2010-05-31

B1's 3D2N Girls' Brigade Camp 2010

From 29th - 31st May.

On 2nd night, parents are invited to the iHeartU Cafe to have dinner served by the girls.

Followed by dance performance, presentation of appreciation gift and letters.

Parents are also shown slide show of what the girls did during the camp and briefed on what the girls are being taught at the camp.

On the second day, there are also other uniform groups, Boys Scouts and Boys Brigade joining them for games.

B2 cried and wanted to go home with us after seeing many of the girls packed and leave for home after the performance. We checked with the officers and were told that those are leaving because they have other camps the following day. Only then B1 stopped crying and accepted the fact that she has to stay till tomorrown afternoon.

One of the officers approached us and told us that B1 has "grown up" a lot, unlike the first time she attended the camp last year. This year she didn't feel homesick and cried.

B2 also had fun with the other GB girls after the performance. A small crowd slowly gather around her and played balloon with her.

2010-05-19

Notes Re: Booking SIA's tickets online

Hb booked SQ's ticket online. His meeting is on Thurs, but he couldn't get any air tickets back on Friday, so he's booked Saturday return instead.

Surprise Surprise..so I checked and found one flight back on Friday night....He insisted that he couldn't get any when he made the bookings.

I guess it's due to Airlines blocked some tickets for agents, so it's shown as no available flights when he booked, but by certain time if those tickets are not taken up by the agencies, then it's released back to their system again.

Anyway, Hb made a mistake of making me book for his hotels first, just in case he couldn't find and good and cheap one, so I have booked his hotel till Saturday.

When I found return tickets for Friday, and changed his return flight, the hotel is already booked and there is no refund for early check-out.Wasted one night's hotel $! Lesson Learned!

2010-05-18

2010 Mother's Day Gifts

From hb,B1 and B2.

2010-05-07

B2 cried for the first time in school

B2 has been enjoying her school and never cried since she started one month ago,but cried today when her classmate,who's 2 months older than her pushed and made her fall!

This girl joined the school much earlier than B2,but is still crying before going in, and cling on to the grandma all the time. Heard the teachers telling the grandma than she pushed other kid and made her fall, didn't know poor B2 is the victim!

B2 must be a born PR person! Even when she's crying while I carried her to the car, she still didn't stop waving and saying Bye-Bye loudly to her teachers!

There's a new Indian (from India) boy who joined their class today. Saw the mother waited anxiously outside the school, kept making phone calls(later found out that she's been trying to call the school, but the teachers were too busy to pick up). She kept repeating the same thing to the teachers..." heard her boy crying...her boy has NEVER Cried....NEVER Cried for more than 10 minutes since birth...didn't want him to go to school and LEARN TO CRY.....,want to stay in the class to accompany him(which the teacher politely explain to her why it's not a good idea)....to make sure than he knew that it's a SAFE place....

This whole thing go on and on...and caused late dismissal of other children!

Bertina's First Mother's Day Gift!

Bertina's First Mother's Day Gift!