We are The Ongies

Stumble upon this interesting article, hubby would like to share with you - grateful and hands on. How to give your kids everything but a sense of entitlement What you as a parent would like to give to your kids, or rather, how many? When hubby read the part on Lego, his memory flashed back as a kid because he wanted the Lego pirate ship badly from the defunct Emporium. It was one of new model been launched for months and costing $100 is quite heavy for the parents to buy for him. Therefore, all he can do is to visit the Emporium and admired the pirate ship from the shelves. Even when hubby was not able to have that, he will not buy toys to both Cs uncontrollably. He wanted them to understand and appreciate of what they have, rather than nagging non stop till they get it. Toys brings kids a lot of joy - wild imagination, role playing and think of script to talk. Till date, even the two Cs love to mess around with the blocks - Lego , hubby feel very excited to build th...

The buying of bunk bed for the kids went wrong literally. Having Cait sleeping on top, while Clar at the bottom will do them good as they do not need to share with their grandma. Yes, they are sharing together on the same bed. Their grandma was saying that she do not have space to sleep because of them, the thought of bunk bed came into their mind. They shortlisted a few from the top range to the lowest. Remember, kids will not sleep on bunk bed for long, so there is no reason why you should spend huge money for it. They found a nice princess bunk bed at Novena, Sungei Kadut, at the price of $699! With all the mattress included, the cost is about 1K plus. Beautiful bunk bed for the kids from Novena While the kids were very happy about it, this does not last long at all. Instead of encouraging and giving more space for everyone, the grandma is paranoid about Cait may fall down from bunk bed, the good had turned to bad. In order to prevent that from happening, safety pr...

Kinda missed this images during Father's day celebration at Bottle Tree, Yishun . Seem like the food standard drop, they were quite disappointed. But... Cait had a lot of fun because she wanted to catch the long gao fish. As she did not dare to enter,  hubby and wifey were the one who helped her to capture it.  Thanks goodness, someone gave them a lot of fishes when they wanted to call off the day. When hubby wanted to set free the fishes in the pond, Cait rejected and claimed that she wanted to bring home. After a long discussion with her in the car, she get the idea and decided to let hubby and wifey to set the fishes free. The Ongies decided to let go the fishes at the CC, nearby their house. Sadly, some of it had been eaten by the bigger fishes there.

Nope. This is not a joke nor a prank. It can be funny... but... totally disappointing. Wifey ordered the pizza big box yesterday evening and due to rush hour, the delivery guy actually came with the box, but without a pizza! Hubby used to work as a pizza hut rider before, the common mistake will be wrong pizza given. Bear in mind, they have to deliver KFC as well, if you still remember. But without a pizza , it seem to be a new thing to him. The moment you hold the box by the bottom, you will feel the heat instantly because it is fresh out from the oven. During peak hours, the confusion scenario will be like this: Pizza made; put in oven Staff will prepare the sides (receipt shown by the side or clipped) Rider or other staff will double check first before taking it off. (it seem like either one of the staff forgotten this stage; the box might be close at that time) So that's how wifey received the sides without the main course. Yes, even the curry rice is not i...

This got to be one of the most disastrous hubby ever had. The computer went kaput! Apparently, yes, he sent it for diagnosis and it landed there for 2 days... the result..... Motherboard is dead. =( Hubby had BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) when he tried to power up his computer. Fortunately, he had unplugged the cables from the HDD as to prevent from any major mishap. Over here, he talked about his new computer . So meanwhile, there will be NO photos uploading, photo editing, video editing and etc.... It will be plain text. Yes... just plain text. Until... perhaps tomorrow, the computer will be back. There will lots of programs to install, rushing for work before he can start uploading the images and blog it out! Hubby had some images and video clips over the Qing Ming festival at Lim Chu Kang cemetery when they were praying to his grandfather. So, stay tuned for that... his so-called short clip. On contrary, you must be thinking how he managed to get this post out... yeah, ...

Clar was down again with fever, as not to spread the virus to her school mate, The Ongies decided to make Clar at home for 2 days. It was noon when Clar was feeling very uncomfortable; during that point of time, it was either the clinic are closed for resting, or the doctor are out of town. After searching via internet, they found that there's a clinic located at Bukit Panjan accept wifey company mediguard. The doctor gave Clar a high dosage for her fever; it worked and she is slowly regaining her energy. Cait, on the other hand, was worried for Clar. She insisted Clar to go to school. On Friday, grandma wanted to make Clar stay at home again, but she was feeling very sad - same goes for Cait. When hubby asked Clar if she wanted to go school, she refused to answer. She was very happy when hubby wanted to bring to school before grandma wanted her to stay at home. Just when hubby was about to bring Cait to school, he asked Clar again. Out of sudden, she ran and wanted t...

It had been a tiring weeks, days, hours and min since the last blog post. But everything had been paid off - Cait is willing to take the neublizer, but need to stop because there's shortage of medicine. The both girls had been doing very fine, just that Clar getting to know understand her food bud. She is willing to take in any food in the past, but not now. She began to be choosy and can be very whiny. When she is unable to get the things she wanted, she will make the hell outta noise and making sure everyone gives in. Remember this, her screaming is not that soft at all; that literally irritate everyone off. As the result, the mood is getting more and more tense. Perhaps, Clar require more discipline; Cait wasn't like her before. In a few weeks time, Clar will be put in the school, but in different class from Cait. While Cait is in Playgroup, Clar will be in toddler class. It is hard to take care of her, and by going to school, everyone is hoping she will learn th...

Saturday, parent meeting session in My First Skool. Cait sitting at the corner while waiting for parents to done with their session. Clar is cooking? Fierce And she smile next. Cait looking anxiously, thought she need to stay in school. She asked: where's my school bag? (Because they were going to school) Where's my friend? The teachers praised Cait for her determination and intelligent. She does not confront if anyone go against her, instead she went to teacher. As for her age, the teachers were quite surprised that she know a lot and behave like an adult. Her talking does not lose to anyone, she will make sure she have her rights and that will make you put to a stop because you cannot find the next sentences to cover. Next blog will be her quote. After the school and sending mom to work, they went to Taka for a walk. Since there are food fest, they went around to see if there's something special. In the end, they bought the tea leaves because...

Every night Clar tuck in soundly and she is able to sleep on her own through the whole night, without feeling any fear. Recently, it seem that Clar is getting more and more insecure. She will make sure that any of her body part must be connected to wifey. E.g. her feet or palm must be  touching her mom, despite in the awkward position. 1-2 weeks back, she preferred to sleep facing down on wifey chest, so that she feel the security around her. She will start to cry if been put down on bed, even though it is just beside. Having cuddling is no use as well.  Just like last night, she will wake up every hour because she did not feel secure. One day, when hubby entered the room while talking to Clar, who is lying on the bed looking at the ceiling, she startled and trembled for a while until getting rest assured of it. The second time is when Clar was beside hubby; he was playing his iphone and Clar was on her own until wifey came in and talk to him, and she got startled ag...

As mom had to go hospital for her medical review, both hubby and wifey took leave together and head up to NUH with her. Luckily the wait is not that long so they can fetch granny and 2nd aunt to Chinatown. Granny had not been out of house and been to town for months. So she is pretty excited over it! It is really lucky that hubby and wifey tag along with them because the route is not simple for them to push granny's wheel chair and Cait's stroller. Much to say that it is also not easy to push granny and Cait along the way as aunt and mom are not strong at all. Big aunt met the rest at Red Star restaurant for dim sum morning breakfast. It had been a long time since they last went to Red Star. For hubby, that's his 2nd time only as he can still vividly remember that he went for the first time when he is still very young. For wifey, that's her first time. Of course, granny is the only one who felt very excited more than anyone else. Since granny wanted to go for shopping, ...