Short Writings about Anything

After several times (intentionally) missed all kind of previous playdates with school friends, finally agreed to join a birthday girls-only playdate for the little girl.

We went through long rides of buses returns but, it was quite enjoyable because we faced close to no traffic jam for 20km back and forth.

For me to say yes to such event and put myself in less comfortable situations (like being around with strangers for hours), to somewhere unfamiliar and quite far from home, on a school day, on a fasting day, when I needed to reschedule the afternoon class, that was not a small feat and took a lot of efforts to make this happen.

Guess social skill is just like fingers which could play piano well, both take a lot of practice. Especially when you’re far from talented.

Well, I was pretty happy saying yes to this. Especially when I saw how happy the girls were along the playdates.
But hopefully, the next one won’t come soon.

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Another change takes place this month.

Signed up to her first evening class today. After bed time is slowly postponed to 8.30 and sometimes close to 9 pm for the past few months. Been thinking to try an evening class with few requirements : non academic, relax and easy, and must be in group, and it should be a small group.

Why small group? As her language therapist suggested, she needs to practice her social skill more in a group setting where she could learn to take turn, hold herself to not keep talking all the time, reading the room, etc.

Done my research and found that fits into my requirements, except the schedule. The schedule should be discussed with other participants first. The best schedule for me is on Friday night when there will be no school on the following day.

After several times voting, the schedule result met my expectation. Alhamdulillah.

Let’s see how it goes.

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Post YPM trip on Saturday, we went to the local public library, which ended with massive disappointment because two books that the little girl wanted to bring home were categorised as non-borrowable ones.

It’s a head-scratching policy, but, I am not complaining here. It’s a good enough library but maybe they need to improve some of their policies. It‘s such a pity when a child’s reading appetite is that high, the policy won’t allow them to feed her with the food they have in the library.

I also hope in the future we can borrow more than two books so one visit could be more beneficial and efficient.

But, here was what happened few hours later :

Another period when I really want to rant about many things yet couldn’t find the time (lame excuse I know), but suddenly, an idea to combine all the short writings came. Maybe, I could use this format if it works to make writing more consistent.

Hopefully.