Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:47:20 GMT

PiggyLalala — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 14:47:20 GMT

Imami:
Happy new year my friend!

Thank you, my friend.
我也祝你:合家安康, 幸福快乐:)

i have been very busy. There is so much that i can do. Must really learn to draw a line. Work-life balance.

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sat, 28 Jan 2017 04:04:44 GMT

Imami — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 04:04:44 GMT

Happy new year my friend!

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sun, 25 Dec 2016 08:49:25 GMT

PiggyLalala — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 08:49:25 GMT

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Just finished reading this book for teenagers.
书中的几段话语(1&2)，值得让家长们深思。:)

1. 妈妈，如果你现在在偷看我的日记，请你到此为止，不要再怎么做。每个人都有自己的小秘密，每个人都希望保留自己的隐私。我有自己的小天地，收藏着我的喜怒哀乐。希望你学习尊重我，不要来侵犯我的小天地。这里不是舞台，我也不是表演者，我不需要观众。这里是私人重地，请你离开，谢谢。

2.好奇怪，明明是我自己的人生路，我没有走上歧途，但为什么这么多人喜欢一脚踩进来，硬要我拽去另一个方向。走错方向有怎么样呢？人生不就是从磕磕碰碰中学习成长吗？生命中没有一个经历是白费的，都是自我修炼的功课。对我来说，成功就是过一种有价值，有意义，自己也享受其中的生活，而不是世俗所认为的名成利逐。

3.原来每一样东西都是有期限的，就连学校也是。期限到了，再怎么不舍，再怎么眷恋，怎么不舍，都要忍痛挥别。
我的眼泪又淌下来了，任风怎么吹也吹不干。

书中作者也提到龙应台对儿子的一段话，which i have posted earlier.

PiggyLalala:
龙应台对安德烈说：“孩子，我要你读书用功是因为，我希望你将来会拥有选择的权利，选择有意义、有时间的工作，而不是被迫谋生。当你的工作在你心中有意义，你就有成就感。当你的工作给你时间，不剥夺你的生活，你就有尊严。\"成就感和尊严，给你快乐”.
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Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:03:30 GMT

PiggyLalala — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:03:30 GMT

如何为窗户做定期检查:

http://www.channel8news.sg/news8/ca/hellosingapore/episodes/20161219-hs-high1/3378032.html

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sun, 04 Dec 2016 13:15:24 GMT

PiggyLalala — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 13:15:24 GMT

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4 and 5 are chinese movies-非诚勿扰1 & 非诚勿扰2.
First time watching chinese movies.舒淇非常漂亮，葛优也很有魅力。戏中有很多精彩的对白，令人发笑及深思。
婚姻怎么选都是错的，长久的婚姻就是将错就错。。。赞成？How do you interpret this?
Also what is 一见钟情？:)

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sun, 04 Dec 2016 05:10:11 GMT

PiggyLalala — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 05:10:11 GMT

3. The Nanny Diaries - another old movie, 2007.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489237/plotsummary
Annie Braddock graduates from college as an anthropology major and freezes during the interview for an internship at a big corporation. To find herself, she takes a job as a nanny in Manhattan's toney Upper East Side, tells her mother she got the internship, and moves in with the X family - a cheating husband, a control-freak wife, and Grayer, a lad of five. Mrs. X works the nanny day and night while neglecting her son. As the summer wears on, Annie is chatted up by a young man in the building, dubbed Harvard Hottie. She puts her anthropology skills to use to save her sanity, but how long can she suffer? Will she speak up, and will she discover who she is?

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Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sun, 04 Dec 2016 05:00:14 GMT

PiggyLalala — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 05:00:14 GMT

2. A relatively new movie, by Eddie Murphy, released this year. Not sure why youtube has the full movie.

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\"Mr. Church\" tells the story of a unique friendship that develops when a little girl and her dying mother retain the services of a talented cook - Henry Joseph Church. What begins as a six month arrangement instead spans into fifteen years and creates a family bond that lasts forever.

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sun, 04 Dec 2016 04:45:10 GMT

PiggyLalala — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 04:45:10 GMT

A level is finally over. Last paper for ds was last Friday - his papers spread across 4 weeks... too long for my comfort. To keep myself occupied, i watched a few movies on youtube while he studied for his A level. Some of these old movies are really good... the first one, front of the class, is highly recommended. It is educational, entertaining and motivational. Worth the time watching.

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\"Front of the Class\" is based on the true story of Brad Cohen -- played in the movie by Jimmy Wolk -- who, \"after being challenged by Tourette's syndrome from a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher.

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sat, 08 Oct 2016 02:31:19 GMT

PiggyLalala — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 02:31:19 GMT

Yesterday was officially the last day of school for the year 6 and the A level exam is less than one months' time. Time flies. Vaguely remembered the days i pushed ds2 in a stroller and walked ds1 to his school when he was in lower primary. It was terrible if it poured heavily that day. Once in a while, some kind hearted neighbours will volunteer to look after ds2 while i braved the storm with ds1 to school. Those were the days that the kids were really dependent on us and we had very little freedom.

Ds1 has completed 12 years of education. I would say he has come a long way or i have come a long way.... haha.....the most difficult years were in P2 n P3. And I am grateful of the gifted program that seems to suit ds1 learning style better. Though many always complain abt the trs in spore, i would say ds1 had many wonderful and caring trs in his primary schools. Not sure if ds1 will rem them but i will and very grateful to his p2 form tr especially.

At p6, when i was still hesitating of putting him in his current sch, worried that the enviroment may be too stressful, ds was confident that he will be fine. Soon he will have to decide which course to take in university (local or overseas) and likely the career that he would like to embark on. He is still quite clueless at this moment and neither can i offer good advice. But one thing at a time..... A level exam first... jia you.

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:45:09 GMT

PiggyLalala — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 00:45:09 GMT

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/video/doing-household-chores/2859458.html?cid=FBCNA

A recent study found that doing 34 minutes of household chores daily can meet the weekly recommended target of physical activity adults. Sara Grosse finds finds out how researchers came to that conclusion.

Good news for the SAHMs who need to do the housework?

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Wed, 08 Jun 2016 15:17:02 GMT

PiggyLalala — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 15:17:02 GMT

http://qz.com/139453/theres-one-key-difference-between-kids-who-excel-at-math-and-those-who-dont/

I’m just not a math person.”
We hear it all the time. And we’ve had enough.Because we believe that the idea of “math people” is the most self-destructive idea in America today. The truth is, you probably are a math person, and by thinking otherwise, you are possibly hamstringing your own career. Worse, you may be helping to perpetuate a pernicious myth that is harming underprivileged children—the myth of inborn genetic math ability.

Is math ability genetic? Sure, to some degree. Terence Tao, UCLA’s famous virtuoso mathematician, publishes dozens of papers in top journals every year, and is sought out by researchers around the world to help with the hardest parts of their theories. Essentially none of us could ever be as good at math as Terence Tao, no matter how hard we tried or how well we were taught. But here’s the thing: We don’t have to! For high school math, inborn talent is just much less important than hard work, preparation, and self-confidence.

How do we know this? First of all, both of us have taught math for many years—as professors, teaching assistants, and private tutors. Again and again, we have seen the following pattern repeat itself:

1.Different kids with different levels of preparation come into a math class. Some of these kids have parents who have drilled them on math from a young age, while others never had that kind of parental input.

2.On the first few tests, the well-prepared kids get perfect scores, while the unprepared kids get only what they could figure out by winging it—maybe 80 or 85%, a solid B.

3.The unprepared kids, not realizing that the top scorers were well-prepared, assume that genetic ability was what determined the performance differences. Deciding that they “just aren’t math people,” they don’t try hard in future classes, and fall further behind.

4.The well-prepared kids, not realizing that the B students were simply unprepared, assume that they are “math people,” and work hard in the future, cementing their advantage.

Thus, people’s belief that math ability can’t change becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Mon, 06 Jun 2016 01:22:21 GMT

PiggyLalala — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 01:22:21 GMT

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Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Mon, 23 May 2016 14:13:45 GMT

PiggyLalala — Mon, 23 May 2016 14:13:45 GMT

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This is so nostalgic...my era... was it shown on tv, every sat afternoon 3pm ... or sunday... haha.... how old was I then....

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Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sun, 22 May 2016 15:39:55 GMT

PiggyLalala — Sun, 22 May 2016 15:39:55 GMT

Can tell that my boys belong to the older era....their primary sch ptm booking was not done online....parents need indicate our preferred session. and the teacher will do the ptm schedule manually. ..:) dont think it is compulsory too...I believe the tr will just pass the report book to the child if their parents r not coming for ptm.

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sun, 22 May 2016 15:30:38 GMT

PiggyLalala — Sun, 22 May 2016 15:30:38 GMT

Not sure how many have watched the video on the recycled materials that I posted earlier. I always wonder what happens to those plastic bottles or cans that I throw into the respective bins…will they be recycled… the video provides some answers. … However I have my queries too…why are the various recycable materials mixed together at the centre… I thought we have sorted them under plastic/ glass or cans or papers…is it because during the transportation, they are being messed up…in that case. .why the need to sort them when we dispose them into the recycled bin leh…

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sun, 22 May 2016 14:31:59 GMT

MrsKiasu — Sun, 22 May 2016 14:31:59 GMT

My side also got button for not attending…report book already collected.

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sun, 22 May 2016 14:14:40 GMT

FantasyLandDreams — Sun, 22 May 2016 14:14:40 GMT

Erm for mine, there is a ‘I will not be attending’ button in the system to click though.

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sun, 22 May 2016 14:10:50 GMT

PiggyLalala — Sun, 22 May 2016 14:10:50 GMT

Imami:
PiggyLalala:

Why dont want to attend...? I am sure the teachers would have a lot of positive things to tell u about tofu boy. U dont disappoint the tofu boy by not going hor.. :rotflmao:

Of course no option for dont want to go lah... if dont want to go, just dont book any slots lor...
hmmm... Maybe no chemistry with the teacher. In any case, booked le so will be going. Very curious about the content of the portfolio.

Cannot be \"don't go, just don't book lor\". Because the ptm is also the report book day. If parents are not going to ptm, then how to collect report book? This part was not addressed.

Ic.... cant rem if that was the practice in my boys' primary school (that parents collect the report book during ptm).... So long ago...:) now u mentioned, I vaguely remembered some yrs I seemed to collect the report book from the tr during ptm but some years I did not....hmmm...why different practice....
Or could I have rem wrongly. ...感觉好象好久好久以前的事。。。

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Sun, 22 May 2016 13:46:14 GMT

Imami — Sun, 22 May 2016 13:46:14 GMT

PiggyLalala:

Why dont want to attend...? I am sure the teachers would have a lot of positive things to tell u about tofu boy. U dont disappoint the teachers and tofu boy by not going hor.. :rotflmao:

Of course no option for dont want to go lah... if dont want to go, just dont book any slots lor...

hmmm... Maybe no chemistry with the teacher. In any case, booked le so will be going. Very curious about the content of the portfolio.

Cannot be \"don't go, just don't book lor\". Because the ptm is also the report book day. If parents are not going to ptm, then how to collect report book? This part was not addressed.

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Fri, 20 May 2016 15:56:28 GMT

PiggyLalala — Fri, 20 May 2016 15:56:28 GMT

Imami:
Sister, my turn to attend ptm soon. Didn't feel like attending was asking tofu boy, can don't go ma? The cheeky boy replied,\"can..... If you can find the \"not attending\" option lor.... But I read thru the school memo already, in the booking step by step pages, there wasn't a \"not attending\" option leh.\"

See, big already. Know how to read school memo Liao. We had to book the time slot online for our FT and MT teacher and the school was nice to attach the steps for us. Indeed there was no option to say \"dun wan to attend\". :rotflmao:

It was a first come first serve thing and tofu boy was concerned when he realised that mummy didn't cheong for it when the system opened itself for booking. See, me no interest la. :laugh:

Finally, he told me that there would be a portfolio put together for him and I shd see it. Huh, really ah? Now, mummy sits up with interest already :laugh: when probed further, he said all students have such a portfolio but some kids would have additional contents and he being one of the two in his class who have additional content.

Wah, now mummy really interested Liao. asked him what content ah? He looked at me pensively and replied,\"u go and see la!\"

Why dont want to attend...? I am sure the teachers would have a lot of positive things to tell u about tofu boy. U dont disappoint the teachers and tofu boy by not going hor.. :rotflmao:

Of course no option for dont want to go lah... if dont want to go, just dont book any slots lor...

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Fri, 20 May 2016 15:51:28 GMT

PiggyLalala — Fri, 20 May 2016 15:51:28 GMT

http://str.sg/4ojD

WATCH THE VIDEO
Find out what happens to recyclable waste after it is collected.

The Straits Times on May 20, 2016, with the headline 'Food waste raises a stink for recycling'.
Singapore households have a dismal recycling rate of just 19 per cent and up to half of all items put into the blue recycling bins at the foot of every housing block go to waste because people dump trash like used diapers or soft toys into them, the National Environment Agency (NEA) told The Straits Times.

Such poor recycling practices not only complicate the process at materials recovery facilities - where workers manually separate plastic from paper, and paper from glass - but also increase the cost of maintaining the facilities, say public waste collectors.

Food waste, in particular, is corrosive and attracts pests like rats, said a spokesman for Veolia, one of Singapore's four collectors. On average, 35 per cent of the 12,000 tonnes of waste the company collects each year must be discarded.
At SembWaste, the average contamination rate is higher, at around 40 per cent of the 16,000 tonnes of waste collected each year, peaking at 50 per cent on bad days.

Such items end up wasting even more resources than regular trash.

FUN FACTS ON RECYCLING
• Recycling 1,000kg of paper saves 17 trees.

• Recycling an aluminium can saves 95 per cent of the energy used to make a new one. For a glass bottle, 30 per cent of the energy is saved.

• Recycling a single plastic bottle can conserve enough energy to light a 60-watt bulb for up to 6 hours.

Said Mr Lim Chin Khuang, senior vice-president of asset management at Sembcorp Environment: \"First, you are bringing in waste into a recycling plant, which should not be the case, and this waste will have to be reloaded onto a truck and sent to the incineration plant.

\"This is counterproductive.\"

Tips on recycling
Q What can be deposited in those blue recycling bins found in housing estates?

A Paper, plastic, metal cans, glass and clothes. This includes plastic and glass bottles, jam jars, plastic bread wrappers, biscuit boxes, liquid soap bottles and refill packs, milk tins, egg trays and cereal boxes.

Q What cannot be recycled?

A Bulky items like furniture, items with composite materials like mechanical pencils and shoes, and anything contaminated with food waste - even sweet wrappers.

Tissue paper, styrofoam, disposable plastic cups and containers, window glass, cassette tapes as well as ceramic and porcelain items cannot be recycled economically and are not accepted.

Light bulbs, fluorescent lamps and electronic waste like computers and home appliances cannot be deposited in the blue bins and must be taken to special designated recycling stations.

Q How can I recycle?

A Have a separate bag to collect recyclable items. For containers, empty them of all contents and rinse them. When your bag is full, deposit the items in the recycling bin.

• For more information and to find the closest recycling bin or station, download the myENV mobile app, available on the Apple and Google Play stores.

As it stands, Singapore's only landfill on Pulau Semakau is expected to run out of space by 2035, and is under tremendous strain, said the NEA. Last year, the Republic disposed of 8,284 tonnes of waste a day - enough to fill 16 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Under the Paris Agreement, there is a need for the Republic to curb its emissions, and recycling is an important part of that process.

The authorities have made recycling easier. While existing blocks have the blue bins, all HDB developments launched from 2014 have recycling chutes in each block, with throw points on every floor.

But while the industrial sector recycles 77 per cent of waste produced, household recycling rates have fallen from 22 per cent in 2010 to 19 per cent last year.

They fall far short of those in places like Taiwan, where household recycling rates are more than double.

There, recycling is law, and this has produced results. A government-run fund financed by manufacturers and sellers subsidises collection and recycling industries. Residents are also required to separate their trash into general refuse, recyclables and kitchen waste. This has pushed household recycling rates from 5 per cent in 1997 to over 50 per cent today.

Ms Jeanne Stampe, Asian finance and commodities specialist at the World Wide Fund for Nature, said: \"Attitudes needs to change and we must learn that recycling is not an inconvenient option but an absolute necessity.\"

She asked if households fully understand what to do with their recyclables, noting that perhaps clearer instructions from the Government and manufacturers are necessary.

The lack of awareness is clear at SembWaste's Materials Recovery Facility in Tuas, where the stench of rotten food wafts through the air.

Houseflies attack a 3m-tall mountain, sampling remnants of what might once have been someone's lunch, now smeared on plastic, metal and paper collected for recycling.

Here, workers in orange overalls sort through 16,000 tonnes of recyclables collected each year.

Although items are supposed to be relatively clean and dry, such as magazines and plastic bags, the men have to sort through soiled diapers, dirty tissue paper and food waste, which makes their job more difficult and far more unpleasant.

Some items are not suitable at all - such as lightbulbs or mattresses, which have too many components to be recycled easily.

At a recent visit, 20 were hard at work, sorting through the load dumped by a truck minutes earlier that included bags of plastic bottles, cardboard and tin cans.

The bags were placed in a machine called the bag splitter, which broke them apart and dropped the items onto conveyor belts.

Next to the conveyor belts, in sweltering heat, men wearing helmets, masks and gloves, picked out the items, placing them into different containers rhythmically.

Paper, right bucket. Glass, left bucket. Plastic, container across.

After the first round of sorting to pick out larger items, the remaining recyclables go through a magnetic separator that removes ferrous materials, and then a machine called the ballistic separator.

This segregates flat from rounded objects, placing them on two different conveyor belts where they go through another round of sorting by material type.

The sorted recyclable materials are tied up in bales weighing between 200kg and 300kg and transported to local recycling plants or overseas, to countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia.

At these plants, recovered paper is turned into recycled paper while plastics are turned into pellets and used to create new plastic products such as cups and coasters, or placed in shipment crates to protect the items within.

The men's job at the local facility is a critical part of the recycling process. But it is arduous.

According to the NEA, the contamination across all four public waste collectors - SembWaste, Veolia, Colex and 800 Super - is between 30 per cent and 50 per cent.

Mr Seah Tiong Han, 71, who has been on the secondary sorting line at the SembWaste facility since 2008, said the smell used to put him off but, after so many years, it no longer bothers him.He urged the public to think twice before they dump trash into the blue recycling bins as that renders all efforts useless.

For example, a perfectly good piece of cardboard - dirtied with food - will now join the trash at the incineration plant.

A Veolia spokesman said contaminants like the toxic components of electronic waste, used diapers and tissues also pose a health hazard to the workers.

While the Government has not taken the hard line, the NEA stressed that people need to be more mindful about what they throw into the recycling bins.

\"In a worst-case scenario, the thoughtless behaviour of one person can render an entire bin of recyclables non-recyclable, wasting the efforts of many,\" said NEA.

Mr Lim said getting the contamination rate down to 20 per cent would be a \"major milestone\".

\"We have to press on because the aim is to minimise waste\" he said. \"Can you imagine 16,000 tonnes of recyclables going to the landfill every year?\"

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Tue, 17 May 2016 02:30:15 GMT

Imami — Tue, 17 May 2016 02:30:15 GMT

Sister, my turn to attend ptm soon. Didn't feel like attending was asking tofu boy, can don't go ma? The cheeky boy replied,\"can..... If you can find the \"not attending\" option lor.... But I read thru the school memo already, in the booking step by step pages, there wasn't a \"not attending\" option leh.\"

See, big already. Know how to read school memo Liao. We had to book the time slot online for our FT and MT teacher and the school was nice to attach the steps for us. Indeed there was no option to say \"dun wan to attend\". :rotflmao:

It was a first come first serve thing and tofu boy was concerned when he realised that mummy didn't cheong for it when the system opened itself for booking. See, me no interest la. :laugh:

Finally, he told me that there would be a portfolio put together for him and I shd see it. Huh, really ah? Now, mummy sits up with interest already :laugh: when probed further, he said all students have such a portfolio but some kids would have additional contents and he being one of the two in his class who have additional content.

Wah, now mummy really interested Liao. asked him what content ah? He looked at me pensively and replied,\"u go and see la!\"

Reply to Mommy Piggylalala's Story Land on Wed, 11 May 2016 10:09:41 GMT

PiggyLalala — Wed, 11 May 2016 10:09:41 GMT

http://www.channel8news.sg/news8/ca/hellosingapore/episodes/20160511-hs-highlights2/2774380.html?cid=c8n%3Afb%3Ana%3Ana

《生活小学堂》紧急救护

Saw at my mom's house HDB lift lobby, there is this newly installed AED. Those who wish to have some ideas on how to use the AED, u may want click on the link. Good to know knowledge.