June Holidays Random Bliss

Start my new post by sharing 2 quotes from Michelle Obama to inspire and encourage others:-

"Greatness comes when we appreciate each others strength."

"It's important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.“

June holidays had been very fulfilling and frutiful living for him and the family.

Bliss in completing homework

I did a research with him for his English June holiday homework "My local sports hero" on one morning and was bingo and spot on...Joseph Schooling is really our true local sports hero for he had just beaten MP in the 100M Fly, wish him all the best in coming Olyumpic Game.

 Bliss in elevating his work and physical stamina

Bliss in taking meals together

Bliss in engaging school holiday enrichment program in-line skating

My little hero was happy to meet 2 of his friends in the same program, So happy and thankful to see him comes this far, glad he enjoyed the 5 days of 1.5hrs engagement.

Bliss in a short holidays staycation in KL & In-Laws Home Town Tanjung Sepat

We spent 2 nights in KL Sunway Resort & SPA hotel, enjoy meet up with cousins and bonding with swimming, food and ice-skating. The in-line skating skill he learnt in school was put to good use when he migrate to do the same on ice. Happy for his success:)

We had held a birthday celebration for his grandfather, my father in-law on a Friday during 3rd night of our holiday near Nilai, every in-law family members were dressed in their Sunday best attire for dinner cum karaoke.

We head back to my parents in-law home town Tanjung Sepat, a place I come to love for its warm heated people, nice food like bak kut teh and sea food, sea and sun near lover's bridge.

Bliss in being surprise twice with a simple birthday celebration for my living

What a fabulous June it had been, feel grateful and blessed, look forward to more great living in days ahead as we journey forward...

Simple reflection that keeps me going

Came across a well known mystic, Sadhguru sharing:-

"If your work is not life, I don’t see why you should do it. Your work also is life. Would your life happen if there was no work? – don’t think of only the economic aspects. So work is very much life. Do not ever make this demarcation that there is something called as work and life. There is life and life."

  

"Human experiences pleasant or unpleasant come from within. Elevate your self believe and mental attitude to strike a balance."

"Practise and focus on SELF attention is fundamental of your life existence to elevate mindfulness, awareness and perception. More joy, less fear. more love less depression."

"Chaos is not a choice. The choice that you have made is to reap out of the existing chaos"

Look forward to this year AVSW to be held end of this July month:-

A Very Special Walk (AVSW) is a fundraising event of Autism Resource Centre (Singapore) (ARC). Started in 2005, year after year, AVSW aims to raise funds for projects that integrate people of all ages with autism into mainstream society. Our target for AVSW 2016 is $500,000

This year, ARC presents AVSW 2016 with our sister organisation, Autism Association Singapore (http://www.autismlinks.org.sg/main/contact.php).

All net proceeds will go to helping adults with autism through:-

Employability and Employment Centre (http://www.autism.org.sg/e2c) and Eden Centre for Adults (http://www.autismlinks.org.sg/programme/adults-centre.php) 

Winners' Statement:-

2016 Term 2 Random Moment Of Joy

How time flies and how I wish time can slow down a bit to have more time of each moment before it turns into history. Nevertheless, it has been a rewarding and fruitful journey over last 7 years when it all began and look forward to more joys, pleasant or unpleasant in years ahead.

April month marked another World Autism Awareness Month, I brought him to the enabling village for the first time too.  For us as the caregiver, every day is an awareness day for Autism, same goes to all the warrior parents who are in the road less travel.

May Blissfulness - Mother's Day celebration

Not forgetting Great Easter day...had bought him new Mario Kart game after his exam, glad he likes it and play hard too !

There was a hidden agenda unfolded in term 2 when one of his teacher gave him a chocolate one day and he put it in pocket. During his way back in the school bus, he happily took it out from his pocket to eat but the chocolate had melted and his school bus friends had told him not to eat in the bus else they will not friend him, he became upset as he seeking social and value friends very much but also wanted to eat his chocolate in bus. When he reached home, he roared in the midst of not being able to understand why and how the right social perspective taking should he take.  So he communicated with form teacher via chat group, who had managed to patiently and slowly taught him with visual drawing and directed him to his social center after he somewhat understood and see why he does what he needs to do during such circumstance next time. Thankful to her teacher, Ms Stella for her enthusiastic and patience, who is also ever encouraging to students when they did well in their learning. My little hero has indeed benefit from her good guidance and teaching, and not forgetting the other SPED Team members who have crossed path with him as well.

It will always be work in progress

Over last weekend...he had helped his mum as "chef" assistant preparing lunch for family, a good start to build up his work stamina.

Building up his physical stamina in progress... We Never Walk Alone !

Courage and consideration..

 Gratitude..

We had registered him for a holiday enrichment program in June. And also look forward to family holiday staycation in KL, Malaysia in conjunction with his grandfather birthday celebration.

Winner's Statement:-

Holiday Staycation...I Inspire...Remembrance

Holiday Staycation

While the Term 2 has already under way as the children have all return to school to resume their learning journey, our family had a short staycation in Sentosa just before the term started. It was another new environment and experience all together for the family, having our own moment of tranquility and peace, away from busy city or town we use to live in.

I Inspire...

His school held their Sport's Day for the P3-P6 students, it inspires me to see the students and educators' enthusiasm and passion in making the event a success.  Every Child Inspires and Every Child is a Winner, just by being present at the event, most participating and completing in each of their races.  I too, took part in parents leaders novelty race and got my family another shoe bag with water bottle, practical and useful when I get to exercise with him more often next time.

Holiday science activity and homework...comparing masses of 2 objects, very meaningful engagement working and finding joy when he enjoys it in between play time.

We visited Garden By The Bay again to view Cherry Blossom over the Good Friday holiday, it was crowded and we were glad he had an enjoyable moment and pleasure flowering time.

Remembrance 

More than 1 year ago, He united the whole nation with the news of his passing on. Today we remember and thank HIM for what we have and look forward to follow our rainbows and chase our dreams for a better future for all.

Our Nation founding father, Mr Lee Kuan Yew had taught us through his value and persevering spirit never to be fearful of failure.  If you have to fail, fail forward, get back up and try again, do not give up!

My little hero takes this occasion to wish all A Blessed Easter holiday weekend !

Look forward to World Autism Awareness Day as we fast approaching 2nd April. To parents, every day is Autism Awareness Day as we continue to journey and learning along with them whether dancing in the rain at times or following rainbows in between sunshine in other times.  The whole family look forward to this annual advocacy campaign to raise community’s understanding and acceptance of persons living with autism, celebrate who they are and rally support for them and their families as they work through their unique challenges.

Winner's Statement:-

Less is MORE, so much to be grateful for !

It was just like yesterday when school term commenced for another brand new work year 2016, and in a glance the children are now enjoying their 1 week school holidays after Term 1.  Within such a short time, there were several positive outcomes to be grateful for in the midst of several celebration.

Grateful #1 that he adapted well to his new learning environment, classmates, teachers and enjoy every moment of his new learning journey. He seeks social and will always tell me that he wants to have play dates, sleep over party and even envision having his classmates over to his house for his birthday celebration in Sep.

He was feeling with joy when we attended his sister Edusave Award and expresses his desire to have one too for himself from his school recognition at the end of the year.  We remind him if he listens, follows and does things right with teachers, be helpful and kind to friends in school, try his best to improve his weakness, he CAN stand a chance.

Grateful #2 that he is finally buying food by himself at school cafe during recess, another inchstone and significant step to his life skill, one which we had tried encouraging him to do so for past 2-3 years but invain, glad he finally decides to level up.  He now feels empower buying food by himself, choosing and exercising his intake option in this daily school recess routine. Kudos to his teachers for their extra facilitation in support.

Grateful #3 that he is much more aware of Chinese New Year celebration and enjoy the reunion, prayer offering at temple and house visit to relatives' and friends' house to practise his social interaction and communication skill.

Grateful #4 for parents and friends who we have crossed path to mutually support this inclusion and embrace each child for who they are in their learning journey. 

Grateful #5 that he now reads more that before but still reading is not so natural to him compare to watching video being a visual learner.  It is still something that we want him to know and believe that reading really can help him with his vocabulary, improve his grammar and familiarize with sentence structure. With more reading, we also hope to improve his comprehension skill by processing with him so he can make sense of the story/passage. 

Grateful #6 to his teachers for putting focus and neat hand writing as two key area for improvement to his work habits.  He can write pretty neat if he believes that by writing slow and keep a spatial focus in each letter of the sentences written.  These will be his critical success factors to leap frog him to his next lap of learning curve and help improve and maximize his academic results progressively and timely for P6 PSLE 2 years from now. With right support, teaching and training, he will survive, go for it!

Grateful #7 that there has been progress and initiative to provide more social services and emotional support to special community and their caregivers.  Very often, parents are drafted to be child best therapist, teacher, play mate, friend (aka case manager), when we set goals for our child, we do have to place child first their goals before our own and be mindful to always embrace what they can learn best, Sometimes MORE may not necessary yield the best outcome for the child, Recognizing that each child has different abilities and helping them process at a pace that he can manage will be the next best path going forward, less is then become MORE.

Look forward to his work play balance during the one week fun filled holidays and when the next school term start, stay calm and get him ready to engage again.

Winner's Statement:

Good bye 2015..Hello 2016 !

As we approach toward the last few hours of 2015, I may still have time for one last blog post to close the year strong for my little hero.  He had attended another school holiday program, picking up new learning skill on in-line skate.

We were glad that he is now able to stand on his skate, balance himself, skate forward and break fall at the end of 5 day sessions.

Though he enjoyed this new sport but his stamina is letting him down and he got tire faster than most of the other, had to rally with him to keep going.

We also brought him to The Future Of Us exhibition to integrate with the community and saw some amazing vision toward our next SG50 nation building, certainly full of excitement to look forward for many young generations.

We took some photos for our memories...

We kick start our Christmas celebration with a Korea BBQ lunch with close family members....everyone enjoyed the process of cooking their ingredients.

and had Christmas rainbow cake for tea break, thanks to my sister for the sponsor.

Dinner was home cooked food, kudos to my mum...yummy in our tummies....

Before we ended the night with a group photo for another great memories.

Year by year, the kids are growing up fast as the adults age gracefully, still a lot to be merry about seeing their laughter and happy growing up in loving environment.

We were thankful to be able to arrange a play date just before the last day of 2015 with his school mate, Benedict whom our family has crossed path since the EIP days, each of us watching and rejoice as both boys slowly transform from small boy to big boy and slowly and surely a fine young men to be in not too distant future.

It was an afternoon well spent and heart warming seeing the kids smiling and feeling joyful about the time spent together, a strong finish to the year 2015 and a small step towards exploring more such opportunities for the kids to forge friendship and promote social interaction in a natural environment.

Every sunset serves to remind us that with a day end comes another new day and beginning to learn and cherish our living.

Our little hero is excited to return to his school and looking forward to meet his new friends and teachers to kick start another learning journey, he has grown taller and chasing over his mum head.

There was a saying by Lao Tsu that goes like this "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."  In believing and always faithful, we need to learn how to help him let go at times to see how he may be, who knows, we may uncover some of his hidden talent or passion in life that impact his future transformation. Do not give up as YNWA, even in the midst of difficulties, just walk on any way, we will be by your side and build up many friends along the way to journey ahead together.

Winner's Statement:-