University Of Life

Thanks for celebrating my 21st birthday together with me! Your godmas gave me a real good surprise. Tot I would be spending it alone with you since your daddy is not here. Daddy is now in Houston and he finally got his greencard! We will soon be able to get our greencard too. Anyway, Daddy was real sweet to have helped in the planning for my birthday. Iba was part of it too and she sure knew how to put up an act! Everything seemed quite the same (other than when she picked up her handphone and started speaking in English). I was planning to download some soppy Japanese movie to watch online while feeding you. This was to allow myself to occupy my time at home alone on my birthday. So I went to the room with you and was just about to lie back on the bed and feed you when Iba opened the door and started to call for me. I saw that the lights were off outside and I knew...heh heh... SURPRISE! Alicia, Amy Yeo, Amy Lee and Pei Ling were there with a lighted up mango cake! Aww... how sweet. I did have a great time together with my bestest pals. Showed them for the first time my studio wedding photos taken @Potrait Gallery, and watched the video meant for you when you turn 12, and your candid dancing video for Grandma Cross. We sure did have a good laugh together. And I got a present from them all. A Kimono-dressed bear, named 'Jac Bear' (by yours truly, Amy Yeo), stuffed with hugs from all of them, and hugging a Happy Birthday cake. Thanks so much girls! And thank you husband for making my day wonderful though you're so faraway! All of us back home are missing you so you better not stay there too long! Leonidas, I'm sure you miss waking Daddy up in the morning.As of 14th July, I am now officially an adult! What's the difference? People will tend to ask. I guess my life into adulthood started a bit earlier than all of my peers. I have experienced what it's like to live without my parents, being responsible for my own actions, and now, being responsible for my little one and my family. For me, turning 21 gives me the official rights of obtaining certain things. And it seems a more appropriate age for myself to be in when people ask about my life status. The past year sure was a time that I struggled into adulthood, parenthood. But things look better now. And as of now, I've learnt to be more wiser, though still ignorant in many things, I sure hope I'll be able to live as a responsible adult. With God's wisdom and guidance, my wish this 21st is that my family will learn to put God as the top priority in our lives, that He will be in the centre of our daily dealings, that we may never turn aside to the left or the right. I hope that me and Leon will be good godly parents to you, Leonidas and train you up in the way that you should go.
Love,
Mummy

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6