7 Quick Takes Friday - Vol.37

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Friday was the last working day of my colleague. I felt a bit sad, because she is a very nice colleague and I dare to say that she is a friend (not only a colleague!). At the same time, I felt very happy too because she will reunite with her husband because they've been living in different countries because there was no job opportunities for her in her husband's town.

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Thursday was Labour Day =) I finally went to teach my boyfriend's cousin again. He's turning six soon =) I think the "jumbled words" games is very useful. What we did was to make cards of various words that he has learned (e.g., pet, is, am, are, box, etc). Then I dictated a sentence, for example, "My cat is on the mat" then he searched for the words and arranged the words. So now we found out that even though when I showed a word he still had difficulties reading the word (esp. words that have 'e' as a middle vowel), he can recognize the word ^^ So I really need to combine the phonics and visual memory approach.

Another encouraging thing is he now enjoys listening to story book =)

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Another friend of mine said that she doesn't like children. Her sister kept asking her to come over to visit her daughter, but my friend refused. After a while I tried to encourage her to visit her sister for the sake of her sister. I remember I've read it somewhere that newly mom can sometimes feel lonely because the whole day she just said baby-talk with her baby. Another friend of mine experienced it too, and she felt soooo happy when we visit her.

I guess this is an important lesson for me. As my seniors start having babies, hahaha, to visit not only to play with their babies, but also with the intention of caring for my friends as the mothers.

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I started decluttering and organizing my room last week (but today my room is messy again). However, I found out that labels are very useful, especially for beginner like me. Now my boxes under the bed are labeled (e.g., travel (cables, multiplug, camera), stationery, sewing kit, etc). I also tried to learn how to organize my room (yes, it needs to be learned). Yesterday I bought an ice-cube box to store my earrings. So no excuse to accessorize now because I always have rush morning. Organizing my accessories is really really really helpful =P

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I tried to make flower arrangement again yesterday (practice to make hand bouquet for Mother's Day!!).

Anyway, things to learn:
a. Lilies are not easy to handle (I bought three and 'broke' 2 of them @.@)
b. Use more flowers
c. It's not as easy as the tutorial videos show!

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It's already May! So fast!

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Climbing weekly makes a difference! Now I can have a deep sleep after climbing and my body doesn't ache anymore after climbing =)

More quick takes at Jen's blog!!