Fitting in

All these chatters are in Hokkien. “Wah, your hair colour so nice. Like angmoh cha bo.” (like caucasian woman) “This blouse where you buy?” (pointing to spaghetti strap, with lace and flowery blouse) “You thin liao.” “I take this shark cartillage supplement.” “Your daughter so big liao. Next year, got boyfriend liao.” “Wah, you look [...]

Surviving CNY

Kids – Mommy!!!! We want to go back to civilisation! 5xmom – What’s wrong with this place? Kids – Ants every where. Mosquitoes. Arrgggh…..Let’s go home!!!!!! 5xdad – *reading the paper as usual whilst poor 5xmom have to do the P.R. work* 5xmom – Isn’t it so peaceful here? Looks at the kids, they are [...]

Damn, where is my recipe?

“Where the hell is my recipe book?!?!?” Rummaging through mountains of books. “Damn, I don’t need a recipe book to live life, so why should I need a recipe book to bake a miserable, cholesterol-laden butter cake!?!?!?!” 5xmom got out the ingredients and as soon as the kids heard about mixing cake batter, all the [...]

Perhentian escapade

Looking at picture postcard views every day for three long days is certainly fun. So is going snorkelling, amongst corals, Nemos and giant leatherback turtles. And able to test how brave I was and still is. (more about 5xmom vs 5xdad stunts and also 5xkids crazy antics in other blogs) But *sigh* too much good [...]

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