friday post

i am back home! went to sungei gedong camp on monday for reservist. as i was getting ready at home, i received the news that mr lee kuan yew had passed away at 3:18 am. 

on wednesday night, we observed a min of silence for mr lee kuan yew in the camp's auditorium, and watched his tribute videos. after that our Commanding Officer (CO) shared with us the great things that mr lee kuan yew had done. 

in the past i will be very low morale whenever i go for reservist, and will always try to go home during the first two days. but this time i dun feel that way. probably because i imagined the hardships went through by mr lky all these years in building a country. 10 days of reservist is really nothing compared to his hardships, so i looked at this reservist with a very positive mindset. :)

#thankyouLKY #MrLKYlegacy

term 1 recap

it is the last day of mar hols. i will be going for the yearly dreaded reservist from 23 mar to 1 apr. :(

and when i come back on 2 apr, it will be at pasir ris park, because we are having our mass run. still have the great memories of last year's mass run, because i was the OIC. 

anyway let's have a recap of term 1. :)

with show choir at cca display. we got 13 sec one students this year! 

turais house cpt ball team. they got 1st! 5 of them are from netball, 1 of them is from basketball. (no wonder they won hahahaha)

with the alumni on a sat morning. we have been practising for the cny performance. 

actual day of cny performance! one group photo with all the alumni before we go perform on stage. 

with the wushu exponents and chinese dancers for our combined wushu dance item, titled 'Vigour'. 

my trademark move! hahahaha. 

group photo upon the completion of a successful performance!

hosting the cny staff bonding. this year i am in the staff welfare committee. whenever it comes to rah rah, i automatically gets the job. nobody dare to snatch from me. LOL. 

with the show choir again, on our bus journey to SOTA for our first syf rehearsal. hope that we can do well this year! it is our first time joining syf as a show choir. my target for them is certificate of accomplishment. 

with elena yong, an alumni who graduated in 2010. invited her back to be the judge for this year's tampines got talent and inter-house dance battle. initially i invited #cooknoodles and #WRSwife but they both can't make it. so i asked elena and thankfully for me, she agreed. 

i think it was a good term 1. looking forward to a good term 2! i will be going vietnam with my MALE colleague during the june hols! also going to batam with darling and her family. :)

good read on Mr LKY

this post was written by Mr Ganesh Sundram on fb, and i must say it was really well written and deserve to be shared so that everyone can read it, especially for the keyboard warriors and photoshop experts who create something senseless. 

Ok... i read that former prime minister lee kuan yew... is critically ill... and we all know whats gonna come after that....

I am honestly gonna be very sad when he is no longer ard. He had a full life and at 91.... thats consoling to the mind....

I see alot of ppl saying... if the old man dies... i will be damn happy.... But i jus want to ask.... what r we angry at?? Coz he took a small shitty island and turned it into what it is today??

Coz today... our currency is almost on par with USA... 1.36 exchange rate... BY THE WAY... and that country is a giant... the world's superpower la.... and we are almost on par... our neighbour's exchange with us is at 2.4 smthg.... dun know... dun care

Today... companies all over the world come here to start their regional hq... coz of the stable platform created....

Today... india.... a country with the world's second largest population... has HIRED SINGAPORE'S EXPERTISE TO BUILD A NEW CAPITAL CITY FOR ITSELF!!!

sure... cars are expensive....here la... do u know in thailand... or jakarta... a small distance like yishun to ang mo kio... will take 2 hours... to drive... because everyone has a car and its congested very badly....this was said to me by a thai tourist and a indonesian tourist.....

Sure... houses are expensive... do u know that in hongkong... ppl dun own their flats??? Its so expensive... everyone rents!!! And the houses are smaller than our flats....

Everyday since i was born... till today.... i cannot remember a day when electricity or water went out.... i can drink the water out of the tap and toilet bowl... its that clean.... and i can switch on my fan anytime i want... it will work.... i went to india and i witnessed it first hand.... bloody every three hours... there was a power cut.... even in hotels... then the generators will kick in...

New delhi... a girl was raped and violently abused.... brought to SINGAPORE for treatment... we all remember that... dun we...

Superstar rajnikanth.... calls Lee Kuan Yew a hero... CAME TO SINGAPORE FOR TREATMENT....

sure we buy water from our neighbour... but how many of us know that we treat the same water and sell it back to our neighbour???

I had a tourist from paris... she told me that she lost her husband to a heart attack... they live in the outskirts of paris... she called for an ambulance... it took the damn ambulance 2 hours to get to them.... PARIS OK!!!! city of love... world reknowned tourost spot... 2 hours for ambulance response....

You dial 995 and call for ambulance now la.. you see how long the response time is...

God damn they even opened up independant ambulance companies so that the real emergencies can be attended to by SCDF laaa

Sure.. there was a riot in little india... but it was contained wasnt it??? Ya our police and civil defence got a beating... but still... did any civilian get injured??? Ppl living in the flats beside... got injured??? The ambulance that got burnt.... what does it show... singapore's patience or that particular nationality's uncivilised behaviour....

The very next day.... that road was cleaned and relaid....

Even in war laa.... its protocol to nvr hit safety vehicles.... what the hell....

I met a tourist from sweden... and she said... she got raped whilst going for a jog from her house to her neighbour's house which was 2 miles away.... there was nobody to help her.... and thats y she moved to singapore...

My current job allows me to meet different nationalities everyday... straight from the airport.... and we always get to talking... abt their country versus mine... and almost EVERY SINGLE person.... tells me

"You guys dun know how good u have it here"

Every government has its flaws and shortcomings..... every government.... they r humans laaa.... not machines.....

Our laws are amongst the strictest.... and i have personally felt the brunt of some of the laws... but u know what??? I aint complaining.... my mum.. sister... girlfren... can go out and come back whatever time... they r fine...

I can sleep in my van and wake up... with my doors unlocked... i will not be mugged and robbed

Ppl from certain countries come here... to study... they have to take cross over exams... to match our system

I go somewhere.... my education is recognised la god damn it

Foreigner influx was probably the blooper singapore did.... but hey.... i have got a job... i earn very well... i am happy...

I have got close friends that live in condos.. drive nice cars... live in landed houses... have lots of money.....

So its definitely possible for everyone to "live the life" here... sure it may be difficult to rise up to the top... but hey.... other countries easy ahhhh????? You know ahhh????

A flat in singapore is 300,000.... a landed house in the states is also 300,000.... u get alot of space... but u still NEED TO HAVE MONEY.....

Soooo.... if u r not successful.. blame urself.... not the country.. the system... the lamp post... or the dog....

U never study... ur fault... u nvr work hard... ur fault...

Other countries... got natural resources... to build on... what does singapore have??? NOTHING!!! the people are the resource... and that why we have to work and contribute to build the country...

America... canada... all 40% tax sia... and here we complain for paying CPF and tax....

U try la... go and say smthg bad abt our neighbour to their citizens... or better still say smthg bad abt india to an indian citizen who lives in singapore.... you see what happens....

Their country is full of injustice and problems.... but they will NEVER SPEAK DOWN ON THEIR COUNTRY...

Look at what we r doing.....

This social portal page... newnation or smthg... teases that singapore will be renamed Lee Kuan Yew... eh why laaa i ask u. Then name as what??

mohd goahead bin gostan???

Or

Angamuthu s/o singamuthu

Is it???

That man.... whether u like it or not... was a key installation to the life we have today..... not sang nila utama... or that tengku.... or stamford raffles.....

The name is LEE KUAN YEW...

and if he is no longer ard.... i WILL feel sad.... coz god damn it i am SINGAPOREAN... and even though my country has its fair share of bullshit.... i LOVE this damn place.... the life and opportunity it has given me.... the level playing field it has given me....

And it was because Lee Kuan Yew had a vision and he went abt executing it....

Lets show a little bit of gratfulness laaa... a little bit....

Whether he did right or wrong.....the man who gave us this quality of life has reached the end of the tunnel.... let him go in peace and respect.....

monday post

this morning i brought the show choir kids to bowen sec for a choir exchange. we had a french masterclass with a french tutor, who is also a choir conductor. we are singing 3 songs for syf, and the first song is a french song, titled Dirait-on, so the french tutor teach the kids on the proper pronunciation of the lyrics. 

after the master class we showcased our 3 songs to the choir students from the other schools. i think we did quite well. extremely proud of them. 

we went back to school and carried on with our bonding. my instructor bought portable bbq pits and food, and we had a bbq session in school. my colleague who is the band teacher in-charge came up to me and told me we spoil market. now her band also want to do bbq in school. hahahahaha. 

preparing the bbq food in the sch canteen

with the show choir alumni who graduated in 2013!

let the show choir bonding begin! can you spot me? 

the batch who graduated last year. 

i prepared the kimchi salmon again, and it was a hit! :)

our honeymoon in dec!

our honeymoon in dec is confirmed! we will be going to japan! osaka, nara and kyoto!

we will be flying there by cathay pacific. cost us 690 dollars each, and will have a stopover at hong kong. it is already the cheapest air tickets when we did our comparison yesterday. SQ is priced at 800 dollars per pax. when we checked our SQ air ticket price to hokkaido in 2011, it was only 690 dollars! zzz the inflation... 

Inter-House Dance Battle

my house won the inter-house battle again, for the second year running! that's why my house is labelled as the performing arts house, who has the house master who is in-charge of the workplace's performing arts and many prominent students from the various performing arts CCAs. and i just realised last year and this year's show choir president are both from my house. :D

friday post

i lost my voice yesterday. but i still have to force myself to come to sch today because it is Fiesta, and right after Fiesta there is Parent Teacher Conference. it is crazy to schedule two big events on one day and i am really dying. and it doesn't help at all that i am sick. 

but anyway, today's fiesta went well. i have to desert my form class again because every year during fiesta i am involved in the arts performance. this year the category for sec 2 is food & beverages. when i knew of this my heart leaped with joy because i have a student in my form class whose mum opens a catering business! so i called the mum, and she agreed immediately to help us, and only charge us money for the ingredients, so we can sell the food to earn more profits. btw the profits earned are used to help the needy students of the school. 

she SINGLE-HANDEDLY baked all the cupcakes and cookies. damn awesome. *thunderous applause*

the cupcakes and cookies were sold very fast, because my form class students really worked very hard in selling them. my partner form teacher told me that even the most rebellious boy in the class also helped to sell them. #WOWWWW

那些年

today darling and i were choosing photos for our wedding montage. both of us were shocked at how thin and how young i was. i had gained weight, and 苍老了许多, after all these years. what has teaching done to me... 

you may guess which year was the photo taken. hahahaha. 

this pic scared me the most. hahaha. 

syf here we come!

this year, my show choir will be going for syf. this is their first time going to syf as a show choir. hope that they will do well! my target for them is a certificate of accomplishment (last time's silver). 

yesterday was our first syf rehearsal at SOTA, which is also the official venue for SYF choir. 

first time i see a full bus! :)

the stage looks amazing~ on the left is our pianist, mr new; in the middle is our conductor, miss deniece; and finally on the right is our dance instructor miss safy. glad to have three of them in bringing the show choir kids to greater heights!

great world carabet

went to RWS with darling to watch Great World Carabet. main reason is to support meizheng, my 'onscreen wife' in the big scale production by this religious body held in the indoor stadium in which the behind the scenes drama is totally not worth mentioning. 

great world carabet is a local production, that features a different celebrity stand-up comedian every week (eg mark lee, sebastian tan, hossan leong), dancers (meizheng is one of them), and also two foreign talent acts (sg is all about foreign talent 话题 isn't it). the one that we watched was hossan leong as the stand-up comedian, and omg he was damn funny! 

it was a good show and i was captivated throughout the whole show by all the performance elements. my favourite segment is the hossan leong segment as well as the crazy acrobatics segment from china!

meizheng is the one on the extreme right, with a wink!

when we reached darling's house, her vday present is finally here! i ordered the present to be delivered to her on v day, and the merchant 出 stunt, until now then deliver to her. i have already blacklisted that merchant. no way am i buying stuff from there again! but still darling is overjoyed because she finally received her present. it is a 9-bear plush bouquet, because it is our 9th valentine's day together~

let's feel ALIVE

last sunday was future FIL's birthday. we went to the ALIVE museum. many thanks to darling who got the complimentary tickets from her workplace. :)

helloooo niece!!!

presenting to you, my future FIL!!! with his grand-daughter!

long live the queennnnnnnnnnnn~

long live the princessssssssss~

aiyohhh darling 出轨... hahahaha.

angry that darling 出轨!!! 

finally i can do a split! LOL. 

in the end we make amends because we can't live without each other. 

and we had dinner at crab in da bag at east coast big splash!

behold, our seafood feast! the staff pouring the bucket of seafood onto our table is really an awesome sight, and eating the seafood with our bare hands was a messy yet wonderful experience.