dyslexia?

我開玩笑地對女兒說，你快要成為英雄了。正在織圍巾的女兒，歪著頭想了想，認真地告訴我說，老師曾講過一句格言：當英雄路過的時候，總要有人坐在路邊鼓掌。她輕輕地說：'媽媽，我不想成為英雄，我想成為坐在路邊鼓掌的人。那一刻，我忽然被這個不想成為英雄的女孩打動了。這世間，有多少人，年少時渴望成為英雄，最終卻成了煙火紅塵裏的平凡人。如果健康，如果快樂，如果，沒有違背自己的心意，我們的孩子，又何妨做一個善良的普通人。長大成人後，她一定會成為：賢淑的妻子，溫柔的母親，甚至，熱心的同事，和善的鄰居。在那些漫長的歲月裏，她都能安然地過著自己想要的生活。作為父母，還想為孩子祈求怎樣更好的未來呢？

My eyes are still wet about this - 媽媽，我不想成為英雄，我想成為坐在路邊鼓掌的人

yes, why we need to force our children to be someone at the top when they just want to be a happy and kind ordinary persons? "you cant even write your name, what else u want to this when u grow up?" "ok, no milk for u tonite" :~~ Thinking of how laogong taught royee writing alphabet N last night, how laogong lost his patience, and how royee feeling suffered. I don’t want to interrupt them, but I feel hurt. Looking at royee’s half yearly report card, he is good at all levels, except holding pen to write. Maybe, this is so called dyslexia - Handwriting Dysgraphia. Been reading about this topic, royee is having most of the mentioned symptoms, but it is still early to confirm. Wait till age 5. As what the teacher mentioned, we need to give royee time. be more patience. I hope laogong don’t push royee, let royee follow his own rhythm and tempo for this learning stage. We just need to give him time n love. As we know, Thomas Edison also had learning difficulty when he was small. But he lights up the world!

Zhugong, as I told u this morning, royee is good in speech and memory. Doesn’t mean we need to have good writing skill to be a successful and good person. So pls don’t force him anymore, when I think of how royee dropping his tears last nite, my heart is feeling hurt. Lets company the boy in his learning path. As parents, we shouldn’t give up children homework, or else, who is going to guide them and care about their feeling? zhugong, hope you understand this and take royee’s feeling into consideration. To be no.1 is parents expectation, it might not be the boy’s target. Don’t let our expectation suffers the children. how I wish, I have more time to n walk together with our children in their journey. How I wish I could stop working in the office..

oh my boy~

royee boy needs mirror while taking his dinner..

1 suap nasi, 1 mirror checking his face!

lately, i found my boy is soooo particular on his outlook. while playing in the room, from time to time he looks himself in the BIG mirror, smile then continue playing. few weeks back, when he woke up from afternoon nap, i asked, 'baby, why dont u go n swiming with gal gal at the back?' he answered me with the blur look 'cannot.. later my hair no more standing' what a reason! before he slept, he just came back from the saloon, the auntie gel royee's hair.. this boy har, so the frequent he trims his hair in the saloon, not the student hairdresser, but the master shifu ok :S

yesterday, i were on leave. morning when i set them up to go to kinder, royee's face :( looked so down.. then i asked what happened, he said, his hair hasnt been gel. i said cannot gel everyday la, later your hair cannot breath. wow his face, like dark nite. finally mummy raised white flag, asked maid kakak to bring his hair gel (he has his own kids hair gel with vitamin E or something la, my mum bought it), then i comb the hair for him. WOW, u can see the sky suddenly turning from dark night to the sunny day! sun rises! royee :D i got surprised actually. hmmm yang tak boleh tahan one is, he went to the room n check his look before take his bag to the kinder!

hey, if laogong doing this har, i would suspect he got private love affair out there! but why this boy har? little small boy even wants to match his own cloth n shoes before leaving the house. the hair style la, the cloth set la.. hmmm.. n, complaining about mummy's wearing too ok! 'why this shirt is so long, like a dress, and why need to wear the pants with dress?' ohhh.. somemore telling auntie about mummy is fat!!! haiya this boy! my sis asked me to keep fit, lose weight, coz my son has been complaining me already :S guess what? royee is so concern about his food intake, not eating much coz afraid later his tummy look like uncle's tummy!

hmmm.. not easy to support this boy, even the saloon expenses also needs to save it..

marrie-biscuit steam cake

been reading this recipe from various blog, finally i tried steaming this cake. simple n nice ^_^

steaming..

nice smell. taste like ma-lai-gou (malay kueh)

saturday tea time. fried mushroom, steamed cake, kuih sago,
ginger sweet potato dessert, and kopi-o for my kai-ma

xoxo angels~

angelina

evangeline

touched! happily..

"Dear, thanks to u.aft reading ur post about ur parents travelling difficulties my Hubby was so touched.last weekend we went PD just to remember back our memories.it was fun to be in the beach side with ur loved one.thanks to u."

just got sms from arpu. what a surprise to see that my blog post does touch someone heart and something lovely n sweet happened ^_^ yes, it is always nice to have our love one beside us especially when our heart is at resting mode. peaceful n yet, feeling secured n companied. yesterday i told laogong, if i have BIG money coming in like bonus or esos from company, then i would spend myself n my sis to japan. at least, tokyo disneyland. coz this is my sis's dream place, as what junie told me, travel to japan, is really a dream comes true ^_^ i told laogong, i want to go this special place when i am still young, i can walk well, n still feeling the cutie n nice things packaging as CUTE compare to if i go there when i was at old age, then i would find those cutie stuff as - wasting money :p sort of that la. dont know how to put in right words.

then i told laogong, UK n europe countries are my dreamzzz, i will visit there with u, coz the trip gonna be expansiveeeee n u sponsor me, n we share the once in a life time memory :D in fact, last evening i had mentioned about the trip few times, laogong heard it then remained silent. finally i asked 'from just now in the train until now, when i mention to go uk with u, u never happily say yes! ok, i will bring u there.. u just dont feel to go with me huh? laogong said 'mei you la, i just felt that this is still very far for me to achieve this' well, it's ok, take our time, let me go japan 1st :p BIG dream nie :p

hope all laogong n laopo, husband b wife.. all sweet sweet and get companied till old time la~ :D

j13219 friendship day

these are the pic we taken in 1st june 2008. a year later, now eng is still flying here n there, mei has been married n going to be mummy, and me.. heart falling from iphone to sewing machine :p time flies~~~ we started our friendship from form 2 15 years old, n this year, we are age 30! every year 1st sunday of june is our friendship day, n very sorry gals, i cant make it to chatting with u on that scheduled day. let set up another day, n we catch up later lo ^_^ i miss u gals sooooo much, oh! that day i was having silly dream where eng came back, n she went n meet all bantinglang, except me!!! when i found out this, i was so sad, n eng just ignored me! i went n complained to mei, mei said 'yes i knew she came back ma' wahhhh!!!! nightmare.. :~

anyway, most important thing is, our hearts are connected, no matter how far is the distances n how long we been not meeting each other. the feeling is always on CLICK! when we meet up together. i love this :D hope friendship forever n ever.. n we celebrate our frienship day, a day in the future, n sharing our old women stories :p n maybe, sharing our menopause symptoms kekee..

love u gals~ good care n good health ^_^

jackfruit cookies for sunday teatime

when sis n i were doing some hand craft in one of the easy n lazy sunday afternoon, then my 2nd bro n eldest bro called n came n wanted to have dinner at bkt31. wow! we didnt buy any food for the last weekend. it was 3:30pm when i received the call. super fast i went n sleepkan bbb. they supposed to take afternoon nap at 1pm+ as per their daily time table, hmmm so better to let them take a short nap, before they started being cranky n noisy, fighting here n there, n i need TIMESSSS to prepare the dinner!

after bbb slept, i went n baked cookies with the ingredients that i had prepared since the morning! the same recipe i used for ABC cookies, n i replace chocalate rice with jackfruit! my mama gave us a box of sweet n yummy jackfruit, so i made use of it.

so the rushing.. the shape of the cookies also macam macam :S

with jackfruit.. nice nangka!

no deco no nothing, freshly baked n served immediately with hot peppermint tea :D

after the cookies baking, we chit chatting... nice to have 4 sibllings gather together unexpectedly :D easy n warm teatime talk ^_^ then i went n prepared the dinner. normally we didnt cook n eat processed food like sausage, frozen fried chicken at home.. but since the fridge is half emptied.. have to lo~ thanks mama who always buy backup food for us :p i made sure i cooked enough rice, to feed brothers with enough rice n hope not much complaint about the food :p

i cooked sweet n sour hotdogs + potato cube + mixed vege, the seewed egg soup, then sis cooked the sambal ikan bilis and the tomyam sauce fried chicken.. to make the tomyam sauce friend chicken to be more presentable, we slice the only half of the big onion to put on top of it :p very fast everything we put on the table, without thinking the which table set to be used, just served! :p it was 6pm+!

surprisingly, gogo n digo said 'wahh.. got mama's style ooo.. looks nice!!' kekeke.. what a great compliment :D my digo told my eldest gogo 'not bad, they can cook quite well now' coz my digo came quite often to bkt31 for bringing bbb to playground or play with them n for sunday dinner as well. eh, not easy to get compliment from my digo one, coz he was singapore 5-stars hotel chef for past years.. now 'retired' already :p then my gogo said 'ohh.. then i should come more often for free dinner' akakaka.. it's ok, come la come la, i would make sure my lovely mama will buy more backup food for us :D n as what my sis said 'meh, next time pls make sure u are prepared with some muffin n cake recipes n ingredients, if case guest come, then we can do something nice for the guest' hehe..

memang home style la, dont care about table setting n matching one.. own brothers n sis in law ma :p

we managed to get everyone to sign on this special handmade gift for father's day. sis did this in saturday midnite :D to our great lovely papa! my papa's nickname is apple :D n 4 of us are small apples, ppl used to call us 'peng ko gia' :p where is my mama then? can u see the small but OUTSTANDING green leaf? yes! our mama's role is always the outstanding one :D naughty sis, she said, at 1st she wanted to design the BIG apple with a cute little worm.. then she said, forget about it la, later mummy not happy :p OF COURSE LA!

with peng ko gia ocean deep LOVE ~_~

baking class - croissant

saturday morning we went to bagus to buy some baking stuff. then found out there was a free class for members on cookies baking and cupcakes deco in the same day. so we registered for it n reached there at 2pm+. waited n waited, the chef didnt turn up. the organizser apologized for it, then he showed us how to make croissant instead. i like this class, i learned a lot from there, for the beginners like me n my sis, all the single tip is soooooo unseful and knowledge to us :p we got to know what's the different betweens different types of flour, then control the oven heat and much much more good techniques.. tell u, we didnt even know how to dust the flour on the table platform when we handling the dought :p a good class to me, so we were looking forward for this coming saturday cookies class :D

super yummy apricot gel coated croissant :D

父亲节 father's day

just read my sis post on >>> father's day hmmm let me translate the story of my sis's colleague. few days before father's day, the father asked the colleague to balik kampung to bring the father to see doctor coz he been having bad cough n back pain problem. at night, the mother made a cup of hot milo to the father, n she left n slept in the hall while waiting the father to finish drinking the milo. the following day, the colleague wanted to wake his father up to go to the hospital, n the colleague got shocked when found out the father has passed away! reason: the father got chocked bcoz of drinking milo when he having coughing..

hmmm yesterday i got to know, my colleague's father just passed away. he dropped off from the bus, and the motorist bang him when he stepped down from the bus. died immediately. he was quite old, but i dont think the family members can accept this. i told laogong, ppl can die anytime anywhere.. we must really treasure what we are having now. yesterday i read friend chc's facebook status, 'life is short' so sleep less' , n his friend commented, if we sleep less, we have shorter life to enjoy our days. laogong said, we must sleep enough, but we must work less.

hmmm.. papa n mama schedule many travel plan recently, almost every month they flying here n there, near n far. papa n mama's foot problem getting worse. yesterday i saw papa walking slowly, coz his kaki sakit. i think bcoz of this, they plan so many travel plan, they want to see the world while they are still able to walk. sad to see this. when we are young, we can walk, but we have no extra money for travelling, when we are old, we have enough money, but we dont have healthy body for all the destinations. i do hope, mama is ok with this coming july australia gold coast trip, so papa has lovely wife to teman for this dream destination ^_^

will check with gogo n digo, see this Sunday we can celebrate father’s day together at banting or not. then next weekend only i bring children back to sgbuloh to celebrate thea’s family father’s day. Hmm.. so long time to-do list n wish-list in my diary, so many things in my mind, so many feeling in my heart. Need to maximize my everyday 24 hours. No matter what, I need to be a parent who my children would be proud of and a lovely daughter, who my papa n mama would be happy to~ ^_^

something from solo

what a surprise, my papa bought t-shirts for bbb n the size is ngam ngam~ about rm17 for 3 sets. bbb were so happy wearing the shirts :D

royee n angel (love this pic) ^_^

any special for these shirts? yes!

name printed for royee!

for angel~ papa said, thot to print angelina but he forgot the spelling :p

hehe for cutie eva :D

wanted to take pic for bbb.. they buat hal! merajuk for nothing! :(

angel merajuk coz of seating position. so left only royee n eva

holding hands..

they are growing healthy~~~ ^_^

eva helping gogo

eva wanted to help gogo to wear the short

try n try, royee said 'aiya, i wear it by myself la'

after this pic, eva wawawawawa :~ crying :p

laogong told me this story.. pictures taken by laogong.. heehe.. cute bb!

slide show - bangun pagi

a bit silly, but bbb like it. i printed them 2 slides in a page, front n back, in black n white. they non stop singing the song with actions, then do coloring. i describe to them each of the pages for better understanding and with nicer storyline. u may print it at half page, and make it a booklet.

leave your email add, if u want the powerpoint file :D

chocolate chips alphabet cookies

went to Bagus to buy small muffin mould. then royee picked up the alphabets cookies cutter n wanted me to buy. he thot it was toy. ok, rm6, i bought it. i explained to him this is not a toy, this is for cookies. he said, 'ok la, then we bake cookies together, i help u to chop chop chop' :D i love my boy so much ooo.. when he is growing bigger, he is more matured n understanding. senang mummy :D

reached home, before i went online to look for simple cookies recipe, i found there is chocalate chips cookies recipe on the packaging of the alphabets cutter :) and we had all the ingredients at home. so i baked the cookies on sunday morning n told bbb, tomorrow u all bring the cookies and share wtih your classmates ya!

the ingredients
butter, brown sugar, egg yolks, chocalate chips, plain flour, self-raising flour, corn flour vallina essense

mix everything before adding in all the flour

then chocalate chips

the alphabet cookies cutter

cooking making together with bbb

royee - S + M, angel - A, eva - E

a bit riuh rendah when they cant wait for their own turn :(

1st few columns by bbb

spot the names! shone jay, angelina, evangeline, mich, pooh, meh :p
the cutie mehmeh by sis. both of us eating the tail of mehmeh :p

both of myself n sis are MEHMEH 咩咩

shone jay thea royee ^_^
junie asked me, why i used 'shone' instead of shawn or sean

shone is past participle for shine. jay supposed to be royee's chinese name - jie

shone jay = shining jay~! my sunny boy, he brings sunshine to my mothermood :D

angelina thea roinn ^_^
having this pair of twin gals i would consider them are GREAT gift from God. i am blessed to have a healthy them :) with no twin history in both tiew n thea family, they are like angels to me. my guarding angel. n i like angelina this name so much. soft n lovely :D good hearted angel

evangeline thea robei :D
my cute n sweet twin 2. looking for another name with angel in it. when it was 1st admission in hospital in mth 6+ when i was watching tv in the room, it was an english movie showing a pretty n elegant woman in a big green field. love the scene n the lovely gal. then i got this name!

shonejay angels~

mummy n bbb hehehe

bbb love the cookies, but they only asking for alphabet M. M for michelle n mummy. crying yo if i gave them other alphabets. then finished off the M alphabets, n this smart mummy gave bbb alphabet W for replacement. jadi jugak they smilling happily. kekeke..

at night, was thinking need to pack how many pieces for all the children, then want to put in plastic containers or plastic bag will do. somemore i stop sister from bringing many cookies to her office, am afraid got no enough for the children n friends. and suddeny, TOMORROW STARTS 2 weeks SCHOOL HOLIDAYS!!! how to bring the cookies to the school? where got small friends to give the cookies to? haiya! blur blur mummy :(

then i packed more for sis's friends. then packed small packs for my colleagues children, and bring a plastic container of ABC cookies for my team members. must be feeling weird, why ABC for colleague :p anyway, i got good comment from friends n laogong about this cookies :D happy la.. so wait for next time la, only bake these cookies for the children in kinder :D

for more stories about this cookies baking session, click >>> here

colouring A

saturday night activity with bbb. they were getting matured, so no crying n fighting this time :p mummy was happy with this, at least, the activity can be finished off before world war starting ^_^

prepared this at friday midnite

morning greeting notes to bbb ^_^

start coloring..

royee

angel

eva

have moved the table to 2nd floor study room

by royee

by angel

by eva - the butterfly terbalik lo :p

right hand..

..left hand..

change the hand again..

.. to right hand..

left handed bb gets confused in right handed ppl world :S

teacher asked me to give royee sometime.. yes, am very patient in this :)

eva putting the 'nail polisher' for her 'fingers' :p