2019 Secondary 4 Week 26 Update

Term 3 of school starts tomorrow and this means that their prelims is just a month or so away. It also means that their O level oral exams will happen in August. GG is already kind of freaking out about school but BB is still chill about it.

The EAE portal for polytechnics has also opened and we have submitted our applications. Now, we need to keep fingers crossed and pray that both get an offer for the course they are most interested in.

It is going to be hectic 4.5 months until the end of the O level exams. Till then, its all systems go for us!

Have a wonderful weekend!

2019 Week 25 Update

Another week and we are almost halfway through the year.

Early last week, we made a trip to get our Vehicle Entry Permit done. Though it has been in force for a while now, but will be strictly implemented come October for vehicles entering Johor from Singapore.

You need to apply online and once you get the confirmation email, you can book an appointment to fix the VEP tag. You also need to download the Touch n Go mobile wallet app and link it to your Touch n Go card. We booked one location and a day before the appointment, we got an email saying that due to unforeseen circumstances, that location had been closed for the foreseeable future. Luckily I was able to book another location immediately for the next day and it was available.

Once you get there, you drop your documents (which are in the email sent to you) and then wait for your car license plate number to be called. Then you are given a token number and you wait for your token number to be called. At the first counter where your token number is called, they check documents and you can also photocopy any document you forgot to do at a cost of RM 2 per document. Then it’s waiting again for the next counter to call you where they take RM 10 as payment for the VEP.

Then you wait for your car license plate to be called and they fix the tag and check if it works. That’s it! It took us around 45 mins from the time we reached the place till we left. We were around 25 minutes early and they only start at the appointed time. So all in all, it took us around 15-20 minutes.

The rest of the week was very unproductive to me, I am realising that when the children are home, I tend not to do much. Now I am waiting for school to start so I can start on my To- Do list.

Have a lovely week folks!

2019 Secondary Four Week 25 Update

Holidays are almost over and luckily both have finished up their holiday homework too. Now they can spend the rest of the holiday revising school work.

GG has her mother tongue intensive lessons this week and then there’s the EAE portal which opens up this week too. I have all my fingers (and toes also) crossed that they both get their course of choice.

That’s all for our week, see you next week!

2019 Week 24 Update

Another week and we are almost halfway through the year!

I think, after more than a year, I have finally made peace with freelancing. I have decided that this is probably what I want to do and have started the process of reaching out to people to get more clients.

My take is that given that I hate the politics that happens in most offices, working for myself takes me away from that environment is a definite plus. Also the fact that there’s commute to work and the need not to wiork with people I may not get along with. I can also blast music or videos as I work and work on something else concurrently without being judged negatively.

I also went for my next eye review earlier in the week and though my eyes look all right, the right eye is still not 100% allright. The left eye is, according to the doctor, quite pristine. I am down from six eye drops to four eye drops, which is really a huge relief to me. I have the next review after a month and my hope at that review is that both my eyes are ‘pristine’

It was Fathers Day yesterday and so we decided to take S to the newly opened Jewel at Changi. It was a fun trip in the midst of studying and we really enjoyed it a lot. I will post pictures of the place soon.

Have a wonderful week folks!

2019 Secondary 4 Week 24 Update

Week 2 of the school holidays has just ended and we are at the halfway mark for the holidays.

The children had a couple of combined studies with their friends and they did say that they managed to do a fair bit of revision. I have told them, if studying with their friends is good to to studying well, then I don’t mind them doing them even a couple of times a week, at least till school reopens.

There’s really nothing much to add to the children’s schedule this week. They are busy completing their holiday homework and also trying to catch up on revision.

Have a lovely Sunday!