We wait and wait... Good thing was it allowed for my dinner group to chat, i guess. But i was hungry when i arrived...
I think some 30 odd minutes passed before the first dish arrived. And it was mine! I thot at first that they wanted to serve all our orders together, that's why wait so long. But that wasn't the case.
My fren - Sinyuan - who ordered chicken on hot stone came some time after mine. The funny thing is - her dish was raw food. She was to do her own cooking on the hot stone (see photo). Maybe the 40 minutes was to wait for the stone to heat up? But that's really stupid.
Then, we had to wait again after the waitor brought the dish over. Why? To bring the utensils for my fren. On another trip? Duh! The side salad for the dish came as my fren was halfway through her chicken.
My dinner last nite - some tofu dish in a paper hotpot at Urban East Bistro @ Esplanade Mall. Urgh! Please do not visit this restaurant! At least not until the end of the month. Why? Sigh...
Lady boss was totally impatient when we didn't know wat to order. Asked her wat she'd recommend, she said everything's there on the menu. Duh! Then promptly complained that she's very busy and couldn't attend to us. And we were to call her when we were ready to order. Fine... So that's wat u call 'service'?
Yeh! I got bronze for my 2.4 km run just now! Finished in less than 16 minutes. About the same as my timing on Monday. But a bit more tired - kenah stitch during the 4th lap. Prob coz of lack of breakfast.
Waiting for Can and the rest for their runs and walks to finish. Then gonna make my way back to school for 4E2 remedial. Brought 2 stacks of marking with me - hope i'd finish at least one of the stacks, if not both.
Ouch! Got a paper cut on my arm just now by a stack of papers for 4E2. Haven't had a paper cut in ages. It really hurts!
Yeh! My class seems cleaner these days. Gave them a scolding and threatened to make them stay back to clean up other classrooms if I ever find food wrappers and drink bottles in the dustbin again. Why?!? Why do they need such negative motivation? Dun they really that the classroom will be a much nicer environment to work in if it's clean and tidy?
Waiting for a fren to reply msg to see if he can give me a lift home. Most prob not. Sigh... Will have to lug back my backpack, 2 plastic bags of marking and my laptop home all by myself...
Dun even know if got time to do all the work I'm lugging home.
Have to wake up early again tomorrow for stoopid 2.4 km run. Then rush down to school for 4E2 remediation. Thank goodness some of the gals came by just now. Passed them the papers to be done for tomorrow so I can still dilly-dally a bit after the run tomorrow.
Then rush back home, wash up and hopefully can grab a short nap before dinner with my friends. Yeah! At least, I have fireworks to look forward to tomorrow night! Highlight of the weekend...
Unless... I can find someone to watch the Bourne Ultimatum with on Sunday. Been asking if anybody want to watch with me, but no response so far. Dunno if everyone's just busy, watching the show with other people, or I'm just not popular enough.
Okies! Finally did up a slide show of the photos my students took of our Sports Day on the eve of National Day (8th August 2007). Had a lot of fun that day. Was I/C of inputting the scores of the various events into the laptop. Used Excel to quickly churn out the final results of Best Class, Best Competitor, etc. It was cool!
Then, my OSL team managed to successfully sell all their fish-balls, hot-dogs, chicken nuggets, curry puffs and canned drinks. We did have 15 cartons of canned drinks left over... But well, that's another story...
Anyway, enjoy the photos! Click on the video below to see it in its full size of 600 by 475 pixels.
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.
Starting to talk about flowers with kestrel who recently posted about flowers and their meanings on her blog...
Baby's Breath: Innocence Begonia: A fanciful nature Carnation-red: Alas poor heart Carnation-pink: I'll never forget you Chrysanthemum-yellow: Slighted love Daffodil: Regard, You are the only one Daisy: Gentleness, Innocence, Loyalty and Romance Forget Me Not: Faithful Love, Undying Hope, Memory, Do Not Forget Lavender: Loyalty Lily-white: Sweetness Lily of the Valley: Humility, Sweetness, Return of Happiness Rose, Red: Love and Desire Rose-single red: I Love You Sunflowers: Pride Tulip: Love and Passion Tulip-red: Declaration of love
I sure miss getting flowers. Not that I've received many...
From what I can remember, Zien bought me once before, in J2, I think. He had to hide it in newspapers so that his aunt won't find out. It was hilarious coz he brought this huge box with him. I had to open the box, dig up the newspapers, and viola, find the flowers within. Can't remember what occasion it was for, though.
Got some tulips for my Prom night. And I remember faintly getting a small pot of roses while I was visiting London. Boy, were the fresh flowers cheap and good in London!
Oh yes! They were the cheapest in Vietnam! When I went Hanoi for community service, found out how cheap roses were there. The students buy it like we buy sweets and would give to their friends for no reason at all. And, it's perfectly alright to give away roses which you received from someone too.
Got a bouquet of plastic sunflowers from Varian but they got thrown away accidentally by my mum. I remember screaming at her until she said she'd go down to the rubbish chute to retrieve it. Of course I stopped her in time but my mum never dared to throw away anything from my room after that... *grin*
Got a bouquet of a real sunflower from some friends for my 20+ th birthday. But, had to throw away all my dried flowers some time back coz they were all growing mould under my bed.
That's about it... All the flowers I have received so far... Oh yes, mustn't forget, got a couple fake flowers from the past Teachers' Days too.
I sure miss flowers. *hint hint*
I would say roses are my fave. Any colour, though I do prefer those with strong colours, like a deep red, brilliant yellow, rosy pink, champagne white... They smell great and they dry great. Used to love tulips but they are horrible to dry. Coz they dun dry at all. They just turn all soggy, wrinkle up, and start to, like, rot...
Used to go Chinatown market to buy flowers ($3 for a dozen roses, $1 per stalk of lilies, etc) every other week during Secondary school to practice floral arrangement. Now $3 for a single stalk of rose more likely...
And tell you a lil secret, I like buying flowers so much, I have even bought them for myself. In fact, I still do. *laugh*
Yoohoo! Had a long day in school today. Kinda upset because my Sec 4 students still not very on task with their revision. Been doing all I can to prepare papers for them to try, but most of them dun even want to try the papers. How can I gauge their level of knowledge and help them better? Sigh...
Then it was time for my 2E Common Test. They took ages to settle down, and food wrappers and drink bottles were everywhere. Want to scold them because we lost the Best Class Award to 2E4. For the past 2 months, the class has been so dirty, untidy and food wrappers everywhere. Not sure if it's because I didn't put up a duty roster. But I was hoping for everyone to take responsibility to keep the class clean... How can I push the idea across? Hm...
Anyway, managed to finished setting one of the MANY papers I have to set for Prep and Prelim and EY Exams... Got many papers to mark, but decided I need to go running with Angela and Alex. They also agreed to go Clementi Stadium to run because I have to run home to change into running gear. Maybe should have taken bus to go home. Took cab home, quickly changed and met up with Noel. Walked over and reached the stadium just as Angela left her home!
Finished running my 2.4 km in 17 minutes 08 seconds. Ok, again, it was more of a jog. My main aim was to not stop and I didn't. I know I was going at a slow rate but it was ok. Even managed to talk to Alphonsus for an entire lap when he called on my 5th lap. Then, managed to squeeze in a further 2 more laps after resting before the rest of the group came in. Wasn't feeling tired at all, so decided to run another 4 laps. I miscounted. Wanted to run 10 laps in all today to reach 4 km. But, forgot the 2 laps extra I did while waiting for Angela, etc. Therefore, I covered 5 km in all today! Yoohoo!
Dinner was a little disappointing. Wanted to eat porridge but stall owners on holiday till next Monday! Nothing but fatty food galore in Clementi market. Was thinking of not eating, but thot I'd prob get hungry later and end up eating instant noodles. So it'd be better to just eat something.
Well, dun think anyone's interested in what foods I had, etc. Now, on a high after my run and dinner. Gonna finish up my 4T marking, then go and shower. Can't shower as yet. Just finished dinner not long ago.
Yup. Went over to JB for a KTV session. Here are the photos from my camera. Will upload other photos once I have them over in my hdd. But for now, enjoy these few first!
Click on the video below to see it in its original size of 600 by 475 pixels.
So sorry it took me a while to transfer the photos from my camera into my brother's desktop to do up the slide show...
After Sports Day, was supposed to help some students out with their Physics. But in the end, only spent some 15 minutes going through Physics while we waited for a table to be available for lunch. We had our lunch at Seoul Garden - yup, BBQ. We ate from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm... Boy, can the girls eat!
After lunch, we had a lot of fun taking some NeoPrints. Wow, haven't been to Seoul Garden and took NeoPrints in exactly 10 years. The last time I did both things was when I was JC 2, and had BBQ at Marina as farewell dinner with my JC CCA. Then we took NeoPrints with the Exco members.
Click on the video below to see it in its original size of 600 by 475 pixels.
Yup. I call it a 4-km jog. Coz it took me 36 minutes and 49 seconds to complete. Think it was pretty slow. But main thing, I did not stop! I maintained my pace for at least 3 km. Got slower during the last km. Had to keep talking to myself that I dun need to stop...
Also realised at the end that my knee pain either went away after the first km or I managed to push it out of my mind. Whichever the case, I still have to remind myself to year my knee guards...
Okies. Reach home liao. Time for a quick shower before running off for ktv session. Yoohoo! Can't wait!
Decided to go watch The Simpsons Movie by myself today. It was ok. Like Homer said in the beginning, it was stupid to pay good money for something I could get for free on TV. *laugh*
Didn't get as much laughs from the movie as I had expected. It had its moments, but I think I enjoy the 'free' episodes better. So, decided to engage in some shopping therapy to cheer myself up.
Got some wonderful ciabatta bread from peck at taka basement. Wanted to borrow storybooks from orchard library but it was closed. Decided to splurge on one of those fashion mags I mentioned before. Then, found this jap magazine on putting up great hair arrangements. Yup. Bought it too. Then, yes, another then. All these 'thens' are impulse buys, you see. Bought 3, yes, 3 books by Ji Mi. Totally expensive artsy books with pretty drawings and pretty words.
Was still hoping to run over to Far East to take a look at dresses and shoes. But in the end, spent some time to buy a cardigan for tmr. So, thankfully, no more time to do any more shopping. *grin*
Waiting for kids to eat lunch. Apparently, they want to ask physics questions. At the moment, however, the kids are taking ages to decide where to go for lunch...
Caught it by chance last Thursday as I was rushing to finish folding stars for the Chinese students who came to visit Singapore from Foshan. Was captivated coz of Alyson Hannigan. Loved her in the later seasons of Buffy. Felt her character really came a long way through the several seasons of Buffy. Pity how the scripts for Buffy made the show end. However, can't say much for Buffy. So many seasons, so many episodes. Only caught one or two episodes here and there. Another show I would love to get my hands on.
Okies. Finished watching show. It's very late liao. Better go sleep. Nite nite!
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER is a comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he fell in love.
It all started when Ted's best friend, Marshall (Jason Segel), dropped the bombshell that he was going to propose to his long-time girlfriend, Lily (Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher.
At that moment, Ted realized that he had better get a move on if he also hopes to find true love. Helping him in his quest is Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), a friend with endless, sometimes outrageous opinions, a penchant for suits and foolproof ways to pick up women.
When Ted meets Robin (Cobie Smulders), he is sure it is love at first sight, but destiny may have something else in store. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future.
That's because my new phone comes with a mobile blog function! After taking a photo with my camera, or just choose a photo from my memory, I can send the file to Blogger.com with a blog entry!
So exciting! I always have so many things on my mind sometimes that I would write down - hoping to blog them later, but always forget or can't be bothered after the time has passed.
But now! I can blog anytime I wish to. On anything that comes to my mind! Haha!
1. Be Proactive 2. Begin with the End in Mind 3. Put First Things First 4. Think Win-Win 5. Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood 6. Synergize 7. Sharpen the Saw
Overcome our own short-comings, to empower others and promote interdependence. Communicate openly with each other and create win-win solutions.
Only then can there be continuous improvement, innovation and refinement.
Of course, trust is at the root of all successes or failures.
I have to trust myself. And others have to trust me. In my character, what I am as a person, and competence, what I can do.
But is this trust there? Me in myself. Others in me. I guess the question answers itself.
Sigh... Had to resist buying my chinese magazines this month. Coz just spent a small fortune on more cosmetics. And on 3 management and leadership books.
Piet Mondrian (b. Amersfoort, Netherlands, March 7, 1872 — d. New York City, February 1, 1944) was a Dutch painter.
He was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. Despite being well-known, often-parodied and even trivialized, Mondriaan's paintings exhibit a complexity that belies their apparent simplicity.
He is best known for his non-representational paintings that he called "compositions", consisting of rectangular forms of red, yellow, blue, white or black, separated by black rectilinear lines. They are the result of a stylistic evolution that occurred over the course of nearly 30 years and continued beyond that point to the end of his life.
The Mondrian Generator attempts to create Mondrian-like gridded pictures with coloured squares, in a random manner. Would most DEFINITELY paint one on one of the walls of my future house.
Here's what happened. Was updating my blog last night when I accidentally pressed on "New Template" or something like dat. And with that one click, my old blog template was GONE!!!
All the links on the side bar, all the funny things... Almost died on the spot...
Took a long while for me to remember most of the stuff that I wanted on my blog. Found out more about these widgets thing-a-mies... And started loading them on my blog like crazy.
Here's one more:
*grin*
PS. Got really irritated by the relentless music playing on the blog so I transferred it to an earlier blog entry. Just click on the picture above and you'd still get to play the game. Cheers!
Okies. Since I'm asking people to tell me the city they would like to get lost in, I suppose it's only fair and polite to tell you which city I'd like to get lost in...
NEWYORK!
That's the city I would like to get lost in.
Many people might assume I would say London. It was actually what I was thinking of at first. But decided I would like a change.
In my mind, New York is more colourful and yet I can find monochrome if I need it, less gentrified but not crass, faster pace of life with ample space to zone out. There's Broadway instead of West End, Central Park instead of Hyde Park, Metropolitan instead of the Tate... The list can go on...
Something struck me during the RJ 10-year Reunion at Butter Factory.
Whenever we bumped into an old acquaintance, WS would ask him or her about his (or her) work. Her questions were highly intelligent. But just too much to worry our heads over during drinks at a club. Nothing wrong with her questions. I wish I could ask such astute questions too. But, guess it's just wrong timing and wrong place...
Anyway, came across this interesting stack of cards on which questions have been printed to help people know themselves and their friends better.
So, I'm going to try this simple social experiment with an easy question...
Woke up this morning and got the announcement: "Your book is here..." by my brother. Was brushing my teeth when he told me, so no violent jumping in the air and shouting - just a smile and quickly finished washing up.
No need breakfast. Just grab the book, go back to bed and read, read, read...
Okay. Lunch time. Break for lunch. But never mind. Can still read while eating. So continue reading.
Somehow, this book is not as engaging as the previous books. Maybe expectations too high. Or getting old. Cannot seem to absorb what was going on and had to re-read some pages twice to understand the story.
Break for tuition. But brought book along. Can still read while kid do his work mah. *laugh* End up the kid also interested in the book and asked to borrow when I'm done with the book.
Okies. Finish tuition, go back home. Read until eyes very tired. 4 pm already. 5 pm have to get ready for RJ 10-year reunion. Never mind. Take a nap first. Otherwise, how to survive the night?
Darn! Woke up 5 pm. Picked up book and continued reading. Ok, say give myself 30 minutes to read. 5.30 pm must go get ready. Supposed to meet friend at 7 pm. Die lah. 6 pm still reading book. Only half-way through some more. Really very slow hor?
Okies. Really have to go wash up and change. Thankfully, now only need about 15-20 minutes to put on make-up. Spent more time deciding what to wear. Not bad. Left my place around 7.30 pm and got to Butter Factory in 15 minutes. Traffic was great today. And what a surprise! I think I was the first one there.
Looked around. Nobody I seem to recognise. Hey, there's one. Oh no. I know who it is. Walk away. Go find WS. Oops, he's following. He caught up. Hi! Yes. There's a reunion going on. Hm... Nope, dunno who else is coming. Let me go find my fren. See you later!
Walked to the end of Robertson Walk. Suddenly, heard many explosions. Oh! It's the fireworks from the NDP Preview. *grin* At least I managed to see some fireworks if the night turns out a dud.
Okies. Toilet is FINALLY available to be used. That's all for now. Talk to you later!
Trying very hard to resist buying a new handphone...
Lotsa people very upset with me coz I never pick up the phone. My phone's not very loud to begin with and it's almost always buried deep in whichever bag I'm using and protected by its thick pouch.
So, very tempted to buy a new phone. Plus, it's been a year since I bought my Eten. Fingers itching to try new phone interface. Also, need a slimmer phone to go out with when I'm using a very small bag or without a bag at all.
Anyway, it's basically down to these 3 choices:
Top Choice: Motorola SLVR L72
Pros:
Includes USB cable
Free 512 MB MicroSD card (which costs less than $10 anyway)
FM radio
Chinese characters
Cons:
Has to pay $48
Not very pretty design
A big bulky but thin (11 mm)
Second Choice: Samsung Ultra Edition 8.4 (Z370)
Pros:
Includes USB cable (but useless coz it's USB 1.1)
Very thin (8.4 mm)
Chinese characters
Cons:
Has to pay $38
Even less pretty than the Motorola (why dun have the black version???)
Very slow USB 1.1 (if I choose to use USB but since it's 1.1, it's highly doubtful)
Third Choice: Sony Ericsson K610i Lite
Pros:
Great design
It's red in colour
$0!!!
Cons:
Use of Memory Stick (but it comes with free 64 MB Memory Stick... enough for 20 songs?)
Thick (17 mm)
No earpiece (how to listen to music???)
No USB cable (but guess I can use Bluetooth for file transfers...)
Saturday, July 14, 2007
On a high...
Ups and downs, highs and lows...
Low at first, coz went to sleep without doing any work.
But happy, coz I woke up at 5 am! But ended up using the time to sort my papers and still left my house around 6.45 am. Reached taxi stand to see long queue of people waiting for cabs, which will take their time to come because it was 10 more minutes to 7 am, when the $2 surcharge comes on.
Still happy coz the bus came by and I hopped onto the bus to go to work for the first time in 3 weeks. Hope it's the start of a new trend...
Not so happy when MT took her time to scold the kids and used up my free period which I had intended to use for marking the 2E graph papers.
Even more not happy when I couldn't finish marking during the following free period. Never mind... It's time for the last 4T lesson of the week. Single period some more. And I prepared so many food stuffs for their lesson on preservation.
Hm... Idea - next lesson, shall attempt to talk about mummification as part of preservation technique? *grin*
Happier coz the 4T seems to have had fun during the lesson - they got to eat stuff in class and hopefully learnt about some preservation techniques.
Happiest, managed to quickly finish marking the 2E graphs after all during the next free period and lugged all my stuff for 2 double periods back to back. Super heavy lor!
Thankfully, bumped into a student on the way to class and she helped carry some of my stuff to class.
Students got back their graph tests and then were mostly on task drawing yet more graphs. Using IT like I did might have been more effective but how to? No screen, no projector, no nothing in class. And the comp labs are always booked. Now, even the LTs are also booked. Had to resort to ITR 3, will have to check it out to make sure projector, etc are all inside and can use. And most importantly, got at least 42 chairs inside the room.
The 3Ns also did their work quite diligently today so things could not have gone better today. I always knew 13 works for me!
After lessons finished, had to quickly rush out the admin & paper work for the Sec 4s going to Ngee Ann. Did up all their contacts, team groupings, got the handphone, made sure everything was in Mr Ngo's hands. Yippee! Wonder if I'd have preferred to go with the kids to Ngee Ann or stay at school like I was doing.
Anyway, more high when BL came to tell me no need to sit in for ICC today. But helped her to do up the admin & paper work regarding kids who have missed a lot of CCA sessions. Finished it with time to spare and wasted a lot of time coz I was waiting for Mr Ngo to come back.
However, missed him totally when he came back. Hope he's holding on to the clip board I lent to him. Cannot find anywhere already - the clip is at the side of the board rather than at the top. And only cost $2.
Okies. Very tired... Shall come back to report more later about my dinner + movie - the latest Harry Potter!
PS. Reminder to myself - check new timetable for myself + for the kids.
Cheers!
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
On MC today
I hate my job whenever I take MC...
Already sick and feeling terrible. Have to feel worse when there are so many things that are to be done YESTERDAY...
Kenah sporadic leg cramps since yesterday afternoon. It's probably due to dehydration. But friend says it's due to lack of sodium in my diet. Will check with doctor later.
Anyway, kept waking up due to the leg cramping and the lack of sleep caused my runny nose to activate... Argh! Ar-choo!
Many thanks to the various colleagues for helping me out!
Okies. Going off to see doctor now.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Super Mario Online Widget Game
Monday, July 09, 2007
Countdown to Jacky Cheung Concert
At first, kinda felt cheated into spending $140 to buy tix to watch Jacky Cheung. I mean, I can buy A LOT of his CDs for $140!
But now, very excited over this weekend! July is so exciting!
Harry Potter this Friday, maybe Dim Sum Dollies this Saturday and then Jacky Cheung this Sunday! Yoohoo!
The Year of Jacky Cheung World Tour 07
After a five year wait, the irreplaceable King of Mando/Canto Pop, Jacky Cheung, is finally back with his "The Year of Jacky Cheung World Tour 07".
Due to an overwhelming response, Unusual Productions have decided to launch a third show on 15th July 2007. Jacky Cheung, the consummate "Heavenly King" will take to stage at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on three nights, 13th, 14th and 15th July, 8pm, charming one and all with his mesmerizing vocals.
Jacky Cheung is well-love for his many hit songs such as 《吻别》， 《月半弯》， 《每天爱你多一些》， 《情网》， 《情书》， 《只愿一生爱一人》， 《一路上有你》， 《爱是永恒》， 《李香兰》， 《心如刀割》， 《情已逝》， 《饿狼传说》， 《头发乱了》， 《忘记你我做不到》， 《我等到花儿也谢了》， 《我真的受伤了》， 《一千个伤心的理由》 and more.
Thought it was a dreadfully short route. Never did I realise that it was actually 1.7 km long one-way! Therefore, I actually ran about 3.4 km that evening!
Yeh! Here's the route we ran.
Countdown to RJC Class 97 F.M (fond memories)
Yeah! Can't wait to see the old campus yet again. Last time was when RJ had this big 'party' to move over to the new campus at Bishan. But just loved the old campus. It's so much more homey.
Anyway, for those interested:
Host: Carlsen & Janice Location: Old RJC (where Dunman High currently is) 53 Mt Sinai Road, Singapore 276880 (many thanks to Debbie for getting approval from Dunman High) When: Sunday, July 29, 12:00PM
Please bring your I/C as you will need to exchange it for a visitor pass (tight security at schools nowadays). Please bring cash as well to pay for the catered lunch (max $30).
As I was saying, very tempted to buy a new phone after using one of my student's phone.
Found the following 'free' phones from Singtel. Which one should I buy?
Nokia 2626
Samsung M300
Sony Ericsson K610i
Sony Ericsson K510i
Sony Ericsson W200i
BenQ Siemens S81
Samsung Z370
Motorola SLVR L72
So, anybody wanna give me some advice?
Newspapers Collection Exercise
Woke up early this morning to violent thunder, lightning and heavy heavy rain. Got so worried that my newspapers collection exercise had to be cancelled. Called up someone who lived near the school to get a more accurate weather report and when the rain showed some signs of letting up, decided to go on with the exercise. Was really thinking of cancelling at a point of time...
Got over to the taxi stand and boy, was there a loooooong queue! Why? Because there were tons of P6 students 'rushing' to get to NUS to take the entry test for NUS High. Thankfully, there was a cab who was due to change shift in CCK and I managed to jump queue and got to school in time.
Not sure how 'motivational' I was - dun think I was quite effective... The kids remained very slackened and took their time to move to their assigned blocks. The rain perhaps? I know I definitely would have liked to stay in bed... Stomach was grumbling as I made my rounds to the various collection points but no time to makan... Onwards I go...
Some students really surprised me with their enthusiasm and attitude to help out in the exercise. Some students did not, with their lack of initiative and needed constant pushing to put in a minimal effort.
Many thoughts and things I wanna say about the above. Let me gather my thoughts first - will pen them down in another post.
Phone died after about an hour into the exercise - I knew I should have charged it fully last night! Borrowed one of the students' phones. Now very tempted to get a new phone.
Friday, July 06, 2007
6 more days...
Yoohoo! Only 6 more days to Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix movie! But not sure who I will be watching it with. Any volunteers?
And 14 more days to the LAST book - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!
I hope it gets delivered quickly, on time and early! Then can finish it within the weekend! *grin*
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Quotation
Heard this from a fren today... Can so relate to it...
"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
We have done so much with so little for so long, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Perseverence is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. by Walter Elliott
Haiz... Should I sign up for this run too?
Just found out from a friend who has been running for the past 2-3 years about these runs coming up in 2007.
Milk Run will be taking place in a couple of hours.
Registration is closed for the Passion Run.
Debating whether to sign up for the Mizuno Wave Run and the Singapore Bay Run.
Have already signed up for the Shape Run.
Need to check schedule to see if can fit in the Great Eastern.
Real Run cannot - no 5 km. But it's interesting coz you have to run on at least 7 km of road + 1 km of sand + 1 km of trail + 1 km of runway - total 10 km! Hm... think I may sign up for the Real Run if I continue to run twice or thrice a week?
If I can maintain running regularly, I probably will also join the Stanchart - it's also minimum 10 km!
Made up my mind to start warming up for the Shape Run, so messaged a fren to go running together this evening. Knew it was going to be a tough day with a full timetable and extra Physics practical from 4 to 5 pm.
In fact, was very tempted to call it off when I was done in school. I was utterly frustrated during the Physics practical. Couldn't understand why they couldn't understand the workings of the practical. Thought it was one of the easier practicals already...
In addition, only managed to grab a small lor mai gai this morning for breakfast and then no time for any more food... So, was seriously starving at the end of the day.
Furthermore, reached home only around 6+ pm. Sky was turning grey and looks like it was going to rain any moment soon... But no! I shall persevere! And I did!
Not sure how long I took for the run. Forgot to wear knee guards but they were alright. Just barely. Were hurting near the end of the run so I took it easy and jogged the last couple hundred metres. It was a good workout in general. Was sweating at the end of the run.
Then, had only porridge for dinner. So, good. No food whole day, full timetable, 4 km run at the end of the day, followed by porridge for dinner.
Unfortunately, reached home to see this packet of donuts waiting for me on the kitchen table - my mum bought for me... *Gulp* All the fats and sugar went down my gullet quicker than you could say "Expelliramus"! *grin*
Watever! Brain shall only register the 4 km run! *laugh*
(I ain't) Missing You
Got this off a friend's blog... What a coincidence...
I was just telling myself a couple of things:
People (ok, me) should always look to the front. Don't always look back. Otherwise, very easy to trip and fall one.
It's good to be far away. Being near only bring back all the bad memories. Now, can just keep only the good memories and be happier.
So, here's to a far away past.
Cheers!
(I AIN'T) MISSING YOU
Everytime I think of you, I always catch my breath And I'm still standing here, and you're miles away and I'm wondering why you left And there's a storm that's raging through my frozen heart tonight I hear your name in certain circles And it always makes me smile I spend my time thinking about you and it's almost driving me wild And there's a heart that's breaking down this long distance line tonight
I ain't missing you at all (missing you) since you've been gone away (missing you), I ain't missing you (missing you) No matter what I might say (missing you)
There's a message in the wire and I'm sending you the signal tonight You don't know how desperate I've become and it looks like I'm losing this fight In your world I have no meaning though I'm trying hard to understand and it's my heart that's breaking down this long distance line tonight
I ain't missing you at all (missing you) since you've been gone away (missing you), I ain't missing you (missing you) No matter what my friends say (missing you)
there's a message that I'm sending out via telegraph to your soul and if I can't breach this distance stop this heartbreak overload
I ain't missing you at all ...ow...(missing you) since you've been gone away (missing you), I ain't missing you (missing you) No matter what my friends say (missing you) I ain't missing you I ain't missing you.. I can't lie to myself And there's a storm that's raging through my frozen heart tonight I ain't missing you at all I ain't missing you...missing you I ain't missing you, oh no I ain't
Or am I?
New snow flake
This thing is so therapeutic, think I'd become a frequent user soon...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Down... Only 2 days...
And I'm down with the flu. Sneezing non-stop today. It's only been 2 days of school. So fast fall sick already... Die ah!
Came home 'early' today around 4+ and slept all the way until I woke up starving. Had a little something but nose still running around... Sigh...
Went to collect my 17 m long of plastic wrap and proceeded to cut them up to size to fit my students' tables. Wanna get at least half the tables wrapped by tomorrow and the rest by Friday. Then they can decorate as they wish next week.
Yippee! Can't wait for the long weekend ahead - Youth Day holiday. One of the perks of being a teacher. You get to enjoy a handful of non-public holidays. However, got a lot of work to do up that weekend too. Got to mark the work & test I gave 4T, the work I gave my 2E and the practical that I'm giving 4E tomorrow.
Also have to get ready the work for the classes in advance. I finished the work for this week in advance during the last weekend and it was so much easier to pass this week. So, I think it's kinda worth the time and effort to do up and prepare the lessons and worksheets in advance. Which is, by right, what I'm supposed to do anyway. But haven't been doing - being the procrastinator that I am... *grin*
Speaking of which, I have cleared my table space! Well, somewhat... It has gotten very cluttered and messy over the last few weeks of school and it grew very quickly over the holidays. But today, managed to shift things around and I got my chair back! And enough table space so that I can use my laptop at my table tomorrow. *laugh*
Cheers! It's Thursday tomorrow, after which it will be Friday. Then it's the weekend! Really looking forward to the weekend coz of 3 things. Meeting up with lotsa old friends on Sat at Carol's new house! Meeting up with another old friend back on holiday from UK. And of course, did I mention the extra holiday on Monday? *grin*
And then, it'd only be less than 2 weeks to the Order of the Phoenix and 3 weeks to the Deathly Hollows!
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Check out my DH/OOTP Countdowns!
*grin* Read about the latest Harry Potter movie + book coming out soon.
Wow! The last time I thought about it, there was still so much time till July. Now, it's just around the corner. Can't wait to get my hands on the LAST book! And guess what? It actually has an entry in Wikipedia. *grin*
Hm... Seems like Rowling has a lot of things to account for in the 7th and FINAL book of HP.
Muggle signing off!
Here are some more stuff on HP.
Harry Potter - Order of the Phoenix International Trailer (about 2 min)
Harry Potter - Order of the Phoenix Short Trailer (about 1 min)
Harry Potter - Order of the Phoenix ABC Family Preview (about 7 min)
Alright! Signed up for my first run since the New Paper Run way back in JC...
Signed up for the 5 km route. Dun dare to sign up for the 10 km one. Later faint and die... Aim just to complete the run.
I'd be very happy if I can finish the run and not among the last ones.
Okies. Good reason for me to start running more regularly and build up my stamina and strength. Just hope nothing happens to clash with the run date. *fingers crossed*
Stress
Yes... Teachers do get stressed out before the school term starts again!
We have to rush to make sure that we are prepared for the next school term. The varied lessons for the many classes that we teach.
We have to make sure we are ready to face the many students who are still in the holiday mood and not ready to pay attention in class.
We have to check that our paperwork for starting school are ready.
So, yes... Teachers do get stressed out before the school term starts again! I would say that they are even more stressed than the students!
