Mandarin Week

Last week, my school celebrated Mandarin Week. During the school holidays, Dadi bought me a Chinese Sam Fu. Dadi bought it from Chinatown Classic, Mid Valley. It cost less than RM70 after discount. I am sorry I am unable to post a picture of it. Mami had forgotten to take a picture of me wearing it.

During the Mandarin Week, there were three events, namely Colouring Competition, Writing Competition and a Memory Verse narration with sign language. The Memory Verse narration was taken from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. My teacher had uploaded a video in YouTube before the school holidays as a reference for us to learn. You can view it here.

As expected, I did not win any prizes for Colouring Competition. However, I won second place for Chinese Writing competition and won an Excellent Award for the Memory Verse narration. The prizes were in the form of gifts.

I thank God for His favour and grace.

Paint-It-Yourself

Mami has been very inspired by nice paintings in my Ah Ku's newly renovated house. She was keen to buy new paintings for the house. Ah Kim advised Mami to buy a painting which can relate to Shaun Shaun and I.

Ah Kim informed that there is  DIY painting available. It is simple-to-do and the outcome can be amazing. We went to The Gardens last week and found the DIY painting which my Ah Kim recommended. I fell in love with this particular picture. It certainly brings much relationship to my little brother and I.

Mami purchased it (cost RM79.90, exclusive of 20% discount from Isetan), and she is thinking of doing this painting during the end-of-year holidays. We hope that this is really easy to do. Perhaps you need a steady hand to paint, but at least, all the colour combination is already provided by the "number labelling". I hope to be able to hang this in my room once completed.

This is the picture which I chose.

The colour paint is labelled with numbers,
which corresponds to the numbers on the picture.

Use the brushes provided and paint.

This is the final outcome

Sungai Gabai Outing

My family and I  went to Sungai Gabai with our cell group members on the first day of the school holidays. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was fun and refreshing. The water was freezing cold. Here are some photos to share with you.

Shaun glued himself to Mami all the time

My first pet......Pillowpet

I have been asking for Dadi and Mami to buy me a pet. I always wanted a pet. Dadi was keen, but unfortunately, Mami felt that it was an added responsibility for her. She did not like the idea of a pet moving around the house, or even needing to clean or change water from a fish bowl.

Mami managed to make a deal with me. No pets in the house. In return, she would buy me something closes to a pet..... A pillowpet.

Dadi and Mami brought Shaun and I to choose one each. We came back with these.

I chose a purple hippo

Shaun chose Barkie, the dog

Doesn't it look nice, soft and cuddly?

A surprise note

I was a little bored last night. Mami had gone with my little brother for music class. So, I decided to make something to surprise her.

After making it, I quickly went to bed. When Mami came back about 9p.m., she entered my room to check on me. I was already asleep, snoring away (a light snore). After that, she entered into her bathroom and......taa-daa........... this was what she saw behind the bathroom door.

Mami was pleasantly surprised. She was so happy, she gave me a few kisses this morning.

It may not be the best art and craft work (because I am certainly not an artistic person), but it was definitely a work from my heart.

MPH Voucher for reading

Once again I managed to obtain MPH RM50 vouchers from the school for borrowing and reading library books. My school would give RM20 for reading 8 English books and RM30 for reading 8 BM books within the period of 3 months. Mami was pleased with me. Mami asked me to keep it up and hopefully I am able to obtain more for the period July - September 2012.

I am happy because Mami is happy.

School Scrapbook Project

We had to do a scrapbook for our Bahasa Malaysia subject. The topic was on "Buah-Buahan". We had 3 weeks to complete it. Due to other incentives, I did an additional scrapbook with the topic "Sayur-Sayuran".

Mami took a few pictures of my scrapbooks which I handed in yesterday.

The cover of my Buah - Buahan scrapbook

The cover of my Sayur - Sayuran scrapbook

Did you notice that my 1st scrapbook looks better than my 2nd? 

I would like to also thank Mami, Dadi and Ah Mah for helping me in this project. We had a great family time doing this project together. 

Results for English Week

God is good and gracious. I am so thankful to Him.

I participated in four events and won titles for three events.

We first had a Show and Tell. I showed the photoframe with the picture of my brother and I.
I won second place for the Show and Tell.

My speech as follows:

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Good morning teachers and friends. My name is Benjamin Lee. I am from 1 Aman.

Today, I would like to show you something very special to me. Do you know what this is?

Yes, this is a photoframe. 

There are two things special about this. Firstly, this photoframe was handmade by me. I made this photoframe during my last birthday. Secondly, this is a picture of my little brother and I. This picture was taken when I was four years old and my little brother was still a baby. He is so cute in this picture. I wish he can be cute forever. I love him very much, and I hope that we can be best friends forever.

Thank you.

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Next, we had Spell-It-Right, i.e. Spelling Bee competition. I came in second place as well. 

I also participated in the Read and Write competition. In my earlier post, I mentioned that we had to read a book from the library and write a summary of the story. I won first place for this. The reward was a blue pen with a yellow highlighter.

Finally, there was a Read-It-Right competition. I participated in this as well. We were given a very short story. It was an impromptu reading with expression. I was able to read the story, but my expression was not impressive. I did not win for this event.

I really enjoyed my English Week. It was a great experience for me and I thank God for helping me in all my events.

I look forward for the events for Mandarin Week after the school holidays. I wonder what the events would be like???

My Ambition at 7 years old

I had to answer two questions in Sunday School today. What is my interest and what would I want to be when I grow up. My answers were.........

Badminton and Badminton player like Dato' Lee Chong Wei. 

My surname is Lee too. So, why not?

On a separate note, I shall pray that Dato' Lee Chong Wei wins gold medal in the London Olympics later. Why? Because I want the country to declare tomorrow as a public holiday.

Badminton lessons

A schoolmate and I started taking badminton lessons 2 months ago. We started off once a week, and now we started badminton training twice a week. My coach is an ex-national player, Ms. Chor Hooi Yee. She has many training centres, under Hooi Yee Sports Sdn Bhd. She is a great coach, and I really enjoy training under her.

All set to go for my Badminton Training

Almost the end of English Week

Tomorrow is the end of English Week. It has been an exciting week for all of us in school. Besides competing in a few categories, my friends and I had some time to play games like scrabbles, snap, UNO and snake & ladder. However, don't misunderstand that there is no studying at all. We only get to play these games during our English period.

I would also like to share with you another competition category. It is "Read a Book, and Write a Report". We were given a period to go into the library to borrow an English Book. We had to read this book and summarize the story with our own simple words. Next, we had to write it into a paper given to us. Fortunately, we were able to bring the paper back to complete. So, Mami helped me a little in this.

I can't wait till English Week is over. I hope there would be favourable results in all the categories that I participated in.

Opening Ceremony of English Week

I was privileged to be chosen to partner my classmate to participate in the opening ceremony of the English Week. There were 3 pairs representing Standard One. It was just a grand walk-in into the school hall for us. These are our photos.

English Week

My school is celebrating English Week next Monday. It will be an exciting week for me again and I can't wait for it to come.

After going through the BM Week, I was initially not very determined to participate in the English Week. As Mami advised me, "Let others have a chance to win trophies this time". However, everyone had to participate during the elimination week.

Last week, we had an adhoc spelling test. The words were not given to us before. The best 3 with highest scores in each class would enter into the Spelling Bee Finals during the English Week. I did well, and was chosen for the finals. Here are my results.

After that, we had a "Show and Tell" elimination session. I brought my favourite photoframe because I handmade this during my last birthday and it was a picture of my little brother and I. I was 4 years old back then, and Shaun Shaun was still a baby.

God was gracious, and I was also selected for the "Show and Tell" finals. There were 5 students in each class who entered into the finals.

There would also be a colouring contest tomorrow, but I have never won any colouring contest before. 

And finally, there would be an opening ceremony of the English Week after assembly next Monday. I was chosen with 5 other students from Primary One to dress up like an Englishman. I will be wearing a suit, to walk (with a beautiful classmate of mine) into the hall for the opening ceremony. I am not quite sure what I need to do, as the rehearsal would only start today.

I thank God for His favour and I am indeed happy to be able to actively participate in my school activities. 

Ooh...before I forget... there would be a Mandarin Week too..... in the month of September. I wonder if I am good enough to participate. This would certainly be a difficult one for me.

BM Week results

My school was very generous in giving prizes to us. For every class, they gave trophies to the top 3 winners for the 1st four days. For the final day, trophies were given to top 3 within each standard.

The results as follows:

For "Pertandingan Permainan Congkak" - won 3rd place
For "Pertandingan Mencari Perkataan Tersembunyi" - won 2nd place
For "Pertandingan Pakaian Tradisional" - won 1st place
For "Pertandingan Tunjuk and Cerita" Pusingan Terakhir - won 3rd place

So, I received 3 small trophies for the first 3 items above and 1 big trophy for the last item. I am so thankful to God that my hard work of memorizing my "Show and Tell" event paid off.

Below was my speech for the "show and tell" finals:


Selamat Sejahtera guru-guru and rakan - rakan sekalian. 


Nama saya Benjamin Lee. Saya pelajar xxxxxx. Saya akan menyampaikan sebuah pantun.

Budak 1 Aman comel berisi,
Banyak belajar, jarang bermonyet.
Baju Melayu, baju tradisi,
Dilengkapi songkok, lilitan songkek.


Saya sedang memakai Baju Melayu cekak musang. Baju Melayu saya dilengkapi songkok and kain samping. Baju Melayu biasanya dipakai pada hari perayaan atau majlis-majlis. Baju Melayu juga dipakai untuk menunaikan sembahyang Jumaat.


Sekian, terima kasih.




Thank you God for blessing me throughout all the events.

English week is coming soon and I told Mami that I shall be more relax and allow my other friends to win the prizes.

I am going into finals...

From the title of the post, it sounds like this is a super duper big event. Actually, this is just a small event, but perhaps big for me.

3 days of activities have passed in school. This week, the school is celebrating Bahasa Malaysia week. So, my friends and I are really happy excited.

On Monday, we had a congkak competition and I came in 3rd place. On Tuesday, we had a crossword puzzle competition and I came in 2nd place. Yesterday, we had a show and tell competition. I wore a Baju Melayu and I came in 1st place within my class. I am now qualified to enter the finals, competing with other classes this Friday.

Sharing some photos with you.

My friend is wearing an Iban costume

My friend is wearing prettiest top of all.
My friend's top is from Vietnam

This is my best friend, wearing a Chinese top

My good friends.

These are my classmates

This is my favourite picture of all. My class teacher and classmates

BM week schedule

I am all excited and almost ready for next week. This is our schedule for our BM week at school. What have I prepared?

1) I have practised playing congkak
2) Mami has taught me some 'makanan traditional' for the crossword competition
3) Dadi has bought me a baju melayu from Kamdar

4) My speech for show and tell on my baju melayu has been drafted by Dadi, Mami and another church friend.....i.e. Ruxyn Cheh Cheh.
5) I have started memorizing my speech. I am not very good at it yet, but I hope I'll eventually do so.

BM week

I am so excited. My school will be having BM week next week and there will be lots of fun activities. Every student is required to participate in all events. For a start I need to buy a traditional costume. With the costume, I need to present myself, providing a 10 lines speech about my costume. Two best performers will be selected to compete with other classes. Next, we will have a congkak competition. I have no idea how to play congkak. I guess I need to start surfing on the internet to learn how to play congkak.

Little Coin Box from my BM teacher

My BM teacher in school had created this programme in class for us to collect stars. We collect stars primarily for completing our work nicely and correctly. I was the first student in my class to reach up to 110 stars. So, I managed to get a special gift from my BM teacher. Other students will also be able to receive a gift from the teacher once they have collected 110 stars.

Thank you God for helping me.