Primary One pictures

Rachi began her primary one in September1st. Po Leung Kuk Camoes Tan Siu Lin Primary School is the school that she got admitted to. Since her first day at school, she has as always shown eagerness to wake up early and go to school. 

Transition period from kindergarten to primary student:
She has more homework to do and more books to study. And it means less time for her to play and visit her friends. However, she is comping  with all the new changes that life has to offer. Sometime, she says! "My life is changing." Indeed, she is right. She has less time for her favourite cartoons and tv programs and in the park. 

with classmate

Reading schemee

poses as she awaits

Returning home

With Christina

First day at school

Aayana Rai her classmate

P3 go go

waiting for bus

Drama: Rato bahin

Tung Chung Visit - 61/F

Ready to head 61/F

 

We visited Kohee's new house in Tung Chung on 2nd August 2015. The girls played doctor and nurse game. We became patients. Kohee, the doctor, searched internet and tried to diagnose our illness. While Rachi acted as a nurse and handed us medicine according to our illness.

We clicked long exposure of the road...

late lunch

Sunset

Girls playing

Nurse and Doctor

Rachi's creativities

Black board and chalk

Rachi is growing very creative. She finds a piece of cloth, she ends up making clothes for her toys or makes clothes for herself.

Out of empty paper container, she colors it and makes something like a black board where she ends up drawing or writing. She makes a chalk out of a white crayon.

Some of her work she made on July 2015 are:

Handicraft

Clay dough stuff

Clay dough man

She designed waist coat

Lonely path - on a rainy day

Lonley path
no sign of people walking by
nor cars passing by
just me rambling by

Rain drops gently
pitter-patter
and fall on the umbrella

over my head.

Slippers squeak

under my feet
as I fasten
to take a refuge
under a tree.

I hear a bird chirping
above me
a colorful soul
perches on the branch
of the tree...

I and the bird
both loners
sheltered by a tree
it is on it
me under it
we look at each other
like two long lost friends
now finally found.

With Gideon family

with Principal

Ready for camping

Dinne

Jumping

Little bees performing

Ms. wong
English Teacher

Mak Sam

Ms. Chung 

Happy Bee

Chinese New Year

Thanks giving day

Shedding off baby teeth

Tooth

with a gap

13th July 2015, Tuesday morning, you were ready to go to your kindergarten. You pointed at your teeth and said, "Mommy, my tooth is moving." That was the morning that you showed your moving tooth to mommy and papa. We both were awed and said, " you are going to have new teeth. You baby teeth are shedding.' You were so happy to learn that as you knew that shedding baby teeth meant you would be having stronger adult teeth. You were then 5 years, 10 months and 8 days old.

After that you kept moving and pulling your tooth. You sat down to watch tally, your finger would be flickering around your mouth. Inwardly, I was worried that you may cry of pain as I remembered my experience when my teacher then in primary school, used a string to pull off my loosened teeth. It was a very painful experience. Rest teeth how I was able to pull them off, but that particular moment was very frightening, my eyes were with tears and I felt a pang of agony as I would have dared to slap her.

Day by day, your tooth was loosened and on 17th July, after 4 days, you were sitting on the edge of the bed when you kept moving it. Papa helped you to move gently and I was horrified wondering you would end up in tears. I was sitting beside you two but not looking at the pulling process. You papa gave a soothing pull and told you not to panic. He said, "See, there is already a tooth under this. We need to take it out now. If we don't pull this out now, your new tooth will have no space to grow properly, you will end up bad teeth." You obeyed him. And in few minutes later, papa meticulously pulled off your tooth. It was 15:35 and papa had to go to work at 16:00. It was only 25 minutes before papa left for work.

You were excited and asked us to put the tooth under the pillow at night and take it away after putting a dollar coin. You wanted papa to be a tooth fairy. I insisted since a fairy is a lady, mommy will be a tooth fairy.

You cleaned the tooth and put inside a container. You asked us to congratulate you on your safely coming off the tooth. You ended up cleaning regularly for a week and stopped since I told you cleaning too much will break.

Kindergarten to Primary

Year 2015 has been a transitory period for a five years old toddler, from graduating a kindergarten to being admitted to a Primary School.

You graduated on 17th June 2015. Your kindergarten Hong King Bethel Gideon has chosen a ceremonial place in heart of Kowloon Bay in KCB, just opposite to Mega Box. Dad and I were there on this milestone day where we sat taking photos and recording videos. As an emotional mom, my eyes were filled with on tears. You and your fellow classmates, dressed in white gown and black hat walked on a aisle marching and waving hands. I couldn't control my weepy eyes, as I began dabbing tears with tissue paper, I missed recording a video.

Proud parents

Rachi's certificates & gifts

You guys marched on to a decorated stage where stood school principal and other officials to welcome you.

Dressed in uniform Little Bees performed dance and song. There was also a drama where K2 students made a mess as they played. They threw rubbish, paper, containers everywhere. You, a little bee with other friends from K3 who were trained in Little Bee walked to the stage and made spotless clean. You threw strewn rubbish on a rubbish bin and tidied up. You as a little bee were well trained by your Little Bee trainer Ms. Yip.  You received numerous certificates:
1: English Story Telling competion.
2: Chinese Story Competition
3: English Singing Competition
4: Chinese Siging Competition
5: Punctuality Award


You along with your classmate stood proud as you boldly handshook with your principal and other officials. They congratulated you!

Photo session took place afterwards. Then at 7pm, we were escorted to have dinner at Mega Box Siu Shun Village Cuisine restaurant.

The menu had several items. You all received many gifts and  vouchers from bookstore Popular. You and your friends were happy as you played and laughed.

Your school distributed your assessment card on 11th July morning. Ms. Wong said you had done well. She commended that you are willing to learn, friendly and smart. Since we moved to Lok Fu on Novenber 2014, we transferred you to this school. You went to Jordan Pak Hoi Kindergarten until K2. This Kei Tin was a totally new school and with new atmosphere. All were Chinese and language of instruction was Chinese. At first your dad and me panicked but you were relaxed. The greatest achievement within this few months was you became fluent in  Chinese. It was one of my contendentment stage. You are friendly and there was no problem for you to make friends. You are like kid who approaches first and extends hands of frienship. Mommy and daddy are both proud of you. 

English singing Competition "Let it go"

'Hello Kitty' graduation gift

Self made dragon boat

14th July 2015 was the last day of your kindergaten. The very next morning as you woke up, you wanted to go to visit your kindergarten teachers Ms. Wong, Ms. Yip, Ms. Wo, Ms. Yuen and others. I guess you already srtarted missing kindergarten...

Children's behaviour

Rachi who was playing with Neon, came running to me and said, ' Mommy, come I will show you someone who pushed me.'
'Who did? Show me!' I hold her hand and followed her...
There were bunches of girls and boys standing. 
She pointed,' He is the one.'
I went near to him who was around 4 years.  'Did you push her?'

No answer came.
But a loud stern voice came from the mass, 'He is just a baby.'
My eyes and ears followed to that loud voice. The shout came from a girl clad in a frock(princess embossed on it), perhaps couple of years older than Rachi.
One girl in black suit, the biggest and perhaps the oldest in the group put her hands together and said, "Sorry!'ter what his age is, he should not push other. You should all play without hurting one another. And if 

I felt both sorry and angry with the girl who tried defending the boy. I went near to the girl and tried to speak politely saying that no matsomebody unintentionally pushes or knocks the other, he must still say sorry.'
That girl, the one on the frock, still adamant, was not willing to say sorry for what she said nor she was convincing the boy to apologise Rachi. She further went talking rudely, 'I don't know what you are saying. He is just a baby.'

Another pretty girl of 7~8 years murmured something in urdu. God knows what she meant. The girl in the black suit kept saying sorry and sorry on behalf of other two girls while those two kept arguing with me. Manju who was surprised to see those girls said, 'Oh my god, look at these girls they don't even need their parents to take care of them. They can fight and defend for themselves.' Their parents were nowhere to be seen. They wouldn't listen at all. Everytime I tried to say something, the girl in the frock said,'I don't know what you are saying.' The girl of that age was mocking with me. It agitated me so much that I was angry so I said, 'Where are your parents?'
She hesitated a bit and said, 'In America.'She was still mocking with me.
The other translated to me saying not to tell theirs'parents. There were about 8 of them while two were arguing with me and defending the boy and the eldest girl apologizing me.

I thought it was too much from them, so I raised my voice in order to frighten a bit. 'Do you know the police?' There was silence. Now the mass began to scatter. And to the girl in black suit I said that I was only kidding.

Oh my god, it was very difficult dealing with them. Firstly, they were very stubborn. Secondly, they wouldn't listen. Thirdly, they wouldn't apologise. Fourthly, they wouldn't stop arguing with me. And the most difficult part was whatever I said they just ignored. I agree that I am no one for them but in terms of seniority, shouldn't they at least listen or apologise or at least be a little frightened?

On the contrary, what could be theirs'ignorances when their parents are ignorant themselves? What could we expect from the children whose parents could not guide, teach them, motivate them and pin point their wrongs? What more could we expect from children whose parents are not their role models?

Apart from parenting styles, friends and environment also play an enormous role on their behaviours and attitudes.
Eventually, it is parents afterall to shape up a child into a healthy, disciplined and learned individual.

On occasion of Tihar 2071

After having checked my 'to do list', I had a last item to be crossed out. So with an aim to complete my last task, I scurried to P1 store. This Nepalese provisional store has all kinds of things from dalle khursani to various types of lentils and so on. Although lentils are supplied by Pakistani wholesaler in Hong Kong.

Due to Nepalese festive occasion Tihar, 'the festival of light' this shop P1 has imported many things from Nepal that may not be available in other Nepalese provisional stores. The shop's entrance is hung with aromatic sayepatriko mala. The shorter sayepatri mala cost me $50 per lung. The shoppers are flocked in to buy mala, stuff for puja, sapta rangi tika, selrotis, sweets etc. The ambience there gives me some kind of homey vibe. Some ladies are bargaining for the items. The price of sayapatri has gone up by 10.
The middle- aged lady who takes care of the shop and cashing up seems moody. Yesterday she was arguing with two baiyaas.
I overheard them, she said,'I don't understand English.'
One bhaiya said, 'So what language are you talking then?'
She raised her voice angrily,'Get out, tumne merah dimaag kharav kiya.'
Bhaiya laughed and said, 'Terah dimaag hey to dimaag kharav karunga.'
After they were gone she was complaining how those bhaiya came everyday, bought one or two items, sometime nothing and only talked too much. She grumbled and grumbled.

Today as I was about to pay for my malas, she said, 'Good that nani, you bought these today. It would have been gone by tomorrow.' I nodded.
A man on twenty who was standing beside me said, 'There will be so many in bhaiyaa's. Not too worry.'
She angrily said,'There's malas are not real. Theirs' do not smell so fresh like these. You know what, these malas are not ordinary ones. They are taken to Pashupatinath temple so as to get blessings for the people who wear. '
The man argued, ' Pashupati chahi hoina Guheshwori ma chahi pujerah lyaayeko hola.' I smiled at their petty squabble and walked away with my shopping bags.

And I have often seen her debating. Some people are such that they can't help themselves from debating.

The shop's name has been changed.

Aaja hami sana chhou Song: आज हामी साना छोेेै

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