Conversation with my "soon to be teenager" daughter...

Tessa : Mummy U know Bella and Jon prefers Uncle Lawrence to be around instead of Aunty Daisy.

Me : Why?

Tessa : Because Uncle Lawrence allows them to play while Aunty Daisy will make them do work!

Me : Oh so does that mean you also prefers papa to be around instead of mummy? Since I am always making you and Jacob do work?

Tessa : No I prefer you to be around!

Me : Why?

Tessa : Because papa will not bother to help me with my work if I don't understand the question but you will!

Phew.....at least my efforts are still being appreciated .... for now...

Things for Sale!

Time to clear some old bags as I have a few new targets this year! Help me spread the word and feel free to email me at eileenchia10@yahoo.com.sg if there are any question!

Original Cost $1250 - Selling for $500!

Original Cost $1890- Selling for $1200!

Cannot remember what is the original cost but a similar design is going for more than SGD 800 now. - Selling for $400!

What a night!

I met up with my JC classmates tonight at No.5 Emerald Hill, some of whom I have not met since we left JC almost 20 years ago! LF even drove all the way from KL to join us for this gathering. It turned out to be such a fun-filled night, complete with 4 bottles of champagne and 2 bottles of Macallan! With most people not in their most sober state, we had TM telling us about his mass orgy stories in China, AL and HX forcing each other to declare whether they had a crush on each other in JC; matchmaking the only singles YY and TM; R being the ah bek cassanova on the dance floor and many other funny moments. We were as noisy as a bunch of JC kids and we did what we could not do during JC days - dancing in a pub!

The biggest challenge of the night was to send a completely drunk R back to his car with HX. I called the " drive u home" service and we had to entertain R cursing along the way in multiple languages. It took us 15 minutes to "extract" his exact home address amidst his swearing! While waiting for R's driver to arrive, HX puked in the car park! Luckily I was sober enough to send HX home and it was almost 3am when I finally reached home.

Thank you R and HM for organising this gathering and most of all... thank you Michelle, who inspired this gathering! Cheers!

Finally!

Jacob is made class monitor today! This is a milestone for him as he hates being in the limelight! Last year, he rejected the post when he was voted class commando in term one and he again said no to the teacher when he was asked to be class monitor in term 3. Talk about being "atas"! I have since been promoting the pros of being a leader to both my kids. They were clearly not convinced so it was a surprise to see him with the class monitor tag today. He told me he was chosen by the teacher and was not given choice like in P1. I have secretly happy that the teacher did that. I wish he was half as enthusiastic as Isaac, who got the whole family excited when he was chosen as the class monitor! In my case, mummy was definitely the more excited one! I bought him soccer cards as a reward and hopefully, he will not be as be so " anti- leadership roles" going forward!

LASIK

I did it! Enjoying my first morning of perfect eyesight after 14 hours of sleep. It was well worth the 8 hours spent at the clinic yesterday but there were some moments that I will never forget!

Scariest moment - The minute you lie on the operating table. Yes it was painless but it was totally uncomfortable, especially when they cut your cornea. After that, the 30 sec he spent using laser on each eye seems like forever and I actually counted the seconds to make sure he is not lying!!! I pray that my kids will have perfect eyesight so that they do not have to go through this!

Happiest moment - when I got down from the operating table! I had perfect eyesight immediately and it was an amazing feeling!

Most pathetic moment - When I was sitting alone at the taxi stand, waiting for Ian to pick me up. By then the anesthetic has wore off and I could not open my eyes at all. The tears keep flowing and a lot of passer-bys actually stopped n asked if I am all right and if I need to help with taxi!!!

Anyway, glad I have done it and hope the recovery phase will be smooth....

A Busy Saturday!

The end of Continual Assessment 1 marks the start of fun and parties again! We started the day by picking up the girls - Bella and Shyan- for some shopping at Takashimaya. First stop - Kinokuniya. This is the best place to get some books on Liverpool for Ethan's birthday party on Sunday. The girls had lot of fun at the sticker section and each end up with stickers that smells like Strawberry! Tessa got all the girls excited when she suggested going to Artfriend to get some mulberry paint for the papyrus craft that they did in school. To their disappointment, Artfriend has discontinued the sale of Mulberry paint. The sales person suggested we get " Painting by number" instead. It is a craft that teaches the kid how to paint using number codes on the picture. It looked like a tedious task to me but the kids enthusiasm won me over and they each ended up with a set.

We spent one hour doing the craft at my place and my skepticism was proven right. It was not easy and the girls lost their interest after an hour! I hope they will keep their promise of completing it another day!

Then it was time to send Shyan back home to her Pin Yin class before attending Jeremy's party with the kids at Mcdonalds. It was a weird party for a 3 yr old boy when all the guests are mostly primary school kids!. Nonetheless, I had a great time catching up with Liana and Amanda. The shaker fries was really good too!

It was back to reality at night as Tessa had to complete her Chinese Composition homework on Power Point and email it to her teacher. With my help on sentence structures and her love for clipart, I thought she did a decent job....check it out!

What a busy Saturday! I am ending the day now by having some bonding time with Jacob - watching the Arsenal- Sunderland game on our newly installed mio TV! Tomorrow will be another busy day with church, another powerpoint presentation to do and Ethan's party!

I love Chanel Earrings!

New Addition!

My collection! Which one do you like?