I firmly believe that Ace must have been a monk... and a high ranking one in one of his past lives... that is because he seems to have great affinity with buddhism and has been chanting since very young...

Recently, Stephanie, the restaurant owner of the vegeterian restaurants, Rice House and North South East West passed us a CD and told us that it is a very nice song of very nice music.

When we returned to the car, we realized it is a special CD released by a temple in celebration of Mothers' Day and it is some prayer or chant about loving your mother... and it is seemingly in sankrit.

To our surprise, Ace really loves it and always wants to listen to this song and after a few listens, he starts to follow and sing it! Amazing!



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Sometimes, motivation with a reward can be dangerous...

Ace Chua was promised a reward of a bubble toy if he performed well during his concert.. end up, he was so besotted with the reward, the toy was all he could think of and the first sentence that he said to me when i picked him up was "I want to play"..

I asked him after the concert, "How come you didn't smile when you were on stage?" "I was looking for you..." said Ace. Nevertheless, I think he had a great time...

As promised to Ah Yee, here are the photos ;) I will post the videos later...

Previous Post: I Want To Take Care Of You

When I was talking to Ace about Uncle James and his children, Ace asked me why his children were far far away....

I told him I am not sure of the reason.. but sometimes when children grow up, they leave their parents and go to far far away places....

I then asked him if he wanted to leave me and his daddy when he grows up...

"Yes, I will leave the house when i grow up..."

"But if you go too far away, it will be difficult for us to take care of each other. Don't go too far ok?" I told him...

"So do you prefer to go far far away or do you want to stay close to take care of daddy and mummy?"

"I want to take care of you.. " he said, while nodding his head earnestly.. ah, makes my heart tingle and go warm all over.. even though I dun expect my children to take care of me and stay with me, I think it is nice for a family to be together in the same country and meet up often... and of cos, it feels good that Ace says he wants to take care of me lah...

Another day, he was playing with the Aeroplane that Ah Yee bought for him and he told me that Martian Manhunter Mc Donalds toy was the Daddy and the Doraemon was the mummy.. the pilot and the co-pilot are the gor gor and jie jie...

And he was carrying the aeroplane adn running around the whole living room.... I think the whole family is going on some sort of holiday cos Ace would stop the plane and announce that it is Malaysia.. and then they would start "flying" and go China.

Then all of a sudden, he took out the "Daddy" and "Mummy" and threw them out of the plane and said, "Oh, they throw away the daddy mummy and go away... cos they grow up already so throw away the daddy mummy.. dun want them anymore..."

When I heard this, I turned around and asked him, "Ace, does that mean that next time when you grow up, you will also throw us away?"

"No no no no... ok, Daddy and mummy come back and be together with the family..." and he continued the game with the family together...

I hope he will still remember to keep the family together when he grows up :)

I say this because so many people around me are either sick or hospitalized.. and my grandma is one of the luckiest amongst them because she has us around her to take care of her. At the same time, all the running around because of my grandma has made me appreciate having extra pairs of hands around... I look at those people who are sick without family support and I really pity them because I understand how tough it is to have to take care of EVERYTHING all by themselves because there is just no one around to share the burden...

So I think it is so important for a family to stay near eachotehr and evenmore important is for the family to really bond with each other. Families whostay near but have got no bonding dun mean a thing as well...

Let's hope Ace will understand and learn this...

Previous Post: Sweet Things In Life

Well, it has been a while since I last had a heart to heart talk with Ace cos he has been mostly either staying overnight at my in law's place or sleeping with his dad...

Today, Max was out watching soccer and so Ace said he wanted to sleep with me.. so I had a chance to talk to him and we started with a little bit of story telling and then i started to tell him about my feelings and how i was really upset when he talked rudely to me. I told him that when he talks rudely to me, it makes me feel like he does not love me... cos recently he has been speaking quite rudely to me and Max...

I also talked to him about how I was upset when he does not listen to my instructions... cos recently no matter what I asked him to do, he would either take his own sweet time to do it or just ignore me. So I told him that when he does that, it makes me feel like I am not important to him....

And then he said he would be a happy boy and he would listen to me...

And then I thought since he is listening to me, I might as well get on the topics that I have been wanting to talk to him about...

So, we started talking about his fondness for sweet foods...

First I reminded him not to eat too much sweet food as I feel that his diet consists of too much sugar for my liking as he has a soft spot of all things sweet... and then I explained to him how sugar will firstly affect his teeth.. which will in turn affect his smile and in turn affect his looks (he is a vain pot mah)...

And then, I explained to him about how sugar will affect his body... I am not sure if you know this but every can of coke you drink has such high sugar content that it will shut down your immune system for up to 9 hours... so I tried to explain very simply to him that when he takes alot of sugar and drink sweet things, there will be no one to protect his body so when the virus and germs attack him, there is no one to protect him and he will fall sick..which means he cannot go for swimming lessons, dancing lessons, eat nice food, drink nice things...

It seemed to get to him cos he said, "OK, next time i will brush my teeth when I eat sweets and i ask Stephanie jie jie not to give me sweets..." (Stephanie is the owner of a vegeterian restaurant we frequent and she always gives him some treats when he goes over to eat with us...)

And just to make sure that the message gets drilled in, I started to tell him about diabetes. One of our friends, an old uncle by the name of James has diabetes. I told Ace about his story and about how a little sore on the leg, because of diabetes, in the end became a reason for the doctors to cut away his big toe.. he is still under observation and might eventually lose his whole foot if he does not recover well.

Ace asked me if I cried for Uncle James and I told him that while I did not shed tears, I cried for him in my heart because Uncle James is such an independent person who likes to run around the whole of singapore.. if he lost his legs, it would really be a big setback for him...

"If he lose his leg, he cannot carry me already right?" Ace asked me. And so we spent a minute to send some love to his leg and pray for uncle James that he will recover quickly...

Previous Post: Ace Loves Swimming

Ace is making good progress in his swimming....

Now he is brave enough to move by the edge of the pool by himself because he realizes that he is tall enough to let his feet touch the floor of the swimming pool...

In order to motivate him to learn how to swim quickly, I kept encouraging him to start to learn to float and kick his legs of his own.. if he can float and do a 'star' by himself, then he would be able to swim with his other 'friends' at the swimming lesson..

And I guess with so much support, he should be making good progress lah.. cos when he goes swimming, daddy and yeye will go into the pool with him while i sit by the side:)

His teacher says some children take a year before they can take a bronze test... well, I just hope Ace will aclimatize to the water and start to learn how to float quickly...:) But most important is that he will enjoy himself lor :)

Previous Post: One Girlfriend Only

Because Zhen popo was hospitalized, we started having a conversation with Ace about hospitals and eventually the topic came to be about DOCTORS.

Ace told us that he wanted to be a doctor when he grew up and so I asked him what sort of doctor he wanted to be because some doctors are especially good with the leg, some with the brain, some with the heart, etc... and Ace said he wanted to be a clinic doctor... and then he changed his mind and said he wanted to be a FACE doctor..

I take it that it means he wanted to be a cosmetic surgeon... "I want to open up the face and see if got anything.. and then after that i paste back with a plaster!" He exclaimed proudly about his ambition....

And then out of nowhere, Max suddenly told him that it is very good if he is a doctor because it would mean he can have many 'misi' (nurse) girlfriends. "Yeah, very good... many misi girlfriends..." repeated Ace with a cheeky smile..

So I scolded max for inputting this sort of info into his head.. what very good to have many girlfriends.. doesn't he know that in relationships, it is very important to COMMIT to ONE PARTNER and only ONE PARTNER????????

But it seems that I was worrying too much because at this point, Ace declared that he will only have ONE girlfriend. "Only one girlfriend is enough, Daddy.. Don't need so many misi girlfriends..." Ace said.

Curious, we asked him why he only wants one girlfriend...

"Because too many girlfriend I cannot carry..." he said.

I laughed! How true... But I was curious how a little boy like him understood that many girlfriends at the same time is a HUGE burden to carry and so I asked him "why?"

"Because when I get married to her, I have to carry her... Ah Yee married, Net Net carry her... if I have many girlfriends, too many to carry already...."

Hahahah.. indeed like father like son.. set his aim properly and aim only on ONE girlfriend.. hahahaha.... cos I am Max's ONLY and FIRST girlfren.. hahaha

Well said, Ace!

Previous Post: Ace Has Got Muscle

Max always says that I teach Ace all sorts of strange things... But I think that the strangest things that Ace learns are all from Max..

Check this out!



Max taught Ace to show that he has got muscle by doing tat... acting like some wrestler and kissing his muscle... insanely hilarious!

Previous Post: Teacher Never Teach Me How To Brush Teeth

Ace has been cleaning himself in the morning for quite a while.

The other day, because he was really sleepy, I had to push him all the way to the toilet and stand there before he would start cleaning himself.

Instead of brushing his teeth, to my surprise, he turned on the tap, open his palm to catch the water and used the water to splash his face to wash his face...

"Wah, where did you learn that from?" I asked Ace.

"Teacher teach me..." he said sleepily..

"OK, now you can brush your teeth.." I told him...

"But teacher never teach me how to brush teeth.." he said...

Like that also can ah?

"Just brush lah.. you already have been brushing your teeth by yourself for so long, don't know how to brush teeth meh???"

In the end, he lazily brushed his teeth...

PS: Just so that he will clean his teeth and watch his personal hygeine, I reminded him tat if he keeps taking sweet stuff, his teeth will turn yellow and rot.. so yesterday when he wanted to eat sweets for dessert, he told me, "Mummy, I want to eat this and I want to brush my teeth after that so that my teeth will not rot..." And true enough, he went to brush his teeth after finishing the sweet! Atta boy!


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