A Mother's Monologue

Children’s Bazaar in KL

Posted on January 21, 2013February 20, 2022 by Mamapumpkin

My friends and I are organising a Children's Bazaar soon where children get to design and run their own businesses for a day at a local mall and then all proceeds of their profits go to my Children of Myanmar. I think it's such a VALUABLE lesson that.......click to learn what next.

Schwedagon Pagoda in Yangon

Posted on January 21, 2013January 21, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

The Schwedagon Pagoda in Yangon is the most beautiful sanctuary of peace in Yangon. It is so big that it is almost like a village in its own right. You could spend hours and hours there just doing nothing, wandering around inhaling the calm and serenity of holiness........click to learn what next.

Food in Myanmar

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Food in Yangon was nothing like any crap Burmese food I've tasted in Malaysia. It is actually very, very delicious if you know where to go!!! I would say it's like Thai food but a milder version, almost a fusion between Thai and Chinese if you like. Below.......click to learn what next.

When can children cut their own nails?

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Hehehe.....child labour again. Honestly, I don't allow my kids to cut their own nails but this little minx here was caught red-handed with a baby nail clipper one day. When can kids start cutting their own nails anyway? I don't remember my parents cutting my nails so I.......click to learn what next.

Body Alignment

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

The kids and I visit a chiropractor regularly who also specialises in pediatric chiropractic treatment and I find it to be a wonderfully effective exercise. For starters, it cured T2's severe constipation once and for all (in just one consultation, but because I am so paranoid now about.......click to learn what next.

Home Violin Ensemble

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Somehow, these 2 monkeys love the violin. Here, they're having their own home violin ensemble. Except that T2 is playing with a toy violin. She's asked me to buy her a real violin and she wants to take violin lessons just like her Che-Che but she's only THREE!!!.......click to learn what next.

Making their own juice

Posted on January 19, 2013January 19, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

We're into juicing a lot these days having freshly squeezed or blended juice at least 3 times every week. On top of that, we have fruit for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Needless to say, our average juice bill is about RM200 per week. T1 is usually in charge.......click to learn what next.

Child Labour

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

I like starting them young...... Here, T2 practises her hand at blind reflexology.

Entertaining kids in Yangon

Posted on January 19, 2013January 19, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Entertaining kids in Yangon is easy. Kids really don't need much. In fact, it is because we spoil our kids here in KL with all sorts of stuff that they no longer know how to entertain themselves. If they don't have a gadget, they're bored. In Myanmar, it.......click to learn what next.

Parking Lots in Yangon

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

Another quirky observation in Yangon was the parking lots. They're all kerbed up to make sure you stay within your space. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Where’s the Bloody Water Heater?

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

We stayed at a reasonably priced hotel in Yangon, not a top tier hotel that my kids are spoilt with and only because we get free hotel stays sometimes at that. So when T1 first saw the hotel, she exclaimed that it wasn't a hotel but a motel........click to learn what next.

Database for Workflow Management

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

I wear so many hats at work but one of the things we are now looking at is developing a database for workflow management in order to make the company run like a premium oiled machine. I apply the same concepts when looking for suppliers wanting to know.......click to learn what next.

Playing with the Children of Myanmar

Posted on January 19, 2013January 19, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

I asked her if she wanted to follow me inside to take photos and talk to the people and she said no. The lure of many kids to play with was much too strong and despite usually being weary of strangers and always clinging to me in times.......click to learn what next.

Learning the guitar

Posted on January 19, 2013April 19, 2014 by Mamapumpkin

My girl wants to learn every musical instrument! Whilst she can learn the basics of some instruments, it is impossible to be able to really know so many instruments or to excel at any. She currently does piano and recently took up the violin (crazy girl!!!) and today,.......click to learn what next.

Orphanage in Yangon 2

Posted on January 19, 2013March 29, 2013 by Mamapumpkin

As promised, this is the second orphanage that we visited. It is essentially a monastery and because the rule of thumb of monasteries is that you can never turn a person in need away, the monastery has collected 180 kids who now live there cramped like smelly sardines.......click to learn what next.