Waiting time

I go through some Bahasa with SE on weekends.  The time spent vs results is extremely low.  A lot of my time is spent WAITING.  While SE does this.... (after I ask her to open the book)

  

Lie on floor (here squeezing a toy)

Continue lying on floor

After oh, 15mins, finally she gets going on the book.

Opens book

After a very short while she slouches off to the chair and remains in this position for a few minutes.

Slouch

After patiently waiting a while, I eventually find out she's slouching over the iPad and secretly continuing her game.  If I hadn't been entertaining myself taking pictures of her, my patience would have run out much sooner.

AND after all this, she very quickly forgets whatever she has learnt. Wonder whether it's worth continuing this but obviously can't leave her alone either.  SIGH.

Where to next

Since dine-ins were allowed, we have gone to The Ship...

Cheese!

These sizzling things are so smoky

We have gone twice to Gangnam88 for Korean food....

Cheese

The girls were thrilled with the stuff from Squid Game.

Card game and Dalgona cookie!

And we have gone twice also for Japanese...

Yums!

Initially it was difficult to pick the places we missed most after the months of MCO.  But quite quickly, we have run out of places to go! Haha.

 

Teddy!

Got to post about this place - I was so excited! Probably more than the kids haha.  This place had teddies all over.  Teddy bears...

Teddies, SE and mummy

Teddies on the wall too...

Teddies, JE and SE

On the drinks... here's a 3-D teddy on the smoothie and a 2-D one on my cappucino.

Peace with teddies

And on the food too! The buns were painstakingly baked with the teddy images.  A big one on the burger, little ones on the western breakfast:

Peace! Peace!

Omg... can this get any cuter?  There were 3 teddy bears on the dessert. The head of the bear is actually a small scoop of vanilla ice-cream.  That highest one is the cutest ice-cream cone I have EVER seen.

Us with more teddies

Close-up pic of that ice cream cone.  A bear sitting on the cone, with a ring of colourful sprinkles on the chocolate:

Ahm the teddy

In spite of the cuteness, the food was actually good.  And cheap.  Took back part of my burger as portions were big.  Extension of cuteness to my breakfast the next day haha. Below this bear is actually a patty as two came with the burger.  

CUTE!!

I so want a revisit!  Not all food have teddies on them - maybe next visit I will go for some non-cute food, this first trip I just couldn't resist.  The shop name is 'The Teddy' at Kelana Zenith.

Oh JE and SE had a good time too. :)

Outsource homework

SE keeps accumulating a mountain of homework.  This girl would just leave things she can't do - she either doesn't know how to do, didn't catch the instructions, didn't have the equipment needed, forgot about it... the mind boggles haha.  Then while the growing mountain causes her increasing anxiety, she continues making it grow.  Tried to make her see that she's causing the problem for herself, but I don't think it sunk in.

Last week she was lucky and JE was willing to help on a piece of art homework.

Jo! Help me help me

*grins* Happy to have JE helping

JE producing a lantern already. SE doing something unrelated

Measure, cut... (where is SE?)

Oh here she is. Happily drawing something

In the end, one more piece of art homework done. JE did two for her.  It's art so... never mind, close one eye that she's not doing her own work.

Back to school

After I-lost count-how-many months, school has re-started.  The class is divided into 2 groups.  One will go to school while the other gets homework via Google Classroom. There are no more online classes since teachers will not be able to handle two groups at once.

I'd been hoping that somehow online will continue. But since that wasn't happening, decided to send the kids back to school. I'm sure lessons are way more effective when conducted in school.

Need to get our hair neat

Look presentable?

Still have a bit sticking out

I'll just sleep first

Their regular transporter quoted full fees for the half-month attendance.  Fetching them there in the mornings isn't any problem, since I was already walking them to my parents' house around that time for online classes earlier.  Fetching back from school, I'd have to adjust my lunchtime.  Decided to try it for the RM40 a day saved haha. 

Overall... the kids prefer online classes.  But we have survived the week!  Now for a week OFF school, yay.

Study?

Su Ern, you have a lot of homework.  Better start on it.

Su Ern!  You want teacher to scold later?

SU ERN!!!

She has endless patience hiding herself from things she doesn't want to do.  Which will result in a mountain of undone work.  Which she WILL worry about.  Yet when nudged to start on the work, this is what happens.

I have decided to change her from the current Chinese stream to a dual language one.  Nobody else has the time or patience to push this girl every step of the way. 

BR Ice cream

The girls have been the happy recipients of ice-cream cones from my Shopee vouchers.  We have ice-cream all the time in the freezer but guess it's way more fun to be able to go to a shop and choose your own flavour.

Sampling of flavours isn't allowed in these Covid times.

Mint choc chip, Lunar berry

Citrus sorbet, 'mystery flavour'

Choc chip cookie dough, raspberry sorbet

Good thing this place constantly introduces new flavours so looks like they will never run out of new ones to try.