We are just two days away from October, three months away from 2009. There is no need to validate the statement anymore. It's scary, time indeed flies.
To all who asked, Shane is doing well in school. At least to me he is. His Chinese is also getting better and he definitely is good in this language than his mommy is. I am hopeless in this, and i faced huge problems whenever he needs to construct sentences in Chinese. Fortunately, there is internet. I found this online Chinese-English dictionary with pinyin. It works well for me!
These days, not only the children have to carry heavy loads to school, their school works don't come easy too. And parents have to play their part at home, helping to teach and explain to their kids. For example, on Shane's second week in school earlier this year, he brought home a mathematics work sheet. One question went like this:
There were ten eggs in the pictures marked from one to ten. The mother hen had lost her eggs. Her eggs were those that were marked more than three but less than eight. Can you help her find her eggs?
It certainly is not what it was for me long long ago.
A month back, for Shane's English assessment test, he had to do a show and tell on his favourite book character. He brought home the assessment notice on what he was required to do and there it was, the allocation of marks. To my surprise, marks were given for props too and they were not allowed to bring toys as props. So i decided to help.
Here was what i did:
Yes, Shane was presenting his favourite book character "Wall.E". I know, very plain looking but it took me two days to go find the right materials, print the right font size and darn, the yellow raffia strings were so hard to find.
And btw, i'm excited about my online shop. Although some issues are driving me crazy and it is hard work but i like how the end results turn out to be. From the technical part to how the packaging should be, every single detail is carefully thought out. If you are interested to know, i'm only producing stuffs for the ladies for the moment. But guys, you can help do your part by spreading the word around, or buying it for your girlfriends, partners, wives, aunts, mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers...
The time to show you my site will come soon. But keep your expectations low alright, coz afterall, i'm still a beginner in this :)
