Ups and Downs of the Day

Another day of much ups and downs...

Let's see... Didn't manage to do any work when I went to sleep early in the morning. Brought all my papers back home only to bring them back to school... Didn't set alarm, etc, but thankfully managed to wake up in time. Did wake up at 4.30 am. Was contemplating whether to do work, but went back to sleep without a second thought.

As I mentioned, woke up without doing any work at all. Managed to grab a cab more easily this morning, and reached school in time to put down my bag, papers and laptop. LH spoke for a while this morning and took away one of my free periods. ML then came by and plopped down a relief. Urgh! One less free period.

Quickly sat down to print out work for my 4T and 4E. Passed up some overdue admin stuff. Grabbed a quick breakfast of lor mai gai (ew... just remembered how oily it was. darn. there goes all my running.) and even packeted lunch, just in case.

Turned out to be a wise decision. Coz I barely had time to eat lunch, especially after I started marking my 3N papers. Was hoping to finish before my lesson with the 3Ns. I didn't. Thank goodness. Coz I forgot to check if there were absentees. Anyway, had a pretty good lesson with the 3Ns. Started on quadratic functions. Will try to do up the quadratic puzzle thing and have a competition on Thursday or Friday.

Feeling good after a good and productive lesson.

Then, continued marking the 3N papers while the 4E did their 2nd MCQ test.

!@#$% Accidentally knocked over my water bottle and it spilled tea all over my table. Barely missed my laptop but argh! Had to spend time to mop up everything and got tea stains over lotsa papers...

After that was 4T. Was late coz of the tea accident. Haven't seen them in about 1-2 weeks. Wouldn't be useful to give them back their Prep papers. So, same thing. Gave them a 2nd MCQ test like the 4Es. During this time, finished marking the 4E 2nd MCQ test. Argh! Not sure if the past year O-level paper was easier or the kids just distracted by their other subjects' Prep Papers. The 4Es did worse for the 2nd MCQ test which I took from a past year Prelim Paper from another school.

What a downer.

But yeah! School was more or less done. Messaged AT and he replied that he could give me a lift! Yeh! Time to get new shoes. Retail therapy also perks me up! But alas, he had errands to do over at Bukit Timah, so I asked him to drop me off at Holland Village. Cannot shop for new shoes, at least can be more productive and do marking. And get a good healthy Caesar salad from Coffee Bean.

Sigh... I think that was when things just started to go downhill. Coffee Bean is presently closed for renovation. Only outdoor area available. Couldn't decide what to do and walked over to Starbucks. Found a great couch seat to rest in. But Starbucks got no food for dinner, so I walked over to BK for a Mushroom Swiss Single Burger meal. Put in some 2.5 hours' worth of marking and decided it was enough. Wanted to grab a cab home but realised I didn't have enough cash. Ok, off to the atm. While waiting at the atm, so many empty cabs zoomed past the atm. But when I had the money, no empty cabs in sight...

Waited all of 45 minutes. Empty bus came before any empty cab came by. Well, might as well think of it as I saved money...

Highlight of the day: Found a new online friend who calls himself 坂本龍一. It was amazing how we just clicked (or seem to) and started to chat without knowing nuts about each other.