Questa è Enida

The big thing about big schools such as the one my Dara Monchy – Kitreena – goes to, is that it goes big on everything. Fees, definitely. I fell off my toilet seat when I found out that to secure a placement for a child costs US$50,000! Yes, I then got up and sat myself properly on the toilet seat to pass my motion and emotion as a reaction to this knowledge! I am not sure if that US$50,000 is refundable. But logically, big schools would find big excuses to not refund big moneys.

Don’t get me wrong. I am not complaining. Nor do I ever have that much moolah for kids’ schooling. Maybe I will, when the time comes for their tertiary education. But that is twelve years of bread for breakfast, soup for lunch and bread and soup for supper. If I could, I would just send me Monchies to a local school, non-private, non-international, non-grande-dinero. I was, actually, ready to send Dara Monchy to SRJK Yu Hua Kajang or SRJK Tamil West Country Kajang if these schools would accept a Canadian citizen.

Anyway, just like any big organization, this big school I am talking about, has a big reputation to manage and maintain as well. Being built on a big budget sponsored by embassies of big countries, the school really wants to look big by giving big donations. No biggy! After a huge Christmas Bags Project for the orphans a month ago, now it is time for the Silent Auction. (Parents donate items into themed Class Baskets that are to be auctioned at the Holiday Night Event. All out Oscars style!)

Kitreena’s Class Basket’s theme is ‘Princessy’ or ‘Girly’. I wish I had gotten some extra Malay, Chinese, Indian Princess Dolls (like the ones I got for my mother-in-law) from the souvenir store at the Equatorial Hotel in Bangi. And I wish the Malaysian Embassy here in Moscow would have something or anything that represents Malaysia for sale. You see, I am very Malaysian at heart and would really like to educate some hardcore Russians that between Thailand and Singapore there is a paradise called Malaysia.

With that note, I am unexcitedly off to go shopping for some Barbie or Bratz dolls and some custom jewelleries with a Botox smile on my unBotoxed face.