Kyle at Nursery Class: Term 1

A little update on Kyle's progress since he entered nursery class since January 2009. So far, so good. Initially his teacher was telling us how she could not make him concentrate in class. He would walk about while the teacher was telling a story to the class or bully his other classmates during play-time by taking the toys away.

I was of course very worried and I really had a heart-to-heart talk with him. From the conversation, I could gather that he was still feeling shocked at not being in playgroup class anymore and not seeing his favourite Teacher Ruz and Teacher Tan every day. The nursery class is located in a different block and with new surroundings, he must still be lost and quite dazed at the change. In fact, I believe that he felt a little hurt that Teacher Ruz 'abandoned' him, till he refuse to talk to her whenever he sees her. And when I ask him why he does that, he simply says, "Because I like Teacher Ruz". Aww..the poor dear.

Well, anyway his new teacher, Teacher Magesh is just as nice, and Kyle is slowly warming up to her. Although she admitted initially it was a problem trying to get through to him, but it seems after I talked to him and advised him that he cannot behave like that in class, he somehow matured a little and has shown tremendous improvement in behaviour :)

There is no problem in his learning so far, his teacher said, adding that he is bright and learns fast. He also pays attention more. I am also glad to see that he loves going to school and coming home to do homework.

That's right, nursery already got homework to do! And parents have a big role to play. Every weekend, there will be a new assignment for Kyle to do before handing it up when school starts on Monday. It's actually quite interesting. Some examples of his homework includes matching pictures, recognising letters, drawings and also preparing stuff for Show n Tell.

Here are some stuff he did:

His homework file. Very heavy on parental involvement

His next project is to bring any type of red fruit (such as apple or strawberries) and tell his class about it. Now what is your favourite red fruit, Kyle?

Sunway Lagoon Trip 10-12 Apr 09

We needed a break badly after working our butts off the past year. So we decided to take a short trip to Sunway Lagoon with the kids. Our friends Hairi and Salyna also joined us with their family. So it was set: a road trip with 5 adults (including one maid) and 6 kids! Oh boy, will we survive it? :p

We certainly did. Hairi is a pro at road trips so we were not too worried about getting lost along the way. We even had walkie-talkies in hand just in case we lost sight of each other's car. Of course, most of the conversation on the walkie-talkie sets were nonsensical!

We stayed at Sunway Pyramid Tower Hotel and spent most of the 3 days 2 nights holiday swimming, eating, shopping, sleeping and more eating. Hehe..

Here are some memorable shots:

At Sunway Shopping Mall

Going to Sunway Lagoon Theme Park

In our hotel room

Fun time at the lagoon

At Putrajaya

More pictures on Facebook!

Sigh...so now its back to work again...I wonder when is the next holiday...

Super super BZ!

Been really busy with work so hardly anytime to blog. I am so tied up and would only be able to breathe when Sept comes. I might be off to Bangkok, Thailand next month for a study trip with the students, but it depends a lot on the situation there. If it get more dangerous nearer to the date (scheduled on 9th May), we may cancel and probably just go to KL.

But I love being busy though...times flies fast during office hours. Before I know it, its 6pm and Im off back home :)

Here are some recent pictures of me and some of my colleagues at a graduation dinner.

Registration of guests & graduands

Myself with Dorine

Yvonne and Wendy (my manager) joins us.

Next week I am off to the Istana for tea with our President! Wow...will update how that goes :)

Prune Juice

Remember kyra had a constipation problem?

http://kylenkyra.blogspot.com/2008/06/problem-with-poo-ing.html

It got so bad before that I had to insert the laxative liquid up into her anus every 3-4 days as she had difficulty in passing motion. I wanted to cry each time as I could not bear to see her screaming and crying.

Thank goodness my prayers were answered. Two lovely words. Prune juice.

I included about 30ml of prune juice into her milk each time. I also bought her those gerber bottles of blended prune puree. Now she passes motion almost every day, if not at least once in 2 days. Naturally without any laxatives :)

Prunes are a natural source of fibre and vitamins and they are just so wholesome and healthy. I am so happy now as I was even having sleepness nights thinking about whether Kyra will have to go through this till she grows up!