went to paddy hills with darling, her mum, her sis and her niece for lunch! paddy hills is very near nus, and before paddy hills was a duck rice shop, and i always drive past there when travelling to and fro between kevii and vivocity.
the duck rice shop in the past.
and now stands paddy hills, that was opened since march 2015! the dishes that we ordered (all pics ka-pohed from random blogs):
squid ink tagliatell ($23). not bad! very special.
berry ricotta hotcake ($19). still cannot win the tabard inn pancakes (at washinton DC). but we are still thankful we ordered this because the niece can eat the berries. she love eating berries!
kimchi fried rice ($20). this was a bit disappointing. dun order!
potato and fish ($22). this dish is da bomb!!! must order!!!
collage done by darling! you can see for yourself that the niece was really enjoying the berries! :) after lunch we went to utown to recce for indoor places for our pre-wed photoshoot, if it rains. our pre-wed photoshoot is on 24 may!
this three days (wed to fri) the workplace is going through external validation, whereby a group of Ps and VPs and assessors will come down and validate all our SOPs and processes, and they will interview the school leaders, the HODs, the SHs, the teachers and also the students, to see if all the SOPs and processes are really in place. and so today was my turn to be interviewed, with a few other colleagues. we were interviewed on admin, operations and data management. the whole interview went well, and we are lucky that our interviewer is a really nice guy and we had lots of fun chatting with him. :) in the evening i went to meet xuehong, nzj and meizheng, who just came back from mauritius. hearing them telling me their mauritius stories stirred great memories of 2009, when i went to mauritius with xuehong, nzj and some other nuscd dancers. we went to wheeler's yard for dinner, and it is a really nice place! great ambience with great food!
thank you for the souvenirs! i really miss the yellow sauce! :D
it is time to announce my june holidays travel plans! #excited firstly, i will be going to batam with darling, and her family. we are staying at holiday inn batam. i have stayed at holiday inn batam 3 times already (twice with army friends and one time with darling), and i always enjoyed myself. we will be staying there for 2 nights. this time i rented a mini bus to bring us on a tour around batam. we will be going to places like local products shop, polo ralph lauren factory outlet, kueh lapis shop, shopping centres and seafood restaurant.
there is 8 of us in total: 7 adults + 1 child. and we are staying in 2-bedroom suites. woo hoo!! take note that we are staying in 2 x 2-bedroom suites. :D and then when i come back from batam, two days later i will be going to JB for seafood feast with the pe classmates KC and zhenhong! the following week i will embark on my first bromance trip with my colleague, who also share the same surname as me. we will be going to vietnam for 7 days 6 nights, covering hanoi, halong bay and sapa. mr tan is 9 years older than me, and he also teaches chemistry. i am sure we will have good chemistry as travelling companions, and it will be an interesting trip. hahahahaha. at hanoi we will be staying at JW marriott.
at halong bay we will stay at a cruise for one night. the name of the cruise is fantasea.
at sapa we will do a homestay at one of the villages. sapa is a really beautiful place, but the bad thing is we have to trek for at least 12 km in order to witness for ourselves the beautiful scenery of sapa.
after the june hols, the next holiday to look forward to is our honeymoon! darling and i will be going to japan! in 2011 we went to hokkaido and tokyo. 2015 we will be going to osaka, nara and kyoto! can't wait! :)
went to brussels sprouts for dinner, followed by dessert at little ice cream kafe (LICK), with my pe colleagues.
there were 5 of us, and we ordered 4 pots of mussels: brussels sprouts signature, creamy sauce with blue cheese (this one is damn jalat and even i also cannot take it), laksa, and lobster bisque. my favourite one was the laksa. if you order the mussels there is also free flow of fries. we spammed the fries like no one's business. there was one for one promotion for beer, so each of us had 500ml of hoegarden. the beer was good! one of the nicest beer i ever tasted. and surprisingly i am still very alert after drinking the beer. as i grow older, i can hold my liquor better? hahaha.
both the ice cream and waffle was good! it is quite a nice place to chill. and we saw lina ng (黄嫊芳), who was celebrating her birthday. next time can bring darling there. :)
the sec 2 students have to do outdoor cooking during their pe lesson, to prepare themselves for the upcoming sec 2 experiential camp, because they will also be doing outdoor cooking. if i rem correctly my first outdoor cooking experience was in jc year 2, during a student leadership camp. i only remembered we got solid fuel, mess tins, oil, and potatoes. i forgot what were the rest of the food we had. and so i started the fire, poured the oil in the mess tin, and cut the potato into small pieces, and threw all of them into the oil. we had deep fried potatoes. it was a very oily affair. and of course the subsequent outdoor cooking experience was in BMT, where we cooked maggi mee during our field camp. eating maggi mee outfield was really a shiok experience. it brought us to civilisation. anyway the students had fun lighting up the solid fuel, cooking the maggi mee and the most fun moment was of course eating the maggi mee. hope they can cook the chicken properly during their sec 2 camp.
this morning i went to bedok reservoir and camp christine for the sec 2 camp recce. this year i am the camp commandant of sec 2 experiential camp. for me the highlight of this camp is outdoor cooking. the kids are given one whole chicken, pizza and kebabs!! super excited to see how they will transform the raw food to edible food. camp christine is at jalan bahtera, which is very near my army camp and also very near ntu. so we went to nie canteen to have our lunch, to reminisce the nie memories. how i miss the bak chor mee, the western food and the apple yakult drink! anyway the video of the cirque du soleil performance is finally up! :)
this is my 2nd international performance. the first international performance was at mauritius. and speaking of mauritius, xuehong is leading a dance group to mauritius again! they will be flying off tomorrow morning. have a safe flight, and enjoy yourselves over there! have a successful performance!
the weekend was spent with darling watching a drama performance 'off centre' on sat and watching 'avengers - age of ultron' on sunday.
can you recognise my little sister? she is part of the ensemble cast but i think her role is still quite prominent among the ensemble. before the performance i bumped into the #nochemistry dance partner yokekay, and she happened to watch the same performance! hahaha too coincidental. after the performance yokekay told me that the little sister is very good! :) this performance was super long. at least 2 hours and 30 minutes. both darling and i are amazed that i can hold my weak bladder for so long. hahahaha. and my butt was a bit painful and sore after sitting for so long.
avengers was good! i like! typical predictable storyline but who cares. the visual effects are good enough. this movie was 2 hours 20 min but after 1.5 hour i have to go to the toilet already. hahahahaha.
i feel thankful that i can still do crazy stuff like this at the age of 31. when i move, i feel good. kudos to the girl in green, because she is a dancer from modern chinese dance, and she is also a tae kwan do exponent! she won the bronze medal for her age group's sparring category in the inter-sch tae kwan do competition. graceful as a dancer, fearless as a tae kwan do exponent!
syf choir results are out! my show choir got an accomplishment. i just finished my PE lesson today at 930 am and was walking back to the staffroom. then one of my show choir kids ran towards me and said to me with disappointment in her voice:"cherrrrr, we got accomplishment..." and she showed me the results that were obtained from the syf website. kids are really very resourceful nowadays. i was overjoyed. i am really satisfied with this result. the most important thing was that we dare to go to traditional choir syf as a show choir, and we dare to make a difference as well as create an impact. this afternoon we had our celebration party, as well as the farewell party for the sec 4 students. this batch of sec 4 students has really been a great batch. they will be terribly missed.
giving a speech to everyone, followed by showing them the farewell video (that was done by yours truly).
let the party begin!
haiyo my student ahhhh... zzz... #unglam #moment
with the fellow teacher in-charge. she will be my successor after i leave the workplace.
my instructors enjoying the kimchi salmon. :D
adding more kimchi to the salmon. hahahahaha.
with the president. she removed her braces two months ago.
i am allergic to the workplace. over the weekend at JB, i didnt cough at all. when i was at darling's house on sunday i also didnt cough. this morning once i step into the staffroom i start to cough again. and i coughed a few times throughout the day. and back home i am coughing again... haiz... hope this cough can recover fully. my workplace did very well for syf! so far we have 4 distinctions and 1 accomplishment. now waiting for the choir results to be out. i am honestly afraid that we will get commendation, and my kids will be greatly affected. let's hope we can get an accomplishment...
