It's A Double Success Day !

17th January, 2009 - Today is the pre-Chinese New Year celebration at the kids' school with colouring competition for the Standard 1 and 2s and calligraphy competition for the Standard 3, 4, 5 6 and not forgetting the adults too.

It's also a day of celebration with Mandarin oranges and angpows for everyone ! The kids sure had fun and beamed happily as they throw CNY wishes. They are so so adorable ... could feel the excitement and joy as I went around passing them a red packet each. The CNY song on the stage was also enjoyable for me though I could hardly read the lyrics. So, I just "lah, lah, lah, lah" away lor, LoL ... Wow! What a way to kick start the CNY celebration :-)

Today is my first attempt at calligraphy on the red strip of paper and well, I participated just for the fun of it. When some friends commented : Ei! Wah, you cannot write chinese also participate ah, good la you. Ha ha ... yup, that's me. I said, oh well, I cannot write but I can copy mah and I am here to have fun. I mean, how often do I get a chance to do this?

And so there I was, sitting at the desk with newspapers laid out, a thick chinese calligraphy brush, black ink, 2 strips of red paper and of course, the two chinese verses (with 7 chinese characters each) to be written. No pressure at all as I took part in the event at level 10 ! The first to finish my masterpiece, then off I went to have fun looking at the rest hard at work ... especially the kids ... found Bob colouring away furiously and seriously. He looked up, met my eyes and mommy gave him the thumbs up to encourage him ... well, I thought his work came out quite nicely heh ^_^ Hmm ... this boy has got my artistic genes !

Alas .... when Bob's name was called out as one of the winners in the colouring competition, mommy jumped up from her seat and excitedly looked for him, rushed over to congratulate him before he went up the stage ! Next, to my surprise, my name was also called out ! Ha ha ... who would have guessed a non-Chinese educated girl like me also can win oh? When I later told my sister, she was happy for me .... and mentioned, ah, maybe they just want to encourage you la ... Ha ha ... whatever it is, I was a proud mother and a proud 'artist' of the day !!!