We are The Ongies

Image: Copyblogger  The inactive of this blog does not means that The Ongies is not posting anymore. It is because there are a lot of problem arise recently. So hubby decided to take a leave from the blogging here. Hubby recently decided to get into trading, hence setting up his own blog and share his journey; be it win or loss, he hope to have some readers who just started up and learn the mistake he gone through. Wifey had been busy preparing essential oil for the kids and adult when they fall sick. This is to prevent them from taking so many medications as they are made from chemical. Hubby would like to share the knowledge of the oils he had been using, which he find it is very useful. Image source:  harvestnewbeginning On the other hand for Cait, she had gone through the eye check up in school and the result is acceptable! Both eyes are 6/7.5, which is acceptable stage. It is important not to let her watch too much or TV, especially when it is night tim...

Excitedly, hubby glad that PUB ABC site is up for sometimes. For those who do not know, ABC actually means Active , Beautiful and Clean . As mentioned on the site , this is their focus: Launched in April 2006, the ABC Waters Programme is part of PUB’s larger strategic objective to bring people closer to water so that they can better appreciate and cherish this precious water resource. The ABC Waters Masterplan has identified more than 100 projects for implementation in phases over the next 10 to 15 years since the launch of the programme. Under the first phase, over 20 projects will be implemented by 2012. Launched in April 2006, the ABC Waters Programme is part of PUB’s larger strategic objective to bring people closer to water so that they can better appreciate and cherish this precious water resource. The ABC Waters Masterplan has identified more than 100 projects for implementation in phases over the next 10 to 15 years since the launch of the programme. Under...

This seem to be a very interesting moment/ conversation with Cait when hubby drove her home yesterday. Clar is not feeling well, so she have to stay at home - at least to prevent the HFMD (Hand Food Mouth Disease)  Both of them were in car when Cait took her favorite honey star box out from her bag and start munching it. Reaching at the red light, hubby's hand went to her honey star box and took a few of it, starting munching together with her. She stared blankly:" Eh.. daddy... why you take my honey star huh?" " Because I like to eat it. " said hubby with guilt. " Really huh? Okai, then you take a bit from mine. " Cait said it happily with open heart. " Thanks girl, I shall take one time only because daddy like it a lot . Better to control my diet. " " Ok daddy. " And she keep on enjoying her favourite snack. " Girl, don't eat so many of those, it is nearly dinner time. Later you will not be able to tak...

The Ongies had no regret bringing the girls to The Rink recently, despite umpteen times of begging and requesting for ice skating! Since the opening of J Cube, Caitlyne had always been wanted to go ice skating, even though she did not know how. The plan to bring them there kept on delaying again and again, fearing that they will make a fuss in the rink and wonder if they have the boot size for them - apparently, The Ongies is wrong to think that way. So, wifey intend to bring them to iceskate for their brithday treats. With a stroke of luck, hubby noticed from his mobile notification from Groupon - great discount to The Rink! Pricing is only $10 for an adult and $8 for child, usual price is $17.50 and $15.50 respectively. Knowing that the kids will want to go to the Rink for the 2nd times, therefore hubby had bought an additional ticket for everyone! It is indeed a great offer not to be missed! The Ongies suggested to bring the kids out during weekday becaus...

In order to look nice and stay pretty, Clar had been pestering wifey that she wanted an earring like her sister, Cait. On contrary, Cait have her first earring when she is only a few months old, and Clar have it when she is 3. She wasn't the type that can sit still and she love to grab anything when she was a baby, hence the thought of not giving her the earring in the first place. She know the consequences that piercing is painful, but she still want to go ahead. Since she know what she wants, The Ongies decided to bring her to grandmother's friend's goldsmith shop to do it. She was given a choice of many earrings to choose from, but she insisted only the love shape despite many persuaded her to get the bright and shining type. The first pierce shocked her and she seem afraid to go for the 2nd shot. By showing Cait's earring to her does help. She decided to put on her courage with the heavy heart to go for the 2nd shot, but only wanted wifey to ca...

Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday To You, Happy Birthday To Claryne, Happy Birthday To You!!! Happy birthday Claryne! It's been 3 years with you in our lives.  You've pushed our buttons and showed us we can be SO angry beyond our own imagination.  This level was not 'unlocked' by your jiejie Cait yet.  More importantly though, you've showed us how much we can love such a pesky little monster.  Seeing your mischievous pretty little face we can never stay angry for long.  You are so independent, assertive and sensible for your age and we are indeed blessed to have you as our baby. Love, Wifey   Clar has grown up a lot in these few years, surpassing her size and thoughts despite her age. Others may think that she is in the wrong class because of that. One day, grandmother told hubby and wifey that Clar woke up in the middle of the night to change her own pants without waking her up. Grandmom was peeking at that point of time; Clar d...

This is going to be a yearly thing for Ongies - Photobook printing. If you are looking for an affordable and good printing material, this Photobook will make a good choice. Fret not if you are not a graphic designer or whatsoever, Photobook allows you to download the program, and there you go: just import the images to the layout as shown in the page. Customising the size, layout and frame is possible. It depends on your creativity juice! It is fun! Higher resolution will provide you better quality printing. If most of the images are from mobile, please do not have high expectation because the image quality is hard to beat a real camera! You what the Hubby is trying to say, do you? Purchasing this at the special discount rate, Ongies only paid $4 for the shipping fee! Yes, you got it, it is $0. If you have tons of photos to load it in, be sure to order more pages; try to go for hard cover instead. Always look out for Groupon Deals , they do have incredible offers! Us...

Gong Hei Fatt Choy. Stay healthy and be cheerful! It was everyone 's birthday yesterday. Therefore a belated Happy Birthday to you! Wifey was preparing for a lou hei session at night. Coincidentally, the neighbor invited them to join them for a great and loud Lou Hei last night too! It is fun and happy to do it with a big group despite the table will be very messy, dirty and sticky. More importantly, it is all about fun and being loud. Ingredients given in the box consists of different meaning. As extracted from Wiki : When putting the yu sheng on the table offers New Year greetings. 恭喜发财 (Gong Xi Fa Cai) meaning “Congratulations for your wealth” 万事如意 (Wan Shi Ru Yi) meaning “May all your wishes be fulfilled” The fish is added, symbolising abundance and excess through the year. 年年有余　(Nian Nian You Yu) meaning “Abundance through the year”, as the word "fish" in Mandarin also sounds like "Abundance". The pomelo or lime is added to the fish...

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...

Having clueless when sending Cait to school, he was astonished that Cait had been promoted to K1! Cait turned and face him:"I told you last week already, you don't know ah!!!" Well, nothing to be shameful about because he really do not know what was going on last week, and he did not hear anything from Cait at all. Nevertheless, this show that Cait had grown up a lot. Her mentality is very matured than others, thus her understanding level is very high. It is not easy to trick her at all. Because of this, it will means: harder to discipline her. Having promoted to K1, this will let Cait to focus more on studying, learning and reading. Let's enjoy the last of 2013 first. It is good to see that Cait love to go to library and read the books, hence the borrowing of 11 books. While they wanted to stay longer in the library, Clar had been making too much noise which may disturb the others. During the PTC (Parent Teacher Conference), the teacher mentioned that C...

This has gotta be one of the most relaxing trip The Ongies had enjoyed so far. Wifey felt that it would be great to have a getaway every year, be it whether it should be near or far away from Singapore. This time, they decided on 2D1N stay in Batam. Everything had been planned carefully by wifey. They had this trip booked at the very last min because they were afraid that Cait will fall sick again. She was down with high fever for days previously. Compared to the last time  when they went to Batam, that was such a tiring experience which they will not want to go through that again. The whole family were totally exhausted by the end of day. For this time, wifey preferred to stay for a night at Harris hotel, Batam Center. They were not alone, one of their relatives also joined with the day trip too. But due to work comittement, hubby's dad was not able to go with them. The trip was planned for Thursday and Friday - and it was a bonus given that weekday rate i...