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Secondary 2 Week 34 Update

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This is the school holiday week for the children and with just two full days of school, there’s not much to actually update!

On Wednesday, which was celebrated as Teachers Day in Singapore, BB & GG went back to their primary school for homecoming! This is something they did last year too and GG says she will do it all the time. I think it will be till familiar teachers are still in school and when it reaches a point where they don’t know most teachers, they will stop going to homecoming!

GG also got her report card for the term back and it was filled with mostly A grades. She is continuing to do well in school, but I would love her to push herself a bit more. She is hovering at the top, yet not yet there, and I want her to breach that dam and try for top honours.

Today marks the end of the long weekend for us, but the children will continue with their term break. BB has to go back to school one day, but I think GG will be home all days, except for the days she needs to go for tuition!

 

2017 Week 33 Update

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As I’ve mentioned before, now that I am working, life has become quite monotonous. I have not had time to do much, the weekends are taken up with completing chores around the house or just catching up on sleep.

August is almost at an end and it’s just over a month to my parents coming to spend time with us in Singapore! I am really looking forward to spending almost three months with them. Not that there will be much spending time together, what with me being out of the house for more than 12 hours, but it’s a lot better than being apart by nearly 7,000 kilometres and an ocean between us!

Work-wise, while I am not very happy here, I have made my peace. There are some people who (I believe) share my wavelength and I look forward to getting to know them better. The others, especially some whom I have to work with closely, are not worth knowing outside the office and I doubt we will become even friends; the best we can hope to be is to be colleagues.

This is shortened work week for us here in Singapore due to Friday being the Hari Raya Haji or Bakri-Eid holiday. So I for one, am looking to a nice long weekend before the next few hard weeks at work due to a big project coming to fruition.

Have a blessed week folks!

Secondary 2 Week 33 Update

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This was the last full week of school before their term break next week.

Teachers Day is traditionally celebrated on the 1st of September. But this period usually coincides with term break so teachers used to be upset at the loss of a mandate holiday. Then a few years back, the government decided that Teacher’s Day will be celebrated on the last Friday before term break. So the term break got extended by a day. This year that Friday is a public holiday because of Hari Raya Haji or Bakri Id as it’s known in South Asia. So Teacher’s Day is now on the Thursday and the children (and teachers) get an additional day of term break! Schools will celebrate this on Wednesday effectively making just Monday and Tuesday as full and normal school days!

GG’s choir is going to perform the routine they did at the competition last month. She didn’t clear the audition for the duet she was going to sing, but maybe that’s a good thing. I am going to ask her to audition for a solo next year just to see where she stands!

BB had his second flying competition yesterday. He just said it was ok. But before the competition he mentioned that many of the motors his school was using on the planes were faulty, so I wonder if that impacted them in anyway. This is their annual ranking competition and this decides if they can leapfrog a rank next year.

This term break is going to be one where I push them to study as almost immediately they start their end of year exams. A big bummer is that on their birthday is the dreaded Hindi end of year exam. They have been so upset ever since they heard about this!

Have a wonderful Sunday people!

2017 Week 32 Update

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Life is going on as usual. I really don’t have a life anymore as it’s now Wakeup – Work – Come Home – Sleep routine.

In fact, I am quite behind in my reading these days. My 2017 Reading Challenge has been stalled since I started working and I need to start reading more if I want to complete it and on time. So I have been thinking of eliminating screen time at night and reading for an hour at least before bed. Will this work, well I will update it next week.

Work-wise, things are as they were, no real improvements there. But I am still optimistic that things will change and for the better.

It’s the start of a fresh new week and I hope this one is better than the previous one for everyone! Have a blessed week folks!

Secondary 2 Week 33 Update

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This was a usual week for the children with the usual school, CCA and tuition routine.

GG auditioned for a singing slot with a friend to sing at the school’s Teachers Day celebrations at the end of the month.

BB has also been busy with school and the CCA competition he has at the end of the month.

School ends on 30 August for a week long term break and when term 4 starts, it’s all about exams and streaming options.