In April [Circuit Breaker]

30 April (Thurs)

Snowie followed me into the toilet this morning and peed right next to the toilet bowl... so funny... and it reminded me of how bearbi followed me into the bathroom many many years ago and got herself drenched... 

 this fat furry cute bugger is such a clingy baby

just love to squeeze & squeeze & squeeze with me

it's meat meat day 

new dish for dinner - mee soup ... =) 

29 April (Wed)

the 3 of us took turns sharing jokes and checking-in with each group of kids for 10 to 15 minutes...happy happy to see all of them in a controlled setting... =) 

something new for lunch... 

胖宝贝会看镜头 for welfie oh... =) 

28 April (Tues)
last hair cut was more than half a year ago... the c-curl i did last nov stopped me from going for my usual bob cut every 3 months... to minimise hair from littering the floor, i tie them into a ball ball or in a pony tail throughout the day... 

this ball ball survived my sleep for the night... wahahahaha 

so proud of myself for washing & scrubbing the whole kitchen floor ... =)

one whole week didnt step out of the house + fridge almost empty = a necessary trip to NTUC 

the meal of the day @ 7pm... 

27 April (Mon)

MX ordered this from Gain City and got it delivered to home sweet home.... so cute and just the right size for small portion rice cooking... i think she cannot stand it that i'm still only cooking either mee suan or macaroni soup after 3 weeks of circuit breaker.... oopx

ate the whole pack of fruit & nut cadbury chocolate... 16 cubes for lunch and 16 cubes for dinner.... reminded me of italy when i got so sick of pasta & pizza there that i ate dessert as mains... =S

被我包得暖暖的小胖



26 April (Sun)
cabin fever supposed to cause an increase in appetite but not for me... maybe i am so put off by my own repetitive cooking, the hassle, mess & oil of advanced cooking, expensive food delivery etc that i can survive on one meal a day now... and it's not because i'm hungry, it's a case of 得吃而吃...


this was my breakfast + lunch + dinner @ 4pm... 

did work on a SUNDAY... created an additional art module about Earth Day and reusing trash to create craft on SLS for my kiddos as early finisher activity #2... =) 

陪我追剧的毛毛团们s... 

Snowy IS always the first one to kongz out.... 

25 April (Sat)

挤挤乐的小床伴们s


没胃口, 以为炸鸡 as comfort food will make my appetite better ... 点的时候是满 happy 的... 但还是吃的很不是滋味... =S  



24 April (Fri)
only meal for the day cos 胃口越来越差

prata + black pepper ham + (hidden) slice of cheese

Last batch of cards... woo hoo.... finished 350 cards in a week.... all hand written, hand painted, hand drawn, with the help of some stickers.... still am so proud of myself... =D 

23 April (Thurs)
~ lunch ~

 brownie is at her prettiest stage now...  what's worrying is two weeks later when her fur gets even longer that will cause her poop poop to get stuck on her butt butt and pet shops are all close for grooming.... it will be a nightmare!!! 

~ dinner ~

made 39 of these mini cards.... 68 more to go... 




22 April (Wed)

this sleeping 'beauty' really cracks me up every morning with her choice of sleeping location and sleeping style...

woke up with a really bad cramp that resulted in being hungry yet having no appetite... took me more than 2 hours to decide that the seaweed sables that Zhuan baked was what i wanted... 

super chill-laxing pups

the kiddos shared their digital journal of what they did during these two weeks of HBL so i did a hardcopy too to join in the fun

but didnt have the chance to share with them cos they were so so so chatty... was really happy to see the kiddos... i miss them but definitely not the collective non-stop chatters that were unstoppable...wahahahaha... gonna split them into smaller groups next week so that we can better communicate... 😂😂😂

~ dinner ~

luving this series.... made 60 of these... left 107 more to go

21 April (Tues)
woke up to knocks on the 大门... 应该是隔壁的吧? not expecting any delivery leh... 

turned and saw this ... omg!!! 狗仔也会抱抱枕... my 小白兔 is just so duper cute... 


knock knock knock... 好像真的是我们家的...朦朦的跑去开门... disappointed to see a delivery guy... 

with a big box of LOVE

suspected and later confirmed that it was from lene cos she had just asked for home sweet home address a few days ago... i'm really spoilt by those who luv me... =)

abit too much for the sole human in so i delivered half of the goodies back to her and the other half to the chuas to share share 乐... 

~ brunch ~

~ dinner ~

Good news for the day : 

Circuit Breaker got extended by another 4 weeks from 5 May till 1 June... hopefully these additional 4 weeks can lead to a decrease in number of cases... 

Bad news for the day :

bubble tea shop will close till 1 June starting from tomorrow

joined the craze and ordered my last cup of bubble tea till 1 June ....  this came with a 2.5 hrs waiting time.... =S 


happy to receive this poster from a kiddo... 

YES !!! We CAN and we WILL overcome the virus!!!... 


20 April (Mon)

woah... new measure since my last use of the lift last Thursday


first time see the green stickers too ... last trip on the train was two weeks ago on the last day of school ... 

luving my neat spacious work station in the very peaceful staff-room


kiddos helped to make these 31 thank you cards.

All sama-sama cos instruction is;

(1) Draw a rectangle as the border. Decorate outside the border if there's space. 

(2) Paste one big sticker at one of the corners or two small stickers at opposite corners.

(3) Write the word "Thank You" big enough to occupy the centre.

I did some with them during the lesson and continued with all the remaining stickers ... somehow kiddos' handwriting matches kiddy markers and stickers more than my handwriting... =S

but still happy that i'm only left with 167 more cards to complete after this... =) 


best thing about having a valid reason to be out and about is that i get to buy a RICE meal & teh peng for lunch today... happiness!!!

not used to be in a mask from 7.30am to 2.15pm... i took a breather only when i was at my desk in the staff-room.... =S

cheese and black pepper ham omelette and boiled broccoli for dinner

19 April (Sun)
woke up and saw Hong mama's message that she had hang veggies (in an ntuc bag) at my door... ohhh, i'm loved... 谢谢妈妈 ... =*


ran out of milk so cannot eat cornflakes for breakfast this morning.... Redondo wafer sticks to the rescue.... yummiliously sweet...  

second delivery of the day arrived at 12nn... Zhuan 老板娘亲自送上门哦... MX had ordered a 'gong(4)' of savoury seaweed sables for me for our 2S7 virtual high tea this afternoon at 3.30pm via houseparty.... 

super yummy... super addictive.... perfect with a cup of hot green tea... hmmmm.... 

Zhuan threw in a sample pack... gonna get this for Teachers' day for some of my colleagues... =) 

can order via @ohmyappetite or on her facebook (Zhuan Lee)


happy us with our cookies ... all 3 of them had the dark choc sea salt cookies

dinner was tom yum mee suan with the veg & 金针菇 that 洪妈妈 bought... =D

completed another 49 cards for MX... 259 more to go... 
presenting the third batch of designs... =) 

18 April (Sat)

跟我 share 被被的小白兔

Saturday morning is teacher Candy time with J & J

 看到 chunyang 家煮 prata + cheese + hotdog for breakfast ... 我也有样学样 for 我的 brunch...

black pepper ham not as nice as picnic ham... 


decided to Grab my favourite mee suan from Snackz + 一个大鸡扒 for dinner ... 

cost me $19.50 inclusive of delivery & $5 tip... see so many people doing mini generous deed for delivery people on fb, i also want to make someone's day... =D 


completed another 59 cards for MX... 308 more to go... 
presenting the second batch of designs... =) 



pups got their meat meat too

两个虎视眈眈的小毛孩s

gobble gobble gobble ...


17 April (Fri)

brunch

 though the dried strawberries in this brand of cereal were more and bigger, they were sourish. Kellogg's brand of strawberry conrnflakes is way much better.... 


dinner 

 broccoli is back... =) 


completed the art package on "Spread Cheer with Art from your Window" in SLS... ready to be assigned to all my 13 art classes as an "Early Finisher" activity in Week 2 of Art Home Based Learning ... this package is to spread positivism, happiness and kindness during this Circuit Breaker period and only for kiddos who have completed their compulsory level specific art assignments... =) 

managed to make 13 out of 380 namecard size thank you cards requested by MX to be attached to the cookies for the staff @ Bright Vision Hospital... 

made from materials left over from yuan's wedding recep deco in 2014... =) 


16 April (Thurs)

super happy to have a valid reason to get out of the house... went to banks, then NTUC... wanted to buy mee suan, milk, instant porridge, lady's fingers but all either out of stock or didnt see... in the end, bought a whole lot of snacks... wahahaha

又花了 $37.40 ... all my shopping allowance goes to NTUC this circuit breaker period ah!!! 

happy with today's dinner cos have SOTONG!!!

rare dose of face-to-face social interaction with Jess who popped in home sweet home to render essential financial services... =D 

And i finished remarks for the whole class... i volunteered cos i know both Shawn and Qiyi must be super busy with creating online teaching resources and assignments for HBL... =) 

噩梦开始二周年, 何时能梦醒回到噩梦前的甜蜜与简单 ?


15 April (Wed)

 snuggled a little with the 小老太婆 who is going to be 9th (approx 63 in human age)  next month... 

a mini bowl of cornflakes with milk (again) to the rescue of a super hungry me...  

before i prepared my round 2

to eat 'together' with the PAM + 1 team using the Houseparty app...

still can play games together oh...

was lots of fun...as if we were @ minds cafe... 

Tom Yum Mee Suan for dinner, mini magnum for dessert and a little 'hopeful' pup... =P 

14 April (Tues)
蔡 mummy has been saying that she 没有胃口 since yesterday and Angela said mummy felt very 委屈 and cried... so i see it as a super valid reason to pay her a visit to see if i could be her 仙丹... =D



masked on for the journey to the north



 

her appetite was really not good... didnt eat dinner last night, ate a thin slice of cake and a 豆沙饼 for today's lunch and took only 2 mouthfuls of beehoon as dinner... 

heng, i bought a bowl of hot bobo-chacha and a bowl of sweet potato soup as her dinner substitute... 

 and she happily finished this bowl of bobo-chacha... 

13 April (Mon)

cooked this super big bowl of macaroni for lunch cos 我就是要料多多！



学校该做的都做完了, 该 plan 的也都 plan 完了... so did my P1 Home Based Learning lesson on oil pastel fruit drawing to entertain myself on this 6th day of circuit breaker... 

 Supper !


12 April (Sun)

just before bath time

during bath time

and after bath time... =) 

masked up to go tabao dinner ... quite difficult to breathe in this mask... =S 

with all the junk food and fried food that i'm eating during this period of time, it's a miracle that i'm losing weight... not complaining though.. =D

super efficient this weekend, i cleared ALL 6 levels of sls art packages that can last the whole 3 weeks of circuit breaker period till 4 May and beyond... got everything covered till end of term 2 so (touch wood), even if the circuit breaker period is extended, i'm also not worried... woohoo!!!... 

11 April (Sat)
I guessed i really like teaching... this morning is the only morning since circuit breaker started on Wednesday where i can feel some energy in me and it was because i had lesson with my J & J via googlemeet... =) 

cooked tom yam mee suan for lunch 

 napped napped with snowie 

i'm a 乖宝宝, govt says cannot mingle with people not in the same household... i really never go woodlands (yet) ... at least not now while i still have work to do... it's not possible to do work in woodlands cos there's just so many people, so much distraction and so much fun and laughter there lo...  =D 

Thanks Angela for the call-in ... mummy had a great laugh when i shared about my cooking misadventures and showed her my well-stocked fridge... hee... 

mummy, i luv you... 

prata with hotdog omelette for dinner 


Happy happy also to see responses on my sls art HBL where they shared their responses on Anthony Poon's Black & White

10 April (Fri)

Honey and nut cornflakes for brunch.... but didnt find any nuts leh... =S

hands became 粗粗 because of the more dish washing these few weeks... =S... found this hand cream in my basket of gifts... not good one... sticky sticky de... 

was really drowsy and nauseous from the medication... even puked once.... yuck!!! 

felt better and normal only in the afternoon... 

so happitized myself with comfort food for dinner... =) 

and completed 3 weeks worth of P2 art package on sls... =) 



9 April (Thurs)

Woke up to this little 宝贝 sharing my pillow with me... no wonder 闻到一股浓浓的狗狗香 in my sleep... dozed off shortly after again, i guess my body is not used to the double dosage yet... 

tried to work but really not used to doing lappy work in the morning ... the drowsiness made it worse too... 

wanted to make sunny side up for lunch... failed miserably... =S 

hungry hungry at 6+ but took me an hour plus to decide whether to grab (so exp), to go tabao opposite (dont know what to buy) or to cook (dont know what different food to cook) ...

verdict: cooked prata with egg, cheese and hotdog for dinner... ugly looking but taste quite nice leh... =) 

the joy of working from home is that i can choose to work at a time when i'm most efficient... finished 3 weeks worth of P3 art package on sls at 10+pm.... Yawn!!!

read that there are 287 new covid-19 cases today.... so serious, so scary.... i better really 乖乖 stay home... =S



8 April (Wed)

whenever i hear friends say they work from home, i will be so so so envy and always lament that i also want to work from home leh.... 

but only after one day of working from home, my whole back is aching so so so badly that i am seeking some relieve with salonpas ... 真的是老了!!!  ... =S

i am so blessed that i am granted to teach 100% art this year so i didnt have to create daily online teaching resources or conduct live teaching during this 15 days Home Based Learning period... 

i always self-declare as a dinosaur when it comes to using technology and especially with using technology in teaching... thought that i am already doing a good job this year by stepping out of my comfort zone to harness seesaw app in my P4 art lessons to do peer critic and presentation... 

可哪里知道, 来了一场 Covid-19, and all art lessons have to be instructed / conducted online via SLS for the next 3 weeks ... but also thanks to this 'environment change', i feel that i am evolving from a dinosaur into a cave woman in using technology in teaching.... wahahahaha

managed to complete 3 weeks of P1 and P5 art lesson package in SLS by 5.30pm.... Yeah!!!... so proud of myself... clap clap clap clap.. =) 

went to 打包 dinner with my own containers

and 顺便 went NTUC to look see look see... 

结果随便随便又花了 $31.85