FollowAfter 2 years 4 months I finally made a trip back to Ipoh with Cass. We took the 8.47 a.m. ETS train from KL Sentral to Ipoh. Traffic was super duper bad and we really thought that we would miss the train. Gawd, I was so so tensed throughout the journey from our house to…
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Mother’s Day 2022 – 8 May 2022
As I was typing the title of this post, the date suddenly hit me. It’s the month of May and the anniversary of Cass’ surgery and our 3-week nightmarish stay in Gleneagles Medical Centre (GMC), Penang exactly 13 years ago. The days spent with Cass at GMC were so overwhelming that it’s hard to repress…
Cassandra Is 14!
Our littlest darling turned 14 last Saturday – 9 April 2022. She has definitely come a long way. For those of you who have been following my blogs way before Cass was born would know her medical history. She’s not 100% out of the woods yet and we’re still trudging slowly, but in no real…
Another Drama
Yet another drama happened to Cass on Friday – she with her beloved Haru, which resulted in us at the clinic again. On Friday night Cass put Haru inside a box and played ‘peekaboo’ with her. Cass must have put her face right outside the flaps of the box to “Peekaboo” at Haru. When Haru…
Random Updates
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…
12 February 2022 ~ Random Updates
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…
What The Girls Did During The School Holidays
During the recent 3-week school term break, we stayed home most of the time. Sherilyn and Cass earned some pocket money by working part-time at their dad’s central kitchen and office. Sherilyn helped to prep Western dishes, with Cass assisting her. They also did filing and other clerical jobs at the office. Sherilyn started a…
Random Updates
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…
2 November 2021 ¬ Haru’s Spay Surgery
Sherilyn & Cassandra’s 2nd Pfizer Shot (Monday, 18 October 2021)
The entire process at Axiata Arena yesterday was completed in under an hour, including a 15-minute post-shot observation period. While the youths waited at the observation area after their shots, all the parents were asked to leave the hall and to wait outside, under the hot scorching sun at 12 noon ?. The entire process…
Sourdough Starter – Part 4 (The End)
Sourdough Starter Story – Part 2
Cass’ sourdough starter was finally ready after 2 weeks. Cass who has never baked anything before in her life, followed an online recipe and prepped the sourdough bread dough. But she made several blunders, which resulted in the sourdough being binned. What an unexpected sad ending ? Blunder #1 – Cass left the dough to…
Sourdough Starter
Cass has to do a Biology experiment on food fermentation and she chose to experiment with making sourdough. The yeast was made from scratch using flour and water. After a few days, I woke up one morning to a terrible stench. It smelled like rotten fish, dead animal and socks that have not been washed…
Updates on Cassandra
Barely 2 weeks into reopening after an almost 6-month break, many schools across the country had to be closed again this week as the number of Covid-19 positive cases in schools are surging fast and furiously. Yesterday Cass’ high school sent a notice to inform that Junior 1 students only need to attend physical classes…
Different Faces of Haru
Switching High School
After a month of attending online classes at her new high school (SMK/public school), Cass finally told me that she wanted to switch school – back to the initial high school of her choice, which is a coveted independent Chinese high school (ICHS). She passed the entrance exam in December last year and was accepted…