Tuesday, April 19, 2011

L Central attempt failed

Thursday's here again. Had Hokkaido cream bread for breakfast. The bread was very soft but no cream inside. Disappointment. Was very exhausted hence got a kopi gao @ e coffeeshop a stone away from my office to keep me awake.

Lunch was with my poly friend, B @ a cafe @ IP. The economic rice was very expensive. The serving of the 3 vegetables & meat were small with appropriate serving of rice and cost $4.50. Wow, very exp as normally it's about $2.50 @ Neighbour coffeeshop.

Rushed to serangoon Mrt after work to meet James to bring Jeston for his Launchpad class @ L Central. This is our 3rd attempt for him to attend the class. Failed attempt again.

He reluctantly followed me to the school entrance. Regardless of whatever I said, he refused to enter the school. Kept heading towards the exit. I gotta inform the staff that I needed to give up the place to somebody else. Dun wanna force him though I really hope he can attend as they will be guiding him the center and last sound of words.

Neway, we left to Hougang for my dinner. Had craving for satay previously. No good news but juz pure cravings. James satisfied my cravings by buying 20 assorted chicken and pork satays though he consumed most of them as I still have a plate of hokkien mee with lotsa green chilli.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Need to tame the lil' one

As usual, I wanted to bring Jeston to the class held @ Seng Kang CC last Sat morning. He resisted and I managed to con him by telling him that we were going to his ah ma's house otherwise he din wanna set his foot out of the door.

As we reached the lift lobby of the CC, he recognized the place and refused to enter the lift. He screamed and cried and started rolling on the floor. There was no way for me to force him into the lift.

Helpless, a kind aunt asked me what caused his behavior. Told her he refused to attend a class. The aunt advised me not to force him as he might develop into a phobia and I will encounter problem when he reaches Pri 1.

She then pacified Jeston and assured him mommy not bringing him to class and asked him to stop struggling and crying. I then bot him for breakfast @ Uncle . After several attempts, I managed to get a table. Bot Chee Cheong Fun for him, Nasi Lemak with otah and kopi for myself. Paid $4.80 in total.

After breakfast, I headed back to the CC counter to request for refund. The counter guy told me about the notice that no refund allowed for fees paid. I complained about the teacher T. She wore footwear in the classroom while students were told to remove.

When Jeston was weeping, he told him to stop otherwise she will throw mummy in the dustbin. I was told to jot all these down on a pc of A4 paper with my particulars. He initially wanted to refund me on the spot. But his supervisor appeared and advised him that they neededto look into the matter and advised me by Mon.

I applied to be a member of RC and was told to submit my passport foto within these few days. I received a SMS in late afternoon to visit the CC on mon to get the refund. It would be net of 20% admin fee and deduction of the 2 classes attended.

Daddy fetched us and sent us to White Sands. Going to stop our classes @ Seimpi after Apr. Find that it's a waste of money cos he din show interest in learning the keyboard.

Teacher Fiona also very practical. She din really bother about Jeston after I informed her we not continuing. Jeston went to the washroom halfway through when others were taking turns to play the piano but after he returned, she din ask him to play. Quite disappointed in her. They are going to charge GST from May onwards.

We proceeded to NUH to visit my FIL who had an operation last Fri to mend a hole in his heart valve. He was delighted to see Jeston. But the little fellow was busy playing with his uncle, 四姨's son. We stayed for a while and headed to my mum's place.

As Jeston din have his afternoon snack, I fed him rice with fried salmon ard 5 plus. He din finish the entire serving mummy ate the rest. He asked me to call 姨丈 for him. He asked him what time he reaching my mum's place. While waiting for him, he played with my SIL, his new playmate.

He was delighted when my BIL arrived. My sis gave him a Ben 10 cap she bot from BKK. She bot a hair band and a carrier bag for mum and me. She also got a hair band for my SIL. Jeston was overjoyed to get the cap.

My mum cooked the fried rice for dinner and sis cooked the 薏米白果 for dessert. My BIL gave Jeston some chocolate so I let my lil darling consume some of the dessert otherwise he may become too heaty. His 姨丈 had a break as Jeston watched YouTube using my brother's iPod together with my SIL.

My BIL helped him to shower and we headed to daddy's car where ah ma & 姑姑 were waiting.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

1st lesson @ MYC

Today was Jeston's 1st lesson @ MYC. He woke up early and after his shower, we took the Mrt to Hougang. As we were only 10 mins early, Jeston insisted to have hotcakes @ McDonalds.

Luckily we managed to get a table and I quickly cut the hotcakes into pieces for him. I chewed the sausage and hotcakes quickly and got a plastic carrier for my coffee. We then rushed to the school. However, another parent and myself were waiting for the set to be given.

I waited a while before the counter staff was ready to serve me. Teacher Yan was already preparing in the class. There were 2 lessons conducted in every one hour session. The set consists of the main book, activity book, parent's guide, a metal board with music lines, a magnetic strip, some circular magnets for the notes and a clarinet.

Jeston kept dragging me out of the class as he thought he was going to attend it alone. I assured him mummy would be going through the class with him.

There were 3 students including Jeston, 2 boys & 1 girl. The boy was 1 year younger than Jeston. They began with the opening song. There were songs, looking for Dinosaur den in the keyboard, etc. They were assigned homework to find pictures for things that make soft sounds and pictures beginning with D.

After the class, he started throwing tantrum again. Din wanna leave the school and i gotta forced him to wear his sandals. He kept saying "Why you never listen to what I'm saying". I asked him what he said and he just repeated the same thing.

He wanted to eat green apple ice cream from Mac again. Given no choice, I bot the ice cream and shared with him before we took Mrt back. I then bot him to NTUC near our place to get some vegetables and ikan bilis to cook macoroni for his lunch. Took out the salmon to defrost. I switched on Olive DVD for him to watch while I cooked. Oops, lunch was ready around 2pm.

Hadn't cook for a while and realized added a bit more salt into the soup. Jeston enjoyed the lunch and mummy used the soup to cook instant noodles with egg for my lunch which I consumed around 3pm. We had a nap thereafter.

Daddy returned home after fetching my FIL from NUH. He fetched Jeston to my MIL's place while mummy tidied up the kitchen. Spent the late afternoon tidying up the kitchen till we left to tabao soup to head to my MIL's place for dinner.

Left about 20% more to go before the entire kitchen is complete then next goes to my study room, master bedroom, Jeston's room and the nightmare.....the STOREROOM!!!