Yes, really!
If you want to, you can just be happy right now, having a smile and giving away a smile to your love one. As simple as a smile will light up someones life and yours too.
I do believe, being happy is a choice. No matter how hard life can be, if you choose to be happy, you will. And no matter how easy life is, if you choose to be sad, surely you’ll find something to be sad about. So being happy is something about being grateful. Gratitude do makes a different in life.
It is easier to be happy if you are being grateful of whatever that you have and count your blessings. That way you’ll keep on reminding yourself about how fortunate you are, or how happy, or how important your life is. It will even make a greater impact if you can influence others to be grateful and happy.
Try it today and see how it lightens your day.
Be happy and be grateful.
Well, just two photos that I wanted to share here.
One that is taken on our way to 1Borneo:
This next one is taken when we were in Sutera Harbor:
Tomorrow is the end of my 2 weeks of enjoyment – The start of a new school term. Meaning I should be in bed now.
The school holiday is almost over, and what have I done?
Well, many things. One that I definitely enjoyed is sleeping late and waking up late, that I’m able to not worry about getting up for work the next day, that I don’t really need to rush the boys to bed early. I could really do this forever. Another thing that I manage to do and enjoy was cooking dinner for my family. Yes! We manage to eat in and it really save up a lot than going out to restaurant. What more we can take the sweet time to sit around, especially me and hubby while the boys went off to their games or TV. I just love that we can laze around after dinner. Most important of all, I felt like I’ve achieve something. Ya, silly isn’t it. I thought I hate cooking. But how can one person hate cooking when she loves to watch the Asian Food Channel?
Yup, I’m one that love AFC and wanted to try on every menu that they showed especially by Anna Olsen, Jamie Oliver, Chuck, Chef at home (forgot his name), Nigela (or is it Nigella?) Anyway, I can just sit there whole day watching them cook, looking at their beautiful kitchens and cutlery.
I really could do this my whole life. What more I get to watch online class from Prima on how to do crafts! I just love it. I actually have no objection now that if I can be a full time stay at home mom. Of course, one that have financial freedom to buy all the things I want for scrapbook and still look after myself and being a great mom.
I just pray that I won’t loose my mind when the boys are not listening *LOL*
Oh ya.. I’ve also just joined in the group of mothers who blog, who have Etsy shops, who sell online, who write great post and who shares about their lives as a mom - Mom Bloggers Club. I’m loving it when everyone (well, almost) drop by my sites and leave me comments. I’m hoping that this will raise the page view rank of my sites.
I’m actually also hoping that I can get some paid post being done here just so that I can have some extra fund in mypaypal to buy those scrappy things. I know.. I’ve been greedy. I’ve all 3 kits at the moment (From Studio Calico, Basic Grey and Scrapbook Deals 4U). I know.. I don’t have that many photos to scrap or that many topics to scrap about, but I’m looking, yes, looking for inspiration, ways to get those kits in good use. I don’t want to regret one day saying that why I didn’t get this down or have this scrap.
Okay, that’s enough for this post, I’ve been bubbling since yesterday and it is way past mid-night now. Crazy.. better put those laundry into the washing machine and get some sleep. Nite all!
I think I’m loosing the zest in doing things these day. I’m lazy in finishing books that I wanted to read. I’m lazy to get this blog updates. I’m lazy to take photos of our daily life. I’m just not in the mood in doing things.
I do mop the floor just now and even half way through checking into the computer, not sure what to check actually.. so I might as well sit down and get this out of my system.
After a morning of housework, I’m tire, I need a hair-wash, I need some more sleep, I need a good massage, or simply a cup of nice ice drinks. Hmm.. I can do that.
I was trying to see if Toy story 3 is in 3D, but so disappointed to find that it is not in our area yet. *sigh* Else I would have bought the tickets and we’ll all head to the cinema tomorrow.
Ok, let me just have some nice thoughts first. I’m glad that the boys are watching TV now, at least they are not fighting. I’m glad that I’ve got my player on just now till Mer was asking if that really is from the radio, probably it hasn’t play his Lady Gaga song yet. I’m glad that at least I’ve mop the floor and they can laze around there while watching TV. I’m glad it is a good day today and most probably I can collect all those clothes that I’ve hanged outside even before noon. Yeah, today is going to be a fine day and I’ve got my scrapbook kits from Scrapbook Deals4U together with the Basic Grey page kit.
Okay, Cal is here, better get my butt off this chair and finish mopping the floor.
The school holiday has officially started, though we don’t need to wake up as early as the normal school day, but never the less, I still need to get to work at 7:30am. Thus I still woken up by the alarm clock.
The boys are totally fun for having to waking up at 6:30am and getting ready to go out with me to my office then off to their respective places (teacher’s place and babysitter’s place). In fact, they look forward to some mommy and sons time over at my office where they get to enjoy a short video of Thomas and Wall-E.
We all have seen Wall-E. Cal has watched it twice, but he still get so much into it and still have lots of questions to ask about the film.
I packed breakfast for them since it is still way too early for any sandwiches and too rush to do so at home. Today is Mer’s favorite – Egg Mayo Sandwich.
So far, there is no other plan then them going to their babysitter’s place other than a movie awaiting them in the weekend – Toys’ story!
Yup, I’m looking forward to that too.
How nice it is that we can just sleep till we woke up naturally instead of using the alarm clock! How nice is it that we can laze around the house just doing nothing. How nice is it that we all can enjoy a show of 3-D Shrek! How nice is it that we all can have afternoon nap and not worried about sleeping late. How nice is it that we can have breakfast together even it is just sausages, eggs or “roti canai”. How nice is it that the boys woke up not worrying about getting late to school. How nice is it that they woke up and headed to different things in the house, one to his puzzles and one to my craft table.
How I wish the holiday is longer..
We went to Pizza Hut today, you know they have this piece of paper that have games on the other side? Well, in order for the boys to sit quietly and just stay where they are, I gave them the game piece and also got some crayons from the waitress.
It works! They did sit down and start doing the maze, the counting game and they even trying to cheat on the Sudoku! Ha!
Anyway, the fun thing was when they started counting the “Fish King” logo.
Mer goes: “One, two, three, four…”
Mer goes: “Yi, er, san shi…”
Haha.. that’s how different they are.
Another thing was, we went to the “Hi Seoul” restaurant over in Likas Square. They have this coloring piece and some pencil colors for kids. So these two boys picked each coloring piece for themselves. This time, it works for Mer, it made him sit quietly and seriously coloring his piece, but not Cal, he would run around, still with the explorer spirit.
Well, that’s how different my boys are. However, if you are comparing doing homework and coloring / drawing, Cal would definitely choose the 2nd option.
Big bro Cal actually went through some test or exam recently. I know every parent has expectation on their kids’ performance at school and sometimes it is the only time to know how well your kids is doing in school academically. I do have expectation on him, but I must say it wasn’t a really high expectation.
So, he got back his exam papers these few days. Some with flying colors though not reaching 90%, but there is one that I’m most concern of ‘cos he only get 58% which to me is fail. In my perspective, 60% is the passing marks. Yes, I was disappointed. I was worried. I was almost speechless when I see that paper.
It was after their bed-time where the boys supposed to be sleeping in their bed, but somehow Calvin woke up ‘cos he needed to change his clothes. So I called him over and have a good talk with him about my expectation and what he can do, or how he can achieve better results. I know it is only primary one, but if he doesn’t start now, it will be too hard for him later. He always has this mentality is that he can’t do it. He said “I wanted to, but… blah blah blah..” There is always this “but” in his sentences. So I assured him that he IS clever, he IS being loved, and he CAN do it if he wanted to, if he puts effort in it, if he seriously wanted to learn.
He cried, I cried. Yes, both of us have tears in our eyes. I told him if he can’t do well in his Bahasa Malaysia, he would need to spend another year in Bridge class if this continue. Of course I explained to him what is Bridge class. Of course he doesn’t want that, knowing that the little brother might over take him in his study.
I’m praying that he’ll take his promise and do what he intended to. I pray that at the same time, he will enjoy school life.
Little Mer always wanted to stick his face on the notebook, either for pbskids or simply just playing spider or typing in the notepad. Same with this morning, he wanted to bring the notebook with him so that he can just type in the notepad. Of course I said no. But he has already taken the notebook down. Oh well.. why not.. So he was typing in the notepad in the car on our way to school this morning. When we stopped over at the traffic light, I ask: ” “why are you so attach to the notebook… you want mommy or the notebook?”
His answer – he just pointed at me and said “mommy” oh.. so sweet! Fortunately he did that, else probably I’ll forbid him in bringing the notebook again.
These few things pop up the other day when we were talking about reading to our kids:
Pass knowledge to your children, read to them today and everyday!
Do it young, do it early to cultivate the love of reading in them, to cultivate the sense of curiosity and imagination in them, they have a world to explore!
Read to them while they are young, make it a habit for them to be with books, to be with wonder. It is actually the safest way to learn of all things!
I hope all parents in the world read to their children even starting from when they are babies. These sentences serve as a reminder for myself too, though I do read for my boys every night, I hope to do it without frustration and with lots of love.
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