Soccer cake!

For Shuoze, who celebrated his 6th birthday in school.



Initially, he wanted a 3D bus cake which i agreed.

But after following me to Phoon Huat the other day, he insisted to change his bus cake to a soccer theme cake instead. Of course, i gladly obliged. It means less work and super easy for me :P

So basically, the boy picked the deco, and i planned the rest eg; the green grass, the flags and also the sandy soil.


Though easy, the boy loves it!!

He thinks a world of it. And most importantly, he thinks his mama rocks big time. Grin.

As for the cake, i did the norm. Moist chocolate cake which all kiddos like. One can never go wrong with chocolate cake with the kids.

Some pictures taken in school during the celebration.

Boys and i :)

Sz and his classmates

Sz and his class teacher, Mrs Vijay

Sz and his didi

Last but not least, little beep waiting for his 2 korkor at school :D

It was a happy day for all of us :)

First step

Beep took his many first step yesterday!!

Finally.....................................

:D

Yesterday, didi performed during the morning assembly in school as one of the 6 ducklings. There were 14 students in class and he's one of the 6 who got picked :)

Anyway, i must say.. didi is the best!

Honest!

He was the best dancer and best performer. He remembered all the steps and did them all adorably!

He was so cute that his former teacher, Mrs Cheong couldn't resist but to pat his head and cupped his face after they were done.

The rest of the kids didn't do as well as him :P

I am so proud of didi. He made my eyes 'flood'. Grin.

Then today, Mrs Vijay, Sz's school teacher told me that Sz will be the farmer for the class play for the coming Friday. It seems that he is doing a fantastic job at it!

I simply can't wait. This time, i'm so not gonna forget the camera!

Beep's 1st birthday party

It was my 1st time organizing a party for the kids.

The 2 elder boys never had one before. Usually, it'd be celebration with the in laws and that's it. But for beep's 1st birthday, i itchy backside went on to organize one and i'm sure glad i did :)

As the party started around 2.30pm, it meant tea party. No real food. Just finger food and all.

The kids

I like having not too many people in parties. Nice, cozy and comfortable. I'm not so much of a social butterfly. In fact, i don't really know how to socialize. In some ways, i think i'm very much of an introvert :P

Beep and i :D

For the party, i only invited 2 close gfs over + their brood.

It may sound very few but when they were all here, gosh... it was worst than pasar malam! Lol.

But i like.

The gang :)

The food that i prepared with 2 helpers :

Fish ball, cherry tomato, ham, cucumber + fish ball skewers

Sausage roll - the shortcut way :P

Fondue!

The cube cake that went into the chocolate sauce, marble cake which the gfs ta pao back - everyone loves it!

Besides the food above, we also have the boring ham and cheese sandwich :P

Last but not least, pressies for the birthday boy!

Simply lovely ...

And the gfs didn't only gave pressie to the birthday boy, the mommy also have! *yay*. So nice of them. Heh.



2 of the items were lugged back all the way from the UK ;)

Thank you Angels *muaks*

All in all, it was a happy happy day for all. It was a blast =)

It's hard not to love him!

He may be the middle child but i don't think he would get that middle child syndrome.

Because i love him to bits and pieces.

He is really my sticker.

Video-ed by the husband. Do turn on your speakers ;)

Among the 3 boys, he is the stickiest to me. Not sure about the baby though.. coz he's still so little.

People love him because he is he.

Mature [when his classmates are sitting down on the floor for story time, he actually paced around them with his hands behind like a principal!] yet naive [that silly boy.. he actually hides back the same place his brother hides just because he couldn't find his brother there! lol].

Adorable and cheeky at the same time.

And he doesn't give a damn if you don't like him when he says he doesn't like you. He only cares if the mommy dislikes him. But he says it in such a way that it is hard for you not to like him further! :P

p.s : see what i mean? He is so Shin Chan! Bottomless as usual.. :D

Bad mommy!

*ahem*

That's me.

I've been teaching boy1 quite a bit these days and boy, i am very bad.

I am very very ashamed of myself you know.

I've been impatient. Very. I mean, how could he not understand?

Proper nouns and common nouns. Give examples.

Cannot?!?!?!

And the rotan 'sits' right in front of him *hide*.

Sigh.

I can just imagine the boy's fear whenever i say homework time! [he told me so during normal conversation time] I am so very terrible :(

And and the thing is, i don't even remember knowing what were proper nouns and common nouns when i was 9! *runs away*.

Me must change.

Me will change.

Poor boy1.. for having me as his mommy.

Double sighs :((

Mood : terribly upset

No.1 birthday cake

Inspired by my family friend's dog, a Dalmatian no less :)



Beginning of the year spells h.e.a.d.a.c.h.e for me usually.

2 of my boys' birthdays [the old old one and the baby] are in January, on the 8th and 9th to be exact!

However, it is the baby's cake that i'm getting headache at. The old man's cake can anyhow decorate or even no decoration also can but never for the little one. Oooppsssss~ :P

Moreover, there will be a small party for him so all the more stress! Heh.



As i couldn't find any cute no.1 cut out for the cake that i wanna make, i actually cut it out myself freehand with no guide or whatsoever just like that using 2 cakes, a 7" square cake and a loaf-looking cake which i anyhow agar-agar hoping the cakes will somehow form a number 1, which fortunately they did :D

Like i mentioned earlier, i decorated the cake the way it is because of the Dalmatian i saw and played with. Initially i had no idea how to decorate the cake though the number.1 shape is already there but when i saw the dog.. it was *ting*ting* in the head.

Simple but adorable.

So i thought why not?

Then i don't have to brainstorm anymore come January :P



Nevertheless, i was worried mad because the whole idea seems good and workable in the head but when it comes to really doing it, i have no idea how it'd turn out as i have no prior experience in decorating using melted chocolate on fresh cream + the number 1 shape might not be achievable.

And we're talking about having the cake for a party on the very day itself that i'm decorating it.

Pretty brave of me isn't it? Heh.

But worst come to worst, i'll just drive down to Bengawan Solo to buy one! No biggie actually :P

Anyway, the cake i used is Japanese Souffle Cheesecake, which i had baked before quite sometime ago because it is truly very yummy [in my opinion that is :P].



The cake tastes pretty much like Ichiban Boshi's cheesecake but very slightly heavier. I don't like it too light because i won't know when to stop eating.

Slightly heavier is good. At least, i can feel it is there. Heee..

All in all, i must say i'm pretty pleased with my end result of the cake. But there is something, or rather 2 things that bother me slightly when i was working on this tiny project of mine.

i - the cake's baking time turned out to be 2 hours instead of just 1! So 2 cakes = 4 hours. Imagine my horror! Till now, i still do not know why it took 2 hours per cake when previously it was just an hour.

ii - the colorful sprinkles' colour ran! within an hour after throwing them on. Why oh why?!

Now now, i'm really dreading for March to come. Headache ah!!!

But happy headache though. It's the only time of the year where i can and will challenge myself ;)

The sweetest thing

These days, whenever i hear this song 'The Sweetest Thing' playing on the radio.. i'll think of beep because he is really the sweetest thing ever.

The clip below was recorded by the husband on the first few days after we came back home from KL.




psssttt : he knows he's being filmed hence the very shy and conscious face! Tak boleh tahan.. Heh :P

It's Beep's 1st birthday today! :*

And he hasn't taken his first baby step [read : walking] yet unlike his 2 other korkor who started walking on the day before their 1st birthday but i am not complaining because i much prefer beep to crawl a little longer before he starts to walk. Good for the brain they say...

The birthday boy is currently taking his nap... i can't wait for later!

*off to decorate the cake*

Keeping my fingers cross that it'll turn out okay as i've planned! [the cake decorating that is]

It's a fun fun day!

One of the programs that i had lined up for the boys to do during the very long break was to bake.

I have seen schools offering baking classes to the young ones, so i thought why don't i conduct one myself instead of paying the school to do what i know though there will be some difference of course. [between baking in the school and baking at home with mommy]

What i did was to prepare the dough in advance minus the boys' help.

After that, it was hands off for me.. totally.

And it meant just that, totally hands off for me.

The boys did the kneading [slightly], rolling, stamping etc themselves.

All by themselves.. with a little help from the helper though.

And i?

Just standing around, trying NOT to give any instructions at all which i managed to successfully *grin*, carrying the baby and watched the boys have fun or rather, watched the boys fret mostly over their difficulty in stamping the cookies and trying to get the dough out in one piece. Heh.

Nevertheless, i was rather impressed with the results.

Orange butter cookies

Not too bad aye? ;)

Sure. There were some disfigured Hello Kitties. There were also some disfigured Stars, Hearts and not to mention.. the broken giant Star and Gingerbread Man.

But what matters more is that the boys had fun which they claimed they did and they loveeeeeeeed the cookies to bits!

The hint of the orange zest in these butter cookies was very refreshing.

Initially, i wanted them to continue on with decorating/piping using the icing with colours but by the time the cookies were baked, all of us were very much worn out.

So, that was that. No further decorating/piping.

Ccrrrrooooaaakk~

Boy1 is currently attending a 1 week holiday programme with an enrichment school. Everyday, the students will go places, doing really fun activities all day long from 9 to 5.

2 days ago, the boy was brought to a frrrrrrrog farm and he brought this home!


Huge tadpole!!!

I've not seen one this big before. All along, the ones i saw were small, cute and swim really fast, here there everywhere. Huge ones are so not so!

Boy1 didn't only brought 1 home, he brought 2.



Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

They do gross me out. I want nothing to do with them at all. But in the end, I relented and decided to keep them because the boys seem really thrilled with it. Furthermore, they promise that they'll take good care of it.

Every morning and evening, the boys will go outside the corridor to feed the tadpoles, wake them up and even talk to them. The 2 elder ones will just squat down right there, have small discussion between them and occasionally, laugh out loud.

It's rather heartwarming :)

And then yesterday when i was tending to my new plants, i saw this!!!!!



OMG!

Legs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The tadpoles now have legs!!!

Shit.

They are transforming.

Then, on the very night, i dreamed about the tadpoles turning into frogs overnight and jumped right into the house, causing a huge havoc.

Oh no!!

I think the next time when i see them having 4 legs, i'll tell the boys to bring their new pet to the canal downstairs to set them free.

Me shouting and screaming like a mad woman when the tadpoles really turn into froggies and start jumping and hopping around the house and corridor ain't gonna be a pretty sight. And i think the boys will definitely join me when that happens.

Peanut butter cupcakes

Everytime when i received a notice from the boys' school saying they'll be having party and food needs to be contributed, i'd start having headache.

Because the party isn't just once a year, it's every term and it could be twice a term sometimes!

Term 4 just finished last week. The last day of term 4 usually means X'mas party for the boys and parents are asked to contribute food if possible. This time round, i feel i should make something nice for the teachers as well instead of just for the the children hence, more headache!

I have to come up with something that will entice the old and young. Chocolate is out of the question because i bake chocolate cake too often for the parties. So, what's left for me to bake?

Orange cake?

Not sure if the kids will like them.

Oreo cake sounds good.

But i didn't have the ingredients on hand.

Then, i went browsing.. looking through my handwritten recipes and cookbooks for ideas and i finally came up with something.

Peanut butter cupcakes!

I like the way the peanut butter came oozing out a little. Biting into these babies are totally orgasmic especially when they are fresh out of the oven.. Very very yummilicious.

Which is an excellent choice.

i- it's simple and easy
ii- i can finally clear my peanut butter which will be expiring end of this month!
iii- not many adults and children will say no to peanut butter, right? *i hope*

But as they were cooling on the rack, i thought they look a tad too plain for the children to fancy it. For one, i know my boys will not go 'wahhhhhhhhh' when they see it so, i decided to play dressing up!

Keeping in mind that i need to finish the decoration within 15-20 mins, i came up with something really simple again.

Peanut butter cupcakes with Nutella. Should be quite a nice combination me think.



Nutella, right from my unopened bottle.

Then, with some variety of toppings ; rainbow sprinkles, heart shapes, candies.. the boys were all ready to go!

And of course, i left some naked.. for the teachers who might not like them dressed up :)

Saturday is the fun fun day!

Not the previous Saturday but 2 Saturday ago of course!

After the boys' art class at UE2, i decided to just chill out a little and let the boys have some fun before dinner.

But before that, it's hair cutting for the 2 younger ones. A very much needed cut! Now i don't have to keep repeating that beep is a boy, not a girl.. :P

Beep who refused to be cooperate. It was real tough! U can never imagine man... The amount of silly entertainment i did was enough to last me for 1 month! Lol.

After the painful hair cutting session, i took the boys to Laurent's Chocolate bar and cafe at Robertson Walk.

Our Chocolate Truffle cake!



It was really good. The chocolate was awesome but i think they could be slightly more generous with the chocolate for the in between layers... The chocolate sponge was really good though. However, it didn't quite feel like chocolate truffle cake. More like just a very rich dark chocolate cake?

The 3 piglets and the mommy pig.. See didi's new hair cut? So boy!

The abit garang + ah beng beep with his new hair cut. No more girlie beep yay!

I like Robertson Walk. It's a very nice place to go on a Saturday evening. Quiet, breezy, cooling, peaceful and plenty of space for the kids to just run wild and not having me to worry about them bumping into things or being out of sight.. very very nice.

It's a place where i can bring a book to read while the helper sits down and help to look after the boys.. and the plus point will be good cakes!

I like.

The boys who got recharged after downing the chocolate cake + a cuppa ice chocolate but then, they never really ran out of battery before y'know..

It was a lovely Saturday.. and i'm pretty sure we'll do more of this very soon :)

Concert 2007

It's the time of the year again!

Boy, was i excited or what! :P

Shy boy2's 1st concert!!!! And the boys looked awfully awesome in their costumes.. Hee hee hee.

Don't ask me why that expression on boy2... I dunno either!

Boy1 is the supposed to be dancer.. and he really looked like one too, doesn't he? Lanky and tall.. i just cannot imagine didi in that costume. Hahaha.. it'd be darn funny!

And didi is the tin soldier from UK. Wait till you see his full costume.. so very adorable! Together with the hat, white gloves and drum... I tell ya, i was swelling inside! *thick skin mommy*

On the way to the concert.. i did the make up! Compulsory.. Again, the funny face from boy2! Hee..

We were extremely late this year... didn't have the chance to take any photos before concert. Something that i do every year without fail :(

Anyway, korkor performed first surprisingly. Usually the performances start from the lowest level but this year, it's random. I must say that this year is boy1's best performance so far. He was well behaved. Unlike last year, he was looking everywhere and anywhere, not really concentrating.

Then it was didi's turn. The shy shy boy2 was fantastic! I was extremely proud. Don't know why but everytime when i see then boy now boys on stage performing year after year, i still feel overwhelmed with emotions... i simply couldn't stop the tears from flowing.

Silly billy me!

Finale, together with other students

Then some post concert shots..

Can't leave him out, can i? :P

And then of course the little stars of the day :)

As a reward for the boys' hard work, we had pizza for dinner! Something which excites the boys to no end at all times =)

Another milestone

Beepbeep has been attempting to stand up + climb on his own since 2 days ago.

Then yesterday when we were out at night, beep finally managed to do it on his own! [this definitely spells more headache now.. hehe]

The helper managed to capture one of his first successful climb of the night. I totally missed it! But luckily, there's video to watch :)




I thought it was pretty hilarious with all the 'go up, go up'. Like the baby can really understand? Heh.

And since i was already posting up 1 video, i might as well post another to bore you a little more coz i don't quite fancy posting up videos so often.

This is how we get the baby to sleep. The helper and i. Quite a task isn't it? :P



Speaking of videos, the husband took a video of himself and the baby few days back and when hb showed it to me, i almost laughed myself to a hysterical state in a nice ambience restaurant! How very embarrassing... but too bad, the husband forbids me posting it here due to some scenes of nudity [of the husband], disturbing scene [for the audience] and violence [from the baby]. Dang! :P

It's a fun fun day!

Bestie and i planned to surprise the kids by bringing them for the Duck Tour on Children's Day. Imagine me struggling.. It is a very hard thing for me. Not telling the boys where i'm bringing them that is.

Because i know, they love love love and been wanting to go for the Duck Tour for the longest time.

What a tough time indeed..

When we finally reached the counter at Suntec, they turned to ask me if i was bringing them for the Duck Tour. Yes yes yes! They jumped and screamed with joy... :)

Bestie and i met at the counter together with her brood. The kids met and it was hard not to stare because they were so high! Lol.

We wanted to go for the 10am tour but it was fully booked. The next available one was at noon. We had no choice but to go for that. The 11am one was also fully booked. I never knew that the Duck Tour can be this hot! Heh.

With an extra 2 hours on hand, it spelled headache for the mommies. Instead of walking around, we pigged out. Something that everyone enjoys :P

At 11.50am..

Waiting patiently for our turn

I think no one else can look so adorable when yawning besides babies... Haha. Seriously lo! [not just my baby oki? All babies!]

Bestie and her son

The children - 5 in total!

Finally, my boys and i :)

It was really tough to get good pictures with the children around. It is as good as not taking any! Mothers with more than 1 child will know that for sure. Or if you've got nieces/nephews, you will know it too! Put 3 children or more together from different family, you will get double headache. Haha..

All in all, it was truly a fun fun day. Till today, the boys are still talking about it *smile*.

So it was a right decision after all, to pick the Duck Tour rather than the MacRitchie Tree Top Walk.. :D [but i am definitely gonna do that on the next available holiday!]

What?!

When i first saw it..

i got weak in the knees.

my heart stopped beating for a while.

my head felt light and dizzy.

my stomach suddenly had lotsa butterflies.

my hunger subsided.

my appetite gone completely.

I, had to lie down for a while to regain my composure. Under the fast and furious fan that is. I needed to catch my breath back for sure.

What exactly did i see?

Nope, not the Tiffany Atlas ring with diamonds that i have been eyeing for.

Nope, not a whole room filled with red rose petals too.

Sadly, not some air tickets for a holiday which i have been dreaming of.

So, what exactly did i see?

I saw this..



Yes, i saw a ball.

Actually, 2 orange balls to be exact.

2 very very small orange balls.

You must be thinking "sherie's gone nuts, right?!".

But you know what?

I bet, if u were to see it, you would have felt exactly like me. No kidding!

Because......

i saw them in here.



Can you see it?

Right inside the ear for pete's sake!! *faint*

Deep deep in.

Not 1 side, but both sides.

So, which mommy won't feel what i felt?

Didi aka boy2 stuffed 2 balls into his ears, one side each with chopsticks! No one noticed anything amiss until the boy started taking lotsa tissues from the tissue box. When asked why, he calmly said it was for the balls inside his ears.

The boy was still running around, laughing and laughing thinking it was funny. I tell ya, it is so not funny! I didn't know whether to cry or laugh. Or whether to scold or love.

I was very calm at first. I managed to get 1 ball out. But when the other ball at another side refused to budge but went in deeper, that was the time i started to feel all the above. I called the hospital immediately and asked for advise.

Even though it was TMC [Thomson Medical Centre] that i called, i was advised to proceed straight to KKH instead. I was told that i needed to go KKH for they are better equipped *gasp*. And that that that that nurse i was talking to, was laughing throughout the conversation! She found it amusing! But then, who wouldn't?

When i called the husband a few seconds later, the husband also found it amusing. So we waited for the husband to come home before going to KKH together.

Hb insisted on trying to get the ball out when he came home against my wish. After many tries, he still couldn't. And me?

Hiding in another room, the heart can take no more seeing how deep in the ball was. Just when we were gonna leave for the hospital, hb decided to give it one last try, this time using another 'tool'. See below.



The tool that hb and i used : the metal one.

The tool which hb used later on : the green one, the sharp end.

As we were about to reach the in laws' house to drop the kids, hb told me to check the boy's ear once more. [i was already in the jelly-like condition no joke]

Guess what?

The ball was gone!!

That donkey husband managed to get the ball out after all, during his last try using the green tool! And he didn't even tell me! Arrrgghh...

So smack, hit, curse, glare it was. Hb so so deserved it for causing me an addition of 15 minutes of misery.

Thank god the ball came out. My emotions got so mixed that i dragged the boy into the room, hugged him tight and cried out loud. Heh. Boy said sorry, promised not to do it anymore and sayang me back for causing the mommy so much tears... aihss...

My lost appetite remained lost despite of the reversed situation.

Kids..

They do say the darnest thing don't they?

The other day when we were in the car, i started giving the boys some nicknames just for tease!

Nick names -

1. Shuoze a.k.a boy1 gets Weng [surname] chou chou* because he likes eating his fingers. He can put all 5 fingers into his mouth at 1 go to eat, nibble and whatnots. Terrible. Sometimes, when he's too bored, he eats his shirt too! Eat and eat till the whole front is wet! *faint*

Because of this, he smells all the time, from his own saliva hence the nickname.

2. Boy2 gets Weng huaidan* because he has been extremely naughty these days. Hehe.. usually, he's the angel but now, *roll eyes*, he's a monster at times! So not used to it yet. However, despite him being a monster at times, he still has this adorable face that i cannot refuse to kiss even when he's naughty!

Some facts about boy2.

Looks wise, he's the odd one out among the 3 boys. But to those who got to know the boys better, they will automatically prefer boy2. He has this thing that draw people to him. Strange but true. You will wanna get into his good book somehow. He has something that boy1 doesn't. Adorable is the magic word according to the friends and siblings.

Boy2 wins people slowly but permanently where else boy1 wins people instantly but not permanently. Heh.

3. Beepbeep has no nickname for the time being, from me that is. But boy1 got one for him though. He calls him Weng CuteCute. Grin.

So, after i gave the boys their nicknames, they gave 1 to me too!

When boy1 asked me to guess what it was, i cheekily said 'Weng meili'! Hahahaa..

But it wasn't, unfortunately. Dang! :P

What nickname do you think the boy gave me? ^.^

When i first heard it, i burst out laughing so loud and hard that the tears came rolling out. I totally didn't expect that at all. Never! Ever! Not in this life at least.. haha.

The boy called me "Weng ma ren"!!!

Which means scold people in direct translation.

I asked boy1 why and he told me it was because i always scold them. Grin. Aiyo! *slap forehead*

So much for being the fun mommy!!

Now now.. i must really change that shouldn't i? Hahaha.. I refused to be remembered as the mommy who always scolds us. I want to be remembered as the mommy who cooks and bakes good food and the mommy who is fun and sporting too!

Most importantly, i wanna be the mommy who is also our friend :)

*chou chou = smelly
*huai dan = naughty

Funny ah beep

Sharing some of ah beep's funny photos :D

Ah beep's shocked face upon seeing the camera aiming at him when he was doing his big business. Hee...

When i first saw this pic, the first thing that came to my mind was beep getting shocked after realising that i was actually gonna take a photo of him doing it and trying to cover up as well, which explains the right hand 'there' :P [yes, me and my many imaginations! heh]



A more composed beep after knowing the camera IS going to shoot him no matter what. But still covering himself up there.. haha. I heart that chubby breasts!!! *squeeze*squeeze* :ppPPpp



The monster beep! Hahahaha.. i c.a.n.n.o.t stop laughing seeing this photo. Too bad the pic turned out rather blur else i would have sent it for some ugly-monstrous-face competition! Lol.



Another twisted face from beep. I love that small mouth of his!! ^.^

Baby + car

Been feeling really lazy these days.

For the record, i've not been going for my classes since i got back last Monday! And of course, the fats are spilling out from the pants that i wear often.. ugh!

I m.u.s.t get back to the classes and start eating less. Been having an elephant appetite too *shake head* :P

For the meantime, it'll just be pictures with not much write up. Heh.



I love this shot!

Taken somewhere near Berjaya Times Square, after we had our lunch at a nearby Ampang Yong Tao Foo restaurant...

Spidermommy and spiderboy

That's us! [boy1 and i ;)]

It wasn't in the itinerary before we went back.

It was an impromptu plan which came about when i met the gfs on Thursday afternoon, chilling out at the bestie's house.

Bestie is currently waiting to start work at the hospital and another close gf has recently started her own company which, is a very good thing because that would mean flexible schedule, and we can practically go anywhere we want during the week days!

So rock climbing it was for us + the elder boy of mine. Didi refused to join in no matter what i say/do. Hehe.. He was pretty scared :P

During the safety talk

It was Laurence (the only guy with us) and my first time doing it. Sha and Carol had done it before. Sha is the experience one as she had done it more than thrice already. And of course, it was the boy's first too..

Me on our 'practise' wall

Rock climbing isn't exciting but it is v.e.r.y challenging.

It involves a lot of arms' strength which i definitely lack of and a bit of the legs' strength too. After doing 3-4 walls, around 9-10 climbs, my arms were shaking and trembling, literally. But the legs were fine.

Me belaying Shuoze

Even though it wasn't exciting, i quite like it. Pretty addictive.

Every time when i fail to climb to the top for certain walls, i get pretty determine to do it again and again till i manage to. However, for other walls which i know i cannot, i just stop. What is also interesting is that sometimes, after your first climb and you somehow didn't manage to complete it, you'll get down, stare and start doing a 'mental' climb in your head before you start your second climb again. Heh. Cute aye?

And for some other times, you'll even stop in the midst of it and start doing the mental climb before continuing :)

For Shuoze, it was a lot tougher as he is still a child. The walls were meant for adults and imagine the difficulty he encountered!

He needed to really stretch and use his legs + arms strength in order to get himself from one step to a further step. After seeing him completing 2 walls, all the way to the top, i was amazed. Seriously, i was so proud. I mean, he's only 5 and he could do a grade 5B wall!

All of us looking up at Shuoze, cheering for him

However, he did stop in the midst of the climb, looked down at me and told me he was scared. Which kid wouldn't right? It was so high! But the friends and i will cheer on for him and tell him it will be ok, and if he's tired, just let go, we'll be there to catch him. Most importantly, do not look down! It's rather scary you know, even for me when i do look down..

The first few times, i was his belayer and the last few times, he actually went to join my friends instead. Heh. And i thought he was pretty cool when i told him to do the 'L' shape when he was coming down and i didn't even teach him about it but thank god he knows.

For the time being, the best i did was a Grade 6A and nothing more than that. The next time i go, i am so gonna tackle that 6C wall which i didn't manage to climb.

Hb is very very keen to join us the next time i go. I wonder how hb will fare... because from what i see, i think girls are definitely better at it! :PppPP [if we have strong arms that is] We are, more agile and flexible :D

Err, but first, anyone has dumb bells to loan me? :P