Category: This Town

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Voting & Illegal Immigrant

Every time when voting comes along – whether it is for town/provincial or federal – i don’t have to vote because I’m not a Canadian citizen but a permanent resident. I enjoy everything Canadian benefits but I just cannot vote and that’s alright with me because I wanna keep my Citizenship in my birth country.

But every time when election time comes, I have great fun in telling the volunteers that I’m not voting and only the spouse will be because I’m an illegal immigrant. LOL I have so much fun seeing their facial expression and their reaction. Most of them don’t know how to react and some just ignore me and that’s alright and no one was ever rude to me or calling immigration on me. So you see, the Canadian are fairly nice people eh.

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Lockdown

Yup ! we have been placed on a lockdown for 2 weeks starting 3 days ago. But I think this time we are more prepared than the last one. At least the spouse and I are trying to do things that are useful for both the home and store. And the kid started her online learning today.

The spouse started going back to work and I started cleaning and purging the house and making ourselves useful. I’m hoping that this time around, we will make use of our “free” time effectively.

Wish us luck and pray that the lockdown is only for 2 weeks.

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Damn Covid Or Damn People ?

115 cases in 2 days !!! One year ago, we all were on lockdown because of Covid, you would think that ppl would smarten up but nope. When we heard that the Premier and Dr Strang were gonna go online on a Sunday, we knew that this cannot be good.

I’m surprised they are not closing schools for a while and if I were in the city, I ain’t letting my kid go to school or anywhere – that’s for sure. As we’ve heard that there may be potential exposure in our town, we ain’t letting our kid go to school already, and thus far, we’ve only heard about 1 case – confirmed here.

Folks really need to smarten up , else we will be wearing the mask and keeping 6 feet for a long, long time. I do not understand why ppl are risking their lives and those of their loved ones for a party or get – together, it is not worth it ! Ppl ! for the love of God !! please stop being silly !

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4 Yrs Later

Yes, it had been quite a while since I last journal. I wonder why I stopped – was it because I was too busy or was it because I didn’t want some folks in this town to misconstrue what I wrote and take it wrongly.

But hey! at 56 years old and fighting cancer this very moment, I do not care what or who reads what and take things wrongly. I cannot be bothered. Life is too short to worry about other people. I live for now and for myself and my family not for you , or you or you.

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Easter Gifts For Chloe’s Teachers

You all know how I feel about thanking Chloe’s teachers every year during any kind of special occasions right?  Yes, and this year ain’t any different because Chloe’s teachers does a lot for her.  Afterall , these teachers spends like 6 – 7 hrs a day with my child and they nurture her and bring her up to be a proper human being, so how can I as a parent not show any appreciation right?

But this year , Chloe was afraid that her friends may think that she is bribing her teachers, in which I explained to her that it is in our culture to show gratitude to our teachers.  And this is not the first year we ‘ve been doing this , we do it every year.  So she shouldn’t feel this way at all , but the kid was reluctant until I spoke to some teachers who visits our store right in front of her about gifting for the teachers and they all agreed with me that all teachers will appreciate it.

Plus , when i show my appreciation , it is not just for one or two teachers , it is for all the teachers that is teaching chloe that very year.  So no one should feel slighted.  I had even wanted to give to the administrative staff but Chloe said she didn’t know them too , too well in this new school , so I didn’t.

So my questions is , does anyone do as I do these days?  or am I the only one?

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52 Years Of Age

Yes , I turned 52 years of age today and it’s kind of surreal for me.  Little did I know many years ago that I would be in Canada for this long.  I had thought that the spouse and kid will return home with me and live a happily ever life in Singapore.  LOL.

But the spouse is happy here and so is the little princess of mine.  Even though she doesn’t know that she is like a princess to us.  You see , we Asians don’t show the kids that we love them by smothering them , we chastise and we push them to aim for higher.

This year , I got loads of presents !  SURPRISED !! and yes , I’m darn loved over here okay ! hahahah!  but seriously , I am pretty much loved by a lot of people especially PB , the princess of mine and my sisters from another mother.   Truly grateful this year that I’ve so many people come wished me Happy Birthday and most importantly I have PB and Chloe with me.

 

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Is It Spring Yet ?

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Yes, is it Spring yet , I asked PB everyday.  You would think that I know better already to expect the weather to warm up so early in the year but one can always be hopeful right?  Afterall, we did have a very , very mild winter this year , in fact , I think we only had one big snow storm or maybe 2 ?

But I want Spring to hurry up and come because I have lots to do to prepare the cottage for summer and plan for a huge BBQ and also the arrival of my friends from home this summer.  I can’t wait to see some of them and hopefully, I can get Chloe’s godma from Singapore to come visit as well.  But my girlfriends from my Alma Mater are coming this summer and I cannot wait to host them.

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OMG ! It’s March 2016 Already !

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Yes ! Life happened !  And of course , we had a nasty virus on our blogs and websites that was encrypted into our blogs automatically and apparently the virus had been dormant till now.  The script was in place a few years ago as far as we can see it and all of a sudden, it decided to create havoc in all of our blogs.  The spouse took time to clean out all the blogs , and if you must know , I have more than a few blogs that I use for monetizing purpose.  Yes , yes ! I make money thru’ blogging – bite me !

 And of course, Chinese New Year came about and we had to co-ordinate the celebration with our Asian friends , plus Chloe had some health issues and a girlfriend had and online boyfriend issue that actually left me quite perturbed and lost of words.  But lesson to be learned her , never , never play match – maker online or offline because you are caught in the middle of it and boyyy!  you kenna shit for nothing.   But you also get to see who your true friends are and who’ve got your back, so all in all , it was a good lesson learned.  You would think at almost 51 years old , I would have seen it all and done it all and avoided it all right?  But nope !  I guess one can be stupid still at 51.

 Anyhow,  my consolations are , the spouse, the kid and many of my friends had been very supportive throughout it all and I cannot ask for a better spouse , kid and friends .  Like the saying goes, you can never lose a true friend, you just find out who are the ones who are not.  And business continue to thrive and I was featured recently in a local article on Facebook – stoke !  And I managed to get a massage , my hair colored , manicure , pedicure  and all kind of good stuff done to my body.  I even got to play catch up with my girlfriends.  But I learned how to take are of myself and my family first and always ask for help from your neighbors because I’ve got some awesome neighbors now.

 

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Lemonade To Fund Raise

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My father – in – law , Chloe’s grampie is the best man I’ve come to know after PB.  He made Chloe a lemonade stand as soon as I asked him to and also made a flower bed for my cottage , all because I asked him to.  I can never asked for a better father-in-law , not because he does things I asked him for but because he really loves me for who I am – even though he calls me the Chinese Jew. hehehe!  I enjoy it all because I know he calls me that because I’m family.

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Anyhow, Grampie build the lemonade stand for Chloe, so that she can sell some lemonade and do some fund-raising during the summer.  My father -in-law drove the lemonade stand all the way from his place to town even though he doesn’t like coming to town that often.  The fund-raising part we didn’t really figure what to fund raise for before summer but PB and I wanted to teach Chloe to grow up and empathy  as well as with morals.

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Of course, the girls also want to have fun.  We rope in Jessica from the Chinese restaurant to come help because she is such an awesome kid.  And guess who visited the lemonade stand on a cloudy day of the Vintage car parade.  Yes ! the Seafest Princesses and what a treat it was for the girls !  they were so happy.

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Anyhow, the girls fund raised $101 , for the family who lost their home in a fire in Richmond Road.

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The girls then handed the money to the mother of the family – Simone.  She came to collect the money a couple of days later and was very appreciate and hugged Chloe for her kind deed.

So yes, this summer, we taught Chloe something new and a lesson for her to continue on a yearly basis now , to raise fund for a charitable purpose.  It doesn’t need to be a huge amount of money, but it would definitely means that she would have to work at it and know her purpose in life is not just about herself but to help the less fortunate along the way.