Went for the Sports for Life Fitness Assessment at JJC yesterday morning. After that, I met Weiling for breakfast at the coffeeshop near her place. That has been a usual routine since last year, haha, because she lives near JJC so it's so duh if I don't meet her for breakfast when I'm in the vicinity. I was thinking of having Macs for breakfast but she didn't want it so we had to settle for other food

It was pouring so heavily for we went to KFC for a drink after breakfast. Was great catching up with her because the last time when I met up with her was three weeks back.

What followed next was an unpleasant taxi ride home. Here's the conversation between the taxi driver (TD) and me:

Me: Uncle, Choa Chu Kang Ave 1
TD: You know me meh?

I took a second look at the uncle

Me: No ar
TD: Then why you call me uncle choa chu kang? I'm uncle Tan bla bla.

I gave a 'duh' look at the uncle and said politely

Me: Uncle, I say uncle, Choa Chu Kang Ave 1.
TD: Ya, I know, I'm not uncle choa chu kang ave 1, I'm Tan Bla Bla.

I threw an angry glance at him and kept quiet, no point explaining it to him. He couldn't understand anyway.

TD: You should say, Uncle, I want to go to Choa Chu Kang Ave 1. That's the correct way.

I'm like 'Duh'. I'm only taking a taxi ride. I don't need him to teach me manners. It's not as if I'm rude or what, I still bothered to address him as Uncle. Guess what he said after noticing that I was irritated with him.

TD: Aiyo Miss, just joking only what, no need to take it seriously.

I didn't even bother to answer him after that. I messaged Weiling and told him about the weird uncle. That got the uncle worried. He must be thinking that I was taking down his taxi number or name because he looked so worried after that.

When I arrived at my destination and paid the cab fare, he didn't even say thank you when he returned the change to me. I was thinking "Uncle Tan bla bla, where's your manners ar? Just now got so much time to discuss about manners and now he's not displaying it!" DUH!

I really hate such encounter with taxi drivers. The last thing you want to face would be such nonsense from taxi drivers. Subair was saying that I should be more cynical with the taxi driver. Instead of ignoring him, I should go "Haha Uncle, your joke is not funny!"

If I were to say that, I don't think I can make it home safely. Haha. Weird man. Weird Uncle Tan.

After I've reached home, I messaged Chris and asked her if she had any plans and if she wanted to mark together. She didn't even reply to my message. Haiz.

Then in the afternoon, Subair messaged and asked me if I have things to mark. Haha. Just the right person at the right time. Anyway, when is it possible that teachers won't have anything to mark? Maybe during the holidays.

So, in those rare moments, I took a bus and he took an LRT to BPP. When we reached there, he commented that BPP is really a God-forsaken place. Haha. Because it's so troublesome for him to get there by public transport. He took the MRT from Bukit Batok to Choa Chu Kang and then take the LRT to BPP.

He's not going to save those few dollars and goes through the hassle of taking public transport to BPP. It's too unglam for him. Haha. He will take the cab the next time. We usually take the 250 transport, but don't know for what reason, we actually took the public transport today. Mine wasn't that inconvenient though. haha.

We went to our usual place Delifrance to do our marking. Duh, we were talking too much and we realised that we had not started on our marking yet, so as usual, no talking for an hour. Haha.

While we were marking, we talked about the kids that come to our minds. I was telling him about Sean and his chicken skin story, haha and that Sean told me everyone was not paying attention during Subair's lesson except him. I'm like, "Isn't it the other way? Everyone paid attention in class except him." Haha.

Then he asked me if Sean and I were related since we share the same surname. Maybe, we belonged to the same Ang family 500 years ago. haha.

Come to think of it, it has been a long time since I last talked to Sean online, other than the online conversation that we had a few days ago regarding the O level oral exam, and that conversation does bring back some fond memories, memories of my first form class when I started teaching in Bukit View in 2004.

At that time, Sean, Qinhong, Xinwei and I used to talk quite frequently online in the middle of the night during the December holidays. We were the night owls then. I used to marvel at how happening Sean's mother was and how 'inquisitive' Qinhong was, and I still remember it was Xinwei and Qinhong who first taught me about blogging. I started a blog with their help and they helped me with my blogskin codes too.

Just when I thought I would follow up with them to Sec 2 as a form teacher, things didn't turn out as what I've expected. That was the first 'devastating' experience that I had in Bukit View. I still remembered that I actually teared when Grace told me the bad news that I would not be following up with them only three days before the start of 2005.

Yes, shame shame, the evil teacher cried. Haha. Back then, I was really very emotionally attached to that class. That was my first form class and we really had such great times. We even organised a chalet during the December holidays without knowing that teachers are actually discouraged from doing so.

I was even planning with them what we were going to do for the following year. Qinhong even helped me to plan the new seating arrangement.

I was quite upset and disappointed with the sudden news. The thought of crying just came so naturally. Not those loud wailing, but the tears just flowed down my fat cheeks suddenly without giving any warning as Grace asked me to talk about how I felt.

(If you cannot believe your eyes when you read this, you can refer to the December 2004 archive and have a good laugh at the then emotional evil teacher, haha)

A bit duh, now when I think about it, but back then, Grace could understand because she knew that I had really close bonding with the class. Haiz. But after so many years, the evil teacher's heart has hardened, or rather blackened that tears could not even find their footing in my pair of small eyes. Haha.

Oh wait, my dear Weilun made the evil teacher cry when we were in Yunnan last year. Haiz, not entirely his fault actually because the evil teacher was too emotional during the last day of the trip and that Weilun happened to turn on my crybaby's tap with his tears.

That was during our last day at the OSL trip when we were at Kunming Airport. It was really sad that the trip had to come to an end so soon and my elder son really missed the times we had spent together as a family.

Well, those days are still retained as fond memories in the evil teacher's mind, and our OSL Teachers royal family consisting of Papa, Grandmama, and my two princesses are still in existence, even though our Princess Esther is no longer in Bukit View.

Gosh, that happened in December too, December 2006. Bad, December is a cursed month for the evil teacher. Haha.

Back to August 2007 quickly in case I get too emotional in the middle of the night. Haha.

Anyway, the evil teacher has decided to boycott the Starbucks at BPP because of one of the serving staff. It was too cold at Delifrance that we could not mark with frozen brains so Subair and I decided to proceed to Starbucks to mark. We bought English Breakfast Tea and Peppermint Tea and were all ready to start our marking. Barely an hour into our marking, this staff approached Subair and me and guess what.

"Excuse me, our store has a rule that students are not allowed to study here during the weekend. You can still continue to enjoy your drinks here but you will have to keep your notes."

I'm like Triple Duhs.

First Duh, do we look like students to him? Isnt it obvious that we are teachers and are too old to be students, and that we are marking and not studying? Those were not notes but students' work k.

Second Duh, the place wasn't that crowded and there were still many seats available. Isn't it a bit not customer-oriented to drive your customers away? If it is really crowded, we will be 'automatic' and move, but that wasn't the case.

Third Duh, doesn't it sound silly to say that we can still stay there but we have to keep your notes? What's the logic right since we will still be occupying those seats?

Since that place is so 'unfriendly' towards teachers, and the fact that we cannot stand that staff who 'scolded' us, we decided to call marking a day and went shopping. Haha.


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Anyway, when I learnt of the shocking news, I'm like, this can't be true right? How can my wonderful student end up with her? I was really dumbfounded.

He was badly hurt in the relationship before this and I have seen how devastated he was, how that period of time was really a rough patch in his life and how his world has come crashing down. I was amazed at the power of the sea breeze at Sentosa and how that breeze has helped to carry his trouble away amazingly. I was glad that at that period of time, I have helped him realise that he would never be alone when he's having problems, and that the evil teacher was glad and relieved that he was able to pick up the pieces, leave the unhappy past with the breeze and stand up from where he has fallen.

But why would he want to get himself involved in it again after he has taken pains to get out of the previous one? And this time, of all person, it has to be her.

I still remember a few days back, we were talking about how jealous she can be when she saw him talking to other girls, to the extent that she would intentionally cause harm to her classmates by pushing one of them down the stairs or by shoving her way through her classmates in class. Such malicious and unmannerly acts are really uncalled for.

He was still telling me that he would make things clear to her so that she can stop her unruly act and not make things difficult for her classmates such that they start to detest her.

To think that I had to be the evil person and settled the mess for him so that she can realise what she was doing was really undesirable and it can definitely be classified as a bullying case and that she would not be able to get away with it nor would she be capable of shouldering the responsibility if anything goes wrong because she is definitely incapable of doing that. I had to be the evil person to tell her to give up on him and that it was not worth the effort to do so much for him.

I was really irritated with her when she demanded that I returned his handphone to him and stupidly claimed that it was illegal of me to do that. I was really pissed off with her and questioned her in what capacity was she in to demand that I returned his hp to him. His mother didn't even demand me to return the hp to his son. And in that same horrid tone, she has the audacity to warn me that I would have to eat my words when he accepts her. I'm like, "Girl, that's almost impossible."

But when he told me about that emptiness feeling a few days later, I knew something was wrong. I hope it's not the case of conveniently getting her to fill up that emptiness feeling in him just because she happened to be there and just because she was madly in love with him and that she would do those ridiculous things for him.

I was talking to him online and teasing him about her:

Me: I noe i'm bad but I will really LOL if u end up with her, haha
Him: R u gg 2 jus stand there n watch and nt help yr wonderful boy?
Me: No, I won't jus stand there n watch,
Me: I will jus stand there and laugh, haha
Me: how 2 help?
Him: I dunno
Me: Stop u fr falling 4 her or encourage u 2 fall 4 her?
Him: I dunno either
Me: No hurry, but give yrself time 2 really confirm tt feelings.
Me: But promise me something k, haha, can u confirm yr feeling 4 her only after I've returned the hp 2 u?
Me: I dun 1 2 eat my words, haha.
Him: I won't let u eat yr words,

Him: U r my Black AngeL.

Oh man, when I read that, I was really touched. He is really that thoughtful and endearing a boy who will say such thing ernestly, so how can I leave him in the lurch?

But who knows after a few days, he is really with her. Not that the evil teacher can't swallow her pride and eat her words, I've done that before in K's case when I knew that it was my fault and I've mishandled that matter.

I wouldn't mind eating my words or swallowing my pride if that girl is really deserving of his feelings. I would gladly give my blessing to them if that girl is as wonderful as him. No, no one can be as wonderful as him yet, but at least, she has to be half as wonderful as him.

I'm sorry to say this, she is really not even a quarter as wonderful as him yet. She's such a blabbermouth and she has offended so many people with her uncouth and loutish mannerism unknowingly. There's this arrogant and haughty air about her that will get on the nerves of the people who interact with her.

Yes, he can protect her, but he can't go on protecting her if she is not going to do anything to change her obnoxious attitude. He can't be giving in to her all the time and tolerating all her nonsense right? How can I allow my wonderful student to do that?

Then again, is this the case of Opposites attract? But aren't they already at the polar ends of the magnet? Like that also can attract meh and there will really be no problem with that?

Can I really just stand there and LOL when such a thing has happened and not do anything to help my wonderful student and just leave him in the lurch? But then again, love is blind, he may be oblivious to her flaws and turn a deaf ear to my advice?

Haiz, whatever. My brain is tired and I really don't know what to do at this wee hour. The tension headache is still there since the Starbucks incident. Time to sleep.