From what I was reading recently came this vision for my home:

I hope that my home is rife with the aroma of love. Those who visit us would notice immediately that they have left the world of self-centeredness, pretense and enter a safe haven where people value and esteem others above themselves. People would enter my home, be warmed and not want to leave. Our neighbors should find excuses to visit us just to get another whiff of the fragrant aroma of love. The brokenhearted would long to near us. The downtrodden and abused should seek us out. Families on the brink of disaster would point to us and say "Why can't our home be like that?"

But of cos, my family is still work in progress but we will keep progressing :)

As for my son, he suddenly started talking about the kind of family that he hope to have when he grows up next time!

He wants 20 kids, 5 daughters and 15 sons (he thought of a name for each already!). He wants a house with 7 rooms (4 kids in each room, one room for himself and his wife and one room filled entirely with his family's photos!) He also wants to have a basketball court, a swimming pool and drive them around with a van and homeschool them with his wife!

I said "SURE!"

:)

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Met them for the first time today. 5 of them. Innova JC. shall not mention their names because one of them is a "STAR" (better not have too much publicity, right!?). LOL! Only they will get the joke! Anyway, I got to know them because of Ai Li, the Straits Times reporter who reported about homeschooling. They are nice but rather (shy!? - I think they are actually very chatty but paiseh only) people :) thoughtful enough to buy us a cake (we coincidentally bought the same one in the morning! so we are blessed with 2 cakes in our fridge :P). was hoping to help them out as much as possible so that they can do well for their Project Work. They chose modernisation in education? who knows 5 years down the road, home-schooling will be even more prevalent in S'pore! That would be really good news! :)

Christian willl be attached to RV Pri for at least 4 weeks to join a CCA (hopefully it's badminton - he loves to play and is pretty good at it) so that they can verify if their assumption about the social aspect of homeschooling kids is true.

They reminded me of my ex-students whom I dearly miss. They reminded me of my JC days too. life was easier then. PW? what is that? we never did such a thing! :P Time has changed and life is getting more stressful, isn't it? well, at least, one thing can stand the test of time, which is why we are home-schooling our kids: relationship. what is more worthwhile than that? :)

I remembered when I was interviewed by another group of JC students (2 years back) on the effectiveness of sexual education in schools that I replied firmly it should be scraped long ago because what teens really need is love education, learning how to be loved and to love :) you agree with me?

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been there 2 years ago!

but still miss the beautiful WHITE beach and CLEAR water, thriving with marine life!

the coach ride takes 10 hours! but it's really worth it!

let's get down to planning! :)

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I won a pair of tickets for the NDP actual show this year through online balloting!

The probability was about 0.07!

But I need 6 tickets in the blue sector!

Anyone has 4 more tickets to spare?

:P

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It was a disappointment when we reached the waterfall... There are so many man-made stuff that it does not look natural anymore... anyway, I tried to capture as much of the natural parts as possible :)

Before I show the real thing, here's an imitation! It was pouring so heavily when we arrived that the stairs leading to our room started to flow like a waterfall!



Here is the best natural shoot I can capture:



Here is a video footage of the waterfall area:



Driving at night was kinda eerie because there are literally no cars nor light at all. you are in the middle of nowhere with trees on both sides... you need to tone down on your imagination to stay focused on the road!



Now, this is what driving should be like!



I will part with this interesting new friend that I found there! Enjoy!

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The first steps into the forest...



Things we saw:

red dragonfly!



toad eggs!



water scorpion!



sparkling water droplets on a spider web!



giant snake! (or is it!? :P)



As we enter deeper...

A stream in the forest!



Among the tall trees



Getting into the heart of it... my kids were marvelously full of energy to complete the hike!



ENCOUNTER with the LEECH!!! It sucked our blood without us knowing it!



The consequence of being bitten by a leech! But amazingly, we did not need to use fire or alcohol to remove it. We just pulled it off our feet! Thank God, my kids were bitten by tiny leeches that only cause bleeding but not pain...



Last to come... waterfall!

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