Catch up 2018 - 4 - PSLE year

May 2018

Chinese Oral
It was the PSLE year for Lynn, and mid year exam were over for the P6 by mid May.  Only I attended the PTM.  I can't remember what I spoke to Mr. Chiang about, probably about how Lynn was empathic towards her friends rather than about grades.   However, I did remember looking into her report book and saw that she scored 79.5 for HCL.  I knew she did ok for her written papers, so I thought that Mdm Wu must have calculated her marks wrongly.  Then I proceed to the hall to meet Mdm Wu.  When I ask her to verify the details, she took a look at her records, and declared “叶祾的口试分数是全班最低的！”  And so for the next 3 months, I took great pains to drill her on Oral topics.  I prepared many topics, we crafted the replies together, and she then she memorised them!


Chinese Funeral
WK's paternal grandma passed away.  Although I do not know her well, I can tell from the little that WK's mum told me that she was a nice gentle lady.  Her funeral was the 3rd I ever attended as a family member.  I don't like the way Chinese funerals are conducted, the complex customs doesn't make the affair as dignified as it should be.  It didn't matter that I don't know her well, I still feel emotional about her passing, I just wish that we can have funerals that take care of the fragile feelings of the living.

June 2018

Long awaited extended family holidays
Finally the 4 Yap siblings went "overseas" together.  But we only managed to settle on Bintan, not anywhere further.

Clubmed was kind of good choice actually.  The adults and kids enjoyed the sun and sea, and the seniors enjoyed the buffet.

And Lynn got stunk by jellyfish.  There were scary looking scars, but they actually totally faded after sometime.











Musical Journey
In 2018, she took part in 2 events.  One was the yearly piano recital, and the 2nd one was a piano competition.  She didn't do well in either of both.  It was only from the 2nd half of last year onwards (2019-now) that I found some improvement to her appreciation and execution of her pieces.  Maybe it's because she joined band as CCA in secondary 1?

Hopefully, she will do well in this year's (2020) grade 5 exams, and the June recital.  Finally she choose a piece that's not hard-rock-metal  kind for her recital!  Most importantly she's enjoying her musical ability.

August 2018

Life is unpredictable
I just read in today's paper that Kobe Bryant died at the age of 41.  A few days before national day in 2018, I was shocked when a friend informed me over WhatsApp that another friend had died of sudden cause.  He was 45  This was the first time in my life that I lost a close friend.  Life can be so fragile, so random..

October 2018

Milestone!

After 6 years of conscientious learning, sweetie reached a major milestone with the completion of PSLE.  The exam was over by the first week of Oct, so the P6 kids all had almost 3 months of play time, before they embark on their next journey.

Lynn and I were still actively playing Pokemon Go then, and we got lucky with getting an Ex-raid pass each.  With our 2 passes we were able to invite 2 other players, so we invited 2 of her classmates who played the game too.  The Ex-raid took place at East Coast park.  I was glad that the 2 boys made it, and all 4 of us caught the rare pokemon Dyoxys.  They then send pictures of our catch to their class WhatsApp chat, because their teacher Ms. Chua also played Pokemon Go.



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My sweetie turn 12!
Finally, my last entry here is about Halloween!  Uncle Eric gave me 10 tickets, so Lynn asked her classmates.  Eventually we took 6 kids to the party.