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2018 Week 1 Update

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The first week of the new year and it was the usual sort of week for me.

The children have started school and I am back to my usual routine of writing and looking for new positions. Because most people are still on holiday or probably clearing the work that accumulated over the holidays, I am still in waiting mode.

It was a hectic weekend for us. On Saturday, S and I drove down to a couple of polytechnics here which had open houses to check out the courses that the children are interested in. I was quite impressed by what the polys had to offer and so I think the choices the children are making are correct. We are actually two years early, but wanted to check them out earlier in case the choices were wrong and we had to recalibrate!

On Sunday, GG received again the Edusave Scholarship Award which is awarded to the top 10% of students of her cohort. I hope she wins this award next year also, but it looks quite unlikely since she has now moved to the better stream and it may be difficult to achive this.

Here’s looking forward to a productive week!

 

2018 Secondary 3 Week 1

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School has started and life is beginning to get hectic for BB & GG!

GG started school on a very positive note. As I have mentioned previously, she moved up to the better stream and is doing more humanities subjects. These are subjects she is very interested in and wants to make a career in one of those. She is also exploring about becoming a  teacher, so we’ll have to see how this all pans out.

She also started the school year falling sick but has soldiered on because of practice for the choir. They had a performance yesterday for the incoming sec 1s and were promoting their CCA to get interested students to join and despite having a temperature, she went to school and gave it her all! Last year, her form teacher, who also manages the choir mentioned that she will be up for a CCA leadership position. Oh, and she also managed to become the class secretary, so that’s one more leadership position for her.

BB’s Sec 3 life is not as dramatic as that of his sister, but he is also doing the subjects he enjoys. The pace has also picked up for him with homework being given out right from the first lesson. Some subjects are new, yet old, like pure physics, pure chemistry, advanced math and pure history. He also has said that he likes all his teachers, so hopefully this year he does better than sec 2.

Later today, GG will receive her second consecutive scholarship award. I’m trying to get BB to also achieve this award next year, let’s see! Both children will have their common tests next month, so I need to start being on their case.

Hope 2018 has been good for you so far. Again, Happy New Year!!

 

 

 

 

2017 Week 52 Update

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Happy New Year!

A new year offers you 365 blank pages. Write the most beautiful chapter of your life in this!

This was a hectic week for us as my parents went back to India last night after spending three months with us. I was quite sad when we dropped them off at the airport.

We also had a small birthday lunch for S over the weekend and that was fun.

The children start school tomorrow and life goes back to the hectic one we usually have during term time.

I’ll do a more detailed year in review post later in the week when I have time to gather my thoughts!

On that note, here’s hoping 2018 is the best year to date! Go forth and rock it!!

2017 Week 50 Update

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Merry Christmas everyone!

I’ve made a mistake in my calculations of the weeks and so will end up short by one week this year.

After a long time, S and I drove across the border to shop in Johor Bahru in Malaysia. It was a fun trip and we really loaded up on groceries but it was not fun being stuck in immigration both sides of the border!

We’re counting down to the last week of the year as well as the last week of my parents being in Singapore. Life will go back to regular programming from next week. I have lots of plans to clear clutter once the children go back to school.

Have a blessed Christmas and an awesome week!

2017 Week 49 Update

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Nothing really happened this week – I went to a second round of interviews at the part-time position I had applied to but may have to do one more round. Because this is the holiday season, most people are not around and so things are at a stalemate, at least until the new year, my job search is at a pause.

I’ve completely lost my writing mojo these days and find it difficult to write down even a few lines. I really don’t know what I can do to get out of this funk, maybe the new year will bring cheer to me!

Have a wonderful last few days of the 2017!