More happy pics..

Just another post to post more happy pictures up....this is F and W, signing their marriage certificate during their church wedding..warms my heart to see them smile so happily.. :)




















This is R and H beside me, my close friends, one from sec sch, the other from choir in JC...we were all from the same choir in JC the 3 of us :)
























My choir friends from JC..all of us served in the comittee back then... :)
















Think my friend looks so good in her evening gown!







Okie, time to sleep..................goodnight.................... :)

2 Happy events...

woah..been a full week since I went on MC..and guess what? I'm still not fully recovered. This is quite out of the norm..coz usually I would have recovered even before I finished half the medicine given to me. But this time round, even way after I finished my medication, I still look and sound a little unwell. Hmm...maybe it's the stress..

Past 2 weeks have seen 2 happy occassions pass....one is the birth of my friends' little baby girl called Samantha...


Don't you think she's very adorable...everyone say 'awwwwwwww'... :)










The other happening event was my friends getting married. They'd been together for 8 years, and finally, tied the knot last Saturday. Just attended their wedding dinner yesterday night at Marriot Hotel.



I believe this is the cover photo of my friends' photo album..which somehow I didn't get to see... But I think it's so sweet... "We love, because He first loved us"..












And this is the bunch of us from my JC choir.. (Notice how my silly friend's big head has blocked half my face though there's SOOOOooo much space on the left of the photo for him to stand...grr..)






1 week to exams and 4 weeks to end of term!

=(

my goodness...teaching with a sore throat is no joke.... I must say this is the worse sore throat I've gotten ever since I started teaching. Voice actually went hoarse and cracked quite a few times today. Of course it doesn't help when the students that you are teaching couln't care less that you are already struggling to project your voice and continue with their own conversations....

*AH CHOO!*

i'm sick....*ah chooooo**cough**sneeze**sniff**throat pain**muscleache*
Gosh, haven't been so sick in a long time. Don't even know how I caught this bad bout of flu. Wouldn't have deteriorated into such a bad flu if I had been able to see the doctor yesterday afternoon. But due to an utterly immature and irresponsible person, I was unable to because he caused me to miss the opening hours of the clinic. So here I am, at home the entire day today. Thankfully I only have 2 periods of lessons today..

Piggies talk..

Hi, we're the rest of the piggies on Miss Chow's table......oh wait, there's been a most recent addition to the family! Look out for him soon... ;)

Comments?

I was recently told that it was difficult to leave comments on my blog because the person has first to have a blogger account...seems like i set the comments settings as such some time ago. Heh, so I went to change the settings recently so that even if people do not have a blogger account, they can leave me comments.

People who read my blog will realise that there have been no comments so far. Or so i thought! Haha, actually there were comments a month back!! Hahahha...but I never realised it because I think when blogger alerts me of the comment, the email gets sent to the JUNK mail in my email, which I usually only browse through and then delete all of 'em. So I missed those comments a month back...haha...but nevertheless, I finally realise they were there, and they are up on the blog now..which you probably can't see coz it's on a post that's so long ago. Haha...but I'm glad I finally noticed the comments... Thanks for commenting :)

CHS Inter-UG Paintball Competition 090906

Just before school re-opened, the CHS Inter-Uniformed Grps Paintball Competition organised by the PE Dept in CHS took place at Singapore Orchid Country Club (SOCC). The UG officers didn't have to be there, but I thought it'd be nice to be there to render support to my boys :) J and I were the only 2 teachers there, besides the organiser himself, R.

As usual, I am actually kinda blurr as to whether I've ever been to SOCC before, so the night before I went to check up on the street directory to make sure that I didn't lose my way there. Lo and behold, when I reached there, I realised I HAVE been there before, hahaha, for my friends' wedding on 31st Dec last year. =P

Anyway, I should have taken my own advice and slept a while longer...reached SOCC at about 9am, and everyone was having their safety briefing. Then after that, we still had to wait around somemore for setting up stuff, for drawing out the knockout systemm blah blah, so the whole thing started only i think, late 9+am. Heh. I should have slept till 9am then left the house at 9.30am...would have made it there just in time to see my NCC(Land) team play.

The competition is as such, 2 teams are sent per UG, Team 1 and 2. All the team 1s will play in a knock-out system, and same with the Team 2s. Then there'll be semi-finals and finals.
Each game has 2 rounds, and to win a round, would be to do 2 things: 1) Shoot down 2 targets over on the enemy side, and 2) Steal an ammunition box from the border of your "enemies".

So this is a picture of my boys planning their strategy on how to best accomplish those 2 things in order to win a round. (I am so utterly impressed by this Picassa program that enabled me to do this collage! Heh, love the effect. =P)

This is my team of boys from Land. And (those from CHS) guess who's itchy hand is that spoiling my nice photo...

This is attempt no. 2 at taking the same photo...spoiled their attempts at being itchy-handed once more, which explains why everyone's like laughing and distracted coz I had to wait so long to snap the shot! silly boys...haha...

See what I mean by itchy-hands!?! SIGHZ....

FINALLY, a nice one with LESS itchy hands....but notice that i suddenly grew horns!? Sigh..

Yay finally, Land Team 1 preparing to go into action. First up against us is NCC (Air) Team 1.
OK, finally pictures to show the action!! It's quite an interesting sight to see Land 1 play Air 1, coz they are ALL wearing the army No. 4 uniform. Which makes it really look like war!! Haha...this is Land Team 1 in action :) Unfortunately, for Team 1 we lost one round, and disqualified the next round coz we managed to get the ammunition box, but didn't realise that one of the 2 targets was still up. Nm, well done for first try ;)

This is Land 2, who got through to quarter-finals. Quarter-finals was quite exciting, ending in a draw with Air team. So to decide the winner, there's a shoot-out of 6 shots. A pity we lost in the shoot-out, but nevermind, I'm proud of my guys for having gone this far :) And most importantly, I think it was quite a lot of fun for them too :)

This is the shoot-out between Air and Land in quarter-finals..

Yep, so that was it. Quite interesting to have the UGs do a paintball competition I must say. :)

2 more weeks to exams guys!!!

Technology jinx

My handphone is less than a month old, and I have already sent it to Nokia Care Centre to have it repaired. I just bought a 1 GB thumbdrive on Teachers' Day and it hangs my tablet PC when I plug it in. Isn't technology supposed to make the lives of humans easier and more time efficient????? ARGGGHH!!!

:(

Rock-wall climbing on 25 Aug

*Phew*
The Sept break is finally here. So relieved to be able to sleep a minimum of 8 hrs before i pull myself out of bed...with the option of jumping right back in.haha....

Last saturday, for the first time i went to climb the rock-wall at Yishun Safra along with S, C, L and 3 of L's colleagues. Had been a long time since I last saw L, and it was fun catching up with her. The walls at Safra are much higher than the one in our school, one being 18 m tall and the other being 25 m. If i'm not wrong, the one in school is about 10 m in height. Below are some of the pics of the walls....





















This is the 18 m tall one, which is the first one that I attempted to climb. Has been such a long time since I last climbed, so was feeling a little nervous. Plus the wall is so much taller than the ones that I've climbed before...PLUS, I was super sleepy and tired from the previous week of marking. Haha...but nevertheless managed to reach the top of this one, though it took me a little longer than usual...heh..




















This one is the 25 m wall. Looks scarily tall doesn't it? I also think so, haha.. Was quite reluctant to try it actually, coz it looks SO difficult!! So I actually took a loooong rest after my first climb to watch L, S and C climb before I finally went to climb this one. Think i managed to scale more than 3/4 of the wall...quite an achievement to me. :) Can you actually spot a person on the wall? That's L climbing ;)


























This is a picture of the 18 m wall (again) but this time shown with the wall attached beside it called a "chimney". The chimney is more challenging than the normal walls because there are hardly any handholds to cling onto as you make your way up, just lotsa cracks to slip your fingers into.. and NOPE, I didn't try to climb it.














This is C climbing the chimney, see the way one has to twist and turn the body in order to manouvere upwards??






















This last pic of the walls there is an interesting one. It is lined with STYROFOAM! It's a wall that's meant for training up ICE-CLIMBING. That's why the guy on the wall is holding this hammer-thingy that is used to pierce into the foam before he kicks his spikey ice shoes into the wall to move upwards. Pretty interesting...I've never seen this in Singapore before..














L and I looking triumphant after our climbs :)















After climbing and a quick shower, we're off to crystal jade for lunch and catching up with one another.. :)