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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
the story ends like this;
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