Tadika Brainchild Sports Day 2 Jul 2011

This year Tadika Brainchild Sports Day was held on Saturday.

And, it is special as this year too the Sports Day were joined by both brother and sister.

This would marked the second time ever Sports Day for Annabelle too.

The event started with the children marching out from the class rooms to the small little field.

After all the opening speech by the principal, there were some presentations by the children to the parents and audience, they deserved a big claps from the parents too.

The teachers split the children to 2 groups – older children and younger children.

The older children which are 5 and 6 years old played the games first, while the younger children were sitting under the designated tent to wait for their turn.

This time Issac was doing greater than last 2 years! He was enjoying himself and really play hard too!

After the games, all the children deserved a token of price – the gold medal for the great job they have done!

Next was the younger children turn, as Annabelle started her games too.

She enjoyed the games with her team and friends too! She got a gold medal too!

Daddy was assigned to be the referee for the games for the parents and teachers.

The school had given a small token – a picnic set just nice for four of us.

We enjoyed the 3 hours spending in the Tadika Brainchild with the kids today.

 

 

        

Birthday Celebration @ KL Tower 26 Jun 2011

My birthday actually was started yesterday night when Daddy bought a birthday cake for me to blow the candles.

It was really a surprise for me as my birthday present is a laptop computer Lenovo ThinkPad. I am so happy for that, I love it very much as it is just fitted with my Prudential’s red color.

Today we decide to go to KL Tower in the town center.

Menara KL Tower is easily Malaysia’s most recognizable and popular landmark.

Constructed in 1994, the tower stands at 421 meters and effortlessly trumps the Petronas Twin Towers with the highest and most spectacular view of the city.

This gleaming tower’s spindle-like apex is visible from almost anywhere in Kuala Lumpur.

Menara KL’s viewing deck is, at 276 meters, at least 100 meters higher than the Petronas Twin Towers’ Sky bridge.

The view is marvelous during the day and even better at night when you can see the entire sparkling city center.

The tower is erected atop the Bukit Nanas (Pineapple Hill) Forest Reserve – the oldest gazette forest reserve in the country, which houses age-old trees as well as flora and fauna indigenous to Malaysia’s tropical climate.

Primarily used as a communications infrastructure, it is the fifth-tallest telecommunications tower in the world.

When it was originally built, the natural surroundings of Bukit Nanas were kept intact to ensure balance in development.

In fact a 100-year-old Jelutong tree was preserved, at great cost, by building a retaining wall around it.

After we arrived at the KL Tower, we bought the tickets to go to the observation deck, we were using lift to reach there.

The observation deck allow you to view the Kuala Lumpur skyline at 276m. At Kuala Lumpur Tower, we actually mean that literally!

Experience the lives of metropolitan city, breathtaking sunset and unforgettable night views at the height of 276 meters above ground level.

There are customer service on top of the observation deck, to guide and help the visitors as they would handed out the audio tour gadgets for the introduction and story of the KL Tower.

Both Issac and Annabelle were so concentrate listening to the narrators.

The 360 degree view of the deck enable you to see every angles of the Kuala Lumpur city center view from here. It is so amazing!

There is a souvenir shop up there too, selling KL Tower key chains, T-shirts, mugs, and other related merchandize.

After a while, we came down to the ground again and visited other attractions there as well.

We just stroll down mesmerizing memories of old traditional dwellings and architectural of Malaysia’s yesteryear, homes from various states dating back to 17th century with individual cultures and heritage identity predominantly reconstructed in KL Tower’s Flavors of Malaysia.

At the same time, Whilst sampling on typically yet enriched, mouthwatering and authentic flavors varying from traditional Malay, Chinese, Indian and Peranakan ethnic of well-known dishes of Nasi Lemak, Laksa, Roti Canai to sweet savories with Ice Kacang, Cendol and never miss the The Tarik and many more with the picturesque of KL Tower.

There are cultural performance, handicraft and traditional games available as we were lucky to see the Malay traditional music being played on the stage.

At the bottom of the Tower, is a mini petting zoo. Tourists will enable to experience and witness various exotic creatures such as the Iguana, rabbit, geckos, various type of snakes, birds, etc.

It would made the kids so excited about the animals! Just outside the mini zoo, there are a pony ride.

          

Both Issac and Annabelle love the pony ride very much. Both were smiling or laughing during their ride. Daddy asked me to have a try on it as well. I was really so afraid that I was going to burden the little pony!

There is a F1 car stimulators there too, but we did not go in and try. Jus went to see how is the F1 race car looks like.

Well, it was a happy birthday celebration with my love ones!

Kuala Lumpur Bird Park 12 Jun 2011

We came here again! This year our Sunday getaway mostly are our 2nd or 3rd visit of the particular places, today as well.

                        

We had been visited Kuala Lumpur Bird Park in the year of 2009 as our first time visit. Thus there are not much photos taken this time.

                        

We personally enjoyed Kuala Lumpur Bird Park very much as it is well-kept with plenty of opportunities to have personal encounters with the birds.

At the Bird Park, one would definitely adorned with nature’s living jewels in a colorful embroidery of peacocks, parrots, birds of prey and affectionate hornbills. It is an enjoyable morning spent!

My Sand Arts 11 Jun 2011

                        

The Ghost Freak is Annabelle’s and the Grey Matter is Issac’s. And, she is so happy with her own sand art!

              

M2M Sharing : Kindergarten … Part 2

Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 09:39:24 +0800
Subject: Re: Tadika Brainchild
From: dy_chong@pan-abrasives.com
To: ipeng_2@hotmail.com

Dear Ipeng,

Thank you for your reply and information. In fact, I've enrolled my daughter in April at her age of 3. Is a bit young to enrol her but I've no choice cause no one is able to help me to take care of her. I've enrolled her for day care as well. You are right, sometime I'm really not sure whether I've made a correct decision. After she started 2months with Brainchild, I only see the improvement on her art and speech but not so much on the discipline side and in fact she is worst in term on her behaviour and emotional.

I was wondering why. Whenever, I asked the day care teacher there..they comment she is good and obedient...sigh. Anyway, we are going to have teacher parent meeting day on Sat 11/6 and hopefully I can work out something with teacher.

Based on my observation, I've no doubt on their morning session but ? on their day care service. 

I know teacher Joyce and she seems very experience there. My girl is in 3 Love 1 with teacher Victoria.

You are right, I'm in dilemma stage at this moment. Like you said, we should communicate more with the teachers to make things happen. She is my only daughter, probably because of that she glue to us a lot and very demanding. So, we need the professional like teacher to assist us to educate our child.

Once again, thanks for your kind advice and you are such kind & perfect mom. I am a very aggressive mom and get angry easily..lack of patience which I'm learning to be more patience. My daughter got all my bad tempered :-(

Till then, nice chatting with you and I hope to learn more from you to be a good mom.

Thank you

Mrs Kok

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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Ipeng Too <ipeng_2@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Mrs Kok,

Don't worry so much ya. My daughter was the same during her 3 Love 1 with Teacher Victoria. She got my bad tempered too. :-( She can't really speak well and all the teachers hardly understand what she is trying to say. Me as her mum too. Most of the time, i had to check with Issac what his sister was trying to tell me, as both of them 'communicate' a lot and Issac understand her 'baby talk'. And, Teacher Victoria and Teacher Joyce advised us give a lot of encouragements or compliments to her.

I think during my daughter at her 3 years old, she wanted to be listen and treated the same like an adult or like her big brother. She wants to be listened, I guessed. That is why she is manja all the time, and make sure that parents pay the attention to her. I guessed that was the case and even now too. She got her own character compared with her brother. When she insisted, that is the things she wants. Teacher Joyce did tell us that, if we talk to her nicely, explains to her, even though she didn't change her face expressions, but her ears is listening. Sometimes, we would be surprise that she will remember and repeat the same things we said months ago.

Well, this coming Teachers Parents Meeting, we will discuss with both kids teachers and see what is the improvements that we can do. Actually, compared with last year, I can see Issac's improvements on his academic side because he 'click' with his Teacher Law very well, and we did highlight to her last year. Especially the afternoon day care session, the homework revision session.

I try not to emphasis on the academic so much, but emphasis on his enthusiasm to learning. But i do not know how 'far' can i let go.. I am not a good mum too, sometimes my temper just goes off like that. We learn from each other, even from our kids.

Happy Parenting.

M2M Sharing : Kindergarten … Part 1

Actually I seldom check and see my own blog, and never comes to my mind that someone will leave down any comment on the blog.

Today, 1 comment stated on my blog really surprised me. It is on one of Issac’s 4 Joyful 1 group photo.

DC said...

Hi Ipeng,
I'm Mrs Kok here. I happen to see your blog when I'm browsing about Tadika Brainchild on the internet. I'm so glad to read all about your son Isaac's experiences at Brainchild as I'm still dilemma whether this tadika is good for my daughter or not as I'm thinking to enrol her for 3yrs old (2nd term) morning session & day care. After reading your blog, I guess my choice at Brainchild is correct. How you take the photos when your son is in the class? You were there for him at that time? Is really an interesting blog and I'm truly appreciate if you could share more information with me about Brainchild.
Thank you
Mrs Kok (dychong@gmail.com)

It written on 1 March 2011, but I just saw this today only…Then, I just dropped an email to her, share with her on our experiences at Tadika Brainchild.

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Dear Mrs Kok,

Sorry for being late reply to your post on my blog. Seriously, i do not do my blog settings well enough, as i did not know someone had posted a comment on my blog.

Well, actually at first i do have the same doubts like you, during the time both my husband and I wanted to enrol Issac to Brainchild. Is it the right place? Can our child adapt to it? Or can Brainchild teach him well enough to get him prepare for his primary 1 at Che Wen later on? and lots of questions...

We had enrolled him at his age of 4. We can feel and see his progress during his 4 Joyful 1 year. We are fortunate that we met with really dedicated teachers. Teacher Joyce is one of them. At the very beginning, we just enrolled him to the morning session only, he is not really a 'discipline boy'. Then we had enrolled him to the day care as well at the 2nd half year, most probably the schedule in the Brainchild had disciplined him a bit, at least a more 'structure day' for him. We started to see his changes.

Actual fact, his 5 Patience 1 days, was not a really 'impressive' year as both my hubby and I were not really see his progress. During the Teachers Parents Meeting, we did highlight to the teachers on our opinions and findings, exchange ideas, etc. And, last year, both my husband and I went thru the dilemma of 'do we need to transfer him to another tadika'? At the end, we both came to the conclusion that - we stayed and communicate more frequently with the school and teachers. We do agreed that raising or rather brought up a child is a 2 way communications with the school and ourselves.

Both of us are putting more concerns and efforts in the interest of his learning towards the world, rather than the academic side. Bring them out more to the nature, let the kids explore thru their senses, etc. Besides, Issac loves to draw, we let him go for art class. And, here he now in 6 Caring 2. He is a caring and helpful boy. He is still naughty too. Last week, he had to stand at a corner due to 'playing until fight with his friends'. We can see his 'homework' improve a lot compare to last year.

We are glad and grateful. We try not to compare our children with others, because each and individual is different and every child have their own growth path and phases.

About the photos, that were actually copied from their school CD. Brainchild do kept a copy of CD to the parents at end of the year, records of their children life at tadika. Well, I am writing blog because i want to keep a diary on my children's growth. Try to spend as much time as possible to record down their livings. If I do not write now, i will forget and so were they. Even now, I can hardly recalled my childhood days... And I do have a lot to back date, because there are a lot of photos not upload and write yet!

I do not know whether you have enrol your child to Brainchild. But, that is all i would share with you on our experience with Brainchild.

Cheers,
Ipeng

Choo Sing Tong Kuan Ti Temple Jalan Ipoh 15 May 2011

It is a Sunday again, Daddy just driving the car and we just wonder around in the Jalan Ipoh area.

We were actually looking for the famous fish head bee hoon, and we heard that it is somewhere near a temple. Finally, we found it! We had our meals there.

I did not know that in the middle of the city center, there is such a huge Chinese temple here hidden behind the busy main road. Actual location is in Kampong Kasipillay, Off Jalan Ipoh. There is a river in front of the temple.

Choo Sing Tong Kuan Ti Temple is grandly build with figurine of deities, dragons and phoenixes on its roof. The roof is in painted green colour.

The external wall is fill with murals depiction of the legends of the Three Kingdoms and the 24 stories of filial piety.

When we walked inside the temple, the interior work are also beautifully crafted by artisan from China. These includes the molded ceilings and offering tables.

On the outside, life size statues of God of Prosperity, God of Fortune and God of Longevity and by its side, a Koi pond in front of a huge wall with carving of the nine dragons is build as an attraction.

The temple is devoted to the worships of its patron deity, which is the red faced God of War Kuan Ti on its main altar.

Other deities worship in this temple including Kuan Yin Pu Sa, Guang Ze Zun Wang, Qing Shui Zu Shi, Na Zha San Tai Zi, Fu De Zheng Shen or Tua Pek Gong. It also has a Na To Gong shrine overlooking its main entrance.

Opposite the temple, there is a man made bridge across the river, there is a small garden whereby the temple erected and decorated as a Chinese themed park.

We strolled down along the river, we were so amazed and happy seeing so many nicely done statues of the figurines scattered the garden.

There are deer, dragons, monkey king, and the figurines in the Journey to the West story, etc. Issac and Annabelle were happy to see all these statues. It feels like we were in a mini wonderland.

It was a delighted afternoon on Sunday.