wednesday post

it is time to give darling some air time in my blog because my recent blog posts are all revolving around school life.

this was taken at joanne and josh house, our kevii friends. actually they are closer to darling. both of them are malaysians and they already have their own house, and they are younger than me. omg what the hell am i doing in life??!! when can i give darling the 幸福 that she wants? 

this few days have been super busy with work, no thanks to having two major events back to back on next week's friday and saturday. friday will be mass run, which my dept is organising. this year we are holding the mass run at pasir ris park, and i just went there with some of my pe colleagues to recee the route for the 3rd time. on saturday will be tpss fiesta, and i am in charge of organising tpss running man! already bought the bells from daiso. hahahahaha. 

and not forgetting on sunday, i will be performing for nuscd again. 

please book your tickets from SISTIC now if you are interested! seats are still available! or please approach me, i can help you purchase the tickets! 

i am glad that my students from the workplace's modern chinese dance are going to watch. 27 of them in total! 

and i also bought 20 tickets because of the 20% group discount. was a bit worried that i may not be able to sell away all 20. but thank goodness all 20 tickets are taken up. and the 20 people who are going consist of my students from show choir, my students from b2b concert, darling, my mum (the real flesh n blood), jing ting (our kevii friend), my show choir instructor + partner, and last but not least, batman + partner. :)

thank you everybody for your support! 

cny performance photos

finally the photos are out from the student photographers! :)

a very nice surprise

my cny performers invited me to school today. and it is a saturday. they refused to tell me what is going on. 

so i appeared at the hall. they just finished their chinese dance practise with bai laoshi. the wushu boys also just reached. 

and they performed a spoof version of the cny item for me to see. :)

but what surprised me more was that after they performed finish, they took out a gift box and a card, and gave them to me. 

cupcakes inside the gift box! the boys bought the ingredients, the girls baked them. 

such a nice card~

with very sweet words. i am quite amazed that the three boys can write such sweet words also. were they taught to write that way by the girls? hahaha. 

i am really happy to have this core group of performers, who are always ready to support me and ever willing to perform for me. 

these students sustain my passion being a teacher. although they wun be able to read my blog, but i really appreciate them, and i want to give my heartfelt thanks to all of them. :)

monday post

people always see me as a happy-go-lucky and positive person. i always walk around in school, with a smiley face, look very carefree and even if the sky fall on my head i still can use it as a blanket.

but right now i am feeling a great deal of overwhelming stress, with so many deadlines, and nitty gritty issues happening in my form class (those childish bullying cases) waiting for me to solve. the victim's parents even came to school twice to speak to me! zzz. 

tomorrow the director of east zone schools is coming to visit us and i am one of the few being identified for dialogue session. everytime when somebody big comes and there is a dialogue session, i am always being chosen. 

i remembered last year, when haha sierra kilo came to the workplace for a visit, and my 师母 told me that when she was showing robin #1 the list of teachers who are identified to have a dialogue session with him, robin #1 looked down the list and immediately said,"eh how come t_ _ y_ _n y_ n is not inside this list ah?!"

simply because i was away for reservist and 师母 knows about it and that's why she din put me inside. hahahaha. 

looking forward to an entertaining yet fruitful dialogue session tomorrow! :)

dinner at todai

went to todai @ marina bay sands with my family and darling. the food at todai was simply... WOW! especially the king alaskan crab!

happy 人日 everybody! :)

Total Defence Day 2013

two days ago, heard of the rumour that all male teachers will wear saf uniform for Total Defence Day. i thought it was just talking cock. 

but who knows my colleague emailed all of us on thursday, highly encouraging us to don our saf uniforms for total defence day, and those who are in uniformed groups can also wear their own respective uniform. so in the name of fun, i readily agreed. at my workplace, if there is a person who needs to do something outlandish or wacky, it has to be me! hahahaha. 

mr hafiz! super inspiring teacher, a figure i always look up to when it comes to discipline, classroom management and subject mastery!

mentee and mentor! i declare him graduate with flying colours! so that i can no longer be a mentor. hahahahaha. but he is really good. :)

mr zul, another figure i look up to! :)

pe teachers in uniform! hahahaha. 

so handsome! so dashing! 

happy valentines day darling!

to be honest valentines day is really highly commercialised. 

we are contented staying at home eating delicious home cooked food prepared by darling and her mum, and watching tv after the dinner. :)

the A+ prank

my colleague got married, and went for his honeymoon. and he was not around in school for a few days. 

for this few days, a major operation happened at his table.

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this is seriously.............................. OMG.

and i must clarify that the colleague is one of the most well-liked chaps! :)

wednesday post

大年初三 (yesterday) was a bad day for me, because i had severe gastric pain and diarrhoea. i lao sai 8 times, and did not have any appetite to eat lunch/dinner. thank goodness darling was with me yesterday, showering me with love and concern. :)

thank you darling for the nice collage to encourage me to get well soon! :)

today i wanted to force myself to go to school because i have a performance for the cny concert. but i felt really weak and decided to not to go school for lessons, go and see the doctor first and take medicine, hopefully i will be feeling better and go for the performance. 

thankfully i felt a bit better after taking the medicine and i braced myself and drag my cmi body to the workplace. 

my performers didnt perform that well. a girl did not manage to 搬后腿 and she felt very sad. but the saddest thing is ALL of them missed the count to come out on stage to join me to do the finale part of the item! i was really quite disappointed in them but when i saw that the girls were already in tears and the boys are hanging their heads in shame i relented and decided not to scold them, but told them the what are the lessons to be learnt as a performer. :)

this is what they wrote for me after the performance. very sweet and nice of them.

one of the girls is still wearing the mask because she cried the most. :p

thank you performers. i am still very proud of all of you. 

大年初一

happy cny everyone!!! 

scallop making

long overdue post.

i went to darling's house on tuesday night to make cream cheese hotate. yum yum!

they taste really good! :)

friday post

it was the friday before cny, and i think that many schools out there either have cny celebrations or half day. my workplace still have normal lessons, with normal dismissal time, but to give fairness, our cny celebrations is on next wednesday. although majority of us will prefer to have the celebrations today. hahahaha. when i heard the lion dance drum and cymbals at the primary school side i also felt a bit sian. :p

but tonight is a happy night, because it was our first nuscd preview for the march 17 performance. the preview was very professionally done, with a clear markout of the stage using blue and red tape, clear entry and exit points, and a proper briefing done so that all of us are very sure of what to do and what to expect. 

what made the night happier is that i saw many familiar faces, as compared to the last emcc performance. xuehong's random comments were present again, and seriously only him could pull it off without getting scolded by DLS. hahahaha. 

after the preview some of the alumni dancers went for supper together. reminded me of the good old days of dancing together and having supper after that. 

although i felt that the duration of the performance is really a bit too short with just 8 items, but hopefully the quality makes up for the quantity and we can put up a production that all of us will be proud of. :)

OYEA

i like to share this piece of happy news with everyone. 

i am being nominated for OYEA - Outstanding Youth in Education Award. 

Here's some background information regarding OYEA:
The OYEA recognises and honours young teachers for their passion, drive, commitment and teaching excellence within and beyond the classroom. 

i do not expect myself to win this award because out of so many nominees in the whole of singapore, only 3 will be selected. and after reading the 2012 winners' profile, these winners really did alot for their workplace and their students, and my achievements pale in comparison to theirs. 

therefore i am already very happy to be nominated, and to be recognised by batman, the two robins and my HODs. 

the statement i am going to write next, may sound cliche, but it really describe my true feelings:

得不得奖并不重要，能够被入围已经是一种肯定。

:)

1600th post

the 1600th post is dedicated to the mauritians who visited sg from 30th jan to 2nd feb. 

we welcomed them warmly by treating them to a sumptous seafood dinner at por kee. yes the name sounds funny when i first heard it, and i thought is some simple zhi char place at a coffee shop, but when i reach there, i was surprised that it is actually a big restaurant, and business is very good!

btw nzj please tell me how much is the dinner and i can pay you my share. :)

hw can you identify who are the chio mauritius cousins?

it is a pity that i cannot bring the mauritians around! if i can, i will bring them to my usual hangouts such as katong and siglap, let them eat nyonya food, korean bbq, chicken rice, katong laksa, cheesecake, etc etc. 

on friday night, lou hei at crystal jade after the tense dance practise at nus. 

the crazy ah sens who are crazy enough to go mustafa centre for shopping at 1 am!
  

xuehong looks exceptionally thrilled in lao-ing yusheng with his family and friends.

i look exceptionally happy too, after feeling upset and tensed.

weekend post

something happened on friday morning that made me very upset. 

it was the mass exercise in the morning, whereby the whole workplace will be involved in physical activity for an hour. the objectives are to encourage everybody to lead a healthy lifestyle through exercising, and to nurture active and engaged individuals through a holistic health program. 

i was in charge of the mass exercise, and i divided the students into two groups. the lower sec students went up to the hall, and the upper sec students were at the parade square. 

because the upper sec students were a tougher group to motivate, i took that group and let my other pe colleague take the lower sec group at the hall. 

and the disaster begins for me. the mic volume at the parade square was very soft. the music volume was also very soft. and the upper sec students were really not motivated. when i was leading the mass dance, most of them, especially the boys, folded their arms and look at me "perform". 

however, what upsets me most, is that majority of the colleagues all stood at the back and did not do anything. it is ok that if you do not want to exercise. but the minimum thing that you can do is to instill discipline in your class, getting the students organised.

but of course i will shoulder the whole blame, because the mass exercise is not interesting enough and hence it doesnt engage the students. i will definitely review the whole thing and make sure such an incident wont happen again. 

as a result i was very emo the whole day. going for dance practise didnt help, because DLS was in a cranky mood and made the atmosphere so tense. i felt better during the supper session with darling and the dancers. 

after the supper i drove xuehong and his family to mustafa centre for midnight shopping. they are really crazy! i am already so tired and they still have the energy to shop. now i know why xuehong is alwys so energetic whenever it comes to shopping. it lies in the family!

it is already sunday, and it is a cooling sunday. i shall now look "forward" to monday. but knowing that next week is the week before cny makes me feel a bit better. :)