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Secondary 1 Week 37 Update

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This week was school holiday week, so nothing much to report here. In fact, even though it was school break, both had to go to school 3 times during the week – GG twice for supplementary lessons and once for CCA and BB once for supplementary lessons and twice for CCA activities.

They have their end of year Hindi exams next Saturday and I am super nervous about it, for both, but especially for BB. I do want him to pass this year, but will that happen? I really don’t know!! GG also has to do well as she needs to do well, not only overall, but also in each individual subject to be considered to be promoted to the better stream.

We didn’t do anything this week, though the week sped past us. Hopefully the next few weeks will go by just as fast and when the results come in, it will be good for both of them.

Happy Sunday folks!!

Secondary One Week 36 Update

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Term 3 in this school year has come to an end. The children are on a week-long holiday and will go back to school on 13th September (after the Hari Raya Haji or Bakri Id) holiday and get into the business of finishing the school year with exams. Exams start around the end of the month and school ends in the end of October.

On the last day of the term, which in Singapore is celebrated as Teachers Day, both GG & BB, went to their primary school, along with other primary school friends for an alumni ‘Homecoming’ the school organised. GG had spent the better part of the week making Oreo Truffle chocolates. She made for all her primary school teachers plus some for her and BB’s secondary school form teachers. Hope it was well received by the teachers.

I also spoke to one of GG’s form teachers to ask her about GG’s chances to progress to the higher stream (the one that BB is in). The prognosis seems to be quite positive and according to the teacher, if the student does well in all her subjects, the teachers will discuss the promotion of the student to the stream and if the teachers agree that the student can cope with the vigour of the stream, they will let the student know, who in turn will speak to her parents and if all agree, the parents have to go down to the school to sign the appropriate documents.

GG wants this, so I am egging her on to do well in the end of year exams. I will leave the decision to her, but I want her to get the offer from the school as a validation of her efforts during the year.

Have a great Sunday folks!

2016 Week 35 Update

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The haze is back in Singapore! I really thought that we will be missing it this year, but it hit us this weekend, peaking on Friday and Saturday and then petering off on Sunday. Hopefully, this does not come back, though meteorological reports say otherwise. We’ll be having the PSI rising when the winds blow the hazy winds towards us.

September starts this week and it’s my favourite month of the year. BB, GG and I have our birthdays this month and it’s also the month with the birthday of my favourite God – Lord Ganesh which, this year, happens next week. It’s also the month which starts the countdown to the festival of Diwali, so all-in-in I really like this month. Hope this month turns out to be as special as I wish it to be!

Update on BB’s poonal preparations – the printer has still not sent me the mock-up of the card, he was to send it to me last week itself, but nothing yet. I waited till Friday to see if he would send it to me by email, and then gave up and called him. He said he was sick and so could not do it and said he would send it to me the same day or latest by Saturday. I now have to chase him later today. I also wrote to two photographers, whose contacts I got from friends and they’ve not yet responded too. Need to chase them too and finalise the photographer soon. Last I need to finalise where else in India we will be going after the poonal and book tickets for that place along with our Singapore-India plane tickets. Lots of work this week for me.

My Reading Challenge update – I’ve read 145 of my updated challenge of 150 (if you remember, my original challenge was 125 books in 2016). I’ve now updated my challenge to 155 books and every time I am 5 books shy of the target (until December), I will increase the challenge by another 5 books. I am hoping (really) to reach 200 books this year, lets see if I manage it!

Have a great week folks and happy September!

 

 

Secondary 1 Week 35 Update

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Nothing much to update this week except for BB once again getting ticked off in school. On Thursday, I got a call from him saying his Geography teacher wanted to speak to me. When I spoke to the teacher, it turns out that Mr BB had not handed over a graded assignment, in spite of the teacher giving him an extra day to do so. His teacher is a nice person who does not want to spoil his overall grades, so even though she was justified in giving him a zero, she will be giving him pro-rated marks based on his classwork, which is around average. I was so mad at him, within the last two weeks, this is the second incident where he has shown zero interest in school!

Next week is the last week of term 3 and then from Friday it’s a 10-day break for the children before they start term 4 or ‘Exam Term’ as I’d like to call it. Both will have to go back to school a couple of days during the term break for supplementary work or CCA or both.

September is a-calling folks!

 

2016 Week 34 Update

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This week flew past, in spite of it being a normal working week. I am now very comfortable with being a SAHM and hardly applied to any new position this week. Now as I write this post, I wonder why?

This week was taken up with the planning of BB’s Upanayanam or Poonal as it’s called colloquially. We’re planning to do this in Mumbai in the early December and last weekend we were at my mother-in-law’s house to discuss how many people they want to invite. S then got the name of a printer locally and I reached out to them and this weekend we went over to finalise the invite. We’ve chosen a simple invite and have given the order for the invites to be printed. I also reached out to some friends to get recommendations for a photographer for the event. I’ll be reaching out to these contacts next week and finalise this too soon.

I’ve been hit by a major case of writer’s block. In the past two weeks, I’ve not written anything! I just don’t seem to dredge up the inspiration to write and if it was not for some previously saved drafts, this blog would be suffering this week. I am really hoping that this situation improves this week and I can write soon.

Have a happy Monday and a great week folks!