Hurray! 2 in school!

This is the first week Adrian starts to have a feel of "school life".

On the 1st day of school, he didn't want to leave his warm bed. Meanwhile, Chloe was all geared up to go! (So sorry, darling, you have to stay and wait for another year or two). Heard that she wasn't too happy being alone the whole morning, looking dull and moody and wouldn't even want to touch her toys at all.

As for Adrian, he's pretty cool from the first day. Only when I reached there to fetch him home, he sobbed to me that he hurt his little finger from closing on his beg's latch. Other than that, the teacher told me he's doing good.

My little boy, how grown up now...

Remote Controller

From now on, there's a new remote controller in our home. Adrian is not relying on us to change the channel to the one he wants to watch anymore. No more pleading, begging and crying. He mastered the know-how. So, KT has another headache. Apart from his mother-in-law and Joshua and me fighting for the channel preference on the TV, Adrian will be fighting for his right too! Hahaha...

Boy! Wait till he knows the trick to watch dvd...

1st Report Card Day

Last Sat, I went to my son's school for my very first "Report Card Collection Day". I guess it's more of a significant day for me than for my son. And it's unlike those report cards that nice sweet kindy teachers prepare for the parents, saying everything a parent would be proud to hear about their offsprings.


I was more eager to hear about what the teacher got to say about his behaviour and attitude in class than the marks he gets for his tests. Was really worried that she would start complaining about him being naughty, daydreaming all the time, or what else there are. Where should I start digging hole to put my face when faced with such situation, I wonder.

But it was ok, she said he's quite a nice kid, and he would come up to her to ask her questions about the things he doesn't understand, which not all the rest of the class would do. I guess that's a good sign?

She also mentioned he talks chinese like an angmoh, so that's one part we need to help him improve on. Sigh.. life is getting stressful for me indeed.

Anyway, with his own efforts and very little guidance from me, he reached the position in the "First 15" is good enough from me. Looking back, I think I didn't do as well as him when I was at his age.

Hope he would keep on drowning his teachers with his never ending questions..

The differentiation

There are 3 types of people in this world :
1. To make things happen
2. To watch things happen
3. Wondering what happened.

I probably heard of that before, but somehow when I heard it again yesterday, it just hit right there... somewhere.

As a friend said before, the brilliant guys behind some big-money-making websites were actually not so brilliant. The ideas were not BIG ideas. Any normal person might have thought of that ideas too. What differentiates them from the normal person is that .... they MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Isn't that so true? We all identify what we need, and with a need, there comes the demand and thus, comes the supply. There's where the money comes rolling in, with a bit of hardwork too.

Girls meet

On Labours Day, we held an "all girls meet" in 1U for lunch.



It was an enjoyable and pleasant afternoon. We went to Chillis (my suggestion!), more for the bottomless drinks and its succulent lamb. They were very smart, made me talked and before I knew it, the food were all gone and I was left with nothing. *Grrr*

After lunch, we helped our stomachs to digest the food by walking around some bookstores, then felt like sitting down for another drink again. Shows how old we are now!

During the tong-sui session, the girls made me showed my "see-lai" image by prompting me to talk about the mastery of "floor cleanliness", my goodness! Imagine how our topics changed so drastically from "men and dating" 10 years ago to "how to sweep and mop the floor the 21st century" now.

But I guess all of us laughed a lot that day. It was surprisingly, a very pleasant and enjoyable company that afternoon. I guess none of us had any other agenda, just purely to meet up as old friends, which made the company so comfortable.

LM is seriously endulging in her photography hobby, as she took out her bulky and cool 8Megapixels SLR digital camera and snapped pictures of us. We were the reluctant models for the day. Hope she would become famous one day for her photography skills. Take a look at her pictures here.

Meanwhile, the updates we have, for the benefit of our friends, LL is getting ready for the arrival of her twins, MK is seriously training to be a line-dancer, Esther is on the way for her retirement as a nanny. As for JM, she's busy being a "GRO" for her high class customers.. accompanying them to Pangkor Laut resorts for so-called meetings.. Hahaha... ( It's actually an envious remark here.. we had been dreaming of going to Pangkor Laut all these years but feels it's too expensive).

Poslaju

Went to the post office yesterday. The poslaju service gives you a guarantee "Dijamin sampai esok" for the slightly higher stamp fee compared to the normal post. Well, I wonder if it means the guarantee lasts only until the next day, as that's how it does sound to me. Guarantee on what, that's another question too.

Shouldn't it be, "Dijamin esok sampai" if they want to say "Guaranteed to arrive the next day"?

Family vacation at Awana

We went up to Genting over the weekend....err, yes, ......again!

But this time, instead of the usual hotel stay up at those theme park resorts, we checked in to the family resort apartment with 2 bedrooms at Awana. The apartment was basically maintained well. There was even a jacuzzi where all 5 of us can squeeze into and enough to get the children crazy.

We were given more than enough free tickets for the skyway cable, so the children had a fun ride, though the Q was for half an hour each way.

That night, we had steamboat dinner at the apartment, with another couple friend around. They were to bring their children along too, but made them "flew aeroplane". Anyway, we had too much food on the dinner table, not enough shandy, and a relaxingly pleasant dinner without much fuss with the children.

The next day, we went horse riding for 5 bucks 2 rounds. I thought it wasn't much of a big deal, but when I mount up the horse with Adrian in front of me, I was frightened I would fall down! It was such a tense ride, but Adrian liked it, enjoying the scenery from a higher eye-level.

KT then had his attempt on the archery while all of us watched. Sad to say, the score was nothing to brag about here.

The pool was a hot big tub, it was just great dipping in the hot steamy pool in that cool environment.

We hang around longer around the apartment, and only descent from the hill around late afternoon.

I would truly recommend Awana for families, rather than the commercialised "city of entertainment" anytime. There are also other family-style eco-activities like hiking and fox flying, which I kept in mind to go for when there's a chance later.