fun with water colour

changing the look of my diary

2015 birthdays

February my birthday, Thai food

June daughter's birthday, Japanese food

September husband's birthday, Chinese food

a simple lunch

simple yet contented

birthday dinner

日記 2014-02-18

Daughter 14th Birthday Dinner

Wall

Daughter's art on a wall, since she was 3, more pictures here.

new ukulele

at the park with baby cousin

paint again

After 2 decades, start to paint again.

A few colours left from last time, need to stock up.

new toy

XP sleeping soundly holding her new toy <3

Countries and their History

XP is obsessed with Europe countries

and their history during the Victorian Period, WW1 and WW2.

She puts a map and a globe in her little corner,

draws signs and symbols only she knows on them.

Nikon Coolpix S5100

Some of you might wondered why my camera

has changed from S2600 to S5100.

That's because my sister-inlaw needed a camera

for her trip to Vietnam,

I showed her mine (S2600) and she loved it.

We just told her to take it and we will get another one for ourselves.

When in the shop, the guy recommended us S5100,

We thought it is better (can close-up more)

and is only RM40 more,

hence this camera.

(and it's RED !!!)

Photos taken using "close-up"

photos taken using "fireworks show"

Nikon Coolpix S2600

Just bought a Nikon Coolpix S2600 with RM 350, worth it !!!

with the "close-up" function

"food" function 

 five adjustable (warm to cold) tones for "food"

a bug in car

Saw this bug crawling on my car's steering wheel this morning.

pavlova

XP made herself a giant baked meringue,

calling it pavlova (although there's no fruits and whipped cream on top).

Enjoying while reading.

Chinese New Year spent with cousins

some changes

Lately there are some changes in our homeschool -

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1. I made XP plan out her weekly schedule.

(she doesn't like it, but I think she needs to learn this)

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2. We use videos almost everyday.

(XP learns better by watching videos, I downloaded documentaries from Youtube

and science/mathematic videos from Khan Academy)

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3. Chores, music and art are as important as school.

(no excuses like "I am reading" when asked to do chores)

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4. One notebooking page every school day.

(learns to jot down notes while reading or watching videos

and later put them into paragraphs)

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5. Learn only ONE subject at a time.

(for example:

in one week we read the chapter on gases in The World of Chemistry,

watched videos The Discovery of Elements,

and did notebooking pages on Cavendish, Rutherford, Priestly and Berzelius;

the following week we did The Mycenaen Culture)

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label your vegetable

My mom taught me to wrap veggie in a newspaper

and put it in a plastic bag,

this way the veggie will stay fresh for a longer period.

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But I found it very annoying especially

when I forgot what I'd wrapped in those newspapers.

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Lately I've figured out a way to do it:

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Normally I re-use the plastic bags which come with the veggies.

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First, put the veggie (here is my spring onion)

on the newspaper and wrap it..

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Since the spring onion is long and soft,

after wrapping I just fold the paper

so that it can be fitted into a plastic bag..

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In the plastic bag and....

notice the clothespin?

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On the pin written in Chinese is "spring onion".

(I labelled the veggies in Chinese so that XP can expose to them more)

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Now I know what I have in my fridge

and can easily find them without opening up all the wrappings.