New Year, New School, New Experience!!!

Happy New Year to all!

Many people have been asking us and our parents, how are we coping with our new year, especially Noinoi who is looking forward anxiously to start the new chapter in her life in the new school.

She was very enthusiastic and took initiatives to pack her school bag, preparing her pencil case, purse and etc. The zeal was equivalent to that she feels for her ballet classes.

Nikki was looking forward to return to school too! She misses her classmates and also this year, she has got an additional role, she has been selected to be a prefect in the school.

First week of school was a short one, for the first three days, Noinoi seems to enjoy her new school life, running in the parade square, play catching, taking specially catered food in class during recess and even taking the school bus is such a joy for her.

Nonetheless, Noinoi being Noinoi, she never fails to surprise and amuse us! On the last day of the first week in school, all the new students were being assigned to a buddy in school whom will guide and show them how to make purchases from the canteen stalls during recess.

Noinoi's buddy was very generous and hospitable. She offered to give her a chicken rice treat on condition that Noinoi can only eat the chicken meat and not the chicken rice. The reason is simple, her buddy likes the chicken rice only!

Noinoi wasn't too pleased with that, she said that her buddy didn't show her how to buy food from the stalls but encouraged her to go and buy potato chips. She also didn't show her the way back to the hall after recess but ran away after eating. (Daddy wondered why her buddy run away, is it because she couldn't stand Noinoi's nagging? Lol TTM)

Good thing that she met Nikki who was the chaperon to another pupil and they went back to the hall together.

Noinoi also told us that the chicken meat was not enough to fill her stomach, so she secretly took a few spoonful of chicken rice when her buddy was not paying attention to the plate of chicken rice that they are supposed to share.

First day of the second week, Noinoi came back home with bruises on both her elbows and knees. She claimed that a boy has pushed her when they were running in the parade square during recess. She said that her injury was so bad that she has to go to the general office. Back home, she even asked if her wounds were as bad as Daddy's wound when he fell last year!

Huahin - The King's paradise

在九月份的假期里，我们全家到泰国的花营去度假。爸爸告诉我说我们将会在这Lu 程中一起骑大象时，我心里又紧张又害怕。

当我们在骑大象时，我紧握着妈妈的手。妈妈一直在安蔚我不要害怕，因为她会保护我。当大象要下水时，我们都会提醒对方要小心。

骑完大象后，爸爸买了两条有小象型装的手链给我和妹妹作记念。训象的伯伯说他会把所赚的钱去买粮食给大象们吃。

当我们在等待大象表演的时候，一只玩皮的小猴子突然间向我扑了过来，我害怕地大哭了起来！这时我的爸爸很勇敢地冲过来救我。

这个过程让我觉得我的父母都很爱我。不论在多危险的时候他们都会奋不顾身的保护我和妹妹。

School Holiday came and gone

School holiday finally came and gone by midnight tonight. This holiday we've been grounded because Daddy is busy and Mummy's having her exams again. Nonetheless, we are blessed because we have our Gugu and Yiyi who took turns to keep us entertained.

We were rather reluctant to return home after having stayed over at Gugu house for 2 nights. Gugu brought us to the indoor maze, outdoor park and even treated us to sushi and saloon. What? Did you hear wrongly? Not at all, she really brought us to wash hair at the saloon while she have her hair treatment.

Er Gugu also treated us to the movie "Kungfu Panda II"

However, the best of all is still Ah Zhen Yiyi's present.... Baby Jarius. He's the latest addition to our cousins team.

We had 2 parties at Zhen Yi's house in a row this month. First was Adam's birthday party, followed by Baby Jarius full month celebration! We had so much fun during those parties.

Finally last week, both Mum and Dad paid their dues by bringing us out for a whole full day. We were supposed to go cycling at the park after our favorite and usual breakfast hunt. However, it was drizzling and we almost cancelled the outing. Fortunately, mummy came out with a great idea to replace. We ended up ice skating and it wasn't that bad for us being our first time skating.

Like we've said earlier, we are truly blessed because by evening time, the sky was clear and the weather was cool. Eventually, we had our wish granted as we managed to cycle at Pasir Ris Park by the setting sun to end our exciting day!

On father's day, Daddy brought Nikki out to the Charity funfair before they headed to the International Guitar Divas Gala Concert. As they were walking in through the stalls, the stall holders took turns to promote their products. One lady approached us with a box of egg tarts in her hands and asked: "Would you like to have one?" Nikki naturally lifted her hands to take when the lady suddenly retreated and laughing away as she quickly exclaimed "Oh no no no!" pointing that we should make our purchase.

Nikki also did her tiny part towards the fun raising effort by making a little heart filled with her blessings and prayers on the Wishing Rainbow.

They were so engrossed with the varieties at all the stalls until they almost forgotten about the time. In the end, they had to rush down to the concert venue half an hour before the concert start time and had to gobble down their packed lunch in the car.

All the rushing were made worthy as Daddy could see how Nikki enjoyed the guitar concert featuring world renowned female guitarists like Kaori Muraji from Japan which is also Nikki's favorite, Elena Castoli, She was smiling and tapping her little shoes to the beats of their music on Daddy's gigantic shoes. Nikki's smile was brimming even brighter when Kaori Muraji took notice and smile at her with a little bow after her performance.

Noinoi has also got her fair share of Daddy's attention when she took her swimming test last week. Daddy was there to encourage and support her as she completes her tasks confidently.

Her hardwork also paid off for the ballet exam she took in April as she received her examination results today. She has scored a perfect score, ending this school holiday on a high note!

Cute Cute and Kwai Kwai

We were all so happy that both nikki's ear tubes finally dropped. That means her eardrums are completely healed and she could start swimming again.

Mum and dad immediately took us for swimming at the Hotel Michael the next day. Nikki did well and made a great start despite the long break, she was able to paddle for quite a distance without support. She was extremely thrilled and kept pushing the distance for another good 15 minutes before she called it quit when she started feeling dizzy!

She took a short rest after shower in the hotel room. Shortly after she was all well again feasting on her favorite sushi spread that Zhen Yi bought.

However, it wasn't as straightforward as what we thought it should be. Daddy was summoned back from his office when Nikki couldn't stop crying in the morning. Dad took her to the clinic and the doctor observed that one side of her inner ear was reddened.

She couldn't go to school that day and had to be on antibiotics and ear drops for a week.

A week later, Gugu brought us, Adam and Rae to the Infinity pool in MBS Skypark. This time round, Daddy took all necessary precautions to prevent water from entering Nikki's ears. After the swim, we were all treated to a sumptuous dinner in the hotel room compliments from Adam's dad.

Last week, Gugu brought us to MBS again! This time not to swim but to watch our long-awaited Lion King Musical!

Gugu booked 4 seats in the first 2 rows. Nikki and Adam took the first row while Gugu and Noinoi took the second row. Not long into the show, Noinoi started to cover her ears, Gugu asked if she's scared, she silently nodded her head. For the rest of the show, Gugu had Noinoi sat on her lap while the other $$$ seat was occupied by her branded handbag! Too bad Daddy couldn't join us for the show!

By the way, Cute Cute and Kwai Kwai are our two new nicknames Daddy named us! Cute cute got her name because she posted in her facebook "I am cute!" Kwai Kwai is called Kwai Kwai because Dad wanted her to be good girl as she has not been in her best behaviour lately!

Teacher Assistant Nikki

Nikki has this classmate who's rather weak in her studies. There seems to be many things that she doesn't seems to know nor understand. Nikki says that this friend is a nice and obedient girl but she is very busy at home until she didn't even have time to revise her schoolwork and even her English and Chinese spellings. Eventually, their Teacher paired them up and instructed Nikki to teach and guide her in class.

Nikki understands from her that her dad works most of the time and is seldom home, her mum doesn't stay with them anymore. Her elder brother is the one who does the cooking at home and takes care of her and her sister.

The other day, her water bottle cracked in her school bag and all her books were soaked. For the next week days, she didnt have a water bottle and wouldn't want to drink from the water cooler because her dad forbids her to do so. She became so thirsty later in class until she even asked Nikki if she could drink from her bottle.

Few days later, she told Nikki during class that she's hungry because she didn't have enough money to buy food during recess.

Mummy's not sure if she should highlight this matter with the Teacher in the communication handbook but Daddy suggested to speak directly with the teacher instead.

School Holiday Programme

Nikki completed the first term assessments with flying colours! She have only one simple wish for her school holiday that is to play monopoly with our family. Her wish was eventually granted the other night after spending a whole day out with Noinoi, Mum and Dad.

Noinoi on the other hand have many wishes, these includes to return to King's Park in Perth, play bowling at the alley and swimming at Yiyi's house. During the first two days, we were in our best behaviours and Daddy and mummy were planning to bring us to the bowling alley.



But all these foiled because we quarreled with each other on the third day and even make our grandma so annoyed with us until Daddy have to rush back home to lecture us. It was then, Mummy and Daddy decided to cancel the bowling trip as penalty.

Having said that, they still love us a lot. As promised they took the day off yesterday to bring us out for movies and shopping. We couldn't decide which movie to watch as we were spolit for choice. Eventually Dad made a right choice by asking us to go for which was a nice movie with a simple yet meaningful message "LOVE". When you loves someone, there are some things that one should never say to hurt other's feelings. Sometimes, it maybe just too late to regret. Thank God that the movie didn't end up that way but closed with a happy ending filled with Love!

However, no doubt it was such a great movie, we were surprised to see that the entire cinema belongs to just our family and one other guy who slept through out the entire movie!

Swimming like a dolphin!

It is such a great relief to see that Noinoi is able to clear her mental block that she almost wanted to give it all up after 15 months of dutiful routine, water kicking with the swimboard, pool bouy and pushing the swimming pool wall.

We are rewarded with bursting joy when we learn that Noinoi could finally do her freestroke without aids. For first time in class, she's able to swivel her head smoothly, while coordinating her arms pulling smoothly like a little dolphin. Daddy used to say that she swims like a drowning shark, pushing her head out of the water, grasping for breath as if she's gonna chew someone's head off anytime!

This definitely calls for a little celebration which Mum and Dad are hoping to find some time during the term holiday to take us on a short retreat!



Nikki seems to be settling in well in school and also the new care arrangement. She can now wake up as late as she wants, plan and do things according to her own schedule in the morning before going to school.

Having said that, Nikki started her first term of school with some interesting encounters. One of them was the time when one of her classmates asked her for money after Nikki overheard that she told another friend that her daddy is very sad because he has no money. Some time later, the same girl gave Nikki a princess sticker and told her that she will give her more stickers each time Nikki can make her happy!