Food for thought

Yesterday I woke up early to prepare their breakfast and lunch. They had eggs and Bacon for breakfast and pizza for lunch as Charlynn had requested to have pizza for lunch the day before. I even cut green apples for them and prepared banana chips for snacks. In the end, Charlynn polished up all the food but the boys still have their chips left. Charlynn is really growing as now she has enormous appetite. Told her she must exercise regularly and drink lots of milk so that she can grow tall. Wonder if that will help. Mum said Tian Qi is good for growing children so maybe I will have to go to the medicinal hall to prepare the soup for her.

After sending the kids to school, I went shopping again. Bought a bit if grocery and really not as fun. I went back wiht Channery after just a while. After we come back, it's washing and household chores. I manged to squeeze some time teaching Channery some nursery rhymes. Really must set aside some time to teach her the alphabets. My sis's son, Alwin is half a year younger than her and he can speak quite well. Better get her to have a good start.

In the afternoon I had noodles with the left over vegtables I cook the night before. Joe now has packed lunch and I better cook some thing extra for him to bring to school. To eat the same kind of food again the next day might not be so interesting. Luckily we had bacon and eggs yesterday so he had the extra ingredient. Today Joe forgot to bring his lunch box. If not he will eat the minced pork fritters, green beans, celery dumplings and lotus roots soup. Well! I will have to eat the food then. Today the children have fried rice for lunch. I have added eggs, bacon, green beans and carrots into the fried rice. It will taste quite good I think. They have grapefruit and kiwi too. The grapefruit here is sweet and nice unlike the sour ones we have in Singapore.

After school, I must bring the kids for their art lessons. Seems like today I don't have to cook. Maybe to tell Joe we will eat outside at the Thai restaurant near his school. I like the food there.

Btw Joe and I are thinking if we want to buy a house here. The rental is not cheap and if the same amount can be used to buy a house why not. That's just a thought. Need to find out more information. We must also need to find a tenant for our condo before we can have extra money. So let's hope God will grant our wishes to find a suitable tenant for us.

Oh I wanna talk about the school discipline during assembly for the school. They have 2 bells and kids will automatically sit down. The teachers do not scold. They praise the kids and greet them politely. I like the school as children learn to be positive and polite. The children in turn keep their mouth shout when the teachers give their announcements. They have to greet the 7-8 teachers who went up to give announcement.. Somehow I think my kids are better off here in Australia. My boys are so motivated to go school. They learn their spelling willingly and not fuss on doing their homework. The teacher will give them a list of homework to be handed in at the end of the week. I think Singapore teachers are giving unnecessary stress to students as students do not know when to receive homework and hand them in. This is something that maybe my colleagues in Singapore can learn. My sons know that they only have that much work for the week and they can have a choice to complete all at once or do so slowly over the week.
My sons are taking train to an Art Gallery next Thursday. They are excited to be independent. Imagine our Singapore kids doing that. These are the six and seven years old as theeir cutoff age for schooling is June to next year July. My sons are placed with peers around their age instead of being the babies in Singapore Educational system. I really like my sons to continue their education here and really worried that they might not be able to catch up when they go back Singapore as Singapore System is not really suitable for kids with learning difficulties.

Okay that's all for today. Will write soon.