happy birthday papa September 27, 2009
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today papa birthday. yesterday i take papa go buy cake for him. papa let me choose what cake i like. tonite mummy take us go delicious restaurant in dua residency. mummy pay, then ask me to give half since its papa birthday and we belanja papa.mummy said take from my doggie bank.
papa, happy happy birthday
one day at i-kids September 25, 2009
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going to i-kids every morning this week since school close because of hari raya. papa asked me today what i do at i-kids. so i tell him lor
go running again September 22, 2009
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yesterday went running at kampong pandan race track. i run 5 rounds at the track. papa said each round is 400 meter. so i ran 2km without stopping. papa run outside ring and i run inside ring. said i finish 5 rounds in 14:33 mins.
reading by writing September 21, 2009
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i read book everyday. but cannot remember everything. i read a while then feel sleepy. papa said i can play gameboy or watch tv for hours no sleepy. today go tesco papa buy me one exercise book. said to write as i read. so he will know where i read. because each time i finish i cannot tell him story from what i read. today i write one page. i write and write, then read what i write. very tiring, but now i know what i read.
papa said very nice. can see what i read now because i write down. said also handwriting can be better next time. practise more then can be very beautiful. oh! papa took away my gameboy and keep.
I like swimming September 9, 2009
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went to hotel in PD last march. nearly forgot this video papa took. papa put in youtube for me to errr.. embed here. say cannot download one he took when i was 3 years old also me swimming freestyle. so can only put this one. good or not?
A lesson about lies September 6, 2009
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From papa: There’s something about this article that was sent to me. Which I just happened to post something about telling lies the day before. My son, this will be for your reading and understanding when you’re old enough.
Ghandhism – A Must read for parents
Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the M.K.Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, in his June 9 lecture at the University of Puerto Rico, shared the following story:
I was 16 years old and living with my parents at the institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside of Durban , South Africa , in the middle of the sugarplantations. We were deep in the country and had no neighbors, so my two sisters and I would always look forward to going to town to visit friends or go to the movies.
One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for an all-day conference, and I jumped at the chance. Since I was going to town, my mother gave me a list of groceries she needed and, since I had all day in town, my father asked me to take care of several pending chores, such as getting the car serviced. When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, “I will meet you here at 5:00 p.m., and we will go home together.” After hurriedly completing my chores, I went straight to the nearest movie theatre. I got so engrossed in a John Wayne double-feature that I forgot the time. It was 5:30 before I remembered. By the time I ran to the garage and got the car and hurried to where my father was waiting for me, it was almost 6:00.
He anxiously asked me, “Why were you late?” I was so ashamed of telling him I was watching a John Wayne western movie that I said, “The car wasn’t ready, so I had to wait,” not realizing that he had already called the garage.
When he caught me in the lie, he said: “There’s something wrong in the way I brought you up that didn’t give you the confidence to tell me the truth. In order to figure out where I went wrong with you, I’m going to walk home 18 miles and think about it.” So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to walk home in the dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads.
I couldn’t leave him, so for five-and-a-half hours I drove behind him, watching my father go through this agony for a stupid lie that I uttered. I decided then and there that I was never going to lie again. I often think about that episode and wonder, if he had punished me the way we punish our children, whether I would have learned a lesson at all. I don’t think so. I would have suffered the punishment and gone on doing the same thing. But this single non-violent action was so powerful that it is still as if it happened yesterday.
That is the power of non-violence.
i tell lies September 3, 2009
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yesterday told papa that owen lee buy cards and give to me because i buy titbits for owen lee before. tell papa i say thank you to owen lee. papa said owen lee so kind to me i must say thank you.
papa came to pick me up today at i-kids. he came in and asked for owen lee so he can say thank you for the cards owen lee give me. i told papa he didnt give me, i buy them myself. papa was very sad i lied to him.
he said now feel so sad. how to trust me again. i use school money papa give me to buy cards instead of for food and drinks. i promised papa many things. practise taekwando everyday, do all my homework, read more books and less tv games. but didnt keep my promises.
papa said no more playing with desmond anymore. ask me to study hard, so i can be good. be good than get good work. good work with lots of lots money also can buy BMW. said to me read more so i will know more things and be clever. people like clever people.
morning, mummy cane me because i didnt pack my school bags properly. my wushu shirt also didnt bring back from school yesterday. so must remember to bring back all my things from school. today i bring them back, teacher put on the table for me to take back.
i promised papa no more tell lies.
