Grey's Anatomy





I am not a 'ch5' person. Not an 'English' person. So far, i only watched variety shows from ch5. Amazing Race, Survivor, Fear Factor , Apprendice, Beauty and the Geek, Project Runway blar blar blar blar blar. I dont watch others. (Erm ... I am also not a supporter of local productions anyway. You mean PCK ? My sassy neighbour? or watever nots... Just turn me down...) Perhaps, the only local sitcom i've watched is Under-One-Roof. Back to the topic. Alright, when i was in sec sch, i was hooked up by Ally Mcbeal.(I think many people will still remember this sitcom... the imaginative Ally.) It has been such a long time till i got hooked up. Here's Grey's Anatomy, hooking me up.





Till now, i still cannot believe that i am addicted to this show. Hooked up that it is a must for me to at least finish up 1 disc before i sleep everynight. (Yes, on top of the busy marking of CA2 papers and class publications, i incorporate time to watch this) However, i am not as loser as my brother who has watched this umpteen times. Hahaha. Normally we dont share a bed, normally we dont share the same blanket, normally we dont get so close lying beside one another. This just show how attractive this show that both my brother and I can 'tolerate' one another on my single small bed.





It is hard for me to explain why i enjoy watching this so much. If you have always feel that 'healing hands' (Hk drama series) is very good, wait till you watch this. Even those 'extras' or in chinese we called it 'pao long tao' were good at acting.Dang!



Out of the whole cast, my brother and I, agreed that Christina(or Cristina) is nearest to my personality and character. In the show, she is always the one who displayed that she is cold. Whenever her boyfriend or close friends are in trouble or facing a crisis, she'll simply walk away. Actually deep down, she cared alot but she try to walk herself off whenever she feels close to someone. Her reasoning is simple. The more she gets committed, the more love she puts in , the more she'll get hurt if something really happen to her close ones. The only way for her not to get so involved in emotions, is to have a gap. Sounds so like me. And my brother is a replica of George.




*Small update:

1) I've finished the whole 3 seasons of GA. Waiting for season 4, which is according to my brother, will be released over at US side this late sept.



2)I've read up abit about season4. Guess it wont be as fantastic :( Haha partly cos Burke will not be in the cast and they are adding on new interns. It'll never be the same if they add new faces. (It's always the case that when they drag season after season, the probability that the show going downhill is high.)

--> This entry was typed long ago(during the ca2 period)... I didnt publish until today =)
I just realised that i have 'Heroes' at home.... i shall watch it during sept hols...

Unknown Number

Today when i was abt to return Xiaoying's missed call (late afternoon), my phone vibrated. Soome unknown number. I thought it could be Xy.

Me: Hello...
Call: Do you speak mandarin ?
Me: (could it be my students' parent?) Yes, i know.
Call: I'm calling to do ______ marketing survey, are you free for 1 min? (that fella was speaking very fast and cheena chinese, couldnt catch.)
Me: Sorry no time for that.
Call: --- *du du du du *(hang the phone liao)
The end.

I dont know who the caller was and wad could be the motive. Haiya, i should have agreed and listen to wad she had to say. Shucks. Kpo me.

I do accept survey if i know who it was calling from and the purpose of the survey. None was given.(Somemore its in chinese... suspicious.)

The only time i did survey and it was in mandarin was a survey frm SPH about zaobao/wobao or wadever bao la. (and i did help them with the survey. In return i gotten a small gift mailed to me)<---sorry hor, i am not gian the gift k... It has always been in my character to do surveys or feedback forms. Somehow i enjoy doing those. (Please dont all flock to me when u need to do survey hor..... i do it selectively. Winks)

Anyway ya. thats the post about the unknown number. Nothing better to post mah.

Little India/Bugis

Went phototaking again from Bugis-->Little India -->Bugis . Too many photos so it lagged. Shall put a new post about it on a new entry . Enjoy.

This photo is taken few weeks back @ Carl's Junior but i've forgotten everything about it. So post it tog.

Overdue

On the 31st of July, all the Primary One pupils had their Reader's Theatre. There were 12 pupils from my class were chosen to represent the class. They performed 'Which shoes do you choose?'. A rather short script so my kids could handle it pretty well. I simply love the props i've prepared for them. =)

It is not a compeition. Rather, it is a display of our pupils' talents.



Confident on stage. Thats my kids.

Colourful isnt it? The script is printed on the other side. Although they could memorised their parts, its still better to provide them with ALL the things they need. Haha

Last Day

I am more worried than they are. My kids will be facing their EVER FIRST CA on 20 Aug, which is less than a week from now. Think recently all the teachers are very stressed up. Everyone of them go around borrowing periods . I borrowed 2 periods today too. BUT! Its never enough ! SCARY . . .

Tomorrow is the last day that i can do revision with them =( [Thur and Fri PSLE Oral]
Really pray hard for them .

I dont really look forward that they will score well ... BUT... at least please do average.

Those Carefree Happie Days...

The previous post i posted up a photo taken years ago @ clarke quay ... Really missing those days ... so i did this ... A recap of all the happenings...

无所事事

很多年前，一位好朋友跟我说发呆其实很舒服。
当时我并不了解为什么发呆是一种享受。
最近我却好像喜欢上了看着天花板，静静的发呆。
就什么也没想，那或许也是一种幸福。

每一个人都有很多不为人知的烦恼。
而这些摔不去又放不下的烦恼，总是会乘着人们稍微有点时间休息的时候，又浮现出来。
或者也就只有休闲的时候，人们才会有时间去思考。
为什么人就是闲不住呢？

我知道，我就是一个很好的例子。
我不能闲着，我的思维会带我入境一个胡思乱想的境界。

生活中有那么多事物，其实只要放眼看天下，真的没什么事大不了的。

也许我天性是个完美主义者。
我就可以从鸡蛋里挑骨头。
原本并不是问题的问题，便可以打倒我，让我想成宇宙一般大的大事件。

我看我还是别闲着好了，因为我不是一个可以什么都可以一笑而过的人。
也许我的想象力过于夸张，为了不要为了烦恼而烦恼，所以我喜欢忙碌。
像我如此惰性缠身的人，竟然宁愿忙碌，还真有点奇怪。

我很喜欢很忙碌的生活。
偶尔岁岁念几声，但总的来说还算是充实的。
没有格外的时间想些有的没有的，不然迟早患精神病或忧郁症。

望着天花板发呆其实还真不错。
在发呆的时候，我的脑筋是一片空白的。
睡觉不一定能让头脑休息。
因为我们不能控制我们是否会做梦。
发呆，才是真的能让时间停留似的。



Shall end with this photo. Taken few years back ...
I like it cos i smell freedom and happiness then.

My Kor's theory

The most frequently used 2 words as an excuse to push away appointments is/are 'I'm busy'. Those 2 words are so commonly abused that people can no longer differentiate which 'I'm busy' is really busy and which 'I'm busy' is to reject you.

Of course, there are people who are really busy. When i mean i am busy, i am really like a worker bee. I have no time for shopping, no time for movie-ing, no time for lunch and no time to sleep properly. For the past few weeks, i've been working for more than 12 hrs a day. Even if i have the sincerity to 'want' to meet, i'm just unable to squeeze thru that tiny weeny bit of time. Living in such a stressful society, i can understand that when we are busy, we are REALLY busy.

However, there are always blah blah black sheeps amongst the white ones. Blah blah black sheeps are those who say that 'they are busy', but unable to give a reason. Thats sound kinda cruel. For example,

If A sends an sms to both B,C,D and E : 'Hey, are u free this weekend to meet?'

B the blah blah black sheep replies :' I'm busy.'

C the blah blah black sheep no.2 replies: 'No.'

D the innocent white sheep replies:' Sorry leh... I'm really held up @ work recently cos alot of projs coming up'

E the innocent white sheep no.2 replies:'Oops, sorry leh, got something on le. Fully booked.'

B and C sounded so cold. As tho A is begging u out and you dont have time to entertain. Pah!
D and E are acceptable becos at least they bother to tell you WHY. D is really busy with work. E mentioned that E is packed for that week already, E didnt lie that E is busy.

Normally people tend to link the word 'Busy' with 'Work'.

B and C are those type of people who are detestable.
If you are not free becos you had all your outings or appointments planned already, its perfectly ok. Nothing wrong with that, just say you are packed, dont say that you are busy. But! people like B and C merely make use of the convenience of the word' busy' as an excuse.Can you imagine if A happens to know that when you say that you are busy but you can still happily shop,watch movie, sing ktv and watever nots. Then, hey, are u really busy? No. You're hurting A.

Anyway its really hard to express everything out in words and i hope i didnt contradict myself anywhere in this entry.

Oh another point to add. My kor also mentioned that there are 2 types of people. The jio-ers and the bei-jios. Somehow the bei-jios are also detestable. Cos they never bother to go jio people out. Never bother to make initiative. Maybe one of these days, all the jio-ers shld go on slient protest and vanish into their own world. Lets see if the 'bei jios' will find anything amiss or not. But i doubt so la. Cos, i've experimented it myself. After 2 mths or so. I'll declared failure and go ask the particular 'bei-jio' , how has life been.

Thank God that life has been busy yet fulfilling for me. At least i know who will really make the initiative to find me when i've gone missing. At least i know who are those 'supposedly honoured' individuals whom i've jio-ed the moment i've 'free-er' but they have no time for me even if i've made the initiative. At least i know, friends are not really dependable, afterall. Serious and boring people like me, usually dont attract people. So i'll remain as a jio-er. A quiet one now.

Singapore, my homeland.

Happy 42th Birthday to my beloved country !
I belong to the group of people who will never leave Singapore.(say no to migration)
I love being a Singaporean.
I accept who we are and proud being a shiny red dot.
I enjoy singing Singapore songs.
I like everything that has got to do with this country.
(including the fines and tariffs. Being logical, its really wise to have those ard to keep the country going)
We are one people, one nation, one Singapore.

There's really no place i'd rather be ...
3 cheers for the vibrant lion city !
ROARS...

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Church Wedding

Today is not only the birthday of Singapore, but also a start of a new chapter for a newly wed couple. This morning, i was honoured to be invited to attend a church wedding. My colleague's son's wedding. This is the first time that i've attended a church wedding. Not knowing where the church is, Angelia kindly offered us a ride. As i am not a Christian, i am not exactly involved in singing the praises but its indeed an eye-opener. Its always a nice feeling seeing couples getting together as one =) May them have a blissful marriage. God will be with them to see them through all odds.

As usual, my wish is to attend my good friend's wedding. Probably another 3-5 more years to go.

*The tea reception was a nice spread. Delicious and food were of good quality.

They've done their very BEST !

Today, our school had lower primary sports. I really liked the system now(unlike the past). Everyone gets to participate !!! Each class, we have equal amount of pupils who belonged to red,blue,green and yellow houses respectively.So pupils will participate in various obstacle race according to different houses. There are 12 classes so 12 lanes for each race. For my class, all the 4 classess did splendidly. Blue house came in 1st out of the 12 classes. I was so overwhelmed. I'm sure they were feeling the same. After seeing the blue house, the other houses strived to get some medals too ! My yellow house didnt win cos my best runner wasnt in sch today. Green group didnt win anything either and my boys cried. My red team came in 2nd. Out of 4 houses, my class managed to clinch 2. Not to bad eh ? Well... i should say its VERY VERY good ! In this school, everyone is a winner as long as u participates. So, the other 2 houses(of my class) were given chocolate medals.

I had some older photos , their reader's theatre and GEM outdoors but i'm not uploading it cos my camera and cable are not with me. Somehow i think my class is very adorable and well behaved. kekekeke ... I'll try to do something about it during this long weekend.

Till next time !

The 2km

After 2 weeks of buzzing ard, its kinda lighter this week. Well, last week ended with a 2km walk @ TPJC. Its the E6 cluster healthy lifestyle thingy which is compulsory for ALL teachers to be involved. Of cos, the bulk of us were in the 2km walk category. That day met up with Grace & Laura @ the bus interchange before the 3 of us make our way to TPJC. After that during the walk, i had the accompaniment of Cheryl and Li Hoon. (oh... and of cos Christine,Darvinder,Shahida and Freda) Actually 2km is really nothing, considering that we used to run 2.4km just a few years back.

Had an apple, h2O and breakfast buffet after that. I can only say that we were really talkative. I think we chatted for hours while having our breakfast. Eh....most of the time i think i yaked with Angelia cos she happened to be sitting just beside me. It was ard 11 plus that we decided to leave that place. Hmmmmmm , Laura,Christine, Li Hoon and myself went for lunch after that. Well, i think instead of promoting 'healthy lifestyle' , we did the opposite. I think we ate more than we walked. (and ... i was so tired that i went back to slp after i reached home...)

By the time i woke up , its already evening time. Hahaha. Mother said that we were the only ones at home so, we walked a distance to somewhere just to eat our dinner.

My Sat was spent walking.

As for today, i tot i would mark a bit but i was so tired that i think i napped umpteen times. I 'officially' woke up at ard 3pm then went out together with my parents. Went to Nissan showroom. Decided to change our family car.

Anyway , i really feel like owning a small car of my own . That will be my short term target. I hope by next year (after the confirmation of me going NIE), i might want to own a car. I dont think i want to stay in hall and i think the journey is way too far. Hurhurhur. Maybe a small KIA will solve that prob...

1 year! Let me save up.

=)

Although many people told me that teaching is indeed my cup of tea, i have my own reservations and uncertainties.I think my class management is still not there, my style of teaching is still not good enough, my effeciency is still not there, my marking is also not there, blar blar blar blar blar. BUT. It all comes with experience =) so i shld give myself more time and confidence. At least i am adaptable to changes and willing to work hard type of person. Recently i feel that i can better control a class. (Yes, after 1 year of tough training that is.) I've been to some classes and somehow i've gotten nice experience. I do think i enjoy teaching.


If you've realised, my previous posts were all about how busy a bee i've been. However, its really nice to feel busy. Its definitely tiring yes but its worth all the efforts. I've been through 2 weeks of late nights and early mornings. I've even fell sick during this period of time - running a temperature+flu+cough. BUT, i really enjoy what i am doing. Perhaps thats what people meant by satisfaction.


Today Shahida was saying that she has this habit of not eating until task is accomplished. I am also liddat. I totally agree to her that if a task is given and you're halfway through, you wont feel at ease to eat. She said that was a bad habit cos we wont get enough energy and ultimately gastric. (Hmmmm ... now i know y most teachers suffer from gastric eh ? kekekeke teachers are forever busy)


These 2 busy weeks , i've seen how hard my colleagues worked. All of us worked as a team. Perhaps i can mention just a few names. Angelia is the main coordinator of the 'math proj' that is ongoing now. Despite herself being overworked, she's really caring. She has also been a great help! Whenever anything crops up, she'll come out with something to help out. Julia has also been helping me out for my station. (tho she's not my co partner or from math comm). Not forgetting Shahida for the Vicks Vapodrops Lozenges. It really worked wonders ! The constant care and concern from her is just so warming. Thats the thing i like about in this school. I can work well with my colleagues. Or rather, my colleagues are very willing to lend each another a hand despite the heavy load they face daily.

Monday k Monday... Lets call for a celebration !