Today marks the second day of the 4th phase of Malaysian MCO. How time flies that it has been more than 40 days where everyone is asked to stay home. The kids do it very well that they do not go out at all and are having fun at home. Xuan said he doesn’t really like mco because he misses his friends at the school. But he loves tv time a lot. Cheng and Xin Yi however, love mco to the max except Cheng has a lot of chinese homework to complete.
While I have been telling friends that I’m not born to be a homemaker because I can’t cook, hubby is just right to say that I might miss moments like these most when we are back to our routine. In fact, I start to cherish moments like these with kids albeit them being playful, I have to constantly tell myself, 亲生的，亲生的。And coaching them homework is a very challenging job because 心脏要强大。I know the kids will miss me most for having me 24/7 when they go back to school.
Still not much into cooking but it’s not pretty bad. After all, everyone is a chef during this period of time. 百年一遇. Embrace the new norms before it ends.
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MCO
It’s been more than two weeks since the movement control order (mco) started to avoid the outbreak of covid-19. While people have been saying that the mco allows more quality time with kids at home, I’m feeling so burned out with so much house chores, particularly cooking and monitoring homework. On the other hand, I’m feeling grateful that this is happening when I’m on study leave. I wouldn’t know how to manage all these if I’m still at work, coming home to cook and watching the kids complete their homework.
So the schools and tuition centre made it another level by having online classes. It’s the efforts from the teachers that we appreciate a lot. The first week of mco collided with school holiday so the kids were merely spending their time playing paddling pool and watching tv. Soon, we got messages from the teachers telling the kids to complete their activity books. It was easier for Xuan because he has got an online account with google classrooms since he was at P1. However, it was a little harder for Cheng because the school hadn’t provided him with the account. The things-to-do list was sent to me daily by the class teacher. I thought I would go into depression soon as I couldn’t bring myself to find the passion in cooking and patience in guiding Cheng. Then, Cheng’s class teacher sent me a login ID saying that his class would list down the school work by using google classroom. It was a relief for me because the kids are happy to keep their hands on laptop and excited with quizzes or games online, besides completing activity books. The next one I would really appreciate is the tuition centre which printed out hardcopy of exercises and took the troubles to send to the kids. It then holds online classes to guide them thru for 2 hours daily. It was the first time we watched them sitting in front of the laptop, listening to the teacher attentively while completing the work.
And for Xin Yi, this is the funny part when her kindergarten decided to start an online class daily. We did not expect any online lesson for kids at her age but it’s the kindergarten’s effort that counts, so Xin Yi has been sitting in front of the laptop everyday too and I have 3 sessions each day via zooms, which I could really laugh myself off and also roll eyes for that. Yes, I’m a super busy mum because hubby is rushing his project at work and he has got no time for us. And I guess the only me-time that I get to get breather is when I leave home for grocery shopping, minus the spike in bills that I have to deal with because I generally buy everything we eat.
Above all that, I must say that it drains me out easily. I do not have extra energy or attention to focus on my work. Thanks goodness, we do not have any online classes organized by the uni right now because once again, I wouldn’t know how to juggle if it really happens. Yet again, if I wish this mco could end soon, it is probably not for the risk that we would expose ourselves to. So stay at home and stay safe!
So the schools and tuition centre made it another level by having online classes. It’s the efforts from the teachers that we appreciate a lot. The first week of mco collided with school holiday so the kids were merely spending their time playing paddling pool and watching tv. Soon, we got messages from the teachers telling the kids to complete their activity books. It was easier for Xuan because he has got an online account with google classrooms since he was at P1. However, it was a little harder for Cheng because the school hadn’t provided him with the account. The things-to-do list was sent to me daily by the class teacher. I thought I would go into depression soon as I couldn’t bring myself to find the passion in cooking and patience in guiding Cheng. Then, Cheng’s class teacher sent me a login ID saying that his class would list down the school work by using google classroom. It was a relief for me because the kids are happy to keep their hands on laptop and excited with quizzes or games online, besides completing activity books. The next one I would really appreciate is the tuition centre which printed out hardcopy of exercises and took the troubles to send to the kids. It then holds online classes to guide them thru for 2 hours daily. It was the first time we watched them sitting in front of the laptop, listening to the teacher attentively while completing the work.
And for Xin Yi, this is the funny part when her kindergarten decided to start an online class daily. We did not expect any online lesson for kids at her age but it’s the kindergarten’s effort that counts, so Xin Yi has been sitting in front of the laptop everyday too and I have 3 sessions each day via zooms, which I could really laugh myself off and also roll eyes for that. Yes, I’m a super busy mum because hubby is rushing his project at work and he has got no time for us. And I guess the only me-time that I get to get breather is when I leave home for grocery shopping, minus the spike in bills that I have to deal with because I generally buy everything we eat.
Above all that, I must say that it drains me out easily. I do not have extra energy or attention to focus on my work. Thanks goodness, we do not have any online classes organized by the uni right now because once again, I wouldn’t know how to juggle if it really happens. Yet again, if I wish this mco could end soon, it is probably not for the risk that we would expose ourselves to. So stay at home and stay safe!
一山不藏二虎，一家只容一个厨师
I just have to pen down what was happening at the kitchen the other day that made me laugh. And I gottta be very honest.
So I don’t like cooking. It has all this while been hubby who does the cooking at home. He is very talented and well-trained that his food is somewhat yummy. Since he has to go to office these two months and it’s very tiring coming home, yet to cook for us. I have been very considerate that I offer myself and make the effort to prepare our dinner, although simple with a condition that none should ever complain. The third day of me cooking, I already started to feel lazy and demotivated, hoping that it could end soon. But I just have to brave on.
There are times I have some cravings over food that has resemblance of my mum's so I will try to cook it the best way I can when I'm in charge of the kitchen. But sometimes people may cross their limits. Like when I was frying bitter-gourd with dried shrimps last week, and out of a sudden another chef came in and added a spoon of flour to make it taste better, which to my mind, has totally spoilt the food. I became sulky the whole night. Hubby thought I had the biggest but unnecessary reaction towards a plate of vegetables. But he failed to realize how a plate of stir-fried bitter-gourd means so much to me. Already I hardly go to the kitchen, yet I wasn't allowed to cook the food that follows my mum's style. So I conclude that there can never be two chefs at the kitchen, either way, one has to bow down, and listen to the master chef.
So glad that I'm not into cooking, hubby can take over the kitchen and be the master chef two months later!!
So I don’t like cooking. It has all this while been hubby who does the cooking at home. He is very talented and well-trained that his food is somewhat yummy. Since he has to go to office these two months and it’s very tiring coming home, yet to cook for us. I have been very considerate that I offer myself and make the effort to prepare our dinner, although simple with a condition that none should ever complain. The third day of me cooking, I already started to feel lazy and demotivated, hoping that it could end soon. But I just have to brave on.
There are times I have some cravings over food that has resemblance of my mum's so I will try to cook it the best way I can when I'm in charge of the kitchen. But sometimes people may cross their limits. Like when I was frying bitter-gourd with dried shrimps last week, and out of a sudden another chef came in and added a spoon of flour to make it taste better, which to my mind, has totally spoilt the food. I became sulky the whole night. Hubby thought I had the biggest but unnecessary reaction towards a plate of vegetables. But he failed to realize how a plate of stir-fried bitter-gourd means so much to me. Already I hardly go to the kitchen, yet I wasn't allowed to cook the food that follows my mum's style. So I conclude that there can never be two chefs at the kitchen, either way, one has to bow down, and listen to the master chef.
So glad that I'm not into cooking, hubby can take over the kitchen and be the master chef two months later!!
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