2015 Week 30 Update

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We are in August now, where did the months go! Less than half the year to end 2015 and two months more to the PSLE!

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The Crowds cheering the mobile columns

The usual week which was enlivened by the NDP preview we went to on Saturday! This was our first NDP and the atmosphere was terrific. We got tickets for the Floating platform, and not at the Padang where all the action was, but the fireworks here was simply amazing!

If this was the case one week before the celebrations, I am sure the energy and atmosphere next week will be electric!! And the fireworks, they were amazing! I heard that what was shown at the preview was only a part of what will be shown next week, so if you are in Singapore next Sunday, do watch the NDP show. I’m planning another post on the NDP show later in the week and have more pics in my camera which I need to download, so more later…

But I was so tired after coming home and was even feeling it yesterday. A heartfelt salute to all the performers, presenters, motivators, ushers and volunteers who have been doing this every Saturday right from July….

Work-wise, I spoke to my boss about not going for the Delhi trip later in the month and he asked me to reconsider as the meeting is basically my baby and I have been planning and working on it for almost 3 months now, from logistics to agenda. So I will talk to S and the brats once more and take a decision soon!

The next two weeks are short ones (we get Friday to Monday off) as part of the Jubilee Weekend celebrations and I am really looking forward to the long and relaxing weekend…

PSLE Week 30 Update

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This week was the usual one, except that GG went for her DSA Auditions at the only school she applied for. BB was quite jealous since he didn’t make it to his schools, but she did!

The school is a girls school and one of Singapore’s oldest. We both loved the school when we went there and GG is determined to get there – either by DSA or by her PSLE score! She applied for DSA through Choir and there were around 10 odd girls with her for the auditions. They had been asked to prepare two contrasting pieces which showcases her voice for the audtion, but they were not asked to sing them! What they had to do instead was sing some scales and then the school choral conductor asked them some questions. That was it! We’ll know the outcome sometime by the end of the month. In the meantime, we wait and watch and it’s back to studying for us….

Yesterday was the Hindi Prelims exams and for the very first time I saw BB asking me to wake him up early so that he can study, maybe there is still some hope for him. They woke up about 90 mins early to study. I just hope they’ve done well enough to get a B for GG and a C for BB (not much expectations you see)…

In My Hands Today…

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Tears of the Giraffe – Alexander McCall Smith (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #2)

Mma Ramotswe is not impressed with Mr. J.L.B Matekoni’s maid, who has been sleeping in his bed with other men and not feeding him properly. The maid, sensing that the forthcoming marriage will involve her dismissal, attempts to plant a gun on Mma Ramotswe in order to have her jailed, but the maid’s plan is foiled and it is she who ends up behind bars.

Mma Ramotswe also investigates a butcher’s wife who is suspected of an affair, and discovers that the woman’s son has – unknown to her husband – been fathered by another man who is paying for his private education. The resolution of this case highlights differences between the methods and moralities of Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi. Mma Makutsi has expressed her yearning to do detective rather than administrative work, and Mma Ramotswe promotes her to assistant detective (although also retaining her secretarial role). The solution of the paternity case proves to be the first test of Mma Makutsi’s detective and diplomatic skills.

Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni is maneuvered into offering a home to Motholeli and Puso, two orphaned children with a tragic past. He worries that this may affect his engagement to Mma Ramotswe, but she accepts the children. Mma Ramotswe and Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni both see potential in the children, particularly in the girl, Motholeli, who uses a wheelchair but displays a real aptitude for, and interest in, the work of the garage. A family unit begins to emerge.

TGIF: Instagram Interludes

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It’s Friday!! What are your plans for the weekend? We’re going to do something nice tomorrow, which I will let you know once we finish doing it, so wait and watch!

Anyway, I have a real serious case of writers block today and just don’t seem to be able to finish anything I started. So I thought I’ll do a pictures post aka Instagram Interludes! The pictures are mostly of our trip last year to Angkor Wat…

Buddha statues at Bayon

Buddha statues at Bayon

The Bayon Temple at Angkor

The Bayon Temple at Angkor

The final steps to reach the top of the Angkor Wat

The final steps to reach the top of the Angkor Wat

Another Temple at Angkor

Another Temple at Angkor

Endless corridors at the Angkor Wat

Endless corridors at the Angkor Wat

In My Hands Today…

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Lion Heart – Justin Cartwright

Richard Cathar recalls his recently deceased father, Alaric, as a delusional hippie, one who fancied himself an intellectual and a historian. One of many far-fetched claims was that he had discovered—and then lost—documentation of a meeting between his hero, Richard the Lionheart, and Robin Hood after the Third Crusade.

In a quest to sort out the fact and fiction of his father’s life, Richard (named for the legendary king) leaves London and travels to Jerusalem, where he falls in love with the mysterious Noor, a journalist who herself has many secrets. Back in England, he continues his research, finding his own evidence that Richard the Lionheart recovered the True Cross from Saladin. Again he sets out, this time on the trail of the True Cross, which leads him through the Middle East and Europe—and to the powerful sense that myth and history may be inseparable.