Personalize

My boss commented that my office's wall looks empty. Well, my office is indeed empty. I didn't have too many stuff (other than work stuff), not like when I was in my old workplace. 

I had leftover of the kids' pix and they are put to good use.

I already have 2 people who commended the pix. Hehe.

Mummy Lim

The Boy is Down

Popo told me in the evening that Lil Isaac is down with a fever. I sort of expected that ever since Daddy Lim came down with a throat infection. The boy was already sneezing away yday. Luckily, we weren't too adventurous yday and didn't run around in the sun or swim like how we usually would. Else, maybe he would be worse.

He looked ok when we picked him up but grew lethargic as the fever peaked. He measured 38.9 degree just before bed and willingly went to bed after the medicine. I gave him bufen. Poor boy. The little monkey who would go to bed in his singlet and diaper is now clad in long pj pants and asked to be wrapped in blanket. 

I wonder if jiejie will go down next. Lil Isaac probably cannot go to school tomorrow and Lil Shauna is complaining that she's coughing and needs to skip school too. Win already.

Mummy Lim

Pet

We were watching documentary. It was about a herd of elephants and one of them is a baby elephant. Lil Shauna said that the baby elephant is so cute.

LS: Hmmmm... I think, if I can, I want to keep a baby elephant as a pet instead.

ML: ?

LS: When it is still small.. When it grows bigger, then I will throw it away.

ML: What??!! You cannot throw away your pet!

LS: Ok, then when it is bigger, I will sell it to somebody else. Hehe.

ML: ...

Mummy Lim

"Police"

Last week, Lil Shauna asked to cycle at the mini park downstairs. Lil Shauna has a pink 4-wheeler bicycle. She doesnt really ride in it, opting to scoot or rollerbalde most of the time.

Lil Isaac inherited her pink tricycle that is starting to rust and appears to fall apart too. We didn't want to buy another tricycle, since we already have one, even though it is pink. We had wanted to buy a bicycle for Lil Isaac too. However, the last 2 occasions that we tried him on a bicycle in the shop, he didn't peddle very well.

Last week, we saw that he seemed to be able to peddle the tricycle and he proves us right. He was so excited and peddled really well at Kiddy Palace when we tried out the bicycle. Some thing really do come with age. So, we finally got him a blue bicycle. He was over the moon. He rode the bicycle to Centris from Kiddy Palace and then a bit more beside the pool in Centris. The bicycle has "Police" written all over and Lil Isaac decided to call it "Police".

In the late afternoon, we headed to West Coast Park with my bro's family and the kids cycled. Lil Isaac loves to ride his bicycle. I  rollerbladed after the kids. My blades are disintegrating too due long period of non-usage but still usable. It was so much easier than walking. Daddy Lim had to quick-walk after the kids and looked at me with envy. He kept saying that we should both buy new blades and do this more often. Hehe.

We had dinner at Mac and ended the day with some more cycling, scooting, playground and sand digging. It was a great way to bond. Supposedly cheap too if we already have the gears in place. Lol.

Mummy Lim

Brightens My Day

Lil Shauna asked for the iPad this early morning.

ML: OK, but you have to do your phonics first.

LS: Huh? Then I don't want the iPad already.

ML: But you still need to do your homework. Haha.

LS: O.o"

Daddy Lim sent the doctor on Thursday night for a suite of flu symptoms and was given plenty of medicine. The doctor said that he has a throat infection.

He is definitely feeling better and told me this morning that he is hiccuping from the medicine and über irritated. 

Hiccups??? Never heard such a side effect from medicine! Poor Daddy Lim but so funny.

Mummy Lim

See the Doctor

Daddy Lim is coming down with a flu and wanted to see the doctor that the kids always visit when they are down. The doctor is fairly kids friendly and gives out stickers freely to sick kids after consultation.

Lil Shauna asked Daddy Lim, "can you help me to ask the doctor for stickers when you see him?" Muahahaha.

Mummy Lim

It Finally Happened

It finally happened. The phone couldn't work for a while and suddenly it was alright again. By then, it had decided to wipe out all my contacts. My iPhone is a simple communication device and camera to me and I have not attempted to sync and back up and duno what else with the home computer. So, all are gone.

 I don't have that many contacts to begin with but I felt the pain to have to re-key whoever's contact that I still have base on the conversations in the watsapp and sms history. There are quite some guessing game to do. I can also imagine the pain of those with a full book of contacts. Then, there are contacts of friends, whom I have not contacted for a long time and their contacts are all gone. Daddy Lim said that these "friends" probably aren't that "important" since I haven't contacted them for such a long time. Win liao.

I did the fb thing, declaring about my lost contact. Then again, I am a hermit on fb and have only that limited pool of friends. 

I heard this happen pretty frequently to iPhone users. A friend commented on my fb post that it happened to him 3x! Another friend watsapp me to identify himself and asked when am I switching to android. Haha. I will, when my contract expires. I have actually been toying with that idea recently. I am sick and tired of iPhone's limited memory and thus the need to constantly do housekeeping. Hmmm.. Maybe my iPhone read my thoughts and took a revenge on me before I could change it. Muahahaha.

Mummy Lim

Longkang Fishing

We have no agenda on Sunday. I suggested USS but Daddy Lim was lazy. After much discussion, we decided to go to the Bottle Tree Park at Yishun for some longkang fishing.

Basically, children are given a simple net and small plastic fish tank. They then go into a shallow man-made pool where small ornament fishes (like guppies) are put in from time to time. There is no time limit. At the end of it, they can bring whatever fishes that they have caught home.

I don't really like fishes or waddling in a fish pond. Thus, I left most of that to Daddy Lim. I chose to skip on the man-made rocks in the pond and managed to "scoop" some fishes. It is quite fun. I personally didn't catch longkang fishes when I was young. I think that is a playtime more for my parents' era (??). I did enter the pond towards the end and realised that the pond isn't slimy as I thought it would be. The floor was rough to prevent slipping.

Lil Shauna said that she didn't want to enter the pond. However, she thoroughly enjoyed herself once she got in and caught quite a few fishes on her own. Lil Isaac went into the pond and fell soon after. He was wet throughout. When he was in the pond, he felt stinging pain and complained that the fishes bit him. Then, he refused to enter the pond, until towards the end. Just like mummy, he is über scared of fishes. 

We bought 2 fish tank full of fishes home at the end. Popo was in disagreement but gave in bcos Daddy Lim insisted. He is the man. 

Today is day 3 and all the big fishes were dead, leaving the really small ones. I think there isn't enough oxygen to go around.

I was worried that the kids will be affected by the dying fishes but I am quite wrong. They don't quite remember about their fishes, having only peeped at them once since they were brought home. They also didn't quite seem affected about the fishes dying. Hmmm... I am right to delay pets in the house. Lol.

Mummy Lim

Growing a Molar

Lil Shauna said that her gum hurts and she has a tooth growing right behind on the right side. I thought she was kidding until I checked. She indeed has a molar breaking out on the right side!

Is this the right time? She's a big girl already. 

Mummy Lim

Colouring

Lil Shauna needs to color her school homework after all the writing. She hates such coloring and I normally have to help, just like what I did this morning.

After the 1st page of colouring, she asked me to color all of page 2 on her behalf. I told her to do at least one picture. She replied, "teacher not here in our house, she won't know."

Win already.

Mummy Lim

Peanuts Again

We were in the car, talking about chocolate and peanuts. In the midst, Lil Isaac declared that he can spell peanuts and he went, "pea"... "nuts".

Too funny.

Mummy Lim

Mummy, You Forgot!

Lil Shauna left her school file in the school bus last Wednesday. There was homework to be done and we didn't get to do any. She got back her file on Monday and we totally forgot about her homework.

This morning, at about 10.30am, Popo called and I was trying to pacify a pre-schooler who realised that she hadnt completed her homework and was trying to complete before having to board the school bus in 20mins time. I can hear Lil Isaac fussing in the background while jiejie tried to ask me how to do her homework and struggling to hear me. Then Lil Shauna exclaimed, "mummy, you forgot to help me do my homework!". Win already. Lol.

I concluded that we weren't going to get much done. I couldn't quite understand what was her homework about and thus unable to help effectively. She wasnt doing the best job describing over the phone and panicking didn't help. At one point, she told me, "mummy, I cannot hear what you are saying, can you come home and help me with my homework?". Haha.

Eventually, I told Lil Shauna that I will call the school to inform her teacher that "we" had forgotten about her homework and will hand in the following day. She was pleased with the suggestion and proceeded to school, leaving her homework behind and I did call the school to inform.

This reminds me of the time when I was a student, especially in my primary school years. I remembered how I would tremble with fear at thought of the consequences whenever I had forgotten to do/ bring something. We had no luxury of parents calling up the school to defend us then.

I wonder if the kids now will still have the same fear. They are so much bolder now. More importantly, they always have their parents who back them up. Good luck teachers. 

Mummy Lim

No Peanuts

Lil Isaac is aware that he cannot take peanuts. We had been telling that to him.

I was doing grocery shopping with him just now. We were choosing biscuits to buy. He picked up one and said that he likes that. I was hesitant, I don't remember the kids fancying that particular type of biscuits. 

Then, in an attempt to convince me, Lil Isaac said that he would check if the biscuits contain peanuts. He turned the packaging around and appeared to be reading the ingredients, like how we always would and then declared, "no peanuts!". Too funny!

And I did buy the biscuits bcos they do not contain peanuts. Hehe.

Mummy Lim

Message to Pappy

I was messaging Daddy Lim and the kids all wanted to join in. And they did watsapp him! Though Lil Isaac's didn't make sense. Lol.

Mummy Lim

Impressed

I went swimming with the kids this morning. I brought Fione and Lil Isaac to the pool to splash some water while waiting for Felicia and Lil Shauna to finish their chinese enrichment clas and to join them for Uncle Shawn's swimming class.

Lil Isaac was jumping into the pool and swimming to me. Fione was looking at us right beside. Fione is a big girl already and can stand in the 1.2m pool. At one point, Lil Isaac was playing a fool in the pool and Fione was trying to grab him and pull him onto the ledge, worrying that he might drown. I am impressed. I also remembered how Popo related about Fione helping to chase after Lil Isaac when he ran amok in IMM. Popo brought Fione, Lil Shauna and Lil Isaac to IMM last Wednesday after early dismissal.

I guessed learning to take care of the younger ones is one skill that the eldest naturally picked up. Sometimes, Fione gets disciplined when she's too rough with the others. Nevertheless, she probably has the love for the younger ones too. She probably has her fair share of struggle, being the eldest and had a whole set of expectations to meet.

Mummy Lim

2nd Class Citizen

It is universal. So long as you are not the favourite child, you automatically belongs the 2nd class citizen. It applies to your kids too, especially if yours is of the same sex as that of the favourite child.

It that supposed to be bad? Oh well, it is alright if you dont mind and if you can run far far away. Let's just continue clocking quota as and when required.

Something is wrong with me, I am so negative recently. Maybe I am really Grumpy Smurf in nature.

Mummy Lim

SDC

Mummy L told us that she was bringing J gorgor to SDC with her church friends. I wasn't keen until when I realised that I have no plans for the kids for the super long weekend. SDC suddenly didn't look so bad when it is so near to our place. Lil Isaac would be keen to play with his favorite gorgor too. 

The choice becomes very clear when the kids jumped out of bed before 8am this morning. Meeting Mummy L and J gorgor at 10am seems to go really well with us.

We arrived at about 10am and caught the Smurf 2 show in 3D at 10.30am. This is the first time that we ever watched a 3D-almost-2-hours show and it was pretty good. Lil Isaac managed to sit through most part of the show. Lil Shauna thoroughly enjoyed herself. She loves movie, just like her Pappy.

We had lunch after the show and toured the gallery and army museum. Just as I remembered, SDC wasn't that entertaining. Luckily, other than the movie, the tour was free for all Singaporeans in view of National Day. We finished the exhibits in less than an hour and left thereafter.

Well, even though SDC isn't fantastic, we were entertained for a good big part of the day.

Can you see J gorgor in the last picture? Oops. Lousy photographer. Lol.

Mummy Lim

幸福

We went to USS today in the late afternoon. It has been a few weeks since we last visited USS. 

As usual, we strolled into USS and leisurely opted for the rides with shorter Q and skipping the really crowded ones. Time passed very quickly and we had dinner before leaving the park at 7pm. The park was closing too. Then Daddy Lim and I then shared a Starbucks ice cafe mocha as we strollered the kids back to the car, which was parked at the beach carpark, about 10 mins walk away.

Suddenly, I realized that I am really blessed. Although we are constantly busy with kids when we are not working, leaving almost no "me" or "we" time, it is really blissful to have a loving husband (and father) and 2 lovely kids. It helps greatly too that we both are willing to sacrifice for our kids, our family. We are happy that the kids are happy and nothing beats spending quality time together as a family. It just reminded me of how humans so often take things for granted. Quite a fair amount have happened around me recently to remind me the importance of my family - my husband and my kids. I am dwelling in blissfulness. Love you all deep deep. Muaks.

Mummy Lim

Driving Me Crazy

Popo is driving me crazy.. Well, that is not new but it is still very frustrating.

Just a couple of weeks ago, she was angry with me and had a cold war with me, ignoring me most of the time. I was still feeling bad and made a resolution to want to improve the relationship with her. Our relationship is really going downhill. I tried really hard to give in to her then. 

Now that things are back to "normal", she seems to come back with a revenge, interfering in almost everything such that I found myself wanting to yell at her and retaliate constantly. It is so painful with her around and I dread the super long holidays next week. Let me show you an example of today.

The kids woke up early despite sleeping late last night. We made doughnuts in the morning (popping cooking) and she had to yell at us every now and then and gave us disapproving looks bcos this is out of routine and that is not good with her. She yelled at Lil Isaac not to run when I asked him to go to the toilet to wash his hands bcos the toilet floor is wet. It is never possible for the kids to learn independence at home, I have to constantly hawk over them bcos the floor is always wet! Why can't we just make the floor dry? Similarly, the kids can't feed themselves too bcos they will make a mess and clean up is required. Haiz.

After the doughnuts making, I brought the kids to the bedroom for popo to clean up the table when there actually wasn't much mess to begin with. I had to use the iPad to entertain Lil Isaac while Lil Shauna read a page of her phonics homework.

Then we got ready to go to church. We left the house first as she was still in her cleaning routine. I really cannot understand why are there so many things to clean in my house. She washes don't know what every night from the time we reach home until midnight. We hear the water running non-stop and feel our pocket hurts whenever we receive the utility bill. Now, every weekend that I am around, I look after the kids while she cleans and washes until we are supposed to get out either for classes or church. Yet, I don't see my house getting cleaner. Ah yee says that it is her tactic not to look after the kids.

Before we left for church, Popo asked what we were intending to do after church. I told her that we are going to Sentosa (USS) and she sarcastically asked aren't we sick of Sentosa since we were there last week (Port of Lost Wonder) and yday (Tanjong Beach). Hello, different places can? Then she started dissuading us from going home after church and directly to Sentosa. I half suspect that it is the usual "dirty" and "ma fan" story. Arrgghhhh. 

I insisted on going home since I wasn't sure what time Daddy Lim was knocking off and it is really tiring to roam aimlessly on the street. Then she tried encouraging us to go USS early and I half suspected that it was bcos she wanted to go to the casino. I refused, preferring to go in the late afternoon when the weather is cooler and not that much crowd.

I showered the kids after we reached home. And while I was still in the toilet with the boy, popo handed the iPad to jiejie in attempt to "babysit" her. To begin with, jiejie need no babysitting and Popo knows how I hate her using the iPad as the babysitting tool. Yet, she passed the iPad to jiejie. Jiejie is aware that she shouldnt be given the iPad and told me loudly when Popo handed her the iPad. See, the 5-year old knew better! Jiejie willingly passed me the iPad when I asked for it bcos she knew that it wasn't time to play. Then Popo blamed it on me, that I left the iPad lying around! She gave the kids so much of the iPad that I had to hide the iPad and now it has become the norm for me to hide the iPad??!!!

Daddy Lim came home soon after we reached home. Popo then told me that she's going off to the casino, making reasons of why she's rushing off. Go! Just go! I don't need you to explain! In fact, it was after she left the house that I felt peace. Real peace.

Haiz. How? I can barely breathe.

Mummy Lim

Minions

Mummy allowed the kids to watch YouTube on Despicable Me 2 while on the MRT to church. The kids loved those clips.

Lil Isaac is in yellow today. So I asked him if he is the yellow or the purple minion. He said that he is the purple one and I was teasing him that he has to take off his shirt and changed into a purple one then. Suddenly, he blurted out, "fat fat uncle wearing purple."

I looked up and saw a big sized man in purple stripes polo tee right in front of us. I felt hot, luckily I am to dark to see me blush. 

I hope that man and his friend didn't hear Lil Isaac. By the way, I think it is also time for you to lose weight. Oops.

Mummy Lim

Where?

Lil Isaac was thrashing around in the waddling pool while the jiejies were swimming. He had his googles on his head while fooling around.

Soon, it was his turn to swim and Uncle Shawn was calling for him to wear his googles. Lil Isaac went, "where? Where's my googles?" On your head! Muahahahahaha. Too funny.

Mummy Lim 

Oops

Some silly flu big attacked me out of the blue. I just kept sneezing and sounded nasal. Otherwise, I am fine and my nose didn't run. I started sneezing in the late morning and it got worse in the afternoon. 

I was worried that the sneezing would continue while on the company bus home. It wouldn't be very nice. People would think that I am spreading germs. Thankfully, I seem quite alright until... midway. 

I have this mega double sneeze and I wasn't quick enough. I covered my nose and mouth but still see my saliva flew out of my mouth and onto the glass window. -.o" And I think the colleague sitting in front of me squirmed. Oops. Whoever you are, I am so, so sorry.

Mummy Lim