my little wanqi

8th Wedding Anniversary

2011-12-13T07:14:00.001-08:00

Happy 8th Wedding Anniversary!!! Thanks for being there. The guy who is always waiting for me:P , caring for me, stress up by me due to my poor health, doing many many tasks for me, taking care of WanQi for me, buying gifts for me,solving problems for me, listening to me, nagging at me(hee).

Take the advice from our far sighted Mr Lee Kuan Yew

2011-10-09T21:36:00.001-07:00

Take the advice from our far sighted Mr Lee Kuan Yew
This morning, my dad came over to my house at 6:30am as I need to go to school to conduct oral examination. He then told me that I better let Wan Qi speak more Mandarin, dont neglect Mandarin as he felt that Wan Qi's spoken Mandarin is not as good as before. He warned me that Mr Lee Kuan Yew had already hinted Singaporeans to learn our mother tongue and we better listen to his advice. If not our younger generation who is not able to grasp this language well will suffer.

Yes, I defintely agree with that. In the early 80s, former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew had warned that the easy supply of maids would dry up once the neighbours became more prosperous. And true enough nowadays there have articles saying that the supply of Indonesia and Phililpine maids are going to drop drastically.

In view of that ,we better let our children learn Chinese well. It will be a shame if we did not heed his advice and still think that having our children speak the ANG MO accent Mandarin is cool. If we do that we will be putting our children's future at stake.

So after what my dad told me I quickly took the P1 Chinese assessment book from Malaysia for Wan Qi to do. Haha I told her that Mr Lee Kuan Yew already warned us to learn Chinese well if not she will not be able to have a good job next time. Quickly she started doing the assessment without any hesitation. Hey it works.

Our Emotional Encounter with the Lizard

2011-10-07T18:38:00.000-07:00

Yesterday after Wan Qi's rehearsal for her musical concert, I decided to bring Wan Qi to my cousin's house as both Wan Qi and I wanted to take a look at the 3mth old poodle.
While we were approaching my cousin's house, I felt something dropping on me. I was a bit apprehensive as my sixth sense tells me that its a lizard. I quickly take a glance at my t-shirt and skirt and was relieved to see no trace of it.
Then Wan Qi started to shout,"Mama, Mama , there 's a lizard on your back".The moment I heard this, I was trying to convince myself it was on my "BAG" and not on my "BACK". Instantly, I threw my bag away. But Wan Qi continued to shout"Lizard !!!Lizard !!!" At that moment, I knew that the lizard was on my back. I started shouting to ask Wan Qi to help me fan it away. Unfortunately, she was scared of lizards as well. She started shouting, screaming, crying all at the same time because the Mama was shouting, screaming and almost crying as well. I dont dare to move and I dont dare to use my hand to touch my back. I tried to jump a little hoping that the lizard will drop off and DIE. But it didnt. I was hopeless as only my niece was at home, my cousin was not at home.
I was at a loss, thinking this is the end of me. Then my cousin's neighbour who heard our shouting , screaming and crying , opened their door and asked me what had happened. I shouted "Lizard!!! Lizard!!! There is a lizard on me!" The kind lady neighbour quickly got his husband to help me. He got an umbrella to help me fan off the lizard. But this action took quite a while cos Wan Qi was crying and screaming so the kind lady had to ask Wan Qi to go over to her before her husband can fan off the lizard. Gosh!!! It lasted like ages!!!
The lady neighbour is really very kind. She even hugged Wan Qi and told her not to be scared. She said Wan Qi's heart was pumping very fast. I was apologetic for causing Wan Qi to be so scared but really have no choice. I was scared out of wits myself.
After her husband fan off the lizard, the lizard went into my cousin 's house and set off another round of screaming and shouting as MY NIECE is also afraid of lizard. hahaha(Now I can laugh in fact as I am writing this blog, both Wan Qi and I are laughing and laughing)So the wife actually asked his husband to go into the house and catch the lizard. And her MACHO HUSBAND went to catch the lizard barehand with the help of a piece of tissue.
When he caught the lizard and was about to come out of the house, this set another round of shouting from me. I ran and shouted running towards my cousin's neighbour's house together with the neighbours' children. Oh my goodness, it was a big and long one. YIIIIIII so so scary. Then the kind lady neighbour told me this is the first time she saw her husband catching the lizard barehand. He never catch it as he himself is also a bit scared. Then she said it was amazing he actually catch it for me. I thanked them non stop.
It was really a 惊魂 experience. And a hilarious one. :P

My Girl is 8 years old TODAY

2011-09-19T07:04:00.000-07:00

2nd year National Day Celebration in LSK for Wan Qi

2011-08-05T07:59:00.002-07:00

This is the second year that Wan Qi celebrates her National Day in LSK. Last year, my mum brought her to school by taxi but there was a jam. In the end, they were late for almost an hour. This year my school will be celebrating National Day on Monday and LSK celebrated on Friday which means I can go. Yippee. I am so excited about it.
Went to Little India the day before to get the bracelets and forehead stickers for her with Mr Yeo Goody Daddy (Even though he is real tired from managing the national day celebration. His eyes are all red due to lack of sleep. Poor thing. but he still accompany me to buy his daughter's thingy.)
On the important day, Wan Qi could nt wake up. I had to ask her Giraffy - a name she gave to her new stuff toy bought by her gong gong to give her an acupunture before she will wake up. I often use the giraffe mouth to poke at her stomach and say it giraffy acupunture and she will laugh and laugh as it is very ticklish. So we managed to get to school 15mins earlier.
Waited for a while and my niece arrived. So of course its photo taking time. Oh its difficult to take pictures of my niece cos she is camera shy at the beginning and we are short of time. She wont want to look at the camera. haha. It was only after a good warm up in school then she is ok with the photography.
I like the picture that I took for my mum with her two grand daughters so cute and sweet. :)
After the celebration, all of Wan Qi's bracelets were gone. Why ? She distributed to all her friends. :P Aiyo I was thinking what a waste. haha. They look so pretty. Actually this costume was worn by her during her 3year old celebration in Dayspring Kindergarten. My mum had enlarged the top for Wan Qi if not she cant wear already. I also changed the bracelet from green to pink. Just to have a little change. But Wan Qi said she prefer to wear red and white shorts just like most of her classmates. Sigh I made and effort to dress her up and she said she just wanted to wear a red top and a white shorts. Dont care next year plan for her to wear sari. haha vainpot and domineering mummy.

gosh postpone for hong kongtrip blogging

2011-08-05T07:59:00.001-07:00

Day 2 Lamma Island- Educational Trip

2011-06-21T02:44:00.001-07:00

Yipee we reached the pier to Lamma Island. The ferry ticket is only $17.70hkg dollar.

Wan Qi loves cats. She is so happy to see one in Lamma island and kept stroking it.
I pray she does not bring one home when she is bigger. haha or my milky will be scared to death. haha ya a dog scared of cats. Just know it that day, a black cat tried to frighten it and she quickly run back to her mama (me!!!)

pupa fish. It will blow up its stomach when being "tickled" by the fisherman. a cute and funny sight.

This sea creature can be found way in dinosour time. The fisherman says that as it is ugly so nobody wants to eat them not even animals. haha. But now people do, they eat up the legs.

Wan Qi get a chance to feed the gigantic fishes. They were enormous. As big as me.

Didnt know starfish is hard. thought its slimy slimy

This is a 30 plus years old ship. Notice Wan Qi has a HU LU behind her back. This HU LU is actually used by fishermen to prevent their young toddlers or children from drowning. They are tied behind the kids at their backs to act like life jackets.

Pull Pull Pull

Wan Qi went to touch the scallop and abalone before the chef cooked it.

Eating seafood in Lamma Island is a must. Its so cheap. We order a fish, prawns, scallop and one abalone(haha the one and only)vege only cost $30.
But think should have tried Rainbow(the famous seafood restaurant in lamma island). The one that we tried is not bad , the food is fresh but think Rainbow might be more delicious since its famous.

Day 2 Hongkong - shopping at causeway bay and end up in NAN YA island

2011-06-21T02:08:00.000-07:00

We went to causeway bay to do shopping. Yeo Yeo bought his working shirts in g2000 and they were cheap. :)Then we shopped in times square and met my colleague Hui Ru. She told me the way to go to Lian Xiang by MTR. Thanks to her, we saved money cos I was thinking of taking a cab the next day when we go for dim sum.
And since it started to rain, I decided not to shop in causeway bay. We then proceed to Wellington st where all the yummy food are. Managed to find Lian Xiang but it was simply too crowded so we headed to another famous toast stall. It was just a small eatery but it was packed of people (many famous people patronize this eatery). But we decided not to eat there as the lady boss was so stuck up. Who bothers, dont think the toast or ham macroni will be that great after all. We left the place and walked further down. This place is full of up slope and down slope. PANT PANT PANT!!!
And finally I found the famous wanton noodle eatery. So of course must try. Not bad. Yum Yum Yum. Then I proceed to look for the famous goose restaurant. Unfortunately there are too too many people. Famous people patronize this restaurant too. Saw Goh Chok Tong's picture at the entrance and many other country leaders. wow!
In the meantime, I always take note of the road signs. And I guessed that from Wellington st, I can get to central pier. So we just walked and walked. Finally we saw the MTR and Xihong said we just take it to see if we can make it to central pier to take the ferry to lamma island. But I thought there should be a bus that we can take to the central pier since we are already near zhong huan so I went to the bus stop and true enough there is a bus 15C to central pier. Hit jackpot!!! Yipee. And its a fun ride.

It's so windy at the top of the open top bus. Lucky that we took it after a rain or it will be too hot to enjoy the ride.

Xihong bought this peanut candy at their souvenir shop. But I dont dare to try all this sweet stuff.

So we managed to find central pier.haha Must praise myself for it cos I managed to find the open top bus without going by MTR suggested by Mr Yeo. Killed two birds with one stone. We can enjoy the trip by the open top bus(and its so cheap only $4.60 HKG dollar)plus it stops right at the central pier. If we were to take MTR, we will have to walk a long long way.The ferry fare is only $17.70HKG not even $3 SGD

Day 2 Hongkong

2011-06-21T02:01:00.000-07:00

Not so early in the morning, we went out. Actually intended to go Lian Xiang Restaurant - a famous and old dim sum restaurant but since we woke up too late decided not to go. We woke up at 8 plus. Ya its considered late cos this restaurant open at 5am and it will be very packed if we go too late.(Thats what I gathered from the food bloggers for HKG)so we ended in a small eatery nearby our place. The YOU TIAO is great but not so for the porridge. Xihong ate the pigs' blood porridge. He siad is good but not my century egg porridge, I dont like HKG pork taste. haha
Still prefer Singapore century egg porridge

2nd Day in Hongkong

2011-06-21T01:14:00.000-07:00

This is a must desert that I must have when go to HongKong. XU LIU SHAN mango desert. Yummy!!! ate 2 bowls. And of course before that we had fishball noodles and oyster porridge. Yummy Yummy!!!

We stayed in cosmo mongkok. convenient and its clean. just that its quite small but of course hotels are generally small unless its though high end hotels. This is just a 4 star but as long as its cheap and clean, still all right lo. We paid only $238 for 4 days 3 nights thanks to groupon. haha

Managed to go to temple street in Hongkong's mini bus. It only cost HKG$4.20 which is SGD70 cents. Wow the old driver actually has to multi task. We will drop the coins into the box, he will pull it with a string attached to it so that the coins will drop into the container. Then before every stop he has to say out aloud the street name. He is very nice and even apologised when he didnt tell us to alight at temple street.(Which in the first place we didnt ask him to do so, as I thought I will be able to see the road name as we go along.This is call GEK KIANG lo)

Originally, I wanted to go to Temple Street(Miao Jie)to eat at DA PAI DANG but it started to rain and we still cant find temple street so in the end we chose to eat in a small restaurant as there were many people in it. We ordered a set which includes steam fish , tofu and vege. The fish is very fresh and tasty. Thumbs up for the fish.

Had steam egg desert for supper. The place is crowded with many locals. But I dont really fancy this desert actually, just follow the crowd.

Our impromtu Hongkong Trip- 1st Day

2011-06-21T00:41:00.001-07:00

I wanted to go to Perth this holiday. Had did a lot of research but in the end Mr Yeo said Perth is meant for old people. Its the place where both of us can go when we turn old. So abolish Perth trip, then Cameron Highland. But after the jam experience, we decided to stay in Singapore. Then my cousin asked me to join her in her Hongkong trip. She said Groupon had a good offer plus Tiger airtickets having discount so I checked it out. True enough its cheap considering last year I paid $1600 just for tickets and this time round with $1200 I can have both accomodation and return tickets to Hongkong. So its decided. Hongkong Trip again.
But then because I am cheapo, tried to recommend hubby for the Groupon trip so that there is a 10 dollars discount, I missed the cheap air tickets to Hongkong. I didnt know that within half an hour, the prices of air tickets can differ so far.
So Xihong suggested we go to Macau first since the air tickets are just $750 for three persons. But that will mean I cant join my cousins. But since we are not going to Disneyland this time so its ok lo. Just that Wan Qi cannot be with her cousins on the plane together.

ok we have mc breakfast before boarding the plane as Tiger airplane doesnt serve free food. haha. Wan Qi asked me, "Ma ma, how come the air stewardess haven serve us food?" I replied"No la , for budget plane, food is not free and is ex to buy so there is no food. You are not hungry right?""No, but then why do they need this table then?""For you to write and draw."I told Wan Qi.

After 3hrs and 20mins flight, we reached Macau.

Had wanton noodle at Venetian Hotel. Not bad but I still prefer Mongkok's fishball noodle. Its simply the best. After eating 3 bowls still have not enough. haha

In Lisboa Hotel Macau. Wan Qi acted as a princess posing here and there. Generally, the hotels in Macau are big and clean. This Lisboa is great has a jacuzzi tub. Very comfy!!!

Baking class at sengkang cc

2011-06-07T19:22:00.000-07:00

Brought Wan Qi to sengkang cc for her baking class yesterday. She said it was fun. Parents are not allowed to go in so I do not know what she did. She is suppposed to cook chicken wing and cookies. But Wan Qi told me she only baked the cookies. A big sister helped her to cook the chicken. Sign. That is what happen when there are elder sisters around helping. They ended up doing all the things for the younger ones. But ok Wan Qi enjoyed herself.

We accidentally go to JB

2011-06-07T19:11:00.000-07:00

On saturday we went to Jurong pt Swenson to have breakfast as I need to pass quite a few pairs of crocs to mummies (cos I am doing a spree on crocs shoes kiddies only)
And since we are already at Jurong, we thought why not go to JB. And we went and got stuck in the traffic jam for 4hrs. ahhhhh. It was hot hot. But silly Wan Qi said she likes traffic jam cos that will mean she can climb in and out of the boot.
And since by the time we reached jb its already 4-5pm, we decided to stay overnight. And gosh since its impromptu we need to book a hotel. We drove along and saw a decent tune hotel but its fully booked ahhh. So I suggested going to Thistle Hotel. But I can only fairly remember the location. And the thing about Malaysia road is if you miss it, you will take a long time to find a u turn. After searching for an hour we finally reached Thistle Hotel. Oh but I think it should be the best hotel in JB, very comfy!!!
Aftert this horrible traffic jam, we decided to cancel our trip to cameron highland. We immediately cancel the booking after we came back from our impromtu 2day 1 night trip.

School Holidays!!!!!!!

2011-05-28T20:07:00.000-07:00

When I was young, whenever school holiday starts, I will go to my grandma house in Malaysia. Over there I will have lots of fun cos all my cousins are there. And there are many of them and we are very close to each other. We will play day and night. Though we don have mother garden sets, we have the real thingy which nowadays or even children at my age have not experience before. My grandma house has a backyard where we will pluck all the weeds, secretly stole charcoal from my aunts kitchen, stole my grandma's home grown bittergourd, stole my grandma's egg from the barn and cooked in the backyard. It's so so fun.
All these Wan Qi are not able to play with which is very sad. My grandma's old house has long been demolished, now they lived in a town. So even when Wan Qi went back, she can no longer played the same thing like me.
Hence to compensate, I try to let her play with her cousins at home with the toys I bought. I hope she has a fun childhood just like me. :>

Wan Qi's first ballet class@Ballet Academy

2011-05-14T06:54:00.001-07:00

Milky my little doogie kept sniffing Wan Qi's ballerina shoes, stockings. And following Wan Qi . Think she smells Phoebe and is thinking how come Wan Qi smells like a different person, haha cos this ballerina suit was lent by Annie(Phoebe's mummy). Thanks Annie.

I was surprised she stands just like a ballerina. haha nobody taught her that. :>

As the ballet shoes are very delicate, I asked Wan Qi to wear her bloom shoes when she is outside the school compound. Plus, the shoes belongs to Phoebe. :>

14th May 2011 is Wan Qi's first ballet lesson. She longed for ballet classes but was too lazy to source a good ballet school for her. Finally, I registered her in Ballet Academy which I thought is good. There are many teenagers and adult learners who had been there for a long time. So I just give it a try.

I borrowed a set of ballerina suit together with tutu and shoes from my colleague Annie. And she is so nice to even lend the stockings to Wan Qi. Thank you Annie. :>

In the morning,after doing some work, we prepared ourselves and by 11:00am, we set off. However, it started to rain when we were about to go and take a train. As I was afraid that Wan Qi's stocking will be wet, I carried her from time to time. By the time we reached Ballet Academy, I was breathless. But this little girl kept telling me that she loves me a lot when I carry her. She told me she is already very heavy.
She is a sensible girl most of the time. :>
We were early. And Wan Qi was the first to arrive. I cant see what the little ballerinas but once in a while there will be some late comers so I managed to catch a glimpse of whats going on in the class. While others were busy peeping into the hole to video the little ballerinas. I could merely see them doing it as I was too short and I felt a bit funny to tiptoe like them. :)So no choice just have to wait for Wan Qi to come out to ask her what had she learnt.
She is very happy. She likes her ballet lesson which is good. :> That is all I want. A happy ballerina.

Staying at Harris Batam 2Day1Nite trip

2011-05-10T16:25:00.000-07:00

Just look at the way Wan Qi stand. I thought it looked a bit comical and quickly snapped this pic

Went to Batam for a 2Day1Nite trip during the long weekend. But I went only on Sunday as I was the reserve presiding officer on polling day. The very next day after watching the election at 3plus am, I woke up the next day, all prepared for the trip.
All in all we paid $216 with incl the hotel stay, massage for 2 , bowling, ferry tickets and the ride to downtown. We did not book for Wan Qi's share as we thought it will be a waste since she werent be enjoying the massage.Hence, we just reached Harbour Front earlier to buy her tickets. In the end, we only need to pay for her taxes not even the ferry tickets. :)
After having mc, we proceeded to take the ferry. It was a short hour trip so still not bad. And after reaching, we took the shuttle bus to Harris,think its only a 5min drive from the ferry terminal.
Their service is good. The pools are big and clean too. But Xihong thought it will be dirty so he didnt bring Wan Qi 's swimsuit along. And Wan Qi kept throwing temper as she wanted to go swimming. So angry with her.
But overall, the trip was relaxing. The best part I think was when we went to a pub by the sea and watched the moonlight and stars while Wan Qi drank her hot milo and eating fries. I mean you seldom get to see stars in Singapore.
The next morning, Wan Qi go for her treasure hunt. It was not bad. The children got to solve the puzzle first before using the map to find the location of the hiding place. Then they went to the hiding place to find the treasure. It was quite a big area for the children to find. In fact, the teacher herself couldnt find the toy and we as adults couldnt find the toy too. In the end, the teacher had to ask the person who had hidden the toy personally. Then with some clues, Wan Qi found the toy. Hurray for Wan Qi. So everyone was given a scarf.
Next, they did origami. They folded a complicated paper aeroplane. I am always lousy when it comes to origami. And had a paper aeroplane flying competition after that. Then we decided to go for bowling but Wan Qi insisted on staying with the kids. So we went on our own bravely (since the rest of the kids are on their own)
But I managed to drag Wan Qi to take a picture with her dad in the bowling arcade who strike all the way. No la just kidding. Striked occasionally only. hee

Cake Set , Doctor Set , Ice Cream Set

2011-05-05T05:57:00.001-07:00

Cake Set at $46.90

Doctor Set at $36.90

Ice cream set at $46.90 While stock lasts! Helping to sell this.

Happy 5th Birthday my sweetie Wan Qi

2011-05-01T07:58:00.000-07:00

Preparation for the decoration of bakezine cake. Bathe the dwarfs first.

Wan Qi insisted adding the ugly Snow White. She said its ok, she is ugly too. haha

Using her phonics skill, Wan Qi read from the hawker signboard and told me she wanted to eat kway chap. So I bought her a set. See! She is using the chopsticks with her right hand. She can use chopsticks with her left and right hand. :)

Went to SIMALU to pray for Wan Qi's good health, happiness,safety.:>
Thank you Guang Yin Niang Niang for blessing Wan Qi.

Flowery shoe to match the gown.

We went to take BIG HEAD PHOTO. It's fun.

Wan Qi is easily contented when it comes to food (she will be tremendously happy if she is given the forbidden food so on her birthday, we decided to bring her to mc.)

Bought this princess gown for Wan Qi, love the big ribbon!

How's my Snow White and the 7 dwarfs cake? Not bad right. Didnt dare to take a closer shot as I am afraid the snow white will be "exposed". Wan Qi commented that she is ugly due to her puffy eyes.

My happy girl!

Suddenly, remember that I need to let Wan Qi wear her snow white costume and quickly changed her. Xihong was complaining that I am so troublesome.By the time, we eat the cake, it will be not delicious anymore. And it's true. :P

This is for papa as he is the grumpiest person in the family. haha

This is chosen by Wan Qi as she loves the sleepy dwarf.

This is for mummy cos the rest were rolled in the "mud". I told Wan Qi the dwarfs played too much in the mud (chocolate)

Wan Qi's First Birthday celebration in Living Santuary

2011-05-01T07:03:00.000-07:00

Those who have been reading my blog will know that I had spent a lot of effort in Wan Qi's birthday celebration. Unfortunately, it did not end there. The supplier actually sent the wrong Snow White to me. I thought it was horribly ugly. But since it couldnt be helped, I continued to use them. We wrapped the snow white and bas key chain and packed them together with the pencil case. I spent so much time preparing them and actually forgot to take pictures of them. (smack head)
I also tried to change Wan Qi's old shoe to Snow White black shoe by replacing the pink ribbon to black ribbon. In addition, Wan Qi also repainted the shoe with marker as it was a bit old. And I saved at least $30 without having to buy a new pair of black shoes for Wan Qi. I am sort of relieved that it was finally over. But on the other hand, I was a bit sad that it's over too fast. And my little baby is already 5years old. Whenever I said this to Wan Qi, she will pretend to cry like a baby and let me carry her.

My little niece joined in the singing with Wan Qi. As Wan Qi walked to the front, she signalled to my little niece to come to the front and she did without any hesitation. She is a brave girl. :) And she knew that its Wan Qi's birthday when the song ended,she did not steal the limelight. Instead, she asked Wan Qi to blow the candles which I thought its very mature of her. Think many a times, a young toddler will just blow their friends' candles. haha. It was only when she saw that Wan Qi had problem blowing the candles,she offered her help which kind of scared us out of our wits. She nearly kissed the burning flame. Luckily, she is ok. On the way back, my niece sang a birthday song for Wan Qi. She also sang the new oldies song which was taught by the teacher during assembly time. I love you I love you, she sang and laughed and laughed. Because their teachers were so energetic and cute when they sang this songs and occasionally teasing the children. I am a lousy mummy when it comes to tying Wan Qi's hair. Just trying to fix this red ribbon caused me so much stress. I wanted to put this ribbon in the middle just like Snow White but just couldnt make it. In the end, I took the easy way out, by just clipping by the side

I'm sorry that I dont have confident in you

2011-04-13T08:01:00.000-07:00

It was early in the morning and I was packing Wan Qi's bag then I realised the two self made cars, fish and vegetable she made in school had a name Eunice printed on it. I then realised that the car does not belong to Wan Qi. After hearing one of my students caught stealing friends' storybooks, I was afraid that Wan Qi also steal her friends' things. So I decided to question her. But I swear I was just asking her. But she got so agitated that she began to cry and said that she was not the one who took the car. She said that she hated her class and bla bla bla.I tried to reason with her that its ok if she took it by mistake but she began to cry louder. Then I began to ask her who is Eunice then. She said she she doesnt know anyone by the name of Eunice and said that she must be from the morning class.
She got so upset that she doesnt want her breakfast. She told me she doesnt have appetite. Then I said she must eat something. And I thought it's better for me to leave her alone to cool down. So I told her to eat her breakfast and I will go and buy pork and carrot to cook for her lunch to be brought to school.
After I came back, I saw her writing on a piece of paper. When she saw me, she passed me the paper. I read the paper. It reads"Mummy, do you want me to go and die". I was like "Goodness, this little girl. She is so scary"and "hey, she knows how to spell these words" So I told her of course ma ma wouldn't want you to die. I took nine months to give birth to you and it was very painful. You were so little then and now you are so big. I had taken so much effort to raise you up. Why will I do that. My voice was calm but loving. She then ran to me and said sorry and gave me a big hug.
I told her that this is just a small matter. There is no need to say such a strong word. So she went to crush the paper. I told her that its important that we returned the things to the person. But we must make sure that we didnt take it intentionally. I tried to be careful with my words and yet at the same time deliver the message to her. She told me she didnt steal it. I told her thats good.
When we were about to go to school, I tried to test her again by asking how many girls are there in her class. She told me there are 13 and I wanted her to name the girls. And then she mentioned Eunice. So I was half convinced that there actually is a Eunice and she had been lying to me. She said she said it wrongly and that she spoke the truth. So I told her I will ask her teacher. She then said I can ask her teacher. Then I said ok if she is really speaking the truth, I will buy her a present. A reward for being a truthful and honest girl. On the other hand, if she is telling a lie, she will get punishment tonight. And she was so happy upon hearing that.
So I went into the hall with her. I thought I will just ask her classmate. But her classmates looked at me in a daze. So I thought I better ask her teacher. And when the teacher know that I am Wan Qi's mummy. She said"Oh, you are Wan Qi's mummy. Wan Qi is such an intelligent and smart girl. And she is very very helpful." I was happy to hear that and even happier to know that my little Wan Qi is a honest girl. As the truth is the teacher gace her an additional set wrongly. The Eunice is from the morning session. Phew, she didnt tell lies.
Though some of you might be thinking I am being too paranoid. But I just want to play safe. If she really did, at least I know it when she did wrongly the first time so that I can let her know that it is wrong to steal and lie.
And as promised, I ased Xihong to bring Wan Qi and I to OG so that she can chose her barbie doll which she wanted it long ago.
But in the end, she chose a doll at $22.90 with a cradle. I was like laughing inside me cos it was so much cheaper. A barbie doll is so so ex.

In Preparation for Wan Qi birthday celebration - Stress

2011-04-09T17:50:00.000-07:00

It all started when my aunt told her friend cum landlord that I will be able to solve the problem of getting the extra pencil cases(which is meant to be the goodies for Wan Qi's kindergarden friends). Her landlord promise that there will be 10 disney princess pencil cases when there are 2 only but thomas there are 10. So in the end, I have to think of ways to get it. Taobao website is full of resources so I tried and I found the same pencil cases but its hello kitty and mickey. Then 1 fine day, Wan Qi told me she has 3 more new classmates. I was like whtat !!!!!That means I have to start another spree again. So in order to get the minimum weight of 30kg, I bought toys and snow white key chain since this year, Wan Qi's birthday theme is Snow white and the seven dwarfs. I even bought a set of snow white and the seven dwarfs for the birthday decoration.
Never did I realise this is the beginning of my nightmare. I had to contact one of the toys supplier late at night for the prices bla bla. Then the shoe supplier which I intended to buy from was really hostile. Cos I needed 5 so I told him that I need which sizes and hoped he can helped me by gathering them, changed the price to 5 shoes so that it will be easier for my shipping friend. He said he cant remember so I provided the link and everything to my shipping "friend". However, he was quite fed up with him as he need to click each and everyone of them. So in the end, he told me that it is better I do it myself.
I tried but failed after many attempts. Then I realised its because the money has not been paid to the toy supplier. So I asked this friend to pay him first so that I can try to buy the shoes myself. But failed too. After stuck in the computer from 9-1pm. The key chain supplier suggested that the shipping friend should transfer all the money to me so that I can click by myself and that will be easier. So he did. And then I realised that the money still cant get through.In the end, I called China Taobao to find out why. I was told that cos I was a foreigner and need to apply for these and that. So I tried to apply failed. Ased friend to try. By then it was 3pm. I nearly cry out cos my money was frozen. I made ample calls to China, in the end the only way is to wait for another 7 ways to let the money go back to the shipping friend. But part of the money was allowed to be used so I thought I will used it to buy the shoes first since the supplier was hostile, I dont care I just want to get it.Tried but failed called them again, they say its the password thingy which I didnt set. I did infact I set for 3 to 4 times.
In the end, I decided to give this money to the shipping friend as a gift for trying tio help in the later part though if he had helped me the first time things would not have been so complicated. Still he kept helping me by trying to get into their system to apply for foreigner pass. This time the transfer was a breeze. But this friends insisted of not accepting. But he helped me to make all the purchases.
However, I told him I will still remit the moeny no matter what for his kindness
Total damage, the unknown scary china call bills, sleepless night,plus an angry husband. He was angry that I got stuck in the computer neglecting him. I'm sorry I promised this will the last time I organise spree. But the consolation, knowing that I have a very sensible girl. I was stuck in the computer for hours. She came a few times to want to play the computer. But I told her I have to fix this problem so she just went to play with dolls and read so many chinese books and Charlotte's Web. In the middle of the day she told me"妈妈，其实我的生日并不是那么重要的，没有也不要紧的" Oh her words melted my heart and I cried because I am so touched and also because I am so exhausted.
In the evening after I settled my thingy as the shipping friend will helped to do my purchases. I quickly go and do housework with Wan Qi's helped. She helped to vacuum and wipe the furnitures.
Mr Yeo, please dont be angry ok. No more such sprees. I know you care a lot about bonding. :>

Lazy Saturday late morning

2011-04-06T16:49:00.000-07:00

It's a lazy saturday late morning ater we woke up from our nap.(ya cos Wan Qi woke up real early so we made her take a nap with us in the morning after breakfast)Then Xihong suggested we self drive to kukup. I was like hah now but I haven tell my colleague in advance so I said no. Then he sugested we go Sentosa.Ok though I am not sure what Sentosa can offer besides underwater world, watch dolphin which I dont want too. Cos Wan Qi has gone underwater world for 3 times already. Its really ex. Nevertheless, I go along with him.
Ended up we paid $12 for entry and parking. So ex lo and we ended up in the beach.But we were not dressed for that. It was hot hot hot. Even the sand was so hot when you stepped on it. But Wan Qi was having fun. We made sandcastles and Wan Qi wanted to moat around it. So she tried to collect the water to and fro from the sea. And went screaming when the big wave comes. Funny sight.
Soon after we left the beach and decided to explore Sentosa by taking their free bus ride. There was nothing much so we decided to go to Resort World. There was not much thing too except candylicious. We went in, shopped around and bought an ice cream. So ex $6 a small cup.
And we had tea break at Ruyi. Not bad though.By then it was 4pm, we wanted to go to Universal but at 7pm (cheapo)but we were not sure if the entrance is really $5 so decided not to wait as it was really boring to wait till 7pm. So we headed home.

Wan Qi miss her Gong Gong

2011-04-03T18:53:00.000-07:00

Brought my dad to the airport last last Sunday. He went to Taiwan. At first, I was worried about the radiation thingy and called the agency to cancel it. But they reassured us that its ok over there at Taiwan if not they will forfeit my whole tour fare since its 2 days before we set off. Suddenly, I remember that my niece is Taiwan, so I asked my mum to call my eldest sister to check with my niece. And my niece said that everything is ok at Taiwan.
So off we went on Sunday. But I told my dad to wear and throw his clothes everyday as I read report that radiation particles will stay on the clothes if the radiation level is not too high it will be ok.
While we were at the departure place, we took a picture together. Then shortly my dad went in. Wan Qi gave a hug to her Gong Gong and said goodbye unwillingly. When my dad went off, she started crying very sadly and said she miss Gong Gong already.
And we got to console her for quite a while.

Wan Qi's learning journey

2011-04-01T09:46:00.000-07:00

Wan Qi is going to be 5 soon. So fast, I kept saying to her this few days. I miss the cutie small small you, I would say. And she will pretend to be a baby crying. haha.
Back then when she was a little girl, I always set some targets like Wan Qi being able to do 40 pcs puzzles by the age of 2. Being able to recite Chinese poems by the age of 18months. Being able to use chopstick byt the age of 2 and bla bla. My mum said thats why I age fast. Ya but I cant help it owing to the nature of my job as a teacher. Nowadays, children are so smart.
I was shock to see my Primary 1 students reading Mr Men stories in class. Or even thicker books like The series of fairies books that are so popular with my students.
Hence, I started to read Roald Dahl's books(my favourite author during my childhood time) when Wan Qi is 3yrs old.She didnt reject it but wouldnt read it on her own. So I figure its a bit too tough. I just read it to her for entertainment purpose.Then I decided to buy a set of Mr Men. And she loves it, she thinks its funny. Then I bought some thicker books when she is 4. But she didnt read on her own. So I just left in the lower shelf, hoping that she will go and read it by herself when she wakes up at 6 plus or 7 every morning to do reading aloud(which I am proud of but also sick of it cos she is so loud that she wakes me up)Finally, after lying on the shelf for a few weeks, she started reading them. And thats it, she started reading the thick books that my students are reading. She reads Enid Blyton now, Nancy Drew, The fairy series, Scardey cats, and last few weeks Roald Dahl. However, for Roald Dahl, she will read just a few chapters and she will pester me to read it for her. Yesterday, we finally finished Matilda but at 12 midnight. She doesnt want to stop as she is too curious about the ending. That's the thing about Roald Dahl's books, one simply cant stop from reading it.
So tala, Wan Qi is able to read on her own by the age of 4.
For Chinese, she is able to read on her own too. Now she is reading Journey to the West simplified version and with the help of HAN YU PIN YIN. I have not taught her HAN YU PIN YIN. But she will try to use phonics to help her use the HAN YU PIN YIN to read the chinese characters. And if she didnt get the sound correctly, she will think about it and correct herself. She is able to read our Primary 4 textbooks with some help. I must say she can recognise and guess the characters quite well in context.
But for writing, she seems to be not doing so well. It took her a 2-3 days to remember simple chinese characters like 4,5. She is better in her English spelling though. Within minutes, she is able to memorise all the 10 spelling that I gave her.Thanks to Auntie Sharon I guess. :> But oops sometimes she still cannot distinguish between a u and a y which makes me very angry.
As for abacus, we had stopped her from going as we didnt see any progress. So we just coach her at home. She is able to do sums using abacus till 90 plus. For mental calculation only within 20. But sometimes she will also forget if we didnt let her practice.
As for English, I let her do comprehension, grammar and rearraning sentences. Have not gone into compos writing yet as I am not very confident of doing a great job. Hopefully there will be a good enrichment centre that can do this job. Or perhaps I should let her read some model essays now just to start the ball rolling. haha.
So much for academic, she is learning swimming from her daddy. But frankly speaking we are too lazy. This year she only went swimming twice. But she knows how to use the swimming board now and even tried to play "water polo" with some of the older sisters there by using one hand to hold the board and the other hand to throw the swimming hat to her new friends.But once a while, she will miss and sink into the pool. Luckily, I bought the arena swim suit where there is a "leash" that is attached to it. So Wan Qi dont have to drink too much pool water.:P
I was hopping for Wan Qi to learn ballet from Singapore Ballet Academy but have not receive any news from them yet. I guess I need to call them up instead.
Many enrichment are put on hold. I guess I am not as hardworking as when Wan Qi was young. Simply too tired to go for enrichment.
Oh but she is attending art lessons in cc which is quite atrocious. Previously,she will draw a person with "flesh", after attending the art lesson, she draws skeleton man. I asked her why she told me because they have nothing to eat thats why turn to skeletons.Gosh, this girl. I am afraid she is just not an artistic person.Think will just stop her art lesson.
So she will just have one enrichment which is the phonics lessons and ending soon too. By then think her only enrichment will be ballet. Cos we like to spend time playing with her during weekends.
I hope Wan Qi will continue to be a happy learner. Thats my wish for her. :P

Thank you Auntie Gui Fen

2011-03-26T10:30:00.000-07:00

Thanks Auntie Gui Fen for the early Birthday present. (Love Wan Qi)
Thanks Gui Fen for giving Wan Qi an early birthday present. We were thrilled. Yes Wan Qi and I. Course I am a great fan of monpoly haha. In fact, I am very good at playing monopoly. I used to play with my cousins during the school holiday and we can play in the morning, afternoon and night time and never grow sick of it. In fact, there was once my cousin was so fed up with my other cousin for causing her to lose money that she gave her a tight slap. And at that moment, I was thinking wow there was someone who is even more engross in playing monopoly than me.
So after Wan Qi's art class on Friday night, we still proceed to play as the mummy is very excited to teach Wan Qi how to play the same childhood game. In fact, we played until close to midnight. Gosh.
But it was a lot of fun. The three of us were laughing and laughing. A good bonding game. :)Of course the monopoly queen won, Xihong was bankrupt and Wan Qi and I kept teasing him.
Then on Saturday night we we played again. Luck was not on me tonight though, I emerged as the first runner up while Wan Qi was the first to be bankrupt. Mr Yeo emerged as the monopoly king.
Today, Wan Qi kept paying $2 to "watch the water show" when playing monopoly and she was so cute. After 2 rounds of watching the water show, she was reluctant to part with her money and asked"Can I dont go for the show?" While Mr Yeo was the cheeky one, kept being the pig mouth and cursed me to go to his house to stay. And when Wan Qi was announced bankrupt and me being the banker at the same time took all her houses away. She then asked Mr Yeo,"Can I stay in your house, I dont have house anymore." So funny.
It's really a good bonding game. :)Thanks Guifen

Wan Qi's first sleepover at my cousin's house

2011-03-12T09:18:00.000-08:00

Today's is Wan Qi's first sleepover at my cousin's house. My mum told me that Wan Qi's cousins are all staying at my cousin's house tonight so I asked Xihong to bring her there so that they can play masak together.
She was so excited because she likes to play with my niece AH Xuan who is in Pri 1this year. Then she started bring all her dolls and stuff. But when we told her she will stay there alone with all her cousins, she said she wanted us to keep her accompany. Then we said we cant and she is just like Grover (sesame street character)who sleepover at Betty Lou's house. Then she smiled and said that then Ah Xuan Jie Jie is Betty Lou. And then she was once again excited about going.
After accompanying her for a while, I went off with Xihong to have our punggol nasi lemak and off to Marina Bay sand. Cos Suan Ku me have not been there before.
Before we reached Marina Bay Sand, I made a call to see if Wan Qi is ok. She is playing carom with her cousins, obviously enjoying herself. I always try to let her play with her cousins since she is the only child. We will be fetching her tomorrow.

Term 1 outing to Science Centre

2011-03-08T17:03:00.000-08:00

Swimming lessons conducted by PaPa Xihong

2011-03-08T17:00:00.000-08:00

Valentine's day at Ion Orchard

2011-03-08T16:58:00.000-08:00

The big bully - Wan Qi

2011-03-08T16:56:00.000-08:00

Chinese New Year 2011

2011-02-03T19:22:00.000-08:00

Wan Qi's art piece and Xihong pasted it on our wall.

It's Chinese New Year again, the year of rabbit. I like the year of rabbit. I hope this year all my family members will blessed with good health. :>
Got this dress for Wan Qi in a spree. Very cheap it's only $13. Good buy. It's a zara dress. It's a little puffy when Wan Qi wears it. Nice nice.

Rabbits rabbits

2011-02-03T19:12:00.000-08:00

Wan Qi looks very very tired as it was 12:30am, she had fun playing with her niece. Unfortunately, this time she didnt give in to her little cousin unlike last time. She will scream at her when the little one snatches her toy. I was told she even hit the little one when her toy was being snatched. Oh dear, I think afterall she doesnt really like to have siblings. But when I asked her to go back home, she said she wanted to play with her cousin. Aiyo kids. Want to fight then when I asked them to stop playing, they continued.

I bought this pyjamas for Wan Qi when I went to SI MA LU temple to pray. It's a little girl wearing a rabbit hair band just nice for rabbit year so I bought and let Wan Qi wear it to sleep on New Year eve. And to compliment it, I bought a Melody bedsheet for her which I bought in HKG. It's cheap only $9 SGD. It's rabbit and rabbits for Wan Qi cos I hope the rabbit will protect her in the rabbit year. Bless her with good health in 2011. :)

1st Chinese New Year in living santuary

2011-02-03T18:54:00.000-08:00

Had been trying to buy this rabbit bun for Wan Qi to eat but it's always out of stock so quickly get 2 when I see it in compass pt branch. However, still not able to buy another rabbit. Anyway, Wan Qi doesnt like the taste of the bun. In the end, I ate it up.

This year is Wan Qi's first CNY in living santuary kindergarten. I woke up very early to prepare her for this occasion as I need to get to my own school at seven plus. Then Xihong drove me to school first followed by sending Wan Qi to her kindergarten.
Previously, Wan Qi was one hour late for the National Day celebration as there was a traffic jam so her nonya kebaya was not fully utilised. I decided to let her wear again to school if not it 's quite a waste.
This nonya kebaya was bought in Malacca while we were touring there last year. It's the latest embriodery as the common one was full of flower but this is like the tail of a peacock s tail, very unique.:>
But my little Wan Qi wass not so gentle when she wore her nonya kebaya. Sigh

See fancy raising up her leg in her nonya kebaya at BURGER KING compass point after CNY celebration. GOSH

My Birthday celebration

2011-01-31T07:14:00.000-08:00

A cake bought by Hubby. It was a yucky cheesy cake from Bakerzine still prefer their chocolate cake.

Oh no I am one yr older!!! sign. But my sweet girl gave me a birthday present to cheer me up. A $50 dollars real note which she found on the floor which was mine of course and a pair of chopsticks compliment from Brands chicken essence. And Wan Qi she was so proud of it as if the present was really bought for me from her. Haha.
After a few days, she still tell me "Mama, I was very nice to you right. Remember I gave you a pair of chopsticks on your birthday." I told her lovingly "Ya, I remember"but inside I was thinking it's from brands chicken essense what. gegege

Wan qi attended Anya's Birthday Party

2011-01-31T06:40:00.000-08:00

Wan qi presenting her masterpiece strawberry shortcake and present to baby Anya

Family photos

Self entertained with the many balloons!

Wan Qi looking at the beautiful $170!!!! mickeymouse cake and said Awesome. hahaha

Best of friends

A contented girl with 2 scoops of ice cream:)

Both Wan Qi and Dash standing in front of the cake to play with their paper rolling game which they had continued from the dining area to the cake cutting area.:P

Wan Qi loves birthday just like one of her favourite story character Wilbur. (Winnie the witch's cat)She even insisted on drawing a picture for birthday girl Anya. I thought the strawberry shortcake was well drawn. :)
Then I let Wan Qi wore the new dress that I had bought for her from Tangos and we were all prepared to go for Anya's Birthday party. And we were the first guests among our friends to reach the COWBOY place(think its a restaurant with the cowboy theme. Quite cute. The waitress are in their cowgirls suits)
Wan Qi was very excited as she saw there were different types of ice-cream for her to choose. She had fun playing with balloons. And had fun meeting her friend Dash (best of friends)and little baby Anya, meimei Ada, Jun Jun, Justin, little baby Yuxin and DIDI Yuteng.
But I guess the best part is she gets to eat 2 scoops of ice cream and a piece of cake all at the same time. :) Then she had some time to play "rolling of papers" with Dash and "discussing" about baby Anya's birthday cake.
Wan Qi truly enjoyed herself - She told us that when we were back in our car. :>

Reunion Dinner @ Ban Heng Restaurant

2011-01-29T08:42:00.000-08:00

I love this cheong sum but its really to ex 52.90 so i didnt buy for Wan Qi. She loves the bag but I didnt buy for as its too ex too 26.90. haha Ya I am a stingy mummy. But I bought the pair of sandals 30.90

Preparing to LO YU San. See Wan Qi holding on to the chopstick ready to LO. She can use the chopsticks using both her left and right hand. Amazing!Picking up peanuts with chopsticks in restaurant is a good training for her.

This year we decided to have our reunion dinner in a restaurant. As I just had my operation and it will be a bit tiring for us to prepare. So we opted for Ban Heng as we always see crowd in this ulu restaurant near our place. Hence, we thought of giving it a try. Unfortunately, it was ex and the food was not delicious at all. We paid 368 bucks for not so great dishes. Our last and only time to this restaurant.
After that, we went searching for Wan Qi's shoe and we got it at bloom B vivocity.
It cost 30.90 which I thought it was very expensive. But after chit chatting with colleagues, I realised that this price is the norm in fact its considered cheap. Gosh cost of living in Singapore is really gettin higher and higher.
To end the day, we went to Bakerzin. After purchasing the membership card, all our birthday cakes are from there. We love their cakes and the ice cream is yummy too.

Wan Qi and her dearest cousin in the same school

2011-01-29T08:18:00.000-08:00

My little niece waving happily to her dearest Ye Ye(Grandpa). In fact, she was searching for her Ye Ye before entering the school to say good bye to him. However, the door was overcrowded and his Ye Ye was being blocked by other parents. So I had to tell her Ye Ye that her little granddaughter was looking to wave at him. After seeing her Ye Ye, she happily waved and even gave a flying kiss to him. (For some reason, granddaughters always seem to adore grandpas. Just like myself and Wan Qi, we love our grandpas too.)Then she walked into the hall insisting on carrying her own bag. (As Wan Qi offered to take for her)

Wan Qi loves her little cousin Xuan Ning who is studying in the same school as Wan Qi now. She will offer to carry her bag for her. And when they meet each other in the school whether it is in the toilet or corridor, she will kiss and hug her. So now both of them are "famous" in school. The teacher was telling me about Wan Qi being very excited whenever she sees her cousin in school. And I repiled "oh ya cos she loves her alot". After that I thought the teacher might not want to hear this after all, she might actually want me to apologise to her as I think it can be quite disturbing if Wan Qi suddenly move out from her queue to hug her little cousin. Or was it me who is reading too much into my conversation with the teacher. Haha as I myself is a teacher, I will tend to think that there may be some other underlying meaning which the teacher tried to put it nicely across to me. Too paranoid Xihong would say. But no choice, as we are trained to say nice things to parents during meet the parents session, I thought so do kindergarten teachers.

Nevertheless, I didnt stop Wan Qi from hugging her little cousin in school. Cos she is really irresistable!Though she is of a small build, she is a really brave girl. She didnt cry on the first day of school. In fact, she was smiling away happily.
Even when she tried to hold her friend and her friend caused her to fall down, she didnt cry, she just stand up by herself and moves on. Very independant little gal.
Everyday without fail, I will give her a hug before rushing to school. Still waiting for her to call me Yi YI though. :P

My little princess

2011-01-29T08:14:00.000-08:00

Went shopping with my mum during the holidays. Wan Qi insisted on wearing the disney pricess t-shirt. Crazy about being the disney princess after the trip from Disney Hongkong.

Hair cut for Wan Qi

2011-01-06T23:02:00.000-08:00

Nowadays,Wan Qi's haircut is free as my mum will bring Wan Qi to her childhood's friend's salon to cut Wan Qi's hair. She did a good job previously so I asked my mum to bring her there when school reopens cos the salon is just walking distance from Wan Qi's school.
But this time round, it was not very well cut cos Wan Qi was fidgeting. She must be having a phobia cos during the holidays I tried to cut her fringe and she was very scared that I will poke her eyes. I got amgry and started scolding her. :P
So back at home I did some trimming for her. But I dont like her fringe cos I always like girls to have full straight fringe and not layered fringe.Anyway,I will ask my mum to tell her friend not to layered the fringe.For the time being, a new hairstyle might not be a bad thing, afterall her fringe grows very fast.
Umm, my mum told me Wan Qi led the adults had a good laugh in the salon including the customers. Cos my mum was telling her childhood friends that "Remember when we were young, our parents will drag us to salons and go for botak head" Upon hearing that, Wan Qi said loudly"I dont want to cut botak head Hah " a few times just to make my mum's friend dont cut botak head for her. :> Of course, she didnt just a WAWA hairstyle which Wan Qi said she looks just like her new classmate now.

1st Day Of School 2011

2011-01-04T02:04:00.000-08:00

I am very lousy when it comes to tying hair but I tried my best today. And tala. Wan Qi said she looks like Rapunzel.

Today is Wan Qi's first day of school. My mum had to work till 10am and I couldnt bathe WanQi since I just had my operation so I asked Wan Qi to bathe on her own. She did this a few time during the holidays with Xihong's supervision so I supposed she will be ok.
And indeed, she was able to wash her hair, brush her teeth without all the fuss. (Whether clean or not , this I am not very sure. haha but I checked her teeth and brush for her again)But one thing which I thought is very clever about her is she actually put a small pail underneath her when she is washing her hair. The water collected was then poured to a bucket which she told me can be used to flush the toilet afterwards. Brilliant! Then when she bathe, she put the pail in between her legs and collected some water too. haha It was so cute to see her bathing herself. Brought back fond memories when my mum bathed her in the small small tub back then when she was so tiny.And now she knows how to bathe by herself and even know how to save water for us. gegege
After this piece of good news. The bad new was my mum cannot bring Wan Qi to school as she said the stall was packed with people. Arrggg. So even after having operation, I had no choice but to bring Wan Qi to school. Feel strained after the whole thingy as I was advised not to carry heavy things, however I need to bring Wan Qi's stuff plus need to carry her to the public toilet. (I hoped that will not cause any problem )but I am also happy to see Wan Qi listening attentively to her teacher even when her friend sitting next to her was disturbing the person beside her. (This is the only time where parents are allowed to stand outside the classroom to watch the kids)She also participated actively during their sing a long session with all the actions. Good job Wan Qi!

At about 2:45pm, I went to fetch Wan Qi. I am glad to see my dad. So he helped me to carry all my things. We reached home earlier as my dad told Wan Qi that I need to have a good rest. So Wan Qi agreed. And here I am off for my bed rest.

Wan Qi's cat room

2010-12-27T07:35:00.000-08:00

I know it has already been a year after we had settled in our new house. But didnt really packed Wan Qi's room properly. So this holiday, I managed to throw all the unwanted things and tidied it up.
Originally, her room is of cats' theme cos she loves cats more than dogs (ya even though we have a cutie dog milky - Wan Qi the traitor haha). I tried to buy cats things from the ceiling light, to pencil holder, bag hooks, decoration, dustbin, bedsheets. But after that more animals come along like rabbit piggy bank which my dad bought it for her, SCGSbear,carebear(her birthday gift) and so who cares now. Hee

Rapunzel

2010-12-27T07:18:00.000-08:00

Wan Qi's version of Rapunzel

Right after we came back from Hongkong on the 14th December, we went to watch Rapunzel. As Wan Qi has always been a great fan of Rapunzel(She will pretend to be Rapunzel in the playground while I be the wicked witch who said Rapunzel , Rapunzel let your hair down), so this show is a must for her and I do not want to miss it. Before the show starts, we even let her dance with the Yogi bears and she won herself a candy stick. She was thrilled.
Good thing we didnt miss it. Half way through the show when the wicked "witch"came in or the bad guys appeared, Wan Qi will say she is scared and wanted to go home. But I assured her its ok. Cos from the experience from Alice in the wonderland, I knew that she will ok after all. So this time round, we finished the whole show and I told her that fairy tales always have happy ending so dont have to be frightened. And we did finished the show. Yipee. Wan Qi and I loved the show. She loves the chamelon especially. She said its very cute. :P

Our versatile tree

2010-12-27T07:08:00.000-08:00

Remember the tree when we first moved to our new house. Hee it was the YIN LIU during Chinese New Year when we bought some Chinese New Year decoration to decorate the tree. Now that is Christmas, I thought why not have a christmas tree. So When I was in HK, I bought some christmas decoration to decorate it. They were so cheap only a 10 cents for the red ribbon , twenty cents for the presents, shoes, fifty cents for the snowman,the most expensive one being the santa claus socks which cost $1 SG.
Wan Qi has grown taller in a year!!! She is able to reach the higher part of the tree when she hung those decoration. Time files! My little Wan Qi has grown up!

Home Sweet Home - Singapore

2010-12-26T08:21:00.000-08:00

So that marks the end of our 6 days 5 nights trip in Hongkong. What is Wan Qi's say about Hongkong. She said that she wants to go Disneyland again.

The Big Buddha

2010-12-26T07:51:00.000-08:00

Since we are Buddhist, so going to the Big Buddha is a must even though that means climbing up the many many steps. :)
I thought that the weather will be cold just like the peak so I wore my cat jacket. Unfortunately, it wasnt. It was warm warm warm very sunny. Wan Qi had fun walking up the steps, chasing cows and feeding dogs with the chau siew buns. hee.

Food in Hongkong

2010-12-26T07:36:00.000-08:00

Frankly speaking, I think the food in Hongkong is not that great. Or maybe it's because I dont know where the goodies are. Or maybe I think I am those cheapo who dont know how to appreciate the slightly more expensive and popular food. The best that I had eaten in Hongkong is simply the fishball noodle in Mongkok. It's the best fishball noodle I have ever eaten. Their wanton noodle too. And the oyster porridge is another hot hot item even though I am not an oyster person. All these are only $25HKG. Thumbs thumbs up for this shop. It's just beside the famous mango desert shop XU LIU SHAN.As I was writing this blog, I am drooling in fact.We tasted the po luo bao but all of us do not like it. And we tried the egg like waffler which is similar to our waffler just that it's crispier. It's a $2SGD snack. We did buy some tim sum for our breakfast near our Mongkok hotel but its yet another disappointment. So what we did was before we left Hongkong for Singapore, we went to have another bowl of fishball noodle. Yum Yum Yum.
I personally like the XU LIU SHAN mango desert too and had 2 bowls of that. If not for my stupid cough, I would have eaten more. So sad. As for Xihong, he tried the GONG CHA which I find it not tasty. But I was told by friend that it is as popular as our Singapore KOI but cheaper.

The playground at the Peak Gallery plus Tim Sum Museum

2010-12-26T07:20:00.000-08:00

Ater going to the peak, we let Wan Qi played in the outdoor playground. She was having so much fun. But when we were leaving. She was terribly upset. Look at her sulky face when I asked her to pose with the tim sum museum icon. Me fuming.

Mongkok hotel - City Hall for Tim Sum and The Peak

2010-12-26T06:42:00.000-08:00

This boutique hotel that I had chosen was actually very very near to Hongkong local wet market. I was in shock when I knew it. But there are good points too as we are able to see the real hongkongers life in that sense. Plus I was able to buy strawberries and cherries cheaply in the market. In addition, I also bought some pretty winter clothes for Wan Qi at low low price. And Wan Qi was also able to see the old style Singapore Chinatown where chickens are being slaughtered right at the stall.
The bad point is the hotel is real real small and not as comfy. But it was just a three roads after ladies market. So when Wan Qi was too tired, I suggested to Xihong to take Wan Qi back first while I continued to shop.haha.But I would not recommend this hotel.
In the morning, we went to have tea in city hall promenade which is very near to our next destination - the peak. It was very crowded at the restaurant as it is famous for tim sum. But I think the food there are not very great too. The 3 of us ate $60 SGD of tim sum which later I found out from my friend who went to HK too and was told that the price we paid are ex.
Then we walked over to the peak. It was exhausting. As we are constantly walking uphill. The peak was up on the hill so the road to the peak is all upslope. Gosh with the pram and all. But I personally think it's a must to go to the Peak. Then our Singapore kids will know what is meant by foggy. hee. Cos I read a the phonics story book to Wan Qi and it mentioned about foggy but through pictures its difficult to let Wan Qi know. But after going to the peak - Wan Qi defintely know what its like to be foggy.
Plus its a must to take the tram. It's a good experience. When we looked out from the tram the building appeared to be slanting. And the tram was designed in such a way that when it goes uphill, those who are standing will not fall even when one is really slanting. Up to the peak is another experience. It's icy cold and when we stuck our head to see the scenery - it was nothing but fog. But we were not at all disappointed. It was fun.

Ocean Park

2010-12-26T06:15:00.000-08:00

Right after we came back from Macau, we took a quick breakfast at hongkong tea restaurant, local type. And seriously I think our singapore "hong kong tea restaurant" serve better food.

Basically we order 2 sets of breakfast which each cost $5SGD and it was yucky. But it was Wan Qi's first time eating instant noodle - to be precise she didnt eat the instant noodle but rather macroni with ham but I think the soup was instant noodle soup cos taste just like my instant noodle soup- unhealthy breakfast so she thought it was delicious. She finished up the whole bowl of macroni. My goodness. I cant finish the instant noodle cos I think it was yucky.Xihong order pork chop for breakfast- it was huge and tasted alright only.
Then we headed to Ocean Park. First by mtr then by bus. Basically, Hk transport system is quite friendly. It was very clear, we have no trouble finding the bus.
Just like Singapore, they also have many rules.We took a picture of what are not to be done in the bus.
In Ocean Park, we first went to take the Tower which allows us to see the scenery around Ocean Park.
After that, we went to watch the dolphin show. Followed by underwater world, kids entertainment area where Wan Qi spin and won a duckie soft toy.On our way back by cable car, we waited for quite a long time cos those inconsiderate China tourists jumped queues even though they were scolded by officials. They were not ashamed at all. I was furious and together with the hongkongers, we joined forces and used cantonese to scold them. :P
The cable car ride was scary. The wind was howling outside and the cable car was shaking quite violently. I kept saying scary and Wan Qi had to hug me and console me. haha.
After the ride, we were lucky to be able to see the pandas as there were extended hours. So at least this ocean park trip was not wasted. We managed to see the cute pandas who were eating the bamboo leaves.
On the whole, Ocean Park was a so so place. We were disappointed that we are not able to catch the latest attraction where we can dine in a restaurant in an underwater world concept. Those who are planning to go HK next year might be able to see this new attraction. :)

Venetian Hotel

2010-12-23T02:30:00.000-08:00

After resting for a while at Lan Kwai Fong hotel, we headed to Venetian hotel for our lunch. I read from the magazine that there was a famous chinese restaurant over there so we headed there to have our luch. We order wantan noodles and goose noodle. I would say it's so so only. Not so tasty as it claimed. It cost 50HGK for the wanton noodle and $80HGK for the goose noodle.
But the egg tarts is a thumbs up and only about $1 plus SGD. Very tasty. We even bought a few back to the hotel to eat.
In Venetian, the ceiling is painted like the clear blue sky so you actually thought the day is young. And in this way, you wont feel tired or rather the gamblers wont feel tired and leave the place. haha Xihong's interpretation.

I Love Macau - Lan Kwai Fong Hotel

2010-12-23T02:14:00.000-08:00

Early next morning after having breakfast in the squeezy but modernised and cosy hotel, we proceeded to the macau ferry terminal. It's a one hour ferry ride. Upon reaching, I was glad to find that the hotel that I had booked actually provided free ride to the hotel just outside the terminal. In 5mins time, we reached the hotel. And I love it once I stepped into it. It is so beautiful and modernised. In fact, on the last stay then I knew that it had won the best designed boutique hotel in China for 2009. It's a wonderful stay. I highly recommend this hotel if one were to go to macau and its not ex just about $180 for the suite.
At macua, besides visitng their places of interest, the only place worth going will be the Venetian hotel. We went there to shop, eat and play just 1 game(won a SGD100)
Unfortunately we have no time to explore further. Cos in macau, you can hardly see a taxi besides in the hotel so if we were to explore the other places of interest we had to book a tour at the Venetian hotel but such tour ended at 6pm. So we cant make it in time. What we did was after we left Venetian hotel, we took free bus to other hotels but found out that besides Venetian hotel, other smaller hotels have nothing to offer except casinos. So in the end, we ended up sitting in free rides and enjoy the "sceneries" seeing some of the icon towers in macau.
We reached hotel at about 9pm and decided to enjoy a nice rest in the hotel.

A really small but modern hotel

2010-12-23T01:49:00.000-08:00

Notice the tram behind Mr Yeo, we wanted very much to take the ride but with our pram, its a nono as the trams are always quite pack. So we have to give it a miss.:(

In Hongkong, the hotels are really small and yet expensive $170 per nite. It's a quite a challenge to look for the hotel that I booked as it's a boutique hotel so not very well known. Plus with the luggages and Wan Qi sleeping in the pram, this added to our challenge. Moreover the exit from the HKG MTR doesnt have a lift or escalator so SAM STRONG Xihong actually carried the pram together with Wan Qi and with the heavy luggages walked up the stairs to the exit. :P Phew it's hardwork for papa.
Adding to that, HKG sky turned dark at about 5pm. So this somehow added a little bit of stress to locate the hotel that we are staying. Then Wan Qi woke up and wanted to go to the toilet. AHHHHHHH. It was so difficult to find public toilet. So we had no choice and in the end Xihong suggested we take our dinner in those small eatery so as to use their toilet. Although I had been told by many people that HKG people are very mean people but somehow those that I had met are not. In fact, they are very very nice and helpful. In the end, we ate wanton noodle in this little eatery and the waiter actually let me use their staff toilet willingly. The wanton noodle which is quite nice and at a low price HKG13 only. And the wanton is compable to CRYSTAL JADE.

After eating, we continued our search. And with my good cantonese(haha), I asked a HKGer's help and he was so helpful that he helped to call up the hotel using his HP.
So thankful, we managed to find our hotel at last. We rested for a while in the hotel and went out for a walk to explore the ferry harbour for our macau trip.

Take the disney train, it's cute!

2010-12-23T01:40:00.000-08:00

Wan Qi didnt have the "luxury" to buy the minnie mouse hairband so to compensate I let her take pictures with it. hee

Throughout our trip, we took the HKG MTR = SG MRT. It's very convenient. We took the train to Disneyland and from Disneyland we took the train to our hotel at Sheung Wan which is very near to the harbour (cos the next day we are going to macau). The ride to Disneyland is a smooth and nice one. Unfortunately, everytime we board the train, Wan Qi would have fallen asleep so she didnt get to see the cutie train. :(
I did asked her to wake up and take a look. But she just have a look. smile and went back to sleep.

2010-12-23T00:53:00.000-08:00

Paid $480 for a night stay without breakfast but with 2 free adult entrance. Stupid me didnt opt fpr breakfast as I didnt know that there is another package that comes with 2 adult tickets and breakfast and night stay. So didnt went for their breakfast because my husband said the disney characters will be there to take pictures with the kids with the children.Boo hoo sorry Wan Qi. We paid another $288HKG for Wan Qi's ticket. So since we didnt have breakfast in the disney hotel, we let Wan Qi ate some biscuits and proceeded to play catching at the maze at the back of the hotel. It's fun!!!Wan Qi did not want to stop luckily there's a bigger attraction for her - Day 2 at Disneyland!

Actually, I thought the disney hotel was nothing great just for the little convenience! I mean I thought it will be very cute but it's not lei. Just some Mickey mouse slippers which I only bring back the extra 1 pair as I always make sure everyone wear the slippers in the hotel and not barefooted as I dont believe the carpeted floor is clean. So I will be constantly shouting at Wan Qi and Xihong to wear their slippers.By the end of the day, it will be wet and dirty so cant bring back all the 4 pairs to Singapore.

2010-12-21T00:19:00.000-08:00

After watching the fireworks which I thought was nothing much (hee hee), we felt a bit hungry so off we went to eat Mickey waffle. But its ex about 7SGD. But its sort of cute and nice to have a cup of hot chocolate to drink and hot waffle to eat in the cold cold night.

Train ride

2010-12-21T00:13:00.000-08:00

The train is not bad for little children.Try it.

Phototaking with the disney characters

2010-12-20T02:34:00.000-08:00

It's a long wait for the photoshooting with the disney characters from 25mins to forty five minutes. The longest being the mickey and minnie mouse as they are the most popular. While waiting, I will just listen to the christmas carol sang by some of the singapore secondary school students. Yes singaporean students actually travelled there to sing christmas songs for the disney tourists.
Xihong will bring Wan Qi to walk around. We managed to take with most of the characters except the Christmas bear which I thought its nothing great so I missed it as I hate to queue another queue. But Wan Qi likes it alot. She is very happy when taking photos with the cartoons. We went to see the photos taken by the disney people. They were very well taken but it will cost us $20 SGD to buy them so we didnt buy any. :P

Cinderella and Snow White Phototaking

2010-12-16T03:30:00.000-08:00

During the parade, Wan Qi saw Cinderella. She shouted"Mum,mum Cinderella!"and went chasing after her. It was hilarious. I followed her but Mr Yeo was behind us and losing us soon so I told Wan Qi to stop chasing and that we will see her during the parade.
So of course when she is able to take pictures with both of the princesses, she was overjoyed and even asking them questions. The princesses were so sweet and they really acted like fairy tale princesses. I mean the way they move and speak. They were very nice actually spent quite some time with Wan Qi.

At the Disney stores-The beginning of our nightmare:>

2010-12-16T03:12:00.000-08:00

This is only the beginning of our nightmare. Wan Qi wanted everything from the souvenir shop. When we dont buy for her. She will cry and whine. Really embarassing.
She wanted the minnie hairband which is 20SGD but since we think it will look a bit crazy if she were to wear it on the Singapore road next time. We forbade that. So she started the crying. Then the worse came when she saw the disney dress. She wanted to buy it which was about 80SGD but I remember seeing in BP its less than 50 dollars so I was against it too. This was the most terrible one. She cried so loudly that we had to bring her out of the store. (ya if you remember she used not to like being a princess. She even commented that she wanted to be the witch when she was going to be 3. But at 4 plus, she is crazy about being a princess. I think it's because her friend in school dressed up as tinklebell. EVer since then she told me she wanted to dress up like a princess on 5 year old birthday.:P)
In the end, we bought her a disney minnie stuff toy cost about $33SGD one marie remote control cat $26SGD, 1 minnie t shirt $26SGD , 1 princess t-shirt not the dress $28SGD.
But she still wanted the Disney princess dress badly. And on and off, we will see little girl wearing that pink dress moving about and she will looked at them longingly. But I thought it's really a waste of money and I cant oblige on everything so I still insisted on not buying.

Disneyland

2010-12-16T02:49:00.000-08:00

When we reached Disneyland, it's already 1pm so we quickly got some food for Wan Qi.
Xihong bought ribs Ramen, the most suitable one. Cost about 70HKG aound 10SGD

Wan Qi wanted to buy one of the balloons when she saw the huge bunch of balloons but I insisted not buying cos I think it's a waste of money. Luckily, she did not cry and whine for them. Hee we just took a picture for her.
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Waited about 15-20mins for Jumbo elephant. It's fun actually and in fact a bit scary for the weak hearted(so my hubby Mr Yeo did not sit with Wan Qi. hahaha). gegege. cos there is this gadget where you can move the jumbo elephant up and down suddenly.

Love the spinning cup as it brought back fond memories of mine. Remember I like to sit on those when my dad brought me to "similar" playland.

Off we went to Disneyland - Children's Paradise

2010-12-14T20:41:00.000-08:00

We took HKG MTR to Disneyland. Unfortunately we bought the Airport express ticket. The counter girl did not tell us that we can actually use the octopus card to travel to Disneyland. So sad waste money.So those who are travelling to Disneyland from HKG Airport and going by MTR can buy the octopus card straight away and can later be used in other parts of HKG.

Bought a chicken bun before we went to Disneyland at the store outside MTR. It taste similar to our Tiong Bahru bao just that it is so much bigger and cheaper. But I think Tiong Bahru bun is tastier.

Wan Qi's first Hongkong Trip Day 1

2010-12-14T20:24:00.000-08:00

Arriving at Changi Airport on 8Dec2010 6am

Arriving at HKG airport at about 11am

Wan Qi's first kelong stayover on 29nov2010

2010-12-14T19:48:00.001-08:00

Xihong brought Wan Qi to a kelong trip in Batam on 29nov 2010. I was not able to go along as I still have to return to school for learning journeys etc. Sign.

So the father and daughter went without me on that morning at 6:30am. But the weather was no good as it was raining when they arrived at the kelong. They still managed to visit the poor village and presented some gifts for them at their prize ceremany. There was a tour guide explaining their livelihood to their group. And the end of the seesion, when the tour guide asked "Any more questions?" Everybody just kept quiet. Then Wan Qi posed a question. ""

Why isnt there any tables and chairs in the room? How are they going to have their meals? And the tour guide explained that they need to perform some ritual rites called (something but I had forgotten) so it will be easier if they just sit on the floor and without having to move the tables and chairs. And the adults were saying "Wow"Good question and good observation. " Of course the daddy felt very proud.

However, On the last 2 days, Wan Qi became very bossy and insisted the elder brothers and sisters played the way she wanted it to be until they decided not to play with her. Well,I seriously hoped that its because she is playing with elder brothers and sisters thats why she is behaving in this way. :<

Wan Qi first concert.

2010-11-04T19:37:00.000-07:00

off we went to Wan Qi's concert at 5:30pm

All ready to go into the classroom for their changing of costume

All ready to enter the classroom!!!!!

Farewell, Mrs Lee.

2010-10-05T16:46:00.000-07:00

I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing away of Mrs Lee Kuan Yew, wife and life - long companion of our Minister Mentor on 2nd Oct night. I was watching TV when I heard the bad news and cant help but cried. Wan Qi saw it and asked me why did I cry until I looked like a dirty pussy cat. I then explained to her wife of Lee Kuan Yew had passed away.

After saying this, I realised how much I had talk to her about Lee Kuan Yew with my treasured biographies of MM Lee Kuan Yew (used my hard earned money to buy them during my sec 4 holiday) and not much on Mrs Lee. So I told her about what I know from memory. She told me not to be sad and dont cry like a dirty pussy cat again.

4th Oct 2010, I woke up earlier to prepare Wan Qi's breakfast as I need to go to KKH. As I was preparing, I was wondering if I should bring Wan Qi to Mrs Lee Kuan Yew's wake. Being a Chinese mummy, I know it was a taboo to bring young children to attend funeral wake. But the other me really wish that Wan Qi will go to the wake with me, to pay the last respect to our founding mother of Singapore. I told Wan Qi that I will want to go to the wake to pay the last respect to Mrs Lee Kuan Yew. She told me she also want to go. She said she is also very upset and she kept on thinking of Mrs Lee Kuan Yew. She then closed her eyes and prayed for her. I hesitated. When she opened her eyes, I gave her a smile but could not make up my mind about it.

While I was in the hospital, I read the motherhood magazine. There was a topic on bringing the topic of "death" to toddler and how to manage it. Instantly, I made up my mind to bring Wan Qi to the wake.

I left the hospital in a rush to fetch my mum then Wan Qi and then headed to Sri Temasek where the wake was held. When we reached there Wan Qi had fallen asleep. I had to carry her. Luckily, the officials allowed me to go by the express queue.

Before we boarded the bus to go to Sri Temasek, Wan Qi had already woke up from her sleep.

I told her we are going to pay our respect to Mrs Lee. She knodded her head and was not cranky at all.

Then we proceeded. It was my first time into the Istana. It was big. Very big. And because of that Wan Qi started to get very excited and somehow happy. Ya it's like going to the park with all the greeneries surrounding us. She skipped as we queued up. Then I reminded her this is not the time where we laugh and jump. This is a time where we mourn for the loss of Mrs Lee Kuan Yew. I reminded her a few times.

As we were getting nearer, I reminded Wan Qi not to speak loudly when we entered the building. Wan Qi has a loud voice so I am kind of frightened that she will broke the silence there.

I told her that Mrs Lee Kuan Yew will lay in a coffin just like Snow White. Then Wan Qi repiled "But Snow White is not dead, you know. " I gave her a smile and said if only Mrs Lee Kuan Yew is just like Snow White where she will wake up and be alive and healthy again.

When we finally reached the building, I asked Wan Qi to write her name on the memoirs. She wrote her name BIG. Then she asked me if she could draw a little heart to Mrs Lee Kuan Yew. I smiled at her and said "of course" .

And when we reached the building where the coffin was layed. We could hear soft BA HA 's music played (if I am not wrong) and because of that I think Wan Qi could feel the tinge of saddness lingering in the atmosphere. She told me she wanted to cry which made me want to cry. I was already trying my best to fight back my tears and because of what Wan Qi said made me cried a little. Then we were made to stand in the second row to bow to Mrs Lee. But Wan Qi was determined to stand in the front row so I just let her be while I stood behind her. She was well-behaved throughout and bowed her head when instructed to do so.

And within minutes, the whole thing was over. And I just felt that I did the right thing - to let Wan Qi be there. I wanted Wan Qi to be thankful to Mrs Lee Kuan Yew - the pioneer of Singapore for her great contribution to Singapore.

Farewell, Mrs Lee. You will always be remembered in the hearts of every Singaporeans.

Wan Qi on puzzles again Yipee

2010-09-26T06:59:00.000-07:00

I actually felt sad that I dampened Wan Qi's spirit doing puzzles when she was 2. So I decided to help her build her confidence again by going to puzzle shop and let her choose one.

It's a 40 pcs which she had stopped back then when she was 2. She chose an Alauddin one and it's ex $12.90. But nevertheless I bought it.

And she did it instantly. I was hopeful but didnt dare to buy more pieces to try out. Then that day, my dad bought him a 120 pcs puzzle. I was a bit apprehensive as I thought if Wan Qi finds it too hard, history might repeat itself. But Wan Qi insisted and did it on her own. In fact, she was so determined to complete it that she insisted on finishing even thought its 12 midnight.

And yes she is having fun with puzzle again. :)

Wan Qi having fun with lego

2010-09-26T06:44:00.000-07:00

There is a 20% sales in Metro (confirmed by Gui Fen. Hee)so we went to Paragon to buy the thermo bottle. But Paragon Metro doesnt sell cooking ware. :P

So in the end we went to kids department and bought Wan Qi a box of lego which we always wanted. But it's ex so with the discount of 20%, we bought a box immediately.

Back home, Xihong played with Wan Qi while I rest. Yes I havent recover. Gosh still having headache, faceache, gumache even though I am on antibiotic. Gosh!!!!!!!And cannot take MC cos we are having oral the following days. Sign.

So Xihong taught Wan Qi to look at the manual and completed one post office, one jail, one helicopter, one police car, one provision shop and people. Not bad for a beginner.

Wan Qi asked me to teach her but I know nuts about lego. No matter how I tried it still cannot make it so I give up.

Wan Qi drew a clown all by herself!!!!

2010-09-26T06:36:00.001-07:00

I was sick last week. I was having a terrible headache, gumache, faceache ..... so cannot get up to entertain Wan Qi. I left her alone to do her reading while I slept.

Then I heard her telling Xihong that she had drawn a picture. And I heard Xihong literally shouting. Wow, very nice.

Upon hearing that I sprang up from bed cos judging from Xihong's loud voice, it must mean that it must be beautiful.

And she colour it by herself too.

Wan Qi's 1st trip to MacRitchie Reservoir & Milky's 7 year old birthday

2010-09-19T01:00:00.000-07:00

Wan Qi cant help laughing when I said she is sitting next to her friend - the monkey
And can you see the poor chap - Mr Yeo standing far at the other end cos our dear Milky kept barking at the monkeys so he got to stand away from the monkeys.

Wan Qi looking up at the 3 monkeys on the branches. Look out they might poo. hee!

We are squatting and observing the monkeyssss. I was wearing the dangling beaded shoes.

Apparently, these monkeys are very curious about my shoes. Think they thought is fruits.

So two monkeys actually come and touch my shoes. So cute and funny. And a caucasian is so worried that he kept telling me your shoes your shoes.

Stopping once a while to catch our breath and looking at the fishes, pondskator, dragonfiles and eeeeeeee lizards at times.

Decided to bring Wan Qi to MacRitchie Reservoir to breathe in some fresh air. And because today is my little Milky's 7 year old birthday. Milky loves walks so this is her birthday treat. I told her tomorrow will be her birthday. Guess what today she barked us up early in the morning. Believe it or not, she is one smart doggie. Never promise her one night before her outing, the next morning she will kept barking at you if you dont fulfill the promise. No kidding.

So off we went to MacRitchie. I wanted MacRitchie rather than Botanical Garden as I assume there are lesser people. Xihong said otherwise, he said that the walkway is very narrow at MacRitchie. I was like hah have you been to MacRitchie or not. Then Xihong protested by saying he always bring his students to MacRitchie and he knows better. I argued that I had been the champion for crosscountry at MacRitchie during my schooldays so dont argue with me.

Hee but that was ages ago. True enough it was quite narrow - the board walk. And guess what we walked for 2 .5hrs hours. After walking for 1.5hrs, Wan Qi said she was tired and I piggy backed her but not all the way. Breathless so I asked her to walk on her own. She then act as the MRT gate where we have to say "TITI" everytime when we passed her. So that made her forget that she is tired. We had short races on and on so in the end we made it to the exit. Phew!

Tiring. Then the self claimed IRON MAN - Mr Yeo Siak Hong was so strong that he said that we should go for another round. I siad NO, I am dead tired. So I asked him to carry Wan Qi since he claimed that he is so fit. And he did one hand carrying Wan Qi and the other carrying Milky. :)

See Wan Qi couldnt smile anymore. She is truly exhausted and hungry after the 2.5hrs of walking.

Singapore's Old Place - Dakota Crescent Playground & Provision shop

2010-09-18T00:53:00.000-07:00

This is the type of playground below my block of flats when I was young. I used to play with my cousins or my classmates. As the slide's surface is very rough, we always took the cartons boxes from provision shop owners and sit on them to slide down the slide. We were so naughty last time that I remember it's either me or my sis actually climbed up to the beak of bird and got stuck there. Can go up but cant come down. And have to ask my mum to the rescue. Cant imagine if Wan Qi were to climb up to the beak, think she will get canning after that. Hey my mum was definitely a much more lenient mum hor. hee hee

Pretending to be locked up in jail.

Told Wan Qi this is the type of playground I played during my times. And both of us rushed to it.

Remember the TYRE swing. :)

Haha there we go again. Exploring Singapore's old places - Dakota Crescent. Xihong said I always have crazy ideas. haha and he was being lured to go or rahter forced to go. :P

This time round we took some time to find the place. We drove around Dakota Cresent but didnt see any sign of the old playground so we decided to walk and look for it. And tala we found it. It's in front of an elderly day care centre.

Again we were chasing one another at the playground. Playing the witch thingy. Finally, Wan Qi wanted to go wee wee so we went back to the car. Yeh we had a portable potty for her. It's so much more convenient. Haha we placed it in the car with clean plastic bags. In this way, she can wee even when we are travelling. My great idea when we went for our travelling.

On our way to the car, I spotted an old provision shop. So another crazy idea. Go and buy some biscuits and take pictures there. Hola I did it. I even complimented the old man that his shop is so authentic and beautiful. haha And Wan Qi followed me saying:"Your shop is very pretty"in Mandarin.

Since Xihong accompanied us to the old payground so I also grant his wish - go to Pulau Ubin. His favourite to cycle and eat seafood in the afternoon. oh but it's hot hot hot.

A short walk In Chinatown - Mid Autumn Festival

2010-09-17T08:29:00.000-07:00

This is a beautiful sight too but different from shopkeepers hanging

the traditional translucent paper lanterns though. :P

I always love Chinatown. I used to live near here - Outram Park to be exact. It used to be my shopping paradise. Not anymore though. Chinatown somehow has lost its charm - I feel with all the modernised things. But perhaps its inevitable.

Last time during Mid Autumn Festival, one will see the provision shops hanging long strings of coloured transulcent paper lanterns. It was a beautiful sight. It's a pity nowadays kids can no longer see that. :(

We went for a walk in Chinatown today - to feel the Mid Autumn FEstival mood.

Mid Autumn Festival @10Sept2010

2010-09-17T08:03:00.000-07:00

My mum bought a Mid Autumn Festival ticket for Wan Qi from the RC. So on this day, we went there puntually as I was always fond of such event. It reminded me of my own childhood times. I used to join such RC mid autumn festival when I was young. Those day Mid Autumn Festival was a big event. Last time, the whole basketball court will be filled with children. We will then proceed our lantern festival walk. And it s a long long way up at the Pearl's Hill .However, I dont think there is even fifity children joining that day. (Or perhaps its an old estate)

Nevertheless, Wan Qi and I were excited about this Mid Autumn Festival held at kallang RC. When we were there, most of the children had paper lanterns. Wan Qi brought along her tiger lantern bought by my dad. Hee my dad bought a lion lantern last year and this year a tiger lantern. I thought paper lantern has more FEEL and Wan Qi kept looking at the paper lanterns so I asked Wan Qi if she wanted a paper lantern. But she said no. Then when we were about to proceed for the lantern walk thingy, she told me she wanted a paper lantern. URRRRRG this girl. So I quickly brought her to buy a paper lantern.

By the time we lighted the lantern, the children were gone. Wan Qi started to cry and shout"Where are they? Why they didnt wait for me! They are so naughty and bla bla complaining"

Then the naive and dodo mummy thought they will still practise the traditional way of walking the lanterns - long long walks hence quickly run outside of the RC together with the lantern and Wan Qi (looking extra stupid). But they were no where to be seen. I thought wow super fast. Then I thought shouldnt be hence proceed back to the RC. Then I saw the children and realised they merely walk one round the RC. :P This is no fun. But Wan Qi was relieved to see the rest.

After that we took a group photo and went into the hall to watch a magic show. Surprisingly it was a nice one. The magician made the children very happy by turning stuff toy to real bunnies, pigeons and birds.

Wan Qi who was seated with the rest of the kids near the stage will always run to me (I sat at the back) whenever the magician turned some stuff into animals and asked if I saw that. I thought that was sweet of her - Remembering me. haha

Then my cousin and my niece came to look for us. I forgo the lucky draw and brought Wan Qi and niece for another round of lantern walk.

Excuse me, can you please go away.:>

2010-09-05T13:38:00.000-07:00

Today, I decided to log into ask and learn and let Wan Qi played for a while. We did a comprehension passage together and bravo.She got all the answers corrected.She laughed and clapped loudly when she was being applaused for her good work. Haha what a cute and funny sight.
Then I let her tried the maths activity. Remember seeing one that has an activity on putting the fishes to the tank. However, Xihong came back and he was not very happy that I exposed Wan Qi to all these at a young age. He was concerned that Wan Qi will not be interested in books anymore if she were exposed too much to all these computer activities. But I told him its only for a while. In the end, we played for about 30mins.
I told him that I understand his concern as this is also my concern. However, it seems unavoidable as next year Wan Qi will be exposed to all these computer learning activites too in her kindergarten.
As we didnt expose Wan Qi to computer games so she had some problem using the mouse- to click on the fish and drag the fish into the fish tank. So you know what there will be this cartoon guy popping out at the side of the tank and asking,"Any trouble?" And the mischievous Wan Qi will lean over to the guy and said "Yes, I have a problem." and started to laugh.
Initially, Wan Qi had difficulty dragging the fish into the tank and so this irritating guy kept popping out. The impatient mummy wanted very much to say "Shark, very irritating" but controlled as I dont want Wan Qi to be so impatient like me. Hence, I endured it while it appeared a few times. Then the funny Wan Qi leaned over to the cartoon guy and "Excuse me can you please go away" plus the hand gesture of asking the guy to move away from the screen. It was so funny that I laughed and laughed and of course together with my cheerful bubbly girl.
Then I realised she understand the concept of her addition and subtraction. As in when she is required to put 9 fishes in the tank, after putting 6 fishes, she can tell me that she needs to put in 3 more fishes.
Umm I consider this not bad. haha

Teacher's Day - What a hectic night for mummy and I

2010-09-04T08:24:00.001-07:00

It definitely is a hectic day for me - the mummy. Not because the mummy had too many presents to receive but because mummy need to prepare for Wan Qi 's teachers' day present.

I cracked my head for it and had little time to think about it.

Though I had already bought bag hooks for the teachers. However, Xihong asked me if the teachers will know that is a bag hook. That set me thinking if I should get another gift. But I have too little time to think. Cos I went for eyelash implantation and a little shopping for myself and oohs have too little time to shop for the gifts. And the queues at the gift shops are super long. Anxious parents like me are getting last minute gifts for their children too.

In the end, I found myself in Precious moment shop(not sure if thats the name). Saw this series of dolls which I fall in love instantly. They are not cheap though. A small note book cost $15. I wanted to get the cards as teachers day cards but they dont sell that. So in the end I thought I will just ask Wan Qi to draw for the teachers. So I bought a folder which I thought was very cute and just ask Wan Qi to copy.

I rushed to Popular to get the cards. Oh my gosh long queues again. No choice, in the end I reached home at ten. And got Wan Qi to draw the cards. Yes we took a long time to finish one.

I thought Wan Qi to draw the doll step by step. I will ask her to draw a u shape for the face followed by the hair. For the hair I asked to draw squares but she insisted drawing it zig zag. I thought so be it dont have to follow the pic. Then follow by the eyes which I insisted she must draw big eyes. And she did it cos she will normally draw small eyes for her dolls lately. Then I thought her to draw the dress which was just triangle. For the hands, I told her to follow the picture but she drew them too long so I asked her to correct them. The most hilarious part is when I asked her to draw the fingers. I told her to make sure there are five fingers. She did them but the whole palm became elongated. And I cant help but burst out laughing. She followed too.

By the time, we finished colouring the card, it was already half past eleven so I asked Wan Qi to do one more half a card before she goes to bed. She insisted to continue but I say its really too late.Will just wake up tomorrow to continue. Within minutes, she fell asleep.

So I decided to help Wan Qi coloured the back ground of the cards. Hee cheat a bit. Then I wanted to help her wrapped the bag hooks for her teachers. After searching for 1.5 hrs, I gave up just couldnt find. Decided to go and sleep and ask Wan Qi the next day.

The next day at seven, I woke Wan Qi up and asked her to finish her cards for her teachers. She sprang up from her bed and continued drawing.(Wow, I thought she will whine but not a bit. She was enthusiastic)I asked her if she sees the bag hooks and she told me its at my mums place. I nearly fainted, wasted my 1.5hr of beauty sleep last night. And its really a rush as we need to leave the house by eight. I quickly cooked her breakfast while Wan Qi continued to draw. But I accompanied her as I am afraid she cant do a good job. And true enough she dont know how to draw the dress so I had to teach her again. Then I smelled something. Gosh my cereal. Cha da. Burnt. No choice will have to buy bread for Wan Qi when we are downstairs.

Wan Qi nearly finished her last 2 cards. When I asked her to write her name. She got it all wrong. She could not write lower case a and she got it mixed up yang become ynag and wan become wna. Furious. I scolded her. (sorry I know its bad of me but really hot tempered nowadays)

Well, in the end we still managed to reach school at 8:20am. :) Bravo. And three of the teachers got their cards and bag hooks. Didnt manage to take the last card as it was really done in a haste.

:P last minute mummy. But I told Wan Qi that it's important to show our appreciation to our teachers on this day especially because ZUN SHI ZHONG DAO is very important to Chinese. :)

I told her to wish the teachers "Happy Teachers' Day" and give them a great big hug. But she told me she wished them but forgot to hug them. :)

Singapore's Old Places

2010-08-28T01:55:00.001-07:00

I am always fond of retro things. That day when I switched on the TV, happened to see that there will be a documentary show showing singapore 's old place. But I missed it last Tuesday. Was hoping to find the old playground featured in that documentary show. It reminded me of my own childhood. My childhood was an adventurous one, I must say. So I hope Wan Qi can "share" some of my chidlhood too.

Hence, we get the ball rolling first by bringing her to Toa Payoh dragon playground. I had my picture taken in this kind of dragon playground too when I was young. We played catching in the playground and Wan Qi played a Cinderalle version. She said Xihong and I are the stepsister and stepbrother. We are supposed to go to the grand ball. Somehow I ended up as the witch and is supposed to catch the "Wan Qi Cinderalle". Haha So we played catching. Once in a while, I becam e Wan Qi's allie. She would ride on her horse(there's a rocking horse there) in order to escape from the witch which is Xihong. But being Wan Qi's allie is no good cos by the time I reached her horse, she said she had already rode the horse off. So I was caught by the wicked witch - Xihong.

It's quite a fun saturday. We then proceed to Qianhu and Goats Farm again.

Home visit by Living Santuary Teachers

2010-08-26T09:31:00.000-07:00

On Monday evening, Wan Qi's teachers from Living Santuary came for the home visit. Being the kiasu mummy, I stayed up late to tidy and clean up the place. I was definitely more excited than Wan Qi. ha!!!
After work, it was raining cats and dogs. Luckily, my colleague Nazema gave me a lift to Buangkok. However, as I need to get some cakes for the teachers so I took a train back to Sengkang. I bought cake from "cake talk"the diy cake shop. Their cakes are beautiful but I am not sure if they tasted as good. I bought strawberry cakes for Wan Qi's 2 teachers.
And when I reach Boon Keng, I went to MAC to get nugget meals for the teachers as it was dinner time so I thought its courtesy that I buy some food for the teachers. I mean they are so so dedicated. Think if we were to ask to do home visit, we will defintely curse and swear hor. hee hee.
Both Wan Qi's teachers Mrs Loong and Miss Chua are very nice and cheerful teachers. Wan Qi loves them a lot. They are strict but loving to the kids at the same time. This is why I insisted Wan Qi to stay in this school as the teachers there are really very caring even though Wan Qi seems too weak to stay in an air con school. Sign. She has been having cough. I wish she will recover soon. :(
Both the teachers complimented on Wan Qi's good behaviour and good academic results. I was told that she pays attention to the teachers and is very confident when she does her show and tell. I was relieved as the feedback that I received from the Bethesda Kindergarten Katong was a total different story from the Dayspring teachers and Living Santuary teachers. Her Chinese teacher also said the same thing about Wan Qi and she praised Wan Qi for her good recognition of the Chinese characters and her drawing skills. (Actually her drawing was taught by me. I always teach her how to draw. eg. for birds - I will ask her to draw two circle for the body , two dots for the mouth one two triangle for the mouth etc)
The only problem Wan Qi had was her sitting position. She never like to sit cross legged. Instead, her legs will form into an odd shape.Dont know how to describe. All the 3 teachers were very concern about this and had to constantly remind Wan Qi as they told me its bad for the development of her legs. I take note of that and reminded Wan Qi about this.
So overall, Wan Qi has been a good student. I am glad to hear that. Then I asked the teachers if Wan Qi is talkative in class as claimed by the Bethesda teachers but they both said she talks at the right time. She will participate actively in discussions and not talk unneccessary. So I felt relieved again.
The other thing that worries me is whether Wan Qi is a complain queen as Wan Qi told me her friends dont like her. When I asked her why she said is becuase she always tell them to keep quiet. But the teachers said she is alright she doesnt complain about her friends. She can socialise very well with her friends. The teachers said that one of the reason why Wan Qi only seems to have 1 good friend most probably is because most of the students around her are boys. Phew another relief. Aiyo I have many concerns for her.
It's really not easy being a parent. Worry for this and that. No choice cant help worrying. My mum said I am too kan jiong must relax a bit. Have not been feeling well these days. My mum went to ask the Buddha for me and guess what. Buddha also advise me not to be so kan jiong.
But cant help it when it concerns my little girl . Seems to difficult to have another child like that. Think I will have more wrinkles formed on my forehead if I have another child. :P

Botak Grandpa and Wan Qi

2010-08-16T08:47:00.001-07:00

The first time when my dad shaved all his hair and become bald, I "accidentally" introduced the word "botak"to her. She was so amused by it that she kept calling my dad botak head and asked my dad why did he shaved all his hair. She commented that it was ugly.
Knowing that my dad is a vain guy(haha yes he is. He used to have many many shoes so as to match his clothing. I inherit my love for shoes from him I guess. ha), I told Wan Qi not to mention "botak" in front of my dad again. I told her it will hurt Gong Gong's feeling. Ever since I said this, Wan Qi stopped teasing my dad. Phew.
Then last Friday, I overheard Wan Qi's conversation with my dad. My dad was saying that now he is botak. And Wan Qi immediately repiled"It's good to be botak then it's easier to comb your hair mah". I was in the room at that time and couldnt help laughing. On the other hand, I was amazed by her her quick respond - and an encouraging one. :) Thanks Wan Qi for loving my dad and my mum. That's what I always told her.

Homecooked food by Housewife Wan Qi

2010-08-13T16:09:00.001-07:00

Wan Qi helped me to wash the black beans all by herself. The cutting was assisted by me as the lotus are really hard plus I'm afraid she might cut her fingers. :P

Wan Qi helped me to wash the broccoli and pluck the broccoli. She is trying her very best with all her little strength. So funny look at her facial expression. Used GOO LUK (hokkien saying)

Wan Qi ate up all broccoli in the bowl while I finished the other bowl. We were muching and muching while Xihong was sleeping. In the end, there was not a bit left for Xihong. Sorry.

We bought a new rice cooker which looks similar to our previous one which was spoiled by the maid. Sign nowadays things are really ex. This small rice cooker cost $160.

Have been cooking home cooked food during the holidays so that my mum, Xihong, Wan Qi and I can have healthy food. We brewed soup and have broccolis for all our meals. On this day, I thought why not get Wan Qi involved in the cooking since baking courses are quite ex for children. I must as well do it at home with Wan Qi. Save cost and have free labour. Hee evil mummy.

Happy 45th Birthday Singapore @ Padang

2010-08-09T07:54:00.000-07:00

Off we went to the NDP show at around 4:30pm. Wan Qi wearing her sunglasses which we bought it for her as she said she really wants it. In the end, she complained that its uncomfortable to wear glasses. :~~ Waste money cause us $8. Ok but I hope she will protect her eyes then as we told her that it's very important to protect her eyes, since now she knows that its uncomfortable wearing glasses. We were in the Yellow section which is GREAT as we can see the fireworks at a closer distance.

Managed to ask a teenager to help us take a picture before we enter PADANG
Just look at the stairs, OMG imagining carrying three heavy bags and carrying Wan Qi in the crowds when we were going home. This is no kidding, make my shoulders ache so much.

Queueing to go in.

Wan Qi meddling with the Singapore flag

Not forgetting the Singapore WAVEA little flower ballon sculpture given by the ""motivators""at the NDP(Motivators are supposed to motivate the audience to be "high" in the great party)In the end, Wan Qi offered to a little boy who was crying non-stop at the start of the show, hoping to calm him down.That's a generous act, Wan Qi- nice JIEJIE

Stunning Fireworks The beautiful Supreme Court
Squeeze out a smile carrying all the baggies.

Home Sweet Home by MRT- Luckily we live so near to city hall mrt and Xihong fetched us at the station. Cant walk home. Too tired.

It's Singapore 45th Birthday!!!! And Xihong managed to win 2 tickets so Wan Qi and I went. Initially, I told Xihong to go with Wan Qi (Wan Qi and I went last year) but he said that I am a better narrator (Hee I think is because he wants to go jalan jalan with his friend lo :P)

Anyway, I went with Wan Qi even though I know its going to be a bit tough for me as I pant easily nowadays plus I know with two goodie bags and my own bang and Wan Qi, its going to be SIong!!!

I think this year NDP show is better than last year, I felt that it's more beautiful this year.

We had an enjoyable time together singing the NDP songs or rather it was me singing. Wan Qi dont really know how to sing the theme song for this year Sing A Song for Singapore. She only know how to sing Five Stars Arising. Unfortunately, this song was sang in another version so Wan Qi didnt really sing.

Girls are just born to be vain.

2010-08-07T07:28:00.000-07:00

Not long ago, I painted my nails red. Upon seeing it, Wan Qi also want to try. I forbid her to do so as I think young children shouldnt paint their nails.

Then on this particular night, while I was watching television. She took out her stickers and started pasting them on her nails even though she has not been exposed to nail art before. I was quite impressed but Xihong was not. He was not pleased at all. I thought that was quite creative of her.:P

Singapore Girl and Singapore dog

2010-08-03T03:43:00.000-07:00

My mum's friend gave Wan Qi a National Day goody bag in advance so Wan Qi took out the flags and played with them. My little doggy was not spared. She became her model. Although not very willing, she still gave Wan Qi some face. She must be in a good mood that day, otherwise she will not bulge. She is my attitude 6yr plus girl.

Wan Qi's 1st Learning Journey With Living Santuary Teachers and friends

2010-08-03T03:05:00.000-07:00

"妈妈! 小心!等一下巴士移动，很可能会撞倒你!"

Her new pose which she had learnt from Impact Models

Wan Qi's playmate is defintely not very keen about the whole trip. haha

Wan Qi woke up early morning to draw a cartoon for her teacher.

Today is Wan Qi 's first learning journey -Health Zone with Living Santuary teachers and friends. Of course, I was very excited. (ha not sure about Wan Qi) She woke up at 6:45am today and I got her usual breakfast oatmeal and egg ready by seven. But she will dilly and dally, she hates brushing up her teeth and bathing so she will whine every morning. (which always makes me very angry).

After I got myself ready, it was already 7:55am. Then I let Wan Qi wear her uniform and off we left the house at 8.06am. I took a cab there and reached by 8:20am just nice as she is supposed to go in at 8:30am.

Then Wan Qi told me that she wanted to bring her rabbit bag which she insisted that teacher said that she can bring her own bag to school rather than her school bag. The silly and stubborn mummy which is me doubted about it and said no lah it's better to bring school bag. In the end, when we were outside the hall, most of the kids brought their own bags. Then Wan Qi wanted to cry, she told me she really wanted her rabbit bag. At that point of time, I felt so guily about it. I really should have went to my dad's house to pick up that rabbit bag. (one thing she left it at my dad's place) But the consolation is I gave her a toy rabbit to put in her bag so she can hug it so I took it out and gave it to her. Then she gave me a kiss and went into the hall. However, I still feel very bad about it. At that point of time, I felt that I always force her to do things out of her wish.

Then I stood at the door like the rest of the anxious mummy, trying to see if Wan Qi join in the fun of singing with lots of action. Unfortunately, she didnt. She only sang the songs but with no action even though her teachers are so enthusiatics. :( But no choice. I waited at the door for them to board the bus. Seriously, I was very happy to be able to send her to school today to get involve in her first learning journey even though its for a short while.

I managed to take some pictures when she came out of the hall and while boarding the bus. She even posed for me(the way she learnt from a modelling course haha vainpot mummy sent her to impact modelling agency to attend a 1 day workshop, took some photos but accidentally deleted all of them. :_ dong dong mummy). While I was taking the pictures, she shouted to me "妈妈! 小心!等一下巴士移动，很可能会撞倒你!" Then I looked beside me, ya the bus is huge better stand to the pavement. The teacher heard and gave me a big smile. Hey I was proud of her, she can be very sweet and sensible at times. :>

And then off she boarded the bus. I waved to her and told to enjoy herself. I bet she did. Her teachers gave her biscuits and a bundle of toys. :>

Journey To The West Influence on Wan Qi

2010-07-20T06:33:00.000-07:00

I bought a few Chinese Classics (Chinese Chamber, Journey To the West and 水浒传 Forget whats the english title. I tried to ask Xihong and Wan Qi repiled is Water and the origin of the title comes from 水龙头。haha my little Wan Qi )to read to Wan Qi a month ago. Her favourite story is Journey To the West. Favourite Chapter is 三打白骨精。She loves the stories so much that she uses the story lines into her daily life. haha.

me:死蚊子，把你叮成这样(叮了婉琦几个包)。等我找到它，它就知道。
me:死蚊子，不懂跑去哪里?
Wan Qi:不要紧，妈妈我用我的火眼金睛帮你把蚊子找出来。 (With action somemore)
me:哇，婉琦，你是孙悟空啊!
Wan Qi:孙悟空是神来的，不可以拿来开玩笑。 (That was what I told her before now she used it on me. gege )
me: 哦，对不起。

Brave little Wan Qi

2010-07-16T08:44:00.000-07:00

my mum wrote her no. on this paper which was subsequently used by WanQi
to draw pictures

Today due to some unforseen circumstances, Wan Qi has to go to my mum's rojak stall for a short stay over. But without her pram, there's no place for Wan Qi to sleep. No choice, my mum brought her back home. However, my mum still need to attend her rojak stall so my mum asked Wan Qi to sleep first. After she fell asleep, my mum will go to her rojak stall. With an awful experience Wan Qi had previously, Wan Qi said she will cry if she cant see anyone when she wakes up. So she suggested my mum writing down her handphone no so that she can call her when she wakes up. In that case, she will not cry. My mum was worried that she do not know how to use the phone as last time when we tried to ask her to dial the donation hotline she was too slow and hence the phone could not get through. But Wan Qi reassured her that she will be able to do it.

Before my mum left, Wan Qi even reminded my mum to write the phone no on a piece of paper and put by the bedside.
And after two hours or so, my mum really received a call from Wan Qi saying she had woke up!!!!!! She didnt cry a bit. She just rang up my mum after she woke from her sleep. Isnt my Wan Qi brave! But of course I hope I will not see this situation again. Sign my poor and brave girl

We self drive to KUKUP on 19th Jun 2010

2010-06-22T09:39:00.000-07:00

We self drove to Kukup on 19th Jun 2010 at about 9am. There was a traffic jam in JB and by the time we reached Kukup, it was 12:30pm.

We headed to the causeway seafood restaurant to have our lunch. It was supposed to be the best restaurant over there at Kukup after I read those surveys at the internet. However,there were not many eaters there when we reached there. Nevertheless, we proceeded. And it turned out the prawns were nicely cooked, the promfret was very fresh and the pepper crabs were hot hot but very yummy. Thumbs up!!! And all these plus a pot of hot tea and 3 plates of rice only cost us $88.10 Ringgit. $39 s$. :>

Then we took a boat ride to see the kelongs which was the main reason why we brought Wan Qi to Kukup. The ride per person is only $5 ringgit two ways plus the boatman are good "tourguide " too. Nice and pleasant people at kukup. :>

At the kelong Wan Qi was running happily along the wooden platform. I was scared that she might fall but in the end she was even more agile than me. :P

As we were the only group on board the ship,the little tourguide told us a little background about kukup. And when we reached the kelong, he actually told the kelong people that we just arrived and requested them to demo the catfish to us again. (As the previous big group had already seen the demo) He also let us feed the small promfrets and the shooting fishes. He also demo how the shooting fish will shoot water up in order to get the ikan bilis from us. Then another kelong boy went to catch cat fish for us to see. He also explained about the nature of the catfish. Hey we learnt a lot from these boys. - Very good natured boys.:>

After half an hour or so, we went back. Thats it. Our whole kukup trip ended at 3pm.

It was not that the stay was terrible that made us looked so grumpy.

Haha rather Malacca is very hot. It's a very sunny morning.

We thought it was a bit too fast and hence decided to head to KL. It was a long ride so Xihong suggested we stopped over at Malacca. So we did. Xihong was proud of that as he said if not we will be too tired by the time we reached KL. And he managed to eat his favourite durians while driving to Malacca by the roadside. Yee but there were so many flies. :P

But the thing is we didnt book a hotel at Malacca. The shocking thing is all the hotels in Malaccas were full house due to holiday season. In the end, we found a room but it was sort of inn more than a hotel. I was very reluctant as I saw lizards along their corridors. I am afraid there will be some in the hotel rooms. However, we were really tired and it was very late. I decided to go ahead with it. It turned out to be better than I expected. It was clean and quite spacious. Phew but I still cant wait to leave the next morning. Hee.

We headed to KL and we also didnt have not book a hotel. Oh my gosh. Frankly speaking, I was quite worried that we will end up staying in an inn again. We went back to bukit bintang but Iwas determined to stay beside Mid Vally Mega Mall - Boulevard Hotel so that I can shop and do my facial there. Hee. But we were not sure how to get there. So in the end I suggested I take a taxi while Xihong followed the taxi. Tata and with 10 rinngit, we reached Boulevard. Nice newly renovated hotel and best of all just beside the the Mega Mall. It was an extremely big shopping mall. But Xihong said this is not the kind of road trips he wanted. Not the shopping type. Hee it was meant for me. I was shopping for my bags but couldnt find the shop - Vinnci plus cos the shopping mall was really big, enormous. We walk for dont know how many times north then east then south then west then north then east and finally found it. And by then Xihong was rather mad with me for dragging Wan Qi and him all around the shopping centre. Well but in the end I got 1 more bag which I orignally planned to buy only 1. I asked him if its ok. He just said "It's ok just buy if you like it." Haahhaaah he 's the best when it comes to buying things for me. I was so happy. Then I said "Thank you I love you" Wan Qi heard it she also said "Thank you I love you" And tala he 's not mad at me anymore. So the 2 of us the happiest one came out of the shop with two big bags and beaming with smiles.
Wan Qi thought that one of the bags belongs to her so she is happy too.

Olden Wang Ye Fu now become "NIE"in China

2010-06-22T09:23:00.000-07:00

Visited this place at Naning. Its a NIE in Naning but they also have a museum introducing olden time KE JU examination. The guide told us the hsitory of olden times examination and also introduced the top scholars. After that we get to experience the examination too by taking exams. Its fun! We are seated in the above small room to take exam. But the result is kelong one as only guys can be the scholars. Since our whole tour group only has these two guys so they became the scholars:>

The Helpful Wan Qi

2010-06-22T09:18:00.000-07:00

Throughout the trip, Wan Qi has been very independent. She had been helping to carry her own luggage. Bought the sheep Chinese wear for only RMB25.

2010-06-22T09:05:00.000-07:00

Wan Qi with the tour guide Xiao Hong

It was drizzing when we are at Elephant Mountain

I bought the hand made knitted hat for RMB15 The tour guide bought a cake for Wan Qi. Wan Qi likes her very much.

Day 3 at Yang Shuo

2010-06-21T20:22:00.000-07:00

We have another river ride here where we saw buffalos enjoying their bath in the river and groups of ducks swimming in the river. It was drizzling a bit but when we alight to take pictures, the rain stopped. :> The scenery was breathtaking. I sat on the deck of the boat to enjoy the breeze all the while after realising that my mum and Wan Qi disappeared back to their seats. The reason- They bought fried small fish and crabs and are tasting them. Wan Qi is very fond of such small where one eatsthe whole fish together with bones. She also ate the whole crabs. As for me, I dont dare to. She is more daring when it comes to tasting first time food.

YING ZI YAN a cave with beautiful natural limestones

2010-06-21T20:09:00.000-07:00

On the 2nd Day we visited the cave called YING ZI YAN. Direct translation will be olden times money stone. Hee. It gets this name is because of the precious limestone in the cave. They are beautiful, some has the shape of monkey god, umbrella,buddha etc all formed naturally!! And some of the limestones are white in colour and they are sparkling that looks like crystals. And the limestone structure in this particular photo is gorgeous as there is a small pond just beside it. One can see the reflection of the limestone in the lake. It's truly amazing. We took a 70min walk in the cave and Wan Qi followed us all the way from the entrance to the exit without having us to carry her. :>

Li Jiang River

2010-06-18T07:52:00.000-07:00

On Day 2, we went to Li Jiang River. Yipee over there we get a chance to sit on the raft which we wanted so much when we were at DE TIAN WATERFALL (but the tour guide said is too dangerous for singapore tourist- they were meant for the locals) However, the raft were the big sturdy one so it was not thrilling at all. :>

We enjoyed ourselves a lot as we met the Chan Brother tour group,(we are from SA tour group), so we actually have LIU SAN JIE singing competition. And guess what Wan Qi volunteered to sing. I was shocked and she sang the tv serial song. So she was given a XIU QIU. It was the ZHANG zhu 's culture that they need to sew this XIU QIU before they get married- a blessing for the girl so that they will find good husbands.

We also get to see the YU YING- a kind of duck who are very very good at catching fishes which made me teared. It was such a cruel act. The fishermen tied a string the YU YING's neck to prevent it from eating the fish. Once the YU YING catches the fish, the fisherman will quickly grab the YU YING's neck and take the fish out from the YU YING. The fisherman will then put the big fish in a net. Sign, humans are really the most cruel animal.

Then we get to go to a tent where they sell pineapples. Wan Qi saw a few Chinese boys and decided to give all her OREOS to them even though she cherished them so much.(This is the only time that she can eat OREOs as I always restrict her to eat biscuit ) I was touched by her act. The countryside boys were very delighted too as they are actually quite poor. (Guangxi is one of the poorest state in China told by the tour guide)

Brought my mum and Wan Qi to Guangxi Guilin

2010-06-18T07:35:00.000-07:00

During March, I asked my dad if he wanted to travel and he said yes. So I went to NATAS FAIR to book a package for him to Hainan Island. However, my mum does not want to go with him as they generally cant click during tour. hee. So during the June holidays, I decided to bring my mum and Wan Qi to China as my mum loves China.

Off we went on the 5th June2010. The airplane trip was a smooth one - a 5hr ride. By the time we reached China- Nanning it was already night time. We went to DE TIAN WATERFAll the next morning. Oh my gosh it was a bumby 4 hrs ride. Throughout the journey, there are people puking. Then ended up my mum and I puked a little too. And Wan Qi, she was happily sleeping throughout the journey. By the time she woke up, we had reached DE TIAN WATERFALL. (I am thankful to Buddha as I always make a trip to pray for our safety before our tour)

This waterfall was the second largest in Asia but I thought having to travel 4hrs just to see this waterfall is not very worth it until...................the horse ride along the mountain. Hooooo it was a bit scary when we were posing near the waterfall. But it was fun too. The scenery at a higher height (on the horse back) is more magnificient.

Wan Qi's progress 2010

2010-06-02T08:45:00.000-07:00

Haha I left her on her own to do this page. But she mixes up eyes and ears. So in the end, she told me it s ok she will do her correction. But its not on the sentence itself but I thought it's a good effort so I said good job to her.

Hee her drawing is still not up to standard , oh and her handwriting too. She is trying to label them like what she saw in some books. Good effort though so didnt ask her to redo. She told me its a bit messy but I reassured her it's quite good as this is her first attempt.

This time round she didnt draw the girl showing her teeth. My mum and I had a good laugh the other time when I saw her completing another assessment book. The girl that she had drawn looks hilarious or should I say like a monster. Cant remember which book but will post it if i find it. Wan Qi drew the girl showing her squarish teeth and her eyelashes oh my god are on her lower eyelid.

Because of her blending skills, she is also able to do the comprehension. I am really proud of her.

Wan Qi is able to do it on her own. If you try to spell it for her. She will be very angry and starts to throw tantrum. With her blending skills, she is able to guess the helping words so she has no problem doing the work with the help of the pictures too.

She will try to spell on her own, when she is wrong I will try to pronouce the words again so that she can do her blending. Really have to thank Sharon for this.

We promised that we will get her a pair of DOra high heeled shoes. But OG still haven have discount lei so on hold first.

Wan Qi had finally completed her pink series phonics book. I thought she did pretty well. 12As and 3Bs. Initially, I was a bit lazy and did not revise with her until she got a consecutive Bs for her reading. I thought to myself since I am spending the money then I should spend some time reading with her. At least before she goes to Auntie Sharon's house. Hee and bravo she didnt disappoint me. She got all As subsequently. In fact, I dont have to revise with her. Once she read once, she will be able to read it when Auntie Sharon test her as she had already acquired her bending skill quite well. Thanks to Sharon.

To tap on her ability to blend, I decided to go further by letting her do some K1 assessment books which I bought from popular. Initially, she dreads it but after doing every morning, she starts to like it. She even asked to do it without having me to tell her. Thats why I did the assessment with her until I missed my lunch. Hey but it's worth it. When we get home at 9pm tonight, she still went to do on her own.

In addition, she has been doing well in living santuary kindegarten. When I went to take her homework that day, the teachers told me that Wan Qi was an independant learner and she can learn very fast. She knows all her songs and rythmns even though she just joined them. I was really happy that she is back to her old self again. JIA YOU my little Wan Qi, the happy learner.

To reward her, Xihong actually bought a strawberry doll for her which she had been eyeing for a long time. There's a discount for this doll for her so we bought it for her. It cost $29.90 now instead of $49.90. Gosh, Xihong really pampered her when it comes to buying dolls. Till now she already has 7-8 dolls. And one is not cheap, the one that can poo haha cant remember her name already cost a big hole in our pockets. In the end, she suffers the same fate as her other dolls - no clothes on - including no diaper. For some reason, Wan Qi always likes to take off their clothes - not sure is it because she dont know how to dress them back thats why they always become naked. :P Luckily this stawberry doll s clothes are sewn to her body if not she will end up like the rest of the dolls too.

Wan Qi and the three little kittens

2010-05-30T20:31:00.001-07:00

We saw three kitten at the void deck of my mum's flat so we brought Wan Qi to see them.

They were so adorable and yet pitiful as it was raining dogs and cats that night. Wan Qi suggested adopting them but I said cant as we have Milky and Milky will bite them. Can t imagine Wan Qi bringing stray cats back home next time which was what I did when I was young. I was telling my mum that day that I must given her so many headaches to my mum last time as I always bring stray cats, dogs, tortoise, tadpoles(not knowing they will turn to frogs) , water snails, goldfish back home. My mum just laugh. How noble of my mum to tolerate me. haha I will definitely not tolerate that. But Xihong said he will if Wan Qi really want to have a cat. He really pampered her. :>

My mum saved another new born bird

2010-05-30T20:21:00.000-07:00

My mum always have the luck to save new born birds. That day, she saved another yellow new born birdie. Wan Qi was very excited and she even tried to build her a nest with a plastic bowl that she had found. She then put some papers inside the bowl. Good Idea as the bid actually poo on the paper and we just throw the papers away.This time round we cautioned my dad not to overfeed the bird. Cos eveytime, my mum saved a bird, my dad will be the one who will fed dilligently to the bird. Too diligent in fact and in the end, the bird is being overfed and die. However, this time round the new born bird could not survive too. My dad said he watched a documentary show and it was shown that new born birds actually need their mummies to feed them with saliva if not they cant survive.

Moe's Family Day @Zoo

2010-05-25T08:17:00.000-07:00

Here we are at the kangaroo's home sweet home.
Wan Qi is able to say that the baby kangaroo is called a joey. She added
that is just like sesame street'zoe. Yaya just that they are written differently.

Tata our end product with the colourful hello kitty.

A family photo with The under nourished MOE pooh bear. :)

We went to the zoo on 22may organised by MOE. We arrived there early in the morning at 9am as Xihong need to get back to SCGS for their open house.

The weather was quite ok. WE were afraid that it will rain at first. It did rain but fortunately we were at the pavillion enjoying our KFC lunch. After that we went to the fragile forest which we had missed previously.

While we were at the pavillion, I signed up Wan Qi for the sand craft. Oh my gosh, Mummy and Wan qi were very lousy in that. In the end, the end product was quite untidy. The hello kitty space had white black and red sand:P.

We took a picture with the pooh bear. It was taken by my ex classmate at NIE, li ling. Coincidently, her son was seated with Wan Qi when they were doing the sand craft.

Overall, it was quite a fun trip for the whole family. Wan Qi even get to go up to the stage to do an impromptu singing.

Wan Qi s First Sport's Day

2010-05-25T08:03:00.000-07:00

Last Friday 23May 2010 was Wan Qi's first sports day. Unfortunately, I need to be in school so I cant go and support her. However, my mum went. My dad wanted to go too but he was not feeling well so my mum went alone.

My mum helped me to take some photographs and even video recorded their sports day but as there were too many people so it was not filmed very well.

Wan Qi told me she did some hopscotch and zig jaw. It was a very short item for her. In the end, she nearly fell asleep. In the end, her teacher Mrs Loong went over to her. She woke up and told the teacher she was just pretending to faint and laughed????? My little Wanqi - she is always so chicky even to her teacher.

The teacher told my mum about this incident and said that it's really a bit boring for the little ones as they have to sit there for 2.5hours watching their brothers and sisters thats why Wan Qi fell asleep. But she told my mum that Wan Qi is very independent. She knows exactly what is expected of her and can perform her task very well.

I am relieved to hear that. Anyway after she went to her school, I could see the immediate change in her. She stopped scolding her stuff toys. In fact, now she will act like a big sister and will wrap you round the shoulder when she wants to ask you a question. This I believe is the way how her teacher talked to her. :) In fact, all her teachers are very kind. Her chinese teacher will give them a rub on the head and body before letting them come out of the aircon classrooms (witnessed by my mum)

And when Wan Qi has anything nice, she will want to give to her teachers just like when she is in Dayspring. :>

Does Wan Qi look like a baker?

2010-05-20T07:48:00.000-07:00

This is Wan Qi's new uniform. Does she look like a baker? When Wan Qi first wore this set of uniform, Xihong teased her, saying she looked like a baker.

Last week, I went to the hospital to do my checkup so I was able to send Wan Qi to school together with my mum and dad. It was a surprise for Wan Qi. I was in Bus 51 and I called my mum to wait till I board Bus 51. So when Wan Qi saw me in Bus 51, she was overjoyed. I was very happy too, to be able to send her to school with both my parents.

Wan Qi in Princess costume

2010-05-20T07:40:00.000-07:00

We did this crazy shot back then when she was 3. I used my handphone to take pictures so I delayed until today then I posted up as I was too lazy. :P

Hee doesnt she look lovely, my little Wan Qi. Actually , we were in a fitting room. As Xihong went to buy ink at Sim Lim s Square, I decided to bring Wan Qi to OG as its quite boring to go to Sim Lim. Then I had a crazy idea.

To dress up Wan Qi as Snow White and Cinderalle in the fitting room and take pictures for her. Of course, I didnt buy the costume. They each cost $149.90. EXXXXXX

Brought my mum and dad to Jing Restaurant @ 1fullerton

2010-05-18T20:47:00.000-07:00

To celebrate mother's day, I booked a place at Jing Restaurant @One fullerton. It's a ala carte buffet. We had some difficulty looking for a place to park as I thought if we were to park at fullerton hotel it will be very ex. So in the end, we parked at uob building. Xihong said I shouldnt as there is a total of 5 person so its kind of tiring for my parents and Wan Qi.
By the time we arrived there, there were already many people, the good thing is we had made a reservation. They were very strict with making reservation. Even if you have made a reservation, but if you didnt confirmed the reservation when they gave you a call. The reservation is considered void.
The waiting time was real slow. However, there were some food on the buffet table. My mum especially loved the chicken soup with wine. She drank two bowls of it. She said it was very tasty. We had mussles too. They were quite delicious but my dad didnt want to try it. He said it looked yucky. Haha. My dad didnt eat much as the food was not to his liking. :( He had some tim sum, soon hock fish only.
The chilli crab and soon hock were very fresh, quite delicious, I would say. The soup were tasty too. But overall its not worth the money $45 per person.Their serving of food was real slow.When the food arrived, they arrived all at the same time. We were like rushing to finish up the food. And when we asked for the second helping, they took ages to serve the food. In the end, we just forget about the second helping and went out to take pictures. We took only one picture with the JIN SHA magnificient three towersas the background. Unfortunately, it was quite sunny so our faces were black in colour. Otherwise, the picture would have been great.
I guessed the next time round, we will go to Qian Xi restaurant as my mum and I thought the food there is quite nice. Or anybody has any place to suggest where they served good food?