Congratulations, Evan. You came back with these 2 confirmations: Head Monitor for the Board of Monitors and also on the school Editorial Board.
I'm glad that you have decided to take on some responsibilities in school. Hope that you enjoy your Year 10 experience on top of the jobs for these positions.
Today is a replacement public holiday. As daddy did not have any golf plans, we planned to have brunch in one of our favourite cafes. Our first priority was Chapel Street cafe. And as luck would have it, when I tried calling the second time, they picked up the call and even accepted my reservation. Yay!
We ended up arriving a little earlier which was a good thing as it was packed and lunch was quite slow. Ko-ko had plans to meet up with his friends at 1pm. It started to rain just as we were served our food.
As we had ample time, we took a slow lunch and daddy had a second cup of coffee while Mei-mei had some ice-cream.
The queue to the carpark (as expected) was sooooooooo long. But luckily the carpark in G Hotel (which is under renovation) was still open to parking. So we managed to easily get a slot to park in there.
We bought you a new swimsuit (so that you can start learning swimming soon). We also picked up some groceries then headed home.
It was such a long day, that I'd forgotten that it was Monday and you had tuition. So I had to call you Madam Heah and apologize for having to cancel (yet again).
Daddy and I had to go out again later to pick up Ko-ko and his friend. What a long, long day.
Based on your appointment, you were due for the IMOJEV booster. But when we went in today, you were informed that you needed two jabs: IMOJEV and Flu shot.
So again, you got two jabs, one on each arm.
Today is Teacher's Day. For many days leading to this day, you had planned on the gifts for the teachers. This is what we made. Home decorated plant pots with the spider plants, which had babies (a couple of months back).
While waiting to be repotted, I had left the babies with the main plant, but it seemed to be lacking nutrients, so I had to cut them and place them in water to root.
Hurt my finger today. While I was struggling to put on my jeans to get ready to work, my nails decided to bend backwards. It started bleeding and daddy had to put on gauze with tape to stop the bleeding.
When I got back from the gym today, my little precious asked if it still hurt and even gave my finger a kiss to make it better.
Today I decided to cook Japchae since you all like it so much. Evan came to wish me while I was cooking, he also got to taste test the noodles for doneness.
As for Mei-mei, you decided to wish me as I was washing up. You even tried to give me your handmade heart. I asked you to put it with the Japchae recipe since my hands were wet.
Later on, I realised that you put it on the dining table with the Japchae instead of with my recipe. You told me that you could not find the recipe, so you put it with the noodles. *lol*
You even told me that you wanted to make a heart with a message, but thought that one of that design would most likely be too complicated, so you folded the origami heart which you already know how to do, cut it into half and stuck on the message. Creative..
We decided to clean your earrings last night and after cleaning the one on the left side, daddy realised that it could not lock when we closed it. Oh no! So we quickly put back the studs (which you are not really fond of),
Today, as my doctor's appointment took longer than necessary daddy ended up taking half a day off work. So we had lunch and headed to the shop to see if it could be fixed or if we could buy new ones. Luckily they managed to fix it. We thought to buy new ones but could not find any nice ones or big enough ones for you. We even went to a couple of other shops, but could not find anything suitable.
As we headed back to Pandora, we decided to drop by this shop which is just outside Pandora. And ta-da, we found a nice pair. So daddy decided to buy these as spares, to make sure you have a pair in case this one comes loose again.
Well, your "whiskers" have been growing and although they are fine hairs, it is very visible. So after much thought (on your end) and persuasion (from daddy's end), you agreed to shave.
We bought the shaver on Friday when we stopped by Gurney Paragon for groceries and some toiletries.
Today is D-Day:
Today Ah Kong was telling me that the bananas given by our neighbour was very delicious, but the Pisang Raja wasn't as good. So I asked if I could make cupcakes with the Pisang Raja and he told me to go ahead.
So when you got back from school, I told you that we'll be making banana cupcakes and you were very happy about that.
After I was done with work, we got to making the banana cupcakes. It's the recipe I used a long, long time ago. After turning on the oven to preheat, I got you to start weighing and measuring out the ingredients.
Next you got to cut up the bananas then mash them.
I offered to sew on your name tag, but later when I noticed that the printing on the tie was faded you told me that this is temporary. I asked if you were on probation and you said "Yes, what does that mean?". Ahahaha...
I showed you how to remove the necktie without totally undoing it, just like how Ko-ko wears his tie on Mondays. But I think I should show you how to tie it up so that you can do it yourself next time.
Congratulations again, our little librarian. Hope that you will pass the probation period.
When mei-mei saw it, to my surprise she wasn't too afraid. Instead she kept commenting that it's so unique: shaped like a heart.
It did strike me to be of a different shape from the normal moths, but I love your perspective of it looking like a heart shape.
We received two good news:
1. Evelyn got accepted into the position of librarian which you had applied for;
2. Evan accepted the position Head of the Monitor's Board.
Congratulations to the two of you. Great job and we're so proud of you.
*Oh and it's not an April Fool's joke!
