Growing Up Years

Crystal's Drawing Skills

2011-12-22T12:30:00.000+08:00

We supposed to just buy a Christmas present for our nephew from the hypermarket the other night while looking through what to get for him, Crystal picked and chose what she want for herself as well. After getting our consent on the colour pencils she could have, she produced these 3 pieces of art work at home yesterday. She wanted them to be posted on the blog too..

Handicraft project : Straw Flowers

2011-12-20T14:32:00.000+08:00

Crystal, being creative and willing to put her hands on handicrafts, she made a pot of straw flowers by using empty Vitagen bottle and colourful straws from packet drinks. She made it especially for me.

She was still busy trying to complete her craft when I reached home from work yesterday. Intending to present it to me as a surprise, she hide it from me when I approached her room. Empty straws plastic bags on the floor, coloured paint brushes on the table, it is basically in a bit of mess, I even sounded them for messing up the room.

Not long later, she surprise me with this pot of straw flowers which she made it with the help of her mei mei, Pearl.

After dinner she asked me whether I could post it in my blog, and told me to include the materials that needed for making this flower too...Here they are:

1) Vitagen bottle

2) Multi coloured straws x 6

3) Paints and paint brushes

4) Papers

5) Gum

School holidays allow time for our children to rewind and relax their minds, an opportunities to explore and experience new activities which they do not have the time to do during school days. Crystal started beading works too with my old collection of beads and findings, she requested me to buy some more beads for her to make some necklaces as Christmas presents. Pearl has little or rather no interests in beading work. She glue on her TV and computer games most of the time.

Pear's Kindergarten School result

2011-11-18T13:29:00.002+08:00

We were very surprised and pleased to hear from Pearl's teacher that she is at the number 1 in her academic result in her class. We never expected her to do that well. At home and in school, except drawing, she never showed that she is good in recognizing words nor reading. She is always unhappy whenever she is asked to do writing or reading, she rather sticks to the TV round the clock. In fact we are worry how she is going to cop with her study when she is going to Primary 1 next year.

With her result, she has proved to us that we have under estimated her talents and academic performance all this while. She has achieved similar position at number 1 in class just like what her che che did 2 years ago. Bravo..Pearl..keep up the good work, it's the way to go, my dear!!

Pearl's single attempt drawings

2011-08-28T19:35:00.005+08:00

One thing strange about Pearl is she always takes a ball pen to do her drawings rather than using a pencil which allows her to rub off if there is a mistake, but not for Pearl, she always does her drawing at a single attempt without erasing any part of the drawing. She would discard the whole piece of drawing if she finds mistakes which she thinks she can not mend it.

This is not all. She always finishes off her drawing without colouring them no matter how we encourage her to. But she always asks to buy colour pens whenever we go to the stationery section of any shop trips. Ended up we have got a full container of colour pens of whatever brands you can name them.

She is a Bratz Fan, of course drawing also all about Bratz.

She loves to draw our family's picture too

and her school best friends, notice that she put BFFS (Best Friends Forever...S)

After much persuasion from me and her Che Che, she attempted to colour one of her drawing but gave up half way saying that it's not nice she doesn't want it anymore. Guess only school teachers can persuade her to finish her drawing & colouring which she did in her recently colouring competitionAfter finishing her drawings, she sticks it one of her drawing on the door together with Angry Birds picture, declaring that this is the Angry Birds' room.

Nasty Dry Cough

2011-04-23T16:44:00.005+08:00

Pearl is suffering from the nasty dry cough just right after Chinese New Year. We have been asking her not to eat too much keropok, refrain from mandarin oranges, and cold drinks. But we allowed her to take minimum amount of keropok when she asked for some. Pity her if she could only look at her cousins enjoying the keropok so we could not be too strict at times. She enjoyed the packets of cold soya beans whenever there are some available at the parties. Probably too much of that, she started to have cough.

Initially we thought it is just an ordinary cough which can be treated with the usual cough drops. Unfortunately, the coughing still persist into several weeks later, even up to last week. Her cough was a bad one, coughing continuously whenever she is awake, even when she is playing, drinking milk or having meals. It disturbed and annoyed us a great deal, making us worry, and distressed me a great deal. The only time she coughed less was when she is asleep. I can imagine how tired and stressful she has been with this nasty cough though she never complains.

One of the medicine prescribed to treat the cough. She finished 1 1/2 bottles of this, but doesn't help

We had brought her to the GP, Chinese doctor, two child specialists for consultations. She has taken the medications (with doses of antibiotics) that these doctors prescribed but the cough still disturbing her. We have attempted to consult yet another GP introduced by a friend whose son was having this kind of dry cough before, and was cured by this GP. The clinic was closed when we went there at night time.

Only last week, I mentioned Pearl's coughing problem to my colleague, she recommended a few vitamins that will help to ease the cough. Since these supplements are of natural ingredients, I am willing to let Pearl try on them (with lesser dosages as recommended due to her schooling time and my work hours).

She dislikes the garlic capsule, so i have to opt that out. I am giving her Propolplus, Manuka Honey (by teaspoon straight to the mouth with little water after that), and Vitamin C, and we add on Seven + for her as well. She started to have runny nose on the 2nd day, that worried us. Have flu again? But her cough does ease off a lot. It's healing reaction according to my colleague. She is still having cough, occasionally. She is in the process of recovering, obviously the supplements have helped to boost up her immunity thus far.

Pearl, mummy wants you to get well as soon as possible, be healthier again!

Crystal & Zachary Birthday Party

2011-04-15T20:28:00.006+08:00

Crystal, 8, and Zachary, 4 were born on the same day in February. We celebrated their birthdays together at Zachary's apartment club house pool side again this year, it has been their favourite venue where they can have fun in the swimming pool for hours right after meal.

An Ultraman cake for Zachary

A simple decorated homemade butter cake from me to my dear princess

Dishes for the day. Noodles is a must have dish for any birthdays. It represents longevity according to the elderly.

Pearl's tooth extraction experience

2010-11-26T22:52:00.007+08:00

Rather than suffering from tooth ache and taking pain killer all the time, we decided to extract Pearl's molar tooth this morning after taking one complete course of antibiotic.

We were very stressful seeing Pearl crying and shouting refusing to let the dentist extract her tooth. Our hearts were about to drop looking at her struggling when dentist trying to clear the roots of her decayed tooth. Pearl also refused to bite the cotton ball to stop the breed despite much negotiations from us. Luckily the dentist managed to insert the antibiotic into the socket. We were given a Post-Extraction Instructions by the dentist for us to monitor and make sure there is no post extraction infection.

As we had promised to Pearl before going to the dentist office, we brought her to her favourite shopping mall, 1 Borneo, to find ice cream. She was so disturbed and felt uneasy to eat ice cream. She kept holding a tissue to cover her mouth and hug her daddy tightly almost throughout our stay at 1 Borneo.

In daddy's arm, using a tissue covering the mouth and holding another piece of tissue in the other hand. We understand how bad she feels after her first tooth extraction experience.

We were glad that after 15 minutes or so, the bleed has stopped even without biting on a cotton ball. She felt more comfortable and started to join her che che at the play ground but we kept reminding her that she shouldn't jump too much to avoid bleeding again. She abide.

riding on a bear, still holding the tissue

slowly removing the tissue after staying a while in the indoor playground watching her che che play but still wants the daddy to hold.

feeling more comfortable and started to play. She no long needed the tissue after 1 hours or so

started to smile in the doll house, looking at her our heart smile too..

At lunch time, she was reluctant to eat at first. With her all time favourite macaroni cheese, and McDonald porridge in front of her, she couldn't resist. She ate the whole serving of macaroni cheese by herself and adding on a half bowl of porridge. We were happy to see her eating and not complaining about tooth / gum ache.

Pray that she will have speedy recovery of her sore gum.

New Badminton Racket

2010-11-06T00:49:00.004+08:00

After few weeks of badminton sessions, Crystal had showed interest in learning and playing badminton. The adult badminton racket is too long for her to handle. After much thoughts, her daddy decided to buy a new children racket for her. The handle of the children racket is much shorter thus easier for her to hit and serve.

The main reason in considering buying her a children racket is to avoid her from twisting her arm which will do more harm. Pearl is also trying to learn how to play badminton so this racket can then pass to Pearl when Crystal is big enough to handle the adult racket in time to come.

We went to several shops, we could only find one type of children racket at one of the sports shop near Lido, it is not cheap, priced at RM55.00, we got it at RM48.00 after discount. We hope that she is serious in learning how to play badminton, the Daddy is very hopeful that she can represent the country for tournaments in the future, very high expectation though!!! ;D

have a feel of the new racket

Ensond's 2nd Birthday

2010-10-31T22:30:00.004+08:00

Tonite, we celebrated our nephew, Ensond's 2nd birthday at Top Rock Restaurant, Bundasan, attended by close family members and friends. It has been raining heavily for the whole afternoon luckily the rain stopped just in time for the birthday dinner.

I helped to prepare the red birthday eggs in the morning before my badminton session.

I also made some cupcakes too on Crystal's request. She was actually looking forward to attend the Halloween party at the Boutique Cupcakes tonite itself since we could not bring her to the Halloween party I promised to make some cupcakes for her to decorate, also to let her know that mummy can make similar cupcakes... ;D

Crystal and Pearl putting the heart shapes and colourful sprinkle on the butter cream. They did a good job though making some mess at the same time.

This is the first time I made cupcakes with butter cream.

Ensond with his parents and his two birthday cakes. Crystal, Pearl and Anneliese on the left.

Liturgy of the Word For Children - 19th Anniversary

2010-10-10T00:06:00.002+08:00

Crystal joined in the choir at the Sunset Mass to celebrate the 19th Anniversary for the Liturgy Of The Word For Children. The Children's Liturgy choir has been practicing for a month (once a week) in preparation for the Ordination of our new Coadjutor Archbishop, the Most Reverend John Wong on the 1st October and the 19th Anniversary celebration on 9th October 2010.

Crystal loves and enjoys being in the choir. She looked forward to the weekly practices though she is exhausted after a long school and tuition sessions during the day.

She was selected to represent the Children Liturgy to deliver an introductory speech during the Ordination of Archbishop John Wong. It was a challenge for her as the scripts of the speech kept changing and she still managed to memorize it within 2 days. To me she has done a very good job. The experiences in delivering speeches on stage which she gained during her kindergarten years has indeed gave her the confidence. Praise the Lord for His guidance.

Final practice on last Sunday

The Children's Liturgy choir singing the recessional hymn, "Be Exalted, O God".

Each of the choir members received a token of appreciation for the anniversary celebration, Pearl got her share too even though she is not in the choir yet.

The flowers are from the Aunties and Uncles in the Ministry

The goodies pack and the flowers

I helped them to put the flower in this glass bottle (a Holicks bottle :D). The flowers will last longer with water rather than in the wrapper.

Pearl's 5th Birthday

2010-10-03T11:19:00.007+08:00

This is a belated post for Pearl's 5th Birthday we celebrated on 13th September at Top rock Restaurant at Bundusan and on 15th September in her school. These are some of the photos taken for the occasions.

Crystal and Pearl preparing the goodies bags

The goodies bags are done
more of them. 30 bags are for her kindy's friends.

We were at the restaurant very early. Daddy is helping Pearl to wear her shoes right, at the age of 5, Pearl still wearing her shoes at the wrong side of her foots most of the time.

the Top rock Restaurant

Dinner time

a cute and lovely Barbie doll cake from SIL, Catherine to Pearl

A nut cracker edible image birthday cake. The cake was baked by SIL Rosalind, and with her help in decorating the cake.

Pearl with her two birthday cakes, Anneliese by the side admiring the cakes too.

Time to sing birthday songs and Pearl wish for a Barbie doll play house..

this is the one she wanted. A present from mum and daddy

Another princesses birthday cake for the school's celebration. With the help from SIL, Rosalind as well.

Birthday presents

2010-09-28T13:54:00.008+08:00

These Kitty Cats are my collections from McDonald. I have been keeping a whole set of them since they were first introduced by McDonald a decade ago. Clet managed to get hold a complete set from his friend in McDonald for me. It is a very good gift idea for children.

We did not manage to get any present for Pearl's classmate birthday yesterday, Pearl reminded me that another friend of hers is also celebrating birthday in the class today, and she wants to bring presents for her as well.

Since I still have many of them in my collections, I gave 2 of them away to Pearl's mates for their birthdays, one for Aneesha and one for Grace. The wrapping is also very simple, plastic bags tight with ribbons and stick a ready made ribbon on each. Done!

When we reached school this morning (a bit late), Grace's mum is busy carrying cakes and drinks for her birthday party.

Pearl's first time dancing on stage

2010-09-28T13:18:00.007+08:00

Pearl went dancing on the stage of Yayasan Sabah Auditorium last Saturday along with about 30 of her dancing class mates.

They were 27 kindergartens participated in this once in two years event organised by the Head of Kindergartens Association. The kindergartens from outskirt of Kota Kinabalu also took part in this performance. The nearer ones were from Menggatal, Telipok, Tamparuli, some as far as Ranau. It is a challenge to organise a group of kindergarten kids for performance especially from outstation.

Pearl really loves her Indian's costume and very proud and confident of her dancing. She has grown from stage fear to like on stage dancing in just a few months. We still remember that she refused to sing on stage with her fellow classmates during the school Chinese New Year celebration. She cried and shouted the loudest at the back stage when teacher tried to line her up on stage. I have to carry the tearful Pearl away from the stage. Pearl, daddy & mummy are really proud of your first time performance on a stage, with hundreds of audience. (when you know how to read this blog next time). Keep up the good work!

Pearl's drawing skills

2010-09-10T23:23:00.004+08:00

Lately, I have noticed a remarkable improvements in Pearl's drawing. I am amazed to see how she draws the birds, love those birds!!

I also noticed that she likes to draw 4 of us in the family in most of her drawings, just like these 2. She likes to draw but have no patience in finishing the colouring, hence the end result of these drawings. *_*

Pearl, mummy is confident that you will be able to get a good result in your drawing & colouring competition next year, what you need is more practice and finish those colouring, ok!!

Solving Abacus Equations

2010-09-10T20:04:00.004+08:00

With the use of calculators today, why students need to learn abacus? Most parents like us never learned abacus in our schooling days, there don't seem to have any lacking in calculations, because there are calculators!!! Of course primary students are not allowed to use calculators just yet, they will eventually.

In our education system nowadays, primary 1 - 3 students have to learn how to use abacus, it is incorporated into their mathematics examinations. 10% of the marks come from solving abacus equations.

In the recent examination, Crystal brought back a 0% in her abacus, that's mean 10% are gone in her mathematics subjects. Besides lacking in revision and practice on her part (she refused to do revision before her exam), this is also due to lack of guidance in abacus both from the tuition teacher and us, the parents, because we do not know a thing in abacus. Crystal has attended abacus classes in her kindergarten before but when comes to advance stages she get all confused.

I was very disappointed with her result and reminded her that I do not want a 0% again in her next exam. 10% has a lot of impact on her overall percentage and also her ranking.

Yesterday, I get her to type out the formulas, printed out copies so that she can refer and memorise the formulas. To do my part, I started to learn and try to understand how abacus works so that when she needs guidance I am ready to teach her in solving those equations. By learning together, it gives her a sense of encouragement as well as support rather than losing interest in the subject altogether.

Typing out the abacus formula

After a couple of lessons we learned together, I am now able to solve those equations using abacus but I still need to have a calculator on hand to check the correctness of the answers after each questions.

Pearl's visits to the dentists

2010-09-10T17:45:00.003+08:00

Pearl visited the dentist for the first time last week after frequent complains of tooth ache. The aching became more intense that her teacher has to give her pain killer and called me to bring her home earlier one afternoon.

We were very reluctant to pull her decayed tooth due to her young age, scaring that the pain will deter her from visiting the dentist in the future, furthermore, she still does not know that she has to bite the cotton tightly after tooth pulling to stop bleeding; the injection will also create a greater fear in her.

After the first visit to the dentist, the dentist advised to extract her tooth because it can not be saved anymore; but we opted to give her antibiotic and pain killer first to see how it goes.

But the medication did not help to stop the pain. She still complaint tooth ache every time she eats. We were advised to get her tooth pull by many, however, one of our nephew managed to save his tooth by putting medicine and sealing back the decayed tooth, it cost a bomb too...RM250.00 per tooth.

Just the day before we decided to revisit the same dentist to pull her tooth, I was very disturb with the decision. While at work, I asked Clet to bring her to another dentist to get a 2nd opinion. We got the same answer, that is to pull her teeth.

Still not satisfied with the previous 2 dentists' advises we wanted a 3rd opinion from another dentist, this time we went to the same dentist that our nephew got his tooth saved. We walked in without any appointment and waited for an hour, luckily there is a TV with cartoon on to entertainment our girls. We were the last customer on that evening.

The first 2 visits to the dentists were merely checking without treatment so Pearl had no fear going in this dentist room. After consulting this 3rd dentist, a replacement dentist from QE, he has got the solution that we wanted, that is he is able to save her tooth.

While in the process of digging and cleaning her tooth, she started to feel the pain and felt uncomfortable. Daddy has to persuade her to cooperate, but did not do much help, the dentist has to shorten the cleaning process, quickly apply the medicine and seal up the tooth. Pearl ended up crying and vomited on the dentist chair.

Pearl was in tears for quite a while, the longest that I can remember. Crystal, being the caring big sister, kept on telling stories and making funny stuff just to divert Pearl's attention away from her pain and unpleasant dental treatment. It was a very good idea to help Pearl get over the pain.

Before the treatment, she was given a toy sunglasses to avoid the bright dentist's lamp

Started to check on her tooth

I forgot about the name of the treatment, it does help to save the tooth and get rid of the toothache, but the smell of the medicine is so strong that I still can smell it while Pearl opens her mouth after 2 days, hope the smell will fade away soon.

It was our fault that we did not insist her to brush her teeth everyday. We should have done so even with her strong resistance in brushing teeth. Now she has got a lot of decayed tooth need to be treated. After this dental treatment experience, we don't think we could get her to the dentist again.

With dentist advise, we have stopped her from taking her milk bottle to sleep at night, insist she brush her teeth in the morning and at night before sleep, gargle after each meal and milk as much as possible, hope this will help to avoid any toothache and infection on her teeth until time for her to change her milk teeth.

Pearl with her Barbie dolls

2010-08-29T22:14:00.005+08:00

Girls love dolls, especially Barbie dolls that come with countless numbers of accessories, clothing and shoes to mix and match with. There are also wardrobe, kitchen sets, bed sets that can be found in the toys section in the stores.

Over the years, Crystal and Pearl have collected well more than 10 barbie dolls and other accessories on their birthdays and rewards from excellent achievements in academic and school activities. They play with these dolls fairly frequently.

During the weekends, while Crystal was busy playing computer games, Pearl entertained herself with their Barbie dolls. She made a boundary with boxes, bags , chair and books at the living area, arranged the doll's bed set on one side and clothing on the lazy chair. She spent the whole afternoon, popping in and out of the boundary, busy changing clothing for the Barbie dolls and any means that she can think of playing with the dolls. She will come to me for help to put the clothing on the dolls when she finds it hard to handle.

I can sensed that she was having real fun and enjoyed her play time with the dolls. When I asked her to start keeping away her toys she refused, told me that she still wanted to play, since we do not expect any visitors to our home, I allowed her to keep her boundary till Sunday and only kept all away after playing with her che che Crystal in the afternoon. Hope we will be able to allocate a play room for them in our new home.

Trying to put the clothes on the Barbie doll

Anneliese's 4th Birthday

2010-08-13T02:06:00.003+08:00

Anneliese is 4 year old. She chose Mickey Mouse edible images for her birthday cakes. Her mum baked two cakes for her this year, one to celebrate at the school and one at home. Crystal and Pearl sang a birthday song for her while her little brother Dylan looked on.

Anneliese getting ready to cut the cake after the birthday song

Baby Dylan at 7 months old with grandma

Shawn's 1st birthday

2010-07-31T22:56:00.005+08:00

After church tonite, we attended our nephew, Shawn's 1st birthday at the Wong Kwok Restaurant in Bundusan. SIL, made 2 birthday cakes for her grandson.

Not long after the dinner, we had to make a move because Pearl was not feeling well, though she complained of stomach ache but she still wanted to have fun with her cousins, jumping, running around until she couldn't hold no more and vomited in the restaurant.

She vomited the 2nd time on Sunday morning before visiting the doctor. The cause of the stomach upset was due to food poisoning. She has to stay home on Monday, skipping one day school to recover and relaxing at home with her Daddy. It took her about a week to fully recovered.

Relaxing at home enjoying her VCDs programme (eyes on the TV)

In the church choir

2010-07-31T22:10:00.006+08:00

choir practice on the night before the actual mass

Crystal enjoyed so much in Children Liturgy choir group. After 3 times of practices over 3 weeks, today is their turn to be the choir at sunset mass. Crystal is among the youngest choir member in the group. They sang very well today. Praise the Lord for His guidance on our Children Liturgy's choir group.

Today's sunset mass. Crystal is at the front row near the organ

Right after the mass, Crystal said she loves to be in the choir and would like to join again in the future. As as a church choir member before I am encouraging her to be a choir member and also to join in the coming caroling. With the blessing of God hopefully she can lead the choir group and or take up an active role in the church when she grows up.

Pearl's drawing contest

2010-07-31T00:39:00.005+08:00

Pearl's kindergarten had an annual drawing contest on 21st July 2010 to pick the best artists for the year. Her form teacher has informed us about the contest a month ago in order for the parents to get involve to let the students practice on drawing and colouring at home.

Pearl, the lack of patience and happy got lucky character, couldn't care less about the contest. She just couldn't sit still to write or draw for more than one minute, off she goes to play or watch TV. The only time that she can sit down quietly is the time she watches her cartoons on TV. One VCD after another.

The colouring contest results were out and Pearl's piece of art work did not qualify to the final. We got to see her art work this morning and to our surprise she can actually draws pretty well. Colouring skills is what she is lacking. Hope next year she can do better!! You can do it Pearl, with just a little patience and concentration!!

Pearl's art work with the topic "My Birthday"

Some of the students' art works

1st Semester Exam Results

2010-06-28T22:37:00.005+08:00

We collected Crystal's report card from school last Saturday. Her form teacher asked us whether we satisfied with her exam results, we told her that yes we are very happy and proud of her results, with an average of 93.67%, number 7 in class and number 22 in the whole primary 1 of 313 students, as parents we could not ask for more. Well done my dear Crystal, keep up the good work!!!

Crystal's 1st semester exam results

We received Pearl's exam results before the semester break. As Pearl is still in her first year of kindergarten, we do not bother much on her exam results, rather letting her in a comfortable, fun and enjoyable learning environment is utmost important at her age. As parents we try our best to free her from the pressure of attaining good marks in the exam.

We are going to enroll her to a dancing class and Chinese language class in this semester. We have been informed by her form teacher that she has been wanting to join her little best friends to a dancing class last semester, however, it was too late for her to join in the class then.

Since we have registered her to a Chinese school for Primary 1, it would be a good idea for her to start learning more Chinese from now on. I still remember at the beginning of the year, she refused to speak a single Chinese word when I tried to speak her. After 6 months in kindergarten she is more willing to converse with me in Mandarin, there shows a great improvement.

Pearl's 1st semester exam results

Kathleen's 12th Birthday

2010-06-27T22:26:00.005+08:00

Kathleen is 12th years old. She invited her classmates to celebrate her birthday at home today. They had smashing balloon game and sang their favourite songs together, and the boys have fun with PS games.

Kathleen & her family

The super rich cheese cake

Crystal and Pearl enjoyed the food and cakes at the party. We saw Pearl has been eating sandwiches one after another, when we asked her how many sandwiches she had, she said 8, she sent down her sandwiches with cups of cold water, unbelievable, she never had that many of sandwiches at one time before, furthermore, she even had a plate of noodle at the start of the party. She is a very small eater but she had a very good appetite today, hopefully this is the good start of her eating more and grow taller :D.

Pear sat up high and enjoyed her sandwiches with a glass of cold water by her side

Crystal loves the creamy rich cheese cake. It is super cheesy that I can only take a small little slice of it.

Crystal having another slice of cheese cake

On Father's Day 2010

2010-06-20T23:38:00.000+08:00

Father and daughters cutting the cake together

Fondant Cakes for Father's Day

2010-06-20T00:54:00.001+08:00

Crystal & Pearl helped to decorate the cakes for Father's Day this year. Crystal cut out all the alphabets and heart shapes while Pearl playing with the sugar paste only got serious helping out towards the end of our project, she pasted some flowers and sugar balls on the cake. Crystal gave a finishing touch on her grandfather's cake by putting little round sugar paste balls around the cake.

Both are 7" fondant icing butter cake.

Pearl is putting a flower on the cake

Mount Kinabalu & Kundasang Trip

2010-06-13T22:56:00.001+08:00

A Mount Kinabalu trip as reward for good examination result as promised. We stayed at the Golden Kundasang Highland resort on 12 June 2010 together with their uncles, aunties and cousins. Uncle Wong supposed to join us, however, he has to attend to a repair work for the house last minute.

Crystal and Pearl are very happy that they are able to spend a night at one of the Mount Kinabalu resort at Kundasang. Crystal has studied hard for this outing and she is now planning for another outing for her next exam's reward. They spent the whole trip with their cousins, especially Kathleen and Edson, and never get enough of clinging on with their favourite uncle Sonny.

In front of the souvenir shop at Mount Kinabalu National Park

In the room. Climbing up and down the double decker bed.

Playing at the see-saw where Crystal hurt her leg

having BBQ dinner while playing PS2 in the room

at the souvenir stall at Nabalu where we stopped by on our way home. See what she did...obviously did not listen to what mummy say... "sigh", it is not hygienic to do so girl..

Just seeing not reading

2010-06-10T23:46:00.000+08:00

One weekend morning, I found Pearl sitting down quietly on the lazy chair reading one of her big sister's library books. I asked her curiously, "Pearl, are you reading?", "Hmmm...no... just seeing the pictures not reading, cos I still small, I can't ready yet." she replied.

I am glad that she has got the initiative to get hold of a book and start flipping through the pages even if only seeing the pictures, it is the starting point to reading soon. I still remember Crystal started reading at K1, just the same age as Pearl now. Hope Pearl will be able to start reading soon.

Dinner treat

2010-05-21T22:49:00.000+08:00

To continue with my earlier post, we had a get together dinner at big sister's home hosted by niece, Rebecca, she only comes back during her university semester break so we only get to meet her once or twice a year.

Clet helped out with the barbecuing

Besides having a normal Chinese dishes, we had barbecue too. Out from my busy weekend chaos, I prepared some spring rolls, luckily with the help from Crystal that I managed to get the spring rolls done just before going to sunset mass. She helped me to roll the spring rolls and coat them with bread crumbs. The spring rolls did not turn out to be crunchy, I should have deep fried them rather than pan fried.

Niece Chloe & her sister Eunice, Cystal, Pearl, niece Anneliese and nephew Ensond

Niece Linnie, big sister, mum, niece Rebecca

A view from big sister's house

7 UP became TUP

2010-05-20T23:32:00.000+08:00

We were playing "I spot" while having a drink at a coffee shop waiting for Crystal's turn to see doctor on Monday. We spotted many things around the shop and when came to Crystal's turn she said "I spotted a TUP", I was confused for a while and asked her to repeat what she spotted, again she said a TUP. Looking around and I couldn't any TUP, and she said, "here it is mummy!" turning a glass in front of us and showed me where TUP was. I couldn't hold my laughter when I saw the 7 UP logo on the glass, :D.

The 7 is indeed looks like a T, that's why she pronounced it as TUP, can't blame her, we never introduced 7 UP to her so far, a 7 UP logo is so familiar to us but not for her.

We were having a real good laugh.

Water tumblers

2010-05-14T23:27:00.001+08:00

Arriving home yesterday for a semester break from US, niece Rebecca brought back water tumblers featuring Disney's Mickey Mouse Club House and Tigger & Pooh for Crystal and Pearl. It is very thoughtful of her having our two little girls in mind.

Crystal started using the Mickey tumbler for her drink just now and Pearl asked me to keep her Pooh one nicely so that it wouldn't get missing. It shows that they like their gifts very much. Thanks to Rebecca!

We will be having a welcome home party tomorrow night at big sister's home (her mum)..hmmm..thinking of what I should bring for the party..???

2nd monthly exam result

2010-05-14T23:02:00.000+08:00

Just to put in record on Crystal's 1st semester 2nd monthly exam results. She did very much better than the previous examination. Here are the results for her examination papers:

Chinese Paper 1 (97%)
Chinese Paper 2 (93%)
Bahasa Malaysia Paper 1 (95%)
Bahasa Malaysia Paper 2 (93%)
English Paper 1 (96%)
English Paper 2 (93%)
Mathematics (76%)
Moral (86%)
Science (91%)

That's gave her a total average marks of 91.11%, number 9 placing in her own class and number 32 placing in the whole Primary one of 311 students in school. We are very happy with her results, she has actually did better than the target we have set for her, that is an average of 85% and above. Thus, she got her PS2 as reward for her good performance this time.

The final examination for the 1st semester would be next week, 24th - 26th of May. She would like to go for a trip to Mt Kinabalu National Park with a night stay there as reward if she hit the target of an average marks of 85% this time round. This examination will be a tougher one as the syllabus are wider.

Welcome home daddy!

2010-05-02T20:41:00.004+08:00

Clet has gone for a golf trip to Tawau over the weekend, our girls are so use to having daddy around for everything, sending and fetching them to and from school everyday. They obviously miss him lots. Both of them keep saying they miss daddy, they said it first thing they opened their eyes in the morning, before sleep and during play time too.

To welcome daddy home, Crystal made a welcome daddy home card herself on Friday night, all by herself. She even came out with a poem. I thought she copied it from one of the many books she has read. When I questioned her, she said it was her own idea.

It amazed me, she could write a poem at the age of 7.

So far she only reads English book. She refused to read any Chinese & Bahasa Malaysia Books. I told her that if she starts read those books she could write some poems on those languages too.

The poem read like this (some corrections on the spelling) "Birds live in nests, fishes live in ponds, Bees live in hives, Bears live in caves, and all the people need homes. So do us. Friends, families, sisters, brothers, plants, people, weak, poor, rich, I love you all.................."

So sweet and creative :D

Elijah's Full Moon

2010-05-02T00:12:00.008+08:00

This is a late post on our nephew's full moon celebration in April 2010. Baby Elijah is the 2nd son to Jason & Joyce. The party was held at his grandparents' home on Sunday lunch time.

A sleeping Baby Elijah

Joyce is busy arranging the cupcakes while Crystal looked on

Getting ready for cake cutting. The children are very excited with the cakes, hard to make a choice which cupcake to choose..:D The cupcakes are decorated with the alphabets of the name of E.L.I.J.A.H..

A beautiful baby shower theme fondant cake with butter chocolate cake as base

A pair of baby booties on top of the cake

Now a happy family of four.

Crystal & Pearl are happy with the cupcakes, they like the cake too..

2nd monthly examination - P1

2010-04-09T12:49:00.006+08:00

This week, Monday till Wednesday was examination days for Crystal, this was the 2nd examination for her in Primary 1. I made a point to do the revision with her on the Moral subject the night before the exam, making sure that she reads and understands the instructions for the questions, to avoid her making the same mistakes again.

Her Moral subject in the last exam was not good thus affecting the total average of her results. The subject is totally in Chinese, her Chinese is not so good that she failed to understand what the questions required her to do, basically she answered the questions like guessing game. The school might be asking too much from the fresh primary students.

Anyhow the exam is over, Crystal is relieved and her daddy is giving her one day off from tuition today, I am sure he will bring her go "jalan-jalan" surveying the prices for a PS2 game set, because.......this is the rewards she will be getting as promised by us if she achieves an average marks of 85% & above. A motivation for her to do better, her first exam average was 83%.

Toys section

2010-04-07T13:29:00.003+08:00

Toys section is one of the must go section when we go to shopping complexes. They like to look look see see what's are the new toys in town, by now they know very well that we do not buy toys for them every time they ask for it.

Toys like Barbie dolls are not cheap but they have got many of them kept in the shelves at home, those were mostly given to them as birthdays, Christmas presents, or rewards for good school results. They like those dolls and are playing with them almost every day.

Remembering those days when I was small, I hardly got the chance to play with good & expensive toys, the only doll I owned is a beige colour (probably was a white one turned into beige colour after a while, "dirty" already, +__+) teddy bear with the sponge coming out from its legs.

Crystal is most likely reading the specifications of this Barbie doll while Pearl is trying to reach another Barbie doll at the back ground.

Making her own juice

2010-04-01T12:15:00.004+08:00

The unit of juicer that I bought last year is very user friendly, even Pearl can handle the juicing process. She doesn't mind helping me preparing juices every night after meal. Sometimes she even fight with Crystal to do the juicing.

Since they are still little, I do not allow them to cut the fruits and vegetable, I will chop and cut all the fruits and vege ready for them to put in the juicer. Glad that they enjoy the juices as much as processing them.

Bak Kut Teh Meal

2010-04-01T11:50:00.004+08:00

We normally find some way to eat after Saturday sun set mass. having Clet's bad cough in mind, I suggested we try something "heaty" for him to warm his body up, the Bak Kut Teh soup.

I couldn't remember when was the last time we had Bak Kut Teh at the shop with our princesses, they are both soupy persons so shouldn't be any problem with Bak Kut Teh, and I craving for one too..though I know it is not a healthy meal :D

Here we are at the famous Bak Kut Teh shop at Jalan Gaya,

Crystal is still not hungry yet cos she had a serving of chicken rice before leaving for church but she and Pearl whacked all the meat balls.

Dinner treat as promised

2010-03-19T00:06:00.005+08:00

As mentioned in earlier post, I promised to bring Crystal for a dinner treat at Brass Monkey Restaurant if she attained an average marks of above 80% in her exam. She did it, her average marks was 83%.

The dinner treat is long overdue now, since I am lazy to cook tonite it would be just nice to have our dinner at Brass Monkey. It is also good to keep my promised before the next exam in April which I have also asked her to pick the next dinner venue..I think she will pick the Upper Star Restaurant because of the PC and internet facilities.

Vanilla milkshake for a change

Pearl chose the strawberry milk shake

Black pepper chicken for Clet

Cream cheese pasta for Crystal and Pearl to share

I prefer fish & chips

White Board for learning

2010-03-14T18:40:00.004+08:00

It will be a week of school holiday next week. Since there will be no tuition classes for Crystal, it would be better to let Pearl off from her holiday class as well so that they could spend time together. During this one week, I will have to take some leave off from work to spend time with them and also be around in case Clet has got urgent work to attend to.

We have enrolled Pearl to the same school as Crystal for Primary 1 recently. Judging from what we observed from Crystal's school requirement, it is very important for students to be prepared especially those whom would like to enter into Chinese medium school. Students who are weak in Chinese language are of disadvantages because besides Chinese subject, there are a number of subjects are taught in Chinese. If students do not know how to read Chinese will not be able to do well in those subjects in the examinations thus affect the total average of the examination marks.

Therefore it is high time for Pearl to start learning Chinese language and also BM, English and Maths now. Purely rely on teachers from school would not be sufficiently prepared her for Primary 1 in 2 years time. Today we bought some work books for her to start learning.

To provide better interest for them to study, Clet brought back a white board for them to write on. They have been having fun with the white board since then Pearl has accidently "spoilt" two of her outing dresses with red marker ink :C. She is still not so familiar with the ABC and Crystal is care enough to teach her by setting some questions for her to work on. But Pearl doesn't seem to have the patience to finish it.

Pearl is writing the alphabets which she knows of

Crystal has set the question for Pearl and explaining to her how to do it

Pearl attempted on the question but did not finish it, Crystal was very upset with her.

A picture drew by Crystal. An appreciation note for her Daddy for giving them the white board, I guess!

We also bought some work books for Pearl to practice

New School Bag

2010-03-13T22:55:00.002+08:00

Only after slightly over 2 months in Primary 1, we have to buy a new school bag for Crystal. Her school bag has "surrendered", couldn't take the heavy load of her school books anymore. The metal handle had come off the hook and the fabric handle is tearing, the bottom of the bag having the same problem too...

We have to buy a new school bag for her. It is just too heavy for a primary one student to carry. I noticed that a primary two student has to carry two bags to school nowadays, and have to carry their schools bag up to their class rooms at the higher floors using staircase.

It is impossible for a primary school student to carry school bag without the wheels. I can remember during our school days none of us have to use any school bag with wheels.

The handle has come off

A broken zip

About RM60.00 for a new bag

I love my short hair

2010-03-11T12:31:00.003+08:00

Cutter their hair short was a very sensitive issue. All princesses have long hair so they want to be like princesses keeping their hair long (too much of Disney's princesses VCDs).

Crystal is learning but still have not got the right method to tie her own hair. In the school every morning, I have to help her to tie her hair before she goes into her class, we have to keep bag of black colour plastic hair band in the car, her school bag and also in my hand bag to make sure we do not forget to bring her hair band.

Her hair will sure all mess up not long after that, she likes to scratch her head and does not know to tight it back nicely. Her teacher called her the 2nd messiest girl in the class, *_*, that's what she told me.

As for Pearl, her afternoon day care had stopped washing hair for the children since last year because it is not advisable for the children to take their nap with their hair still wet after washing, well..they got the point. I usually do not encourage washing hair at night, hence, Pearl only got her hair wash during weekend which is very unhygienic for her especially she sweats very easily.

I managed to convinced Crystal to cut her hair last week but not Pearl, it was still a big NO NO. After seeing Crystal coming back from tuition with her new cute hair cut, Pearl said she wants to be like che che also. We quickly brought them to the saloon to have her hair cut (still with a little reluctance, until the Daddy have a talk to her again). Crystal had her second hair trimming at the same saloon because the earlier hair cut was not probably done.

They both look cuter and neater with their short hair, and they keep saying that they love their hair style, short and sweet, ^.^.

Chinese New year Celebration in Kindergarten

2010-03-09T08:36:00.007+08:00

Pearl was chosen as one of the performer for the Chinese New Year celebration in her kindergarten this year. We dressed her up in the morning, had her milk while half sleeping in the car.

No smile even after the make-up. Obviously did not like the idea of going for the performance.

In the dressing room where all her fellow performers gather to make up and get ready, she refused to let me go an inch from her. She only allowed me to make her up but kept pulling my skirt till it nearly drop when I tried to leave the room. She is one of the stubborn girl that no persuasion would allow to change her mind if she doesn't want something. Even Clet couldn't help to persuade her.

with the fellow performers

After the performance started I brought her to back stage try to let her form teacher to talk her into go on stage to join in the performance, worst still her crying and shouting was much louder than the music, her teacher gave up and me too. I was sweating all over handling the situation.

Luckily the performance did not last long. We hurried ourselves to the hall downstairs to get ourselves a good seats ready for lunch. One thing good is the school provide lunch for this sort of celebration. Pearl back to her normal self again knowing that she doesn't need to perform anymore. Her teacher said give her a try again next year, huh?? Hope she will be like Crystal whom has no problem going on stage for performances.

the food

Crystal was so happily chatting with her ex kindergarten mate, he is also our cousin

got nien gou too

and tea egg

They both received angpows from the school and the school Board of Governor from the office where everyone else received only 1 angpow from the hall. The headmaster telling one of the Board of Governor that Crystal is a contributor to the school for taking part in performances, competitions, speeches and most of all she was one of them delivering the graduation speeches in 3 languages during her graduation last year. She was very happy to visit her kindergarten again.

1st Primary 1 exam

2010-03-06T12:03:00.003+08:00

Crystal attempted her first primary exams a month ago. She felt sick the next day after the exam. We could sense that she has some pressure though she did not expressly saying so. In order not to put extra pressure on her, we always tell her to just try her best.

We know that she will always try her best to attain good results in school, I promise her that if she could achieve an average of above 80% in her exam, I will reward her with a nice dinner at Brass Monkey, a restaurant with a lot of monkeys hanging and drawings of monkeys on the wall, she is always very excited and wants to go there to see the deco of monkeys whenever we drive pass the restaurant.

She has received back all the marked exam papers a week after Chinese New Year and was very disappointed with the Civic subject which she has got the lowest marks among the rest of the subject simply because she doesn't know how to read the Chinese words well thus failed to do what the exam asked for. She was too disappointed that she wouldn't want to tell me personally instead she asked her Daddy to do the talking. She did not ask for her reward from me till now because she thought that she did not achieve it.

To make sure that she receive what she deserve, today I calculated the average of the 9 subjects from her exam and the average is 82.89 to be exact...Yes she achieved it and I have to fulfill what I have promised.

Happy Birthday to Crystal & Zachary

2010-02-22T13:42:00.003+08:00

It's Crystal's 7th and Zachary's 3rd birthday on 15th February, 2010, the 2nd day of Chinese New Year. Cutting of birthday cake is always the highlight of any birthday celebrations especially with all the kids around singing birthday song out loud not once but three times in a roll.

Crystal was very looking forward to her birthday, surprisingly she did not request for any birthday present, what she asked for was only a pink strawberry birthday cake, even that I have to ask her to tell me what type of cake she wanted before I started baking. Without realising our little girl is growing up fast :D. I was very glad that she appreciate and love the cake that I made for her by telling me that it was nice and she finished her share, Pearl did that as well.

Besides Edward and family away to KL, and my brother Alfred and family gone back to in law for the new year, all of our families members were present for the celebration. It was a nice gathering and we are looking forward to having more celebration like this at our home.

Collecting Ang Pows

2010-02-22T08:54:00.005+08:00

Crystal and Pearl each bringing their sling bag to Uncle Tony's house on the 1st day of Chinese New year 2010 for keeping their angpows. They used to pass the angpows to me in the previous years but not this year.

Pearl is still little that she has slight problem handling the zip of her sling bag (it's mine actually, a free bag from the purchase of my contact lens solution), I noticed that she passed a couple of her angpows to Crystal for safe keeping.

When her bag becomes too full that she needs her daddy's help to put the angpows into her bag. I was just in time to caught the act. :D

As promised

2010-01-24T00:23:00.006+08:00

A promise must be fulfilled. Daddy promised Crystal to bring her for "jalan -jalan" on weekends if she were to stay longer at her tuition teacher's home to finish off her home work and tuition assignments during school days so that she can spent the rest of the evening to do what you want to do before bed time.

It has been very hectic and taxing primary 1 for Crystal ever since school term started in January. Besides having more home works as compared to her kindergarten years, there are lots of spelling and writing in all three languages. She is a bit weak in her Chinese as compared to English and Bahasa Malaysia.

As a full time working mum, I am unable to spend time to guide her on her home work,. Luckily she has got a very responsible tuition teacher, whom is her kindergarten 2 teacher who has high expectation on Crystal, because Crystal was the top student in her class before so she knows her student capability pretty well. Going off earlier from the tuition classes is not encouraged in her class.

There suppose to have abacus class on Saturday but we did not sign Crystal up for the class because she has attended abacus classes before in her kindergarten and most importantly we want her to have a break, time to rest and enjoy her weekends. And as promised, we brought them to jalan jalan.

As soon as we reached the shopping mall, we went to the indoor playground where they spent some time there, after which they hopped from one toy shop to the other. We bought some erasers from one of the toy shop. The eraser is very cute, minitures of fruit and food. We spent most of the time in the book store. They take their time reading books on the floor and munching crackers at the same time. I told them no buying books this time, we will borrow books from the library. We have for 2 family library cards which allow us to borrow up to 40 over books at one time.

at the playgroundtake time to read some books at the playground

toy shop hopping

Making themselves comfortable reading the books on the floorErasers, minitures of food

Aunty Juliana's 60th Birthday

2010-01-23T23:25:00.005+08:00

SIL, Juliana celebrated her 60th birthday on 21st January, 2010. This is a mango cake made by SIL, Rosalind just for her.

Crystal designed a birthday card pasting a photo of her and her sister for her Aunty Jul.

The front of the birthday card

Waiting to sing the birthday song. Jul and her nephew and nieces, and grand son, Ethan.

Together gather

2010-01-02T23:58:00.004+08:00

Enjoying TV session together comfortably on the same settee. This is the favourite spot for Pearl whenever she watches her TV. The most common scene is having her bottle of milk in her mouth and bothers nothing around her. There are times that she has made a lot fuss and ask her che che to give her seat back. This time scare to upset her che che again she squeezed her way in to share the seat watching Ariel together.

Christmas Party 2009 for Kids of the Kingdom

2010-01-01T23:05:00.004+08:00

Year 2009 Kids of the Kingdom Christmas Party was held on 27 December at the church parish hall, the participants were not as many as in 2008. Crystal joined in the games while Pearl still like last year refused to participate in any activities. She joined in for a group photo reluctantly as well.

Group photos with teachers

One of the games "spoon & ball"

Crystal's group won the "spoon & ball" game, she was jumping with joy.

Simple refreshment

Christmas 2009 updates

2009-12-28T21:24:00.005+08:00

Last year we spent our Christmas Eve at the Mt Kinabalu, Kundasang with Wong family. Our girls still remember that, they kept asking when we are going to spend another holiday there again. This year we all spent our Christmas Eve at Wong's residence as usual with plenty of food, besides having turkey, we had roasted pork or lechon as an extra. I did not take any photos of the dinner we had on the day because I was not feeling too well, itchy throat and flu like feeling.

this is one of the Christmas gifts that we prepared. Clet being creative, he wrapped the fruit cake and cookies into a gift basket.

some of the fruit cakes that I baked on Christmas day just before the dinner at BIL house where distribution of gifts are usually takes place.

C & P with their niece and nephewsPosing with their Christmas gifts wearing their new sets of clothing

Washing her new gift, the princesses lunch box, C got the same lunch box too..she asked me to write their names of so they will not mix up.

Preparation for Christmas

2009-12-28T20:58:00.003+08:00

These are some updates of our preparation for Christmas this year. This is the first time I baked cookies and fruit cakes for Christmas. That kept me really busy till I fell sick, got to see the doctor on boxing day. It was a good experience and I knew exactly what to do with my cookies in this coming Chinese New Year.

Cyrstal extended her helping hands with the cookies and also wrapping of the Christmas presents. Pearl was trying to help but she later discovered that eating the cornflakes is more enjoyable, I ended up haven't got enough cornflakes for my cookies..:D, luckily I have got some chocolate rice as replacement to finish off with the rest of the batter.

helping out. she is doing a good job coating the batter with cornflakes

enjoy eating the cornflakes

my cornflakes cookies and

Choc rice cookies

C likes the idea of having a ribbon as finishing touch on each of the presents but the stickers on the ribbons are of poor quality, they did not stick well at all, a box of the ribbon costs RM15.00, too expensive for that kind of quality.

Sweet dreams with Piglet

2009-12-10T13:18:00.003+08:00

Peal will not sleep without me or her Daddy in the bedroom, she would find excuses popping in and out from the bedroom to find either one of us. One night, after finishing my normal house chaos, I found her curls herself up to sleep in the big sofa chair in the computer room where the Daddy was busy working. Guess she must be very sleepy. She slept so tight with one of her toys, Piglet.

Starting to have home work

2009-11-27T15:16:00.004+08:00

Playschool and kindergarten years are very much on a honeymoon for my kids as I noticed that they hardly have any home works to be finished after school.

Now that Crystal has only started her first 3 days of orientation or introductory lessons which the school has prepared for her primary one during the holiday, she brought back a maths home work. She was supposed to finish it at her tuition class yesterday since she missed her daddy so much and knew that her daddy has brought back some new DVDs from his trip to Kuching, Sarawak last night, she decided not to follow her tuition class.A blue towel covering the computer monitor in front of her

I told her that primary years is no longer the same as in kindergarten, she must finish her home work or else teacher will punish. She was playing games on the computer when was asked to do her home work, she refused to off the computer, and I have no idea where the off button is, I have to cover the computer monitor in front of her in order not to distract her concentration, and promise her that as soon as she finishes her homework she can resume her computer game. She happily abide.

It doesn't take long for her to finish her home work, she is simply lazy and procrastinate all the time.Taking away the towel after I have checked her maths questions have been all done correctly. Resume her computer game again.

1st day of primary school Orientation class

2009-11-24T14:12:00.002+08:00

For the first time Crystal woke up at 6am. It is the 1st day of her primary one orientation class which made compulsory for all the new primary one students to attend at her primary school.

She was very excited yet anxious. She does not used to waking up that early not to mention having breakfast that early in the morning. A bowl of her favourite coco crunch with milk was ended in the bin.

I prepared her school bag (no text books yet) with afternoon changing clothes (she chose herself), a fork, 2-pieces of home baked cake, and an empty tupper ware container (meant for buying take away from school canteen for break time), some pocket tissues and a pencil box. I kept reminding her where I put her stuff and when to use them. As I know primary school life is totally different from kindergarten where teachers emphasize more on the academic affairs.

In order to be on time to the school, we left home at 6.30am got my mum to come over to take care of Pearl who was still a sleeping beauty. When A very kind neighbour told me that my car tyre is punctured. What a morning! Luckily our friend, Sam's car is with us.

We reached school just about time, managed to bought take away for Crystal at the canteen. Not long after that parents are reminded to leave the classroom and let the kids alone.

At the 9.40am recess time, Crystal was very hungry. After galloping her meehoon that I tapau for her in the morning, she ran off to look for her kindergarten schoolmates in the other classes. Just before the end of the recess time, she complained that she was not feeling too good and felt like vomitting, it was because she took her breakfast too late. She requested to go home without finishing her 1st day of orientation class.

I believe she was too nervous and over anxiety on her new environment. As parents, our understanding and support are important to every stages of her development. To relax her mind, I brought her to do some shopping and postpone her tuition class. She had a good nap in the afternoon. She is feeling great now and all ready for tomorrow's class.

Kids' Of The Kingdom holiday closing party

2009-11-15T21:40:00.007+08:00

To celebrate the graduation & closing session of the Kids of The Kingdom, a party was held at the St Francis Convent Kindgarten on last Sunday,morning, 15th November, 2009. The party was specially for the graduating student aged 7 - 8 years old who will be attended the Sunday School next year, the party also marked the closing of this year's session.

It was a pot luck party, food were plentifully. I intended to bake some cakes or cuppies for the party but was too busy on Saturday that I was unable to bake anything. On Saturday morning, we went to buy new workbooks and uniform for Crystal at her new school, and at night, we attended our girls' school concert. Pearl performing on stage for the first time, as a little bee. with her fellow playschool's friend while Crystal became a mother bee on a stage play. Shall include this in a separate post.

Back to the party. To make things easy for me, I brought along chicken rolls and chicket nugget to the party which I woke up slightly early to prepare. There were just too much food for the kids and parents as each of the parents brought in 40 pax share of food.

Crystal & Pearl had some fun, after meals they each brought back goodies bags. I am sure they are looking forward to the Christmas Party before the year end.

Pearl decorating her balloon. She was wearing a dress bought from the Philippines. I repeatedly ask her to be careful not to dirty her dress but she was so careless that she accidentally drew some lines on it with the red marker pen. :(

Crystal patiently waiting for her turn to use the marker pen to draw her balloon. She was wearing one of the new dress Clet bought from the Philippines too..

There were games and songs before the eating time. it was almost 10.30 am, Pearl only had a bottle of milk was obviously very hungry that she started to check on the food in a plastic bag. Crystal without eating anything since she woke up was a bit grumpy, told me that she was hungry. I took for them a piece of nugget each to avoid them being starved.

Playing games

Finally eating time

Performing at Kindergarten

2009-11-15T21:19:00.007+08:00

Before the end of year school holiday, our girls' kindergarten will organised a concert to involve all the playschool and kindergarten children in one or more of the performances. This year's concert was held on 14th November, 2009, a Saturday. The theme of the concert is "The story of 3 little insects", the 3 little insects is the bee, the butterfly and the grasshopper.

Crystal was a mother bee in a drama which she involved from the beginning till the end of the concert. While Pearl became a little bee with her playshool mate in a dance, it was the first time that Pearl got involved in a performance which after that she said she doesn't want anymore because it's very tired, unlike Crystal, she likes to be on stage very much.

The Father Bee and the Mother Bee posing before the drama

With one of her best friend, Shanice

Crystal loves to read, she started to read on the floor while waiting for others to get ready for the concert to start.

We were unable to take a photo of Pearl in the bee constume because at the age of 4, she is still not independent. We have to slipped our way out from the room while teacher was making her hair or else she will not let us go. Even in the house she always wants us to be at her side all the time even though we are at her sight just a room away. It is one of the stage of her growing up.

New dresses for Christmas

2009-11-15T21:03:00.005+08:00

During his busy business trip to Clark and Manila, the Philippines, Clet managed to steal some time to do some shopping for us, particularly for Crystal and Pearl. I simply like the design and quality of the dresses there. The prices are reasonably better as compared to what we are having here in KK. So some of these dresses would be for Christmas. I took pictures of the dresses before I washed them up. Crystal wore this guitar pattern dress and Pearl wore the purple one to the "Kid's of the Kingdom" party this morning.

Big puzzle and Pearl

2009-11-15T18:13:00.003+08:00

This set of big puzzle was given by BIL, Nicky to Crystal years ago. It is the only set of puzzle still with every pieces in tact because the pieces are many times bigger size than the normal puzzle pieces. It features A - Z and pictures representing each alphabet.

Crystal can fix the puzzle within minute. Pearl is still learning to recognize ABC, she takes longer time. She managed to finished fixing it by referring to the box when she is lost.

Jumping on it after she has fixed it

Putting them back to the box after playing. Good girl!

Ensond's 1st Birthday

2009-11-15T16:17:00.007+08:00

Little Ensond's 1st birthday was celebrated on 31st October 2009 a couple of days later than his actual birthday for the convenience of the guests to attend the celebration.

I helped out with wrapping his birthday eggs, slightly more than 100 of them, by using glittering red purplish paper into a sweet shape.

Albert and Shirly ordered him a very a cake from Secret Recipe, supposedly to be nice but many commented that it was not up to expectation. If I am a pro in cake making I would have helped them to bake a "1" shape birthday cake as it was first requested by Shirly.

The birthday egg

Little Ensond in green

The 4 of the younger grand daughters to my mum

Crystal Graduated from kindergarten

2009-11-10T17:30:00.007+08:00

Crystal was chosen to represent her Chinese classes to deliver a graduation and thank you speech on her graduation day on Friday, 6th November, 2009. She has to deliver her speeches in three languages, that is in Chinese, Malay and English.

She took about a month to memorise and practice on her speeches, as parents we were very concern and I was particularly nervous to see her on stage delivering her speech on that morning. Clet was very disappointed that he could not make it to the function as he was still in Clark, Philippines, only touched down at around 7pm the same day. I brought the video cam with me to record down the event so Clet could watch it when he came back and Crystal is able to see how well she has done on her speeches.

She did very well on her speeches and on overall academic results, she got number 1 in class. We are very pround of her. Well done my dear Crystal, keep it up !!

She got two medals on her graduation day, one for excellent academic performance and one for her speeches, besides that she is given an angpow of RM50.00 from the School Board of Directors for the speeches too..she keeps her angpow money in her piggy bank. :D

Happy 4th Birthday to my little Pearl

2009-10-09T13:19:00.005+08:00

Pearl turned 4 years old last month.

I have been very busy only now that I have got the chance to post the occasion here. She has got 2 birthday cakes this year, one to celebrate in the school, she requested a purple colour one, we use to call her Pearl Pearl sounded like "Purple" so she wants her stuff to be in purple as well. :D

The other cake was especially made by SIL for Pearl, she cut the cake after a dinner at Pizza Hut where she would normally eat lots of parmesan cheese with everything she eats, same goes to Crystal.

Both computers occupied

2009-09-12T23:38:00.005+08:00

This is the normal scene at home. A desk top and a notebook are no longer enough for us anymore. They are fighting over a computer all the time. One would like to watch her favourite movie in youtube and the other wants to play games on disney channels. At last, daddy gave up on his notebook just to have a peace of mind.

Pearl continues on her game of the disney channel even during her nen nen time.

The only time for us to use the computer is when they are watching their DVDs and asleep. That's why I hardly have got the chance to blog, well after all I am on my household chaos most of the time, except on weekends that I could sleep a bit late to blog.

Wanted to be a little artist

2009-09-04T22:34:00.004+08:00

While I was busy preparing dinner one evening, Crystal came in the kitchen to tell me that she wanted to draw a scenery around the house, asking whether she can put her table outside for her "project". I said, yes..ok!

what I did not realise was she carried her table too far, it was almost near the gate. And Pearl joined in too...

A passion in drawing

It was nearly 7pm and getting dark. I asked them to end their project, pack and go inside the house. They refused at first, not until the mosquitoes came visit them. Pearl started scratching because of the mosquito bites, Crystal got some bites here and there too. With that, I guess they knew it was not a good idea to have outdoor drawing session at the time of the day.

At the function of eXfuze

2009-08-22T23:44:00.008+08:00

We brought our girls to the eXfuze function at the Palace Hotel Kota Kinabalu when the eXfuze officials were here on 14 August 2009. This was the 3rd time we brought them along to the eXfuze functions. This time my mum came along too.

They roamed around the function hall, played at the reception area. I have to keep an eye on them all the time cos they refused to sit down quietly in the function hall.

They said they were hungry when they saw the food being placed in the warmer and they became the first to enjoy the refreshment for the night. We were supposed to have our dinner at the hotel restaurant before the function but we did not know that there were groups of young athletes from Asia countries were having their dinner at the hotel as well, we have to cancel our orders after a long wait, imagine the kitchen have not even started cooking our orders after waited for 20 minutes. Crystal & Pearl were screaming hungry luckily Clet got some cheese cakes ready for them.

Took a photo with the big banner on the stage

At the reception table. 10 bottles of 750ml eXfuze seven+ superfoods juice to be given away as lucky draw, but we did not get it.

Ha..haha..so very hungry..they were enjoying the food while the function was still on.

Happily got hold of a cup of eXfuze seven+ juice for grandma

Little Artist

2009-08-07T15:28:00.005+08:00

Her form teacher has been preparing for Crystal and her classmate for the drawing and colouring competition a couple of months ago to make sure her students are well prepared for it and achieve good results. She has been telling me that Crystal is good in drawing and have to put more afford into her colouring technique. After the semi final the week before, she put very high hope on Crystal to win the competition on Wednesday, 5th August.

As usual I am very concern and kept reminding Crystal of what the teacher's comment was and encouraged her to try her very best. Nowadays, children are very clever, on the way to the school that morning, she demanded for a reward saying that if she could win the competition, she would like to have some new books and toys and the same for her Pearl so that she will not fight with her, very clever thoughts...

I called up the teacher right after the school to find out the results. I was very happy to learn that she got 2nd placing. I rang Clet up to tell him the good news at the same time told him about her reward.

The daddy brought them to a book store supposed to buy books but ended with only toys no books. "sigh"

The theme of the competition

The champion

2nd placing - A masterpiece by Crystal

3rd placing by her good friend

Another piece of drawing by her friend

The reward. A doll bedroom set

Pearl got hers too..

enjoying her toys

playing together

Have fun a Boo Boo Land, 1 Borneo

2009-08-03T21:45:00.005+08:00

The last time we went to 1 Borneo was someway at Chinese New Year time. The main purpose that we went there again 3 weeks ago was to fulfill the promise to bring our girls to their favourite place, that's the Boo Boo Land, the indoor play ground. Like usual we spent most of our time there just to watch them play, running around and jumping about, till they shouted enough.

We were starving after the play ground. There are many restaurants there but the daddy craved for donuts while crystal prefered to have the new macaroni cheese with meat balls at KFC. Like usual the daddy gave way. So we queued at KFC, when came to our turn to place our order for the macaroni, too bad that we were told to wait for 15 minutes, and the girls were starving couldn't wait for another minute, haha, the daddy wish came through, we went for the donuts. Both of us ordered the durian stuffing donuts, Pearl chose the pink strawberry topping, and Crystal chose the one with cheese topping.

Before going home, we bought 3 VCDs. Guess who picked the Michael Jackson one? Cletus did. Crystal picked the Sleeping Beauty, and Pearl chose the Little Einstein. I was tempted to buy some Korean series which were on sale but thought about it, I don't think I got the time to watch them, so might as well drop the idea saving me RM40.00 and the storage space. :D

Chloe's 1st birthday

2009-07-26T15:45:00.009+08:00

Time flies, little Chloe is already 1 year old. She is the youngest among all my side of the nieces and nephews. She started to walk at the age of about 9 months old, very fast learner. We had a very enjoyable birthday celebration at the China Garden restaurant with good selection of dishes.

The home baked birthday cake

Little Chloe with her daddy and eldest sister

Little Chloe with her grandpa and Pearl

Crystal, grandma & grandpa

Kids are forever excited with birthday cake

Chloe waited for her egg from tai gu

Deworming with Zentel

2009-07-19T19:02:00.005+08:00

The last time the girls had their Zentel deworming medicine was about 2 years ago. It is recommended to deworm 2-3 times a year in order to stay worm free, obviously it's been long over due for our kids to deworm.

Crystal has been complaining about her stomach ache for consecutively 3 days last week, it worried me and also reminded me to give her Zentel.

At the age of 6 plus, she still enjoys putting her thumb into her mouth while sleeping or watching TV, that's increase the risks of getting the dirty things into her stomach especially before washing her hands. I always beat her hands whenever I see her sucking her thumb as a reminder.

Pearl was so into her pacifier few months back. She used to place her pacifier conveniently everyway she went and put back into her mouth when she needed them (we have to keep extra in case she misplaced them) that's one dirty act that we were very worried about. Luckily, she stopped the pacifier addiction out of her own initiative probably after numerous reminders from school teachers. Now, she is pround of her determination to stop which we thought was hard on her. We are proud of her too...she is like her daddy, if decision has been made to do something, it has to be done irregardless.

hmm..back to the Zentel, They had a bottle of each on Friday after school. It can be taken anytime of the day. Zentel is also suitable for adults. We, adults are reminded to take deworm medicine too...:@

We have got new shoes

2009-07-19T11:00:00.003+08:00

Clet supposed to buy a pair of new school shoes from BATA for Crystal to replace the pair that has been worn for many months. I couldn't stand to see the condition of her shoes when I wash them every weekends. The shoes turned brown after immersed in the sea water at the beach when we had our evening walk at the beach on one fine evening.

Clet also bought another two pairs of lovely shoes for Crystal and Pearl from the local shoe chain, BATA where we can find good quality shoes with reasonable price.

Daddy's Birthday

2009-07-19T01:42:00.006+08:00

Crystal carefully decorating the cake to her best effort.

This is what turned out

In comparison, this is a much better looking cake made by SIL, taste better too..

Besides having two birthday cakes, Clet was treated with yet another birthday meal by SIL & BIL the day after our Buffet dinner.

Kathleen's 11th Birthday

2009-07-05T16:19:00.001+08:00

Kathleen's birthday - 28th June

"We are ready to sing the birthday song"

Interest in reading

2009-06-28T20:41:00.001+08:00

Crystal has started to read many English words eversince she started kindergarten 1. She enjoys a quiet moments reading her English cartoon story books everyday. A big follower of her sister, Pearl also develops the interest of "reading" books. She would follow her sister to pick up a book starting to "read" whenever she sees Crystal reading. At about 4 years old, Pearl still doesn't know any alphabets not to mention a word, the pictures in the books are what attracts her attention.

Sometimes sharing a story book, Crystal reads for Pearl.

Father's Day celebration

2009-06-23T22:08:00.005+08:00

Crystal and Pearl enjoyed a Father's Day celebration at the pool side with their cousins this year. Besides having fun, they had sun burn too. They were so tired playing in the pool that they felt asleep in the car on they way home. We have to wake them up for shower and dinner in the evening.

Happy Father's Day

2009-06-20T21:32:00.001+08:00

A card Father's day card designed by Crystal to Daddy

A special card coloured by Pearl in school for her Daddy

This one coloured by Crystal in School for her Daddy

Hannah Montana the movie

2009-06-17T21:08:00.000+08:00

My handphone rang, BIL on the other side of the phone said "I couldn't get through to Clet, we are going to watch the Hannah Montana wondering whether you all want to bring the girls along", Wow, not just our girls would be very excited, as parents we are happy to come along too..

All ready for the movie

Post in front of the banner outside the cinema

I rushed home from work, the girls were all ready for the movie. Had a quick dinner at the shop nearby zoomed we all went to watch the 7.40pm Hannah Montana the movie. We enjoyed the movie night out and our girls were singing the songs they picked up from the movie on our way home.

Crystal and Pearl are the fans of both High School Musical and Hannah Montana. They like the songs very much.

Happy Birthday to Ethan!!

2009-06-07T21:04:00.003+08:00

Today is our little nephew, Ethan's 2nd birthday. His birthday was celebrated with A Mickey Mouse theme. Crystal noticed it and she told me that everything is with Mickey Mouse. A Mickey Mouse birthday cake and many Mickey Mouse cupcakes around it. Eggs wrapped Mickey Mouse paper as well.

Crystal and Pearl were fascinated with Mickey Mouse cakes. Their eyes on the cakes instead of

the camera.

Morning snack

2009-06-05T23:01:00.000+08:00

I now have to prepare light snack for my girls before they go to school in the morning. We usually wake them up after we have got ourselves all ready to head to the car, if not we won't be able to get anything ready with their morning crankiness.

The main reason for the light morning snack is to let them eat something before their breakfast at 9.30am in school which is 2 hours away. Crystal complaint about stomach ache last week because she is hungry, it is definitely not a good idea to let her wait for her breakfast in school anymore. It could lead to gastric problem eventually. So better avoid it.

Especially now that we are trying to get the pacifier off from Pearl since last Sunday, we have to keep her mouth occupy before she starts shouting for the "chut chut" or pacifier.

From now on, I will have to scratch my head to think of what light snack to serve them in the morning. I have been serving them French toast, bun with cheese and today hard boiled eggs. I usually whack whatever left over for my lunch. No good to waste any food bah.

Volkswagen Beetle Contest

2009-06-01T00:03:00.001+08:00

There were many activities going on to celebrate the Harvest Festival over the last two days. The weather was extremely warm that we preferred to stay at home and have a good rest most of the time. The KDCA was crowded with people as it was the main celebration venue. We only went to visit the Volkswagen beetle contest situated at the entrance of the Penampang Baru industries area for a little while where the eXfuze's counter was also having their promotion there. We brought our girls to see the Volkswagens as promised. They called the Volkswagen as the "Funny Cars". They hopped from one to the other, Pearl preferred the purple one while Crystal like the red one.

The purplish beetle

Hopping to the other beetles under the hot sun

The red beetle, the seat is too hot to sit

The light blue beetle

More photos can be found here.

1st Semester Results

2009-05-31T08:25:00.000+08:00

The 1st semester has ended, students are going on semester break for two weeks from 2nd June 2009. We received report cards from teachers and a brief reviews of our girls' school performances. Both received good reviews and academic performances. As promised, we have to reward them accordingly. Crystal asked for a toy which she saw many weeks ago, a Magic Swirl Ice Cream Shoppe Play-Doh pack. We bought it on last Friday with another condition that they must share this toy. Both agreed. :)

Crystal's report card

Pearl's report card

Happy with their reward

Both share the toy

The ice cream they made

Mother's Day Special

2009-05-10T15:23:00.000+08:00

Besides receiving cards from Crystal and Pearl on this year Mother's Day, Crystal insisted that she wants to buy me something; so we dropped by Wawasan Plaza after church to have a quick look around. We ended up at the VCD store. They picked each a VCD for themselves. As soon as we stepped out from the store, Crystal realised nothing for me, she asked why I did buy anything for myself and how lah? I asked her whether she is happy, she said Yes, then I told her, that's what mummy wanted, so long as both of you are happy, then mummy is happy! then she said "GOD BLESS YOU AGAIN, MUMMY!", so sweet of her. God Bless my little girls, too!

New Bike

2009-05-01T21:55:00.000+08:00

Crystal finally has got her new bike today. Pearl has been wanting to ride on her big sister's bike after seeing her younger cousin, Anneliese, having a bigger bike than hers. they always end up in tears fighting over the bike. Now they are happy having their own bikes.

Crystal have a test drive on a bike in the shop while Pearl entertaining herself with a toy car.

Achievement published in the Newspaper

2009-04-18T14:54:00.001+08:00

The story telling event on the 5th April 2009 and its results were published in all the local Chinese Newspapers. The teachers reckoned that if the story given to Crystal had been a bit longer she would probably be able to get a better placing than just the Best Costume position. Teachers also told me that one of the constestant forgot his script half way through, and Crystal quickly reminded him on the script to enable him to continue his competition. She posesses such a good memory that she even remembers other student's script, fantastic! We only noticed it when we played the video clip taken during the competition.

To get her ready for the next story telling competition, if any, teacher has already let her picked another story, the story that she picked is "Cinderella", her favourite VCD story, I have lost count the number of times that she watched the VCD and the story book. She is definitely going to show her talent on her year end graduation ceremony.

Little Cutie

2009-04-18T14:47:00.000+08:00

How do I look, Pearl asked. She dressed herself up with the accessories at the age of 3.5 years old, and Spirulina as lipstick, a daily supplement, heheh..

Story Telling Competition on 5th April

2009-04-11T00:29:00.000+08:00

Crystal went for a story telling competition on 5th April 2009 at the Central Plaza. We are very happy with her performance considering it was her first story competition. Glad that she is wiling to take up this challenge, we will encourage her to join more of this kind of activities to build up her confidence in public speaking, as we know it is a very good exposure for her. She only managed to take home with the best costume prize probably because her story is too short as compared to the other contestants.

With other contestants from the same school

Her supporters, Kathleen and Pearl, and grandma at the back

Crystal in action

"Mummy whispered in Lucy's ear" says Crystal

The winners

The medal for "The Best Costume"

Is growing

2009-04-05T06:46:00.000+08:00

The plants have been growing well with twice watering a day after 3 weeks, it is Crystal's job to do the watering each day, Pearl is trying to help but was disallowed by her big sister. Guess better get Pearl some seeds to plant so that she too got the thrill to water her own plant and see how they grow.

Learn to Plant

2009-03-18T23:27:00.001+08:00

Crystal Chose two packets of seeds and few pots from the supermarket on Sunday. She could not wait to start planting them as soon as we reached home. The two packets of seeds she picked were "Impatients Balsamina" and "Sweet Corn" or Jagung. The daddy only allowed her to plant the "Impatients Balsamina" seeds in the little pots for now to see whether she cares for them or not. She waters them only when she remembers :), luckily there are rains most of the evening this week. She was very excited to see some hypocotyl emerging from the soil this morning. She wanted to check them out again as soon as she came back from school in the evening. Will show some photos soon.

Scooping the soil into the little pot

A packet of the seeds

The seeds

The seeds were planted in these two little pots

On A Bike

2009-03-18T22:58:00.000+08:00

Crystal enjoys biking. We usually park one of our cars outside the gate to make space for her to ride on her bicycle. Pearl joins in sometimes by sitting on the "red back seat" securing herself by grabbing around her big sister waist, and they round and round the little space available for them now which is much better than last time where they were only allowed to ride inside the house, from living room to the kitchen and kitchen to the living room. This bike was given by my friend, Eliza, many years ago.

What's New For Pearl

2009-03-18T20:35:00.000+08:00

Pearl knew is time for her to have a pair of new shoes. She had told me twice that her shoes strap keep falling off when she walked. She chose this pair of princess shoes from the shop and walked away assuming that I will pay for them. Which I did, it's time to change her shoes anyway. She has been wearing them to her holidays school for many days now, guess what on the second day Crystal reported to us that one of the heart shape stone has gone disappeared.

Pearl with her new shoes

Angpows and Lion Dance

2009-02-01T15:45:00.000+08:00

It's always been fun opening Angpows collected during Chinese New Year. Crystal and Pearl feeling the same too..though they still do not know the value of the money that much yet.

The number of Lion and unicorn troops during this Chinese New Year have reduced tremendously. We only received 3 troops in total this years.

Kids of the Kingdom Christmas Party 2008

2009-01-10T00:45:00.000+08:00

Crystal and Pearl joined in the Kids of the Kingdom Party 2008 for the first time held at the church Parish Hall from 2-4pm on 29 December 2008. They had games, tea party and photo taking with Santa Claus, and the happiest moments was to receive Christmas presents from Santa.

Playing games

Tea Time

They just love Santa Claus

That's what they got from Santa :Q

Christmas mood at 1 Borneo

2008-12-08T00:43:00.000+08:00

Everyone is talking about the Christmas Decorations at I Borneo. Crystal has been asking me to bring her there and insisted we go with the daddy. And we did on Sunday. Here are some pictures taken.

Pearl was unhappy because she is not allowed to go in there to feel the decorations, heeee...

Guess what, they managed to sneaked in from the back and get up close to the Christmas tree and of course touched the ornaments, not for long, the mall's staff came by, it's time to get out.

Before we left, we had donuts at Big Apple. 6 pieces for RM16.00. The green one is green tea topping, the one at the bottom left is with durian fillings, pink one is Pearl's choice, and Crystal chose the white one and Pearl wants one too.. Clet wanted a plain one.

Moving along with the music at the same time eating. Crystal just loves music.

Christmas is coming

2008-12-04T21:50:00.000+08:00

There is only 20 more days to Christmas. Many of the shopping malls have already put up very nice and creative decorations fill with Christmas mood. This one is in Karamunsing Complex. We were there yesterday evening, the girls were asking for presents from the daddy so Clet decided to bring them there. Let's see what they managed to get from the daddy after much negotiations at the toy shop. Here are the conditions set by the daddy: they will have to share their toys and whatever they choose to buy now are going to be their Christmas presents.

Before proceeding to the toys shop and dinner, they sneaked into the Christmas ginger bread house display at the centre hall, it is supposed to be the restricted area, but they help themselves by going up there and touch everything within their sights. Big lollipops are part of the decorations.

Smaller lollipops hanging on the trees, Crystal was fascinated with the many lollipops.

In front of the ginger bread house. In the midst of discovering, a security personnel came, It's time to get out of the restricted area. If they were to spent more time there I am afraid the ginger bread house decorations are going to be falling apart in no time :))). After which, we proceeded to the toy shop.

Crystal spotted this big doll measuring about 2ft tall at the toy shop and wanted it. Initially Crystal wanted this baby doll with a push car and Pearl wanted it too. Since she found a big doll, she let Pearl have it. They have to share their toys after all.

Since they agreed these toys are going to be their Christmas presents, they are not suppose to open it and should be placed under the Christmas tree (which we have not put it up yet). To save on present papers, we just put ribbons on them. Let's test their patience whether they can wait till Christmas day to open them up.

The Last Sunday in November 2008

2008-12-01T13:10:00.000+08:00

Had our usual breakfast at the church after the morning mass, we brought Pearl to visit Dr Goh Clinic at the Plaza Grand Millenium.

Her eyes have been swollen for many weeks already even after taking 5 days doses of Antibiotics and 2 times a day Fucithalmic eye-drops. Making us very worry if there is any infections to her eyes. Dr Goh took a look at her eyes and confirmed that there's an infection, prescribed her with Zithromax antibiotic (once a day for three days) and liquid eye drop (3 times a day). We also complain on her mucus flowing back to her nose problem which causes her to cough all the time, unfortunately, according to Dr Goh, it has not medication to cure it but to use inhaler to control if symptom get worst. Only hope that she will get better when she grows older.

Antibiotic and eye drop for Pearl

After the clinic we went cross the road to CKS Hypermarket to get some food stuff and Cletus took the chance to get himself two pairs of jeans which cost RM49.90 each as working pants.

While waiting for the Daddy to get his pants, the two girls were having fun at the kids section, acted as kids modelling.

Pearl was a bit shy. Just to make fun of her, we told her that if she were to have her pacifier in her mouth her face would look like the doll next to her. Guess what she did not like it at all, find the doll is ugly.

Crystal posed as if she is a professional model, not bad at all!!
Pearl and Crystal watch so much of the Barbie princess fairy stories in their VCD series that they wanted to get themselves fairy wings from the hypermarket.

Pearl with her fairy wing, a smaller size just right for her.

Crystal got herself a bigger pair of fairy wings, and they running around the house with it.

I got myself a pair of shoes, I wore it to work today!!

This photo was taken by Pearl at the hotel outside the dinner reception hall. It amused me seeing her taking photo of us.

We attended my cousin's wedding at the Le Maridien hotel in the evening. That was the first time I've been to the hotel since it started operation. I do not like the surrounding of the hotel, as it all so messy and feel so unsafe, especially at night.

This photo was taken by Crystal

This was taken by me. zoom..they ran in the hall after photo taking

Start All Over Again

2008-11-29T15:21:00.000+08:00

My Blog PRECIOUS MOMENTS..has been hijacked by some bloody hijacker about two weeks ago. Viewing of my blog will be redirect to theirs and am finding ways to get my blog back. Since I love blogging so much and would not want to compromise for letting our precious moments unrecorded due to the hijack, I decided to start this new blog mainly for our two little girls.