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5CourageHero&&Heroine:
♂Afiq; (SpringOnion/Qifa)
♀Alicia;
♂Yaokuan;
♂ZhiKang;
♀Gabrielle;
♀PeiXuan;
♀Darla;
♂Gerwyn;
♀LiXuan(ahxuan);
♀Jadelyn;
♀Joan a.k.a OrAnGeLoveGURL~.^
♂John;
♀Jowelyn(Sapphire);
♀Joy;
♂Nazaren
♂Khairul;
♂Junwei;
♂ShaoJun(terry);
♀Elizabeth;
♂Cliffen;
♀HuiMin(ZaN);
♀KaiQi;
♀Felicia;
♀Rona(МυЅіСшіѕніп'ѕтая);
♂Dylan;
♂Weile;
♀ChiaLing(LittleMissNightmare);
♂Afif(★•·.·´¯`·.·•Пємєѕіѕ•·.·´¯`·.·•★™);
♂Daniyal; (meatball)
♀Amira(Amy);
♀Nuriin(МυЅіСшіѕніп'ѕтая);
♀Livia;
♀YiJun;
♀Shirlin;
♂Mahshoom;
♀Taara(сносоιатзchip-соокізdough);
♂E-shin;
♂Jeremy;
♀Jenny(МυЅіСшіѕніп'ѕтая);
♂PeiYuan;(fishball)
♂Tony;
♂LianKang;
♂Winston;
♂TzeYuan;
♂RongSheng
adding+
♀MrsLimDearest !

We wish for GOOD results for PSLE next this year .
WE wish for LESS homework - tht means more school work , w a 10 minutes break !
We wish for air-conditional classroom .

Song :

Courage Is ...
Take all my vicious words
And turn them into something good
Take all my preconceptions
And let the truth be understood

Take all my prized possessions
Leave only what I need
Take all my pieces of doubt
And let me be what's underneath

Courage is when you're afraid,
But you keep on moving anyway
Courage is when you're in pain,
But you keep on living anyway

We all have excuses why
Living in fear something in us dies
Like a bird with broken wings
It's not how high he flies,
But the song he sings

Courage is when you're afraid,
But you keep on moving anyway
Courage is when you're in pain,
But you keep on living anyway
keep on living anyways

It's not how many times you've been knocked down
It's how many times you get back up

Courage is when you've lost your way,
But you find your strength anyway
Courage is when you're afraid
Courage is when it all seems grey
Courage is when you make a change,
And you keep on living anyway

You keep on moving anyway
You keep on giving anyway
You keep on loving anyway

Afif
Afiq
Amira
ChiaLing
HuiMin
Jadelyn
Jenny
Joan
Jowelyn
LiXuan
Nurin
Rona
ShaoJun
Taara
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2008 is coming to an end. It just came to my mind that I should share with my dear students, a little bit more about my beautiful friend, Birdie, which they already know much about.

Let me start once again, for those who are not familiar with her, on our first encounter...

2006 - September school holidays
Bus stop along AMK Ave 10
Upon arriving at the bus stop, something bright green at the kerb caught my eye. It had never crossed my mind that I would be waiting for bus 55 with a 'tiny parrot'. When I saw a bus coming towards the stop, my natural instinct was to rush forward to pick up the bird in my hands.

To my surprise, it allowed me to hold it without any protest. My husband and I examined the 'tiny parrot' with great interest. It was really beautifully coloured in bright green with turquoise-blue blended into the ends of its tail. It was peach-faced and looked alert albeit noticeably tired or weak.

Ignoring the fact that we would be running late for our KTV session with our friends, we decided that we should keep it since there was no sign of anyone looking for a lost bird. Thankfully, there is a shop that sells birds and bird supplies a few blocks away. Feeling that the poor bird could be starving or thirsty, we hurried over to the shop and was greeted with a surprised look when we showed the shopkeeper the bird we found. I had forgotten which were the choices we had for the colour of the cage but anyway, no prizes for guessing the colour I had picked, which was yellow :)

That was the beginning of many wonderful moments shared with this little friend of ours.


Precious Moments...
After doing a little bit of research, we found out that our little friend is a 'peach-faced lovebird'. It was only half a year later in March 2007 when she laid her first egg that we realised that she was a 'girl'. We also discovered her talent in shredding paper which is actually a very common behaviour for birds of her kind and her dislike for dark coloured objects which she would squawk at when brought near her.

During the times when she was out from her cage for free-roaming, she practised and made great improvements in her navigation skills. She started from flying from the kitchen to the living room, to landing on our heads and making U-turns when she discovered that there was only one person in the house at times. It was late this year that we discovered that she had another talent. She could make the bell attached to the hoop in her cage tinkle, just like the ice-cream man! She was one talented bird.

Ups and of course, downs...
Birdie fell sick in mid-October this year. Besides refusing to eat, she would be huddled in a corner of the cage, bury her head in the small towel we had placed in her cage and sleep. Even when we took her out of the cage, she would close her eyes and sleep in our hands or on our lap. We were caught by surprise of her sudden change in behaviour and I remembered scouring the Internet for Avian vets, which was not very common, in Singapore.

After medication and lots of tender loving care, Birdie survived the ordeal. At one point, both of us blamed her falling sick on ourselves for neglecting her for a few days as it was the peak period of the academic year. Whether her illness came about because of neglect or infection of the respiratory system, as claimed by the vet, we were just glad that we were given a chance to make amends.

Mid-November 2008
Birdie laid 2 eggs in 3 days with only one rest day. Her second egg really came as a surprise as she had never laid more than one in a short span of time. We felt this could be too draining on her tiny body...

30 November 2008
Birdie showed the same symptoms we observed in October. I was pretty sure this time that it wasn't as a result of neglect as I had practically let her out every evening to play with her as I was left in charge of her while hubby is away for reservist. I hated myself for discarding her medication from October as I found that there was nothing we could do but wait till Monday to bring her to the vet as they were all closed on Sunday afternoons.

to be continued...