Happiness in a Wonderland . Our World Art Exhibition 2016

Developing Talents #4 ~ Make an item from wood, metal, fabric, or other material, or draw, paint, or sculpt a piece of art. Display your finished work for others to see. 

After 2 years here we come again for another art exhibition for both Issac and Annabelle which I am eagerly waiting for.

This year theme is "Happiness in a Wonderland . Our World Art Exhibition 2016”. I can say it is a bit different from the past years but with the same intention.

This time around, besides the art pieces exhibition by the Jane Yap Atelier’s students, there will also be an auction of 20 pieces of artwork specially painted by teachers and students of Jane Yap Atelier.

In addition. each painting will paired with an adorable and huggable Jelly Cat bunny sponsored by Happi Kiddo.

With the Citta Mall sponsored the exhibition venue itself and together with WeCare Journey.

In support of the cause and the exhibition, local notable figures such as Melinda Looi, Sonny San, Daphne Iking, Jaclyn Victor, Wong Chui Ling, Khairul Abidin, Izrin Iz, Melati Ibrahim, Nur Shazleen and Emely Poon have joined hands to dress up the soft toy bunnies.

There are assorted design of Jellycat Bunny which were designed, decorated and nicely dressed by the celebrities, artists and designers.

It do really bring back the childhood memories of every girl that own a pretty nicely dress up dolls with our own creations!

The proceeds raised from the auction of these 20 pieces of artworks will be channelled to Malaysia Rare Disorder Society (MRDS) to support children suffering from spinal muscular atrophy.

The time of preparation took months before, every student whom participate is going to paint an art work on a canvas with the title of “Happiness in a Wonderland”, and contribute their talents to one of the 20 pieces of artworks jointly painted by the teachers together with students.

Besides that, the students were asked to bring their previous year 2015 artworks – the stool and the puppet for display too.

We woke up early because the art exhibition is going to start at 10am, Teacher Jane asked the parents to bring the children as early as 9am.

This year is the first time ever Daddy attended together on the opening ceremony.

The students are required to dress in white theme. Boys would be in white shirts, Girls would be in white blouse or in white dress like previous years.

It was early as we reached at Citta Mall. We went to Mc Donald’s for our breakfast before we went up to The Space Exhibition Hall. The Space have relocated to 2nd Floor. There are a lot of people: parents, students, visitors, VIPs, medias, etc.

The students and all the teachers having a group photos after the opening ceremony. There were so many parents and children there. Really have difficulties in taking the group photo.

We took some pictures with each Annabelle and Issac art piece.

I really do have a bit of surprise that both of their art pieces! Never think that both of them would have ok too!

Issac’s wonderland can be seen is a mixture of minecraft and the adventure land in the adventure time.

The Minecraft land is full of vibrant green with trees and forts with bricks style; the adventure land is in red and gold colour.

 

The first time I saw it, I have an impression of the tree of life in the scripture in the 1 Nephi, whereby the river divided the spacious building and the straight and narrow path to the tree of life. May be too much scripture!

Annabelle’s wonderland is a chocolate and candy factory land. I think this is because recently we just watched the movie – Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

It is a few boilers and mixture boilers whereby you can climb to each and everyone of them to get your favourite candies. Well, she is a chocolate lover, I can’t blame her.

Well… We are really proud of them!

And, so happened that this activity is one of the requirements which suits the Faith In God Program under the Developing Talents category, thus we counted this in as part of our Faith In God activity day.

This is Issac and Annabelle 2nd time participation in an art exhibition, display their very own art piece and art works! It is not only the canvas painting but the stool painting and the puppet artwork too! Daddy and Mummy really proud of them!

The art exhibition will be from 8th October (Saturday) to 16th October (Sunday) 2016, time from 10am to 8pm. Venue at The Space, Citta Mall 2nd Floor. Entrance is free.

充滿想像趣味的童畫世界，和由名人設計的毛兔娃娃擺在一起，結合小朋友的創意和大人的愛心，《夢˙幻˙樂》不僅是葉健一畫室的藝術美展，也是一場為罕見疾病患者籌款的別具意義拍賣會。

《夢‧幻‧樂 2016我們的世界》藝術美展

• 日期：10月8日（星期六）至10月16日（星期日）
• 時間：10am至8pm
• 地點：The Space，CITTA MALL二樓
• 入場：免費

10月8日上午10時在畫展簡單開幕儀式後進行現場拍賣， 所籌得款項將全數捐給MRDS（Malaysia Rare Disorder Society）。

• 詢問：03-78318632
• 面子書：Jane Yap Atelier

"Happiness in A Wonderland.Our World Art Exhibition 2016”
8th Oct to 16th Oct 2016
10am to 8pm
The Space , Citta Mall Ara Damansara

Baskin Robbins Treats @ Sunway Pyramid

Today is a replacement public holiday for Awal Muharam which was on yesterday. We came to Sunway Pyramid to have a window shopping.

We sat down at Baskin Robbins and asked the kids to choose their own flavour. Issac choose the cotton candy and Annabelle choose double chocolate chips.

For so many years, both of their favourite at Baskin Robbins are unchanged! They would order the same flavour every time we came to Baskin Robbins.

Scripture Power

Well, this song is new to me and all the while I was thinking that this is a church new children song, but it is not!

The children love this song so much! They have s much enthusiasm when they learn and practice this song. I hope the children would understand that the power the scriptures have as they were singing in the song.

Annabelle Birthday 1 Oct 2016

This year Annabelle’s birthday celebration is very simple. We do not have much celebration. We went to shopping mall for window shopping, then we had a birthday dinner with her but we did not have a birthday cake for her.

She saying is ok just as it is and together with family. Daddy and Mummy felt so warm when heard this. She was so sweet even though sometimes she was so naughty and rebellious.

After we went back home, we quietly gave her a surprise before she slept. We gave her the birthday present. Her reaction was so priceless! She was so surprise and happy to know that she is getting the Besta Electronic Dictionary after opened her present.

Happy Birthday my sweet heart! May you be blessed by Heavenly Father always and stay in His Light!

Build My Budget

Developing Talents #1 ~ Learn how to budget and save money. Discuss why it is important to faithfully pay our tithing and how Heavenly father blesses us when we do (see 3 Nephi 24:10-11). Pay your tithing and begin saving for a mission.

This is the final lesson that I am having with the children on the topic about the money.

At the first lesson, we were learning about some basic knowledge that the children need to know about the concept of Tithing and money.

We discussed about how Heavenly Father blesses us when we faithfully pay our tithing.

How the Tithing money being used in our church, and how to fill up the Tithing slip in our lesson in Tithing Wallet.

At the second lesson,we were learning 2 extra words, which is Saving and Spending.

We were doing some calculation games and Alvin shared about how to save and spend and tithing too. We were having fun decorated their jars in our lesson in Tithing Games and Jars.

On our third lesson, it would be more on budgeting.

We focused more on getting the children to know about the values of money and the prices of the food, grocery, daily household items which they are eating, seeing and using everyday.

It’s on our lesson in The Price is Right.

Now, we were learning on how to balance and create our own budget worksheet.

And, encourage children to do critical thinking on how much money they left or why the expenses or spending like that?

Build their own budget an set saving goals. Besides, how the children can work to earn extra cash that they need.

Finally there is a lesson which the children learned from our Elder Robert D. Hales’s talk during April 2009 General Conference, Becoming Provident Providers Temporally and Spiritually,  on spending necessary.

“ He realized that spending more than you can afford doesn’t show love, we shouldn’t do it no matter what, even if it is Christmas or we really, really like something. He always remembered how wise his wife had been.”

“ So the second question we should always remember. Even if we CAN afford something, we should always ask “Do we really need it?” If we don’t we should try to be happy without it.”

Well, this have concluded the lesson on the Tithing, Budget and how Heavenly Father blesses us when we faithfully paying our Tithing. We have fun learning about these things that the Lord wants us to know about!

153 ~ The Lord Gave Me a Temple

I still remember the first time when I heard this song, by reading the song title I thought it is the physical temple building which it means in the song. Eventually, when I started to learn and do the flip charts for the kids to learn, then I only realized that it mean the physical body which our Heavenly Father gave us.

When I sang the songs with Issac and Annabelle at home, I asked them “Do you all know what is the temple that the Lord gave us in this song?” Annabelle just answered me with her slumber voice, “Mummy, is our body lah…” I was like, “You know!” Annabelle said, “Of coarse…Mama”

Visiting Teaching Messages for the Sisters

These are all the visiting teaching messages for the sisters for this month, as I couldn’t make it to do a visiting teach face to face. Hope the sisters would like the messages!