Royal Commonwealth Essay Award Winner

Posted on November 21, 2013November 21, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

I just had to post this for memories sake as I am so proud of my little girl. As you can see in the photo, she is THE shortest (in height) winner but also the youngest winner at 8 years old when she entered the competition for the.......click to learn what next.

Happy Birthday T1!!!

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

T1's Birthday Laughs - she made me laugh 5 times today. I feel blessed. Whilst driving home at noon into our home, I spotted a white man who'd just finished his run soaked in sweat with headphones on and commented, "That guy is crazy. It's SO HOT!!! Why.......click to learn what next.

Royal Commonwealth Essay Competition

Posted on August 29, 2013August 29, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

I don't want to blow T1's horn at all but shit, I am so frigging proud of her for winning a Silver Award for the prestigious Royal Commonwealth Essay Competition that garnered more than 11,000 entries world wide this year!!!!!!!!! Most of the participants ranged from ages 12.......click to learn what next.

Beethoven

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Here's another of one of T1's doodles. Only classical music lovers would appreciate this. I remember this clearly because T1 was playing teacher with T2 and she was teaching T2 ALL ABOUT BEETHOVEN. That day, T2 learnt the definition of the word COMPOSER (which she sometimes mixes up.......click to learn what next.

How T1 studies

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

I leave my 8 year old (soon turning 9) girl completely to her own devices with her school work as I am a working Mom and do not have the time to interfere. If she does good, fine. If she doesn't do good, fine too. Really. Sometimes, she.......click to learn what next.

Language fun in the car

Posted on July 15, 2013July 18, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

T2 is almost 4 and is really good at her Bahasa because she communicates with our helper in getting her needs met. She has this game where she unknowingly expands her Malay vocabulary by asking us what everything under the sun is in Malay. She looks outside the.......click to learn what next.

Holiday Fun

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

A superhero arrived at my home today..........

Child Labour for a Good Cause

Posted on June 5, 2013June 5, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Working for what you want My girls are incredibly spoilt. They're not bad girls and in fact they're very good girls by far, but they're highly pampered and get things very easily. They can adapt to unfavourable situations yet if they can milk it, they will. Thus I've.......click to learn what next.

The magic of Arnotts Teddy Bear cookies

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

After our Sun Yoga kids workshop today, T1 came home crying in rage. Why? Before we headed out today, she had hurried into the kitchen to pack an after yoga snack. I had no idea what she had packed but later learnt it was Arnott's chocolate teddy bear.......click to learn what next.

Walking for Water

Posted on May 1, 2013April 30, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

On a Sunday morning, T1 dragged us out at 7.45am to join her school mates for this walk for water organised by Aveda to supply clean water to the villagers in Mantanani, Sabah. Man.......this girl has so many activities, our weekends are never-ending filled with all sorts of.......click to learn what next.

Losing like a Champ

Posted on April 30, 2013April 30, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Losing like a Champ I'm naturally a very competitive person, not in getting my kids to get ahead of the rest, but I believe that if you were to do something, then do it REALLY well. Give it your best shot. T1 has obviously inherited this trait from.......click to learn what next.

Conversation with Kids

Posted on April 25, 2013April 25, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Because I am such an extremely busy woman, most of my quality time with the kids is spent in the car whilst I am their driver. T1 on her observation on the election flags: T1: Mommy, the trees are PAS, the sky is BN and the best is.......click to learn what next.

Chinese New Year

Posted on March 21, 2013March 21, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

I probably should have posted this up during the Chinese New Year but I was way busy then. Here's a glimpse of my two monkeys in this year's Cheong Sam anyway...... Look at how demure and sweet T2 poses and smiles. One would never guess the spicy chilli.......click to learn what next.

My little electrical technician

Posted on March 11, 2013March 11, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

A few months ago, T1 attended a half day electrical workshop where she learnt how to build a solar lamp from scratch. Man, even I don't know how you did that! But I learnt along with her. Fascinating stuff. Her solar lamp is now placed at our lanai.......click to learn what next.

Dedicating Our Lives to the Children of Myanmar

Posted on March 7, 2013March 7, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Just as soon as I'd left Myanmar, I am now flying back with T1......SO EXCITED!!! On our last trip there, by pure default because of this one person, we ended up in Yangon. T1 wrote a journal daily to detail everything she saw, smelled, heard and touched. She.......click to learn what next.