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Ming Ming’s Diary – I Don’t Want to Go to School

Ming Ming’s Diary – I Don’t Want to Go to School

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Super moody today…. 😩

Even the yummiest cookie tastes like 💩 without girls. What’s the meaning of life??

Wha..aaattt?! I’m overreacting?? Ok ok. Since I’m in a monk’s class, I’ll meditate to cool down. 🧘🏻‍♂️

Orhmm orhmm… where are the girls… orhmm orhmm… where girls… orhmm orhmm….

I haven’t been posting because I’ve been so so so depressed. Sigh….. 😞

Why?

Look at this 👇🏼

Depressing right??

What do you mean what’s wrong???

Look carefully (don’t blink!) 👇🏼

See the Problemo???

Nooo..?!

All the Mei meis are MISSING!!!

See!!! All boys in the class!!! Oh my Mei meis are gone! Oh Laura! Oh Taylor!!

Before the school holidays, my class was full of babes who milled around me for my attention and now…

Only boys!! I’m in an all boys class!! I’m in depression!! It’s what they call a monk’s class!!

Mama!! I want to change class! Or I’m going on STRIKE! No more going to school for me!!

Mama do you hear me???

Na ah! I’m not going to change my mind.

No school for me until you bring the girls back.

Meanwhile I’m going to homeschool myself. *reads my car car book*

And so… I went to school, to my monk’s class because Mama said the school fee has been paid and I must go to school, with or without girls in class.

Tough luck!

“Are you going to school to learn or to see girls?!” She asked.

I wanted to say “beo girls, of course!” But she looked so….

That I thought I’d better keep my big mouth shut….

Hey wait!! Who do we have here??? Looks like there’s a bit of rainbow 🌈 after the rain 🌧.

A Mei Mei! Someone up there must have heard my prayers.

Hey babe! My name’s Ming Ming. What’s yours? Can we be friends?

Awww owl, are you fine? Can I keep you for a pet?? *pats the owl lovingly.* what? Ok ok. Mustn’t get distracted. F.O.C.U.S.

Eating together at snack time.

Nom nom nom. Say, how do you find this class? Cool, right?? Will you stay? I can protect you. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

I can even give you my biscuit 🍪! Nah!

Huh? What do you mean? I’m coming on too strongly? Scare her away? Ok ok. Chill chill!

It wouldn’t do if she leaves the class and I’m back to facing 7 monks. 😱 Kill me pulease!

Gosh! There are owls lying everywhere. I just rescued one from the floor.

Ming Ming’s Diary – I Spy with My Little Eyes

Ming Ming’s Diary – I Spy with My Little Eyes

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“Ting ting!” My babe antennae is up!

I spy,

I spy with my little eyes,

A cute babe

Up ahead!

Hmmm… doesn’t quite rhyme. I’ll work harder on my prose.

Check out her innocent unassuming look. 😍

Awww… so sweet with the black clip on her hair.

Come to think of it, her face looks kind of familiar… *ponder* where have I seen her before??

Hmmm…. do I have a twin sister?

DAMNIT! WHO put that black clip on my hair?!?!

Now all the girls are going to think that I’m a damn SISSY!!!!!

RAWR!!!!

My Dream…..

My Dream…..

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NONONONO!!!

Mama!! You’ve got it wrong! I didn’t dream of Mei Meis! I dreamt of food!! Almond milk and bananas!!

Don’t you know that the way to a Man’s heart is through food. *gives you the evil eye*

Sigh…. *face palm*

I had a wonderful dream last night! 🥰

I dreamt… that I was lying in a banana raft (a raft made of bananas??) floating down a river of almond milk.

I was in paradise! Sigh! My 2 favourite food! When I was hungry, I nibbled on my raft. When I was thirsty, I drank from the river. Sigh…. BLISS…!

HEHEHEHE

Can’t help laughing when I recall my dream.

Overhead Mama talking Papa, “Wonder what beautiful dream he had last night. He kept laughing his HEHEHE!”

“It’s a pity I didn’t manage to take a photo of him!”

“Maybe he was dreaming of being surrounded by beautiful girls. So he giggled to himself??”

😤 What do adults know?!

Ming Ming’s Diary – Like a King!

Ming Ming’s Diary – Like a King!

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Sitting like a king (mama says I look like a Dua Pek Gong, whatever THAT means?!). That’s what I do best.

You may rise, my faithful subjects!

THAT’S NOT A POTTY! That’s my THRONE!!!

Someone said I looked like Jabba the Hutt sitting on the throne. I googled it. He looks like this!!

The one on the right, I’m deeply offended. 😡 Where’s the resemblance?! WHERE WHERE WHERE?!?

YOU are henceforth banished from my kingdom!

Me thinks I look more like Mr Handsome on the left.

*Blue Steel look*

Donch ya mess with me!! 💢👊🏼💢

A Seat Full of Puke ?

A Seat Full of Puke ?

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Too fast, too furious, it happened. Out of the blue, we heard a retching sound, then when I turned around, I could only gape in horror as brown gooey liquid gushed out, non stop, of 小小宝贝’s mouth. 

“Don’t move! Don’t touch anything! Don’t touch the car!!! This is a nuclear disaster!!”

小小宝贝 sat in his vomit, stunned, with his hands held up in the air. It’s his maiden vomiting experience. 

Hub was driving and asking, “what happened?!”

宝贝reacted the quickest, “Give Didi some tissue!!!”

(Side story : Seow told me that her student puked in the car and some fluid flew over her Dad, who was the driver and in shock, he swerved and almost caused an accident. So we had been extremely lucky that his wasn’t the explosive, fly everywhere kind. Or we may have to scrap the car!)

宝贝 : Haha! Remember the last time I vomited all over the stairs as I was going to my bedroom?? 

Images of the last puking incident appeared vividly in my mind. Yes. She threw up as she was going up the stairs to her room. It splashed everywhere at the stairwell, over the railings (you can imagine that the puke went to the lower floor as well) and I saw food lumps and stomach acid cascading down the stairs…. we spent the whole night cleaning 2 floors. 

Me : Not funny ok! 

When we got home, we unbuckled the whole car seat and lifted him along with it straight into the bathroom. Hub cleaned him up while I wiped the car down and left the windows down to air it…. ?

We stood and stared at the car seat, a few bowls worth of puke, a lot of undigested food and unknown (you don’t want to know) stuff pooled on it. 

Me : Can still use or not? Throw away arh? But very expensive leh…

Hub : I’ll settle it! 

Me : ? My hero!!! Cleaning up the aftermath of a nuclear warfare! 

Somehow he managed it. The next time I saw the car seat it was dismantled and clean and drying at the balcony. We washed the covers a few times in the washing machine and it’s good as new. 

We survived! 

Meanwhile, 小小宝贝 is stricken with probably stomach flu. 


This reminds me of another time, when he covered me with shit. ?

I’m sure every parent out there must have experienced some form of disaster originating from one of the orifices of their children’s. But we soldier on! ??

His Favourite (Everchanging) Colour!

His Favourite (Everchanging) Colour!

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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* ?? 

My Little F1 Race Commentator

My Little F1 Race Commentator

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“Mommy! The Ferrari crashed first!” Then he launched an animatedly detailed account of how Ferrari crashed its team out of the race. “And Mercedes is the best!!! It was no 1 at the F1!” 

Both his eyes lighted up as he described the entire F1 race as if he were present at the scene! 

The mystery was… “But you slept at 730pm last night and went to school this morning. When did you watch the F1 race??”

Heck! I didn’t even watch the race myself! I’m not an F1 fan. I read the account of it this morning on the news though. And at 4 years old, he couldn’t have read that. 

“Ohhh I didn’t watch it. I heard Ashton telling his friend.”

“Who’s Ashton???”

“He’s a K2 boy in the bus.”

“这么小就偷听人家讲话!” Popo remarked. (Translation : eavesdropping at such a young age! Grandma remarked.)

“NO! I didn’t!!! He said it very loudly! I was sitting in the first row and he was at the third!!” 小小宝贝 defended himself indignantly. ?

“You cannot say I 偷听! Say sorry to me!” ?

This reminds me that my little man is growing up. I need to check myself when I speak to other adults when he’s around. Sometimes he sounds awfully like me when he speaks…. all phrases must be G rating from now on. No more R rated phrases anymore. 

Oh and I caught someone reading my blog on the phone during her 10 mins a day allowance. ? Must be careful of what I write here henceforth. ?

How do you Spell Stoopid?

How do you Spell Stoopid?

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小小宝贝 : Mummy, how do you spell the word ‘stupid’?

Me : You are not supposed to use that word on people. It’s rude. If I tell you how to spell it, you are going to write it everywhere. Unless you promise that you won’t do that. 

小小宝贝 ran to the living room. Oh great! He’s going to play with his toy train. In the next second, I heard, “OK GOOGLE! How do you spell the word stupid??”

GOOGLE : S.T.U.P.I.D.

小小宝贝 : Thank you Google!

GOOGLE : You are welcome! 

I swear the robots are going to take over Earth soon!!! 

Home Made Soy Milk

Home Made Soy Milk

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Ever since I bought the Joyoung Soy Milk Maker about 1.5 years ago, I’ve been meaning to write about it. But it kind of got back logged. ? Then forgotten. 


I bought it from Taobao at a fraction of what I would have paid in SG. The only difference is in the plug. Fortunately, I discovered that it can use the same plug as my rice cooker! So voila! Just plug it in!! Less hassle!! ??

I’ve been using it to make almond milk recipe for the kiddos. Just dump all the ingredients into it. Press a button. Wait for it to beep. Filter. Drink! 

It’s the same thing for the Soy Milk. I bought organic soya beans from cold storage. It doesn’t say non GMO on the packaging though. Just can’t find one that says non GMO. If anyone knows where to find it, let me know. 

Soy Milk Recipe 

  • 1 cup soya beans 
  • 4 cups water
  • 3 pandan leaves (shredded)
  • 8 dates (I use medjool dates)

1. Soak soybeans in 2-3 cups of water overnight.
2. Discard water and rinse soybeans.

3. Remove skins to your best effort. I rub them between my fingers. 

4. Add all ingredients to Joyoung. Press button. Read a book. ?

5. When the machine beeps, filter it with a sieve or coffee sock. 

6. Add honey or other sweeteners to taste. Or simply drink it straight up! 

I use the pulp to make gluten free crackers!!! 

We are Pokémons! 

We are Pokémons! 

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小小宝贝：Jie Jie! What Pokémon are you??

宝贝：I’m Pichu! Because I’m cuter than Pikachu! (Hmmm… okie….? she has great faith in herself… I suppose that’s not a bad thing. ?)

Didi, you are a Dragonite! Because you are a dragon! 

小小宝贝：No!! I’m a baby dragon so I’m just a Dratini! 

宝贝 : Mama is a Ninetales because she’s pretty! (I’m not a fan of Ninetales but I like the flattery part.) Then what about Papa???

小小宝贝 ：(with a matter of fact look) Snorlax lah! Because Papa snores!!! (???)

Discerning children I have! Children say the darnest things! It’s a good thing that the hub doesn’t read the blog!