School Shoes II

After hearing comments from all of you, I am so glad that I am not an alien here. I soaked my school shoes on Friday and washed it on Saturday morning. I let it dry and apply the shoe white on Sunday.

When I was in school, I love playing netball on the muddy field. In fact I was the school netball player. After a good game, my shoe will covered with mud stain. If I do not soak my shoes, it will be difficult to get the dirty stain out. Anyway, it became a habit.

By the way, if you are from BBGS and batch of 1987, there is a reunion on 25th July 2008 in Concorde Hotel. However I will not be able to make it due to busy July schedule.

My School Then:

My School Now:

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SD Card

SD card is one of the greatest invention. Now with SD card, you can do away with film. Digital camera is getting popular with SD Card. You can take as many pictures as you want without worrying about processing fees.

When it was launched, it was fairly costly. Now it is fairly affordable and you can get different memory capacity too. You can find more of these from buy.com.

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HDTV

One of the reasons why my children love to stay in the hotel is the huge TV that they have in the hotel room. They love watching their favorite cartoons on the TV. They requested me to decorate their room like the hotel. I bet if they know about HDTV, they would want one mounted on the wall.

HDTV does bring out the quality of the picture and now it comes with vibrant design with sleek body. It can be mounted on the wall to save space in your home. It will be my next choice when my TV breaks down.

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Whisper Whisper

I have never been so left out and it is all my children’s fault. Here’s the story: One day while they were both playing in the living hall and I was inside the study room, I heard whispering. They usually talk very loud. Imagine most of the time, I have to remind them to talk softly. Children get excited easily.

I love hearing their conversation too. However this time, I heard both of them whispering. Hrmm, I thought they were up to something not good.

The last bit I heard was Emily saying:

Emily: Don’t tell mummy bla bla bla..

Mummy: Don’t tell me what… *I went out to check on them*

Emily: No no no…you faster go to work. *giving her cheeky smile*

Don’t you think there are a little too young to keep secret from their mummy, me? Oh they know what “secret” means too. So I felt a little left out.

However, I hope when they are older, they will share everything with me. Now I must learn the art of making them tell me everything.

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Memory Store

With the latest released of latest operating systems, you may need to upgrade your PC memory to cater for processing power. If not, it will drastically affect the performance where it takes a long time to run your favorite applications.

I notice my notebook had that problem because my company has added more start up programs to strengthen security. Anyway memory is easy to get and you can find the different kinds of memory in MemoryStore.com. Check it out!

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Coupons Helps

With the recent hike in petrol price, I really have to find smart ways to be prudent in my spending. I must make my dollar work harder for me. I found that using discounted coupons help a lot in savings.

The Target coupons are giving $5 off $50 and free shipping on apparel, shoes, jewelry, beauty or fragrance products. Besides that you can save 10%-75% on toys, furniture, clothing, home décor and more.

Now I have to spend on what I need and abstain from what I want. It will go a long way.

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School Shoes Days Are Not Over

I thought my days of washing school shoes are over and I am so dead wrong. Yes, since my children started schooling, the washing of school shoes begun. At least until they can do it on their own.

My hubby and I have different ways of washing school shoes. Let me hear it from you how do you do it?

1. Do you soak the school shoes overnight before you wash it?
a. Yes
b. No, I washed it immediately

2. Do you immediately apply shoe white on the school shoe when it is wet?
a. Yes
b. No, I wait for it to dry

School shoes have brought back lots of school days memory. My school is known for the strict rules and our shoes have to be white every day. Here are some of the things I do to keep it white.

I would take the black board duster and dust it on my shoe to keep it white. One silly friend of mine forgot to check the duster and her shoes were multi color when she dusted it on her shoe.

I would take a white chalk and start working on the dirty area.

If I am at home, I will paint the white shoe polish on top of it. When it comes to washing, the pail of water is all white.

The last trick is to hang around the toilet or library until the prefect finished checking.

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TV Mount

My children love staying in the hotel for a reason that it has a huge TV mounted on the wall. Besides that, they love watching cartoon on the super huge TV. I was thinking of getting an LCD TV too with a tv mount so that the TV can be mounted on the wall. It will be so cool.

StandAndMounts.com has a lot of different kinds of wall mounts. You can even mount speakers up the wall just like the movie theatre. It will certainly make the living room look more spacious.

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Bronze Year

Today is my marriage anniversary. Wow, time really flies. I must thank God for the lovely years that He has given to my hubby and I. I prayed that many more will come.

“What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” Mark 10:9

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Mess Up Mornings

I am not a morning person and I love to stay up late. My hubby is the opposite so I gave him the honored to prepare Tim & Em to school in the morning. I will squeeze out every minute of sleep I can get in the morning.

Last week, my hubby was away to Singapore for training. There goes my morning and here is what it is like.

9:30pm Lights out for the children.

10:30pm Lights out for me. I don’t usually sleep so early, sometimes I can sleep @ 3am.

7:15am Alarm Rings

7:20am Washed Up & boiled water

7:30am Children wake up. Hype them up a bit so that they start off the morning with laughter. They washed up & changed. They do not give me much problem.

7:40am Go downstairs for milk and breakfast.

8:00am Ready for school.

That is pretty much my mornings and I am glad that I can return back to “sleep in”. Guess what I asked my hubby to buy for me in Singapore. Nothing is cheap in Singapore except for electronic stuff. Here is what he got for me. What an irony, I do need batteries to charge up for holding the fort alone…hehehehe.

By the way, these Sanyo Eneloop batteries are very good rechargeable batteries and can last very long. Most of the rechargeable batteries will lose its power if it is not in use for a while. The rate of Eneloop rechargeable batteries losing power is very low so you do not need to charge them all the time. It will save a lot of energy. It is the number 1 selling batteries in Japan. If you want to save the environment switched to use this. This is not a paid post.

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How Was I Made?

Wen posted The Day Has Come with regards to her children asking her how they were made.

My children asked me the same thing. Mummy, how was I made? They asked that when we talked about things before they were born. How did I tackle this question? I told them they were swimming inside my body. Swimming until it was time for them to become a baby. They were excited because they like swimming (or playing with water)

Tim: I come out of your body and I do what?

Mummy: Doc whacked your buttock and you cry.

Tim: Why doctor whacked me?

Mummy: When you cry, you can breathe.

Emily: Mummy, when I was in your body, I eat ice-cream when you eat ice-cream?

Mummy: Yes, when I eat, you eat.

Emily trying to be cute: Mummy, when you eat chips, I swim in your body and catch the chips. Then I go munch munch munch…

Mummy: &

Anyway a good way to explain to them is to show them pictures. Pictures paint a thousand words. I wonder what I will say when they start to ask about the birds and the bees.

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Watch That Match The Occasion

Watches have become women accessories and it is more than telling time. Many ladies wear watch that match their formal wear for grand functions or dinners. If you are looking for luxury watches that can go with your formal wear, go visit WatchesAndBeyond.com.

There is a great range of watches from simple to elegant. You will find one that suits you. Look out for their promotional deals too.

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Mischievous My Middle Name

My mother relayed this incident about my children to me. I was in the living hall watching TV while my children were upstairs playing with por por. I told my mother not to feed them with too much junk food. I was afraid they may get sick and would not be able to enjoy the vacation.

My mother took out a box of chocolate and asked them to take one. That’s what por por do behind my back.

Tim: Mummy said cannot have chocolate.

Emily took the chocolate and took a bite quickly.

Tim: Emily, you better tell mummy you ate the choc.

Emily ignored him and finished the choc. She felt satisfied. Tim didn’t have any but insisted Emily to tell me that she had the chocolate.

Emily came to me but didn’t tell me about the chocolate. Later Tim came down.

Tim: Did Emily tell you anything?

Mummy: What is Emily suppose to tell me?

I can see Timothy wanted to protect her sister and at the same time wanted the sister to be honest. However Emily pretended nothing happen.

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Emily Shifu

Emily is teaching me Chinese and she is very good at it. At least she got me speechless. It is tough to ever argue with her. I think she can be a lawyer.

Emily: Mummy ren () is children

Mummy: ren () is people

Emily: No ah, teacher said ren () is children *Using the “teacher is always right” tactic*

Mummy: ren () is people that includes children mah.

Emily: No, no, no…Child(). Got () at the end of children.

Mummy: Ohhh…. & speechless

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Kungfu Panda & Free Tickets

Emily and I got 2 free tickets from Golden Screen Cinema for our birthday in June. You can also get free tickets on your birthday month. Just sign in to www.gsc.com.my as a member. No age limit. Now the tickets are getting expensive, an adult cost RM10 and a child ticket is RM5. So I save RM15.

As for Kungfu Panda, it is suitable for children above 5. Emily said she didn’t like it because too much fighting. However during the fighting scene, she was so focus on the screen. The art, the graphics, whatever you called it, was superb and the humor was good too. It made everyone laugh at one point in time. The plot was good, just like any Disney story. My favorite character is Oogway which is the tortoise. He said:

Yesterday is history and the future is mystery but today is a gift, that why they called it “present”.

The plot is about a village of China looking for a Dragon Warrior to fight the vicious Tai Lung. Tai Lung escaped from prison after 20 years of bondage. However Po, the panda just wanted to learn kungfu. He knows a lot about kungfu but he cannot fight. At the moment where they were choosing the Dragon Warrior, panda somehow fell from the sky onto Oogway’s finger. It was no accident and Panda was the chosen one. Master Shifu was very disappointed, he is to train the overweight Panda to become the Dragon Warrior. Watch out on how Master Shifu succeeds in doing the impossible.

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