Kiki & Company: August 2016

Monday, August 29, 2016

Chips

$32 for two packets of potato chips,

a tad expensive hor? come to think of it.

must savour every piece, with a can of coke.

Outdoor Team Building Programmes

Blind folded & trusting your friends.

Happy Birthday, My Baby Colin.

Kiki has an ulcer on the upper lip, "Heatiness", I said. Must drink "Ling Yang" I said.

Colin has a cough and slight temperature. Must drink "Ling Yang" I said.

We were not planning on swimming because of the haze, although we did bring our gears.

At the counter, I informed the receptionist that we would not be staying for the night. We would be just staying for the day. She asked if we would like to have an upgraded room then, which we gladly received. Thank you, Universe.

You can use the bathtub and watch TV at the same time, if you really want to.

From me. Recycling Green-environmental truck.
Rocky from Paw Patrol.

Hello, Rocky.

My mom came over by herself. Free-and-easy.

My lovely boy, Colin, is five.

Always glad to have my sis & SJ around.

Maricar definitely is more fond of Colin. I know.

Brother & Sister, always fight.

Cool present from my sis & SJ.

CAT excavator, a kid engineer's goal.

Rocky at the pool.

A beckoning cat savings bank.

(gift from my sis to Kiki)

We did one set of Math worksheet because she was having the Math test the next day.

Wah, what kind of question is this? Like some Mensa IQ question. Maybe they're trying to sieve out a kid genius.

So I told her if she's gotten this correct, she might be semi-genius. (Joke lah okay)

Alas, 84 is not the correct answer.

Saturday Part 2: Locked out

Our 'secret' stairwell is locked! It now has an electromagnetic lock.

Of course we were not prepared to find ourselves being locked out from our safe haven, we hadn't said goodbye to it, we hadn't thanked it for letting us use its quiet space while we revised and warmed up before class. Oh...... thank you secret stairwell! Thanks for bearing all the out-of-tune notes, thanks for bearing my bad temper, thanks for letting us have a place to hid and practise in private. It has surely helped us improve our music discovery, the warm-ups were helpful. Thanks and take care of yourself! =( Goodbye! We love you. Thank you.

Dinner.

Tricky Math question.

Play.

Kiki bought one cat display souvenir for my Sis, and one for herself.
This kitty is also a pen.

Saturday Part 1

Kiki goes to Chinese class, while Colin goes to music class on Saturday morning.
Shower, milk milk, watch some TV if there's time. Take some bread and off we go.

While I was waiting at the holding area, reading my book, one fellow mommy came in and exchanged greetings with another mommy who was already at the holding area. Mother B asked Mother A: "How do you find Teacher A? You know, Teacher B said that Teacher A teaches the wrong methods." Mother A replied: "How is Teacher A wrong? If he were wrong, then how come my daughter (under his coaching) completed Grade 5 violin, with distinctions some more." Mother A continued: "Every teacher may have his or her own styles, they are not necessarily wrong."

Friday, August 26, 2016

Thursday

After piano, we went for a snack. As usual just walk around until we find a place that we'd settle.
This beer bistro allows children, so we had ice cream and nachos.
Nice cozy ambience.

Birthday Celebration at Childcare

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Living a course in Miracles

Reading this book and was jotting down some pointers.

Then I thought of illustrating with a sketch.
But eventually, I had this idea to convey these two points about letting go of ego and turning to our spirit instead.

You like my presentation?

Just Stop It

So. A psychiatrist charges $50 upfront for a 5-min counselling session.
He dishes out one piece of advice for all his patients, that is-- "Stop it".
Stop whatever self-destructive thing you're doing. Stop whatever that you know would give you trouble later. Just stop.

Below is another form of "Stop it".
It's talking about how our ego judges everything. And that makes us unhappy.

Don't project. (eg: he started it, not me). Don't condemn others. Don't criticize others. Don't attack others. Every time you find yourself about to do these, you stop.

Improve upon yourself and miracles will happen.

Monster Doodles

So. my sis has started doodling too.

Although she says much of these Monsters had been researched online, and that she was mainly just learning the basics from Pinterest, I say it's a good start for a person who claimed she couldn't draw.

The monsters she drew are so adorable. Especially the one with a jittery frown (3rd picture below).