seriously speaking, this is the most 富丽堂皇 temple i had ever seen in my whole life. and also the most modern.
magnificient, isnt it? look like a palace from the outside. once you step in, you will be even more impressed. especially the toilets. their taps and flushing system are automatic ones! my god. which temple in this world has high class toilets that can only be found in five-star hotels? a pity i forgot to take a pic of the toilet.
and the lift also very class. the walls are carpetted!
the stage that we performed at.
one of the dance items from 聚舞坊 dropped alot of strips of coloured paper on the stage. so we decided to use these coloured paper and throw them in the air, then quickly take picture, to create a snowing effect.
but i guessed we failed terribly. =p
thankfully, i managed to have a better snowing effect photo taken previously at japan.
can see the red leaves falling down? kudos to my little sis.
after the performance i immediately went home, cos i was sick. having sore throat with lots of phlegm, and a very bad cough. no thanks to the 四川麻辣火锅 that i ate for lunch with my colleagues, which aggravated my sore throat. anyway the steamboat really rocks. 100 times much nicer than the steamboat at old hk cafe. but thanks to some antibiotics, woods cough syrup, and drinking alot of water, i am much better now.
as i mentioned previously, i went to eat mussels with my colleagues at this very nice restaurant called oosters. it is only very crowded on weekdays, because it is situated in the middle of the working district. weekends it is actually not that crowded.
we ordered two pots of mussels. 1 kg for each pot. damn shiok. haha. 1 pot is mussels cooked in white wine. another pot is cooked in white creamy sauce, something similar to that kind of sauce used for carbonara pasta.
we also ordered two plates of sausages, and a pork knuckle. doesnt taste that fantastic. and then the pork knuckle got that kind of 猪骚味, which i think is quite disgusting. i still prefer the sausages and pork knuckle from the german restaurant at holland v which dashimon brought me to.
and then we had nice chilled beer to accompany all these yummy food. wat a solid way to end five days of work, and preparing to welcome the weekend.
while eating, we start talking about funny answers given by idiotic kids in exam papers.
The below two questions are taken from a sec 2 normal technical science paper. The questions are on sex education.
Question 1: What is STD?
(A) Sex Terminal Disease (B) Sexually Transmitted Disease (C) Singapore Taxi Driver <---------- ???!!! (D) Sexually Transmitted Death
Some students still put (C) as the answer. -_-'''
Question 2: What is pre-marital sex? [This is the ultimate one]
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The most ultimate answer from one of the kids:
Fuck lor.
[dunno whether to cry or to laugh.]
after the wonderful lunch, we went to see toys!
saw many toys which give me nice memories of the past. :)
my colleagues are really crazy when it comes to buying toys. very 舍得花. actually is good to have their company when you go buy toys, because they noe the boss very well, and the boss will always offer very good prices.
for example there is this very cool transformer version mp3 player that can transform to become a robot! even the earphones is in the shape of a robot! i noe my description is very lousy, so you must really see the thing for yourself then you will noe it is really damn cool. in the market sell about 160 - 180 bucks. the boss offered a good price of 110. i really very 心痒痒 to buy, but in the end i controlled myself.
this weekend will be quite busy for me. have rehearsal at 佛牙寺 on saturday. sunday have a dance practise again, before the actual performance on next monday.
to all my friends in nus, congratulations for clearing the exams! :)
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!
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. :)
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.
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.
