All About Your Child

*Deep Breath*

I’m pretty pissed today. Nothing to do with the kids, but everything to do with Singapore Post.

There were orders for the piggy banks (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, go see here). The kind-hearted people prefer to have the piggy banks mailed to them, instead of meeting up with me.

So I went down to find out the postage rates. The staff at Singapore Post told me it cost $3.74 and so I told my ‘potential buyers’. I was curious why there were hardly any response after I told them the rates.

After receiving a payment (finally), I brought the ‘Talking Pink Piggy’ down to Sing-Post to be delivered and only to discover that the postage only cost S$1.50 !!!!

It was a difference of $2.24. Questions were popping in my head:

“Oh my, maybe that’s why no one responded after I told them the postage rate? Because it was way too high. They might have thought I might be a $2.24 money swindler !”

“Oh dear! Now I’ve got to send the difference of $2.24 back to the buyer for today’s order fast! I don’t have her bank account number so I have to send her an email a.s.a.p. But will she check her mail today? cos’ sometimes she doesn’t. What if the item reaches her first before she reads my email and saw that the postage is actually $1.50, then she would think that I was dishonest too.”

I was pissed and nervous.

But I guess, I over-think sometimes. She was so nice, she told me to keep the difference and use it to buy sweets for the kids. (too bad, she doesn’t have a blog, can’t link her here) Thank you, thank you!

I didn’t buy sweets for them, but I gave them the money. Guess what? They chose to put it inside their piggy banks. *wink*

Allan and the kids love to play “Whaaah”. They would run and hide somewhere behind pillars or walls. Wait for another person who is not hiding, who NORMALLY (already) knows where the hider is, to come close, JUMP IN FRONT OF HIM and go “Whaaah“, with 2 hands and ‘claws-like-fingers’ in the air.

Sometimes its the kids who will hide. Sometimes its Allan. The 3 boys have this mutual thing between them, they just know whose turn it is to hide and who is gonna be the one to have a heartbeat skipped.

Ok, this was what happened yesterday night when we were walking towards our car in the multi-storey carpark….

Keatkeat was in a bad mood. He was not in the mood to play, held my hand and strolled, while Binbin dashed to the last pillar BEFORE the multi-storey carpark. Everyone saw where he was hiding. As usual, we pretended to not know.

Just seconds before we were going to be ‘surprised’, 2 men, appearing to be in a hurry, overtook us.

Binbin thought the footsteps were ours, JUMPED OUT with ‘CLAWS’ and “WHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH” the 2 men!!!!

The poor men literally JUMPED UP with HANDS TO THEIR CHEST!!!

(OMG! I’M STILL LAUGHING SO HARD NOW… Oh Shut Up!)

The men in their 30s laughed so loud when they realised it was a shorty-little-thing that almost gave them the shock of their lives!

Binbin turned to us, folded his arms with the most crumbled face, “Why you all walk so slow!!! See lah! I ‘Whaaaahhh’ the wrong person!”

*Huge Laugh*