It's back to school in five days' time. For some, it's starting out at the 'big school'. Judith Tan finds out from former Singapore Idol contestant, Maia Lee, how she prepares and copes with this rite of passage.
Former Singapore Idol contestant
As everyone in the family is "quite nocturnal" it may be difficult to get Lee's daughter up early in the morning.
Lee says with a laugh: "She is going by school bus from Day 1, and we don't know how early the bus will come."
Her headache is that child model and pageant champ Julka Phoenix Lee-Zidov, six, is used to sleeping in.
The family goes to bed at 1am at times.
Lee says she had registered Julka, whose pet name is Kaka, at Haig Girls' School, as it is near their home.
She found out only later that the school is going through extensive upgrading and has temporarily moved to New Upper Changi Road. It will be there until November 2016.
That means Kaka will have to take the school bus.
Lee confesses: "Now I really don't know if I can even get up in time to wake her up and get her ready."
