My friend told me to encourage my son to do well in his next Bahasa exam by buying him a gift. I told her that although he did well with all the subjects except for Bahasa, I didn’t inted to buy him anything. But my friend insisted that I should get him something to encourage [...]

Can someone explain to me why my son always comes home with dirt everywhere? Not to mention his dirty shoes which has becomes a ‘culture’, but his face, shirt, kneecap and even his hands are always black!
Me: What happened to you? Why everywhere also dirty and black?
Ian: I don’t know…
Me: You rolled on the floor?
Ian:No..
Me: [...]

The culprit

Last weekend, as we were on the way home from a friend’ house, he told us that he picked up ONE green bean on the floor in his previous school (kindy) and PUT INTO HIS EAR!
Huh!!!!
Hubby and I were speechless for a while. And then told him not to do it again or put [...]

Was feeling nervous. Got up slightly before 7am to get ready to go to school.
Year end school holiday just started but I still have to wake up this early for the next two weeks. A torture for me, you know.
Sent son to primary school. A new chapter for him and myself.
Thinking of our son attending [...]

I thought I would be able to bring the kids out with my mom or to my brother’s house, but then we were stucked at home for few days due to food poisoning. To cut it short, Ian and I had it and Iris was spared from it because she didn’t finish the overnight soup. [...]

She started doing this pouting this year.
She did once or twice at home before.
She always does it in front of my brother and he likes teasing her and playing with her.
The pouting mostly done in front of my brother.
Because she knows ‘khau fu’ will give in.

Ian’s dirty socks from school.

Yup, My firstborn lost his first tooth yesterday. It was a shaky tooth and the neighbor tooth is shaking too.
It was supposed to be another 5 or 7 days before the tooth comes out naturally, but when kakak wiped his face, Ian moved around and hence, the tooth came out.
 
~My mou nga jai~
Just a little [...]

 
Whenever there is an Ejaan (Spelling) for Ia, I would write the word out in different color market pen and stick them up the wall. It worked for him last year but this year’s ejaan got harder and sometimes it comes with two words together such as bakul sampah (dustbin)
I find that he can’t remember [...]

I was told once by a friend who attended a talk that when we blend our own homemade juice, it shall not be 100% fruits. Vegetables like carrot, celery,etc must be added to it because the sucrose from the fruits is very sweet and might cause diabetic. So, today I added carrots to some apples [...]