Hair

Our DIY attempt works well. Overnight I had a head of black hair. Actually I chose "dark brown". Maybe somebody put the wrong color dye into the box. Well, couldn't complain too much over the color. Purpose met, white hair gone.

However, my hair ended up really dry and all fizzy. I feel like I am wearing a head of hay. By afternoon, the hay turns into twigs and they are sticking out everywhere. My attempts to sooth out the knots and fizzy ends do little to tame the stubborn pokey ends. Instead, I ended up with strands of hair dropping off, many, many strands. Faint.

Ok, so I have solved the problem of greying hair for now but I ended up with a potential balding problem. How ah? A crazy head of twigs or a tamer looking hair and balding spots? Lol.

Mummy Lim

Sunday School

He's the Lord of the sunshine
He's the Lord of the rain
He's the Lord of the good time, the Lord of the pain
He's the Lord of the mountain, the Lord of the sea
He's the Lord of the music, the Lord of the children, the Lord of you and me.

I love attending Sunday school with my kids, bcos:

I love how the kids' worship songs are catchy and easy to learn and I can sing out loud.
I love how the songs come with actions and reminds me of the old secondary school times.
I love how I can sing and sign with my kids.
I love to see my kids sing and jump and dance to the songs.
I just love attending Sunday school with my kids.

Mummy Lim

Read

Lil Shauna still can't read. We have been lazy too and didn't read to her as often as we should. She is still learning her sight words but definitely at a slower pace since we are not reading daily.

Since she can't read, she formed her own story and pretended to read. This is her with a really thick story book, full of words and pretending to read. She actually "read" out loud. Too funny.

Mummy Lim

White Hair

When Popo told me to do something about my white hair, I know it must be quite bad. Mummies never lie to their kids when it comes to such stuff. I did see many strands spouting and even found white hair in my fringe. It has gotten to the extent that I even dropped white hair!

The last time that I spent 4 hrs sitting in a salon waiting for my hair to be colored must be at least a few years ago. Since then, it is always DIY with ah yee's help. Unfortunately, ah yee has shifted out and isn't free to visit every weekend. So, I have decided to dye my hair myself. I thought it shouldnt be that tough. Afterall, I have done it before and I do not have the time and extra cash to get it done professionally. We are cash poor now. Digressing, it is interesting how there will suddenly be many things that we need to buy/ do/ repair when we decided to tighten out belts.

I indeed thought too highly of myself. My hair is far too long for me to DIY. My hair reaches my lower back now. A length that i havent had for a long time and i really like. The weight of my hair makes it naturally super straight now. Hehe.

So, I started smearing the dye onto my hair and soon started struggling and had to ask Daddy Lim for help. He did and I was so grateful. Otherwise, I couldnt imagine the kind of mess i would be in. I needed an extra pair of eyes and hands. Oh, this was the first time that Daddy Lim actually helped me to dye my hair. Hehe. Thank you, bb.

I don't know how it will turn out but I hope it will at least tahan me for a while until I turn to ah yee for 'professional' help. I had just washed out the dye and I dropped so many hair. Heartache.

Mummy Lim

Joke?

Popo is very sure that the teachers at the new school are competent - Talent Plus (TP) at blk 661. She was all praise for the teachers after the 10mins trial that Lil Isaac spent there. So the plan was to enroll Lil Isaac.

Soon after Popo reported the good news to me, the teacher at jiejie's ex-school called - TP at blk 653, to firm that there is a vacancy. This must be some kind of joke, right? We wavered.

Popo likes teacher Diana, Lil Shauna's ex-teacher and the location at blk 653 really suits us. It is across the road and no need to drag jiejie out of the house every morning to rush for Lil Isaac's class. Her only concern is that there is no chinese teacher. Teacher Diana is Indian and the new teacher is Malay. Popo has problem trying to communicate with the teachers. Boo.

So, the plan is for Popo to visit the school at blk 653 tomorrow morning. If Popo thinks that it is good, Lil Isaac will start school there. Otherwise, we will rush him over to 661 to continue with the remaining class and likely to continue to be late for the rest of the year. Lol.

Mummy Lim

Playgroup

*Post written yday*

The plan is for Lil Isaac to join Jiejie at the Center of New Life next year. They will take the school bus together. Despite Lil Isaac being really young, he should be alright under Jiejie’s care. He is definitely more daring too and I think he will enjoy school.

Since Lil Isaac is “idling” at home, I thought that we enrolled him into a playgroup for what’s remaining of this year. We started our search 2 weeks ago. There is this one right at the next block with only 6 kids in the class and I thought it was too good to be true. Indeed it is. The teacher is an old Indian lady, who scared the hell out of Lil Isaac, without her having to do anything. Popo said that Lil Isaac couldn’t stop sobbing all the way home when they visited the school. We tried jiejie’s old school but there was no vacancy. We eventually found a slot at the playgroup that we first enrolled jiejie. However, jiejie was only there for a day before I carried her and stomped out of the class. The teachers were totally unprofessional, busied over paperwork and Lil Shauna started crying after she got bored playing the toys but mummy refused to bring her home. I was hoping that the teachers have changed. But sadly, no.

Somehow, we are more relaxed with Lil Isaac. This is the second kid syndrome? Poor Lil Isaac. I prefer to think that it is bcos he will only be there to “play” for a few months before he starts his pre-nursery next year. My guilty conscious is soothed. Hehe.

Popo brought Lil Isaac to school today. His bad mummy didn’t even take leave. I filled up all the necessary forms and wrote the cheque but Popo forgot to bring them to school today, which is our saving grace. Popo called to complain after the class. She didn’t leave but watched from outside the class, as she was worried that they wouldn't watch over Lil Isaac as closely as she would like, especially when there is snack time and Lil Isaac is allergic to nuts. Yes, we do prepare snacks for Lil Isaac. However, he is forever greedy and we are quite sure that he wouldn’t say no to whoever that offers him their snack even if they are nuts. Popo said that the Chinese main teacher spent more than 30 mins repairing the CD player. Gosh, I didn’t know that she has to double up as the handyman. The other Malay lady busied with paper work. Same situation, 2 years difference. The kids were left playing with toys, snacking and walking around.

Lil Isaac will only attend an hour's class for the 1st week. The Chinese teacher asked Popo if she was Ok to bring Lil Isaac home after 40 mins and he had done nothing much bcos the teachers were so busy. I wonder why any parents would place their kids there. Sigh.

So, we have planned to change Lil Isaac to a different school tomorrow. Yippee. A little further but under the same parent company as Jiejie’s ex-school. Popo has seen the school and is more certain of the teachers’ capability. Popo and Lil Isaac will visit the school again tomorrow. If all go well, Lil Isaac will start school on Wednesday. The only problem is that the school will start at 9am and he will be late everyday as it is near Centris and they have to travel from home. Jiejie is a drag every morning and needs to be coaxed before they can leave the house.

I will try to be nice to the old teacher. If Lil Isaac is good for the new school, I will call up the current one, apologize nicely and tell them that Lil Isaac isn’t ready for school, her school in particularly. Hohoho.

Mummy Lim

To the BirdPark

Daddy Lim didn't have to work this morning. I couldnt even remember when he last had his Sunday off. The weather was nice and we headed to the JBP. It had been ages. We somehow lost all interest and motivation the moment we bought the annual pass. I somehow thought we should make our money worthwhile.

We spent about 2+ hrs at the park. We caught the hawk show, fed the Lott birds and played in the water playground.

The kids were very excited about feeding the birds until Lil Isaac got bitten by one of the birds. He started crying and avoided the birds. I thought it was actually quite funny. Haha.

Lil Isaac was fussy badly by the time we headed home. He needed his milk and his nap and he wanted them immediately. He was knocked out shortly after we were home and I heard that he refused to wake up from his nap thereafter. Jiejie didn't take any nap and was still full of energy when we headed for her phonics class.

Daddy Lim was even more tired than Lil Isaac. He was supposed to tuck jiejie to bed but was snoring when I went into the bedroom to check on jiejie, who was wide awake. And I heard he woke up from his nap later than Lil Isaac. Hoho.

Mummy Lim

Korea, Finally

We finally booked our Korea tour. We are going Korea at the end of the year!

I had wanted to go Korea in December 2007 with Daddy Lin. However, I became preggy with Lil Shauna and the plan was shelved due to the eventful pregnancy. Then, traveling by plane for 8 hours was something that we wouldn't attempt too often. Melbourne was a good experience but that was more than enuff with a 18 mths old Lil Shauna.

Lil Isaac came along and traveling to Korea became even more remotely possible until now. By the end of the year, Lil Isaac would be 2. We should be able to handle him then. Lil Shauna should be easy breezy.

There was pre-NATAS fair at Suntec and Marina Square today, we visited all the agencies and found them to be all about the same, both in terms of price and itinerary. We eventually booked with ASA. Yeah!

The trip left a big hole in our pocket. But it is ok. I would rather skip some meals to save up for it. I need to diet anyway. Lalalalala... I am happy.

Mummy Lim

Mystery Solved

So it was indeed part of school work. Something about postman or postage. Every kid in Lil Shauna's class will receive a "Love Letter" from a friend and every kid wrote a letter for a friend. Lil Shauna knew that she was going to receive a letter from Mingming and she wrote (actually more like "drew") a letter to Vista.

Popo said that Lil Shauna was really excited when she reached Centris from school and asked to go home to open the mailbox. I guessed the kids were reminded at school that they would be receiving their letters.

She rushed to the mailbox when she alighted from Tiguan and was excited to go home when told that the letter was already at home.

She tore opened the envelop excitedly but her excitement only lasted that long. She saw the letter/ picture and replied that it was from Mingming when we asked her. Then she was distracted by something else and the letter was left on the dinning table.

Ok, so much for her very first Love Letter. Poor Mingming.

Mummy Lim

Love Letter?!

Daddy Lim sent me an image. It was a letter addressed to "主恩". It got us really curious as not many uses her Chinese name. Moreover, her name and our address was hand-written.

I asked Daddy Lim to open the envelop to see who is it from, which he gladly obliged. I bet his curiosity was killing him too. It turned out to be a drawing from "智民". Hmmm... Is this the same "Mingming" from Lil Shauna's class? The same Mingming whom she declares to be her best friend and sometimes "boyfriend". Sometimes only as our little princess can get a little fickle minded at times. Jeeezzz, how did he get our address? And who helped him? Hmmm.. Is this part of school work?

Daddy Lim laughed and said that we have opened Lil Shauna's very first love letter, so much for her privacy. Guessed what he did? Well, he put the letter back and sealed the envelop. He has intended to pass the re-sealed letter to Lil Shauna tonight and pretend that he didn't do what he did. Faint.

Mummy Lim