All About Your Child

Today was a treat for my eyes. Friends in Facebook would know that I had been having a swollen left eye for the past 3 days with pus and all.

It recovered today, in time to enjoy this movie treat from my sister.

Today’s post is not about my kids, its about my sis and I ‘re-living’ our younger days again. Sing to the Dawn was a book which my sis and I read for our literature lessons when we were in our teens.

The movie was based on the award-winning novel by Minfong Ho in 1975. It won the first prize in the Council of Interracial Books for Children.

This was the cover of the book which my sis and I had. If I’m not wrong, its still standing on my shelf leaning against my storeroom wall.

Dawan was a young village girl in Thailand, who won a scholarship to study in a school in the city. Her brother, Kai,was initially jealous, causing a rift between the two previously-close siblings. To make things worse, Dawan’s father, who feels that the city is no place for a girl, refused to allow Dawan to accept the scholarship. Dawan faces many obstacles, but eventually through many events, she proved that she is worthy of the scholarship.

I remembered crying at the end of the book. But it was so different when the story was put on the big screen. It was funny! I was practically laughing most of the time. But then again, I guess I’m a kid in an adult’s body, cos’ all the other adults in the ‘dark-room‘ didn’t react the way which I did *embarrassed*. The story was not funny (of cos’), but the ‘additional characters’ in the animated movie was! The main storyline is still intact.

Allan was the nanny for that 1plus hour, allowing the kids to roam around Toys R Us and the open-air playground in Vivo City, while waiting for the show to end and fetch all of us home. So my sis and I had great fun, because its been a ‘hundred‘ years since we last went for a movie together; and the kids had tremendous fun too! So it was YEAH for 4 and not so yeah for the man *laugh*….

Sandra and Dominique awarded me with the beautiful award! Thank you girls! *muack*

So here are the rules:

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Uber (synonym to Super) Amazing Blog Award is a blog award given to sites who: inspires you, makes you smile and laugh, or maybe gives amazing information, a great read, has an amazing design, and any other reasons you can think of that makes them uber amazing!

The rules of this award are: Put the logo on your blog or post, nominate at least 5 blogs (can be more) that for you are Uber Amazing, let them know that they have received this Uber Amazing award by commenting on their blog, share the love and link to this post and to the person you received your award from.

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There are so many of you, sometimes its really hard to choose…hmmm… so this award is going to:

Crazymumma, Beck, In the Gutter, Erin and Something About Us