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
This is what happens during PE HBL. Anyhow do… 😓
#sigina #hbl #covid_19
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
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
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.
As usual, the ride just had to pass through the neighbourhood playgrounds. Highlights of ride – playgrounds.
Watching Monkey Ming wriggle up and down the poles…
Ok! It’s time to scram! Other kids are coming to the playground!!
#hbl #xiaoxiaobaobei #cycling #playground
Erm… I think he’s had too much HBL. Ki Siao already… poor kid. 🤣🤣🤣
#hbl #crazykid #xiaoxiaobaobei
This is serious business. He spent 15 minutes (with some inputs from his sister) writing down all the various tower names from Toy defenders (a game in roblox). If only he’s this serious about his schoolwork… 😓 (he emphasised that he’s “more important” under the credits section).
I can only remember a handful of these names. (Yeah. Lao niang has to play this game with him as a chaperone.) My brain just goes into screensaver mode whenever I see these names.
#roblox #xiaoxiaobaobei #playisseriousbusiness
小小宝贝 : Mommy Mommy! See what Sherry made for me??
姐姐 ：Maybe she likes you??
小小宝贝 ：Of course! Or else, why would she make the friendship band for me?!
Someone is very confident siah… 😅