Family's 4D/3N KL/Genting Holiday

Our family of 4 just came back from a short holiday break in nearby Malaysia. It was a free and easy trip and entirely OTOT (own time own target), and thus very enjoyable.

We had the luxury of time for naps that lasted as long as we liked, and we ‘partied’ till the shops closed.

The best thing about this holiday is that as it was planned and decided in early October 2009, and the benefits of being early birds was that we managed to get great prices for the coach and air tickets.

~ Taken outside Tune Hotel, just 5 mins walk to KL Monorail ~

All in all, excluding expenses, it costs us about SIN $150 for all 4 of us.

Our itinerary as follows:

- Sun, 24 Jan 2010, coach from SIN to KUL costs SIN $27.00.
- Tune Hotels.com Kuala Lumpur 1-night costs MYR 85.11.
- First World Hotel’s Standard View Rm 2-nights costs MYR 77.60.
- Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Air Asia Flight from KUL to SIN costs MYR 116.00.

Start of New School Yr for both Darlings

My Little Prince started playgroup this year. For the first 3 days, he was fine, as Princess accompanied him throughout the duration of the playgroup program.

For the rest of the first week, without Princess by his side, he literally held Mummy Eliz tight and refused to let go.

By the second week, after getting familiarized with Mdm Lum and making new friends, he happily settled in, and daily after playgroup, he would tell Mummy that he had a fun day.

With both the darlings at school, Mummy Eliz finally could have some time-alone, about 30 minutes or so each day, after deducting the time doing spring cleaning etc, which she is really thankful for.

On average, 4 trips are made daily.

8:00 A.M. – Princess starts K1A
8:30 A.M. – Prince starts playgroup
10:30 A.M. – Prince ends playgroup
12:00 P.M. – Princess ends K1A

Camp Mumbo ‘09 Day 3 - Campfire Night

Princess almost burst into tears when she sees Mummy on the Campfire Night. She really missed Mummy so much.

She was still a brave little darling, completing her performance on stage, before finally reuniting with Daddy, Mummy and Prince.

Till today, she missed the campfire songs, and the fun she had.

~ Going on stage for the performance ~

~ See if you can spot her backside. ~

~ With her group, High Blood ~

~ Video of her performance ~

Camp Mumbo '09 Day 2 - Sentosa Outing

The whole Camp Mumbo Campers went on an outing to Sentosa on the second day, for some fun, game and sun.

Mummy Eliz heard that Princess had a fun-filled, energy-draining day, and fell soundly asleep on the way back on the bus.

~ With the in-charge of the High Blood group ~

~ Before setting off for Sentosa ~

~ W/Zi-En Jieh-Jieh who took great care of Princess ~

3D/2N Camp Mumbo 2009

For the December Holidays, Mummy Eliz enrolled Princess Chelsea in a 3D/2N camp, organized by Teck Ghee CC, held at AMK Secondary School. See http://campmumbo.wordpress.com/ for more details.

Mummy Eliz’s intention was for Princess to be more independent. Princess enjoyed the camp, but cried herself to sleep at nights; she still could not sleep well without Mummy by her side.

On the last day, parents were invited to the campfire, and Princess performed along with her group on stage.

~ Gp photo of all the campers for Camp Mumbo 2009 ~

Princess’ friends, some posted to different groups, won some prizes, and thou she was disappointed she did not win any prize, she felt excited at their win. Congrats!

- Khoo Ning won the Best Camper award in the the gp High Blood.
- Khoo Ning’s brother, Khoo Yao won the Most Obedient award.
- Chloe won the most enthusiastic award in the gp Crazy.

Spare the rod and spoil the child?

December had been a relatively bad month for the two little ones.

Now with Little Prince getting more vocal in his needs and wants, and not following Princess’ instructions, understandably, there are often times of conflict and jealously.

Princess is not used to Prince doing things his own way, and thus, try to force instead of persuade him. Prince on the other hand, sometimes does things on purpose to irritate Princess.

And with school taking a break, facing each other 24/7, they are sometimes literally at each others’ throats. [Prince is also taking a short break from going to Grandma Siew Khim’s place as she just had an eye operation to remove cataracts.]

But when they got punished or scolded, they would then come to the other’s defense. Prince would say things like, “Chelsea is my sister, not mummy’s sister. Do not scold her lah.”

And this goes on and on.

And out of desperation, Mummy Eliz, for the first time, brought a cane. And the cane is starting to be used for instances where there is obvious evidence of intentional disobedience, not in the case of ignorance.

Physical punishment is not something that is enjoyed, and if we spare the cane, are we then going to possibly spoil the child?

Standard Chartered S'pore Marathon 2009

As promised on our blog last year, we are back again this year.

Daddy Tiong completed his full-marathon run, and the two little ones did their 750m Kids Dash.

Princess ran with Aunt Anne, while Prince walked with Mummy Eliz. He took his own sweet time at the beginning, and only started running towards the end, where the loud music was blasting; Mummy Eliz guessed the music must have gave him some encouragement?

After the run, we met up with Mervin Khor-Khor.

~ Daddy's Marathon Run Shot ~

PS:

Princess enjoyed herself at the kids’ carnival while complaining about the heat all the time. She is getting to be too much a city lady, requesting to be in an air-con place almost all of the time.