its nice to see the juniors emoing about withdrawal symptoms on facebook. honestly i dun feel anything. so maybe it is a good time to exit gloriously, having been dancing in every single performance since DR07 until EMCC10.
it feels good when fellow dancers trust me to do things, for example xiaoyun ask me to train the china boys in the MEN item, fengjun ask me to source for lighter, and shumin ask me to be the snowman for her item.
so i am snowman 2, hanwei is snowman 1 and laval is snowman 3. hanwei is the most cock snowman because when he was pulling the string to let the snowflakes drop, he pulled down the entire string with the snowflakes still left intact on top. wah lao really damn funny, and i want to laugh loudly on the backstage also cannot.
pictures behind the scene:
full cast + choreo of the taiji item.
siying, year 1 medicine student, learnt wushu in hwa chong.
ever since she wore that "its all about saving children's lives" tshirt, i have been saying that sentence every moment i saw her, and she was so traumatised that she dare not wear that tshirt anymore. hahahahaha.
the forever classic pose that both of us always do during each performance.
ever since i pulled hw into nuscd, must have this kind of slanderous photo.
the mother, two sons, and one daughter-in-law.
shumin, my partner for Destiny. also the choreo for the snow item who approached me to be her snowman number 2.
with my darling! my make up very fierce hor? its done by liang bin! i think the black singlet is very tight and also very gay.
i am going for my 6-hour sleep now. very tired. bye!
i am now blogging at 6 am. in 14 hours time, 'motion in stillness' will be showcased at ucc theatre. i have been sleeping at 12 plus and waking up at 4 plus for the past two days. once the performance is over i will definitely sleep at least 6 hours every night.
yesterday was the full dress rehearsal, and for my case, it sucks. in the taiji item, my movements were slow right from the start as compared to the rest. liang bin was super duper angry and after the item when he walked into our dressing room his face was blacker than bao qing tian, and the crescent on the forehead evolve to full moon. we had our debrief at the end of whole rehearsal and got screwed by him. we shared cab home and he admitted to me that thank goodness he debriefed us after the whole rehearsal, when he already cooled down and not so angry. if he were to debrief us right after our item, he will definitely explode big time and we will receive 10 times worse than ferguson's hairdryer treatment. so on the cab i 对音乐 with liang bin. later on i must not screw up!
ok i am going to bathe already, then go to sch. bye everyone! good luck to all the dancers! hope the audience will enjoy the show!
my room is undergoing an extreme makeover, and today the furniture is coming in. at first it is coming at night, but this morning i woke up i got a rude shock from my little sis, who said that it will come at 11 am! so i quickly dissemble my old bed, and clear the room as much as i can to facilitate the moving in.
anyway this is how my old room look like: the room with new furniture: room after makeover: (still very messy because haven really pack back all the stuff)
so for the whole afternoon i was helping my dad move the furniture here and there. it is like moving house. only the two of us doing lor. i cant possibly pang sei my dad and let him move everything alone. as a result i was a bit late for the full dress rehearsal, and thank goodness my choreographers and president are very understanding people.
the full dress was supposed to be starting at 630, but based on previous experiences, it can never start at 630, and i was right! the troupe can only soar to greater heights if we can adhere to the given timing punctually.
tonight we also celebrate zhou laoshi's birthday! actually we were supposed to celebrate on wednesday during the full run, but zhou laoshi din come. so there were two cakes, and they were left in the fridge since wednesday until today, then 5 pm take out from the fridge and left in the air con temperature until 9 plus? dunno whether got spoil a not. hahahaha. but quite alot of pple still ate the cakes because the cakes are from bengawan solo. jia an said its spoilt because he tasted something sour and he immediately vomitted everything out.
i was the photographer. hanwei went off early. i can be a bastard by photoshopping myself inside. but i am being nice so i include him too! hahahaha.
anyway hor fengjun very funny. she prepared the cakes but nv prepare the lighter! so she ask me whether can i go and source for lighter. so i thought of asking zhou laoshi but fengjun thinks its a bit lame to borrow lighter from the birthday man and light the candle of his birthday cake.
so anyway, to cut the story short, i went up to zhou laoshi.
me: 老师, 我的朋友需要用打火机。你有吗？
zhou laoshi (searching his pockets and then look at me with a stunned face): 我已经戒了！哈哈哈！
me (also very stunned): 哦 ok ok!!! 戒烟好戒烟好！
then bo bian i went to search for the lighter with laval. first we went to cheers. cheers dun sell lighter, also dun sell matchsticks. then we go to subway. laval bought his sandwich because he is super hungry. i asked the subway staff whether he got lighter. he say dun have. then i ask him whether he got matchsticks. he also say dun have. then i ask whether does the kitchen have matchsticks. he pointed at the oven. ok point taken. hahahahahaha.
we decided to drive to fong seng to buy the lighter. and then we saw a few guys outside raffles hall talking cock. so i asked them whether they have lighter. and one of them has it! yes! i offered to buy it from him but he gave me free!
after the rehearsal we went for supper at blk 85! tampinesers (me + liang bin) and the woodlanders (darling + jingwen + grace)! we ordered bbq fish which has funny bones (commented by jingwen), gai lan for liang bin (although he is not a vegetarian but he tries to be a vegetarian for health reasons), otak, chicken wings and sugar cane juice.
ok finally have some social life this week.
next week onwards i will be at boiling point, because of performance, doing lesson plans and teaching. i still have an unannounced visit from my supervisor. hope it doesnt rain next week during my pe lessons!
so today is the official launch of the newly renovated sch compound.
5 students from each class have to gather at the holding sch at bedok. then they will take mrt from bedok to tampines mrt, then from tampines mrt they will walk to the sch. for the last 100 metres to the sch gate, got other students cheering for them with poms poms. and guess wat? the P and VP took mrt with them and walk with them too!
now the teachers dun use access card. we use transponder! remind me of the hall days. we use the transponder to open the staffroom, open special rooms like computer labs, and we even use it to mark our attendance. so every morning when we step into the sch, we must go to the general office and there is a terminal beside the main door, then we have to press our transponder at the terminal. before we go home also do the same thing. no more manual writing of attendance. technology rulez.
anyway i just asked for my P's permission to release me from sch on tuesday and wednesday once i finished my lessons. tuesday my lessons end at 930 am! wednesday my lessons end at 2 pm! and he allowed me to go off after that! three cheers to the P! i swear i will devote my heart and soul to the sch and help to shape the best out of every individual. *ZEN*
ok i am very tired. just now had practise at CFA. i had to practise all my 3 items at the same time. this is crazy. super duper shag. i cant even lift up my partner shumin, when she is already so light.
nzj uploaded most of the full run's video clips already! you can go to his youtube page to see! he names it motion sickness which i think is quite funny. i thought mine is already very crappy by naming them 4 boy 4 girl, super cockster, eagle catch girl, etc etc, but i think his is definitely crappier than mine. very wassup. hahaha.
tomorrow i will have a new bed, new study table, and another new wardrobe! super excited! :)
it feels good when i see this on the laptop screen:
hahahaha.
played soccer with my colleagues, and thank goodness i din get injured. but i got cramps in the beginning of the second half. later on my boot was spoilt. one stud came off, and the sole of the boot also came off. wanna play on also cannot so victor substitute me and i went off. after the first half we were leading 2-0! at the end of the game it was 2-1! we won!
i think i screwed myself up during full run. liang bin's item, forgot movements and nv count the beats of the music. the all guys item, also cannot count the beats of the music. ironically i feel most satisfied with destiny, despite that it is the most last min item. this is so strange.
comparing between psyche 08, retrospect 09 and motion stillness 10, i still feel the most for psyche. i also cant give the reason.
anyway after this performance i may not dance in the future emcc dance performances, due to my career. practises at night still can take it. but taking leave during bump-in period and the performance day itself is a bit unreasonable. yes i treat the performance seriously, but then my kids how? get relief i also feel guilty.
ok this is one amazing handball goal that i must share with my handball kakis!
he scored with his back facing the goal leh! wassup!!!
there was a time when people said that sg wont make it, but she did.
there was a time when people said i wont have the time and energy to maintain yytellmewhy, but i did.
these people are simply too naive.
so i have been blogging since july 2005. and right now is march 2010. this post is also my 1000th post, so i shall celebrate this 1000th post at naive restaurant with my pe classmates. haha.
later on i will celebrate again with darling. most likely after the performance, and my cough fully recovered, and i shall bring her to go eat korean bbq!
anyway naive is a vegetarian restaurant. previously the restaurant put advertisement on you zhou kan until very hiong, and that's how i knew about this restaurant. the reason why we went to naive to eat is because king is a vegetarian! haha. yes naive has very nice vegetarian food, but it is a bit atas and the price is on the higher end.
pictures of the dishes:
so if you wanna eat atas expensive flour, mushrooms, leaves and fruits, this is the restaurant to go to. ok to be fair, the dishes taste delicious, and the ambience of the restaurant is nice.
tomorrow i playing soccer with my colleagues. we are playing against the teachers from sea star catholic. hope i wun get injured, because my injury record with the sch teachers' team is "wonderful". i only played twice with them, and for both times, i sprained my leg and had to see the sinseh.
so everybody, especially the dancers from nuscd, join me in praying and hoping that i will emerge injury free after the match. ah mi to fo.
oh yah before i forget, let me share with you this very funny stuff, which was introduced by mr max, and mr max saw this on mr brown's blog.
anyway this is what singaporeans look for in google. hahahaha. why are indians so smelly??!! wassup man.
being a teacher has no social life. in sch you educate students, mark worksheets and test papers, update attendance in sch cockpit, arranging all sorts of forms (edusave, cip, consent and all the blah blah) because you are a "form" teacher, and other miscellanous stuff. then when you go back home, you still mark, and you do lesson plans.
finally i had some life. thanks to the march holidays. i love march holidays. anyway i just met up with a friend whom i had known in the sch. at that time i was still a contract teacher and she was a relief teacher. she was also an ex student from that sch. she still go back to the sch for relief teaching quite often, so from her i obtained quite alot of info about the happenings in sch. this is like 无间道.
there is a very cool aviation exhibition at terminal 2. do check that out if you happen to be there. there is also a "weighing machine".
wah so light. she is a very ideal pdd partner.
phew... i still manage to maintain at 71 kg... hahahahaha...
ok now is already one am. i shall go and sleep and continue with the horrendous large number of lesson plans tomorrow morning.
this morning i finally played soccer with my jc friends. haven been playing with them for around 4 weeks, because of cny, handball carnival and dance practise. after the 2.5 hr session my legs were having cramps and my back is going to break. how weak i am right now, and i call myself a pe teacher.
in the evening i met up with leow and mak for dinner at sakura buffet. the restaurant is at marina country club which is situated at punggol. very ulu pandan place. no public bus goes there. you can only drive your own car, take cab, or take the shuttle service, which comes every half an hour, and only sits 12 pple.
the dinner was awesome. i wanted to take pics of the awesome skewers but the waiter came up to me and say taking pics of food not allowed. sian. the cost was 31 bucks per pax. quite worth it i think. i thought it will be like 40 plus because it is a sunday dinner.
anyway, i just registered for this urban freestyle run, which is on 10th april!
here are the obstacles:
1) water barrier
Participants will have to maneuver around and over a series of water barriers to complete this obstacle.
2) HUBBING STATION
Participants will have to hub together to complete this obstacle. They will collect a jigsaw piece defined by the Hubbing symbol printed on the back of their shirt (Max Online, TV, Mobile, Digital Voice or StarHub) and form a puzzle cube with three other participants.
3) PARKOUR ARENA
Inspired by parkour, participants have the opportunity to show off their skills in this special arena. The numerous frames and blocks are packed full of opportunity for self-expression but can be just as easily cleared by someone with no parkour experience whatsoever.
4) GIANT DRINKS CAN
Participants will race into the opening of a giant drink can to be enveloped by a refreshing wave of vapour before grabbing an even more refreshing energy drink on the way out.
5) SPORTS TUNNEL
Urban Freestylers can strike a pose and squeezing through cut outs in a series of sports themed walls.
6) GIANT SHOE
“Just Climb It” - participants will have to climb the laces of a giant shoe into the insole and leap out to complete this wacky obstacle.
7) FASHION RUNWAY
Strike a pose alone or with your friends on the Fashion Runway with the Marina Bay Sands in the backdrop before leaping off and continuing on the course - a throng of photographers, will capture all the shots for you to grab at the end of the run.
8) CAR JUMP
Climb and slide over two colliding cars before dashing to the final fun-filled obstacle.
9) SLIP 'N' SLIDE
Forget running across non-existing finisher’s tape, participants will get to slip and slide across the finish line, “soaking” in the atmosphere of completing Singapore’s most fun run!
i am very thankful that tmr is the start of the march hols. although still got alot of work to do, but at least no need to teach, so i can rest my voice and also let my cough recover. :)
at one pm, whereby its going to rain. it looks peaceful on the outside, but inside the office it is chaos, because every teacher is packing their stuff.
goodbye holding sch. although the sch compound is a bit old, but i will miss its tranquility.
this morning i woke up at 430 am. the reason for waking up so early was not meant to do my lesson plans. the reason was to watch the second half of man u vs ac milan! man u won 4 nil! and david beckham made a emotional return to old trafford after leaving the club for 7 years!
park ji sung scored a goal in this match.
check out his english!
i think for a korean he is speaking quite well. i still have the impression of korean language as very barbaric, with all the "chio chio chio" sounds at the back of every word or sentence. even a very chio korean turn me off the moment she speaks.
this morning's pe lesson we were training the kids for the 30 kids 31 legs. it was really fun. teachers enjoyed themselves. students enjoyed themselves too.
and then i went back to the new sch again to supervise the moving of the pe equipment to the indoor sports hall. the ISH is really solid!!!
my colleague saw the volleyball net, hugged the volleyball post, and cried. he is dying to set up a volleyball cca. this shows how passionate or crazy a pe teacher can get over a sport that he or she loves.
the jack neo saga is getting out of hand. more women are stepping forward, claiming that they had a fling with him, or were sexually harassed by him. one of them include a french actress! she was only 16 years old at that time when jack neo advanced on her! wassup!
anyway the super lao jiao kevii senior summarised the whole jack neo saga in one poster. i feel that he really did a very good job. kudos to his humor and creativity.
good job max. i hope your poster will earn millions and you will earn yourself a name in the design industry. let's see how you will design a poster if moses lim also got flings. ok just kidding about the moses lim. for fun and humor only.
this was quite a long time ago, but still let me share with everyone. this is the item that i performed at city beach resort. haha.
i am thankful to be in nuscd, because i had opened a new dimension to my performance. i can now incorporate both wushu and chinese dance! how cool is that.
and this is the clip of liang bin's taiji dance which was taken during the practise just now.
darling and yuanyi claimed that my face was super duper fierce when i did this dance during the full run last week. either that i want to kill pple, or some person owe me one million dollars for one year and haven return. ok i shall change my expression into a calm and peaceful one. ZEN.
this afternoon i made a trip to the newly renovated sch to supervise the moving of the weights to the gym. i reached there at around 315, waited until 625 then the movers brought the weights down from their lorry. -.-'''
the moving process of the whole sch is super tedious and siong. i think the movers are most ke lian. they are like coolies and this afternoon when i see that they have to move all the library stuff from ground floor all the way to 4th floor where our library is located, i really feel the pain for them. imagine moving thousands of books, the shelves, the tables and chairs.
so while waiting for my weights i went around the whole sch to explore. got the sense of nostalgia. left this sch in dec 2007. in mar 2010 i am back here again!
ok here are the pictures.
staffroom my L-shaped table, together with a wooden cabinet
the parade square, which can also be utilised as netball court and sepak takraw court canteen science lab fitness corner gym, which can also double up as a dance studio! pe store room, which is very spacious and got two big cabinets!
rooftop basketball court on the 4th level! this is damn cool! but the idiot students will definitely throw or kick the ball out of the fence on purpose. then the ball will land on somebody and that somebody get injured. and the P banned all the students to go to the rooftop bball court. although i am saying all these for humour, but i will not be surprised if this really happened.
looking forward to friday, which is the end of term 1. then comes the march holidays. and after the march holidays is a new sch compound, new sch environment, new beginning! hurray!
this morning i woke up, the first thing i saw on the newpaper is a picture of a girl who is a 22 year old model, and she has an affair with singapore's famous comedian cum movie director jack neo. so i read the article, and it says that the wife seemed cool about it and asked the 22 year old girl what does she want and what is her intention.
it is serious because jack neo is a famous tv personality and he portrays this mr good man image to everyone. and sg is still a conservative country. imagine if wu zong xian was discovered having an affair with a 22 year old model, everyone will just "orhhhhhhhhhh ok lor not surprising wat". but when the person is jack neo and is in singapore, every singaporean will be like "HUH OMG HOW CAN HE DO THAT?!"
so america got tiger woods, england got john terry and ashley cole, finally singapore got jack neo.
but honestly, i will like to think the whole thing is a scam. it is just a stunt to gain publicity for his two movies that are showing in cinemas right now. but of course if the whole thing is true, then i apologize for my comment. i dun want to get shoot down by some anonymous person who left comments on mr ah yam's blog because ah yam claimed that fann wong dun deserve to be in the CNN top 25 asia actors/actresses, so the mr anonymous just shoot mr ah yam and said mr ah yam is disgusting and fugly. honestly i do feel a tinge of sadness for mr ah yam. that is why i refuse to enable comments in my blog. i want to be a ostrich. even if my students or P read my blog, i assume they din cos i disable my comments and they are not able to leave their traces on my blog! haha.
anyway i just received an email from my pe hod. for the coming week's pe lessons, he wants us to select 30 students and train them for the 30 humans 31 legs. if you have no idea wat i am talking about, watch this:
the reason why we are doing this is because we are going for some record breaking thingy. singapore's best record so far is 12 point something seconds. and we are doing this on our sports day.
win liao lor. i wanted to do amazing race one lor. but luckily i only finished one third of the lesson plan. :p
oh yah, this is the haunted music video which i mentioned to fen:
take note of the 1:28 to 1:29. the window just opened by itself. eeerrrieeee..........
so the second week of practicum is over just like that.
let me recap some of the stuff that happened.
for the whole of second week, i am a evil pe teacher who ask the students in my pe classes to jog around the field for 12 min and walk for 4 min under the freaking hot sun. then after that i let them drink water to hydrate themselves and they sprint around the field under a timing, and then sprint again for a second round under a reduced timing. after that they did 15 push ups as a closing activity.
i can tell that some of them hated me. its only my first week with them and i terkan them so much. but they nv realise that its for their own good, especially their 2.4 km results are so atrocious.
during one of the pe lessons on wednesday something funny happened. and the class is sec 3 normal tech. i taught them before two years ago. towards the end of the lesson i was starting to do a debrief. then the students bao doh two of the boys who are hiding behind the car. but i still carry on with my debrief, finished it, released the class, and walk towards the car and found the two idiotic boys. wat is the outcome? confisgate their hp and ezlink card, plus 3 hours of detention after sch.
then on thursday, during the heats at bedok stadium, a group of girls came to me and thank me for making them sprint around the field, because they got first in the 4x100 m relay. they admitted to me they hated me in the morning but now they are thankful to me. how sweet isnt it? hahaha.
on friday, one girl was feeling dizzy and having chest pain after my lesson. so i open the sick bay for her to rest. hmmmm... is my pe lesson really that siong?
ok nvm, next week is the last week in the holding sch compound. so i shall do an amazing race around the whole sch to let them remember the happy or sad memories.
we are already in the process of moving our stuff over to the new sch compound. the majority of the stuff will be moved next thursday. so right now the teachers are very gan jiong in packing, and they even come back to sch today (which is a sat) to pack their table.
today i also went back to sch with the pe colleagues to pack the pe store room. the store room is really in a mess with so many spoilt equipment. we took like 4 hours to discard all the unwanted stuff, pack the wanted stuff nicely in the boxes, and label them with the stickers.
behold, the mess in the teachers' staffroom:
(i wonder what will happen if a fire broke out. hahaha choy touch wood.)
and the wushu weapons:
only have one small corner to put the weapons. damn sad. in the years to come i want to have a wushu room. with many many weapons. just like my times in chung cheng and tj.
this evening after helping to mop the floor i finally went for a jog. the last time i ran is during the 2.4 test at nie. i felt sucky because really too long nv jog, and i am still a bit sick. now i can understand why my students hate me. hahaha.
i forgot to mention that yesterday night i went to causeway point to eat dinner with darling's family, because is her father's birthday! we ate at 3 bowls 2 pieces restaurant. darling and i got a zippo lighter for him, with his name engraved at the back of the lighter. darling's father is very funny, because he asked her whether is the name engraved by me! hahaha.
so after dinner we walked past hock hua tonic shop and i bought the sea coconut cough syrup specially recommended by nzj. yes i am coughing again.
he specially took such a handsome pic of himself holding the wonderful sea coconut syrup, so that i wun buy the wrong syrup, and also for me to acknowledge his handsome-ness.
anyway the publicity poster for the upcoming chinese dance performance is out.
intially, i am dancing in two items. one is a taiji modern dance item choreo-ed by liang bin. the other one is the all guys' item choreo-ed by xiaoyun, which depicts a normal guy's everyday life, super boring routine of having wet dreams at night, waking up late in the morning because of the wet dream, hurriedly change into clothes, drive to work and got caught in the stupid morning peak hour jam, then involved in office politics, after work then go clubbing.
xiaoyun also got choreo another item named DESTINY. it is a pdd item and she got this inspiration from an award winning picture which shows a eagle with a child. so i go online to search for this picture and i got this two which are the closest.
so is it this:
or is it this:
or is not both? aiyah dunno lah.
one of the guys who was in this item injured his back for lifting the lightest girl during practise. so he pulled out and i got pushed in. so the morale of the story is... you do what you are destined to do, and you are destined to dance in DESTINY.
tickets are free, but the usual stupid system applies. must go and queue one hour before the show start. first come first serve basis. honestly this is a damn cock ticketing system. wat if my mother travel from tampines to ucc, then queue up and unfortunately when she is at the ticketing counter, all the tickets are given away?
so i shall not ask anyone to go. just stay at home and watch tv or scratch backside. yay.
so today is my first chemistry lesson with 3E5. this is my one and only chemistry class during the practicum. the rest of my classes are for PE and i have 6 PE classes.
the very sian part during the lesson is the technical error which happened my laptop. i wanted to show the class a video on simple distillation but the sway thing is the video refuse to play and the whole laptop just hang. other than that i think the lesson is fine. my CT zarinah gave me more plus points than minus points with regards to my teaching. so overall i think is good!
today during staff contact time the P was telling us his expectations on discipline. the whole room was quite tense with alot of 火药味 because he shoot the teachers for not doing the best in upholding the discipline of the sch, and a few of the teachers also question him back.
but the most ultimate is the discipline master who is so highly respected by both staff and students, was super agitated in front of all the staff, and spoke to us sternly that all of us should play a part in the discipline, and some of us are not doing any help at all and we are just bringing down the discipline procedures that are being painstakingly set up by him. i think he has a point lah, because honestly speaking, he is doing a one man show since day 1 when he became the DM. i can feel his dulan-ness and also his sadness when his colleagues are not helping him at all.
but i must still say that the working environment is still very good, with many helpful colleagues. i see many new faces too. and i just realised there were lesser familiar faces. haiz.
anyway to sidetrack, the world cup jerseys are out!
Many of the world's leading players, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Robinho and Ji-Sung Park, will take to the pitch in South Africa this summer wearing the most environmentally-friendly and technologically-advanced kit in football's history.
For the first time, all of Nike's national teams, including Brazil, Portugal and The Netherlands, will be wearing jerseys made entirely from recycled polyester, each one produced from up to eight recycled plastic bottles. Nike unveiled the new national team kits with several footballers at a global media event at Battersea Power Station in London.
full cast + choreo of the taiji item.
siying, year 1 medicine student, learnt wushu in hwa chong.
ever since she wore that "its all about saving children's lives" tshirt, i have been saying that sentence every moment i saw her, and she was so traumatised that she dare not wear that tshirt anymore. hahahahaha.
the forever classic pose that both of us always do during each performance.
ever since i pulled hw into nuscd, must have this kind of slanderous photo.
the mother, two sons, and one daughter-in-law.
shumin, my partner for Destiny. also the choreo for the snow item who approached me to be her snowman number 2.
with my darling! my make up very fierce hor? its done by liang bin! i think the black singlet is very tight and also very gay.
