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April 2010
April saw Alisha’s Sports Day- her first ever (if I recall correctly). For the first time , Papa attended an indoor sports day- in their school hall. It was fun as all the kids got prizes irrespective of who won- of course the actual winner got a bigger prize. They had events that involved the parents as well, so that was cool. Before it ended everyone got up and did that “dadadada” song- Haha- Can’t remember the title. You know the one that you have to mime with your hands the duck, chicken and something or other? No? Well… it was fun in any case.
As we were going to BSC quite a lot for blading, Aunty Mel decided to give the kiddies a present of their own personal rollerblades. Aunty Mel had bought hers earlier from Skateline, and so brought the kids there for their fitment one day. Only little Lisha didn’t get one as she was too tiny still Thanks Aunty Mel for saving Papa from having to buy them himself
May 2010
May was pretty quite. The breakfast sessions continued of course save for those days that we ran late or Alisha didn’t feel like having any. The baby fishies also started dwindling in numbers as they grew fast and moved on to the big pond. We had a session at the Kindie for a parents-teacher review of the kids progress. Papa remembered Mama asking if Alisha was fitting in well and behaving, as she can be a bit bossy. The reply was classic- “They’re all bossy here!” It turns out that most of the kids were either the eldest or youngest, so were used to getting their way. Fortunately, it seems bossies cancels out bossies… haha.
Papa also gave Haris a special present for his very good placement in the school’s exams. It also served as an incentive for the others to strive well. He got the Prime box set made up of Optimus and Jetfire. Yes… Transformers robots. He was a bit looking forward to the Decepticon Devastator set, but they ran out of stock of the big set and only had the small plastic models; as such it was the big badass Prime set. Mama did ask who actually the toy was for. Does the question need to be asked?
June 2010
June also saw us making a trip down south to Singapore- one of many for the year. This time it was also for Universal Studios. It was real fun for the kiddies even though it was very hot. Alisha surprised us by agreeing to ride on several rollercoaster rides- one in JP and the other in Far Far Away. The latter she did on her own without Papa or Mama, just with her siblings and cousins. Too bad the Battlestar Galactica ride was still non-operational (edit- read they recently opened), so I guess it’s worth another trip later?
Alisha celebrated her 5th birthday that June too. We had a combined party with Shafiq over at his place. Don’t they grow up fast?
So Papa thinks it’s only apt that he jots down some things that has happened (and he remembered :p) since the most significant last post. Just to let you kids know, Papa may not have written about it, but he remembers… he was aware. So, let’s see what tom foolery you kiddies have been up to
January 2010
The Year started pretty quietly, as two of the Kiddies followed Emma and Aunty Mel for a trip to Hong Kong Disneyland. So it was Alisha’s opportunity to live the “only child experience”. Then school opened and it was back to school for Emily and Haris, who graduated to Primary 4 and 2, respectively. After settling them in, Papa and Mama rushed to Tadika Diyana, as we haven’t registered Alisha for any Kindie yet. Luckily there was 2 final slots for her and her BFF- Dina. So Papa registered them on the spot pronto. As it was already 10 ‘ish by that time, we decided for her to only report in the next day.
January is also a month for double birthday celebrations- Emma and Uncle Mi. And Alisha got her ears pierced for the first time (blogged earlier).
February 2010
February saw Chinese New Year and the traditional Lion Dances. Alisha wasn’t that scared this time round and we stayed to watch the Lion Dance at Plaza Damas. It was for a video shop that we never go to anymore cause Emily used to cry her head out everytime we went in before. We suspected the place had an unseen ‘resident’ at one of the corner walls- it was where she’d stare at whilst bawling.
We were at BSC a whole lot during 2010 for rollerblading. At one time, nearly every weekend. So much so that the people there knew Em and Haris by name. While the 2 siblings were enjoying themselves, Papa would have to baby sit Lisha at Jungle Gym for hours. It’s a serious gym replacement- running around after her. Luckily there were all these ‘distractions’ there… hehe.
Aunty Mel also introduced the Gang to Sunway Lagoon’s Night Park during Feb 2010.
March 2010
2010 saw Papa’s weekday morning routine as dropping Em and Haris at school (usually by 0730hrs), then off to breakfast with Alisha and Dina. We’d discover new places to eat every once in a while. It was hard to find a place that opened before 0800hrs. Most of the time, we’d be at Hiestand Bakers at Mont Kiara. If not it would be a toss up between Puteri and D’Cengkih in TTDI, Little Collins in Solaris, or buy soem kueh from the van outside Lembah Kiara Park and take a stroll inside. Feeding the baby fish, birds and turtles. Imagine a park full of joggers, and suddenly you spot a man in full office attires with two little girls in kindie uniform. That would have been us. We came to know some of the regulars to the park there as well. Of course, there was that Mak Cik who sold Nasi Lemak and kuehs near Presto’s.
2010 also saw Haris and Em in the same Sports House (hehe- Rumah Sukan). Em was also in the Cheerleading team that won Gold! Yeah! Baby. And Rumah Kuning also managed to become Champions for 2010 by a BIIIIG Gap.
Watch this space for a vid of the cheer team performance.
Sparkles Montesorri Kindergarten had their year-end concert on November 17, 2007. So far, we’ve went to 3 of them before (2 for Shahira and 1 earlier mid-year concert for Haris). This time round however, it was held at the National Science Centre in Bukit Kiara (a first for them I think).
This was good because Mama never had the chance to visit the National Science Centre prior to this; and now she gets to go in for free!
Expectedly, Haris was very excited about the concert months in advance. A couple of weeks before the actual date, he would ask Papa everyday, on the way to school- “Is the Concert on this Saturday?” Much like the Petronas ad- (“Burung apa ni, Abah?” “Buring Murai.”), Papa answered his questions patiently each time…. over and over.
So, the day of reckoning has finally arrived. The whole thing was themed- “At the Zoo”. For the intro song, all the kiddies wore animal headgears and sung “We’re Going To the Zoo… zoo… zoo… How about you?…”
Haris was an elephant, and seemed to enjoy performing very much. All in all, the whole affair was quite lengthy and they broke it into 2 performances each for each segment- one for the daycare and the other for the kindie kiddies. But to be sure, everyone was very cute in their own way. There was this one girl, who refused to sing or do the dance moves, but still will go on stage everytime. She’ll just shake her hear when the teachers prompt her to sing and dance.
Apart from the intro, they went into ditties like- Rasa Sayang Eh, Ke Ren Lai, some short plays, and even did the Macarena! The kindie kids had to do a poem recital about them learning while playing. Haris had the following lines he had to recite with his partner, Nur Ain: -
“When you see me cooking or tasting food Please don’t think I’m just playing I’m learning to see the differences I may be a chef one day.” He also played a doctor when it was someone else’s turn to recite. Morale of the story is parents should let their kids play, as its part of their learning process. Wished the same argument can be used when Papa is playing with the Wii!
This time round, the teachers wanted the parents to also participate at the end. Parents had to do the Macarena for their kids. Luckily, Papa’s spider sense tingled before the announcement, and he took the now fidgety Alisha out of the concert hall to look at the kids’ handicrafts. Heh heh!
They served some light refreshments before everyone went off to explore the exhibits and experiments abound. Mama was delirious with excitement- worse than the kids. Leaping from one experiment to the next, trying them out… hee hee hee… a slight exaggeration… only.
Being Government funded, the facility was not strangely government-like in operation. 5ish, and it was closing time (on a Saturday!). No announcements… no apologies… lights out literally. It was a very disappointing end to a somewhat exciting day for the kiddies (and not to mention Mama)
Hee hee hee…
Papa has been a bit preoccupied with Facebook, that he has neglected to post here. Nevertheless, due to some demand and lots of reminders, updates will come within this couple of days. Promise!
Anyway, right now is the School holidays- at least for Shahira, as Haris’ kindie still has till the end of the week.
As a bit of a preview of posts to come- Shahira has done well in the end of year exams at both her Sekolah Kebangsaan and Sekolah Agama. She even got a towel (and a medal) from Sekolah Agama Masjid Wilayah Persekutuan to show for it
Now, she’s demanding a new bike from Papa. Which has got Haris going- he’s asking for a scooter and a new bike. “Papa, why it takes you so long to fix my bike… ha Papa?”
He just had his concert last Saturday at the National Science Museum in Bukit Kiara, so we all got to go look around for free afterwards. It was Mama’s first time there, and she was worse than the kids at trying out the experiments there.
As for Alisha, she has declined to have a baby brother on account that she doesn’t want to give up her sleeping privileges on Mama and Papa’s bed. She was all for it until she was informed of the potential new sleeping arrangements if there’s a baby.
Otherwise, she is also entrenching herself more to Papa by now allowing the old man to hug her when she’s sleeping and also sleeping tight next to Papa (giving Mama all the room in the world and Papa a few inches from the edge). But that’s a very small price to pay for the privilege of her not screaming every time Papa holds her before she dozes off. Yea!!!!
Oh! Yeah! Papa even forgot to give a shout out to Mama for her birthday last November 4! So a loud “BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAMA”! to you. However, her pressie could not be belated. Mama was very selfish this year and used up Papa budget for the kiddies presents… and then some .
So lotsa things happening and with the holidays, we can all expect the tom foolery to escalate! Save us! (especially with Bibik going off on holiday for a month!)
In the mean time, should you fancy a game of Scrabble on line, you can find Papa (most times) on Facebook. Just follow the link on the sidebar. And, oh! If you haven’t joined up, please do so and add me (not Mama) as a friend.
