无辣不欢；有辣also不欢？

要不是亲眼目睹，真的不相信。其实就算是亲眼目睹了；还是难以置信！

今天我打包了杂菜饭当午餐，特别帮我家一发加了很多辣椒酱。我还以为我为她尽了点心，原来我真是脱裤放屁；多此一举！

她，把辣椒酱挑到一边，从冰箱拿了她妈妈做的辣酱三八来配菜；然后把原来打包的辣椒酱丢掉。我问她为什么不吃，她说她不喜欢吃那种辣椒。可是我从来不知道，每次打包都是这种辣椒啊！

我，目瞪口呆；恍然大悟。她是来自贵族的千金，我才是住在柑榜的村民。

Today's 2 vs 3

This was our third family outing attempt without helper tagging along. It wasn't as sinnang* as the previous two trips (waterway point and arts gallery museum). 

Why? This was because all three kids were cranky.

Why? This was because we headed out during their usual nap time so they skipped nap, hence they became cranky. Worse? I was as tired...

Nevertheless, we made it. We made a trip to the changi airport T3 to gaze at the Planes taking off and landing, followed by a pumping session in a nursing rm at L2 near checkin counter 6. Finally, a quick but expensive dinner at Thai Express and lastly a chill-lax at Yakun with coffee and steamed buns.

Not very eventful but as exhausting as we took turns for the kids' toilet trips... And milk feeding for the baby who wasn't napping during this trip.

I could hardly take pictures as my hands were most of the time occupied. Here's the one and only pic from today's outing, the girls with Mr Bean, and yes, they watched and love Mr. Bean...

Role play level up

Kids love to role play... So they became doctors or teachers or whoever they liked to be in their game...

This evening as the sisters finished their bath, they played on their own in the baby room. I was curious about what they were up to so I walked over with baby Wayne in my arms.

I watched them from the door, saw their stuffed toys placed in a line on the floor, assuming their were students seated in a line. Renee pretended to be the teacher, while Phoebe pretended to be the caretaker, bringing the stuff toys to toilet when they needed to wee-wee...

Very very interesting game, I didn't remember playing this when I as young. The only classic game that I played with my siblings was titled "继续上路" when the game could resume every day as we continued our ninja journey. So lame but so much fun!

The bank teller

We went to the bank this morning to exchange for a working token. I meant to go alone but the sisters love to tag along, so it took a longer time and slightly more struggles to run this simple errand.

Nevertheless, it was fun and less boring than doing it alone. As the girls sat in front of the bank teller, they kept spouting nonsense and singing songs out of the blue...

The bank teller, who was a pretty young lady, kept stealing glances of them and smiled to herself... Finally, she couldn't help it but asked, "Are they one year apart?"

"Nope, two years actually..." I answered.

"They are super alike! Just that one is fairer, the other is tanner. One is bigger and the other is smaller. Otherwise they are like exactly the same!", she exclaimed.

Myth Buster

I almost forgot about the first myth she shared with us until I heard her second incredible myth just yesterday...

Maybe she meant to be good but really, no thank you!

Years ago when dear or I suffered from some outbreak on the face, she kindly shared with us that in her kampung, people put mucus from nose to sooth the pimple.

"What? You are joking, right?

You just want to watch Sir walking ard with snot all over his face, right?"

"No, really! It will heal just the next day!"

No thanks, we didn't try. Zero intention to buy that...

Phoebe had an eye infection underneath her right upper eyelid, which caused her right eye to swell and puff.

"In our Kampung, we will wash the swollen eye with pee."

"Huh? No...."

The following day, she urged, "it's getting worse now, want to wash with pee?"

"No, pls don't try... And pls don't even ask again! I'm bringing her to the doctor for eye lotion."

I hope I don't get to hear anymore unbelieveable myths from her kampung again... 

Also, I hope she wasn't in the toilet for so long because she's trying to pee and wash her eyes or doing snot mask on her face? Pls don't... I have weak heart....

I didn't proof the myth right or wrong... I just felt that we need to have our own instinct and common sense to protect our love ones from baseless myths...

A little bit of 文化气息

After N times of visit to the shopping malls and the shopping malls during the haze period, during the hot weather and now the dengue season, I suddenly had a strong urge to visit places like science center or art museum!

The better if they are FOC... Glad that my bro dropped by today and mentioned about the new museum (old Supreme Court). After three times of going round the beautiful building not because we wanted to admire it from the outside but because we couldn't find the carpark entrance... We finally made it into the mysterious carpark, after I took over the wheels. Just kidding, it's because dear guided the way while I drove since he became really unwell.

There's a lot of exhibition halls but we only went to one... Because it wasn't early when we got there and we were hungry and tired by the time after visiting the first hall at L2 (kids education)...

So the girls had some fun running, hiding and sliding at the maze-like "playground", followed by some coloring at room where dear and I rest our bums and legs!

Our mad minds continued our journey to MS for early dinner at the Pizza Hut. Yummy. ^^ 

It's the longest outing we ever did with our kids, from early noon to late evening, without help of others, just the two of us and our three treasures... It's so scary!

I am ungrateful...

Reading this, I am a very ungrateful person... Shame shame!

So I must rethink and reorganize my thoughts...

A more grateful thought would then be... 

I wanted to thank her for sleeping till past 8am every morning, waking up later than everyone most of the time... Complaining about nothing to do and yet couldn't finish some of the work saying that there's no time...

I wanted to thank her for utilizing my kitchen/ common toilet to the max, it's probably the most utilized and lived in space of the entire house since her arrival near 3 years ago. The toilet would be grateful to her, too.

I wanted to thank her for leaving the laundry dirt in the washing machine filter net whenever I spot checked so that I knew the machine machine did all the washing work... And how much washing it processed in between my checks, based on how thick the dirt accumulated.

I wanted to thank her for using our robot vacuum twice to thrice times a week such that it was utilized since its purchase 6 months ago. It would be even better if she would remember to clean the cartridge after each use, instead of being left in the robot over the weekend to feed mites or silverfishes...

I wanted to thank her for going through our newspapers and magazines every time she took them out from the store, whien she really was trying to use them to wipe Windows or mirrors, instead of reading half a day like she's in a library... Oh, and speaking of that, I hadn't seen it for a while because the glasses and mirrors were already cleaned by my husband when we thought those were handprint artworks from my girls' class...

I wanted to thank her for telling me "I just cleaned this ar!" When I requested for a rusty sterilizer, dust-covered bed frame and tables, coffee-stained mugs or moldy toilet tiles to be re-cleaned properly. At least I learnt that she tried to clean them "a week" or "a month" ago when my duty roster indicated a daily task... I also knew that she ate everyday, why wouldn't she skip eating today since she had eaten yesterday?

I wanted to thank her for leaving my girls toys in the kitchen like forever after rinse because whenever I spot a toy knife in the dish washers drying rack or a toy spoon in my cutlery drawer... It reminded me of my girls no matter where I was, be it in the toilet or kitchen or service yard... It's everywhere.

I wanted to thank her for her consistency in pressing  her own sambal with my garlic, my sugar and my condiments for every single meal, everyday but wouldn't wash piled handwash items on a daily basis... It gave me great excuse to splurge on lingerie when I ran out of them... Wuhoo!

I wanted to thank her for blaming "something" in the baby room or in my house which made her overslept during her fasting, causing her not able to successfully fast, when that "something" was really her own pillow and she refused to use the alarm clock.

There's so many more little things that I was grateful to her... So much that I wanted to get her a one-way air ticket to reunite with her family and her imaginary boyfriend/husband. Then, I would be thankful...

大年初二。回家吃饭！

也没有特别地安排；但是差不多每年如此，习惯成自然。每年农历正月初二；我们都会吃一顿团圆饭。哈哈！

今年，其实我不太敢捞鱼生；但是一年一次，而且是Sakae Sushi的，应该okay吧？

祝大家新年快乐；万事如意！发呀！

扬扬从早上一直睡到傍晚；知道回家梳洗后才一只醒着直到半夜才入眠。终于让我拍下他那“昙花一现”的杀手笑！宝宝，你要乖乖哦！

大年初一。二零一六。

We used to visit four places in the past during the first day of CNY. This year, due to undesired arrangement, it was reduced to three places...

So we started off by bringing mandarin oranges to my in laws place as our head start of the CNY.

Instead of going to KPT for breakfast like in the past, my MIL fried bee hoon and heated up the leftover curry for our quick lunch.

After an hour or so (and after my pump), we packed up and headed to my grandma's house to bai nian. This year, we reached slightly earlier and managed to meet all my cousins and families. So I sort of completed distributing the angpows. Wuhoo!

As usual, we had Mee sua, popiah and barley dessert at my grandma's place before considering checked! Hee ^^

Our last (but also our longest station) would be my 娘家。There, we took a couple of pics together and had a quick yet delicious dinner before calling it a day.

Happy new year and wish all a good health, happy 2016!

Happy CNY 2016!

Reunion dinner was held at my in law's place, just like any other year. We got to their place early and enjoyed a sumptuous meal, with great thanks to the chef of every year's reunion dinner, my mother in law ^^

The girls wore really nice this evening. Renee brought along her artwork from school to show it to her grandparents.

Phoebe wanted a second serving of the dinner but we didn't give her, except for water and CNY goodies ^^

The girls ate plenty of kueh bangkit...

Wayne almost slept through the dinner, glad that he woke up to his milky milky and had a bit of fun with us!

Our 2016 family pic with grandparents.

May everyone enjoy good health, success and happiness in the year of Monkey!

Let's begin the race!

And what's this title gotta do with my following entry? Nothing much actually... 

Just because Dear and I decided to go to Waterway Point, on a weekend, during dinner time (sounded challenging, didn't it? Not yet...) with just the two of us and our three treasures, without any help from others. Okay, so the last part was our real challenge. 

Before setting off, while walking around the tiny house to pack the huge bag for the kids, we reminded each other to stay cool and be prepared of any impromptu change of plan, depending on how it all went for our outing... Breath in... Breath out...

So off we went!

We tried not to be ambitious at all. Our humble target was basically to get into the newly opened shopping point for a peek (if we could get a parking lot), to have a simple dinner, to visit kiddy palace to check out for shoes for the kids.

We were lucky to get a lot, despite having more than ten cars roaming around the multistorey underground carpark, with its display showing 2-4 vacancies.

We were lucky to get a table at Burger Up, a local brand fast food restaurant, to enjoy big burgers that cost lesser than the Carl's junior. The girls behaved well (with dear's HP showing Pororo and some serving of fries) and Wayne sort of slept through our trip...

After 20-30mins of toilet break (Dear looked after the girls, including bringing them to restrooms, while I pumped the milk, with Wayne napping soundly on my lap)...  

Then, we continued to explore the amazingly huge mall (or point), on our way to find the kiddy palace. We came across this outdoor wonderful view of the Punggol park waterway scenery, absolutely mesmerizing!

Found kiddy palace but didn't manage to get suitable pair of shoes for the girls for this CNY ~,~

Wanted to go for coffee break before leaving but dear and I were contented with our achievement so far and totally exhausted. Deep inside our heart, we would rather head home, packet a kopi-siew-tei/ teh-C-korsong at our neighborhood than to spent any more time outside of our comfortable home... 

Finally, we left with a family pic taken FOC at a photo booth outside of the Shaw cinema ticketing area after our first toilet break ^^,

What an amazing weekend for us!! ^,^

CNY goodie

First time I came across air fried luncheon meat strips... So how could I miss it since its dear's fav?

Presenting, crab stick strips and luncheon meat strips, both airfried at 160°c or below for 20mins or more...

坐月婆走后。。。

第一晚，我感觉我都醒着，时不时就在更换宝宝的尿片，不是尿多就是拉屎了。几个小时拉了4-5次吧。

请爸爸妈妈喝茶。。。 ～,～