Teachers' Day 2015

 And so, it is Teacher's Day soon and as Ace's Math Teacher will be leaving the class in the coming semester as he is taking up a course, Ace says he wants to buy something for Ace.

We went to Popular and I told him $5 budget for each teacher... I even asked my teacher friends on FB what they liked and I was told actually they are NOT supposed to receive presents.. at any rate, their fav presents on this special day were 1) Home made cards, 2) red pens.

I told Ace of the result but he insists.. NO, he has to buy the presents he wants to buy.. he is not interested in wat the feedback says.. hahahahaha...

I walked round and round with him for close to an hour to choose the presents lor.. and during this session.. I learnt two things about my son and his teachers...

1) Ace may seem blur and always think about playing but he can be observant and caring too!
When we were choosing presents, most of the presents he chose because he sees a "need" that his teachers have... Eg...

- He bouught for his form teacher, Mrs Raj, a card holder with lanyard cos he noticed that the one she was using for her card is already spoilt..

- For his Chinese teacher, Mr Seah, he bought him a box of red pens "because it comes with a free highlighter!" hahahahahaha....

- For his Math teacher, Mr Haniffa, he bought him a stapler cos Mr Haniffa's stapler is spoilt and it cannot be too small as it needs to be heavy duty according to Ace. He took such a long time to pick the right one!

- For his science teacher and new math teacher, he bought them a minion pen... he figured since he liked the pens, they must like it too:)

- For his arty farty art teacher... he bought her a keychain set that he says she will like because it is beauitful...

- Guess what he bought for his PE teacher? He bought a whistle since it is one of the things PE teacher uses most often!:) hahahaha... he said too bad cannot test cos the whistle has to be very very loud ...

- For his music teacher, he said he wanted to buy a recorder holder for her since he noticed her recorder dun have a holder for it! Hahahaha.. so cute lor.. I told him I dun think can find tat lor.. so he grudgingly bought a pen for her in place of that...

- For his two tuition teachers... he bought them red pens... but is of his favorite brand and limited edition one...

He even bought for his guitar teacher (a merlion SG50 chocolate as Mr P is French), his swim teacher a meal and his tennis teacher a dried seaweed snack!

He initally wanted to buy THIS for his swim teacher...

 Cos then Mr T will surely share with us during lesson and I can eat it! hahahahahaha... evil evil!! :)

2) The second thing I noticed is that while we were choosing presents.. I asked him how he felt about the teachers and why he complained to me that his teachers were so fierce and scold him all the time, he still inisists on buying a present for everyone...

His reply was that he likes his teachers now.. even those who scold him.. cos he realizes now that they all care for him very much... hahahahaha... I think his stint of trying to commit suicide helped him see how much he is being cared for and loved...

When we went home... I asked him to quickly finish his homework so that we can start wrapping and making card for Mr H whose last day is the next day...

 Ace do halfway and then had an emo moment like in the picture above.... I asked him and with glistening eyes, he said he was just missing Mr H.... and as he was preparing for his math test, he said he really really wanted to score well for Mr H in this test... I told Max about it and he said Mr H will likely want to know he has been inspiring.. so I decided to drop Mr H an email...

Dear Mr Haniffa

This is Ace's mum, Angel...  

Thank you for being such an inspiring teacher... Ace is really sad that u won't be teaching him for the next few months... 

While we were revising for the mini math test... He paused suddenly and had tears in his eyes... 

When I asked him what was that about... He said... "Nothing... It's just that I really want to do well for this test for Mr Haniffa before he goes away for his course... "

Attached is a photo of him in his moment of "anguish"..

Just thought you might wanna know the great positive impact you made on him:) he has started to enjoy math alot more with your help... 

All the best for your studies! :) Ace is praying hard you will be his teacher again next year :)

Regards,

Angel

 Once he was done, we quickly wrapped the present and made the card..

 I was a little impressed with what he wrote too...especially the part where he said he felt the love of his teacher and the part where he said "Thank you for bringing out the best in me.." portion :) Made me feel warm all over reading it...

Here are the other presents and cards..

 I think the message is short, sweet and to the point:)

 This one for the Chinese teacher deserves a special mention...

It was a "feel like banging my head against the wall...." moment... as he was making the card for his Chinese Teacher and and he came up to me and asked me, "Mummy, is Teachers' Day called ‘老师会’ or ‘老师天’ huh?" Faintz!!!!! I sent this joke to his teacher via whatsapp and e LOLed... hahaha :)

 "Dedication to my education.." leh... This one is for his form teacher whom he used to say always scolded him... I am glad he really appreciates all the effort she makes...and  I really think he inherited some of my writing finesse:) hahahahahah

This one is for his social studies teacher who always tells long grandmother stories.. he used to complain they were boring but hey guess wat.. now they are informative!:) hahahahaha....

All in all, I am just glad that Ace appreciates what others does for him from his heart lah.

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I Want To Dinner With Cayden

 While we were away at Zumba, Popo said she wanted to go to the SOKA Family Day to buy something and so she said she wanted to bring the two kids along...

"You sure?" I asked her...


"Can lah.. dun forget I am childcare teacher leh.. and Ace already so big I can handle one lah.. Just take taxi lah..." Popo said.

And so she went with them lor.. when they were back, Ace showed me this photo tat he asked Popo to take with his phone.. so cute hor:) hahaha

Then leh, the two cousins are best friends now and so Ace kept asking if we could have dinner together with Cay.... and he kept repeating, "I want to eat dinner with Cayden.. I want to eat dinner with Cayden..." And so we went lor...


Here are the boys having fun after dinner...

 Dun ask me how Max managed to squeeze in.. I also dunno..

The funny thing is when Ace was inside Cayden kept complaining that Gor Gor took up so much space.... but he was perfectly ok when Yee Zhang.. who is ahem "broader" tried to squeeze in... hahahahaha...

I told Ace that I think it is his talent to be able to play with children of all ages!:) hahahahahaha

After dinner, while we were on our way home, ew noticed this plastic road divider with Ace's name... hahahaha.. I told Ace he can bring it home.. hahahahaha:)

Previous Post: Angel's 38th Birthday

Angel's 38th Birthday

 My birthday got off to a healthy start when Max bought me a Hurom Juicer:) hee...

But tat was quite some time before my birthday and then as it approached... I started to recieve more presents ;)

 My hao jie mei Jez bought me a HK hard drive.. cute boh!? Comes with a pink pouch too!

 On the day of my Chinese birthday, which happened the day before my ang moh birthday.. it happened so that my good frens KP, Linda and GH were free and we arranged to meet up.. Since we got married and had families, it has been really hard for all four of us to meet up.. it was really great tat we could sit and chat and celebrate my BD over some lovely desserts:)

Then leh, because I forgot to bring my key... in the end, I was unable to go home. Max was out with friends and I was totally expecting him to come fetch me from my mum's place. But hor, I waited and waited and waited.. he just disappeared..

And then he also did something jackass... He exchanged phone with his friend and they each messaged each other's wives. And his friend messaged me something along the lines of "Stop disturbing me..." Made me so mad lor. One look I can tell not my husband lor... But wat made me even angrier was tat when I called Max and he picked up the call... and I asked about who was it that was messaging me rubbish, he just passed the phone over to his friend! It took all my willpower not to scream at his friend and call him all sorts of names....

And then leh, next day Ace has swimming lessons early in the morning. I expected since he did not pick me up, he should come pick us next morning.. I waited and waited again.. called and called 100000 times but no one picked up the call... in the end, I was so late I had to take a cab home.... So by time I reached home, I was fuming mad but all Max could do after a long drinking night was sleep.. which made me really upset lor.. wat a great birthday present!

 But leh, the episode also had its good parts... because I stayed  over at my mum's place, I received yet another birthday present!  A lovely breakfast from my dad:) hahahahah..

 And then finally after zzzzing for a long long time, someone woke up and said he will bring us out to lunch. We passed by a Bollywood Cafe which we used to frequent and decided we will go there and see if we can find our fav gobi manchurian:)

Alas, when we went into the cafe, we realized that they do not serve gobi manchurian.. but we found a few things tat reminded us of dubai and placed our orders...

 This one is fried veggie platter.. I dunno wat it is called.. it is something like indian tempura I guess:)

 We were so excited when we found mooli prata... BUT... it din taste very good lor.. so sad.. I miss Dubai.. and I miss RAVI, our favourite pakistani breakfast place in Dubai!!!

 They even had poori.. but no sweet halwa to go with it... Am a little tempted to make my own since my dubai neighbour, Veena, taught me how.. But I wondered if I can actually airfry it... hahahahhaa:)

 Creative Ace ate his poori an made a face out of it...

Well, I can only say the Bollywood Cafe must be different from the one we went to last time cos the food not really nice... It was nice to think of Dubai though..

 Then when I reached home, hubby said he had a surprise for me.. I was totally not expecting this!

You know Max has never been very good at keeping secrets.. sometimes is he too excited... and blurt it out in advance... a few times is cos Ace is bao toh kiah and he made mistake of trusting Ace can keep secrets.. hahahaha

 I was quite touched cos hor actually when we got married and were buying our wedding rings, we saw this really nice tennis bracelet and I really liked it but it will bust our budget lor.. cos so many diamonds... and so leh, we did not buy it.. I am touched cos Max remembered that and bought me one now:)

Lest you get too excited.. this is simulated diamond:) since we discovered simulated diamonds, we have never looked back:) hahahaha... Max says if these were real diamonds, this bracelet would have cost him 5 figure lor...

Anyway, a friend asked me why bracelets like these are called tennis bracelets. I did a google search and found out it is cos someone wore it to a tennis match and lost it.. hahahah:)

 I asked Ace what about him.. wat is his present for me and he made this for me:) He kenna suan left right and centre when he cannot remember me and his dad's birthday lor.. hahaha.. I told him I am going to forget his birthday next year! wahahahaha...

We came home, rested and then went out for dinner together after Ace's tennis lessons... 

Max's choice is Al Forno in east coast..

 Told Max I finally can also take photo and show off my wrist.. cos he always takes watch photos when we are out celebrating! hahahahah

 Tried to do a wefie but the very tired Ace who was tired out after one swim lesson and another 2 hr tennis lesson just couldnt bring himself to smile as he was hungry as well...

 Food finally arrived:)

 This bottle looked so nice we brought it home:) hahaha

 Since he ate this in Italy.. Max has been ordering this everytime we go to an Italian restaurant... but so far, nothing matches the ones freshly made tat he ate in italy..

 Interestingly, Ace loves to eat the cheese as well:)

 Ace says want to take photo for me..

 My crabmeat pasta..

 Ace had the usual mushroom white sauce pasta..

 Max ordered the italian "curry pok" and underestimated the sheer size of it!

 Max was soooooooooo full... and we were not even done yet!!!:)

 Ace said he had room for dessert and so we ordered an ice cream.. dunno why he chose lemon flavour...

 And it came frozen inside a lemon!

 Me and Max shared something more traditional.. tiramisu:)

 The lemon ice cream was super sour! LIke the SUPER LEMON sweet.. only.. it is frozen! hahahaha

 That is my "thank you for the lovely day" kiss:)

Next day.. celebrated at my mum's place with a simple cake:)

 Ace said he had another present for me.. he played Agario with the name Angel's bday.. hello, what sort of present is this?? hahahahahhaa... want to play game say lah... dun jia jia..

 Few days later, group of friends gathered to mass celebrate birthdays:) hahahaha

 Brought Ace along..

 And Max too as he was also celebrating birthday:)

 Got BD cake...

 Even got present lor:)

My present was a flower.. but i dunno why I dun have a photo of tat:) hahahhaa..

My other hao jie mei, Veron, gave me this talcum powder from crabtree and evenlyn tat smells heavenly! Even Ace said it smells very nice!!!

 Such a happy day:)

 I realized the diamond so shiny under different lights.. so tried to take photo... I think FAIL..

Few days later, my walking buddy, Cons, gave me a coin purse she made herself.. so nice lor.. made herself leh.. and quality so good and so useful too...  can put coin, put mrt card... can hook to a lanyard... I asked her how she know tat my key pouch spoil liao.. and she laughed and said she is actually not so observant lah.. hahahaha :) But leh, I still really appreciate lah.. If you also like this, you might want to buy from her in Carousell... THere are other nice designs too:)

I also got a nice dress from my sister :)  She said when she saw the dress, she immediately went.."Angel sure will like!" And I do! It is a black dress with a sequinned bear.... Max asked if my sis bought tat on purpose knowing that he is a BEAR (since his name is Shixiong and that is my nickname for him when we were dating)

And so, that is how I celebrated the 38th year of my existence on planet earth:)

PS: Bu Xiao Zi