Past few days

Been too busy to look at my blog or do any updating, not that there's much to update. But some small things that make me happy is my 3 god-daugthers msging me Happy Fathers' Day and receiving gifts from them. From Vera it came in the form of a card, I suspect Fanny will be giving me something tomorrow but she just don't wanna say anything.

Finally I went to visit VIVIO city and take a look at how it looks like. Its kinda interesting especially with its unique idea of a playground and park at the highest level. Since Mum had been there we went straight up to the highest storey to get food there. Its not cheap of course but at least we got to eat and enjoy ourselves. Haven't been out with Dad and Mum for a very long time, kinda like it actually. To think I abhor going out with them when I was a teenager! :oP

Today went back to BPGH to do duty for NPCC, to see the trees being cut down because, apparently, last week a tree fell down on one of the containers (the one for Digital Media Club) during a rainy day. So after some assessment they had to cut down many trees. Poor trees! The squirrels would probably disappear from the carpark and the carpark is going to be super hot!

Now I just wanna sit back and wait for the new semester to start. Looking to establish myself and get use to things and on to a less stress job.

Sister's Island 2 Day 1 Night

<-- Sisters' Island from a distance.

Finally the much awaited Sisters' Island trip was made. We went to the island on the left instead of the right (you see there are 2 isles). We went there amidst the rain, which subsided and got bigger and HEAVIER throughout our camp overnight there. However, it was quite an enjoyable trip. I managed to force myself not to think about work and just relax and eat.

Aside from the few of us who taught at BPGH, Yuxian and Arden invited 3 of their friends too. There were Hairi, Jack and Mark. Finding a place to have our things to put and possible BBQ pit was quite a chore. We weren't the only 'island goers' as it turned out. Getting snubbed by a rude boy from Boy's Brigade of (at this crucial juncture I just could not rememer the name of the school) was one of the uneventful things. Apart from that Jack and Yuxian got bitten by hornets when they went exploring up the hill of this island. The hornets' nest were on the ground. They also saw a tombstone on their way up there. Kat fell, etc.

Fadzly, Kat and I went over to a breakwater that was right smack in the middle between the lagoon in front of us and the sea. It was so shallow we could walk over. However there were many stones and I cut myself slightly but did not bleed. Unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries at this point and Jiahui did not manage to take pictures of us.

There was a nice Malay family and after they caught one huge Geroupa <-- is that how its name is spelt, we made friends already, like what Fadz said. It was really heavy and it took Arden a lot of effort to hold it up high.

Making food at night was much better. Apart from the ants getting to us (our BBQ pit had a bunch of rotting leaves behind it), making... or rather heating up our hot dogs and crab meat and nuggets was great. We had so much to eat we even forgot about our marshmellows.

That very night was a great historical event. Why? Finally, Yuxian's team - played the game pictionary and won. Before this, anyone in Yuxian's team just cannot win a game of pictionary. He broke the curse!

We managed to 'survive' the rainy night and the next morning the whole lagoon was practically dried out. We managed to explore around a bit to find crabs but only found a few sea anemone around.

Ford Factory Recky

Japanese Sword - probably from a surrendered Japanese Officer.


Today, as part of my upcoming job at ACS, I went on a field trip recky with Gavin and his mentor Greg. It was a nice place, to people who like history like me of course. Half wished the toys they were selling is not in 'half-pieces'. To give you an idea of what I am talking about - that means the toy hand grenade is half the shape - like half an apple. They fear people buying these items and using these to threaten people in public I guess.




Head of a poor P.O.W. being cut off by a Japanese Officer as other Japanese watched.


Ford Factory during World War Two, now converted into a museum for the younger generation (hopefully these efforts will pay off) is a good ground to teach history during the Japanese invasion and occupation. However the documentary has - to me, personally I feel there is some propaganda motive behind it... but for its for positive results.




I still learnt a few new things from this visit. Its really like some philosopher's saying:"The more you know the more you know you don't know". Guess if I tell students that most of them would throw away their books and tumble their chairs and say might as well don't learn.

Anyway Gavin got so tired from the whole expedition (I was tired too, but he really looked like he was shagged - by who I won't wanna know), so after some work at school we just scooted home. That very night I still troubled him to lend me his sleeping bag as I prepare for Sister's Island camp this coming weekend.

Starting life all over again

Just felt like starting the blog today. To me its starting my life all over again and I never felt so free. I will not revolve my life around one person to that extent ever again because in the end the person I hurt most was me and my own family. I now know my parents love me a lot and I will always have them to fall back on. Not that I've lost confidence in the opposite sex totally, but I am still open to making friends, just that I will not be ready for anything more for now..... maybe.



Now more concerned about the people I care for like my 'God-daughters', how they are doing, etc. And how some of my ex-colleagues are doing in that old problematic school. May God bless all these wonderful people all around me and give them joy.