School is fun

It was like one week ago that missy still crying daily in the morning, refusing to go to school. but this week, she just all the sudden, no more crying, willing to go to school and tell us she likes her frens and her new teacher..

LGG and i simply scratching head, as we have been asking for feedback from her teachers for this situation and in have personally called up theur principle to ask for assistance on this.

well, i guess, children just out-grow "situation".. am happy it has passed.

Lady Birds Peter and Jane

after thinking about it and asking around, i decided to get the whole series of peter and jane for missy and later didi..to start their reading.

I've placed order for series a & b, total 24 books. at the same time, we have ordered 23 lady bird's story books for missy classmates for her birthday in September as birthday favour. We thought giving book to children is better than those sweets and pencil case.. and we can personalise the book to each of her friend on the first page with their name.

So, just 3 more months to go, missy will be 4. her princess theme birthday is going to be materialised soon. all things are princess related.. pheww.. hope she will remember her birthday

mum & her tumour

Mum found out she had a tumour in her braind in 2009, when i was just few months pregnant with lil Jared.. we were devastated.. how could such thing happen, and to my mum..The tumour was diagnosed aftr a MRI was done. the eye doctor was so good, that, the initial suspect from us that mum got cataract, but after the doc examine mum's eye, they found something not right, which to us, nothing is wrong with mum's eye movement.. so it was that, how mum found out she had a tumour on her brain which presses on her left eye nerve.

We went to the neurologist, and my aunt recommend doctor (Assoc Professor) Ivan as her friend's mum had brain tumour and was successfully operater by him. he is the doctor who attend to Lee KY's wife. So, we went to him, he managed to remove mum's tumour, mum was given a all clear and her vision resume after the operation in August 2009.

But, the good news did not last long.. ever since last year, mum started to find her lft eye vision is deteriorating.. i have been asking her to go for check up for her eyes, but she is the typ who do not want to accept reality, as in she rather don't want to know than to know what is going on.. she said, what's there to chck, im already old kinda thing.

well, after discussions with sis, we finally get her to go back to eeye centre, which we were right, we were too ate actually, mum was diagnosed with glaucoma, but the eye pressure was too high, that her vision was affected, it was not reversable, so we did a laser for her to reduce and control her eye pressure, it was done in March. her left eye vision was blurred since. even after the laser procedure, it did not help.

in June, as follow up for her glaucoma, her vision was detected to be detriorating too fast, he eye nerve was weak. so, the panel doctors had a discussions on my mum's case and Dr, Ivan again into the picture, we did anothr round of MRI. they saw a very small tumour (left over) but active, it started to grow around the eye nerve. it's in mm, which to some, it may not pose any problem. but to mum, as the way the tumour grow, it pressed on mum's left eye nerve.

Thus, mum was suggested to do radiosurgery to stop the growth. We wll be doing it end of this month. Mum already went for her consultation for this procedure, did her mask, and will be doing anothe round of pre-procedure MRI & CT scan.

Mum is quite demoalising, but when thing happen, we just have to find cure/solution, yes, it's ok to feel sad about the situation, but we still have to move on..i told her. at least, there is a cure for it, and we are here with her.

Life sometimes is so unpredictable, mum is very healthy, exercises and hardworking, she eats simple and never hve unhealthy habits, and why tumour. it's just unexplainable.

Finger cross, mum will be ok after this radiosurgery.

I wish her nothing but pink of health.

iphone 4 & me

well, i always feel i dont need a phone that has many functions and applications. to me a phone is just or me to sms and call. the simpler the better.

but i guess, sometimes, i must keep up with the trend or technology.. as almost 90% of my cols are using iphone or android.. or anything that is touch screeen and have lots of applications blahhh...

i felt so left out at times, mine is still with keypad and no other functions other than call and sms.. oh dear.. even my uncle col have upgraded his to samsung galaxy touch screen with internet and all.

so, my phone contract expired in June. so, i was tempted for many months.. to get yself a iphone, since the phone bill was covered my company, why not and i can get the phone free, the only thing i need to pay is the data plan, whihc i was reccomended to subscribe only 1G for normal internet usage, so i did and it cots me $9.30(after 7% GST) a month.. a steal i guess..

so, now, im holding a iphone4 16G with so many applications.. i thought i will be having "phone-culturre" shock.. but hey, i just ot into it real fast, the touch screen was no problem at all..

i can online, login to facebok during office hour, just to update status and check my forum on my online purchase, which usually i can only do it at hom.. wooo.. nice, but i feel too much of all these wont be good for human to human interaction. as everyone us busy with their phone..

i ty not to download games and all and will refrain from getting missy to play with my phone as much as possible..

it's convenient to have iphone i must say.. for 21 months.. shall see if i will continue to upgrade to iphone5 muahahha

Chinese Learning progress

it's coming to a month now.. missy has completed the book 1 which consists of 20 chinese words. we are now into book 2. Im happy we are progressing well. As i worried she may forget the words in book 1, i still flip thru the book 1 to get her to read out th words only (20) then book 2 is to read the words+the sentences. she is doing great so far.

as for english reading, teacher yda showed me missy can read some simple story books that they did during literacy time. she can recognise words like car, go etc.. In kiasuparents forum, they recommend lady bird petr and jane series. i ask around, many told me, no need to buy the series, just some simple 4 to 5 words in a sentence a page book to read with missy. but those ladybird books we read daily are long story, not simple words like 3 to 4 sentences a page kind..

still considering. now, i feel investing on these material is ok, as i can reuse them for lil Jared.

School Not Fun

This is the answer missy gave me when she talked to me in the phone this morning. she again refuse to leave home to go to school, which is just downstair.

It has been like this since May, crying in the morning. refuse to follow her daddy to school, ended up, grandma has to bring her down with didi.. with so much coaxing and all.. even promise rewards and all..

till after so much talking before sleep, rewards dangling.. still she cry and refuse to go to school. The only thing in her school is the changing of her English tacher and also her chinese teacher is on 2 weeks leave now due to her sons all got HFMD, all three sons..

so,missy dun feel comfortabke with other class teacher/relief teacher .. and her new English teach (third one) is not as friendly and not as passionate as her teacher Yda. sigh. talkng abt quality of teacher. the first day she took over, missy missed her nap which was never happen before.

teacher Yda said it's a passing phase as there are some of her classmates too been cring like this , one since Jan, but all ok le.. now, missy start.. sigh.

So, just finger cros, missy will adapt to the new teacher , their style and all.

World flag

Mummy in SM class been sharing world flags chart that they bought from popular. I thought, hey, it may be the best time to get missy to recognise the flags. she is at her peak in LM.

So, i got the flag chart and i make them into LM format, 50 cards per sheet.

So, we shall do Flags LM for this month. Hope missy benefits from this.

Learning Hua Yi

we have been on the target .. set my me.. ha. missy is now at the last pages of the first book for baic chinese (20 chinese words) she can read a whole sentence too. i'm so happy.

Now, we have also include chinese poem recital since her memory is very good, she can pick it up very fast. we recite one poem a week. we have done two so far since we started 2 weeks back

1. xiao shu bao


2. Yu zhi ying


this week, we will recite


next week, we will do the rao gou ling


glad that missy is showing interest in reading/recognising chinese words ! Happy learning!