About Love

As usual, the time before we zzz is the time we have our most interesting conversations... unlikehis dad, Ace enjoys talking to me before bedtime.. hahaha:)

That day, for some unknown reason, we talked about what happened in the show and Ace asked me how come I knew that when a person break up, they will feel sad... So I told him that is because I had a similar experience as the person in the show as well... That is why i guessed the character felt sad when she has such an experience...

And then he started asking me about who I broke up with, what is his name in english, what is his name in chinese, how I got to know him and why we broke up... He wanted me to tell him the whole story... so I spent time telling him about my first love... how we met in school and how we got together and then how we broke up...

"Why did he break up with you?"

"I dunno, Ace, he just told me one day that he dun love me anymore.. so we broke up.."

"Why he dun love you anymore?" He asked.

"I am not sure, I think it could be that we spent less and less time together and he started loving someone else instead of me..."

"Is it you all fen shou?"

"Yes, " I replied..

"Then were you very sad..." Ace asked me..

"Yes, at tat time, I was very sad...." I told him..

And then my son said to my surprise, "Do you know where is he now? I go and beat him up, how can he dun love you and make you sad?! HUMPH..."

So I explained that after I got over being sad, we are friends again. It is just that we both have our own lives and families now and so we dun meet up often but when we were boyfriend and girlfriend, he was my best friend. There is no need to beat him up.

And Ace suddenly also had an insightful thought.. "Hai hao he break up with you lah.. if not you wouldnt marry daddy, right?"

Hahahaha.. THAT IS VERY RIGHT:) "Yes, luckily we broke up.. then I got chance to meet daddy and then get together with him and marry him and give birth to such a cute and sweet and handsome son called Ace.."

So he started asking me about how me and Max met up and how we fell in love and how we decided to get married... which brought us to another topic...."WHAT IS 'ROMANTIC'?"

I tried to explain this word to my best of ability to Ace and in the end, after thinking through my various options, I settled for this explaination... "Romantic means you do something, eat something, hear some sort of music or go somewhere so that your heart is filled with a sweet sweet feeling and lots of love..."

"Can you tell me what you have to do to feel romantic? What romantic things you do with daddy?"

Wah, why his questions become more and more difficult to answer one.. This one hor, very difficult to answer because it has been a long long while since we really did anything romantic... I think in our early courtship days, there were lots of romantic stuff like long walks from joo chiat to bedok, long walks from east coast to tanjung rhu...hotel stays with flower petals on the bed..... but as daily life got better of us, we have less and less time to be romantic...

"It has been a long time since I did anything romantic with daddy lor..." I told Ace. Cos the only recent memory of something remotely romantic is the walk I forced Max to take with me when we were in east coast park during his holiday back home.. and maybe when he sent me flowers on our weddding anniversary.. but tat did not count for much since he was not beside me to celebrate...

"Why?" Ace asked...

"Well, we dun have much time to do that because when daddy was back, everyone wanted to be with daddy too.. so we did not have much time to be alone together..."

I think though, it is also because we have forgotten to take time to do romantic things with each other.. even though I did not tell Ace that.. thinking about all these precious memories make me miss Max alot and miss the days and the things we did when we were in the courting stage...

"Okie, time to sleep..." I told Ace and therein put a stop to our conversation about LOVE at 11.30pm in the night...

Previous Post: Lao Ma Was Locked In Her Room

Lao Ma Was Locked In Her Room

The other day, I was out the whole day and when I finally managed to reach home late at night, I was almost half dead...

Alas, I was not fated to rest as there was drama abound in my house..

I reached home at 9.30pm and was just sitting down at the sofa to destress as I had a super long, intensive day at the Family Constellation workshop I was attending. At around 9.55pm, my mother and my son came back from their Soka discussion meeting and after a while, the phone rang, it was my father.. who told my mother that my grandma was locked in her bedroom and tat we should call the locksmith. When my mother asked him where he was, he just said, "I am outside" and hang up the phone.

But because I did not know what exactly is happening I took a picture of the sticker the locksmith left on our door and walked over to Laoma's house to take a look.

Turns out that laoma wanted to go to bed at 9pm and wanted to show her maid how to lock the door. The lock was faulty and the moment they shut the door, the door could not be unlocked. My dad was out and changed is mind about having supper and decided to come home early instead (or he would have been home at 1am)

I was sooooo tired and have to drag my heavy body towards grandma's house.... sensing my tiredness, my son said, "哎呀，怎么搞的，为什么那么迟才这样？"

Anyway, we called the locksmith and he said it will take 30 mins for him to arrive and so since we had nothing to do, Ace used my iphone's lomolomo function to take photos to entertain himself lor:)

This is the result:)

The blessing in disguise is that we found out that the maid lied to my aunty about not having a handphone and we found out tat she has a NOKIA E72 and had 29 missed calls that day. When we were day, a man called and hung up when my mum picked up.. so it is a reminder for us to take note and monitor my grandma and her maid carefully...

Previous Post: Like Grandpa Like Grandson

Like Grandpa Like Grandson

Went for supper tat day at in law's place and grandfather and grandson were up to some silly antics again.. hahaha.. very adorable!:)







Previous Post: Chef Ace

Chef Ace

Chef Ace is at work again..

But the menu he planned for me is somewhat strange... it consists of fried veg, accompanied by CHOCOLATE CAKE and CHOCOLATE BREAD.. hahahaha

Anyway, Ace is nowadays asking for more things.. whenever he sees a toy he likes, he will ask me if I can buy it for him... eg, he keeps asking me to buy him a bey blade stadium (but i refuse to pay $30+ for a piece of plastic, I rather buy a basin for him to bey blade lor!). Or if not, he will ask me if I can bring him to watch this movie and that movie... when I suggested watching at home on computer, he says he wants to watch in movie theatre WITH POPCORN cos the popcorn in movie theatre is NICER...

And then leh, the other night, he said to me, "Mummy, I really really like the light sabre leh... can you ask your friends to buy for me for my birthday?" I told him tat we are probably going to be in dubai during his birthday and so my friends will not celebrate for him or buy him gifts and he was a little disappointed.. hahahahha...

And then he asked me if he could celebrate his birthday much earlier in school before we went over to dubai or after we come back. I told him no one celebrates AFTER the actual day one and he said we could do it before.. but I told him if we did it BEFORE, it would be too far away to celebrate but he insisted on celebrating... when i asked him for a reason, he says it is because the notice board in his school already listed his birthday and all his friends know his birthday is coming and so he must celebrate with them... and he even asked if he could do the same thing and get let his classmates decorate their cake together... I told him if we are going to celebrate, I will prefer to do something different...


Hai.. so many requests.. HEADACHE...

Looks like I have to draw dream board for him to "HIT TARGET" liao..

Previous Post: Ace Lost His Goggles

Ace Lost His Goggles

It was time for Ace's swimming lesson again and I havent been taking much photos of him at his class...

It was a very strange day with strange weather.. when we left the house, the skies were all grey and it looked as if it is going to rain SOON! But suddenly, when we reached the pool, the clouds cleared and the sun came out!

Perhaps due to the weather, all of the other students in Ace's swimming class did not come at all... and so Ace had to play in the water by himself.. seeing that he seems quite bored and since I was not wearing my swimming costume, I couldnt join him in the pool.. so the only way I could entertain him is to ask him to pose for photos for me:) And so Ace showed off all his tricks in front of the camera...

And then finally, his teacher came for Ace's PRIVATE SWIMMING LESSON that day:)

But midway during his class, I noticed that Ace was not wearing his goggles... I looked around and saw a little girl who is all in pink wearing the exact same goggles... it was really out of ordinary that someone who likes pink so much chose an orange goggles so I wondered if Ace lost his goggles and this little picked it up to use it...

I also wondered if I should ask Ace about his goggles because i know he will get upset...

And then after a while, I decided to ask Ace about his goggles and true enough, he got upset and started crying. I told him I saw a girl wearing similar goggles and maybe we can go and ask her.. but he cried and din dare to approach her and so his swimming coach, Mr Loke asked the little girl, "Hey, are those your goggles?"

She nodded and continued to swim and since she did not show guilt.. I also felt bad like we may have misjudged her or something...

Anyway, I told Ace then he should continue with his lesson and we will buy a new one another day.. but Ace started crying and sobbing loudly... so I gave him a hug... yes, me in my white tshirt and shorts gave the fresh out of water little boy a hug...

But he still wouldnt stop and I told him that if he kept crying, I will be totally wet too... and at this moment, a few little boys nearby asked, "What? What?"

One of the little boys is a regular who visits the pool every week at this time of the day to swim. I have often noticed him because he used to wear a purple swimsuit and I always wondered what made him choose a PURPLE SWIMSUIT.. and also because I noticed he is always very cheeky and naughty.. so in my mind, I already labeled him as "the naughty fat boy in purple suit".

But leh, life has a way of teaching us little lessons in subtle ways. I told the boys, "He is crying because he lost his goggles..." and so they asked, "What colour?"

"Orange, " I told them...

And these helpful boys started searching for it... including "the naughty fat boy in purple suit". 5 min later, someone found it... and so all is well and ends well...


I made a mental note to self to stop judging people based on their looks.. even ""the naughty fat boy in purple suit" also can have a big caring heart...

Previous Post: Dinner At Laoma's House

Dinner At Laoma's House

Because Laoma has a new helper, she has not been coming over to Popo house for dinner.. so leh, we decided to go over once a week for dinner...

The previous week, my mum went with Ace and she says tat the helper's cooking is really good lor!

And to prove it, Ace wanted to SKIP LUNCH so that he could eat TWO BOWLS OF RICE at dinner at Laoma's hosue... hahahaha...

This time round since I am free, i decided to tag along as well. True enough, the dinner was yummilicious... I asked Ace who is a better cook, Gong Gong or Sarina Jie Jie (the helper) and he said, "Sarina Jie Jie!"

Grandma couldnt remember that the helper has been around for a long time and kept saying she only just came to stay here and kept repeating the same few phrases to us...

The helper did not want to eat with us and because we were not sure of her appetite, we only ate a little bit so that we could leave more food for her...

So too bad for Ace that he couldn't eat two bowls for rice..

To my surprise, Ace actually ate all the veggie that I gave him.. including the KANG KONG FRIED WITH CHILLY PADI!


After dinner, Ace started to play with my iphone app again and tried to take pictures for everyone...

Laoma couldnt recognize herself in her photos.. when I highlighted to her that the person in the photo is her because she is also wearing green and specs.. she insisted it is someone else wearing green shirt and specs...

Tat's Popo trying to act cute! :)

Now my turn to act cute!

This is my fav photo cos so got feel...

I think Ace is a very good photog... do you agree?



Previous Post: Ace Makes Money!

Ace Makes Money!

Ace makes money... literally... HAHAHA

The other day, he was drawing rectangles and circles and cutting them out after adding numbers and a money sign..

When I asked him what he is doing, he said, "I am making money!"

So creative!

Which brings me to another story...

The other day, I was discusssing with Ace about whether I should get a job first or visit Max first and Ace said, "I think you go visit daddy first and after that when you come back, you can sign up for a good job.."

So I told him I am not so sure which direction I should move forward in and what to do ... and he said, "Why don't you come to Kinderland and be my teacher?" And I told him I was not really passionate about teaching...

"I know!" Ace said as a little light bulb lit up in his head...."I can teach you art and then you can go and teach art..."

"Huh?" I was taken aback. "You mean your art is better than mine and you want to teach me.."

"Uh Huh... " Ace nodded his head vigourously with an air of confidence.. I guess he is really creative lah..

Hahahaha.. I never knew "my art is very lousy" leh! At any rate, it is much better than Max's! Hahahahaha..

Previous Post: Ace's Earnest Prayer

Ace's Earnest Prayer

It is the school holidays and so Ace is at home alot and gets to watch the news alot... day in and day out, when we see news about Japan and the earthquake or the tsunami, he would be totally engrossed in the news...

So the other day, while we were walking on the street together, I tried to explain to Ace what is happening in Japan. "Would you like to help?" I asked him and he nodded his head vigourously "But I dunno how I can help, mummy.." he said.

"We can help by sending Japan love..." I told him and so we spent some time in silence and sent love plus a care bear stare to all our friends in Japan...

At night, when I was on FB, I read that one of my Japanese teacher and friend, Hiromi, appealed that everyone manifest for a miracle in Japan... and that the nuclear reactors would be safe and stable... and that everyone working there will be inspired with the best possible way to deal with the situation safely and quickly..

So I posted it on my status and asked my friends to join in in prayer and manifestation for a miracle...

At night before I slept, I explained also to Ace what was happening in Japan and how one of their big headaches now are the nuclear reactors and how the nuclear reactors might be very dangerous for the people living there...

Ace immediately told me, "I know how we can help! We can send love!" And so we did... and I added about how we can use the power of our mind to manifest a good ending to the situation and we took a moment to do that as well...

As and afterthought, I asked Ace to ask after Kaylen's grandparents as his classmate Kaylen is half Japanese and his grandparents live in Japan.

"Oh, " Ace suddenly said, "I need to talk to god now.. I have to ask god to make Japan recover forever..."

Suddenly, this puts things into perspective for Ace... and he started praying. "Dear god, please make Japan recover forever and that they will forever be safe. My friend kaylen wants to visit his grandpa and grandma in Japan with his daddy and mummy and I want them to be safe. I love my friend. and I want them to be safe.. dear god, please let japan recover forever..."

So sweet...

Today, Ace earnestly looked out for the news and realized that Japan has not yet recovered and he was very disappointed. I told him that we will have to pray more...

Anyway, the last I heard, the reactors have started exploding (two have exploded so far) and the radiation level has risen to a level that is slightly harmful to the human body.. so it will be a big issue for the people working on the issue... Also, there seem to be some rumours about another forthcoming earthquake to another part of japan...

My mother chanted a few hours of diamoku today and even went to work one hour later so that she could chant one hour more...

Keep praying... My friends have organized and praying session today at 8pm today. If you are not able to join in like me.. no matter where you are, at 8pm today, do take a moment to just gather your energy and your love and pour it into Japan so that they will receive a BIG miracle to turn things around.

PS: I was inspired to ask Max this.. in the face of such a huge disaster... many are starting to believe about 2012. If it were true tat the end of the world is coming in 2012, where would you like to be? Who would you like to be with? WHat would you like to be doing NOW?

Previous Post: Ace's Dream

Ace's Dream

I have recently been introduced to Angel cards and I have found their answer to my questions rather uncanny:)

When I asked about whether I will have another baby soon, out of 45 angel cards, I actually chose the Angel SEREPHINA.. whose message is tat a new addition to the family is on the way and that all that I am going through now is clearing the way for the new addition! :)

I tried to pick a card for and Angel to help Max.. who is currently doing his PMP certification course for his career advancement with a teacher who always says "MAYA" instead of "measure" and I picked Angel MAYA... who says he should furthur his education to help his career! I dun believe in coincidences so I guess maybe his teacher is his Angel that i was hoping to send.. hahahaha...

As usual, no matter what I am doing, Ace wants to do it too.. :) hahaha..

So, my son asked me to help him pick Angel cards to pick an angel because "I have alot of dreams and I want them to come true..."

WHen I asked him what is his dream, his answer was that he wanted to have a properous, loving and kind family. WAH! PROSPEROUS FAMILY?:P hahaha..;) I wonder where he got the idea from and whether he is asking for this because he feels our family is poor and always in conflict or tat he just desires for more of what he already has..

He picked Angel Zanna whose message says, "The other angels and I stand guard around you, your home, your family, your vehicles, and your workplace. You can rest assured that no lower energies can permeate our protective field. We only allow the energy of love to enter wherever you or your loved ones reside. " ZUN or wat?!

Previous Post: Baby Baby!

Baby Baby!

Recently, Ace has started to bug me about having a baby brother or sister again...



In fact, everytime he lou hei, he will say something along the lines of mummy have baby quickly (one time he said, "Mummy have baby quickly.. and mummy have healthy baby..." and another time he said, "Mummy quickly have baby ah.." and as and after thought, added, "Ah Yee also quickly have baby ah..." )

PS: Ace is awaiting the birth of his godsister, Phoebe and very excited that he can be big gor gor liaoz..


Previous Post: Why Doctors Make Alot Of Money

Why Doctors Make Alot Of Money

The other day, I was busy doing my own work and then my son started to to doodle on his own as well..

And after he was done, he passed it to me.

I looked at it and couldn't make head or tail out of it and so I asked him what he was drawing...

And then he pointed to the left hand side of the paper and explained.. "Going to meeting and doing work will give you money..."

And "Doctors help us when we are sick..."

"And the people the doctor help will give him money...."

"So, doctors will have alot of money.." he explained with a grin :)

Despite him being very money faced, when I asked him what he wanted to be, he STILL wanted to be a policeman even though "doctors make alot of money".. hahahahhaa

Previous Post: Policeman Ace

Policeman Ace

Hahaha.. i saw a poster for police recruitment the other day... and so I took a picture of it to show Ace.. and so, he asked if I could superimpose his face inside so tat he can be a police.. HAHAHAHA

so here it goes...



Previous Post: I Love My Iphone and Ipod

I Love My Iphone and Ipod

As you know, Max recently bought an ipod touch because he wanted to play games... and i think now that we found out how useful the ipod touch is, we wished Max had bought it much earlier...

These two machines has made connecting and communicating with each other much more easy and it is much easier to include Max in our lives and to show him what is happening and for father and son to have fun with each other... watsapp is great and Tango (which unlike the stupid facetime, is not banned in dubai) is also good for video chats even though only Max can see us clearly and we can only see a blur of colours...

A typical wonderful day gets on by with the machines and our conversations goes on like this:

















Angel: Thanks you for the flowers

Max: Nice boh?

Angel: Very nice...

Max: Going to golf range with Adam later...

Angel: Okie

Max: You put on make up first then took pics with the flowers? Haha

Angel: Ya, flowers nice, I also must be nice... Your son call me and cry on the phone just when i was telling Karen he is very brave... He ask me to come back now to hug him and say why I ever tell him I am going out.. and then cry about not watching tv and for the grand finale, it was, "I WANT DADDY!!"

Max: Haha.. he is so farnee..

Angel: Ace: That is not funny at all, 我要教训你

Max: Wah, he actually said TAT????

Angel: He cried for 20 min on the phone lor.. Ya lor

Max: Come on, which 5 year old says these?.. Huh? Nobody at home with him?

Angel:: He said that, I just type.. Popo and gong gong at home....

Max: I call him now

(Max calls Ace and talks to him on the phone for like 5 minutes. I heard Ace say something like, "OK, i go write now... and hang up)
Angel: You ask him to write what?

Max: He OK leh...

Angel: Ace draw fireman

Max: You at home too? I asked him about his diary..

Angel: Ace draw policeman...
Angel: He write diary say is secret and dun tell me what he is writing but every word that he writes he come and ask me how to spell..Haahahaha..

Max: Good, haha.. at least make him learn more words..

(And then we made small talk about how his session at the Golf Course was and what happened at our Lions Club meeting today...)

Angel: Ur son's diary..

Max: How come he showed you? Mummy is crazyyyyyyy?????? HAHA...LOL...

Angel: You din read DADDY TOO

Max: Selective reading...

Angel: The tall one is him, he is hitting us cos we are crazy...

Max: How come the tall one is him?

Angel: duh..

Max: Anger

Angel: Ya, childrne tend to draw themselves very big in drawings... U so far, so you are small

Max: First time he drew this way

Angel: He was being cheeky and giggling away..

Max: Haha

Angel: I told him I very said his dairy hit me..

Max: Ask him to draw more lah

Angel: Now he ask me how to write beautiful and draw someting else liao

Max: Daddy is happy when I see his drawings...

Angel: Haha.. actually he is qutie talentted, his drawing is really qutie nice..

Max: What quite?

Angel: Be humble..

Max: My son is bestest

Angel: Haha

Max: Tell him that I am always proud of him..

Angel: Now he draw mommy is beautiful..

Max: Ask him to draw you with the flowers lah

Angel: He said okie.. He one look at the flowers say is you give me one... I asked him how he know, he say he saw card say angel.. I said maybe someone else gave me flowerw what.. other people cannot give me flowers meh? He said he will call police to catch the preon cos he cannot anyhow give flowers to his mummy cos is his daddy and mummy anniverary...

Max: Hahahaha.. good boy..

Max: This one is we beat crazy Ace?

Angel: YA

Max: Tell him daddy and mummy doesnt like ace to be crazy. Funny is better...

Max: This monkey ace hands and legs very long.. so funny.. i like.. better than crazy cos cray boy has to stay in hospital and take meidcation and injection..

Angel: Ace: WHY?

Max: Because crazy people are very dangerous, police will catch them and put then in hopsital because they canot think properly and cannot differentiate right from wrong.. so do wrong things and must stay in hosptial...

Angel: Ace: WHY?

Max: So be funny and not crazy..

Angel: Ace: You also ah..

Max: I am Mr Funny.. not crazy..

Angel: Ace: Y?

Max: Because my son is Mr Funny and I want to be like him..

Angel: Ace: You are really very funny..

Max: Na na na bu bu

Angel: Ace: neh neh ni boo boo, you cannot hug hug me..

Max: Then mummy can catch you and hug you for me

Angel: He giggling now and told me "See whether now he cry or not.."

Max: Sob sob sob...

Angel: Ace: Sorry

Angel: He is giggling now and your pic.. kekeke...

Angel: Ace: Y you like that shoot me, yo are so bad, I am going to cry already..

( Then Ace made me take a picture of him and show his daddy...)

Angel: Ace: When you see this photo, you will always be with me...

And then we moved on to talking for a while on VIDEO via Tango and it was a very pleasant experience for me and Ace and Max too... Thank goodness technology makes the world smaller and seperation a teeny weeny little bit easier to bear..

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