Seimpi Level 2 Lesson 7

27 February 2011 (Sun):

This afternoon, we learned more on pitch & time values. The kids listened to the CD player & learned how to differentiate asscending & desscending pitches. Then they also recapped note values & did "titi " & " tata "

More new songs were taught & also playing with some musical instruments. I loved it when they used the rhythm sticks & tapped to the song of " BINGO ". And another song entitled " Where is thumbkin, where is thumbkin, here i am, here i am....... " making use of a little puppet & changing it from one finger to another each time the verse changes. The kids always counldnt change the puppet from one finger to another in time. Hehe.

Rachel learned to play a new piece today, named " Ode To Joy ". Teacher Marcia would like Rachel to practice & then played it for her during the next lesson. Her previous piece, "Cuckoo Bird " was also played & commented by teacher Marcia that she can play slightly better already, in terms of speed & accuracy.

Martial Arts Results

27 Feb 2011 (Sun):

This afternoon @ 1230pm, Lionel had his grading exam @ Chong Pang CC. He was excited & i asked him to show me a few moves he learned & in which he would be graded on. Hmm, looks okay to me except there are no strong & firm movements. Uh oh!

Pre grading.

Some warm up exercises.

The VIPs - must be those chief assessors, martial arts shifu, etc. Colourful belts for those who passed the grading.

Waiting anticipatively before & after for the grading & results.

Congrats to Lionel who got promoted to level 2 - yellow belt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdXFYXtQIdU

Lionel's white belt assessment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoDfCz1WrE8

The coach giving some instructions.

Martial Arts Grading

25 Feb 2011 (Fri):

Just got back his Chinese Martial Arts Student Grading Examination Booklet this evening. Lionel is due to be assess this Sunday for his progress & if pass, will be promoted to level 2.

Wow, i didnt know there is even a name of the school in which Lionel's wushu belongs to. Its called the Wanling Pugilistic Centre (Southern Shaolin).

万宁武道馆（南少林）

For level 1 - white belt, he will be graded on: 四平马，拳掌加连打(上)，请功，三角马. Each student will be allowed 3 attempts on each of the above syllabus & then the final results.

Levels: White, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, Purple, Red, Brown, Junior Black, Junior Black 1, Junior Black 2, Junior Black 3. I will pose the results here after his grading on Sunday. Wish him luck!

Practice

24 Feb 2011 (Thurs):

Her teacher commented she is still not very good in her alphabets, as in writing so she's got to practice more at home. So lazy mummy here did the printables & bind all into a file, from A~Z, both capital & small letters. Rachel can do straight lines perfectly, such as E, H, T, F, L, etc but when it comes to curve, its just no good.

So here is our little princess doing the alphabets every evening from tracing each individual letter to practising writing on her own.

Starting with A....

2 shows in a day

23 February 2011 (Wed):

I bought the tickets for these 2 shows after much consideration. As these 2 shows are only showing during the coming March school holidays & only for a few days, i decided to go for 2 different shows on the same day. Yup. Its costs me a bomb! But its once in a lifetime, maybe i should say a decade, so why not. Heh!

Fan Yang's Gazallion Bubble Show is only showing from 18 -20 March 2011 & Disney on Ice is showing only from 17- 20 March 2011. So i will be catching these 2 shows at the below time slots:

@ 2pm: 19 March 2011 (Sat) - Fan Yang's Gazallion Bubble Show, Downtown East D'Marquee.

@ 6pm: 19 March 2011 (Sat) - Disney on Ice, World of Fantasy.

Anyone interested to join us? Do come along. It will be great to meet up with both old & new friends :)

Went Missing

20 Feb 2011 (Sun):

This story was related to me by Daddy who in turn was related to him by his sister.

Rachel found a $1 gold coin on the floor at the shop & happily, without infoming anyone, went ahead to the uncle selling ice cream on tricycle & bought herself a chocolate ice cream.

LK, together with my ils, realised that Rachel was not anywhere around the shop, started looking for her. LK found her sitting at the pawn shop ( we knew the owner very well as he is always buying stuff for Lionel & Rachel), eating ice cream. She (Rachel) told her how she got the $1 & how she ran to buy the ice cream.

When asked why she did not return to the shop after buying the ice cream, she replied: " Wait u all scold me for eating ice cream & moreover its chocolate". Haha! Smart Alec!

So she quietly sat at the pawn shop eating her ice cream when my sil saw her.

3 spanks on her backside, warning her never to do this again.

When i heard this story, it reminds me of the incident that Rachel "went missing" 2 years ago a day before the eve of CNY. I sternly told Rachel never to play such games again, else the cane is inevitable. She nods her head profusely.

A night without diapers

17 Feb 2011 (Thurs):

I know this should have been started, tried & error (errored?), learned & done much much earlier but i just wasnt ready to get up every 2-3 hours every night.

But when you gotta, you gotta. My little princess told me to take a shower first so that we could both lie down in bed together to play a little game. I found her sleeping soundly after i took my bath.

I then carried her to the toilet, whispered into her ears that it time to take a pee, sat her down on the bowl.... Her eyes were closed & her head nodding. Cannot be sure if she's aware of what's going on or if she knows what's she supposed to do....then the sound of water trickling.... yeah i got her to pee. Time checked: 1120pm.

Fast forward to 0340am ( 18 Feb 2011). I got up & did the same thing; carried her up... whispered into her ears her "job"... sat her down on the bowl.... yup, she did it. Whoppee!

Supposingly to do so another time round maybe at 7am or 8am but later at 0750am, i figured since she's dry & sleeping soundly, oh well.

When my little princess woke up this morning, i told her she succeeded her 1st night without pampers, will continue tonight, tomorrow night & so on.... till the day (hopefully it will be soon) when like Lionel, she's supposed to wake up on her own. She jumped for joy & guessed what?

I told her we can now save $$ on pampers since she wont be needing those much longer & she told me in return we can use the $$ & buy more strawberry lollipops instead. KIDS!!!