Rainbow Baby

I guess being a mother tends to expose you to outbreaks in an unexpected ways.  Whether it is HFMD, chicken pox, measles or what not, these are the times when your motherhood skills get tested to the max. My girl has unfortunately contracted the HFMD after 2 days of free trial pre-school class.  Again, I am not keen to name the school for privacy reason and the reason I am writing this is not to complain about them. She came home with a slight fever on the second and last day of the trial class.  Then the fever escalated and became higher and she was very cranky and clingy and all that.  By midnight, she suddenly broke into hives.  I think I have mentioned about this in the previous post.   The next day (Thurs), I brought her to the clinic to check out and doctor said it was viral fever. But on the following day (Fri), her feet had few blisters, her hands had some and her mouth had few.  Thank God it was very mild episode of HFMD....

Today, my dad sent me to the LRT station and my nephew to his kindy, which is all the same way.  My girl woke up early today and decided to tag along and waved goodbye to my mom as the car reversed out from the porch.  When nearing my nephew's kindy, she spoke loudly, "Not this one!" and burst into tears.   That's when we realised she thought she was going to school and when she realised she was not, she was disappointed and burst into tears.  Her first rejection in life.   I guess she enjoyed the sessions in the pre-school and was hoping for more.  But mommy not willing to fork out RM1k per month for her to play.  I rather she play at home.  She might be bored because my nephew is not around for half a day and my girl just ended up watching cartoons and YouTube on TV on her own. When she arrived home after dropping me off at the LRT station, still in tears and puffy eyes from crying, she told my mom, "Go school!!!!".  ...

Recently there was a 2-day free trial class in one of the Preschool around my work place.  I decided to just send her there to try out, although she just turned 2 and not toilet-trained. Now, this post is not to hentam this preschool or to brag about my girl.  But I am glad I sent her there to try out so that I know what my prerequisite requirements are.  I decided not to name the school for privacy reasons. The Good My girl was highly praised by the teachers and principal.  Words like independent, did not cry, follow instructions well were told to me.  I was of course pretty proud of my baby.   I have slowly realised that my girl is on the intelligent side, dare to do things on her own without being told, pick up her own mess without being told, willing to try new things and explore at her own risk.  Besides all this, she is also a relatively quiet girl.  When I compared her with the other 2 year olds that I know of, I find t...

I have written a post on this in January and completed forgotten about it.  OK, here's the continuation to my earlier post .   The Parenthood Pre-School Pros 1. Looks very nice.  I haven't been there personally, but from pictures and reviews from other parents, it looks like a very nice and fun place for kids. 2. Near my workplace. 3. International syllabus. Cons 1. Expensive at RM1xxx per month for half day program. 2. Not very professional (admin wise).  Like how can the phone number on the brochure belongs to a man completed not related them? OK, to be continue....

It took me so long to finish this project and finally it's ready!!!  I was more excited than the recipient and I was so glad I had finally managed to finish something (cos I am known for my procrastination and lots of abandoned projects).   I won't be sharing the whole book due to copyright (yeah right).  So here's some of it. These 2 pages are counting and numbers.  The number was taken from a sticker book and I stuck it to a 50 cent size mounting board.  Since the sticker is from a reusable sticker book, the glue is not as good and it kept coming off.  The back of the mounting board is velcro.  So she is supposed to count the beads and then stick the numbers accordingly.   I am quite satisfied with this page.  As you can see, the flower paper is actually from our praying wick that we put on oil and lit the wick.  I managed to get some flower shape one instead of the normal circle shaped.  I just took o...

I was hooked.   I have always enjoyed Journey To The West by TVB, especially the first one where Dicky Cheung was the Monkey King.   The first Journey To The West movie I watched was the one acted by Stephen Chow.  It was soooo good!  The sequel was also amazing!  I craved for more actually. The next one was a movie directed by Stephen Chow.  It was quite nice but something was lacking.  Maybe because Stephen Chow was not in it?   The Chinese version of Journey To The West has always followed closely to the original story.  I mean the traditional setting, the relationship between Monk Xuanzang, his first disciple, Sun Wukong, second disciple, Zhu Baijie and third disciple, Sha Wujing.  And the story is mainly about how the 4 of them encountered the demons and monsters along the way. So, when Hwayugi came along, I was taken by surprise!  Journey To The West in a modern setting with some slight twis...

Recently there was a new group created on Facebook, where members in that group can freely gift any items to anyone at all.  The idea was to reduce wastage, to Go Green and to promote gifting/blessing.  I really like the idea and I thought it was such a great doing to be gifting to someone else who needed the items, without having to spend any. Ever since it started in December 2017, I have gifted some preloved baby items and a kitchen item.  In return, I was gifted a baby item as well. However, there are some issues on the group that I feel I need to discuss/talk about.   First, there was a set of rules decided by the Admin, which I feel is quite good so that the good intention of the group continues.  Say, cannot give animals, cannot take the items and then resell for profit and so on. While many members follow strictly the rules otherwise they will be booted out or ban, I still find that there are some unwritten rules that a lot of them ...