the personal blog of C.K.Koay
My youngest daughter’s school production of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” was staged a couple of weeks ago and the thing I’ll miss most has almost nothing to do with the musical. It’s the twice-weekly sojourn to school to pick her up after rehearsals in the late afternoon. I’d clear my calendar, set up shop in a Zus café nearby and work until the text arrived telling me it was time to come and get her. It was a good gig.
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Parent-Teacher Meetings today aren’t anything like the ones I had growing up.
I recently attended the end-of-semester PTM for my youngest daughter. The process began a week before the actual day, when parents had to log in to reserve their time slots with the various subject teachers– on a “first come, first served” basis. It felt eerily similar to logging into Shopee at midnight during the 11.11 sale, desperately trying to snag that elusive RM1 microfiber screen cleaner.
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