GRACE ON GRASS

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SHOWTIME FOR STUDENTS

Divesh, Hariz, Keili and Athalie form a team

Vincent with the same team

We worked together for this project

Another team which we facilitated

With Vincent are Nami, Royhana, Diana & Dini

Great to work with students who posses the right attitude

Our lecturer, Dr Ivy Tan

An appreciating moment from Dr Ivy

Addressing a query from the floor

Explaining the mechanisms of the project

Sharing with the teachers

Students presenting their blog

Stating her viewpoint is Diana

A group photo of all participants

The speakers getting ready for thier turn

Calming my students' nerves before the presentation

A group photo before the presentation

All set for the showtime

We were pleased to have been given this opportunity to share

Our faithful photographer

Celebration after a job well -done

SHOWCASING OUR STUDENTS' ABILITY

Trained my students for a sharing session which they had to do for some teachers. They had gone through a cooperative learning tool strategy for the Social Studies subject. The lecturer whose course my colleague Vincent and I attended, invited us to showcase our students' achievement.

The student posted their findings on their group blog and had to do independent group investigation for the given topic. They also had to upload interviews which they carried out, videos, songs and responses regarding the given topic. Very minimal teaching was done by us. Rather, the students had to own the learning and design their own assessment product. Vincent and I were merely acting as the back seat passengers, while the students acted as the drivers for thier learning process.

We are so proud of our student's performance on that day. The audience were full of praises for their presentation.

ROMANCE YOUR SPOUSE

You're my sunshine and my all-year-round valentine

Roses for my love one

On my knees, I present you the roses

At a favourite corner of our house

A hand made and hand painted Bali guitar

One of my favourite items from Bali

At the talk on 'Romance Your Spouse'

We won this book in one of the games

Dinner before the talk

Dinner together

With friends before the talk

MY VALENTINE OR TURPENTINE BUT NOT SERPENTINE

Ended the week with a talk on 'Romance Your Spouse'. The talk was conducted by a married couple who shared on how to maintain a good relationship with your spouse. Some games were played and points on what make a successful marriage was shared.

We ended up having dinner at Safra and discussing what the presenter had shared. A marriage need not have two individuals to be on the save wavelength to make the marriage a success. You just need to be able to ride each other's waves. People stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

We have been married for 23 years. We have our ups and downs and our fair share of tears and laughters. We inject humour in the relationship to soothe the bruised nerves and tight situations. But we believe that chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

TWO WEDDINGS IN A TOW SLIDESHOW

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KPAK-KPAK BING-BING

All decked in bronze for the wedding

Driving to Bedok for the wedding

Bunga manggar signifies a wedding is taking place

Lily for the couples' table centrepiece

Wedding car bouquet

Sprays of orchid for the guest's table

With an Cik Fatimah, mum and good friend Asma

Isa with Shap, Ajar and Cik Majid

With cousin Shirin who gave me tips on Bali

A group of Japanese guests at the wedding

My gigantic family size

Another family photo not to be missed

Ibrahim Awang (centre) Spore's ex football coach

The purple suit guest from Brunei

Our flower girls - Nashita Mitsubishi and Diana Suzuki

Yan and son with his aunty

With Cik Timah's brother and sis-in-law

Another shoot with Shirin

Exchanging tips on Bali

Asma - a good coook and tailor

Chaos breaks loose once these '3 Mouseketeers' are around

At Mak Besar's invitation - with Cik Ah, an ex-student

Rozi and Yusof who was my ex-student

Look at the lovely sequins on the pink Punjabi suit

Mak Bee with her daughter Rozi

Rozi now has three children

Hubby with Pak Atan

With Rashidah and her daughter

Mak Bee and Mak Besar, old Bendemeer Road neighbours

TWO WEDDINGS IN TOW

This is an overdue posting as I have been caught up with a lot of things lately. But the blogging posting never left my mind. It's there, residing in between the crevices of my nerves and brain cells, waiting for time to give me the opportunity to put up the overdue pictures and write ups.

Attended two weddings in a week. One invitation came from an old neighbour, Mak Besar, and the other form cousin Shap whose nephew got married to a Brunei girl. It seemed the couple met on the Nippon Maru boat, which hosts international students for an exchange programme. So here's the classic Love Boat marriage where couple met on a boat cruise and like the fairy tale ending it culminated with the exchange of wedding bangs.

While the former wedding had the Hindi beat with guests turning up in glittering and heavily beaded and sequined Punjabi suits to swelter the heat of the day, the later had a lot of Japanese guests to moshi-moshi the invitation. The Japanese guests were so enthralled by the wedding that they immortalised every activity or significance of the wedding event with their digital cameras and videos. The Bruneians guests thronged the venue of the wedding, a community hall and painted the whole place with their purple outfits.

I was busy meeting up with relatives and friends who turned up at both weddings. Nothing beats the good old times of catching up with friends and relatives and noticing how we all have survived through the test of time.