A very typical another ordinary day.

Today's activity is like spring cleaning the home for CNY. First, I cleaned the floor, then as the mood continued, it went on cleaning every surface and the fake plants/ deco which were not wiped since day 1 they moved in *gasp*. I wonder why. I guess it had something to do with a blank mood when everyone suddenly gone away/home. Mom who stayed around with me for 2 weeks now, went back last evening with dad and my 2nd brother flew off to down under for his vacation. Thinking him having a holiday faraway made me feel miserable. Thoughts about my good friend flying away to Milan with her family made it even worse.

Then again, it wasn't very prolonged. Seeing the kids playing together happily at home lifted up my mood again. It's the first day of their exams, and didi came home with a confident reply of OK when I asked how it went. Quite frankly, this time round, I didn't tutor them so much, so I could evaluate their standard without much help from me. In fact, over the weekend, we hang around doing nothing much other than playing games and wasting our time away rather than burying ourselves in the books, since it was a party here!

Seeing that they didn't have enough sleep over the weekend (we watched Avatar again till late night at home, dragging along dad to watch with us), I shoved them to their beds after lunch while I scrub the house. After 1 hour of very much still awake, I told them to get up and do their homework instead. Didi told me he has none while meimei went about doing hers. I told didi to work on some maths problems.

When they are done, they played chess together. Seeing them playing instead of fighting, I felt very pleased and don't have the heart to tell them to stop and start on more workbooks. So I just let them play on, even though there's more tests coming on the way. How cool is that? It delights me to see them going back to basics, playing on their toys and board games together since they know electronic games are banned during the weekdays and they had quit trying their luck anymore with me.

After working my ass off, I made a simple dinner with fishballs and steamed egg. While the boys are doing some work, I asked meimei to come in to the kitchen to help me with the french beans, stealing the idea from a blogger who had her girls helped her plucked the ends of the french beans away for her too. Meimei is so happy to do the job while I had the free time to get other things done in the kitchen. This is a much better accomplished "playtime in the kitchen" than the last baking session.

When dinner is over and 3 pages of English exercises, I quickly hurried didi and meimei to bed while korkor still working hard on his homework. When I got out from the shower, he asked me to give him a haircut, and wahlau! I even managed a 10 mins fast haircut for him! What a fruitful day indeed! But of course, have to jubjub his hair more tomorrow.

And that's actually, quite truthfully, not a very typical ordinary day for me.