yang hong was so kind to agree to host the gathering occasion for a big bunch of sec sch friends.
a newly reconstructed landed property with 11 rooms, what a luxury for those who live in smaller residential units.
the catered food was yummy, esp the fried hokkien noodles.
after so many yrs, we finally gathered again. the familiarity of the youthful feeling, the closeness of the past days etc....made us feel great and important.
many faces were recognisable, esp zaidah who hasnt aged a bit. noor hashikin is still as cute and chubby as before. both are now teachers.
olive still looks the same. she was touched when i told her that my best memory of her was as a story-teller representative on stage....siew mui looked the youngest among all, no change in shape and size.
hok ling's son, victor carries a sizeable body and i think he knocked down the x'mas tree. what a sight!
the gathering coincided with yang hong's bdae and hok ling ordered a cake for her. the doting hubby even sang love songs for her, with lyrics 'if there's a next life, i will still choose u..' how romantic. we were touched. i mean, lame besty and me.
joy and claire enjoyed much with serene's 2 kids, ting and ling too! every one commented that ling resembled serene's sch days, but seriously i think, ling is prettier compared to the bespectacled serene then! but, it's her blur look that i was charmed with then....decent, unthreatening, sincere and funny!
on reminscence, my friendship with serene dated back to 13 yrs old....and we hv had many fun innocent days of togetherness. whenever she aggravated me, i would ignore her and then, she would call me 'small gas'...i guess, back then, our command of english was really limited, so broken english was the fun part of our sch days.
we were the last 2 families to leave. the 4 kids were having a whale of a time at the playground beside the house. with shoes removed and running around like a monkey, it was such a bliss to have their friendship established since babyhood!
it's many thks to sylvia and hok ling who made this gathering possible. their safekeeping of updated contact details and effort to coordinate is very much appreciated.
Monday, December 5, 2011
bad behaviour
i was involved in a chinese camp with claire and a group of kids, led by few chinese teachers.
a boy in lower primary behaved so badly that it shocked me out of my life. truly, i hv not seen someone who's so ill in emotional control, such that he could slap another girl's face, in the process of a bickering session, or push a younger boy coz' he needed the space to watch a show.
worse still, he started shouting at me, commanding,"why do u give the answer to the other pple? u r in my group, u knw?"
also, he uttered,"just give me all the answers and we will win..."
he simply didn't knw his limitations in chinese language....giving him an answer with a slightly longer sentence, he began to fumble and stammer, and started shouting like a lunatic.
all that i could say is, a boy with extreme competitive and kiasu behaviour really goes out of control easily. because of his eagerness to win, he loses sight of what team spirit is all about. he starts being disrepectful to teachers as well....i pity the mother who has to handle a kid with violence inclination, and his sibling who gets beaten up by him, out of no good reason.
aye, is it fair to say that a child's behaviour reflects the parents' style of parenting? maybe not. but it does tell that the parents hv lost control over the kids' action!
a boy in lower primary behaved so badly that it shocked me out of my life. truly, i hv not seen someone who's so ill in emotional control, such that he could slap another girl's face, in the process of a bickering session, or push a younger boy coz' he needed the space to watch a show.
worse still, he started shouting at me, commanding,"why do u give the answer to the other pple? u r in my group, u knw?"
also, he uttered,"just give me all the answers and we will win..."
he simply didn't knw his limitations in chinese language....giving him an answer with a slightly longer sentence, he began to fumble and stammer, and started shouting like a lunatic.
all that i could say is, a boy with extreme competitive and kiasu behaviour really goes out of control easily. because of his eagerness to win, he loses sight of what team spirit is all about. he starts being disrepectful to teachers as well....i pity the mother who has to handle a kid with violence inclination, and his sibling who gets beaten up by him, out of no good reason.
aye, is it fair to say that a child's behaviour reflects the parents' style of parenting? maybe not. but it does tell that the parents hv lost control over the kids' action!
car dent repair
well, i'm happy that my dent on the left side of the car is finally repaired. reasonable cost of less than sgd200.
a dent that i wouldn't like to talk much about....an accident of someone knocking onto my car while dashing across the road with a mobile in hand.
5 over mths, i bore with the unsightly dent....having no time to send it to the car workshop.
when sth gets done, it's like a great mission accomplished!
over this dent, hubby commented the other day,"my reputation is tarnished becoz of ur accidents!" a hurtful comment but i chose to stay mum. he's not totally wrong, just that the manner that it was being uttered didn't sound too kind (at least, to me!)
afterall, the impact is on his insurance ncb...of coz he feels the pinch!
to me, so long as no one gets into critical injury, it's 破财消灾啦！小事，别跟他人计较，生活也比较爽快吧！
when i get back next wk, time to send the car for svcg too!
a dent that i wouldn't like to talk much about....an accident of someone knocking onto my car while dashing across the road with a mobile in hand.
5 over mths, i bore with the unsightly dent....having no time to send it to the car workshop.
when sth gets done, it's like a great mission accomplished!
over this dent, hubby commented the other day,"my reputation is tarnished becoz of ur accidents!" a hurtful comment but i chose to stay mum. he's not totally wrong, just that the manner that it was being uttered didn't sound too kind (at least, to me!)
afterall, the impact is on his insurance ncb...of coz he feels the pinch!
to me, so long as no one gets into critical injury, it's 破财消灾啦！小事，别跟他人计较，生活也比较爽快吧！
when i get back next wk, time to send the car for svcg too!
we are flying off...
we are flying off tnte to twn.
no fixed agenda, no booking of 1st nite accomodation...it's a high-risk holiday. let's pray that we will not end up with any nites of non-lodging, haha.
taipei is rainy season...looks like the whole of this week will be wet in most parts of taiwan.
wulai...we come. shifen, it's my dream to go there to release the sky lanterns. yilan, the onion pancakes i continue to salivate at the thot of it....many many things we hope to accomplish.
but, we shall rough it out, if need be. coz' the breadwinner prefers to hv no fixed agenda, so as to provide greater flexibility for the family.
praying for safety and a good adventure. surely, it will be!
no fixed agenda, no booking of 1st nite accomodation...it's a high-risk holiday. let's pray that we will not end up with any nites of non-lodging, haha.
taipei is rainy season...looks like the whole of this week will be wet in most parts of taiwan.
wulai...we come. shifen, it's my dream to go there to release the sky lanterns. yilan, the onion pancakes i continue to salivate at the thot of it....many many things we hope to accomplish.
but, we shall rough it out, if need be. coz' the breadwinner prefers to hv no fixed agenda, so as to provide greater flexibility for the family.
praying for safety and a good adventure. surely, it will be!
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