cooking

Today I cook these for dinner. 糖醋排骨and 姜葱田鸡 and porriage.

And as usual, I overcook the food. haha..But the taste is alright.
I am quite satisfied with the result.

Easter day

My big girl bring back one plastic egg and a letter fro parents. We are supposed to decorate the egg togther with her and submit back to school. In conjuction with Easter Day. They have a competition kind of thing.

I dun want to do the thing for her coz it will not be her work. So I think of something whereby she can do. So I let her paste stickers on the eggs. I have some left over star stickers which I use to use it for my Tech class students. And this is the result. Actually look quite nice. And this morning we submit to the childcare centre already.

my messy room

I bring back all my books, files etc from school and put them in one of my room. Have not tidy up the room yet. Dun know I need how many days to sort out all the things and put them in proper order.

including or excluding?

Even though I am on no pay leave, I still try to help with the finalizing of the exam papers. But I am quite pissed off by her again. She can't seems to make up her mind even on little things and I wasted so much time. Her sample cover pg got so much problem that I have to email her to ask what she wants.
1. footer so long until "clash" with page number.[can you believe it? i have never seen this kind of footer]
2. she wants total number of pages use "excluding" cover page. But all along, we have been using "including". The best part is she "confidently send me email and say use "excluding" despite the fact that I prompt her already. So I being very efficient, amend the cover page and all the page number. Then the next day, she send another email and say "stick back to "including". [ she seems to think I very free, and I spent another 1hour to change from "excluding" back to "including"]

still have other small details. no need to elaborate.

I had enough. went to school today and return my laptop. Now I really dun have to work. Trying to be a nice person, end up doing ridiculous no value add work. waste time only. spent a few nite just to change here change there. The only thing constant about her is change.

Hooray...now no laptop, no need to work, even if I want to help also cannot. I really need to "force" myself to stop working. Totally ignore what happen in school, if not I will be itchy fingers, try to kpoy.

And my edumail is being removed by MOE. I think becoz I am on leave for more than 6 months.

I will need pple to inform me when is the open posting. I want to look for a school, can be in the west or north also can. But I still want to be on part time teaching scheme. I dun mind teaching, but I dun like admin work. If I cannot find a school, then I will let MOE post me anywhere...haha......I dun really mind. I should be able to survive anywhere as long as the HOD is reasonable.

outing time

Today I brought my small girl to JP, together with my mum. We had lunch at the japanese food street. And ate la mian.

I signed up for driving course at bukit batok driving centre already. But will only start practical sessions mid May. As April slots were almost all booked by people already. The fastest I will be able to take the test will be in July.

My girl was still ok when we went out this morning. But just now my mum phone me and say small girl is having a fever. Lucky I am on leave now, if not I will be worrying so much at work. I will maybe make a trip down to Jurong again tomolo. If fever still not down, will take her to see PD direct.

dessert

yesterday I only manage to wash 1 fan as I spent the rest of my time making a fruit sago. bought mangoes, rock melons and apples. This is the result.

today's tasks

I have just finished making a dress for my big girl. Dun look very nice but 1st attempt I think its consider ok. The yellow color side is actually the front. I find the fabric very transparent, so i use another cloth to act as the 2nd layer inside. But seems that the effect is the 2nd cloth become nicer than the 1st cloth..haha...anyway i think the dress can be dress 2 ways. Inside and outside both can wear. Then can have 2 different look also....

I am going to causeway point later to buy a good baby carrier so that I can carry my small girl with lesser backache. Though I already have a good one, but heard that this brand is even better. So I am buying. should be a worthwhile investment. I want to start using it tomolo, so that she can get use to it and when we go tour yr end, she will like it.

The last task for today will be to wash the fans. I have about 4 fans to wash. Then I will fetch my big girl from childcare and go over to my in law house for dinner.

And my last last task for tonite will be to finalize my exam papers and send to my HOD.

Tomorrow I will be going over to Jurong side to play with my small girl.

the wonders of sewing machine

Last time I use to sew using my mum's old manual type of sewing machine. The pattern and style of the sewing is the normal usual type like this "-------". But now with electronic sewing machine, alot of pattern can be created. And they look very nice. I used it on pillow cases and on the edges of fabric. They look good.

the "curtains" for my door

my 1st day of NPL

Yesterday was my 1st day of no pay leave. what did I do?

I actually wanted to do more things. But I ended up not able to do so. I only manage to do the following.

1.sweep floor
2.mop floor
3.buy grocery
4.wash my girl's ABC mat
5.make "curtain" for door [ my girl will have bad cough if on aircon with closed door, but if dun on aircon, she will be hot and sweat and bitten by bed bugs. We used to open the door and let the aircon goes out, but kind of waste aircon, so use this "curtain" thing to act as door]

rainbow

small girl 1st bday

happy Birthday

Celebrated my small girl birthday last saturday. The actual bday date is 1st April.
She now can hold on to things to walk.

cooking fried hokkien mee

I tried to fry hokkien mee last thursday. bought some prawns,mushrooms, bean sprouts, meat, eggs etc. This is the result. So far out of the "many" dishes I cook, this is one of the most edible....hahaha... I will slowly improve, I think I lack the opportunity to cook. And I am always stress that food are not well cooked, so in the end I overcook most of my dishes.

This week I will try to make some desserts. And maybe to cook frog porriage.

pictures in school

packing in school

went back to pack my things last saturday. can't believe I have accumulated so much things just in 3 years. My one of my room in my house is almost filled up with all the things...I have to find one day or a few days to tidy the room, no space for walking.

Left with the SA1 papers to be finalize as my HOD still have not finish vetting. So I have to work during my NPL also. But its a promise I made to the P. So I will finish this last bit. But anything more than that, I will not entertain. She actually got the cheek to ask me if I can help with the CA2 papers, and that will be in August....I have to "eat myself" during my NPL, so I take no money and still do work? I am still quite sound. If i am not, maybe I will do for her..haha...

My girl in my school, I busy packing and she busy posing and taking pictures...

my small girl

cuppage

This place brings back alot of memories. During my NIE days, the few of us went to this place quite often to sing. The sunlight city KTV, dunno whether is it still there? Now the few of us hardly meet. Have not seen some for many years, some as long as 3 years.Sometimes I wonder how are they now? Are they living the life they always wanted?

favourite balloons!

my elder girl loves balloons! She is a collector of ballons.I took her to the Natas fair and she collect 2 balloons.She went up to the "I love children" bus to play also.

waiting and singing

while waiting for wedding dinner to start, my girl was singing and dancing outside the toilet area, she imagine it to be a stage for her to perform.

attend wedding dinner of my hubby's cousin-7th march

outing together

went out together for dinner on 8 march. eat frog porriage in geylang.

funny journal

one of my student's jounal entry. Just for a laugh. But it shows the standard of this class of students. the tail end of the batch. Not sure their english language, but chinese cannot make it.

school on saturday

brought my girl to school yesterday becoz I want to do a bit of packing of my stuffs.

eye power

photos-childcare centre visit to eye centre

Accompanied my girl for the excursion to the eye centre last month.

counting down

This friday will be the last day of my teaching for this year. Taking a long break. quite busy for the past weeks as I was clearing my marking, preparing everything nice nice for the teacher taking over.

my cough is still lingering around, not completely cured yet. Same for my blocked nose. But my voice is almost back to normal. Took me about 2 months to be near to recovery state.

My small girl is going to be 1 yr old soon.....but she is still quite cranky.
She is progressing well, able to stand and try to walk a few steps with support. She got about 6 teeth.

I will have more time to update soon.