going out with darling!

darling finished her exams!

we went out for a nice dinner at sakae.

after that we went to haagen daz at esplanade for dessert! cos darling have a 20 bucks voucher. the ice cream that we ordered damn ex. cost $20.90

but it looks very nice and pretty. i think 10 dollars have to go to their efforts in decoration.

then we went up to rooftop terrace to enjoy the beautiful night scenery. although some of the construction works that are going on really 大煞风景.

singapore flyer! how i wish i can take a ride on it. :)

one of my colleagues who teaches english is going to bring two classes to sit on the singapore flyer for english enrichment program! wow! how cool is that!

she ask me whether am i interested to go along! FOC some more!

i really wanted to go. but cant go. because i will be at su-ra-ba-ya during that time. so 可惜!

exams

my blog has been dead this few days, because there's nothing exciting or interesting for me to blog about.

my workplace is now having examinations for the kids, so me and my colleagues will be down for invigilations. when we are not down for invigilations, we will be inside the office marking papers.

examinations are good for us, because that's when we can catch a short breather, as we no need to prepare lessons and teach. but of course the siong part is marking the piles of exam scripts and having to vomit blood when we see horrendous answers.

now comes to wat subject you are teaching. if you are teaching science or maths, marking is relatively easier, as correct means correct, wrong means wrong, no need to argue anything. and then the kids at my workplace always like to leave blank answers, so we just use a red pen and strike out the whole empty space.

if teaching humanities, english or mother tongue, then marking is much more siong. cos the marker has to go through carefully every single word of the script, as these answers involve critical thinking, so the marker must noe how critically the student thinks. but most of the time the marker will still vomit blood, for reasons that i dun see the need to elaborate further. haha.

let me give you a funny example. this was shared among some of us by a english teacher.

[this is truthfully not meant to make fun of my kid. this kid was taught by me previously, and he is a very funny boy, who has a glib tongue and always make teachers happy. i always think he makes a very good salesman. i always enjoy listening to his funny comments during lessons.]

this was roughly cited from his english composition. not exactly word for word, but content is somewhere there.

the title of the composition is Decision.

i went to a bar at 3 am. [blah blah blah] i fought with 3 men. [blah blah blah] 3 policemen came. we were brought to the police station. [blah blah blah] the punishment that we got was 3 months in jail. [blah blah blah]

*hope you can notice a similar pattern

guess wat my colleague wrote at the end of his whole essay?


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my decision: 3 marks

(complete silence, followed by exploding laughter)

haha. damn funny.

actually she din write that lah. although she is very tempted to do so.

so when we mark horrendous scripts, we will get very sian and demoralised. so we go for lunch-out sessions, to have a good meal and also to de-stress. monday i brought some of my colleagues to 老 hk cafe at katong for the steamboat. this time the 料 given to us is lesser, compared to the first time when i went there with the chi dance pple. disappointing.

on friday i will be going to chinatown with another bunch of male colleagues to buy toys and eat mussels for lunch. some of my colleagues are very crazy with toys, for example transformers. one of them will buy 2 sets of the similar toy. one set for 收藏 and 摆美 purpose. the other set for him to play with.

nx monday a chinese teacher from 四川 will bring some of us to eat authentic 四川麻辣火锅. haha. damn shiok.

pls dun ever think that we teachers are very slack. its ok for us to take a good break during lunch time after all the mentally-taxing marking, isnt it?

this is one thing i like about my workplace. the staff bonding is very strong. :)

iron man!!!

iron man is nice! very very very nice!

much nicer than spiderman 1 to 3, fantastic 4 and superman. that's my opinion lah. maybe others will think differently.

those who haven watch, quickly go watch! :)

guess who?

i am in all the pics. haha.

i guess all these pics were taken about 20 years ago?

now i start to think, 20 years later from now, wat will i have become?

am i still teaching pe and chemistry? or i am already a principal?

will i still be doing wushu and chinese dance?

will i be married? will i have children?

will i still be ALIVE?

haiz. wat i only noe is that i must start to save alot of money. when there is increase in prices for so many stuff now.

who noes 20 years down the road, i cant even afford to eat rice or drink milo. scary. :(

五月天 - 回到地球表面

their last concert i had been to was in december 2005. it was my first time going to that concert and i really enjoyed myself.

3 years later, i am watching them again!

the concert was on last saturday, 26 april, at the indoor stadium. i bought the 168 dollars tickets, cos only left the tickets for that price, as i only bought them last minute on friday, 25 april. haha. no prizes for guessing correctly who i watched the concert with.

let me show you where we were sitting!

(somewhere in the region enclosed in the red circle)

this concert is very special. special in the sense that there is not only one stage. besides the stage right in front (indicated by the white backdrop), there were also two runways, at the right side and left side of the stage (indicated by the two blue arrows). later on during the concert, wu yue tian will walk on the runways, and have very close contact with the audience. when i say close, i really mean CLOSE. then walking to the end of the runway, they will go up to another stage, which is actually the sky bridge (indicated by the yellow arrow).

the runway is actually right behind me. haha. we can really see wu yue tian very very clearly. but those sitting at the seats behind me have the real treat, cos they can actually touch wu yue tian! my god.

the atmosphere of the whole concert is electrifying. audience is really damn high. no one sat down. everybody stood up, and was waving their light sticks like mad, and also singing along to every wu yue tian's songs.

for me the first half of the concert is a bit boring. cos they sang alot of new songs from their latest album. only the second half is better, cos got more songs that i noe, so can sing along. haha. and of course, the second half of the concert is when the fans go really crazy, when the sky bridge starts coming down.

now you noe wat i mean when i say CLOSE. haha. ah shin even went to pat on a cute little girl's head! i think the girl must be so damn shuang and wun wash her hair for one month.

if i were to choose my favourite song of the concert, it has to be 洋葱. yup this song was sung by yang zong wei. but it was composed by ah shin, and the lyrics was also written by ah shin himself! my god ah shin is so damn talented.

acknowledgement: some of the pics in this blog are actually taken from other pple's online photo albums. these pics are really very clear and well taken. the pics that i took come out quite bad, no thanks to my lousy photography skills. haha. anyway i thank these pple. :)

after the concert, me and darling walked back to national stadium carpark. and i got a rude shock. i kenna summon becos i nv put coupon. have to pay 30 bucks! sian ah!!! :(

we went to 老 hk cafe to have some supper. we ordered 罗汉果凉茶 to cool down our throats after 3 hours of screaming and singing.

it was a very high and enjoyable concert. :)

man u 1 barcelona 0

yes!!!



man u won!!! wonderful goal scored by paul scholes!



its worth it for waking up at 3 am in the morning to watch the exciting match!





thank goodness i managed to survive in sch today despite only sleeping for just two hours.



anyway yesterday went for reservist briefing at yishun safra. my unit is really very garang. they must conduct a briefing prior to the ict, so that we commanders will noe wat the training program will be like and wat to expect, so that we wun be lost like headless chickens during the actual ict.



after that i went to TTSH for 3 vaccination jabs. one for typhoid, one for hep A and the last one for influenza. this 3 jabs are for my overseas trip to su-ra-ba-ya. one jab on my right arm, two jabs on my left arm. now both my arms are still a bit numb.



tomorrow is labour day! yay! which means i can watch chelsea vs liverpool, without worrying that i wun go thru another shag day at work because of insufficient sleep. really eager to find out which team will face man u in the champions league final.



and tomorrow i am going to find darling! having lunch at her place! her mum's cooking skills are superb. i think i am a blessed man. having parents that can cook nice food, and having a loving gf, together with loving gf's mum, who cook yummy food too. grow fat i also dun care le. haha.

taiwan porridge!

first time i went to eat taiwan porridge was at this restaurant at kallang, next to indoor stadium. i was a small kid during that time. my granny (mum side) loved to eat the porridge there, so my parents will bring her there to eat quite frequently, and of course me and my sisters will go along.

every since my granny had a stroke, and then passed away, i had not gone to that restaurant for about 7 or 8 years.

after that 8 years, i stepped into it again. that time was after watching a soccer match at national stadium, with my jc friends. singapore vs dunno which country. that match was a damn happening match. highly entertaining. players fighting on the pitch. a player from the opposition team's substitutes bench ran up to the field and throw a water bottle at our national team player, s subramani. and then when a player from the opposition team got sent off and was walking towards the exit, the singapore fans sitting upstairs throw water bottles at him. ugly sights of football. haiz. but is still value for money, because there's so much action. haha.

anyway after the match, we were all hungry, so i decided to bring them to that restaurant, cos i very long nv go there eat already.

then after that, i go there quite a few times. i went there twice with darling. we always like to sit at the window seat, because can admire the beautiful night scenery of the city area. :)

but now, i cant go there anymore le... cos the place is under DEMOLITION (thanks to wolverine for correcting me)! haiz sadded. now the restaurant move to toa payoh.

and i am actually quite thankful that i went there for one last time. that was two weeks before the news came out that the restaurant will be moving.

this time round i brought my chinese dance friends there. all of us were watching psyche videos in nzj's room, then all of us were hungry, and want to go eat supper. so i suggested the crazy idea of going to eat taiwan porridge, and they agreed, so off we went!

me looking at the menu, deciding wat to order. as you can see on the menu, the name of the restaurant is called 海京楼.

here are dishes that we ordered:

咸鱼豆芽，鲳鱼 cooked in black sesame sauce, 咸鸭蛋, and the ever famous 菜圃蛋. the usual dishes that i will order when i eat with darling.

we took pics like crazy, since we were the only customers at that time, so no need to feel paiseh. i think the staff also feel very entertained just by watching us. haha.

i am so thankful we took all these pics. they give me nice memories of the restaurant.

anyway to chio outdoor enthusiast, the food is not that ex lah~

it is value for money, taking into consideration the nice ambience, the nice scenery (can even see sg flyer), and the delicious food. i am sure every cent spent is worth it.

anyway there is definitely no another chance to eat there le. saddening.

to end this post, let me show the scandalous pic of the month:

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open up your ears to listen to the song playing in the background.

暧昧让人受尽委屈

找不到相爱的证据

何时该前进

何时该放弃

连拥抱都没有勇气~~~

just kidding. we are both straight.

and i am very happy together with my darling. :D

man u vs barcelona later!!! man u must win!

我的精神年龄

actually when doing this test, i was very scared.

scared the test result will be like 某某人's result, 精神年龄 is 14 years older than her actual age.

i dun mind that my 精神年龄 is younger than my actual age. i rather be a 老顽童 than be somebody chao4 老. haha.

Myidk.com 鑑定結果您的精神年齡 24 歲

與您實際年齡差 0 歲

幼稚度36％

成熟度54％

老化度11％

宣傳給朋友: http://myidk.com/age.php

although i should be twenty-five this year, but i still indicate 24 as my age, cos haven reach my birthday yet. =p

in mourning

i am in mourning, for signing on the dotted line this morning.

monday to wednesday, i will be dressed in black for work.

oops sorry wrong photo. =p

if i have this kind of body, i will die without regrets.

more details on su-ra-ba-ya trip

attended the briefing yesterday.

there are 32 kids going. 8 boys 24 girls.

4 laoshis going. 2 gentlemen (i am one of them) and 2 ladies.

it is a 9D8N trip.

the kids will be going to a school over there to attend lessons for six days. as for the laoshis, we may have to teach the indonesian kids.

for the first six nights, all of us will be staying at a four star hotel. woo hoo! near the hotel, there is Carrefour, for us to get our daily groceries. we have to prepare our own breakfast every morning, because the sch there starts at 630, and before that the hotel restaurant haven open yet.

the last 3 days we will have R&R. places we going include a water theme park, animal safari, shopping malls, paper factory, etc etc.

for the last two nights, we will be given home stay. which means staying at the house of a indonesian family.

the kids have to prepare a cultural performance for the indonesian students. i have a very bad feeling that they will come to me and ask me to choreograph something.

actually not too bad lah. the trip sounds quite fun. i am quite looking forward to it. haha.

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do you noe wat date is today?

it is 24th APRIL!!!

me and darling are together for exactly 18 months! one and a half years! :)

love you darling~ :)

yummy stuff!

just bought 12 of them, all different flavours. they taste real good!

bugis is really a food heaven. haha.

movies that i had watched recently

1) 江山美人

watched with darling at gv vivo. overall the movie is quite nice. love scenes between kelly chan and leon lai are very sweet. donnie yen once again performed the role of the invincible warrior to perfection, super garang and super noe how to fight, no matter how many pple pierce him he still wun die.

2) Forbidden Kingdom

there's so many hype and publicity on this movie. imagine jet li and jackie chan starring in the same movie, so there's definitely alot of 期待.

i can only say this movie is a bit disappointing. weak script. weak storyline. weak plot. the thing that i cannot stand most is the english dialogue. imagine 玉皇大帝 speaking english. dots.

but there are some portions of the movie that make it bearable lah. first, is of course the fighting scene, especially the 8 min fighting scene between jet li and jackie chan. the two most prominent chinese fighting stars in the movie industry, pitting their skills against each other. how often can you see that?

second, is the eye candy. i present to you 刘亦非. woo hoo~

she also acted in jin yong drama serials, taking the role of 小龙女 in 神雕侠侣 and 王语嫣 in 天龙八部.

can anyone still remember this hk celebrity called 李若彤? she also acted in both roles before.

so who do you think is more chio?

if let me choose, i will go for 李若彤. haha.

saturday post

well today is my workplace's twenty-second anniversary celebrations.

a car-ni-val was held, where different classes set up different types of stalls, consisting of games, food and garang sales. the profits that every stall earns will go to charity.

my class sold donuts. yesterday, i went with some of them to ntuc for some shopping. we have 100 botak donuts. so we bought chocolate bars, to make the chocolate sauce to 淋 on the donuts, some rainbow rice and sliced almonds to sprinkle on top.

and the overall product turns out quite ok.

went back home to have a short nap, before heading to bedok reservoir for the dragonboat competition. there's alot of pple! majority of them look very pro. the men are very tanned and muscular. i see le a bit 怕怕. haha.

well as i had said, we din have much training. so we actually have nothing to lose. dragonboat is really damn siong to the arms. after we finished the race, my arms were really trembling. anyway our timing was two minutes and five seconds. its a vast improvement from last year's result.

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i received the letter of confirmation to go n-i-e already. the 2 year course will start on 23 july. next saturday i will be going down to m-o-e to sign on the dotted line. haiz. five more days to carefully consider whether am i really suitable for this job.

this morning inside the staffroom, one of my colleagues decided to help me decide my future. she took out two small slips of paper. one slip write "签". the other slip write "不签". then she fold both slips into very small piece, anyhow mix a bit inside her cupped hands, and ask me to choose.

so i chose...

and guess the words that appear the moment i opened up that slip of paper:

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"不签"

wah hahahaha. fated. everything is fated.

then she told me she actually wrote "不签" on both papers. dunno she is saying for real a not. =p