First Canning

Both JS and WH received their first canning from me the past 2 days. Very seldom I would use the cane to threaten them, usually when they are way beyond control, I will flashed the cane, but never once I really hit on them. My parents never once hit on my brother or me using the cane, but 2 incidents that happened separately made me used it on them.

Sunday evening, JS and WH each has got a box of new toys (something like Lego but it’s a free gift of some product) from their grandfather. I helped WH to assemble the pieces into a car. JS playing on her own set but she didn’t want to follow the instruction sheet to assemble the car, instead she wants to assemble something out of her own. She insisted on having one of the pieces from WH. No matter how hubby and me explained to her that she should just use whatever she has and not snatched from the brother, she wont listen and kept crying and kick out a big fuss (grandsparents and aunties have been giving in to her too often, she thinks that she can have her way and the things she wants ALL THE TIME). When we were not looking , she just snatched and tried to dissemble the pieces to take out the particular piece she wants. I got so fed up with her attitude of only wanting things her way, I gave her a good smack on the bum with the cane. 

I dont know what’s the best way to let her know this kind of behaviour is intolerable. I certainly know canning is not the best way, but at that moment, it seems like only the cane can do the job. Of course later hubby and me did explain to her in good terms again that snatching of toys is not acceptable.

Incident two

Monday morning. Kids playing. WH might have picked up the bad habit from JS.  Instead of playing with his toys, he suddenly shown interest in JS’s and tried to snatch. JS yelled at him but this boy of mine yelled back at the sister and started pulling the sister’s hair and push the sister down on the floor (it was really like a sumo wrestling, my boy on top of the sister) and he kept throwing his fist in thin air to show his dissastifaction. Of course my boy kena smack on the palm with the cane.

Really hard in getting my kids to learn sharing and be loving.. the eldest been pampered and spoilt the first 2 years and now the brother picking up her bad habit.  Hopefully next time something similar happened, I might be able to talk them out instead of resort to the cane. 

Haircut Day

Took JS to the parlour to have her hair cut yesterday. I love girl to have long hair that I can play around with different hair do…but JS dislike having her hair tie up and it’s looking very messy. She herself actually like to keep long hair…but after trying “brain wash” her…she finally agreed to have her hair cut without any fuss…

 Long hair made her look more matured…but also very untidy

Short hair (娃娃装) makes her look like a Japanese doll. It’s so much more refreshing and light to look at her face.  Also make me realize that she’s still such a baby despite me treating her like a more grown up girl each day.

Wedding Dinner @Ipoh

We travelled up north to Ipoh last Saturday to attend my highschool friend’s wedding dinner. The wedding dinner by the bride’s family was held at Tai Tong@Heritage.  So that’s the place that we stayed for the night. Wedding ceremony and dinner by the groom side will be this coming weekend at our hometown.  

Both the groom and the bride were my classmates. They have been courting for almost 14 years and finally tying the knot. So everlasting and heartwarming love …

Met up with some of the other classmates that I haven’t met for almost 10 years. Though not all my ex-classmates attended the wedding dinner but it’s still good to see each others.  I’m the only one who brought along my kids, the rest of my classmates just leave their kids of my kids age at home. What a pity didn’t get a chance to let the kids play together.

I treasure these friendship very much as they are the longest friends that I have. I have totally lost contact with all the acquintance from primary to lower secondary school when I switched school during Form 4. During my upper secondary school days, there weren’t many Chinese in the whole school. (There were probably 5 or less chinese in the whole afternoon session of lower secondary in the whole school. No Chinese in the art stream of upper secondary but only Science stream and we have our own designated classrooms and this block is located at the far end of the school compound so it makes us kind of isolated from th rest of the students) There were only 19 Chinese students in the whole form 4 & form 5 my year, 6 Chinese girls and the rest guys, and all of us are in the same class, hence we were quite close to each others.

After Form 5, we still gather like once a year during CNY, but past couple of years, with each one having their own family, it’s hard to get everyone gather together. But this couple never failed to visit my family either at my grandparents place or hotel during CNY for the past 4 years.

Wonder when will be the next gathering for us.

 Once upon a time…..

 Now…… (one of the girl didn’t make it. All six of us happily married….everyone with kids ..except the bride of course..:D)

We spent Sunday morning at lunch with my aunty who is also staying in Ipoh.

ps: Friends…if you want any of the picture to be taken down…please let me know.