Huaihao is working hard at the Rubik’s Cube and exploring all ways to solve it–and he has.

This month, the foodie in him was channeled to help me with tasting sweets, and when celebrating daddy’s birthday

Look at the card he made for daddy!

But he also had a go at rediscovering what he loves-drawing, sketching and he does it with this sense of wittiness that is in his eyes

He spent some time going back to the basics-drawing, because he had too much device time and is banned from it for 2 weeks!

But being banned doesn’t stop him from exploring possibilities, he was trying out all the ways he could think of before calling it quits and coming back to draw

When all that he tried couldn’t make the devices come back to, he had to fall back on his first loves

That’s how he got to make a wallet like this

On day we were at the National Museum, there was an art programme going on and i took the chance to participate with huaihao, where he drew himself on the bus

Looking at the drawing’s expression, he must have been bored stiff!

On a weekend, he woke early and we headed out to walk and had our usual vegetarian bee hoon

This month was also big for Huaihao as he had the chance to participate in Track & Field during the National School Games season. He was really excited about it and this day he had to report to school at 635am.

My recommendations to Huaihao was that he should enjoy the process and have fun rather than to be bent on winning. And afterwards he shared that having fun was exactly what he did. And he would go for it again!

On Mother’s Day, I woke up to his card, he hid it under his pillow and flashed it out when I woke!

At bedtime on a few occasions, I was asking Huaihao for some advice on my career progression to which he said things like:

“you have to start somewhere, you can’t be a protagonist right from the beginning “

“rich people don’t do things they don’t like”

“you have to do things you like”

One day on YouTube, Qi Qin was playing the harmonica

Me: So nice to be able to play. You could direct your emotions into the instrument and let them be expressed in beautiful notes

HuaiHao: You can actually be the instrument you know

Bedtime with HuaiHao

Was telling him about a new opportunity that has come my way and I m not feeling entirely confident

But speaking to him cemented things. I had prayed for an opportunity because I wanted to provide for my father every month

And this is one opportunity that is. If this isn’t the universe’s answer to my prayer then what?

Wow

And he said, “ go for it. Isn’t this what you have been longing for? And if you don’t try, you don’t know.”

when I asked him for advice he also said, “ rich people don’t do things they don’t like and rich doesn’t just mean money.”

On the night he came back from visiting the Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle, he shared with me bits and pieces of his trip. And we spoke about daddy. And HuaiHao said, “ he’s so grumpy today!“

So I asked, “and what do you do?”

He said, rolling his eyes from side to side, “ it’s like there’s someone passing the ball in my eyes. Let’s just get on with what we are busy with or else the clouds that we are will turn into a storm”

I can’t help but giggle at the way he puts things. We could have been a cloud to observe it all, but if we participated in anyone’s unhappiness , we would if unwitting enough—be joining their storm.

What wisdom.

Another day at dinner time:

Me: I’m sorry I m not a good cook

HuaiHao: pats me on the elbow, “ it’s ok there’s always a next time

But HuaiHao did not keep to his promise about using the diffuser and I would not be in his room if he had not . But there I was . And he said, “ because you want to be with me.”

How accurate.

Always and forever