Our 14th wedding anniversary

Today, 30th October is our 14th wedding anniversary. Somehow, I don't fancy going to a restaurant to celebrate. Besides, Matt still has the exams (Maths paper tomorrow)and Alvin is not the romantic type so I don't expect much. But I'm grateful that he is a good husband and a good father to our children.

Then, Amanda had a brilliant idea! She suggested that I order pizza and watch a romantic movie. By the way she said, "don't borrow an NC16 movie". Otherwise, she and Matt had to go hide in the bedroom. Ha! Ha! Well, just like Amanda suggested I ordered pizza and rent a DVD. We watched the movie "Catwoman". It was a nice movie and we all enjoyed it.

Final year exams

While I was in Bintan for my company's conference I got an sms from Alvin. He said that Amanda scored 94.4 marks for Geography (a great improvement from 57.5 marks in the previous term). Then on the following day, 17 Oct he smsed again to say that he and the kids are going out to celebrate. Amanda came in 3rd position in her class for the overall exams (out of 40 pupils)! I called Amanda to congratulate her. I wanted to give her a big hug but couldn't as I was in Bintan. She has studied so hard and all that hard work really paid off! I am so proud of her.

Matthew's exams starts today, 29 Oct. First paper was English. Over the weekend, I've tried to push him very hard to study. His concentration is very poor and he gets distracted easily and gave lots of excuses to delay any form of studying. Earlier, I've told Matt that as an incentive for doing well in his exams we (Alvin and I) would buy him a PSP if he can get 5th position in class (he ranked 9th position in the last term). Since we bought Amanda a piano, we thought it would be fair to buy him a PSP (provided he prove to us that he is deserving it). Now, I seriously have my doubts and I pray for a miracle to happen!

Great Eastern Women's Run - Race bib no. 8403

Here is a picture of my best friend, Phyllis (right) and myself. We took part in the Great Eastern Women's 5km run last Sunday, 21 October. It was my 2nd GE Women's run and my 3rd women running event this year (I took part in Aware women's run in March). I finished the race somewhere between 34 to 38 mins (last year's timing was 40-45 mins). My husband and kids were there to support and cheer me on. My poor darlings have to wake up at 6.45am that day. Amanda told Auntie Phyllis that she was forced against her will to wake up so early!

Now I have 3 race bibs stuck to my fridge as a reminder of my achievements. I am really proud of myself!