Revolving stars

I first got to hear about TSL Chiang Mai on IG, where I am part of the studygram community. Yes yes, call me weird, but I like to experience and learn new things, especially languages. Due to COVID, they had moved the classes to 2 options; hybrid and online class. The most enticing part was the price; 2500 baht for a month's worth of lessons, 3 times a week. This translates to about SGD102, which is very affordable! I gathered a few of my friends to attend the trial class and they were quite interested. BUT, when they heard about the frequency of the lessons, they all backed off, citing commitment issues. I pondered for a while, and when I had to clear my time off and leave to start my new job, I decided to take the plunge and try out their hybrid morning class. Thai 1 hybrid class Class intro:  The lessons were taught by Teacher Cindy, and I was the only one who is stationed out of Chiang Mai.  Lesson format: The lessons focused very much on speaking and the handouts that the...

Disclosure: I only recommend products I would use myself and all opinions expressed here are my own . This post may contain affiliate links that at no additional cost to you, I may earn a small commission.   As many of you may know, H suffers from colic since young. We didn't realise that one of the factors leading to his colic was because of this tongue-tie. What it meant was a constant trial and error of different anti-colic medicine/supplements for him. In the end, what works best for him is the BioGaia Baby Drops, which he is taking still, even at 32 months old. It prevents him from getting very bad colic and has the added function of providing probiotics, killing 2 birds with 1 stone. If you go to the PD, they will also recommend this brand. However, it is very expensive to get it in the retail stores. What I do is that I get them from iHerb store,  when they are on offer. The usual price is around ~SGD38 for a 10ml bottle, as compared to ~SGD48 for a 5ml bottle in Watson...

Every year, K2 kids' parents would be very anxious about the P1 registration which occurs around this period. This year, my SIL is enrolling her daughter for P1 too. Despite my advice for her to try for Nan Hua Pri, she took the route of enrolling her daughter into Pei Tong Pri (our alumni) instead. (I guess you guys could also guessed where we are staying lol) My SIL's logic was: 1. She wants her daughter to have a carefree childhood without any stress and worrying about results. 2. She don't want to stress herself when it comes to exam period (and the though of balloting terrifies her) . It led me thinking, "Who are the ones being stressed up here? The parents or the kids?" I was in the above-mentioned neighbourhood primary school and to be honest, I didn't had a good experience there.  Example: When I finished my exam papers early in P1, I was accused of cheating because I fidgeted and looked around! (On hindsight, it was such a stupid accusation as the res...