All About Your Child

I’m hearing ‘Teerrrrggggrrrrrrr….‘ and ‘Grrrrgggrrrrrr….‘ and ‘Chiiinnnnggggg…..’ and ‘Dongggggggrrrrrrr…‘

We were shouting at the top of our voices or we had to wait for the brief silence interval in order to hear and be heard.

Where in the world am I? My very own home!!!

All these craziness started this morning at 9am.

This is one of the very few things which make me detest staying in a Singapore HDB flat. Because all the units are so ‘nicely‘ stacked together, on top of each other, left and right; a drill on the wall from your right neighbour feels like a drill from the neigbour ‘above‘ PLUS a drill from the neighbout ‘below‘ PLUS a drill from the neighbour on your left.

AAAaaaaaarrrrrrrrgghhhhh…. I’m telling you, my house was shivering!!!!

After bringing Binbin home from school at 11am, Allan and I were determined to get OUT OF THE HOUSE. Get away from all the drilling, hacking and hammering.

One of my neighbours (Btw, I call everyone in my block ‘my neighbours’) have moved and the new comer is doing a complete makeover to the house. All floorings must be raised. Tiles on the wall must be taken down. Wiring must be pulled out from all corners. In short, everything needs to be re-done!

We had planned to go everywhere and anywhere the kids wanted to, so long as we are NOT in the house. We planned to stay OUT till night falls. There is a Mandarin saying, “Men’s prediction can never be compared to Heaven’s plan.” (ren-shuan-bu-ru-tian-shuan)

Keatkeat’s ‘morning‘ sinus lasted longer than it normally does. He was all teary from the sneezes throughout his 4hours in school. We had no choice but to bring him home for medication and put the boy down to rest.

The ‘Grrrrgggggrrrrrr‘ and ‘TaaTeetgrrrrrrrr‘ can be pretty droning too. Keatkeat had no problem falling asleep and Binbin, who had no intention to bring forward his noon nap, became sleepy too.

*Deep Breath* Its night time now. All is quiet, all is calm. But tomorrow will come another round. When will this end? Well, the renovation-approval notice said “ONE MONTH“!  *faint*

Its been a month since we last went over to my Parent-in-law’s house. We wanted to be very sure that Keatkeat is ok before we go over on Sundays again. No kids from ‘that side‘ have Chicken Pox yet.

Today, we welcome back my eldest niece, CH. Because of the change in her swimming lessons, they chose to visit my PIL on Saturdays instead of the usual Sundays.

However, my MIL wasn’t happy over the months, ‘cos she needed to prepare ‘heavenly dishes’ twice a week, instead of once a week.

So she requested that my 2nd BIL and SIL return to the usual Sunday routine. Hence today, they came over for lunch, disappeared for about 3-4hours for CH’s swimming lessons, then head back here again for dinner.

For my boys, even the blind can tell that they enjoyed today more than any Sundays in the past. They missed their cousins. They played hard, laughed hard and gobbled down the food fast too! Guess they missed my MIL’s cooking as much as I did. *laugh*

For myself, it was wonderful. I had a long chat with my FIL, learning about his childhood; why he left China with his family when he was only 8years old. The story was rather tragic and horrifying (some part of it).

Suddenly he popped out the question, “Where were you from? Your ancestor. Your origin. You are a Chinese, so you are definitely from China, but which part of China?”

I DON’T KNOW!!! My dad could never have known, ‘cos my grandpa died when he was a toddler/preschooler. My grandma was a nonya. So I guess there was no way I’ll ever know, where EXACTLY did my blood flow from…?

Do you know where are you from, originally?