Reunion Dinner At Popo House

This year CNY my mum is very happy.. because due to some unforseen circumstances, my aunty bought a bouquet of flowers for her religious master but he couldnt make it to singapore and so the flowers were given instead to my mother :) First time in CNY she received flowers! :)

Anyway, I din bother to take much pics here cos it is steamboat again and I was BZ eating! :)

Ace was so happy to find a packet of LOU HEI because it meant he can lou hei again.. unfortunately for him there was no lou hei that night..since we have moved back to my mum's place, he has been asking me every day and night WHEN we can lou hei again.. my son really loves this chinese salad lor!

Ace and his first red packet of the year from Zeng Popo...

See this beautiful plant? It used to belong to me and was such a small one.. I brought it to my mum's place and under my dad's constant care, it is now much bigger than before.. I bought it many years ago because it was shaped like a human being and even had a little PRICK.. hahahahha:)

After dinner, we tried to put our luggage (which I brought back from Dubai) into our car before going to Lao Ma's house to try to help her fix her tv...

Ace discovered this whole album of old photos that my aunt prepared for my dementia grandma.. so that it will help her remember who is who... Top right corner is my two grandmas... my sister who saw the photo later said this is a photo tat we will never see again because the two old folks are no longer on talking terms.. my mum says that was taken when she and my dad just got married and went on a trip with both mothers...

Right bottom corner from left is my 2nd Uncle, Big Uncle and my beloved grandfather.... I miss him.....
This one is a pic of my dad with his friends.. can you tell which one is my dad? Clue: I look like my dad... Just look out for Angel with short hair.. hahahahahaha


Ace having fun all by himself while Max was bz fixing the tv..... Too bad the tv couldnt be fixed so my dad has to live with only watching channel 8 and 5 since the other channels are all fuzzy...

Previous Post: Gor Gor Ace

Gor Gor Ace

Everytime we go back home to stay, our neighbour's granddaughter will be very happy..

Whenever I go back to our home and she sees me or hears my keys turning the lock she will run to the doorway and shout GOR GOR, GOR GOR! Whenever she cries and she sees Ace, she is immediately in a much better mood...

Hahahaha.. and Ace loves playing with her too.. and now tat she is older, it is a even more enjoyable for them to play with each other.. so the days we were back at home... every night, Ace will take his chair and the mei mei will take out her chair and they will take turns to take out their toys and play with each other...

Sometimes they will just sit together and read their own books and they are happy just to do that.. i guess being the only child is really lonely for the both of them.. that is why they love playing with each other...


Previous Post: Reunion Dinner at In Law's Place during CNY

Reunion Dinner at In Law's Place during CNY

Reunion at CNY is still more or less the same food.. there is steam boat, mushroom, Ace's favourite "chicken", our fav veg ginger slice duck and the cantonese style Lou Hei salad :)

Ace helping to put all the lou hei ingredients in while saying GOOD WORDS...

My mum in law was resting at home and so she had alot of time to watch those TV programmes and so she learnt how to do this... specially for her grandson.. muahahahaha.. cute hor?:P Apparently you can do it with cherry tomatoes too...


Ace was really funny lor.. the moment we start to lou hei, without any suggestion or influence from anyone, he said, "Lou Ah, Lou Ah! Daddy dun have to go back to dubai ah.. mummy quickly have another baby ah...." He just made the two wishes tat all at the table are wishing in their hearts lor! Wat a smart boy.....

My in laws were so happy and tickled to hear that that their eyes became a single slit and their mouth were all wide open with big grins:)

After the meal, Shushu, Ace and Max went to fly their helicopter... apparently, Shushu READ the instructions and thus is a better flyer of the helicopter than Max... so no extra damage to the help.. we found out the helo can only be used indoors and not outdoors in places with alot of wind...

Sorry, the camera died of low batt at this point so no more pics after tat:) hahaha

Previous Post: Satay!

Satay!

To satisfy Max's craving for Zi Zai Vegeterian's fried prawn mee and Ace's craving for satay, we decided to go Zi Zai for dinner one of the nights (because Ace is no longer allowed to eat sushi.. hahahahahahaha)

Unfortunately for Ace, he was having a shakey tooth at that time and couldnt enjoy his food as much as he might want to.. I had to cut up the satay pieces into small bite sizes for him so that he can enjoy it...

We discovered also that Ace just doesnt really like curry because after that ONE DAY and ONE TIME where he said the curry is very nice and very good, Ace will now reject all offers of curry and when you ask him why doesnt he like curry now, he just says, " 我不爱.."


Well, maybe when he is older....

Previous Post: Evolution

Evolution

People say that every 8 years is one generation of difference.. I gave birth to Ace when I was 28.. so that is 3.5 generations apart...

As Ace grows up, the songs that he learns from pre school though are not different from the songs I learnt.. so he is always amazed how and why I know al the song that he sings for me and why I can sing along (except Max whom I always jokingly say has not no childhood.. cos he cannot recognize most of the songs except twinkle twinkle little star).

But then, evolution still quietly takes place...

Here are some common phrases that Ace uses since he started school and after discussion with my friends who have kids, we realize it is a widely used phrase by different kids from different schools as well... I wonder where and how it starts...

My time: Orh.....
Used to pin point a mistake that someone makes.. "Orh...." usually also has the meaning of saying something like "oh, no, you are fucked.."
Ace says: Urh Hor.....


My time: Oh Ah Bay Ah Sohm
It is a game where we play to choose the person to be the catcher when playing catching. At the start, everyone puts their hands in front of their chest with their palms touching their chest.. when we say oh ah bay ah sohm, your hand moves down and you can either let your palm face up or down. The odd one out is the catcher.
Ace says: Oh Ah Bay Ah Som Mah Lay Ah, Roti Prata, Char Kway Teow!


My time: Mini Mani Mini More, See whose is the best of all
Used also to pick out someone to be catcher or to do something
Ace says: Mini mani mini more, catch the spider on the wall, see who win, see who lose, mini mani mini more

My time: Dit dit dit. Whose shoe is very dirty, please go home and wash it out, O, U, T, stands for out... S, T, O, P, stop, Bus Stop, who are you, I am Mr Lee Kwan Yew..
Another one for choosing someone to do something... This is however quite close to original...
Ace says: Whose shoe is very dirty, please go home and wash it out, S, T, O, P, stop, Bus Stop.

My time: Copy cat, show your lap, go home let your mother slap, father say, why you cry, mother say, go and die...
This one is just a rhyme
Ace says: Copy cat, chase the rat, go home let your mother slap.

My time: Alibaba and the forty theives..
This one is a well loved story...
Ace says: Alibaba chicken man

PS: I have no idea who or what ali baba chicken man is.. i only know my fren's son in a diff school says that two and btween the two mummies, we have not figured out wat tat is YET...

There you go.. evolution between 3.5 generations.. hahaha

Previous Post: Circuit Road Again!

Circuit Road Again!

Circuit Road must be the place we frequent most often when Max was back. We went there like 4 times to eat at different stalls at different times of the day..



At Clari's recommendation, we tried out the special duck and brinjal at Zi Zai... and it was really quite yummilicious... and I finally had my favourite dao hway as well:)



Speaking of which, on the day that Max went back to Dubai, he said that he dreamt of me and Ace. When I told Ace about that, Ace asked me to ask his daddy what did his daddy dream about.. and max said he dreamt about us going about, doing fun things together, eating together, going to the beach, shopping...



Incidentally, for the next 4 days after Max went back to Dubai, I was also dreaming about Max every night... too bad it was just a dream though..



When I told Ace that I dreamt about his daddy, he said he also dreamt about his daddy too... Hahaha.. copy cat!



Previous Post: Vegan Burg With Ace

Vegan Burg With Ace

I bought some Vegan Burg vouchers because Me, Max and Ace have not been there before, so I wanted to bring them there.. as I heard many good reviews about this vegeterain organic fast food place...

Alas on the day he was home, one of our good friends, Bobby, already brought us there and so we did not want to eat it again so soon and finally went again a few days before Max was due to go back to Dubai...

Ace loved it.. he loves the veg chicken franks that were really quite soft and tender and he loved the burger because he likes mayonese and there was mayonese in the burger... As the serving was really big, we just ordered two set meals to be shared among the three of us.. and even so, I felt it was a little too much.

I asked him if he prefered Mac Donalds or this and he said, "I love this.. I like the hot dog!" And so I think we will go there more often in future :)

Previous Post: The Long Walk

The Long Walk

As usual, on the week that Max is due to be apart from us.. the whole family will be in a moody mood...

The other day, an accumulation of a moody mood together with a small quarrel i had with Max, it made me really upset and in the long, dark, rainy night, I really longed to go for a long walk with a friend....

Anyway, we kissed and made up the next day but I still really wanted to go for a walk, so I forced Max to go east coast for a short walk with me:)

I remmebered that when I was carrying Ace, we used to go there for walks because the doctor advised me to do walks to exercise.. but it has been such a long time since we did something like that together.. in fact, it has been a long while since we did anything romantic together..

Luckily for me though, there is always my good son to walk with me :)

The night before Valentine's Day, we were walking and talking about V day and I told him that V day is a day for people to tell the people they love that they love them... and people usually celebrated by having a meal together.. so he said he wanted to celebrate V day with me and even though Ah Yee teased him and said she wanted to celebrate with me, he insisted he wanted to celebrate together with all of us because he loves all his family and friends...

So I came home for dinner that day after an afternoon out... and later in the night, my in laws wanted us to go over for supper and so we went over for Valentine's day LOU HEI.. hahahaha..

Walking on our way home, my son said he is very tired and so I said I would piggy back him part of the way till I felt tired...

And then as I piggy backed Ace, he started singing... "世上只有妈妈好..." and after he is done, he started singing Barney's "I love you, You love me.. we are happy family..."

So I asked him why he is singing all these songs and he said, "Because I love you mah.."

So sweet right?

Previous Post: Grumpy Ace

Grumpy Ace

Ever since Ace outgrew his child seat, we were always in a 'fight" about who got to seat in front of the car with Max when he was driving. Most of the time, I let Ace seat there but every now and then, I will tell him I want to sit in front too..

In the last 10 mths though, since Max was in Dubai most of the time, we didn't get to "fight" over that seat only till we went to Dubai..


Initially, we agreed that we will take turns... Ace declared, "We will take turns and then I one day, you one day and I one day and you one day..."


But the next day when it was my turn to take the front seat, he changed his mind and said, "I changed my mind, I very long.. I 3 days, then you three days.."


And when the three days is up, he changes his mind again and says he 7 days instead...


So most of the time I just let him take the seat and occasionally beat him to it and take the front seat and remind him that he has already been in the front seat for a long time...


When Max came back to sgp, we started "Fighting" over the front seat again and as usual, Ace "CHANGED HIS MIND" again...

So one of the nights when we were due to go out for dinner, I beat him to it and took the front seat and Ace got really upset and cried the whole way there...


And when his dad ask him to stop crying and let mummy take her turn, he said he doesn't want to be friends with me any more.. because i was not in a good mood too, I got upset and then i walked out of the car and looked for food on my own...


We eventually met up and found the veg stall we were looking for together and Daddy asked Ace to say sorry to me.. so he said sorry to me and I said I was sorry... and I asked him, "Can you forgive me?" And he shook his head and said, "No.."


So I told him since that is the case, he can continue to not be friends with me... and ignored him after that...


His dad asked him to say sorry and no matter how he asked Ace to do it, Ace just refused to do it.. so I just carried on to have my dinner while treating him like an invisible person...


And then out of nowhere, Ace started to cry and said he is sorry to me... and I gave him a hug and explained to him that it is only fair to take turns... and that I was also really upset when he did not want to be my friend for no good reason.


And after we made up, Ace is his usual happy self again...


Previous Post: Just Like Yeye

Just Like Yeye

When we visited my mother in law the other day, my son said he wanted to go poop... when I asked him which toilet he wants to go to.. he said he wants to go to the one next to the master bedrooom...

While he was there, my mother in law told me that Ace usualy prefers that toilet when he poops because he can read newspaper.. just like yeye.. hahahaha

True enough, when I went to take a look, there is my son looking seriously at the chinese newspaper...

But I bet he cannot really read most of the words yet, so what does he actually read leh?

"He look at the picture lah.." My mother in law said...

Hahahahahahahaha.. FUNNY! :)

Previous Post: Care Bear STARE!

Care Bear STARE!

Ace's love affair with the care bears started when he was a baby (Click on link to see cute baby Ace with his fav cheer bear)... Ah Yee used to have a cheer bear and whenever Ace is feeling upset, the sight of the cheer bear will cheer him up immensely...

And then during one of his birthdays, someone gave him an AMIGO bear and a GRUMPY bear.. and he started to like to sleep with them and expecially liked the grumpy bear.. but we thought grumpy bear is TOO GRUMPY and so we bought a Tenderheart bear for him and told him that Tenderheart is a leader of carebear.. just like his name, Ace...

Plus, I have a soft spot for tenderheart...cos when we were young, me and my sister always made believe that we had carebear powers and whenever the tv was spoilt, we would CARE BEAR STARE at the tv and it became okie again.. hahahahaha... so I said I was Tenderheart bear and my sister said she was cheer bear...

Now tat we stay in 78, all of Ah Yee's bears also became Ace's bears... and just before we went to Dubai, a friend gave Ace a Do YOur Best Bear...(actually she was the same one who gave Ace an Amigo and Grumpy bear) and while we were in dubai with tenderheart and do your best, Ace developed the habit of playing with the bears before he slept and he would make them talk to each other and and play with them and hug them tight before he slept..

The other day when Max just went home, Ace was unusually bored and unhappy.. so he out of nowhere asked if he could watch Carebear Cartoon and so I used my iphone and downloaded some old eps of the care bear cartoon on youtube for him to watch...

And he loved it! ;)

So I asked him later which bear he wanted to be, he said he wanted to be Share bear.. "But there are so many different colours and so many different designs on their tummies, why did you choose share bear?" I asked him.. cos I was surprised he chose the purple bear with lollipops on his tummy.... "Because I dunno the other bears mah.." he said...

And then he said he watned to be tender heart bear.. hahahahaha..



Anyway, nowadays we would look at what each other is wearing and name the person accordingly. Eg if I am wearing a tee shirt with a picture of a tree, I will be Tree Bear... Ace says that gong gong is NAKED BEAR because he always never wear shirt at home.. hahahaah.. and his daddy is BOTAK BEAR.. hahahahahaha...

The other day, we decided to make good on our carebear powers while we were walking home from Yeye's house... One of my friends, Pu Yin, who is a monk was badly burnt and injured.. Apparently, a lamp got knocked over and started burning everything nearby. In order to protect his temple and prevent it from being burnt, this high monk from Taiwan jumped on top of the fire to keep it from spreading.. because the pine oil used in temples are very toxic, he breathed in alot of toxic. As PY is 70% burnt, many of his organs were failing and their rate of recovery and response to treatment was very slow. After being in coma for about a week, I was informed that his doctor will not be able to do anything else for him unless he wakes up.... so i told Ace about Puyin and we sent love to him together..

And since we were walking home and there was nothing else to do, I asked Ace if he could send love to Puyin again for him to wake up.... and so we sent some love to Puyin energetically.. and then I was suddenly inspired and I told Ace, "Let's care bear stare and send even more love to Puyin... 4, 3, 2, 1... STARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And I really felt a huge amount of love pass over to Puyin. I hope he will wake up soon... If you have a moment, do send him love and prayers too...

PPS: Ven. Pu-yin tried to breath on his own today. The doctor was delighted. Hopefully gradually he can breath on his own totally. Meanwhile, they will let him practice more breathing exercises during day time and put him on machine at night. Vital signs and nerve reflections are still the same but his legs seem to have more strength. According to the doctor, this is a good sign and great beginning. Therefore, let us have faith and continue to pray hard for him to go through all these trials.

Previous Post: MBS Stay Day 3

MBS Stay Day 3

Thanks to the heavens.. it was finally a bright and sunny day! BUT my two darlings are still fast asleep in bed when I woke.. hahahhahahaha

Let's go to the pool!

But because it has been raining for so long, the pool was really cold and so after a short while we had to change strategy...



We decided to go into the warm jacuzzi!:)






After a 30 min soak inside the warm pool, even my flu felt better and I was ready to go into the cold infinity pool again!







Ace giving Max a good massage after the swim..

We went to our room to change and before we checked out, we decided to go up the skypark to look at the view again.. alas after a short while, it started to RAIN AGAIN!


Thank goodness we were already due to go home.. bye bye rain.. bye bye MBS...

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