The Apple's Diary!

This is about a bowl of Assam Laksa, no no.. not from the Food for Thoughts company at Botanic Garden. This is about how a bowl of Assam Laksa brought forth a string of deliberate thoughts on preparing young children for school and the kind of society they would be moulding. the Assam Laksa set from Old Town It started with someone in FB posted her great Saturday morning with Starbucks coffee and croissant while waiting for her kids in an enrichment class. I commented that Saturday morning is my favourite time of the week as well. Her response made me re-think some of the decisions I am going to make in this year. "Well, don't we all love Saturday morning with our sacred Me-time. But it's us again when we lament on the different classes we need to send our kids to." Life of a Singaporean kid. Classes, classes and more classes. Homework on holidays. Spelling learning on a day out. We are fortunate, yet unfortunate. Do we really need a top A student to...

This year the preschool arranged a charity drive instead of asking for food donation to make into a hamper to present to some charity organisation. The beneficiary is SPD and the champs did art work to put up for sales. Parents showed their support by purchasing coupons to be utilised in the charity drive. One booklet cost $30. coupon booklet We arrived near to 5pm and the whole place was bustling with people and activities. I was rather impressed by how the charity drive was organised. Each classroom had a header to indicate the type of items you could purchase and the K2 champs, together with the teachers helmed the stalls. We spotted Jonathan after a while and he was selling recycled bags done up with his class. selling his ware It was good for the champs to man their stall and took charge in collecting the right amount. We didn't explore all rooms because it was really very crowded but I saw there was even food and drink stalls and potted plants for sa...

20 January 2017 - I sent the maid home, right after her loan was paid up. Her expression, she couldn't wait to leave my place too, aha mutual agreement. Just that she didn't know if we were sending her to agency or back to her hometown. 6 February 2017 - I received my liability discharge letter from MOM. That rounded up my 5 years of employing Myanmar maids, 6 of them in total. With this last one, I am not going to employ another from this Nationality again. The experience with them got from good to bad to worst. So from the day we sent her to airport, we were on our own since then. The children were not used to having no one to pick up after them initially, especially Matthew. He has been asking when is the new Auntie coming. As for us, the week before CNY really shacked me to the max. After that, I guess we got a hang of the routine and smoothen out some of our personal preferences to make way for more important things. We got the Xiao Mi robot to vacuum our floor whic...