Heading to Gerik

We drove back to Penang today, daddy driving Ah Kong's car (with Ko-ko) and me in the BMW with the rest. 

Just as we crossed the second bridge, my phone rang. Mei-mei answered and Alex Ku-ku called to say that Grampy had a fall while fishing. His friend, David had informed them. 

We reached home and unpacked then went out to buy lunch (a late one) before starting back out on the road, this time heading to Gerik.

Cannot imagine seeing this view again

We arrived at the hospital at about the same time as Nanna, Alex Ku-ku, Ah Kim and her cousin. But Grampy was not there yet. Turned out it was not easy for the ambulance and rescue crew to reach him as he was in the orang asli village. As Ku-ku was standing outside the hospital, he saw the rescue services driving pass with a boat. We guessed that was brought in to get Grampy from the other side of the river.

We asked the ER man to contact us when he arrives and head out in search for dinner. As it is only the 3rd day of CNY, we ended up eating KFC.  

Then Grampy arrived. After checking and scans, we made arrangements to send him to the Penang General Hospital. Daddy called the ambulance service to make the arrangements. When the ambulance finally arrived at 11pm, the moved Grampy into the ambulance and we followed in our car while Ku-ku went back to KL. 

Puppet Show

While we were doing your ICT assignment on Monday, I came across a conversation on Chat with your English teacher. It turned out that you had signed up for the Literature and Language festival to do a puppet show. But you did NOTHING on that and gave an excuse that you had too much homework.

I was so very disappointed. You had the whole week off and spent most of that time watching TV as we had cleared out most of the homework. 

When asked, you confirmed my suspicion that you did not plan to submit anymore since it was overdue. Which was why you did not mention a word to me. I was so disappointed in the lying.

So that very night, you had to sleep late as you had to prepare the puppets and props for the puppet show. We decided to use one of the stories you wrote for English with some tweaks. 

While you had classes yesterday, I painted the background so that it looked more colorful. 

We tried several rounds of recording and finally came up with quite a decent performance. I had to trim and combine some of the scenes and submit the video to your teacher. 

I hope this serves as a lesson to you for lying. 

Time to Bid Farewell

After so many years of teaching the both of you, Miss Lim had to bid you farewell as she was not feeling well and was unable to cope with teaching extra lessons on top of her school work. 

She had started teaching the both of you since you were in pre-school. 

Evan was especially affected by her departure. But maybe when she gets better, she will be able to return to teaching the both of you. 

I'm glad that the both of you made/found something to give her as a remembrance to the two rascals she had to teach twice a week, Hope that she gets well soon.

It’s Time to Say No

Reminder to self to not let you both have everything that you want too easily. Tonight is a lesson to me for allowing that for too long. *sob*

Growing Up So Soon?

When I brought you down to school on Wednesday, you told me that you'll go in yourself. I thought that I had heard you wrongly.  But when I followed youtowards school, you told me you would go in on your own. My heart sank, I was so sad.
Thank goodness on the subsequent days you allowed me to go in with you. Phew...
Don't grow up so soon,darling.

Quitting

I was so heart broken when I saw you sobbing when we picked you up from Wushu yesterday.  You said that you were punished again. Sigh.. you have been asking to be allowed to quit Wushu but we have been resisting, trying to instil upon you that you cannot give up so easily when faced with challenges.
I half wanted to march up to the hall and give the instructor a piece of my mind. But I stopped and as Ah kong had stopped right in  front of the gate at that moment, we quickly hopped into the car
The moment Ah Kong saw you crying and found out it was due to the pumishment, he mumbled that you should quit Wushu but I quickly interrupted and told him to let daddy and I talk to you.
Had some time to think rationally about the reason you would be punished and so first thing we did was to go upstairs to discuss the situation. I asked many questions and found out that the reason you were punished was mainly because of a step that you did not learn when it was first taught as we were on holidays in US. So after giving you many examples on why you should not quit,  we agreed that I would go see the instructor to ask him to teach you the steps properly and that you'd ask your classmate to go through the steps with you in the week also.
Daddy also spoke to you on not giving up so easily when faced with challenges.  Hopefully you'll have a better session next Saturday. And hopefully it will serve as a lesson for you not to give up so easily too.

It's all Gone

Didn't see it, but the rain yesterday must have been a sign of more bad things to come. We had parked the car in the carpark that was very near the office as we were back early from lunch. The next thing we knew, it was raining heavily and that carpark was prone to flooding. Mummy went down to check on the car, and was thankful that it wasn't flooded where our car was parked. When the time came for us to go home, it was still drizzling, but most of the flood water had subsided. Unfortunately, daddy had to remove his shoes in order not to get them wet to get to the car.

When we reached home, kakak had to manually open the gate as one of the electrical phase at home was out. There was also no electricity going to the fridge and so daddy had to put an extension from the power point that had electricity. Since there was no electricity in the dining area, you had lunch in the living room, while daddy, Ah Kong and mummy ate on the small table behind. A little cramped but you also joined us for your second round of dinner.

After dinner, you did you big business and daddy cleaned you up and while we were lazing in the bed upstairs, poof, the electricity went off. We were sitting in the dark. But you weren't too worried at all. All you kept saying was "boh.. boh", telling mummy that there were no lights. Luckily you pooped before the lights went off! Otherwise, we'd be cleaning you in the candle light!

We sat around for a while and you got grumpy as you wanted to sleep. In the end, we went off in 2 cars to the condo, to sleep in air-conditioned comfort! And also to watch Astro. Ah Ma stayed at home with kakak.

You woke up really early this morning. 6am. And so mummy also had to get up and get ready to go home. And since you were up so early, you napped a while on the way home, but woke up recharged but a little grumpy when we reached home.

That was when mummy made the gruesome discovery. All my stock of expressed breast milk in the freezer has thawed. Sigh.. and the fresh one that was expressed yesterday at work didn't even cool down. And so today you will have to take frozen milk. Mummy had to throw away yesterday's milk. I hope you will be co-operative and take the frozen milk, as you have been on a milk strike lately, refusing to take the frozen milk that Ah Ma gives you, preferring to take other food.

Please take the frozen milk. Don't let so much milk go to waste. Mummy already had to pour away some this morning... Unless you would like give formula milk another try?