...Reminisce of the times...

kiyomi asked me to do up a collage like hers in her blog (go see hor, haha) but i realised i didn't have many photos in their softcopies..especially those 'gu lou sep bard doi' (古老十八代) photographs...

after much rummaging through (the hard disk of the computer of cos), found these 4 which dad had helped scanned a long time ago, haha...
enjoy...


:) some more....


secondary school days...

poly days...


then came some of the very first photos taken using digi cams...(or when i could afford one)
this is how i look almost 3 years ago on my 21st bday....
*even thou now still a geek la, haha

this is classic...
my first posted in SFC (more than 2 years back?), wahaha.....



haiz...老 liao 老 liaoooooo

Post some of my faves here, *teeheehee....
:)

by Gerald:

By YeowMing:

i'm now convinced that ADULT cockroaches merrily roam my room...

kena attacked again.... it flew (yes it FLEW) from behind my guitar to my elbow, this time the left one.. remembered that time it was my right?
i dunno why exactly my elbows attract those revolting 6-legged so much!?
and those are real big (measuring 2 inches) adult flying ones!!!!

I SCREAMED for dad, mom and everyone who were in the house i reckon capable to save me from distress... but
NOBODY came to my rescue in time.

...so the cockroach disappeared


it was after dinner when i caught sight of that wretched insect again! it was happily sashaying its filthy body on the wall.
then my mom, armed with a rolled up newspaper in her clutch, slammed against it!!! wahahhaha.....

Darn! it was fast! it dropped to the ground, summoning all strength left trying to escape..
...mom slammed it mercilessly...
"BaM Bam BAM"....and with a final blow and an evil chuckle, she sent that pest straight to heaven*

i never felt soooooo wickedly great before! muahahhaa...

that incident happened the day before. ANd last night, i got a rude shock again!
i'm rather sure the previous one was dead and cold already...so this another new one?!
this time i was smart.. screaming doesnt work anymore..
BAYGON, wahahaha...

i aimed straight at it and PISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS..............
it fled for its dear life, of cos i didnt stop spraying..i sprayed until it lay motionless..

i tell u, the floor was flooded.. yes, flooded! with baygon spray i had to take the mop out..

haiz......
anyway tat was all for the cockroach thingy

got something more important to blog about...

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afternote:
don't believe a 20-pose collage can give me face cramps? wahaha

went back to that HK food-house for dinner yesterday... the one which i raved about in 20Mar's post...
(*and this is for eggyoke: Paiseh, not at Burlington hor, it's actually opposite burlington square :) no wonder you cant locate it, hehe)

we ordered the same dishes (there weren't many main course choices, cos 90% of the menu items were desserts)...

anyway, again dear decided to have the 'doll (公仔)-mee' and me, the shrimp and fried egg rice..
when the waiter came to take our orders, dear requested to have his dish "upsized"...so the waiter asked him how much noodles he wanted to add.. a dollar or 50cents? he settled for the latter.

when it was my turn, dear told the waiter, "她的 不要这样油.....but 不是 不要酱油...'这样油' 不是 '酱油'."

the waiter stared as if dear has asked him to explain the Theory of Relativity


anyway, when the waitress cradled (yes, literallly) the doll-mee over, we got a shock of our life! you mean 50 cents upsized is SO much?!
the waitress, giggling and blushing at the same time, explained, "sorry ah..chef said an extra half packet of noodle very hard to cook, so have to put in the whole packet, hehee..."


the noodle was "一座山", as dear described.

when mine came, we had another shock too... it wasn't the same as what i ordered the last time!...
still remember this picture? now, it has evolved to this state...


you mean they didn't standardise their menu one ah???

:(
it didn't taste as nice as the last time...
we didn't even stay for the desserts. Instead, went over to IceMonster to have some shaved ice dessert
*slurp! hehe...

went photoshooting again, hehehe....

this time round, everything seemed more relaxed..i wasn't as stressed as my first.
went Labrador Park and did the more natural shots.. with Kiyomi's photographer frens, YeowMing and Laysin..
The 4ever YOUNG gerald went too...still say shy lor....dunno who's the MOST TALKATIVE one.......

anyway, the photoshoot lasted only like 2 hours (?) and off we headed to Harbourfront's McDonald's...

me and kiki had only one thing in mind -----> COKE!!!!!!!
gulping down the ice cold coca cola was simply heavenly!!!!!!!! *slurp!!

me and kiki @ McDonald's... *my hair is in a mess!! like a bird's nest..


@ BakerzIn
...and Gerald looking as if he's forced at gunpoint to take photo with me lo....


Photostickers taken at Plaza Sing..heh heh.. *super lame with all the stupid poses, hehe*




* the above is certainly very HANTU looking!!!

*pig face, heh

im freaking out...

CAN I NOT GO, KIKI?????????
>_<

from the start of the week, my kids have been bugging me to bring my stringed cat puppet to school...
and i kept on forgetting... so on Thursday, i wrote on the whiteboard, "I will bring my cat on Friday."

And yesterday, the first thing i stepped into the class, they echoed, "Did you bring your CAT???" heh... i deliberately shrugged my shoulders..
One kid, pointing to what i'd written on the board the previous day, "But you said you will bring it on friday one..."


"i never say on which friday wat......"

.....a series of groans.... *hehe**

In the end, when i flashed it from its hiding place, they squealed and got so facinated by it *especially the girls*

kids hor...

the puppet is very cute i would say. big part of what contributed to its cuteness is its very stupid looking expression on the face, heh..
bought it from a gift shop @ Suntec..
me and dear were looking for a birthday gift when we saw it.. it looks ordinary at first, but when you puppet it with those attached strings to its limbs, it dances idiotically like a siao kia... and i tell you, it's SERIOUSLY cute.. im not kidding.
i remembered it left me barking in laughter till tears came out. And that attracted many amused onlookers....... p.s: not my laughter, but the cat hor..

didn't know conducting NAPFA test can get sunburn

*note the difference?!




i'm actually very worried...

it's my colleague...
he's not his usual self after that email i've sent out to him.
Since last thursday, we've stopped talking to each other altogether.
No smiles, no eye contact, no nothing... and we even avoided each other like plague (Yes, i ain't joking)

the case is closed at school level.. principal has decided that i still continue taking his class for Science. Guessed she's already realised that there really wasn't anything between us after all.. she should have realised it earlier! Or things wouldn't have been so awkward now...

this is the first time i see him like that. I've not seen him speaking to any of the teachers after the incident. He looked so affected and i'm worried for his kids..
it made me wonder if i'd been too harsh in making my stand that: besides work, we should stay a distance... but if i didn't, more problems may surface... somehow it seems more like a blessing in disguise.. for at least now, it feels comforting to know that he's finally given up on me.

Received this email which i find very cute.. haha..

Men, Women and Magic Frogs

A Woman was out golfing one day when she hit the ball into the woods.
She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap.
The frog said to her, "If you release me from this trap, I will grant you three wishes."

The woman freed the frog, and the frog said, "Thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your wishes.Whatever you wish for, your husband will get times ten!"
The woman said, "That's okay."

For her first wish, she wanted to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
The frog warned her, "You do realise that this wish will also make your husband the most handsome man in the world, an Adonis whom women will flock to."
The woman replied, "That's okay, because I will be the most beautiful woman and he will have eyes only for me."

So, KAZAM - she's the most beautiful woman in the world!

For her second wish, she wanted to be the richest woman in the world.
The frog said, "That will make your husband the richest man in the world and he will be ten times richer than you."
The woman said, "That's okay, because what's mine is his and what's his is mine."

So, KAZAM - she's the richest woman in the world

The frog then inquired about her third wish, and she answered, "I'd like a mild heart attack.

"Moral of the story: Women are clever. Don't mess with them.

Attention female readers: This is the end of the joke for you. Stop here and continue feeling good.
Male readers: Please scroll down.

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The man had a heart attack ten times milder than his wife!!!

Moral of the story: Women are really dumb but think they're really smart.
Let them continue to think that way and just enjoy the show.

PS: If you are a woman and are still reading this; it only goes to show that you women never listen!

(*afternote which i've added in... "Women are people who actually CAN take jokes very well! *wink)

Eye Candy photostickers, *wahahhaha.......

taken on Saturday with shopping kaki, esther!
...this is the first time i'm so satisfied with the shots 8)

one photo extracted from dear's digi... teehehe >_<

time to post more photos! hehehe...

met him early in the morning for his project... *i missed church again ":(
the brainstorming of ideas were already completed.. so now left the execution of those ideas...
actually we planned to have breakfast @ MacDonalds' but... being perpectual slowcoaches, we didn't manage to make it for breakfast before 11am... :(

went straight to Changi Airport to take photographs. He needed pictures..

*him at work... buahahha.....



he's doing an advertising project, so we went to the counter and took some photographs..
there was a queue of people checking in their baggags.. one auntie thought we were jumping queue, so commented very loudly.." Oei, Queue Up!"
we turned apologetically and explained we weren't checking in (we dont even have baggages with us lor....)
Haiz....some people hor....anyway, cant blame her la.. we really look like the typical KiaSU singaporeans wat..

when he was taking photos of the customs, i was so afraid the 2 policemen standing at the departure gates will have us charged..
but surprisingly, they were very nice! one of them told the other, "Wah... aey, take photo take photo!!" and even posed for us, hahahaa...

famished by noon...
........ now i know why we should never eat at Changi Airport's Food Court...
So EX...
Hainanese Chicken Rice is $6.50 lor...and a bowl of Fishball Noodles cost $5.95!

but food looks good, teehehe...
I had the Chicken Rice Set


While dear had Roasted Duck Rice Set *slurpp*!


"Kai Dong"!!!

constipated face...


Finally a picture together...*yeah...

him....

me....*skirt looks familiar?? muahaha...

YAY...shopping with esther just now..SO HAPPIE*

bought a mesh cap, denim skirt plus a pair of shoes..

hehe... took a lot of photostickers again!!! upload them when ready...
must nag at dear tomolo so he would scan them for me asap...hehee...

i have a small purse to put my hp.. guess what i saw @ Xodus?? in that shoe shop, my purse reunited with its long lost twin!! haha....

can you imagine? a shoe that actually looks like my purse! i cant help but laugh out loud, cos it looks so silly!
i took a photo of them together..

i cant imagine myself wearing that shoe with my purse prints..
dunno why, but i have a bad feeling that my purse is laughing at that poor shoe..



the pair of points i bought at Heeren.. :)

my that colleague sent me an email on Thursday night...

"Expected you to be like that. The first thing I want to ask you is, do you see me and you as a couple? Is there anything between us? For this, I only have this to say: If our conscience is clear, we have nothing to fear. If she really wants to accuse us of anything, she won't be able to prove anything because there really isn't anything between us.

I'm not saying that there's anything between us. ASSUMING if there is, did we do anything that we were not suppose to do in school such as going to a room to do some hanky-panky or kissing or even hold hands? Nothing like that right?

Personally, I feel that we should not deliberately try to avoid anything. The more we try to avoid or anything like that, the worse the situation will get. There's a Chinese saying, the more we draw, the darker it will get. It would then seem that there were really something strange going on between us and we are implicitly admitting it. Right now, all she has seen is me giving you a lift twice, once during official opening and last Friday. She thinks that there might be something going on between us (which of course is her assumption) and trying to nib it in the bud.

I don't see why we should be afraid of you getting a lift from me or me offering you a lift. To tell you the truth, I'm not even afraid if she sees it again. The onus is on her to prove anything and there is nothing to prove. Just act normal and not try to deliberately avoid anything. There's nothing to be afraid of. Even if the case goes all the way to the Ministry, there is no case for her because there is no policy from the Ministry that does not allow teachers in the same school seeing each other (as long as there's no monkey business going on).

That's all I have to say about this issue. I'm not disturbed by it at all. There is nothing between us to begin with. She just blew the whole thing out of proportion when she sees us together twice, in my car (not even outside or anywhere else).

There's no need to lose sleep over it. Good night!"

and i replied,

"no,of course i dont see us as a couple.i totally understand what u have meant...** has talked to me before CT yesterday.. she asked me if there was anything between us.. i told her a straight no. she said some teachers were suspicious and have alerted ** about it...so when she saw me in ur car, she sort of 'confirmed' it..

anyway i was really upset when she said those things during CT. i felt very insulted...
i'm sorry, but i dont think i can be as cool as you and act as if nothing has happened..
i think besides work, we should just stay a distance.
have a good night"

i actually felt rather bad after i've sent him the mail.. it seems i have made my stand not to continue the friendship, but i was so down last night, i just want all unnecessarily nonsense out of my life.
and this morning, another mail from him...

"Ok, your decision is repected. This will be the last email I'll send to you.

I don't know why, neither ** or anyone else came to ask me or talk to me. ** appears to put the blame on you somehow, I'm sorry about that and having caused you such trouble.

Anyway, it was nice knowing you. It just sadden me that that dinner we had was the last one together, so was that car ride to Outram MRT station. Always treat your loved ones as if it is the last time you'll be seeing them. You never know.

So goodbye! You know very well that deep down at some secret corner of my heart, I always have a special place for you. "

i don't know if i had been too insensitive with my words... i also know that if i behave in such a way, it would seem as good as admitting what she'd said.
i've made it sound like we cannot have anything to do with each other (even talking) this morning, i didn't even want to look at him.
but..
i think we don't have to avoid each other like plague, as professionals, we should not let personal matters get into the way with our work..
anyway, i was glad he respected my decision.

she talked to some of us during recess..the singles in the school...she said she was quite fast with her words during the meeting on wednesday, and she didn't mean to hurt anyone..
she also said we should never interpret her words out of context too.. what she meant was not to discourage us teachers from talking to the opposite sex, but in everything, to be discreet.... cos there are eyes watching.

i mean if she explains herself in this way, i feel so much better..as long as she doesnt accuse anyone without any concrete evidence at first...
she also told me that i do not have to dye my hair back anymore.. as long as i tie it up (my hair was in a bun the last 2 days)
hmmm.. i'm trying to cheer up abit liao..

today was a horribly bad day..dont know if my luck has been down lately...?
these 2 weeks had been drama for me..

this morning, ** came to tell me off straight in the face.. it's my hair...
she wanted me to dye my tresses back.. Quoted: "the color and streaks are not acceptable"

my highlights were done last November.. and that time, she was the one who said it looked nice.. she even allowed the 3 of us (2 other teachers with tinted hair) to keep our color...

why after 5 months then she suddenly realised the color was off? anyway, i'm absolutely fine with colouring my hair back..
well, since im in this profession, i should have known very well that image and role modellng is critical..especially when it's the impressionable stage of children's lives we are dealing with.

the afternoon meeting was bad.. she brought up the hair colouring issue again.. she said she has noted at least 6 teacr with dyed hair in the school..
and ---> tattoos (is this how to spell it? obviously i dont have one since i cannot even spell the word, ha..) some parent has complained to her that a female teacr has one on her back.... (why? are all tattooed pple loan sharks?! we were making fun of some older teachers with tattooed eyebrows, saying that they must remove it, haha*)
anyway,
i thought she was rather harsh with her tone... hmmm...
and she brought up another issue.. teacrs 'pa tor'-ing.... she said she does not want us to be coupled in the sch (of cos she didnt mention any names..)

my HOD actually spoke to me before the meeting and asked if there was anything going on between me and another male colleague.. She said prinicpal has heard 'rumors'...

yes, the colleague has approached me sometime last August, i had made my stand clear to him and he knows he does not stand a chance..at all... he also knows i'm attached yet somehow he didn't give up...
but now, it's purely platonic.. nothing hanky panky or anything of that sort.. hey, he's 17 years older! he could be my uncle liaoo lor..

she said some teacher must have got suspicious of the both of us and alerted the principal... so now, principal wants my science periods (with his form-class) to be taken over by another teacher w.e.f next week.. u mean it's tat SERIOUS!?...(i am very uncomfortable with the new arrangement)

anyway, during the meeting, *** said, "I dont care what you do outside school, but definitely NO coming to school together holding hands or going to some room to peck."

i was U T T E R L Y appalled by what she said...WHAT THE HELL IS SHE TALKING ABOUT?!

i feel so disgusted at the mere thought of it.. luckily she was just being generic... if she were to accuse me and him forthright, i swear i would have her face rearranged.. and i run the risk of losing my job

sorry that i sound abnormally 'not my self' today, i am actually very, very affected by what she has said..
she even added, "you know who you are..." very obviously, she has already believed what her itching ears had wanted to hear...please go and find out the truth before uttering rubbish and misleading the rest of the staff!! holding hands?! pecking?!?

i hate it when people insult my morality... they can criticise or say anything they want about my appearance, my capabilities... but should NEVER EVER HAVE MISGIVINGS about my moral principles and values. i expect the utmost respect from people regarding these...cos i uphold them very firmly.

in order to protect myself from further accusations, i will have nothing to do with that colleague again. even though from the beginning, there's absolutely nothing unbecoming between us, i will still go all out to prevent further damage... i cannot afford to have people thinking im indecent or what.. even if it's ending our friendship, im more than willing to do so.


my morale has already reached rock-bottom...
going to school now is only for my kids, nothing else...

Praise God, my wallet has been found..
Cell leader, dennis, was still telling me yesterday, "Just pray.. you are the third person in the our cell group who has lost his/her wallet..and the last 2 have been found."

in my heart i was thinking..."well, i've backslided like nobody's business... do prayers still work for me?"

what i can say now is Yes...God is faithful even when we've become faithless...
Oh Lord, please forgive me.....!!!


ComfortTaxi called when i was having my remedial class this afternoon informing me that the cab driver has actually found and returned my wallet.. u can imagine how elated i was...
rushed down after my classes to retrieve my wallet from the Lost and Found counter..
WAH...so many lost items on the desk.. i thought i saw a cordless phone (?!) amid the jumble...

the auntie behind the counter must be a happy woman..daily being greeted by WIDELY SMILING people who have been informed that their lost items have been found... it's good to be in her shoes...everyday u see cheery people thanking you (even thou you aren't the one who'd found and returned the lost items) heh...*wonder how much she is paid for the job....hmmm...

my bf was telling me how his cousin had lost his IC and dunno how it landed in some incorrigible debtor's hands...and loan sharks actually went over to his place to create trouble...

emily said the same thing to me too...
but hey...see my photo, look like debtor mehH?

bleah*

okay i know that looks horribly TOOT....that was when i was in P6....

the arrow actually shows the stuff i missed the most during its lost, haha...


dear went with me to NPP last night to make a police report...
he cycled me there... yes, on a bicycle...
he was still saying.."Aey..like an Ahbeng taking his Ahlian gf for a ride lo.."
who cares...as long as i feel happy can liaoo, haha...

and i took a few photos (complete with FLASH) while sitting on the top tube of his bike.. he was like, "wah lao.... OEI STOP IT hah.......... stop it....!!"

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(luckily he doesnt know i blog, or else he will surely scream his head off for posting such an ugly looking photo of him, teeheehee...well, i look as horrendous also wat.......)

i wanna capture Kodak moments mah...cannot meh? hehe*

History has repeated itself...

i've lost my wallet.. this time for real
and i doubt i will ever see it again.

i dropped it in the ComfortCab on our way home from ktv on friday night.. and the worst thing is, i had only realised it just now.. it is sunday morning already!
stayed home the whole of yesterday, so there wasn't a need to use my wallet.

i'm supposed to be on usher duty in church this morning.. but i only discovered my wallet wasn't with me before i stepped out of the house....So you can imagine.. a real drama awaits me liao...
this time, unexpectedly, mom didn't even yell at me.. *she'd turned into an angel(!) and even helped to look for it in my bedroom.. *sniff*

but it was grandma who gave me a good O'tongue lashing.. and was thoroughly merciless with her words. only because i was home late after KTV on friday night, she scolded me saying i was a wild and badly behaved woman..
i admit i'm at times very absent-minded and careless with things but that wouldnt justify her making it sound like i was a loose woman!! does going KTV at night make me a whore?! it's not as if i had frequent late nights out... at most once or twice per month.....and i dare swear what i did in those were absolutely decent!

i was so hurt... and what hurt me most was, i raised my voice back at her.. i actually shouted back.

i really didnt mean to, but i was too heated up at that point of time..i felt her accusations shouldn't have been that harsh.... i really regretted doing it now... it made me cry whenever i think of it.. even now as i'm typing this...

how should i reconcile? i feel horrible.

i didn't know such classic ktvs still exist.

broke my curfew again last night..hehe...

he didn't say he wanted to meet me so i met a friend for dinner after work.
He was still saying, "Go lor. enjoy yourselves." the night earlier.. and, "Know why i even encourage you to go out with him? Not becos i don't care, but i trust you." :)
So i went ahead lo...

but he messaged me around 830 when we were window shopping @ Ikea... saying, "Dear tonight wanna meet please??"
(he was still so nonchalant about me going out with that guy the night before...why the sudden change.. *still say trust me, haha...)
but im glad cos i rather he be concerned than imperturbable...

so, after 10 minutes of nagging by mom over the phone ,
i met dear at 10pm.. the usual popular ktv outlets in town were already fully booked by then (friday night wor)..so we went to this seemingly secluded outlet @ Bukit Pasoh (Outram Park)

...only 9.90 for student-rate!... but dear was too honest...so i had to pay the teacher-rate (aka adult's) of 14.90 while he gets to pay only 9.90 :(
but still cheap laa, considering that it was definitely worth the 5 hours of croaking ... hehe*

they said the small rooms were all taken, so we had to 将就点 take the super huge VIP room... for the time being....
you must be thinking, "big room lehh...VIP somemore, still say 将就?!"

Well, you should see the room...

*wah lao eh....

never in my life have i stepped into such a ktv room before...the whole room just screams one word --->

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SLEAZY!!!!!!

it's classic!!
we exchanged glances....
i broke the silence.. "dear, i feel like i'm in "桂花楼" (*brothel)


it's true lo... dont believe?
*i took some pictures...






Eeeeeeeee..........

luckily @ ard 2am, we migrated to a smaller room (ahh** now this looks more like KBox), hahaha....
(in case u are wondering, NO..it's not KBox ... i shall not reveal the name in order to protect its repute) haha..


*after note:
some photos taken with colleagues.....

got my PB (performance bonus)

it's just a meager sum since it's pro-rated... *BUT IM HAPPIE* with the fact im getting some extra allowance this month
*teeheeheee... $

wanted to get him something *as a surprise..
but dunno what he really wanted... there were so many times i failed in my attempts to get him stuffs i thought he would like.. and in the end turned out that i made rather bad choices...

it's not that i don't take note of his preferences...in contrary, i 'dig' and clean my ears out in order not to miss things he says... but till now i'm still hopelessly grapping the art of accurately reading his mind....even after 3 years... i admit i flopped terribly, heh... (it must be him lah...i dont face such problems with other pple leh..)

gone to Basheer Graphics to look at some advertising books... there were many books he wanted to buy..
there was this particular one he was so tempted to get cos the ads were all in chinese...he reckoned something different would let him see things in new light, thus churning out fresh ideas and directions for his ad-projects ....

But it was 80 over bucks....!
darn...graphic books are so EX!!

As a full-time student, he needs to have a tighter rein on his spending..
anyway, i was secretly enjoying the kick from knowing the fact that i finally do not need to damage any more of my grey cells to think of what to get for him liaoo ....
so..
Me: "aiyah....so expensive, don't buy la. go home and consider first. .don't buy, don't buy" (hehe...it's so easy to discourage him, wahahaha...)

i went back to the shop to get it the next day, hehehe.... i dont know why i always feel extremely happy buying things for him :)

it's so unlike buying stuff for myself.. i can be lamenting non-stop on how expensive la, how not worth the money la.... but when it's a gift for him, all these grouses dont seem to be in existence at all... think the thought of surprising and pleasing him is pure estasy for my mind... hehe** 8)