Dare to Dream

I always wonder and of course, looking forward for this day when my kids finally graduate and having a good career. It might not be any profession or the best of all career but something that they LOVE to involve and something that they PASSION!

I asked them before what would they like to be when they grow up. Due to their tender age, this was how they answered me. SyuenSyuen answered "Mummy, I wanted to do something to deal with Mathematics." In my mind, I was thinking "Ahaa..she wanted to be an Accountant!" NingNing turned to answered "Mummy, I wanted to wear the white clothing, with a white helmet and fly to the moon." Oh my! She wanted to be an Astronaut! So, here they are, the Double "A"!

No matter what field they involved, my hubby and I will give them our full support. We believe and trust them that they can make it as long as they DARE TO DREAM! This is more important than anything else! To be success, the key is PERSISTANCE!

I'm the kinda parents who do research alot, from mental and physical development to education and to many many issues. Come to think that, perhaps I'm too "careful" in bringing them up. Am I paving a smooth pathway or perhaps too smooth?? I wouldn't want to pave a pathway for my children as they have the right to choose and to make decision. I would prefer to guide them, showing them the many pathways, the decision is still in their hands.

If one day, my children told me "Mum, I wanted to become an Artist." (which many many Asian parents' worst nightmare as they have this perception that their children couldn't make a living for being an artist because they don't earn much!) There are massive argument between career and earning issue. Well, just cut it simple. Life is simple and happiness is simple! My answer to my children is "Good! Go ahead, child and be the BEST!"

Vegetable Printing

To be fast I always cut the vegetable rather than pluck it leaf by leaf. I always admire the root part of the vegetable that I had cut as it looks like a flower to me. Perhaps we can try to print it! And yes, the girls love printing it and they are amazed too!

This is the root parts of the vegetables, looks like a rose, isn't it?? :)

Love the serious look of NingNing :)

As usual, SyuenSyuen was a little clumsy with it :)

The rose!

SyuenSyuen's Masterpiece!

NingNing's Masterpiece!

I joined in the fun too! This is my masterpiece! :)

My Best Birthday Gift - They Had Grown Up

5th of August 2012, a day to remember! A day that my heart beating so fast that it almost stopped and with difficult breathing! Due to my carelessness, I lost my two girls!!


As hubby was queueing up to pay at the cashier, I decided to bring both gals to the bread shop. I wanted to buy some breads at the shop while the girls wanted to play the toy machine. Well, as the toy machine was just beside the bread shop, I decided to let them played there while I went in the shop for a few seconds. This is the WORST decision I ever made!! NEVER EVER left your children alone, not even for a few seconds, not even when they are within your sight!

One second they were still at my sight, the next second they were gone. I rushed out but couldn't find them! OMG! Bearing my tear, I quickly ran to my hubby who was paying at the cashier to see that the girls were there with their daddy! Thank God!

My first reaction was scolding SyuenSyuen. Oh great, another mistake that I made!!I shouldn't have scolded her, she must had been so scared at that time! I'm not a good mother, I was so regretted for what I had done.

After cooling down and refreshing my mind, I apologized to both my gals. "I'm sorry, SyuenSyuen and NingNing. I wouldn't repeat my mistake. Please trust me and believe me that I will keep you safe. Mummy always loves both of you."

SyuenSyuen, mummy is very proud of you as even though you are scared at that time but you are CALM and BRAVE. You didn't cry and you knew what you need to do. What I'm really proud of you is that you know how to TAKE CARE of your little sister. You didn't abandoned your younger sister but you held her hand and took her along with you.  

NingNing, you did GREAT too. You are being very COOPERATE, following your sister and being BRAVE too!

Both my gals had really grown up! Mummy is very PROUD of the both of you. This is the best birthday gift from the both of you! ALWAYS LOVING YOU BOTH! :)

我的野蛮老婆

在一天晚上，临睡前的对话竟然让我大吃一惊！以下是我和老公的对话，在此我想把它计入下来，相信这会是我们俩美好的回忆！

老公突然问到“老婆，怎么你最近那么温柔？”我就大声地说“什么？？你说什么？？以前，我不温柔嚒？？” 老公应该是觉得不大对劲，很快地回答到“没有啦，以前你也是温柔，不过现在比较温柔。”我也傻傻地问“我几时开始变得比较温柔？”（似乎他说的对)老公竟然回应“这两个月啊”老公继续地说“你以前很会发脾气，不喜欢的事就会骂我，要不吗就是脸黑黑地不睬我。。现在就没有骂我了，不喜欢的事都会温温柔柔地说，变了很多。”听起来好像很可怜！

OMG! 原来，我以前对老公的态度是这样的，是那么地差！我也觉得自己最近很“奇怪”，好像很多看不过眼，看不顺眼的事，都不会放在心上。。听到一些不好听的话，我竟然没生气，反而觉得那些话很搞笑。。碰到不好的人，也不会排斥他人，反而觉得面对这样的人是一种修行。。害怕自己这样的转变是不正常的便和老公谈谈这两个月来对事对人的想法以及态度。。也许，以前我比较要求完美吧，绝对不应许任何差错，一点不顺心就会大发雷霆，也把生活上的点点滴滴计划完美！但是，逐渐领悟到不是每一次都能够顺心如意。。完美之中的不完美也是一种美！我还是相信着个理念 "Everything happened, happens for a REASON."

听了我的讲解，老公表示支持，我也很开心。最后，老公的结论竟然是“老婆，你很可怕叻。”哈哈哈哈。。我也是觉得我很可怕。。便开玩笑地说“所以，你最好是不要得罪我，不然，我就会让你好看！” 没想到，我这次的改变竟然更加促进我们俩的感情。

老公，

以后不要再说对不起我，不要再说你很抱歉不能够给我最好的因为你已经给我最好的了！我很珍惜我们在一起的时间，很感谢你给我的美好回忆！I believe more to come :)

永远爱你的老婆上。

Flip-Flop Book

This is our very first flip-flop book and we took around one month to finish it. Since SyuenSyuen wanted to know times before dinosaur and Ice Age, we decided to go through the prehistoric time line. I had hard time finding the information and sometimes, confused with the time line. And of course, summarizing the time line and simplifing the whole stuff had been a challenge to me. Yup, me too learning something from all the research. It took me a week to do the research.

Then, we spent a day to view the slideshow from National Geographic website, a wonderful slideshow http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/prehistoric-time-line/ SyuenSyuen loves the story line that I tried my best to tell :)

Then, we spent another week on drawing and colouring all the pictures.

Another week spent with attaching parts of the flip-flop book and pasting all the pictures in it. Finally, our very long flip-flop book was done! It took us plenty of time but it really pays off.

I put the flip-flop book together with the other storybooks in our bookshelf, it will be one of our bedtime storybooks! :)

Sports Day 2012

This year is SyuenSyuen's very first Sports Day. Thank you hubby for taking the effort to spare some time off the work to join in the fun!

Parade was the very first program to start off. SyuenSyuen had been telling me about this "walking stuff" alot these days...saying that they had been practising to parade real hard these days, instruction to follow the big brother in front, with no looking here and there and no broken line alllowed.

Standing next to SyuenSyuen's kindergarten is Preschool of SJK(C) Kuala Kuang.

Then, we had speeches from the Headmistress and Chairman of SJK(C) Kuala Kuang followed by Chairman of Tadika Chin Lai (SyuenSyuen's kindergarten). Next, the primary school children performed some dances before the real competition began!

We didn't take any pictures of SyuenSyuen's competition as we scared that we might distracted her but we took a video clip of her from FAR...real far..hahahaha..

To our surprise, SyuenSyuen managed to get Number 3! Not that we do not trust her that she can do it, it is just that to us, she is our little clumsy girl with rough action. We are happy with her achievement and seem like she is very happy too! :)

 Ehhmmmm...my hubby was called out to present the awards to winners?!?!

Then, there were competition for parents or outsider to join! My hubby and my two sister-in-laws joined in the fun too! They joined in the Tug-Of-War! They had fun and of course, they won too!! :) Both contestants and spectators were excited over the game, with all the laughing and cheering!

 At the end of the day, we all went home happily! What a GREAT day!! So looking forward next year!!

Green n' Red Plant

Oh my, it has been two weeks since the school reopened yet I'm still struggling with the workload! Our very first planting was done during the school holidays but now only I have the time to blog it.

As it was a two-weeks of holidays, we brought the girls to Science Centre in Kuala Lumpur. Please refer to the blog if you missed it :) http://hanyi88.blogspot.com/2012/06/dinosaur-live.html In the meantime, I bought some holiday workbooks for both girls as they requested. Yup, they finished it within the time frame.

Our holiday project was planting!! I, myself was never good in planting so, we decided to plant something easy. Something that grows easily and grows up fast! Growing beans will be fun! As I have said that I'm not a green hand, I'm confused with the beans!! Should we use green or red beans?? Ooppss...there are two kind of red beans! In the end, we bought some green and some red beans, tried to grow both beans.

Provided the girls with some cotton balls, papers, pencil, colour pencil and bottles. Again, we reused the mineral bottles as our pots for the plant :) Drawing pictures of beans, colouring the pictures (indicating green and red beans) and writing down the name and date were fun as they were so excited over the project! Ooppss... wrong spelled name there..hahahaha..now only I realised!

As NingNing is still learning to write, she only drew and coloured the beans!

Both girls placed the cotton balls in the 'pots' while I pasted the picture that they had drawn and coloured. Then, they carefully placed the beans according to the pictures. Watering the plant was the last step.

The next day, the girls were so anxious to take a look at their plants. They were overjoyed when they saw the tiny bud grew out of the beans. Again, they watered the plant and put it aside in the meantime trying to finish their holiday workbooks. On the third day, they were even excited to see their plants growing into seedlings! Simply love hearing them saying "WOW" and laughing away. Then, NingNing tried to give the plants more water in order to let it grow taller. Luckily, SyuenSyuen stopped her and told her that they only need a little of water every day.

So, every day the girls will water the plant and of course all the "WOW" was always been heard and they were so looking forward to take a look at the plant every morning! NingNing was very contented with her green bean plant as it grew really well (she put lots of green bean in!!) hahahaha...Both girls were so happy when their plants grow real tall!! What is there more than seeing both girls grow up happily!!

Compared to the green beans, the red beans grew slower but still it grew! Thus, the girls learned that the green beans grew faster than the red beans and they both needs air, water and sunlight to grow! I was thinking to plant spring onion the next time. Hopefully, it will be a success too.