April started with celebrating Archer’s birthday.

Then the day before Independent Learning Day, Qinzhi experienced another bout of dizziness. I went to school to pick Qinzhi and could see her fairly shaken.

Whilst led on by fear, I stopped to ask Qinzhi why she thinks she has the dizziness, and she mentioned her stress with literature. And thereafter , stress for work in school

We discussed lots, on how to manage stress, rather than to be managed. We spoke about how pointless it is to avoid an issue, only to go about it and having to come back to it and to manage more than the original issue.

The point is, whilst talking to Qinzhi, I also felt like I needed those words. How different are we?

On ILD day, we headed out for some korean food at Jewel and was glad we did, food was good and I loved spending time like this with Qinzhi, although it was just a meals I knew it would become great memories in future.

She woke up with dizziness, but after deciding that we would head out for lunch, she got better.

On a Saturday, we headed to Golden Peony for lunch prepared by Chef Ku, a feast of flavours now not often seen, employing old school cooking techniques

I am happy the kids get to savour good food. More so, I am happy they get the chance to do so at a young age. Flavours can etch into memory pads at heart.

I hope Qinzhi will be able to have the moment and wisdom to choose to face up to the demands of school. And me too.