Category Archives: being a mom

things she said

I just want to jot down one of these things coming from Ms. Ashley H before I forget. She was having her lunch one afternoon and she commented that the food wasn’t nice. Me : “You still have to finish … Continue reading

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School’s Out

The Muslims will be celebrating Hari Raya (Eid al-Fitr) this Thursday and Friday. We received notice from the school in May that it will be closed this Wednesday until next Friday for the Raya celebration and also a one-week school … Continue reading

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old faithful

Ever since Ashley started her primary education, she has been eating her dinner in the car.  That is because school finishes at 6.30pm on Monday and Tuesday and 6pm on the rest of the days.  This time is usually the … Continue reading

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questions to ask

So just the other day I stumbled upon this 21 Questions To Ask Your Kids in one of the blogs (sorry I cannot remember which one).  I think it is a pretty fun thing to do with Ashley and I … Continue reading

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for me

Recently during Ashley’s moral class, her teacher asked everyone to bring some mayonnaise, food such as lettuce, tomatoes, apples as well as a container to school. The children were taught to make salad. It is funny that they make salad … Continue reading

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Motherhood Question

When Ashley was a baby, I loved to smell her. I would sniff her hair, her face, her limbs…basically the whole body.  She smelled so sweet, especially after her bath.  I love the baby smell.  The combination of lotion, powders … Continue reading

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Entering Primary 2

Ashley’s classroom is now on the 2nd floor this year so her aunts bought her the Airlite backpack from Swan which is supposed to protect the backbone with its “spinal muscle” backbone cushion design.  This bag cost a bomb 🙁 … Continue reading

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revision

Ashley is sitting for her final exam these 2 weeks. There were 2 papers last week and 6 papers next week. I am such a slacker because I just bought her a few of these Bahasa Malaysia revision books on … Continue reading

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things she said ……

A few days ago, we went to buy some things at a shop.   The shopkeeper spoke to me in Mandarin so I tried to converse with her in my ‘half-bucket’ Mandarin.   I even did some bargaining and etc.  So after … Continue reading

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Being Tricky

Ashley loves eating lotus paste mooncakes as well as the piglet cookies (zhu zai bang). She only wants plain mooncakes which means no egg yolk or kuaci in them. I would like her to try other flavours but Ms. Picky … Continue reading

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