Busy weekends in May

I need to go see kindergarten teacher tomorrow and that will be just me with the kids while dear is away from work. Yeah gonna be another weekend that is busy for me.

Glad to have bring my kids for the Ramadhan buffet as WL never been to the hotel that has so many horses statue before. So glad that the timing was just right that day as he no goes to field trip because his bro has got report card day. Met two teachers in the morning and one is BC another is English teacher.Suppose to meet one more as BM but he says one paper passed no need to meet her. The teachers are not in one place as I need to go the main hall to meet another teacher while teacher was standing outside the hall, parents queue to meet him and then he decided to go staff office to talk about kids education.

Last Saturday, morning send son tuition then lucky as nephew as at home and he able to fetch him back from tuition. Then afternoon we are at home while nephew and niece with sister in law they go back PD.

How about you? How you gonna spend this weekend?

The struggle is real for primary school

Well I am sure there's struggle in real life, here's struggle in primary school as today brought my eldest to school with hub. 1st to drive my car there then I follow his car back as I know sure few hundreds kids turn up for registration/exam at school. Field trip school also today for my Standard 5 son, so early morning 5.45am to wake up and ask him to wake up too. By 6.30am need to be in school as say 7am the bus will leave.

Total 4 buses, somehow the buses not parking front of gate school. Last year I find it's more organize as the buses have standby parking at the side of school's gate. This year son came back 6.30pm he had good fun at Seremban. He bought Seremban siew bao 3 and ate it himself.

I come back to school by niece car with hub and youngest son in car. Total 360 children registered and 12 classes to go , a class has 30 students. Yeah I am so struggling on whether he can pass the exam or not. Well, I am more nervous than him. Just relax and let him try his best and he did! He told me there's 6 pages of it and did only 5 pages because last page no time to finish and teacher has ask to return papers.

10am suppose to start exam but only 10am they are going to classes! So imagine the time they use to go 2nd floor classes. So 11am they come down and parents turn to queue up at the hall, so the children need to go back the classes they have queue earlier in hall to find parents. My son is 5A, if you have follow my instagram @sherrygo you would see my update on today. :D

Total just 10 classes in the school for Standard One, I hope son can goes same school as his eldest brother. I was told by friend that her daughter is same school but because her son's exam did not well like only 30 marks, he being send to another school. She needs to appeal few times to get same school as her daughter and she did. Glad the brother same school as his sister now.

That's not all, next year will have tuition start for my son, he's poor in Chinese language. Need to learn from young for basics, 6 years old has started giving tuition but I didn't send because it's expensive. A semester RM500 fee for one subject just Chinese language.

By the way, I notice that the kids mostly wearing sandals and slippers to go for the exam. The letter that come just saying to wear kindergarten uniform, so I thought needed to wear socks with shoes. So a day before I alone bring son to shop for white shoes and it cost RM25 a fair for size 2, size 13 is too small for him. I knew he will need to wear again by end of the year for orientation at school. I also bought the white socks so total about RM39.90. 

May 13, Saturday double busy for parents!

It's gonna a be a busy day for Saturday, 13 May. Just find out that it is the day son's going for school field trip so need to be at school before 7am.

Also same day where his little brother will have to sit for exam at his school, at 10am to 11am. Children need to wear their kindergarten uniform on the day. Also need to bring own stationery for the exam. Need to be there as early as 9am for registration.

Not sure about other school, as this is related to my son school. Today just done filled up the health report for son online. It takes time to do as cannot save in the afternoon, done few times and keep send me to main page. I tried in the night and can save glad I am done. But then I am not sure if I need to print out again for bring to school. It is not stated online, as for the school paper, it only showed that children which has registered last year need to "mengemaskini" semula maklumat and filled the new information on "maklumat kesihatan".

Looks like I need to try call the school tomorrow to find out.

RM120 per way per head transportation fee

Lifestyle in Subang Jaya, never gets better, so is the price of transportation fees. I opt to fetch my kids myself because I found out the transportation fee per pax/per way is RM120 a month, don't forget they will you to pay Dec fee as well.

It's all about money, so if both my kids take transportation I would need to pay RM240 x 2 child = RM480. It's a lot of money, I could use the money for groceries shopping for fuel up my car.

A mom told me today that she has four children, 2 boys and 2 girls. She gives up her job because of standard living here is high. Money is not easy to earn, so always think twice before spending. Where to spend and how to spend the money?

Have you count on how much money you are investing on your child a month? My dear told me, his friend invested RM1k a month per child.