CNY Day 2 Part 1

We went back Sembawang for more packing on Day 1 of CNY.

and had special breakfast that's the Mac D on CNY Day2..no price hike..heh

And the only place we went pai nian this CNY is da gu's place at TPY.

Family pic

At da gu's house downstair

River angbao, with Pei Qi ah yi, I always think they look alike

At daddy's birth year

The kids made me so tired by climbing all the way to the last row

CNY 2012 Day 1

Spend whole day at Whampoa, as we decided to give ourselves a break from packing for D1

So decided to go Sentosa for the flower fair..bad choice..so crowded and hot...hah

CNY 2012 Reunion Dinner

With the gals ..

This year, Jared was in charge of saying the good words for lohei

Hi tea again

It was the 1st appointment for HDB for BLK 114, as usual we didn't have enough time for proper lunch..and I rused to Musee for my IPL treatment and after that we had Hi Tea at TCC

Cheap and good quality.

The Hi tea set which is very worth while ...and CNY theme only cost about $16+

The mushroom bites..yummy..

Panic and worry

This is the current status we are about Jared in his P1.

Haiz.

Everyday he would come home with many corrections. The very basic thing also he dunno.

1) Capital letters for ppl name, start of sentence

2) Fullstop at the end of sentence

3) Basic math addition story

4) Stellar handwriting.

He get very intruded when we start checking his bag..he scared we scold him for the corrections.

The worst came yesterday..it was just v.v. basic math addition story..and he said he couldn’t understand what the book wants..It sounded like I never coach him..but the fact is he already can do very advance work that required, 2 steps or multiplication and addition before come to final solution. And I simply cannot understand why he couldn’t understand the super basic work in the activity book.

In fact, I know the school work is so basic that we even have a math book which start from basic to start all over with him again.

Now I’ve decided to get an extra copy of math activities book to work with him everyday ahead of class. Also the same broad line for him to practice on English.

Then there was this stellar handwriting book. We took turn to spend with him writing all the alphabets a-z, A-Z. He came home with everything erased..and told us if more than 10 friends raised hand say its not good they have to re-do the handwriting.

This really make us could not swallow our dinner..hah. Daddy immediately wrote a long mail with his powerful English to teacher to ask why ask 6yr old kids to judge another 6yr old kid work..if want perfect writing, might as well ask them to type it out…and teacher also reply with his powerful English(for the 1st time, he used to reply with his broken,short reply)..and asked us to support his decision..hah.

Mum keep saying should have gone to hongwen as shaoqi is very happy..unlike Jared everyday come home so scared of us checking his work..

Updated 31Jan2012
Mr Kok complimented Jared's work..but the work displayed should not be his work.

Kaylen’s Speech and Drama Enrichment

Years ago, I also enrolled Jared with TRBK’s speech and drama with Julia Gabriel..and he created a big hooha, till every teacher and bus driver know, he hate enrichment..We stopped him after the 2nd lesson..and wasted the $400..$300 for sch fee, $100 for sch bus.

Many years later, I still believed kids try some speech and drama lesson…and braved my heart to enrolled Kaylen with it. This time I’m smarter, got mum to pick her up.

Guess what? She was so happy with the lesson..mum said she couldn’t stop talking about the lesson all the way home…till on the bus. She didn’t have the bread we got for her, so went straight to MacD for her happy meal.

She told us bit and pieces..all I knew was she had to pretend scared, big bear’s coming etc..

I hope I’m able to afford more lesson for her next year..Mrs Lim, the admin of TRBK suggested the art lesson which is very inspiring..haiz $$..and the gal refused to let go ballet..even though nothing much learnt.

Jared P1 Week 2

10 Jan 2012, Tues
Created a disaster as he pee in class..accident happened the weekend before, and he got a big punishment from daddy.  And now it happened in school again..haiz

This week he also learnt to spend $ on potato chips. He bought 2x in the week, $1 each..and shared with kids from the school bus.

With the recess time cutting  back to normal, he had problem finishing his food.  So far he only take the yellow soupy noodle and bee hoon..yet refused to pack any food to school.

He's coping much better and feeling less hungry and tired when reach home.

Hooked on Roald Dahl

We are at the 2nd book of the birthday pressie, George's Marvellous Medicine..it seemed more interesting than Mr. Twit. Started this book on 1st wk of school, but I did not let him bring it school for self read..as I find the words are much more chim.

So we read every weekday night for bedtime story.  Took only 2 weeks to finish this book.

Last night, it was so funny that he cry while reading, as he wanted to finish the book and yet it was already so late like 11pm+..and keep say cannot finish. hah.

Okay I prefered him reading books than play Iphone.

The Wallet

This is the very expensive wallet from Kuching, the spring mall..as I really had no time to shop for a wallet..i just went ahead and buy.., a souvenier from our home trip..hah

Birthday pressie from Ah yi for Jared's 6th birthday

Ah yi and yi zhang bought a set of Roald Dalh's  book for Jared's birthday. The 5 book set came with 2 free book..So we started with the thinner book The Twits..It was a wonderful, funny, simple, and so interesting..Started the book in end of Nov, and completed in 1st wk of Jan

Canteen choices

Kaylen's Nursery Day 2 & Day 3

Day 2 4 Jan 2012

I didn't take the school bus, but took the public bus to her school instead.  Reached there much earlier..and the school didn't allow us to join the assembly. So I left after they came down from the hall for breakfast at yakun heh.

Then coming to pick her at 9:30am with her fav bun from crystal jade. We rushed home to see Jared with the public bus.

Mum got her nike white shoes, from the china trip..cheap cheap.

Day 3 5 Jan 2012

Since I don't want to take anymore leave, we got ah yi's help to pick her up. Ah yi brought her to MacD for breakfast after that...She was so happy that she wanted ah yi to pick her everyday..hah.

Hi tea @ Marmalade Pantry

Hi tea at Marmalade Pantry Ion..We are now so hook on hi-tea..it such an indulgence for working ppl like us.

We had this on $20 set each which came with 2 cupcake(I choose the red velvet, coconut topping, another 1 is banana peanut butter).

Had this on Jared's 1st day of school..after leaving the school

Jared's Primary 1 Week 1

After coming back from Kaylen's nursery, we prepared for Jared's school.

He had lunch at around 10am+..then go down at wait for school bus which was coming at 11:15am. He was the 1st to get on the bus. I was with him also.

There were only 5 kids and they are all Whampoa area, furthest at Jalan Rajah.

So he was the 1st to reach school at the at 11:30am, even before the lights were on.

Everything was the same as the orienatation day..except we had to leave at 2:30pm before the recess.

Day 1 (3 Jan 2012 Tues)
For Day 1, he asked for bread for his lunch box and I bought him hash brown from MacD. In the end, he only ate the hash brown during recess ..so he was famished when he reached home..and cried big big time..

So heartpain to see him like that..Ony after dinner, he felt better..

The school allowed us only Day 1 till 2:30pm..and but I was still  on leave on Day2 to bring Kaylen to school and fetch her back.

Day 2 (4 Jan 2012 Wed)


On Day 2, he had fried rice for lunch, and he also asked for it to be packed to school.  But mum used the spicy sausage..so I encouraged him not to eat it, incase it get too hot for him.

So I got him to promise me that he will buy food from canteen. So he had the same yellow noodle soup from oriental delight..

And since day 2 after buying food on his own, he asked not to pack his lunch anymore..I also find it better as it's fresher, and I don't need to worry if any sauce, or lunch box topple etc.  And it may be challenging to prepare different lunch box from his lunch...and best of all it can train up his dependency...

Day 3 (5 Jan 2012 Thur)


On day 3, he bought beehoon..but didn;t get to eat nuggets as it was out of stock. He told daddy he saw some fish cake shapped like a fish look very nice..So daddy encouraged him to order that the next day.

Day 4 (6-Jan 2012 Fri)
He told us when he reached school, the hall was in used, so someone asked him to go canteen or the library. But he could not find the library. So he went to the canteen. There, he saw ppl eating..so he went to order the bee hoon + fish cake..cost 80cents for lunch, but actually he just had a very full lunch at home!..

Then he went to pee, and after that he spent the time at the canteen reading the story book we packed.  Then someone came to ask him to go up to the hall..and he saw ppl already started talking..and he realised he forgot his school bag..and he came down to take his school bag again..finally he joined the class.

When it was recess time, he order the bee hoon again...So that day, he was left with 20cents. And he even took a wang wang in the school bus..That night, he wasn't that hungry anymore during dinner.

He was fine about it..but it really make us so worry about him...So we need to get him a watch immediately, so that at 12 noon he would go up to the hall..and don't get lost else where.

On day 1, we gave him $1 as pocket money, day 2 we up it to $1.50,..as a bowl of noodle cost around $1, so that he can save 50cent..but after the 2 lunch incident...we decided to give him $2...hah.


Its really a lot of $...cos I also spend only $2-$2.20 at office eating in the canteen..

Kaylen's Nursery Day 1 (3 Jan 2012)

We had a really really busy day. Woke up at 6:45am, and gave milk to Kaylen..while we both get change..After that mum helped to get Kaylen ready while I do my makeup...then its time to send her down for school bus..

We came down just in time for bus..and its now changed to a small van..and I got into the school bus with her, she's sitting with aunty...while I took the last row.

Daddy drove to school direct and waited there for us.

It was a 1.5 hr lesson for 1st 3 days..

 In the school bus

aunty bringing the kids to the kindy

Kaylen being brought wrongly to the prenursery classroom. We got Mrs Era, the principal's help to get her back to her own nursery class

The nursery class would gather in class flipping some books before being brought to assembly hall upstair together

 at the assembly hall

Going home..Kaylen was so happy given a new bag.

We managed to have a break at MacD for breakfast while waiting for Kaylen.

After that we rushed home to get Jared ready for school.

Welcome 2012 and goodbye 2011

On the last day of 2011, we spent most of time talking to ID..and finally made our decision to leave our new place design to D'trenzo's Cyrus.  It was something which have troubled us for ~3mths ever since we sold off Sembawang hse.

Meeting IDs took a lot of time, each meeting is abt 3hrs, 1st meet up to tell ID the requirement, 2nd meet up to discuss the quotation..and more meet up to view their work on site..Some after meet up did not provide any quote..so its like wasting 2hr with them for nothing.

Am so glad that we have finally came to the decision..and hopefully is the right one..

After the meetup we went back to Whampoa and had dinner at Suki sushi..

Hopefully 2012 is a better year..the kids behave...blessed with good health...smooth renovation process...and lotsa of $$$....YEH!!