Oscar the grouch?
Heh...I miss the Sesame Street! It was such a fun and educational show... Anyway...the character popped into my mind when a colleague chided me this morning for being a grouch. He actually asked me to eat a sweet to "cure" my grouchiness. Lol...how lame was that? But, it managed to make me smile anywayz. Heh...in the end, I took a sweet from my own sweet store. :) And you must be wondering... what caused all that grouchiness? I attributed it to my pupils' total lack of care in doing their work. I get either neat and poorly done work or well done work with atrocious handwriting! Goodness, how do you expect me to mark? Grr...
I shall TRY to be less grouchy. When I told Em what I was so pissed about, she was like "Aiyah, my kids also like that what... What's new?" Sigh...its precisely that! They keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again.
Right...shall stop rambling on about them...spoils my mood. Hmnz...had a good weekend out at sea...next outing is in march hols...hope there's nothing to stop me from helping out. Erps..ok. shall stop here, LP is waiting for me. Darn.
TGIF
I'm such a contradiction...on one hand...I keep saying how busy I am but i've been blogging more often these few days...
Sigh.
Just need to get things off my chest I think... Anyway...I think I'm just barely able to breathe in the amount of school work I'm buried in. And I think my nose is beginning to run away from me... But nothing's gonna stop me from helping out this weekend...I really need time off man... Such a great opportunity this weekend to just lay back, relax and soak up the sun. Yayness! Unless of course, someone physically stops me from going. Haha... :P Lets hope that even after the weekend, I'm still in one piece...
Gonna go get some beauty sleep soon... Its friday tomorrow! *bliss*
Think I'm gonna be sick soon.... :( Sigh... Don't wanna take mc again...
Hmn...today's CT as usual...and there was a short motivational sharing by no. 1.... And it was so appropriate for me! Gosh...its like the message is just made solely for me lor.... It summed up best how I was acting and it really just hit it right into my face. I must make an effort to change.... :)
Latest update on Clarissa... might be exempted from taking mother tongue... she got presidential treatment from no.1 today manz...so funny. Sigh...don't understand why isn't she at a special school anyway.
Bah... I'm going to go bonkers soon! Their compos are killing thousands of my brain cells every minute I'm reading them... I think I'm stressed. Officially.I'm beginning to snap at my parents...dun feel like talking... sigh.
A leopard's spots never change. I mean, this is me....what to do?
Anyway, just pissed my mum off...but its not as if she was not entirely faultless either! I swear she is biased towards my bro. Don't even feel like elaborating...period. I'm sorry if I was a tad hot-headed k? Maybe I could have been more tactful... but I won't regret expressing my displeasure. I mean if you're stressed, I'm stressed too. Yeah, if I don't clean the floor once a week you're gonna scream at me? Hello, I have things to do at school also right? Bah... Whatever lah.
O Happy Day!
Wow...I'm so happy today... I mean...its a pretty big milestone for me. So Peina...save ur two-cents worth k? Heh...gotta enjoy and embrace that moment man..
Alright..I teach this P1 class Health Ed, and this class is a REAL BIG challenge man...there's a girl with down's syndrome, another girl with suspected autism, a boy whom u can't scold cos he's slow and to add to that, a bunch of mischievous boys. Wow right? And I only see them once a week.. Hai...how to build rapport with them? Anyway, my main problem is with the girl with down's syndrome, Clarissa. The first time I went into the class, she said she felt "tired" and lay down in the reading corner for the whole lesson, ignoring me. Alright, so I thought the 2nd week would be better...but NO, I was wrong. So naive of me huh? She ran out of the class the minute I stepped into class! Can you beat that? And for the whole half hour, she was out of class, wondering to the toilet and canteen. Gosh. So I talked to her form teacher again, and decided that I should try to talk to her more often and win her over. Week 3 was Hari Raya Haji so no lesson. So for 1 week or so, each time I saw her I would say "Hi Clarissa". Purely just to strike a conversation with her, but to no avail. Sigh. Right, so today, I was armed with a sticker in attempt to bribe her. Me being despicable? NOpe...I'm being innovative...heh. So round 1, before school, I was unsuccessful. Okay, so as usual, after school, I was at Gate E for duty as per normal, and I was "eagerly" awaiting for Clarissa. So desperate right? Anyway, she finally appeared, with a chinese teacher. So I said "Hi Clarissa!", and her immediate reaction was to hide behind the teacher. She gave me the bewildered look and I explained that she didn't like me. Then she said that she was insructed to hand her over to me. Heh...marvellous right? so for one moment, I thought I was going to fail and disappoint the chinese teacher. So I remembered that I had a sticker! Muahaha...so I whipped it out and talked her into me holding her hand and walking her to the gate. She didn't look convinced at first so she coaxed her a little I think. Finally, she held my hand(for the first time!) and we walked to the gate! Phew... Now, its the thing she did later which amazed me even more... She offered me a sweet! Wow, I was stunned! Now, you must understand that she's quite temperamental, and dosen't like her chinese teacher as well. She can be quite obedient at times but stubborn at other times too. So I must say it was quite an achievement today. She really made my day! Now, I must build on this and win her over! Yeah.
Blessings...
Wow... haven't updated in a long time huh? Well, had been really busy lately...things just starting to get going at school, with piles of books starting to stack up. But thankfully have great colleagues, with makan sessions at before school and after school to keep us sane.. :)
Anyway, have just purchased Taufik's Blessings... I must say that I was really impressed. His delivery of all the songs were good, some fantastic, and well, smooth. Umm... The ST review gave it only 3 stars...but it dosen't justify the quality of his album lah. Of course it lacks a bit of adventure but lets cut him some slack lah. Its just his first album. Well, if you haven't got your copy of the album, what are you waiting for? Go grab one!
Hmnz...noticed also that many people have been falling sick lately....and a nasty bug is going round sports school. And my brother was unfortunately not spared. He was down with gastric flu and fever... Around the same time, my cousin was down with fever which was even more severe; it lasted for a week! After her fever subsided recently, rashes broke out. Apparently, she had her blood taken and found out that her platelet count was below normal levels, but thankfully went up the next day they checked. It looks like dengue fever, but her doc hasn't declared it yet. Sigh...hope she recovers soon.
Anyway, woke up early this morning for a game of badminton with my dad, bro and uncle. We played from like 7-9am. After that, my bro went to do his 4km run(in intervals), and then we trooped down to mac's for a late breakkie at abt 10am. After that, we shpped at TM, partly because I wanted to buy handphone straps(for my CS card). Upon reaching TM, it struck me that I wanted to get a bag for my mum. Yup, so got her a bag... Love ya mum! So I got my straps too, and after that, went looking around for those straps which hold keys(cos my dad liked the one my bro has). So my dad decided to look for a similar one at 77th street cos he thought they carried billabong stuff(the one my bro had was billabong, which was purchased in aus). But sadly, they don't have it anymore. But lo and behold, just as we werre passing by one of the new shops, something caught my dad's eye. He found one which was similar in design, and he offered to get it for me. How sweet of him... :)
Thereafter, went down to Sembawang at CS to get lionel richie's greatest hits album, and usher's confession for my bro. Great albums! Time to burn them...which also means work for me... :(
Lunch was at Sakae... Great food as usual... Yummy! Yet to try Phin's steakhouse...
Ooh...and before we went home, we HAD to buy 4 Pappa Roti buns home for tea break. It has got my parents hooked...haha. Muahaha....great day out! Retail therapy rocks....oh yeah, forgot to mention that a few days ago, I bought this blouse from U2, which cost me like 43 bucks! But...who cares. Haha, I love it so much! It matched a skirt which my mum bought previously, from U2 Raffles City.
Okay...back to my tennis game on tv... have a great weekend peeps!
violent frisbee?
Hehe...instead of calling it ultimate frisbee, someone juz blurted out violent frisbee. Lol..
Anyway, attended a frisbee workshop this morning. Had so much fun! But am so tired. Yay! At last, I know the game of frisbee and the proper technique of throwing it. Now, I can teach the kids too!
Well, its nearing the end of the week and I must say, two weeks have just flown by just like that. Unbelievable...
Uh....back to marking....ciaoz.
[SA]ilors gathering
Heh...yep! We met up on sat night... and as usual...there was definitely no shortage of laughter. Moreover, its always the same person who entertains us...and he is none other than Kevin. He never ever seems to be on the same wavelength as us huh? I seriously wonder how his friends(in US) can stand his blur-ness. Haha...and of course, how can anyone forget the "floating rock"? And to add to that, the only state he knows in Australia is Melbourne! Goodness me! So company was great, 'cept for the food which came ultra late!
Anyway...its the start of the 2nd week of school...and its going pretty well lah....so far at least. Got great company...at least I've a new partner to cab to and from school! Peina! Yeah.. righto. Gotta go catch some beauty sleep...will update soon i hope. :)
I'm feeling terribly guilty right now. Because I just stepped on a snail!! Unknowingly...*cringes* Eeks! I still can hear the "cr-rrark" sound. And the snail was frighteningly big!! Gosh... Hope it never ever happens again.
Getting old...
Yeah...I'm getting old. This post is specifically aimed at answering some of the concerned readers out there like sarah and ros. Haha....anyway...took an mc yesterday cos my knee was hurting like s***. I don't know what's wrong with me...must be getting old lah. Either that or its the long term after effects of training vigorously on the laser. Anyway, I had trouble walking down the stairs on Monday.... Of course, standing the whole day that day did not help much too. So the doc gave me an anti inflammatory and analgesic gel to apply and voila! The pain diminished!
Anyway...am terribly tired now. Its only the 3rd day of school. Hai~.
Goodbye...
It seems that there's many things to say goodbye to that I feel I have to blog about it....so here goes. (in no particular order)
1. To my brother who has gone off to sports school
2. To my cousin who has gone off to Indonesia to help with relief efforts
3. To Jac who has left for London once again.
4. To 2004....which had lots of ups and downs
5. To "old colleagues" who have left the staffroom...
Think that's about it....of course the one that impacts me most is the 1st on the list. Suddenly feel sad and lost. I mean...this is new for my parents too...and I bet they are feeling the same way....just that they don't show it. Although he comes back during the weekends, its not the same isn't it? Ive been trying to convince myself to treat it as if he has gone for an overseas training trip for a week. Just that this time, he's doing it for five consecutive weeks. I don't know....this is something new that's why I'm feeling this way I guess, I think it takes time before we get used to this routine. Hmnz...no one to bicker with during the week. How exciting.
On another note, school is starting tomorrow! Eeks! Time really flies....I want my holidays back! But I somehow can't wait to see my class...Heh. I'm such a contradiction huh?
