Learning all the time

A typical day of breakfast with bread... But not so typical coz we get questions most of the time. JV was asking, "What is C-L-A-S-S-I-C?“ Obviously she was reading from the Gardenia bread packaging... We were surprise though....coz the word was all in TIMES NEW ROMAN and Italic.
-- That's read as CLASSIC. :)

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Having dinner with Nai Nai at Behind 50.
There she started to read from the art piece on the wall again.
"Mummy, is that read as RONI?"
"Oh yes,you are absolutely right! How do you know that?"
"I just spelt it lor."

Talking about Reading.....& Spelling. Did anyone mention that it has to happen in classroom?

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”Mummy, i want that paper that comes with the blessing before meal words."
--- searching, searching, searching...
"There you go."
--- writing, writing, writing....
JV was busy making her own notes...transferring and copying these words to her favorite book that Jie Jie has given to her as her birthday present:
"Earth who gave to us this food,
Sun who make it ripe and good.
Dear sun, dear earth, by you we live.
To you our loving thanks we give."

Happily she showed to everyone on her great work.
She said "I have not been writing for some time. I miss writing."
But i would like to say, "Well, you really dont have to write when your little muscle is not ready you know." :)

Talking about writing....who says it has to be in the mundane A for Apple, B for Boy, or even “My father drives car to work."

Writing....involves feelings and emotions....

监牢式的洋楼

载着柔帆去接姐姐放学。
较平时塞车，就绕道而行，不巧还是塞车，车子停在路上时，柔帆问，“妈咪，这个是不是监牢？”
“不是，这是别人的家。”
“喔。”
-- 哈哈！什么时候洋楼呵，角头间呵，看来多豪华舒服呢，建起了高高的围墙时，再加上一圈圈的防贼铁网，连单纯的孩子都看到像是监牢。
这监牢式的洋楼，就锁着孤独的灵魂吧。

Cooking the traditional and happy way

Wonderful cooking at our little balcony today.
With the help of DH, the girls light up the charcoal. Beaming with joy they watched the fire slowly spread out and start to heat up the left over corn from last night. Then fried some left over mushrooms, fried 3 kampung eggs, BBQ the bread and eat them all with lettuce and organic tomato.
What a wonderful experience!

Batik Session at USM Muzium

Another wonderful experience that i personally longed for it.
I never felt like an artist. So grateful to Cik Fizah and those fasci.... :)
This local culture from the Malay is like a form of meditation that require calm mind and great concentration. Hubby mentioned it is certainly even not that easy for those who painted from scratch.
I wanted to do more in future. :)

Dumpling Festival

Wan Chan and 2 daughters, Seok Lee and son, Fong Ling and 2 kids, Kwi Chuan and 3 kids,Swee Kian and 3 kids, Jeetran, Angie and 2 kids, came over for the Dumpling Festival --- a belated one coz we were all having our holiday during the actual day.
Was a rather small gathering this time....compared to the previous Chinese New Year festival.

Dumpling was made 1 day prior to the festival celebration. So today we only need to heat up.
Nature table decorated by Fong Ling which displayed all the 香包that was taught by FOng Ling to all the mothers. Mothers taught at home to their kids. This looks so impressive


Flagged off with Zhong Qiu 中秋 poem recitation. Each family took 1 and recited them.
Thanks to Fong Ling, I now understand better why we need to use 香包and also 艾草。(艾草was plucked from neighbour at last minute)
Followed by story telling of Master Qu Yuan by Seok Lee and pupper play by Swee Kian.


Dragon boat race was put up --- thanks to Jeetran and Fong Ling's boat that we were able to have a dragon boat race. Kids were divided into 2 groups. It's a relay race. Drummers for each group identified ---- though not properly assigned. haha!
Was a bit of mess though.... but guess they get all the fun in the water too anyway.
Race ended early as the Management Office get complaints from some 'over sensitive' residents....must be complaining on the sound of my overblown whistle --- they said they cant sleep. :( Anyway, leave this aside, we still get lots of fun out of it.

Washed and changed....then feed the tummy with dumpling and fruits.

端午节

吃着昨天和家婆裹的粽子，想着多年以后，我会记得的是和老人家在​这日子的互动， 而非纯粹吃老人家裹的粽子，就好象我告诉家婆，从中学时期，就和​妈妈一起裹粽子一样，要吃就要裹，但同时也是表示说，“孝”--​不是停留在“我记得某某人煮过，我喜欢。”， 而是“我记得我们这样子的互动过，在筹备中我们分享过，我学习过​，然后传统的精神就这么流传下来。”感恩！：）

天空。baby。口水

柔帆再次发挥想象力：
柔帆：妈咪，天空呵，是baby来的。
。。。。
因为呵，雨是他的口水。
^.^