Thursday, July 1, 2010

Ms Claire's report card

Last Saturday, PK & I attended our first Parents-Teachers Session!

Well, it was a chance for us to know how Ms Piggy is doing at school and at the same time to discuss with the teachers on her toilet training.

Ms. Shufen (Chinese teacher) told us that Claire is good at solving puzzles but her ability to focus is short and not to mention that she is starting to develop some bad habits at meal times! Furthermore, she told us about few incidents on Piglet too engrossed in playing and forgotten to inform the teachers about her need to go to toilet which resulted in her wetting the floor and sometimes the clothes of her classmates!

Ms. Savit (English teacher) told us similar things about her toilet training but at the same time, she mentioned about Claire's reaction towards things. I told Ms. Savit that it's the personality as we (the parents & family) received the same treatment from her too. Ms. Savit also told us about the occassional surprises that Claire will give her, like calling her name or displaying reaction towards things.

In general, Claire is doing ok but we need to step up on the toilet training portion. At the end of the day, its quite interesting to know about her behaviour in school and at the same time, I m happy to know that she has alot of friends (her classmates) to be with her!

Monday, June 14, 2010

PK Stressed!

Yesterday, we were waiting at Clark Quay station for Mum to go to Tung Lok (Central) for our lunch.

I was playing with my iphone and PK was looking at this poster at the station intensely. Out of curiousity, I went to take a look. The poster was actually a notice to parents for 2011's Primary One registration.

Whenever I talked about this, PK will act nonchalantly. This round, he told me to join the Alumni of the Primary school that I used to attend. His reasoning, it increases the chances of Claire getting into a good primary school. So, i also jested that he should go volunteering at another ideal school choice!

He gave me this, "Mabbe i should consider that?" look. I was totally stunned, i guess he is equally KS about Piglet being able to get into a good school bah.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

What to do what to do

Recently, I just signed a letter of employment for this job which is a one year contract, company G. On the day before the contract was ready for signature, i received a call for an interview (another company).

I agreed to the interview as the offer from company G was verbal and i had to be subjected to a background check before i could start work, even though i had signed the letter but i had signed a release form that company G can terminate me anytime should my background check failed!

So i went for the interview at company H, the CFO personally interviewed me. Boy it was a long one that lasted more than an hour! The CFO was a persuasive man, somehow he managed to make me have second thoughts about company G as he threw out this main bait about work-life balance and company H being an extremely PRO-FAMILY company! In the end, the CFO extended his invitation to me for a 2nd interview!

I was in a dilemma, here I was ready to sign the contract and another potential job offer. After some thoughts, I signed the letter of employment for company G and the recruiter told me that my start date is still subjected to background check clearance! Just today, Company H (the CFO personally SMS me) and invited me for a 2nd interview. I agreed to it and the interview is scheduled 1 day before my official start date with Company G.

Seriously, I dunno whether did i do the right thing but looking at the situation, it just seems the job at company G is unsecured yet and I might not also get the job either at Company H. So, I will deem it as another learning experience coz at times in life, we are caught in such a situation too. Just wish me luck!

Friday, April 30, 2010

Art Pieces Done by Ms Claire

Drawings done with the help of her teachers

Her Attempt in coloring!

CNY Decoration (The red paint are her fingerprints!)

CNY Decoration (Red paint are her fingerprints!)

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Mystery of the mozzie bites!

During the 3 weeks in HK, we experienced alot of mozzie bites (the gang from Singapore). K, my 10 months old nephew reacted very badly to the bite.

Mum & Claire got it and they prevented it by applying Tea Tree Oil. Whereas D & I got the mozzie bites at all the weird places, I got it at my butt whereas D got it at her armpit.

We tot the mozzies were due to the stuff at Auntie's place.

But the source is finally revealed today!

Before Claire & I came back to Singapore, the toilet at Aunt's place was blocked and we had to bath by sitting on the toilet bowl so that the floor wont be flooded and reduced the need to scoop the water back into the toilet bowl.

The pipe was blocked due to the plant growing into the pipe area. So Aunt hired someone to remove the plant as their attempts to remove it was unsuccessful! It turned out that there was actually ample space for the plant to grow and its roots were so deep. It took the guy very long to remove it and the moment he removed the plant, all sorts of insects came out from it!

So, the source of the mozzies is this plant! Mum told me that finally they can bath in comfort and not to worry about mozzie bites at night!

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

I m really lucky!

In every trip to HK, no matter how we tried to control our buying... somehow we will end up with excess baggage.

This time, Piglet & I took Jetstar back to Singapore and its strictly no excess baggage, any excess baggage, you just gotta pay excess baggage charges! My original intention was to check in 3 pieces of lugguage, 2 suitcases & 1 "Red, Blue & White" bag. Imagine, my surprise when i attempted to check in all the 3 pieces of lugguage, the check in counter staff immediately shoved the calculator right in front of me and told me, "Mdm, HK$1,080 please."

I was like stunned, so she advised me to repack my lugguage. Ie pack 3 kgs more into the "Red, Blue & White" bag and took one of the suitcase as cabin lugguage. So, we desparately repacked the items and guess what happened when we checked in the "Red, Blue & White" bag. The bag's handle came off and there was a big gaping hole in it!

Totally freaked out, thank god for Mum's brilliant idea... We "patched" the hole up with an Eco bag and kept our fingers crossed that the lugguage will still be in one piece when back in Singapore. Then, we immediately went for immigration due to the lack of time and the counter staff told us that it will take at least 20 minutes from HK Airport Terminal 2 to the boarding gate at Terminal 1!

The queue at the immigration was long and after clearing it, we had to go thru scanning of our cabin lugguage. It was a "nightmare" for me. I was carrying one cabin lugguage, one handbag and one bag of the "Wives' biscuits" and not to mention, Claire in her stroller and her backpack. So, we cleared the X-ray machines and we boarded the shuttle train to Terminal 1.

It was another up and down the lift just to board the train and to get to Terminal 1. Finally, we reached the boarding gate and guess what, a bus will have to take us to our plane!!! So, at the boarding area, dunno whatever reasons, I just went up and asked the staff about the boarding time.

I was so lucky! The staff told me that my cabin lugguage will be checked in for free as there's no space to put the lugguage in the overhead compartment due to the full flight! Upon boarding the plane, my neighbour helped me to settle Claire into her seat and not to mention that, she also helped me to carry my handheld lugguage upon arrival in Singapore as Claire was asleep and I had to carry her out of the plane.

During collection of our lugguage, i thanked my lucky stars that the "Red, White & Blue" bag is still in one piece and nothing has spilled out from the bag!

The best is to see the expression on PK and H's faces when i pushed the lugguage trolley out!

The "Red, Blue & White" bag with the hole!

Back in SG

It has been a while since i updated this blog...

Went to HK for 3 weeks and will update this blog when i had sorted my things out!