2019 Week 24 Update

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Another week and we are almost halfway through the year!

I think, after more than a year, I have finally made peace with freelancing. I have decided that this is probably what I want to do and have started the process of reaching out to people to get more clients.

My take is that given that I hate the politics that happens in most offices, working for myself takes me away from that environment is a definite plus. Also the fact that there’s commute to work and the need not to wiork with people I may not get along with. I can also blast music or videos as I work and work on something else concurrently without being judged negatively.

I also went for my next eye review earlier in the week and though my eyes look all right, the right eye is still not 100% allright. The left eye is, according to the doctor, quite pristine. I am down from six eye drops to four eye drops, which is really a huge relief to me. I have the next review after a month and my hope at that review is that both my eyes are ‘pristine’

It was Fathers Day yesterday and so we decided to take S to the newly opened Jewel at Changi. It was a fun trip in the midst of studying and we really enjoyed it a lot. I will post pictures of the place soon.

Have a wonderful week folks!

2019 Secondary 4 Week 24 Update

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Week 2 of the school holidays has just ended and we are at the halfway mark for the holidays.

The children had a couple of combined studies with their friends and they did say that they managed to do a fair bit of revision. I have told them, if studying with their friends is good to to studying well, then I don’t mind them doing them even a couple of times a week, at least till school reopens.

There’s really nothing much to add to the children’s schedule this week. They are busy completing their holiday homework and also trying to catch up on revision.

Have a lovely Sunday!

In My Hands Today…

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The Moon Pearl – Ruthanne Lum McCunn

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The Moon Pearl is the story of Rooster, Shadow, and Mei Ju, who become fast friends while members of a girls’ house, where young daughters are taught to become daughters-in-law.

These girls, however, want neither to marry nor become nuns (the only options open to them at this time). They choose instead to support themselves through their skills in embroidery and silk production.

Though ostracized by their families, attacked, and barely able to find sustenance and shelter, these sze saw, or self-combers as they will come to be called, manage to create lives that they alone control. An amazing true-life story, The Moon Pearl offers an empowering vision of womanhood in China.

Poem: Eyes

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I have documented my issues with my eyes previously and that’s when I really realised how much we depend on our eyes in our daily activities.

At its peak, when I was scared that I would not be able to see from that eye anymore, I was tourtured by the thought that I will never be able to see my children or my loved ones again or even this beautiful world we have.

So here’s today’s poem in honour of the importance our eyes have for us.

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Eyes

The first thing we do when we wake up

And the last thing we do when we end the day, tired and yawning

Is to open or shut our eyes, our window to the world

Our eyes show us this beautiful world

Let us know the love that shines in the eyes of the ones we loved

We use it all day, every day

Until its an automatic gesture, missing it only when it gets in disarray

So make sure you take care of your eyes

You only have a pair till you die

Otherwise, you may fall into despair and regret

At that point, there’s nothing to do but fume and fret!

In My Hands Today…

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Becoming Strangers – Louise Dean

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After more than half a century of marriage, Dorothy and George are embarking on their first journey abroad together. Three decades younger, Jan and Annemieke are taking their last, as illness and incompatibility bring their unhappy union to an end.

At first, the luxury of a Caribbean resort is no match for the well-worn patterns of domestic life. Then the couples’ paths cross, and a series of surprises ensues–a disappearance and an assault, most dramatically, but also a teapot tempest of passions, slights, misunderstandings, and small awakenings that punctuate a week in which each pair struggles to come to terms with what’s been keeping them apart.