Pau for Breakfast

Each time I eat pau, surely only the homemade pau (dumpling).
Although not available as convenient as the commercial pau, I will wait for the aunty that sell homemade pau twice a week at pasar (morning wet market). I will buy min. 8pcs or more for kids' teabreak.

It is more solid in content compare to commercialize pau and a healthy snack for kids. If come to Penang, remember to buy a few back for few days stock especially mother with young kids.

Pre-school - comments?

Since mid April I quit my kids from attending pre-school as I want them to play learn instead of mainly learn from their text books and exercise books.

Secondly, I don't have a good feeling with those pre-school which over commercialised their educational centre instead of instilling good learning culture to our young children.

Worst is, there are daily homework for a 4yo @%!@#? I feel frustrated and tormented have to force my son to write pages and pages of alphabet without failed everyday. When I feel that an A4 size writing page is too much for a N2 kid, I only managed to force him to write for half a page yet that already coupled with crying on and off. The next day, the teacher wrote a comment asking to complete the page... I checked it out with school authority, they said there's market demand for homework!

To me, the teaching and learning lost its meaning when come to the end stage to FORCE. How are they going to learn the stress free way? Can this foster their learning interest? How to get them ready for life-long learning in years to come? How much damage that they had caused in the little brain, can u imagine?

I teach on my own too. I feel bad the way some teacher would rather pleased the parents instead of nurture children the right way.

My plant is sick

This bacteria attack your plant before? Look at mine, sickening when you look at it. It has been sick for more than a month. Can't bear to see my "Bai Wan Fu Wong" Millionaire plant dying.

Plant tend to sick more often if you planted it indoor, they need extra care. Well, after few days of 'therapy', it is getting better. I changed the pesticide to organic type. I believed 2-3week more, it will be recovered completely.

Name Hanger

Some little cute handicraft caught my attention, this is the latest one that I found. Bought the packed craft kit with customised name.

Good to hang at kid's room. It is Sweet right...

What is the 'right' method or approach? Teaching?

I think Mr. Zanurin did some psychology study before coming up with this title in his presentation "What is the 'right' method or approach?" in developing writing skills among the lower-intermediate ESL Learners.hmm... I'm caught too. Otherwise, won't land myself in this session.

Interestingly, that also proves that common sense works! as my believe and practice. Obviously, motherhood makes me smarter... ha.haa... I've downloaded few copies of info. shared by Mr. Zanurin, for those who need it, can download here, especially for Cikgu Hamimah. It may not up to your expectation as my photo editing skill no good. sorry...

Really missed a lot of things as I left my digital camera at home. If not, can take photo with Dr. Catherine Wallace., & other new teacher friends, & many more. really missed la......

Char Koay Teow Recipe

thinking of eating char koay teow. penang famous hawker food. waiting for kids to wake up, we then head to morning market bought the ingredients. as my children too love this treat, i stir fried it without chilli paste and decided to 'keh liao' (with added ingredient) with big shrimp and jiu chai (chives). da...da... ready to eat. This is our lunch for today.

Thinking of getting one PDA?

As i'm a person who is organized in chaos which only me that know what put where, others don't : ( this is a challenge to those who need information fast and when I'm not presence. in order to help, hubby get me a PDA with the hope that I'll store informations inside especially those contacts. and I will only use quality handy-dandy gadget. as life is getting mobile, i think we gotta be more organize in handling and storing all sorts of details & informations.

Water powder. still in used?

As I'm busy catching up learning with new gadgets and many other things, I frequently leave my children at mom's place for a few hours. When they come back, you will be amused with 'new thing' that they learned at grandparent's place.

One of the most common 1 is they would say: "Chiak kofee, chiak beehoon! chiak kofee, chiak beehoon" loudly. u know why? they called their grandpa's staff for coffee break... @; ) 2 loud walking speaker which running wild...

Another practise is - they asked me to apply water powder on their face whenever after bath. Kids really catch up new thing fast - both good & bad one...!

Dinner at cafe

when the little ones at their grandpa's place, we sneak to enjoy a peaceful dinner at this Little Cafe near Bayan Lepas. I ordered cornflakes chicken chop while hubby took tornado spaghetti set. this cafe promise wifi service, but the networking is protected. how to surf like that??? another promised service that never 'deliver'!

Pineapple treat

The one and only pineapple grow at our backyard. After planted it for almost 3 years, finally fruitful. in between dunno bought how many eaten liao lorr. die la if really wait for it.

It is a good experience as hubby dunno how exactly a pineapple tree bears it fruit. He initially tot that the fruit is underneath the tree. couldn't imagine....Its fruit grows on the tree as new leaves develope, but it turned out to be the fruit instead of leaves. too late, cut it out from the tree before a photo shot when it still intact to the tree.

my kids look at it as alien - poky stuff.