My side of the coin

I can’t believe that 6 months has past since I last wrote. I wonder what have I been doing for these 180+ days. Hmmmmm let me think…….I guess most of the time would be work, work and more work. But I am sure along the way something else must be worth me remembering, but why didn’t I stopped to write them down?

I am so disappointed with myself, I must do something about this. I had wanted to “schedule” my life around me, but looks like I am being scheduled to be around my life instead. LOL.

So let’s start with a post today to remember what happened yesterday, shall we?

Last Sat I thought I would be able to spend some time baking with Teddy yesterday so I told him we may be doing that. But yesterday I ended up spending 3 hours in a meeting and no time to even cook dinner.

Luckily my husband had a brilliant idea, he brought Teddy to his favourite shopping Mall in Singapore – Funan, to shop and wait for me to have dinner together.

We had a good two hours’ dinner, enjoying sushi, sashimi, shabu shabu and chit chatting along the way.

During dinner, Teddy surprised me so many times.

Firstly he asked me why didn’t we bake, which means he remembered what I said and most probably he was looking forward to it. I never expected him to remember, neither would I be expecting him to look forward to it. So that’s a pleasant surprise number 1.

Next Steven told me when he told Teddy “Shall we visit the temple?”, Teddy replied “Can I pray?”. I knew Steven referred to visiting DVD shops as visiting the temple, but I didn’t understand what Teddy was saying. Steven explained to me. So “Can I pray?” in this instance meant “Can I pick a DVD as well?”. It is so unbelievable that my son can use English this way so that’s pleasant surprise number 2.

Near to the end of the dinner, there were still some uni left, which my husband ordered specially for Teddy. I told Teddy to finish them up and at the same time, I told him his niece and nephew would not have the chance to eat in a restaurant more than a few times a year so he should not waste food. Upon hearing what I said, Teddy immediately asked me “Mummy, can we bring them to this restaurant next time?”. I was so happy when I heard him asked this question. So that’s pleasant surprise number 3.

Of all the 3 surprises, surprise number 1 and 3 made me super happy. Number 2 made me happy but that’s just happy.

I always maintained the position as I don’t care what kind of academic result my kids produce, as long as they put every effort, that’s enough for me.

However I definitely want them to grow up having a heart and a brain. A heart to feel and a brain to think. This to me is far more important than the many As I can see on the report card.

Today Steven and I went to Demsey to order an umbrella for our rabbits and on the way home, we detoured…..click the link below to see more details on why we detoured…….

http://www.hamstershelter.org/forums/index.php?/topic/917-meet-my-new-babies/page__view__findpost__p__12120

You may be wondering what is the meaning of the title of this post……… well…. here’s the explanation…….I came to know a few people who are rescuing hamsters and rabbits. They love these animals very much, which is why they will go around rescuing them, but in my opinion, some love too much and they ended up feeling that no one else other than themselves can provide these rescued animals a good enough home………….so the end result is that they ended with too many for themselves to cope…………….

Today at SPCA, I saw how they conducted the adoption and I have to say that I really prefer their method. To me, that is called Love without the attachments! I guess they are experienced to know that those who will abandone the animal will do it anyway regardless of how much effort was being put in to scrutinise the adopter……so the only way is just let people who are interested to adopt a chance to adopt and see what the end result is………… instead of doubting everyone left right centre, pushing all the adopters away.