For those of u who have watched Da Vinci Code, u might have figured out what an anagram is, right?

For the benefit of those who have not watch the movie and do not know what an anagram is..

It is basically a word or phrase that contains all the letters of another word or phrase in a different order.

So why am I talking about this??

I came across this article in a magazine this evening on anagrams and would like to share it with u all on how amazing and interesting anagrams can be!

So here it goes..

DORMITORY : DIRTY ROOM

ASTRONOMER : MOON STARER or NO MORE STAR

GEORGE BUSH : HE BUGS GORE (Gore was his opponent from the Presidential Election 2 elections ago..)

THE MORSE CODE : HERE COME DOTS

DESPERATION : A ROPE ENDS IT

ELECTION RESULTS : LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS : ALAS! NO MORE "Z"s

ELEVEN PLUS TWO : TWELVE PLUS ONE

MOTHER-IN-LAW : WOMAN HITLER


Interesting hur?!!

Lemme know if u can find any new ones k..

Weiqiang & me..


Weiqiang, Rachel & me..


Rachelle & me..


Silat darling-Nurah & me..


Sumiko, Rachel & me..


NIE mates..


Congrats Yusman & Rosnah..

I went to attend Yusman's wedding lunch this afternoon.. In fact, this is the 1st time I am attending a Malay wedding!

It was definitely an eye-opening experience for me and I think it was kinda cool..

There were a lot of guests and the whole void deck was flooded with relatives and friends who came from all over Singapore to send this newly-wed blessings. We had buffet lunch served with typical Malay food like Mee Rubus, Mee Soto and Nasi Briyani with Mutton etc.. Too bad I didnt get to try the dessert!

The newly-wed were not around for the lunch reception. But they came back at around 4pm and we were greeted with the traditional drum sound from a Malay wedding.. (I will go and find out the name of the drum soon..)

The couple sat in a open area next to the void deck, waiting for friends and relatives to "perform" Silat in front of them. According to my other Malay friends, the Silat performers were supposed to be the warriors in the olden days and Yusman (the groom) was supposed to be the "king". This performance was a form of honour and blessing shown to the king in important occasions. So Yusman was King today!

One of our classmates, Nurah, performed for the newly-wed. And I can tell u that her Silat skills can easily beat any of the guys around. C'mon! She was in the National Silat Team can??!!

I really enjoyed seeing people get married. So happy and so blissful.. I realised that one by one, friends around me are either getting married or attached..

Oh no... Wat's wrong with me??!!

I am 100% straight la (hopefully)..

Just waiting for "The Right One".. Actually I think I have found someone but I am not sure whether I am his Right One.. He once said I am not.. So I am not pinning high hope too..

Will there be any change??

Let nature takes its course ba.. Haha..

I know it's a bit too late for NDP but it better late then never right?? Keke..

At the Holding hall in Suntec Convention Centre, I took pictures with..


My girls from 5/5..


My boys from 5/5..


My girl from 4/3..


With 5/6 girls..


All-time favourite naughty boys - Eric & George..


The boy who gave me the 1st ever "Thank You" card..



So we made our way to Marina for the Final Showdown..

At the covered concourse with 5/5 boys..


Finale!! (I'm at the front row k!!)


To the floating platform we go..

View of the gallery from the floating platform..


With Clarice..


With Geraldine..


With Yenru and the girls..


I made this boy speak at least 10 sentences to me every NDP Rehearsal! Haha..


That's all for NDP..

Enough said.

Well done, DEG-gers!!

Awaiting for ICG Netball cos we will dominate again. :)

Ok.. I am not exactly the kind of "gay" u are thinking.. But rather the happy kind of "gay"..

I had a lunch date and I am happy I had that lunch..

I found out what I need to find out..

Hope there will be more of such sessions in the future..

Never say that "someone" is not the one unless u have tried it out..

The supposedly other one u have chosen over that "someone" may end up not being the one for ya as well..


I hope u can hear me..

I am waiting, still waiting after 2 years..

I stepped into the MPH this evening, feeling so exhausted after running from the bus stop to the flight of stairs that leads up to the MPH entrance.

As I pulled the door to enter, I could feel the energy and the sound of spiking volleyballs. Ah! I knew that I was "home".

MPH is a place full of memories, really wonderful ones. I registered for my PPT to get in to PESS (Sch of PE), had my Orientation as a freshie and OGL, practical lessons, broke my wrist while keeping the vball pole last year, Dippers Games Day and last but not least, ICG.

We had joined the Degree Yr 3 team to play for ICG Volleyball but we lost. After that, everyone left the MPH after we lost. When I finished changing from my shoes to sandals, I realised that my classmates were gone!

Then, I was kinda lost so I loitered in MPH, trying desperately to find some companion to talk to.. But I really everyone was too engrossed watching the games and supporting their own classmates.

I saw the current Year 2s Dippers being such encouraging and enthusiastic even when they had lost. The Diploma "Class of 40" spirit.. A class cheered for B class and vice versa.. Just like when I was in Diploma Yr 2.. Dip 2B played very well for their last game. They lost. But with diginity and pride becos they played a good game. After the whole session, I saw a Dip 2B juniors talking to some Yr 1 Dippers, I went over to congratulate him. He was sharing with the Year 1s Dippers that he had never see his class played so hard and so well before. The one year of bonding really make a difference. After that, he turned to me and told the Yr 1s that my Diploma class was the classic ones because we truly carried the Dippers' Spirit with us whenever we played in any games. Thanks Andre for the praise.. I really agree that my Dippers have got a class of our own..

I stayed till about 1130pm when I decided to make my way back hall. I walked from NIE to Hall 6 to realise how lonely it can be to walk alone, esp this late at night.

As I made my way back hall, I got some flashback memories of the good old days during my Diploma years. After the game, we would all go for dinner together. Be it within NTU, Taman Jurong, Boon Lay Hawker Centre or Jianwen's place coffee shop,we would have dinner until late and the guys would send the ladies back to our hall.. We had some much fun talking and laughing over dinner, talked about the games played, the funny moments and the team's strategies..

So much things to talk about.

But now, I can hardly find anyone to have dinner and talk to after the ICG. Everyone just leave on their own. So unlike my Dippers' Day..

I guess I have to move on and let those wonderful memories stay deep inside my heart.. Move on..

Dippers.. I miss every single one of u who had perspired and played your hearts out for ICG..

You will always be the best classmates one could ever wish for..

I have some trouble trying to move the things back hall recently.

I put a nick on my MSN asking for help but no one offered (except KO whom I do not want to trouble..)

READ: Eh my F4/F5 kakees, no one free to help ar??

Actually I am a little pissed la.. but I think I am pmsing.. Cos apparently I know of some with cars but never bother to ask.. But I guess I shouldnt be lidat becos they are not obliged to help..

So it works in such a way that in future if there is any problem, I am not obliged to help too..

Confirmed.

PMS.

Yesterday marked the last day seeing my kids at NDP.

Bitter-sweet memories for me..

Bitter?
I will definitely miss my kids in school. I will miss their nonsense and jokes..

Sweet?
Absence makes the heart fonder (I hope). I enjoyed time spent with them at NDP. They shared a lot of stories with me.. Be is family or BGR. Although I may not be the best person to give advice to, at least I am willing to lend them the pair of listening ears.

Kids are kids. They heed adults' advices although they complain most of the time that we adults nag.. I am glad that they are taking my advices and I really hope I can make impacts in more young lives..

Happy 42nd Birthday, Singapore!!

And I am going for NDP later!! Going to see my kids perform and watch the fireworks at the front row..

Catch the live telecast of NDP 2007.. Esp the Parade and Ceremony and 1st performance of the Mass Display cos.....

My kids are performing!!!!

Today is the 1st day of school..

Instead of having to wake up at 6 in the morning, I slept a while longer and ended up waking at 710! Die!! Supposed to leave home at 730 but only managed to leave at 740..

So I hurried my way to the train station.. Told myself that if I can get to Boon Lay Station by 8, I will be fine..

Yes! I got there in time but when I went over to the interchange to queue for my bus, i nearly fainted! The queue was terribly long!!!!!! Luckily, I met some friends and cut queue so that I could get on the next bus..

The bus was soooo slow moving and I was getting impatient because at the rate it was going, I would definitely be late..

And my "nightmare" came. My classmate called to tell me there was a change in venue and we were supposed to go NTU SRC Field instead of our usual NIE Astroturf!! I should have boarded the other bus instead.. So in the end I had to go a big loop around campus to get to where I want..

We had Soccer lesson a SRC Field and Mr Chow is sooooooo cool and skilful!! All the girls were so inspired and I am sure the boys were too..

So for this sem I am going to play Soccer during my free time..

Talking about free time, I have too much to spare this semester and I think I am going to make use of them fruitfully to play soccer, tennis, Inter-class Games and gym!!

I am to be even fitter and more skilful than before!! Yeah!!

I shall not mentioned about what I did in the earlier part of the day because everything went fine and well until about 10pm when I sent the kids back to school.

I have been following P5/5 for the last few sessions but since one of my colleagues was following the class and they had another class sharing the bus with a experienced parent from our PSG, I decided tag with some other classes who needed teacher's control more.

After the parade, I was supposed to follow 5/3 back to school but when I turned around to find my colleague, the whole class was gone!!

So I saw my Pri 4/5 and decided to hurry them and follow the class back to school because apparently their army personnel will not be following them and I tot there was only 1 parent on the bus. Later on, I realised that they were also sharing bus with another class so there were 2 parents on board.

So I decided to follow my next class P5/6 who was next to me.

We made our way from Marina Bay to Suntec where the bus would be to pick us up. When we reached there, this nice parent of one of the kids in class came over and started "fanning" me because the both of us felt hot. I was grateful for that little gesture, of course.

When we were on the bus, I decided to share my Taboo cards with some of the girls from the bus to keep them entertained. They got a bit excited and most of the were standing/kneeling on the seat.

The most "exciting" part was when to realise that our actions were being caught on video by this "nice" parent and appparently she was the same person who fanned me earlier on (less than 15 min ago before the filming took place)

When she came back to school, she was sooooo furious that she went around showing people the video she took. She even threatened to see my P with regards to this matter.

Of course, I didn't realised what was wrong and went up to her to ask if things were alright. What I got was a shun off right into my face.. So by now, the girls who played with me were really affected by it and they felt worried. So I promised to explain the matter to my HOD and their form teacher. I knew that the parent was going around to show the video to the other parents, so I had to act fast by waiting at the gate for my HOD to return from the last bus.

In the meantime while I was talking to my HOD, I was already to being complained to the Discipline Mistress (my colleague) with regards to the same matter. In the end when I went to the hall, the girls who played with me were already being scolded.

I felt sorry for them and my colleague came to tell me what the parent told me.. It was a completely different story from what happened.

Apparently, she said that when the kids were playing with game with me on the bus, she came to tell me to stop but I ignored her and said, "What's wrong??!!"

My heart sank. Someone had just put words into my mouth..

I felt sooo unjustified and disappointed. Every action was so hypocritical.

In the 1st place, I did not say such rude comments to her and my kids can all be my witnesses. Do u think it's possible for a teacher to talk to a parent like this?? My conscience is clear and my students can be my witnesses..

Secondly, when I came up to ask her if things were fine, she said "No, nothing.." and walked off. She could have told me during there and then.

Thirdly, I am a teacher with integrity and will not need to deny my action if I really played with the kids.. I don't think I deserve a video filming to make sure I will not deny from the matter..

I felt soo upset and went into the toilet to make a phone call.. When I was talking on the phone, I couldn't hold back by tears anymore.. My colleagues came in to comfort me and I felt even more upset...

Really bad day.

Just wanna leave the school with happy memories and definitely not some nonsense like this..

Everytime when I go to school early in the morning, I will see this man (in his early or mid-30s I guess) carrying a baby and sending him to some place.

In the beginning I thought the Mummy might be busy so the Daddy sending the Baby to maybe Grandma's place.

But somehow I dun think that's the case for this family. Maybe single-parent case (again)..

This brings me to some of the cases of my kids in school. I witnessed quite a few of them growing up in a single parent family environment. And I really pity those kids.

I believe some of them must be thinking..

"Why I don't get to see my Mummy/Daddy?"

And those with family problems are those who have problems in school.. Sometimes, we really can't blame their attitudes cos most of the time they are caused by family backgrd. Although I always see that I am very close to my Dad, I love my Mum too. Just that most of the time I get irritated by her.

I think it's really important for a child to grow up in an environment with both parents around and still loving as ever. Becos the child will received the love by the parents and they will be more positive. They will also be more motivated.

On the other hand, the single parent needs to work to support the child. Most of the time, he/she will not be at home to look after his/her kids. Therefore, children understand this circumstances will tend to feel a loss of attention as compared to other kids around..

I always urge my kids to be more careful with the sensitive towards issues spoken and learn to put theirselves in other's shoes. These kids will never understand unless they have gone through the roller coaster right??

Back to the Baby and Daddy..

I really hope to see the Mummy of this little baby soon.. :)