Home Team Festival (24 Nov 2019)

On Sunday, we had fun attending Home Team Festival.
They showcased many things from SCDF, internal defense as well as kids activities and the best part is it's free :)

Richie tried wall climbing for the first time and he made it almost to the top. Then he tried Kids Ninja Warrior too. Last but not least, he hold the real gun to shoot the target.

We also had free photo session in the booth provided.
Overall we spent around 2 hours there and it's really great edutainment to the kids

Altar Server Camp (20 - 22 Nov 2019)

This is his first time away from home.
He went for Altar Server Camp at church for 3 days and 2 nights.
He's so excited and nervous at the same time. Two days prior the camp, he has packed his own bag and asked us to buy sleeping bag for him.

The day before we went to Decathlon to buy sleeping bag and he chose himself.
I asked him
Would you miss mama and papa ? he said yes
Would you miss Tromson ? he said yes
Would you miss Ted ? he said no, because Ted is naughty
hahaha....

I asked him, are you excited ?
Yes, half excited because it's my first time and half nervous because I'm afraid I couldn't sleep well.

Anyway, in the morning, mama sent him to church and he looked happy.
Hopefully in this 3 days 2 nights, he will discover some enlightenments and perhaps found his personal vocation too.
Whatever he wants to choose, as long as it's for God's glory, mama and papa will support him.

Life Lesson Learned from Richie

Yesterday I picked my eldest son from school as usual I asked him about school and any test result from the recent papers.

He was happily saying 😃mama I got improvement in my chinese.

Chinese is his weakest subject and I only expect pass grade from him. So when he told me he got improvements, I thought it must be 7/10 or something 😃

Then he continued but I still failed in Chinese in very calm expression 🙂then he told me he got 19/45. Which I know it's failed😅😔

Quickly he calmed me down and said I did better this time than last semester with 10 points increase which is for him it's considered a lot.🤪

I didn't know whether I wanted to cry 😭 or to be happy 😃 at that time.

This morning when I did daily examine of what happened yesterday, once again I was reminded of his story and I pondered and reflected back

He actually gave me some important lessons

1. He values himself not based on what others define or expect him

2. He didn't see fail and pass as failure or success but he could see that he has grown and improved and did better than before

3. He never compared himself to others, he only compared it with old him.

4. Yesterday was yesterday, today is today and tomorrow will be another day, he always takes it easy and never take it to hard. 

In the end, I only can say that I am proud of him not because of his results performance but he has grown wiser especially in this age when everyone loves to compare and compete with each other.

Happy Teacher's Day 2019

This year, we want to make a small step to save the earth thus the present for teacher's day is reusable foldable shopping bag.
Mama bought it from online shop and paste label. It's very simple and yet useful.

P4 photo

Primary 4 starts ( 2 Jan 2019 )

School started on January 2nd.
Richie has packed up everything the day before. Luckily, mama remembered that he hasn't had new white shoes when we passed by BATA while waiting for him having new hair cut.

In the morning, he could wake up at 6.45am and papa sent him to school.
In the afternoon, mama picked him up from school and we already gave him new second hand handphone so that he could contact us after school.

Hopefully, this Primary 4, he will be able to do better in his study, more independent and wiser too.

All the best !