Friday, September 21, 2007, 11:26
the contents of this post has been moved to places and memories
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He’s a tease, a charmer
Very friendly, can make one feel comfortable easily
People are drawn to him
Who’s this guy?I met him eye to eye
He took us to dinner
No chemistry, nothing special
I was intrigued, Who is this guy?I went back home
Sent him a message
Thanked him for everything
Sure, you’re welcome, he said.Who is this guy, I wanted to know
He used to tease, and yet stays aloof
I teased him back
He opened up.We became friends
Shared goals, shared jokes
Until we found out,
We share the same birthday!That triggered “it”
Common things discovered
The more we shared, the more we felt
From friendship, love blossomed.We became one
Now we’re four.
Who is this guy?
Shankar, my love, no other.(by: janet 10:04pm -august 29, 2007)
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My son was invited by his South African friends, Joshua & Janke, to go over their house for an art activity they were gonna do for their homeschool work. They live in USJ 18 also, 4 blocks away from our house.
The stroller was still in his daddy’s car so I decided to let him use his bike when we go there. J&J came over to the house by their bikes so I thought it would be great for the boy to cycle with them.What they did was use the wax candle to draw or write something on a hard paper, then paint over it. Since the paint can’t sink into wax, the drawing or writing will be visible once you wipe it out or once it is dried out.
Sad to say my boy doesn’t like to mess up his hands. The moment the paint got over his hand, he stopped and wanted to wash his hands. Sigh. But he did one. I did some too. It’s funny how J&J’s mom and I ended up doing the arts ourselves while the kids decided to play football when my son didn’t wanna do it anymore.
Well, I had fun catching up with her. It’s nice to talk to SAHM (stay-at-home-mom), get advise on schooling kids and stuff. Hmmmm… I may homeschool my kids then. Hehehe. Still cannot make up my mind. Anyway, we have 3 more months to go before school starts. In Malaysia school starts in the beginning of the year, January. So we still have time to consider or re-consider.
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I’ve been planning on sending my son, 2 years and 10 months old now to kindy since the beginning of this year. In Malaysia, they count the age by year so even though my son turned 2 years old only last october 2006, he’s considered 3 years old at the start of the year. Somehow we kept on postponing in sending him to kindy because we think he’s still too young to go to school.
Then i met a mom who suggested of sending him to playgroup instead… in kindy… he meets all different kinds of kids, be with them everyday… get bad influence from them, or worse, bully him. She then said, “you don’t want your son to be bullied at his young age, do you.”
That scared me. So i decided to send him to his once-a-week playgroup - which is great - and postponed his kindy till next year, when he’s 4 years old.
I took video of Schenker during their water play session in “Sonshine Playgroup”. He goes to this playgroup once a week, every Thursday. In addition to Gymboree classes on Saturdays and Sundays. They have water play every 2nd week of the month. Here’s how it looks like. This is gonna be his last water play for this year, I guess, coz we’ll be staying in the Philippines for a couple of months… or more.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ4fE0Eo1Ug]
I had some talks with a few moms last Thursday. I asked them which kindy they send their older kids. They told me… but of course, I wouldn’t know where they were. So I asked about Montessorri coz there’s one nearby. One of them answered that it really depends on what type of things I want my kids to learn. In Montesorri, they emphasize the learning of practical life skills, in other kindies, they strongly emphasize on academic. Here in Malaysia, competition in schools is so tough that even in kindy, kids are already pressured into reading and writing and what not.
I have talked to one of the mothers who sends her daughter to a kindy. The daughter is only four years old but can write her alphabet already. I was impressed. But the mother said she’s considered slow in the class. What!!! I panicked!
So now, we’re taking it seriously. We’re going to send our boy to kindy next year!
