Little Chumsy’s Blog

O is for Orange

A few months ago, while flipping through a magazine, I stumbled upon a photo of Wong Chui Ling, a popular host, actress, multi-talented young lady who is familiar figure in the Malaysian Chinese Entertainment scene.

I like her hairstyle very much so when I was at the saloon last week, I told my hairstylist that I would like to follow Chui Ling’s style.  He took a look at my hair and said ok.  Then I told him that I would also like to colour my hair but asked him to suggest a colour.  He said, “Let’s go with copper”   I didn’t know how copper would look like and didn’t bother to check the samples because I have always trusted the hairstylist   After the colouring process was done, I went into the wash section to have my hair washed.  Then when I came out and looked at the mirror, I saw this -

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My hair is ORANGE *faint*  When Ashley first saw me, she asked why my head is now the shape of O and O is for Orange.  Do you think my hair looks like Chui Ling’s?  Well perhaps if you I get myself a fitness equipment and lose 40 pounds, I may be as slim as her too

ok..you all can stop laughing now

absolutely crazy!

As Ashley was unwell since Sunday, she didn’t go to school for 3 days. She went today and came home with this pile of books.

I wrote in Facebook today that she came home with 7 books of homework.  I was wrong.  There are 8 books and each book has a minimum of 2 pages of work.

Writing for Mandarin, English and Bahasa Malaysia

*sigh*  This is just crazy.  Ashley’s teacher told me that she need not finish them immediately.  I can spread them over the weekend.  On usual days, Ashley has 3 pages of homework which she would bring home.  She has more on weekends. I guess they are preparing kids for Chinese based primary school.

I’ve been told that primary kids have a few books of homework everyday.  I am so not in favour of sending Ashley to a Chinese school when she’s 7 but hubs is adamant    I am worried about the work load. I want Ashley to enjoy her school days and not be bogged down with homework.  Hubs said he doesn’t need Ashley to be a top student but just want her to know basic Mandarin.  He thinks she should at least study in a Chinese school from Primary 1 (7 years old) to Primary 6 (12 years old).  God help us please.

Encouraging A Child To Like Writing

Ashley doesn’t like writing and her handwriting is pretty atrocious   Each time when we ask her to do her writing, she’ll whine and even said she doesn’t like to do it. When it comes to reading, she’s fine and loves reading her books.  I asked her teacher about this matter and she said Ashley loves to do homework and writing in school.  Strange indeed.  I didn’t really pay much attention to her writing this whole year until the school holiday started. In order to keep her occupied, I got her some exercise books for her to do writing at home.  Oh my, I was shocked to see her handwriting.  There are also many alphabets in small letters which she does not know how to write

So everyday, I sit with her for 15 minutes to guide her and let her write the same alphabet a few times a week.  There are many *hair-pulling* incidents while coaching her I praise her when she writes nicely and gives her lots of encouragement.   Her writings are getting better now with lots of practice.  I really must have the patience to sit down and guide her with her work.  Do your kids dislike writing?  Just how do you encourage him/her to like writing?

better

Hey Everyone.   Thanks for coming to my blog to see how I’m doing.  I am better now but just not in the mood to do anything   Just one of those days, I guess.  Will be back to update when I get my groove back.

common words

Everyday, around lunch time and dinner time, you would hear me saying these words :-

Faster
Put the spoon in your mouth
Chew
Swallow
Eat

I would say these words over and over again for the next hour or so or until the missy finishes her food.  Stressful eh?  I don’t understand why it is so difficult for her to eat.  Sometimes, she would be dreaming and keep the food in her mouth.  Aaarrrggghhh……I can feel some pimples popping up on my face due to stress.   Better look for some acne treatments soon.

disappointed :(

Ashley has been practicing some dance movement at home lately and she told me that it is for her Sports Day.  She would also sing a bit of  The Ole Ole Song while dancing.    I was looking forward to see her doing the dance on her Sports Day which was held last Saturday.  Unfortunately that never happened.  What happened was after all the children sang  “Negaraku” and “Rejoice” while lining up on the field, I saw one of the teachers ushering a few children into the hall.  One of them was Ashley.  I was very surprised by the teacher’s action.  What followed next was the dance routine and the rest of the children on the field performed the dance.  I thought perhaps Ashley and her schoolmates who were in the hall would eventually come out to join the rest of them but sadly they did not.

Later, I managed to see her teacher and I asked her why Ashley was not in the dance.   She told me that Ashley doesn’t know how to follow the dance movement *rolls eyes*  I told her  that Ashley has been showing us her dance at home.   She even showed her kung kung and her aunts.  Her teacher kept quiet.  Needless to say I am angry.  What is wrong with a few kids not following the dance routine?  Can’t they just let them be on the field and join the rest of their schoolmates?  For God’s sake, this is NOT the opening ceremony of the Olympics!  It is  the sports day of a kindergarten.  I am disappointed. Very.

Oh well, it’s over and nothing much can be done.  I just want to rant about it.  Thanks for listening (or reading).

The children singing “Rejoice”

Ashley receiving a consolation prize for the running event

Things That Drive Me Up The Wall

I really dread calling restaurants or hotels to make reservations.  I can’t understand why those people who are in charge of answering the phone calls do not understand what I am asking them.   Yesterday, I called The Terrace coffee house at Royale Bintang, Mutiara Damansara to reserve a table for this Sunday’s hi-tea.  After taking down my phone number and the number of people who will be attending, I asked the girl if their hi-tea is RM25 NETT or RM25 ++.  She answered, “It’s usually RM25 NETT lah“.   Usually?  Ok…..nevermind.

Then I asked her if she knows how many dishes are available for the hi-tea.  Her answer?  “What? Dessert?” Ok……I repeated my question.  Then she said, “Oh, we have many lah.  We have main course, dessert, many lah”.  So, to make it easier for her, I asked her what are the dishes for the Main Course.  This is what she said – “have lamb, chicken…..err…you wait ah…I check with my friend first”.  Friend?  Since when is her friend involved?  After some mumbling in the background, a guy came onto the phone and asked, “You want to know about dessert?  Yes we have many dessert.”

That’s it.  I didn’t want to waste anymore time talking to them because I know my blood pressure was going up.  I just told the guy that I have reserved a table this coming Sunday at 12pm.  He just said ok, ok and put down the phone.

Somehow I have this feeling that they did not reserve a table for me.

what’s wrong again?

The internet line is driving me crazy.  Now…..before you start to say it’s normal for Streamyx, I am not using Streamyx anymore.  I had been a Streamyx subscriber for a few years and got real fed-up with their service that we switched to Maxis last year.  Maxis was great in the beginning but now they are beginning to move in the same direction as Streamyx.  Everytime when it rains, the internet line will be slow.  Takes me forever to load a page.  Then at certain times, the internet line would keep breaking up and reconnects.   It gets worse when there is heavy rain.  What is freaking wrong eh?  Can’t they just do something about this to prevent all these unecessary interruption?   Just like Astro, when it rains, we can say goodbye to watching any programmes on tv.  *sigh*  Time to switch to Digi?

The internet line is driving me crazy

My mum and my 2 sisters will be travelling to Hong Kong and Macau next week for a holiday.  This morning, my mum asked me about travel health insurance and whether they should get one or not.  I decided to look up the internet for more information on this but unfortunately, the internet connection was down. I unplugged everything and even switched off the modem a couple of times but the line was still down. It rained heavily at around 6am and probably that was the reason why there was no connection at all.  Frustrating indeed!  The line was still down at around 11am.  I went to Mid Valleys after that and luckily I managed to go online there to check my email and find out more on the travel health insurance for my mum.

Fans Of All Hong Kong TVB Dramas

If you have been coming to my blog, you would have noticed that I write about watching the TVB dramas online at my friend’s blog.  She has been uploading the dramas on her blog for everyone to watch for free (Please do note that these links are provided and hosted from a third party server).  The reason she is doing all these is because she knows that there are many people like her who have migrated to another county and miss home.  In case you don’t know, it’s a lot of work to upload the dramas/movies.  On top of that, she has a store to run, a daughter to take care of and not forgetting cooking and housework.  You can imagine how busy her life is but yet she still find the time to look for the dramas and upload them on her blog to share with everyone.

Many people go to her blog to watch the dramas/movies and some of them are really rude to her. They leave nasty comments and call her names. I was really shocked to read some of the comments  What’s wrong with these people eh? They want to watch free movies at the blog and at the same time are rude to the blog owner who spent a lot of time to upload the movies. Does my friend deserve all these?  Of course not!   So, what my friend did is to ban them from her blog and you know what happened?  Those who are banned come to my blog and ask me why they couldn’t access her website.  One example is this guy called Mike. Well, not sure if that’s his real name.  This is the comment he left in my blog – “can you apolzige for me to mama bok for being mean and imature in her blog, plz i want to see e.u. som bad.  ah i miss the anouncement n now i cant visit the website is said” it cant be found” help mama“. Well, what can I say Mike. Where are your manners?  Instead of appreciating what MB has done, you were mean to her and left rude comments in her blog.  So do you think she’s going to let you watch the dramas anymore?  *shake head*

All I want to say is, be nice and be polite.  Don’t go to people’s blog, take advantage of the things they have to offer and then leave nasty comments.  Luckily there are still many fans out there who are really nice to MB and support her.  Keep up the good work MB