malacca trip

My Malacca Trip
Date: 11-14 Jun

A&W Restuarant! Long disappeared in S'pore, I was all nostalgic about their food. Order a bit of everything, root beer float, ice cream waffle, curly fries, coney dog, fried chicken, to relive the memories again.

A shop selling chinese calligraphy stuff at the heritage site.

Dinner for 7 adults at Old Newton Hawker. We spent less than RM100 for:

- 20 sticks otak otak

- satay

- fresh fruit juice for all

- half steam chicken with bean sprouts

- claypot rice

- mixed pig's organ soup

- 2 slabs sambal stingray

- sambal sotong

- 10 BBQ chicken wings

- fried carrot cake

- chee cheong fun (this one is shiok, smooth and thin skin, with lots of shrimps and charsiew fillings)

- herbal chicken soup

Worries

Slept too much in the day, woke up at 2am and couldn't sleep again. In the quiet night, my mind began to wonder. Then worrying thoughts conjured. Worries about...
- Money. Where to get money to raise another 2 kids and providing them with the same, if not better standard of living as QQ.
- QQ going to P1.
- School work. Poor MYE results. lesson preparation.
- Twins' development. One of them may have heart problem, can only do a proper scan at 20 wks. What would i do if there is really a problem?
- My own gynae. Continue with KK which is so rigid and inconveniently located or go back to my private one, who may not have as much experience with twins and is going to charge me more.
- QQ's enrichment lessons. Which one to keep and which to stop?
I think myself into a headache and developed gastric pain. Plus SCV TV box is spoilt. I can't even go distract myself with the World Cup.

Gums in her hair

The girl had came back from a shopping trip with my cousins insisted on taking a bath immediately rather than join us at my aunt's house to play with her baby cousin. I found it strange that she would want to bathe on her own. Usually I had to remind, scold, scream..... before she would want to bathe. But I didn't think much about it.
So girl went in the bathroom with maid. Then maid exit minutes later. Then girl's head pop out of the bathroom asking the dad to go in. Ed went in and came out immediately, exasperated, came to me:" Your girl has got chewing gum stuck all over her hair."
My cousin had given her chewing gum on the way back in the car. Girl ate, and upon reaching home, couldn't find a place to throw away. Scare to let me know that she ate chewing gum, girl tried to hide her gum behind her right ear. (She learnt this great idea from some character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Movie. That person was on a record setting feat to chew gum for the longest period of time. But whenever she needs to speak/eat, the gum must be taken out and that's when she will stuck it behind her ear).
Some hair got stuck in the gum of course. Still scare to tell me, asked maid to help. Idiotic maid aggravated the situation. Scolded both kid and maid. Goggled for solution, ie either use ice or oil. I choose oil, seems like a faster way. Thankfully it worked. Gum came off easily when I rub large amount of cooking oil on her affected hair.

haircut

Mom found a lock of snipe off hair in her bedroom. Suspected QY immediately. Who else would try to experiment hair cutting on their own?
Questioned QY. The girl denied it at first but owned up almost immediately after that. Said she did it for fun but admitted that it wasn't so fun on hindsight. I had to put on an angry front and lectured her about loving and treasuring her body, needs to be trained to cut hair blah blah blah....
I had to quickly send her out before she sees the smile that I'm desparately trying to hide. I'm more amused than anything else actually. Just cannot stop smiling because another mother once told me with great reminiscent that she cannot understand why ALL her 3 teenage sons, at some point in their childhood, had tried to cut their own hair. Guess it's one of those must-do before growing up thingy.