Favourite Past Time

Shaun Shaun TiTi and I love to play Legos. We have lots of them. Lots of figurines and bricks. Day in, day out, we will be shifting our Lego boxes out from the storeroom to our living room during playtime. Though I am turning 9 this year, I still love to have my playtime everyday. I will never let go of my legos.

Lego is certainly a toy which is very costly. Dadi managed to buy quite a fair bit during his business trips to Geneva last year. It was cheaper there. Sometimes, Dadi would order them from the internet.

I have reminded Mami never to give away my Lego sets to anyone. Lego will be kept for my children in the future.

Chinese New Year (2014)

This year, we had Yeh Yeh and Mah Mah spending the Chinese New Year with us in KL. We were grateful that they could come a week before Chinese New Year. Shaun Shaun and I had a great time with them.

Nevertheless, we certainly missed the presence of Ku Ku and her family. This is the second Chinese New Year celebration without her family since she migrated to Australia. Chinese New Year celebration feels quieter.

As it is still Chinese New Year, do allow me to wish all my blog readers a very Blessed Chinese New Year. May 2014 be a year of God's favour and blessings for us all.

New Year Resolution

I have been looking forward for a new 2014. A year with new resolution, with anticipation for new things to come.

School has started and my Shaun Titi has entered Primary One. Though he is tall for his age, he still behaves very much like a normal 5 years old...turning 6 this year. As expected, he cried for the first 3 days in school. Nevertheless, my Ah Mah feels that his crying is far lesser than mine when I first entered Primary One few years ago. Shaun has stopped crying, and I have been accompanying him whenever possible in school.

We are all very thankful that God had arranged good classes and teachers for both of us. We like our form teachers, and believe that our subject teachers are good as well. As for Shaun, he is indeed blessed to have the best Science and Maths teacher this year. Praise God for answering our prayers.

My activities this year are more or less the same. However, I have dropped my badminton training, primary due to the damage made to my upper back muscle. The intensive training last year was overly strenuous for me. As a result, I had to go for chiropractic treatment during the school holidays. Swimming was recommended to me to correct my back.

With badminton out in my list, I have decided to switch my focus on music. Music has been close to my heart as Mami has been constantly reminding me that God has blessed me with a musical talent. I should expand this talent for good use. I agreed and told Mami that I will aim to be a "Master of Music". I call this in short, MOM. 

So, it shall be. My new year's resolution is to improve my musical talent. I guess this means that I have to put in more hours in music everyday.

I pray that I am able to fulfill this resolution by God's grace.

I am a Poet

Yeh Yeh and Mah Mah have been calling me a Poet. I have been composing many poems during the school holidays. It started when I made a Christmas card for an aunty in Muar.

This was what I composed and sent.....

Christmas Tracting Adventure

My church had sent several groups to go tracting at several shopping malls and LRT station prior to Christmas. Our cell group covered 1Shamelin mall.

I wrote a poem as a testimony for my church and I recited this poem during our Thanksgiving Service last Sunday.

Christmas, Christmas, Christmas is near,

I have something exciting here,

I had an important mission,

To share God's love and vision.

I started off going,

Without really knowing,

How to show them,

God's big love for them.

Prayer and boldness,

I needed to get,

I charged forward,

Without looking backward.

 

I went to 1Shamelin,

I started trembling,

Who will I meet there?

What will I do there?

I looked around,

I tried to go round,

I bravely approached,

A man with a broach (the security guard).

 

I handed out a tract,

He smiled and took it back,

Was it difficult to do,

No! It wasn't difficult to continue.

 

I finished my tracting,

With great joy and clapping,

I hope I was able,

To touch the hearts of all people.

God bless them all!

Special guest in Decatonics

Shaun Shaun and I were privileged to join our church's mini choir group named Decatonics. We played the cajons, performing in SS2 mall and Christmas church service. Decatonics sang beautiful Christmas carols and we had a great time during practices and performances. I praise God for this opportunity.

Speech Day 2013

Finally, Speech Day for the year has passed. It was lots of fun for me as I thoroughly enjoyed my group performance of a song called "More, More, More, I Want More More More". Although the costume looked silly, but the song was nice and catchy.

This year, the school had trimmed down significantly on the awards for the students. With the Cambridge syllabus, there are only three core subjects i.e. English, Maths and Science. One award was given for each subject to each class. I obtained an award for Maths. I had also received an award for Bahasa Malaysia during the school assembly before Speech Day. BM is a non-core subject, hence it was given out separately.



I thank God for His grace and mercy upon my life in school this year. God has been good to me.

Pastor Dorai from Full Gospel Assembly
came and presented the award

Year 2 Dance team

My little TiTi

Ah Mah came to show her support

My class teacher 

Lots of fun and eating

School has been fun for me. There are still lessons taught, particularly for English and Science. However, we have been busy with our Speech Day dance and it has been fun. I love dancing.

We have been having lots of parties recently. Two of my friends had their birthday parties last week, and another had her birthday party in school yesterday. We had yummy ice cream cakes. Today was Children's Day and the school provided us with KFC chickens and ice cream. Tomorrow will be our class party and I made chocolate truffles for my class. It was really simple to make. You can check out this website http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipe/easy-chocolate-and-condensed-milk-truffles-L4891.html for the recipe. Instead of Marie biscuits, we used Ritz biscuits.

I am looking forward for the days to come. More fun in school. Field trip is just round the corner and finally.....our Speech Day.

Hooray! School holidays are coming.

Yamaha Claris Mini Concert 2013

We had a mini concert at Yamaha Claris to celebrate the end of our JXC programme. It was combined with another class of a higher grade. There were few electone students who were invited to perform as well.

I had a great time there. I played The Entertainer on the electone and an ensemble entitled Comical Train. My teacher was also so generous to give us angpow for the good results our group had received.

My TiTi also had a mini concert two days before mine, but unfortunately there were no group photos taken. So, here he is in this group picture, as many in this group also had siblings performing in his concert.

Percussion Lessons

I was so glad when I heard that our church organized a percussion lesson for us to learn how to play the cajon. We have two cajons at home. One for me and another for Shaun Shaun. I have been actively playing on it on my own.

Last Sunday was the first lesson and I thoroughly enjoyed the lesson. I hope to be able to play the cajon one day during church worship session. It would be so fun and cool.

Our Percussion Teacher was the handsome young man
sitting on the bright red cajon. He was the one who
made my cajon.

Yamaha Grade 9 piano examination

I praise God for a Distinction in my Yamaha Grade 9 examination. I worked hard and I had a dedicated teacher who ensured that we did well. Everyone in my Yamaha group class did well, scoring merits and distinctions. We were really proud of our teacher, Ms. Aw. I thank God for her dedication and commitment. I also thank God for Mami who helped me in my practices at home. Above all, I thank God for GOD. He is certainly good to me. I would not have done well without Him.

3 Billy Goats Gruff Drama

My team had to perform a drama for our English assessment last Friday in school. This is a second drama this year for me. We had to perform based on the story the Three Billy Goat Gruff.

Dadi and Mami made these masks for our group for this drama. My teacher loved the mask and requested for them. I happily asked permission from Mami and gave them to her. I was glad my team did very well.

New Toy in the Block

Have to heard of Cajon? It looks like a stool box which you can sit on. You can not only sit on it, you can drum on it as well.

Dadi and Mami bought Shaun and I cajons to play at home. We bought it from a church friend's boyfriend who makes cajons. You can visit his website here http://timoz-percussion.com/my/. You can customize your own cajons too. If you love drumming and your Dadi or Mami refuses to buy a drum for you, then cajon is the next best thing. There are many websites which can teach you how to play the cajon.

FGA Cheras 16th Anniversary

Our church celebrated its 16th Anniversary on 18th August 2013 and our cell group was on duty to perform for this occasion. It was a great time for me and our family as we enjoyed all the practices held in Ah Ku's house every Friday. There are no words to describe how excited I was before the performance. You can watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlcjCh6yA4w of our performance.

Cooking and Baking Spree

My Ah Mah and Mami have been very active in the kitchen lately. Ah Mah is back to her active self like before. She has gone to a cooking and baking spree at home.

I have been engaged by Ah Mah to actively look for recipes daily from the Internet. I am an expert in searching for Amy Beh's recipes. She is Ah Mah's favourite chef.

There was a day when I watched a show call "I Can Cook" from Cbeebies and was keen to try out a recipe. Ah Mah and Mami prepared all the ingredients for Shaun and I to prepare and bake. We tried, but it did not turn out very nice. Perhaps I should try recipes from Amy Beh too.

 

Here we are.....all ready....

Work, work, work

Just before the oven

Mami forgotten to take a photo of the output.....but it all sank down after removing them from the oven :(

Poem Craze

I love writing poems. I wrote a few poems recently. Do allow me to share with you as follows...

Poem to my teacher :

Don't be angry, don't be angry,
We hope you can be always happy,
We know we are sometimes naughty,
However, we are very sorry.

You are very beautiful today,
Not only today, but every other day,
I have something important to say,
I thank God you are my teacher, Hooray!

A Bad Guy Poem:

I am in a shame,
But my name is Bane,
I have a red hat,
Inside there's a rat.

I am Bumble Bee,
But I'm a bad guy you will see,
We live in the robber's house,
And we have a pet mouse.

If you be in our trap,
You will be our pet,
You will be boiled in hot water,
When you bathe you will suffer.

We will make a flood,
You will pay with blood,
We will send rain,
And you will be in pain.

We have alot of weapons,
On them it has patterns.
We will use it to fight,
Always in the bright light.

Bookfest 2013

Dadi and Mami went to the Bookfest 2013 at KL Conventional Centre after church yesterday. As expected, it was crowded. Dadi and Mami managed to buy some books and school stationeries for us.

Buy 2, free 1 Avengers book. Shaun TiTi's favourite.
There were many more titles of which Shaun already bought some
through Scholastic's purchase through his preschool

25% off for all Roald Dahl books. Love this book. Read one book
as soon as Mami showed this to me.

RM10 per book. Levels 1 and 2 are for Shaun. 

RM10 per book

 Mami managed to buy stationeries at a good discounted price. Also bought a few ICON pencil cases at 50% or 70% discount to give as presents for my friends during certain occasions.

Dadi and Mami may go there again later this week to buy a few more items as Christmas presents for some close friends. Perhaps it would not be crowded during the Raya holidays....who knows.

Dadi's Birthday

Dadi's birthday cake ..... all decorated by Benjamin and Shaun.

Exam stress

I will be sitting for my Yamaha Grade 9 examination early next month. I am not sure if I look forward for the day to come. My Yamaha teacher has been drilling us during lessons over the past few months, preparing the group for this examination. I must say that she is very dedicated as she held several extra classes for us. She certainly wants the best from all of us.

I am trying to put more effort in practicing my three pieces which I chose for my exam. Mami spents time standing next to me, checking if I played with the right expressions and body movement. It is not easy to please her as her expectations are high. My hearing is good, but my sight reading is poor. Mami runs through sight reading with me once a week. Sometimes I end up crying for not being able to play correctly.

Mami reminded me today that my exam is only 4 weeks away. She is very anxious and I am too. I must start praying for this upcoming exam.

Family Camp 2013

I had the privileged to join Dadi for our church camp. Ah Mah was unwell and Mami wanted to stay back to be with her. Shaun Shaun TiTi did not want to go because Mami was not going.

I had lots of fun there. I was very independent going around and mixed well with everyone. I was even very friendly with the invited Pastor. Peacehaven was a great place. I told Mami that the air was cold even though there were no fans or air conditioners.