Catch Up Before School | Story of the Lazy Boy | Oxygen Music Festival Competition | Speak to Win

Brayden 9Y2M8D

Bevlynn 4Y11M1D

After all the fun in USS theme park for 2 consecutive Sundays, Bray was complaining on Monday morning about being overly tired and he did not want to have breakfast before school. Me and Hub did not buy it. There was only 15 minutes left till school starts, I said "Ok, you can take all the time you'll need, we'll still follow the usual time to head out, you can catch up with us later. If you don't arrive by 7:30am, we'll leave your bag at the school's entrance. Do not forget to pick it up before entering school."

Me and Hub walked out and not long after, we saw from a distance, Bray walking in a fast pace trying to catch up with us. I told Hub let's hide at the store, we'll still keep watch. Very quickly, we saw him zooming past us and almost running now to catch up.... (He must be thinking how his parents can walk so quickly that he cannot see us at this point)

By now, we were the one trying to catch up with him. As he was almost reaching school, he turned around and started running the other direction, looking for us again. He did not noticed us, we had to call out to him. We can see the panic in his face suddenly turned into relief. We simply laughed "What happened to the tired boy? Why are you exercising?" His eyes looked shyly away. 

We arrived at school earlier than our usual time. 

Yesterday, during my storytelling, it was a story of a boy and a girl. The boy being very lazy, he had grown but his brains were so underdeveloped that he turned into a big baby. The girl was hardworking and managed to be a scientist. She developed the medicine to try to "cure" the boy. The boy then turned into a duck. Again she tried again with new medicine, he turned into a piglet. There seems to be no good ending for this little boy. Bray was feeling anxious and nervous with the storyline, he started softly biting my arm. It was very funny how he acted. We had a good laugh before our sleep...

Bray joined the Oxygen Music Festival Competition. This time, we registered 2 weeks before the competition. He had very little time to practice playing Silent Night. Every night, he was rolling on the floor and crying that his fingers were in pain after several minutes of practice. In the end, he persevered. Competition day came, it was on Labour's Day. Mommy and Daddy were proud and happy that he had given his best. 

There were complimentary workshops when joining the competition. It was good exposure.

Finished reading "Speak to Win" by Brian Tracy. The formulas and methods were useful. One chapter I really liked was how to End with a Bang. I've always quickly end a presentation in front of a crowd. I now realized ending a presentation well can be as important as a good introduction. I'll rethink how I can end with a story, laugh, rhyme or inspiration to make a lasting impression.