Monday, June 28, 2010

Sprains

He woke up with a limp this morning ... sprained his foot yesterday at "Peek-a-boo"!!

Swimming away

Went for his last swim class on Saturday. The big one is taking over, although I'm more keen for his first ever swimming coach / a friend of ours / ex-water polo player / Uncle J / to coach him instead. Uncle J got him swimming in less than 6 sessions and they seem to like each other. Lessons stopped because Uncle J had other commitments. Anyway, we then tried hooking him up with Uncle G... but that turned out to be as hilarious as it was disasterous. In a 3-month period, they only managed to meet each other twice in the water. And if you're going to learn how to swim.... you kinda need to be in the water together. We were convinced that their 八字/ 8-characters was simply put,  not compatible.

The big one decided quite a while back that he was going to stop the small one's lessons with this coach after his swim test. The coach is great for getting the students up to speed with the test requirements but not really attentive with their swimming technique which, to us, is really more important than passing tests. That said, he did get all his students to pass. Quite a feat I must say.

Anyway, until we find him a new coach, or Uncle J - hopefully?, he's going to be swimming with his father.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Swimming

The small one is taking his swimming test today and right about now. The big one is with him and they will lunch together after. Nice!

[news update]
> How is it going?
< We r eating hor fun lunch now. His request.
> K. He passed?
< No one fail one lah, just how fast they can finish.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Violin #4

Bought Violin #4  - 1/4 size - for double the price of the previous, which was double the price of the #2 and double the price of the #1. If this trend continues, his full size violin will cost $4-5k.

Anyway, less than a week with the new violin, he dropped it and the fingerboard came off! His teacher spent 15mins of the half an hour lesson ( which costs $35 / lesson) lecturing him on how to handle the violin properly. Reminded me of ...(http://eggsnchicks.blogspot.com/2007/09/lesson-1-break-it.html)

On progress, the teacher said he's ready to prepare for the ABRSM Grade 2 exam next Feb/March.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Dreamy days

This morning, I felt like I swam with the car through the rain. Could hardly make out the silhouette of the Singapore Flyer from the Benjamin Sheares bridge. But I like rainy days. Because the world looks dreamier... softer... and definitely much more pleasant. To me at least.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The Karate Kid 2010

We are not really a movie family... maybe 2-3 movies year. But count this as the movie to watch with the family if you only go to the theatre twice a year. It's totally unregrettable. http://www.karatekid-themovie.com/ We enjoyed it.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Give me back!

"Give me back!", he said.

I started ranting, "How to give you back? Give you back? Give you back to who? Give you back to the rubbish bin?"

*pause*

"How about back to your stomach?"

"What? Sorry, no space... can only fit a 3kg baby and it takes 9 months to grow that big"

"Please? Then I can go back up there for a while and then come back again".

( go back? )

"Go back up there? Where? Where did you come from?"

... and then I couldn't stop laughing...

Monday, June 07, 2010