Category: Brat Stuff

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Vacation Time !

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Chloe announced to her Aunt the other day that she was going to DisneyLand this summer but without her – a matter-of-factly way.  hahahaha!!!  yes, that’s my girl for you , so honest and so direct.  So she finally agree to go on the plane this summer and we are very excited about it of course! since we are planning to go home to Singapore like next year.  So a shorter flight first and then the long flight back to Asia next year – 28 hrs!!!

So yes, we are going to Disneyland or Disney World this summer! with the love of my life!  We are also going to meet up with my PR company there and maybe fit in some meetings while we are there.  SKII has invited me to their office and make up factory to look at some of their new stuff and I’m so stoked that they are going to make the hotel arrangement as well as the limousine for us to travel around while we are in the city.

We are planning to spend 5 days in Disneyland and then some work time for me while PB and Chloe explore the city on their own.  We do have a teacher/friend who is helping us out at the store while we are out on vacation and for the rest of the summer, we are going to enjoy our summer cottage.

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Christmas All Year Round

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Yes!  it’s Christmas all year round for Chloe as usual.  Today, we received another package from her Godmother from Singapore.  Yes, a $90 postage box – what a lucky girl my daughter is right?  well, when you have a mom that is that popular, you can help but get presents from all over the world hahah!!

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As usual, Chloe was so excited to open her box of goodies.

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Toys and candies and all sorts from all over Asia.

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Hello Kitty – limited edition from Japan.

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The famous panda from China, Ling Ling ? – you see her Godmother travels a lot for pleasure and for business with her hubby.  So my Chloe gets all the goodies from godma of course!

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Chloe wondering what these were.

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Then she realized that they were pens from Universal Studio from Sentosa Island.

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And not just one pen there were 9 different kinds at $4.90 each – so you can imagine how much her Godmother spent on pens alone for her !!!  $50 !!! in pens!!!!  tell me – how lucky my kid is!!!

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Snacks from Japan or China?

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And yummy candies from Chengdu – i believe.

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And more cookies from Japan.  Chloe is super stoked and she knows that she is a lucky girl to have so many people to love her.  Thanks to her Godma Lina!  she is always so generous to her.  All the Ralph Lauren clothing that you see Chloe wearing are from her Godma Lina.

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Magical Childhood

Just the other day, Chloe swallowed her teeny weeny bit of leftover tooth from her broken cap in school and she had wrote to the tooth fairy that it was ok if the tooth fairy didn’t give her any money coz’  it was a tiny one and she had swallowed it in school.  So she had no tooth to exchange for money with the tooth fairy.  The first night we had forgotten all about the note and didn’t do nothing about it and the second night came and we forgotten about that too.  Came the third night I reprimanded PB for Chloe’s  lazy tooth fairy and of course, that night the tooth fairy came and took her note and left her a dollar.

When Chloe found the $1, the next day, she patted us on the back and said it was alright to let her know that it was us who left her the $1 and not the tooth fairy.  It was such a funny, funny expression when she patted us on the back, like a matter -of – factly manner but we insisted that it wasn’t us.  So she went on her day happily that day and told everyone that the tooth fairy finally came and gave her $1. We didn’t have the heart to tell her otherwise and not let her continue to have a magical childhood.  Afterall, they are only this young once, even though she is already 10.

Now having said all the above, I’m not about to spend $1000 on gifts each year on Chloe’s Christmas or birthday, so parents out there don’t feel bad if you didn’t give your child a theme party for his/her birthday to make their childhood magical.  A magical childhood need not be all about money and glamor, PB and I feel that a balance of magic and common sense is just as important.

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8 As 4 Bs

We just got back from Parents and Teacher’s meet yesterday and as usual, it was a very successful one.  We really love chloe’s home room teachers this year.  So many positive things to say about Chloe and very encouraging to us as parents.  We cannot thank them enough – and wished we could do more for the teachers.

Yes, Chloe scored 8 As and 4 Bs, but I still feel that she can apply herself more for I know she can definitely do better.  Just like her piano lessons and practices, I know she can do a lot better if she apply  herself a little more.  So during the school holidays, she has to continue doing revision work with us and practice her piano as well.

Don’t get me wrong, we are very proud of her but we want her to work just a wee bit harder next term, so that she can understand each subject better and have a better foundation before going to junior high school.

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Mrs Purdy Is Very Lucky

So apparently Chloe thinks that I’m not as lucky as Mrs Purdy (her principal’s wife) – why?  well, the other day she came home after her school’s assembly and said that Mr Purdy was so funny, telling them a joke during the assembly and that was when she thought Mrs Purdy is so lucky to have a funny husband.  hahahhaha!!!

Her dad being so grouchy all the time, I figured she must think I’m not so lucky hahhahaha!!  so I guess Chloe like men who are funny – ahhhh.. now we know – hahhhaa! the things kids say eh. The things kids observed and come to a deduction on their own only tells us how important it is to portray the right image to our kids.

So yes, her principal is doing a great job – that’s for sure, she has nothing but nice things to say about both Mr & Mrs Purdy!

 

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Birthday Party For Her Bears

Chloe loves her bears very much – actually, she loves all her toys very much.  She refuses to dirty them, refuses to bring them anywhere that they will get smelly or dirty.  The one on the right is Honey Bear, we bought it for her from the yard sale and Coconut is the most recent one that we bought for her during our recent trip to Halifax.  She has another called Peace bear and she loves them all the same.

So one day, she came back from school and wanted to plan a birthday party for her bears and invited some of her friends to the house on the weekend.  I of course, knew that no one was coming because it was gonna be on Saturday and at 6pm, so I suggested that if no one came, we could have it at her Grampie’s.  I told her that I bet Aunt Helena would bake with her and so forth.

So she relented and looked forward to weekend at Grampie’s.  Some may say that we are spoiling her and over-indulging her but I think that it was really cute and she is only a kid once, so why not?  While PB grudging bought a cake and informed chloe that he ain’t doing this every year, I felt that we should cherish this innocence as long as we can.

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Kid’s Cutlery From Advertiser

I complained to my private advertiser from USA about not finding the right cutlery for Chloe to bring to school for lunch because the only ones I could find were for babies or toddlers.  So guess what arrived in the mail this morning at the store?  2 sets of cutlery for Chloe! woohoo!!  I’m indeed grateful for my advertiser whom I’ve worked with for many years now, this private advertiser had always given good paying work and after so many years of working together, we turned into friends.

While many people feel that working online is a tough job, I enjoyed it tremendously, not only because of the work and money but because I not only find good friends thru’ advertising but I get to try out a lot of things before writing about them.  As the years go by,  doing what I do online, I know which advertisers are awesome and can give you leads to better paying jobs and which advertisers gives you a row of steady jobs throughout the year.  I’m grateful for all of them.

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Chinese New Year 2014

Chinese New Year is tomorrow and as I sit here looking at the “ang pow” that came in the mail this morning for Chloe from family and friends, I cannot help but miss home.

When I was a kid, Chinese New Year was not only about wearing new clothes, stuffing our face with junk food and candies all day or receiving “ang pows” from our parents as well as aunts and uncles and neighbors and any elders, it’s about family gatherings.  Chinese New Year was a tradition, everyone come home to celebrate whether you are far away or you are in Singapore.  It’s about close family ties and bonding and meeting up with cousins that we don’t see often and exchanging stories and sharing the children’s achievements in school and of course, lots of gossiping about the family.  It was a time of joy, a time where we show our appreciation for our parents and grandparents.

Chloe and I made our usual call to my mom and our uncles and aunties today and wished them “Gong Hei Fatt Choy” and as usual, they want to know when we are bringing Chloe home to meet them. They are so excited when they hear Chloe tell them that she will come visit soon and of course, my mom tells her how much she misses Chloe.  Bitter sweet, every year and every year I just have this urge to pack and fly home immediately.  *sigh* ! yes, bitter sweet, every year but we will be home soon.

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Priceless Moments

Tis’ moments like this that I am so happy I fell in love with the father of my brat.  Here he is lovingly drying and combing her hair after she had taken a shower and washed her hair on a Sunday.  You see, every Sunday, it is PB’s time with the kid, I do nothing on this day, he cooks, he cleans the bathtub for her to shower and feed her and do everything for her on Sundays.

The brat loves her daddy time, she misses him when he is at work although she spends every waking hour with either both of us or one of us if she wasn’t in school.  But yes, I’m very blessed because PB just do things for the brat and never ever say no when I need him to run an errand for me even if he was hungry and wants to come home to eat and rest.