Princess Story

After our lunch and Renee's violin practice, I decided to let her dabble with her paintwork again. Since the colouring books pages are not suitable for wet paint work, I photocopied a few pages for her. Then, remembering the Dora printable Li's got for her, I went in search of some princesses' and came across online story telling(though they don't start from the beginning and story's sorta different from the books). Renee was very excited about the stories and I let her controlled the turning of pages whilst I tend to her dinner preparation, :)

Yeah yeah, the table's a big mess(it's alot better now, :>). I've only began to sort the things out after daddy's left them the way they were when he moved his stuffs to the new office

Shoes need ornaments? What else?

Geez, merchants dealing with women/children stuffs really know how to 'make money', lolz. I've seen these from online sprees/merchants and on the day I brought Renee to the PD's on her allergy, we bought these :

I've bought them with the intention of perhaps using them for other accessories as she can't wear her crocs minnie mary jane yet, but I've just joined another spree(can't resist the designs/price) and getting her some more similar maryjanes from a US merchant, we might be able to use them soon after all(when we've collected the shoes of cos, :>).

And yesterday, after our lunch at Punggol Plaza(cos her violin lesson's postponed again, to Fri), I took Renee to the stalls at the atrium and we bought these :

Paint Flakes

When we got to the carpark this morning, 1 of the painting guys(our multistorey carpark is being repainted, which looks better and bright now)was cleaning my car! I asked if it's got paint on it, he quickly defended that they've put cover on it and no paint... On closer inspection, I do see tiny little flakes of white paint on parts of my car but they're removable, so daddy(I phoned him to double check) said to leave it. When I got into my car, this guy began wiping the car next to mine...

It was raining since morning but instead of feeling cool, we've all felt stuffy/sweaty(another consolation that I've cut my hair short, heee). I've thought that we'd be late for school but the traffic was surprisingly smooth today and having left the carpark at about 11am, we got to school at 11:10am(so I kana the car crowd at the sch compound, :<).

Back to School!

School resumes today and Renee's most excited about it, :). Saw the new Principal but having woke up with a burning throat, I left after handing the administrator our cheque.

I've missed a couple of calls when I was at the supermarket, 1 of which waas from Janice and when I text her(din wanna talk due to my sore throat), she replied that her hubby had told her about the school's email on 1 HMFD case from the next studio classroom, 1st session. Aiyoh, I was half suspecting it, as we've been advised much earlier that these cases usually occurred after a school holiday break. So far, it had been the children from the morning sessions whom have been reported so far(since last year) and we can't help wondering if it's due to them having more time to go to other places after school?(cos the last one was during school week)

Anyway, just hope that all's well under controlled again, so no other kid will get it.

We've noticed that the playground(the one near our block) has been blocked off since 1 or 2 days ago and this morning, a reporter, cameraman, the victim and his family were seen at the site(so it might come up in the news tonight). Daddy took the opportunity to tell them that we've in fact reported the danger of the particular 'item'(not sure what it's called) but after we've been directed to literally every department of the supposedly concerned offices(even the police dept's included, can you imagine?), there had been no conclusion and no follow-up/answer or whatsoever was given. The matter was just left to lapse despite our trying to phone them and now... The said 'set' was removed off from the site later this afternoon with a replacement(a Tic-Tac-Toe game).

The readers for this term :

KPE(ECP)

This link(from Seng Kang) is finally opened for public use today! Going to Suntec City(or anywhere that region) via this link will take us only about 10mins. We have used this link before but we'd have to detour to Tampines road, then to Hougang(on our way home), but not anymore!

However, the GPS will not be able to pick up this new route til a year later(understand that we might have to pay for it?) so I guess, unless I remember the routing myself, then travelling on this link will be quite unlikely? lolz... Anyway, I'm fine, 'cos the speed limit(with cameras everywhere in the tunnel) is set at 70km/hr(supossedly to prevent accidents) and you tend to fall asleep even though the road is quite bumpy - probably to keep you awake, :D.

Gadgets, gadgets and more gadgets!

Hadn't the mood to attend the dinner with daddy nor wishing to trouble Eileen further(plus I've just got the sore throat), I decided to go along with daddy to Funan to get some stationary and electronic supplies for his office. On top of that, we took the opportunity to look at the other gadgets that we've been wanting to get.

The iCharge/iStore/iDownload/iPlay comes free with the portable hard disk(1000gb) and with this purchase, we need not buy extra memory card for the digital photo frame(1gb).

We also finally moved our butt and got a Garmin GPS(for me obviously) but I'm not entirely sure how it works or if it'll be really that useful to me.

I'm given the task to find out how these gadgets work but being unwell and feeling tired, I gave up after I'm done with the hard disk installation(and the full drive transfer of files confused me)... Hopefully daddy will take over(not sure if he has the time) tomorrow so I'll only be left to tackle the GPS, heee.

With a sore throat, I've been hushing my 'instructions' to Renee and when she asked me why so, I've told her that it's because she's been naughty and I've lost my voice from the numerous times I've to tell her to drink water, to keep her toys, blah blah... She then said "I'm very sorry, mommy". Just now, as I was tucking her to bed whilst waiting for daddy to return, she sobbed and told me that she's very sad that I've lost my voice and would like my voice to 'return'(not sure if she had related it to the part of story which Eileen had told her - princess Ariel had given up her voice to be with her prince charming, etc...). I told daddy about it and he commented "so dramatic", hahaha.

Artwork(Drawing) Display

Renee's bought her toys over, on the recent occasions when we've left her at Eileen's and remembering those times she's brought her drawing stuffs along when we went to my sisters', I thought it'd be a good idea for her to use this hand-held bag as her 'artwork bag'. She was very excited when she heard this suggestion and readily brought out some of her arts stuffs which she thought she'd be packing into the bag in due course, :P:

Some of you may have remembered the 'winnie the pooh' bag of markers from her pool of birthday gifts. She for one, had definitely remembered and had immediately requested for drawing paper to try out the markers when I got them out of the cupboard, :). Looking at the drawings she'd done with them, I'm quite surprised at the vibrant colours the markers produced(comparing to those she's been using earlier)...:

Pa Pa's office

As planned, we followed daddy to the office and whilst waiting for him, Renee did her colourings at one of the 'stations' and even commented "Oh this is perfect" when I adjusted the seat higher for her, hahaha.

After the interview, daddy had to go to a client's office and so I brought the food I've prepared for Renee to the Jack's Place resturant downstairs, where we both had our lunch(later daddy told me he had his at a kopi tiam, heee).

Since young, Renee had always felt embarrassed whenever she got caught in action(be it something cute or even lovely) and in response, she'll turn hostile to those who looked on and smiled/laughed. We've tried explaining to her many times that people are not laughing at her but rather, it's because they had found her cute(or its relevant) but she still didn't like it. Today, after she's had her lunch, she went over to sit at the bench opposite and began her 'imagined' violin playing. She got carried away and was alittle loud in her tune that a family when saw what she was doing, laughed and she got angry, haiz...

With such 'shyness', it goes without saying that she'd have 'stage fright' and has always been unwilling to 'perfom' infront of others, be it a dance or a song she's learnt. Realising this, Ms Mok advised that I let her play her violin more, infront of 'people'. For a start, I'm to let her perform more often infront of her aunts and this was what we'd planned for this evening. As expected, she backed out at the last minute and even took a longer time to recover(as compared to the very 1st time she's played infront of them) and it's quite irritating especially after having had to go through the motion with her for a while. Let's hope she'll overcome this fear soon(before her exam)...

More Lollipops!

Renee had her violin make-up lesson today and as there was an extra 1 day break, we took the opportunity to 'practice-play' the last variation(the easiest) of the Twinkle2 Little Star song. To my surprise, she managed to get stars for all the other 3 variations! So it's hurray for her, as I've promised to give her either a heartshaped colourful lollipop(which she saw at mini toons) or for easier consumption, 2 smaller lollipops. After listening to my explanation on why the choice of the smaller ones is more feasible, she took it up and for being such a good girl, I gave her one the minute when we got home(til now she's not asked for the 2nd one, lolz).

Back home, after rushing through cooking her lunch, her shower, blah blah, we skipped practice today 'cos I've to help daddy prepare some documents for tonight's seminar.

I was also supposed to be drafting the letter for CH to the SF for the selection of his newborn son's name, but I gave up after a while when I simply couldn't remember some chinese characters and I text him to email me the draft instead, hahaha. He sent it over today but with some amendments going to and fro, I hope to be able to get it done for him by tomorrow...

Eileen, apparently confused by the come/no-come situation for the past few days and with daddy's telling me the wrong day of his client's invitation to his son's wedding, she got mixed-up I guess and had not known that Renee would be going over this evening! Good thing she's still ok when I've text her before we brought Renee down.

I feel kinda paiseh to trouble Eileen again this Sunday(not to mention the confusion I've caused her, heee), especially when it's quite a last minute thing since we got the dates mixed-up, I'll try ask daddy if my pressence is really needed at the wedding dinner event as I known that my attendance's already been confirmed(well, hopefully they won't mind if the angpao just go along, get what I mean, heee...). So, unless for some reason my pressence's required, otherswise, I'll try not to go(besides, dinner usually ends quite late and school's starting again the next day).

Meanwhile, I'll be bringing Renee down to daddy's office tomorrow as he would be conducting interviews for his administrative help, :).