Out of Focus.......

so many things happening all at the same time..... there are so many things that I want to do and they are all long-term items.... things like getting my teacher / trainer certification for ballet / pilates.
 being conversationally fluent in Korean. jeez..... on top of all these.... my person CCA (dun tell u what that is), my work, family and my beauty sleep......

i really dun want to sacrifice my beauty sleep to do all those.... k to attend classes on pilates and dance, it can be done on weekends. but ballet class will be in the middle of the day which (my hubby will complain) that it is a weird timing and disrupts our family time.

then my CCA is so time-consuming need to make lots of calls and do follow ups. as for korean, to find 2 hours per night to practise is also a little difficult cos my sons wants me to play with them or i have to supervise G's homwwork or do revision with him on his upcoming tests....after doing all those, i will conk out with J while tucking him in for the night. to do my revision, i will have to wake up after falling asleep to do the revision......

tot of waking up earlier at ard 4am to do an hour revision before i go for my morning exercise but that will translate me going to bed at 9pm latest else i will not have enough sleep...ergghh.... so difficult...

ar har, i know, i will set aside Thursday night to do my revision, since Fri, G does not have any impt on th following day. that settles my korean revision. as for my ballet class, think need to shelf it first. i will target to get my certification for Pilates first by this year end. so first thing first, need to go find a centre that has mat classes that fits my schedule..... tata......

when things don't go well.........

listen to my fav songs or hype songs to change the mood or hav a good cry and move on.
when some bitch at work accuses your integrity and you know you cannot win cos she is some big shot, shut her off your senses.

the mighty one up there... i hope you are recording all these and strike these incidents off the list of challenges you set for me.

Anyway this is my life, I have decided to stay on till....... and i will do so and continue to work on my plans. I will try to do what i love often and work towards living my dream afterall life is short.

Looking forward to 五月天's concert in June......

2012....

2012 ended with a fan fare for me, my parents and siblings. It made our family more united, my dad coming terms with certain things and more supportive of my mum. As for my siblings, we are learning to stand against the usual protocol and norms.

For my own family, it was a good year with a few travels and staycations. I am sure my kids had fun just like me... haha.

I am still working on getting my Pilates teacher certification. So far I have clocked only 1 observations and 2 practise sesssions. But I have clocked 13 teaching classes..... so the resolutions for 2013.....

1) Obtain Pilates teaching certification
2) Work my way around the "W***h at Work" - avoid /minimise conflict with her
3) Take KoreanTopik Test

Timeline for resolutions....... end of 2013.... Ain't it obvious??? haha

Back from Hong Kong / Macau

The days of the holidays just flew by..... but it also added wonderful memories to my life...
Seeing my kids enjoy themselves in Disneyland also brings a smile to my lips. Though they are really noisy and annoying at times, they are still my most adorable kids hahaha.....

Shopping in Hong Kong's Tung Cheung station's Citygate is really amazing cos the stores there are all outlet store hee hee and Hong Kong has no GST... Fantastic... shop to your heart's desire....but this is more suitable for pple who are not inclined to bargain... Me and hubby bought plenty of Giordano's tops for self n kids and on top of which, we bought 2 Coach bags, usual price HKD 4800, we got it at HKD 1125..... smiling all the way back hee.....

there was so little time for us then to shop there, if i have a chance to go back there, I will surely go back there to shop. I noticed that the Acuvue contact lenses there is also cheaper compared to those in Singapore.

As for Macau, hotel hopping is quite fun as there are always fringe activities happening at the various hotels and their lobbies are amazingly huge with either huge statues or water fountain display etc. Really eye-opener.  A pity I do not have the time to explore the other parts of Macau. Next time, i'm gonna explore the skywalk, and clubs...
 next time.......

Parenting - Availablity to Kids

Being a parent ain't easy, as i have learnt from being a parent these 6 years to 2 kids. It seems to me that the time I have for myself has disappeared into thin air. Though in recent years, I have craved out time for my own activities but I will feel guilty when I think back about it. Gone were the days when I can use the time I have on my own freely without feeling guilty.

E.g if I want to go shopping with friends, I have to make plans for either my hubby or my parents to take care of the kids vs in the past where i can check my calendar and simply just poof off to shop. If not that, I will have to take leave to go shopping, how pathetic you might say. But this is really 1 of the way to work around it.

Therefore when hubby sent me an email recently that writes about the 6 A’s of good parenting. Reading it really gives me an insight of what I have or have not done right.

1. Availability
When we are available to our children it gives them a sense of importance.We can say all we want about how important our children are to us. But if we’re not available to them, our words will ring hollow.Sometimes, our automatic response to our kids when they approach us is, “Not right now, I’m busy.”  But our children should come before our TV-watching, our hobbies and our work. So when our kids come to us, our response should be to stop, drop and listen. Stop what we’re doing, drop to our knees, and listen to them, hug them, play with them.

Therefore this point of being available to our kids ring a huge bell for me. Many a times, while we are home my kids might want to hold a conversation with me or show me stuff and I will tell them to hold on to their thoughts or tell them to wait while I finish the task on hand. So this is kinda like a wake up call to me to drop the things i am doing at that moment (excluding bathing) and give all my attention to my kids when they request for it.

Other A's coming up......

Life is vunerable whoever, whatever you are......

20,000 leatherback turtles were massacred at one of Trinidad's beaches.... A hotel which is popular with turtle watchers was in danger of flood attack from a nearby river and bulldozers were deployed to carry out peventive works. But the bulldozers dug up a huge chuck of the beach that was un-necessary for the preventive works. With it, they killed about 20,000 eggs and hatchlings......

That just goes to see how effective all those talk about eco friendly, conservation plans are..Somewhere along the line of instructions, something must have gone wrong and caused this to happen. On the hindsight, should that place be marked as a convservation area, the company in charge of the works will think twice before any action..... This is really a rotten way to start the week....

Should you have anything to say or feel the same way as I do that something can be done to prevent this, do sign on this petition.

Mat 1 Completed.....

last weekend was terrific. Had mat course from 4hrs on both Friday and Saturday and 8 hrs straight on Sunday...... Learnt the various mat exercises for Beginner and Intermediate level. Was pretty cool. Then gave my 'frst trial' class. Gosh was so nervous. Blanked out for a minute in front of the class and m really grateful for the coursemates I have who helped gave me clues for the following steps haha.... standing in front of the class is so different when u are lying on the mat waiting for instructions from the teacher. But I am sure I will get better and be able to do a good class. :)

Afterall if I can say so myself I felt that the 2nd round of 'teaching' was much better for the first half when we get to re-teach the exercises that we taught in the morning. So practise makes perfect. Now I can compete with Gabriel. He to practise for his piano pieces and me to deliver my class beautifully.

Next weekend will be Mat 2. This time round I will get myself prepared by looking at the various exercise try them out myself and practise delivering the class so that i will be more familiar with the exercise and not be so nervous and lost standing in front of the class.

Another step closer to my goal ........ to be a certified Pilates Instructor.........

Countdown

5 days from now, i will be at Pilates Inc embarking on my first lesson for MatWork 1.
Mummy has recently introduced me to this new exercise known as 仮佬玩童 exercise. Apparently this exercise helps your body system to purge toxins and aids in the rejevenation of cells etc. Thing is this exercise is to best practised at 5.30am where one's body system is at the best for detoxification and regenerating works.

Perhaps this weekend I shall pull myself out of my cosy bed and kick start the weekend with this supposedly excellent exercise......

The start of a new journey.....

So excited. Next weekend I will be embarking on a new journey towards being a Pilates instructor. I will be taking my Mat 1 & 2 course with The Moving Academy. They are teaching the Balanced Body School of Pilates which is slower and it focuses more on building your core muscles but it still can make you sweat.

Till then I have to go hit the books and start locating my muscles least I get lost in class.....

Pilates - My route to certification......

This time round I am determined to embark on a new journey....taking on a Pilates Course. Learning how to do it and guide others. learning all the various flexsors, extendors muscle groups is the fisrt step to take and I have taken it haha.... Following which i will go register myself for the course and then 2 weekends of classes followed by the observation classes, own practice and teaching classes..... target to get ready for exam - 6 mths from the date i complete my course on 8 Jul 2012.

Fast Car....

Gabriel went on car trip with uncle and grandma.

Grandma (to Garbriel's uncle): Wei Yu, you just got your license, do drive carefully and don't drive so fast like your brother in law.

Gabriel : grandma, who is brother in law?

Grandma : your daddy

Gabriel : but grandma, my daddy don't drive very fast.

Grandma : Who says he don't drive fast... he drives very fast..

Gabriel: grandma, can you see my daddy's car when he drives?

Grandma : yes, i can see your daddy's car when he drives

Gabriel : well, in that case my daddy is not driving very fast, else you will not be able to see his car. Fast car zooms past.

Grandma : .....(speechless)

Singaporeans are LOSING our home country soon!!

Looking at the news online about how a PRC family complained about their Indian neighbour cooking curry and managed to get them to not cook when they are not at home... we Singaporeans are doomed to lose our home country.... Singapore will not be know as Singapore for long.
I think we will be known as Interpore or Chinapore in future.

Even the semi government, CMC are siding the PRCs, where is our place in Singapore.... In the past, pple laments that they are not born in Singpaore due to her stability and stable government, Now we Singaporeans LAMENTs being born a Singaporean for we have no standing even in our own home contry. What bullshit is that in the theme in this year's National Day Parade.... All bullshit....
What is all this talk about calling all SIngaporean to move forward.... I think the government is asking all Singaporeans to move out to give space to Foreigners so they can bring Interpore to greater heights.
Pause to reflect what the Singapore Spirit is..... the spirit for Singaporeans is to change our way of living and adopt those of the FT..... The old saying of Do what the Romans do when in Rome does not apply here..... here is Singapore is Do what the 'invaders' do when in Singapore.

The theme for NDP 2011
Majulah! The Singapore Spirit is a rally cry that calls on all Singaporeans to move forward together to bring Singapore to greater heights, to excel in our diverse fields of work and play and to realise our fullest potential. Through the theme, we hope Singaporeans will pause to reflect and discover what the Singapore Spirit means to them. In sharing and passing on the Singapore Spirit to our children, and our grandchildren, we seek to strengthen our roots and at the same time inspire future generations to build a better home, a better Singapore

This is freaking awesome!

imagine balancing en pointe on a guy's shoulder, performing half a piourette, keeping balance on the shoulder while in arabesque position... gosh.....


http://youtu.be/4sMc-p19FIk

Maldives!!!

yippee, tmr marks the day which is the start of the 5 days of beach and bliss at Maldives.... at the end of 5 days, i can then strike off Maldives off my "Must Go Places before I turn 40"

so looking forward to this trip... hopefully it will not disappoint me like Bali did....

bored bored bored

work is getting boring... sigh.. nothing much interesting is happening and life simply seems to be just gliding on and on. lucky i still got my family to look forward to seeing at the end of the day.

dun know why am i in this line in this work.. well i guess this job simply just feeds my spending and family.... that's all not much satisfaction...

can i still venture out to fo something else??

the weather is so super hot now.....and so is my nose after all the blockage in it.....sob sob... breathing is difficult, throat is dry most of the time..... i hate colds....

but who ask me to be weak and to have contracted the virus from the 3 guys at home, hubby n 2 kids..:(

Do we want to follow the steps of Sparta or Athens???

When asked "What is the kind of Singapore you hope your grandchildren will inherit?", below is the answer by ex EDB chairman, Mr Ngiam Tong Dow.

A. Let's look at Sparta and Athens, two city states in Greek history.
Singapore is like Sparta, where the top students are taken away from their
parents as children and educated. Cohort by cohort, they each select their
own leadership, ultimately electing their own Philosopher King. When I
first read Plato's Republic, I was totally dazzled by the great logic of
this organisational model where the best selects the best. But when I
reached the end of the book, it dawned on me that though the starting point
was meritocracy, the end result was dictatorship and elitism. In the end,
that was how Sparta crumbled. Yet, Athens, a city of philosophers known for
its different schools of thought, survived. What does this tell us about
out-of-bounds markers? So SM Lee has to think very hard what legacy he
wants to leave for Singapore and the type of society he wants to leave
behind. Is it to be a Sparta, a well-organised martial society, but in the
end, very brittle; or an untidy Athens which survived because of its
diversity of thinking? Personally, I believe that Singaporeans are not so
kuai (Hokkien for obedient) as to become a Sparta. This is our saving
grace. As a young senior citizen, I very much hope that Singapore will
survive for a long time, but as an Athens. It is more interesting and worth
living and dying for.

Poster to get u in GE Mood (if u have not catch on)

Donations to Japanese EarthQuake / Tsunami victims

From Japanese Red Cross Website

If you wish your fund to be distributed directly among the affected population of the earthquake and tsunami, please direct your fund to the following bank account. If you need the receipt of your fund, please state so clearly in the comment section of the bank transfer order. All the fund received under this account will be transferred to the Distribution Committee, which is formed around the local government of the disaster-affected prefecture and to administer the distribution of fund.

Name of Bank: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Name of Branch: Ginza

Account No.: 8047670 (Ordinary Account)

SWIFT Code: SMBC JP JT

Payee Name: The Japanese Red Cross Society, Donation for Japan earthquake/tsunami

Payee Address: 1-1-3 Shiba-Daimon Minato-ku, Tokyo JAPAN

From Japan Embassy in Singapore Website

Information on support and donations for quake and tsunami victims. We deeply appreciate your generous intentions to provide help to those who are affected by the disaster.

We are currently coordinating with the relevant organizations and authorities to make necessary arrangements to receive the relief effort and donations for victims. Please kindly direct all donations to:

Singapore Red Cross Society:
http://www.redcross.org.sg/
Hotlines: (+65) 6334-9152 / 6334-9153 / 6334-9154
(Note: According to the Japanese Red Cross, donations designated to the 'Japanese Red Cross' will be directed to the Japanese Red Cross from the Singapore Red Cross)