Clocking my 10,000th post here...

Buds_chubs is our new addition to the family, thus making ours a 3-children-family. Not easy by measure of everything honestly but i love the challenge. They say, with great powers come great responsibilities. Being a stay-home-parent is a huuuuge responsibility and the ultimate power i have is... time. I choose to use the powers (of time + management) to fulfilling use whenever i can, or else time is just whiled away with me accomplishing nothing for the day.

Singapore would not be what it is now, if not for the many years of racial harmony & natural camaraderie we have all enjoyed. We have indeed come so far... this far. Why? Because we have all learnt to compromise, despite our cultural differences & social standings.

Foreigners from various parts of the map have since become quite attracted to this harmony we have... the rich culture each of us bring out from within us and of course the growing economy that was promising enough which got them coming... (more so of late) to seek a new life, in this so-termed dot of ours.

In my line of work, it is often that I encounter children who fall sick. Some more often than others. It is also once too often I come across parents who have insisted that their children be allowed to attend school even when they were sick. This is an area that really needs to be looked into. Why HFMD and SARS became an epidemic here is because some people do not realize that to prevent an epidemic... to keep the nation clean and healthy, is a social responsibility.

Not good at painting? Hate the mess? Don't know where to start?

Here are two DIY painting projects you can get off the shelf and get right to it.

Our DD2 is hopeless when it comes to art.. well, guess she doesn't have it in her but she yearns to be as good as her jie-jie. Since we don't send her for art lessons, we have our own DIY stuff at home she can do ad-hoc.

Everyday before i go to bed, i would think of how the day passed by me. It's a time for reflection on the stuff i did and was not able to do. Especially now when time never seems to be quite enough.

I told myself that time will NEVER be enough if i don't make everyday count... no matter in whatever small ways and no matter how little. So i reflect...

DD1 is at a pre-teen age where she loves getting to know new friends at a phase of idolization for a certain band, a certain singer or even a certain teacher. Sigh.. how much this baby has grown. A slight premie too, no less. It is tricky dealing with a child her age and a girl at that too. Gotta tread on shaky ground on her moody days, this even before she has her period. *faint*

The introduction to the Science subject at Primary 3 level has taken some of us to prescribe regularly to Dequadin Lozenges (for sorethroat & screaming fest during revision) and for some others who aren't allergic take to aspirin...

Like some of us who are allergic to Science & if it had been ages since you picked up a Science book, you may be taken aback at how in depth the subject covers. Yes... even for P3-ers. As the shock slowly translates to playing catch up with the topics, some children are taken by the collar to sit, read, memorize, underline, (etc).

With the considerable leap of academic challenges from Primary 1 and Primary 2... to the inevitable coming of age phase in Primary 3, many parents lament their children are either caught off guard come CA1 or SA1 results or they are shocked at what the just graduated from P2s hafta swallow whole at P3, especially with the one additional subject... yes, referring to Science.