缘尽缘散

Specially to all my friends out there ...

Thank you for coming by this little cyberspace, over the last 3 years, for some random updates/rambling of mine.  It has been great having you here to share some of my life experiences & thoughts, despite only with the use of simple "Singlish" & not bombastic words of expression. 

I've decided to close off this blog, with effect from 3 Oct 2009, as this little outlet of mine has been seen as part of an evil plot, between some loud, scheming, evil & ill-mannered enigmas.  However, if one's conscience is clear, there's no fear. I strongly believed that TIME WILL TELL & hoping for TIME TO HEAL.

Worry not, friends!  I'll continue to live my life to the fullest & fulfill my role & responsibilities on earth.  After going through this shitty mess, hopefully, I'd pick up the courage to create another "space of mine" in the near future.  

Till we get connected again, TAKE CARE & SAYONARA !!

Cheers!
Jane         

Belated Mother's Day Card

Don't complain ... I can hear u ...

R2 must have read my previous blog post on Mother's Day Gift for this year & discovered his mummy has lodged a complaint that she didn't receive anything from him ... LOL (just joking, he's too young for it).

Last Friday evening, the moment I stepped into the house ... I saw R2 sitting at the dining table doodling "something", quietly & patiently. I didn't probe into what was it, as it's usual to see him "creating" art pieces, every now & then.

Minutes later, R2 presented this hand-drawn card to me ... although it's belated but I'm alright with it & I love it !! ... Thank you, my boy !!

He even pointed out to me that his design concept was ... each flower petal of the same colour, will come with an opposite pattern. This kid really has an eye for details.

P.S. I always encourage my kids to date their work, so that I can incorporate them into my scrapbook pages; in time to come.

Happy Mother's Day 2009

Happy Mother's Day to my mum, mother-in-law (in HK) & myself too ... though I'm still feeling down & moody, due to a couple of personal reasons ** sigh **

For documentation purpose, I've decided to do a simple post on what I've received from R1 this year. It's a handmade fabric carnation, which she bought from her school's bookshop. As usual, she got 1 stalk for me & 1 stalk for granny ... THANK YOU, Kei Kei !!

As for R2, NOTHING from him this year. I wondered how come his kindergarten teacher didn't plan for little surprises for the mummies this year ??

Anyway, I'm blessed with a pair of healthy kids ... what more can a mother ask for ??

Handling Anger & Disappointment

I must admit that I'm always facing difficulty in dealing with my anger, constructively & effectively ... especially towards my kids. There was another outburst of my anger earlier & both kids got whipped.

Reason :
R1's Chinese examination is scheduled on next Wednesday. BUT, instead of making use of this long weekend (Vesak Day PH) to do more revision exercises & school homework. Both kids have been monkeying around the house for more than half a day!! They were watching cartoons, playing board game, "catching" session from room-to-room, PSP gaming, doodling & such.

This afternoon, I did explain to them (patiently) that all the above-mentioned activities can be done after R1's examinations & throughout the whole June holiday. The priority now, is to get prepared for the upcoming Chinese papers.

However, R1 turned a deaf ear to all my advices & backtalked "What's the point of getting good results?!" ... I'm upset, really disappointed with her statement. I've been spending majority of my monthly paycheck on them for private tuition at home, several enrichment classes, health supplements, quality milk, magazine subscriptions & surprise gifts & toys (every now & then). But what do I get in return ??? ** sigh **

I just did some googling earlier & found some Tips for Handling Anger & will try to adopt some suggestions from these articles. Hoping that things will turn around real soon ... ...

P.S. My siblings had planned for a simple Mother's Day celebration at home this evening, but I wasn't in the mood to enjoy it at all.

Mugging Away ...

School examinations are here again, most mummies will get stressed up during this period of time ... & I'm definitely one of them !!

To make matter worst, some flu bugs caught up with R1 since Labour Day. She was down with high fever & flu for almost 3 days. However, this diligent little girl of mine, still insisted to attend her writing class, tuition sessions & piano class over the past weekend.

So, in between naps ... she was mugging away, trying to finish up as many test revision papers from school as well as revision exercises from her tutor.

{ Cheeky R2 was checking on his sister's progress ... ha ha ha }

Look !! A loose milk tooth, right in front ... & just only 3 days before R1's oral examinations. What a good timing !! ** faint **

My only concern was ... Will it affect her pronunciation of " S " & " F " during her upcoming oral examinations ?? ... ha ha ha

Anyway, R1 didn't experience much pain as that tooth was already very loose. It came out easily, with a little tug from me.

P.S. The Tooth Fairy has visited R1 that night & took away her baby tooth ... to SCRAPBOOK (in the near future).

In this pocket you will find a teensy, tiny tooth of mine.
So while I sleep where dreams are made,
Let's see if you can make a trade.

In this pocket I will lay, the little tooth I lost today.
Please, dear fairy, tonight as I sleep, leave me a coin.
My tooth you can keep.

By R2 ...

It's the 1st week of school holidays here, and my kiddoes have nothing better to do at home ...

So, this is done by R2 & he insisted that I MUST blog it ... no choice, gotta grant this little wish of his. Any comments? ... LOL

Mood Faces

Just wanna share ...

While I'm playing around with my camera earlier, this cheeky little one kept bugging me to take pics of his own version of mood faces ... any comments ??? ... LOL

*** 喜怒哀乐 ***

Going Home

It's time to go home !!

It's time for R2 to go back to school (Term II) !!

After 2 weeks of much KLKK-ing, shopping, eating, drinking with NC's friends ... I'm totally burnt out ... however, it was fun !!

Yesterday, we rushed like crazy to get all errands done before heading back to Singapore. We were at Guangzhou till 2pm, caught a train & reached Shenzhen around 4.30pm, then lugged our "barangs" back to HK around 11pm ... reached PIL's place & concussed till this morning.

Guess what? R2 woke up this morning & told me that he wishes to stay in HK & not coming back to Singapore ... hmmm ... that's strange & I wondered what happened to him ... ha ha ha.

Lastly, sincere thanks to Father & Mother for taking great care of R2 during the past 2 weeks. I'm sure he enjoyed his stay very much; which makes him don't feel like coming back to Singapore with us.

Also, a great thank you to *Uncle Jeffrey* for taking your time to send us to the airport.

We're Off to HK

Hi hi, I'm blogging from Singapore Changi Airport T1, while waiting to board the plane to Hong Kong ... hee hee ... shhhhh ... this shall be my 1st time to blog from here.

NC & I have decided to bring R2 along with us; although there're still a few more days to go before his March School Holidays start. By such arrangement, my mum can "take a break" for the next 2 weeks.

Anyway, look at my little boy ... he's so excited to go over to HK again. In fact, my parents-in-law are not aware that we'll be bringing him there & this is meant to be a surprise for them. (It has been slightly more than a year since they last saw R2.)

I'll try to update my blog whenever I can access it, as I understand from NC that it's impossible to access Blogger from China ... OH NO !!!

Hello, I'm Tigger

We bought this Tigger costume from Hong Kong for R2 way back in Year 2005 ... that's why, it looked a little small on him now. In fact, we chucked it into his wardrobe and totally forgotten about it ... ha ha ha

This little brat found it yesterday and eagerly asked Granny to put it on for him. Therefore, I quickly snapped some pics while he can still fit into it ... and he's simply too cute !!!

R2: "Mummy, can you help me to take a picture of my tail?? ...
Coz I can't see it from here."

R2's 4th Birthday

It's my little darling - R2's birthday today ...

NC & I went to a nearby mall to get a Doraemon birthday cake and his favourite McDonald's Happy Meal for him.

Oh yes, not forgetting some pics ... as "a good snapshot stops a moment from running away." (Although both kids were rather grouchy towards the end of said mini celebration)

UNDO The Past, Anyone?

Just another random thought of mine tonight ...

At many a times, there were situations that I simply wished that I've the ability to "undo" them. Although, many decisions/choices have been made after much brainwork, yet there were numerous cases of "if only I know ..."

Why can't life be menu-driven or at least have an 'undo' feature?

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Nevertheless, here's some "hot" snapshots of R2 (just taken this evening) that surely can help to cheer mummy up ... his smile is simply contagious, isn't it ??

Snapping, Snapping & Snapping Away ...

It was a quiet Monday afternoon where R1 went for her K2 Overnight Camp @ JCK (3 - 4 Sept 2007). What a peaceful afternoon with only 1 kid at home ... playing with his Gameboy all by himself !

So eagerly, I picked up my new toy and snapped from top to bottom, left to right ... and of coz, R2 was my model for the day!!

In fact, I'm quite clueless about my Canon EOS 40D (with much more buttons & features than my Sony T3) as I'm a 1st-time DSLR user. But I still managed to capture some "moments" of my little one playing attentively.

{ R2 : "Mummy, are you done ?" }

P.S. Those scrapping bugs are biting my hands almost everyday, I WANT TO SCRAP !!! But all my scrapbooking barang-barangs are being stored away for the time being ... so how??

Look What’s Sprouting Up !

JCK has organized a visit to the Aero-Green Vegetable Farm on 23 Aug 2007 (Thur) for all their Nursery pupils.

I'm really impressed by JCK's teaching method - they will make an effort to organise short excursion trips for their pupils at all levels; in accordance to their teaching syllabus throughout the whole year.

R2 is being taught on "Plants" this school term and he brought back his little school project on the very next day from his farm trip.

These bean sprouts are growing very well under R2's attentive care ... ha ha ha. He'll water them several times a day, where R1 & I had to drain off the excessive water - just in case "his bean sprouts got drown".

That silly little boy of mine even took a stool to sit in front of his bean sprouts and stare at them. When asked ... he told me that he's watching them grow !!

“You can learn many things from children.
How much patience you have, for instance.”
~ Franklin P. Jones