YES!!! I did it!! Conquered the 4x4x4 cube!! Now to familiarise myself with the steps. 宝贝 beat me to it while I was busy with chores. Anyway, what matters is I DID IT!!! Sense of achievement!
#hbl #rubikscube #4x4x4 #bucketlist
He was left alone while daddy was working and I was going through 姐姐‘s papers.
Hmmm… it’s too quiet… I get worried when it gets too quiet. The last time he went all quiet, I saw water gushing out from the toilet door gap. He flooded his room toilet. 😑
I’d better go up and see what’s left of the living room.
Waaa!! Surprise!!
When gadgets, computers and TVs are removed from the equation, the kid automatically starts playing with the old forgotten toys and board games. It’s good to go gadget free. Looks like his addiction is waning, he’s stopped crying for the computer. 💪🏼
To keep them out of mischief, tire them out with one leg stand competition! I can feel my brain cells withering bit by bit every day from coming up with new ideas.
#hbl #onelegstand #sigina #destructiveforce
When I post serious things on my social media, nobody chaps me. When I post about bo Liao things (after scrolling through my posts, I realised that I’m quite bo Liao 😅), many people message me, some long lost friends.
Especially after my 小强post. This is how we rekindle friendships and bond over cockroaches. Thank you 小强!
Quite a few people messaged me after this…. This is one of them.
#toobored #hbl #cockroach #boliao #小强
When I’m not busy preventing one kid from 拆房子, I’m marking past year science and maths papers of the other.
Tween refused to let me take photo of her doing homework. 😪 so can only post her ugly handwriting on exam paper.
It’s even worse if I lose the answer key. 😩 Then I’ve to do the whole exam paper from page to page!!! Macham taking PSLE several times. 😓 Such is my life. #sadlife
#hbl #baobei #psle #exampapers
老师：城明的棋下得非常凶。等下有机会，同学们应该跟他下一下。看看他的计算能力。非常的强。
Me (whispers): you know how to 算very well meh?
小小宝贝 (whispers back): Actually i don’t 算, I just anyhow put.
😅😅😅😅
I don’t understand the teacher 90% of the time. The whole 围棋 lesson is conducted fully in Chinese and they have a lot of weird jargons like 扭羊头 and what nots… Ok lah. He’s forced to go through the lessons in Chinese, so hopefully, it would help with his grasp of the language.
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. 🤦🏻♀️
9.30am
The whole family took turns to keep him occupied in the morning.
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.
Very aggressive play… ate up many of 姐姐‘s pieces…
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 🤦🏻♀️
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
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…
I predict that we will go through all the drama again tomorrow. Meanwhile, happy board gaming!
The destructive force swept through my house like a hurricane. Within 1 week of HBL, he’s broke :
At the rate he’s going, I won’t have a house left by the end of HBL. 😩
#hbl #sigina #xiaoxiaobaobei #destructiveforce #angelofhope #gaudi #tabletennis
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
Browsing recipes is part and parcel of #cb (call it phase 2 or whatsoever but it’s essentially cb lar. Or cb1.5 🤷🏻♀️). A lot of recipes use dried basil. I was going to order a bottle of basil on RedMart then it just occurred to me what a goondu I was! Lots and lots of organic basil in my yard and I was going to pay for it on RedMart?!
So I harvested the leaves and air dried them. Looks like the ones in bottles ya?? Except mine aren’t shredded yet.
Upon advice from my friend, I baked them in my oven at the lowest temperature for 30 mins to make sure there’s no more moisture trapped in the leaves to prevent mould. Baking them now!
They’ve shrunk a lot after baking but they smell really fragrant!!
Time to bottle them!!
#yardtotable #basil #herb