Award Surprise

On Friday last week, Mama had the honor of watching Adam going on stage, as a recipient of the “Peningkatan Prestasi Terbaik” award of Penulisan Bahasa Melayu. Boy, was I so proud of my son!




Actually, we never expected this, but the call came in to Papa on Tuesday last week, asking for our attendance to the Majlis Anugerah Cemerlang of the school. When Papa told me that Adam will receive on award for “Prestasi Tulisan” we were giggling endlessly as his writing is always the first thing we commented every time we review his work.

Turned out that Papa misheard the invitation. So the award is for his improvement in Bahasa Melayu composition and writing. We were impressed!

Being very easily distracted, Adam is not doing that great in school. I have always been the worried mother, and boy oh boy, the competition these days are just unbelievable. Not to mention the ever complicated curriculum for an eight year old, I just don’t have the heart of putting that pressure on Adam.





So, I decided (since Papa is always too busy with work) that we’ll take things easy for Adam. Let him bloom at his own progress. Just to catch up, we put him in Kumon so that will discipline him a bit. I’m not too sure if it’s the right thing to do for him. But I always pray that he’ll give us a surprise someday, and this award is one of them. Ameen!