一年一度的教师节又到了。每年都得绞尽脑汁想点子， 好让两个小瓜可以用点‘心’和‘思’来感恩。这似乎也成为我们家一年一度的手工日。
星期天刚好经过‘无印良品’(Muji)，就进去逛逛，找灵感。逛了一大圈，物色了几样商品，再算算budget ，决定买八个半透明的小盒子。
花了一天的时间，我们的‘杰作’终于完成了！
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加了绘画及贺词的小盒子：
放了43％和80％可可巧克力各一个 —— ‘苦尽甘来’？？？ 
希望老师能感受到我们的用心 
。祝老师们教师节快乐！
今早我差点忘了叫宇晴起床。 早上六点四十五分刚送走彦灵上学，见时间还早 （大小姐曾交代六点五十七分才叫她起床）我就拿报纸来读。 滴答滴答 。。。 。。。抬头一看，七点零五分。哇！！！突然想起还没送宇晴去上课（因为平时是daddy载她去学校的嘛），赶紧把她给叫醒。 来到学校门口已是七点二十三分了。周围静悄悄的，不像平时那样多学生。她背着重重的书包，快步地走进学校。这时我也松了一口气。不知道她赶得及吗？会不会被记过？。。。 。。。like what GG’s tcher said,”Don’t always blame yr mother.” ***** “Don’t always blame yr mother” 来自彦灵的小故事： 昨天彦灵没带英文听写簿去学校而被老师指桑骂槐：“Don’t always blame your mother”。 回到家后，她很委屈地诉说给我们听。我们很衰，听后哈哈大笑。姐姐还说她本应在整理书包时就检查好功课及须带的东西，我也同意姐姐的说法，弄得她眼泪留了下来。那是因为妈妈，我，叫她把本子放在我的书桌，等我冲凉后才签 。。。那时已晚了，我搞好她们之后也跟着去睡觉了。她向老师说实情，却遭老师一句：Don’t always blame your mother. GG had backache ytd and didn’t go to sch. With too much free time on hand, she drew this … …
Title: _ _ _ _ _ (Medium: Pen) Guess what is it??? She asked me was it nice, and i said yes bcos i felt the composition was good. Otherwise i got no idea what she was drawing … to me it looked like a sepak takraw ball or a ball of wool or many many roads. She said no … … … … Then she explained: u see huh, this is a train. These are windows and wheels and this one is the sky. @.@ i understood what she meant but i didn’t see what she saw, she was feeling a bit pek chek and explained to me again patiently A while later, she came back with a colored piece and explained to me again. Admired her persistence, but i told her pple might not see what she saw and it’s ok for pple to hv diff views. Here’s the explained art piece:
Oh … the title is “Train”. heeheeheeeeee … … cldn’t resist not to buy such cute moulds. $9.90 each. Went for our fmy 1st nite swim at J.East last wk, after checking the closing time is 930pm. Arrived there at 8pm and after some trouble with one of the store value cards we were at the pool around 815pm. The wave pool was activated at tt time, so we went there 1st but the water was too cold. Daddy suggested we dipped into the deep pool 1st and to come back after some warm up. 845pm … … when we wanna go to the lazy river, we discovered tt all other pools were closed then Lesson learnt. And for our disappointed kids, we went back there today at 7pm. Had lotsa fun at the lazy river & wave pool till 830pm b4 they were shut down, then continued our workout at the deep pool. Was requested to help out as videographer again for this yr concert … … and it’s the start of my nightmare. On concert day, discovered my Sony video cam might not record usable video bcos of dirty head. Even though we cleaned it, it seemed unstable. Last min called up Lil’ Fish and rushed down to her hse to borrow her Panasonic video cam. Still wanna test out my cam, I placed it on a tripod & just let it run during the concert. Man was at the back with the tcher’s Sony video cam and I was at the front row with Lil’ Fish’s cam … … so total, 3 cam for a concert and thus 3 formats: MPEG (Sony digital), AVI (Sony tape) & MOD (Panasonic digital). Horror set in when my Mac cldn’t read MOD & MPG files even after several consultations with 2 IT gurus (Shawn & Man). Man actually cld open the files in his PC, and he helped me to convert those files … alas, still cldn’t work properly in my Mac. Then came the next problem … … Man recorded the whole concert w/o stopping the cam. Even though the cam automatically saved to 5 clips, but each clips was abt 2G and when ran on Windows Movie Maker, it hang. :’( Testing my luck on my old Windows notebook, was elated when it cld open all the files & loaded the 2G file w/o hanging the s/w. But my problems didn’t seem to hv ended. Started to edit the 1st song this morning. As I need to combine diff shots fr the 3 cam, the main audio has to be extracted out … … dunno why, used 2 diff s/w to extract to mp3 but the audio tempo was slower than actual audio in the video. Still thinking of ways to overcome the problem … … *sigh* … … testing it on my Mac later, hopefully it cld solve my problem. ***** Records for Future Reference ***** Cam1: Sony digital cam – .MPEG MacBook Pro: OS X (Ver10.6.4); Win XP (Ver2002) NEC Versa S3300: Win Vista
***** Health advisory by GG, pinned near cartons of soft drinks:
Hd been busy for the past 1wk and finally cld find time to go to SGP Gdn Festival 2010 on its last day, ie today. After parking our car at Suntec, we were greeted with nice wall paper at the lift lobby promoting the event. As we stepped out of the lift at L6, the corridors were decorated with lots of plants. Near the entrance, we were unwilling to fork out $1 to pay for the ‘map’ & 2 small btles of fertilizers … … L6 was basically a display of landscape designs. Some looked artistic, some nature-like but some looked lousy (like not putting much effort in designing). The girls were happily snapping pictures away and guessing which c’tries were the installation from. When we left L6, we were stamped on our arms, it said “Well Done” … … wondered what had we done. L4 were full of orchids and I love orchids. There were also stalls selling plants (mostly orchids), planting tools, paintings, etc. One gd thing abt going on the last day was things were sold cheaper or at better offer. Other than buying an orchid shawl for MIL’s BD, we didn’t buy any plants bcos i only got black fingers, not green. At one corner, there were several pots of vy well trimmed & controlled bonsai plants … the owners must hv spent lots of time and effort in maintaining these plants. I liked one (水梅) tt looked like a golden tree under the warm light. Didn’t expect to spend 3+hrs there, we were famished after the tour, not to mention aching legs. Luckily it was not crowded at L1 Food Republic where we chomped down Hokkien Hae Mee, prata, you tiao, bao and teh tarik. :d Even though I was against it, GG insisted on wearing her Chinese costume for today’s Racial Harmony Day. That costume was worn when she’s in K1, so can u imagine how she look with a pair of red trousers at knee-length instead of ankle-length???!!! But frankly speaking, with her 2 plaits, she looked damn cute … … an elderly neighbour even wanted to give her a kiss when we met in the lift, but she held GG’s hand and sayang her instead. Just when I finished sewing a badge on her Brownie uniform, she came back with another one. Hmmmm, interesting … … this one reads: “I am a smart cookie”. So fr yummy brownie to cookie, and a SMART one somemore. As I sew the new one on, I wondered for those vy active Brownies with many badges, isn’t it heavy to wear their uniform??? The Snr ‘retired’ recently and ALY has promoted to be IC of games, how nice.
***** I looked back the time when she 1st joined Brownie, I was amused tt my prophecy came true … kekekekekeke. |
. Sadly we went back to the only opened pool, ie the deep pool. Felt kena cheated bcos these kinda swimming pool actually charged more than the normal one and yet we didn’t get to play at those pools. At 9pm, we were already asked to come out fr the pool … …
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