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!

Homey Hippopotamus

Remember when when we were small and we loved to play "badak-badak"? (This question is for my siblings actually)

Now I have rekindled that memory with my own kids. So, how do we play "badak-badak"?


First, take a sizeable blanket enough to wrap your kid around. Fold both corners to form two triangles at one end of the blanket. Then place your child on the blanket while placing both hands under the folded corner.

Then wrap him up from both sides of the blanket.



Roll him over and bend him like below...wallah! Introducing you the Homey Hippopotamus! So this hippo can be a scary mean ol' hippo chasing everybody in the room, or simply a loveable, huggable little baby hippo that people just can't wait to cuddle. Now, this one looks like the latter, isn't it?

Oh, I just love entertaining my kids play time.... and this is merely one small piece of their imaginations..