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Books splurge…overdue post
OK, this is a long due thread. I mean to review the books I’ve read, my dd’s read, and stuff I bought. Anyway, here’s one of the book buys I did from ds
Very sweet mama too, would recommend to buy from her, I thought the books were 2nd hand as in used, but they were as good as new, just 2nd hand in principle since somebody else owned them before! Well, happy customer here.
List of books I bought:
Magic School Bus Goes Upstream $1
The Cat in the Hat $1
Polar Bears Past Bedtime $1.50
Dolphins at Daybreak $1.50
Afternoon on the Amazon $1.50
Earth, Moon, and Stars $3
Teaching Science Process Skills $3
Usborne Puzzle Train $2
Fossils $1
Math and Science for Young Children $3
Agatha’s Feather Bed .50
Island Boy $1
Let’s Play – Group Games for Preschoolers $3
Thinking Skills Gr 4 $3
Robot Explorers $2
Discovering God’s World Science reader grade 1 $3
When the Rooster Crowed – .25
The Little Engine That Could & the Big Race .75
Thomas and the School Trip – .50
Nurse Nancy – .50
At A Farm – .25
Crosswords and Wordsearches Gr 2-4 $2
Arithmetricks $2
All including shipping was $75, I think it’s a good deal since even with shipping it totals less than what I would pay locally, and these books I couldn’t find locally, not even kino! Really pleased with the magic school bus and magic tree house has made my dd happily reading her first english chapter books! Agatha’s feather bed is good too, I certainly learnt new things. Dd2 really treasures her nurse nancy and cat in the hat, while ds really likes looking at the pictures in the tree house series, so much so dd1 is finding it difficult to read them in his presence..ha..ha..she has to give the books to him or else…well more tantrums etc. that’s my ds..
Semperit & cookies
Ok, I tried the cookie recipe and was eyeing the semperit ‘cos mama22beas post make them sound so easy to make, thanks!
This is her shortbread recipe, in her own words:
“1 stick of good unsalted butter, 1/4 cup brown sugar and about 11/2 cup of flour, some rice floor, some vanilla and a pinch of salt.”
Another excerpt from her Semperit posting:
“As not to get the dough to rise, I didn’t even sift the flour. I only add the soften butter bit by bit till I get soft dough, that I could just pipe it from a piping bag.”
“The recipe basically is for a part of cornflour (always use good quality one, I used Brown and Polson), you need about 1/4 of plain flour, and 1/4 of icing sugar (depends on how sweet you want it), egg yolk (when mixed with the flour and sugar, enough to make it like breadcrumbs) and finally the addition of butter (good quality also), just enough to make it soft dough.”
Also she recommends the wilton 6b nozzle.
Bila mau try, so malu to see a full time mama doing more than a SAHM…hehheh..ekteli also supposed to be full-time student, tapi itu belakang celita..hu..hu..
Note: A stick is about 113g, that’s about half the slab of butter usually sold in supermarkets here in Malaysia (Fernleaf’s 225g if I’m not mistaken).
JFK poetry
an excerpt from Uncle Teddy’s speech:
The Irish ambassador recited a poem to John’s father and mother soon after John was born. I can hear it again now, at this different and difficult moment:
We wish to the new child
A heart that can be beguiled
By a flower
That the wind lifts
As it passes.
If the storms break for him
May the trees shake for him
Their blossoms down.
In the night that he is troubled
May a friend wake for him
So that his time may be doubled,
And at the end of all loving and love,
May the Man above
Give him a crown.
We thank the millions who have rained blossoms down on John’s memory. He and his bride have gone to be with his mother and father, where there will never be an end to love. He was lost on that troubled night — but we will always wake for him, so that his time, which was not doubled, but cut in half, will live forever in our memory, and in our beguiled and broken hearts.
We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, that this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side. But like his father, he had every gift but length of years.
We who have loved him from the day he was born, and watched the remarkable man he became, now bid him farewell.
mencari-cari
Looking for which montessori course to go for, I’m so confused, so spent quite some time browsing, actually went to see the MAM president, Aisha Z Abdullah, saw her centre, was interested in the primary level as there are already many interested in preschool, and frankly I haven’t the patience with pre-schoolers, I’m not made for them, but primary age kids..well, I think they’re the age group best suited for my personality.
So I think I may go for the MWEI certified course run by Aishah, sounds good, and although not one of the two main montessori institutions AMI or AMS, but those two are not available here. Only MCI, and that’s already dead in Singapore, and MMI (any feedback on that?), and one other: MWI, that I can’t figure out heads and tails of. Anyway, I’ll still be checking out with students who have graduated, maybe go to segi open day to look at the MCI certified course, oh but then MCI only offers courses for the pre-schooling age. Really I want to go straight to those binomial and trinomial cubes, man my head!
Oh and I was looking for one islamic primary school run by this lady who has opened a montessori kindy in shah alam. Still cannot find lah..
then looked for muslim mummies who are actually homeschooling school aged children. Sorry, I don’t really call what I’m doing now with my kids at preschooling age, homeschooling. Really irks me when I research homeschooling in Malaysia, and they say they homeschool their kids, then I look at the kids age, aiyoo, preschoolers la..no offence la kan..tapi sudah terbiasa masuk forum homeschooling yg for non-muslims la, yg anak2nya 7 tahun ke atas, kalau sebelum tu mmg kebiasaannya kita panggil tadika la kan..hai konfius konfius..
so when I’m looking for muslim homeschooling mamas, I mean those yang memang tak hantar anak sekolah, bukan tak hantar tadika..:-)
so, have to search for that:
bangi mummy,
mummy yg gilir2 homeschool dgn kawan dia
coach sha, is a unique scenario, kudos to her for having things her way!
here’s another unique hs mama: hanz
Yang dah jumpa:
chinese mama, hs sympathiser tapi still hantar anak sekolah, but really nice to talk with
another mama on dsasia, well met her son, sudah lepas o-level by hs!, well have to meet her sometime
aisha from MAM also basically has her children in a centre bukan registered school, commend her for getting what she wants, rather than following the mainstream
also heard of rafflesia hs centre, would love to see that and maybe start one up from home..or a home
Comprehending Life.. 
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