PD Anniversary P6 Graduation : Dec-10

Since I joined PD, I have lost count of the PD Anniversary or PDAs in which I was involved.. must have been at least six or seven, but this year's PDA held a different meaning to me. Qiqi is amongst this year's PD graduands! (: Qiqi was still in kindergarten when I first became a sunshine aunty. Qi was curious about my PD meetings, and she was so excited when she finally entered primary one and had her own PD meeting to attend. Well, her excitement was short-lived.. I recalled many occasions whereby I had to cajole or chide her into attending her meetings. There was this incredible episode where we struggled at the staircase of Aunty Annie's place for a good ten to fifteen minutes.. Her lower primary meeting place was at Aunty Annie's house, and I had to send her there before rushing off to my own upper primary meeting at Aunty Carol's place, both starting at 2pm. As usual, I was running later than desired and did not think much of Qi's request to attend my meeting instead of her own. After all, it was not the first time she made such a request which I did not give in.. Well, Qi has always been a persistent child and she displayed her persistence all the way this time. Upon stepping out of the lift to Aunty Annie's place, I dragged and pulled a whining Qi all the way up, hoping to make my way to the house in the shortest time possible. Halfway at the staircase, Qi's whining turned into loud wails and cries as she absolutely refused to budge any further, totally ignoring residents and all passers by. Mind you, there was quite a lot of passers by at that time as lion cubs and their parents made their way to Aunty Annie's house. These lion cubs are all Qi's friends from her PD class but she had completely no sense of embarrassment and continued to cry and wail at the top of her lungs!!?? While lion cubs and their parents made their way past us, Qi's sunshine auntys who were in Aunty Annie's house made their way out to check out the din. Most were shocked to see Qi's behaviour as she was usually pretty well-behaved. In the end, I had to relent and bring her to my own PD meeting, late. That was an extremely stressful incident.. Fortunately after much sweet-talking from both her papa and I, Qi never protested as hard for all subsequent meetings. She also has the good fortune to have very caring and easygoing auntys who gave in to her requests and tolerated her nonsense, especially this past two years. After attending the P6 camp in March, she was actually looking forward to PD meetings!! At the beginning of this year, I told myself that this must be my most participative PD year ever, as I must lead Qi to have a most memorable time in PD this year! I was there for all the P6 events, even every PDA practice there was.. well, almost except for one! I believe I have broken my own attendance record.. Qi's papa's support for the PDA practices has also been unprecedented!! (; Hahaa.. this was also the first time after so many years that Victor attended our PD Anniversary graduation, with Xuan and En. He must have enjoyed it as Qi received much limelight during the PDA - always in the front row during the dance, and also selected to lead in the 'Be Brave' and 'PD Song'. Here's the PDA graduation in brief and Qiqi's items at length.. (;