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Teach Them The Value Of Money

I don’t know if you know this – PB just exchanged his aeroplan miles for a 52″ plasma tv. I would never have agreed to pay cash for it – and he knows better. So when he told me he was gonna use his aeroplan miles for it – i didn’t say a word but thank God that he was sensible enough not to overspend. For if it was up to me – i would never have bought anything fancy – a tv is a tv to me – just like buying the best vitamins for men – pretty straight forward.

Anyhow – PB had been searching for a tv stand for this new plasma tv – of course! and he was trying to convince me that he was trying to get one at a reasonable price. After months of searching – he finally bought one from Skytec at a pretty reasonable price and he had put it up himself the other day. Chloe came home from her grandparents and as soon as she saw the new tv stand asked her dad how much it was..?? and if it was orange tag.. muahahahhaha!!!! you see we taught the kid that we never buy anything that wasn’t discounted. I didn’t mind telling our kid that i was a pretty el cheapo person – but moreso – we wanna teach the kid the value of money and that money doesn’t grow on trees – even though her Uncle Richard would beg to differ since he put money on a tree in a huge card for the kid one Christmas.. hahahah!! So teach them young and teach them well – else trouble lies ahead.

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Things You Should Know Before Migrating

Canada is a great place to be if you are migrating – moreso, if you are a someone who has money and coming to Canada to start your own business. The government is very generous with their money – and medical is free here once you become a permanent resident. There are many things you can get here that I can get from home too like diet pill for women but before you migrate – just make sure you know where you are migrating to. Why? because i missed the convenience of having a food court a few feet away from home and of course food from home that I can’t even get unless I wanna drive 8 hrs to and fro to the city.

The winters are harsh in Canada and the summer is short – and if you are thinking that you can be lazy in Canada, well, think about it because jobs are hard to come by – as they give first priority to the people in Canada first. But knowing Asians I know it isn’t hard to get a job if we want to – it’s our accent that makes it somewhat harder – for although we think we speak perfectly ok – they still can’t get what you are saying at times. As for me – even though i’ve worked for foreign bosses all my life – some people still finds it hard to understand my kinda english. What else do i missed..?? the weather, the food, the shopping malls, the high tech buildings and of course the short vacation I can take – for once you own your own business – you are obligated to work all the time.

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Friends For Your Kids

Chloe had been spending time @ her grammie’s & grampie’s – and while she was out there – she had lots of visits from both her friends from her new school and her old school and of course friends from the store. She doesn’t know she missed all of them – but there is one kid we haven’t seen for a long time now. You see Chloe is really fond of this friend but unfortunately, we have had been making the calls and leaving messages for her friend’s parents for years now. Finally, this year – I decided – I’ve done my part as a friend and it’s up to them if they value our friendship – not like Chloe doesn’t have lots of ppl to play with and invited to play dates and stuff. I rather spend more time worrying about my cholesterol medications then the kid’s friend because she will outgrow the friendship – and she will have other friends as she grows up – so i’m not gonna be too, too worried about it – if this friend of hers doesn’t wanna call. If they are meant to be best buddies in the future – things will just fall into place – but in the meantime, I have no time to worry about it.

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Words Can Wound

So Chloe came home from Grammie’s last nite – all tired and excited – she said she loves going to her Grammie’s and we had told her we were very proud of her – in which she replied – “so did you get your work done?” “is it because I’m not annoying you?” Well, that took us by surprised ! because we must have said something to Chloe to make her think that she was an annoyance or like eczema. So parents – we have to be very careful what we portray to our kids and what we say to our kids – what we said – or think at that point of time when we did say something to our kids – may not really sit well with them. Or if you think they don’t get hurt by words because they are too young to understand hurt – well you are wrong.

Kids mainly aim to please and Chloe is not any different – she would act silly or if we were laughing at some stuff she was doing – she would keeping doing it again and again to make us laugh. I strongly believed that kids grow up to be what their parents are – you are a great influence to your kids if you don’t know this by now. If you were being mean or petty to your in-laws or siblings – your kids are gonna do the same to theirs. So be watchful with your actions and words because words can wound the gentle heart.

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Going To Grammie’s On March Break

It’s March break now and Chloe has just left to visit her grammie on her own and to spend a day at Grammie’s. This is the first time she is going to Grammie’s on her own and before she left – she was not feeling good – as per usual but when she arrived at Grammie’s she didn’t even remembered that she wasn’t feeling good.. hahahahah!!! So it gives PB a chance to go do some stuff like look for cheap car insurance, which we had been putting off for the longest time.

How time flies eh..!! chloe is already 6 yrs old.. and going to her grammie’s on her own when once upon a time – she wouldn’t go there on her own nor anywhere else. It’s wonderful that she is spending time there .. not because we wanna pawn her off to her grandparents but moreso – we want to foster independence in her plus we know for sure – that she is safe at her grammie’s and aunt helena’s. Now we know for sure that summer is gonna to be fun for Chloe .. woohoo..!!!

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March Report Card

So we received Chloe March report card by mail today and she did mostly good except for 2 things – that the teachers/school feels that she only demonstrates with encouragement or prompts. One is accepting responsibility for her actions and the 2nd was resolving conflict appropriately. I think I am gonna take it with a pinch of salt because afterall, the kid is only 6 yrs old – how do you expect her to resolve conflict appropriately? I mean – I as an adult sometimes have a hard time choosing stocks for the store and about accepting responsibility – I’m afraid i don’t agree with the teachers – Chloe is so afraid of everything in that school that she refuses to drink water – so she doesn’t need to use the washroom because her relieve teacher told her that she would be punished if she took too long. So pray tell – how can a child want to accept any kind of responsibility?

Other than that.. she did pretty good in everything else .. from interacting positively with others to working independently, uses time effectively follows rules and routines, completes her work in class and homework and take pride in quality of her work. Chloe likes her school – she also likes her classmates – except the kid who was disturbing her – and I truly cannot understand why the teachers didn’t do enough to help Chloe feel safe. It’s very sad – because of this incident and her french teacher’s I am not going to be doing much for either school from now on.

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School Rules

Chloe came home from school today and apologized for not drinking her apple juice but she also mentioned that she did finish her water though. So i asked her – how come she didn’t drink her apple juice during lunch – in which she replied that her teacher asked her to choose between the water bottle or the juice bottle. I tell yer – this school certainly makes me wonder what is going on – if this nonsense carries on – i would be needing a hair loss cure. Why? because i cannot understand why my daughter cannot bring the apple juice and water into her cafeteria..?? Anyhow, i’m keeping my cool and wait to see what happens within the next few days – in the meantime, I told Chloe that i can put her juice box into her lunch bag – but she said she didn’t wanna upset her teacher *slap forehead*. So you tell me lah.. how come the teacher can upset my daughter .. and my daughter is still so thoughtful and don’t wanna upset the teacher? where got meaning right? “steam rising from my head”

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Neighbors

Many of you would know by now that I have a famous neighbor – yes that one. You would think that after pulling a stunt they did like 4.5 yrs ago, they wouldn’t want to have anything to do with us eh. But nope – every time we turn around and when we least suspect – they would smile or say hi to us. I don’t know what they are thinking but if I were to go attack my neighbors because of a picture i had put up on the internet with no intent of evilness nor malice – which could be quickly resolved with a “I’m not comfy – please can you take my kid’s picture down?” but nope – they told me they could sue me for $40K and that they were pissed with me was not called for. With neighbors like that who needs more acne products right?

My other neighbors are great and share the same dislike about a lot of things about this chicken shit neighbor. They let their dog poop in our lawn without cleaning after the dog – they let their cat do the same thing. On top of it – they worked late at night and go on their four wheelers at midnite. You tell me crazy or not ? He mows his lawn at 9pm during the summer and every other day or at least a couple of times a week – come on – how much grass can your lawn have in a few days right? And to do it at 9pm? Your kid no need to sleep – mine does! So what makes them think they can turn around and be nice to us – is not comprehensible. Stay away from us and don’t even acknowledge us pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee…!! crazy ppl we can do without – thank you very much ! we have no time for you and yours!

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Kid’s Allowance

So I’ve been wondering of late, should we give Chloe an allowance to help her understand the value of money just like we women need our women vitamins, it will come sooner or later. But at what age is the right age? as of today, Chloe had never asked for an allowance, neither had she talked about money too – nor begged for anything to be bought for her when we are out shopping. We definitely lucked in on that – that’s for sure.

She has a pretty good head on the shoulder too, because just last week when she lost her tooth and got a $5 from the tooth fairy, she only spent half of it – and put the other half into her piggy bank for her college fund. Yes, she said that herself – muahahahah!! We rarely spend a lot of money in front of Chloe nor do we make known to her that we can afford a lot of luxuries – maybe that’s the reason why she never asked for a lot. She seems like a pretty self – contented girl. So yes, which comes back to my question, since she never asked for an allowance – do i start her on it – just because we wanna teach her the value of money and give her a headstart?

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Small Town

So we had quite a week here, which actually started in December, where our ferry link from USA – Maine to our town was canceled abruptly. Yesterday, even after a rally in the city with representatives from all over Nova Scotia to plead with the Premier and other officers in charge came to a dead end. The Premier office wouldn’t budged. We are not directly affected but the nonsense that came with this ferry thing and the letter by our own town councilor trying to kiss butts with the Premier sure sent me fuming. What good is a town councilor when he goes and do his own thing to try and be part of the “old boys”? It really made me sick to my stomach – I know politics is dirty – but even for such a small town and someone whom I had elected..?? time to get some moving quotes I said to the spouse because what hope is there – no airlines, no ferries – what next? they gonna dig out the highway?