No More P Sticker On The Car

Now that my son has left his teen years, I need to come up with another nickname for him on my blog knowing that he really values his privacy and wouldn't want to publish his name and photos on the internet for all to see.

But his mum, being the forgetful person that she is, is a blogger and she wants to keep a record of all the experiences in her life as a mum so that there would be stories to tell her children when they become parents, as well as to her grandchildren in days to come.

Hence all the nicknames and lack of photos of ourselves so as to have some degree of privacy. In this age of advancing technology, you'll never know what unscrupulous people can do with your mugshots, right?

OK...back to the nickname bit.

I'll refer to my son as Mr. CoolGuy from this day on, a slight difference from his old nickname, Mr.CoolTeen.

Mr. CoolGuy has exchanged his Malaysian Probational Driving Licence (PDL) for his Competent Driving Licence (CDL) and the P stickers on our cars can now be removed, much to his pleasure. He complains that drivers of larger vehicles usually like to bully drivers in smaller cars with the P sticker by cutting into their lanes. 

Took him to the nearest branch of the Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan, bringing a photo, MyKad and P driving licence. I didnt know that the photo needed a white background now instead of the usual blue, but thankfully the photo could be scanned from the new MyKad. So the chip in the MyKad works after all. The strange rule is that we can only renew the licence within a week of the expiry date. 

Queue was really long. After a 1.5 hour wait, I paid RM150 for 5 years plus RM15 processing fee but because CoolGuy's birthday falls in March, he gets another 11 months FOC since his P licence expired end of April. Not bad, 6 years for the price of 5!

Mother's Day 2014

Usually whenever there's a celebration in church, the mothers will each bring some food  and all the church members would have a simple lunch together. For Mother's Day this year, the youths and young adults were assigned to bring food instead.

So early on Sunday morning, my kids were awake and busy in the kitchen frying sausages. Too bad I was having blocked nose that day, as I'm sure the kitchen would have been filled with a lovely aroma. I was not allowed to cook  but I did supervise them. It was such a sight having my 2 kids cooking together that hubby couldn't resist snapping some photos.

But my kids were camera-shy, so you would only get to see their busy hands at work....

During the church service a little later on, the youth group presented a mime using coloured gloves.

Cookies and spatula flown all the way from
USA, given by my pastor :)

To end the day, we had a simple family dinner at Nando's. Really appreciate everyone who took the effort to make us mothers feel special on this day.