A Dip In The Pool

I just came up from a dip in the pool with Ian. I have not done so for like ages and that explains why till today I am still hopeless in learning to swim. :(

Ian is getting more confident now and even made several jumping attempts into the pool, well, though fully equipped with all the swimming gears he can get his hands on, a kickboard, goggles, a swimming trainer around the chest and a pair of arm float, I still think that this is indeed an achievement for him, at least he has overcome his fear of water.

I intend to accompany him to the pool every evening or at least thrice a week to get him familiarized with water before he starts his swimming lessons soon. I had lived in landed houses all my life but I am beginning to enjoy living in a condo environment where we get to enjoy facilities such as sauna, gym, squash, badminton, tennis, swimming, basket ball and cycling, yes, cycling.. I can see from our condo unit that on most evenings, some Japanese residents are seen cycling around with their families in the gated compound.

We have yet to utilise all facilities other than the swimming pool and would like to explore one by one when time allows.

Offer Letter to Primary one

Ian will be going to Primary one next year and mom in-law has been bugging us to check with the school since we have yet to receive the letter. Yes, mom in-law was even more anxious than the mom as she was afraid that her only grandson would not get accepted to the school of our choice. Ha!

I phoned the school to find out the status and the call was answered by a friendly Malay lady staff. She told me that the offer letter would only be sent out early next week and that all registered students would be accepted as their quota of taking in 400 students had not been met. Phew! We can now breathe a sigh of relief.

Ian's acceptance to our choice of primary school simply means that we will have to move to a place nearer to his school. We will soon move into our condo which was previously rented out to a Japanese family. This will be the 1st time in my life living in a condo and we are actually looking forward to it. As we live in Puchong now, it's been a struggle having to beat the traffic daily to get Ian to his kindy, Juara Cerdik in PJ. Well, I would have to endure the bad traffic and the ordeal to wake up early for another 3 months before we move into the condo in December.

I heard a lot about the homework loads, strict disciplinary actions, caning and all sort of negatives studying in a Chinese school but we still went ahead with the decision because hubby was actually one of the "victims" for being illiterate in Chinese. My chinese is slightly better off than him, at least I can read the Chinese newspaper and coach Ian with his homework with some help from my sifu (the dictionary). *angel grins*