Week 9 and counting

Week 9 and counting

Yeh! It's week 9! Just one more week of school before the March holidays.

Not that it'd be any real holidays. Loads of work still, but at least no need to see my students every day.

The past 2 months have been real hectic - instead of (everyday 1 minor tiff, every 3 days 1 major tiff), it has been ‘everyday minor incident, every 3 days major incident’. Like I was telling a colleague, have to put out bush fires every day. *sigh*

Stress and Fatigue II

Stress and Fatigue II

Can one suffer from depression coz of lack of communication?

Not the kind of communication at work. I communicate enough every day. I'm a teacher.

My family used to talk a lot but with the 'recent' death of my grandmother, my grandfather having his cataracts removed, my family has become a really quiet one.

I have always been one who needs to be surrounded by lots of friends too. But everybody's busy these days. It's been 3 weeks since I met up with anybody! Not that I actually had a lot of communication at my birthday party.

Met up with the gals last night for a slumber party but I kinda felt a lil left out. The corporate world is very different from the public sector. Esp teaching...

Or maybe I'm just becoming more self-centred. Or perhaps I have been rather self-centred all this while. And now that I lead such a boring life, I'm making myself sick with envy... *grin*

Ready, Set, Go

Ready, Set, Go

How do you know your noodles are ready? Do you ever get perfect toast every time?

Or do you make do with what you are presented with and eat up watever's on the table?

Was I really ready when I signed on the dotted line to join the MOE? Will I even be ready tomorrow morning for a brand new week ahead?

How does one know one is ready? For anything?

Gut instinct perhaps? Advice from friends and family?

How much do our past shape our decisions? Our present experiences? Or our hazy predictions of the future?

Alright. Time to stop all these thinking and settle down to my work... *sigh* Got more important things to finish. (Or so I think...)

Stress and Fatigue

Stress and Fatigue

I am getting stressed out...

I am so tired I will fall asleep at 10pm and couldn't care less that I still have tons to lessons to prepare, worksheets to put together, marking to finish...

How can I get back the energy level I used to have?

I used to be so much more involved. I used to care more about the things I produce. Not that I am not proud of my work... But they can definitely be better. I used to be such a perfectionist. I wonder where that has gone to?

I went to see the doctor today. Felt all awry. Spent an hour waiting for the doctor. Went in to discuss fatigue in about 5 minutes. Got my mc, some medication and proceeded back home.

Fell asleep once I got back home and woke up only at 6pm. My goodness. Couldn't believe it!

And now, I'm feeling all tired out again!

Other Sharon Lows

Other Sharon Lows

Cool. 74 posts found in Goggle Singapore for "Sharon Low". Found in 0.10 seconds.

Was reminded of how my colleague went online straight after our Contact Time last year when it was announced that we were getting a new principal. Tried to dig up all the info we could on her and get a handle of how she was like. I remember me saying jokingly to my colleague, "She can run, but she can't hide from the Internet, eh?"

But well, nothing on me. Phew. In case any of my students have the same idea of digging for dirt on me. *grin*

There's a Sharon Low who's the Program Director in Bio Valley of one of NUS Overseas Colleges.

Another Sharon Low in Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory who published a paper on Piezoelectric quartz crystal based veterinary diagnosis for Salmonella enteritidis infection in chicken and egg in Sensors and Actuators B. 75: 29-35.

Cool. A Sharon Low who has her wedding photo online.

Oh... This one is the best. A Sharon Low who won the 1st runner prize in the Trios 2000 at Victor's Bowl on the 13th Jan.

Poem

A poem which tugged at me heart

You'll never know
how much
your smile lights up the room
or your laughter fills my soul,
making all the little problems of the day disappear.

You'll never know
how much it means to me
when you do or say something
thoughtful and totally unexpected —
usually just at the moment I need it most.

You'll never know
how much pride I hold in my heart
for the person you are and the things you do —
for your strength and your gentleness,
your courage and your determination,
your accomplishments and your dreams.

You'll never know
how much I need you by my side —
in the best of times and the worst of times
and all the times in between.
It really doesn't matter where we are
or what we're doing,
as long as we're together to share it all.

Birthday Bash 2

Hm...

Wat else to say?

The gals turned up and snuck into the bed to gossip. As usual, I had to socialize with the rest of my guests and didn't get to catch up with the gal-talk. Is this my party or not?

Didn't get to talk to Ban, Sinyuan, Huixin, Junhuai, hey, did I talk to anybody at all that night? Maybe not.

Wonder why I organise my bday party every year. Always dun get to catch up with the people I invite. I'm more like providing them with a chance to catch up among themselves...

Thankfully, there are people like Grace, May and of course, Varian, who I managed to snag some one-on-one time. Varian, as always, came at the best time - 2am in the morning... *grin*

But still, you didn't bring me my annual bouquet of flowers... Other than my students, you're the only person who gives me flowers, you know? Now I'm all depressed coz not only did I not get any flowers for my bday, I'm definitely not gonna get any for V day...

*sulk*

Birthday Bash 1

Picked Grace up early around 1pm at Holland Village.

Then checked into the suite at Mandarin and explored the room. Alright but wasn't that impressive.

It was getting late by then and we rushed off to Taka for lunch. Did some catching up on work, possible weekend getaway to HK? and ...

It was great having some 1-on-1 time with her. She had to rush off for another meeting with another group and I went off to Cold Storage to grab some sushi for dinner & the stuff we might need later - cups, plates, etc.

Made a call to Robin asking him to pick up some drinks. Thanks Robin!

Then it was back to the suite and grabbing some forty winks.

May called soon after and I went downstairs to pick her and Floyd up to the suite.