This year is the third year that I’ve had a low-key birthday celebration, done at home. We were in lockdown the past two years and this year, though our country is now in transition to endemic phase, I still couldn’t go out to have a blast. It’s a no-brainer guess. Darn Covid. Alycia was tested…
Sherilyn got herself a part-time job at our neighborhood cafe to kill time during the 3-week school holidays. This is the third week she’s in the job. She only works on Saturdays and on certain week days when she doesn’t have tuition classes. The owners of the cafe are awesome folks and take really good…
The 3-week year-end school holidays have just started. I had planned to make a trip back to Ipoh but mum advised us to stay put in KL because of the worsening Covid cases. Yesterday our country recorded over 30k cases. Every day I read of my friends’ updates that they or their family have tested…
Alycia received her Pfizer booster dose on Thursday. It was a walk-in vaccination at a clinic in our hood. The next day (yesterday) she was down and out. She had fever, chills and a throbbing headache. Except for waking up to pop Panadol and drink water, she slept the entire day, wrapped up in her…
One of the privileges of turning 18 is getting a savings account in her own name. With the savings account comes a debit card, online banking facility and a bank card linked to online shopping platforms like Lazada and Shopee. Our young adult couldn’t be happier as she’s been waiting for this day for a…
My ‘precious baby’ is 18!! Alycia’s the baby that we wanted so badly and who made us go through the wringer for 2 years in order to have her. She’s our miracle baby and now our precious baby is 18! Her celebration lunch at the Seoul Korea restaurant was our first dining out together as…
Today is a day where everyone was busy with their respective things. Alycia had a driving trial exam to sit for at the driving academy, Sherilyn had a dental appointment to change the orthodontics rubber band for her braces, Cass had online classes almost the entire day, the MIL has been busy the past two…
This week Sherilyn is staying home for remote learning. She went to school last week. Next week will be the last week that Sherilyn attends physical classes in school before the year end school holidays begin. I’ve been clocking in only 5-6 hours of shut-eye for the last two weeks, including Saturdays and Sundays. I…
Last Monday, I heard the most dreaded words from Alycia. Her best friend was tested positive for Covid-19 and Alycia was in close contact with her! They hung out a week ago on Monday and had meals together. Towards the end of the week, her best friend felt unwell and on Monday (7 days later),…
This is the year that Alycia hit multiple milestones. In February, she sat for her SPM exam amid a pandemic. After her SPM exam, she worked for the first time in her life – as a temporary teacher at an international pre-school. In May, she sat for an online Undang-Undang (theory for driving) at the…
The MacBook Air that I ordered for Alycia on Monday arrived yesterday (Friday)! I made the purchase through the official Apple website and the laptop was shipped to us from Singapore. I am super impressed with how prompt the delivery was and how professional and pleasant the entire purchase was. MacBook Air is Apple’s thinnest…
Sherilyn has been busy with back to back online classes, tuition, online guitar classes and dance classes & practice for an online dance competition, thus has not been cooking and baking as much as she’d like to. Yesterday she managed to squeeze out some time to prep Sukiyaki. She even made the Sukiyaki sauce from…
I was jogging at our condo grounds at 10a.m. today when Alycia sent me a photo of her SPM result slip. I told her to Whatsapp me after she’s checked her results online. I couldn’t believe my eyes! Alycia has all the while been quite a diligent student before the pandemic. When the SPM dates…
Alycia left home at 7 a.m. today to sit for an online Undang-Undang (traffic laws) test at the driving academy in Puchong and armed with double face masks, goggles, disinfecting wipes (with claims that it can kill Coronavirus) and sanitizer ?. She passed the test. Everything was done in under 3 hours and she was…
With cases shooting up to over 6,000 yesterday and today, I have been left with a tough decision to make. Alycia is due to sit for an online traffic laws theory exam (Undang-Undang) this Saturday at the HQ of the driving academy in Puchong. A van will fetch her at our Taman to bring her…
Alycia has finally tendered her resignation from the international pre-school and after-school care center. Her last day of work will be 31 May 2021. She’ll spend her time working on her You Tube channel and most probably find another temp job before starting college in September 2021. In between, she’ll be having driving lessons. She’ll…
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