an evening with the myfers

Both KC and I grew up in the MYF. He was with the Seremban Chinese MYF and I was with Sitiawan Wesley MYF. Those years formed the foundation of my life as a Christian. It was through MYF that I found myself being moulded into a round person spiritually, physically, emotionally, intellectually and socially. School played its role in the intellect, social and physical aspects but it was through interaction in the MYF that these aspects were further grounded and solidified. Thus the making of who I am today.

Therefore it was of great importance to us that our children find their identity with the MYF too. The MYF here is quite different from the MYF in my days. Nevertheless it still plays the role in building the child's spiritual, social and emotional foundations.

So when the MYF organised a time together with the mothers...I was pretty excited. This is the time for me to watch my children interacting in the group. It had been a horribly busy week for me and I have so much backlogs at work. But ... the evening spent in PD was so wonderfully destressing....forget about everything, relax and have fun.




The MYF is a very small group...so they are really closely knitted. It has helped in drawing a little of my girl out of her shell. Theresa is doing a great job.


We adults (esp ladies) are so careful not to get ourselves dirty. But with the kids....what is dirt? That is the best part of play...just throw themselves into the sand and do whatever they want; dirty or not...just have fun. As you can see, this boy is trying to build a tunnel to the sea. No way will I get myself dirty like this.

We mothers, sat on a mat and chatted, watched the kids play and enjoy the scenery. I think none of us went into the sea except Joanna who was forced in by her two big boys.

Almost all the girls were thrown into the water by the boys except for a few like Lyn. Think nobody dare to do that to her yet...she was cooly strolling up and down the beach picking unique stones.

Ben baked a carrot cheese cake for us. Really good. Before we had the cake we had dinner. Before we had dinner, we had all kinds of food on the beach (each family brought something). Besides all the fun, we had lots and lots of food to eat. Sigh. It takes me 50 mins to do 5km and burn just 300cal.

manuka honey

Lyn has been having a rather dry cough for a while. As her choir competition is just round the corner, I decided that something has to be done to preserve her voice. She is in Sop 1 and she complains that she has trouble reaching certain high notes. I know she is pretty frustrated as she has sacrificed a lot to be in the team. Everyday she stays back till 4.30pm except for Friday. She has sacrificed going to Singapore for EE's convocation. She was in quite a dilemma when she found out the competition will be on the same day as EE's convo.

Last weekend, went and got her a bottle of manuka honey. We were introduced to this honey by KC's late uncle from NZ. Since then, this has always been our choice if we need the best. It's Lyn's favourite honey.

It's quite interesting how someone quite unmusical as I am has a girl who can sing. Not that her voice is that great; but I suppose the training she gets helps a great deal. Her first public singing was doing a duet with Nee at Ong's wedding.

Let's hope the honey and lemon water will help sustain her voice. I must remind myself to remind her not to take too much keropok and spicy food for a while.

the Shrek song

Another beautiful song. This reminds me; I need to watch Shrek again soon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2SZ-nCBmsU&feature=related

Not all their songs are as good as the ones I've posted. The song Somewhere sung with Barbara Streisand is terrible. They sound so muffled. Don't blend too well with Barbara Streisand. But the version with Leona Lewis is better. Maybe Barbara Streisand is better off doing solo.

ll Divo and Celine Dion

I Believe in You....this is the song that has been playing in Lyn and my head for days. When you put four powerful male vocals and one extremely excellent female vocal; this is what you get!!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChLW07FqbLY

Whenever I hear Celine Dion's songs, I am reminded of her Titanic song. That was how I got to know her.

Parenting

Anita has disappeared from home since the threat to send her to a rehab school for dilinquent juvenilles. She had been staying with her aunt as her parents are separated. The mother has returned to her own country and the father is hospitalized. As the aunt has her own problems, Anita had been playing truant and spending time with her boyfriend. As the last straw, the aunt threathened to send her to the rehab but Anita replied that she would run away and that is what she did!

Brian was accused of stealing money from a friend. After some thrashing from the teachers, he told the counsellor that he had been embarassed and humiliated by the teachers. Since then he had not come to school and had also run away from home. If he is innocent, why should he keep away from school? After a phone call to the parent, the school was informed that Brian would be sent to another state to be cared for by a relative. Is that wise?

Carol comes to school only when there is exam, special programmes that interest her. Otherwise she would stay away under the excuse that she is unwell. She is said to have some sickness that cause swelling to the joints etc. According to the mother it is a rare sickness. When she does appear in school, she looks totally wholesome and healthy. There is no symptom of a sick person.

These are all 'kisah benar'. I am not creating some stories from thin air. Who do we blame for such teenagers?

voucher

I wrote an article for the Star Paper sometime in January this year and was promised a voucher at the Corus Paradise, Port Dickson. Today is 23.4.10 ie more than three months later and I have not received anything from them yet. I wrote to the Star paper and was directed to the management of Corus Paradise. I have corresponded a few times with the Marketing Manager, Patricia Sik who seems most polite and apologetic (bluff). In her last correspondence she said that the voucher was on the way and would arrive yesterday.(Bluff again.)

What am I to do next?

ll Divo

I was introduced to this group long time ago by Elizabeth. That time I wasn't that impressed by them as it was just a name to me but the name remained in my mind for a long time. Few days ago received a video clip of them singing Amazing Grace at the Colloseum. MY goodness!!! It was amazing....the voices and of course the men!! Now I spend lots of time listening to their songs. Interesting group. http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1785324681?bclid=1338935106&bctid=1913313052