Cyza Sector

Yesterday, we went to Jusco, a routine weekly activity, to grab hold of our groceries. On the way to the cashier, I saw some cards being sold. Looking at its price, RM2.90, I just took it and paid it with the rest. I want to play this with my kids.

At home, I played it with my kids and also our friend’s kids who happen to dropped by at our house. The kids were very excited playing the cards. I only know how to play 2 games. I have totally forgotten how to play other card games. That’s fine, I’ll google it later.

It is also interesting to capture the first moment of them playing cards like this. I hope to spend more fun and quality time like this with my kids. I’m proud that Ikhwan also is good in chess. I taught him how to play chess last 2 weeks and now he is good at it. As good as he is, he still cannot beat his sifu, that’s me. Maybe one day, he’ll be able to challenge and won a chess game against me.

Sometime in this life we have to make some sacrifices. That is life. I’m very grateful to have one happy family. I’m blessed with a great job and the opportunity to further my study in the highest level. What else can I ask more?

I realized I have earlier mentioned about arranging my online activities. But then, I also realize that, I need to prioritize my time with my kids, especially to monitor their studies.

Ikhwan, my active eldest son, is in standard one and require serious attention from us (the parents). He likes to play and go to school. But when it comes to doing homework and studying, he needs somebody to motivate him. That’s when we come in. I’m now committed in spending 1-2 hours every night to ensure he can perform in his study, especially in reading Malaysian and English language, jawi and mathematics. I hope we can prepare him well enough before the final examination next month. We want to see him improve his grade in his examination in both his official school and religious school.

Marsya, 5, our expressive first daughter is very diligent and require less attention in terms of her studies. She’s doing very well in her pre-school and we are trying to bring her up to another level. The only thing is her mood which is sometimes unpredictably annoying.

Alya, 3+, our charming third child, is still very small. We don’t really expect her to study seriously for the time being. We want her to have her own sweet and fun time studying at school.

That’s the current sacrifice I have to make. Maybe I cannot call it sacrifice, but rather define it as responsibility. Before this, I have not really paid sufficient attention to their studies. After work, at night, I only focus on my online activities. But, their future is very important and precious to us. We don’t want to gamble their future. We want the best for them. We want them to excel academically and morally and grow up to be good people with great career. We have to do our best to provide them with the best education and support plus motivation + love.

That’s it. I’ll reduce my online time in order to ensure my kids are doing well. I have to re-arrange my strategy because I have to spend more time thinking and running my ph.d research too.

Oh gosh… when can I relax???

My online time will be roughly around 1 hour every night, I’m guessing… And I must proportion it finely to do all the blogging, affiliate, article marketing, SEO, and other making money online duties…

Please, I seek other almost similar parents to share your experiences with me…

In the house, our IT department have 3 laptops (2 in good shape and 1 is in ICU), 1 PC, 1 broadband modem, 1 wireless router and zero printer. Most of the time, the laptops will be occupied by me and my wife for doing some blogging, surfing and other works. We are comfortable because we can individually use our own laptop peacefully without interrupting each other.

However, I think the new generation is going to rule over us. Recently, we’ve introduced e-learning to our kids and they immediately liked the new education method. Ikhwan, Marsya and Alya became so interested and amazed with the colourful photos/screen, animation and the sound. Before this we never thought about searching those learning tools for kids from the internet. Well, there are a lots of those stuffs in the virtual world for us to grab and use for our kids.

After Goggling the net, we found 2 interesting interacting learning website which are ABC Alphabet and Phonemic Awareness for Kindergarten and Pre-school; and Online Learning Games from Fisher-Price. The kids love the interactive learning website a lot that it is difficult for us to stop them to use the laptops.

Ikhwan using his mother’s laptop (Alya is checking out what Ikhwan is doing) while Marsya is using my laptop.

They simply love the interactive learning process. Luckily, Alya did not fight to use the laptop. If not, maybe we have to get another laptop for her!!!

They are learning via StarFall.com website.

Learning “h” for horse…the website pronounced the letter “h” and “horse”. This is help the kids to learn and understand the meaning of horse and how to pronounce it.

We’re glad that there are alternative tools to educate our kids. However, we could not 100% let them learn through the website or software. They still need to learn how to write and count manually by themselves. They need totally understand the concept. The interactive and animated e-learning process should be regarded as a different way to educate our kids creatively and to have fun.

So, for those of you out there who have kids, you can try it. While those of you who are dying to get married and have kids, consider this as some early information to educate your kids. The most important thing is that we are able to provide quality education for our kids efficiently and effectively. Adios…

Let’s pray and do what we can to ensure adik Linie safely returns to her family. We don’t want the same event which happened to adik Nurin repeats. You can play a role to spread this information to others so that the entire nation unites and search for the unfortunate girl. We appreciate real valid informations to assist the parents and the police to organized the search and rescue operation.

To those who kidnapped the girl, please show some mercy to adik Linie. She is still small and she has astma and require proper medications. There are millions of other positive activities that can be done apart from kidnapping a little girl.

To those who have small kids (including me), we better take 110% care of our kids. It seems that our country is not safe until the culprit is totally brought to justice.