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Work and Wok · 2M ago

Success

I was at a work discussion when this question was asked. “How do you know if you have succeeded?” Indeed how do I know? How would I know if I have been successful as a wife, mother, daughter, sister, work? How would I know if I have succeeded as a person? That was something I [...]
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Work and Wok · 3M ago

Meal Planning : Week of 16 Jan 2012

Yikes! I have not kept up…Okay enough of beating myself up since this is most likely to happen again. Now to make good my committment. I am getting better at this and also better at improvising. With a big familym, it was inevitable that plans change mid-week. For us this week, my third son fell [..
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Work and Wok · 4M ago

Meal Planning : Week of 9 Jan 2012

This week was a hectic week (Who am I kidding? Everyweek is hectic!) with Chinese New Year looming near and kids homework ramping up and spelling sheets flying everywhere! I was able to shop better and stick better to the plan with last week’s experience. I was also able to improvise and change plan
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Work and Wok · 4M ago

Meal Planning : Week of 2 Jan 2012

So, I had committed to blogging about my meal planning experience. For the last month or so, I have been browsing the internet for recipes that might be suitable for my needs. Namely : Easy Fast Family will eat Nutritious Out of 10 recipes that I look at, I reject 9. Most recipes do not [...]
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Work and Wok · 4M ago

Meal Planning : How it got started

    Our lifestyle changed this year with half of our 4 kids moving nearer to our home than our in-laws’ home. So I have my wish of cooking lunch and dinner for half our family. I know that if I don’t do any meal planning, grocery shopping will be messy and expensive, not knowing [...]
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Work and Wok · 4M ago

Change

Today is the first of school. Not just any typical first day of school. This is the day that my first born steps into secondary school and my third born steps into primary school. Many feelings go through me as I watch the boys wore their new uniforms proudly. Of course, the moment is sometimes lost
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Work and Wok · 5M ago

Preparing

This is the season of Advent. It is the period before Christmas that I am supposed to be preparing for the coming of Christ. To be ready when He comes knocking at my door. I think I have a lot of work ahead of me! This is also the end of the calendar year 2011. [...]
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Work and Wok · 10M ago

If You Give a Mom a Muffin

If you give a mom a muffin, She’ll want a cup of coffee to go with it. So she’ll pour herself some. The coffee will get spilled by her three year old. She’ll wipe it up. Wiping the floor, she will find some dirty socks. She’ll remember she has to do some laundry. When she [...]
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Work and Wok · 11M ago

My son and I

It was one of those life changing moments. Those that you never see coming and then – WHAM! – your life changes forever. A few weeks ago, I recieve a note from my son’s school saying that they will be putting him and his cohort through a 3-day Adam Khoo’s motivation and study workshop, SuperKids. [.
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Work and Wok · 1Y ago

Recipe Wednesday – Tuna Pasta Salad

This is the easiest lunch in the world! Mainly protein from the tuna and beans, and carbohydrates from the pasta. Great to brown bag. It heats up in a flash in my trusty microwave but it is delicious cold as well! Ingredients 1 can of tuna fish chunks/flakes (I love the chili flavoured one but [...]
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