My Small Birthday Celebration At PPUM

My birthday was on the 22 March. I had a very low key affair with my family. There was cake for sure.

I had a small celebration a week later at the oncology ward of Pusat Perubatan University Malaya. CARES always has a end of the month birthday celebration for the patients in the ward and I though what better way to celebrate with them. I brought along party packs and some friends from the home schooling group to sing some songs and play games with patients. That day we helped distribute party packs, color pencils which my friends brought along and guppy fish for each kid in the ward. We helped them fill up their own tank and they caught the fish themselves. That made them happy.

I can only hope we did bring some much needed cheer to the patients and their family. I am now officially a volunteer with CARES.

Party packs ready to go.

some of the items for the party packs

things for the aquarium

Tiny wee fishes

PIPPI LONGSTOCKING - (Book Review by Caitlin Smith)

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lingren,a Swedish writer who died in 2002 first wrote this book in 1945. This book was originally written in Swedish and the title was 'Pippi Langstump'. 

Pippi Longstocking is about a ginger haired nine year old girl, the strongest girl in the world who has no mother or father,lives in a Swedish town and shares a tiny little house called Villa Villekulla with a monkey Mr.Nilsson and a horse.This book was recommended to me by my mom's old schoolmate, Ms. Vannitha an avid reader herself. 

This book has 11 stories of Pippi's adventures.The first chapter tells the story of Pippi's mother who died when she was a baby and her father who Pippi says is the cannibal king was blown into the sea. Pippi is a very strong girl and she can lift a whole horse if she wants to. Pippi has neighbors, a boy named Tommy and  his sister Annika who live with their mother and father and she has many exciting adventures with them. 

My favorite chapters are Chapter 3: PIPPI PLAYS TAG WITH SOME POLICEMEN got me laughing out loud especially the part where she leaves them ladder-less atop her roof and chapter 10 : PIPPI ACTS AS A LIFESAVER where Pippi saves two boys inside a burning building. 
Other antics of Pippi that will make you laugh is she challenges the strongest man in the world at the circus and wins, she makes the two burglars dance the schottische when they try to steal her gold coins, she horrifies the grown-ups at a coffee party with her laughable manners.


I find this book cleverly written with words that will make you laugh.I highly recommend this book for 8 to 12 years old.