Today’s lunch for Drama Queen and Cass was takeout Mee Siam from our favorite cafe. Cass was super hungry today. When she alighted from the school van, she grumbled “mum, I am SO hungry. My stomach is SO pain and growling. I am going to die from hunger!” The moment she got into the house,…
My baby girl turned 9 on 9 April 2017. It was a Sunday. She attended Sunday School in the morning, which she looks forward to every Sunday. After church we had lunch at a Japanese restaurant. Type of cuisine was her choice and Japanese is her favorite cuisine. Cass ordered cold buckwheat noodles, which comes…
The dreaded exam season is here again! This time, I am attempting to go green. To save papers and printer cartridge, I am cutting down on the printing of test papers. Instead, Cass goes to the website where the test papers are accessible and writes down her answers on a piece of recycled paper where…
Today Cass’ regular piano teacher at Yamaha was on leave. A substitute teacher was assigned to us. Upon entering the room, I was taken aback. The room was pitch black. When the door was opened, the replacement teacher jumped out from her siesta. Ms L was taking her forty winks with her head on the…
When our girls come home from school each day, the first thing on their mind is to dart into the kitchen. Acting like inspectors, they inspect every nook and corner, every pot and pan on the stove and every drawer to see what’s in for them. Still in their uniform and socks, any cooked food…
Today I was totally thunderstruck when Cass told me that she wore her PE t-shirt that her friend had dropped on the school’s wet and dirty toilet floor! If you are a product of Malaysia’s public schools, you will know just how dirty, wet and stinky these toilets are. Totally disgusting. Cass had asked her…
The hubs and I had a quick lunch at the Mamak restaurant today to catch up on updates from each other sans the girls. As usual, he ordered nasi briyani with side dishes of chicken curry, fish curry, salted egg, cabbage and mutton curry. I ordered my all-time favorite tosai rawa which is the ‘healthiest’ of…
Since yesterday, Cass has been spending hours on end learning how to sew. I have been too busy to teach her sewing and grandma isn’t feeling well. But so determined is this little fella to learn how to sew that she asked her grandma for old cloth scraps and rummaged through her drawers to hunt…
I had a heart-stopping moment today. At around the time when I was supposed to go down to the lobby to wait for Cass to arrive home, I received a call from her class teacher. OH. NO!! Calls from the schools and teachers are NEVER good. Never once good. My heart literally stopped for a…
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