My Guitar Story

My father taught me and my brother the basics of guitar playing while I'm still in Grade 3. I managed to play simple children's song in church like "I'm Free" and "This is the day". When I got older, I could play songs as long as I have the list of chords on top of the lyrics. For unknown reasons, I just stopped playing. I wonder why I didn't pursue my practice. We have acoustic guitars in church. We even have the kramer assault 220 electric guitar . There's no reason why I can't learn the guitar. Most of the Pastor's kids I knew learn all the musical instruments- bass guitar, drum, piano, trumpet, accordion, harmonica, and more. I concluded that I gave up learning because as the eldest of 14, rather spending my time on holding guitar, I prefer spending it on laundry, house cleaning, and study.

It's not yet too late for me to start learning guitar again. I still remember the chords. All I need to do is set aside time for practice so that before this year ends, I could play guitar with confidence. But wait, I don't have a guitar yet!

This is how my week goes: Chinese New Year, Couple Shirts and First 3D

Can I just post my photos here and I'll let them tell how our week goes? As the old adage says "A picture is worth a thousand words".

We wore red because they said so:) People wear red on Chinese New Year because red represents prosperity, fortune, and luck. Ultimately, they wear it because it shows happiness, so are we.

Central Department Store set this stage for family and group pictures. Thank you:)

at the center of Hatyai City and we're on the end of the lane...nothing much in here:(

with my sis and cranky tot:)

with my lovely family in front Lee Garden's Plaza Hotel

Couples Shirt: Yes we're nice to each other:)

not really a nice movie for the family but it's the only English movie of the day:(

while waiting for the theater's door to open

first time in 3D and I can't forget how involuntarily I cross my arms in defend of the broken glasses that flew right to me! Funny me!!!

Children's Day, Accident, Reading Test

I've been battling with my alarm clock every 3:00 AM. I used to be excited to wake up at 3:00 AM because it's "ME" time! I love the moment of silence, the time alone with God when I could pour out my inner emotions and my only precious moment of the day where I'm left undisturbed. But for this week, my faithful alarm clock who served me for two years was disappointed!It's waking sound who once became my good morning music became a dreadful sound of the day! I couldn't believe it either but once it performs its duty, my hand automatically reached for it and shut it down. Thus my mornings this week are in RUSH! I would blame migraine for all those chaos! It left me needing for increased sleep,  feeling mentally dull the whole week and excruciating neck pain! So my dear blog, pardon me for not you the time.

Now that I'm back to my feet again, let me bring you back what we did last Saturday. Thailand declared January 14 as Children's Day. All children are looking forward for this day because parents are preparing something special for them- a tour to mall, a visit to a beach or zoo , buying them presents and anything that could make children happy! 

As for us we stayed at home. Why? Hatyai City is crowded with tourists and families from neighboring provinces. How could Hyzyd enjoy a place jam packed with children? We moved our celebration on the next day. How right we are! Skippy's Wonderland was not so crowded on Sunday afternoon. Hyzyd was soo happy because he's big and tall enough to be admitted to Kid's Soft Play Station! His dad is the only one who's allowed to accompany him because he wore socks! I can't believe it. If I only knew I should bring along my socks! He..he..he...You know this mom has still a child in her that wanted to run , throw balls and lie on that soft mattress. Maybe because I'm a preschool teacher and it's my job not only to teach children but also to entertain them, I haven't completely let go the child within. 

the family with our fave food- fried rice with seafood, soup, papaya salad with crabs and peanuts and lychee juice . It's a very sumptuous lunch for only $10 including my hubby's repeat order!

my boys enjoying their time in the wide kid's soft play pen!

The first time for the family to watch MOVIE in a theater house! I'm here with my sis posing with the movie tickets for souvenir:)

It's a bit disappointing that all movies for the day are in THAI..no ENGLISH:(  We chose the one with Mario Maruer , the one that makes girls in Thailand and Philippines went crazy for his cuteness since he made a debut on "A Crazy Thing called Love". The ticket lady said there's an English subtitle for it but there's none...double sadness here:(:(...

Why watching movie in the theater isn't complete without popcorn and soda?

Here are what we experience on our first family movie date:

1. Be on time. No late admittance!

2. Before the movie started,  everybody were requested to rise to pay respect to the King of Thailand while the national anthem's being played.

3. Everybody leaves the theater room after the movie . There's no such thing as "repeat viewing".

Hyzyd enjoyed his time inside the movie house. Before the movie starts, there's a comedy film "ATM" being previewed and Hyzyd was laughing and it's contagious! The people surrounding us were curious trying to see who's this lil man laughing his heart out and speaking English! Hyzyd's voice is booming like a thunder asking his dad "Why daddy?" "It's so funny!"...etc....He stopped asking questions when the real movie started , played the Ipad for few minutes under my feet and went to sleep. Children's Day is fun, fun,  fun!!!!

You never know when accidents happen and when it happens, it left you speechless but what a relief it is when you see how your love one is saved from possible danger. Thank God for keeping my hubby safe last Thursday morning. On the way to school, a truck on the roadside suddenly cross the street without looking on his left or right side . My approaching hubby didn't have enough time to break thus he slammed on the side of the truck. The motorcycle's front face is broken. He got bruises on his legs and elbows. Thank God, there's no major damage. The motorcycle was sent to repair shop. The offender paid for it. He was excused from school . He walked limping but he's completely fine.

It's reading test for my K-2. It's comforting to know that majority of them can spell and read the following words: well, wig, ten, king, ring, bed, net, bell, egg, and log. I'm completely shocked when one of my student who couldn't write well and seems like a slow learner read all the words perfectly! It really made my day glorious! The other one who's voice I haven't heard because she won't talk to anyone finally find her voice (so still, small voice that I could hardly hear) and read the words excellently! It's enough to put me on high spirits this week. I'm so happy and so glad of the improvement of these special  children. I now have something extraordinary report  to add on my   InetSoft's report engine .

On this week I learn to devote myself to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving. Only when we've spent time in God's presence and drawn strength from Him, will webe equal to the challenges we face on any given day.

Hyzyd and his Ipad 2

With Ipad in the house, my three-year-old Hyzyd is now into educational games and read-along stories and puzzles. There's something so intuitive and simple about touching things on the screen that they just dive in without needing to be shown how it all works. He's more at home in using it than me! Here's one of our conversation last night:

Hyzyd (while looking for me): Mom, where are you?
Me: I'm in the bedroom. Why?
Hyzyd (approached me) : Downloading. Give me password, mom?
Me (confused and called my hubby): Dad, what's Hyzyd's doing?
Hubby: Hyzyd's trying to download a game and Apple store asked for your password.

Ha..ha..ha!!!! Hyzyd now knows how to download games from Apple store. Thank goodness that it asked for password because if not then I'll say goodbye to $4.99 for Flight Control HD. As of now, we let him understand that we'll only download FREE apps because there are so many available which he haven't tried yet.

My Hyzyd is playing Cars 2 Racing. I tried this game and failed:( but look at him! Mission accomplished!

Oh my baby is now a Big Boy! Few years from now, he'll be asking me for call of duty modern warfare 3 ps3 instead of Elmo Loves ABCs Lite.