Little Achievements

Picked my little girl up from school today and the first thing she excitedly told me was that she scored full marks for her Chinese spelling and that she has been selected as the class monitor. Of course,I beamEd with pride when she told me the news as she did mention to me that she wants to be a class monitor last week. She returned home and grandma from Canada was told of her new position and only did I know that both her daddy and her uncle were monitors in their school years too.

God is listening....

I received an unexpected call and it once again show me that God is indeed listening to my prayers or perhaps my heart.

Hope Happens!

Hope happens!

Hope is what happens when you first see a light.

Just a distant, small star in the darkest of night.

Hope is what happens with the first buds of spring.

When dawn touches the sky or a bird spreads its wings.

Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal.

Whether skin deep or soul deep, you begin to feel real.

Hope is what happens when you’re poor but not broken

There’s a goldmine of dreams-just not yet awoken.

Hope is what happens when someone is kind

A feeling not lost- just misplaced in your mind.

Hope is what happens when the pain eases a bit

And deep down inside, you find your true grit.

Hope is what happens as long as we breathe

For although it takes time, the sorrow will leave.

Hope is what happens long after the pain

Hope is what happens-again and again

Time Our Greatest Resource

We all have a common bank account. This account is perculiar. We cannot invest into this account, make a deposit or obtain a statement. All we can do is withdraw. It is the bank account of time. Every day, we take another day out of this bank account, yet this valuable resource cannot be replaced. It is tragic that so many people take their time for granted and undervalue each day. It only takes a visit to a hospice to spend time with people who are terminally ill to truly understand the value of time and of using it well.

As a single parent, my time is divided in three ways: a third at work, a third at play and a third asleep. As I understand it, the primary reason for going to work is to earn money. Why do we want the money? To pay for our play time! Of course, there are lots of reasons why we go to work, and the greatest motivator in the world for all of us is to do something we enjoy. If we can achieve this during work time, fantastic.

We all have the same 24 hours in every day, which breaks down to 86,400 seconds. The busiest people in the world- still have only 86,400 seconds in their day. They may have less play time than achievement time- in other words, they work longer hours- but they still have the same hours in the day as all of us.

I am writing this down so as to teach my little one how best to manage her time as she progress from Primary to High School.

First, at the end of a day, just before I finish my work for the day, I will draw up my own TO DO LIST of the most important jobs to do the next day. Secondly, I will number the list of tasks in their order of importance.  Finally, the following day when I decide to start work, I start at number one and keep on until it is complete and then progress to number two, and so on until I have strike off all the tasks on the list.

I have been doing this from my school days and this has work for me till this day when I am wearing multiple hats and has endless tasks to do each day. Well, instead of remembering my schedule and task list, I have to remember little one's activities and priorities too!

Happy New Year 2012

Goodbye 2011! You had been a great year for me and little one. For 7 months since March, 2011, the days went by so quickly that I only managed to catch a breather in December during my Hawaii vacation. I have much to thank for in 2011. Meeting love and knowing that I can indeed fall in love again and be hurt signifies that time does heal and when the time is right, God will send us either a guardian angel to bring happiness and joy into our life or a temptation that will teach us a lesson. Once the lesson has been learned, we can move on once more and be a stronger person. While I do not regret opening up to the someone special on March 20, 2011, I do regret going against my values and giving him my heart. Will do the right thing by walking away now. God has a plan for all of us and there must be a reason for us to meet and connect the way we did. We did have happy times together which I will never forget. But 2011 is gone. 2012 will be a better year than 2011. Life can only be better as we are all sheltered by God's love. May God watch over you my friend. Till we meet again.....

Unexpected Call From a Long Time Friend

God sure has a way to show us that HE is indeed with us. That HE knows what we are thinking and wishing for. A few days ago, I was putting away my 2010 diary and in the box where I kept all my past journals and diaries, I came across a few hand written papers. Picking them up and reading what was on the papers, I just laughed to myself. It was the SMSes that an ex send to me years back before I got married. I wonder why I wrote them down...Reading the messages, it bought back so many wonderful memories. The SMSes were send after we met during his sister's wedding and few months before my own wedding. Throughout this relationship, we never had a fight or argument. It was beautiful to the end. That is why we kept in touch occassionally via SMSes ( Like all my other boyfriends, he is not a Singaporean) After placing the papers back into the box, I think little of him until that same afternoon when I was in the car with my girl, I received a PHONE CALL from him! I have not hear from him for 2 years after losing his phone number.

Of course I was shocked to hear his name and we spoke for awhile (with my little one listening to the entire conversation). I told him I will look him up if I visit his country and he promised to look for me if he makes his way to Singapore.

My little girl saw the smile on my face after the phone call and I told her " God sure has a way to Cheer us up. HE is watching us and HE knows what we are thinking."

Thank you God for giving me one of the best Christmas gift this year with this unexpected phone call from a long time friend.

New Beginnings for Little Princess

My little princess will join the Primary 1 cohort in 5 days, a milestone in a kid's life that usually gives parents the jitters. But not me! While little one is so excited about her first day at school, I am wondering what can I do with the extra hours that I will be gaining with her in school.

Most of my friends’ children are already in Primary schools and I have been told what to expect. I know my girl will adapt in her new environment. She is very sociable and independent even as a preschooler. She is just like her dad who makes friends so easily.

Books have been labelled with nicely printed name tags and wrapped in their respective covers. Uniforms altered. The first white canvas Bata shoes. Snoppy pencil case stocked with 8 new sharpened pencils. (waiting to see how many pencils she come home with after a week) All she needs now is a hair cut.

Mummy wishes you all the best as you embark on your formal education journey. You will have lots of fun and I know you will make me a happy mummy even as you shred the baby cuteness in you.