Diary Writing

Started writing in a physical diary again.

Used up 8 pages for the last 3 days alone. So, you can imagine how much has happened in the past week.

Will transfer some of the text over when I have the time.

Cheers!

Right now, can't wait for the Sec 3 camp to start. 2 less classes. Just hope I won't kenah much relief classes due to the missing teachers. *fingers crossed*

Hark Music

Went to Hark's Music Preview of their music lessons.

Really interested in their song composition class but i have not an ounce of music background.

Ended up signing up for their vocal lessons. Hopefully, they will help me get some sense of notes and jing yue gan.

HotSpots Speed-Dating Experience

Went to a HotSpots Speed-Dating event last night. *laugh*

Had a great time. Didn't dress up at all. Went there in T-shirt and jeans. No make-up. There couldn't be a more bo-chap participant... Not a total waste of money. Met 20 interesting characters - some old, some young, some working, some own their business,...

Had to pick maximum 7 guys I'm interested to know better, but none of the 7 were interested to know me better. Did get 5 out of the other 12 who were interested. Got quickly bored of the place and zao-ed.

Met one of the guys (alas, not one of those I was interested in) who was leaving and he gave me a ride to the MRT. Realised later that it wasn't real smart of me to get in a stranger's car...

Michelle's Birthday Celebration

Was hoping to zao home early after school today to take a nap first before coming out to meet the gang.

Dreadfully tired this week keeping a black face all the time. But had to wait for Amaran's mother to show up and by then, decided to wait for Michelle and Angela to wrap up their work and travel to Settlers' Cafe @ Holland Village together.

I played 2 new games today while we were there today - Project Management and TransAmerica. Quite liked both games. Both quite luck-oriented though.

Then went to ThaiExpress for dinner but didn't eat much coz I was still too full from the lunch and snacks we had at Settlers'.

After dinner, we decided to go Clementi KBox and we took a bus down. Coincidentally, '7' came along and of course, I got off earlier to put my stuff back home first. Can't help it - took a quick shower while I was home and had a change of clothes before making my way over to KBox. Made an attempt to smuggle in a bottle of red wine and another of ice wine for the gang.

Term 1 Week 8

Yeah! Only 2 more weeks to go before a well-deserved break. But alas, it's only for a week. But hey, better than nothing, right?! I just hope I'm gonna get a full week worth of break time. Goodness knows anything can crop up during the next 2 weeks. Already kenah a course right in the middle of the week.

So, here's keeping my fingers crossed!

Finding Love... And Forgetting Love

It takes...
A minute to find a special person,
An hour to appreciate them,
A day to love them, and
A lifetime to forget them.

Well, guess I'm taking yet another step to truly forgetting my special someone.

Just spent 35 bucks on a ticket to a Group Speed Dating event by HotSpots.

Hope I'd have fun... There's at least the free tarot reading to look forward to. *grin*

And provide more fodder for my blog. Whether good or bad remains to be seen. *fingers crossed*

Okies, gonna go sleep liao. Slept a full 6 hours last nite. Wow! Very rare one ok.

Nite nite.

I'm know I'm gonna have a breakdown soon

One of these days. I'm going to have a mental breakdown.

I know it. My kids are driving me crazy. Everybody thinks I can handle it. I guess I haven't given anybody any idea that I might not be able to...

Thank you, Ms Lee, for trying to help. I think I shocked quite a few of my colleagues when I started crying in the staff lounge yesterday morning.

Just feel like a personal failure at times like today. Students all gone crazy. Kicking, hitting classmates, shouting, stealing, self-mutilation, it boggles the mind what they can get up to... Have I been a crappy Form Teacher?

Is he attached?

The great thing about a fantasy is that it might just come true one day.

So, it's utterly sad to have one's fantasy evaporate with 3 words - "In a relationship".

"When in love, one will forget time,
With time, one will forget love.

I hope the above's true...

Confessions of 300 Unmarried Men

What a abysmal play it was! Just got home from the New Drama Centre at the National Library @ Victoria Street. Thank goodness we got the 2nd cheapest tix @ $38 and it was only 90 minutes long!

It had its moments... Why is that plate sushi still on the conveyor belt? Why is it that no one has chosen you? Is there something wrong with you? Yeah... Sounds like what I ask myself sometimes...

The song and dance components were utterly stupid and kinda nonsensical. But funny, I guess. I just hope they dun make a fool of themselves when they show in Mew York.

The monologues by the 3 lonely guys were a bit too cheem... Couldn't catch everything they said and definitely couldn't understand half of wat was going on.

Thank goodness Jonathan couldn't make it. But perhaps we'd have more to talk about the next time we meet if he did. Then again, it was so bad the lot of us who went to watch it has absolutely nothing to say about it - good or bad...

The only thing it did was perhaps made me even more depressed about my single status.

Sad day

Wat a depressing day. Worked till late today and went to Jurong Point for dinner.

Place was flooded with couples and I felt so out of place.

*sigh* I'm speechless. For someone who never runs out of things to say, that says a lot.

Birthday Presents to Myself

*grin*

Spent over 200 bucks on myself today. Pay day lah... And just saw brother's latest toy - the PSP.

Was very tempted to buy a PDA but managed to curb myself.

However, fell to a $60 Braun hair curler and $99 MP3 player. Also bought a $40 cross-stitch sampler. Not Precious Moment this time. Didn't put Precious Moment in my birthday wish list this year and so no more additions to my collection. Got one with small samplers. Hoping to be able to do something for my kids instead of my normal bookmarks. Hopefully, a cross-stitched key chain would be more practical. And more meaningful.

Stupid Robin lah. Didn't want to go home one. But he broke my momentum to mark papers and I went shopping instead. Therefore, ended up buying so many things. Actually, can still stay at PS till the movie showed, but bought a toaster oven to reach the $200 mark to get the $10 shopping voucher. So no choice. Got to go home with the toaster oven first.

Reached home and fell asleep. Very tired this week. Must remember to write about my visit to Hark Music. And the hilarious story of a very-seh jTan.

Luckily, woke up at 10.30pm, half an hour before the show time. Just enough time to quickly change and grab a cab to PS.

Brought my hair curler along and tried to curl my hair while in the cab. Wondered if anybody had tried to do such a thing before. But didn't know how to switch it on till I reached PS. So too bad. Didn't get to use it after all. Only managed to use it to curl my hair without any heat being applied.

Sigh... Brokeback Mountain turned out really boring. Would have been ok if it wasn't a midnight show perhaps. A bit draggy, especially since I was already feeling all tired out.

Then found out that PS does not have NR8. So had to walk to Somerset to take the night rider home. Again tempted to buy an Ipod (Nano) after seeing Robin's Ipod. Teachers have discount some more. Hope he found his ear piece at the bus-stop. Think it dropped either back at the cinema or at the bus-stop...

Reached home and continued playing with my brand new MP3 player. Didn't realise my songs collection was in such a mess. Decided to leave it till after I get some sleep first. It was already 4 am, after all...

The 512Mb space did turn out to be too small for my song collection after all. Didn't know I have so many songs. Made me regret my decision not to buy the Ipod... for a little while. But well, it is still a very good buy. Less than a hundred bucks for 512Mb, comes with radio and voice recording. Best of all, it shows the chinese and KOREAN characters of the songs being played. So no problem finding my fav korean song in KBox next time.

Can also be used as data storage (though no more space after I loaded 125 songs this morning...). And it's so cute and small. Bought the white version.

You're A Passionate Kisser

For you, kissing is about all about following your urges

If someone's hot, you'll go in for the kiss - end of story

You can keep any relationship hot with your steamy kisses

A total spark plug - your kisses are bound to get you in trouble

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What Kind of Kisser Are You?

My Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion:

• You have medium extroversion.
  
• You're not the life of the party, but you do show up for the party.
  
• Sometimes you are full of energy and open to new social experiences.
  
• But you also need to hibernate and enjoy your "down time."
  

Conscientiousness:

• You have medium conscientiousness.
  
• You're generally good at balancing work and play.
  
• When you need to buckle down, you can usually get tasks done.
  
• But you've been known to goof off when you know you can get away with it.
  

Agreeableness:

• You have high agreeableness.
  
• You are easy to get along with, and you value harmony highly.
  
• Helpful and generous, you are willing to compromise with almost anyone.
  
• You give people the benefit of the doubt and don't mind giving someone a second chance.
  

Neuroticism:

• You have medium neuroticism.
  
• You're generally cool and collected, but sometimes you do panic.
  
• Little worries or problems can consume you, draining your energy.
  
• Your life is pretty smooth, but there's a few emotional bumps you'd like to get rid of.
  

Openness to experience:

• Your openness to new experiences is high.
  
• In life, you tend to be an early adopter of all new things and ideas.
  
• You'll try almost anything interesting, and you're constantly pushing your own limits.
  
• A great connoisseir of art and beauty, you can find the positive side of almost anything.
  

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The Five Factor Personality Test

Meaning of my Birth Date: 7th February

You are an island.
You don't need anyone else to make you happy.
And though you see yourself as a loner, people are drawn to you.
Deep and sensitive, you tend to impress others with your insights.
You also tend to be psychic - so listen to that inner voice!

Your strength: Your self sufficiency
Your weakness: You despise authority
Your power color: Maroon
Your power symbol: Hammer
Your power month: July

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What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Face of a stranger

Yes, I have missed him.
The beauty in his face,
The love in his eyes,
And in the touch of his hands.

Yes, I would embrace him.
Yearning to be in his arms,
And to be delighted
By his joi de vive!

Yes, I would see him.
For his is a face of a stranger,
Appearing on the horizon,
Among the mist of a cold spring dawn.

---

Made some changes to the poem.

Above is the updated version.

Birthday Presents

Colleagues gave me a BIG ang bao. Helped to offset some of the costs of KTV, dinner and the hotel room. Definitely wasn't expecting it. Very generous of them since I proposed the whole thing.

Ban gave me a very cute baggy. Love it totally. Especially since it was something not from my list. Hope he chose it himself.

Robin helped bought me a handphone chain and traveller's makeup kit from his SIA flight. Dunno if he expects me to pay him back or should I take them as my birthday present? In fact, think I might still owe him from the NZ trip?

He got me the handphone chain with the butterfly design. There were 2 designs - heart or butterfly. Was hoping he'd get me the heart design one. So, I guess, no hopes left there.

May bought me a traveller's makeup kit too. So now, I have 2 makeup kits.

Anyway, thanks, dear friends and colleagues. The best presents were having you around and having fun together.

Oh yes, must not forget Noel's jigsaw. Cool. Was interested in one after seeing it last year but felt it was too expensive. Pretty fun and easy to put together. Felt at first that it was a bit not my taste - Disney Princesses... Too sweet. But bet he didn't know that my name meant Princess. So it was a pretty sweet coincidence. And gave me something to do while waiting for my friends to wake up on Sunday...

Day of my Birthday Party - Episode 1

Had my annual birthday thingy this year at Pan Pacific.

Suite was great. Bigger than the one at Mandarin. More expensive too. But that was because I didn't take the time and effort to book the one at Marina Mandarin much earlier. Alps kept saying that sure can get one, I didn't really bother till the day before. It was also CNY holidays, reservation office was closed. Then found out rooms were fully booked - they have quota for rooms available for discount. Finally found an online deal for Pan Pacific and got it.

There was another better deal at Goodwood Park actually. But was afraid that Orchard will be difficult to get to with Chingay on at the same time. So, will shelve the Goodwood suite lobang for another time.

Started the day really shitty. Didn't sleep till 4 am trying to sort out and perfect the OSL presentation for the Parents' Meet. Kept telling myself it was okay and no need to be perfect since it was only a time filler and nobody would notice the slight difference between the slides animation and music not in sync. But I just couldn't let it go. I'm obsessed with perfect presentations...

Anyway, finally pleased with the presentation at 4 am and went to bed. Woke up barely 3 hours later and went to school. First time ever, I was the first teacher in the staff room! Started burning discs for the presentation to give to other teachers. Thou I doubt they really used it as I would like them to...

Anyway, got to class at 8.30 am, and cleaned up the classroom. Then, stupid power trip and I had to change classrooms. DUH! After all the cleaning...

9 am came along and only one parent. Urgh... Am I supposed to give a presentation to an audience of 2 - 1 student and 1 parent. Thankfully, another 2 parents came along around 9.30 am and I could finally start. Presentation to an audience of 4... Unbelievable!

Another parent came along at 10 am. Just when I finished explaining about the 2 class combinations my kids can choose between. Sigh... So I had to explain all over again to this parent. Then, wat do you know, another parent came at 10.30 am... Yup, you guessed it. Another one-on-one explanation.

And... 11 am... brought with it one more parent. So there I was, the form teacher with the least number of parents but the one who ended the last because I had to give basically, 5 presentations... When everything was wrapped up, I quickly left at 12 noon. Still need to get home, change and pack up stuff for the party. Check in, bathe, and change again before meeting the rest at Marina KBox at 2pm.

To see your face

Yes, I have missed him.
I miss the beauty in his face,
The love in his eyes,
And in the touch of his hands.

I would embrace him,
The faceless stranger in my dreams.
Yearning to be in his arms,
And to see him clearly among the mist.

Hope springs forth,
In each sigh and smile.
When would I see you again?
The faceless stranger in my dreams.

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It's been such a long time since I wrote a poem.

How's the above for a rusty Science teacher?

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Upsetting Day 2

Okies, calmed down some.

Time to clarify some misunderstandings that may come up.

Sorry, Alps, for picking on you just now. Was first really upset at my kids today and kinda forgot to leave my bad mood in school. Usually can leave any bad feelings in school, especially on a Friday, but guess too many things happened too quickly and with birthday coming up... Sigh... Coincide with PMS some more...

Last things first, a boy broke the dustpan I bought for my class and threw it around in the classroom. Result: the metallic handle hit a boy's head, bounced off, YES, bounced off, and hit another boy's head. So, the first boy got the brunt of the injury and kenah-ed 'red' new year. Thankfully, the 2nd boy only got a mild bruise but milking the mc to skip his CCA and the Maths test I gave the class today. First boy took advantage of the mc and got a long weekend. Hopefully, but doubtfully, he's resting at home...

Before that, got very angry at some parents.

1. Damn difficult to find this mum of a boy who basically comes to school every other day. Mum claims that she can't control him anymore and asks me to manage him for her. DUH!?!?

2. Another parent was supposed to come and see my principal but couldn't seem to contact him. When his handphone was finally picked up, he claims that he is not feeling well and is unable to come to school. Right... You sound quite well, you know? And surely, you could have had the decency to inform us that you can't make it? I'm really upset at parents who make appointments to come to school and see you, but suddenly, something crops up, and so, never mind, teacher is paid to be in school, right? So, no need to inform the teacher. I'm sure they have plenty of time to spare waiting and waiting and waiting...

But when the parent finally finds some precious time to come to school, never mind what lessons or meetings the teacher is having... The parent's time very precious one, must attend to his/her/their needs first!

When they try to contact you, they get upset when they can't get you because you are teaching, having a meeting, or just not in the staff room. BUT, when you try to contact them, nothing wrong with them MIA. They very busy one. Their time very precious one.

3. Kids didn't turn up for remedial even though I went to remind them THIS morning. I already very depressed this morning - was having gastric pains on the bus to school, but song playing to assemble in carpark already. Then lessons started and had to print worksheets during my only break. Did manage to grab half a cup of Milo before running off for more lessons. Last lesson of the day, 2T1 was ultra noisy. Not sure what's wrong with LY. He's been throwing tantrums for the past 2 weeks... Think I'll ask him about it on MSN later when I see him.

Okies. Enought complaints for now. Will only get more depressed if I keep talking about such awful things...

Right. Time to get back and finish up the preparation for tomorrow's Meet-the-Parents Session. Argh! What a thing to have just before my birthday celebrations...

Upsetting Day

Very upset today.

Thot a fren was helping me to book the hotel suite for my birthday celebration but goods weren't delivered. Gave me a headache trying to figure out how best to find a room to fit half a dozen adults for a mahjong overnight party. With barely 36 hours to spare.

Found a real deal for a suite at Goodwood Park Hotel but KTV room and dinner all booked in Marina. And wat do you know, Chingay is on tomorrow night so the Orchard area would be a bitch to drive to. Finally decided to stay in Marina and booked a room over at Marina. But 15 minutes later, found a better deal at Pan Pac. Thankfully, the sales personnel at Marina Mandarin was very nice and let me cancel my Marina room. Impression of their service definitely went up by several notches.

To end the story, I did get the Pan Pac deal so guess all I have to do now is look forward to tomorrow...