Holiday? Hmmm maybe not

Right after Parent Teacher's meeting, the next day I was engaged in doing CCA over at Pulau Ubin over the weekend. That one's ok. What I did not expect was to have my Saturday burnt as well in an army mobilisation OVER NIGHT! I mean which unit mobilises overnight? One of its kind.

Pics of some scenes from NPCC Kg Bahru site. A view of the sea and Sky.

Anyway I managed to clear most of the hecitc work this week liao. Sigh, two weekends gone. I must use the rest of it nicely to plan for my end of year trip also. Pretty cashless too cause my sister accidentally ram my car backwards, and Dad and Mum just loaned money to buy a new car. So low now... Haha but not serious enuff. Still ok. The car still looks ok.... from the front.

Just sent it for repair today.. Hope to get it back asap!

Past 2 days

Brought students on Learning Journey into Chinatown. Although the trail was almost the same, it was different with your own form class and my kids were a whole lot of fun, though some of them really needed me to stop them from misbehaving. The hot weather burnt out most of us. It was tiring more because the weather was too warm. Anyway I got to buy my favourite food from the famous egg tart shop and also visit Maxwell market to eat some food. Joshua didn't like the food there that much, maybe he had too much of food there before. But the trip was enjoyable because of the people you go with! Not forgetting some of the funny antics of my students James and Jay hahahaha!

Today, a lesson on patience, the sound system was poor and we could not really hear the speeches being made for the drama. The hardest and trying part was to try and keep the students awake and listen. Tired....

OK, a few hours later is the MAN U and CHELSEA match. Got to go!

Just the past 2 days

Above pictures taken at Suntec Carshow.

Think I did quite a bit of reflection for the past few days. Realise that playing games is really addictive to me in my case. Although my control is better now its not enough in my opinion. Anyway watching 'What Happened in Vegas' is really great - never had a hilarious and touching romantic comedy like that for a long time. Its been years but Cameron Diaz's still hot! Also really observed the fountain at Suntec at night, never took the trouble to as I never thought much of Singapore... :oP but it turned out to be quite nice. A pity I didn't record down the video probably.

This morning's run was great, there was still a slight pain in the knee but its not as jarring as before. The best was when I listened to the soundtrack from Deep Blue Sea (special soundtrack) and watched the clouds above me drifting by. The feeling was exhilarating, that was what I thought to myself as I lay on the bench after some 'crunches' exercise. A pity that Gavin was not in the mood to eat breakfast as he probably played games till 4am this morning. Anyway the following is a picture of the sky.

Ok the gathering at Weiping's hse has just been pushed back to 1pm. I'm going off...

Visit to Sentosa_Special move to UNDERWATERWORLD

I've not been to Underwater world like in almost a decade? It was impressive enough to me still. I still remember the last Sea Aquarium or something like that which I visited when I was 6 or 7. So its still fascinating to me to see all these sea animals. I like watching documentaries and the effect of this place didn't make it seem like the animals were in captivity. Really nice. I don't recall seeing the type of crabs last time which I saw in this visit. Cute and also impressive. I like the ones that look like the prehistoric sea animal(top in very dark water).

Its almost two months

Life has been a hell busy so far. But it has become normalised for me. Made friends with quite a few new colleagues and always looking forward to eating out with Gavin, Alice and an occassional friend. Think I should invite Mark along more often.

Oh, CNY ended with a last gathering with Ms Chew, actually shouldn't call her that anymore cuz she's married with two sons. She still looks like our ODAC JJC Ms Chew from 10 years ago leh!! Wah she really can preserve her looks, her husband toO! It's nice to see Jingting Yanbin Xiuping Max and many others with their husband and erm... come to think of it, the guys all go no partner one wo. Haha. Jinting's daughter behaves just like her whereas Xiuping's kids are lively as well. BUt Ms Chew's sons are really very tall. The boy in blue in the picture is only 4 years old! Sigh... can't believe the children nowadays are fed so well...

Anyways, glad that now most of my JWSS kids have picked themselves up and are doing OK at polytechnic. But only recently, after meeting up with some of them including my 2 godaughters then I found out that my most darling Godaughter TL has moved out of home. Hmm hope she can cope with outside life with a friend. Then again her survival skills have always been quite strong.

Its soon to be exam time again. But as long as I create my lessons ahead of time I should be doing fine. But hor, the more I create ahead of time the more I find I have to do... Sigh... will it ever end? Think because of my own standard I refuse to recycle most lessons fully unless there is almost nothing to add. Okie got another video to edit again! Must update this soon. Hopefully the next time I do I should have already contacted Thilo and ask him about education in Germany. Sigh, its a tough decision now with a lot of things to consider...

4th Day of CNY

Oh yeah,

I'm backdating again... well it was so hectic for this two weeks, in fact right now I'm trying to get this done quickly before my 5th and last batch (more like a pair for the last one) of students visit me as part of CNY. Think Kumar and Peiqi should be here anytime soon.

Well backdating to the 10th of February, the first group that visited me was the BPGH group. This bunch, though still rather rowdy in their teens, do have a heart of gold. I just hope they'll grow up to be good people. It does not matter to me if they're very successful or not. This society needs solid hardworking men and women, not an elitist based society that can only dictate and can't do all the work. Thanks Kelly for doing the organising, and I really didn't want to play blackjack and mahjong one but since u all suggest and want me to participate... hee. But I appreciate all of you for turning up! Cheers and please do your work as you're told to in school ok?

The 2nd group was My Godaughters' group. This group was much larger and those who really came have a lot of heart. They were my 1st batch and those in my form class, well I've always consider them some sort of children of my own to protect and care for. As I told them the care given will only be for this group and it'd never be the same for the other groups I've ever taught. My dear JWSS batch of students 2004 to 2007. I wish you all the best for your future endeavours ok? No matter what happens stay strong and funky!