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# The Week That Flew By
Tuesday
Tuesday was glorious. Firstly, it was a day with only ONE lesson. So that's awesome and cool. Even better, I get to crash two PW lessons to watch my classes try to pull a skit together. Exhibitionists jz seem to be rolling along jz fine. But the awesome, cool and glorious part comes after school.
(part of tuesday cut out, FX, MY should know why)
Aunty Kaith is this person Ps Mark (awesome man!!) gave my contact to to (yes, its not a typo JY) be a tutor. And I got a call from her. While I was ironing clothes, but I was smart enough to turn the iron off before my shirts turned into new fashion statements. And we talked. Rather, it was sort of an interview. But the best and most fun one if I ever had one. And yeah, a meeting was set up at Plaza Singapura.
God is jz awesome. Mom wanted me to teach tuition and somehow by faith I guessed she knew God would pull through. And without ANY effort, I got my first student. No agency, no publicity, no strings attached... strings were even given away perhaps cuz im not doing this job for the money cuz the rate im charging, tutors would go broke. But, I thank God for literally providing me with my first student. Hope things turn out fine!
Ironed the rest of my clothes and went to bed rejoicing. :D
Wednesday
My day of double periods. It was not too bad, except GP quiz once again backfired. Note to self : STOP using transparencies for quizes. Gave 21 and 06 their first assignment of the day. However, discussions were interestin as I continued the Next Generation article's discussions. Finally they are talking back. Feels like a graveyard coming alive, minus the ghost n weird "ajaran sesat ppl" who live there. Slowly people coming out of the lifeless shell. Yup, 21 and 06 is coming alive. So much fun now, rather than e telling lame jokes the whole day. And the Evening Show with Mr Wilson has still been spared from its second episode.
Supposed to treat Mervin and Nicole to soya beans for guessing the note of the school bell. Apparently its some other guy who guessed it, not Mervin. Oh well, the cheapo here didn't treat anyone in the end cuz they were not around. Had some talk with other 04 ppl. Life is getting interesting for KI ppl as well.
Had staff conference. Jz one thing to point out, teachers have this scheme where is they work <15>14 years, its 700. How cool is that? Lemme tell you, a handphone is considered a personal productivity device. If the GP Dept gets their way, broadband access at home can fall into that category along with PDAs! If I got my way, I'd get the gun I was talking abt for PCs. Helps shut the council up during meetings when everyone is high or jz plain noisy. Think of it, how many times have u tried to get attention of ppl to give an announcement and failed? Jz with this PPD, all ur problems are solved. Plus, it can be used to threaten lazy ppl to hand in work too!
Yeah, then was GO GREEN DAY flier dist. I got to be with Beverly and Slyvia from 34. Funny, funky and happening people. Cuz we had Mdm Noraini from the G.O. with us who didn't want to walk so we took a cab!! (Waves to Zsa^2 as she screams in protest =) We reached there and thought we had it easy with th e postman being there with all the letterboxes open but he didn't allow us to put, so we went house by house. Then I ran out of fliers. Then I realised my big mistake. Should have jz spammed the mailboxes after he left cuz there was this small slit. Where did my two years of LEO ONC go and hide?? Oh well..
It got more fun as the video/promo crew arrived. Beverly and Sylvia were sabo-ed by their CT, Mrs Noordin to be a part of the video promo. Filming it was so hillarious as it was so kayu at first, ppl not getting the angles right, Beverly being a bimbo, and many other funny scenes which you could jz guess. And then Mdm Aini wanted to leave so I went with her on th eway out and she bought goreng pisang for us, which were like GM Bananas. They were huge!! And all the bimbos ate one, including me. Yes, I admit the bimboness for letting the crumbs spill all over..
I was a little late for my meeting with Aunty Kaith so i hurried to Bedok Interchange, MRT-ed to PS and met her at Yamaha. Met Vincent too, talked things over, got free dinner from Aunty Kaith whom I met for the first time who is not even in hte same church as me. So sweet! Gave me this awesome book to read even. Im in chapter 1 part 2 i think. Yup, then headed back home and slept.
Thursday
My only one period at 3pm day. Had a very tough time marking the assignments. Cuz of all the 1/2 and 1 marks to decide on. Mostly failed but there were a few passes. So far two out of three GP reps passed i think, or all passed. Quite a good start, but wanna give a huge, enormous round of applause to Joanne of CG 06/07 for scoring FULL MARKS!!!! I was blown away.... like..
All the way to the chem dept blown away... And got some stickers from Jocelyn. See, Most Caring RT Award truly belongs to her. I wanted to give one, but JOcelyn insisted on two. But Joanne, u totally deserved it! Totally totally cool. Yeah. *hops around*
Hops to LT4 for SCIP elections. I lose a "bet" (which was on nothing) that the SCIP elections would start at 4.50 but he won when it started at 5.15 due to delays. It started about 3/4 of an eternity after its actual starting time of 4.30. Quote of the day to Evelyn from me, "You need a gag". Yeah, Evelyn and I go wayyyyy back. As far back as Mei Hui in JB. Hahaha, jz literally far lar, not figuratively. Anyway, glad u got the sex-cretary post u wanted although Ms N was so scary. Happy that the ppl I liked got the posts. My grand junior, Michael from SJI. All the way!! Perhaps we shall meet again Evelyn, if u dun run back to JB as often as Mei Hui!
Then went to meet Benjamin Ong whos on work training by HP in Singapore. Very nice to have the chance, but then again, being the blur Malaysian I am, I took the wrong exit at Orchard MRT and took almost half an hour to reach Lucky Plaza. Sorry Ben. Met his friends. Not too nice people on their personality so ask Ben abt them ya? Ben treated me MOS burger!! Yaynesses!! Second dinner treat in two days. Kind of a nice reward for doing QT every morning. Txs God! Got my socks and a nice talk with Ben. Had a mini econs lesson too about Malaysia's emerging economy.
Went back on a 16. Stopped at VJ instead of VS. Walked all the way home... Sad, but still rejoicing on the inside. God is truly good! Hope God grants miracles to 06 for their skit too. Patchy, but falling into place.
Friday
One word : BUSY. First four periods were lessons. 06 exhibition ppl were so bored. Sorry Yumei, Sek Hui and Dao En. 21 ppl, well, skit falling in place. I really thank God for Zsa^2 who is pulling it together and everyone who listens to her. Also to those who did the blogs, awesome stuff.
Next was some quick marking then Dao Kang came for lunch. I was late. Sorry ya DK. Ate my "dinner" meal. Then DK crashed TJ for a bit. Then I had to quickly finish my marking, Completed all and tabled all the results. Passes here and there, but hope to see greater things!
Went to meet Jean at City Hall. Walked the bottom of Raffles City. With weird shops selling extremely ex stuff. Walked to and through all six floors of Funan till we almost died.. And founf, in Jean's favourite adjective, fugly stuff. We established criteria no. 1 for all laptop bags/cases, it must have handles. If not, reject it no matter how cool it looked. So with this rule, we looked through many fugly bags and finally gave up cuz they were too ex anyway. Waited for 20mins for 14. It came and we "epitomised the idiom 'packed as sardines' " according to Jean. Yup. was a tiring ride. Taught Jean to bluetooth messages but she had more fun sleeping on the way back
Reached the stop and waited for 12. Thank God I didn;t miss it cuz the non-double decker one came. I raced to the hawker center, ordered my "dinner" raced once again to TJ. Reached Audi at 7.30 when i was supposed to be there at 7.00. Great. I opened the door and expected at most 50 parents, but there was like slightly less than a 2nd O crowd! It was scary. I did shiver and was scared but God must have calmed me down when I finally started my speech at 8.20, a quarter of an eternity away from the actual time of 7.40. Gave my speech, but ALL credit goes to God who must have helped me so much. Cuz Ms Ying didn't think anything spectacular of it, netiher did Ms Faye Tan who vetted it a second time nor Mrs Lim who saw it for clarification, but it went on very well and I've been invited to speak to the Year 1 and 2 cohorts to spur them on!
Talked to some parents then rushed off to church. Rachael was having her powerfully wonderful sessions today. Although it looked like P1 art class with all the drawings, it was a meaningful reflection on our past, present, and (this is the best) our hoped for future and our most feared future. Yup. maybe you'd take some time to reflect on it too? See where you wanna be? How you're gonna get there? Can you make it? If not, try God and see if He can ever fail you? Theme song : I Surrender
Awesomely tiring day. Random stuff. Phildia, looks cute in TKGS U, but Julie... err.. P5? N txs for not falling asleep ya Phildia in my speech. I got a Singapore souvenier for the speech. Audi is cold as ever. Staffroom too. Funan is big. 50 minutes is short. Bedok Swimming Complex is so far ppl need to cab down to TJ. Google Earth was so sabo-ed by me. I dunno what a vanguard sheet is
Ok, enough of weird-i-ness. Yaynesses. Signing off.
Photos in next post if i have time. Gave up on the HTML which goes haywire everytime i upload them. Ciaoz n God Bless U!Labels: Aunty Kaith, Evelyn, Flier distribution, Joanne, Phildia, PTD, QT Reward, SCIP, Tuition, Vincent
the story ends like this;
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