Stress over, happy now.

For the boys. Probably me too.

With the mid year exams over yesterday, we can all relax now for awhile. Not that I'm stress out to ensure they bring home flying colors, but surely, all other pleasurable activities had to be onhold to drill some last minute revision into their daily routine.

So, after coming back from school, they shower, eat their lunch and start doing their homework and more homework (from me!). Not only they sien, me also sien. It's very potong stim to cajol, nag or threaten them to finish off the day's work. After they are done, I need to go through the answers and explain to them where they are wrong. It's so tedious. It takes equal amount of effort on my side as well as theirs to get these 2-3 hours of work done.

However, it does give some satisfaction and results (I so hope!). Korkor came home after that maths test and told me luckily I taught him how to shrink a division to a smaller number for easier problem solving, and also teaching him the trick to know quickly if a big number can be divided by 3. He said he was quickly done with that question while the rest were still spending a lot of time on that one. Really kembang wei.

They were so happy that they have the day free now, and keep asking me to let them play games, watch tv, totally chilling out. I introduce the game chess to them and took out the free gift from some credit card bank new application from the storeroom.

The whole board and pieces are made of glass. Though pretty and dainty, they only spell trouble! Cause we need to ensure extra care not to drop them and cut ourselves with those small pieces of glasses. Just brand new for a few hours and *piang* one little pathetic pawn was broken into 4 pieces. I sighed but watudo, that's life with kids around! Can't really expect things to stay their original way for over 24 hours, really. Unless it's child-proof. But sometimes child-proofed, they too manage to spoil them, it might just be their expertise.

I glued it back and the boys were happy, good as new, they said. *roll eyes*

Friday is Teachers' Day party at school, and I was being reminded over and over again by korkor to make homecooked food for his friends. Boy! Almost 40 people in his class, and another 40 from didi's, that would be enough to keep me occupied for the whole day in the kitchen!