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(Friday, February 23, 2007-)
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# And Back Again
My keyboard has this back button which I now officially hate. I typed like 1000 words already into my post and it goes back to my blog page. So I shall jz summarize.
Took 170 to Kranji. MRT to BEDOK. 197 to home. 12 to Sun Haven for Pastor Mark's BBQ. There, that took about 1000 words. Just had so much to say. Ah, well, it's just a blog. Life's more important (= And friends too. So I shall now focus on friends.
TRAVEL TIME : 3 hours
Winnie Chew
Very kind of her to sms me multiple times to assure me of the way to Ps Mark's house. I still got lost and became the hopeless wanderer of Upper Changi East Road. But she recued me by coming quickly on her bike and showed me the way. At least 5300 kept me company. Sorry you had to be so hot n sweaty though by cycling uphill. And txs for the directions to Sun Haven. Txs for the talks as well cuz my cell wasn't around.
Bertrand
Nice talking as well, especially about Uni life in NUS, National University of Slopes. Great job in learning how to cycle too. I still need to learn the ramps. Not easy. Txs for getting the food too. Yay. And the big curry bun as well. Nice to have someone accompany me at least halfway back. 24 only, no 12, but that's good. Half in a certain numerical way.
ShuJing
Nice talk as well. Well, you certainly have a short (5) but hard list for guys to live up too. Think I shall start my proper list soon too. Mine was too long the last time when YA did search for intimacy. Fun to talk as well about other tandom stuff as well. Yay (=
Random other YA members
Nice to see you guys enjoying urselves at the BBQ, with the swimming and cooking (txs so much for cooking ya Sunny) and talking and card playing. Yup, Roland doesn't know how to play bridge, Bertrand doesn't know how to play bridge "properly". Blur King. Chellie won with him though. I didn't win... Oh well. The game was still fun and that matters the most. Had a nice time there. Yay.
And next day, it was back to school. My busiest day ever.
Wednesday
Started off normally, although an apparent lack of sleep was still haunting me. Did my unprepared double lesson with 21 and 06 on the A-G articles. Thank God the articles were good ones or I would have died in sorrow and regret. Why would an assignment NOT be in the Resource Package, one would ask. TJ must have an answer somewhere... Arrghhh. Lessons went on quite well. Transparencies were stolen from the tropics. Pens as well. Should return them sometime soon. So irresponsible of me
Got back a tonne a GP essays. Which I had totally no time to mark. I dunno why also today. So went for lunch with the RTs and had quite decent Malay food. Cuz the other stalls were closed... CNY CNY CNY. Oh well, Cheena society. Then headed back for staff conference. Which was a bore and the RTs hid in our little enclave. Got more oranges which i gave to JoJo. Highlight of the Staff Conf was the new personality test, the Strength Finder which TJ will use in place of our MANEly Shirley, the BIG 5. Cheaper, less questions and sounds more meaningful. Can't wait to know my top 5 strengths.
Beverly Leong
Just remembered her. JY, do you? Due to some "mistakes" we started chatting again. Nice to hear updates on Brunei since APYAC 2005 (my most life impacting conference thus far). Am so jealous of you lar... Hillsong London... WAAA... I wanna go there too... Yay, found another person who can MSN at work. Muzikarten sounds so cool. Yup, this wednesday sort of marked an old reunion.
Back to life, staff conference dragged so i had to cab down to Toa Payoh (yay i spelled it correctly!) Cost me $9 but helping is still worth it. Gave 2 hours on Electricy and Current plus a bit of E-Fields. One of my weaker topics. Gotta revise more before the next tuition. Qquickly MRT-ed down to Bedok once again and took 197 to Ngee Ann Primary.
Jayne Tong
You've been a great friend and sorry I missed church twice already when u sms-ed me. Txs for the concern. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't even have discovered Emmanuel. So it was really my pleasure to cover for your tuition classes. Congrats and praise God you passed your test. Too bad the AH-BENG beside you didn't. Hee.. Txs for all the sms-es as well telling me what to do and warning me about the kids. Artif and Xerxis weren't that horrible, thank God or they would have been strangled and killed by me. Txs to Stephanie too for lending me the marker which saved my life. Tuition went smooth. Not sure if they understood though. Sorry ya if that's the case.
That capped a very busy Wednesday. Was so tired I jz bathed and slept. Thursday came sooner than it should have...
Thursday
Was very tired in the morning but still got the verse of the day out to FX n MY. Reached school and did a quick post. Then started my first real torture of RT-ing, marking GP essays... Which was scary cuz it felt like all that I have thought turned out to be almost... NOTHING. JY, even ur brilliant GP sample couldn't save them. Majority failed and almost all gave me a headache. Yup. Major braincell deaths recorded today. But it was much better after lunch txs to one enlightened script. Hint? Who's that freak?? Even Ms N said it was good. So happy. Really made my day. But still, it couldn't revive the brain cells. It was time for 04 in no time. Shall skip this lesson cuz of AP once again with the handing in of work.
Then went back into the staffroom and tried to mark. Just couldn't and Ms N gave me advice to go home and rest. I honestly looked shagged but tried anyway. Went to scroom and slacked a lot and they had an emo meeting so i left. Only to realise dinner was too near to go home now. So i stayed back and met yumei and yingen. Who ponned training to complete the GP essay. So touching. Really. Of course their ICs knew they were doing work lar. Had quite a nice talk and realised we were all brain dead. Sorry Shuming it had to be ur essay that i marked when i was brain dead.
Julian came along and i played random guitar. Karyn Anne Yzelman. Cool 3 word name ^^. Talked abt commonwealth essay. Abt JCs, Maths and random stuff. Hope I helped more than i talked rubbish. Then I had dinner with Julian and walked home. Tired. Slept. Did laundry. Slept. End of Thursday
Friday
Was a much better day. Had lots of lessons though and ran out of time for 21's presentation. Hope they actually were learning ways of writing an argument. And swimming... 21... beginners... late... arrghh... oh well. 04's lesson was better this time. 06 was... echoey. But good, i think. Then had lunch straight away. Then slacked with 21. Talked a lot of stuff. Like Johnathan's. Actually, now that i think abt it, dunno what we talked abt also. So much rubbish. Remember Phildia covering my view of her with a Nike shoebag. Julie's cute, green, zipper earrings. ZhiYuan and Mr Tong.
Ng Di Hui
It was nice meeting you from the start in 07/05. Yeah, nice to know a Malaysian when I first came here. Been great doing projects with you, txs for the tonnes of advice given when i couldn't see the full picture most of the time in sc. Nice talking to you, although it was short. And you got to know the chio bu. Haha. Talked and walked around a bit and soon it was time for Badminton @ Chai Chee CC
Went to staffroom, then scroom cuz i left my wallet there. Played badminton. Stamina better, shots better, only one of the stupid-turn-around-back-shot which i actually got the point! Bought a 100+. Enjoyed myself and walked back to TJ. Crashed Unick but no tbefore seeing 06 under LT1. Poor Jaren too. Swee Liang looked busy. Prasanthi, Jack jack, Karilynn all got themselves busy too *hint, i knew what u guys were up to*
Mr Eugene was in TJ U, I was in smelly, sweaty Nike Tennis top. But it was fun. Talking with dIA_chEESE (capitals right?) and Zhi Yuan. Then the dIA met her Dear Adriano. Got her two pic with him. She was obviously high. But it's always nice to see people high in a happy mood. Aate pizza. Got told to quickly eat the pizza and throw away the cup by an SCIP member. Funny, ironic and ... err.. nvm.
Took a photo, or two with the 21-ers who came. Then sat far back as they moved to the front. The first group was bad. Second item was normal. Third was... Adriano. Sorry Phildia, but his voice wasn't outstanding leh? Fourth, pointless? But enthu nonetheless. Talked with Mr Eugene and Mr Tong. Mr Eugene whacked a student real hard. Hehe. Ouch, but she asked for it. Then she tried whacking her friends. Haha. Zsa Zsa was late. But she didn't enjoy it too much at the start. Apparently the ending was better. Glad she had fun!
Mr Eugene allowed me to hop onto his cab on the way home. Yay. Bathed and went to Jean's. Played mahjong, but onyl 3 games. Watched the rest. Also, I had to learn the chinese numbers for 1 to 9, from a burmese girl. Hahaha. Weird and small world eh? Khant Khant or KK and HH were Jean's colleagues from Kelly's Services. Nice and cheerful bunch of ppl. Better than me at mahjong though cuz even the worst (HH) won at least a game. Me, none... But it was nice talking with them and seeing Jean's Prom pics as well.
Came home and did this long post. Yay, feel accomplished. Busy day tmr. Nitez blogLabels: 04, 06, 21, Adriano, badminton, Bertrand, CNY, Di Hui, GP Essays, Jayne, Johnathan, Julie, Mr Tong, Phildia, ShuJing, Unick, Winnie, Zhi Yuan
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(Friday, February 2, 2007-)
+10:01 PM]*
# The Debatable Friday
Friday
Day started off differently. With a knock from uncle who asked me what time I was supposed to be up. Tried to be rebellious and went back to sleep. Only for my alarm to ring in 5 secs. Then I dutifully headed to the bathroom and did my regular routine. Proud to say QT now features in the first hour of my day. *BIG SMILE* Loaded this laptop up and headed off to school. Love my 5300. Love Hillsong, United and all others on my playlist. Song of the day : Jesus You're My Superhero. Meaningful song. Yeah... yeah.. yeah. ^^
Reached school. Wwas starting to get worried for my classes who were performing. Refer to The People list. Got down to business straight away after assembly. Wonderful to see my classes there on time. Shall skip what happened to 04. 06. Nice. Ka Wai, not ur fault ya? Im sure 06 will do more cheers for you to make up for the sound lost. Hope you guys enjoyed the chocolates.
21 was up next. They cabbed down from swimming PE. The dedication. Three cheers and three cheers and three.. u get the picture. No cheers for Zsa^2 cabbie who "cheated" her of her peak hour money. Then again, u're always broke aren't you Zsa^2? 21 was good too. Chocolates for them too. Extra choc and first aid to HeJun. Too real sia... So guys, remember, *says it like Eve* Be good boys and girls ok? *winks at 21* Dunno why ppl never laugh at Eve though. I thought it was still funny (=
Chocs and assignments all round. *takes out daggers from my back and gives it back to 06 and 21* Currently am chatting with 5 ppl. Blog is crawling along *eyes go blind with the blinking orange*
Skips part on 04 once again. Retires to staff room. Hides out in the chem tropics. Listens to Mr Eugene's playlist once again. Looked at DotA but realised it so boring. Aalmost fell asleep there. Had lunch which was normal. Then ran to sc room to rest, or stay awake rather.
SC Facts
1. My junior is a bimbo. The Queen of Bimboism (newly coined term)
2. Jessica is quite gullible. But extremely cute while at it
3. Rebecca looks sly though she denies it
4. Some council ppl are slow, and so are their angels AND mortals
5. They can (mass) dance (=
Went off to Emmanuel to help the debate team of YM. Their motion : This house believes that there is more benefit to the pusuit of bgr in this season of life, rather than later. Me? Proposition. And? Ben, Clara, Dawn, Nant. And we had a good time discussing. Dawn could make a good debater. Never knew she talked a lot. Guess quiet ppl aren't always quiet. End of part one of the debatable Friday.
Heads back to school for U16 TJ Invitational finals. Eats dinner first. Spills black sauce over red tee and WHITE pants. Not good. Reaches debate on time (aka missed all the boring intros band speeches) and sat with Prasanthi. Debater. GP Rep. 06. She beat XinMin. She's a 2nd speaker. She's in debate. Erm. That's it? Oh wait, she doesn't know how to play the slapping hand game nor the finger thingy. Yeah, vague but she needs to be educated!
Finals was between Paya Lebar Methodist Girls' School and Hwa Chong Institution. Best part. PLMGS WON!! *trieds to get the St. Patrick guys to sit down and stop cheering for the PLMGS girls* But hey, St Pats made it to Semis! RI and HCI both lost to PLMGS in one day. So sweet and delicious. Motion for the day, This house regrets the rise of religious faith
My problem with HCI, stop harping on the religious extremism point of view and by the time they were done with inter-religious dialogues issue, you could have written a whole concerto from their harping. But then again, best overall speaker went to HCI guy no. 1. But best speaker for finals still goes to *looks at St Pats guys* PLMGS speaker 3. Dunno her name, but i thought she saved PLMGS after their second speaker almost killed them. Cheers all round and TJ goes home satisfied with the result. It was a 4 to 1 vote at that. Mua ha ha ha.
Ate the free food. Talked lots and left by 12. Now im here blogging once again. Of course, before blogging i checked out my classes' webbies and there were few updates. Except the fact that my blog is now invaded by a slice of cheese and the dark side. Yup. Will link u guys up too k? Guys.. haha.. ok lar.. no.. wait.. guys... wait... maybe the cheese gets to be a girl for the soprano scream.
Btw, I followed the trail No. 21 and found Shu Ming's blog as well. U guys better be nicer to Ms Kuah ok? Kudos to the dark lord for holding in "his" laughter for most of the period. And yeah, its fun reading up what goes on behind the facade of faces in class.
That's all from Mr Wilson. JY, bring it on *smashes the crab and walks away*Labels: 21, cheese, dawn, debate, HCI, PLMGS
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(Thursday, February 1, 2007-)
+9:43 PM]*
# A Happening Week
Hi Zsa^2 and Phildia.
I know you read my blog!
Err.. yeah. And dun scream hor Phildia!
Sunday
Church was awesome. Had Ps Jonathan from the chinese service preach in english. It was really a good msg. It was abt giving Jesus that one mor chance to work in our lives, for us to believe God one more time for miracles. Then I went for lunch. Not too normal, but i'll leave it at that. Then it was the usual grocery shopping with FX n MY. Aand after much temptation, I bought a bar of choc. They are really good persuaders. Then I got a Big Gulp. Then it was church. Had bass lesson with Lucas. Sunny brought a bass. But a bass without an amp is like... a... GP tutor with no voice? Ok, I know, lame, but yeah, thats the fact for an amp-less bass. Lessons were easy. But at least now I'll be moving from accoustic to bass. That means I might get the chance to serve during my time here!! Come visit me and YA @ 7.30pm, Hall 3B, Emmanuel, 165 Upper East Coast Road (random 6 digit number) Singapore (Duh...)
Monday
Well, it started out fine. Nothing special about the week. So it seemed. Till I went for classes. Something fishy was going on with 21. Kept on laughing. Either they use CR421 for storing laughing gas over the weekends, or I was seriously catching no ball. Things went on smooth with 06 too. English Fair is becoming less English and more GP (read : EF is ending). So sad, wouldn't see them for PW anymore (smacks the students who rejoice over this fact..) But during the 21 PW, it was so hilarious. There was so much laughter. I dunno why also. But it was funny. I have some video footage. Someone needs to teach me the HTML and sites to upload a video. (hint hint)
Hung out in SC room cuz I was tired before PW. Too bad I was the only one in scroom. But soon ppl came and it sounded more like the scroom. Then after the PW, i hung there once again. Then I left for tuition after eating dinner with Di Hui. But then, somehow 38 was being AP and didn;t want to come until I was late for tuition. Summore got Ah Xiu n friends at the bus stop. The ride was super funny lar. Then Kathleen was there and had witness the bimbo-ness. But I got to know Kathleen better and before I know it, I might be reading her work for the current affairs quiz. Wanna know more about Kathleen? Ask her. She's from 21. Reached. Taught. Left. Wwas spotted by a councillor. Reached home.
Tuesday
Hmmm... can't really remember what happened here, but I know I overran the time of my lessons as usual. Gotta get the gag from Evelyn. Reached home really really early. 4pm. Wow. I ended lessons at 1.20 lar... I dunno why Im stuck in TJ all the time. Got to do my ironing which was faster than ever! 30 minutes for 4 pieces. Thats a 50% decrease in ironing time *CLAPS for myself* Then went online. And chatted. A lot. Youtube-d, a lot. Top Gear is soooo funny. The Bugatti Veyron is an INSANE car. It drinks more fuel than the US economy! I think i chatted was more than the whole of February 2007 combined ^^.. Slept too late. and the next day was the marathon day.
Wednesday
Things start to get happening. One, I walk to school with a compressed Ziplock bag full of clothes for a run. Two, I had first period lessons with 21. Which is always a good thing cuz I had my Youtube videos ready. If u wanna see them, search for Big Ad and Pepsi Jackson. Then I was all ready to show it to 21. With all my enthuness (looks at people falling asleep in 21), I connect the projector, waiting to eagerly shock them out of lala-land. Then the projector wouldn't work. Asked Phildia to try to switch it on. Bad idea, cuz its ceiling mounted. Those who know why should not "look down" on ppl k? But the good thing was Ying Chao helped me to turn it on by... asking me to press the on button. Like duh? But this GP couldn't get the projector to work cuz he was repeatedly pressing the OFF button on the wall. Those from 21 who read this, shut up.
I quickly got on with the lesson. Overran yet again... Sad sia... Then let them off to paste the wonderful exhibit which I "left in the staff room". Checked out the work. Not bad, jz that they intruded into 22's area, cuz 20 intruded theirs. But then 22 intruded back and poor Shuming had to deal with all the intruders..
Then off to 06. This time, I pressed the right buttons and the magical projector shone its glorious wavelengths onto the white screen. Im so not poetic. But it worked. 06 was thrilled by the video a bit more than 21, who were more likely to fall asleep then. Then they wanted ot do their skit. So I gave them one period, thinking id gain it back the next day. WRONG... It was pw the next day. Wasted one lesson. But they'll pay this Friday. mua ha ha ha! Rushed it like crazy in one lesson, but at least 06 is pulling together.
Then we fast forward to the English fair. Launching starts with the P arriving. Before anyone else. So dead ryte... No, cuz the RTs were there to save the day. Ta daa.. Students arrived late. 06 later. 04 latest. Didn't see them but they were apparitionally there. Then it was off to the dept meeting. Cool launch of the EL webbie. Then almost embarrassed myslef when 21's blog was being displayed. Goo dthing they didn't scroll down or my post would have been seen. Ate very nice cake.
Went for the run. Only 4 laps and I was dying. Jojo and Eugene n Jojo's friend did 10. Wow. I gotta catch up! Then it was off to tuition. I was early this time. No bimbos to slow me down. Hehe. But it was fun running. Crashing a little SCIP mass dance and teaching physics. Yup. Headed back on a 36. Major mistake. Cuz the road it uses is more jammed than the LDP at work time. Took me forever to get to parkway. Then I ate a McSpicy. Was spicy. Then my beloved classes, I got you a surprise each for ur skit efforts. N wonderful exhibits. And forced blogs.. haha. But at least I got u guys something
Thursday
I realise I left my working shoes, pants in the staffroom. Funny and dummy of me eh. So I wear other clothes and change at the office. Sad way to start the day. Then I had the whole morning to do my stuff. Jia Yi, ur essay has been selected "rundomly" as a sample for my classes, which includes ur grand-junior 06/07 The other is Gaya's. Then zapped them all for my classes. Wwhich was quite a hassle with multipage double sided printing errors and lousy machine which thought two thick lines was a picture and jammed the machine.
Printed like a few hundred pages for everyone. 25 to SK too. And set them all out nicely. Dunno if there will be enough though. 21 might have to leave one person to care via a share. Of course, to all the ppl i've whined to, you know that Thursday is my nothing-till-3pm day. Camped out at the chem-dept tropics which now accomodates a snake, a cow, a frog and the Hand of Supremacy. Pics sometime soon.
Went for lessons. And as usual, 06 didn't have the script yet. But they did their best. We had a crasher though, who quite literally crashed. Evelyn was apparently being irritated by a pair of concave plastics. And she even rested on the floor in front of the stage. But you are a welcomed crasher so no worries. Then it was 04, who didn't have the script either. Didn't like their attitude, but txs goes out to Joshua for pulling it together. I'll be at the edge of my seat tomorrow, ready to run off it if all falls apart tmr.
Had a prank played on Jocelyn by giving her an orange-starfruit instead of her favourite apple-orange from the drinks stall. Wwhy? Cuz she said starfruit tasted like mango. Today she learnt the error of her ways. Haha, too bad she drank very little. Then we crashed band room. Quite a cool place. Tonned (ok, a few kg) of their gold medals were on the wall. 1986 will forever be cursed for their silver. 2005 will be adored for the only ever gold with honours! Played around with the Clavinova. They have really cool tuners in there. And memories of the Xylophone disaster wsa brought back to mind as I saw the marimbar. JoJo was so at home in there. Mr Eugene found out how to work the Clavi and we heard many nice songs. Song of the day.. i forgot... haha. Band room is cool! TJCSB rocks! Saw their uber-cool lightsabre-wand from Aurora 9 too.
Other interesting things were seeing SCIP ppl being taught mass dance. Video will be up soon *hint for help*. Evelyn and Michael need to learn how to dance man. EXCO pride at stake sia.. The rest of the EXCO, i dun quite know who you are but dance k? Later coaxed the SC into dancing Heartsdales and No Limits. Love the crab-walk *winks at JY* Slacked ard longer than expected. But it was fun. Of course, fun was also defined as catching 21 as they finished rehearsing their skit. It was winter there with the amount of cold jokes.
Interesting facts on 21
1. Valerian has an angel who's in love with him. More fascinating, the girls know more about the letter than he does.
2. HeJun is a good actor (yet to be seen)
3. They have this poking joke they play on ppl
4. Phildia can scream. Really. I mean, scream like she needed Mars to hear it
5. Zsa^2 has lame jokes. I have more. =p
6. Zsa^2 doesn't remember much from her primary school days
Okay, some were exaggerated, but not 4. Yup. There was also a little fight opposite sch. Thank God it settled peacefully without anyone's face closer than the ground than their height. $2 can work wonders. Yup, but 21 is still a fun class. *does the hand thing*
I locked myself out of the house. Called Aunty Kaith. Wrong Aunty. Got in. Now gonna sleep. Oh, the JoJo Band is now officially entering Temasek Idol. More details soon. Btw, JoJo band consists of RTs. And maybe a star vocalist from Mr Eugene's class.Labels: 21, band room, English Fair, essay, JoJo band, mass dance, Phildia, skit, TJCSB, Zsa^2
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