The past few days I have been busy doing a spring (rather autumn) cleaning and went through a lot of my children’s school work that they brought home at the end of every term. I didn’t throw them out right away as I am supposed to because I wanted to read their work and amassed a huge collection of work and felt if I don’t go through them, it will only grow bigger.
My children often don’t show me their assignments and I don’t think there is anything wrong with it, but I really like to read what they wrote, for it shows me their thought process.
I found this among my son’s school work. I am not sure when he wrote it, I assume it is grade 6 or 7.
Those who grew up in India in the early 1990’s will remember MTV vj David Wu (man) playing this song over and over. I loved the song so much that I recorded the same song on one side of a 60 minute tape ( the other side had Sacrifice by Elton John), so I didn’t have to rewind the tape to listen to it. In fact when Amma was here and the song came on the radio and she told my children ” your mom’s song”.
I remember playing this song often when I gave birth to my youngest. My son was 22 months old then. I certainly haven’t played this song after we left Penang because CD’s were becoming more popular and I gave away all the music tapes to our driver. My son was three when we left Penang.
I am touched by the fact that of all the songs he could have picked, he picked the one song that was really meaningful. I am also terrified of the impact of my role as a mother. If a song that I used to play when he was 22 months old made such a huge impact on my son, what about all my other actions? Have I been a good mother?
PS:My apologies, I know the photo can only be enlarged to be able to read on a smart phone. Anyone knows how I can post it, so everyone will be able to read it?
wordpress lets you upload images directly. That way, when you click on the image, it would become bigger.
URT: I think the problem lies with me using Ipad to take the photo. I can’t find any settings to take a decent photo using ipad and reading instruction manual has never been my forte.
I don’t think so – The photo on the blog is of a very small resolution. How big is the file size? When I look at the image URL, it takes me to tinypic.com. Can you try uploading it directly to wordpress?
URT: The photo is hosted on tiny pic to save my bandwidth. I really should sit down and figure out how to load a decent photo on the blog..I just don’t have the time.
ok, makes sense. Can you use something like flickr instead? Any place where you can upload (and view) the whole photo.
URT: I have to find a way.. I am so dreadfully busy 🙁