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.