Happy CNY 2012..

Here's wishing all readers, "Happy Chinese New Year"..

See also:

1. Happy CNY 2010..
2. Happy CNY 2009..
3. Happy CNY 2008..
4. CNY 2006..

Happy Chinese New Year 2012

Happy New Year 2012..

Let's take a look at my 2011.. I would say that I had fulfill some of them.. some need more improvement

In 2011, I wish for personal growth,

• I wish to develop my competency at work,
• develop my patience with my family members and all people whom I interact with..
• more wisdom to guide Ken and Wenn not only in academic but also in life..
• also to grow in faith, I wish to be more active in Soka activities and thus to deepen and strengthen my faith in Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism..

Work
ahh, I'm a perfectionist.. and I think I did this well.. and since it's my passion.. I find the time spent rewarding and fulfilling.

Patience
though I would say I screamed at Ken less during his P2 year compared to P1.. need more improvement

Wisdom
think I did this OK for now.. I know this will be an ongoing process.. Therefore, I wish I can grow and adapt my guidance as the kids grow older..

Faith
I completed my Kaneko Group training. Kaneko Group is a group for Women Division (WD) to meet up once per month to learn and share the spirit of Soka Women Division.. I managed to attend all the meetings.. and learned a lot.. however, the putting into practice is the difficult part.. so for this, I definitely could do better..

Summary of my 2011:

• Generated a list of worksheets for Ken to strengthen his maths concept
• Taught Wenn Sight Words
• Wenn's first milk tooth fell off
• Watched a list of 2011 Summer Movies..
• I permed my hair first time since working..
• We bought new pets..
• for the June holidays, we went to Jurong Bird Park and had a road trip to Cherating..
• We replaced our bathroom doors..
• On 1st Sep, we set up a parenting website SGMoms.Net
• Wenn graduated from Soka Kindergarten
• Ken was awarded the Model Student Cetificate

Although I did not blog about it, Ken had improved in his results. He scored 65% in his Term 3 (CA2) Maths.. I got such a shocked.. because we consistently did Maths questions.. And, because of his results, I made him worked very hard in Maths.. It was madness.. but in the end, he scored 98% for his Maths in his SA2 (final year exams).. It's something I wish that it would not be repeated.. the stress is stressful.. haiz.. And I wonder how am I going to cope with Ken and Wenn in Primary School in 2012..

But, let's start the new year with new hope.. Though it will be hard, I will work together with my children.. I will work on my attitude, my faith.. I will shower EM with more love, less grumpiness.. Many years from now, I hope my children will remember that I give my best and they should too..

Lastly, here's wishing all my dear readers.. "May 2012 be a year of possibilities."

See also:

1. Happy New Year 2011..
2. Happy New Year 2010..
3. 2009, the year ahead of us..
4. Happy 2007!

Singapore Parenting Forum for Sg moms and dads

Over the Raya break, EM & I busied ourselves setting up SGMoms.Net.. what an irony.. I'm not even Singaporean.. But I would like to think of it as a forum to support moms in singapore or singaporean moms residing overseas currently.. of cos, although majority of us are moms, there are very few dads.. and they are prominent due to their minority status :D

But nevermind about the new board.. I wrote these as my final words in the last few functioning days of m4m..

People who know me will know I'm a sentimentalist.. I joined m4m when I was searching frantically for some form of bfg support back in 30-Jun-2003.. then Ken was 2-3weeks old.. and he was at the hardest point of bfg due to his growth spurt, perhaps.. i remembered I was with tears when I signed up and posted for help..

To reminisce those days, I'm listing down what I remembered most in no particular order:

• all the breastfeeding support I gained here.. without which I would not have breastfed my 2 kids for abt 2years -direct at home, pump at work - thanks to all of you: Meg, Mum2Nats, frond, Pamela, blue, ifaish, dmjzz, lingsum, mandy, lynntan, chichu, bluemoon, michelle, citronelle, dinomom, etc, etc
• i learned to bake cake from here (my first attempted recipe was from jthorge's though I can't remember which)
• the bread making session by Lee (HugBear) at Ratna's place
• more baking sessions at Lee's place..
• the SB challenge conducted by Sri.. I swear she is the most creative person and we had such fun!
• when rostov "left", I took over the admin role.. *big sweat*.. as I'm not used to php and hostings, etc.. but I'm thankful to be able to learn as such it's so useful at my current job..
• the few outings organised by Ratna herself.. she's so generous inviting us to her place to bake and mingle..
• Regret most: did not join the M4M gala dinner as I had just delivered Wenn and was having a tough time starting work after my retrenchment
• the boliao kaki postings - super boliao sia..
• the banter and jokes by DLL.. he was a great joker then..

How about you? What are your memories in this wonderful place created by Ratna?

Lastly, I screen capture the below to remind me what fun I had once.. how unselfish people were to encourage a stranger like me then.. a part of me make me looked back with fondness.. another part of me is worry if I can run SGMoms.Net well.. when a bunch of people get together, there tend to be heated arguments and displeasure.. and I hate confrontations.. but, i trust that everyone will be sensible and will be tolerance towards each other.. I trust the members to safe-guard SGMoms.Net so that it will continue to be a platform for discussion for many more years.. :P

best bubble tea in Singapore..

My absolute favorite.. and I have asked, they sells thousand cups every weekend and few hundred cups on weekdays.. daily basis.. imagine.. $$$

HDB toilet door replacement

My home is coming apart.. our toilet door was getting hard to lock.. I'm afraid the kids may stuck inside.. we googled and found PD Door.. what I like is that there's no bottom railing.. i hate sliding doors with bottom rail.. the dust will get stuck.. and when you accidentally stepped on them.. ouch

Actually they do many types of door, not only toilet.. all you have to do is the 3 steps below:

1. Call them to make an appointment to quote a price (measure)
2. Their salesman will come to measure and you confirm and pay cash/cheque
3. 1-2 weeks later, wait for their workers to come to fix the door(s) for you

ohh, don't trust their receptionists.. i had to called 4x to confirm the date the salesman to come to measure for me.. Seems that I called too early.. You just need to call 1 day in advance.. ohh, our door costs us S$678 (S$339 per door), inclusive of labor.. all in pricing.. freaking expensive, eh?..

The trivia part.. their salesman place S$8-9k order from mon-sat.. the company has 7 salesman.. their boss "bought" the design from some SP (Singapore Poly) students.. their company tender for whole hdb blocks.. based on the above, can you imagine how much money the company make?.. aiyo, i must stop counting other people's money.. it's depressing.. how can some people have the way to make money?