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2019 Secondary 4 Week 14 Update

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School continues and soon it will be time for the mid-year exams at the end of this month. BB’s school has already released the timetable for the exams, but GG’s school still needs to release the timetable.

Otherwise, school is going on as per normal. CCA’s should step down sometime after next week. GG has her Singapore Youth Festival competition also next week, which means more CCA practice time for her. She has been pretty exhausted these days due to long CCA hours.

They also had their Hindi mid year exam over the weekend, and all I hope for them is that they pass the exam. One more exam and then it’s the O level exam, after which both don’t want to do this subject anymore.

That’s all from the children in school this week. Have a wonderful Sunday!

2019 Secondary 4 Week 13 Update

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School started and in the beginning of the week, I went to GG’s school for a breakfast session with her principal and school leaders.

It was a light hearted session and GG’s form teacher had only good things to say about her. Though he doesn’t teach her any subject, he has heard about her from her other subject Teachers.

Otherwise the week was the usual one. Pace has slightly increased because schools are trying to finish the syllabus by the end of this term so they have plenty of time for revision.

GG is also gearing up for the Singapore Youth Festival, after which she steps down from her CCA, both in terms of leadership as well as actual CCA.

Hope your Sunday is as good as mine promises to be!

2019 Week 12 Update

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This was the term break week so nothing much happened.

I didn’t have any work commitments this week so pretty much spent all my time at home.

We were planning a trip to Johor Bahru this week and because of GG’s school commitments, we could not find anytime to go together as a family. So S and I decided to go in just to do some grocery and other shopping. We left home around 9 am and except for a bit of a jam at the customs in the Singapore side, the trip across the causeway was quite smooth. We hit a bottleneck at the Malaysian customs. We were unfortunate to be in the one lane which only had one customs Bay with an officer who was super slow! We spent almost an hour in that lane getting frustrated with other vehicles just zipping past us on either side.

The return trip was uneventful as we had decided to leave from JB around 3 pm. We cleared Malaysian customs easily and drove across the causeway with a bit of a wait on the Singapore side.

It was a good trip and we managed to purchase all that we had on our list plus more!

This week will be a slightly more hectic week because I actually put some of my items which I had to do last week to this week. Wish me a productive time!

Have a wonderful and productive week!

2019 Secondary 4 Week 12 Update

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This week is the school holiday week but GG barely had time to breathe. She was practically in school almost every day and got so tired that she says she wants a holiday before school starts tomorrow.

BB on the other hand, surprisingly didn’t have school at all. I was actually surprised by this given that they are the pure science class but I guess his teachers do enough of extra lessons during term time that they probably felt it was unnecessary during the holidays.

School starts tomorrow and with that term 2 where the pace will be intensified to rush to finish the curriculum before June so that students have ample time to revise for their O levels.

Have a wonderful Sunday folks!

2019 Secondary 4 Week 11 Update

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This was an emotional week for me. Early in the week, I was so frustated with BB and his inability to do his school work, especially given that this is a crucial year for him, I decided to have a very emotional heart-to-heart talk with him.

I reached out online and found some answers which I used as ammunition to speak with BB. I told him bluntly how his life will turn out to be if he continues in the same vein and shared statistics with him on what kind of income levels he can expect. There was a bit of crying and the offshoot of this session was that he has decided to work hard so he can get into the course of his choice.

This week is the school term break. While BB does not have to go back to school, GG’s school is asking them to come back almost daily, whether for make-up lessons or for CCA practice. She was moaning the other day that holidays is just a misnomer in her case.

Happy Sunday folks and have a wonderful weekend!