Exactly five days - a break in between before we
ventured into another exciting event – swimming lesson!!! Even for those few days of ‘break’, I was a
tutor to my daughter at home. About a
month ago, Elyse enrolled in a Mandarin tuition class. This was requested by herself, it has nothing
to do with the Dad or Mom. We both are
not ‘kiasu’ parents. But it looks like
my daughter is pretty nervous about going to a Chinese primary school next
year. So, a church member recommended
this private tutor to us. One week
twice, one and a half hour each session. This tutor is quite strict and
every lesson has lots of spelling test.
Elyse studies very hard each time.
Since her Daddy is a pure banana, so Mommy put on the hat of a teacher to
assist her in the spelling test every day.
It’s the month of December and that’s the beginning
of our swimming lesson. Yes, ‘our’ here
refers to Elyse and me!!! It is one of
the things in my lifelist to learn swimming.
Mother and daughter learning swimming together. Hmm… sounds cool?!? And we are so privilege to be given free
lesson by a church member’s son. So, for
the next two weeks, both of us were in the pool every morning. Elyse always loved swimming. She’s exilarated having to swim every
day. As for me, I enjoy picking up this
new skill and I’m quite surprised to find myself a fast learner. However, the
only set back is both of us are becoming like charcoal - we are tanned!!! Oh I supposed I’m still dreaming to be a Snow
White rather than… Dark Lord?!! Hahaa…
no, we have no idea what’s the skin colour of the Dark Lord. But I'm sure you know what I mean. Vanity, oh vanity... still couldn't get out of the wordly concept of fair = beauty.
Then here comes the Children Christmas Party on 13th
December. I’m so grateful that this
event was conducted by The Word Place & St James church, Spore. The theme for the Christmas party this year
is ‘The Gift’. There were around 20
youth put forth a short skit on the birth of Jesus. I would like to compliment for their effort in
welcoming the children and in games.
They did a wonderful job as many children came from non-Christian
background. They actually reminded me of
many years ago how I had my first Christmas.
I was a babe in Christianity as that year was my
first time spending Christmas as a Christian.
There was a group of Singaporean youth visiting my church. Honestly, they were awesome!!! They brought their own stage light (!!!), props,
costumes and accessories. They prepared
several performances as they were required to do so in shopping malls besides the church. Their performance
were complete with sound effect, dance and songs.
And that was the first time I heard the song ‘We are the Reason’ and I
fell in love with it right then. I
couldn’t remember which church they came from as I was quite young. Or should I say my memory has failed me (sign of old age). But joining them in their practises opened our eyes to see how energetic, funny, yet full of zeal for Jesus this group of young people were.
Christmas Party was over but not my hectic
days. Hubby had gone on a short mission
trip (in December?!?). Yup, December is
a super busy month yet hubby gladly spared his precious time on precious orang
asli. Adding to the stress, I was
scheduled to lead worship on the 3rd week of December and on
Christmas Day! I love to sing, but it
doesn’t mean I do not stress out every time I lead worship. I love to lead people in a time of
worshipping God, but it doesn’t mean I do not feel nervous whenever I am
on the stage. But I’m so happy to have
people to support the not-so-musically-inclined-me. All of them deserved a warm hug from…
Olaf! LOL
To be continued....
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