and the hum drum of school begins ..

The one month June holidays are over. OVER. Today (Monday) in just a couple of hours' time, the horror begins. Yes, SCHOOL. For all you NEW moms with either toddlers or just ONE preschooler, PLEASE.

I have been doing this for YEARS ... and trust me, it sucks. lol :p Everyday, ferrying your kids up and down for school and various other activities like ballet and Mandarin class, it sucks BIG TIME. No matter what ANYONE says, life as a SAHM is no picnic. It's 24/7, and you're the designated chaeffeur for LIFE .. or at least till all your kids are outta of school. Which for me is like for the next million years or so. And there is NO REST, no HOLIDAY .. cos even when you're on holiday, your kids are with you ... negating the whole idea of a holiday ANYWAY. lol :p Thing is, I love my girls too much to want to leave them behind .. I'd probably worry sick. So Hubby and I decided long ago that the only holidays we'll ever take is with the kids .. :)

So anyway, I'm spending the last couple of hours before my life is over to just chill and surf the net. Before I have to turn in .. and then in a couple of hours' time, get up to start the whole school routine again. Mind you, my kids don't feel my NEGATIVE feelings towards the routine. I am careful to sound positive and cheerful so as to get them excited about school and all that comes with it. I love that they learn things and have their friends there. It'd just be SUPER if they could drive themselves there and back everyday. lol :p

I enjoyed having the girls at home with me this June. Oh, they do and they did bicker, but it's usually over fast and doesn't happen that often. They play well together though and can sit and play and watch tv together .. or eat together and enjoy each other's company. That makes me happy that I have the 4 of them .. even Calista is joining in now .. so she is seldom glued to me ..

ahhhhh school. dammit.

The Bowler Camera bag

Have decided to get this cool looking camera bag for myself. I hope my Canon EOS 7D can  fit in it with the lens that I am currently using. The bag is from Amazon.com :p

Isn't it COOL? Soooooo much nicer than the standard bag that the camera came with .. it's damn ugly!

My evil evil husband

So my husband tells me last week that since I'm the one driving the car, I should also be the one taking it for regular servicing. Eh, what the hell. Shouldn't men be the one doing these things?! I hate going down to these places and then waiting for 2 plus hours for them to service the car.

Anyway, it's not like the car is solely for my use. Not like I meet my friends in town everyday for shopping and high tea. Ok, that happens sometimes but mostly I am the designated chauffeur in the family. I am forever sending someone to school, to ballet, to tuition. Sigh. Yea, they are my kids I know. Lol :p

So yes, bummer for me but I have to take the car in on Wednesday morning. Dammit!!

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Why I hate our zoo

Don't get me wrong. I've been to the one in San Diego and frankly speaking, ours wins hands down. For one thing the zoo in San Diego, the layout sucks. They very often had such steep slopes that u had to drag yourselves up just to get to one exhibit. And the slopes are so steep that wheelchairs and strollers are disallowed on them. Yes, they are THAT steep.

Our zoo wins on animal variety. And the fact that cos we are land scarce here, the distance from one exhibit/enclosure to the next isn't big.

BUT our weather is a big big disadvantage. The weather in San Diego when we were there was awesome. Sunny but not too hot. Very enjoyable to walk around. Our weather is hot and humid. It is really terrible. You're sweating buckets right after walking into the zoo entrance.

U literally have to struggle to walk around from one place to the next. While the zoo people have madea huge effort to plant big shady trees to provide some respite from the direct rays of the sun, it is still really really hot and humid. And trust me, the humidity is worse than that of Florida. Huh. In Florida, at least it cools down somewhat in the evening. It doesn't here.

And it's the heat and humidity that really drains you of energy and good humour. More often than not (like today) I was walking along and complaining to my maid. Hahaha :p poor woman has no choice but to listen to me and agree.

I loved the zoo in New Orleans. The Audobon Zoo. The weather was again pretty awesome and the zoo layout was nice and flat and they did have a nice variety of animals too. And birds too. And cos it was really nice weather (I think we were there at the start of Fall) it was cool and the zoo had no smell at all!

That's the other thing that our zoo rates poorly in. Cos of the tropical climate, our zoo smells. Well not too badly. The poop and such is cleared pretty regularly BUT the heat and humidity still means that there are smells. Ugh. So if you're pregnant and nauseous or just sensitive to smells, the zoo is a bad place to be.

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Parallel parking lots

The ones at malls are my absolute fav lots to park in. Why?cos then, idiot drivers who drive crappy cars like the QQ or other cheap cars like vans etc can't park next to u and the driver can't swing open his door viciously just to hit your car causing dents and dings. Huh. Happened a few times with my previous car.





See, this was at Shaw Centre. I was so happy to have parked in this lot. Plus I have NO problems at all parallel parking.

My friend says I seem to be slightly obsessed with my car. Eh, just cause I like to keep my car shiny and clean and polished doesn't mean I have an obsession with it.

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I love food

Drove to Holland Village yesterday to have lunch with my good friend, Lisa. I've been wanting to eat laksa so we traipsed down there to eat it.

It was really awesome ! I love it!






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