more pics again from b-dazzled!

congrats xinyi!

the wedding that i went to last saturday afternoon, at marina mandarin. 

first time witnessing a military march in! very cool! :)

sundown ultra marathon - team of 4

i was the second runner, started running at 8.45 pm, from changi to marina barrage. took me 3 hours to complete the 25 km. the target that i set for myself is 2 hour 30 min but my legs gave way at the 18 km mark and have to walk briskly for the remaining 7 km. damn sad. 

but i still feel proud of myself that i completed the 25 km! and i was telling myself that no way am i going to do this again. this is too torturous. 

let me introduce the team:

1st runner: mr john ng, my pe colleague at the workplace. 

2nd runner: yours truly

3rd runner: mr alex ang, a pe teacher at a school in the north

4th runner: mr aloysius ong, my pe colleague at the workplace 

felt super thankful to my little sis for coming to marina barrage to fetch me home. rest for a while and then went to changi to support aloysius, and also to pick up alex and brought him to my house for a shower. 

john, myself and alex gathered at marina barrage at 430 am to welcome aloysius back. aloysius did the best among us, coming in at a time of 2 hours 14 min! 

after that we went to 揾到食 for breakfast. and we spotted alot of clubbers also having breakfast after a whole night of clubbing. quite a few female clubbers wore super revealing clothes. next time if i have a daughter and if my daughter is like this i will 疯掉. 

POTD

it has been quite some time since i did a jump shot. this was taken on thursday at the show choir bonding camp. :)

today will be super happening! going to marina mandarin for my sec sch/jc friend's wedding lunch. 

after that i will be running with 3 pe teachers. we registered for the sundown 100 km team event. which means each of us will run 25 km. i am the 2nd runner of the team, and my estimated start time is 830 pm or earlier. it depends on how fast the 1st runner can complete his 25 km. hahahahaha. his start time is 6 pm!

my start point is at changi beach and i will run to marina barrage to hand over the baton to the third runner. 

hope i will survive!!!

show choir bonding camp

show choir bonding camp was held at aloha loyang. 

my 3rd time here in year 2013. -.-'''

the most memorable part of the bonding camp happened this morning at 4 am. my students knocked on my door very loudly. i jumped out of bed and opened the door. and they told me there is a fire. 

i got a shock and quickly run to the scene. the whole dustbin was caught in fire. and it turned out that one of my students forgot to use water to pour on the charcoal in the bbq pit. she just swept everything into the bin. zzz... 

so i put out the fire and the whole dustbin was melted. and the staff came to take photo of the melted dustbin. and i have to pay $11.77 for the dustbin. LOL. 

and the rest of the pics of the chalet:

the buskers

playing 'pepsi cola 1-2-3'

sharing session. we shared about issues pertaining to show choir. 

time to start the fire! teacher start the fire...

majority of the students went to the pool to have fun. what is this... zzz...

the sec 4s with miss deniece

preparing the kimchi salmon! well received by my students! hahaha.

everybody eat until super happy. 

breakfast this morning prepared by miss deniece.

they watched 'Conjuring' yesterday and decided to do their own version. 'Conjuring' is a super scary horror movie. they watch, i sleep. :)

the final photo to mark the end of the bonding camp! 

the students love the bonding camp, and thanked me for organising this. they happy, i also happy. :)

teachers' soccer tournament

went for a soccer tournament that was organised for teachers. 

there were over 30 schools that signed up, and my school is one of them. 

we did quite ok. for our group matches, the scores were 0-0, 0-0 and the final match we won 2-0. i was the goalkeeper. hahahahaha. i kept 3 clean sheets! but my defenders were good as they protected me very well. 

we got through to the round of 16, and also drew 0-0, but we went out because we lose the penalty shootout. felt disappointed with myself because i did not make a single penalty save. haiz!!! 

but we had fun and we exhibited very good teamwork throughout the tournament. that i think is the most important. 

presenting to you the soccer players from my school!!! :)

i am the goalkeeper so my jersey is different from the rest. as for the fatty bomb bomb beside me, he got the team jersey but it is too tight for him. so he go and made one on his own and emboss our team crest onto the jersey. zzzzzzz...

sept holidays

sept holidays started well on the first day, because i went to jb with kc, esther (kc's wife) and zh for a sumptuous seafood lunch. although we were stuck in the jam for two hours and only started eating at 230 pm, the delicious food made up for it and we devoured everything. 

we ordered crab, steam garoupa, drunken prawns, crayfish, fried calamari, mee goreng, two plates of gigantic lala (but is not really lala but looks bigger than lala, taste nicer than lala, and you can never find this kind of lala in singapore) - all of these cost 231 ringgit. less than 100 sing dollars!!! omg. you can never never never get this good price in singapore. and thank you kc for treating us! 

after that we went to secret recipe for dessert. and i ordered my favourite cake - durian cheesecake, which i still find it puzzling that singapore doesnt have it. thank you zh for the dessert treat!

and we have decided to go for the sumptuous seafood feast again in december! :)

to refresh your memory, this is kc, esther and zh:

(taken at taiwan in 2009. hahahahahaha.)

on tuesday i spent the whole day with darling, enjoying awesome quality time together! highlight of the day was having dinner at wimbly lu!

that is their signature car, according to darling. 

waffles with salted caramel ice cream and maple syrup! the waffles are really good!

root beer cake with vanilla ice cream! very nice!

wimbly lu is at jalan riang, a very ulu area in upper serangoon. :)

weekend post

on saturday i went to tzu chi for dance rehearsal. saw nick shen in action for the first time, and i must say he is really good! his energy, his expressions, his body movements and his 眼神 are all super 到位. no wonder he was chosen as the male lead. 

in the evening i went to watch city of bones with darling. 

at first darling thought that it was a scary movie. hahahahaha. 

today i went to my muslim colleague's wedding. reached there at 11 am but only stayed for an hour because i going back to the workplace to host the Captain's Ball Tournament for RnM. 

i joined them to play the games and really enjoyed myself! i thought that i can be very chill but omg all of them were so competitive so i have to up my game. right now my whole body is aching. age is catching up on me. :(

so glad that tmr is the start of sept holidays! and the whole sept holidays are packed with activities.

i will enjoy myself fully before embarking on term 4!!! 

POTD

super happy when you receive something from an ex student. :)

ACES Day 2013

ever since i came into the workplace i have been in charge of ACES Day, and i have been doing mass dance.

in 2010, i choreographed the mass dance, copying michael's steps from 'Sexes In The City'. 

in 2011, the student leaders choreographed the mass dance. 

in 2012, the instructor from dance dynamics choreographed the mass dance. 

this year, i asked the student leaders from chinese dance and english drama to choreograph the mass dance. the two student leaders from english drama flew my aeroplane and i am really pissed. the student leader from chinese dance showed me the dance but the steps were too feminine and i seriously think that the boys will definitely not be able to do the steps. 

hence i decided to do a mass walk, whereby everybody will walk around a portion of the tampines neighbourhood, and the distance covered is 1.5 km. hod supported it and presented it to batman. batman supported the idea but gave me something more challenging. he wanted a competitive element incorporated in the mass walk, suggested having an inter-class brisk walk competition, and prizes will be given to the best class per level. he wants it to be called TPSS BIG WALK. 

alot of planning has been done for the BIG WALK and the planning is definitely 100 times more siong than mass dance for the past 3 years. 

this morning i woke up at 5 am to check the weather forecast and found out that there will be showers across the whole of Singapore... siao liao lor... so i quickly watched last year's ACES Daay mass dance video to recap the steps. 

felt a bit wasted that the BIG WALK did not materialise. alot of colleagues came to me to offer their condolescence because they know that i put in alot of effort to plan this. hahahahahaha. feels good that my colleagues recognise my efforts. :)

the wonderful pe department! check out our bright orange pe dept tee! thank you so much for reacting swiftly and decisively to implement the wet weather program! 

my show choir performed for teachers' day concert. they did a mash up of songs by bruno mars. kudos to them because they only had 5 hours of practise! even my instructor (who always set very high standards) felt that they did quite well. and to share a piece of happy news with everyone, Straits Times is doing a write up for my show choir! after the teachers' day performance i immediately did the write up together with my president, vice-president and soprano 2 sectional leader. :)

pics taken in school:

with my form class after ACES Day. check out our hot pink class tee! i find it amazing that even the boys also want hot pink.

my cutie malay boys from my form class. they did an awesome gymnastics sequence based on X-MEN. hahahahaha. 

the student leader from chinese dance who choreographed the too feminine steps. :p

miss chua! my favourite female colleague in the workplace. 

super flexible ballerina. super unflexible me who have to resort to "cheating" so that i can look like i am very flexible. hahahahahaha. 

my female lead from B2B. thank you for coming to visit me on every year's teachers day ever since you graduated in 2011. :) 

super adorable class chairperson. i think he is as talented as me because he is a phenomenal floorball player and is also a dancer in dance dynamics! he is good because the instructor put him in front and right at the centre! :)

this year i received quite a few notes and letters. i really really want to share with you the most BUAY HIAO BAI one. 

here goes:

Hello Mr Tan, don't you think I'm just so artistic (-.-''' BHB #1)?

I'm so grateful for the opportunities that you gave me to expand (-.-''' BHB #2) my talents. 

I'm so very grateful that you asked me so many times (-.-''' please lor mr tyy only asked you one time lor) that if I wanted to join Show Choir for its competition. Never would I thought that I'd ever sing Les Miserables song. It's so cray cray (-.-''' is cray an english word??!!)! 

And I now I even get to do the never ever dare to dream about "perform the cup song on stage".

*heart shape* THANKS SO BAD *heart shape*

kenasai to the max.