The Haze Is Back!

Ok, so the haze has been back since last week. The PSI in Singapore reached 108 either on Wednesday or Thursday. The air didn't smell good and to make it worse, some neighbours of mine burnt hell notes in a metal drum at the corridors! Urgh!

There were no lessons last Tuesday till Friday for primary schools due to PSLE-marking. However, Akmal had to go back to school for a few hours in the morning for supplementary lessons (to prepare for final-year exams) and Aryna's pre-school functioned as per normal. Being home-bound for those 4 days had let me spring-cleaned my clientele database, although, to-date, there is still so much more to do. On Friday, I drove to office immediately after sending Aryna and Akmal to school. I started my day with a review with my Agency Manager. After spending almost 2 hours in the office, I went to Plaza Singapura to meet a client.


My client and I had lunch here.

I asked Aqil to fetch Aryna and asked Akmal to walk back home on his own cos I knew I could not make it back home in time. This was the first time that Aqil went to fetch his sister alone. I told myself that it is now time for me to teach him independence and let him learn to uphold some responsibilities as the eldest son in our family. I even asked him to prepare clothes for all four of them to wear and to get ready for me to fetch them for lunch.

At 2.30pm, I reached our carpark and told them to come down on their own. We went to Swensen's Jurong Point and juz stayed there till 5pm plus. The kids took their time to eat their meals and also, savoured some ice-cream after that. Kak Long and her husband joined us for ice-cream.







PS:- It feels good to dine at Swensen's with vouchers. Hehe...

I Like "iLight @ Marina Bay"

So, last Friday, after meeting a client at Marina Sq, I waited for Dear to finish work and accompanied him for dinner. Upon leaving Marina Sq, he suggested that we drove along Marina Bayfront to go to Raffles Quay cos the Singapore Light Show had juz started on that nite. We parked our car opposite The Sail condo and decided to walk around a bit.


Juz one section of the light show.


Breath-taking view behind me.


Us.

The next day, we decided to take our children to the same place, together with 3 of their cousins.


Dinner at McD first.


Jumping with joy.


Lepak-lepak, searching for stars.

For more photos, go to my FB, kiddos ;-)

We left at almost midnite. The kids were tired and sweaty cos they were running around a lot in the open field. Overall, I know, everyone had a good time :-)

For Memories' Sake

As I'm writing this entry, my sista love is enjoying herself with her family at Genting Highlands. Why am I thinking of her? That's because she is the one who opened up my eyes and mind about active blogging. What she said made a lot of sense to me. We blog for memories. We blog for our spouse and children to read, to rekindle their memories of us should we no longer exist physically in this world. I have left this site of mine dormant for quite a while due to laziness. Now, I truly feel that I should start penning my thoughts actively all over again...For memories' sake.

The past weeks had been hectic because I am once again maidless. The last maid I had was returned to the agency on 29 Sep 2010. I was hesitant about being maidless during the crucial moment of preparing Aqil for his PSLE but Alhamdulillah, I managed to make time for him and still managed to fulfill my new responsibility as a semi-full-time housewife, as well as diligently fulfilling my duty as an insurance agent to my clients.

Aqil celebrating with Cousin Adon after his last PSLE paper. Adon still had one more paper to go the next day; Higher Mother Tongue.


iPod Shuffle for each of them after they finished their PSLE. The blue iPod is for Aqil and silver for Adon. My pilot-friend helped me to purchase these from Apple shop in New York, thus, saved Dear and me some money cos US$ is quite low now. US$1 = S$1.32.

After 11 Oct 2010, I can relax for a week before I'm back to revision with Akmal and Afif for their final-year exams.

Gotta go now! Will be back to talk about iLight @ Marina Bay.