sports day

this morning was my sch's sports day.

the pe teachers have to reach at 6 am to set up the venue. *yawnz*

the first race was supposed to start at 745, unfortunately it rained in the morning, so the event only started at 845. so we had no choice but to cancel the relay race, because the focus of this year's sport day is on the record-breaking event of 30 pple 31 legged race.

this year's sports day was really fun and had a great atmosphere. the senior teachers who had been in the sch for ten years or more agreed that this year's sports day is the best sports day. so i am proud to be part of the pe dept that organised this year's sports day!

presenting to you my wonderful colleagues. :)

(sian, my face got covered... btw the guy on the extreme right wearing adidas tee is my CT.)

after the sports day i went back to sch with my colleagues to unload the equipment. then i quickly went back home to take a nap, then met darling to go chung cheng together to watch the 集体器械 competition. seeing the students compete make me very gian to practise wushu again.

today is really a super packed day for me, cos at night i went back to hall to play takraw. and then after that i went to fen's house. the reason why i went to his house is because we are having a last min practise for a dance performance at my sch.

on wednesday my colleague (who is the malay dance teacher-in-charge) approached me, saying that on saturday there is an arts camp for the performing arts ccas, and ask me whether i can give the students a talk on how to improve stage presence. so i readily agreed because of my passion for performing arts. and then i immediately sms-ed fen and nzj to see whether they are free to help out, and they were ok with it! fen also helped me rope in zhunian so the four of us practised at bishan until 1230 midnight. haha.

and then i was searching for dance videos on youtube to show my students to inspire them, and i found these videos, which were truly inspiring:

these are prisoners from phillipines. everyone please rise to salute their efforts in putting up such a marvellous dance performance.

tuesday post

today i am not supposed to bring my kid to chung cheng for the wushu competition.

but thinking that today is already his last competitive event, and may also be his last inter-sch wushu competition (he is already sec 4 and wants to go poly), so i left the sch at 330 and took a cab down to chung cheng. his event scheduled time is at 345.

he was quite stunned when he saw me. and i told him,"这是你最后一个项目了，把全部筹码给押上去。你自己的表演欲要加强一点."

anyway he din get into top 3. competition was too tough.

and then it rained heavily, and we were stranded in sch. i thought of pangseh-ing them by following my tjc coach's car, but i decided not to because the 'duty' teacher who accompanied my kid is a chinese teacher from china, and he will definitely be at a loss on how to go back if i really pang seh them.

and because it was already six pm, all the taxi lines are busy, i started calling from 6 pm, and finally at 635 pm trans cab heeded my call, and a taxi is sent to rescue the 3 of us. and it turned out to be a mercedes cab! hahaha.

anyway when we reach tampines it is already past seven pm and the sch already locked! and i haven shut down my laptop!!! will my laptop explode and catch fire and burn down the whole staffroom? will my laptop be damaged beyond repair? haiz shit...

tmr first thing i reach the staffroom is to OFF my laptop!

'motion in stillness' 庆功宴

庆功宴 was held at laoshi's place.

i was highly entertained by laoshi's son. asked him how old is he and he refused to tell me, so i have to ask zhou laoshi, and when zhou laoshi told me he is in primary two, he give a super sian face. hahahaha. zhou laoshi was giving everyone tiger beer to drink. thank goodness i am driving and use that as an excuse not to drink so much. i drank only one can while liang bin drank 5 cans!

(i honestly dunno why the both of us are laughing so happily)

(attendance taking photo! the turn out was quite pathetic)

(showing nzj the pictures of starhub urban freestyle run)

so the new exco was announced.

and once they step up, they kenna arrowed to do an impromptu performance. haiz very ke lian. hahahaha.

mysterious girl: one night 50 dollars~

'motion in stillness' pics from jingkai

finally got the pics from our pro photographer!

let me share some of them! :)

Item number 4: ONE 元

Synopsis: All is one, and one is all. All exists due to one, and all exists within one.



*blogger's comment: very very philosophical synopsis


Item number 8: THE MAN 男人

Synopsis: Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in finding for himself some excitement, challenges and entertainment in life; Whatever that makes him a man.





*blogger's comment: YY IS THE MAN, not THE ONE. (wardrobe malfunction rulez)


Iten number 11: DESTINY 命中注定

Synopsis: The photojournalist, Kevin Carter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography but he committed suicide in 1994 after being haunted by vivid memories of the starving or wounded children.




*blogger's comment: the most unpractised item. haha.

starhub urban freestyle run

thanks to the stupid rain in the morning, the field at padang was wet and muddy, which also caused my shoes to be already wet and muddy before the race started.

ok without further delay, let me introduce the 4 of us who took part in the run:

me + darling:

me + the other 2 snowmen:

the starhub urban freestyle run is 6.5 km long, and has 9 obstacles along the way. the obstacles could be a bit more challenging. and some obstacles are the bottleneck obstacles which caused a HUGE human jam.

here are some of the obstacles:

foo shin this is for you to SLIDE down with your ass, NOT run down with your long legs!

the super big 7-up can. inside the can got a very heavy cooling mist.

the super big adidas shoe.

strike a pose by starworld, fox and star movies:

freestyle your way past two colliding cars:
dun have my pic because i am the camera man! i think i am very noble. hoho.

the proud finishers of the starhub urban freestyle run:


i want to applaud darling for running non stop throughout the whole run! she refused to give up at the last two km even though she is having stitches! well done darling! i am so proud of you!

thank you snowman 1 and snowman 3 for running together! next time if got this kind of fun events will definitely jio the both of you again!

so who is on to go again with me next year? :)

wednesday post

from monday to thursday, the pe teachers in my sch are conducting napfa test for the students after sch, from 3 pm to 630 pm. by the time we clear up everything and shoo away all the students and reach the staffroom, it is already close to 7 pm.

thank goodness i got the luxury to walk home in around 10 to 15 min. and when i reach home i will be totally shag out.

tomorrow is finally the last day of napfa testing.

friday afternoon i will be bringing my student to my alma mater for the national inter-sch wushu competition! hope that he will get top 3! today he got 5th in chang quan and he was very disappointed.

and this saturday is the starhub urban freestyle run! i am definitely looking forward to it! :)

rule number 1 and number 2

this afternoon i was having lunch with my colleague, rene (the guy who shared the same hotel room with me when we brought the kids to surabaya), and i was telling him about batman's issue on wearing the soccer jersey.

rene told me the 2 most important rules to follow, if you are working in any organization.

rule number 1: THE BOSS IS ALWAYS RIGHT.

rule number 2: whenever in doubt, REFER BACK TO RULE NUMBER 1.

hahahaha. its quite funny.

but i just heard that batman is thinking of letting the students and teachers wear world cup jerseys during the world cup season! woo hoo!

my closet has england, germany, france, korea, japan, holland and spain!

darling's bday celebration part 2: jang shou korean bbq~!

guess wat bday present i bought for darling?


behold the red color queen size bed that we are sitting on! anyway that is not the present. that is the new bed in my bedroom. the present is the necklace darling is wearing! i bought it from the RISIS warehouse sale at suntec! 70% off!


the pendant is actually a locket. you open the locket there is a miniature golden ring (not a proposal ring). so it is a 2-in-1 pendant!

brought darling to this korean bbq restaurant at katong, which is behind the 老 hong kong cafe. the restaurant is called JANG SHOU 长寿!



not open for lunch. only open for dinner.

6 pm to 12 midnight! you can reach early at 6 pm, then eat eat eat all the way until 12 midnight! last order is 1130 pm!

mon to thur: 28.80+++ per pax

fri to sun, & public holidays: 33.80+++ per pax

food is solid! the meat is fresh, chewy, tasty and yummy! got beef, lamb, pork, chicken, turkey, squid and fish! the meat goes well with the lettuce!

if you are sick of bbq meat, you can also bbq the veges! bbq veges consist of brinjal, mushroom, corn, green pepper and potato!

there is also the traditional korean starters, including kimchi! the kimchi is very very nice!

also got a salad and fruits section!

also got a cooked food section! there's stewed beef, korean pan cake, pork trotters, mussels, korean ramen, spaghetti, and seafood soup!

the service is also very good! the waiters can tell that me and darling are newbies, so they teach us the correct way of bbq-ing the meat, and recommended us to eat the lettuce with the meat!

when the bbq pan is too oily, they will come and wipe away the oil stains and the bbq pan will be super clean again!

the waiters are very fast in wiping our bbq pans, removing our empty plates, refilling our cold water! I LIKE!!!

i think this is more like a food review instead of darling's bday celebration post. haha.

so yah, i highly recommend JANG SHOU korean bbq restaurant!

darling and i had a great time eating there! :)

to end this post, HAPPY 2_th BIRTHDAY DARLING!!! :)

oh yah, and HAPPY 2_+1th birthday grace tiang!

birthday celebration @ woodlands field

it is 4th april! guess whose birthday falls on this auspicious date?


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they also celebrated their bday together last year at amara hotel!



thank you chio outdoor enthusiast for being the chief organiser of this impromptu birthday surprise. so at 1130 pm, chio outdoor enthusiast, myself and hw met at the field. the cake and light sticks were handed over to hw to let him decorate the field, while chio outdoor enthusiast went to fetch grace, and i went to fetch darling.

bf + gf; bff + bff:



hw left early because he have to sweep tomb the next morning.

so the 4 of us stayed behind, and tried funny stuff like forming a flower using the light sticks.


and this is the best they came out with:

looks more like a smiley face. i was the photographer.

check out chio outdoor enthusiast's unglam face:

hahahahahahahahaha.

and then we had a "throw-lightstick-the-furthest" competition.

its quite nice to see the field littered with the light sticks of different colors.



ok its very late! i shall sleep now because tmr morning i also going to sweep tomb. and then in the afternoon darling and i will collect our starhub urban freestyle race pack at *scape. after that we will go for korean bbq! yummy!

good friday

good friday came and went just like that.

woke up in the morning to play command & conquer.

afternoon went to suntec with mr leow to shop for darling's present. bought the present. i also bought a pair of soccer boots for myself. had tony roma's spare ribs for high tea. so sinful.

at night went to fen's place to watch our performance videos and celebrate easter. hz is back from hk and she bought kinder bueno eggs for us.

we ate the eggs and happily assembled the miniature toys inside the egg. haha the memories of childhood.

fen showed us this super funny clip, and i must definitely share it with everyone!

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/aUZnXcGg3_E/

soccer jersey

there is a reason why i post the above pic.

before i say the reason, let me share an incident.

this morning batman was observing my lesson.

and then batman asked my CT (cooperating teacher) a question:"why is he wearing a soccer jersey?"

this question totally caught my CT by surprise. apparently my CT also dun understand why pe teachers are not allowed to wear soccer jerseys.

batman continued,"adidas tees, nike tees, can. but country jerseys and soccer club jerseys cannot."

CT asked,"then sg national team jersey can a not?"

batman replied,"cannot."

so this will be my last time wearing a foreign country's soccer jersey in sch. hence the posting of the above pic.

btw the soccer jersey i am wearing is the south korea national team jersey. it is the latest addition to my jersey collection. bought it at 40% discount!

i am on mc

this is the 5th week of my practicum. and today is my first day on mc. hopefully it will be the last too. honestly i dun like to take mc. it gives teachers and students the impression that i am weak. i am definitely not weak, but this cough has been bugging me for weeks, and yesterday the cough became really bad that i raised both arms and surrender. i really need a day of rest.

tomorrow i am excited because the P is observing my pe lesson! i will be teaching handball to this sec 3 express class. hopefully he will like the lesson, and even like the sport, which will enhance my chance of being released for the handball yog.

my P is very on the ball, very academic oriented, and also... humorous. yesterday during morning assembly, he told the whole school that some of the students are behaving as clowns, which shows no respect for the school. so he is paying special attention to this group of students, and he will go hard on them.

and here comes the quote of the day (i am getting influenced by shumin after reading her blog), from the P himself:

IF YOU GUYS WANT TO BE THE JOKER, I WILL BE THE BATMAN

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i wonder if the students heard this, because the AVA system was down, and he was addressing the whole school using the loudhailer.

students are a funny bunch. some of them are really nice, and when you teach them, you are full of energy and very willing to impart all your knowledge. but there are some jokers who will zap away your energy, and at the end of the lesson you will be like half dead after all the scolding.

let's hope the batman put these jokers behind bars.

ok i just realised that i did not do a memory flash back. last week during assembly, the ava club did a photo slide show on the memories back in the old tampines school and bedok holding school. and wow i appeared in two of the photos, despite not being there for two years!

so here goes, my own version:

i like this pic alot. this pic appeared in the slide show during assembly. everyone is still here, except for the enormous guy, second from the left, who was my VP. he went to the states to study his masters. the chinese guy in white bermudas on my left is not here too. he was my HOD PE at that time, now teaching at anglican high.

at the old tampines sch canteen, when we were having staff bonding session. we get to decorate our own cake with whipped cream, fruits, nuts and chocolates! it was quite fun. haha. dun ask me why my partner is the chinese teacher from china.

teacher's day celebration in 2007! taught this class chemistry and pe.

cca exchange day 2007. it was supposed to be students teaching students. but my students were shy so i had to teach instead. grrrrrr...

cca day 2008, in the holding sch. all the ccas set up booths to attract (or should i say bluff) the sec 1 blurries to join.

this has to be the proudest moment of my life. i am being tasked to give the o level results to one of the graduating classes, when i am just a contract teacher. their form teacher was on maternity leave. their co-form teacher was doing reservist. since the form was my mentor, the other subject teachers have their own stuff, and i got teach that class before, i am being chosen to give the result slips. haha.

during one of the assemblies, when i am being sabohed on stage to dance. so i sabohed some of my colleagues and students. hahahaha. this was very fun, the atmosphere was good and everyone was laughing happily.

my solo wushu performance on stage during cny celebrations.

sch carnival. my class sold donuts! the handsome man beside me was my form. i was the co-form.

twinning program with surabaya. during the june holidays we went over to surabaya. in july the surabaya students came here.

my last day in sch, before i went to nie for the two years of heaven. this is my godsister who sat behind me in the office. not teaching here anymore. she is now at xin min. and she just opened a blogshop selling baby clothes!

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ok that's about it. hope that i will have a pleasant teaching experience in the new school compound.

i noticed something. i am being tagged as the pe teacher, the wushu teacher and the handsome teacher, by both students and colleagues.

i am not kidding about the handsome part! yesterday i was doing relief in a sec 1 class, and then the monitor suddenly say out loud in front of the whole class because he is sitting in front:"老师，你真的很帅."

*rolls eyeballs*

and then i dismissed the students at the end of the lesson. a boy said to me:"cher, that girl like you alot."

then i turn my head to where he is pointing, and a girl was standing there with the attendance book, blushing.

*rolls eyeballs 2nd time*

but i still signed the attendance book.

the girl said "thank you cher" meekly and ran off.

3 forgetful souls become 3 snowmen

from this day onwards, i am going to abolish the forget movement club (FMC).

for those who dunno, the FMC consists of the founder (myself), the moaner (the most horny one) and the chairperson (declared by mummy). there you have it! the FMC!




now we will call ourselves the SNOWMEN CLUB. haha.

emcc finale

nzj posted the finale clip on youtube. i am quite amazed because the last part look quite neat, taking into account how often we screwed up during the practises and the choreography of the finale keep changing so that we will look less messier.

the audience laughed when the china boys came out. and mummy coming out from the curtain at the wrong time and go in again is quite funny. hahahaha.

nzj, counting on you to upload the rest of the items on youtube! if can upload my items first. hahahaha. i wanna see how hilarious i look for not wearing the right sleeve. thank you merllie for loving my wardrobe malfunction. second malfunction in the second performance in a row. wassup.