Term 1, 2012: Origami

Some of her works in school this term.



For those who are interested in origami, this is a great site with videos on how to fold the origami items.
http://www.en.origami-club.com/

Future Architect?

Swimming

An award for the little girl

We enrolled S into a swim class as she asked for it.
However, on her first lesson, she didn't want to join the class.
I imagine it must be quite intimidating for a 5-year-old to go into the pool without her mummy and daddy... and to the constant barking of the instructor.

So R and I decided to work on her basics, just to get her to be more confident.
A google showed up this website USwim, which teaches parents how to teach their kids to swim
We followed some of the steps, and got her confident enough to dunk her head into the water and do her confidence jump.
I also came up with the idea of an award in the form of a certificate.

It also helps that "gong gong" speaks very loudly, so I simply explained to her that the instructor really didn't mean to yell all the time.
It's just that some uncles speak very loudly, like her "gong gong" :P
This worked too, and she gamely joined the class during the second week.

She's now into jumping into the water all by herself and kicking/paddling about 1.5m towards R. She doesn't know how to coordinate her breathing yet, so she does this with her head in the water the whole time.

Sharing a bottle of chocolate-flavoured goat milk at Hays Dairy

Thomas toddler backpacks all out of stock?!

You wouldn't believe that all the Thomas toddler backpacks are sold out at the few Kiddy Palace outlets that I went to.
Had no choice but to make the little boy a backpack to go to school!

For the boy

Made this for the girl last year

Murder She Commited

This was what I did to my oven.
The day before, I was trying to tidy up the kitchen so my part-time helper will have an easier time.
As I was putting the tupperware into my oven, an image of the melting tupperware flashed across my mind.
I told myself "Don't be silly. Of course I will check the oven before I turn it on."
The next day, as I was getting ready to bake my cheese bread, I checked the oven and saw that all was clear.
BUT I didn't notice a tupperware cover that slid under the rack and was resting on the bottom heating element.
As I was preparing the batter, I smelled some horrible chemical smell and this was what happened.
I was pretty shaken by the whole accident... even more after R showed me that night, this video on why we should not pour water on kitchen oil fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecvG7sb4H4M
Afterall, petrochemicals in the plastic could be considered as "oil"?

An acquaintance told me to use flour.
A Google on the effect of flour showed is just as scary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tduy1zU0L-Q

I guess the best would be a wet cloth.

My Breakfast Kaki

This is my breakfast kaki for the last 1 year.
I'm going to miss him when my little man goes to school next Monday.

Breakfast is not always in such posh settings of course.
It's usually the chai tau kuay or bak chor mee in the market.
Otherwise, it's just a simple breakfast at home.