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不久前在FB shared 了一个很妙的立体描绘。。。

这天把小孩们困在家,闲来无事便和睿锦一起尝试了。。。

效果没比FB的专业,但还不错啦!

Something wrong with FB...

If you are not aware, you might want to take note... FB had been pretty sneaky... specially to those who seldom logs on...

Do you know that it may like some commercial FB page on your behalf?

I noticed that very long ago but only confirmed it recently...

Quite some time back, I saw my close friend 'like' a Serenity Spanish restaurant at vivo. Besides her, a few of my friends like that, too, Ard the same time... so I checked out with m uh close friend if it was really good or worth trying... end up? She didn't even heard abt it. she didn't like that at all...

Recently,  i saw my hubby 'like' some weird article but he didn't even log on to FB for a while... He couldn't find that to remove the like... its really creepy...

Now... I finally managed to screenshot... having a hard time with doing screen capturing from my note3...

Tonight, I saw 2 guys like a female fashion FB page... ridiculous... Seriously?

Be aware... beware...

To Skool by Bus!

Happy girl... way excited to get a free ride on bus... hahaha!

Even if it's 15 mins!

At any time when you are at any place with ya family..  its always the best time, the best place ^^

Love every moments with my love ones!

Who woke me up?

4 am,  Renee woke up for milk and diaper change...

4:30am. ... Phoebe cried... because she was up since 3:30am,  rejected milk and helper couldn't make her sleep...

So, I rocked her to sleep. But I couldn't sleep. .. its been an hour since...

I thought it was them who kept me awake but no... It was me! It was myself who was influenced by an inspirational talk on Friday by a guess speaker Jenny Wee.

It's a long story but net of it... The take back from the 1 hr sharing was how we can find contentment in life, to have a mission, and most importantly, to make the best of every season of our life.

I really love the positivity, quote and motivation from Jenny.

Also, it was privilege that her very close friend, who is also a powerful speaker and active community service volunteer shared 2 mins of message. A gentle reminder for all to see, sense and appreciate the many things that we have but not what we don't have. Many times in life, people see only what others have but they don't. Soon, they became upset, unsatisfied and pressurised, in short, unhappy. On a contrary, we should just look at what we have and appreciate all these simple things. From there, we will be able to find contentment in our life and become a happier person.

More, is to have a mission in life. A purpose. It doesn't have to be big. If in any small little way that I can make a tiny improvement or touch the other person's life, it becomes meaningful and purposeful...

Friday night when we got home, a 20 yr old young lady from BMDP came knocking on the door to raise awareness abt charity opportunity for bone marrow, leukemia disease. She explained that she can explain more and help me with the forms but she'll not collect any cash. It was 8pm plus on a Friday evening. She had sacrificed her weekend family time to serve the community. I salute her. Though I didn't provide her with any further details or make any donation right away, I know I'll do that via the official website/ organisation. Anyway, the least I could do for her is to offer her a packet drink and thank her for her time in running this. I wish her good luck. Anyway, to help spread a little word abt that... pls check out http://bmdp.org

Baked till he drop

It's butter cookie...

The key is not butter cookie but it's also the cookie...

The key is the cookie cutter and text prints on the cookies!!! ^^

It's been a long while since I last baked... These baking accessories were purchased some time in Mar....

And this midnight baking was hilarious because of my husband refused to sleep in the room until I was done... Seemed like his attempt to stop me from baking didn't work out the way he wanted...

So, may i present to you... my hilarious hubby... v funny guy... and v lovely, too! ^^ and my cookies!!!

WTH...

I had forgotten when I started falling ill... The whole family took turns with this brutal viral... I visited the GP the most number of times in my life... 3 times for 2 babies, 3 times for myself and abt 2 times for dear, in just one month.

The worst fever I had was 2 years ago... when both Renee and I were burning to 41°c but stuck at home, having the sick taking care of the sick...

The worst flu I had was many many years ago before I moved from the East... I still vaguely recalled how my bro, my sis and I struggled our way to the nearest clinic which was some 10 mins walk away from our house then... everyone in the house was down.

This one... This recent (or current ) one... I had no idea how to describe it... This was the first time i finished 3 sheets of panadols, i thought it looked like i was trying to commit suicide... It made me asked the doctor if it was dengue and eventually Google for what Ebola is about...

It started off with sore throat which took weeks to heal, followed with...
Dry and itchy cough
Flu that flown inwards
High fever that runs on for 4 days
Sore eyes
Nauseous
Backache/ muscle ache
Irregular heartbeat
Feeling warm and cold at the same time...

Seriously, with the above symptoms,  I could have been sent to Ebola treatment centre for test if I were somewhere at the affected area.

Eventually, i supposed the antibiotic saved me a BIG time... Just when I thought I had fully recovered from this crap... I had to run to the toilet twice this evening for diarrhoea... its either the bug was too strong and brutal... or I had overdose of barley, chrysanthemum tea, white sparkling water (白花蛇草水) and Meiji milk lately... WTH. .. exactly, WTH!!!

What worse is that Dear hadn't fully recovered and Phoebe's fever is still going on and on... pls, tell me she's fine tonight!

And... no more toilet run for me, pls... SG SG SG! !! >○<

"What couldn't kill you will make you stronger", I can feel that I am mutating with the virus... teenage mutant ninja turtle. .. turtle in the hardshell... turtle power! Wuhoo ^^

One for all... All for one

最近, 我家的帮佣又听到了关于自己胖的声音。。。

于是, 又变得挑剔了。一但觉得菜肴太多便会坚持不原意煮。。。(还要加一个"不爽")。

我才恍然大悟,原来是这样; 所以最近好像我莫名其妙地欠了她什么似的。。。总是无精打采。

好吧。居然有人不视快会对一个女人说她胖, 而且越来越胖! 我的天啊!

好吧, 那我就来一起受般委屈; 看来我最近也得少吃连咯! 不过不是我不想吃哦, 是有人示威了, 只好迁就一下。

(奇怪的是,都说了要减肥的话Milo少喝点。。。又不见得妳听? 或说回来,你曾几何时听我的呀?)

早前让我无语的对话。。。

对话(一)

"要煮粥吗?"

"要的。让睿琦吃。"

"可是没烧水"

(那就开吖!)

对话(二)

"那要煮饭吗?"

"Yes"

"那要煮饭吗?"

"Yes"

"我是问。。。要煮饭吗?"

(Which part of Yes do you don't understand? )

真的。。。路遥知马力, 日久见人心。没有人是完美的, 我们没有期望更不会对你有什么奢望。如果你不珍惜现在的雇主, 我们也不会勉强。希望你早日归队, 不要再顾虑着什么胖不胖, 吃完不吃完的问题了。

现在将就一点, 陪你少吃点。。。one for all, all for one. 然后, 我才偷偷吃。。。 哈哈哈!

Some sweet conversations...

Renee had gotten her Skool uniforms... I was persuaded to get 4 pcs instead of 2... teachers advised us to write name at the bottom of the uniforms in case of mixed up... I thought, why don't I sew her name on instead of writing on them... It didn't take me too long to regret my impulsive decision because I fell asleep as I worked on the embroidery... LOL! Ok, to be fair, I was burning at 38°c while doing all that for my girl. After it was done, I was actually quite impressed with my work from a last min tutorial via YouTube.

At night, Renee was muttering
to herself when she tried to put on her own pants. I came into the room and asked at the door "吖,什么声音?" Renee immediately responded from behind the divider "是睿锦的声音!"

Bedtime, Renee climbed up from her bed and crawled over to me, who was pretending to be asleep in order to co-sleep her. She leaned over me and said softly into my ears, "Ruijin love Mummy and Ruijin love Daddy!" I opened my eyes and gave her a tight hug... damn... We had reset... It took me another 1 hr to make her sleep!!!

This girl who had gone to Skool for more than 3 months cried everyday at the Skool ' s door but totally enjoyed herself and her little friends' company! She had grown up so much... becoming more sensible, sensitive and sweet!

Still, something had to be learned from her younger sister, Phoebe.

Phoebe, without being taught would willingly handover the thing that she was holding, if you asked for it nicely. The rule is, No snatching. There was once when I saw my helper left a bottle of insect repellent in Phoebe's hand, I immediately walked over to take it away from her (I forgot abt no snatching as it's dangerous if she licked it )... she cried very sadly... and that made me sad, too.

When the sisters were playing together, I made them to practise taking turns to play. That's when they would pass the toys to each other willingly... very fun but require adult facilitating and gentle reminding about the no snatching rule. Practise more! I believe they will learn and start to play together more freely going forward ^^

睿锦说成语。。。

Renee walked into the master bedroom where she played with her sister madly in the morning...

BH and I could hear her from our home office which was just a few steps away...

"哇! 这么乱七八糟吖! 快一点弄好好啊!?"

Then she looked at me and laughed loudly...

My first reaction was... did Renee just used a 成语 before she is even 3 years old? So cool ^^

Happy Bday to U ^^

Without realising that almost all restaurant will not have preferred cards promotion on PH and eve of PH, we happily parked at Millenia Walk.

The car park was like a maze. It took us more than the amount of time when we stepped into the mall to get out of it... that's 3 bucks for a pretty short drop by.

We headed to Esplanade. Had the most spicy ever Thai Express for dinner. Both babies went cranky by the time we settled in. Helper Ifa took both of them for a walk along the river to calm them down... I guessed they were not cranky but way too excited to be out after a whole week being grounded at home for high fever.

Dear and I sobbed through our dinner due to the spiciness of Tom yam soup, minced chicken basil... what a Bday dinner!!

Dear and I took over helper with the kids so that she could enjoy her favourite as spicy as possible dishes. Renee ate the rice on her own while Phoebe kept sliding down to the ground to roam on her bare feet.

Had a bit of sneak preview to the NDP while we rest along the river, enjoying the breeze and scenic view of the ever-spitting Merlion.

It was only 7:30pm when we decided to head home to let the kids ramp down for the night. Probably a 2 hour parking at The Esplanade... 8 bucks... Dear almost plucked out his hair when the charge was flashed on Wilson.

Happily driving home, Dear forgotten entirely that it's TGIF instead of the usual weekend outing... so came the 2 ERP gantries where he continued to pluck his hair... LOL ^^

Very exhausting day though nothing much was done except sitting in the Thai express, sitting along the river and sitting in the car...

Happy 32nd Birthday to you, my snoring husband!

Sand-ed!!!

"不要。。。dirty..." is the usual response from Renee when we tried to make her walk (or rather stand) on the sand. For the past two and a half years, Renee hadn't touched a grain of sand.

A week ago, we bought a set of sand sculpturing tools for hmmz... making sand sculptures. For the whole week, Renee had been role playing at home to pretend to be making sand sculptures on her clean and smooth mattress.

A month ago, I bought a picnic mat from Giant. It was no doubt very over-priced but what can I do when I need it? Haa....

Today, 2nd of August (Sat), the first time for TBH, Renee, Phoebe and Ifa to play 'sand castle' and first time for Renee, Phoebe and Ifa to get their feet brushed by the cooling waves.

Been a while since I had last done that... very fun filling day... a wonderful family outing to remember!