Fun in Japan 2014

Ukulele Concert at Sadowara, Miyazaki, Japan



Invited to a Welcome Party after the Ukulele concert



Visit to a kindergarten at Sadowara

 

Visit to a primary school at Sadowara

 

Visit to Lily Old Folks home at Sadowara

 

 

 

 

 

 

e-kids Singing Contest 2013

Shenny made her first appearance in public singing contest on last Saturday (19 Oct 2013).  The singing contest was organized by e-kids Art Corridor and held in Summit USJ.
Shenny's music center sent total of 5 candidates (including Shenny) for the contest.  Three of the candidates are Shenny's friend. 

Shenny and her friends were very sporting, did their best and winners in their own ways.
As parents, we felt very proud of them.

Below was the video clip of Shenny singing on that day, the song which she sang was 牛奶歌 (韩语）。

Shenny and friends waiting for their turn to go on stage singing.

Ballet Test Result

Finally, we received Shenny's ballet's Pre-Primary assessment form.
She sat for the test in last May. You may click here to know more.

Pre-Primary in Dance (Class Award Assessment Form)

Best Reader 2010

Shenny's kindy had their Graduation & Award held on last Saturday morning, 23rd October 2010. 
The kindy had rather made an awkward (funny) decision to allow 6 year old only to perform on stage this year. 
Actually, Shenny was a bit disappointed for this decision.  She loved to dance on stage because she did that last year.  She performed two dances last year and one of her dances was "Dragostea Din Tel".
(You might like to see her last year's dance: link)

However, Shenny was still invited to attend the ceremony to receive an award.

Shenny won Best English Reader for her 5 year old class.  This is the 2nd year she won the similar award.

Shenny and her classmates won different awards respectively.

Shenny won the similar award two year consecutively.

Swimming on her OWN finally

Regret to say that we live in this condo for nearly 8 years, and we hardly went down to the swimming pool.  Mommy could count the number of our visit by ten fingers. **paiseh**

Actually, Shenny loves to play water in swimming pool and yet papa and mommy not keen to bring her.  Therefore, whenever we bring her down to swimming pool, it is very hard to ask her to come out from water.

Three months ago, mommy bounced into a swimming instructor at the pool area.  Mommy asked him to teach Shenny swimming too.  He taught her twice a week. 
To increase her interest and confident, her cousin Hang Hang (7 year old) also joins in the lesson.
In fact, it was GREAT challenge for Shenny as briefly described below:

1st challenge -  Shenny was afraid to dive her head in the water. 


Shenny didn't know how to float in the water.  She behaved so stiff when instructor teach her to float with kickboard.
Also, Shenny was so scared to dip her head in water, therefore, when instructor asked her to dive her head in water, she only barely touched her nose in water and quickly walked away.

So, the instructor kept on encouraging her. Then she finally dared to dip her head and breath out in the water.

Shenny loves to dive her head in the water for many many times NOW.

2nd challenge - Shenny didn't know how to float in the water.

The instructer taught her to float by holding on kickboard.

3rd challenge - She becomes horrified when asked to swim without kickboard. 
It took few days and few lessons for both mommy and instructer to encourage her to jump into water without kickboard.  To build up her confident, the instructer had to train her in the child pool.

Shenny never wanted to let go her kickboard when swim in adult pool.

4th challenge - Shenny only dared to swim at the child pool without kickboard. 
She could do many different stunts in the child pool and became very confident in the water. 
However, she STILL didn't want to let go the kickboard at the adult pool.  She was afraid that she could be drawn because her foot could not touch the ground. (Adult pool is 5.5 feet depth)

5th challenge - Shenny could finally swim in the adult pool without kickboard but need an adult next to her.
Her reason is that if she did not have strength to swim, she could grab the person next to her. 


Shenny could swim in a very short distance only. She managed to make few (3 or 4) hits in the water and then grabbed on her instructor.

FINALLY, Shenny overcome her fear and she could swim across the pool without anyone next to her. 

Shenny swam across the adult pool.  Her instructor was on the other side of pool looked on her.


Now, she even found her own way to stand in water. Her instructor will teach her proper technique in future.

Mommy and papa felt so relieve and proud of her, she finally could swim after two months hardwork (stop one month in between). 

Day by day, Shenny had become more and more confidence in the water.  Although she is a little success, mommy and papa have faith in her that she would excel in her swimming.

Since Shenny began her swimming lesson, mommy accompanied her to swim almost every day.  Now, mommy's swimming skill also improved a lot. :)

2nd Attempt on Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Shenny sings Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious inside a shelf.
This is the second attempt to sing the song for recording. This time is better than earlier one, mommy thinks.

Shenny sang it slower and clearer that mommy could catch the words she sang.

Mary Poppins Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Shenny loves to sing Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious song recently.  She picked up the song from one of her children song collections. 
Papa loves this song too and he looked up this song from youtube and repeatedly play for her.  Papa even dug out the whole Mary Poppins movie for her. 
Her love to this song become more after her papa let her watch Mary Poppins movie.  The movie was very interesting and long.  Shenny was excited and she could sit in front of tv for two hour without going anywhere.   She enjoyed all the songs and dancing in the movie.


This is another surprise she makes to mommy.  Mommy feels proud of her.

Here is the clip Shenny sing the song:

First attempt to sing the song for recording.  Shenny was too excited that she sang it very quick.

Special performances

These are some precious and interesting recording of Shenny when she was before 1 year old.  Her papa had carefully kept these in a folder.  Mommy dug them out and put in Shenny's blog as a log.


Shenny Hau learnt to fly back to Holland when her mama (father's mother) was here to visit her.  She had actually made her 1st visit to Holland when she was 14 month old.  So far she had gone back to Holland for 3 times.  Her last trip was last year (The Netherlands 2009 Vacation).


Papa pretended to rob Shenny. ( 4 month old)


Shenny did mini gymnastics. ( 5 month old). Amazingly she could use her foot to control the dangling toys.


Shenny played ball with mommy (9 month old).


Papa caught Shenny first time try to utter this word:"Baby". (9.5 months)

Unforgetable Outing

Why did mommy say last Wesak Day (28/5/2010) was an unforgetable outing? 

Two special things happened on that day:

1) Both Shenny and mommy travelled far away with 大姨 (mommy's elder sister)'s family without papa.

2) Shenny for the 1st time overcome her fear into the sea.  She finally found the joy letting her feet wash by wave, dip her feet into wet sand and dip herself into sea water.
Previously, both mommy and papa had tried many times to persuade Shenny to dip into sea water but Shenny always replied with tears: "NO".

On that day, Papa didn't go along because he needed to do his office work at home even in public holiday.  Mommy decided to follow 大姨 (mommy's elder sister)'s family to D-Paradise orchard and Pengkalan Balak Beach in Melaka.  Shenny didn't feel sad although papa was not around but very much excited.  She loved to mingle with her cousins.

By right, we need to pay entrance fee to get into D-Paradise orchard, the entrance fee was; adult - RM49.90 and child > 3 year old - RM 29.90.  Luckily, 大姨 got four free adult entrance voucher, so we didn't need to pay any for this.  However, we need to rent a buggy (4 seating) in order to drive around the orchard.  That costs RM 69.90.  After having our fruit feast (this is complimentary), 姨丈 drove five of us around.  Six of us squeezed in four seating buggy.

Well, nothing much to see in D-Paradise at this period actually.  All season fruits were not ripe yet.  Luckily we didn't need to pay entrance, so it still worth a visit.  Kids took this opportunity to know some local fruit trees.  Also, we had great fun in buggy. 
We were told the best period to visit is in mid June and July.

After that, we departed to a beach nearby: Pangkalan Balak Beach. 

When we reached the beach, Shenny's cousins; Zhi Zhi, Hong Hong, Hang Hang and 姨丈, all changed and prepare to play in the beach and even soak their feet into sea water.  Shenny was afraid to get into sea.  Mommy asked her to take off her sport shoe, in order to bare foot walk on beach.  She refused and gave reason she would not wet her shoe and she would not want to get into sea.

Shenny looked on her cousins play at seaside.

Shenny played herself on beach while her cousins were at the sea.

Then, her cousins and 姨丈 kept on pestering her to join them in the sea, and tell her how nice to feel wave washing on their feet.  Shenny observed and began to change her mind.  She asked mommy to take off her shoe, and requested 姨丈 to hold her closely.

Shenny clung to 姨丈's shirt tightly when attempting to let wave washing on her feet.

After a few times attempting, Shenny grew confident. Finally, 姨丈 and her cousins successfully to persuade her to join them in the sea.

Now, Shenny dared to run in the sea and play at seaside with wave flushing on her feet.

Haha...mommy reckons this is one big achievement for Shenny.  She has overcome her fear over the sea. Mommy really felt proud of her.

She excitedly announced this to her papa when we got home.  Of course, papa gave her a big hug for being a brave girl.