Hubby’s Birthday Celebration

Hubby’s 40 (nah… minus 2), 38 this year. 

The kids and I are blessed to have him in our lives. We may not be filthy rich but with him being the sole breadwinner,  he has provided enough for a roof over our head, food on our table, yearly holidays plus occasional splurges on gifts and surprises. Not to mention how he always rot spoiling us with his unconditional love day and night 365 days 24 hours a day.  So ok la.. what more can we ask for. Count our blessing.

It was like any other day on his birthday. I drove down town in the afternoon to meet the birthday boy for lunch at Ippudo Pavilion. Bliss.

In the evening, Hubs reached home earlier than usual (..because I asked him to. Hehe). After dinner, we had a simple cake blowing session with in laws and the kids.

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Kids decorated the cake with candlesssss…

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Pressies from the kids:

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.. and lastly pressie for the wife. Yeah, how cool is that. Hubs birthday, wifey gets a pressie.

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That’s me and my new toy. Yippeee with love. 

And here’s one for the frame.

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Happy Birthday B. May you be blessed with good health, happiness and abundance of wealth.

Darren’s Tadika Interview

Darren @ 3 years 9 months

Time flies. Next year my previous lil b will be going to school.  I surveyed a few kindergartens around our neighborhood and decided we will send Darren back to his kor kor’s old school. Hubby had wanted to send Darren to a more academic focussed school, the exact opposite of my preference for a more relaxed, play based, character building school. In the end,  we decided to let lil b choose.

On the 24th of August, we brought Darren to visit the kindy – the school where his elder brother had graduated from. A few days prior, I had brought him to the ‘academic’ Tadika Susu Madu where his cousin Ni Hui is studying. He doesn’t like it. I personally was quite taken back too.

Anyways, on the day we visited Soka, right away lil b told us he want to study in Soka. The school is not new to him.  He had been to the school many times during his kor kor’s kindy years. It’s inevitable for him to feel more at ease in a familiar environmemt.

We completed a ballot form and were asked to drop it in the box. For a moment I thought I was voting for a new Prime Minister. Haha. The whole process was so serious.

2 weeks later,  I went to the school 10am in the morning to witness their balloting process.  i got there early but the hall was already starting to fill up. I had myself surrounded by parents and children anxiously waiting for the ‘event of the year’ to start. I was the only one who went to this supposedly big milestone day alone. Hubby was away for business trip and Darren was a little under the weather.   Grr.. for the longest time I felt loneliness biting on my nerves. Thank goodness for technology advancement,  I had my phone to accompany me.

They started with K2 and it took about 30 mins or so for 4 years old session.

I literally bit my tongue when the numbers were called. I didn’t know how long it took but it wasn’t long before lil b’s number was called.  4M-19. Lucky lucky. Next the interview process.

Yes. I N T E R V I E W as part of the enrolment process. No legs pulling here. It’s for real. Anyway,  Darren was umwell so his session was postponed.

Today, 1 Nov 2013 lil b’s interview session was scheduled for 3pm. We reached there at 2.30pm. Lil B, accompanied by Ryan (kor kor wanted to tag along to cheer the didi on. How sweet) were ushered to the play area by a teacher while me seated in the classroom having myself interviewed by Loo Laotsi (Ryan’s 6 YO B. Arumlili form teacher). So I guess the interview was more like an assessment. One teacher to assess the child (apparently they look for traits like independance, sharing, motor skills etc) and another on me asking Lil B’s day to day activities.

Anyway after 15 mins or so, I was asked to proceed to the cashier to pay up. Woots. I guess we passed. Yoo hoo..

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All excited he wanted to wear the school uniform right away… That made me RM1.1k poorer but come’on look at that smile. I believe we made the right decision.

Darren’s First Movie

Lil B @ 3 years 5 months

We had wanted to bring Lil B to the movie on several occasions. However, he wasn’t interested to tag along.

Lately he has been very clingy to Mommy. So when Ryan expressed his intention to watch Monster University, we took the opportunity to drag him along.

This time we succeeded. Hurray!

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Initially, he was reluctant to sit on his own seat but he later warmed up and