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We were out for dinner at a restaurant few weeks ago and while waiting for our food to be served, I saw the menu brochure. Teaching and learning moment! You know how?

Letter and word recognition and pronounciation opportunity!

The menu was printed using different font types, all the more getting me excited as I want to test our 6.5 year old whether he can recognise the letters in different font types hehehe... He got most if them right except the words like 'Signature', 'Dessert' and 'Premium'. Not bad!

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I have been sharing some of my favorite angpow pieces on an angpow collectors group in Facebook and some members have been telling me to continue sharing my memorable stories and so I thought, why not write it down, that way, our kiddos can read about it when they grow up next time, eh?

For those of you who are not familiar or never heard of the words 'Angpow' (also known as 'ang pau', 'ang pao', 'angpau'), here is a quick definition:

Angpow = Red Packet (filled with cash inside) given during festivals

So for today's angpow story, it comes from this piece of lovely angpow:

Today's storytime is based on this sampul duit raya from The Big Group. It features a few traditional games popular in our beloved country, Malaysia. Wau (giant kite), congkak, gasing (spinning top) and the tons and tons of guli (marbles) at the background.

I'm sure at some point, most of us Malaysians (who are above 30s) have played with at least one of these traditional games. Compared to kiddos nowadays, they have never seen these in their life before and will even show you weird look when you tell them you used to play with these toys/games when you were young.

Other traditional games that I can recall is the batu seremban (five stones game), sepak bulu ayam (feathered shuttlecock), galah panjang, hopscotch.

Any other games that you remembered playing when you were younger?

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Ever since I started kindergarten at 6 years old, I have been attending public schools (main language is Bahasa Malaysia) and during my earlier years, I mixed around with a lot of Malay friends and even spoke Bahasa with my elder brother at home (he also attends public schools), even to this day. So Bahasa Malaysia used to be my main language other than Cantonese and later on English (brushed up more when I met my hubby then boyfriend through snail mails, I had to practise and brush up my English as he doesn't speak Cantonese) Anyway, I think it is fun to be able to practise back and sharing what I know with those of you who are interested.

And so, here goes our next lesson: Fried Rice / Noodle / Egg

For those of you who are more often on Facebook, you can also find the tutorials on my Facebook fan page. I have created a "Let's Learn Bahasa & Cantonese!" album to store the phrases. Enjoy learning!

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