The Apple's Diary!

Photo Credit : Sophessa Cakes This week, we had our Jon turned 6! How fast can the time fly and just like that... like a snap of your fingers, he is 6 and going to the next leap in his life. He is one year older and hopefully, a year wiser. He makes interesting observation at the most unexpected moment and is sharp eyed. This year, he requested a Spider Man cake for home celebration and a Cruise Ship theme cake for his class celebration. We did consider having a party at Waku Waku but with the renovation, it would be too tight to plan such an event. So we settled for Bengawan Solo's Spider Man cake, held it last Sunday together with our mini house warming (house is not completely furnished so I shall hold on posting first). Simple Home Celebration Family Shot For his class celebration, he specifically requested for a cruise ship theme because he said his friends asked a lot of questions on his May cruise. So he wanted to show them what a cruise ship is l

Who likes renovation? Not me, certainly. The packing and unpacking, the dust, the number of decisions to make, the coordination etc.. there are enough to drive me crazy. So I managed to pack our stuff into 14 small boxes and 8 big boxes which we barely made it onto a 15" ft truck. The 3-men mover team took almost 2 hours to bubble wrap our furnitures and my piano and another 1 hour to loan everything into the truck. the mayhem of moving out loading into the truck And that were only 3 rooms of belongings. On side note, I would have better gauge when we move again to new place, it would probably be 2-3 trips of the truck and probably 50 boxes in all! So the first stop was to IMM Extra Storage to deposit our load and then to my parents' place. Their place was our temporary holding site for us while we tide over this renovation period. mid size storage also packed to the brim Renovation started on Monday. We engaged Kass Design for Project Reno II

And so... just like that, exciting July rolled over and P1 registration for 2018 ended last Friday. The results came out to be eye popping! Ah boy's school was highly oversubscribed with 94 applicants for 26 places. Actually this is not the only school that ended up with such result. A total of 88 schools require balloting and you will be surprised neighbourhood school eg. Northland Primary in Yishun had garned 200 applicants for 51 places. Most schools that enter balloting situation were for Singapore Citizens within 1km. From this round of exercise, I would really advise parents to get into alumni or affiliation. Best is to stay within 1km from school of choice, at least you get a chance to ballot. Otherwise, you are directed to the back of the queue again and there would be very limited choices left at Phase 2C supplementary. And good luck to all who is balloting!