It started with the kids coming home from school on Wednesday, and Yang announcing that he had left his bag containing his wet bag and school shorts - he wore sports shorts home - in the school auditorium after track and field. So there was a bag of stinky clothes somewhere in school for the past five days...!
Thursday was May Day. We did absolutely nothing but study and TV. Recently, the boys were into Harry Potter. We had already watched five of the eight movies. Yang and Yu are even doing selective reading of the books, and casting spells at each other! I have (un)fortunately started to reread the series...
I think Yu dropped a tooth this day - or the next? - when watching a movie before bedtime... He's getting very good at pulling out his own teeth!
Friday was HBL day as the school was a polling centre for Saturday. This time, Yang and Yu had a lot of work for HBL - yay! It was as if they were in school as usual, except for the later wake-up time and a good breakfast.
Kai, on the other hand, did not have much work but he needed to prepare for a number of WA the following week. He took the whole morning and part of the afternoon to finish a geography assignment 🤦♀️ And then when it was time to revise for WA, he found that he did not bring two of three books home! I'd better close both eyes for the sake of my mental health...
Saturday was exciting. We woke to a thunderstorm. The wind was so strong that our bedroom window was wet all the way to the top, despite the bit of roof protruding out a metre or so. Luckily, we had the aircon on and the rain didn't bother us.
But it meant that we couldn't bring the boys out for breakfast. We had wanted to bring them to check out the polling station after breakfast. They had been seeing ads on how to vote on TV.
The rain abated significantly after breakfast at home. Sito and I went to vote before grabbing some vege for our usual porridge lunch. We were in and out within five minutes - super efficient, the polling centre was.
Sorry, spoke like that one day too early :p
The election officers at our polling centre looked super young. Sito said maybe we started working before they were even born. Goodness...
The guy checking my IC stared at me intensely. It felt rather freaky. I look so different from my photo meh? Meh? MEH?
In the evening, Yang and Yu went to the playground while Kai was chillaxing at home after his studies. We went down to grab the kids earlier so that we could swing by the polling centre to check it out. But of course the kids checked out the playground first :p
In the end, only Yang was more interested. Sito showed him from outside - cannot anyhow go in...
After dinner at our new fave coffeeshop where the kids all had ban mian and Kai topped up with two pratas, we walked to OHV to grab a cake. And we bumped into the grands on their way to dinner! Just nice for the kids to wish their AhYe happy birthday on the actual day!
Taken some weeks before
When we also tried the dessert from the same named stall in the same block
Sito and I ate half the small cake while watching drama and was too full to snack while watching the elections results. In fact, we fell asleep after the sample counts :p Anyway, the sample counts were accurate enough...
Sunday was 4 May. Or May the Fourth in American English. Or Star Wars English? :p
Yang and Yu were very thoughtful - each spent some time on Saturday and Sunday to make birthday cards for AhYe :)
Happy birthday, AhYe!
Monday was a school holiday in lieu of the public holiday / polling day on Saturday. We worked Yang really hard as he had more to study. Kai and Yu also did their bits. Must work hard coz we went out in the afternoon!
Queued maybe 15min for this, yay!
Yu was saying he didn't know how to cook but he ended cooking all of his shabu by himself. I just made sure it was all cooked. And nagged them to eat coz they could not stop talking.
Then, we went to check out Yu's eyes. He came back from eye screening in school to say that he needed glasses. But the letter only told us to check the details online - waste of paper!
Anyway, he had 6/9 for both eyes, better than Yang and same as Kai for their P3 eye screening. So I didn't bother following up until last week after Malay class, when he said he couldn't see in school. He sits near the back during Malay class.
Indeed, he is shortsighted, sighs... Without glasses, he couldn't read an ad in the shop while Kai could rattle off the words. When Yu came out with the test lenses, he could also rattle off the words. 100 deg in both eyes, vs. Yang's 50 deg in one eye.
Yu wanted black or blue frame. We couldn't find one that suited him (and our budget :p) so black it was. And a squarish one, which looks better on his round face compared to a round frame.
Second and probably the last of them to wear glasses for myopia
He said he looks like a nerd now. Papa told him nerds earn a lot of money coz this small guy wants to live in a condo so good luck, haha!
We went to the Westgate playground while waiting for the lenses to be ready. Kai was bigger than some parents at the playground but that didn't stop him from being the child that he is :)
Ok, not stuck :p
We sent Kai to the train station first as he had to got for tuition. Then we went to pick up the glasses before going home. Sito and I were ready to crash but the boys were still full of energy as usual.
Oh, and I forgot to hang up the koi streamers for the second year running. No space to hang properly - in our first home, streamers outside our corner unit wouldn't disturb passersby; in our previous home, we had a big foyer space outside the main door - pictures here and here. Maybe that's it already...
Today, Tuesday, all kids managed to wake up on time. Surprisingly, Yang and Yu were not as sleepy as usual. Got them to finish quickly to catch the earlier bus to school so that Yang could go find his bag.
I really don't know if I wanted him to find his bag... If he found it, it would be super gross by now. If he didn't, I would have to quickly go buy him a set of swim gear for his swimming PE tmr. I shall update...
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