My Lovely Rays

Wordpress now

2006-08-28T12:33:00.000+08:00

For those of you who are wondering why no updates...kekeke...it's because I am no longer blogging in blogger....am now over at wordpress doing my daily ramblings.....do visit me there instead!!! http://my2lovelyrays.wordpress.com

Change Class

2006-07-27T09:05:00.000+08:00

When I went to pick up the kids last evening, the principal approached me and informed that RayAnne will be changing class come 1 August 2006. She will no longer be in the toddler class, she is promoted to join the Nursery 1 class. So these few days, they are letting her join her new class just to get her adapted. And according to the teachers, she is adapting just fine and should merge in well when she officially joins them in August......Phew....I was worried for a moment......worried she might not adapt well to the new classmates and new classroom envirorment and of course, new teacher......but it all turns out to be a "there nothing to worry about situation"...

New Changes

2006-07-26T09:18:00.000+08:00

Have recently stopped allowing RayAnne to suck her pacificer to sleep. Everynight, she would still ask for her pacificer, but I would simply tell her, you are big girl now, cannot use pacificer anymore.......so far she has been quite accommodating and accepted what I told her graceful and goes to sleep hugging her pillow.

And the other major change is, going diaperless. She already knows how to control and hold her bladder movements quite well and so far no accidents. So I decided to brave it all, even when we bring her out shopping, she isn't wearing a diaper anymore. Now , going to and fro school, she is off the diaper as well...so far so good, next step is to try to train her to go diaperless at night.

There is one thing I notice about RayAnne. When drawing or writing, she likes to keep switching hands. One minute, you see she using her right han, the next minute, she changes hands. Sometimes, you even see her using both at the same time......Rayner on the other hand, used to draw with his left hand when he was younger but not anymore, I didn't even realised when he stopped drawing with his left hand and we were pretty sure he was a lefty.....but now, he's a full fledged righty liao.......

Let's see

2006-07-25T15:19:00.000+08:00

Was reading the wordpress site looking reasons why the photos didn't appear to some and it soon gave me bad headache and I GAVE up. Then I saw the comments Sesame left for me and all thanks to her suggestion......I think the problem on wordpress photo problem might have been solved......am doing testing now over at wordpress....do please leave your comments to let me know if you are able to view the photos.....many thanks dearies!

1st day of the Lunar 7th month

2006-07-25T09:40:00.000+08:00

Am back with Blogger till I can figure why my photos in wordpress is not visible to some of my friends. Today is the 1st day of the Lunar 7th month. The over powering smell of ash and incense is lingering in the air. On my way out, saw my Shi Liu plant and remembered what Mandy said. She told me to pluck some fresh Shi Liu leaves and put it in the Ray's pocket, it's suppose to keep them safe and ward off anything bad luck or thing.....so I did. Talking about warding off bad luck, the minute we stepped into the school, it started to rain, if we were one minute late, the kids would have been caught in the rain......we were really really heng hor!!!.......let's just hope this is the begining of our heng heng life........everything to go smooth smooth......actually, I don't ask for alot, I just wish my kids to be healthy and happy always!!!

Full filled Sunday.....(I think...)

2006-07-23T21:08:00.000+08:00

The kids sure had a tiring day today, started the day hopping from one fish shop to another, then went to Queenways Shopping Centre to trade in my old motorola L6 for a motorola V3, had lunch at MacDonald's. Then we bought them to the Mainland Tropical Fish Farm at Pasir Ris. The kids had a great time running all over the place and feeding the koi, geese, turtles and rabbits......food can be bought at $3 a pack over at the main counter....and best of all, the place is nicely sheltered so it's cool and airy with plenty of benches and stools for you rest. There are also swings for the kids to play with.....not a bad place to spend a couple of hours with the kids.....it's free too!!!

After that, we went to Sembwang in search of the satay place that Gurmit Singh introduced many weeks ago on Our Makan Places, lost and found. Finally found the place, boy was it packed. David went to queue for the satay, took a good 30 mins of wait but it was worth every minute of it, the satay meat was soft and tender, the kids enjoyed it very much too, each took about 8 sticks of satay each......

It's taking form...

2006-07-22T09:11:00.000+08:00

It's starting to take some form already.......months back, Rayner only knew how to doodle and draw lines or dots on paper but now, it's starting to take some form and shape, althought I still cannot make out what he is drawing!!!

Durian Durian

2006-07-22T09:09:00.000+08:00

The kids had their first taste of durian......well, not the first for Rayner, but first for RayAnne. Rayner had his first taste when he was about 6 months old but he didn't like it back then. Since both David and me are free of those sickening ulcers, we drove to Geylang and got our first dose of durian since the season started sometime ago.....

The Rays ate but not much, they didn't exactly reject it but didn't really really like it......bottom line is....okay only lor!!! kekekeke

Racial Harmony Day!

2006-07-21T07:14:00.000+08:00

Today is Racial Harmony Day and the school has requested us to dress the kids up in traditional costumes. I didn't have the time to shop for any clothings for them because they were sick for quite long a period so I ended up borrowing from my colleague who also happen to have 2 kids, one girl and one boy but of course her kids were much older than mine so she was able to spare me these clothes......good also lar....save me the time and effort to search around these traditional costume!

They were looking pretty sleepy and tired but I still managed to get them to smile and pose for the camera for some lovely shots of them in their traditional costume this morning before leaving for school.

Back to School......

2006-07-20T09:15:00.000+08:00

Hurray, got the doctor's clearance letter for RayAnne to go back to school today. Was feeling jittery about re-starting school again.

Rayner started his usual act of crying and skipping around the school entrance when I preparing to leave. RayAnne strolled out with the biscuits in hand, held korkor's hand and said to him, "Korkor don't cry, mummy go work"......the teachers just looked at me and gave me the thumbs up sign and said RayAnne very steady!

So I left the school with mixed feelings again, one hand feeling so happy that RayAnne is adapting so well and on the other hand, feeling sad that Rayner's feeling so sad!

How Trusting can one get?

2006-07-19T09:16:00.000+08:00

How trusting can one get right???

David woke up slightly earlier than me because he was going to leave the house before me, I was going to wait for my mummy to come. Blury eyed, I walked out from the bedroom to see our main door wide open and main gate swung wide open but no one in sight. By this time, my eyes were wide open and searching the living room David.

He apparently was preparing to leave the house but his tummy acted up and had to make a dash for the toilet and thus he left the gate wide open.......Yeah, I know Singapore's a safe country it still doesn't mean you can leave gates unlock and leave it unattended. It's not a kampong or attap house you know......

So as long as I am home, the door can stay open but the gate stays locked and closed!!! Don't want to take any chances!!!

My Hope

2006-07-18T21:18:00.000+08:00

Well girls, I really don't know what to say to you all. When I open the letterbox last night and found an envelope addressed to me, I opened it up and it contains a lovely card......I was lost for words......didn't know what to say or think. All I can say to you girls are THANK YOU and you all have no idea how much this means to me! *sniff sniff* You girls are really my pillars and beams of support.....

The contents of the card

You've been through so much!

Sometimes it must feel

like your problems never end.

But do you know that?

Problems aren't the only things

with staying power

There's always hope.

It shines from your bright spirit.

You have strength and courage

in seemingly unlimited amounts.

And that's not all -

you have love and friendship.

Sometimes it's hard for someone

who is giving to do a little taking.

but you have a lot of supporters -

friends and family who are

here for you.

Many hearts are with you

every step of the way.

and caring thoughts are

all around you.

Feel the love...

and please remember,

you are never alone.

Don't Cry....Mummy go work

2006-07-17T09:20:00.000+08:00

This morning, the kids woke up before I left for work. The first question Rayner asked me was, Mummy, not going to work? My reply was, yes dear, later? He immeidately cramped up his face and said, I don't want Mummy go work!

So the drama rolled when I was trying to leave the house, there Rayner was, pulling and tugging at my pants, begging me not to go to work, RayAnne was pulling her korkor's pants and telling him, Don't cry don't cry...mummy go work.....mummy go work......haiz......

So there were my kids, Rayner screaming and wailing for me and RayAnne smiling and waving byebye to me....mixed feelings hor.....haiz!!!

Weekend 2......

2006-07-15T21:21:00.000+08:00

Since running a fever on friday, we were almost sure he's gotten the dreaded HFMD from RayAnne and has been waiting for the mouth ulcers and spots to appear but till today, non has appeared. Instead, he broke out a full body rash......so another trip was made to the doctor to have him take a look at the rash. The doctor said the rash was nothing connected to HFMD, it was probably another skin rash. Now I suspect, the rash could be a result of an allergy to the course of antibiotics he is taking for his throat infection.

RayAnne on the other hand has been progressing well, she eating more and drinking more. A lot more, the usual 200ml of milk isn't enough to satisfy her anymore, she is now talking 300ml of milk at each feed, a good 100ml more than her brother.....hope she doesn't grow into a telly tubby......

Spent the rest of the day at home since the kids were under mc and not allowed out of the house. Ate dinner and watched The Mummy Returns on Channel 5 before shooing the kids off to bed.

......Was surprised that they enjoyed the movie so much, was still worried the mummies and monsters were a little to scary for them but they I was wrong, see how their eyes were glued to the screen in unison!!!

Weekend 1......

2006-07-15T09:23:00.000+08:00

So sad to have to miss Shannon's 2nd birthday party (hope Shannon had a great time) Happy Birthday Shannon darling, with lots of love from Auntie Jan, Rayner Korkor and RayAnne jiejie, we wished we would have been able to say happy birthday in person but due to some unforeseen circumstances, we were unable to......but it was so sweet of Irene to deliver the eclairs I ordered from Kat to me on her way home after attending Shannon's party. Thank you dear......

And the eclairs were.......wonderfully delicious, even both the Rays couldn't resist them.....within an hour, we finished one entire tray......looks like it, next time I got to order more liao!!!

Water proof suits

2006-07-15T09:04:00.000+08:00

Chanced upon this uk site.....Waterproofworld

And I really like the water proof suits because it's really cute and cool looking. Bought my rays some cheap rain coats in Singapore and the rubbery smell really stinks. Am comtemplating whether if I should the Rays each!!! Should I or shouldn't I?

By the way, it's really expensive too!!!

Can't make up my mind, the blue or the grey suit for Rayner, both looked equally nice!!!

I am sure RayAnne would love this suit because of the little kitten picture on it....kekeke

The sizing table they provided gave us a clear indication on which size would be prefect for our kids....how thoughtful

Garment Size	Rough Age Range
80/86cm	age 18m-24m
92/98cm	2-3yrs
104/110cm,	4-5yrs
116/122cm	6-7yrs
128/134cm	8-9yrs
140/146cm	10-11yrs

Flowers and toys for all!

2006-07-14T21:26:00.000+08:00

When I reached home last evening, David was already home but he was sick and sleeping in the room. He was running a fever, now I have one more person to take care of.....well, I am not complaining, at least now he is home.

Quickly whipped up a simple dinner for the kids. Showered the kids after dinner and sat ourselves comfortably at the sofa area. Was entertaining the kids so David can rest properly when the door bell rang. My kids ran to the door and were greeted by a sweet sweet young lady carrying a basket of flowers and immediately I know what it was about.

Lovely basket of flowers from my dear dear frens, Mandy, Katherine and Careen.....thank you ladies......the flowers really cheered me up and spurred me on......there is now new found energy and strength in me........and oh yes, they didn't forget the Rays, there was a toy for them!

A CD player for Rayner......

And a toy telephone for RayAnne......

~~Will try to load the videos when you tube has finally finish loading it.....~~.

Me very WANG ah!!!

2006-07-13T02:31:00.000+08:00

It's almost like striking 4D first, then TOTO, now Big Sweep, like my doctor said, I have strike them all liao......by now you would probably have guessed what I am driving at liao.....yup.....RayAnne has been confirmed by the doctor to be suffering from HFMD. Now the question is, we are not sure where she gotten it from, from school or from us....according to the doctor, it is possible for parents to pass the germs to their kids without knowingly because symptons are usually midly in adults which means, you might have HFMD and NOT know it...

Luckily I called my mum and she will be able to help me look after the rays at my place for the next couple of days.....now, let's hope Rayner doesn't get it.

Things couldn't get worst, tried to get in touch with David who was in Batam working now to inform him of what has happened but he didn't answer my phone so I sent him an sms asking him to call home. I was begining to get worried when he didn't returned my phone after 2 hours. Tried to call his cell again, no answer again, my mind was begininng to wander, I was getting freaking worried......could he have lost his handphone or is he in some kind of trouble??? You know how negatively one can be when they are down and alone. I was up the whole night waiting for his call, he finally called back at 2.30am.......apparently his handphone battery was flat and had left the phone to charge in the captain's room.......at least he was safe and sound.......chat for a while then hung up, looking at my bedroom clock, wow...almost 3am liao better qucikly get to bed and try to catch as many winks as possible!!!

Hope tomorrow will be a better day!

HFMD?

2006-07-12T09:32:00.000+08:00

The kids are back to school because RayAnne's has broke *yippie, good news* but some worrying news because when I dropped her off this morning, she has some little red spots on her wrist and this morning, after her morning milk, she complained her mouth pain and we did a visual check. She has developed a couple of ulcers in her mouth!!!

So I have been jumpy everytime my phone rings since I got into work this morning, worried that the school's going to call and ask me to bring RayAnne to be certified safe by a doctor before she is allowed back in class......

Immediately surfed the net for information about HFMD. The spots usually appear on either the palms or soles, sometimes even buttock but seldom other parts of the body but still she exhibits 2 of the major symptons, fever and ulcers......let's just pray and hope that this is just another false alarm......

Oh, at least there is one thing I can be happy about, RayAnne didn't cry when I left for work this morning, on the contary, she was smiling and waving at me whilst munching on her colourful animal biscuits but Rayner on the other hand was wailing and jumping like a big baby......haiz.....so one point has been proven.....girls are stronger and more independent than boys lor!!!

I am so tired......

2006-07-11T23:35:00.000+08:00

I am so tired, I really am.....I feel so exhausted.....

Even since his promotion, there has been a huge increase of workload and responsibilities and he too has to put in lots of hours in order to make deadlines. That leaves me alone to take care for the kids and everything else related to the kids and home. My day typically starts at 5.30am in the morning, by 6.30am, I would be sending the kids to school alone. After dropping the kids off at school, I make my way to work. Then there, I spent about 9 hours working and once the clock strikes 5.30pm, I am off, rushing from town where I work back to the childcare centre in Choa Chu Kang to fetch the kids.

Back home, I have to quickly get down to prepare dinner, bathe the kids, pack their school bags for the next day, wash and hang the laundry and proceed to prepare the dishes for tomorrow's dinner. The kids are shooed off to bed at around 8.30pm.....then I get to lazed on the sofa for a couple of hours before I head for bed and everything starts all over again......

Have I thought of quitting my job and being a SAHM mum??? Of course I did, but then finances will be tight and we would have alot lesser savings, similarly why we didn't get another car since we scrapped our last car.......which is why I decided to bite the bullet and continue to juggle both......

I just feel like a single mum, I know that David is also having a hard time at work but he only has to concentrate on his work solely while I have to be doing both and the worst thing is.....we do not see eye to eye at all........I feel like crying but there are already no more tears left in me!!!

Sometimes I sit down and I begin to wonder, why do we have kids??? Life was so much simplier and easier and happier when we were childless..........not that I don't love my kids, on the contary, I love them to death, they are the sole reason why I am working so hard to keep everything going!!! Their smiles and their laughter are the only thing that makes me forget how bad I was feeling or however bad a day I had at work!!!

Enough of me ranting, this can go on and on and on.....look on the brighter side, there are alot more people less fortunate than me right!!! At least I have my kids!!!

Day 2...

2006-07-11T09:36:00.000+08:00

Today's the 2nd day of RayAnne's fever. Just when you start to have a litte hope and am feeling happy at the thought she's recovering, the fever suddenly comes and we are all thrown back to square 1. The doctor estimated that it would take 3 - 4 days for the fever to completely break. It certainly has been a bleak and dark June for me, the kids has been falling sick like every other day....is this really the fate of childcare schooling kids??? Oh how I miss the days when the kids are at home, healthy every other day but then again how long can I keep them home??? It's just a process of growing up.......

Colourful Animals biscuits to cheer her up

2006-07-10T21:49:00.000+08:00

My doctor has given me 2 days of mc to take care of RayAnne. He suspects she might have gotten the latest common flu that causes respiratory problems because the trend has already been around for quite sometime now. And since she's been exhibiting all the similar symptons like high fever, blocked nose....etc he suggests that I keep her away from school for a couple of days. So I am again away from work and home nursing RayAnne. For all who knew RayAnne, she's a lively and playful girl, she is never one kid who says no to milk or food. Her appetite has always been on the good side but she is feeling so tired and sick that she didn't want to eat any of her meals and she can't even finish her milk.....it pains me to see her so sick......

Knowing that RayAnne always loved those small little cute animals biscuits, my mum specially dropped by today and bought with her the colourful animal biscuits I used to eat when I was young for my kids, hoping to cheer RayAnne up. Her eyes instantly lit up when she saw very favourite snack. She has always loved the colour animal biscuits. It really bought back fond memories for me too....sweet fond memories....it still taste exactly like how I remembered it.

Tom Boy

2006-07-09T23:02:00.000+08:00

Was watching Child of Our Time (David recorded for me) and what they studied and researched about the difference between girls and boys amazed me.

Boys due to their larger amounts of male hormones, they usually have a longer ring finger when compared to the index finger. Girls on the other hand, should be spotting a longer index finger compared to the ring finger. Now listen to this, when a girl spots a longer ring finger when compared to her index finger, there is a very high chance she would grow up to be tom boy.

Looking at RayAnne's fingers, she spots a longer ring finger just like her brother.....it's no wonder why she is so tom boyish and rough when playing with her brother!!! That's explains it!!!

Sunday...

2006-07-09T21:54:00.000+08:00

Nothing much to do today, so bought the kids to the Yew Tee Pasa Malam to buy some snacks to munch on. The weather didn't look to cheery so I decided to let the kids wear the new raincoats I bought for them a couple of days ago. Is still a little big for RayAnne but fits Rayner better and the labels still says (18 - 24 months leh)......but still it did it's job of keeping my darlings dry and comfy!!!

Scary Scary

2006-07-08T23:05:00.000+08:00

Was letting the Kids watch one of their favourite shows, Monster Inc and observed something new.

And below is how RayAnne reacts when she is watching a scary part (the part when the monster is going in to scare the kids). She is scared but she still wants to know what is going on, according to David, she is exactly like someone he knows and can you guess who??? No presents for getting the right answer!

At least

2006-07-08T11:07:00.000+08:00

I still remember, when I was pregnant with Rayner, I was especially prone to leg cramps as compared when I was pregnant with RayAnne. Maybe because I was much bigger and heavier. In total, at 38 weeks pregnant with Rayner, I had already gained a hefy 26kg, cannot imagine if he were to stay in till 40 weeks, I swore, I would tip the scales at at least 95kg......scary thought, well at least Rayner knew my fears and came out naturally at 38 weeks......whereas, I only gained a mere 8kg when I was pregnant with RayAnne.....

Back to my leg cramps, I remember screaming for David whenever I get a cramp and he would come to my rescue. But ever since the kids were born and he got his job promotion, he is always working and I am always left alone at home with the kids. Then, this particular morning, I was sleeping in with the kids when suddenly, I got a cramp on my left calf......since David was already at work, I shouted for Rayner instead (dunno why but natural instinct), this little fellow immediately sprung up and headed straight for my cramped calf and started to massage my cramped calf and soon eased my pain......well at least now I know, whenever I get a cramp, I still have Rayner around if David isn't. :)

Mummy, correct?

2006-07-07T11:09:00.000+08:00

I am so sick of Rayner being whiney about anything especially ever since he resumed school after his chicken pox episode. It's really unbearable for me, he whines about anything and everything these days.........then last evening, I thought, perhaps if I give him tasks to do, it will be better. So I gave him to task of scooping rice, washing the rice, and finally putting the rice pot into the rice cooker and finally pressing the on button to cook the rice.

He also cracked an egg (of course with my help) and pour the egg into the wok and he enjoyed looking at the egg cook. He seems to find it really amusing!!!

So it was a whine free evening for me.......and I must say, he has been a great help, will be tasking him with lots more stuff to keep his mind occupied and off whinning!!!

Then, this morning, when we were preparing for work and school. I told him to switch off the fan before he change into his school uniform. I came in to see the fan off but he was busy closing the windows and when I asked him, what are you doing dear? He says, Meimei is bathing, have to close the window, if not the wind blow, meimei very cold!!! awwwwww.....so sweet right......

Rain

2006-07-06T17:10:00.000+08:00

I have been complaining about how much space the Ray's jackets are taking up, along with my other rubbishy load of brolly, wallet, digital camera, keys, handphone and etc......and the website of pretty looking and really expensive raincoats I chanced upon while surfing the web weeks ago was way over my budget then my colleagues mentioned, why don't you try Isetan. They are now carrying a new range of swimwear and raincoats, http://www.iplaybabywear.com.

So I came back with 2 raincoats, Isetan was still having their GSS sale so it made sense to buy it now. Or else, it would have cost me a whopping $39.90 each whereas I bought it at a steal of $19.90 each.

What I liked about it, firstly, there's no rubbery smell, secondly, it's light and compact, thirdly, it's within my budget and fourthly, the prints are simply adoroble.......all my kids' favourite animals too!!!

A kind soul....

2006-07-06T09:14:00.000+08:00

What a way to start the day....it was pouring cats and dogs when I alighted at the bus stop. And darn, there's still about 10 - 15 steps of unsheltered stretched of space before we reach the Ray's school. Darn....why can't they do a sheltered walkway linking the bus stop to the building.

But a kind Indian lady volunteered to shelter me and the Rays over. It was so nice of her but I felt bad when I saw her all wet.

Worst...

2006-07-05T11:23:00.000+08:00

Today's no much better than yesterday. Both of them were still running all over the place not wanting to be held by the teachers and screaming for me not to go and at the same time, shouting I DON'T WANT TO STAY HERE!!!......haiz.....my heart quite weak leh...cannot take this type of mental torture leh!!! Oh lord, please save me ah!!!

Even when Rayner first started school in year 2005, he has never said he doesn't want to go to school or he doesn't want to stay in school. Think I am going to have to ask his teacher to talk to him and hope she can help to brainwash him for me ......

The little conversation we had after we alighted the bus.....

Rayner: Mummy, I want to cut hair

Me: I will bring you to cut hair another day okay?

Rayner: no, I want to cut now!

Me: But all the shops are still closed, be good darling, I will bring you to cut hair another day!

Rayner: no, I want to wait outside the shop

Me: *keeps quiet*

Rayner: *while walking towards to school, he just keeps ranting* I want to cut my hair now, I want to cut my hair now

*End of conversation*

Back to school...

2006-07-04T11:26:00.000+08:00

Bought the kids down to the clinic last evening and the doctor gave them clearance to resume school so they went back to school today.

It was disastrous. They Rays were screaming on top of their lungs and were playing police and thief with the teachers when I dropped them off this morning, which was ~~quite~~ very embrassing......

And when I went to pick them up after work today, took the chance to ask the teacher how the kids reacted today. Rayner's teacher said he a little sad but soon opened up and talked after she broke the ice. As for RayAnne, her teacher said she was okay, resumed her chirpy self and merge in after breakfast......

Monday......

2006-07-03T11:28:00.000+08:00

Kept RayAnne home today because of her skin infection but her condition has improved quite alot since Friday.

Suddenly remembered the sites Sesame and Mybabieslz suggested (thanks ladies) that I let the kids explore so they will be bored to death at home. It was fun for Rayner as he can handle the mouse pretty well but it couldn't grasp RayAnne attention.....looks like I have to look for something else to keep RayAnne occupied......

Rayner concentrating hard on controlling the mouse to build the engine parts from Thomas the train website......

Sunday......

2006-07-02T23:29:00.000+08:00

Spent sunday at home resting from last night's long and exhausting walks at the Night Safari.

Dark Dark

2006-07-01T23:31:00.000+08:00

If it wasn't for RayAnne's skin infection, the doctor would have cleared the Rays for school on Friday. Not that the skin infection is infectious but purely because it's so hideous and he's worry it would freak others parents and the teachers at school out so suggested that I keep her home for a couple more days and see how things go!!!

It has been so long since we last bought the kids out and clearly, it's started to affect the kids, they are getting really bored and restless staying home.....since RayAnne's skin infection is so awful and unsightly in bright day light, David then suggested....why not the Night Safari then, it's only opened after dark, it's the perfect for the kids.......

The dark atmosphere and environment was perfect for RayAnne's condition but since it is so dark, will they be spending time being frighten and scared of the dark rather then looking out for animals in the dark???

It turns out, I worried for nothing, they had a great time at the night safari, weather was perfect with cool breeze keeping us cool most of the time and they had a great time peering into the dark looking out for animals......(the only draw back was, the admission ticket is really really X, $28 per adult)

A bit here, a bit there

2006-06-30T11:36:00.000+08:00

They first started playing with the barn and aninals, spreading them all over hallway. Then they decided, they wanted to do some cutting and stamping instead so they left all the animals and barn on the floor.....

I saw the animals all over the place and asked them to keep all the animals and the barn before playing with the scissors and stamps.....they proceeded back to where all the animals were spread and as they were keeping them, they suddenly started playing with it again.....so this time, I told them to keep the scissors and stamps before playing with the animals....they then stopped playing the animals and came back to keep the scissors and stamps......and I think you can guess what happened next!!!

As they were keeping the scissors and stamps, they started playing with them again....so in the end......neither were kept.....the animals and barn were left on the hallway and the scissors and stamps on their tables.....haiz.......I GIVE UP!!!

Skin Infection...

2006-06-30T09:34:00.000+08:00

Now this doesn't look anything like a heat rash, right!!! This was what I was telling myself when I was bathing RayAnne this afternoon. Couple of days ago, it was just little little spots and I thought it was heat rash because weather has been especially hot and humid and plus Rayner also has a case of heat rash and it has already dried up but not RayAnne's. Decided not to waste anymore time, immediately bought her down to the doctor and the doctor confirmed it was Skin Infection......it was first the cough, then chicken pox and now skin infection??? We are really hitting the dark patch recently......

Since it was already pus filled, antibiotics had to be prescribed to clear up the infection......and the doctor says, it should take about a week for it to clear up and for him to clear her for school so it's unlikely they would be going back to school next Wednesday......sure hope my mum can look after them for a couple more days or else.....I am going to have to take another few more days of leave off work......haiz!!!

Fish...

2006-06-29T11:38:00.000+08:00

There were a tons of things the Rays are not allowed to consume eversince they got chicken pox. So for the sake of the kids, I have decided to follow as closely as possible to these myths.

For example:-

Sesame (for fear of occurance)

Chicken & Eggs (dunno why)

Any sort of beans (for fear that the marks will look like the beans)

Seafood (for fear of allergic reaction because most old people think seafood is poisonous)

Fish (And only fish with scales)

Black Sauce (for fear of leaving black black scar)

Soo far, that's all I have been told to avoided but it's already quite a handful and it the only thing the kids can eat now is pork and fish with scales......

That brings us (kat, mandy and myself) to search the internet to find out which type of fishes has scales and which types of fishes don't have scales. So I gave Kat a list of fish I know and she came back with the pictures and answers. Among the list of fish was, threadfin, snapper, cod fish, tuna and parrot fish. And see what our dear Kat found for me. A picture of a parrotfish!!! oh my gosh!!! wah pengz...like this also can ah???

By the way, if you think a parrot fish really looks like this, it doesn't hor...this is just a joke........

Mind in a fenzy...

2006-06-28T09:41:00.000+08:00

Don't get me wrong, am actually very well rested. The days that I am on leave, me and the kids will sleep in, usually waking up only around 10am for our lazy breakfast. Then I will get down to do some housework and prepare our lunches while they watch TV or practise their writing, drawing or colouring.

Then after lunch, we all nap AGAIN......yeah.....that's life man....so shiok....for once I am totally relaxed........

But am so relaxed and lazy now that I wake up every morning to the sound of the alarm clock not knowing if today is working day or off day for me..........

How nice if I can be a SAHM......

oh ya, forgot to update, the kids slept in our room last night so we slept in the kid's room. It was only then I realised how uncomfortable RayAnne's bed was so come this weekend, we are going to get her a new spring mattress. Her exisiting mattress came with the bed when we bought it last year from Ikea and the mattress was no where near comfy....hard and lumpy and really hot to sleep in....oh baby....sorry for causing you all the discomfort....mummy promise you I will get a you a more comfortable mattress to sleep in, just like korkor and mummy and daddy.....*pinky swear*

Meet Up

2006-06-27T11:45:00.000+08:00

Am home today taking care of my kids......you must be thinking why I am still so free to blog hor (considering the fact that I am alone with the rays, no mother in law, no mother or maid or hubby)!!!

Cooking's all done, housework's all done too, clothes are dried by the scotching sun.....and the rays??? They are glued to the TV set watching Harry Potter thus completely ignoring me except for the occassional visits asking me to for open a pack of snacks or fix them a drink!!! What can I ask for!!! Peace!!!

Just received a sms from Jeanette asking if I would like to meet her for lunch on Thursday then cheong Zara's sale together.....then I realised I also missed out the Mango Sale last week.....let me see, when was the last time I bought clothes for myself??? cannot recall or remember at all...must have been really long long time ago....

First Day of school...

2006-06-26T11:48:00.000+08:00

Am feeling so excited......not that it's the first day of school for the Rays but it's the first day of school for Sherry....my buddy's darling....hope it all goes well for her because she fought so hard to let her girl go to school. Keep my fingers and toes cross for her.....then how work with fingers and toes all crossed??? kekekeke (just a joke lar dear)

Live Fireworks TREAT

2006-06-25T21:50:00.000+08:00

Singapore Arts Festival 2006 - Closing Celebrations by Puja!

Closing Celebrations

K@osmos by Puja! (Spain)

Date	: 23 - 25 June 2006
Time	: 8:00 pm
Venue	: Open field next to Choa Chu Kang MRT station
Duration	: 40 minutes

And from my bedroom window, we can get a pretty good view of the fireworks so the Rays were treated to live display of fireworks....not bad...considering they are now home confined and not allowed out of the house....this is something interesting for them considering this is the first time they are seeing firework display!!! Now who says we have to wait till National Day to see fireworks....kekekeke

So noisy...

2006-06-25T12:31:00.000+08:00

My plan was to leave the house before the Rays wake up so we do without them making a big fuss about me leaving the house without them but all thanks to the few birds in CCK who likes to make noise in the wee hours.... My babies woke up.......

Day 5 of Chicken Pox

2006-06-24T20:18:00.000+08:00

Thank you all for the well wishes and concern. Happy to announce that the Rays are no longer running a fever and no longer sprouting new water blisters and it's sleady starting to dry up.

I now understand what it means when they if have taken the chicken pox vaccine, the symptons would be a lot milder than usual.....it actual meant, there will still be high fever, there will still be lots of water blisters all over the body but the duration will be shorter....that's what it meant!!!

Since suffering is over, this is more like a rest and break for the Rays. They now have a full week to play all their toys at home....let's hope it will not be too hard to re-introduce school again when their medical leave ends on the 4 July 2006....or else, I will have to start all over from scratch again......

New Tactic...

2006-06-23T09:21:00.000+08:00

I have a new tactic to make medicine feeding much easier and happier for the Rays. Althought medicine feeding hasn't been much of a problem for them all along, but because they have been eating so much medicine recently (all kinds of medicine, cough, cold, flu), it's kinda getting them. Now I would get replies like, my stomach no good, I want to vomit liao whenever I try to give them their medicine so I decided to let them take their own medicine instead of forcing it down their throat....and it's working like a miracle........so now, we just have to see how long this tactic will work!!!

What!

2006-06-22T10:24:00.000+08:00

I am usually the sort who gets up a bus, find a comfy place and position and slips into slumberland but something happened today and it left me all hyped up and tensed throughout the entire journey.

This was what happened.

The bus I boarded was making a left turn at a traffic junction. Seeing the pedestrian coming from the opposite were still pretty far away and no pedestrian from the left, the driver made the turn and the next thing, I was awaken by the screams of the passenger sitting infront of me. That jolted me out of my slumberland. I quickly look around the bus and on my left through the exit door, I saw this lady in the 40s stumbling......oh my goodess, did the bus hit her, is her hurt??? She stumbled for a while, got on her feet and walked away without even confronting the bus driver and thus the bus driver was left to continue his journey. Since I didn't even witness what happened, I felt I was in no position to confront the driver......

This incident suddenly bought back flashes of memories. I rememeber I was still pregnant with RayAnne (about 6 months I think) and I was on the KJE on the way to work after dropping David off. Suddenly I was forced to make a E-brake and it happened so quickly, all I could remember was, my engine had already stalled. Only when the lorry behind me horned me, I started my car again and moved on. Only to drive pass a motorist who just had a collision with a lorry. He was lying on the road with his face towards our direction and I saw his face, full of blood and his eyes were wide open......I swore my hands were literally trembling but still had to stay calm and slowly made way to work. Till this very day, I can still remember the motorist's face, not sure if he survived the accident thou!!!

It has been confirmed...

2006-06-20T10:32:00.000+08:00

Just came back from the doctor and he has confirmed that the Rays are both down with Chicken Pox. Actually, before I bought them down to the clinic, I already knew it was chicken pox because the Rays were still running a fever and Rayner has already begin to have the outbreak of water blisters all over his body. Despite the chicken pox vaccine they have taken at 1 year old (the vaccine isn't 100%, there is still a 2% chance they might get chicken pox and damm are we lucky, both of them fell within the 2%, haiz), their symptons were still not as mild as I expected. Mild meaning, I thought perhaps 10 blisters the most and a slight fever. Not 50 blisters all over the body and a firey temperature of 39.6 degrees!!! Enough of me ranting away......

So the Rays are on medical leave till the 4 July 2006. Am going to ask my mum to help as many days as she can and on days that she isn't able to come down, I will be taking leave to care for my babies.

Some Info...

2006-06-20T08:28:00.000+08:00

Chicken Pox

Chickenpox is an infection with a blistering rash, which is caused by the Varicella virus. This virus also causes shingles.

Course and Symptoms

The incubation period, the length of time from exposure to the virus to developing the condition, is two to three weeks. If someone in the house has chickenpox, the likelihood of someone else in the house catching it, who has not already had it, is as much as 90% ie 9 out of 10.

Chickenpox usually affects children and starts with a slightly raised temperature, and feeling under the weather, along with the development of red spots, mainly on the body and face.

The spots appear over a few days and progress from being red spots to forming blisters, which eventually burst, dry, and crust, ultimately to heal. The spots are very itchy, and if the child scratches and infects them they will leave scars.

By the time the spots have stopped forming and are dried over and the temperature has fallen back to normal, the child is no longer infectious. Usually this takes about a week, until then they should remain off playgroup or school.

Chickenpox does not usually make children very ill, and for most the main problem is the itchiness. Your doctor will not normally need to see the child, but you should let him know that the child has had it. Occasionally more serious complications can occur, and if a child does not appear to be following the above course it is worth speaking to your doctor.

Having had chickenpox most people are immune, and can not catch it again. However the virus particles remain dormant in your nervous system and can, at a later stage, cause shingles. As a result of the large numbers of people who catch chickenpox as children, 90% of adults are immune.

Shingles

Shingles (otherwise known as Herpes Zoster) is a painful, blistering rash caused by the chickenpox (varicella) virus, which affects only a limited area of skin, and makes you feel surprisingly tired, run down, and even depressed.

Symptoms

You may feel slightly unwell, and develop a localised area of pain and tenderness a few days or sometimes up to two weeks before the rash appears. The rash starts off as red spots, which quickly turn into blisters. They always affect only one side of the body (left or right) and never cross the midline. This is because they come out on the area of skin which is supplied by one particular nerve.

The rash may affect any part of the body, including head and limbs. It may thus appear as a band around one side of the chest or abdomen, or down an arm or leg. It may affect the head, and when it affects the upper cheek or the side of the forehead it may also affect the eye. You should certainly see your doctor if you have shingles affecting the side of the head, and especially if it seems to affect the tip of your nose or the eye itself.

It is usually a very painful rash, and typically people can't bear clothes touching the affected area.

The blisters burst and crust over, usually within a week and the area slowly settles, sometimes leaving pale scars. The pain may settle as quickly as the rash, but unfortunately some people are left with pain affecting that area for many months or even years (Post herpetic neuralgia).

Most people are surprised by how ill they feel with shingles. This seems out of proportion with the extent of the skin involved. There is a general debility and exhaustion, sometimes with aches and pains and sometimes a mild fever. Depression is often a feature of shingles, as in many other viruses. You may need up to three weeks off work.

Causes

You can only get shingles (Herpes Zoster) if you have previously had chickenpox. After having chickenpox the virus lies dormant in the nerves, and shingles occurs when it is revitalised in one particular nerve to the skin, thus explaining the way it affects a clearly demarcated band of skin only.

Usually the cause is a decrease in your body's natural resistance, which may come through other infections, stress, being generally run down, or occasionally, when the body's immune defences are affected by certain drugs or other immune deficiencies.

Prevention

You cannot do much to avoid shingles. It is not caught from contact with someone with shingles or with chickenpox.

If you have shingles you should stay away from other people until the blisters have dried (usually about seven days), as there are virus particles in the blister fluid. The risk is that people who have not had chickenpox might catch that from you.

Those at particular risk are people whose immune system is not functioning normally (who are immunocompromised), as for example in people on steroids, chemotherapy for cancer or those with transplants or with AIDS, so do try to avoid contact with people in these categories if you have shingles.

Recurrences

Shingles is caused by a reactivation of the dormant virus in the nerves of people who have previously had chickenpox. As as a result shingles can unfortunately occur more than once.

You may have further attacks of shingles, especially at times when you are run down. These attacks may affect a different part of the body

Information extracted from http://www.medinfo.co.uk

After reading the above information, I am getting kinda worried for my mummy because not only has she gotten chicken pox before, she also had shingles because and silly me thought shingles only occurs once like chicken pox and boy was I wrong. Rayner had a slight fever yesterday and the fever shot pretty high last night and small spots of little blisters on his upper chest was spotted this morning. Immediately did an inspection on RayAnne and oh my gosh, I found similar looking spots on her neck and behind her ear. Qucikly called my mum and asked if she would be able to take care of the kids since they can't go to school and I wasn't able to take time off work today.

Am going to bring the rays to let the doctor examine to see if they are really down with chicken pox......keep our fingers and toes crossed and hope it's something else!!!

All Grown Up...

2006-06-19T12:35:00.000+08:00

It was only when the kids were in bed, I was looking through the photographs which I had taken earlier in the day, only then I realised that RayAnne has matured quite a fair bit, she now looks so much more girlish and matured.

Yi, Er, San

2006-06-18T10:36:00.000+08:00

Today, Rayner surprised me from out the blue by writing numbers in chinese on a piece for me. I knew he was able to recite the numbers in chinese but never knew he could write them and without any aid like somewhere to copy from. I was shocked but it was a good and nice shocked......kids these days are full of surprises ain't they???!!!

Where is the starfish???

2006-06-17T14:00:00.000+08:00

The Rays looking at their Daddy's fish tank...... apparently they were looking for the blue starfish!!!

Pre Father's Day celebrations......

2006-06-17T09:58:00.000+08:00

Arranged to celebrate Father's Day a day earlier at my mum's place for the 3 daddies namely, my Papa, Richard (my sister's hubby) and David (the rays' daddy). Bought a small cake and of course the happiest were the kids.......

Noticed anything wrong?

2006-06-15T10:02:00.000+08:00

Venison (Dear Meat) Kebabs

Not nice to post the website that made this error lar.....just see for fun lor!!!

Go stand at one corner...

2006-06-15T07:06:00.000+08:00

Rayner was made to stand and face one corner of my living room for a good 15 minutes last night as punishment for something he did. What did he do?

Just after dinner, he told me he needed to pass motion so he proceeded to take the potty from the kitchen and sat himself in the living room. I was doing the dishes in the kitchen, then RayAnne came to me with faeces on her cheek. I was so angry, that fellow actually smear faeces on his sister's face. Ohmy goodness!!! I didn't even know what to say or make of it? I didn't witness him doing it but I am sure it as him, RayAnne couldn't possibly smear faeces on her own face right.!

I didn't use the cane on him but made him stand at a corner and reflect on his bad behaviour and after the 15 minutes was up, I asked him over and made him apologise to RayAnne for what he did and talk to him hoping he knew what he did was very wrong and bad. Under no circumstances do you ever smear faeces on anyone or anything. What should I do with this kid??? Haiz......

A little joke.....to brighten your day

2006-06-14T09:07:00.000+08:00

Sometimes, things are not as complicated as you think they are......

Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle. He has two large bags over his shoulders. The guard stops him and says, "What's in the bags?" "Sand," answered Juan. The guard says, "We'll just see about that. Get off the bike." The guard takes the bags and rips them apart; he empties them out and finds nothing in them but sand. He detains Juan overnight and has the sand analyzed, only to discover that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags The guard releases Juan, puts the sand into new bags, hefts them onto the man's shoulders, and lets him cross the border. A week later, the same thing happens. The guard asks, "What have you got?" "Sand," says Juan. The guard does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags contain nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to Juan, and Juan crosses the border on his bicycle. This sequence of events if repeated every day for three years. Finally, Juan doesn't show up one day and the guard meets him in a Cantina in Mexico. "Hey, Buddy," says the guard, "I know you are smuggling something. It's driving me crazy. It's all I think about..... I can't sleep. Just between you and me, what are you smuggling?" Juan sips his beer and says, "Bicycles."

Purple flowers for you...

2006-06-13T08:08:00.000+08:00

Thank you all for the well wishes......my kids were cleared of chicken pox and I am well on the way to recovery......some lovely purple flowers for all my buddies and online mummies who read my blog regularly.....hope you are feeling and looking as lovely as those pretty looking purple flowers..............

No Good

2006-06-12T09:11:00.000+08:00

Something doesn't feel too right when I woke up feeling extremely cold (no good), my eyes were watery and misty, my throat feel scratchy and sore, my head and nose feel like it's 10 times bigger than it's actually size.....I AM SICK....very sick....

But still I have to drop the kids off at school before I can come back and rest.

Spent almost the whole day sleeping after taking the medication prescribed by the doctor and woke up around 3pm feeling much much better. Think the medicine and the sleep did the job. It was my body's way of telling me that I needed the rest badly and shut down on me.........

Anway, after the much needed sleep, it was soon time to go and pick up the Rays from school and since we missed RayAnne's PTC, the teacher gave me a short brief when I went to pick them up.

RayAnne's development since Feb 2006

Name of Child: Sam RayAnne, Ray Teng Areas of development: Psychomotor Development Observer: Teacher Rose Date: 8 Feb 2006

On the balancing beam, RayAnne is trying to alance herself on her own, but could not managd. With assistance from teacher, she can walk and balance herself. She is confidence to walk by herself later.

Remarks: She always keeps trying and never gives up.

Date: 9 Feb 2006

RayAnne enjoys walking through under the tunnel. She walks with confidence and feels happy doing so.

Remarks: Her gross motor shills is good.

Name of Child: Sam RayAnne, Ray Teng Areas of development: Cognitive Development Observer: Teacher Rose Date: 25 May 2006

She can hold the crayon very well. Her pincer grip is good. She likes red and whever teacher gave the crayon, she will choose red. She can draw circles.

Remarks: she loves to draw and enjoys it very much.

Date: 29 May 2006

She is able to do the potato printing. She holds very firmly on the potatoe. Her eye-hand ordination is good. She enjoys very much during the art lesson potatoe printing.

Remarks: RayAnne is capable and listens to teacher's instructions.

Name of Child: Sam RayAnne, Ray Teng Areas of development: Language Development Observer: Teacher Rose Date: 24 Apr 2006

During picture talk at the garden, RayAnne is able to say birds, butterflies and she is able to count the numbers of birds and butterflies.

Remarks: She is very spontaneous. She can count numbers 1 - 10

Date: 30 May 2006

She can understand and listen to teacher's instructions very well. She will approach the teachers if she needs water during breakfast, lunch or tea time and will ask to add some more food into her bowl.

Remarks: She is an outspoken child.

Name of Child: Sam RayAnne, Ray Teng Areas of development: Socio-emotional Development Observer: Teacher Rose Date: 14 Mar 2006

RayAnne can mix well with her peers in her class. She will play together and share the toys/ She can comfort her friends when her friend is feeling sad.

Remarks: She interacts well with her teachers and friends.

Date: 15 Mar 2006

During outdoor play, RayAnne is very active. She loves to play bubbles and water play.

Remarks: She is a well behaved child.

Am generally happy with RayAnne'e development in school so far but most importantly, I no longer feel that I am doing the wrong thing by sending her off to school when she is barely 3 years old. Felt especially bad when she was crying so badly when I leave her in school every morning during the initial stage but seeing how happy she is in school, I knew I made the right decision. My girl is growing up......

Kids Idol

2006-03-06T08:17:00.000+08:00

Last night, Channel 5 was showing Moulin Rouge. And as soon as Ewan and Nicole starting to sing their love duet, RayAnne started to croon along to the song, it was histerical to watch.......kekekekeke.....see it for yourself lar

Bubbles.....

2006-03-05T23:09:00.000+08:00

Since there was no where to bring the Rays again, we let them play Blow Bubbles in the corridor and I think they had a mightly fun time......

All plays came to a halt when they starting fighting......actually bot fighting lar....it was more one sided....RayAnne beating Rayner......

Ohhhh.....soooooo cute

2006-03-04T22:45:00.000+08:00

My friend Jeanette recenty stopped her day job and starting full time with her children clothes business venture. So as to show my support, I purchased quite a few pieces of garment from her......(don't have her webby with me now but will soon load in her webby so you can help to support her too.....thanks in advance hor)

This is the smallest size she has, 18 months, it's so lively that I couldn't resist but bought it for RayAnne......

This Gap t-shirt turned out alot roomy than I expected.....label says 3T leh

Initially bought this Osh Kosh t-shirt for Ephraim but it turned out so huge......label says 18 months so it now belongs to Rayner liao.....kekeke

This is my favourite, strawberry shortcake singlet......it's so cute and sweet right.....I couldn't resist it so I bought one for all the girls in our group......

Cough cough cough......

2006-03-03T22:37:00.000+08:00

How come RayAnne's cough doesn't seem to completely go away huh??? After Rayner's hospitalisation, I now no longer take lightly any wheeze or sneeze. As long as it lasts any longer than 1 week, off we go knocking on Dr Tan's door. And that explains why I am on leave today...... Who can blame me right, better be safe than sorry right!!! I am sure all parents will agree and understand what I am trying to say!!! My mum packed some MUD TONG (sorry, direct translation hor, in Cantonese) from the medical hall and asked me to double boil it for at least 2 hours before letting RayAnne drink. It's supposed to dissolve the phlegm. Every alternate 2 hours, I feed them either bird's nest, cordycepts with lean meat or almond tea. So you can imagine how much time I was spending over te boiling stove......

Just an example to show how fierce my little girl is hor...

2006-03-03T20:36:00.000+08:00

Oh my gosh, it took me more than 4 hours to upload this video so it better to worth my wait boy......kekekekeke.....anyway, the video will show you exactly how fierce the sweet little girl you all see on the outside........she is scolding David for not helping her to pick up the toys she dropped!!!

How much are you worth???

2006-03-02T16:13:00.000+08:00

I have nothing better to do so I was surfing all over the place when I hapen to come across this site, quite interesting.....give it a try lar......

On Average, You Would Sell Out For

$1,123,950

At What Price Would You Sell Out?

A little treat for Mandy dear......

2006-03-02T15:46:00.000+08:00

See how busy and stressed out you were these days......I have attached a video clip to cheer you up......hope it works!!!

The Real Picture......

2006-03-02T10:17:00.000+08:00

For the past 2 weeks that RayAnne has been attending school, I have always been assured by the principal and other teachers that she is coping well and fine in school. Only when I got to speak to the teacher actually taking care of her, I realised it wasn't as pleasant and beautiful the whole picture was. In fact, RayAnne's teacher told me this morning that she never participates in any activity (not even play session) or tries to communicate with anyone. She just sits at one corner of her classroom, hugging tightly onto the school bag. What's worst is, when any teacher tries to approach her, she would show a sulking face and attempt to push them away......haiz When will she outgrow this stage???

YOU are going NO where now......

2006-03-01T09:03:00.000+08:00

This morning, in the cab on the way to school, RayAnne was sitting on my lap while Rayner was sitting on his own. I usually hold his hand all the way to school so he feels secured but today, instead of holding my hand, he put his hand into my rubber band which was sitting on my wrist so it holds both our hands together and told me, mummy, you cannot run away liao!!!......

It's a little hard for me to explain, see the picture and you will understand......

Then it brings me to the topic Class 95 was talking about today. Multi-Tasking - Are male or female better at it Not too sure about how well other males multi-task but I know for sure, I am a better multi-tasker than David. I always say, I wake up in the morning and starts my day by preparing myself and the Rays for work and school but David on the other hand, wakes up and prepares himself for work......kekekekeke

2 messy eaters......

2006-02-27T21:18:00.000+08:00

Pick up David from Lot 1 after picking the Rays up from school before making our way home. Managed to get home before the sky came pouring down...... Bought a cake from Polar Cake to celebrate RayAnne's birthday and that little girl was so excited when we told her we got her a birthday cake.......been asking for the cake ever since we stepped into our house and even ran so quickly into the kitchen and got her own bowl and spoon, all ready to dig into the cake......so cute!!!

Looks like RayAnne likes her cake pretty much!!!

It used to be so tough to get both the Rays to look at the camera and get a decent photo but we managed to get a pretty good photo this time round. Have to remind myself to get this picture printed out......

2nd time blowing the candles because Rayner beat RayAnne the first time round and blew out her candles before she can even huff........wahahahahahah

Yeeeee.......see how they eat the cake??!!! So messy......

Happy Birthday My Baby......

2006-02-27T10:36:00.000+08:00

Today my baby, RayAnne turns 2......... Happy Birthday my Baby RayAnne.......you will always be my baby!!!

Still as lovely as ever......

2006-02-26T21:52:00.000+08:00

David needed to be in Bedok for some FISHY reasons so I bought the Rays down to my parent's place to spend the sunday afternoon there instead. Suddenely remember that I have to bring the Valentine's Day gift me and May bought for our mummy back for her. But before bringing the bear back, I need to throw away the flowers first. But to my surprise, one and only one flower remained as fresh and pretty as ever but the rest of the other flowers have long wither away......

Lovely tinge of purple.....

Then I remembered, I promised Mandy that I take a photo of how the bear looks so long and skinny.....

So tall hor......

So??? In your opinion, do you think the bear looks a little too skinny but check out it's tummy??? wahahahahaha.....just like me hor......thin but still have tummy leh!!!

Saturday......

2006-02-25T21:36:00.000+08:00

RayAnne woke me up this morning at 5.00am and asked for milk so blury blury eyed, I made my way to the kitchen and made her a bottle of milk. She went back to sleep after her milk and so did I, Rayner came to join us around 6.00am and we all continued to Zzzzzzzz until 10.00am. Bought the kids down to grab breakfast and was really mad at this motorcyclist who drove from the road onto the pedastrian walkway.......the maddening part is that, he didn't even slowed down.......it's was saturday morning and there were plenty of young children running around. I was so angry that I gave him a nasty STARE!!! He could have at least showed a little resposibility especially in a public area where there are so many children around. Spend the entire saturday lazing at home because there was no were interesting to bring the Rays. And it's cheaper to stay home too!!! kekeekkeekek

It has been quite a while since we last met....hor hor hor!!!!

2006-02-24T15:11:00.000+08:00

My lovely bunch of co-workers decided to come back on time today. See the clock, almost 1.00pm, still got chance, quickly pick up the phone and dialled Lynn's number. It has been so long since I meet with this is dear old pal of mine. Had lunch at Long John Silvers, actually not quite my idea of a healthy lunch but it was not too bad. Tried their new meal instead of their usual deep fried items. I had the Grill Fish with Black Pepper Sauce and Lynn recommended that I try their new Baked Potatoe Slices with Soft cheese and it was NICE, very nice.!!! slurp slurp!!! We yak and yak because we missed each other so so much......until next time my dear old pal.....

Weight Update...

2006-02-24T09:06:00.000+08:00

My Rays have lost so much weight eversince they started childcare during the last quarter of 2005 because they have been falling ill every other day. Guess it's the hard way of building their immune system.

As of 22 Feb 2006; Rayner stands at 97cm and weighs 14.4kg whilst RayAnne stands at 85.2cm and weighs 11.3kg

Smiley Sunflower Kid's Bulletin

2006-02-23T10:14:00.000+08:00

Similarly as Rayner's bulletin, I will also only extract parts that shows what RayAnne has learnt so far. " Teacher taught us two songs - "Love, lover, lover your friends" and "We like ice cream". Teacher showed us some toy ice cream and some of us were given the opportunity to hold the ice cream and pretended to lick the ice cream as we sang the song. We enjoyed the stories which teacher told us. The titles were "See, Hear, Touch, Taste, smell", "Moon Game" and "Make Mine Ice Cream". We did dramatization as a follow-up activity. Our activites We covered four different activites this month. In the first activity, we did block printing. Teacher gave us each a piece of paper and blocks of different shapes. She encouraged us to dip the blocks into the paints and pressed them onto the paper. Wow! The block prinking looks great. Next we did ballon printing. Teacher filled the ballon with some water and blew it/ She alloed each of us to hold the balloon, dip it into the paint and dap onto the paper. It was fun. Another activity that we enjoyed was pegging. Teacher gave some coloured clothes pegs and plastic plates. She allowed us to peg along the sides. While pegging, we learnt to identify colours too. Teacher told us that this activity will enhance our hands and fingers muscle control. In addition, we did tearing and pasting activity. In another activity, each of us were given a picture of either a bou or a girl and some coloured papers. She demonstrated by tearing the coloured papers into small pieces and pasted on the picture. Though tearing was not an easy task, we tried our very best and felt proud of ourselves for having accomplished it. Finally let me share with you the rhyme that we have learnt. Love, Love, Love Your Friends (tune to Row, Row, Row Your Boat) Love, Love, Love Your Friends Different as they seem Singing, laughing, playing, joking True friends are like a dream"

Lovely Lavender Kid's Bulletin

2006-02-23T09:48:00.000+08:00

I am just going to extract parts of the bulletin that shows what Rayner learnt so far. " In this theme, we learnt to identify school, getting to know more about out school and what does it consists of. We then moved to friens where we acknowledged them by name and learnt to play and share our things with. We started the theme with Teacher sharing the story, "Mum Goes To Work" by Libby Gleeson. It was about working mummies who sent their children to school while they are working. It shared how the children spent their day in school, their daily routines and activities. It was almost same as us. Once we stepped in school, we said "Goodbye" to mummy. We put our shoes and bags in our own cubbies. We started our day by attending assembly's singing the National Anthem and recited the pledge. Then, teacher brought us to the classroom where we learnt new things through exploration and hands on activitied. We played and shared out toys with friends. Next, we had lunch together and had a short nap. We continued out exploration and discovery till mommy fetched us in the late afternoon. We then said "Goodbye" to teacher and friends till we meet them again the next day. Today, we begin by exploring the school. We stepped on every classroom and the learning corners. We were also brought to the office where our principal and the administrator accommodate. In language arts, we discussed and shared what we had discovered during our exploration. We noticed that every classroom have name. They were identified by the name of flower. Our classroom is known as Lovely Lavender where teacher always said that we were a bunch of lovely and charming children. We also realiized that every classroom had their own toys, writing materials and they were decorated with full of colourful pictures. In math, we learnt about sets. Teacher brought colourful macaroni and buttons. For macaroni: we segregated them based on colour. As for buttons: ot was a heavy task. It tested our ability in rote counting. We had to count the number of hole in each button and put them together based on the same number of holes they had. During this theme, we had excursions. We went to visit our new friends at Small Wonder Woodland. We took a bus ride there. We were given a warm welcome and we were entertained with lots of singing and dancing. There were puzzle game too. We were brought to visit the school. They had a close concept layout where each classroom was situated in a room. They were also decorated with colourful pictures. IT was air-conditioned and the school is clean and tidy. We invited them in return to visit our school. Teacher taught us to sing and dance to the song, "Will you be our friend" which we performed on the Friendship Day Celebration. We clapped, hopped and shaked. Next, we brought them to visit our classroom where we shared our great snacks together. It was the most memorable and enjoyable moments. Meanwhile, in Letterland, we learnt the letter "C" and its character, Clever Cat. We make a straw-threading letter C. We discovered that letter C make words like cake, car, cat and carrot. Lastly, in our next theme, we would be involved in project work. The topic chosen is "Colour". "

The Stickers.....

2006-02-23T09:42:00.000+08:00

Mandy dear, the stickers I promised to show. Quite small but very cute!!!

Review at KKH

2006-02-22T22:01:00.000+08:00

Am on leave today because the Rays were due for their review check up at KKh today. We were walking all around KKH, X-ray here and there, see doctor here and there and by the time we were done with all the X-rays and consultation, it was already close to 1.00pm. Good news, RayAnne is completely discharged and there is no need for her to go back again. Rayner however needs to go back after 3 months because the doctor put him on a nose allergy medication hoping that it will help him. But all ends well for the Rays...... Bought the Rays to collect their prescription and guess what I found???

Finger Guard

In use

When not in use

I consider this quite a good buy considering the price you pay to protect your darling's little fingers.....

The SLAP!!!

2006-02-22T14:29:00.000+08:00

The SLAP!!! I consider this the first for RayAnne. Rayner was sleeping in the cab so I had to carry him out of the cab, RayAnne was awake, so I asked her to walk. She was obviously not happy and cried and sulk all the way home. But the last straw came when she refused to move out of the lift, David got so angry, walked over to her and gave her $10 right on her left cheek......haiz

See liao heart damm pain leh!!!

Silly Mummy

2006-02-21T20:50:00.000+08:00

Can you spot what is wrong? Scroll back up and take another closer look!!! Yalor, silly me packed the Rays uniform wrongly and the school was also silly enough to still wear the wrong uniform for them when they are just next door and could easily do the switch.....tsk tsk tsk

It takes that LONG......

2006-02-21T11:29:00.000+08:00

Looks like the Rays caught another bout of bug from school again, a couple of day ago, I started to hear them sniffing and coughing again. This time, I am not going to take this issue lightly, I felt safer if Dr Tan take a look at them so I bought them down to Dr Tan's clinic last evening. Dr Tan told me that children generally takes about 6 months to get used to childcare and build up their immune system. It's going to take THAT long??? Let me do some counting, by end of February, Rayner would have attended 3 months of school, still got another 3 more months to go......and as for RayAnne, by end of February, she still has another 5.5 months to go......haiz........ This morning, RayAnne cough till she vomitted out the entire bottle of milk she took and Rayner suddenely needed to poopoo but didn't get to the toilet in time so he soiled his clothes and the floor. I started the day by cleaning and wiping the floor of vomit and poo......what a way to start my day, can't wait to see what does the rest of the day hold for me???!!! After cleaning up the mess, quickly changed the Rays into their school uniform and whisked them off to school before I made my way to work. Nothing unusual, the Rays still cry when I left them there......

Again ah......

2006-02-20T09:15:00.000+08:00

David is on medical leave today because he says he sprain and hurt his back after spending too much time standing in a wrong posture while using the labtop. Let me explain why he stood to use the labtop......he used to only use the labtop while the Rays were taking their nap so he can sit and surf in comfort but recently he has taken to surf all day long, which means he will not be able to use the labtop on the dining table without the Rays disturbing him so he has to put the labtop on the shoe cabinet and stand and use. He complain that his waist looks a bit slanted to the right and when I asked him to stand still while I see it for myself, oh my gosh, you will never believe unless you see it for yourself *I tried to coax him into letting me take a photo of his slanted waist, but he said NO NO NO, over my dead body* That reminds me to give Mr Sim a call and book a massage session for David today.

But......

2006-02-19T20:57:00.000+08:00

There are really times when I really feel like putting my hand around David's neck and strangle him because he just makes me so angry sometimes. Don't get me wrong, I love him to the core but he just knows which buttons to press to make me super annoy...... Just like this morning, he volunteered to get breakfast, which was so sweet of him. So I asked him to get a few other things for me so it will save me the trip of going down myself. He came back with breakfast and newspaper and also the things I asked him to buy but men are men right, they can never get the right things, it's either wrong size or type.....but what can I say, it was already nice enough of him to help me get, although it wasn't exactly what I wanted to get! That means, I will still have to make another trip down myself. After breakfast, he sat himself down on the sofa and started to read his favourite sports section and at that point, he sort of became part of the sofa. I still had to get what I wanted and since the Rays were awake, there was no way they will let me leave the house without them and there was no way David is going to go down with me again but I still needed to get the stuff so I had no choice but to bring both the Rays down with me while I attempt to complete my shopping list. Luckily the Rays were still quite well behaved. We got all the stuff I wanted and we made our way home, only to find David surfing his favourite SRC/AROL site. I wonder if I were to ask David to choose between me and the Rays or his fish tank, I think he will choose.............. I am kinda afraid to know the answer........haiz After much nagging, I managed to get him to do a few chores, like changing the tap, fixing up the legs for the IVAR shelf but it didn't take long for him to be glued back to the labtop again!!!!!!

So Nice and Sweet

2006-02-18T10:40:00.000+08:00

The principal came and spoke to me when I went to pick up the Rays at school yesterday. She praised Rayner for being a very very good big brother to his sister RayAnne. She says he is very protective and takes very good care of RayAnne. I am so proud of my boy...... Was unpacking the Rays' bag for dirty laundry when I came across this lovely handmade card in RayAnne's bag. After reading the card, I realised the card was from her teacher welcoming her. That was so sweet but I didn't think RayAnne understood any part of it at all or rather she didn't even know the teacher gave her a card......kekekeke

Nearly Knocked me over......

2006-02-17T09:36:00.000+08:00

This morning, on my way to work, I was nearly knocked over by a Taxi Driver who simply reversed without looking, luckily I was agile enough to hop myself out of danger......I bet, I looked really silly doing the hop of my life but it saved me from being run over. The hotel staff all witnessed what happened and everyone of them had a drop jaw look......but the taxi driver looked puzzled like, what did I do??? Haiz........大难不死, 必有后福!!!

Day 2 of School

2006-02-16T09:27:00.000+08:00

I may as well start calling the Rays either The Screaming Rays or The Shrieking Rays as they scream and shriek so much and loud when I left them at school this morning. I hope they will be okay once I am gone......haiz

End of Day One

2006-02-15T21:16:00.000+08:00

Packed up and went off around 3.00pm because I wanted to speak to RayAnne's teacher to find out how she did in school today. Got on the bus and plugged on my mp 3 player and thought I could get some eye shut but this strange lady sitted next to me, woke me up and asked me for the time, I didn't want to answer her so I showed her my watch instead for her to see it for herself but she asked me instead, izzit coming to 4.00pm already *in my heart I was thinking, you don't know how to read or see a watch meh* so I had not choice but to take off my ear plugs and tell her that it's 3.45pm to be exact!!! Weird!!! When I reached the school, RayAnne's teacher told me that she is doing just fine, she ate well and slept well. And everytime she starts to sob or feel sad, they will get Rayner over to comfort her and vice versa. And when I was there, RayAnne together with Rayner in Rayner's class and as soon as they saw me, Rayner came running over leaving RayAnne and she started to cry because her korkor left her and Rayner quickly ran back and helped RayAnne up and both the Rays came running into my arms. So overall, it wasn't such a bad day......

After picking the Rays up, brought them down to the taxi stand outside Shop N Save to wait for a cab. Luckily it was sheltered over there as it started to rain.

Can you GUESS???

2006-02-15T11:24:00.000+08:00

Can you guess which one of the above is my mil???

First Day of School for RayAnne.....

2006-02-15T10:27:00.000+08:00

Took a couple of hours off work to accompany the Rays in school since today is the first day of school for RayAnne. When I left, she was far too busy playing to notice that I left but Rayner well aware of what is going on, cried his lungs out for me when I left. But when I called the school to check on their progress and status, the principal assured me that both the Rays are doing just fine. Infact, they both stopped crying after the principal both the both of them together and assured them, Korkor here, meimei also here, no need to cry and they almost immediately stopped crying. They must have felt secured after knowing they have each other in school together. That is one BIG consolation for me!!! Will be going off slightly earlier to bring them back because since today is only the first day,I didn't want to stress them out.

Flowers for my mummy dearest...

2006-02-14T20:20:00.000+08:00

Me and May ordered a small bear along with some lovely flowers to be delivered to my mummy dearest on this very Valentine's Day. No words can express how much she has done for us.......Thank you Mummy for everything!!!!! We LOVE U!!!

Ain't the bear and flowers lovely......

Flowers for me leh...

2006-02-14T13:53:00.000+08:00

I received flowers leh but I don't know whether if it's from David because the card that came with it was empty leh!!! Anyhow, it's still nice to receive flowers on a Valentine's Day......heck care who it came from lar.........as long as the florist don't come back knocking on my door telling me, sorry hor, wrong delivery, the flowers are not for you, can we have it back!!!! kekekekeke Errrr, I think I did see my name on the D.O.........wahahahahahah

Echinacea

2006-02-14T09:29:00.000+08:00

What Is It?

One of the most popular herbal remedies in the world, echinacea contains active ingredients thought to fight colds, flu, and other infections. There are nine species of this herb, commonly called the purple coneflower, but just three (Echinacea angustifolia, E. pallida, and E. purpurea) are used medicinally. Various parts of the plant (flowers, leaves, stems, or roots) from a variety of species appear in literally hundreds of commercial preparations. Depending on the species and plant part used, the herb will stimulate the immune system and combat bacteria, viruses, and other disease-causing microbes.

Health Benefits

Both safe and powerful, echinacea stimulates various immune system cells that are key weapons against infection. The herb also helps boost the cells' production of a virus-fighting substance called interferon.

Specifically, echinacea may help to: Reduce susceptibility to and duration of colds, flu, and sore throat. Echinacea is most effective if taken at the first sign of a cold, the flu, or a sore throat. Though findings vary, in one study, those using the herb for eight weeks were 35% less likely to catch a cold than those on a placebo. If you've already got the aches, congestion, or fever common to colds or flu, echinacea can cause these symptoms to be less severe and to subside sooner.

Fight recurrent respiratory infections, such as bronchitis, sinusitis, strep throat, and earache. The herb's immune-boosting properties make it particularly helpful for fighting chronic upper respiratory infections. For best results, take echinacea at the first sign of illness.

Promote healing of skin wounds and inflammations, including canker sores, burns, and cuts and scrapes. As a natural antibiotic and infection fighter, echinacea promotes the healing of all kinds of skin irritations, including burns, cuts and scrapes, boils, abscesses, canker sores, and eczema, as well as herpes infections (including genital herpes, cold sores, and shingles). It can be applied topically to a wound or be taken internally to strengthen the immune system.

Build immunity during cancer treatments and possibly protect against certain forms of cancer. Rotating echinacea with extracts of medicinal mushrooms may help to strengthen overall immunity during cancer treatments. While additional research is needed to define the potential role of echinacea in fighting cancer, a small German study showed that in patients with advanced colon cancer the herb appeared to prolong survival in those who took it in conjunction with standard chemotherapy. The herb presumably boosted the immune system's ability to fight invading cancer cells.

For cold and flu prevention: Take 200 mg a day, preferably from supplements made from the above-ground plant of E. purpurea and the root of E. pallida. Or try rotating echinacea in three-week cycles with astragalus (500 mg a day), a Chinese herb that acts on the immune system in a way similar to echinacea.

For sore throat: To lessen the symptoms, a high dose is necessary: Take 200 mg four or five times a day. For immediate sore throat relief, add 1 teaspoon echinacea tincture to 1/2 cup warm water, gargle, and swallow four or five time a day until the pain subsides. Select supplements made from the above-ground plant of E. purpurea and the root of E. pallida.

All of the above are extracted from a website I found on the internet

After reading, it gave me every reason to rush to the nearest nature farm to grab several packs for the Rays especially when RayAnne will be started school tomorrow and Rayner will be going back to school. Hope this herb can work miracles for us!!!

This is how the miracle herb........

It's important you follow the directions accordingly, Use for 10 days and rest 10 days before resuming again. If you do NOT, the body will be immune to it and will not work to it's best.

It is TIME to reveal the things that she has done......

2006-02-13T12:09:00.000+08:00

Yup, the TIME has come for me to reveal the things that she has done to me and my RAYS over the 3 years. I may seem very ungrateful and dis-respectful to her but who can blame me???? I have taken to tolerating her for over 3 years but the day I lost my cool, it was the breaking point. Seriously, I really regreted what I have done but if I could still control it, I would have but I just totally LOST it on that very day. I blame her for: 1. Not teaching the Rays to keep their toys and leaving them laying all around the house 2. Playing infront of the TV 3. Playing with the telephone 4. Playing with the remote control 5. Eats a whole pack of porky at one go Her explanation for the above: 1. You buy too many toys, that is why the house is so messy 2. They want to leh 3. They want to leh 4. They want to leh 5. They want to leh

As you can expect, all the answers would be THEY WANT TO, because she cannot be bother to teach them. You tell me, which household have gotten a warning call from the police station because the kids play with the phone and called the 999 emergency line several times? Which household changes remote control on a yearly basis? Which household has food smeared on their TV screen every other day? Which household has so many toys strewn across the hall that you have to have size 1 feet to walk around it? Well, enough said, just talking about it brings on a little burning sensation in my intestines.

Throw Throw Throw

2006-02-13T11:54:00.000+08:00

After a few phone calls to a couple of different old goods collector, our front load machine has been deemed zero value......it basically means, give it to them free, they also don't want ah.......wahahahahhaha So last night, right after the Rays went off to bed, me and the old man set off to work, we threw out the old machine and now the kitchen has so much more space but it will take no time for clutter to build up again. Oh, another note, since we are not going to see David's mother set her pair of feet into my home anymore, we took out the child gate which now serves no purpose or rather it's more of a hindrance than help. All the stuff which require adult supervision which were kept locked away in a cupboard when David's mum was looking after the Rays were now free to roam the house. kekekekekek

The things kids say......

2006-02-12T22:17:00.000+08:00

Nothing much to do today so we booked the NTUC car coop car for 4 hours to bring the Rays out for a little spin and at the same time get dinner. Came home slightly close to 9.00pm and it was time for the Rays to take their last milk feed before sending them off to bed. But Rayner refused his usual plain milk and insisted on drinking the UHT chocolate flavoured milk. He even wanted to poke the straw in himself......*haiz, you better read the whole conversation yourself* Me: You better not spill any milk on the sofa and carpet Rayner: Mummy, where is the carpet huh? Me: Okay okay, I say wrongly lar, don't spill any milk on the floor I really have to be very careful with my speech, especially infront of Rayner.......everytime I make a blunder/mistake, he is there to catch me.......haiz

Oh, doesn't she look cute???

2006-02-12T10:13:00.000+08:00

This is main uniform......

This is the outing set...

I am so excited, I am losing sleep...... There are so many things I am worried about, I am worried about how she reacts to school, I am worried about her falling ill.......yada yada yada.......I can go on worrying about them. My baby's going to school......

A little treat......

2006-02-11T21:26:00.000+08:00

Just as Dr Tan predicted, Rayner's fever would go away by today and it did......

So I bought the Rays some toys because my poor babies have been sick for the longest time and I wanted to get something to cheer them up, something they will really like and enjoy...... I have been looking around for a decent zoo set to replace the cheapo of jungle set I bought for Rayner when he was much younger but to no avail........there were plenty of pretty and cute jungle/zoo set online but it would not be worth it to have the item shipped over and just as I was about the give up, I chance upon this Zoo Lego set and what luck, Lego's having a 20% discount for all their items so of cos I grabbed it.

All the animals looked so cute!

I got this baby set from Fisher Price for RayAnne, it was going at 50% less, oh, how can I resist........

See how RayAnne is learning to feed and take care of her baby......so cute hor!!!

Rain

2006-02-10T20:39:00.000+08:00

Took the day off today to look after the Rays because my mummy has to accompany my sister to KKH for a checkup. Wanted to make herbal tea for the Rays but then realised that I had ran out of brown sugar. So I bought the Rays downstairs with the aim of getting 2 packs of sugar but we came home with more items, 2 umbrellas and 4 lollipops...... The Rays caught sight of a big huge tub of lollipops when I was searching for brown sugar in the medical hall and they each took 2 lollipops each in their little hands. Right after paying for the items, the Rays held the lollipops up in each hand and held it in the air, running and shouting happily out of the store which set all passer-bys laughing at how innocently cute they were.........sometimes I forget how we were once that tender age too!!! The sky started to pour down so I had no choice but to get 2 umbrella, one blue Winnie the Pooh for Rayner and one Chicken Little for RayAnne. Actually wanted to get the pink Winnie The Pooh for RayAnne but it was much too big and heavy for her.

Fever Again leh....

2006-02-09T14:35:00.000+08:00

Rayner's running a fever again......I really have no idea what has been happening to him these days.....he's sick every other day..... At my wits end, I went again to my saviour and he advised me to bring Rayner to do a blood test and take a chest X-ray at the polyclinic *because it's cheaper, he's trying to save money for me, how nice*. After everything was done, I collected the blood results and X-rays and made my way back to the clinic to let Dr Tan review the results and see what is the next course of action to take. Did I also mentioned that I been to the clinic so often for the past months that, he doesn't charge me consultation fee anymore, he only charges me for the medication. And I now automatically get to see him when I visit the clinic, no need to take Queue number anymore. He even gave me a number to reach him if it's after office hours in case of emergencies. That is why I call him my saviour!!! So after studying Rayner's blood results, Dr Tan came to a conclusion that Rayner is suffering from a infection so he has not choice but to prescribe antiobotics for him and he would only expect the fever to pack up and check out earliest by saturday or so......let's keep our fingers crossed.....that we can kick this guest out for good!!!

RayAnne to start school on the 15th Feb

2006-02-08T14:17:00.000+08:00

Took one hour time off and rush back to Rayner's school to register RayAnne and at the same time buy school uniform for her.

Rayner's teacher send her regards and gave me this little gift that his classmates made for Rayner......isn't it sweet?!?!

After settling the school fees and deposit and school uniform, I left the school $1.2k poorer and the school became $1.2k richer......sob sob sob.........no time to waste, quickly rushed to buy dinner and rush home so David can have his dinner before rushing off to the airport to catch a flight to Thailand for some urgent business.

Eruption.....

2006-02-08T12:39:00.000+08:00

The volcano has finally erupted after boiling in for 3 over years.......Last evening, I officially stripped my mother in law of the title of being the Ray's caregiver. She can now go back to her idling life. We had the worst fight we had in many years and it includes screaming at each other, door slamming and I know that after all these, there is no turning back....... I know I should have controlled myself but she pushed me beyond my point and lashed back at her. It was as good as saying, I have sever my ties with her........I no longer have a mother in law and she no longer has a daughter in law but am not sure if she still has a son anot......God knows to what extend the fight has on our marriage but we will know in due course. STAY TUNED!!! Anyway, what's done cannot be undone now........I just have to look towards the future as there is no turning back. So RayAnne will be forced to start toddler childcare earlier then planned. Am going to drop by the school this evening to do the registration and starting this Friday, both the kids will be attending full day school and I no longer need to see the sickening face of the mother in law of mine neither will I need to clear up the mess created by her *oops, actually, she is NOT longer my mother in law*

Trainer Chopsticks

2006-02-07T09:16:00.000+08:00

A couple of weeks ago, I bought a pair of trainer chopsticks for Rayner because I felt it was time for him to learn how to use chopsticks but I didn't think RayAnne was ready but I was wrong......

Going to make a trip down to Kiddy Palace to get another pair of trainer chopsticks for RayAnne.

Return car

2006-02-06T20:51:00.000+08:00

Since David had some work to do, I was given the task of returning the car back to the rental company so I called my office told them I would be late for work today because I had some personal matters to handle. By the time I got back to the office after handling my PERSONAL MATTERS *hahahaha....loved that term*, it was lunch time liao but was not feeling hungry enough to eat anything so just stayed in the office clearing my backlog of work since officially, today is my first day of work after the Chinese New Year Holiday break.

Not much chatting with the girls just on and off short windows, other than that I just concentrate on slowly clearing my backlog......Kat is still home nursing a badly sprain ankle, Mandy is busy clearing her work so she can go on leave in peace tomorrow, think Careen is also quite busy with her work......Irene is as busy as usual but it was nice of her to find time to check how the Rays are doing. Packed up and left the office around 5.30pm to catch 190 home.......