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Secondary 2 Week 15 Update

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It was the usual sort of week for BB & GG. GG finally finished with her Singapore Youth Festival and so the stress of the past few weeks are finally over!

BB’s CCA has been stood down and they will restart after exams. GG has one more CCA to get through, where they are having an SYF finishing party as well as a farewell to her Secondary 4/5 seniors who complete their CCA for the year so that they can focus on their national exams.

Now, nagging mum mode starts as I start pushing them to study for their exams which start in 2 weeks time! As I have mentioned earlier, this is a critical year for them, and especially for BB as he wants to do science (I have mentioned before how obsessed he is about science). GG has it a bit easier because she wants to do humanities, which should be easier to get in!

So that was our week, have a blessed Easter people!

2017 Week 14 Update

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This was the usual sort of week, but with one small difference. I had to go back to the hospital to get my eyes checked again as well as take a test I had failed the last time I was there. It took a while, but the doctor has, for now, ruled out any glaucoma. I was quite happy when I heard the news as this disease has no known cure at this moment. But I will still have to go back for a check-up after around 18 months just to check out my eyes, which can get ruined due to diabetes!

I have been walking a lot for the past few weeks, averaging around 10 km per day. This took a toll on my right ankle and it had been painful on and off for some time now. By Thursday, it was so painful that I could not even walk. So I had to see the doctor who gave me some painkillers and a gel to put in the affected area. The pain went away within a day, but I decided to keep my feet up for the next few days to ensure it is completely cured. So from today, I am back to my regular exercise programming!

That’s all from this week folks! Hope this week will be better than the last one (I keep writing this and hoping week after week, but to no avail)!

Have a wonderful week people!

 

 

2017 Secondary 2 Week 14 Update

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GG had a very busy week what with the emceeing duty rehearsals as well as rehearsals for the SYF. She had to stay back after school every single day and came home quite late, especially the days when she had emcee rehearsals. When she’d come home, she would be tired and cranky and would want to just sleep, but homework would beckon. I felt this was a slice of adult life for her. But try explaining that to a cranky, hormonal 14-year old! Thank God all this ends next week with the competition sometime then. Hopefully she then gets time to study for the mid-year exams. 

BB’s week was quite mundane with his teachers racing to complete the curriculum before the mid year exams start at the end of the month. But as usual, he is quite gungho about the whole exam thing. He needs to score well to get into the course of his choice. Ah well, I can only keep nagging him about this. I also attended his school’s speech day representing the parent support group and it was quite an interesting experience. The function was a lot more formal as compared to what I’ve seen in their primary school. 

Anyways this was our school week. Have an amazing Sunday people!

2017 Week 13 Weekly Update

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Another week and nothing really happened!

I made a to-do list on Monday and went through most of it, though that too needs some work.

Other than that, the week was pretty much stagnant, with nothing happening on the job front. I spoke to two of the recruiters who had contacted me and they both had the same standard reply – they have not heard back from the companies yet. I’m going to give up on one and the other, the one where I had to go for an interview the same day that I applied for the position, I will write to the person who interviewed me (the person who owns the company) sometime this week and then forget about this position also if there is no movement. I just want closure!

So there you have – my week in short! Have a great week folks!

Secondary 2 Week 13 Update

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Nothing really happened this week! 

It was a normal school week with GG coming home late every single day. One day she was out for more than 13 hours and when she came home, she was beyond exhausted. So much so, she reverted to becoming whiny and irritable – just as she used to be when she was younger!

On Friday, we went to BB’s school for the secondary 3 streaming talk. Initially it was just going to be me, but later I realised that students were encouraged to also come and this was also validated by the support group I belong to. So I strong armed BB to come with me. It was an informative talk and we understood the options BB has for next year. 

Given that he wants to do aerospace engineering, he has to take the science course. I prefer him to do a double science double humanities combination (physics, chemistry, history and a social studies with geography elective) and not do a triple science combo with full biology. I’ve heard that biology is very intense in terms of the time you need for it, so which is why we decided on the science/humanities combo. Also if he decides to go to junior college instead of the polytechnic, then his contrast subject can be history which then should not be too difficult. 

A big relief was that for science stream, they have qualifying marks for English, Maths and Science and only these marks will be taken into account when deciding who gets to go to the stream. The good news is that BB’s marks are not too bad in these subjects, but the bad news is that they are not spectacular too! He really needs to work hard and score as high marks as he can in these three subjects!