Cass, My Bff
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Category: Cassandra
FollowConversation With Cass
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Going through the throes of motherhood, often times my girls will drive me to the point of breaking down with thoughts of packing my bags and ditching them for good! When the girls, especially the littlest one was in her rascal temperament and being very disobedient last week… Me – I will leave you all…
Secret Garden Adult Coloring Books Craze
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As we bid bye-bye to Rainbow Loom and welcome Secret Garden into our daily lives, I can’t help but wonder how long the Secret Garden adult coloring book bubble will last before it bursts! My girls were crazy over Rainbow Loom for slightly less than a year. I don’t know what to do with their…
Typical Weekday Afternoon
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Cassandra’s typical weekday afternoon… Homeworking and sipping on Izumio. Once homework is done, I will go through her list of spelling, ejaan and ting xie with her. Next is piano practise and then she can watch Astro’s TV IQ program for an hour or do drawing or craft. Sometimes I will bring her to the…
Cassandra’s Swimming Lessons and Position
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What Makes Her Happy
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What makes Cass really happy when she comes home from school is finding her favorite food sitting inside the fridge waiting for her to dig into 😀 She would scream out in excitement and without even washing her hands, she would tear open the ‘treasure’ and lay her dirty hands on them, much to my hollering…
May Jinx And 6th Anniversary of Cassandra’s Surgeries
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I think 5th May will always be an inauspicious day for me. In fact, the month of May has never been kind to me. Last year at around this time, I went through a harrowing experience when the dentist extracted my tooth (positioned abnormally in my gums). That was the most frightening experience for me…
Cass’ Yamaha Piano Lessons
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Cass learning musical notes from flash cards that teacher K made. Cass is being taught musical notes based on do-re-mi rather than ABCs. Yesterday teacher K flashed the musical notes cards at an alarmingly fast speed, as part of the training in teaching her to do speed sight reading. Cass managed to read…
Of Exams and Results – IQ or EQ Is More Important?
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As the girls grow, I tend to be less uptight in their exam results. I used to have a hangup and obsession with test results, placing emphasis especially on Alycia as I know that she can be groomed to excel. Lately, I have learned to let go. I don’t revise with her anymore. She prefers…
Cassandra Turns 7 Today!
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Classroom Stories From Cass
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Awesome Pawsome Cass
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Last night, I felt really blessed. While everyone else was watching TV, Cass gave me a massage on my problematic right hand. Actually I had forgotten all about massaging my hand to loosen the taut muscles and veins. I have hand numbness and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. The physiotherapist that we saw on Wednesday taught…
School Stories From Cass – 11 March 2015
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Cass came back from school yesterday with her school bag that looked as if it was about to burst out its contents at anytime. I helped her carry it and gawd, my shoulder was lop-sided and it hurt! I think her school bag weighed over 7kg, at least. Cass told me that the principal informed…
Cassandra’s Yamaha Pop Piano Course – Starting With Keyboard
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Cass attended her 5th pop piano course at Yamaha last Saturday. She was introduced to the bass clef (left hand on the piano) and learned some theory in her 5th lesson. Cass can now play a handful of simple songs from the book on her keyboard that her grandaunt has lent us. When she goes…
School Stories From Cass – 6 March 2015
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Cass came back from school today with hair that looked as if she was just caught in a typhoon. Her plastic bun holder was almost falling off from her hair. The black hair clips were dangling loosely from her hair. Strands of hair were straying everywhere. I was curious to know why her hair was…
School Stories From Cass
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