after a year of hiatus, i get to don my wushu costume again, and perform on stage with the dance club students.
this is my first time dancing with them on stage, and i am quite sure that this is the first time that a teacher dances with the students on stage in the entire history of the workplace.
hope that my dancers will treasure this opportunity of performing together with their teacher in-charge, and feel inspired by my passion in performing on stage, and performing with energy, effort and expressions!
a group pic before we perform! this performance is actually using this year's syf steps with music that has some chinese elements. so my instructor have some difficulties finding those kind of music and she asked me for some recommendation. i sent her two music, the opening item music by BDA for space.time.mind and the 水袖 music in 2009. and the choreographer (the guy in brown singlet) chose the 水袖 music. last year when he came to the workplace to teach dance, i find him very familiar. so i stalk him on facebook and realised that he also went to sibu in 2015 for the Sibu International Dance Festival. life is full of coincidences! and sg is so small.
taken by my dance student who graduated last year. :)
taken by my colleague!
taken by my partner FT mr ray chua~
group photo with the form class!
the coolest expression from 3 of us.
the photographer told the two ladies to do my signature pose.
adss pe dept! so much love for all of them!
again all of them do my signature pose. looks like the whole school already know that this is my signature pose. HAHAHAHAHAHA.
left the workplace at 11 am and went home to do some spring cleaning.
this year's reunion dinner was at two places. round 1 was at pappa mia, festival hotel RWS, with darling's family, arranged by my sister in-law who is a restaurant supervisor of pappa mia. pappa mia sells delicious local cuisine at reasonable prices. their chicken rice is yumz because they hired the head chef of chatterbox (the super atas chicken rice). i also love their satay and satay burger! the only downside of eating there is that i spent 18 dollars on parking at RWS. -.-'''
round 2 was at tanah merah, with my family. always look forward to eat steamboat over there, especially the 麻辣 one. my 8th uncle's wife is from 四川 and she prepares the authentic 四川麻辣火锅! damn shiok! darling up her level this year by trying it. hahahaha.
brought students to watch chingay. it is a cohort bonding LJ (learning journey) for the sec 4 students.
in my 34 years of life as a singaporean, this is actually my first time being to chingay.
we have to assemble in school at 4 pm, and the buses will pick us up at 5 pm. it was raining heavily at 2 pm and it subsided at 3 pm plus. but as we are otw to the chingay venue, it started to rain heavily again...
presenting to you, the CHINGAY RAIN CURSE.
i am surprised that the heavy rain didn't drench our spirits. everyone was still very energetic. the performance started and everyone was treated to the magnificient sights of dance, floats, and pyrotechnics.
before going to chingay, i knew that there are 3 ADSS students dancing at chingay. and after i posted on instagram that i was at chingay, a TPSS student replied to my post that she and 2 other tampinesians were also dancing. and much later on, tan zhunian also replied to my post that she's dancing!
introducing my form class for this year, 4E1. this is my first time being an FT of a graduating class. and introducing my FT partner, mr ray chua, who is a senior teacher in physics. looking forward to forge more memories with this wonderful class!
this week has been a turbulent week for yuan ze.
for the past 2 weeks his scalp was very red and there was yellow puss on his scalp, probably due to his constant scratching on the scalp and wounds start to appear.
as a result he could not sleep well at all which resulted in darling not sleeping well too.
on tuesday there was a very bad rashes outbreak on his whole face. and we are guessing that he scratched his scalp with his hands, and then use his hands and scratch his face.
thus we decided to bring him to see the paediatrician. and i remembered it was a rainy night and by the time we reach the clinic, it was about to close. luckily i called them to inform them that we will be going down.
and so the paediatrician prescribed some purple lotion and steroid cream for yuan ze. and after a few days of applying the purple lotion on his scalp and steroid cream on his face, thank goodness he has recovered and he is back to his energetic self today.
today we also celebrated the niece's bday in advance (her bday is tomorrow).
it really brings us happiness to see her so delighted when she saw her Frozen birthday cake, and she was wearing her Frozen clothes bought by me and darling at Taiwan's h&m.
happy birthday niece! can't believe that you are already 3 years old. the time when i brought you to gardens by the bay when you were just an infant seems like it was just a few weeks ago. :p
dun u think the yellow chicken on top looks a bit creepy? it scared my sis in-law in the middle of the night. hahahahahahaha.
happy 2017 to my dearest readers! actually i dunno who still read my blog. i know darling definitely reads my blog. probably merllie. so for those who are still reading this, send me a personal msg to let me know ok? :)
anyway let's compare some statistics.
in 2008 i wrote 221 posts.
2009 - 247 posts
2010 - 217 posts
2011 - 220 posts
2012 - 199 posts
2013 - 202 posts
2014 - 181 posts
2015 - 173 posts
and finally in 2016,,, only 100 posts. hahahahaha.
the main reason that i can think of for the shortage of posts is probably i use instagram more often to voice out my thoughts.
let's see how many posts it will be in 2017!
anyway i spent the last day of 2016 at fooshin's house. thank you fooshin for the delicious lentil soup and quiches. always look forward to this yearly affair at his house!
this time we have 3 new guests! my son, fav xinyi (aka Dr Li, darling's personalised obstetrician), and jingwen's fiance.
we are looking forward to jingwen's big day! (although she nv say anything about it yesterday but we also didnt ask hahahahaha)
my resolutions for this year are:
1) to be a good chemistry teacher/form teacher for 4E1. in my teaching career of 7 years, i am finally taking a graduating class, and it is the top graduating class. expectations are there and i really want to fulfil these expectations and help the 4E1 students achieve good results for chemistry.
2) to be a good pe teacher for my sec 3 classes this year
3) to reduce the obesity index of the obese students. this year i am given the challenging task of overseeing the FFC (讲好听一点 is Fun and Fitness Club, 难听一点就是 Fat Fat Club). i must plan meaningful activities to let them realise the importance of leading a healthy and physically active lifestyle.
4) to let my dance club students be more confident and have stronger stage presence, and lead them to do well in syf. certificate of distinction will always be my target, but i need to be realistic with this group of dancers. so certificate of accomplishment will suffice. certficate of distinction shall be the long term goal, and to be achieved in 2019.
5) to be a loving husband to darling, loving father to yuan ze, loving brother to my two sisters, filial son to my parents, filial son in-law to my in-laws and a trustworthy loyal comrade to my colleagues and friends.
6) lose weight and train myself hard to get a gold for the final IPPT of my entire life
my wish for 2017 is... to have a chance to perform on stage, be it at the workplace or with 新艺. let's see how it goes! effort expressions energy!!!
