FollowAlycia definitely has her daddy’s artistic DNA. It just comes naturally to her and her passion for drawing is boundless. If I would allow it, she can spend the entire day cooped up in her room drawing and reading. She seems to love drawing mystical objects and creatures as well as caricature. However, she has…
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Cooking Sunny Side Ups
Of my three girls, Alycia is the most finicky when it comes to food. While Sherilyn and Cass will wallop everything that I cook and often leave lots of compliments on how nice the food taste, it is truly a challenge to please my eldest, whom I think has inherited her foodie daddy’s pernickety taste…
Do you have any incentive scheme for your child to study hard and to score well?
It’s been almost 2 years and Alycia is still not through with her craze over the mouse series, Geronimo Stilton. She also favors Wimpy Kid, Enid Blyton, Famous Five, Ronald Dahl, Helen Moss, James Lee and any type of manga and comics. Well, basically this girl just loves to read books and magazines except her…
The Big Girl’s Meltdown
The big girl had a major meltdown this morning from 6am right through to lunch time! I had blogged that her fever had subsided yesterday but at around 6ish pm, her temperature shot up to 38.6 degrees Celsius again but she was not feeling uncomfortable. She felt pretty normal and had pretty good appetite. Only…
Someone is Under The Weather
….which spells trouble for any mummy! Alycia has been running a high temperature (up to 39.4 degrees Celsius) since Friday evening. What’s worrying this quack doctor mummy is that she shows almost no symptoms, except for a slight phlegmy throat. Alycia is also complaining of dizziness, headache and generally feeling malaise with not much appetite.…
Art For Year 4 KBSR Students
A few days ago, I was taken by surprise when Alycia showed me a pack of colorful styrofoam pieces for assembling. For a moment, I thought that her friend had given her a pack of jigsaw puzzle. But she told me that it was her school homework from Art class! I thought that she was …
Motherhood Uncensored 2
On the eve of Alycia’s BM test early last week, I suddenly remembered that I had not gone through ‘Nilai Murni’ (which literally means pure values if translated directly from BM to English using Google Translate. It is all the good values that one should possess ) with her. And my cool as cucumber daughter…
First Term Exam
Not even 15 minutes into revising for her exam and she’s already conked out! That’s the problem with this girl of mine. She is the type who requires lots of sleep. Should she be asked to do homework or anything that requires using her brainpower when she is sleep or nap deprived, I am sure…
Would you pay your kids to do housework?
Alycia The ‘Rice Pot’
Without rice for a day, Alycia would be like a fish out of water. If there’s sandwiches or porridge served for lunch, I am rest assured to see a sulky pot sitting at the dining table, flipping the newspapers with a black face while forcing the food down her throat. On Thursdays, Alycia and Sherilyn…
Gender War
My Heart Shattered Into A Million Pieces…
… yesterday afternoon when I saw Alycia’s badly grazed knee and palm. The moment Alycia and Sherilyn came back from school, Sherilyn was quick to announce “mummy, che che’s knee has BLOOD! She fell down!” I rushed out from the kitchen to inspect Alycia’s knee and when I saw the fresh wound on her knee,…
Workbook With Grammatical Errors
I set some Math work for Alycia to do in one of the Math workbooks that I bought for her. Moments later, Alycia came to me, chortling away and pointed out the silly mistake that she spotted in one of the questions in the workbook : What a glaring language error the author has made. …
Sherilyn vs. Alycia
Sherilyn, albeit younger than Alycia eats way more than Alycia. Each night, Sherilyn will request that she wants several types of snacks in her lunch box. If there is homemade cake, she will ask for 1 (sometimes 2 or 3 slices) and some biscuits too. If I am making sandwiches, she wants about 4-5 pieces…
A Book Worm’s Favorite Place
If Your Child Is On Sick Leave
Alycia came home from school on Monday looking jaded, moody and had flushed cheeks and scarlet colored lips. Still in her school uniform, she curled herself up on the couch and dozed off, without eating her lunch. Her body was burning hot and her body temperature was close to 40 degrees Celcius. Daddy brought her…