Gardening

This morning I decided to do gardening as the front yard was a bit messy. It took me quite some time but i still had not completed the work by 10.30am. No choice I left everything and left with Channery as we did not want to miss the storytelling session.

When we reached there, we read a few books before the storytellers arrived. Today stories were about boats. we had fun and in the end we coloured a pirate picture. Channery did all the colouring by herself.

After that we went to Campsie Centre for lunch. I bought Pizza, stick satay and a small box of sushi. Channery was so cooperative. After lunch we went to Big w to buy a Christmas tree. Channery was so excited about the tree and she insisted we set it up immediately.

After setting up the tree, I immediately cleaned up the house. It always take me quite some time to clean up the house. i also put the towels in the washing machine as the weather was really hot and sunny so ideal for laundry.

At 3pm, i went to fetch children. This whole week I had been doing that as Joe had lessons till 5pm daily. After fetching them back I prepared what i had to cook and then i decided to continue where I had left doing for gardening. Took us quite some time to finish every thing and then i was back at the kitchen cooking dinner. Today we had chicken rice and vegetables.

Now I am feeling rather tired but I would say it felt so good to be able to use your hands. I have been taking care of my 2 fig trees, a grape vine, a pasion fuit, a tomato plant, 2 strawberried , an olive tree, a lemon tree and my mango tree and hope they will bear us lots of fruits. The front yard needs lots of attention and I wondered if I should clear the flowers and just plant some trees instead.

Ok that's all for now as I am feeling a bit tired. Got to zzzzz.

Life thus far

Life here is really good and I am beginning to see myself staying here for the long term. We are now waiting for Teach Australia to return the verification of my teaching qualifications so that we can proceed to apply from the immigration department. If I have the PR, I will have to stay 2 yrs for a 5 yr period and Joe might have to go back first and let me stay back with kids. Don't think it is a problem la. If not, I will get my parents over to stay with us. They can experience the lifestyle here and at the same time keeping me and the kids company. Being here actually is really good as the kids can play outdoor at the park and really enjoy the great outdoor as they do not get sweaty and hot like in Singapore. I have not been contacting friends in singapore much as they are always so busy and seem reluctant to email. Felt rather funny to call them when i get back. will see how everything works out.

Happy to been here so maybe all of you should save up and pay us a visit here in Sydney. Bear in mind that we will be back from DEC 20th till Jan 31st so don't look us up on those dates. :>

Storytelling session

This morning Joe was at home as we were going to the Story telling session at the public library. He did not wake me up so when I realized that it was already 8.30am, I practically had to rush like mad to prepare the chicken sandwiches. Not too happy with kids as well as they had not even taken their breakfast at that time. Joe does not allow TV so the kids lost track of time. We had the timing right as we used the timing of caartoons to determine the time to finish changing and eating the breakfast. Well! all turn out well and Joe sent the kids to school.

We hanged up the laundry and did some hed housekeeping before we went out to the library. There were many children and parents in the library. Channery enjoyed herself very much with dancing and singing. She loved being able to play and sing with the kids. She enjoyed the storytelling session very much and gaining much confidence along the way.

Frustrations with the boys

Today the Australia's public schools' teachers are going on strike again and so the kids will only go to school at 11am. The kids woke up at the usual time of 7.30am and nearly drove me crazy. I made prata and pizza for them and after eating, they wanna play computer games. Okay that was fine so I let them.

At about 10am, the boys decided to go outside to play mud. They got themselves so dirty that I caled up Joe and told that I was going to send Charlynn to school without the boys. We had told them many times not to go to the backyard and got themselves dirty like pigs but they loved doing that. the dog went out too while I was talking to them so I had to wash its legs too.

In the end, the boys knocked on the back door begging to come in as they wanted to go to school. They would find means and ways not to go to Singapore school but here they enjoyed going to school. At least the move had been good for the boys. They would be such a headache if I had stayed on last year. Time flies and very soon we will be going back to Singapore on the 20th Dec. We had gotten used to the lifestyle here so don't really look forward to going back actually. Campsie - In Cantonese 9 Gam Si means golden spoon actually has many Chinese stay here. We don;t feel out of place and very much enjoyed the many conveniences here. All food stuff over the world can be purchased here in the Asian shops. The hardest time I had was in August whereby I missed everyone and everything back home. Now no time to think about home since I am always busy.

Therefore, the boys had to take their baths and then we were off to the school. If the landlord not going to rent the house to us, I would really like a house with less gardening and more concrete as boys are really dirty fellows who like to dig.

What's up

lately been really busy with the new dog, my JJ. He is a really cutie pie. He follows me wherever I go and likes to stick around me. It has been a week and JJ is still sleeping with us.

JJ likes to eat our food and not so keen on the dog food. Not supposed to feed him our food as his hairs will fall off.

I do not know how to house break him using a training pad at home. It will control himself until I send him out to the backyard. He will do his business in the backyard if we let him out.

Sometimes he will do his business in the house and I would have to clean up the mess.

How to toilet train a dog and asked him to do his business in the toilet?