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2018 Week 47 Ipdate

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Nothing really to update with regard to the children. Holidays are ongoing and I am on BB’s case to catch up on his sec 3 work before school starts and he gets overwhelmed again.

Yesterday, I volunteered in BB’s school to usher potential parents and children to choose this school as one of their options after the PSLE results which was declared earlier in the week. It’s always fun doing this and I enjoy speaking to potential parents and sharing my experiences in the school. BBs school, though a neighbourhood school, has a distinctive programme which is very tempting to some students (BB included) who make it their first choice of school.

I also had a fairly lazy week with not much happening. I’ve decided to focus on my freelance work more once the new year starts and have started to do research in that direction.

S is taking leave some days next week and I want us to do some activities as a family, especially since the children don’t get to spend much time with him, given his busy schedule. So I should start planning those too.

2018 is almost over and the new year will be here in the blink of an eye! What are your plans for the new year?

Have a wonderful Sunday and an awesome week!

2018 Week 46 Update

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Another week has gone by and the children are almost in the middle of their school holidays.

Last Friday, GG’s school organised a two hour long concert of their school choir plus two other invited schools. It was lovely programme, not because GG was the opening emcee of her choir, but because all the schools sang quite well. Other than the open house in her school next week, this activity will be the last one for her for the school calendar year.

BB is his usual self, playing games on his laptop whenever he can and getting scolded by me! He also started shaving, something I didn’t think I’d see so soon! My baby has become a man! 

In my news, some career expectations I had didn’t come through and I took this to be a sign from the universe that perhaps I should focus more on my freelance business which is what I will do now. I will spend the next month focusing on my family and the children and when the new year rolls around and people start coming back to work, I will start contacting potential clients. 

Have a wonderful Sunday and an awesome week.

2018 Week 45 Update

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This was such a hectic week for us! The week started with the last minute preparations for the biggest Indian festival – Diwali. Then on the day of Diwali, after we went to the temples and had lunch, we came home to prep for S’ colleagues who were invited for an open house at our place for tea and snacks. It was such a hectic day that we all just collapsed when everyone left late evening.

I took a couple of days to recover from Diwali and this year I really felt each year of my age! I am getting old and I really wonder how my mom and grandmother managed and are managing till today.

The children are on leave now, but with holiday homework and so I have to keep nagging BB mostly to do his work. This will be from later this week though as he was on a school trip to Malaysia as part of his Humanities programme most of the week and only returned back over the weekend.

This is all for us this week, S will be taking leave to clear his leave from the end of the month and so I should plan some activities to do as a family as well as a trip overseas. I am looking at a few neighbouring countries so that’s my homework this week.

Have a wonderful Sunday and an awesome week folks!

2018 Week 44 Update

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November is here and with it comes the realisation that the year is coming to an end and 2019 is just around the corner.

This week is quite busy for me what with the Festival of Lights aka Diwali or Deepavali starting form tomorrow. This is the biggest festival in India and the festivities go on for almost a week in certain parts of the country.

We also commemorated my late Father-in-law’s death anniversary over the weekend. We do a special prayer for a departed soul every year on the date of his or her death (according to the Hindu calendar) and the prayers in our community are quite unique. I will do a post on this one of these days.

To all celebrating Diwali, wishing you and your loved ones a very Happy Diwali. May this Festival of Lights light up your lives!

2018 Week 43 Update

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This was a pleasant week for me. If you remember, I mentioned about an organisation where I met people with whom I was not comfortable with. There was a sense of unease that I had which I decided to heed. I then set some conditions to them which I knew they will not accept and it happened as I expected. They let me know they will not be pursuing this further and I danced a little jig when I saw that email. I am glad I didn’t reject them off hand as it meant i would be burning some bridges.

Over the weekend, we made a day trip to Johor Baru to shop for clothes for the children for Diwali. What should have been a 30-45 minute trip, given that we stay a 10 minute drive from the causeway in no traffic conditions, this turned out to be a 3.5 hour drive to the mall! We spent more than 3 hours battling traffic! The drive on the way back was marginally better at 2 hours and 15 minutes, but the bumper to bumper traffic is so bad that it’s making me think twice about driving into Malaysia! I seriously hope the two governments do something about this. But we had a good time shopping with the children and hopefully the next time we drive in, the traffic is not so bad!

This week shows to be a hectic one with my Diwali preparations starting from today. I plan to start making a bit of the sweets and savories each day so that I am not overwhelmed.

Have a wonderful week folks!