Did I tell you that ever since I took over the role of full-time slave maid, I told the hubs that I desperately needed a cordless vacuum cleaner? But the stingy hubs said NO, he ain’t going to buy a new cordless vacuum. He said that I could use his other Electrolux vacuum cleaner which…
Today is an emotional day of sorts for me. The news of the ill-fated missing MH370 MAS airplane last night and what I read from today’s newspapers have been very depressing. The cover page of The Star newspapers is black today. Pictures of the relatives and kin of the passengers on board MH370 crying and…
Someone with an ever curious mind and itchy hands snipped off Barbie’s long locks. Poor ballerina Barbie now wears a crew cut and she’s so hideous! Till now, I still don’t know which rascal shaved off Barbie’s golden locks. Rascal #2 pointed finger at rascal #3 and vice versa. The blame game is still going…
Alycia got back almost all her first term test papers this week. If this was her UPSR exam, she would have scored all As and would be a straight A student. BUT…. both the Mandarin tutor and I are very disappointed with her marks. Why? CARELESSNESS! I told Alycia that she must have left her…
For the past 4 days, my back-up part-time maid (Maid H) has been unable to attend work. Last night, she sent me a text message subtly telling me that she would like to stop work. I was really disappointed after reading the message as this meant that I will have no part-time maids coming to…
Each time we have a heavy lunch on a Sunday, the girls would tell me that they only want to have something really light for dinner, like salad, sandwiches or leftover food that we had for lunch. But each time we have a light dinner on a Sunday night, the girls, especially Alycia would feel…
On a hot and humid Saturday morning today, the girls had a Skype video call with Sarah ku ku (hubs’ youngest sis) from Hawaii. Sarah kuku showed the girls her collection of seashells collected from the shores of Hawaii and they were all ooooing and aaaaing when they saw the huge and pretty seashells. She…
The weather in the Klang Valley has been crazily hot and choking. Never mind that it is hot and choking with haze as long as there is flowing water from the taps. But no. Most areas in the Klang Valley have been affected by the water rationing exercise. My heart goes out to those affected…
Cass’ morning ritual is to drink a glass of yoghurt drink before she sits on the throne, brushes her teeth, takes a quick shower and off she goes to kindy. This morning, as with other mornings, she dilly dallied a wee bit. Before I went into the bathroom to shower, I told her to quickly…
Yesterday I sent a Facebook message to Puspel, the water management company to seek confirmation on whether our area is affected by the water rationing. This is because our ‘Taman’ is not specifically listed out in the Water Rationing Notice. All our close neighbors are affected and listed out in the Notice. Our condo Management…
For the past three days, our part-time maid was unable to come. The past three days had been hectic, with us busy storing water, carrying pails of water, carrying buckets of semi-clean water (we recycle water that we use to bathe) to flush toilets and doing household chores. School shoes were not washed this week…
Many of us take for granted what comes down from above like the rain and the sunshine. But ever since the prolonged drought and water rationing exercise carried out in almost every part of the Klang Valley in 1998, I have treated rain water as a very precious natural resource. Each time it rains, I…
Alycia has a new ambition now. It is an ambition that is not too difficult to achieve, considering that she is addicted to the computer and she likes to loiter at Google during her free time. All she needs to do now is to study hard, ace in school, college and university. That’s what I…
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