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 proudly showed us his result slip. “I’ve got perfect score! Only 3 people in 2 classes got it!” “Huh! So easy arh! Your examiner must have been very lenient.” He didn’t take offence. Probably was in a super good mood 🤣 Or he didn’t hear me. 🤭
The good thing was… he dropped the idea of stopping lessons.
“Mommy, if I’m too busy, the first thing I want to stop is Yamaha.” “Aiya you only practise 5 mins every day. How much time will you save?? 5 mins??” “Nooo! I practise 15 mins every day ok! Not 5 mins!!!” “Ok lor. You save 15 mins every day. What would you do with this extra 15 mins?? Watch Netflix?? Anyway 15 mins a day can get you good results, what’s your problem huh?” “Ok ok. Don’t make me practise more than 15 mins!” 🙄
#sigina #foreverbargaining #yamaha
The kiddos are starting think that HBL is lots of fun! Morning exercise this morning was to play catching (me included) at the playground for 1 hour!! Tired die me!!! 😵
We owned the playground!! No one else was there! The rest of the kiddos were still in school.
The exercise area, on the other hand, was pretty crowded!! Virus 🦠 alert!!! 📣📣📣
Meanwhile… HBL can be lots of fun! Keep chill everyone!!
#hbl #covid_19
Erm… I think he’s had too much HBL. Ki Siao already… poor kid. 🤣🤣🤣
#hbl #crazykid #xiaoxiaobaobei
A medal to commemorate her last year as a table tennis 🏓 player in her primary school. The team emerged as the East Zone Girls’ champ. Perfect score of 5-0 against every school and 3-0 for every match. They could have had a shot for overall national champ. Too bad it was cancelled due to covid.
Well done Kong Hwa Girls’ team! 💪🏼
NOW it’s time to mug for PSLE! Shoo!
The first ePTM (parent teacher meeting) ever since he started primary school. We didn’t have one last year due to covid.
“I can’t believe it! 弟弟‘s teachers said he’s such a well behaved boy in class, very quiet (huh!!!) not a social butterfly (huh!!), very focused and attentive blah blah blah. His Chinese teacher even said he’s the most responsible 小组长 and can be entrusted with everything. When I told them he made friends with the boy standing behind him while queueing for chicken rice, they were totally surprised!”
姐姐-“Erm Mummy, did you remember to write his name as your nick when you joined the zoom meeting?”
“Hmm… I forgot. I used my own name.” “Maybe they thought you were another student’s Mummy and they were not referring to him. 🤷🏻♀️”
“Good point there!! There were talking about his classmate and not him!”
弟弟-“I’m a very good boy in school ok!!! 😡”
“Then why are you so naughty at home? I’m going to send your home videos to your teachers so that they can see your true colours!!”
“Nooo….!!!! 😭” #evilmom #siginna #devilathomeangelinschool
That’s his art homework (surrealism – incorporate a vegetable or fruit into drawing). A cucumber boat.
And so Singapore started the CB (Circuit Break) (What were you thinking of? Certainly not a hokkien “slang” I hope…). CB is uniquely Singaporean – made famous by our PM Lee!
#1 CB horror story…..
Opened the vegetable door of the refrigerator… “OMG! This is the only thing we have left!!!” Until our next Redmart delivery (which I spent like 2 weeks to get a slot.)
“Don’t worry! Let me see what I can harvest from my yard!”
“Waaa! I have harvested something! We can have this for dinner!”
3 eager sets of eyes…
All went 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻🤦🏻 Guess I need to step up on my farming production…. very low productivity… 😅
He can play with almost ANYTHING under the sun. Leave him alone with a rubberband and he would find 101 ways to entertain himself with it. Yes, that includes shooting me with it and getting it confiscated.
He dug out some of his old toys. And built all sorts of things with them… watch, cup, box, car etc.
Before you scroll down to see the answer, what do you think he’s built??
I sent the picture to his father…
Me: check this out! Guess what he’s made!
Hub: hmmm…. Chun Li??
Me: 😑 no lah.
Hub: Princess Leia??
Me: 🤦🏻♀️ NO! Why are you guessing all the female characters??
Hub: cinnamon rolls…
Me: sigh… they are headphones.
Hub: then why aren’t they at his ears??
Me: eh… not enough building blocks…
Parent Teacher Meeting…
All the usual niceties about him being a good boy in school (the teachers wouldn’t believe that he’s a tyrant at home. ?)
Teacher : By the way, is it possible to tell him to use other colours besides orange for his work?
Me : Oh, orange is his favourite colour. (Yes… for the longest time ever, orange as his fav colour seems to be sticking. His other colour fetish before orange)
Teacher : Yes, yes, we know. He uses orange colour pencils for writing and orange crayons for colouring everything. The problem is, other children (his gang of boys of whom he’s the Lao da) see him doing it and they are all doing the same thing… ??♀️ so… we are running out of orange pencils and crayons in the centre…
Me : ok… let me speak to him.. he likes red too. That’s his 2nd favourite colour!
Teacher : we know… that’s the 2nd colour running out…
Ooops!
Raised the same way, but yet so different…
During her early years, her favourite colour was green. Maybe it’s because some of our walls were green and we had lots of home decoration in that colour. And I dressed her in neutral colours and a pink or red once in a while. A few years ago, she declared that her favourite colours were pink and purple and they’ve remained since then. Sigh. There are just some things that can’t be changed. Why must little girls like pink?!
When he was very little (I mean when he was a wee babe, because he’s still very little now), he decided (yes, decided, no one could change his mind), that HIS favourite colour was PINK?!?!
He ursuped his sister’s pink hat and wore it everywhere he went, including at home….
One fine day, he announced that his favourite colour was “rainbow”. So he started the era of putting as many different colours possible in every of his art pieces.
A ? coloured “Yang Yang De Yi”.
His ultra colourful house.
Then came…
The Black Age…. he coloured his drawing in various colours, then painted over the colours in BLACK!! ??♀️
He insisted that black was THE colour and wanted to be dressed in black clothes!! All his paintings were in black! Don’t ask me why a 4 year old would choose black as his favourite colour…
Until yesterday.
小小宝贝 : Mommy, I love orange!
Me : Eh, isn’t black your current favourite colour??
小小宝贝 : No! It’s ORANGE! Mommy, do you know why I love orange?
Me : ??
小小宝贝 ： Your favourite colour is red! So mine is orange. Because that’s the closest colour to red!! BECAUSE WE ARE CLOSE!! Right, Mommy???
Awww…. *melting* ??