Fellowship Day Camp

A few weeks ago, while we were having our morning assembly, a teacher ( Mrs Julia) announced that there would be a fellowship day camp coming on. She also told us to collect the consent form from the library. We were all so excited that we jumped with glee.

The big day soon arrived! I was so happy that both Primary and Secondary had came. I saw many of my friends there too. We sang songs, danced, ate morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. After we came back from afternoon tea, the teachers would tell us some bible stories. Then we would play a few games like passing the parcel, hide-and-seek and wacko. I enjoyed it as much as my friends did.

On the first day of the fellowship day camp, we made our name tags. We were given a piece of paper, a pair of scissors and some coloured pens. You have to write your name on the piece of paper and put some decorations on it. Once completed, we gave it to the teachers and they will help us punch holes and slip the string through the holes.

On the second day, we had to practice for a play. Our group's play was "God's call to Elisha". As I was too shy and also can't remember the dialogue, I played the role of an ox together with some of my friends. I was being selected to play the role of the slaughtered ox!! *sob sob* Some acted as guest. We had a lot of fun.

On the third day, we acted on stage for the rest of the campers to see. It was a great success.

Soon 3 fun-filled days were over. We were very sad because the group leader is so nice to us and we had so much fun. I hope to attend the fellowship day camp again next year.

Grade 2 Piano Theory Exam

Today is my Grade 2 piano theory exam. Just before I went into the exam hall, mummy prayed for me. She reminded me to check my work and do everything carefully.


I was scared at first but soon calmed down. The examiner told me to take out my pencil case and start writing, and I did as she said.


For the whole one hour or so, we sat at our desk and wrote and wrote. It was quiet a long time. It was very difficult but I managed to figure some of them out. I could do everything, all except for one. No matter how I thought about it, I still could not figure out the answer. I just wrote down what I thought it was. I was very upset.

Mummy was waiting for me outside and I told her what had happened. As usual, she said the same old sentence, "As long as you tried your best, its okay."

Chess Competition

A few weeks ago, we had a chess competition in school. We played 6 games of chess and I won for 4 rounds.

Today during flag assembly, a teacher announced that they were going to give away the medals to the winners. I was SO happy as I knew beforehand that I will receive a bronze medal for coming in 5th. When my name was called, I ran up the stage and nervously received my medal. I was so nervous that I dared not look at anyone below.

When I told mummy that, she was so proud of me, but I told mommy that I am not contented because I wanted to get 1st place as 1st place got to receive a trophy. But mummy says that I must be happy to get the medal and she was very pleased with my progress since I only learnt Chess in the beginning of this year.

I really must admit that today is the best day of my life.

International Competitions & Assessment- Science & Maths)

Today is both a happy and sad day for me.

Sad is because I got back the certificate for the International Competitions and Assessments for School - Maths and Science. For both I got only Credit. I was so upset that I cried during recess time.

For Maths, I only managed to get 25 questions correct out of 40. According to the ranking, my score was in the top 18 percent of Primary 2 participants in Singapore.

For Science, I answered 21 right questions out of 30. My score ranking for this was in the top 22 percent.

When I told mommy about this, she consoled me saying its ok. Score to her is not important. Rather, my effort to try is more important her. Moreover, she said the paper was not easy, especially Science which is a subject we had yet to learnt. Some of the question goes this way for the Science: Infer the forces acting on a ball in the air? Identify conditions for a fair test when 2 variables are involved? Mommy said she couldn't answer too!

After a sad morning, after recess, we got back our Maths exam paper and I scored 100%!! I was so happy! I couldn't wait to tell mommy this good news! Mommy is right! Maths is the only subject we can scored full mark as long as we put in effort and do it carefully. YIPPEE!!

Hahaha..now Charmaine is getting very worried for her Maths paper..know why? Because she fell asleep during the exam! She told mommy she finished the paper and took a nap before doing a quick check. Mommy nearly fainted when she heard that. Not that we did not sleep early. In fact, mommy made us sleep very early for the whole of last week (exam week). Guess she still doesn't know what exam is.

Grade 2 Piano Exam Result

Hippee! I finally received my certificate through post today and was so nervous and excited about it. I passed my Grade 2 piano practical with merit. Mommy showed my teacher and she was surprised and happy for me too. She told mommy that a lot of her students only passed with a "Pass" this year. I'm one of the few who gotten the "Merit"!

The Certificate also comes with the examiner's comment on my playing.

For my first song (Allegro), he noted that the piece began confidently. The detail was nice and clear, just the left hand needs a gentle touch in some of its accompaniment today. (Mark: 27/30)

The Second song (Mazurka) - This danced along very musically though sometimes the dotted rhythm was overlooked. The style was clear though. ( Mark: 24/30)


The third song (Mozzie) - This was a characterful, mostly rhythmical performance. Some playing was a little uneven today but you certainly understood this piece. (Mark: 23/30)


For the Scales - These were very well known indeed. Small slips and corrections only. (Mark: 18/21)


Sight reading - This was mostly accurately played above a usual steady pulse. (18/21)


Aural test - Test A & B were not correct but C & D were right.

International Competition And Assessment For Schools - Computer

In the beginning of the year, we were given an application to sign us (P2 to P6) up for the 2009 International Competitions and Assessments for Schools. There are 4 subjects to choose from (Computer Skills; Science; English and Maths).

According to the write up, the competition will help us gain a measure of our own achievement in an external assessment situation. It also gives schools and teachers a comprehensive report of results and parents helpful information regarding our performance.

We will receive a Certificate and Individual Student Report indicating which questions we had answered correctly as well as how we fare against the National Average.

Certificates are awarded as follows:

High Distinction - Top 1% of the entrants in Singapore

Distinction to the next 10%

Credit to the next 20% and

Participant to all other participating pupils.

When I gave mommy my certificate, she was very happy and surprised that I got Distinction given that I hardly use the computer beside playing computer games and writing in this blog.

Grade 2 Piano Practical Exam

Today I went for my Piano Exam. First I had to register with the Steward and she asked me what are my exam pieces. After jotting down the Exam piece no, she lead me in the room. I was very nervous at first, but when the exam started, I cooled down.

The examiner asked me if I want to try the piano. I said "okay"and I did. After two minutes, the examiner asked me to stop. He asked me if I wanted to play my exam piece or my scales first. So I told him I wanted to play my scales first. After testing my scales, he asked me to play my exam pieces. The first song is "Allegro Grazioso"; second song is " Mazurka" and the third piece is "Mozzie". For the first song, I played one wrong note but I kept on playing.

Next is the Aural test which consist of 4 part- Clapping to pulse of the music and telling the examiner the timing of the piece; Echo Singing to what the examiner played; telling the changes (Melodic or Rhythmic change); and finally describe the piece that the examiner played. It was a little bit hard but I did not give up.

After the exam ended, I was very happy. As I went out I told mummy about every happening. was relieved as the exam was finally over. Below are the 3 exam pieces I played.

Roller-blading with Cousins

In the morning, daddy and mommy brought us to McDonald's for breakfast. I had my usual McMuffins while meimei had her pancake. Daddy was not needed at work, thus he took his time to eat his 2 muffins and read the papers. We were taking our sweet time eating and chatting before mommy realised that its Baby Ryan's milk time and we quickly finished up and went home.

Back home, mommy asked us to do some assessments before we head off to meet our yiyi (mom's sisters) and cousins for lunch at Swensen. I didn't get the chance to eat the ice-cream as I had to rush off for my piano class. Charmaine stayed with yiyi for ice-cream.

After my piano class, yiyi fetched Charmaine to meet us and we drove off to East Coast Park to roller blade. We roller-bladed with Darly while Dylan cycled. After a few round at the "beginner's ring", Charmaine and I bladed alongside Dylan on the roller-blade path.

After nearly two hours of blading, my legs were tired and just as we were taking off our blade, it started to drizzle. We hurry off to return the blade while mommy brought Baby Ryan to the car first.

I felt very happy and hope mommy can bring us there again during our next school holiday.

A Day Of Treats

After a whole day of work, work and work yesterday, mommy brought us to ice-skating. We met up with LZ and chatted non-stop while mommy and LZmommy gets the tickets.

As I knew how to skate, though not very well, I did not need to use the metal bar. Mommy skated with LZmommy and Z as Z didn't know how to balance himself and mommy helped LZmommy to hold him. But After a few rounds, Z was able to skate by himself and mommy skate with me and Charmaine.

As my sock was too short, my left leg kept rubbing on the skate and the skin around there was very painful. Mommy brought me to the gallery and took off one of her sock and put on for me. She did the same for Charmaine too. So in the end, mommy had no more sock so she couldn't skate. I had great fun there even though I fell a number of times.

After 2 hours of skating, we went to the food court and had our lunch before going to LZ's house. I couldn't help but envy that L got a big playroom! After L had changed off her wet pants, mommy drove us to our enrichment class only to realised that its their Term Break!!

So, instead of sending L home, we got LZmommy's approval to go for ice-cream treats at Swensen. We girls had a good chat while mommy fed Baby Ryan.

I had a great day today and mommy promised we will do it again during the next school holiday. She again reminded us that school will reopen in a few days time and told us not to complain on the amount of works when the time comes..."when its time to work, work hard. When its time to play, play hard." yayaya..we know.

Chinese Enrichment Day Camp

DAY 1

After some songs and work, we set off to McDonalds for lunch. Next, the bus brought us to "The Health Zone" and we learned how our inner body looked like; how our body moves; how many muscles we have and how many bones we have. We played some exercise games too.

DAY 2

Like yesterday, we did some work and sang songs. Teacher asked us some riddles and I got 1 point for giving a correct answer. After lunch, the bus brought us to Prosper Kitchen to learn how to make dim sum. We each made an egg tart and char siew soh but the centre gave us 2 each (1 extra) for us to bring home. I had lots of fun and the egg tarts is very yummy!

DAY 3

We went to the National Museum today. We watched a show about the Monkey King and the Bone Demon. Then we did some colouring of the characters and made a shadow puppet. Next, we watched a Malay movie. We had lots of fun playing with the shadow puppet at home!

DAY 4

After lunch, we hopped onto the bus and it brought us to Qian Hu for longkang fishing. We saw many types of fishes, some were expensive, others were cheaper. Next, we were given a net and a small fish tank to fish.I caught 15 fishes while meimei caught 6. After that, the uncle told us to throw back the fishes into the longkang so that others can catch. Next, we went to the place where they kept the sick fishes. The man that look after them is called Uncle William. He brought us around to see the sick fishes. Before we head back to the centre, we were each given a tank with fishes in it. Ours died in less than 3 days.

DAY 5

We went to Uncle Ringo Carnival today. We played all the games like jumping castle; Merry-Go-Round and a Too-Too-train. The highlight of the day was playing with the big ball. It was flat at first. We got into the ball with our partner, they will then pumped the ball up . The fun part was when they rolled us into the water. The water was very shallow and its fun to run in the ball but we kept falling down. You have to work together with your partner or else, you never move the ball if we each move in different direction.