Sunday, 7 August 2022

Our middle child is finally back from the 'war'. She's been so busy practicing for inter-school sports meets and school sports day for the past two months that she hardly had the time to take care of her health and well-being. I've not seen her sleep on her bed for the longest time. She had been so enervated that she dozed off on the couch or on the room floor on most nights.

I think she's too ambitious and took on too many responsibilities and activities. Her teachers also enlisted her to be the head in charge of the school sports day, as well as to teach other students to dance and lead the cheerleading team. On top of that, she has to train junior librarians.

When the two months of daily training ended with the culmination of her school sports day on Saturday, it felt like my daughter just returned from war when I saw her that night. With a skin tone twenty times darker after being grilled in the sun daily for two months (she can pass off as a Chindian), a minor skin problem, and a super huge ravenous appetite, she looked even more like a soldier who's not eaten well and slept well who just returned from war-torn Sarajevo 😂.

For the past two months, she stayed back in school up to 6pm every day, and during the weekends, went to the basketball court to practise cheerleading. On some weekends, she went to her dance studio for dance performances.

I told her that from now onwards, she has to focus on her studies as she has only half a year left before her SPM!! Speaking of which, she found new tutors to give her one-on-one and intensive tuition for the subjects of Math, Add Math, Physics and Chemistry. And not to mention, this is going to cause a huge dent in my wallet!

Oh well, I hope that this is going to be a good investment.

Today we had lunch at Seoul Korea, our favorite Korean BBQ restaurant, and by far the best one that we've tried. Our lunch today is complete with all our 3 daughters around, which is quite rare now as our two older girls have their own activities.