fellowshipping via cyber

Wen and Win came to visit during the Deepavali hols. The kids were so excited to have the cousins around. Everybody was looking forward to it. Picked Win up at 7.30pm and went to the airport to pick Wen at 10pm. Her flight was horribly delayed. Waited for her for her long enough to order coffee and toast.

The next few days passed by quickly. Everybody was busy. Two pretty girls sprawled on the living room floor with their laptops. Two desktops in the study was busy working....with lots of sound. Dan was teaching the father how to play Red Alert and he complained that the father is slow.

Another two laptops running somewhere in the house(some people can control two gadgets or more at a go...it's called multi-tasking). I had not the chance to touch my laptop as it was monopolized by the kids. But of course I was as usual busy reading my book using my iPod Touch. In between, we managed to stay in contact via facebook!!!!

Even ma was not left alone in the cyber-hecticness. Win recorded her saying some foochow proverbs using the iPhone and here is Talking Tom imitating her!http://www.facebook.com/siamooi#!/video/video.php?v=143849918995367

When night came, I had to phone the kids to come upstairs to sleep as I was too lazy to walk down and they can't hear me if I holler from my room.

Suddenly, the fellowship of the computers ended. It's so quiet today. The kids enjoyed the cousins. I think the cousins enjoyed them too. Not sure how much communication went on but they did fellowshipped; I believe.

exasperating

I was trying to relax last night when Dan came along to remind me that I need to go to school to meet his headmaster to explain why he is not attending extra classes during the holiday!!!

I should have just lied in the letter I wrote and said that I will be bringing my children away for holiday instead of being so blatantly honest and explained that I will be invigilating SPM and therefore I may not be able to rush on time to pick him up after the extra class. If it is a schooling day it's ok for him to stay around till I come to fetch him as there will still be students and teachers around. But it's holiday.....the school will be empty in no time once the extra class is over. I may be delayed for an hour or more. Can't the stupid teacher and headmaster understand another fellow teacher's predicament and be kind and merciful?

I am so so angry with this silly Chinese School system that I am breathing fire now.

I am not a kiasu person....I don't rush my kids all over the world for the best tuition teacher or for tuitions so that they score As. I allow them to go for tuition only when they request it or when I can't help them like the Chinese Language. Whatever Dan learns in this extra class will be forgotten in no time. He has to relearn again next year. Why rush next year's syllabus this year? Is it going to make him smarter and guarantee him As? I doubt. He will get whatever he gets for his UPSR whether he goes for the extra classes or not.

Infact the last extra classes which they had after UPSR exam for the Standard 5s (Mon to Thurs up till 430pm) wore him out totally and by the end of it he fell sick and skipped the last few extra classes. He had no time to do his own revision for the final exam. He was so tired after school and on certain days he had to attend his own personal tuitions.

He mentioned that a few times there were no teachers for the extra class and sometimes after giving the students work to do; the teachers don't even discuss the answers. What is the point of the extra class then??

If I were to go to see the headmaster today, I'm not sure if I can control my temper or not. Anyway, what can he do if my son does not turn up for the tuition during the holiday? The only person who will be frightened everyday till I meet him will be Dan.

Why take the holiday out of the holiday? Might as well don't have holiday at all.

adult joke

Dan poked his nose to my computer and tried to understand a joke which I was reading.

Joke : ......this machine provides service men need when away from their wives.....

Dan : What does it mean?

Me : It's an adult joke.

Dan : Oh...adultery!

(Actually it's a vending machine that sews buttons but the silly man opened his fly and got something else sewn.)

Dan : What happened?

Lyn and I : It's an adult joke!!!

conman

Chan received a phone call from a man claiming to be from Bank Islam saying that her credit card was overdue (RM7000; to be exact). She doesn't hold any credit cards from that bank. So the man told her that probably her IC and name had been used and asked her to call up Bank Negara. He gave her the number and also mentioned the particular department to contact.

Chan phoned Telecoms for Bank Negara's number and found the number different from the earlier number given to her. She called the real Bank Negara number and was informed that there is no such thing.

Then she called the fraud number and was surprised that it sounded exactly like the actual Bank Negara number....ie the process that she has to go through the auto-telephonist right to the music when put on hold.

So, beware...it's not the first time such tale has come to our ears but this is the first time a person who is really close to me has experienced it.

merdeka!!!

No more exams for the year 2010! After many many moons, finally I hear the TV talking again and Dan laughing as he watched the TV. (I was awakened from my nap by his laughter but he denied laughing.)

The computers and TV are going to work full time again.

I wrote a letter to Dan's teacher yesterday to explain that he will not be attending any extra classes this holiday. I don't understand why on earth does the school want to torture the students and teachers during the holiday. Holiday means being away from what we do everyday...that is, the school for the kids!!

From now till the end of 2010; all the kids need to think about is play, piano, reading their favourite books, computer, tv, tuition (I've paid for it; ok), carolling practises (started already) and best of all....cousins coming to visit from Vancouver!

Merdeka for the kids!!!

studying for exam

It's Science exam tomorrow. Dan studied hard (I believe); from the sofa to the floor. While lying on the floor :
Dan : Don't think that I'm lazing around ok? I'm thinking over what I've studied.
Me : Why don't you think aloud what you've studied?
Dan : It's private!
Me : ??????

no big no small

Was driving past this row of food stalls and saw a sign' NO BIG NO SMALL'. That's the hawker's way of telling the customer....don't ask for big or small; there's none...just take whatever served to you!! I supposed he/she must be pretty annoyed with customers ordering for big or small portions.

Who would have thought of that? That's Malaysia!