Wen came back after 6 weeks in Paris on her French exchange programme. Glad to have her back. I’d almost forgotten what she looks like. :)
Merimbula Hols
Written By: Tuen
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Jan•
08•12
We just returned from a very nice holiday in Merimbula, which is in the south coast of NSW. The entire extended family was there, except for Wen who is in Paris for an exchange programme. Merimbula is a nice coastal town and we had a free and easy holiday there. We stayed at the Coast resort, which was really very nice.
Besides eating, the kids went surfing, archery, fishing, hitting golf balls into the lake, water sliding, sun bathing on the beach etc. The boys also spent many hours on their laptops playing online games.
We also went to Nethercote falls where I had the opportunity to drive the 4WD down a very short but steep track. The kids had a chance to swim at the falls, which was very pleasant.
All in, we spent 8 days at Merimbula.
Photos can be found here.
Oh, we also attended Christmas Day mass at St. Joseph’s church, where an African priest, Fr. Constantine, gave an excellent sermon.
7/1/2012
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Jan•
07•12
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Julian’s Yamaha Music Concert
Written By: Tuen
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Sep•
21•11
Ren’s music class took part in a Yamaha music concert on Sunday. Various classes of kids came together to perform items that they had been practising. Ren’s class performed a piece called “Sweet Dance” from book 2 (he’s currently doing book 3). Unfortunately, they hadn’t practised enough and didn’t play the piece in time together. Still it was a nice concert and the kids had fun, especially the final song where all the kids sang together.
The piece should actually sound like this: Click 16 Sweet Dance (not as in the video below).
Father’s Day
Written By: Tuen
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Sep•
04•11
Paper bag made by Julian
Today is Father’s day in Australia. The first thing little Ren did upon waking up this morning was to wish me a happy father’s day. And he did this without any prompting from anyone. He then went downstairs to retrieve a paper bag (which he made himself in school) which contained gift items for me which he had bought from a school stall specially setup to sell items for father’s day. It was very sweet of him and it made my day. Of course my other kids also wished me when they woke up during the course of the day. As for their gift, I had earlier bought myself a camera backpack and I told them to just split the cost amongst themselves. They were quite happy with that of course; no need to shop for a gift for dad!
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Card made by Julian
Mary’s Birthday
Written By: Tuen
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Aug•
19•11
We celebrated Mary’s birthday with our usual cake cutting at home. However, I did take her out to lunch at a restaurant recommended by Henry, which was pretty good. As for the usual family dinner, we did this earlier last weekend, and we had Chili crabs at Bert’s in Boronia.
Some photos here.
Shwu Huey Visits
Written By: Tuen
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Aug•
15•11
Shwu Huey paid us a visit yesterday, and spent the afternoon with us. Ren enjoyed her visit most, and spent a lot of time playing with her. In the evening, we sent her to her friend’s home where she would be staying the night. We went in to say ‘Hi’ to the friend who was very nice and who lives in a really lovely home.
Photos can be found here.
Ren’s School Assembly Presentation
Written By: Tuen
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Jul•
29•11
Ren’s class gave a presentation at his school assembly today. They had been practising for this the whole week and he had been very excited about it. The presentation was about reducing, reusing and recycling. He even invited me to go along with Mary to watch him at the assembly, which I did.
I’m glad I did, as the whole class was so cute.
Some photos can be found here, and video is below:
Wen’s Debutante Ball
Written By: Tuen
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Jul•
20•11
Wen had her Debutante Ball recently. Mary, Melissa and I attended it and it was quite an experience. We don’t have such things in Singapore and Melissa came to Australia after her 16th birthday and didn’t get a chance to attend such a ball. So Wen’s was the first (and last) debutante ball that we would attend.
There were 33 couples, and they presented themselves to the school principal and to the Federal Member of Parliament for Aston. It was very interesting to watch them do classical ball room dancing set to modern pop songs. I must say the evening was very enjoyable, and the food was not bad.
One unfortunate incident which happened was when one of the boys, after hours of practice in the afternoon, suddenly felt faint and had to be pulled out of the dance routine, leaving his partner in limbo. But the deputy principal very gallantly stepped up and took up the boy’s role, even though he didn’t know any of the steps. But he plodded through and at least the girl got to finish the dance routine, and it didn’t look too bad actually, especially since he was also dressed for the occasion and if you didn’t look too carefully, you wouldn’t notice that there was one guy who was perpetually out of step.
Photos can be found here.
The video below is longer than my usual youtube posts because I thought it was quite interesting.
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