Malacca Trip Update

2 weeks ago, I went with my students to Malacca for a learning journey. It was a 2D1N stay. At first, I was pretty sianz cos i din noe the teachers going with me very well. Furthermore, it was my first time out of sg alone. Most of the time, is ppl look after me when i go out of the country. This time it had to be the other way round, so was feeling pretty nervous.

But before the 2nd day came, I was already thrilled with the trip and all the students with me.

And all the special things that I never got to see in singapore. I have never seen such a plant in singapore. The leaves have thorns on it. My students were very funny. One of them said "老师! 有刺！Immediately after that, he went to prick his finger in the thorn to see if its real and yelped in pain as he jumped. I was laughing my head off when I saw that. It was like, u noe its a thorn, yet u still go and prick your finger on it.

And then, this was taken at St Francis Xavier's burial ground. Supposed to be an old church compound I think. This cage here that u see is actually his "coffin" and his body was buried here.

We went to this farm where the children could feed the deers. First time i saw a REAL deer, with horns somemore. But the deers were so terrified of the swarm of kids who stuffed veges into their mouth.

On the return journey, I took this photo as requested by my student. Personally quite like this pic. The only thing abt this trip is that i missed my family and jastinian. Great for reminiscing though!

Clocks make me feel cheated

My alarm clock died on me one after another. Perhaps because i dun treat them well enough. I knock them flat to the floor everytime i try to reach for them in my groggy state.

So i was telling myself, now i got an excuse to buy myself a nice clock. cos i always see nice and expensive clocks, but see no reason to buy them. and i told myself i wld get myself the nice white frosty colour changing cube clock.

So i spent the whole of today trying to find it. Alas! I found it, and furthermore, its with hello kitty logo. So i told myself, all is worth it cos it has hello kitty somemore! so special!!

So i brought my clock home with a gleeful smile on my face, cant wait to try out the pretty changing light. I brought it to my dad's room to ask him how to set it up.

AND i stared in horror at something black lurking in the corner of the room. i pointed at it frantically and shrieked! I was keeping my fingers crossed at the back that its not the exact same thing. The bottom is the result.

I almost fainted in disbelief. How can anything be so coincidental?!?!?! Somemore its a stylo black! ARGH! Let me die..........

Long Day Out

Today was a really fun filled day cos it was pretty eventful. First, early in the morn, I went to dear to work.. haha.. went with him to deliver stuff for his attachment company. Then had a nice brunch at pepper lunch IMM. Then, after which we went shopping at orchard and watched movie. After that, we went to his house to pick up some clothes and den we went to play badminton with my mum's cell grp.

However, some unpleasant things happened too. Just when we parked his attachment van at his house, we got summoned for coupon that has exceeded the time. But only 14 mins!!! and worse thing is, when we saw the car park attendant, she just walked away from his van only! wah!!! even though only $6, but still its money!! that just flew away right in front of us!! There shld never haf been a job called car park attendant! Sucks money away from ppl's pockets like vacuum cleaners.

Den, another astounding incident happened. We went to KFC to haf a quick snack. And clumsy us, spilled the boiling hot chinese tea on me. (why clumsy US? cos till now we still cant come to a conclusion who caused the spillage. was too chaotic.)

So what happened? He quickly asked a KFC staff who walked past to help us mop the area. So the guy very politely said that he wld get someone to help us. And so we waited and waited, when in the meantime my darling was gushing over my scald, while i myself was getting worried of getting blisters.

10 mins later, suddenly this grouchy looking auntie appeared and the first time she said when she reached us was "who spilled it?" So dear was very nice, he assumed all responsibility. Then, without any delay, the KFC woman said "NO NEED TO SAY SORRY AR???"


????????

Like she was my mum?????

I was like, gaping with my mouth open, unbelieving this thing i just heard.

We din even had a chance to thank her and she demanded an apology from us, like we spilled the tea in her house like that. We were both like WTH??? Not like we are uncivilized ppl. We will definitely thank her for helping us clean up (even though tts supposed to be her job) and if she was kind, we will even apologize for the inconvenience we caused her. But who demands apologies in such context? And does any one ever demand an apology from your customer? Its so funny I felt like laughing all my teeth off la..


So my dear was feeling pretty pissed at being scolded and wanted to report to the manager. But we finally decided the woman might be relying just on this salary to supposed her family, so we din report her. Duno if that was the right thing to do.

Pox Diary 6 - Home delivery

Finally i got some lovely home delivery to cure my boredom. Actually is 4 packets of pocky. Greedy me ate 1 already.

Ladybirds!!

Actually is hand delivered by my dear jastinian. This is a sweet attempt to make me feel better amidst the pox. Just nice, I love ladybirds!! cos they look sooooooooo cute... and dumb... hehe...

Pox Diary 5

Its been 1,2,3,4,5,6!! 6 days since i left my house!!! Thats a big breakthru!! I have never been so homely before!!

Thanks to the invention of the computer and youtube, I dun haf to spend my days in agony at home. The only regret is I cant eat anything I like, and I cant meet anyone. Or lets put it this way, I scare everyone away.

But jastinian really cheered me up just now. He went shopping with the boys and he got me a lil present to make up for not being able to come visit me. Its a lady bird bracelet!! Though I havent seen it yet, but i can kind of imagine it. Besides, I love ladybirds!! They are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute!!! He said will try and see if he can send it over tmr.. So excited!!

Pox Diary 4

This is what u get when u have pox. Someone who is so free to be able to update a blog everyday. So it goes to say that I am not a no-life person. I am just no life when I have pox and no one dares to come visit me and I cant go anywhere.

My rabbit has turned into a ferocious animal. It bites when u try to carry it ard. Jastinian says that its probably cos I caged it up too much. Den he speculate that after my 2 wks of quarantine, I may oso turn ferocious and snap and bite at anyone who provokes me.

No need 2 wks. Just need 4 days and his theory materialized. Today, my dad asked me to try call this company that deals with the buy and sell of club membership as he wanna sell off his club membership in JB since we seldom go. Previously, my mum called up and this stupid woman picked up the phone and was super rude to her, saying that they do not do the buy or sell of Pulai Springs. When my mum called back again to confirm, upon hearing her voice, the stupid woman blasted in the phone " I AM VERY BUSY!!! WE DON'T DO PULAI SPRINGS!!! DON'T CALL BACK AGAIN!!! "

So there, with such background knowledge, of cos I gotta get my speech and thoughts right before I made the call. And I wish I sent the stupid woman hopping mad.

me: Hello, is this XXX enterprise?
stupid woman: yes
me: may i know who I am speaking to?
stupid woman: xxx
me: i see from ur website u do the buy and sell of club memberships?
stupid woman: yes. which one?
me: pulai springs
stupid woman: we don't do pulai springs
me: but i saw it from ur website
stupid woman: its just for show
me: den isnt that a misconception? if u list it there as one of the clubs ur company handles, den u shld do it.
stupid woman: its only for customers to see but we will NEVER NEVER NEVER do pulai springs!!! *note rudeness in tone to a potential valued customer
me: i see, den I advise u to TAKE PULAI SPRINGS OFF YOUR WEBSITE.


and I hung up leaving her stammering and stuttering for words. Rudeness doesnt take u anywhere.

Pox Diary 3

Woke up with 9 pox on my face. Cant even tell which is pox and which is pimple. Thanks to my granny's great idea of not bathing, I stink the whole night and the pox was especially itchy. Perhaps its not such a great idea to be on MC when u cant go anywhere and cant meet anyone for 2 wks and feeling not-so-good inside ur body.


ok. Today besides watching 花样 and laughing my head off, I am gonna do sth useful with my time. Gonna go pack up my cupboard. Its a big mess of clothes. Time to really make space for my new jackets. Been cramming them together like salted veges. OK! Off to work now!

Pox Diary 2

Ok, its the second day of my pox. More popping up and getting bigger and redder. And the biggest bad news is, they are sprouting up from my face!!! So, calamine to the rescue. My grandma was shaking her head when she saw me going to bathe in the morn. She claims that pox "absorbs" water and which explains my increased spots.

So, yes. I stink, but i am not bathing at night now. Talcum powder is gonna be my best friend now. Dun eewwwww... i don't like it either.

I am getting grouchier and grouchier by the day. The only thing that brightens up my mood is the 花样少年少女 on youtube. YIKES!!! I just accidentally broke one pox on my scalp!!!! ARGH!!!!


Ok, back to that show, I am like super addicted to the show. Its soooooooo funny!! At least it keeps me entertained and keeps my hands away from scratching myself. And I hate to admit it, but 吴尊 is really good looking. Days ago, I was chatting with Jastinian on whether 汪东城 is better looking or 吴尊 ( I think i got the chinese character for wang dong cheng wrong but nvm) and Jastinian said he prefers 吴尊. I couldnt agree with him. But after watching the show for a few more times, I can feel the charm exuding from 吴尊 more den from 汪东城. But I think its also marketing gimmick to put him in a better light since he got the cool guy role.

Hey wait. Why am I analyzing actors? I think i am too free...


ARgh.... the itch is coming back.....

Chicky Pox Diary 1

People write Princess Diary. I write Chicky Pox Diary.

Now feeling itchy and the blisters are popping up. I just hope they dun come onto my face. Otherwise, I would say, a 2 wk break really does feel pretty good. Of cos, minus the fever and dizzy spells. But this spare time really allows me to start thinking abt many impt things in my life. Like shld I still stay in my current job etc. And of cos, it gives me a lot of spare time to pack up the ever messy cupboard in my room. I think it gives me a lot of time to reorganize myself since I am stuck at home cos I am now a 鸡瘟 and cant go anywhere.

Oh yes, for the benefit of some who dont know, my 2 wk MC follows the 1 wk march sch holidays. So its 3 wks break in total!!! Come on, envy me...

These 2 weeks have been really really really bad. Thats the very reason I haven been blogging. If it gets worse, I may even stop altogether. So many things happened at home. But in school, I still have to put on a smile and take things in stride. Who understands? Perhaps nobody will because they will never feel the seriousness and gravity of the issue.

I know ppl who are reading this haf no idea at all what I am talking abt. Not surprising. Thats cos u duno wats going on here in my life. I guess I haf no wish to say either. Its too complicated and that, plus working life has nearly sapped the rest of the energy from me.

LIFE IS UNPREDICTABLE. Sometimes I wish time didnt fly so fast, so that I would haf spent more time with the person. Looking back, I regret.

"Never take someone for granted. Hold everyone close to your heart, because you may wake up one day, realizing you have lost a diamond while you were too busy collecting stones."

How true is this saying. While I was spending all my time with ppl who let me down over and over again, I neglected ppl closest to me, ppl who loved me unconditionally, while I gave my love unconditionally to the ppl who din love me that much.

It takes losses to realize the regrets of life.

If I had a chance to do things differently, I wished I grew up extremely fast so I could advise my parents what to do. Perhaps, things would be entirely different today. But when I come back to reality, I know thats totally impossible.

Boring Saturdays from now on......

I duno if its a good thing that my Saturday nights are gonna be free. Experienced it for the first time today and it din feel that good. Perhaps today the weather is, cold, chilly and dark. Just the kind of weather you wish to spend with your loved one. But I know I cannot be selfisn and dominate a person such that he loses his personal life.

I think you guys don't understand a word I am blabbering here.

Ok, in short, every Saturday I meet jastinian from day to night. But now, he wants to cut it short as his basketball games are now on Saturday nights. That sounds kind of fine, cos that will give me some time to do my lesson plan before the week is over again. But I don't really like the idea of saying goodbye in the evening. It feels like the day is still so long and like I am missing out on time. Perhaps typical girl mindset. So yeah, u ppl out there reading this blog, u know who u can ask out on Saturday nights. I HATE LONELINESS. come find me.

Hilarious Christmas

Little Mermaid

Little Red Riding Hood

Tinkerbell

Snow White

U get what I mean...........

Of cos, the list goes on and on. But if I get stuck here all night posting pictures I won't be able to wake up for work tmr. So, sorry to those whose pictures do not appear in this blog. Its due to time contraint so I juz randomly picked some.

This is our gang Christmas party 2006. My mum came in and really dropped her jaw when she saw the result of our instant make over. I think she was thinking how come I got another Wati tidying my laptop, who so happens to be Ban ban - cinderella for the night with her holy feather duster. HP was in her sea shell boob attire, trying to tie up the hem of her skirt so she will look more like lil mermaid. Jaslyn changed into her little red riding hood cum santarina raincoat thingy. Jinyi was tinkerbell #2. Different versions of the same character

My mum thought we are WACKY. I think so too. *screams in horror*

There are so many pictures I wanna upload here for the visual effect, but somehow due to technical difficulties, my pictures go all the way to the top, messing up my text order. Perhaps a kind soul would like to enlighten me on how to make the pictures appear at the right place as I want it to.

Alright, back to the merry Christmas party. The dinner was quite yummy and cost saving. Though nothing fancy, just plain ol' pizza hut and KFC. (but actually I drool at the tot of KFC) But it was a filling dinner and quite cheap at that.

I must say I really like the theme this year round. I laughed till my teeth gonna drop. Never seen my frens and myself look so dorky b4. So girls, remember ya, next year we are going for Eastern theme. Sun Wu Kong, Chang Er, someone can be the yue bing (moon cake, you thought which ancient character right?) too.

Tootsie n Lootsie

Okok... here goes, introducing Tootsie, my longest and bestest pal!!! (Cos she told me she wanted the whole world to know she is the great Tootsie)

Short introduction of this person. One who I knew since Primary school, one who bite my hand, pinch my arms, beat me into a pulp until I tried to invent the "roll roll roll the boat gently down the stream" trick to stop her from beating my arms off my body.

15 years have passed being best friends with her, and I can only say one thing. We quarrel the roof down, we fight like nobody's business, but we love each other like nuts. I think its wat u call a love-hate relationship. But the love takes 99%, the hate is when she gets into her qian nian lao yao mode again. That "Im gonna pull her hair out of her skull" mode.

But fear not, as she will not harm the rest of the human specie, because it is only lootsie she is interested in.

Legend:
Tootsie = diana
Lootsie = Me

Just some thoughts.....

Today went back to school for a workshop. My mentor told me that one of our colleagues was diagnosed with leukemia. I was shocked. Leukemia, cancer, kidney failure and other terminal illness seems so far away, seems like an illness that others get, but never ppl ard us. Only when it strikes, do we start to think abt that illness and how long before it will take that life away.

I remember weeks ago I still saw him, smiling and joking, ever so friendly. Now, suddenly you are telling me that he has gotten leukemia. I start thinking to myself. Life is really short man. U never know when the person next to u is gonna leave u for good.

So... why get angry easily? (I am talking to myself as I think I am getting less and less tolerant with the ppl ard me). Why be unkind? (I am talking abt unkind souls out there, who know who they are, but unlikely to be anyone reading this blog, otherwise u wont be my fren). Why scheme for your best benefit at the expense of others? (I am talking abt I duno who. Never yet seen such a person before. Mostly from TV dramas only.)

Life is damn short. U never know when u are gonna lose the person next to u. It could be an accident, it could be a terminal illness, it could be anything. Better treasure the ppl ard u for as long as u live, cos u never know how long u really will live anyway. (This, I am telling myself)

Day At Diana's

The night spent at Diana's was wet... wet meaning the rain... its been raining the entire day... and night... but why am I using WAS? I am still here, right here in her room waiting for her to shit and bathe so that we can go out shopping.

AND she keeps admiring herself in the mirror.................... if it goes on like this I think I will be stuck here in her room for another night!!

Den now, she peels off another top because she think another piece looks better!!! See? this is why I am blogging at this time......

Yesterday's Xmas Carols

Its uber late today again. Just that some thoughts flowed thru my mind as me and CBLC frens came out of paragon after our Din Tai Feng dinner. There was this performance outside paragon. It was a unique combination of xmas carols and hand signs as choreagraph of the song. I smelt a strong Christmassy smell in the air. Xmas trees, shopping for pressies, costume parties, well wishes.

But the song that was performed but the hawaiian Christians struck me hard. What really is Christmas all abt? The song wasn't abt presents and xmas trees. It was abt Jesus's crucifixion on the cross for our sins. Suddenly, I remembered. It was a day Jesus was born. The very day he began his torture journey on earth for our sins. After watching "The Nativity Story" with Jastinian on my bday, I became clearer how it was like when Jesus was born. He was being hunted down even before his birth because being the Son of God, he is a threat to the king.

I looked at the expression of the performer as he performed with conviction, I remembered that my savior. After his performance, he stayed still for a while, with his hands raised, looking into the sky, i heard some ppl laugh. Perhaps they didn't know, he was silent for a while, praying and standing in awe of his savior, who is mine too.

Longest Birthday

Best photo of the era...
Underwater world became Vivo city.... punggol marine candle light dinner become sakae sushi... this is called murphy's law: shit happens!!

But still I am very touched that u bothered to plan the day for me. And knowing that u are more upset den me when everything went haywire, I am already contented and happy.
This is artistic pose taken by jastinian.

The guys

The four flowers - as Kok Keong always calls it... but den again... its only Kok Keong who calls us that...





Its been a long time since I blogged cos I have been having my birthday for an entire wk!! First of all, I wanna thank all my wonderful frens who celebrated my bday with me as well as those who msged me happy birthday. Thanks for being so sweet despite my forgetfulness in remembering birthday dates.

This is the complimentary log cake from din tai feng when we CBLC ppl went there to celebrate my bday. The rudolf is sooooooooo cute. I plucked it and the mushroom from the cake to play.

Lootsie, i will upload ur photos in the nx entry... its uber late now and my brain has closed shop for the day... tata

Batam reminiscence

Best pic taken, but sometimes I wish you can smile so that i Dun look like a smiling dummy.


This is the photo of someone who is contemplating suicide, with lots on his mind, sitting on the kampong fence thinking whether he shld end his life over a mosquito that juz bit his leg.


We look like villagers in some kampong. See that ah gong looking fan in the background?


Yikes!!! I got 2 boyfriends!!!


This picture is very dark, but its seldom we get to slow down our pace and really look at the sunset's reflection in the sea water. But of cos, its just me enjoying the sunset and the sea, and the other person busy slapping mosquitoes on his leg... The kelong has a nice ambience cos there are those little shelter-like kelong entension into the sea where u can haf your dinner in the sunset. But the problem is....... it stinks like nobody's business!!! Maybe there are dead fishes floating in the water.


When I was there at batam, it seemed boring. but once I am back, I miss the days there. There, all i do is eat, sleep, shit, eat, shit, sleep, shit, eat............................. and best of all, theres no one to bug u when u are rotting.

There seems to be danger everywhere and eyes are on us cos we look foreign. Or maybe its cos i am paranoid? Perhaps its also cos we are so uptight abt hidden dangers, we din get to enjoy as much as the previous time. However, it is a cheap getaway and the seafood and room service is damn heavenly. Lucky this time there was the Doha games. Cant believe we were shouting and jumping on the bed when Singapore's badminton player lost one match. Doha games and room service, its heavenly.

Rainbow After The Rain

I think I must thank the couple at the mac. They made my life change. I never had a proper valentine's day in 2006 I must say. I received beautiful purple roses, a pretty strawberry mousse cake. Everything seemed perfect. But I had with me an icy boyfriend.

But for the past wk, I have been having Valentine's Day everyday. Today, I heard "I love u" for the first time. Its been 1.5 years. But these 3 words were never said verbally. Today, I finally received them. I wished time can stand still now. I hope it will never ever die off to the days of the past again. Today, I haf with me a boyfriend. Not a BOY - friend. When I saw that my blogsite is the first address in the address bar, I almost felt like crying. I know things haf really changed because in the past, he cld not even remember my blog add.

In the past, I felt like a pebble. Now, I feel like a gem.

Its late, but better late den never.

I thank U for being reflective on the things I say. Thats the best trait U have. =)

Feeling Lightheaded

Wah I had my nightmare facing computer the entire day yesterday... was churning out the school extra worksheets for the first semester of 2007 for primary 4 chinese. It almost killed me!! All that typing and scanning and alignment. After a whole day of work, I was down with a headache. Since I din believe in medication, I refused to touch anything and when night came, the headache got so bad it felt as if someone was gong-ing my head with an enormous hammer.

After effects of the entire episode is dizziness in the morn as soon as i woke up after that. Hai.... Its even worse than churning out a report in school! This is horrendous... Wat school holidays?? *PUI*