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2019 Week 33 Update

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This week was the usual week where nothing much happened. I am actually sort of pausing my job search from now till I am back from my long awaited India holiday at the end of the year because I don’t want to interview only to tell any potential hiring manager that I can’t start until the new year which will automatically put me out of the running. But if something comes my way (which I prefer in any case), then that’s a different story altogether.

Speaking about my trip, we’ve booked our tickets to India as well as the train tickets to the interiors from a major city in the south as well as our hotel accomodation there. I am also looking forward to meeting my maternal grandmother who is around 90 years old. I know that she does not have many years left, so I do want to meet her this year. The children are also excited to meet their only surviving great grand parent. We still have to buy our flight tickets from Mumbai to the southern city and back, which we will do soon.

In researching the places we will be visiting, I ended up watching train videos on YouTube and I found these so fascinating. I have been revisiting old journeys which we used to take when we were in school and seeing all the station names brought back so much memories. I now want to take the children with me to visit more cities in India.

Have a wonderful week folks and this week brings us to the end to the month of August!

2019 Secondary 4 Week 33 Update

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BB is in the midst of his prelims while GG’s starts next week. Both are stressed and I sometimes feel that GG is at breaking point. BB is the more chill twin between the two and I rarely see him stressed out. Which is also not a good thing, because some stress is good for you. I am worried about GG because she does not handle stress well and in times of immense stress, tends to blank out. I am hoping she copes with this stress and is able to bypass the blanking out she usually does.

I mistook the EAE result date to be last week, but it is actually next week and we are all stressed over it. In fact, I met some parents from BB’s school, all of whose children have applied for EAE (and a couple who are competing with BB for the same course) and all are praying hard that their children get into the course of their choice. Of course, at this point, it’s not if your child is not good enough for the course, but how good the other students are. Given that each course can only take in at the most 20% of its intake, there’s a limited number of seats available.

If either BB or GG or both don’t make it this time, then they just have to double up and work hard to ensure that they make the cut off point to the course and get in when the joint admission exercise happens after the O level results are declared in January.

That’s all this week! Have a great Sunday!

2019 Week 32 Update

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It’s a new week and I have tons to do this week!

August is closing out fast and we’re reaching the last few months of the year.

Over the weekend, I also booked our tickets to our long awaited trip to India at the end of the year. I am so excited about the trip, which will involve a side trip down south. We are going deep into the interiors and so will be taking some train trips also. My last train trip was a few years back, but that was a short trip, so this will be memorable, especially for the children.

We’re knee deep into preparations for the O levels, and stress levels at home are pretty high! My eye infection also seems to have made a comeback, but I need to wait till October to see my doctor as part of the review.

That’s all from me today, have a wonderful week folks!

2019 Secondary 4 Week 32 Update

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We are slightly over two months to the O levels and the stress is getting real! The children had their O level Englih Oral exams earlier in the week and GG was really stressing over it. She thinks she messed up a bit, which happens when she stresses over exams and BB also said, he fumbled a bit in the reading part. Both ended up with the same topic for the spoken interaction part, which was about the environment.

BB’s prelims start from next week and I am more stressed than him. For GG, her prelims start at the end of the month and she even has the September holidays in between. But I don’t like her prelim timetable as I feel it does not give them much time after the prelims to work towards the actual exams which start in the third week of October.

But before the exams, they will have their graduation ceremonies in school, for which I will go to. I have already committed to attending BB’s school ceremony, but have still not gotten the notification from GG’s school.

The EAE results will also come out this week and that’s another source of stress for us. I really am hoping that both BB & GG get offers in a course of their choice, but if that doesn’t happen, they just have to work hard and get the scores the courses demand.

Ah well, please pray for us, both for the EAE offers and the O levels. Have a wonderful Sunday!

2019 Week 31 Updates

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A fairly short week with the National Day at the end of the week meant that things were a little easy this week.

I spent the weekend thinking each day was the next day because it’s not often we get a long weekend all the way from Friday to Monday off. I spent the weekend without any alarms and it was so nice to wake up when I wanted to and not when the alarm asked me to.

This week also starts with a public holiday for Hari Raya Haji or Bakri Eid as it’s called in South Asia.

I was quite good at clearing my to-do list last week and am hoping to replicate the same this week too.

Have a wonderful week folks!