P1 Preparation

Last Thursday, it was  the day scheduled to go to Zyan's intended primary school for preparation work. It was scheduled at 2.10pm.

I took leave.

Morning, brought Zyan to Science Centre. It's free to citizems on non-peak days. Means not school holiday lah. I cheapo 1 mah. Hahaha
It's the second time I brought him there. The first time also due to some event that Zyan didn't go to school, so have to find things to make him occupied.

This time, we cannot do full day like the last time. Had to go pick Karinna at around 1pm, before we head for lunch and then to Ngee Ann Primary School.

Still, he had his fun share at Science Centre. He ran around like a monkey. Hand so itchy, everything also want to press. :P
Chanced upon this table, and he wanted me to help him take a picture of his body-less head. :P

There's some kind of Marvel theme happening at end of the month of something. So there's a hulk exhibition there. I think it is starting this coming weekend.
Anyway, won't be there again so soon lah.

There he had fun, playing with the exhibition. He didn't read much to the science of how some of the things work. Kids mah.
There's a demostration of how powerful electricity can be.
It can wireless-ly light up some light tubes. It can also burst balloon from a distance (not so far away lah).
The balloon is filled with hydrogen (if I remember right, is 15 times lighter than air), and when the current starts, the 2 balloons burst into flame and poof!
Helium is about 6 times lighter. But Hydrogen is combustible.

Anyway, we only spent about 1.5 to 2 hours there, and before we left, he had some fun taking picture of himself. Voila!

Soon after, left the place and went to pick Karinna up.

Anyway, we reached the school before 2.10pm.
Filled up some forms for his P1 preparation.
Giro application to pay his school fees.
Edusave account approval to deduct any other fees that may be required.
blah blah blah.

Of course, not forgetting purchasing the school books, school uniform, name tags etc.
Some books are not available yet, but already paid for, and will get it when the school starts.
Add this add that, just for the books and uniforms and shoes blah blah, it was probably close to $300.
Terok right?
Still have to check out school bus, and also after-school care service within the school.
Can only have more idea on 18 Nov, which is the orientation day for the P1 students and parents. :P

After getting all the P1 preparation done, went to Changi Village for a drink, and let him catch a bit of pokemon. At that hour, no special pokemon appear.
I do not know about the spawning of specific pokemons, so it is just pure luck (or no luck for that matter). LOL

Then headed to IKEA. His final playground for the day.
Not sure how long more he can play at IKEA playground. The height limit is between 90 - 130 cm.
He is already 120+ cm, so maybe next year would be too tall to enter, unless the staff there can close 2 eyes for little children that are taller. :D
When  the time comes, then I will know.

Anyway, we had our dinner at IKEA before going home.
At least, for now, we are more or less ready for P1 next year.

Graduation 2016

It's coming to an end, to Zyan's pre-school schedules. Yes, next year he will be going to his new primary school.

Thus, yesterday was his kindergarten's official graduation ceremony.
This is the only year that he is in St Hilda's Kindergarten. Previously, he was at the childcare centre near our home, Praise Kids @ Katong Presbyterian Church.
In his previous childcare education, every year there's a Thanksgiving concert, and I had been to each and every one of them since he started.
Always so cute.

So he had been told to be in school yesterday by 11.15am. Coneert only to be started around 12.30pm.
So we brought him there, then both Karinna and myself went for coffee nearby, and had a bit of lunch.

Then we came back around 12.20pm, and seated to wait for the start of the concert.

You know, kids being kids, it's always so nice to watch them do performance.

Kids waiting for the start of the session

Can you find the little Zyan. Quite easy though. :P

I estimated that every class had about close to 20 minutes of performance.
For his class, Honesty class, the finale piece is a dance performance on dream and ambition.
童真。。。那么的。。。真诚。。。

Each class took its turn to do performance, and also to don the graduation gown.

 

And so, our son has graduated from his pre-school eduation.
New life awaits for the young man next year. Ngee Ann Primary School.
There's some preparation arrangement to be done next week at his new school. Well, next week then say. :P

He had a busy day yesterday.
After the concert, had to go to Marine Parade Community Centre for his abacus class. This was just started last week.
And then, he had an extra lesson class for his Taekwando, as he will be taking his green belt grading test today later at 10.45am.
There goes his whole day and afternoon.

In the evening, we went to Plaza Singapura, wanting to get some stuff there.
And to end it, we gave our little Zyan a little surprise.
Brought him to MBS area, to let him have his little zyanic time for his pokemon catch. LOL.
Think the next time he will bug me to bring him to Sentosa and Changi Village. And no, not yet Hougang.

And that's it, his very busy schedule on his kindergarten graduation day.
His parents also busy like that. hehehe.

写

小时候， 经常都会有作文作业.
老师也常督促学生们多读报纸和各别书刊。
我记得报章以前有些专栏， 刊登一些文章， 都是从读者那儿寄来的。现在可能也有吧？我不知道。我现在没读中文报了。
 
以前读的时候， 有时会想象会不会有一天也会有我的文章。想终归想， 行动可从来没动过！ 哈哈！
我只记得在报章上看过同学的发表， 很羡慕。
那个家伙， 好多年的同窗。
陈年旧事。
 
看看现今的社会， 网际网络有部落格。你爱写什么就写什么。 只要不触犯法律， 也不违背自己的良知， 谁都可以任意发表自己的观点和想法。当然， 还是有一部分的人， 专门故意制造一些莫须有的论文， 为何？
 
说到自己， 嘿嘿， 写的有的没有的， 有时候也不知道在写什么。
有写就好。有写有进步， 可是没写也不一定退步。
写或不写？看啦！又在胡扯了。
 
为什么会弄个部落格呢？
真正的原因是因为当时无聊。也有因为想试试的理由。
那是2007年， 将近十年了。
 
十年之前， 我不认识你 。。。 啦啦啦。。。会唱吗？ 😁
 
从早期的每隔几天都写， 到如今的每几个月才写， 可见那股热诚已渐渐淡去。
渐渐的少了。
慢慢的忘了。
懒懒的算了。
 
写与不写之间， 你的选择是。。。 。。。
看心情了。。。

 

Aftermath II

It’s been a few weeks since the gathering of my Seconday School classmates.
At that time, close to 20 were ‘found’, and about 16 turned up.
Not too bad.
 
Even though the small gathering was done, some effort was still done to search for the missing people. LOL

Within that same week, a few got added.

Sharifah, Norlinda, Rohimah, Poh Hoon, Julie, Henry, Ephren, Kok Whee. Through Rohimah, Oi Lay and Chui Lin appeared.
Just these already 10 more added! How cool!

 

Some are easy to find, some are hard.
 
I found Kok Whee during one of the nights while taking time off from work to browse.
Have to search through a list of FB people with about the same name.
His picture is not his face, making it harder to find. No good description of where he used to study etc. Have to peek into each person’s timeline and photos, and voila!
Some familiar face of that name.
By the time found him, he just left Singapore back to his workplace in China. Hahaha
 
Then there is this Kok Hwee. Yeah. Similar name as above, but different person. Same same but different.
This guy no FB. Very limited info in Linkedin.
We know he is dentist, and through some grapevine, he is supposed to be in UK.
OK. So I also kaypoh go search a bit.
 
Found a person in UK doing dentistry. Likely to be him. Not sure right, so many people with the same name as him.
Only good thing is, in the dentistry list from NUS, there is only name that match exactly that graduated in 1995. But that’s only in the NUS list. Nothing more.
So managed to find some link where this dentist is working in UK. Wow. Solid eh?
So 1 day, I called the clinic to ask for him.
He was busy, so the receptionist helped to leave him a message.
Cannot tell the receptionist I am Simon Tay, coz my friend Kok Hwee will not know who that is.
Pronounce to the ang mo receptionist also susah, sure cannot understand me 1.
True enough. So have to spell out 1 by 1. I think in the end, she still got problem relaying the message to Kok Hwee.
One good thing though, she took down my email address correctly.
Which is what my friend did. He sent me an email greeting from UK, saying he cannot know from the receptionist who was looking for him.
So from there, slowly got his mobile, and turned him in to the person in charge of the whatsapp

group. Hehehe

 
For each new person that got added into the group, usually he/she will be the star of the day.
People will re-introduce themselves after the hellos.
Some will talk more, some will talk less. Normal.
 
Well, there are still a couple of people not found. About 8-10 I guess.
Can we find all? Hmmmm.
I never know. Never say never … …