reflections

time flies really fast. just one more day, and i will be leaving my workplace already. and i will be starting on a new lease of life, for the next two years.

if you ask me whether do i enjoy my one year of work, i can say i have mixed feelings. but one thing i am certain is that i have grown alot, and seen so many things that i bet i will nv have seen if i go to those "branded" schools. there's really so much drama almost everyday, and i bet we can write a book as thick as an encyclopedia about all the daily happenings, or even shoot a 100 episode drama serial. haha.

let's bring back some wonderful memories i had for the past one year:

haiz. i will miss my colleagues and my kids. hope tomorrow i wun be so emo and cry in front of everyone. =p

tuesday post

nothing much to blog about these few days.

right now my life is mainly on sch and dance.

now is already tuesday. 3 more days! and i am liberated. haha.

today i brought a terror class to the swimming pool. i was damn bloody pissed with some of them. bloody freaking childish hyperactive idiots.

when i reach the pool, one of the swimming instructors spoke to me,

"you had a bad day?? you look devastated."

-_-'''

let's see wat prog i have tomorrow. i am bringing classes to the swimming pool again. but thankfully the classes tomorrow are much more well-behaved.

after that will be going to nus for dance.

and after tomorrow, will be 2 more days left!

think i will bring my camera and go around taking pics with my colleagues and the kids.

looking forward to all the farewell makan sessions. yay!

paradise is awaiting me~

red cliff

went to watch it with darling just now.

most hype up chinese blockbuster of the year, how can dun watch? some more i myself is a big fan of 三国演义.

in the movie, i love the characters of zhuge liang, zhou yu, zhang fei and zhao yun the most. i think the actors portray these roles to perfection. and wat a coincidence all start with the letter z. haha.

the movie is really nice, and i think it is a must watch for 三国演义 fans. there are some parts of the movie that made my tears come out, that is when i see guan yu, zhao yun and zhang fei fight so valiantly. btw guan yu is my fav character in 三国演义. but i think the actor who took up the role of guan yu in red cliff is quite chui. he is unable to bring out the essence of guan yu in the movie. i think 陆树铭 did a better job in the drama serial.

cant wait for the second part to come out soon.

and here are some more posters to share:

one more thing to add.

lin zhi ling is very chio. haha.

last 2 days of t-w-i-n-n-ing prog

the second last day for the indon pple in sg.

it started off quite badly.

they were told to assemble at 645, where the bus will pick all of them up and send them to sch. so in the morning, i woke up earlier than usual, and then reach my house downstairs at 630 to wait for a taxi. i thought that in the morning sure got alot of taxis, and i will just wait for at most five minutes, then travel to downtown east (that's where they are staying) take ten minutes, so i will reach there on time.

BUT...

i waited for ten min. no cab came. the cabs that came were hired. my balls keep shrinking and shrinking. i cant imagine the sight of 32 indon kids, 3 indon teachers, and 1 indon vp, plus 1 big bus, waiting for me. i will be screwed. i will be murdered. i will be condemned.

finally, an empty cab came at 645 (i am sure going to be screwed).

he ask me go by which way. so i just tell him go by the fastest way, cos i am late. the moment i say finish, he zhua3 the accelerator all the way and drove damn fast! wow! in the process he sped past two red lights. damn steady. haha.

so i reached downtown east at 655. i saw the bus. i saw the 3 teachers outside the bus looking at my direction. i walk quickly to them. i look at them. i greeted them good morning. they greeted me back. i look inside the bus.

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THE BUS IS EMPTY!!!

wow. amazing. i am already so late. yet they are later than me.

using my zero ability in bahasa indon, i put on the most puzzled expression, and ask them, "students mana???"

one of them noe a bit of english, then tell me, "Late."

hoho. ok. i am saved.

so i 比手划脚, telling them i will go into the chalet and wake all of them up. they smiled and nodded their heads.

i walked to their chalet. i saw a few students. i ask them to hurry up. i reach the chalet. i saw another bunch of students, and the vp. the vp saw me, gave a very apologetic expression.

so i go up to their rooms. some are still bathing. some are still sleeping. some are still making up. -_-'''

and i started to knock on their doors and ask them to hurry up.

725 i go back to the bus. only 16 kids were there. -_-'''

the bus driver was pissed. he said he want to go already. the vp was also pissed. he said we can go to sch first, the rest who were late will take taxi themselves. i was damn shocked. wah! can like that one ah. so i called my vp and ask him. my vp said, "let the teachers make their own decision lah."

wah. ok lor. so scary.

reach sch le. nothing much to blog about sch lessons.

AND THEN!

i saw something. this is one thing that i saw for my first time. and i even touched it. for the first time. let me describe it to you.

it is rectangular.

it is flat.

it has numbers on it.

it is purple in color.

it has a person's face on it.

-- SO WAT ISIT? --

.

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its a 1000 dollar sg note!!! wow!!!

one of the indon teachers wanted to go back to downtown east to settle some passport problems. she only have a 1000 sing dollar note with her, and want to change small money. i get one of my malay students to tell her got two options

1) i go to the bank at bedok central and change for her, if she trust me.

2) i lend her money to take cab to downtown east first, then she return to me.

guess wat she chose? she chose option 1.

so i was damn stressed. i carefully take the 1000 dollar note from her. carefully fold it into half. and carefully put it into my pocket. i think i do all these actions in a very kua zhang and animated manner. she and my student keep on laughing. haha. then i go into the general office and saw my vp. so i tell him i going to the bank to change money. he saw the 1000 dollar note he also stunned. just nice my p and the admin manager was there. my p has small change for 1000 dollars. but my admin manager scared the 1000 dollar note is fake. but it looks genuine lah. so my p took out the small change. yay no need to make a trip to the bank. sekali i got robbed or the note flew out of my pocket i am in deep shit. and i nv take a pic with the 100o dollar note. sian.

there is a bbq session at night. we got lots of food! there's chicken wings, hot dogs, stingray and otak. some of my kids' parents prepared food like char kway teow, fried macaroni, and spaghetti! another kid bought home-made ice cream from dunno where. the flavours are very nice, got horlicks, milo, wild strawberry and vanilla etc. i was super full.

after the whole bbq session, it was a mass crying session. all the kids are so emotional, hugging each other and crying terribly. we teachers just stand there and see them cry.

the t-w-i-n-n-ing prog is finally coming to an end. i am sure my kids are very tired, having to accompany the indon kids most of the time, and coming home late every night, and they also have alot of sch work to catch up with. hope that they will quickly get lots of rest and then chiong for their studies.

as for me, i will just slowly count down to my last day in the sch. heard that some kids are organising a farewell party for me. i am very touched. :'(

some photos:

with the indon boys

the indon girl on my right is a model. haha.

check out our tees! i wearing adidogs, bought by my two sisters when they went bangkok. i think it is very cool. haha. the pinktooth tee is damn cool too.

and i just received the tees that darling bought for me from bangkok! very nice! got one couple tee very interesting. nx time we wear and take picture. =)

sentosa

ok i am very tired. so i will blog this very fast.

youth day holiday, all my colleagues are slacking at home, but, some of us going to sentosa. yay~

we went to take the luge. its actually some go-kart thingy, with no wheels, and goes from a high point down to the bottom point. can go very fast, damn shiok.

(this is not the luge in sentosa. its the one in new zealand)


so to get to the high point, you must first take a skyride to the top.

and then we went to palawan beach. we had lots of fun. building sandcastles, playing ultimate frisbee, playing beach takraw, and forming human pyramids. haha.

finally, we watched a performance called songs of the sea. or isit sounds of the sea? haha i forgot le.

basically its a performance with singing, water dynamics, laser lights, fire and fireworks. quite spectacular. and i captured some awesome shots. :)

reached home at around eleven pm. wat a long and tiring day. but i had lots of fun.

weekend post

darling is back! yay!

went to budget terminal to pick her up. i was quite impressed with the budget terminal. at first i thought it will be quite run-down, then only got fans, very stuffy, that kind of thing. but it is fully air-conditioned! wow! amazing! =p

and the arrival hall got duty-free shop! cool! haha.

darling was hungry, so i brought her to katong to eat zhi char. damn that bloody waitress. we ordered hotplate tofu, bbq fish and kai lan. obviously only got two of us, and yet the waitress gave us the medium size portion, when actually the small size portion is sufficient. the whole meal is damn ex lah. i will nv go to that zhi char restaurant again.

but still, is good to see darling again after one whole week! hope that she enjoyed the meal, because she said she keep eating tom yum, eat until very sian.

sunday morning went to play soccer. played all the way until 12 plus, and the weather is damn hot. took a nap at two plus, and woke up at 630 for dinner. after dinner went to ucc for 清男 practise.

tomorrow is youth day holiday, but i still have to work. i going to sentosa with the kids. i dun mind lah actually, cos i think its going to be fun.

and i love this song that's playing on my blog! its sung by shinhwa! dunno whether isit a korean pop group or japanese. should be korean bah.

once in a lifetime~

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i am dying to go overseas! especially after reading chio outdoor enthusiast & xuefen's holland blog, i even more gian to go travel.

i want to look at nice buildings with fantastic architecture, i want to enjoy beautiful scenery, i want to sit on a big open patch of grass with flowers of different colours, reading a book and drinking a cup of ice latte. wah lao damn shiok.

cant wait for the dec holidays to come, so i can go overseas with darling and my army friends.

here's some pics to satisfy my desire a little bit:

if only sg have all these nice places. haha.

thursday post

today's prog is to bring the kids to my beloved uni, nus, and then after that, esplanade.

someone from the registrar office conducted a talk for all of us at LT31. at first i was confused where LT31 is. i dunno whether isit the one beside sci canteen, or isit the one nearer to the src. my VP thought that it is the one nearer to the src (but he is from ntu). so to play safe, i quickly sms to all my frens still studying in nus, and who are from sci, to make sure. and yah, LT31 is the one beside sci canteen.

the talk was quite boring, basically is all about background information of nus. and i think the lecturer is quite boring, and the talk is super dry, so most of my kids are already getting restless. only the teachers from indon, my VP, majority of the indon kids were listening attentively.

the stay at nus is just for two hours, which i think is really not enough to show them the wonderful things of nus, to wow them, but also bo bian, cos our schedule is quite tight. the talk itself is already one hour, so the remaining one hour, we brought them to sci co-op for some shopping. haha.

all the kids, both local and indon, din buy textbooks. din buy stationery. instead they bought alot of tidbits. -_-'''

some of the indon kids bought the nus centennial t-shirts. they also bought those laminated motivational posters, which i think is really impressive. impressive as in they buy these posters back to hang on their walls and motivate themselves to achieve higher targets.

after the nus visit, because of limited tickets, only the indon pple went to esplanade to watch a musical perf by pri sch kids. me, my VP and two of our kids accompanied them. we took them to one fullerton to take pics, especially to take pic with the merlion. but upon reaching there, to everyone's disappointment, the merlion is under renovation. -_-'''

we went to the rooftop terrace to have dinner (packed food). i heard the ndp commands, thinking that there is a rehearsal now, i rush over excitedly to another side of the rooftop terrace to see the viewing platform. to my disappointment, the platform is empty. they are just conducting a sound test. :(

photos:

how do you find my shirt? i received mixed comments again.

some of my colleagues say i look very ah pek. some said i look like i am wearing a uniform. some say i look nice and formal.

and then when my kids saw me, they were damn shocked. funny leh... like they nv see me in this kind of attire before. -_-'''

anyway, i think the musical perf is good. at first i thought it is at the theatre, but it is actually at the recital studio. this is only my second time watching a perf at esplanade. the first time is a few years back, at chung cheng's dunno how many year anniversary, either 90 or 100, i forgot already, so to commemorate this anniversary, they staged a wonderful performance at the concert hall.

my third time watching a perf at esplanade is coming soon, which is in july. the perf is 风中少林. shaolin monks performing their wushu stunts. looking forward to that. =)

i miss darling!!! have to wait for two more days then she will be back!

忙啊~

这几天很忙，一直跑来跑去。

先说星期二吧。

那些印尼人本来是大约四点钟抵达新加坡。他们是十二点在机场集合，然后坐飞机去 batam, 然后再坐游艇去 harbourfront.

可是，下午两点，我的副校长告诉我他们 missed their flight. 所以会晚上九点才到新加坡。-_-'''

我的副校长就叫我八点二十分在我家楼下等他，他会来载我去 harbourfront.

aiyah damn sian. i shall resume to english.

so i reach the bus stop five min earlier. and then, at 819 pm, i received an sms from him. he said they missed the ferry. will reach sg only at 1120 pm. -_-'''

he ask me to go home first, and he will activate me once he is ready to leave.

when i reach home, five min later, he called me.

he said our kids are already outside waiting for him, so he already went to pick them up, then ask me to come down again in five min to pick me up. -_-'''

there were 3 more kids who were already there when we reached. as it was still early, we had supper at mac. my VP very generous, treated all of us to drinks, mcnuggets and fries. hoho.

after eating we proceed to the arrival hall. since we are so early, we took some random pics.

finally, they arrived. we immediately board the bus and bring them to their "hotel", cos we noe they confirm damn tired and shag. by the time we reach the "hotel", it was already past 12 midnight.

after helping them check in, and making sure all of them are comfortable in their rooms, we went home. i reach home at one plus. -_-'''

so you see ah, when i went over there, it took me 2 hours by plane.

for them, it took them nearly 12 hours to reach sg. damn jia lat.

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wed, the indon pple came to our sch.

we brought them for a sch tour.

after that they went to tampines jc for a visit, and then go and play ball games at the field behind their "hotel".

i din join them cos i went to nus for dance prac. and my dear ang hw is joining us for one item! hoho. i think it will be added fun and laughter with him around. haha.