It's 1985. My mom bought a pair of rollerskates for me. I begged her to get them for me because I wanted so much to learn how to skate. So she bought me something similar to the picture you see above. It was a very el-cheapo and oldfashioned looking pair of skates. I taught myself to skate.

[[Fast-Foward ... 22 yrs later]]

Went inline skating with my sister today at a park near Mercu. We only have one pair, so we had to take turns to skate. Took me awhile to get adjusted to my sis's inline skates. I haven't skated in like 5-6yrs. Found out I could still skate well.

My only problem with skating is I do not know the proper braking techniques. I find the all skates' brake-pads to be very ineffective. When ever I used the brake-pads, I always lose my balance and ended-up either with a leg-split or myself lunging to the ground.

Tips:
Stopping and Braking

Just wanna share with you a Math question which was on my girl's recent Primary One mid-yr exam.

It went something like this...

Minwoo and Hyesung baked 10 cakes altogether. Hyesung has 4 cakes less than Minwoo. How many cakes did Hyesung bake?


Input your answer in the comments.

Runner up Idol: David Archuleta

Amazing duet. I love this song sooo much. The One Republic guy did well despite playing the piano and singing at the same time; not an easy thing to do. David worked well with the One Rep guy. (Please excuse me, I don't know his name. Ahaks.)


Credit: JohnJohnDow@youtube

Paula's dress inspired by Bret 'Hitman' Hart

When I saw Paula Abdul's dress on the Idol Final Show, I can't stop thinking about how close its resemblance to the hot(then) Bret Hart's wrestling outfit. I still love Bret for his entertaining wrestling skills. Wow, does his man-boobs looks great or what? Paula's ...?

Happy Mother's Day

The kids made me a beautiful card. Aww. Remy gave me a little token. Thanks so much you guys. When is Father's day again? Need to Google for the date. Got it. So, take note that it's on every third Sunday of June.

Just want to say this - MP3 is bad. I'm guilty of owning about a thousand of such files, just for personal use of course. Because of tight budget, its not possible to buy every single album of the artists that I like out there. Aahhhh... but it's so easy to obtain them online (free summore!) I almost feel bad for the artists. But really, I do buy originals if there are a lot of good songs in one album. (trying to cover up to feel less guilty about downloading activities. hehe. Support our local artists and err... Shinhwa!)

He's at home alot these days. The school he goes to is having a ten-day voluntary closure to help break the HFMD transmission. Just yesterday he developed cough with blocked-nose and today a slight fever. Not HFMd! I checked his body thoroughly and no visible signs of rashes. He is very excited about June which is his birth month and can't wait to be 4 years old. He had once asked casually for a birthday party. Remy and I are not really into celebrating birthdays. So, I just told him that we'll get him a nice present in June. And of course, Hanny will want one too. He is getting better at verbal communication. This means, less whinning and throwing tantrums but more diplomatic when it comes to solving problems. We encouraged him to express his feelings verbally now that his vocab knowledge has been constantly increasing. At times, adamant about a particular topic, he turns opinionated that we reached a point of argumentative state. Cheh!! Haha. Not so seriously. Of course, I gave in most of the times but only after thoughtful consideration. But who can tahan such a cute, good looking little face like that begging at you and asking you for another bar of chocolate in the fridge! Bey tahan eh! Just give in lah. You chocolate freak! Computer games freak! Trains freak! Car-logos-brand-names Freak! Haha...I love you to death.


I worry about her. Her mid-year exams starts today. She is careless in her written work. So far, her performance in English far surpasses her performance in Math. That's because she reads more books than doing her Math practices. Math is all about practice and more practice. Tomorrow is her Math mid paper. She scored only 70plus for her practice paper which I believe was the last year's mid paper. We've tried tackling the Math problems over the weekend and we can only hope and pray for the best. Amin. InsyaAllah. 화이팅! She's also busy monitoring and playing dentist over her own loose baby teeth.

She hopes to wear a beautiful ball gown and nice little Cinderella-like heeled shoes. I said to her, you crazy izit? Where would you go dressed in something like that? Haha! I told her when you get married in 20yrs' time. (You will get to wear one.) Also told her we might do a family makeover photo shoot with her dressed in the ball gown(provided by the makeover studio company, of course) during one of the holidays. She's happy. That will do for the moment.



Ahh... I take so long to type out this blog. Almost 2 hours. I wanted to say something about my new Hyesung's Concert DVD. Got it from ShinhwaChangjo.net. It comes with 2 DVDs, a production booklet with pictures, and a poster( which I don't really need). It's worth the buy! All 260mins of it. I'm looking forward to the 2007 Shinhwa Japan Concert DVD(or 2008 final concert). Now, one more to add on my wishlist. *Hint*