang till now has poor refleks. Whenever he fell down, his hands seems to be locked to his side. That is why he always got hurt on his forehead, lips and 2 upper incisors teeth. His 2 upper incisors teeth already turned black and they are shaking. Even Xiang already grown intoto habit of using the side incisors and canines teeth to bite and to tear food.

We wanted to bring him to dentist but I can't imagine if the dentist decided to extract both, so we kept on delaying the thought. I was hoping that he will lost his primary teeth sooner, and not to wait till 6 years old.

Reno: Sofa Hunt 1

I'd like to blog down my renovation details, for my future reference.

I've hunt for sofa for quite some time now. Last weekend, we have almost booked a set of sofa from Lorenzo.

Almost ..... because the sales person calculated wrong price, and the actual price was way too expensive for me.

Anyway, until now, brands to my liking are Lorenzo & Gucca. During the Homedeco fair, there's a Future & Hermann booth promoting leather sofa, so another brand added to my list.

I've just came back from Rozel Jalan Ampang. All the sofa sets there are so expensive. The salesman is very helpful though. There's 2 sets much to my liking, the seats & back supports are quite firm & hard, suitable to us who constantly has backache problem.

This is the cheapest set of leather sofa there, I think. 2+3: RM6,290

This is the one I like, very modern looking. 2+3: RM7,290!

Close up on 2 seater:

Well, after posting it here, I'm satisfied. I guess these are for my EYES only, not for my fat bottom to sit on. So my sofa hunting continues this weekend, planning to go Mid-Valley Lorenzo as well as the expo there.

[Qi 2y5m]: 40.1 DegC

22 July 2010

Yeah, my most hateful virus, is attacking Qi again. She has been feverish since 2 days ago. This morning 4.30am her hands & legs were so cold, I could not do anything but put on blanket for her. 1 hour later, her temperature shoot up to 40.1 DegC, gosh!!! She hates us putting wet hanky on her body, rejected putting cool-fever on her forehead and of course hates medicine inserted at her bottom.

X-box or Wii?

Our PS1 is half-way stepping into grave. However, my kids always having a good time with those car-racing, street-fighting and shooting games. That's why we are thinking of getting a new game device for our kids.

At first, I was thinking of buying PS3. The device itself is around RM1200 - that's ok. The game DVD is around RM200 - that's really NOT ok.

Then the sales persons intoduce us X-box, saying the picture quality is almost the same PS3 if we connected using HDMI cable.

Last week, we asked again at another shop, and we found out that X-box has little game titles for kids. Wii on the other hand has a wider titles. Each DVD only cost RM8. The only difficulty will be the controllers, as some games need to have 1 controller in each hand to play.

I'm wondering anyone own X-box or Wii here? Can you please give me your opinion on these 2? Which one is easier for the kids to play?

House Reno Progress

14 July 2010

My house finally going into renovation stage. I'm glad that I joined the community website, so much that I've learnt from there about the DOs & DONTs of renovations.

Current progress, hacking out the walls and this week start piling. Piling is extremely important and so far, my husband is happy with our contractor's job. As learnt from the community website, there's lots of contractors using short cut method, which means after they put the side beam / colums, they will brick up the walls and only build the top / horizontal beams. The accurate method is to construct the whole frame first which means side beam then top beam then only stick up the brick walls. I noticed most of the houses around my current area are using short-cut method too.

There's so many things that yet to buy, the important one are sinks and lightings because the contractor needs their size to do the table top and plaster ceiling holes. Oh not forgetting the air-cond and auto-gate. The less urgent one are bathroom accessories, sofa, dining table and mattress. Every weekend were occupied to survey the prices of such items. I'm looking forward to next week Malaysia Furniture & Finishing Fair. Hope that I could get a good bargain there.

House Reno Progress

14 July 2010

My house finally going into renovation stage. I'm glad that I joined the community website, so much that I've learnt from there about the DOs & DONTs of renovations.

Current progress, hacking out the walls and this week start piling. Piling is extremely important and so far, my husband is happy with our contractor's job. As learnt from the community website, there's lots of contractors using short cut method, which means after they put the side beam / colums, they will brick up the walls and only build the top / horizontal beams. The accurate method is to construct the whole frame first which means side beam then top beam then only stick up the brick walls. I noticed most of the houses around my current area are using short-cut method too.

There's so many things that yet to buy, the important one are sinks and lightings because the contractor needs their size to do the table top and plaster ceiling holes. Oh not forgetting the air-cond and auto-gate. The less urgent one are bathroom accessories, sofa, dining table and mattress. Every weekend were occupied to survey the prices of such items. I'm looking forward to next week Malaysia Furniture & Finishing Fair. Hope that I could get a good bargain there.

[xiang 3y6m] 2nd Parents Teacher Meeting

13 July - 2nd Parents-Teacher Meeting

It's the same comments as per the first one:
1. Xiang is very very good in school. He's never a trouble-maker and always paying attention to teachers.
*wow, terbalik at home, always fighting with Qi. When I called him, usually after n-times and raising my voice only he will respond.*

2. His main problem will be reluctant to drink water.
*same old problem*

3. He's very very quiet when facing teacher. The teacher told me that she saw him talking to friends, but when the teacher ask him anything, he will give short & simple answer.
*I discussed this with the teacher, Xiang is scared to her. The teacher told me that one of the students, Noel's mom purposely authorised the teacher to spank Noel because he's out of control. Xiang saw the spanking and that's why Xiang is afraid of her.*

4. As for testing results, he scored 100% on all (Numbers, Chinese & English) while writing scored B.
*I think he just guess correctly in English, cause the vowel sounds is a bit confusing to him. Numbers & Chinese he's able to do. Anyway, not to be proud, because the teacher told me most of the students who paid attention in class scored 100% anyway.*

My curry chicken

Pai seh to say, I've never cooked curry chicken before. I saw my parents cooked it, I always felt it's so hard and tedious. I felt I'm not "qualified" for cooking that dish.

We went shopping over the weekend. The girl introduce me this:

Just need to fried the chicken & potatoes, then add in 1 pack of this and little bit water. Let it boil and all done. I did my first curry chicken yesterday. I think it tasted just ok, but it's not as fragent as my mom's.

[Qi 2y4m]: Milk time posture

Qi has a very particular habit, when she wanted to drink milk.

She will put 2 little bolster one on each of her side. She called the tiger print on her little bolster "cat-cat", and she will place the bolster so that the tiger is looking up at her. Then she will put her "duck-duck" long bolster beneth her legs. Finally her little pillow under her head, with the tiger print on top and the pillow case opening on her left hand side. So that she can put her fingers through the pillow case opening and twist it.

pillow & bolsters positioned like this

She won't take the milk bottle until every single on is in position. That's why when she starting to arrange her pillow and bolsters, we knew she's going to ask for milk.

Luckily she didn't insist this when she's away from home.

[Qi 2y4m] Wei Qi progress at 2 year 4 months

sorry for the blur image, it's the best I can do with my ah poh camera

My precious daughter Wei Qi is now 2 year 4 months, height 86cm and weight 12.5kg.

Her most strong ability will be talking. She can speak in complete sentences in Mandarine. Sometimes I can't believe those words she blurted out. At times, she speaks even better that her brother.

I wonder when I started her bad habit, it's my fault. She requested for sweets almost everyday. When we ignored her, she will ask for her alliance. Both kiddo will pull open the fridge door, stood on a stool and take down the candy box on their own. She also loves fishball, jelly, yakult, orange, pin-pin-mi-guo, barley water, pork, chicken and french fries. She hates vegetables, but luckily likes plain water.

Her favourite play stuff will be anything associate with water - wash hand, bath, swim. She loves soft toys especially cats, that's her favourite animal too. She loves swing and can swing forever. Favourite cartoon - hello kitty (a cat of course!). Loves to sing, sway and dance to children songs and chinese new year songs.

She hates her hair tied up, hence, we have her hair trimmed (wasted 1 full box of hair assesorries). She hates flowery cloths, and now insisting on choosing her own cloths to wear. She likes to wear underwear at home especially those printed with cats.

She can balance on 1 foot, jump and run, even though moved in zig-zag and unbalance way, she seldom fell down. She's already fully toilet train day & night months ago, performing extremely well whereby she only had 1 accident until now.

She recognises A~Z and 1~9. She can count actual objects up to 5. However, she's bad with colors, always mixing them up.

She has a very strong character, will fight furiously with her brother. Sometimes at playground, she even ordered the older kids to line up behind her if being cut Q. She's not afraid of strangers and she got a out-going character. However, due to her strong character, a very bad habit of hers will be throwing tantrum and kicking her legs when her wish is denied.

Oh, not forgetting her big voice, really loud and noisy, but I love it.