Winter/ Spring Cleaning

Took advantage of my leave to do some winter/ spring cleaning of my room! 
I seriously need to reorganise how I organise things! At least I still have time before Chinese New Year in February 2018 haha.

Spring Cleaning

Chinese New Year is just two weeks away! Need to do spring cleaning. 
Wait, hang on, I have already done my spring cleaning during Christmas! Haha. :D 

Spring Cleaning

My mother did a little spring cleaning of the Ang Pow that she has collected over the years, for the past 15-20 years at least. She had to throw out some of the old ones as the self-adhesive part was really yucky. She found the Year of the Goat/ Ram red packets from 12 years ago! Hmm, can recycle and use for this year haha. :P

She threw out a huge plastic bag of old red packets and kept a packet each of the really beautiful, interesting and unique designs.

Spring Cleaning

Completed, well more or less lol. I realised that this is the last weekend to spring clean before the girls start school next week, and especially before my parents/ their grandparents return home next week from Xiamen. :P Well, although there is another four more weeks to Chinese New Year, no time is a good time than now to start the spring cleaning. :) Of course, with my parents coming back SOON is also a great motivation to spring clean now (in order to avoid scolding from them for messing up the place lol). 
We, meaning the girls and I, have managed to tidied up their study materials, their art and craft materials, and their toys and re-organised into the various boxes. We also threw out and recycled a lot of their past year study materials. Just a little touch up here and there in the next few days, our spring cleaning for Chinese New Year will be done. :)

Dust, dust,

everywhere. :(
Stirring up lots of dust with the spring cleaning of my room... Sneezing, teary eyes, ...
Going through my Zytec D (antihistamine) like nothing. :(

Hoarding

We have finally finished clearing up the girls' stuff. Now it is my turn. I have accumulated quite a fair bit of stuff in my room, ok, quite a lot of stuff. But they are mostly the reading materials for my PhD, over the years (yes, making excuses). You can imagine the mess lol. My parents call my room the junkyard. :P
By the time I blogged this, I have managed to clear the study table in my table. Recycling one bag full of paper - all articles that I no longer need and have been hoarding! Bad habit, always thinking I might need it/ them later. I finally found the courage to throw (recycle) them.
More clearing to be done tomorrow. :S

Christmas Eve 2011

It is a really wet Christmas Eve. Nothing will be better than snuggling under the covers reading on my Kindle with a hot cuppa. Unfortunately no such luck for me. The long weekend is the perfect time for spring cleaning! I was supervising and helping the girls in clearing and packing up the place since Chinese New Year is less than a month away (falls on 23 & 24 January 2012). Especially since my parents will be back soon after being away for 3 months! :P

Mini Spring Clearing/Cleaning

We did a mini spring clearing/ cleaning today. Expected it to take only 2 hours top, it stretched to 5 hours. We, meaning my girls and I, cleared out piles of their stuff (books, toys, junk) in the living room, dining room area and in their grandparents' bedroom.
Now the place looks really neat and clutter-free! :) Just in time, the girls' grandparents (my parents) are coming back from UK tomorrow. Hahaha. Yes, that's our motivation for doing the spring cleaning because we didn't want to get a scolding from my parents for creating a mess in the apartment. :P Yes, even at my age, I dread getting a scolding from my parents lol.

"Spring" Cleaning

Taking advantage of the long National Day weekend, I reorganised the girls' boxes. The boxes store their books, toys and more books. The girls were supposed to help me so that they could also take the responsibility in deciding what to keep, what to throw out, and what to donate (if in good condition). But when they saw the various boxes occupying half the living room floor, they bailed out immediately on me! One cited having to do homework and the other cited that she was helping to pack the bedroom. Sigh.

I started sorting and reorganising from 12+pm while watching tv. By the time I am done, it was 9+pm and I was walking around like the Hunchback of Singapore. :P "Spring" cleaning is no joke, it is back-breaking work. :(

Daiso and Daiso Again.

Yup, I went to Daiso twice today lol.

Juliane and I went to Plaza Singapura in the late morning. I wanted to have a look at pda phones (there are several phone shops there) and I needed bar magnets from Daiso, lol. :P After looking at the phones, we went to Daiso. I can hear a good friend from work laughing at me for going to Daiso again. I got my magnets and Juliane her highlighters. Beats me why she needs them, maybe I borrow them from her when I am doing my readings, lol. We went to the food court for lunch. I think I can hear yet another good friend from work laughing. Hey, I do eat at food court, okay?! Lol. :P

In the afternoon, I tidied up my study table. Managed to clear a bagful of junk, lol. I still have the bookshelf and a side table to go through. I will probably do that tomorrow, if the procrastination/ lazy bug doesn't hit me first. Hahaha. :P

After dinner, we went to Vivocity. And again, I went to Daiso but with Marieann this time round lol. I got more magnets and Marieann got something for my father hahaha. After our shopping, we went for a drink at Corduroy Cafe. The girls had their cupcake and pancakes. (Pictures of food have been shown here in a September 2007 post.) I had a Milk Infusion with Lavender and Honey ($6). I thought it might relax me enough to sleep earlier tonight. Nay, I don't think so as there are several DVDs waiting for me to watch them lol.