Happy Chinese New Year to all celebrating it.

It is the water Dragon year – 2012. A dragon that brings lots of water to the earth. Usually during Chinese New Year, the weather will be very hot & humid, as if we are in living in lab furnaces, but this year, it rains on Chinese New Year eve. I still have unfinished last minute work to do – wash clothes, wash bed sheets, wash car porch, wash car etc. I managed to complete all the tasks but my clothes were still wet by the time we had our reunion dinner last night.

Rain poured in in the evening too. Kylie asked why it rains and I told her the water dragon she saw in the Journey to the West show recently. The water dragon came out from the lake and brought along heavy rainfall and hurricane and took away the horse. She asked why she can’t see the dragon and I told her the monk in the show could not see the dragon too and only the Monkey God could see the dragon.

I started using handphone when I was in uni. As a student, I bought the student package on offer where the phone was given free and all I had to pay was minimum monthly subscription fee for few months. I took up the cheapest package on offer for students.

The reception line in the Uni wasn’t that good back then and I couldn’t afford to add the cell phone booster. Luckily I could still use it to call my father. Barely 3 months of owning my first ever handphone, it submerged inside my coke drink.

How did it happen? I kept my handphone inside my bag. Then I went for a movie - bought a large cup of coke - couldn’t finish the drink – kept the drink inside the bag – the lid slid opened - water spilled inside the bag – and I didn’t know about it until much later when felt my back getting colder and colder.

When I checked, the handphone’s battery was dead. The cost to repair the handphone was way too expensive for me to bear. Even more expensive than when I signed up for another student package. So, I just kept that handphone.

This post in a continuation of A day before year end school holiday starts.

Throughout Kylie’s Year One schooling days, she has collected two throphies. I didn’t even know she participated in these two events. She loves giving me surprises. One was a silver throphy – vocabulary competition and another was a bronze throphy – reading in Bahasa Baku competition.

Besides these two throphies, she also brought back home two certificates and cash rewards. She received RM30 for her class award (2nd place) and RM20 for overall classes award (8th place). 

2012… Happy New Year.

On 1.1.2012, Kylie asked me who celebrated Happy New Year. I told her the whole world celebrated and she reconfirmed by asking if the whole earth celebrated this day. Even the Chinese, Malay, Indian etc will celebrate New Year and I told her yes. She looked puzzled.

Then yesterday, while hubby was hanging up the lantern without the wiring loom for Chinese New Year occasion, Kylie asked again. “Mummy, why you said Chinese New Year is celebrated by everybody? Isn’t it for Chinese only since it is Chinese New Year?”

Now I know why she has the puzzled look on her face. She is asking me about Chinese New Year and not Happy New Year. She said, Happy Chinese New Year should be celebrated by Chinese only and not by everybody.

More than two months ago, my sister told me that she discovered two lumps at the side of her neck. She suspected the worst and delayed seeing the doctor. I kept on pestering her to see the doctor and finally a month later, she went. The doctor told her not to be worried. That was only thyroid. After seeing the doctor, she plans to buy additional insurance coverage but with limited cash flow, she decided to hold on to the plan. Even the Wholesaleinsurance.net, the price is still too expensive.

Fire Water! Fire Water!

That’s Kyson favourite phrase at the moment. What he wanted to say or sing was “London’s burning…London’s burning…Fetch the engine…Fetch the engine…Pour on water…Pour on water” – a song he listened to at times. He omitted most of the words and just sang or shout aloud “Fire Water! Fire Water!” while playing the water pump together with his sisters. They can turn a stick into a hose, or anything that is long and round, and pretend to put out the fire.