Curtains UP!

Just today.... we spent half our day at the new house, to unpack abit of stuff :) See the curtain? Finally ya!!

September School Holiday!!!

It's the start of 1 week holiday for the children and this week, I've stopped all packing n unpacking at the new house just to make sure I've all the time for the children!

My 1st Teacher's Day Gift!!

Received 2 wonderful gifts from church this morning. One came from a 3yo lil gal in my sunday school class. Now I can really feel the joy when you are being appreciated for your service.

1st Parent Volunteer Excursion to Hill Street Central Fire Station

This afternoon was my very first excursion as a parent volunteer at Shuqun Primary School. It's quite a breeze and I must say I have enjoyed myself very much. Down 3hours, hurray!

Happy Teacher's Day

This morning Jamie's school had a mini concert to celebrate teacher's day. It's a cold and drizzling day but the children had a lot of fun watching their favourite teachers performing on the stage! We did 3 heart shaped bookmark cards for her teachers. She indicated it has to be given to Mrs Melissa, Li Lao Shi and Mrs Tan. I supposed these are the teachers that are closest to her.

Kids' Room

Our sofa finally has arrived! While waiting there, I quickly finished up the wall decals that I have bought from wee gallery in the children's room. Nice!

Parent Volunteer Programme

Received a call this afternoon while I'm on my way to fetch Jeremy from school. It's from Shuqun Primary School asking me to go for interview as a parent volunteer! Kind of surprise cos I thought the application already closed and very unlikely I will have any chance (though I did emailed to query after the unsuccessful application at Rulang). The interview was swift and I was accepted on the spot! Ask me why I'm so excited afterall its not a very popular school. Hmm, well, ever heard of this hokkein saying, no fish prawn also can?? Hurray!

Bots & Nuts

Ikea came this afternoon to fix up a number of furnitures we've bought from them.... mainly for our children. It's soooo Ikea!

More!!

1) IKEA colored plastic storage stackable boxes. Selling as a set of 3 with 1 lid to cover the top box. Condition 9.5/10. Deal at $15.00 *********************************************************** 2) Ikea low storage box. Condition 8.5/10. Deal at $8.00 ************************************************************ 3) IKEA 3 tier Shoes Cabinet. Chipped off between doors. Deal at $20 *********************************************************** 4) 2 Wardrobes to deal at $30.00

Garage Sales

What keeps me busy lately ? Clearing off stuff here !! See if anything suits you? Email me at gerbera_rose@yahoo.com.sg

Bundled $100 / Condition as good as new. Comes with keys for those locks.

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Books .. Books.... Books

Today I finally sold off all the 4 bookshelves to 2 buyers!! Yippee!! And after moving 60% of the children's books, only then, I realised that's so many books that I have invested for them and we are soon running out of shelves in their new bedroom :o

Bots & Nuts

Ikea came this afternoon to fix up quite a number of furniture we've bought recently for ournew house.... mainly for our children. It's soooo Ikea!

A Pleasant Surprise

After seeing her progress report card abt 2wks ago, I'm uncertain or rather quite firm that she will probably not be given an award for this term. Just before I transferred her to this class abt 1.5mths ago, the teacher subtly told me that her class will be more competitive vs the previous class she was in. But when she gave a brief description of this child, mentioning that this child only joined in at the middle of the term, attended 6 lessons, in my heart, I still din know that it could be Jamie till her name was read out. Jamie, once again, proved to me that she does work very hard during lessons although she is playful & sometimes gets distracted in class. Praise God & all glory goes back to Him!

There goes ....

A fren just comfirmed that the PV application has already closed for the school that I thought we can try. Hmm, well, at this point, I can only pray that , "God let your will be done, amen!"

Plan B?

Received a call from a fren who told me that she wasn't chosen as a parent volunteer in the school that we also applied for. Immediately I called CQ to check on our status. As my sentiments told me that we may not get it, it turned out the way my sentiments has "predicted"

( extracted from the email replied...)

Dear Potential Parent Volunteers,Thank you very much for taking time to state your contribution in the template provided by the school. After much deliberation and consideration, the panel regrets to inform you that you have not been selected as one of our Parent Volunteers. Decision made by the school is final. However, if you are still interested to register your child in our school, you may want to do so under Phase 2C registration next year.Thank you.Regards

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Question is, what's next?

So I quickly booted up the desktop and started reading up the other 2 schools that's nearest to us. Decision ? Well, I will be applying as a PV again to the other school that is further from our house. Pray that we will be successful. Whatever it is, I pray that this will be God's decision for our children. Whether it's gonna be the school that we hope they will be is no longer an issue to us.

Away from home

This is Jamie's #2 staying overnight at her Dagu's house. She's soooo excited about the whole thing. I'm glad that she is doing fine there without disturbing her grandparents at night.

Toilet

This is our master bedroom's toilet. Cool!

SSO @ Singapore Botanic Garden

A close friend told me of this performance weeks ago and here we are this evening for an hour of live performance cum dinner picnic at the garden.

Happy 43rd Birthday, Singapore!

Jeremy's school has a mini party to celebrate NDP too! This is the goody he took back today.

Sports Day

This is Jamie's 2nd time participated in her school's sport day. It's 830 to 113oam. It started with all K1 performing 2 pom pom dances as opening for the event. This year, Jamie's class did a relay and they came in 1st! The finale ended with singing few of the Singapore's fav "old time" songs to celebrate tomorrow's NDP!

Story Island Progress Report Level 2

It's time again for the 4 months once progress report card! I am pleasantly glad to find out that she actually extends her creative thinking skills during the chinese lessons. So the John Langrehr Thinking Program does helps. :) There'll be rooms for improvement and more drilling to converse in Mandarin too. Well done, Jamie!

Overlooked

Last month was really a mad rush for me. Blinks of eyes and its gone! And unknowingly, I have been missing revising with Jamie her chinese spelling till I found out yesterday that her spelling is on every Mondays (I thought its on Tuesday, same as her English spelling) ! Today she brought home the exercise book and as expected, I knew it. I felt a need to explain to her teacher so I wrote a short note. Though she got it all wrong, at least she managed to write what she vaguely remembered. And she told me must write something on it even if cannot remember anything, cannot leave any blank. What a courageous girl at such tender age!

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth!

Jamie drew this card for her friend who just had her 5th birthday party last Saturday. They all had lotsa fun enjoying watching the magic show.

Kinderart Artwork

This is Jamie's 1st take home completed artwork from Kinderart at her school. She has been attending an hour of extended art n craft lessons after school on every Wednesdays and she loves it so far! This is how she drew and colored the tree with lines on its trunk and thick branches, the 2 colors sunset too. Interesting right?

More Pixs from Jamie's Party

Finally took the cdrom courtesy from jjpapa's fren, Uncle FS who had graciously agreed to help out to be the official photographer during the party. Will be uploading some interesting pixs here soon.

Jamie's School Cake

This cake was customised by ecreative. I saw this picture from the internet and thought it might be nice to have such cake for her since I couldn't find a suitable star theme cake at all the major cake shops here. It looks simple and plain yet I think its gorgeous too, isn't it?

Happy Birthday, Jamie!

Looking at Jamie now... I really couldn't believe my eyes that she is now 5! It's been 5years I have been home with her, seeing her growing, learning and succeeding in every of her little milestones. This is my priviledge as her mom. I thank God for His grace and loving kindness upon our daughter. I pray that Jamie will continue to grow to become the lady that God has intended for her.

Thank God It Has Been Great!

Wah... finally its over! I thank God for the wonderful party that Jamie and her lil guest had enjoyed so much! I am thankful for our helper who has been my right hand man for all the wrapping of presents, packing of the goody bags, pasting and sticking of labels etc. With her around, I do not rush or fuss over during the preparation for the party. Thank God for my dad & his fren who are willing to tag along wif me. I cannot imagine how I'm going to lug all the barang barang if not for them. And when we reached there, I was so shocked to find some folks & caterer still packing from the previous party 10mins b4 5pm ! Everything was in a mess and without any hesitation, I gently asked for "permission" to do the setup and deco. Just before the party commenced at 6pm, everything was up and ready to welcome the first guest! Pixs to be uploaded when CQ gets it from his colleague who was the photographer for the party. Thank you Fook Sin!

All Ready to Go!

Finally I have finished all the stuff for the party! Hurray!

Count Down

3 days to go before Jamie's birthday party !! I am excited yet worry that things will not turn out as what I intended it to be. I am hoping that the kids will have lotsa fun and most importantly, for Jamie to have a good memory of her 1st party with her friends.

1st Late Submission Homework

It was intentional to submit Jamie's school work later than the cut off date. I was filled with lots of things in my mind in the mist of preparation of her birthday party and our new house on top of the daily chores to follow up with. But I'm glad that we finally did it! We were 2 days late. Here's the final artwork we did w/i few mins when I had the inspirations of how to do up an insect using scraps materials as instructed.

What I'm Busy with?

This week is very crucial for me and CQ. Me ? Yup I'm rushing to finish up Jamie's ballet scrapbook (above) and CQ his photography project with a corporate client as well as the new house. We have never felt so busy before!

Work-In-Progress

Finally see some "real work" going in and out of our new place this morning when I swinged over for a peek. Took some pixs and am pleased with the color selection so far.

Jamie's 1st Year in School 2007

I've finally completed her 1st year of school at JCK. The album will be open for viewing during her birthday party next Sat.

Greetings for Singapore

This is one of the longest timeline given by Jamie's school. I received it on 3rd July and submission date is 18th! Still have one more artwork to do with her and gotta hand up by 21st July.

Invitation

Every year we will host Jamie's birthday party with mostly immediate relatives invited. However, this time round, I feel that we should focus on the lil guest instead. So I went "out" to invite those friends that Jamie wants them to attend. Just pray that the children will have lots of fun and I will have the capability to run such a party.

Renovation for Our 2nd Home-To-Be

Ever since the collection of keys on 29th May, we are still busy with things for the new house... and will be... As the date to completion is drawing nearer, we are getting more busy than ever! Plus the fact that I am also preparing for Jamie's birthday party (and her scrapbooks!) 2 weeeks later, hence, every day is fill with lots of things to accomplish. My life has never been so busy before!

Ikea Shopping Spree

It's been quite a long time ago when we did a huge shopping list at Ikea... 8years ago :o This shall be the children's bed at the new house, Jamie's fav!

Godly Woman ?

This morning I went for a 4hours workshop at our church, alone. Yup, I've signed myself up for the 2years programme. Hmm, its a wise choice indeed. At the end of the session, I was feeling kind of relieved perhaps knowing that I will be recharge and refresh, hopefully will get a new understanding of my purpose and destiny in life!

Banana Bread using AMC Pot

I had a cooking session with a fren who brought along the AMC sales rep to do some demo using their pots. This time, we did banana bread, egg tarts and fry a plate of vegetable dish w/o much oil and water. Great!

Busy, Busy, Busy!

If you ask me what I'll be busy with, well, preparing Jamie's scrapbooks b4 the party on 26th July! Already have 2 albums on hand to be completed by mid July (hopefully) so that I can complete 1 more b4 the party.

The Straits Time School Pocket Money Fund

Hahha we didn't even realised what our children were performing for till tonight! CQ gave some coins to Jeremy to donate into the metal tin during intervals and received a thick booklet. So this is what it's for...."The Straits Time School Pocket Money Fund was initiated on the Children's Day (Oct 1st) in the year 2000 by The Straits Times, to heighten public awareness of the plight of children from low-income families who were attending school without proper breakfast, or pocket money to sustain their day in school. The aim is to alleviate the financial burden faced by parents in providing for their children's education. At the same time the funds will help children who are already facing difficulties in remaining in school to stay on."