She Still Cares :)
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Category: Cassandra
FollowEmotional Day
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The past 3 days have been nothing short of highly emotional for me. My blood was up and my emotions were running high. I was really upset and incensed with someone the past 2 days. And the situation is inexorable. A catch-22 situation. No way out kind of situation. Thankfully I had someone whom I…
Cassandra’s First Field Trip
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I was already up at 4:30 a.m. on Saturday to ensure that Cass reaches school by 7 a.m. for her maiden one-day field trip organized by her school for Primary 5 students. Places covered include a soy sauce factory, a theater at The Curve, a Nyonya kuih factory and lunch in Selayang. She’s waited for…
Back To Her Old Self
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I’m so relieved that Cass is back to her usual self now. She’s no longer giving me the cold shoulder. Last month on the first day of school after the third term school break, she woke up and morphed into a girl I barely recognized ~ stroppy, surly and extremely moody. And this went on…
Random Updates
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The littlest one is back to her usual self finally and we’ve started to have our nightly before bedtime light-hearted chats on the bed once again. But as with most cuddly toddlers who turn into tweens and teenagers, she still greets any public display of warmth with revulsion and sullenness. Grown children do not want…
Dealing With A Difficult Tween
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I’ve been feeling a tad melancholic since the start of school on Monday. On the first day of school, my 11-year old found it extremely hard to wake up for school. And when she woke up after much resistance and kicking, she morphed into a totally different person… like someone has just cast a spell…
Academic Excellence Reward
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Each time we go shopping, Cass would ask to window shop at the Lego shop. Lego is something that Cass likes since she was 3 years old, besides jigsaw puzzles. She could spend hours on end absorbed in these two toys and be completely oblivious to her surroundings. The other day I threw a challenge…
Grandma’s Game Partner
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The mil is hooked on Rummikub, a best-selling and fascinating board game that she learned to play with my 13-year old nephew when she was in Hong Kong. When my visiting SIL #2 from Hong Kong came to visit recently, she bought a set of Rummikub for the mil from Hong Kong. We were unable to find…
Update On Cassandra’s Appointment With The Urologist at HKL On 4 July 2019
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It took me almost half a year to finally secure an appointment for Cass to see Dr Susan, one of the top urologists at HKL. She has a wealth of experience dealing with a myriad of urological disorders from patients young and old. She treats patients not only at HKL but travels all over Malaysia…
Sunday, 5 May 2019
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5 May 2019 marks the 10th anniversary of Cassandra’s first surgery – a Uretheral Reimplantation Surgery to fix a Grade 3 Kidney Reflux on the right duplex kidney. That surgery got into an unfortunate complication and despite a battery of X-rays plus a CT-Scan, multiple ultrasound scans and a Fluoroscopy, all the scan images did…
Cassandra’s 11th Birthday
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Today is my baby girl’s 11th birthday! Time sure flies like mad!!! The day I lay on my gynae’s procedures room to have an amnio procedure carried out when Cass was around 20+ weeks in utero till today seems like just last year though we had gone through hell and beyond in the first 13…
Just For Laughs
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Someone is super duper bored being cooped up at home during the school holidays. She’s got no where to release her Energizer Bunny battery. Whilst checking her school holiday homework (English subject), check out what I found! Initially she wrote a different answer, which was the standard polite answer that it should. Then she erased…
Growth Spurt
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Cass after a Chinese New Year celebration in school today: Cass used to love wearing cheongsam and princessy gowns to such events in school but she no longer likes them now. Not even an iota. She tells me very often that she hates dresses, lipstick, make-up and high heels and that she will never ever…
Daily Exercise For Cass
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Another activity added into Cass’ daily timetable is exercise. I make her do simple exercises like rope-skipping and floor exercises everyday. Sometimes she does skipping rope challenge with her Alycia che che, who is a pro rope skipper. Alycia can do over a thousand times of rope-skipping in 10-15 minutes. After skipping rope, Cass has…
Cassandra’s Follow-Up Checkups
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Cassandra’s Blood Test Report
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Today is Cass’ blood test report collection day at the hospital. Dr Eric’s comment as usual was “not too bad”. On the 36 types of allergen test, Cass has no allergies, though the test shows that she has a slight allergy to dust mites. The units of antibodies shown (24) are so minimal that she…