tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62224968829085477762024-02-06T19:31:40.418-08:00YuinTing's IglooLove & friendship keep the igloo warm.YuinTinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953648909204847790noreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222496882908547776.post-4075797082354848202017-01-24T23:14:00.003-08:002017-01-24T23:22:04.068-08:00Congratulations my girl!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She was transferred from an "Elite" class 精英班 to an "ordinary" class 中班 in standard 6. She started to sense some "discrimination" when she was told that only the elite class students were eligible to represent school for English writing competition.</div>
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When she was older, she noticed some people assume that the smart ones will go into science class and only the not so smart one will end up taking humanities subjects. And worst still, those<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> who are good at art are usually not so good academically.</span></div>
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She said she wanted to prove them wrong. Hence, even though she loves to draw very much, she set her priority right by concentrating on revisions when exams drew closer. I am glad with her IGCSE straight As (7A* in Art and Design, Economics, Global Perspective, English First Language, English Literature, Combined Science & BM, and 3As in Mandarin, Math and Business Studies) , she has proven that effort does pay off, and everyone has his or her own strength. </div>
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Well, if you see a red-haired girl with make-up, please do not stereotype her as someone who loves to party and hates books. She is a book lover indeed.</div>
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Well done my girl, I am proud of you.</div>
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<br />YuinTinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953648909204847790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222496882908547776.post-68774489799623394372016-08-24T20:27:00.003-07:002016-09-02T00:35:44.819-07:00National/Private/International Schools??My kids are a little bit like nomads...<br />
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1. The eldest joined a private school after completing secondary 3 in a national school.</div>
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2. The middle child joined a private school a few months after entering secondary 1 in a national school. (PT3 was introduced the year she started her form 1). And entered an international school after her form 3 exam</div>
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3. The youngest one joined private school right after standard 6, and will switch to international school next month for year 10 (she is currently in form 2)</div>
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Not sure shall I thank or blame our ever changing education system...</div>
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Actually there are many students from national schools doing very well in major exams, including SPM and A Level. Some parents will say "We were also from national school and we survived well too. No point of sending them to private or international school".<br />
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Yes. It very much depends on the kids. Those hardworking kids will survive academically. </div>
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But I also found out many students from private and international schools are doing as well too, and they are also as polite and humble (I must admit I once stereotyped those from expensive international schools as spoilt rich kids).</div>
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But education is not only about academic achievement!<br />
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Do they enjoy their schools, teachers and friends? Are there sufficient facilities and activities for them to take part and unleash their potential? Do they have more dedicated teachers than the less dedicated and inspiring ones? (trust me, every school has good and not very good teachers, but the ratio is different)<br />
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I believe every kid is like a seed that requires specific type of fertiliser and environment. Some may be strong in science subjects and others in humanities subjects. But all need a positive and inspiring environment, just like sunshine and water. </div>
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If you can afford, are you willing to pay for a better fertiliser and environment for a plant to grow better?</div>
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YuinTinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953648909204847790noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222496882908547776.post-937592901443987192016-08-23T03:31:00.004-07:002016-08-26T02:06:22.122-07:00Son, I am proud of you!I must admit I was rather worried for my son's A Level result because he did not do well in 2 papers on his 2nd Edexcel Exam. I was so happy when he told me he scored A*AA for his math, physics and chemistry paper. With his result, he has successfully secured a place for law degree in University of Bristol (all 5 universities he applied gave him conditional offer with the condition of A*AA & AAA)<br />
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Looking back, he did well on all his major exams, be it UPSR, PMR or SPM. The only paper he did not do well was PMR Mandarin in which he got a D.</div>
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However, it does not mean he has no complaint: he did question my hubby and I on the following matters:</div>
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1) why we did not send him to <u>international school</u> so that he can "save" one year, just like his friends.</div>
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2) why we "forced" him to continue with the<u> mandarin tuition</u> after PMR</div>
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3) why we "forced" him to take <u>A level </u>instead of Foundation</div>
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4) why we told him to take<u> Pearson Edexcel </u>and not Cambridge International Exams</div>
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1) He showed interest in Law and I know it is good to have a cert for SPM Bahasa Malaysia if he wants to work in Malaysia one day (And I am glad he scored A for that)</div>
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2) I want my children to learn Mandarin at least until form 5. But knowing well that he could not cope with SPM Mandarin, I got him private tutor and signed him up as a private candidate for O-Level Chinese first language (And I am glad he scored 78 marks for that)</div>
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3) Even though he showed interest in Law, he somehow does not mind Engineering. So, A level is the right choice since he could not make up his mind yet during that time.</div>
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4) He could retake paper (module) for Pearson Edexcel. He scored B for 2 papers on the 2nd exam & decided to retake. He did much better on the 2nd time and that have helped him to get an A* for math!</div>
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Today, he is grateful with our decisions.</div>
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Of course, he has to thank himself too.</div>
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He is hardworking, determined and full of fighting spirit.<br />
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And I am glad he loves fencing and has learned for 5 years and took part in many competitions even though he hardly won any prizes. He loves music and completed his grade 8 piano last year even though he nearly wanted to quit when he was in secondary one. Oh ya, he loves playing guitar & jamming with his band buddies too!</div>
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Son, congratulations to you on for all your achievements (including the muscle you gained through bodybuilding). May you stay happy, healthy and passionate, and continue to work hard and persevere. </div>
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I love you and I am proud of you.</div>
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Last year, the elder 2 passed their grade 8 piano exam, while the youngest passed her grade 5 and is now pursuing grade 6 while learning cello at the same time. I am glad music is part of their lives and they enjoy it.</div>
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The eldest is having a stressful year preparing for his A level exam while the middle kid will be sitting for her O level. The youngest will switch to an international school in September. I am glad they are serious about their studies and I am thankful all of them have healthy hobbies that help to release some of their study pressure. </div>
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As for me, I am still enjoying my work and my family. Apart from preparing dinners, I have started making bread since last year. I am glad I am still passionate about life.</div>
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I am glad the house is constantly filled with the smell of home cooked food, the music from different musical instruments, happy laughters & sometimes healthy arguments, and good conversation across the dinner table. </div>
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Life is beautiful. I live the life I have imagined. I count my blessings and wish to be a blessing to others.</div>
YuinTinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953648909204847790noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222496882908547776.post-26824976648387671382015-07-16T02:30:00.004-07:002016-04-11T21:15:42.656-07:00How time flies!Time flies... my last update was so many months ago.<br />
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We set up Christmas Tree in our home for the first time<br />
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Welcoming 2015 with all my buddies in my BFF's house. They gave me a sweet birthday surprise!<br />
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I am thankful for a great 2014.YuinTinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953648909204847790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222496882908547776.post-58484899980570908662014-11-27T06:15:00.002-08:002016-04-11T21:15:12.949-07:00Well done, my girl!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But actually we know she derives joy and satisfaction from learning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by scoring 7As in UPSR!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And you have saved me a lot of money on tuition fees too. </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Having only taken BM tuition)</span></i></div>
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her lips moving as she blissfully recites a passage,<br />
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My little girl has graduated from primary school!</div>
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How time flies. I'm glad i recorded her 1st day in Kndie and primary school.</div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">2 Jan 2007 (1st day in Kindie): </span></b><br />
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She was very cheerful and received lots of praises from other parents. One parent commented that she was the happiest student in the class. Everything was fine until she went to toilet and wet her underwear. She started crying. Her teacher gave her another pant to wear and I was told that she eventually calmed down. But on the 2nd day, she started to cry and yell early in the morning: “I want Kakak to stay with me...”, “I want mommy to stay there for so long...”, “I want to stay at home...I don’t want to go to school...” She experienced separation anxiety and we suffered with her for a few weeks.</div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">5 Jan 2009 (1st day of Primary School):</span></b><br />
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She was very "manja". With teary eyes, she complained that the hall was hot and stuffy. We pulled her out to get some fresh air and her daddy offered to let her "play" with his Blackberry. I stopped him because she was in the school! During recess, we brought her elder sister to school to give her some "Canteen Survival Training".</div>
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Fortunately she is not spoiled & pampered. Today, she is cool, independent, disciplined and confident and ready to embrace her secondary school life in 2015!</div>
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<b><i>Well done my girl!<br />And congratulations on your "graduation"!</i></b></div>
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To all the deeds you've done,</div>
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To all the times we had fun,</div>
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We'll love you even when you're old and grey.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really love this poem written by her. It sums up his dad's character so well.</span><br />
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Dad;<br />
You don’t seem<br />
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I admire<br />
Your quiet strength<br />
Your unyielding patience,<br />
You really are supreme.</div>
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I appreciate<br />
The way you keep up<br />
With my favourite foods<br />
Til’ the point it’s extreme.</div>
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I’m amazed<br />
By the person you are,<br />
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With pride I beam.</div>
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Happy birthday dad,</div>
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I love you.</div>
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In Jan 2013, I wrote about my son who got a D for his Chinese subject in PMR had requested to drop his SPM Chinese subject, and I notice it was viewed by quite many people - <a href="http://igloo-yuinting.blogspot.com/2013/01/mom-my-friends-are-going-to-drop.html">"Mom, my friends are going to drop Chinese subject!"</a></div>
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<i>I have decided to let him take up the ICGSE Chinese subject (which seems to be less tough as compared to SPM Chinese). He will sit for tuition to prepare himself for it. It seems to be a good compromise, in which he will get a SPM cert plus a ICGSE Chinese subject cert. He agreed on it.</i></div>
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Perhaps some may be curious whether was he able to sustain?</div>
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Since he was in form four last year, I let him take private tuition for Chinese subject once a week. I am glad he sat for the ICGSE exam for Chinese as the First Language a few months ago (there are another 2 papers - Chinese as the Second Language or Foreign Language but those are way too easy and I did not allow him to sit for that).</div>
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Yesterday, I collected his result and he got a B (78 marks)!</div>
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By comparing what he got for his PMR, I could see the improvement. Of course I must say that certain parts of the PMR Chinese subject are much harder than this ICGSE paper for him, especially the former has 文言文 and 明句精华。In short, more memorisation for PMR Chinese subject.</div>
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I am glad he has accomplished the mission - Continued to learn Chinese subject until form 5, besides obtaining an extra certificate for himself.</div>
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As for my daughter whom is in form 3 now, she is facing more challenges because PT3 Chinese Subject requires even more memorisation (She does not have a strong foundation and it is tough for her)</div>
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I have decided to let her follow her brother's step by dropping SPM Chinese, but continue to learn Chinese subject through private tuition and will sit for ICGSE Chinese subject.</div>
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End of the day, I want my kids to embrace this beautiful language and I am very sure when they grow up, they will appreciate it and benefit from it.</div>
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<span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: Helvetica;">That boyfriend of mine became the
father of my children, so I used that watercolour set to paint our 3 children's
portraits.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: Helvetica;">Our elder girl who was once punished
by me for doodling on the wall when she was a toddler, has grown up to be an
art lover, so I passed that gift to her.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: Helvetica;">It is pretty amazing how lasting
that watercolour set is! (It was also because I treasured it very much and used
it sparingly all these while)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: Helvetica;">Through it, I've witnessed how a
wonderful man has coloured the life of his girlfriend, wife and daughter.<span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: Helvetica;">I am thankful to have these 2 wonderful men in my life.</span></div>
YuinTinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953648909204847790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222496882908547776.post-84718697601481632642014-04-13T00:00:00.000-07:002014-11-22T06:28:01.496-08:00Happy One Year "Maidless" Anniversary!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">This month marks my family's One Year </span><a href="http://igloo-yuinting.blogspot.com/2013/06/automaidtion-life-without-maid.html" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">Maidless</span></a><span style="color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> Anniversary.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">To celebrate this small
"victory" of me surviving a year without a maid yet didn't go mad (in
fact living happier with new found freedom & decided to make it a lifestyle
choice), I designed a simple infographic to record how the gadgets and machines
have replaced my maid (of course I have to acknowledge the contribution from my
hubby & kids + part time domestic helpers who come in once a week)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: "Lucida Grande";">I am so thankful for
technologies. My hubby calls it "Automaidtion".</span><br />
<span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: "Lucida Grande";"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: "Lucida Grande";">Long life all great
inventors out there!!! </span><span style="color: #2a313d;">(</span><span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: "Lucida Grande";">guess
I can live longer too)</span><br />
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In fact, in order to fit the dishwasher into my kitchen, my hubby and I decided to renovate the kitchen and utilize the extra 5 feet of land. Some may thought we were crazy because there's no maid to help cleaning up the house during the renovation period.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica;">My old kitchen.. or rather...my
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Somehow it is a blessing in
disguise that my ex-maid cheated on me and never returned from the Philippines.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: x-small;">Times flies...those days of
playing "MASAK-MASAK" are over and now my kids are cooking REAL food. </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Last time the maid refused to let them "buat kacau" inside her kitchen. Now I give
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We got crazier... in the middle of the kitchen renovation, we decided to renovate the maid room cum piano room as well. Below was the result...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Instead of paying thousands to custom made a book shelf, we used back our old white Billy bookcase from Ikea </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">and added some new ones. It saves us lots of money :-)</span></div>
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I somehow thank my ex-maid for not coming back... it is a Blessing In Disguise indeed. If not we would not have the chance to enjoy what we are enjoying now. </div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">Nothing is better than being self-reliant and not having a stranger at home.</span></b></div>
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<br />YuinTinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953648909204847790noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222496882908547776.post-57078164383060429462014-03-12T00:37:00.001-07:002014-11-22T06:28:23.553-08:00So near yet so far...<span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13pt;">Once a senior couple told
me that their daughter who migrated to Australia was uncontactable for 2
weeks.They were worried sick & constantly feared for her safety. When
they finally got hold of her, their adult daughter told them she was too tied
up with her work. </span><br />
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having a family vacation in Bali a few years ago, I received a surprise call
from my dad and he simply asked me how's my holiday and I said it was
great. Only later I realised he saw the news about earthquake in Bali. I feel
bad to know that while I was having a great time, he was in fact worrying the
whole time. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a313d; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande";">Being parents, we don't have a radar to monitor our children's
every move (they can decide to keep their phones in silent mode). But it is the
children's responsibility to be contactable at all time, for parent's peace of
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Year 1990...when I was young & sentimental...in the era of typewriter.</div>
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My elder kids' friends noticed the portraits on the wall. Some even asked them: "Why there's no portrait of your little sister?"</div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">Well...I was really guilty as I kept telling my little girl that I would do one for her too. But the longer I delayed, the less confident I became since I hardly paint nowadays. </span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">Can't believe 12 years have passed since I last painted my children's portrait! How time flies and my 3 kids are growing up right before my eyes!!!</span><br />
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During our CNY 2013 <a href="http://igloo-yuinting.blogspot.com/2013/02/it-takes-long-time-to-grow-old-friend.html"><span style="color: red;">old friends gathering</span></a>, these 3 cool boys were game enough to retake a childhood photo (maybe after seeing their daddies and mommies crazily happy retaking some old photos too)<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">We share the same wish ... we hope that our precious friendship will carry on to the next generation...and the next...and the next...</span></span></div>
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Apart from busy juggling housework and office work, my absence from Blog was also due to Facebook. I come to realise I treat blogging like essay writing which requires more time & effort, as compared to my posts in Facebook which are usually much shorter. </div>
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However, I love what I have recorded in my Blog all these years. Reading through those old postings, I realised how time flies and my kids had really grown up a lot. There are many sweet memories which are so precious to me. Who knows, maybe one day they'll treat my blog as a "time machine" for them to cherish their childhood?!</div>
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Hence, I decided that I must "activate" it again and continue to record moments worth remembering. I extracted some of my recent Facebook postings below which reflect my family's "Post Maid Era":</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Knowing that I am without a maid now, my kind neighbour will help to push in my laundry rack when it is about to rain. There were a few times I thought all my efforts were wasted & my clean laundry would be soaked in rain, I happily found them dry under the shade of the car porch when i arrived home. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Ever since there's no more kakak/maid, it is my son's duty to water the plants. Nowadays he sure appreciates mother nature more.</span><br />
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YuinTinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953648909204847790noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222496882908547776.post-19017034878579023782013-06-30T03:06:00.003-07:002014-11-22T06:30:44.429-08:00Auto"Maid'tion (Life without maid)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have not been updating my blog for a while due to my maid's absence.<br />
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My previous Indonesian maid was with my family for 8 years, and after she quit, a Filipino maid took her place. She was so good, humble and professional that I never thought she would cheat us.<br />
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One morning she cried and said her husband died in an accident and we sent her back on the same day. She promised to return in 2 weeks time but never did (even though she left her big luggage bag and nice cloths behind).<br />
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Times flies, it has been more than 2 months my family is left without a maid. But I am glad we are adjusting well. I used to think I could not "survive" without one but I was so wrong! It is indeed a blessing in disguise because all my kids started learning & helping with household chores.<br />
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Apart from engaging part time domestic helpers (including an Indian man who comes to wash the cars), I have bought myself a few very useful items:<br />
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How I wish there is a robot that can help to iron the cloths too.</div>
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While waiting for the GE13 results last night, I was making a few mini posters to pass time. Looking back, I realized it was impossible to be calm when you were swimming in dirty water.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"></span>Before this poster was done I was already getting emotional when I heard one of my relatives was beaten up by 5 gangsters when he was trying to stop some foreigners from voting in Gelang Patah. His nose & mouth were bleeding and our hearts were bleeding too.</div>
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Instead of using a black box as my FB profile photo, I chose to include a hand because I believe one day the true democracy will return to the hands of the people!<br />
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YuinTinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953648909204847790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222496882908547776.post-71351776532606159872013-04-30T19:31:00.001-07:002013-05-01T17:00:36.444-07:00Kids and Politics My youngest daughter : "Mom, I checked already, many of my friends' parents are going to vote for Pakatan." <i>(Her own initiative, I don't remember asking her to make the survey)</i><br />
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My elder kid in the private school : "My teacher told us not to discuss politics in class, because some of the students' parents are BN members." <i>(I truly pity those kids...especially the offspring of the cronies. I'm sure they feel very uneasy now)</i><br />
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In the past my hubby and I refrained ourselves from discussing politics in front of our kids to avoid giving them bad impression on some country leaders. We felt that kids' childhood should be filled with happiness & good memories...more fairytales than real life horror stories.<br />
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However, I realized things are no longer within our control when my little girl handed me this drawing:<br />
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I pray that my beloved Selangor will not fall back into their dirty hands ... this few years Selangor is cleaner without those corrupt leaders.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">She frowned and said she and her family will be having a vacation in Japan at that time. (Already booked AirAsia tickets last year, and is scheduled to return on 6 May).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Just as I thought she won't be voting, she said: “没有法子咯,要早一天回來咯。” (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">"What to do, have to come back a day earlier.")</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Surprised by her answer, I asked :'How many of you?'</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">She st</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">arted counting...her husband, 2 daughters (40+, both first time voters), son-in-laws, brother and 2 young grandchildren.<br /><br />She can afford to fork out extra money for the air tickets, what she can't afford is to let her beloved country ruled by corrupt government again...and again!<br /><br /><b>My neighbour's family has 7 votes in hands! I see hope!!!</b></span></span><br />
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His/her future depends on the policies today!<br />
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YuinTinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00953648909204847790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6222496882908547776.post-18186282631113698912013-04-05T01:53:00.001-07:002013-04-08T21:27:09.210-07:00Go Out & Vote (my mini poster 1)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am worried because I notice there is a group of people (most of them are senior citizens) who prefer to give a vote to Pakatan and BN each. It is just like someone who is facing head lice problem for many years yet failed to exterminate those blood sucking insects even after trimming and cutting the hair shorter and applying special shampoo on it. Those tiny creatures will manifest and continue to suck your blood! </div>
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During my recent Chinese New Year gathering with a bunch of very dear old friends (most of them since kindergarten/primary school), we decided to go down memory lane by retaking some old photos. </div>
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Close to 40 years of friendship means we can afford to be stupid with each other.</div>
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2 of our old friends were absent from this photo (one was back in JB), hence their space were filled in by 2 friends' spouses.</div>
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We even skyed our dear friend in JB and sang her our favorite songs of yesteryears.</div>
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We have good singers and guitarist. Our gathering is always filled with laughter and songs. I really can't ask for more.</div>
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The best thing is, our wonderful friendship has extended to the next generation - our children. They have joined so many of our gatherings throughout the years, sharing and cherishing those precious moments together. </div>
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photo taken in 2011</div>
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Cheers to more good years.</div>
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It really takes a long long time to grow this bunch of old friends.</div>
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<b>"I count myself in nothing else so happy, </b></div>
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<b>as in a soul remembering my good friends." - </b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Friends Forever.</span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Forever young...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">at heart</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"> I Love You All!</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>友誼萬歲!</b></span></div>
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