Happy School Holidays!

Yippee! It's the June school hols!

For the students, it's time to kick off your school shoes (eh...and dorn our happy hand painted shoes instead?!), rest, relax and recharge your batteries so that your 'CPU' will up and running steadily when term 3 starts (groan!).
We know many of you (and the poor teachers) have to go back to school for extra activities like supplementary classes and CCAs during the school hols (and we wonder why they even call this the school holidays!).

School used to be very enjoyable for pupils and teachers alike in the good ol' days....a holiday was really a holiday. Granted lessons weren't half as challenging as today, (and ok, kids didn't seem as smart as today's), teachers weren't as 'on-the-ball' as today and ECAs (yes, we used to call a CCA, ECA instead; Extra Curricular Activity) weren't half as much pressurising as today's CCAs! But the point is we enjoyed going to school. We always had time to play with our classmates, talk rubbish and just have fun.

Granted as kids and adults, we have to continually stretch our minds to maximise potential but we should also take time in life to stop and smell the......orchids....cowdung, whatever.
Balance is the key. Otherwise, life will just pass us by and one day, we may just wake up and wonder where our youth went.

It's the school holidays, take the time to stop and breathe (no, I don't mean while in front of the XBox or PC). Read or write a book. Learn to ride a bike. Learn to rollerblade. Whip out your rolling pin and baking tins. Learn to operate the washing machine (?). Compose a song. So what if your friends don't think it cool. Being cool is a state of mind.

Morbid as it may seem, on our deathbed, we're not going to remember how many As we scored for our math or physics exam, what make car we drive or how many houses we own.
We're going to know the 'real' people in our lives who will stand by us and we're going to regret not having spent enough time doing the things we should have done and not having loved people in our lives enough instead......or are we? Food for thought....

Happy School Holidays!

(We were very blessed to have had great weather when we participated in the Changi Village Flea Market the last two weekends! It was great interacting with the customers and stall holders)