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Day: 22 May 2021

My HBL Life

My HBL Life

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

WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

#hbl #baobei #psle #exampapers

Weiqi and Ming

Weiqi and Ming

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.

Hooligan Ming posture
Hooligan Ming posture. Luckily his teacher couldn’t see him.
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!