Cute Cat!

This is a cute cat found at the void deck of the block I am staying. It is a very friendly cat which is not afraid of people. Maybe because it is being well looked after by an auntie who is also living in the same block. She would bring cat food for the cat. Mind you, it is really those canned type of cat food, which you can buy at the pet shop or NTUC supermarket.

So how many of you out there like cats? :)

Where to gather?

Hello to all who visit our blog. Anyway, I am appealing to pupils of P4-1(2006) and P3-1(2005) to share their thoughts and memories in the two years. Just let me know by sending me an e-mail to my hotmail account. In case you don't remember, it's kiaguan2@hotmail.com.

After I received your e-mail address, I will send you an e-mail through Blogger to provide you with an account to make your posting on this blog. While you may blog or tag your messages here, please remember not to insult or embarrass any of your friends. I will bar you from further blogging or messenging.

Back to the gathering topic. Many expressed interest to meet up with your classmates of P4-1(2006) through the survey. I suggest you all could meet up on the school's Open House on 26th May next month. It will be easier since some of you have to go there to help up or perform. It will also be easier to ask your parents' permission since it is a school function. What do you all think? Please feedback through the discussion board. Thank you.

Class Gathering!

Hi to all! Someone actually suggested the idea of having a class gathering, but I wonder whether it will be successful since most of the pupils do not visit the class blog anymore. :(

Anyway, I have set up a polling station to gather opinions from all of you. If you are keen or interested to attend such a gathering, please indicate your interesting in the Polling Station. Those who would like to contribute their ideas for the gathering, please post your suggestions in the Gathering Discussion tag board. I can also set up another poll to gather opinions based on your feedback in the discussion.

By the way, remember Chong Kai Jun who was in P3-1(2005)? She was transferred to Tanjong Katong Primary School last year. Her birthday is on the 21st April. You may like to wish her a happy birthday. The other pupil, Aqil, was transferred to another school in Ang Mo Kio. Does anyone here keep in touch with him?

Good Friday!

Today is Good Friday. What is Good Friday? Do you know? Is everyone having a good Good Friday today? I guess it will be just another holiday for most of you, unless you are a Christian or Catholic who will probably be going to your church for prayers.

Well, this coming Sunday will Easter Day. And do you know what is Easter Day? Why do some people celebrate Easter Day? If you ask a Christian or Catholic, he or she will probably tell you that this day is very special and important for them. So what is so special about Easter Day? Isn't it just a day when we paint eggs with different colours and eat chocolates in the shape of eggs? Is it really about bunnies and eggs on Easter Day? Hmmm...

Anyone interested to know? Let me know. Okay? Then I will reveal the answers or get an expert to share the answers. Till then, enjoy your Good Friday and Easter Day! :D

Rumours rumours!

I was told by Kimberly that Jonathan was transferred out of the school but today Han Yi told me otherwise. Hmmm... was it another rumour? Anyway, I hope he will go to the special school which is meant to help him in his kind of condition. I guess he will miss a lot of friends (especially the girls) who have taken good care of him during his stay in the school. The boys did their part by helping him to the washroom. I also did my part too! I shall not mention here.

I understand that some of you like to spread rumours about who likes who in the class or school. Please keep it to yourself or your group of friends. It is not nice to point finger at the person and say "you like who and who". I don't think anyone would enjoy that kind of attention from you. So keep the fingers to yourself. You may not have realised that when you point a finger at someone, there are four fingers pointing back at you. :D

Happy Birthday to ALL!

Yesterday was Lok Jun Da's birthday. I was reminded of it by someone who wrote in her online journal. It also reminds me to wish all of the birthday boys and girls whose birthdays fall on January, February and March. These are their birthdays, if you do not know yet...
(I also included the other pupils' birthday).

Starting from the oldest pupil,

Queenie - 3rd Jan
Ding Jun - 16th Jan
Tan Jun Da - 19th Jan
Adriana - 20th Jan

Hifzhan - 4th Feb
Tamara - 9th Feb
Hamzah - 14th Feb

Yan Zhi - 5th March
Ferdous - 8th March
Elaine - 16th March
Lok Jun Da - 2oth March
Filbert - 21st March
Joelle - 26th March
Mr Ng - 31st March

Cassandra & NurFarhana- 3rd April

Shirley - 2nd May
Mayber - 18th May

Fann - 10th June
Sang Siang - 18th June
Nazihah - 21st June
Shizhen - 26th June

Mabelence - 10th July
Bryan - 19th July
Kaevinn - 20th July
Jerald - 26th July
Jonathan - 28th July
Kimberly - 30th July

Sharlene - 21st August

Shandy - 1st Sept
Raja - 13th Sept
Ashley - 15th Sept
Kai Xian - 23rd Sept
Trina - 25th Sept

Syahirah - 7th October
Jasmine - 19th October
Alvina - 31st October

Wee Liang - 23rd November
Gin - 25th November
Cordelia - 30th November

Han Yi - 10th December

I hope I got the names and birthdays correct.
By the way, Kimberly told me that Jonathan had been transferred to another school since 19th March. Let's wish him all the best in his new school.

Hello Everyone!

Fifteen days of lunar new year celebration is coming to an end. I hope most of you have collected enough ang baos to buy the things you like or better, save the money in your piggy bank or bank account to earn more money. I realised that there are less and less people visiting this class blog. So sad... Nobody here is blogging anymore... I also found that the blogs listed here are no longer updated. Most probably the owners are too busy in school to spare time blogging.


Anyway, I have a quiz for those of you who visit this blog. See the picture below? It was taken on Saturday, 24th February. I would like to see who can guess the place taken correctly. No prizes though. Maybe next time I put up some prizes for the correct answer. :D

Happy Lunar New Year!

I hope everyone has enjoyed the new year concert in school and the lunar new year holiday. Not all of you will be celebrating the lunar new year, but it is definitely a holiday for all of you. Anyway, the picture above was taken just after 12 midnight on Lunar New Year Eve in Chinatown. Do you notice the firework in the background?

Thank Joelle for calling me while I was watching the firework every year! It was quite noisy so I was unable to talk to you for long.

Happy Valentine's Day!

This is Garfield and Pooh. Garfield is my favourite cat and Pooh is his good friend.
They are spending this Valentine's Day together... :)

Friends forever!

A Horrid Sighting At Void Deck

This was what was left of the stuff toy, Garfield, which horribly beheaded, as you can see from the picture. It was found near the rubbish chute below the block.

Well, I went to search for its head. I found the head some ten metres away from the body. It was laying on the pavement of a jogging track.

Luckily, it was just a stuff toy. Sadly, it is such a cruel thing to do!

Class Forum

Dear all,

I have set up a Class Forum at http://classforum.editboard.com/index.htm

I have posted a topic of my own there for your discussion. You may want to post a new topic for everyone to discuss there. If you are posting a new topic, just start a new topic and not continue the previous discussion.

Thank you.

Posting A Letter?

Hi, it has been a long time since I last posted. It seems no one else would like to post his or her blog here. If you would like to become a member of the Class Blogger Team, please drop me an e-mail or tag your e-mail address and name on the Tag Board.

Anyway, today, I went to the post office to post a letter. I wanted to buy a postage label from the self-service SAM machine but I forgot how much was the postage for a standard mail. I tried searching for the postage rate at the SAM machine and around the post office but I could not find any information on how much I was supposed to pay! The only postage rate displayed was the non-standard postage rate for those odd-size packages. I remembered the postage rate for local mail was raised last month. I did not want to make a guess for the postage, so I went to queue up at the counter to buy some stamps. I requested for the NVI (Non-Value Indicator) stamps as these stamps do not show the value of each stamp. So, even if the postal agency raised the postage rate again, I could still use those stamps.

Finally, for your information, the postage fee for a standard mail is twenty-five cents (but cannot be more than 20g) currently.

My Son's First Day in School

Hi everybody,

Sorry, nothing to post other than my son's first day in his school.

Actually he went to a playgroup, but it was his first time in a group learning environment.

He was very afraid, and still is very scared, when he was left alone without me. So, I have to be near him every minute and every second! He would look back to check that I was still behind him. :P

Wednesday was his Orientation Day, so no lesson at all. It was the parents and guardians who had to listen to the teacher talking about the things to do and look out for. Also, she mentioned the holidays, the rules and when to pay for this and that. Of course, I had to buy uniforms for him. It was a red shirt with the words "Apply Tree" printed on the front and a pair of red long pants.

On Thursday, he learned about the colour 'RED' and that the apple was red in colour. The teacher played a few songs for them to sing along, but he did not sing at all. He tried to follow them with the clapping. Well, it was his first day. What do you expect? :D

The lesson continued with the teacher showing the children how to hold a crayon and colour the picture of an apple. The children were divided into two groups - one group sat on the chair with a table and started their colouring while the remaining children sat on the floor to play the plastic building blocks. The teacher and her assistant would be at the table helping and making sure the children coloured the apple using a red-coloured crayon properly. Well, my boy did a pretty good job (see photograph) and the teacher allowed him to colour the leaf on the apple green. I must tell you I did not help him with the colouring at all. I just sat behind him. :)

At the end of the day, each of the children got an apple to bring home. Anxiously, he got me to cut the apple and he ate the WHOLE apple the moment he stepped back into the house!

Today is Friday. The teacher refreshed the children's memory by playing the same songs again and talked about the previous day's learning - the colour 'RED' and the apple. This time, the teacher brought in some strawberries to show them. Oh, by the way, the teacher's name is Mdm Rahimah. The assistant teacher is Auntie Lim. The children were taught to take a strawberry and pass to a friend next to them after looking at it. Then, the teacher taught them how to paste small pieces of red-coloured crepe paper on a picture of a strawberry with glue. The children were divided into two groups again. One group would do the pasting on the table while the other group would play wooden building blocks (different from the previous day) on the floor. After that, the teacher would play some songs before dimissing them home. Well, there was no strawberry to bring home this time!

I think next week he will learn the next colour 'YELLOW'. Maybe he will get to bring home something yellow next week. What do you think he will bring back? Anyone would like to guess or give your comments? :D

Happy First Day in School!

Dear Pupils of P4-1(2006),

It's a new year for all of you. I hope everyone is settling down in your new class with some new friends. I heard a few of you went to the wrong class today. :P I also heard that some of you needed to change your class on the first day. I must clarify that the list of class allocation was correct at the time I posted on the blog. I guess the school has changed a bit on the allocation of the classes.

So far, I have heard three of your ex-classmates who have gotten the Good Progress Award for last year. They are:

1) Joelle Sim
2) Tamara
3) Shirley Yeoh

I hope you can update me if you know anyone else who has received that Award.
Once again, congratulations to all who have gotten the Good Progress Award!
You have progressed! I hope you can keep up the good work for this year. :)

For the other pupils who did not get it, do work harder this year.
All the best in your new classes!

Good Progress Award

Dear All,

I heard that some of you have received a letter telling you that you have gotten the Good Progress Award. Congratulations to all that have received the letter. You should be getting your award on the first day of school next year. So far, I only know Joelle got it. I believe there are more people who will receive this award. Don't worry if you did not receive the letter. It just means that you will work harder next year and maybe you will get it the following year.

Be Yourself Day 2006

Be yourself Day 2006

Remember "Be Yourself Day"? I think I have not put up the photographs yet. Anyway, here are the photographs. These were the pupils who came in their costumes. Sorry, I could not remember what characters they were posing. Maybe some of you would remember. Some of them are quite obvious so no need to elaborate. :)

Whose Jewellery Box?

I stumbled over these jewellery boxes today. I wonder whose are those?
I have kept them in the cabinet outside our classroom. If you are its owner, please collect it from the cabinet. Otherwise, you may not find it anymore next year! You know what I mean? :P

Help the Dying Plants!

Dear Pupils of P4-1,

Remember the vegetables that you have planted before the end of the last school term? I have been watering the plants for the past few weeks, but over the weekend, the plants wither, as you can see from the pictures above.

Anyone who happens to be in school to buy their books, please help to water the plants. :)

Thank you.

Hello Everyone!

Dear all, I would like to share with you how I have spent my holiday. Well, I went to a place in the West part of Singapore and met some strange characters. Anyone knows where and who I have met? :D Need a clue? I don't think you need as you are so smart!

I hope you can share your holiday experiences on this blog as well. A short one with one or two pictures will do just fine. Cannot post? Just give me your e-mail address and I will add you into our blog editing team.
[Exclusively restricted to pupils of P3-1(2005) and P4-1(2006) only].

P.S.: For those who need help to answer, please drop me an e-mail.

This is the link to the Sentosa Photo Album

Sentosa Trip 30 November 2006