The most amazing thing happened today. But right now, I need to pack. See you next week!

I suddenly chickened out of Kuen Cheng and decided that it was more important in this world to be really good in English than to be good in Mandarin. All because I found this amazing home school that has produced the finest of pre-schoolers I have ever met. So this is where the creme of the crop send their preschoolers, hushed away in a hilled bungalow on prime land. It isn’t expensive and very impressive. All kids get individual one to one attention and the group is mixed aged. I met a range of children from 2.5 years old to 6 years old. They do autistic children as well, including dyslexia, and any other learning difficulties. The kids, including the 2.5 year old, could all read fluently. They could all write beautifully. And their level of math was Einstein. And the kids were all confident and well mannered. What a dream…….

The school guarantees that Tee would be reading fluently after a month. They’re all medically qualified in there - doctors and nurses from the UK. Funny, eh? How people from the medical profession have resorted to education? They have a better undertanding of child psychology. Very, very interesting. It is not the reading that I’m interested in for Tee (as she can already put words together) but more for the math. I don’t know how they do it. It’s even higher level than Chinese school math. I’m not the Mom who wants to push my kid into academics so early on but my lil girl loves doing workbooks and I think that if she has the capability, then why not. If she doesn’t like it, then we’ll pull her out. No sweat.

Tee goes in for an assessment tomorrow. They have turned down SO MANY students with crying mothers begging them to take their kids in. I’m confident Tee will get a place as she is quite a smart cookie. And then Murphy’s Law strikes………

This always happens when you lack sleep, metamorphosize into an evil bitch. *scowls*

After a late movie night, we woke up late this morning and found that the Hubs had left his precious daughter at home. Wasn’t he supposed to have taken her to school? Fuck, no lie in for me. After bouncing out of bed with red eyes, gosh, it really felt like a hangover, I made Tee’s milk and asked her to drink it whilst I brushed my teeth. Twenty minutes later, she had still not finished her milk. I went ballistic. It was already 9am!!! School, for your information, started at 8.30am.

The screaming began which made her jump out of her skin and I immediately told her that she would have no TV for a whole week. I was sweating by then, and you know, when I am sweating and in a rush, I get even MORE mad!!!

Brushing her teeth was loud, dressing her was loud. I think Tee freaked out a little and got a dose of what a live band in a nightclub sounded like. Pretty funky. I made her a chocolate cheese sandwich for breakfast because there wasn’t time for anything more fancy and she complained that she wasn’t in the mood for cheese. What!!! More screaming as I tore out the cheese. Screamings to wear her shoes, screamings to walk faster, screamings to shut up and get into the car……oh, so much screaming. Why is it that a toddler cannot just listen and do as you say when you talk in normal decibals? Aaaaaaaarrrrggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then, in the car, she spilt water. More screaming. Because I was late for an appointment, I was driving at 200kmph and flew over a bump with my low car and BANG! Even MORE screaming!!!

I was screaming for a good half hour. Everytime Tee opened her mouth, I would scream. Finally, I threatened her that if she so much as gave me any shit when she went into school, I would turn into a big black monster.

The poor girl was terrified. She stuffed her face with her whole sandwich till she couldn’t talk for fear that she was eating too slow. She pattered quickly and quietly with her little feet into school for fear that Medusa’s head would really appear out of Mama’s crown.

One hour later, I regretted my actions and felt like a big lump of shit.

After school, I apologised to my girl and she told me she still loved me. *sigh*

What do you do???

Thanks to my beloved brother and mother, the Hubs and I got to attend a movie preview this evening and a lovely dinner. How lucky we are!!!

At the eleventh hour, the Hubs decides that we are going to New York after all. What? Are you serious? Yes, in two weeks, which is when the rocket launch is now. What? Why don’t you just go without us? Because Tee would never forgive him. And he’s right. She wouldn’t.

So I spent all of my morning calling travel agents, going to banks to pay for American Visa applications, taking American Visa application photographs and I haven’t even packed yet for our beach trip this Friday. Everything really is topsy turvy and I am stressed because you really have to plan well for a long, long journey with a toddler. We are so brave.

It turns out MH and JAL are charging very similar rates to New York so I think we’re going to go with Japan Airlines. Traitors.

This year, my mother got it good. Her birthday falls one or two days from Mother’s Day so dependng on her luck, she’d get either one or two presents from everyone. This year, from her children, she got:-

1. something that looks like this
2. something that looks like this
3. and something that looks like this (which is not yet ready, ahhahaha!! I’m damn busy, OK?)

She was VERY HAPPY…….

Some years she gets nothing but kisses, which also leaves her very happy I love my Mom, I really, really do.

In response to all your queries, this is my new treadmill (supposed to have the best cushioning of all time, which is why we chose it, for my weak knees), below is my new bag (it smells divine……..LV won’t allow me to link the site for some reason) and these are my new running shoes.

Now, I need to start blogging harder for more $$$ again. *sigh* But so worth it, right???????????????????

The treadmill is just super. It is perfect. It bounces up and down because it has a reflex deck so it’s almost like running in a bouncy castle. No pressure on my knees at all. Highly recommended for people with joint problems. My only problem with it is that I’m too short so the fan control that it comes with, blows above my head *pout* But like the Hubs says, I have another manual fan beside the treadmill, so what really is the problem? Nothing, just being difficult.

The bag? Oh……the bag……*melts into lustful completeness*. Tomorrow will be the first day that I use it because we are going out to watch Prince Caspian (part 2 of the Chronicles of Narnia). It smells of a very rich leather and feels like……feels like…..a treadmill. No. It feels like a baby’s blanket. It’s big enough to store all Tee’s junk such as alphabet cards, mozzie repellant, hand cream, papaya balm, ice-cream sticks, lip balm, notebook, toy, colour pencils……..and then my own junk namely, wallet, diary, pens, tissues and wet wipes,  now what else do I have in that bag? It’s perfect. It really is. A versatile everyday bag.

The shoes are great too. I haven’t tried Asics but I have absolutely no complaints with these. Having said that, my old Nikes are nothing compared to these. These are so much more comfortable, they totally fit right, are really bouncy and feet are airy inside it. These are REAL runners shoes. Ahem…..

So. There you go. My loot this last month. Isn’t life grand??? One day, I will show you my before and after photos

Does anyone know where I can find little tiny spoons to put into my spice jars??? They have to be less than 5 cm long and tiny. My Mom bought me some from Thailand but I can’t for the life of me find them. Grrr…….so annoying. Why is it so difficult to find nice stuff in Malaysia? Is it because many people here have bad taste so there isn’t a demand for nice stuff. Grrr…..

OK, I just love shopping. That’s the real reason I bought a new pair of running shoes. Did you know that Nike and Adidas are fashion shoes but not serious running shoes. Talk to a professional runner and they’ll tell you. I never knew! So what are real running shoes? Apparently the brand Asics do the best running shoes and New Balance are quite known too. So out I went in hunt for proper running shoes. It wasn’t easy finding Asics in KL, so in the end I got a high end Mizuno.

The first few times I went on with my Mizzies, I had a blister between my big toe and my second toe on the right foot. The next time, I tried stuffing a tissue in between the toes. That didn’t work. Finally, the genius of the Hubs that I have, suggested I rubbed some Vaseline in between those toes before I ran and voila, it worked!

I’m telling you, my husband is genius. So genius that he bought me an LV bag for Mother’s Day. Definite BJ’s for the year. Woot!

Not to mention, I also have the best treadmill in the world. It is known to have the best cushioning and with my problem knees and heavy weight, my knees didn’t give way throughout my run today. Double woot!