13th Dec Last day at GUG Suntec

Its the last class for the year today and we were having a special party. I brought some small little gifts for the kids and the teachers. We potbless for the party and Ryann is suppose to bring along biscuits. I brought 3 different favors only to find out that only 6 students turned up. but we had fun anyway!

Yummy cakes! Ryann: I had better get a good seat!

Wow! Cakes! My Favourite.

Look at how amazed are the kids!

Its also Little Joaqina's birthday! ( Hopefully it is the right spelling)

Party Time!

Fruit Juice! Is it nice?

yummy chocolate cake! I had 2 pieces!

Look at my mouth!

Happy eating mummy's share!

Donuts!

Muffins!

Forks are troublesome, how about using my hands?

Now is gift exchange time!

Let me see what have i got for gift exchange!

Class photo time! Its so hard to get all of them in one photo!

What are we waiting for?

We had five... short of Kieran..

now we are short of Anton. Gotta learn to photoshop this. =p

Ryann with Teacher Wei.

Ryann with Teacher Russell.

Ryann will miss all of you especially Teacher Russell and Teacher Wei. They are great teachers and i must say I never regretted signing Ryann up for GUG as he really learn alot in just one year. Many thanks to all in GUG suntec! Till we meet again!

21st Oct Thoughts of the week

Today we had our monthly staff birthday celebration and as usual Jasmine (COO and founder of Amore Fitness) shared with us some thoughts, which I felt like a new revelation in my heart.

It’s about forgiveness.
How easy said then done? How many of us can really forgive and forget? There was a saying:"You will only receive happiness when happenings happen to happen the way you want it to happen." Then what about happenings that do not happen the way you want it to happen? If it involves human relationship, many times we will get angry or hold grudges against that person.

Example: Your husband is snoring very loudly and disturbing your sleep. You toss around the bed for hours but you just cant get to sleep because he is just too loud. At this situation, look at your husband, he is sleeping soundly and enjoying his rest. But whom is the one suffering?

I came to realize that when u get angry with someone or when you cant forgive someone, you actually put yourself into the bondage. They might not even know or worse still, they might not care if you are angry or not. So who is at the losing end? But again it takes more energy, effort, courage and strength to forgive then to strive for peace and harmony.

As what was shared during CG, you set others free to set yourself free.

This is extremely helpful to me as I was recently challenged with some office politics, which I really hate most. It is painful as it came unexpectedly from some one whom I trusted. This incident at work got me really angry and I was badly affected. God is good all the time as he used 3 different situations to remind me about this theory so as to set myself free. This was also one revelation I received from the TVB serial drama.

Today, seeing that person again during meeting, I felt no pain, no hard feelings and no anger as I have truly set myself free.
Hope this little revelation of mine can help to set more people free.

P/S: Ryann is showing his terrible twos signs... when i scolded him for not taking off his shoes at home before playing, he crossed his arms and even turn his face away from me with sound effect "hmp" some more....

11 Oct More pictures coming up

I have brought my camera finally - G11. So you would be expecting more pictures but that will be until i know how to load and save in my comp. still trying to figure out how to use the camera.

Hospital trips

Big granny is now at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and at the same time, i heard bad news that Auntie's cancer had relapsed and she found 9 tumors around her neck region. This got me quite emotional as Flora just left us not long ago. First it was Molly then it was Shin and lastly was Flora. Now listening to news like that make me feel very emotional. Please help to pray for her healing and also for her to stay positive.

GUG class
Today is the last lesson for Term 5 in GUG. Many of Ryann's classmates are going to other classes. I guess only Kieren and another 2 more staying. I have also decided to draw Ryann out after Term 6 so that next year he can join me for service or go to Rock Kids. Hopefully by then his communication skills will improve.
Tomorrow will load more pictures up.

Thoughts of the day
Today Brother in law casually advice me that we are not spending enough time and not enough talking with Ryann. Honestly speaking, with Hubby's work schedule it is really true. With my recent hectic schedule it seems extremely hard to come back on time. Although i am putting my 100% trust on God for his speech, sometimes i really hope i can spend more time with Ryann. I do not want to waste Ryann's precious first 3 years. By next year when i start my studies, it is going to be worse. Really need to work something out. God, give me the wisdom!

2nd Aug Its Sunday again!

It’s Sunday again. My only rest day, was hoping to be able to sleep a little longer but I woke up with Ryann on my bed rolling on the bed, over me and using my tummy as his pillow. What a great way to wake up seeing the smile on Ryann's face. No matter how tired I may be, it just feels so good to see our todds smile.

As usual, we went over to mum's place to make sure Winnie can cope with dad. I cook for Ryann while Winnie bath him. As usual he will protest initially but the sight of water will just spurs him on to shower. He really loves playing with water. Haven had time to bring him for some swimming. I fed him his lunch and allow him to hold the spoon himself with some guidance from me and he is doing very well.

We went for his class today and it is the last class for some of them who will not be continuing after this term. As usual Ryann responded well in the class except for some running around. Before the teachers can even finish the Zoo bag segment, he already went to open the file and took out the flash cards for teacher Russell. We were learning about the letter E for elephant, elbow and exercise. And each word comes with some activities that involved movements like stomping like an elephant, hokey pokey song with elbows (Ryann was dancing along) and exercise like running, marching walking etc. All the kids seem to have all the energy they needed.
Today's artwork will be using the toothbrush and the comb to create tiny paint spots. Ryann enjoyed it alot. He was also very happy in the music class and was dancing along with teacher Wei. Seeing him so happy in class make me even reluctant to stop GUG.

After class we went to tampines for dinner with my sister in law and father in law. Great food. And the moment Ryann was free from the stroller; he will start running everywhere and will just swing our hands away and refused to be held. Overall I had a great day spent with Ryann and I am enjoying every single day spent with him.