Activities In Ipoh

Today, the girls helped my mum in the kitchen.ย  They helped to chop onions for the sardines filling for the sandwiches, mashed the sardines and eggs and buttered the bread before the sandwiches were put into the sandwich maker.

Later, they helped granny to make ang koo kuih.

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As I am typing this post, the ang koo kuihs are now in the steamer and in about 15 minutes’ time, we will have them for tea-time ๐Ÿ™‚

Happy weekend to all my dear readers ๐Ÿ™‚

 

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Little Kitchen Helpers

The girls helping koong koong and granny in the kitchen yesterday, in preparation for our Dongzhi festival dinner at home in Ipoh…

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helping in d kitchen 22 dec 2013

The girls helped to scrape arrowroot skin and to remove peanut skin. While they were helping, granny fed them withย  papaya haha!ย  I have made it compulsory for the girls to eat fruits everyday, even when we travel.ย ย  They normally eat fruits in the morning, on an empty stomach but in Ipoh,ย  I relax a bit and they are allowed to eat noodles, fish balls and other food before eating fruits much later ๐Ÿ˜‰

 

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Home Activities During The School Holidays

Some of the activities that I have planned for the girls during the school holidays include :

1) Doing Math exercises every other day. It’s tough to get rascal #2 to complete a unit of Kumon Math equations.ย  Tons of nagging and threats are needed everyday.ย  The moment I’m out of her sight, this fella will be up to mischief!!ย  So my rule is “no TV, no snacks, no play and no dinner if your Math is not finished!”. It works on my hard-headed girl and sometimes tears shedding happens too.ย  Just last night, I didn’t allow her to eat her dinner when she took 3 hours to complete 1 page of Kumon subtraction.ย ย  She finally finished them all and I allowed her dinner at 8pm.ย  *evil mum but I’m doing her good *

2) Doing other subjects like BM, English and Science for Alycia. I bought some very good worksheets for her from a book store that specializes in primary school worksheets and workbooks in Ipoh.

3) Playing educational games and reading from the laptop that I had newly bought for my 2 older girls

4) Reading a book everyday.

5) Swimming, drawing and even getting them to massage me as I am having aches and pains all over my body as a result of lifting too much weights in the gym haha!

Here’s Alycia reading a BM story book. My mum got her this book from Tesco and it only cost a few ringgit. There is a collection of more than 10 famous fairy tales, translated into BM in this story book.


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