my 1st day of yog duty

spent the night at darling's place and woke up at 640 am today. have to reach jurong west sports hall at 815 am. the handball boys team from cook islands is coming to train at 9 am.


some pictures of the handball training hall:

have been hearing many complaints about the food provided by yog. so let me show you the lunch that i had today:

honestly i think its not too bad lah. its not really that jia lat. still eatable. :p


after the cook islands training slot is the sg boys training slot. 


one pm is france boys team training slot, but they cancelled their training. one thirty pm the president of IHF (International Handball Federation) came to the training hall for a visit and he came to shook my hand after i introduced myself to him. very nice and friendly guy!


ok lah that's about it for today. tomorrow will go down again. tomorrow will be the girls teams! hahahaha.

vote for the nicest couple photo!

a few weeks ago darling and i went to serangoon broadway studio to take our graduation photo.


we have 5 samples. please help us choose the best one out of the five, and we will frame up that photo. :)


sample 1 (the professional graduates):

sample 2 (the distorted heart shape):

sample 3 (the jubilation upon graduation):

sample 4 (the pas de deux):

sample 5 (da chang jin and ... wu ah ge):

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photos of last friday's 30 seconds wushu performance

spot the difference.

everybody wants kungfu fighting! HEY!

how i spent my national day long weekend holiday

7th august - watch yog opening ceremony rehearsal with darling.


8th august - slack at home.


9th august - went to my uncle's condo for a family gathering. darling came along too! i got this feeling of bliss when i introduced her to my relatives. 

myself: 三舅, this is my girlfriend, yueting.


cheeky 三舅: ohhhh!!! hello girlfriend!

went to the rooftop garden at 41st floor to watch the ndp fireworks. the fireworks were marvellous. i envy my uncle because his house is very nice, and he can watch fireworks from his balcony! he stays on 36th floor. 

singapore's city landscape is really quite pretty at night.

that is not our son. that is my nephew. hahaha.

they are so cute~!




10th august - dance practise in the morning at CCAB for teachers' conference performance. after that rush to nus ucc for dance performance. thank goodness CCAB is just beside nus law school and i can take the shuttle bus from nus law school. the travelling time is quite fast!


anyway before the performance we had a full dress rehearsal. and we totally screwed up the full dress rehearsal. very messy. i stand at the back so i can see very clearly. after the rehearsal ding laoshi's face was so black and so pissed, and she called us to the dressing room and gave us the ultimate hairdryer treatment that will make alex ferguson proud. seriously i nv see her so angry before. so we woke up our idea and listen to the music one million times before the actual performance, and thank goodness it was much better.

and that marks the end of the national day long weekend holiday.

yog opening ceremony rehearsal

morning i went to nus for dance practise. afternoon went to syog for meeting, and also to collect my yog uniforms and accredition pass.

handsome, yes? my friend ask me why i 笑到这样灿烂. hahahaha.


in the evening i met up with darling at city hall mrt and we went to esplanade floating platform to watch the rehearsal for yog opening ceremony. before the start of the rehearsal, the producer told everyone to be prepared for technical glitches and other mistakes, since this was a rehearsal.


but honestly, i thought that the show was quite a disappointment. too many 冷场. dun have that wow factor. darling was also quite 纳闷 because she watched rag yesterday and the standard of the rag performances was so much higher. but the videographics were cool. fireworks were nice too.

on another note, its also impossible to feature an opening ceremony as splendid as beijing olympics. we dun have zhang yi mou. we dun have 100 million pple. so based on the limited resources and talents that we have, putting up this opening ceremony is already quite a marvelous effort.

performance at corporate function

performed at this corporate function by a very famous and branded and atas company. this corporate function was held on thursday night and friday night. the theme is "shanghai jazz". the items that we performed are invisibility, beyond and winter. but because of the theme, all 3 items have a common name called "THE QIPAO DANCE", which was mentioned by the chio eloquent emcee who was also dressed in qi pao. 


the company paid us quite a bit of money for the items, hence very high standards are expected from us. so high the standard is that our costumes cannot even have a single wrinkle or uneven line. my winter shirt was the most crumpled, because i din iron it at home. ok lah that serves me right. so i spent lots of time doing last minute ironing in our waiting room, which made me quite fed up. and then sway sway my beyond costume also very crumpled, while fen's and nzj's costume were still ok. so i also ironed that.


i agree that professionalism is important for performers, be it our performance on stage, and the backstage preparations (eg costumes and make-up).


but this type of high standard is a bit too much for me to take. hence i will nv perform for corporate functions anymore.


if there is a takeaway from this performance, it is not the yummy fried rice and fried noodles by the restaurant chefs. it is not the pretty ladies wearing qi pao. it is not the irritating audience who keep laughing throughout our performance, when i was supposed to be angry and pms-ing during winter. it is not the nice audience who said "wah 很厉害很厉害" when i lifted chio outdoor enthusiast. the takeaway is THE IMMENSE IRONING that i did, which the time that i spent on ironing is definitely more than the time that i danced on stage. hence no more performing for corporate functions. unless they dun mind crumpled costumes. haha.


the stage that we danced at was very very small, so small that we could injure ourselves easily by the umbrellas, fans, flying arms and flying legs. we could also injure ourselves by hitting the piano and drum set and other props that are directly behind us. this was a very dangerous performance.

last min practising:

and the other random pics:

(eunuch fen busying sms-ing pizza order for crown prince yy.)

(hz looks traumatised. eunuch fen enjoys being hugged by crown prince yy.)


one statement before ending this post: I HATE IRONING!

national day celebrations and official sch opening

today we celebrated national day. everyone is encouraged to wear red! this year's national day theme is 'live our dreams, fly our flag". so my students have to illustrate their dreams on a namecard. let me show you some samples.

(yes i have a student who is called wen fang! but her surname is not 范. haha.)


anyway i wore a red color shirt that looks quite ah beng, white crocodile pants which i bought at parkway when i was shopping with darling, and the striking pink color nike shoes!


so i had 50 students coming to me saying they love my pink shoes, and 10 colleagues also coming to me to say the same thing. hahahaha. :p


after the national day celebrations is the official sch opening. my sch and my neighbour sch are called community school, because we are working with tampines west community centre to lease our facilities to the public. so today is our official sch opening as the community school. 


this is a very dua zhong event. got media. got MP as guest of honour, and many other invited guests, including Ps and VPs from other schools. so if got MP as guest of honour, definitely must have performance. 

so my wushu team is involved in the performance. the performance very simple one, only 30 seconds. and there are six students performing, 3 from my wushu team, and 3 pri 1 students from the neighbour sch. must have collaboration between two schools because it is our official sch opening as a community school.


so if u have realised, i am not involved in the performance. but then on tuesday, there was a full dress rehearsal. and my wushu star student who can do a back flip, could not attend the rehearsal because he was on mc. then my pe HOD a bit gan jiong and ask me to stand in for him so that batman and the neighbour sch's P can see how the feel is like with six pple. -.-'''


being such a nice person of course i agreed. so i quickly learnt the routine from my students. 30 seconds, very easy to learn. hahahaha. and the full dress rehearsal started. and then ended.


and next min, the science HOD and art & craft HOD walked towards me.


art HOD: "eh 你们今天表演得很好 leh. 发生什么事情啊?" (last week's rehearsal my students screwed up.)


science HOD: "yah lor, with you inside, the feel is really different. on that day can you perform a not?"


so yah, the outcome is clear, and the rest is history.


but it was fun performing! the primary 1 students are very very cute! my female students were totally obsessed with the two pri 1 boys.

the boy in red is my star student who can do a back flip. he is only sec 1! the boy in yellow beside him is the captain. and you see another boy standing in between me and the captain? batman called him a kung fu panda. hahahahahaha.


the pri sch chinese dancers were very cute too. they are now in primary 4.

the purple performers! haha. 4 of them are in my form class! the dancer on the extreme left is the very flexible dancer.


the GOH was supposed to arrive at 1030, but we have to standby at our respective positions at 930. so while waiting for the GOH, the pri sch dancers ask me 欠扁问答题. and then my colleague who is a chinese teacher also joined in the fun. 


let me share with you one of the questions:


白雪公主根包青天结婚，生出来的孩子叫什么名字?


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daughter: cinderella (灰姑娘)

son: michael jackson

teaching my colleagues the ACES Day workout

NUSCD dancers, see if you can discover any familiar dance steps. hahahaha.

hip hop dancer in green. malay dance dancer in black. she was from nus ilsa tari!

she is also a chinese dance dancer!

ballet dancer.

my colleagues rock! :)

other pics from gift carnival

teaching folk dance. tropanka! hahaha.

at the pri sch hall, where the mass yoyo was held. we broke the record with more than 1200 pple spinning the yoyo simultaneously for 3 min!

saturday post

went back to school for a event called Gift Carnival. i am in charge of holding a fusion dance clinic. business is quite poor, but i am more than happy with it. hahahaha. and i last min rope in my colleague to help me, and she is a hip hop dancer! i believe xuehong and nzj had seen her before. haha.

i also got my student to come and help me, and she is the best dancer in the sch right now. she is learning chinese dance in NAFA, and also learning ballet.

disgustingly flexible.


after that i cab to ke7 for dance practise. we have performance on 5th and 6th august! we putting up 3 items, and i am dancing in 2 items. these items we danced before, so can sense a bit of bo chup ness from us. but chio outdoor enthusiast is still very professional, keep looking at the video clip in her player to refresh her memory on the steps. xuehong and zhimin have to be professional too since they are the choreographers, so they a bit gan jiong. the most bo chup award goes to mr nzj. HAHA!


and then i went to darling's house for delicious home cooked dinner. tomorrow i watching inception with darling! :)