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I cannot believe my baby is 5! 

On the morning of her birthday, I asked her how old she was, she replied "3?" and proceeded to doing her baby talk.

She is one cheeky girl. Here she had her mini birthday celebration with family and her best buds (I say buds because all of them are boys). They had a soccer-themed party, complete with personalised jerseys and a coach (hubby lar...heheh). 

Oh Em, you're doing great! Apart from the spills and thrills, you truly are a joy to all of us. I thank God for the privilege to be your mom. 

Back to Blogging

When was my last post? I have been having trouble with my internet connection for quite some time. Although hubby fixed it since (he bought a new one), the line is so slow during the day that if I were to go on FB for eg, everything takes ages to load and I seriously cannot be bothered to surf anything...

So...I stay on the internet far less as not to use up the monthly quota too quickly. Who knows? I may need to check my email in case someone decides to leave a million Euros in my bank account and I can't log in. That will be a disaster, I tell you. 

Anyway, things have happened, come and gone. Ash turned 7 last month -- S E V E N!! Soon, she'll be a tween and a teen and young adult. It's ok, I shall enjoy 7 and a month for now. 

We also went to Penang for a super short family getaway. Inlaws were in town and you know, the in laws were in town. Oh and we went to this really awesome blossom Japanese BB restaurant in Sri Hartamas. Food was delish. If you ask me, I much prefer it to the Korean BBQs. But, the price at the Japanese BBQ place was freaking expensive. If we had to pay, we wouldn't have eaten there. heheheh...What's that place called? I think it's Momotalo or something. It's definitely momo-something. 

Getting my routine back from the holidays wasn't the easiest. Now that I have gotten used to it, we have another holiday coming up. Well, for Ash at least. We will be around town. There's a tentative plan to head somewhere but nothing is confirmed yet. I love traveling during the off-season. 

What else? I think thats all. Oh, I am trying to crack 2 eggs at once when cooking...hahaha. :-P. It's my challenge for 2014. Pray for me :-D

Fickle

So, it has been decided..for...now. Ash has her mind made up. She's going to take up learning the piano. At almost 7 years, she better be sure what she wants. Or else, we'd be wasting money again. We told her it's going to be a long tedious task of lots of practise boring scales and whatnot. It's not going to be fun. Fun may come after years of practising but you will need to practise. She obviously has no clue what we are talking about so we'll just let her be. In the meantime, I am rolling my eyes and this shrug mug. I don't think it's her but...well, you will never know. Oh, she absolutely do not like Mandarin because of too many worksheets. Surprisingly, Mandarin is one subject she's pretty good at...So how? It's piano for now and perhaps, when she's fed-up, I'll suggest the harp.

May God help us all!! 

Back to the grind

No more holiday, no more staying up late, no more Wii, no more games, no more movies, no more DVDs...it's back to work, people. All set and ready to brave new challenges this year. I cringe as I think of it. Lunches to prepare, stepping into driver mode, homework to supervise etc...it's madness I tell you. On the upside also, it's back to catching up with good friends, back to some routine, back to certain discipline. I am not the most disciplined person on earth, in fact, the laziest. If you put me together with a group of chinese schooled people, I will lose to the last person running. So, some degree of force will do me some good..

I don't sound very enthusiastic, do I? Yea...I'd rather be sleeping and eating and watch movies all day long if it was up to me...hehehe :-).