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# More Than Life
Monday
Okays, after emo-ing on sunday, life continued like normal. Still feeling happy but lazy to shift. But I got it done anyway. But that's later. Morning was quite bad. Dunno why I was so drained. I already had the Sunday to myself and still I was tired. Oh well.
But i reached school as usual and really the blur me forgot to bring my laptop charger. So I had the laptop but no power. So it had to run on battery and to make matters better, Jonathan borrowed my laptop for a lesson he was relieving. So when it came back, it had thankfully lots of battery left, but still, i had a lesson to prepare.
Not having my own laptop is so weird, doing a Current Affairs Quiz on an alien laptop just feels wrong. So i tried to get it done by 10am by sending the file back to my laptop. Tried to get the usual images for background but for some absurd reason, i was blocked from Google Images Search page! Why?? Why?? Just beside me, Siok's was working just fine... So I tried to rush it but to no avail as only 2 questions were done and thats more like a question than a quiz. So I went to 06 with totally NO lesson planned.
Thank God they didn't expect one either. Haha, so I basically wasted time with admin stuff, except the feedback part which was the real thing i needed. Then we went off to take pictures. Quite funny how most people were in their ties and others were casual. But we took pictures anyway. More to come this Friday I think!
Then after cam-whoring and getting a nice 4-piece poster, i went back to the staffroom. Did the daily crossword although i lost to the Siok-Neha-Aaron group, i still managed to finish it with random letters here n there. Then Aaron got us a ride to Quality Hotel where our celebratory lunch was to be held. Siok and I were laughing over how it sounded so fake, like : Buy this Quality Detergent or Use Quality Noodles. Sort of the Minyak Angin Cap Kapak sort of thing... Only Malaysians will get it i guess. And Qquality Hotel is in the middle of nowhere. Oh well.. We waited quite a while but no complaints when u get a free ride in a private car of Mrs Neo, so it was cool.
Reached the Grand Ballroom after everthing had started, and the few of us in the car sat down at a table. I ate too much. Haha, but its a buffet, you're meant to eat too much ryte? I ate
-Olive Rice
-Roast Chicken
-Sweet sour fish
-Beef stew
-Hong Kong Noodles
-Some veggie... why???
-A second helping of chicken n fish. haha
-Laksa
-Chicken rice
-Cakes for dessert
-Drank orange juice and water
It was good food, but not excellent or I would have exploded. Walked with Eugene, Neha and JoJo to the MRT and MRT-ed back to Bedok. Took 31 to the back gate which was wonderfully locked so I walked the long way around. Oh well... Met some games com ppl and then some SCIP dudes and two dudettes. Few councillors were around too and they were loud. SC is loud. That's cool.
After a while, heard a familiar tune from the piano. I knew it had to be Evelyn. Yay!! One of my wish list came true!! I didn't have a guitar around but I'm not complaining. Sang quite a few songs, listened to some from 5300. It was nice. Evelyn had quite a few nice songs i've never heard of before. Even a Malay one. Haha, but Hari Ini still rocks. Oh, and sorry if i sang really bad hor Evelyn. Then after a while, Zico wanted to talk to her so i stoned around and allowed my food to digest. Then talked to Eng, who was later joined by Evelyn. The SCIP dudes seemed to be busy with the video. No idea how that's gonna turn out but ever since my year, Orientation videos have been awesomely cool. Seriously, the videos are reason enough to turn up for orientation ok?
Then after that, Evelyn left to get the JAE Posting results. Perks of being in SC. mua ha ha ha. But in the end, she didn't get a hard copy of the list, so sad, but she had a long time talking. And i didn't see her after that. Smart move Evelyn. The $4000 of orientation shirts arrived and we helped Eng get it into the scroom which has the world's MOST horrible lock. Called Steffi to get the combi, but the dial is such a horrible one that my fingers were hurt. But I randomly turned the thing and after half an hour (not exaggerating), it fell open. Phew...
Counted all the t-shirts and hauled them into the council room. Then stayed around a while before leaving for dinner and home.
Read the newspaper like a good GP tutor while eating dinner and finally told Aunty Lily that i was moving out. Somehow, i think she knew i was going to ask. But it was cool. Went smoothly and i went back to finalise the packing. Was waiting for the cab peak hour to end at about 8 and dragged majority of my stuff down. Flagged a cab and the uncle was friendly. Cost me $3.20 though. I reached my new home.
No one was in. An eerie loneliness was in the air. Unpacked my stuff slowly. Didn't quite like the smell in the room but i will survive. Decided to take a walk back home to make sure im familiar with the surroundings. Had a nice slow walk in the night home alone. Took about 25 minutes?
Part Two (a) of my wish list came true. There was FX who sms-ed me and we started to chat. Then there was Winnie. Then Aunty Kaith. Then had mom too. There were so many people msging me. Haha. Sort of funny how my wish came through digitally. Was nice to be not "lonely" on my last night in my now-ex house. Here's the complete list of ppl that I msged or msged me for various reasons.
-FX
-Winnie Chew
-Aunty Kaith
-Mom
-Stephanie Sim
-Anantha
-Cheresa
-Zsa Zsa
Looks like the only GP rep here missing is...you would know urself la ya? But no biggie. Jz had a nice night. End of Monday
Tuesday
JAE Day. Not a nice day. Shall skip everything that happened. Wanna know, talk to me? Haha. Blogging isn't everything. Just had a very low atmosphere. Fast forward to the nice part of the day, lunch with 06
It was so nice of them to decide on Gelare at Siglap instead of Far East so I had time to go with them. Had a long time waiting, and a less, but still long time ordering. But it was worth it. Had a nice time eating, chatting, and most importantly like any 06 outing, taking photos. Took some really nice ones, maybe 06 u could gimme some links for the photos of the day? Sorry goes out to Diantha who has the scariest photo of me ever. And to those i got the camera flash in their eyes. But overall it was a nice time and i took forever to leave. Darn...
Was late (yet again) for badminton at Chai Chee, but the remaining 45 minutes was worth it. Sweated a lot but had a nice game. Shot of the day, cross court from my right to the left which was almost horizontal and only about 2-3cm above the net and landing just inside with no chance to Sean. You had to be there to see it. Hee...
Then headed back to school, the long way from the interchange and got a Big Gulp. Sat around with some SC ppl and then went to the Audi. Then went home, rushed a bath, went to old house to surrender the key, collect deposit and toothbrush *winks*, went to tuition, which the family provided me with dinner, and taught tuition. Then crashed home. I was so tired... Slept till today, 6.50 instead of 6.15.
Wednesday
Yup, I was late. No surprise so I rushed out of bed, up my hill and down the six-sided dragon. School started rather differently with a mini farewell to Mr Liu. Mrs Pang takes his place as he goes off to be a principal. Mr Cecil takes her place. Then had nothing to do in the staffroom. Met some of the OGLs like Xuewen, Cai Yu (? hehe), Julie, Yumei, Shermin, and many more students.
Met Teik Kheng today and helped him with his printing and stuff. Realise I have lots of things to get done as well. Oh well. Had lunch with 21, rather, OG13 (which is sadly nameless) and talked with them. Talked to a few, maybe just one or two 2nd intakers. A cedarian. VJ reject, appealing back in. Overall, a lack of enthusiasm, characteristic of O2
Then after lunch, met Ms Lau and talked to her a bit. Then met Xuewen and Cai Yu and later on other students like Song Han and Jacob, Nicole. Then met the other RTs and Heri and Sam. Yup. Had the tribal music group who were really good perform. Potentially illegal information, they cost $1500 an hour, so yeah, they were really good. Too bad im not a tribal music fan. Found out Yumei isn't either. Hehe!
Then almost missed staff conference which had no relation whatsoever to the RTs and then had department meetings. Never knew colleges knew both the paper 1 and paper 2 grades of the students. Also, TJ Lit did extremely well. 71% Distinctions, 40% above National Average. Econs S also had 80% Distinctions. So thats some good news. Then had the bad. If i get the soft copy of results, they'll be here ok? For GP only lar of course.
Then debriefed about the English Fair. Had many comments. And i did bring up the fact that the blogs lagged like CRAZY. But also that most people bonded through this English Fair and got introduced to a variety of GP issues within the first few weeks. Many confidential details were also discussed. Haha, my students must feel so curious now. Oh well, nothing much, but there will be changes for the next EL Fair.
After the meeting, Im here in the staffroom. Back to marking I think.Labels: Cai Yu, English Fair, Evelyn, Gelare, Jacob, JAE, Julie, Nicole, packing, pictures, Quality Hotel, Shermin, wish list, Xuewen, Yumei
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(Thursday, February 1, 2007-)
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# 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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