Poem: Holidays

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It’s the year end and most people are either going away on holidays soon or are seriously thinking about it. Schools are done in Singapore and everyday I hear someone going away on holiday. We are too, very soon. So here’s a poem which celebrates holidays!

Holidays

The tickets are booked, the airline seats selected
There’s an air of anticipation, excitement in the blood

A sense of wanderlust takes over
Excitement building up, getting bigger and bigger

You want the days to fly, the holiday to start
Your heart is pumping, you can’t wait to get a headstart

The long awaited day finally is here
You wake up bright and early, with a lot of cheer

You get to the airport and check in
Your boarding pass is in your hand and your face has huge grin

You board the plane and can’t wait for it to take off
The clouds call your name, you just want to blast-off

And then it’s time to land, for you to set foot in your holiday land
Your holiday now begins, the holiday you had planned

Enjoy your holiday, you have earned it to the max
Whatever your choice, it’s your time to kick off and relax

In My Hands Today…

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The Hamilton Case – Michelle de Kretser

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A flamboyant beauty who once partied with the Prince of Wales and who now, in her seventh decade, has “gone native” in a Ceylonese jungle.

A proud, Oxford-educated lawyer who unwittingly seals his own professional fate when he dares to solve the sensational Hamilton murder case that has rocked the upper echelons of local society.

A young woman who retreats from her family and the world after her infant brother is found suffocated in his crib.

These are among the linked lives compellingly portrayed in a novel everywhere hailed for its dazzling grace and savage wit – a spellbinding tale of family and duty, of legacy and identity, a novel that brilliantly probes the ultimate mystery of what makes us who we are.

2019 Week 46 Update

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This was such a hectic week that I am hurting all over.

I had an event which was supposed to end around 8:30 pm and at 10 pm there were still some guests in the room refusing to leave. We managed to get them to leave and then left the place.

The O levels are winding down and we are all getting into holiday mode. S leaves for his pilgrimage at the end of the week so we are also packing for his trip this week.

This week will be a more chill week and then it’s party time!

Have a wonderful week folks!!

2019 Secondary 4 Week 46 Update

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For the past two years the O levels is all that the children have heard, both from school and home. Now we’re down to the last exams and finally the journey is coming to an end.

The exams this week were a mixed bag for both of them, but we are trying not to dwell on exams which are over and prefer to focus on the ones that need to be studied for.

After the exams, both GG & BB will start preparing for their farewell prom which they have been anticipating. It’s a chance to let down their hair and have some fun before we fly off for our holiday.

Happy Sunday folks!

In My Hands Today…

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Bitter Almonds – Laurence Cossé

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Edith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate.

How can a person living in Paris in the third millennium possibly survive without knowing how to read or write? How does she catch a bus, or pay a bill, or withdraw money from the bank? Why it’s unacceptable!

She thus decides to become Fadila’s French teacher. But teaching something as complex as reading and writing to an adult is rather more challenging that she thought.

Their lessons are short, difficult, and tiring. Yet, during these lessons, the oh-so-Parisian Edith and Fadila, an immigrant from Morocco, begin to understand one other as never before, and from this understanding will blossom a surprising and delightful friendship. Édith will enter into contact with a way of life utterly unfamiliar to her, one that is unforgiving at times, but joyful and dignified.