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Tiring out the Destructive Force Part 2

Tiring out the Destructive Force Part 2

Today’a goal : getting him out of the house and working off excess energy.

7.30am (Only… Sigh…)

I did my 20 mins of swimming while they played catching or monkey or whatever in the pool. Then I was roped in to play Marco Polo, catching, piggy, one leg hop fight, monkey (a lot of animals here…practically the whole zoo).

We had the whole pool to ourselves until 9am when people started arriving to use it.

Ran home to avoid the crowd.

Only 9am. Shit… what else to do. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Short Swim... Huff and Puff!
Short Swim… Huff and Puff!
Check out my little ears!
Check out my little ears!
Cheeky-up-to-no-good smile
Cheeky-up-to-no-good smile

9.30am

The whole family took turns to keep him occupied in the morning.

Playing Chinese Chess with 姐姐
Playing Chinese Chess with 姐姐

姐姐 played a few rounds of Chinese chess with him. It’s so hard to post pictures of the tween nowadays. She refuses to pose and when she does, she bans me from posting it on social media. Sigh.

Tween would only let me take her side view photo.
Tween would only let me take her side view photo.

Very aggressive play… ate up many of 姐姐‘s pieces…

Aggressive play by XXBB
Aggressive play by XXBB

姐姐 needed to do her psle revision. Passed him over to Daddy. They played so many rounds that he got sick of the traditional one.
“Eh! Your pieces are not set up properly!”
“Haha! I just invented a new way of playing. We can set it up any way we want to counter the opposite player.” Ok…. #playuntilnothingtoplay 🤦🏻‍♀️

His own way of playing chess
His own way of playing chess
Making funny faces
Making funny faces

It’s not even lunchtime yet. This is going to be a looooong day!

Late afternoon… (his usual gaming/tv time)

Reality has finally set in! Now he’s 生不如死!Feeling very Cham and sorry for himself. #repentance

Feeling sorry for himself
Feeling sorry for himself

He’s happy again. No computer gaming + no tv = play board game. He’s generally a very happy kid. Figuring that there’s no way around his punishment, he decided that he might as well keep himself happy playing games. He’s occupied until dinner time…

Happily playing board games
Happily playing board games

I predict that we will go through all the drama again tomorrow. Meanwhile, happy board gaming!

Tiring Out the Destructive Force Part 1

Tiring Out the Destructive Force Part 1

When the kid starts running around in the house, breaking my precious limited edition figurines, he gets sent out to do skipping. To work off excess energy!!

Oh have you finished skipping? Hmmm… go and do one-legged skipping. Yes. 1-legged. Shoo shoo!

What else can I make him do after this??? 🤔😩

#hbl #covid19 #destructiveforce #skipping

HBL exercise – Cycling

HBL exercise – Cycling

Our morning exercise today – cycling!! Our tyres were totally flat because we hadn’t cycled for quite a long while. Had to get air into those tires. puff puff

Pumping flat tyres
Pumping flat tyres

宝贝 decided to go for a neighbourhood walk with Daddy. So it’s just the 2 of us. Spent too much time getting ready (hunting for pump, pumping tyres, getting gear ready etc), didn’t have much time for the actual ride. Or we would be late for the next item on the timetable.

We are ready for the ride! Finally!
We are ready for the ride! Finally!

As usual, the ride just had to pass through the neighbourhood playgrounds. Highlights of ride – playgrounds.

Riding along the PCN
Riding along the PCN
The proper way to cross a traffic junction - Stop and check for traffic!
The proper way to cross a traffic junction – Stop and check for traffic!
Compulsory stop - playground!
Compulsory stop – playground!

Watching Monkey Ming wriggle up and down the poles…

I spy, with my little eye, a monkey on the pole!
I spy, with my little eye, a monkey on the pole!
A long way from ground...
A long way from ground…

Ok! It’s time to scram! Other kids are coming to the playground!!

Our extremely short ride...
Our extremely short ride…

#hbl #xiaoxiaobaobei #cycling #playground

New Year Resolution – Jogging!

New Year Resolution – Jogging!

Yesterday, I decided that I shall fulfill my new year resolution (erm… My 2015 New Year Resolution actually… *blush*)! I shall start JOGGING again!

I tried to jumpstart it, but I didn’t get past the door.. (my bedroom door). There was once when I put on my running gear, and then, chickened out….

Yesterday, I finally decided to put my foot down (literally!) and stop PROCRASTINATING!


I dugged out my Asics from my shoe cabinet, blew years of dust of it and checked out the condition. I had a very BAD feeling… that it wouldn’t last. When I was actively running, one pair of sports shoes could last me for years and years and year. But once I stopped, even a fairly new pair would fall apart after years of disuse because the rubber parts have hardened. Ok.. I was trying to find a new excuse not to start. ?

Taking a deep breath, Huff Puff! Here I go!

I started off slowly, very old already, ok… Ain’t spring chicken anymore! Hmm… where should I go? I hate roads. Ok, I should stay off the roads so that I wouldn’t have to breathe in the exhaust. Park connector?? Ok, there’s one behind my house. ?

Eh.. Dead end! Changed direction. Then I discovered that the park connectors didn’t come with directions, but only a sign that said, “PARK CONNECTOR”. Sigh… Noob runner. OK fine, I would just run around the estate and admire the houses then.

Argh…! Slopes! Right, they were not as bad as the ones which we used to do at NUS Kent Ridge (the killer slope near the old Engineering faculty) BUT, for someone who hadn’t ran in years, it felt like it had the same gradient as that!! ???

20 minutes later, my knees started to hurt. Now, I remembered why I stopped. I carried on for a while and then decided to take it easy, slowing down to a brisk walk instead. I ”
DIE DIE” MUST hit my target of 30 minutes!!!

AND… I survived!!!

But my Asics didn’t….

RIP Asics!

Now I need to buy another pair of running shoes and some knee braces….??