Eyesight

While we were at the expo that last round, daddy stumbled on a booth offering a free eye check. I thought V would be too young to be able to check (me thinking it's reading the chart type), but it was a machine checking on the thickness of the cornea or retina. It's was a simple procedure, just needed her to look into the machine n it will do it's readings.








Her results were not up to par, apparently most children now having such readings :( okie let me explain.... As the kids are still young, so they do not have a perfect eyesight as the eyes are still adjusting. So a average reading for a 3 year old is +1.00, but V has +0.25 on one and the other +0.50. Not that we knew what it meant until they explained. V has a probability of wearing glasses (guess thanks to my genes :p) and it seems it quite normal with the children on iPad & iPhone & tv. So like all parents, we have banned iPad n iPhone unless necessary. Well its a NO ipad on my watch... Daddy however does allow a short period of time as it takes time to remove it from her life. But no longer allow her to browse through her YouTube. Guess as parents we really need reminders that technology may not be meant for everyone.

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bye bye my beloved 747

My gf posted this on her facebook. I watched and I fucking actually miss this aircraft!!! tsk... its been close to 4 years since I left flying, do not miss the it that much as in I would not trade my current career for another 10 years there, but nevertheless it was really a part of me. I mean I was there 10 years and more, a part of you reminds there... I get students/customers who are able to tell that there is that air in me hahhaah, it pretty interesting sometimes. 

I really do miss flying this aircraft, from the days of a stewardess to a leading, it was and will be my favourite :) I had the craziest days besides on the airbus 340 which I was attached to as my 1st 5 years which meant I was a euro chick hahah , ya i fly to europe almost 2 times in a month then. But I was also a 744 crew which meant I did my states and of course the infamous London route. It was always the fun aircraft, more crew, crazy expensive fares on that aircraft. Come on it was $21,000 for 1st class and $10,000 for business class. Exclusively was Da word! Service on the London route was exemplary, just a simple economy class, we had cup noodles service, bloody ice cream service! We WALKED FROM SIN_LON, oh man... wow its all coming back to me... London on the 744 was the longest route at the time, especially exclusive to Singapore Airlines! It was close to 14 hours on most times, craziest, zombiest time of my life. Let me not go to business class and 1st class! Yes passengers at that time took pride in dressing up, especially in the upper classes. Well they were on the world's best airline, they better do so! Even the tech crew was the snootiest bunch... F so many captain tyrants... then there was the tyrants in flight supervisors too. 

Business class was a breeze because of the capacity, but passengers were anal. Just one of those sandwich class people with super inferior complex. It was a real tougie to serve using the trolley service, come on, I had to cut the bloody cake, serve it at a freaking 5 o'clock position on a side plate, smile, stand with poise, in a tight uniform. Not fucking easy i tell ya! Im pissed coz I got scolded pretty many times for making a upside down cake. Anyway .... trust me it was not easy, I thank god many times that they removed this service. hahahah First class was the best of  the best!!!! besides having to split my time making announcements, be being a graded as 1 in my announcement grading (ahem) hahaha , the passengers were all darlings. Millionaires they maybe, but the best. Well brought up, with a handful of lunatics sometimes. The toughest thing to do maybe having to make the bed, tidy when they go to the toilet, make it back into a seat when they wanna eat, then sleep -bed *yawns. Ya only that part... but the food is always a-w-e-s-o-m-e. If you may ask, yes we do eat cavier with porridge - crew style :)

Wow what a close of a chapter, the world's biggest aircraft and I can tell you A380 is nothing compared to this jumbo.  Will miss this lady ... loads. You did a great fly!

Trophies of war

I have a daughter who think she can conquer the world... Sigh, it always have to happen when the father is overseas...

What happen: The princess was feeling awesome with her fairy wings, flighting about in the hall. Saw a pair of minnie mouse's ears in her toy basket and instantly became Minnie mouse the pink fairy! So that aside, she insisted that Bam Bam should be able to join in the the fairyland. Took the ears and pushed it on bam bam ears. The dog insisted that she doesn't want to be minnie mouse, but V was very sure that she should. Then the fight broke out because of the bloody ears and pushing of the ears onto the dog's head. Lo and behold.. drama!

Bam decided that enough was enough and gave her a "1/2 bite" or a nibble or whatever.. to basically tell her to shuff her bloody arse away...  then the wailing!! her nose was red and she came to me. I refused to  hug her coz if I hug her, it will mean I agreed to her misbehavior. I carried on doing my stuffs, she ran to the grandfather. Bam Bam thought that she was right and came to me and being fair, I ignored her. My Mum picked her up and gave her a punishment.

God.... tough trying to impartial.  why why why must my dog and daughter like to fight so much??



Then they decided that they should take a photo for being friends...  the best part of everything was that she woke up the next day, looked at the mirror and asked "mummy can you tell me why my nose is like that??" wtf... short term memory or what.

Smartkids Asia

We were invited by SmartKids Asia to be under a media guests.... nothing really special just a tour amongst the booths and a more understanding on how this expo works. The person is charge was my ex-colleague and she called me to offer me this privilege.  I had a media pass that allows me to go around the booth to ask questions and request to write a product review if I was keen. I may go back again tomorrow when V goes to watch Barney with Daddy, didn't get much of a chance to do my "media" work with V hanging around bugging to play.

But apart from what I was invited to go , I must agree with a few mummies that I went with was that its really a great kids expo! I was impressed by how organized everything was, amidst of the crowd, it had a distinct clear segmentation of the services and products offered. They had a 'Uncle Ringo Fair' at the back of the expo hall, $5 per entry for bouncy castle, bouncy slides etc. A tad expensive but hey we are in 2012! But allowing V to go to these stuffs are a total waste of effort, 3 mins and she is out.. "mummy im done... like seriously waste of money"

I did abit of exploring for 2.5 hours whilst I was there and stumble on this worth mentioning.  I saw this Kids Gallery and they had painting, sticking stuffs for the kiddos.... way too cool (I needed a break to eat) paid my $10 to book us a place, had to wait for the next slot as it was too full at the 1pm session.

It was a drop off program 35-45mins session... they had many handlers to help the kids out with their painting.

can't wait for her turn... got her name written at the back

she got some instructions

working it

I got myself a subway and came back to her sticking blings  

shaping them all

trying to call "jie jie" in her mousey voice

stuck as they was nothing to do

jie jie came to add more glue for her

more work to be done

I can't say how pleased V was with her artwork.... I was however more impressed at the effort of the vendor that they took a picture and printed it. This is what I call personalized artwork. I was sold.... took their brochure and have them in my can-go-to list of creative classes. What I like is their youthful handlers that had a ready smile and hugs for the children, you know I'm real particular about this. So yes this is a plus point for me.

article

http://sg.theasianparent.com/raising-well-behaved-kids/


Many people think that parents who have well-behaved kids are very lucky. But having kids who behave really well doesn’t have anything to do with luck.

What exactly does it take, you may wonder? It takes a lot of patience, hard work and determination to raise kids who are able to practice good behaviour. Here are ten tips that can help you raise well-behaved kids:

1. Model good behaviour. The best way to teach kids how to behave well is by showing them how to do it. Actions are more powerful than words. If they see you practice good behaviour yourself, then they are most likely to follow your example.

2. Communicate rules and expectations clearly. Kids do not know right from wrong. They need to be taught which actions are acceptable and which are not. Use words that they will understand and make sure that you are very specific. It is the responsibility of parents to help their children have a sense of with-it-ness by constantly giving them reminders so inappropriate behaviour can be prevented.

3. Reward good behaviour immediately. The best way to help children to behave well is to give them rewards whenever they do something good which can be in the form of words, gestures and gifts. Right timing is essential as children should be able to associate rewards with good behaviour. If you give the reward too late, they may not understand what it is for.

A simple pat in the back or “well done” is usually enough to tell children that they have done the right thing. It is fine to occasionally give them gifts. However, you have to constantly check their motivation for behaving well. Make sure that it is not just because of the gifts.

4. Encourage them often. Children are inspired to practice good behaviour if they know that you believe in them. Constantly rooting for your children will help them to make better choices.

5. Train them early. Your kids are never too young to make good behavioural choices. Experts say that a child’s foundations for character are established before the age of five. So it important that you do all you can when they are still in preschool to prepare them for the real world.

6. Be firm and consistent. Your children are smarter than you think they are. When you give in to what they want once, they will expect you to give in to them all the time. They are most likely to test your resolve when you are in a gathering. Do not waver just because there are many people around, stick to the rules. If they persist and throw a tantrum, deal with them privately.

7. Give them room to grow. Allow your children to make their own decisions as it is not healthy for you to always shadow them.  Let them make mistakes sometimes so they will learn to be more responsible for their actions.

8. Do not deal with your children when you are angry. It is unwise to correct them when emotions are running high as you might just say or do things that you will regret later. Allow yourself to cool off before you talk to them.

9. Provide a healthy and positive environment at home. Allow your children to grow according to their unique personalities and characteristics. Never compare them to other children as this can only cause them to experience undue pressure and stress. Not to mention that it can cause them to have low self-esteem.

10. Love them unconditionally. Correct your children when they are wrong but love them regardless of how they behave. They have to understand that your love for them does not depend on their actions or performance.

Away

As I'm alone in the room with the whole bed to myself, it got me thinking.... Whenever trev flies off for business, it takes alot from me as I will double up my parent load. It becomes a natural instinct to ensure that she doesn't feel lonely. I don't book appointments and try to be at home most of them time. But this round it's interesting as I have noticed that my parents in
law have up their game too! They make plans to bring her out, getting people (their siblings) to our place to keep her busy, basically helping me lighten my load. Even Nita makes an effort to bring her to the supermart daily and playground. I am really thankful for the support I get. Even my mum is asking for V the whole day this week... :)

I'm alone in this bed because I have a daughter that got hooked to sleeping with the grands. Note the super king sized bed where she gets to roll around. She insisted that all paintings to be taken down (coz they had pictures of balinese ladies) hahaha. Anyway she enjoys her time with them, chats and tells stories every-time. Even the grandfather will go to bed early just to put her to sleep whenever she wants to sleep with them. Trev n I gets our bed to ourselves and trust me when we have the bed to ourselves, it's pillows and bolster every corner! So that we can flip and flip when we sleep!!

I'm truly blessed to get all these help, although it can be boring when I'm alone. But after so long it's really great to have breaks like this, to truly rest. Oh did I mention I sleep to 10-11am everyday that is of I have no appointments hehe. Its well deserved rest after so long :)




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Nightmare.. Ours

Our nightmare has arrived... V is requesting to learn ballet *yikes . I really have to blame this stupid princess movies that have all these gorgeous looking girls dancing.... Fairies too! Now the problem is that we have no reason to reject the ballet thingy but walau we really don't like.... Anyway let's see how long this asking will last, I hope seriously it will die off.
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free....

I'm actually sitting infront on my lappie doing stuffs....

Been really lazy and rather browse on my ipad really. But yesterday I wrote my to-do lists and a good half of it must be done on a table on a computer. So bopians.... blogging by the way is NOT on the list. So you can be sure I haven't really got anything from the list done YET.  *damns

have so so so much to do... you see its alot coz I haven't got to doing it yet. why why must I be such a procrastinator ... *damns again

Anyway some updates.. V has since recovered, you know coz she is screaming, pulling the dog's fur, playing with her toys and going on a movie marathon - everyday. We are not ready to put her back to playgroup as the HFMD as risen to 4, so its holiday for her still. But she is still coughing bits so lets not get the rest sick. She is way off better just at home and going to the playground in the evening. I won't be bringing her out to play gyms , fearing another round.  Sometimes I see children out in the "wild" coughing or have snot dripping down. Like why? I understand there is a need to have air but but but... they are virus carriers. :(

Anyway I may just drop her at my mum's to give everyone at home some break,  Daddy is away in Germany and so there needs some balance. My mum may help me fatten her up a little coz everyone here is exasperated by her terrible appetite. She is all bones and skin,  but actually I think she got prettier... maybe its the amount of time she spends sleeping. Glowing skin? or could be that she slimmed down and the jawline became sharper? Her eyes is alot bigger but do eyes grow? *scratches head

So after blogging and reading many blogs in between ... (just got invited and joined a new community- I have topic for my next post.... some thing along like things I cant stand to read in a blog hahahha ) I'm sleepy and it time for siesta snooze. Before you think I was sleeping just now wrong, I ran out for lunch meeting and now its time to digest the food. Yawns...  shit nothing got done yet *F
 

2nd visit

Her fever didn't go down but shoots to 39.6 at night. We have been spending sleepless nights sponging her yawns... So it was off to the PD again. Daddy took off while I slept,slept and slept. Why? Coz when she is not well, I'm her tree that she sticks herself to, sleeps in my space n takes my pillow ;(
PD gave her another cocktail like omg.. As if the previous ones wasn't enough... But this round is due to her cough, the phelgm are too thick for her to cough out and so 5 different meds just to loosen it, ensuring she can breathe. It was after this illness that I realised y children are hooked to sweets n ice cream etc. We were given this awesome antibiotics but it was the mother of all f****** taste. The drama we had to go through just to get it down. We were encourage to give her a sweet/chocolate after that, 1st sign of what sort of reinforcement? Postive or negative? I train my child to not indulge in such treats and just because she has a viral fever n I have to buy her pink sweets. Oh well.....
She hasn't been eating for 2-3 days which is crap coz her throat was inflamed and I bought mini cornetto that she takes 2 bites from and that was it :( ... She out from school until she puts on the weight that she has lost. For I was told there are 2 cases of hfmd today. No way is she is gng to fall sick again
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Tonsillitis

It's back ... The ailment is back to haunt me :(

Okie not me, but the princess has it. Woke up slightly warm but it was off to school and since it was 37 ish, daddy thinks it was okie. She came back had a nap and voila it came. 38.4.... Complain about pain in her mouth... Faint :( she felt sad for herself and cried. I knew that she was really not well, for it was self pity...

We cannot afford to fall sick as trev is flying off on a biz trip, I'm booked full in March..... and hfmd is on a high. Worse right? Off we went to the doctor and walau germicide !!! So many sick children, I felt sick just registering myself !!! After about 1 hour of wait.. At this new PD at 828 tampines, eh 18 years being there!! We saw some recognition on the wall.. Dr Loke was really really nice.... V likes her, mainly because she called her princess!

After checks, nothing alarming and it's was my old friend Mr Tonsillitis... He came for a visit. :(

U see I grew up with this friend, my whole life. I hate him, I can't eat fried, heaty stuffs my whole life coz it's a torture with him hovering around. V came home feeling really sad for herself, cries again. Oh well.

Yday I was busy at work but took time out today to stay with her. Aiyo the tears were just rolling, can't eat lunch, during meds, even milk... Reminds me so much when I was young. I remember I really pitied myself whenever I had it, coz the whole body aches, throat flares... In the midst of her crying I offered her to bring her to a ice cream palour and she rejected me! Okie this is serious ... Coz I hv a child who doesn't demand for treats but appreciate when we offer -hardly esp from me, and she rejected me! Okie today must be peak.

It's pitiful to see her struggle through her sleep, but many times I remind myself .. It's better the tonsils then the father's children asthma. The doctor always told me when I was young that it's a better ailment to have as it prevents the viruses from going into the chest or body. The body is smart to use it's tonsils to block it ... So yes I'm thankful for this terrible ailment.



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