Swimming Record

Julian and Garwyn started swimming at the age of 4 and 3 respectively. As they were "underage" for the official swimming lesson so mummy has to put them under private training.

So far, their mummy has hired and fired 2 coaches. The current coach has "a list of credentials under his swimming trunk" and very experienced. This means NO NONSENSE. They are now into "NAVY SEAL" sort of training.

Julian and Garwyn's swimming abilities is definitely daddy and mummy's pride and honour!

Their current record at the age of 5+ and 3+ - 8 laps by 60m (our pool is a litte longer)!

Keep it UP! Sons! Mummy and Daddy are so proud of you!

Julian's Misadventure

Date: 17th July 2011 (Sun)

Venue: homeground, swimming pool

Accident: Daddy 's fault - dare devil act - diving!

When you have 2 boys and a naughty father, you must have a strong heart! That's my advice!

I left the 2 monkeys to a monster to fetch my little princess from her usual grooming around 5pm. Just into my 10 minutes drive and I got a phone call telling me to come home immediately after fetching Nicole. I sense something was wrong.

The kids have gone swimming with Dad and as usual Daddy came out with some dangerous ideas, asking them to dive at the 1.5m end of the pool to overcome their height phobia. Garwyn, being another dare devil enjoys the diving but Julian was real scare and he was reluctant to dive so I guess he turned back during the process and hit his chin on the wall of the pool and bled.

It was Sunday and at 5pm, where do I find a doctor. I tried called my usual nearby family GP but he actually had the heart to tell me go KK and he was ending his shift duty and refused to even check on him. I remember there was a 24 hours nearby so I called a friend who worked around there to help me check on the clinic. It was opened so I went. The doctor was kind to turn back (was his dinner break) to check on him but he was reluctant to stitch or glue his chin up as he considered Julian as too young. So he applied pressure for him and suggested I go to KK hospital.

I was in 2 minds to go or not as I knew it was going to be crowded (too many naughty kids in Singaopore. LOL) and Julian was not that serious so he won't have priority. I called my friend who was on her night shift in that previous clinic to try my last luck. She told me it was a relief doctor but not too bad. I went over and thanks God! I met a good one. He told me the wound was not that serious and since we could apply pressure and had been running everywhere for help for the last one hour plus, we didn't need to do anything. He prescribed some anti-biotic and off we go!

Of course during this process, the guilt-stricken daddy kept calling us....

Beyond Words

Toilet Talk while waiting for mummy to clean their butt after business!

Shopping spree in JB

Our conversations:

I was telling Garwyn that he is a big brother again cos Uncle Nick has a new baby - Kai En!

Julian overheard it and exclaimed: Huh?! Uncle Nick has another girlfriend?

Me: *&%%$%^

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I was teaching Julian - Sequencing through Rhymes and one of it is the ever famous Humpty Dumpty that goes Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall....

and Garwyn asked: "Mummy, why must Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall? Why can he sit on a bench?"

I have known Humpty Dumpty for so long and I have never thought of asking him such a question ever. Who did?! So my answer is....

that is why he is called dumb-ty!

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Garwyn was doing his big business in the toilet and I was waiting for him to finish it and clean his butt. While waiting, I was fiddling with my iphone responding to my 5 comments in my facebook.

He said: Finished!

but as I was not over yet so I replied, : I know you still have some more, please make sure you finishes everything then call me. I am waiting...

He replied: I am DONE! I know what you are doing now! PUT YOUR IPHONE AWAY AND COME AND WASH MY BACKSIDE NOW!

OMG! Caught in act!

Milestone Year 2011

Garwyn

Julian

Julian

Garwyn's swimming lesson

This is a "turbulent" year for me! Kids are growing up, my responsibility has increased and the responsibilities that I have given to myself has increased too! I started going back to office since March, I have turned into a Mummy's Driver to ferry them everywhere, I'm my husband's secretary but luckily I have found a good helper beginning this year. She is Jenny! She loves cooking so now we have bidden farewell to "tingkat dinner" and welcome our healthy home cooked meals!

My mother in law was hospitalised twice this year and now quite bed-ridden and on NGT. I have been trying to be a dutiful daughter in law as well, trying to help my sisters-in-law with whatever I can and also ferrying kids to visit my in laws as much as possible.

Finally, I have just completed all my accounts duties and even almost completed my spring-cleaning (thanks to Jenny for being my super assistant) and I can blog again!

Where have I left? Where do I start?

About Julian

Julian is now a 5 years 4 months old boy and weighing over 20kg! He is now in K1. He could draw, write, read and even calculate... when he is in good mood! In Sport, he excels in bicycling (not tri- but 2 wheels), swimming ( in frog style - he can swim 6 laps at once, not baby pool! mind you!), he could roller blades and he said the next thing he wanna learn is to join taewondo! He is also a pianist in the making.

I almost can't believe that my baby has grown up so fast!

About Garwyn

He is still my very babelicious Garwyn who still refuse to grow up. Sometimes he will even crawl around at home and blar blar blar in baby language and make BIG BROTHER very piss off! This baby is tall like his dad but skinny like his uncles weighing at only 15kg. After showering, he really looks like a POW! Nevertheless, this 3 years 10 months old toddler can do frog style too. Definitely not a baby in the pool! He is also a MAZE solving expert! He said his finger is his GPS!

However this is still my most worrisome child. He has just recovered from his 2nd unlucky bout of HFMD. He is also seeing a speech therapist and an occupational therapist for his muscle under-developement problem.

About Nicole

My one and only precious DOGther (daughter). She is 7 years 7 months old now (and in mortal age - she would be 49 years old now, surpassing me!) and weighing at 7.6kg (desperately needing Marie France service like mummy). Another most worrisome dearie. Last year I was constantly worried over her stubborn tick fever and this year her bladder stone problem. So I have been visiting vets regularly to follow up with her stones! Trying to get it out without an op! I have read alot in the internet about this and I know it is unlikely to avoid the OP. Lucky for now the vet said it is estimated to be 14 stones but seasame size and she may be able to purge it out through peeing. There is no urgency for OP so for now we have to force her with more water.

This is so much for now. I need to pack dinner for them. I promised the baby it will be his favourite chicken rice for dinner but it is raining now.... and time to wake them out of their nap.

Police vs Daddy

Last night, Garwyn came to me and said he was a power ranger then gave me a kick! Sooo painful. I screamed for daddy but never expect the tv addict actually would leave the tv and rescue the wife!

Garwyn was so worry but angry! Daddy told him to apologize and he did it reluctantly. However he refused to do the kissing and hugging part. When Daddy walked off, he stood in the corner and pretend to make a call: "hello police, mummy is naughty!"
I pretended to make a call too! "hello daddy, Garwyn bullied me again!" This time Garwyn burst into tears. Guess daddy is still more powerful than police in the household huh?!

Julian pretended to be daddy and asked Garwyn what happened. Garwyn came to me and hit me saying mummy is naughty. Julian ran to daddy's room but could not find daddy so he mischievously shouted in the room n said "daddy, Garwyn Abu Baka Abu Baka blur blur blur!"

Everyone in the room burst into laughter including Garwyn. Julian came back and said sheepishly "I'm so funny right?!"

That's our bedtime bonding time! Together with our Aunty Jenny too!

fighting for mommy

We were watching PRIMEVAL n about the man got infected & turned into fungi monster. Julian was so scare and he sat on my lappy and started biting his finger.

I asked him if he felt scare. Garwyn immediately put his toe into his mouth and gave me a very scare look!

Julian's storage system

Julian pointing to his head: I keep teacher J here, Maths here, & potato chips here.
Me: what about me? You have no place for me in your head?
Julian: I keep you here (pointing to his birdie)! You are most important to me.

OMGosh! No wonder we said men use their xxx to think. They already know that since young! This is where they store important data!

Young & Dangerous Garwyn

My Garwyn Tung aka Mr (Teeny Weeny) Incredible! To-date, whatever misadventures that will likely happen to kids, you name it, I may possibly have experience it!

1. Hand trapped on lift door

I fetched him from school. Everyone were waiting for lift to arrive at level 5. When the lift landed at 5, he put his hand on the closest edge of the door and it opened with his hand in it. It happened so fast, I could not pull his hand out in time. Luckily, he is Mr Teeny Weeny so I was able to pull his trapped hand out.

He was crying in the lift and I could hear Mummies telling either the caregivers or kids that they had to be careful of thing like that... It made me felt I was a lousy mummy!

2. Trapped foot on escalator

As mentioned in my early blog

3. Lost! (Gone in 60 secs)

Most common. He is a happy wanderer and worst, don't like to hold my hands. It just takes seconds to lose him!

4. Trapped in lift alone

I dunno how it happened. The door closed and he didn't come out! I needed to run down the stairs to every lift landing to look for him! While racing down, all kinda of possible mishaps kept going through in my head! I saw a couple when the lift opened and he was not in it. The couple told him he was at ground floor with another couple. They insisted to bring me to him. In the lift, I was so embarrassed I dunno what to excuse myself from being perceived as lousy mommy again!

5. Missed the escalator

He was holding my hand and my hands were full with his school bag & groceries. Told him to hold me tight. He was able to just stand there and not moving at all when I already put my foot on the moving escalator. He stood there and cried while watching me move away... A kind lady held his hand and brought him down! Another bad impression on me!

6. ???

What else can happen? TOUCH WOOD!

Dream Saver

Times passes so fast and my kids is growing up fast too! Not too much on their physical expansion but their mental development.

While I was driving today, we talked about NIGHTMARES. Julian said his worst nightmare is monsters chasing after him but Daddy will always appear in his dream to defeat the monsters! I told him my nightmares when I was his age would always be a balloon turning bigger and bigger, bouncing high and threatened to roll over me! I kept running in my night and I was so scare I could not wake up. After listening, he commented "Come on, it is not scarey! Just take a needle and pierce the balloon!"

He has overcome my nightmare! I have never thought of pirecing it with a needle for the last 34 years!

Parents Volunteer

I brought Julian along for the last day of PV!
Grumpy Julian

Before I had kids and see parents volunteering in schools or hugging each others and cry on TV when their kids are chosen for the schools, my comment is - KIASU!

Now - MY TURN! and I no longer call it KIASU but call it's the SINGAPORE SYSTEM. In fact I was even late for Parents Volunteering (PV) cos those popular schools oredi call for PV when your kids are 4 years old! And if you study through all the past year result for registration, you realised almost all schools are over subscribed under phase 2C and need balloting. So in order to "upgrade" my chance to phase 2B I started calling... then I realised some schools have closed their PV registration. Even if you managed to put in your form, you still need to be "CHOSEN"! Damn it!

So for the sake of my Princes' future - the Queen has to lower herself to PV! I was quite lucky, the school needs librarians to sort out their books intensively so I managed to clock my 40 hours in less than 2 weeks. BUT that does not mean I am GUARANTEED a seat for Julian cos there is a clause in the form that says it might still subject to balloting if phase 2B is over subscribed!

Now I can only pray hard!

Happy Father's Day

My Dad and his Rojak Business
My Parents, Grandma and ME!

It has been such a looooong time I haven't been blogging. Many changes have since taken place and that really kept me so busssssssssssssy for so long. Now I can only rely on my memory to blog.

It's Fathers' Day! So I shall start off with my DAD! My Dad passed away in a Motor skidding incident when he was only 38! I never get to say goodbye and so it has been an unfinished business for me.

My dad was an illiterate so forget about him being able to help me with my school works but the lessons he had given me benefitted me a whole life time. He was a strict father who believe in canning and it was a one for all and all for one thing. Nevertheless, I was the naughtiest so I always got my poor sister into trouble as well. I used to hate this! But now that I am a mother with 2 kids, I realised I am passing these sets of values and belief to my kids. My dad worked very hard because he was the only breadwinner but he would make sure that every Sunday, he would accompany the family out for breakfast and do marketing together. He would take care of us and let my mom take her nap, we always have meals together whenever we could (therefore I was quite shock when my husband prefers to eat with the TV). Though he was an illiterate, he always tell me he would rob the bank to send me to university cos he believe EDUCATION is way out of poverty!

However when I was a kid, I always think being fillial is a grown up job. Only when you grow up, you earn money then you can be fillial. This is a greatest regret in my life cos my dad never wait for me to be fillial to him. So for those who see the blog, if you dun have to search through photographs to recall all these sweet memories of your parents, then you may be luckier than me. Remember to tell them - I LOVE YOU!

Dad, I have promise you to be good and take care of the family well. I have tried my BEST so you can R.I.P. I have also fulfilled your dream of your children graduate with a Degree! but you never have a chance to ROB for me! Anyway I still love you! Happy Fathers' Day. See you in heaven!

Balancing Act

Life is about yin n yang. Life is about balancing. Balance between family n work. Balance between knowing when to pamper them n knowing when to punish them. Balance fun n learning. Balance between knowing when to let go n when to hold on tightly. Balancing company balance sheet. Balancing family finances knowing when n how to spend wisely n when n how to save. Suddenly I feel like a tightrope walker but I'm pretty good at it now. How much do you need to balance in life? P.S: I like to thanks my blog passer-by for writing their comments on my blog. Thanks for appreciating the blog that was created by my sister, Unique and what I do is simply put down my thoughts and the bits and pieces of my kids' growing up. I dedicate the blog to my kids like a diary so they will have some fond memories about their growing up. Once again, thank you for your passing by....

Garwyn's April Fool 2011

Garwyn in Tan Tock Seng A&E

His injured right foot

His injured right foot - recovering

His favourite shoes

Garwyn's misadventure again! What a April Fool Day that freak me out! Garwyn's right foot got stuck in the Square 2 escalator.

Thought since it was Friday so wanna bring the kids for lunch and to check out on the Apple's store for iPad. Nevertheless, we never make it for lunch nor ipad, we ended up in Tan Tock Seng A&E instead.

I always reminds the kids not to stand near the edge of the escalator but this hyper Garwyn never really understand. I was a little distracted and he was standing very close to the side of the escalator holding on to the rail watching and suddenly it happened so fast - I just frozen! Daddy was behind him and was quick enough to pull him out. I was thinking "DEAD! His toes are gone!"

Looking at the condition of the shoes and past accidents, usually it will end up fireman coming to release the foot and toes are amputated. I must said this again "GOD was there and watching over him!" I dun need a video to record that moment because till now it is still so fresh in my mind. He had cuts on his 3 toes but not really bleeding much and the cuts were not to deep. We were really blurred. The passer-by told us to go to Novena Medical Centre and we went only to realise it individual clinics and we don't know which is GP! Then another quick-witted guy told us TTS is just opposite! We rushed there! He was a brave boy! He cried but was not hysterical. He kept asking Daddy to clean away the oil and blood on his toes.

His recovery was fast, on the second day he was already running and jumping around. For now, I hope He will always remember NEVER STAND NEAR THE EDGE OF THE ESCALATOR!

Mars needs Mom!

Today we watched the movie in 3D! Damn expensive. After that, Garwyn followed me the whole day. He is so worry that the Martians will take me away!

Bad Feeling

29th Sep 2010 - I was admiring a condo along Upper Thomson while waiting at the traffic junction.

Here's our conversation.

Julian: What are you looking at?

Mommy: Just admiring this building. How I wish I can stay here and just need to walk you to school.

Julian: then you buy lor.

Mommy: I've no $.

Julian: Ask Daddy to buy.

Mommy: We have no $ unless we sell away our most precious thing.

Julian: What's that?

Mommy: YOU la! YOU are most precious to us. If we sell you, we can buy this place.

Julian: OK! YOU can sell me but you must come with me cos you are most precious to me.

Mommy: Me? I'm most precious to YOU? Then why you are always making me angry?

Julian: Hmmmmm... Just my bad feeling.

Mommy: Bad Feeling? When will it go away?

Julian: Hmmmmm... August.

Mommy: Hah! August! Julian, that was last month, why your bad feeling still lingers?

Julian: I think it'll go away when I'm 5!

I'm speechless...: <

Global Warming

(Uncle George - 大伯）

19th Oct 2010

Today I went to fetch Julian from school and the sky looked foggy.

Julian asked, "Is it burning offering again like the 7th month?"

I replied, "NO. Could be Volcano Eruption or burning of Forests in neighbouring countries."

Julian replied, "O! They detroyed the environment and caused global warming? That is why make Ah Peh (his uncle) so tanned?"

I'm speechless. What has Uncle George's skin tone to do with global warming?

Love you till the end of universe

Today we read a book called Mars Needs Mums.

Julian said he will love me till the end of universe. I asked if he will eat with me when I'm old & ugly? He said he will! I asked what happened if his wife & kids dun wanna eat with me on the same table. He said he will buy another table & chairs & eat with me only.

Although I know he may not honor his promise but I still love to listen. He he. .

Funeral

Julian is very sentimental. A friend once posted a music video in facebook titled 童话 and after watching it, he cried and felt so upset.

He is taking keyboard lesson at Yamaha so I told him next time you play piano at mommy's funeral.

Today we were having a rare guest of honor during dinner - Daddy! Usually the lone ranger will dine with his computer or TV. So I told Daddy that Julian practiced his keyboard and his fingers skill has improved. Then suddenly my younger one decided to impress his daddy too. Garwyn said, "Daddy, Gor play piano when mommy dies. I'll play trumpet for you when you die ok?!"

I almost choke to death!

Caterpillar and Bird?

17th Sep 2010 -

I had a stomach flu. Got a jab. Trying to coax Garwyn to nap so I can rest too. Took so long to make him sleep. So piss off and I threatened him.

Mom: Garwyn, a tiger had escaped from the zoo. If you dun sleep soon, tiger will come and eat your bird bird.

Garwyn: No not bird bird... My caterpillar will turn into a butterfly and fly away from the tiger!

Poor Man House

4th Oct 2010 -

Today drove by some terrace houses and tell Julian how about living in one of those houses.There are 2 - 3 storeys and he can sleep in the attic, so fun! He said OK! Then I told him it doesn't come with swimming pool and playground. And his reply is: "Why so poor? Then I'll stay in North Oaks."

Big Head

10th Nov 2010 -

Julian said: "Mommy, do you know why I always rest my head on your shoulder? Cos my head is so big and heavy. It's very tiring for me to carry a heavy head so I need to rest my head on your shoulder."

P.S. :Dear Julian, shall I just replace your head with a pumpkin?

Our Adventure

24th Oct 2010 -

Today as promised, brought Julian & Garwyn for a double deck bus ride. I set the rule to make it more excited! We will take whatever double deck that comes along and we will explore the place we stop at!

We boarded a 131 to Hougang Central. Took them for cheap western food. So nice. Will do that agian!

Their happiness showed on their faces are PRICELESS to me!

Every Moments ... of Garwyn

Garwyn used tissue and rub the corner of it into a straight twisted tail. Then he toldl me it was a stink ray and even demo how it swims in the sea. Then he separated the 2 plys and tell me it is a butterfly. So creative!

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Garwyn loves to watch Ghost Whisperer with me. So whenever he is naughty, I will ask him "Can you see light? Then Cross over!"

He used to reply as "Dun want" but now he said, "I cannot see light!"

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11th Sep 2010 - my conversation with Garwyn.

Me: Gar, see! Mommy bought you choco balls!

He exclaimed: WOW!

Me: So plastic!

He: I dun wanna to eat the balls.

Me: Why?

He: I dun wanna eat plastic balls!

I'm speechless!

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13th Jan 2011

I asked Garwyn: "do you like birthday cards?"

He said NO! He only likes cars not cards. And even reinforced what he said "Cars as in Transport! OK!?"

Is Garwyn good at putting message across?