Barbie Anna

Eats

 First time Kiki's trying Baby Back Rack 

BBQ style 

 Juicy Fats from Lamp Chops

was fabulous 

(at Basement 2 of Takashimaya)

 BF at Paris Baguette (Jewel Airport)

I miss Croissants 

 She had the Ham & Gouda Cheese Sandwich 

we shared an Earl Grey 

 Nintendo Switch Lite 

Supposedly I said will get this after Colin's PSLE (which is end of 2023)

Well...... who knows what happened. 

A Fox Named Snout

 Snout is so adorable 

Snout

Designed a Yes! poster 

His name is - Snout 

Braids

we used the Braider for our hair

Jeoge Mini

 Look how tiny Toy Jeoge is. Finger size.

Goodbye to a Sweetheart

Validated as one of my favourite toys.

Hard to part with it not just because it's so cute, but also it was Colin's BD present.
But that boy doesn't play with it anymore, and he doesn't show much attachment to it.
It will be better to give it to a boy who would play with it.

When my sis texted to tell me I should have kept this, I felt a tinge of 舍不得。
I think I would review the things I am giving away more stringently from now on.
There are many things I feel I still want to use but they are currently taking up space (worksheets).
I need to have a bit more space before I could organise my stuff again, and to make space, I do need to give stuff away.

Steps:  (1) Give away stuff. (2) Make space to organise. (3) Make time to use the stuff (use the countless worksheets, books, flashcards with the kids)

When it comes to parting with items I like, it is always the "head versus heart" kind of running dialogue but I will get better at this, at deciding what to keep and what to say goodbye to.

For now, it's mainly Goodbye mode.

Lego

 The boy upgraded the vending machine into one that has two chambers. You can choose different flavoured drinks (eg: the red slot for Coca Cola, or the green slot for Sprite). After slotting in the money, your drink will be dispensed and they come out from the same outlet although there are two separate chambers. I am not sure how the machine is configured but it works. 

As for the cash dispensing ATM machine, there is a smooth, punch and push movement where cash is being dispensed. From what I can see, there is a rubber band behind that does the trick.

This little boy is a little builder, he builds gadgets better than his sister does.

Legos

 Wednesday Sleepy Coffee

 "Big" Yellow School Bus 

(by Colin)

 Library Book Trolley 

(by Colin)

 Our tradition is to eat an ice cream after the Piano Exams and we did just that. 

Lunch 

Lego Vending Machine

Kiki & Colin made their own versions of Vending Machines after watching Youtube videos on other kids' sharing. 

I think to pick up ideas and to make Lego toys from watching videos do not come easily to just everybody. For instance if you ask me to watch a video and to assemble a vending machine with mechanics inside the block, I wouldn't be able to figure it out easily. So, I guess interest plays a part in how fast one picks up a new skill or work on an idea. 

Homework

 LOL
It's too cold.
It's too cold to germinate.

I'm getting better at this! lol.........

Great Ideas

This Colin, har, has a rather interesting mind.
I would say he's rather creative with his ideas.
See, he asked me to look at his Lego man "Flying"

He also used the same, transparent brick to build an encasement window. He places 2 pieces of smaller bricks to make rattling noises when you shake the structure about.

Tuesday going on Wednesday

Look what that little boy made...... a Curated Lego Aquarium =)

He says the small, white,  flat squares are Angle Fish.  Cute right?

The aquarium is curated with underwater green plants and featured colour windows.
The Angle Fish are also movable, they are affixed to a pipe piece that sticks out like a handlebar at the back of the aquarium. How interesting.

I'm sure Colin watched some YouTube videos and got inspired to build his own version. Still, I think his Lego ideas and designs are getting more and more interesting.

When I took this shot using my iPhone, I knew it was a selling piece but I did not take the shot with an intention to sell it. I thought it was nice enough to command some money so I put it on an App that sells photos so that the community pays before using other people's photos. If you're a serious photographer, you may make lots of money and get famous too. But I'm too lazy to be serious with anything that requires labour.

I am so spoiled that I wish every little thing comes at my convenience all the time.
But I am not spoiled enough to expect that all the time.
It is just wishful thinking, but I do smile whenever the App says that my bus is arriving.
Means I don't have to wait lah, do you know it is so crazy to keep getting up earlier to set off earlier just to avoid crowded buses and trains? All because I prefer to travel more peacefully, read a book, browse the net.

Every time I see the word "Pegasus", it always made me ..... feel amused. 

Sorry if I am repeating this, I think as I age, I reminisce...... there is no where else I can reminisce besides in my own thoughts because all the people in my past are in the past. 

So, we (then besties & I) were young, fun, energetic and were from our Sports House-- Pegasus while in school. 

But we wore another house's T-shirt during most of our PE & Netball sessions because the Pegasus T-shirts had been sold out and the school's uniform vendor simply issued us random houses' T-shirts. There wasn't any rules that the vendor has to verify our houses, nor did we think twice about wearing other house's T-shirts because we just needed PE attires for every day use. 

So anyway, it caused a stir during one of the official sports events, some students complained that we misrepresented ourselves. They were from the house of the T-shirts we were wearing and thought that they were cheering for us, whom they thought were in their team. But when the final scores and results were announced, their house lost. I guess they were angry that their ego were bruised, so they complained to the teachers from which the teachers were unable to fault us because there were no rules laid then. We did what was practical because the non-availability of the T-shirts and random issue of house T-shirts be vendor do not rest on students.  (I'm sure by now there would have been some ground rules about House T-shirts ba). 

We have never misrepresented ourselves, we have always announced that were were Pegasus, just that we didn't think anything of the random T-shirts we had been wearing because it really doesn't matter what's on the outside, it is always what you are on the inside. 

Midweek Tuesday

of tiny houses and cars. 

An exhausted mom

It could happen to anyone