The World @ My Fingertips

Towards the end of the year, or at the start of the new school term, we are bound to get asked if we can help fetch xyz back from school. How do you deal with that? If you are only fetching your kid to school, will you oblige to your friend’s/relative’s request?

Let me share with you my very own experience. It happened in 2010. My sister-in-law’s kid happen to be in the same year, and same school as my #1. She offered to pay me, but you know, relatives *roll eyes*, no point, ok. At first, i thought it’d be good that my yet-to-talk 7-yo-to-be kid would have someone to interact with on the way home each day. Abuthen, my (autistic special) kid was quite a handful as he wasnt used to such a major change in his life. The excitement, the crowd, coupled with the fact he’s not able to copy the day’s homework from the class blackboard, and i have to ask around during dismissal time, plus coax the kids to show me their homework/exercise/activity books so that i can snap pictures with my handphone single-handedly, as one hand must hold on to a squirming kid lest he takes off disappearing into the crowd forever proved too much for me to cope with at the start of the year.

After a month of madness, i sent her a message explaining my predicament and that she has to fetch her kid after school by herself, but at the same time, gave her ample time to make the necessary adjustment to her schedule. She then replied that i was being inconsiderate and those last-minute blah, blah, blah. OMFBBQ….. i think that’s enough for me to not oblige to fetching anyone’s kid for them ever. I’m alright to ad-hoc requests if i dont have errands to run.

You see, for my sister-in-law, she has a 9 – 5 job, and school’s over at 6.15pm. She has more than enough time to fetch her kid from school, and yet, she chose to have some kinda after-work activity, like yoga, line-dancing and dunno what else. I actually do appreciate it if she can be at my place latest by 7pm to pick her kid up from my house and let me handle my household in orderliness. But hell, no. Not only do i have to send her kid for tuition twice a week. I even have to mind an extra kid at home till she comes by around 8pm or so. And whenever she’s over, she expected us to let her to use the bathroom first. THE ONLY BATHROOM!!! It’s already difficult to handle my two boisterous kids during after-school hours, i also have to handle hers who only wants to play with mine, thus, screwing up my time-table.

So, it’s a firm NO for me. What about you?

Wish and Switch Ep 2 is ready for watching. Last night’s episode was interesting. So, don’t miss tonight’s episode, ya. Leave a comment for the download link.

L’Escargot Ep 1 is out and i’m gonna watch it afterwards. Still have a lot of things to post before i can sit down and watch L’Escargot Episode 1 in peace and quiet. Are you going to watch this new drama series or not. L’Escargot had better be good. Come back tomorrow for L’Escargot Ep 2, ok.

I laugh out loud each time someone asks me what my new year resolution, or resolutions are. To me, it’s kinda childish to make them, only to forget they ever existed to begin with. Yes, you can say i can always write it down on a piece of paper and stick it somewhere where i can see it each day, right. Believe you me this wouldnt work as over the days, weeks and months, you’ll be blind to it even though it’s just right next to you at the dining table wall, lol.

Anyway, i do in fact intend to make a few realistic ones just this once. Let me see what i need to address first.

1) Go buy some sort of night cream. Must also try my best to remember to apply some onto my face so that i look less like a dried up prune by morning. The cold and dry air-conditioned room is slowly killing my face gradually, lol.

2) Turn on the water-based air-purifier each night to add some humidity back to the bedroom even though i hate the noise it emits

3) Spend all online time on my blogs than useless fb game apps.

4) Revision time with the kids is a must.

5) Sleep n wake up at the right time. No more late nights.

I think that’s about it.

Happy New Year.

The kids are going back to school starting next week.Somehow, i dont seem to have enough time getting things ready for them. Books remain unwrapped, uniforms still in their wrinkled form, missing socks, and godknowswatelse, lol. And oh, i just happened to sharpen all their pencils and color pencils. They seem to bring back so many from school. I havent bought them any since school started this year.

Now, i’m left with a few blistered fingers. Geeezzzz, those damn blisters can be so blardy painful, man. I wanted to sharpen a few more dozen but cant really do so due to the discomfort. Guess the first back-to-school item to add to MY shopping list is a really good heavy-duty pencil sharpener since i’m the one doing the sharpening everyday.

Be it a table-mounted manual pencil sharpener or an electric sharpener, i’ll be glad to buy one that can last me a long time. This small investment will definitely safe me a lot of time and frustrations each time. Have you bought one? If you havent, time you buy a really good pencil sharpener. What’s your preference? Manual pencil sharpeners or electric pencil sharpeners?

The year is almost ending. In just a few days, we’ll be ushering in year 2012. It’s been a really rough one for me. I hope next year will be a better one for me, and for everyone too.

A very funny conversation between two middle-aged women took place near the school where i was waiting for my kid this evening. One asked if it’s a good idea to send her kid (son) to a Cosmetology school or not. The other one gave her many reasons as to how good cosmetology schools are these days, and that the beauty industry is always on the look out for new blood, blah, blah, blah. But when the first woman asked the second one if she would also send her kid (son) to such a school, she quickly gave her a NO, LOL!!! Reason being she’s afraid he might become gay, hahaha. I dont know about you. I have no qualms about sending my kids (son) to one if they like the profession. What say you?

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My sister-in-laws really think this place is the world’s most convenient pit-stop for them. One of them came by with her kid just now. Walked straight into the kitchen and exclaimed loudly (complete with black face) to hubby, “OMG…. my kid has tuition tonight”. Reason was i was in the ONLY bathroom in the house and she wanted to bathe her kid before sending him for tuition class. She then went to whine to her mom, who then came out to ask loudly who’s using the bathroom. As if she (my mil la) doenst know who’s using it, tius. Hubby told her (his marder la) i just entered the bathroom, and reminded her that there’s only ONE bathroom in the house. See, the world must stop for them whenever they are over. Aitelyu, i’m so going to etch in my mind that her kid has tuition every blardy Tuesday and that i must stay in the bathroom long long every single Tuesday ever, niamah. My house, i rule.

You know, i hate these relatives that come to your house, and brag about their kids’ achievements, blah, blah, blah. My Ah Beng bought a new car, my Ah Lian’s hubby renovated their home with a swimming pool, my Ah This got me a new mattress that costs 12k, and on, and on. Leaves a lot of discontentment in my in-laws when they go back. And the thing is, we’re all home listening in on this. Sometimes, i wonder if this is on purpose or what. Who’s interested in what your offsprings do larr, haimai. Not that you are going to share any of it with us also.